Chapter 45: The Wind Cave

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The guild that showed us the way was a women's guild like the original Sakura Society, the Women's Federation, and the Goddess League. The idea of feminism was more popular these days, so there were many such all-female guilds.

The name of the other party's guild is the Holy Women's Association, and it is said that it seems to have been influenced by the Joan of Arc that gave it such a name. Their president's name is Joan of Arc, and it is said that this is her real name outside of the game.

It is much more convenient to have a local to lead the way than to find it yourself, and all the way to the nearest city and then to Paris. Paris outside the game is a world-famous metropolis, and Paris in the game is not inferior to Paris in real life. Aside from the fact that the cities of our guilds are generally exaggerated, this Paris is one of the only cities that can be considered grand.

Paris is grandiose because it is big enough and because the buildings are beautiful. However, Paris is also a special city because it has no walls at all. Paris is an undefended city, with no walls on the periphery and no defenses on the inside, and the whole city is completely a commercial hub, and it doesn't have the fortress-like style of most cities in the game.

We learned from Joan of Arc that Paris, although originally a system city, was actually occupied by the player a long time ago, so they said that no one would dare to attack their city in France at all, so they said that no one would dare to attack their city in France, so Paris did not need walls at all. Because this guild likes to make money, it later simply positioned the development direction of the city as a commercial city, and you can get the promotion points rewarded by the system, and the system tax rate will be reduced after the city is upgraded to a commercial city, and the surrounding NPCs will spontaneously build roads, so the development of this city is much faster than that of ordinary cities.

Joan of Arc did not leave immediately after taking us to Paris, she arranged for her men to disband and then took us to the Arc de Triomphe herself. To be honest, I didn't feel anything when I saw this famous historical building. If you had met me two years ago, I would have been very excited. I think it's majestic, but I don't feel it at all when I see it now. The Esinger is a standard European-style complex, and each one is bigger than the other, and the Arc de Triomphe is like a tree in the forest compared to them. Doesn't interest us at all. However, although the Arc de Triomphe didn't make us feel anything, the Triumphal Underground Palace definitely made us stupid.

"This is the entrance?" I asked Joan of Arc as she pointed to something that looked like an elevator.

Joan of Arc nodded with certainty: "You guys can do it, and then you can shake the handle inside and send yourself to the underground palace." However, you had better be careful, it is windy down there, so be careful when you go out. ”

"Windy? Where does the wind come from underground? ”

"I don't know about this, anyway, the wind in the dungeon is so strong that you can't imagine it."

"Is that an exaggeration?" Eagle asked incredulously, "Can it be bigger than a typhoon at sea?" ”

Joan of Arc replied solemnly, "The wind at the entrance is not very strong, but it gets stronger the further you go. If you can't hold yourself in place......! ”

"Ah......h As Joan of Arc was talking, a man suddenly flew out of the big hole in the square in front of the Arc de Triomphe. The man flew straight into the air and didn't start falling until we were barely visible.

Joan of Arc pointed to the man. "If you can't fix yourself, that's what happens."

Hongyue asked, "That cave can't be from the underground palace, right?" Why can't we go down from there? ”

"Come here." Joan of Arc took us to the vicinity of the big hole. At first we came from the other side of the square, and the Arc de Triomphe was in the middle of the square. The side we came from was just in the opposite direction to this hole. Now when I walked over, I realized that something was wrong, and I could already hear the high-speed flow of the aircraft engine at a distance of dozens of meters. From time to time, you can clearly see various gadgets flying out of this hole. To be sure, the speed of the air flow at this cave is very alarming, otherwise the unlucky guy just now would not have flown into the sky. Joan of Arc pointed to the entrance of the cave and explained, "This place is connected to the passage, and it can be said that it is the main exit of the passage, but as you can see, it is really impossible to enter this air flow intensity. The conveyor ladder over there is a device that has been completed when the system is stored in the city, and it can be used to go down the passage with that thing. The place where the conveyor stops is not a passage, it is a small room dug out of the side of the passage, and it is a passage when you go out, but you don't have to worry too much. There are fixtures made by players in the passage, and with these things, everyone gradually goes deeper into the tunnel. ”

"So many people burrow into such a dangerous place?" Gold Coin asked.

Joan of Arc said with a smile: "The reason is very simple, the monsters in the passage have the same combat power from beginning to end, but the deeper you go, the higher the monster experience points." Can you imagine that a monster with an experience value equal to level 800 is only equivalent to the combat power of a level 400 monster? It can be said that the depths of the passage are the golden area for leveling, and the deeper the better. At the same time, there will be a treasure at every distance in the passage, and this is also the deeper the treasure, the better. The current record was obtained by the Guild of the Owners of the City, who had advanced a little more than five kilometers after descending from this artificial transport ladder, and had obtained a knight's spear, which was very good in stats, and was already close to the artifact. ”

Hongyue nodded: "It's easy to understand what you say." People die for money! ”

"I ......" I was about to speak, when suddenly a small spatial teleportation area appeared in front of me, and after a flash of blue light, a scroll fell into my hand.

