Act Twenty-Six: The Mystery of Gold

When someone saw the lonely tree, they were stunned, and Brando was planting a cow and a tree, and they naturally thought of that aspect? And the mercenaries immediately remembered what Brando had said, that the legendary fairy queen lived under the golden apple tree, and that her mortals were destined to never leave this valley in their lives, and they couldn't help but shudder.

These people couldn't help but immediately subconsciously look around, for fear that they would be trapped here forever if they were not careful, and they finally escaped from the undead army of Madara, but they didn't want to be alone here for the rest of their lives.

But what they didn't expect was that Brando wasn't worried about any golden apple trees at all. In the previous life, players like him had already turned over this valley, and this valley that seemed mysterious to others had no secrets in his eyes, and from here all the way north to the mouth of the valley on the other side, there was not a single hair except for the bare surface and the scabies.

No monsters, no treasures, nothing alive, and no trace of life. As for the legendary Golden Apple Tree and the Fairy Queen, it is even more ethereal, only circulating in the myth of Yang's mouth, and the player has never seen it.

But what surprised Gabeg was the lonely tree, he confirmed it again and again. It should be remembered that there is no such tree in the game.

He has walked back and forth in this valley many times, and he should not be mistaken, because every scene and object in the valley is the embodiment of the king's idealization, even if the day changes, it will return to its original state at night.Brando remembers clearly, unless the plot or time flow in the valley itself changes, the scenery will change accordingly.

But there shouldn't be any tasks in this valley. Could it be that the goblin town that exists in everyone's field of vision at this moment is not the one in the game? Unless someone is hiding his experience, or the Elven Lands has changed before the player enters.

But what kind of one should it be?

The former seems likely, but if you think about it, you will find a doubt. For players, it is often difficult for one person to discover all the secrets of a place, so even if the first person hides it, it is unlikely that everyone will want to go together. However, it occurred to Brando that it was not ruled out that it was a person who had come many times, and although this seemed a little idealistic, it was not impossible. He recalled that the first person to discover the valley should have been the theologian councillor of the Star Guild, a player named "Kranti". The second to enter was a knight. The third is a female player, but the time interval between the three of them is only a few days, and it is not possible to hide it.

Brando shook his head, not for that reason. Then there's the second one, and this valley has changed before the player enters. This is not possible in the game, but this aspect is also two factors.

One is the plot change, the other is the exploration. He couldn't help but frown, what would he do without the player's participation. He wouldn't know much about the task. I don't know, this is a big problem for him.

But Brando's heart still couldn't help but be interested as he stared at the tree, just like every player, his interest in the pursuit of secret missions was innate, just like an unknown treasure involuntarily attracted people to chase.

For example, a task involving ancient knowledge must not be too ordinary, right?

He immediately made a gesture to the others to go and tell the refugees to stop. Anyway, the night in the valley stopped relative to the time outside, and this night would last for three days and three nights, as long as he had time to explore the valley before they ran out of food.

In fact, the valley is so big that it only takes a few hours to run a horse, and it doesn't take three days at all.

He saw Leto looking at him suspiciously, so he pointed to the tree and replied, "There seems to be some problem, I'm going to go ahead and check it." ”

"Do you need manpower?" The bar's owner, Leto, is a veteran of the November War, but he is as helpless as he is in the face of the mysteries, and he can only ask with his own experience.

Brando does need manpower.

But he looked at the mercenaries and couldn't trust them. After all, this may involve some legendary treasures. And the same danger, he didn't want to share secrets with these people, he had to find someone he could trust. He looked at Charles first, originally this young mage Hu Cong was his best choice as a summon creature, he and this young man could almost share secrets, but unfortunately Charles had already exhausted his mana in this night's battle, and now he was only a little stronger than an ordinary person.

He looked at Roman again, this merchant lady was not very qualified, although she had a keen sense, but her own strength was too weak to go with him.

Roman looked at him and winked obediently.

Brando knew that the merchant lady was pretending to be so well-behaved that he could take her on an adventure, but Brando would not be fooled, and he finally turned his head and his eyes fell on Freya, who was absent-minded.

"Freya?"

"Huh? Yes! Freya looked up at him, stunned for a moment, and her face turned red.

"What's wrong with you?" Brando was stunned when he saw her like this, and his original impression was that Freya should be something. Autonomous.,A girl with her own opinions.,But how she's been feeling a little weird since Xavier's mountain trail.。

If it weren't for the Elven Sword's unreaction to her, Brando would have wondered if she had been replaced by Madara's undead.

"No, nothing, Brando, what's the matter?" Freya just got it! That outlandish request from the former Budo. is flustered. The congregation knew that Weichuan Fang had seen through his thoughts.

