Chapter 377: Lamenting the Ruins
Leaning against an old tree, I raised my hand, and the stone in my hand drew an arc and fell into the lake, causing a ripple wave. I looked around blankly, and one of my heads was about to become two big.
Tutor Dicardo only told me that the ruins were in the swamp, but he didn't tell me where the exact location was, no, I had been looking for almost three days and three nights, and there was no clue at all. It's really moldy. Lamenting the ruins...... Where the hell is it. Ask everyone who doesn't know, ask weird people don't know (, when did you kid understand the language of beasts), when will I find it in this boundless swamp?
By the way, why don't we go to the official forum and take a look, maybe we can get some clues from it.
Thinking that we would do it, I sat up and hurriedly opened the forum, carefully searching for news about lamenting the ruins.
Dizzy, looking through the entire hot forum, there is no article lamenting the ruins at all, it is unlikely that no one has ever found this place. Disappointed, I was just about to close the forum when a headline popped into my eyes: "Mysterious Footprints - Spectre of the Swamp." ”
With a sudden movement in my heart, I quickly clicked on the article and flipped through it.
"That morning when I was leveling up in the Angel Swamp, I suddenly saw a translucent figure passing by me, I don't know if it was a monster or a player, and when I walked over to take a look, there was a series of footprints on the ground, but the person was gone, I walked around, but unfortunately the footprints disappeared when I came back. I went over and tried it, and no matter how much I stepped on it, there were no footprints left on the ground there, and who could uncover the secret? Dozens of replies followed, some said they had never seen the ghost, and some said they had seen footprints in the Angel Swamp, but there were no ghosts......
Although this news has nothing to do with lamenting the ruins, I think we should go to the angel swamp to provide a clue. At least there can be an anomaly.
Angel Swamp is just northwest of Soot Swamp. At first, when I heard the name, I thought it would be a beautiful and picturesque place, but after visiting it in person, I realized that it was better to meet than to be famous.
There are dark and green poisonous pools everywhere, and the aquatic plants taller than people will deeply hide the swamps full of brown and black silt, and if you are not careful, you will be in danger of falling into it. From time to time, you can see the bones of birds and animals floating on the water, and a foul smell emanates from the corpses that have not yet completely decomposed.
A gentle breeze blew, and a faint white mist floated in the air, and a sweet scent rushed into the nose, as if it smelled like milk. At the thought of milk, I suddenly felt a little thirsty, took out a bottle of wine from my backpack and took a sip, feeling a little better, but soon I was thirsty again, and something was wrong. Look at my state again - poisoned!
Depend on. No wonder there was a smell of milk in this lifeless swamp, and my feelings were poisonous mist, and I searched around the water and grass for the culprit.
A few pure white mushrooms grew on the edge of the pond, the color was white and flawless, and even a little translucent. The smooth umbrella stretches outward, as delicate as a freshly shelled hard-boiled egg; The small fungus trays are barely visible, like white socks worn on small feet; There are some tiny scales on the stem, reflecting the reflection in the water, and they shimmer and shine like pearls. The whole plant grows harmoniously, and its beautiful and pure appearance makes it impossible to associate it with words like death and decay. It is the origin of the name of this swamp - "ruined miè angel".
That's a good thing. I carefully dug it up with a medicated hoe, and kept an eye on my condition from time to time, because there are a lot of "ruined angels" growing in this area, although they are not as aggressive as the man-eating flower, but they will scatter poisonous incense powder at any time, so that people or animals passing by here will unknowingly fall for its tricks. And the poison of the ruined miè angel is very strange, it does not directly reduce the amount of blood, but quickly reduces hunger and thirst, if there is no antidote and there is not enough to eat the player who is poisoned, then it will only starve to death or die of thirst in this swamp.
In the midst of this swamp, there is also a monster that feeds on the destruction of miè angels: angel mudskippers. The little guy at level forty-five looks like a white tadpole, two feet long, and usually likes to inhabit muddy ponds, only when foraging, he will use those two small hind legs to jump out of the water, puff out translucent cheeks, open his small mouth full of sharp fangs, and bite off the fungus umbrella that destroys the miè angel.
The angel mudskipper itself is not too aggressive, but its bounce ability is very strong, and if it sticks to its body, it will be poisoned immediately if it touches the mucus secreted by the epidermis of its body. And they are all sent out in groups, so once they are encountered, it is more troublesome, of course I can dodge, I can't dodge, with my family is a cow b pet, and I am afraid that they will be hairy, and provoking me is equivalent to provoking death.
Drink, it stands to reason that I've been wandering around the Angel Swamp for most of the day, and while looking for the ruined angel, I almost picked up the swamp, and my attention was all focused on the ground, why haven't I seen any footprints, isn't that guy on the forum making a big fuss?
Looking up at the sky, a round of red sun has begun to gradually sink in the west, the evening breeze is sent, and the ruined angel blows a white sweet mist with great poison, against the incomparably gorgeous sunset, the angel swamp is like a ghost of hell with a light veil, covering her terrifying face with boundless twilight.