"New quest scroll?" Red Moon asked in surprise.

"Looks like so." I opened the reel and looked at it. "Okay, this is the last scroll."

"What did you say above?"

"Our wish goal is at the end of the passage, and we can get what we need by reaching the room at the end of the passage."

"You're going to the end of the passage?" Joan of Arc also heard me, and she looked at me in surprise and asked.

"That's right! What's wrong? I looked at Joan of Arc.

"Can you take me with you?" Joan of Arc's voice was visibly agitated. Seeing that we didn't answer right away, she immediately added, "I don't shoot anything with you, as long as you take me over there." When you're gone, I'll stay over there and level up, and I will never fight you guns and monsters when you're on the ground. And I'm here to help you explain something you don't understand. ”

"That's not what we meant." I explained, "Our goal is only the final item, so it's fine to take you with us, but we don't know if we're going to be able to get there." If you can't get there halfway, don't blame us. ”

"Of course, how can I blame you! I'll be glad you can take me deeper than the area I've explored so far. It's a golden paradise for leveling up over there! ”

"Okay, do you need to prepare something?" I asked Joan of Arc.

"Wait for me, I'm going to buy some medicine and food, and this time I'm going to go in and come out until the medicine runs out. Maybe I can go up to level 30, haha, I feel very cool when I think about it. ”

"Then hurry up, we'll be waiting for you here."

"Wait for me for five minutes." Joan of Arc ran directly to a shop on the edge of the square, and rushed back in less than five minutes, not expecting the pharmacy to be so close. The players of our guild all have the super space pocket of the phoenix dragon. So I usually carry a lot of supplies with me. There is no such thing as finding medicine or buying food on the fly.

We didn't see the medicine that Joan of Arc bought, but there was something strange about her. The shape of this thing is like a turtle shell buckled on her body, I don't know if I thought she had a big iron pot on her back! Luckily, this thing is silvery white. Otherwise, we must think that she is behind the black pot.

"What the hell is this?" I asked her in surprise.

"Backpack!" Joan of Arc replied simply.

"Backpack? How can there be a bag of this shape? "I went up and knocked on it, and there was a bang." Holy, iron? ”

"Of course." Joan of Arc said with a relieved face: "That shop was opened by our guild itself just now. This thing is an exclusive invention of our guild, would you like to have one too? ”

"Then you're a layman." Joan of Arc said proudly: "I'll tell you what is so good about this unique invention." First of all, every player will have items to carry with them, but the system has been able to eliminate storage space, so unless you are a space mage, or have a special item, you will have to carry something on your back as you would in real life. Oh, why didn't you bring anything with you? "Joan of Arc only now realizes that we are standing here empty-handed." What about your weapons? ”

We didn't answer, but a blue light suddenly flashed around us. A black hole appeared in front of everyone. I reached in and pulled out a suit of armor, and the real red pulled out their weapons: "This is our backpack. ”

"Wow, how did you do that? You don't look like a space mage! If it's a special item, you can't equip it in batches! "Although Joan of Arc looks like a blonde and blue-eyed bold French girl, her personality is actually more like a child, and she is particularly enthusiastic and pesturing. Considering that it was rude to ask a woman's age, we never asked her how old she was, but she looked like she was twenty-three or four. However, judging from this personality table, she may only be ten **, and the body of a Caucasian person seems to be born with a precocious nature.

Red Moon They sent the weapon to the phoenix dragon space, and I also threw back the set of armor I took out, and then with a wave of my hand, the phoenix dragon flew out and landed on my shoulder. Joan of Arc's big beautiful eyes swept left and right to see that each of us was carrying one of these creatures. I explained to her, "This is the guardian beast of our guild, and its name is Phoenix Dragon. Although the attack power is so small that it can be completely ignored, she is born with a special space, not only can she put her belongings into her special space, but even her pet can be stuffed into it. ”

"How big is this space?"

"I haven't calculated, the specific capacity will be a little different according to the strength of the individual lì of the phoenix, but there should be at least the volume of a standard container. I'm just a queen, and she's about the size of a medium-sized dock. ”

"It's amazing." Joan of Arc reached out to touch my phoenix, but my phoenix disappeared in a flash.

"I'm sorry, little things are more scared."

"I'm so envious, such a cute and powerful little guy." Joan of Arc had stars in both of her eyes.

