Chapter 298: Cracking
Inside the underground passage, although it is darker, it is getting more and more spacious.
From the darkness at the beginning, to the barely able to see the environment clearly, the old demon and the half-awake sunlight gradually adapted to the darkness, but they were still cautious, because no one knew whether there would be any traps or anything like that in the underground passage of such ruins.
However, after a certain distance, the old demon found that they didn't seem to have to worry about this problem...... For on the path ahead, a straight corridor appeared in front of them, and in this corridor there were a large number of arrows scattered in it, which seemed to shoot from both sides of the wall, and shot at each other to the opposite wall, and then scattered along the walls on both sides.
"Could it be that the old hunter's daughter did it?" The old demon pondered for a moment, and said to the half-awake sunshine: "But it's okay like this, if you chase it down, you should be able to find her!" ”
The half-awake sunshine nodded, and had to admire the old demon, when he couldn't find the mission target in the ruins above the ruins, he still thought about whether it would be near the ruins, but the demon brother said that there might be an underground passage, but I didn't expect to really find it, is this a god?
What he didn't know was that this was actually because the old demon had encountered such an underground map before, so he guessed like this...... As you keep going, there are more and more traps on the way, but they all seem to have been cracked!
The sharp wooden stakes erected, and the rows of sharp axes hanging from the ceiling, all show that before the old demon arrived, someone passed through this corridor, and triggered and eliminated these traps one by one, because the old demon they have not seen any corpses so far, so at least it proves that the person who walked in front of the old demon is still alive.
The corridor slowly came to an end, and finally appeared in front of the old demon and them, there was a huge stone door, the stone door seemed to have something carved on it, but due to the dim light, the two of them could not see clearly, so they could only step forward and try to touch it.
System: "Do you want to enter the underground hall?" ”
The prompt sounded and made the old demon and the half-awake sunlight flutter for a moment, isn't there a mechanism on this door? You can go straight in?
After thinking about it for a while, the old demon directly chose to confirm.
Squeak~~!
A piercing sound suddenly spread throughout the corridor, and the stone door suddenly opened slowly, and as the door opened, a ray of light slowly appeared, making the two who were used to the darkness couldn't help but squint their eyes.
And it was at this time that the old demon followed the light and saw the carving on the gate clearly...... The door opened, but in fact, the light inside was still dim, what appeared in front of the old demon was a huge room, on the wall of the room, there were several strange magic lamps, which were inlaid with a crystal on the top of the torch, and those crystals still emitted a faint light, when the old demon opened the door before, the light they saw was emitted by these crystals, but although it was a little brighter, it was actually only slightly brighter than the corridor outside.
"You've entered an underground shelter!"
Again, the system sounded...... The two of them cautiously walked into the huge room, which was empty, except for the stone pillar desk at the forefront, on which seemed to hold a dusty parchment book.
Half-awake sunlight was curious, so he wanted to step forward and pick up the book to read, the old demon was looking at the surrounding environment at this time, and after seeing his movements, he hurriedly said: "Be careful! Don't ......"
Before he finished speaking, a crack suddenly opened at the foot of the half-awake sun, which made him fall into it at once!
Caught in the trap!
The old demon hurriedly rushed over, lying on the edge of the trap and looking down, and found that the half-awake sunlight had really fallen, although the light was dim and it was very difficult to see, but he could still see that he seemed to be trapped in a square pit.
Although the half-awake sun is fine, he is also very annoyed when he encounters such a thing, which is completely caused by his impulsiveness.
"Are you alright?" The old demon asked him above, "Look for it, is there any way to come up!" ”
After the half-awake sunlight answered that it was okay, he groped along the four walls of the pit, only to find that the walls around him were very smooth, even if the system gave the player a certain ability to jump and climb, but it was still not enough for him to climb out!
Just when the half-awake sun was unwilling to continue to explore, in the darkness, a voice suddenly came: "Don't waste your efforts, it's useless." ”
The two of them were startled, and then they realized that in the corner of the deep pit, there was a figure squatting there.
"Who are you?" The old demon's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked.
"I'm Merry. Who are you from the village of El Babu in Bvenster? The voice replied, and at this time, the old demon and the half-awake sunshine also heard it clearly, it was a woman's voice.
Moreover, from her surname, the old demon also understood that the goal of her mission had been found.
However, it seems that it is very difficult to get the two of them out...... So, the old demon replied, "We are adventurers, and your father has entrusted us to find you!" ”
"Really!" Mei Li smiled bitterly and said, "But it seems that you can't protect yourself......"