"I'm going to go to the front and take a look, you follow me"

Freya was stunned for a moment, and immediately nodded: "Okay, okay." ”

"I'm going too." The merchant lady writhed on horseback.

"You stay here for me, and I'll let Charles teach you how to ride a horse if you want to learn to ride a horse so much, but if I come back and see you tied to my horse, I'll drag you over and tie you sideways to my horse's back." Brando looked at her and replied viciously.

"But I can't learn." Roman replied dryly.

Can't you just be humble? Brando couldn't help but shake his head: "It's okay, there's still more time, horseback riding is a very simple thing." You've got to go on adventures with me, and you can't ride a horse. ”

"It's okay, Brando, I can tie myself to the horse, I don't feel any discomfort." Miss Recommender thought for a moment and replied solemnly.

"It has a lot to do with whether you feel comfortable or not." Brando glared at her angrily, not bothering to pay attention to the grumblings of the future merchant lady, and simply ran to Leto alone to explain what he might need to pay attention to, and then took a spare crossbow, and then called Freya and set off.

In Brando's memory, the most likely place in this valley is the west side of the Nasuke, the branch road. However, the more hidden places the players, the more they searched, and in fact Brando visited them once or twice, but in the end they found nothing.

It's just that until now he still remembers every grass and tree, mountain and stone in that area.

The two of them left the group, and Brando kept an eye on the scenery around him, and after about ten minutes of letting the horse run, he finally confirmed that the elven country he guessed was definitely different from the game, and that there must have been some unknown changes in the months that followed.

However, seeing that he kept circling around a rocky field, Freya behind him became puzzled, and couldn't help but catch up and ask, "Brando, what are you looking at?" "I'm looking for an entrance." Brando, who was turning his horse's head to look out of a messy white boulder, seemed to have found something, and suddenly turned over and dismounted, and walked into the rocky field.

"Entrance?" Freya dismounted, chased after her, and asked.

"Yes. This is it, follow me," Brando replied as he replied. With a thud, he drew his elven sword and walked towards a narrow gap in the middle of the two sharp rocks.

He remembered that it was called "Fork in the Road of Fate", and that there was a hint in the system log when he walked here. However, there is obviously no hint in this world, and he can only rely on experience.

He remembered that there should have been an open iron box behind the rock, which contained a stone slab, which was a necessary tool to enter the fork of fate, but could not be taken out of the valley. Someone tried to carry it out in a dimensional bag, but the end result was that it disappeared inexplicably.

It can only be explained that the slate is originally an idealized part of this world.

He thought about it. Things went around the rocks, but they didn't expect a strong wind to hit them. Brando's senses were already quite sharp at the moment, and before his own brain could react, his body had already subconsciously responded, he stepped back, colliding with Freya, and the next moment a golden arrow almost grazed the tip of his nose and flew past.

The two fell backwards, but Brando looked up at the last moment, only to see a golden figure disappear behind the rock in an instant, it was because he reacted quickly, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to see where the attack was coming from.

"Who!" Brando subconsciously pushed back and wanted to get up from the ground to catch up, but before he pressed his hand, he suddenly felt a soft place in his hand, and after being slightly stunned, he finally reacted and couldn't help but have a blank mind.

Not one, right?

He turned around, and sure enough, he saw that his hand was placed in an impartial position on the girl's chest, and Freya was completely stunned, staring at him with bright light brown eyes, and she didn't know how to speak for a while.

But the future Valkyrie finally reacted, and she jerked Brando aside, then sprang to her feet, her head bowed and not saying a word.

Brando also reacted, he couldn't help but get up in embarrassment and pretended to look at the previous one, the direction in which the golden figure retreated, of course, there was no ghost over there for a long time.

"I'm sorry, that" he thought for a long time, only squeezing out such a dry sentence.

"Well, who was it just now?" Freya bowed her head, her face flushed as if it was about to drip blood.

"I don't know, I saw a golden figure, and the goblins are not like that. It's more like a minion. When asked about his professional field, Brando's thinking was much clearer.

"Y-you're not hurt, are you?" The girl's voice was as thin as a mosquito.

Brando looked at her and shook his head. He paid special attention to the golden arrow from before, but found only a deep hole in the side wall of the rock.

Light arrows?

Brando looked at that. Xiao Kong frowned, that was a high-level weapon effect. But at least to make sure that what he saw just now was not an illusion, and judging from the speed of the other party, it seemed that his strength was not as strong as Alberton, thinking of this, he relaxed a little, as long as he remained vigilant, it shouldn't be too much trouble.