"That's the end of our explanation. What is this pot of yours for? ”

"This isn't a pot, it's a backpack." Joan of Arc explained, "You don't care if you have this rare guardian beast, but most players still have to carry their own items. This triumphal dungeon is a leveling treasure land, but it is not easy to enter. So everyone just wants to go in once and try not to come out. It's best to practice in it for a long time, you need to bring enough medicine and various tools to level up for a long time, and the things that burst out during leveling also have to fight space, and these things have to be carried on your back. If you are outside, it is nothing, but the wind below is stronger than a typhoon, and you carry a big burden like a kite. I can't live in the Root Pen Fun Pavilion. That's why our guild invented this backpack. First of all, it is streamlined, although it looks like a turtle shell, but it has little wind resistance, and it will not attract wind on its back. On the other hand, this thing is made of pressurized heavy iron, and it is full of weight. You can crush us to the ground so that we don't get blown away. ”

"I have some truth to hear you say that, but you should also find a look to design it a little! This looks like a turtle shell! ”

"It doesn't matter if it's good or not, it's easy to use." Joan of Arc is pragmatic enough.

I smiled and asked, "Do you want us to help you pretend first?" You are also full of weight on your back, and we have a phoenix dragon space that is not loaded. ”

"I'd better carry it on my back, otherwise it's easy to be blown away if it's not heavy enough, you haven't gone down, I really don't know how terrible that wind is."

"Okay then." I looked at the gold coins and the red moon and said, "Do you two change your equipment first?" ”

"What for?" The two men asked together.

"Joan of Arc has repeatedly emphasized that the wind is very strong down there, and although I don't believe that the air currents can be very destructive, you two should be wearing a skirt and want to learn from Marilyn Monroe to play with the skirt flying, right?"

Red Moon's face turned red to the neck, and the gold coin didn't react, but both of them quickly took out their order suits and put them on the outside of their original equipment. "Zero" is a game where you can wear double-layer equipment, and there are some games where the player can't equip a weapon with the other hand when they hold a two-handed weapon, but it's okay here, but it's not a bug. You wear two layers of equipment, even if it is three layers of equipment, only the innermost layer is added in terms of attributes, and the outside is not only not considered defense, but also takes up additional weight, and whoever has a head in the water is happy to set up several layers of the system does not matter. It's the same with weapons.,Equipped with weapons with both hands.,The attack power is calculated.,Even if you hold three weapon systems in one hand, it doesn't matter to you.,Anyway, with a weapon that exceeds the load, your movement becomes super sluggish.,The target that can be cut is probably something that doesn't move or a creature like a turtle or a snail.。 Red Moon can suppress the skirt inside after they are covered with a layer of Order armor, and the weight of the Order suit is just enough to hold down the two of them, so as not to really blow it away for a while. Eagle and I are wearing heavy armor, which should be enough for weight. The two things on Zhenhong's arm weigh ten tons together, and if she could still fly, we probably wouldn't have been blown out of it a long time ago.

When we were ready, we all got into one of the elevators, and there were quite a few of them under the Arc de Triomphe, each the size of a minibus. The inside of the transport elevator is similar to that of an elevator, except that there is a crank on the wall, which must be shaken by itself to descend. When there is no one in the elevator, you can also use the crank handle on the ground or in the passage below to raise or lower the elevator, but the premise is that there must be no one in the elevator, otherwise the elevator will only run according to the control of the people in the elevator.

Here are just me and the eagle, two men, we should have been on the side, but Zhenhong was next to us, so we had to take a back seat. The turntable, which was said to be heavier, was spun by True Red like a spinning top, and the transport ladder fell down as if it were falling freely. Seeing that the thing came to the last point, True Red didn't touch the wheel, and it turned out that the thing still relied on inertia to send us to the bottom.

After exiting the transport ladder, it is not a passage, but a small room as large as a transport ladder, with a gate on the opposite wall that can be slid left and right, and a wheel on the side wall that can be used to control the opening of the gate. Joan of Arc told us that this is an air lock, and behind the door is not a passage but an isolation room. We must pass and close this door and open another door before we can officially enter the passage. The two air locks were set up to prevent the wind from the passage from pouring into the ladder shaft, otherwise the ladder would have been knocked out of the ladder like a cannonball with that air flow intensity.

After shaking the airlock, we found that the gate was actually one meter thick. And it's all-metal. There was also a crank over there when we entered the next room, and we used it to shut the airlock. In order to prevent someone from being irresponsible, the airlock was designed so that it could not be opened if it was not closed on this side, so everyone had to honestly take it step by step.

After sealing this air lock, we are ready to open the air lock on the opposite side. After this air lock, there is the real underground passage. Joan of Arc told us to open the team channel first, and after going out for a while, we can't hear it when we talk directly, and we must use team communication. Although the private chat, team chat, and guild communication systems are now weakened, they can still communicate normally within a 100 meter range.