"There should be a way to get out, right?" The half-awake sunlight spoke.
"I don't know!" Mei Li shook her head and said: "Inside this deep pit, I can already grope through, there is no way to get out, but outside, there may be, fortunately only one of you two fell down, otherwise it ......"
The half-awake sunshine was embarrassed, raised his head and said to the old demon: "Brother demon, you can look in the hall!" ”
The old demon nodded and said, "You guys wait a minute." ”
Then, the old demon began to look around to see if there were any mechanisms or something, and finally after looking around, the old demon turned his eyes to the parchment book on the stone pillar platform.
After a moment's turn, the old demon came to the stone pillar and reached out to touch the book.
System: "You have obtained the Annari High Priest's Mark." ”
This is a book bound in sheepskin, covered with thick dust, in the game, there is no such thing as paper, it is generally a sheepskin scroll, this book is no exception, when the old demon picked up the book, he also saw its surname.
[Annali's High Priest's Statement: Function unknown.] 】
Then the system came with a prompt: "Do you want to check it?" ”
The old demon clicked on the confirmation, and the book was slowly opened...... Page 1: This is the first day of entering the underground shelter, the temple above has been destroyed, the monsters are raging on our heads, and we, we can only choose to steal life in humiliation, losing the holy relics given to us by the goddess of nature, we have lost the power to fight back...... Page 2: We thought we could stay here until the monsters left, but for some reason, some of them remained, and the sacrificial Sharna who had gone out to explore the way disappeared into the corridor, we don't know how many of them there were, but we knew that they had arrived...... Page 3: One Tribesman after Another Clansmen Disappeared and We Couldn't Help It, the Traps We Laid That Never Triggered, I Don't Know Why, I Don't Know How Long We Can Hold Out...... Page 4: I see it, that ugly demon! It is a ghost, it shuttles through the walls, and while we sleep, it takes away and kills my people one by one, and now we dare not sleep, we can't hold on, and we have to rest when there is a vigil, but now we have only three of us...... Page 5: My power, which cannot harm it, can only seal it temporarily, and in order to seal it we have lost the last of our manpower, and I myself have been seriously wounded, maybe in a day, maybe in a few hours, I will return to the bosom of the goddess of nature, but I will record it all, and if anyone who comes after me sees it, please tell me everything here, find my people, and tell them, that they may find the sacred relics of the people...... Of course, this is on the premise of being able to get out, because ...... It's still in this underground shelter, and we can't get out, the same ...... It also can't get out...... The content of the note is very short, but after reading it, the old demon also understood what had happened, and suddenly felt a creep.
Is there a terrible monster in this hellish place!?
Thinking of this, the old demon didn't dare to delay, and after putting the Yue Ji in the backpack, his eyes turned to the stone pillar desk...... Sure enough, as the old demon guessed, there is indeed a strange place on this desk, its entire plane, is not flat, but carved with some patterns, by sight, the old demon can find that these patterns are slightly protruding, it seems that they can be pressed.
When I got closer and looked closer, the old demon finally saw clearly, it was composed of nine small grids, and on each small grid, some fonts were carved, which was a font that looked more beautiful, just like artistic words, no wonder the old demon saw them for the first time, and they were seen as patterns.
However, these fonts, the old demon does not know, but after careful observation, three of the words in these nine small grids are the same shape, that is to say, in fact, the words written on these small grids have only three meanings, and each meaning has three, intermingled and distributed on the entire plane.
The old demon scratched his head a little, judging from the shape of the ruins outside, this seems to be the building of the elves, that is to say, these words are likely to be the words of the elves, the problem is that if you understand what kind of language it is, it does not mean that the old demon understands this language...... This is likely to be a trap-breaking trap that can bring up the half-awake Sunshine and NPC Merry, but the question is how to break this trap?
Suddenly, a pattern appeared in the old demon's mind, which he had seen on the gate through the faint light before, so he understood what was going on in an instant!
Rushing back to the edge of the pit, the old demon shouted downward, "Merry! How do you write the words sun, moon, and stars of your elves? ”
Mei Lileng below paused for a moment, and then asked, "Why are you asking this?" ”
"Don't worry so much, you just have to tell me!" The old demon shouted, "This is the way to save you!" ”
It turns out that the pattern that the old demon saw on the gate before is actually the pattern of the sun, the moon, and the stars, these three patterns are distributed in a triangular pattern, the sun has an arrow pointing to the moon, and the moon has an arrow pointing to the stars, and the stars have an arrow pointing to the sun, so that a cycle is formed.
