Chapter 15: The Gray Ridge Mine
Walk through the mine and come to a fork in the road. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoA few sturdy Greyridge undergrounders in leather armor gathered in front of a campfire, and there was a sign on the side of the road with a crooked and twisted logo, and at the end of the road in the middle was a pillar-like landmark, thinking that it should be the main city of the Greyridge Mine's Lair.
"Outlanders are forbidden to ride in the city, come down!" A leader-like Greyridge Undergrounder shook his head in a rough helmet and stopped the letter tree. The Greyridge Undergroundman behind it twitched its nose, revealing the fangs in its mouth.
"Okay, okay, no problem." Xinshu jumped down from the gray armored ground lice, threw the last piece of bait into the mouth of the gray armored ground lice, and then threw the [insect cage] given by the system after catching the gray armored ground lice to the ground lice, and the gray ground lice slowly shrank, and finally crawled into the cage.
The Greyridge Underlanders returned to the campfire, ignoring the Tree of Faith.
Entering the fork in the road and moving along the winding road, there are gradually more NPCs around, not all of them are Greyridge Undergroundmen, but also a small number of races such as goblins, half-orcs, gnomes, and wormmen.
Nobuki stumbles upon a fair-skinned woman, not much different from a human in appearance, with a hot body, covered only by clothing on important parts, and most uniquely has a pair of translucent long ears. Spotting strangers pointing at it, it symbolically bared its teeth in a demonstration before disappearing into the crowd, even its anger with a wild beauty.
It was the Black Moon Undergrounder, the human branch that was cursed and then banished to the Underworld hundreds of years ago. Because he lives in the underground world all year round, he can't get sunlight, and his skin gradually turns pale. Nobuki was lucky enough to be able to meet this kind of race that the intelligence traffickers were not familiar with. Xinshu has checked the relevant information, the number of Black Moon underworld people is scarce, good at concealment and assassination, mainly women, and I have not heard of male Black Moon underground. They worship the Black Moon Goddess and reproduce their offspring through the witchcraft of the Black Moon Goddess at the cost of sacrificing two ears, which the Black Moon Goddess uses to help them grow new ears, and the translucent long ears are the most distinctive sign of the Black Moon Underground. Shinki was able to know these Black Moon Undergrounders inside the palm of his hand, thanks to the fact that he usually looked through the information related to the Bond Blade in his spare time.
Nobuki found a tall building and climbed it, revealing the outline of the entire Gray Ridge Mine Nest. The main town is housed in a super-expansive cavern with buildings that resemble termite nests on the surface, the kind of extraterrestrial nests that don't look sturdy but have concrete structures. It should not be called a termite nest here. Their maximum diameter can reach tens of meters, the rules are different, some are like a fortress, some are like a small hill, some are like sails, and some even have a diameter at the bottom that is smaller than the diameter of the waist or the top, standing in every corner of the open cave, with rough thick walls on the outside, and hollowed out and layered into caves, with different sizes and depths. NPCs of different races use the circular corridors or stairs that surround the buildings to move through the buildings, busily playing their own roles.
In the middle of the main city is an imposing black cylindrical building, with a low wall extending from the lowest end gushing out for a long distance, and if you guess correctly, it is the palace of the Lord of the Gray Ridge Mine's Nest. The lord is the top boss in the Conch Continent, with unfathomable strength, and players have not seen any lord yet, let alone kill this kind of super boss who controls a territory.
After Nobuki had a general understanding of the Gray Ridge Mine Nest, he exchanged news with Terry. Nobuki suggested revealing the coordinates of the Gray Ridge Nest, knowing that the Gray Ridge Nest is by no means exclusive to a small number of people, and it is not necessarily a bad thing to announce it early and let players know about this big cake. Terry also told the news that the Black Fox Mercenary Group had set up a corral in Baisha Village.
The pen is the habitat of flying beasts, and only a strong guild or group has the ability to build in this area. Players who come to Baisha Village through flying beasts need to pay the Golden Conch Coin to the organization that holds the beast pen. If the Black Fox Mercenary Group builds a beast pen in Baisha Village, it will definitely be a bad thing for the player, because with the Black Fox Mercenary Group's style of acting, it is likely to rely on the monopoly advantage to sit on the ground and raise the price, and make a lot of money. Just like Terry said just now, the Black Fox Mercenary Group is so confident in actively building the beast pen, which shows that they have already seen the chain of interests in it. Aside from the soon-to-be-revealed Gray Ridge Mine Nest, the Migration Corridor and Abandoned Gardens alone are of high value. Judging from the map, the newly discovered migration corridor is a shortcut to the Xijue jungle, and there is a high probability that more new maps will appear in the hinterland along the way.
It's been a week since the coordinates of the Greyridge Mine Nest were revealed, and as expected, a large number of players have flocked to the store. The originally quiet Baisha Village was instantly crowded by the bustling crowd, and the Black Fox Mercenary Group made a lot of money. Players have been complaining, but there is nothing they can do. Some powerful guilds or mercenary groups are also helpless, because the beast pen needs to be built in villages or towns and other places, and villages like Baisha Village can only build one beast pen, and other guilds will not take the Black Fox mercenary group because of a beast pen.
By the time the mines were flooded with miners, Shinki had gone deeper into the abandoned mines deeper underground on his own.
Hiss!
The exposed yellow teeth, the sticky saliva dripping down the gaps between the teeth, the huge nose that keeps twitching, the scarlet eyes that flashed fiercely, the fur on the body is gray and white, as if they have a skin disease, the thick hind limbs support their slightly slender and sturdy bodies, and the texture on the polished tail makes people look very uncomfortable, standing up as tall as a person. What's even more striking is that the plague rat-man even wears a pair of tattered pants.
[Mine Plague Rat Man, LV73] Elite monsters, mainly distributed in abandoned mining areas, have strong single combat effectiveness, and their ugly appearance hides explosive power that cannot be underestimated, and the most troublesome thing is that the plague toxins they spread will make people fall into a weak state.
It is not easy to fight the letter tree alone, and it is initially estimated that this elite monster is not inferior to a LV70 small boss except for less blood and a monotonous attack method. The Cave Plague Ratmen didn't give the Mine Tree time to think, they squeezed out a strange sound in their throats and rushed over on all fours, the unfortunate Mine Plague Ratmen generally acting alone.
Plague inflicts a weakening effect on the target, reducing the target's stats and continuously losing health.
The system prompts the letter tree to be affected by the plague negative state, and a faint green glow appears at the edge of his vision, flickering on and off as if he can breathe.
Faced with the plague, the letter tree is almost accustomed to it, because as long as it is scratched by its claws or teeth, it is almost certain to hit the negative state of the plague, and the letter tree is not in a hurry to take the antidote, but to deal with the plague rat people with red eyes in front of him.
Dodging the Plague Man's claw triple blow, the Plague Man enters a brief stun state. The Blade of Trials in Shinshu's hand stabbed into the plague rat-man's abdomen, and it staggered back two steps with a strange scream, twisting its bare tail and opening its mouth full of sharp teeth to make a strange ho-ho sound, demonstrating to Shinshu. Then the sturdy Plague Rat attacked again, flicking its limbs and finally leaping onto the uneven cave wall.
The adventure zone where Shinki is now located is made up of a large number of potholes and narrow paths, and it is easy for unfamiliar people to get lost. The letter tree has almost nowhere to hide, but to choose to go toe-toe with the plague rat-people.