After confirming that everyone had opened it, Joan of Arc took out a bunch of things and said, "Come, I've prepared tools for you too, everyone take them." ”

"What is this?" I asked, looking at the mess.

"It's safe." Joan of Arc said, "I'll show you." First she pulled out something that looked like a leather belt, but it was wide. Not as narrow as a normal belt, this one is almost half a foot wide, and it encloses the entire abdomen. "Here, put it on."

We took one of them and put them on, and it was stiff enough, and it seemed to be heavy, and when we did, we found that there was a thumb-thick powerful cable on each side of the waist. There is also a hook with a convenient lock on the end of the rope. In addition to this thing, there is an iron ring in front of the belt and an iron ring behind it, which seems to be also hanging something, and there are a bunch of other tools inserted in the front of the belt.

"I don't feel like a knight to an electrician now," said the eagle. ”

"Haha, that's pretty much it." Hongyue smiled and said, "These things are too heavy, aren't they?" ”

Joan of Arc explained: "Don't worry, these things are useful. First of all, this belt is used to fix our body, this is very important, otherwise it is very dangerous in the wind, the two ropes with hooks on both sides of the belt are hooks, and after a while, you will find that there are many steel pillars inserted in the ground in the passage, and these steel pillars have iron rings one by one. You follow the steel pillars as you move. Alternately hook the loops on those pillars with the two hooks on the left and right, so that if you get blown up, at least one hook will hold you. In addition, you have a loop on the front and back of your belt, which is used for stringing ropes. ”

Joan of Arc said as she took a rope and came out. "We'll use this rope to string us all together in a while, so that if someone flies, someone else can pull him back. Now, let's string the rope first. This rope is long enough for you to move back and forth while fighting monsters, but be careful not to let the monsters cut the rope. ”

"Okay, got it." I nodded, and pulled two more ice axes from my belt. "What is this iceaxe-like thing for?"

"That's the ice axe, in the passage only the first 4,800 meters that have been explored has a steel pillar, and when you get to the back, you have to climb it yourself. This thing makes it easy for you to fix your body. ”

"I don't need this." As I spoke, I heard a thud, and the claws and rivets on both sides popped out. "I have a full set of equipment in my armor, so I don't need anything."

"Be prepared."

"Alright then!"

Jeanne d'Arc saw that we were almost ready, so we went to the wall where we came in and stood first, and opened the passage for us to feel the feeling of the air flow before going out, so as not to be carried away by the wind suddenly.

With Joan of Arc, a well-known guide, we were much safer, and everyone obediently stood by the wall. Joan of Arc walked over to the air lock, where there was a semi-circular steel ring, and Jeanne d'Arc secured herself in the steel ring and told us to hold on to the fixed handle on the wall next to us again, and then she pushed one of the handles up hard.

As soon as the handle was pushed up, a screeching sound of metal grinding was heard, and then the air lock in front of it opened with a very rapid thud. The air in the room seemed to be pumped out all of a sudden, and we all felt like we were shaking, but it wasn't very powerful. The terrifying air currents outside the gate were literally solid, and we could all directly see the terrifying air currents outside flying over the gate with all sorts of things. As the rapid air flow passed through the gate, a part of it poured in, making a loud roar like a train passing by.

Joan of Arc said in the team channel: "This airlock is activated by wind power, and it only takes one minute after it is turned on, and then it will automatically close, so everyone hurry up." And put your helmet and mask down, or the air currents outside will pull your hair out. With that, Joan of Arc put down her own mask. Her profession is a paladin, and her helmet is considered standard.

"Okay."

Joan of Arc stepped down from the underwire and carefully guided us in front. Outside this room, there is a row of steel brackets stuck in the ground, which must be the things that Joan of Arc said hold the body. Joan of Arc turned back to us and said, "Hold on to these handrails and hang the hooks on your bodies." ”

I followed Joan of Arc and as soon as I stepped out of the room, I felt like I was about to fly. I'm sure as long as I spread my wings now, I won't have to fan me to fly. The strong wind was so terrifying that even the Immortal Flame on my body was blown backwards.

The steel columns on the ground are connected to the horizontal steel bars between the steel columns, which feels a bit like horizontal bars. After we hang the hook sleeve, we can go forward, and when we reach the position of a vertical steel column, we must manually take off the hook and hang it on the next section of steel bar, with the help of such a thing, even if we are blown away, we will only be stuck in the nearest fixed pile position and will not be completely blown away, which is really a clever design.

Although the facilities are very well equipped, it is still difficult for us to travel. Although the wind here is not as scary as Joan of Arc said, it is really difficult to walk against the wind, and I feel that every step has to be several times the usual strength, which is more difficult than climbing a mountain.

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