In the battle with Alberton, he had already confirmed his strength, and he could barely reach the silver level with all his strength, and he would not be too afraid of enemies below the silver level now.

After inspecting the battlefield, Brando gave Freya a keep-and-fly gesture, then grabbed the Elven Macro Sword and felt inside

He remembered that the golden figure had escaped from the gap in the north, and behind it was the entrance to the fork in the road of fate, could it be that they had come from behind? But I've never heard of anyone being attacked in the game.

He immediately saw the iron box behind the rock, which was born on a white stone platform. It's as if someone put it up. If you have more power than the gold level, you can destroy the box, but it doesn't make much sense, as it will automatically revert to its original form the next night.

Brando looked left and right, and now he couldn't believe his old memories.

At least the golden figure had changed something he remembered at least that there were not only creatures here, but also that seemed hostile.

After making sure there were no enemies around, he opened the box. But as soon as he opened the box, he couldn't help but be stunned.

In addition to a stone slab and a pair of earrings, the box also contains.

What is it?

Brando hesitated, he was afraid that there might be a magic trap on the box, although it wasn't in the game, but who could tell now. However, he has a simple way to test it, he leans the elven treasure over, and there are often some simple protective measures between the inspired magic items, he just needs to see if there is a reaction.

This approach doesn't work all the time, but it's better than nothing.

Brando quickly came to the conclusion that there was no response.

Only then did he pick up the pair of earrings, glanced at them slightly, and immediately threw them back as if they were burning his hands: "Endless Ice Earrings, Intellectual Mouth, Will Brando couldn't help but snort, subconsciously covering his head, at this moment he was simply having a splitting headache, as if a thousand needles were pricking his meninges."

"Brando?" Freya was startled and hurriedly ran up to help him.

"I'm fine, you are careful around Brando held the tin box with one hand and gasped for air. At the same time, he cursed loudly in his heart for the person who put these earrings here. Of course he knew what was wrong, it wasn't that he had fallen into some trap, but simply because the magic backlash was too intense, of course, the biggest problem was that this ring was at least a repulsive piece of equipment, how could it be

His first reaction was that he was hallucinating, and the second reaction was still impossible. Buch is still a novice zone at this time, and most encounters will not exceed level fifty, and this ring is far beyond the level that encounters can bear, at least reaching the level of seventy.

Therefore, when Brando used his willpower to retrieve the ring, he had a strong magical backlash, which made his thoughts go blank for a moment.

And such a powerful magical item appeared in a low-level area.

It stands to reason that this arsenic leak will not occur in the game.

There may be some changes in this world, but Brando doesn't believe it will go against the game's premise. He finally waited until his headache had subsided a bit, calmed down and realized another problem:

What if this place of the Sage's bones was set up in the first place?

The more he thought about it, the more he thought it was possible, after all, the valley itself was first discovered in the game not long after the game began, and about two months after the end of the First War of the Black Roses. If it's empty at that point, it means that the designers didn't intend to involve the player in the story at all.

Brando couldn't help but wait for the pair of earrings, and his heart jumped with resentment, a hidden mission that exceeded level sixty? Is he going to touch a handful of fish in troubled water? Or get out of the way?

The risks are unimaginably great, of course, but the rewards can be unimaginably great. Brando had only completed three hidden missions above level 60 in his previous life, one time to obtain a fantasy weapon, one to obtain an intermediate skill, and one time to obtain a fortune of nearly 100 million thor.

It was only with the experience of these three missions that he was able to reach the level of mid-to-upper players.

But how big is the risk, the level of level sixty is like a knife in front of Brando, level sixty says golden power, and even the elements are more than ten levels, if he wants to take care of an ordinary monster of level sixty. face, it is estimated that the other party will give him seconds with a look.

Brando's hand pressed on the iron box, and he couldn't help but feel agitated for a while, and he hesitated again and again but couldn't decide.

Because there is also a key problem that there may be a time in the next three months when a qiē in this valley will cease to exist zài, it is possible that today he has given up on this adventure and will never have the opportunity to choose again tomorrow. For a moment, this dilemma hovered in his mind like a cold ghost, urging him to take risks again and again.

What is he going to do?

The young man couldn't help but take a breath and looked back at Freya.

"Brando?" Freya saw that Brando's eyes were a little strange, and couldn't help but ask carefully.

"If I choose to go on an adventure, would you like to go with me?" Brando asked in a somewhat hoarse voice.

"I might, but Wu doesn't want you to take the risk, Brando." Freya thought for a moment and replied.

Brando hesitated for a moment, nodded, and let out a long breath. Four: There are many words in the mouth, which can be regarded as making up for yesterday.