The old demon is only guessing, maybe the three meanings represented by the nine grid Chinese characters refer to the sun, moon and stars, so as long as the text in the nine grids is pressed down in turn according to the order shown in the pattern on the door, it may be the mechanism to unlock the trap.
Of course, such an idea is just a momentary inspiration of the old demon, and he doesn't dare to guarantee whether this is really the case, so he came to verify with Mei Li, because she is the only elf tribe here, and she is also a system NPC, she will definitely know how the elf clan is written.
After understanding what the old demon meant, Mei Li didn't dare to slack off, stood up, walked to the place where the old demon could see her clearly, and gestured to the old demon.
"The first letters of these three words are all different, so I'll just tell you the first letters separately!" As she spoke, Merry began to gesture with her hand: "This is the first letter of the sun, this is the first letter of the moon......"
In fact, when Mei Li started to compare according to the old demon's request, the old demon knew that his conjecture was absolutely correct, otherwise, it would be impossible for the system to arrange Mei Li's NPC to make such a gesture, which was definitely set by the program!
Firmly remembering the trajectory of the three initials, the old demon returned to the stone pillar desk, and sure enough, he found the corresponding correspondence, and then a clear pattern was formed in the old demon's mind.
Although he found the key to cracking the trap, the old demon didn't dare to start rashly, because there is an order, starting with the sun, then the moon, then the stars, but if you start from the moon, then the stars, and finally the sun, different ways, there are different routes, but there is only one order, you can press all nine grids!
After simulating it in his mind, the old demon finally decided on the route, starting with the stars...... Actually, it's not that difficult to crack this mechanism, as long as you figure it out, it's still very simple, when the old demon successfully pressed all the grids, there was a rumbling sound from below, and I walked to the edge of the pit to take a look, and sure enough, I saw that the pit below was rising little by little, like an elevator, and slowly sent the two up.
After the half-awake Sunshine and NPC Mei Li walked out, the half-awake Sunshine suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Brother Demon, you are still amazing, you really found the mechanism and let us come up!" ”
Mei Li also smiled at the old demon and said, "Fortunately, if you are a little later, the ground above this pit will be closed again, and even if I want to tell you how to write the letters, you will not be able to see it." ”
The old demon was also glad, fortunately he understood it in time, otherwise, the half-awake sunlight would probably have to wait inside to hang up and return to the city, and he would not be able to complete the task...... Just when the three of them were sighing, a strange sound suddenly came...... It was a kind of eerie sound, just like the "gloomy wind" that often appears in horror movies, and when the half-awake sunlight heard it, the cold hair stood up!
The old demon frowned, because he had already obtained the book, and naturally knew that it was very likely to be recorded in the book, the monster that was sealed in the underground shelter by High Priest Annali...... "Hurry up!" The old demon urged, and wanted to take the two of them back the same way.
The door that came in before, I don't know when, had been quietly closed, and when the old demon was about to push the door, a huge head suddenly appeared on the door!
It was a very terrifying head, without a mouth and nose, and there were only three pairs of eyes on the whole face, which were arranged in order from top to bottom, and when they saw the old demons, the three pairs of eyes blinked in unison, and the three pairs of eyelids were neatly opened, and then closed, but the three of them were startled.
It was only at this time that the three of them saw clearly, it was a ghostly creature, it passed through the wall outside the door and appeared in front of everyone, and when they saw the old demon retreating, it also passed its body through the gate little by little, and showed its body floating like rags in front of everyone.
Its two claws, slender and sharp, had a faint green glow on its nails, and at the wrists of both hands, a huge pair of shackles locked its hands, and with a slight movement, it was a clanging sound.
[Poisonous Ghost: Level 48 undead boss creature, non-corporeal.] 】
This is the first time I saw the caste, which made the old demon and the half-awake sunshine suddenly sink in their hearts.
I didn't expect the old demon to just come to find someone to do the task.,I actually met a 48-level boss here.,It's good to say that the old demon brought a team of people.,But at present, it's just the two of them.,If you want to kill this boss,I'm afraid it's a little difficult...... Moreover, the surname of this boss says that it is not a substance, which is the one that is the most headache for the physics profession, because that means that the attack of the physics profession will have an 80% chance of failing...... The old demon is an assassin, and the half-awake sunshine is a hunter, and even NPC Merry is also a hunter, and there is no mage or priest profession present, so how can they fight!?
Just when the old demon and the half-awake sunshine were hesitating what to do, a low voice suddenly came from outside the door......
(To be continued)