"Click...... Click...... "There was a rush of footsteps behind me, as if someone or a monster was rushing from behind.......
The True Eye in my arms didn't move at all, indicating that it wasn't a hidden object at all, but I could only hear sounds, but I couldn't see anything. No matter which direction I turned, the sound was always behind me, far and near, accompanied by a few sighs, which made me feel a chill from the back of my neck, even when we were in the eighteenth layer of hell, we never felt this way.
I stopped, my eyes fixed on the air around me, and the little black beside me suddenly let out a low roar, I turned sharply, and a translucent shadow flashed in front of me, along with the footsteps and sighs, and the silence around me was like death.
I hurried to the place where the shadow had appeared, and sure enough, there were two clear footprints on the ground. But nothing else. The ground here was harder than anywhere else, and I stomped my foot so hard that the soles of my feet hurt, and I didn't leave half a footprint.
"Every problem will be solved, as long as you pursue it carefully, and follow the footprints of the killer to pursue it......" Mentor Dicardo's words suddenly came to my mind, and I looked at the footprints on the ground and stepped on it...... It was at this moment that a miracle happened—when I put all my feet on those two footprints, another pair of footprints appeared on the ground in front of me.
This is really evil. Could this be the true meaning of Mentor Dicardo's hints? At this point, I didn't hesitate any longer, and continued to walk towards the two new footprints. As expected, when I stepped on a new footprint, a pair of footprints behind me immediately disappeared, and new footprints reappeared in front of me. It seems that as long as I follow the footprints step by step, I will definitely find the place I am looking for.
In this way, every time I take a step forward, the footprints behind me disappear, and new footprints appear in front of me, step by step, leading me to unknown places......
Under the protection of a group of small people, I went all the way forward. Ahead is the unknown I seek. The pair of alternating footprints led me all the way to the edge of the Angel Swamp, and beyond that was a huge mountain range, and was it going to lead me up? Just as I was about to complain, the footprints in front of me suddenly flashed with a dazzling golden light, and I hesitated a little and stepped up. Normally, just after the second kick, the foot suddenly emptied, and the whole person fell forward with it.
It's miserable, I've been tricked......
"Ah, ouch!" I let out an exclamation, and instead of falling as I imagined, I fell directly to the ground, forming a large font and lying on my stomach.
"Hehe, it's really funny that such a big person can wrestle...... Hee-hee! A young girl's voice came to my ears from the side.
Fuck, whose child is so uneducated, he didn't step forward to help someone when he fell, and he actually laughed, really. I stood up and started to scold, but after my eyes scanned the surroundings, I couldn't scold at all.
For I was now no longer in the swamp, but in a small village, dotted with thatched huts, and occasionally a chicken running past me. Not far away, a few men dressed as farmers were chatting, waiting for someone in the smoking house to call them back for dinner.
What is this?
"Hermit, you have lamented the ruins and gained five thousand experience." Listening to the sound of the system in my ears, I was stunned. Is this the lamenting ruin I'm looking for? It's very warm to look at, it's just a paradise, how can it be called "ruins"?
"Hee-hee, stupid, right? Like a big wooden chicken! The little girl next to her laughed again.
I looked down and saw that this was definitely not a player, how could there be such a small player in the world. I saw that she was no more than four or five years old at best, wearing a pink-green dress, with a brown-black head curly, a puffy little face like a big apple, two big watery blue eyes looking at me with a smile, and the index finger of her right hand still in her little red mouth, sucking loudly, and working all over the doll.
"Little girl, what's your name? Why did you come here? What about your mom and dad? "Even though I had already peeked into her true eyes and saw that her name was Emil, I crouched down and asked her.
"I can't sue you." Emile blinked her big eyes and said innocently: "Mom and Dad said that Amile should not be allowed to talk to strangers, otherwise she will be captured by the bad guys." Emie is a good boy, listen to her parents, and my mother asked me to come here to get the basket, so I came to get it. "Ah, this little girl is really a good boy, ask what to say.
"What about the basket?" She was obviously empty-handed, so she didn't have any baskets.
Emile stretched out her little finger and pointed at my back, pouting and saying in a milky voice, "The basket was knocked behind by you." ”
I stood up and looked back, and sure enough, there was a large basket with a few coarse cloth clothes in it, which looked like those of the farmers. It seems that I just appeared here and threw all the baskets out of little Emil's hand. But then I thought, no! Just appeared out of thin air, this little girl was not afraid at all, even if she was an NPC, she wouldn't be so fake, right?
"Uncle, are you here to save us?" The little girl tugged at the corner of my coat and asked timidly.
"Save you? What do you mean? I looked at Emily's blushing little face, and her eyes seemed to be full of eager longing.
Emiel tilted her head to look at me for a while, and said with a smile: "I heard grandpa say that one day there will be a big hero who will come to save the person in our ticket, and I know that uncle is that person." ”
"What a big hero, why did you save you?" Looking at this village, except for being poor, isn't it good? What else is there to save? Is it possible for me to help them get rid of poverty and become rich? I muttered in my heart, and just as I wanted to ask something more from Emil's mouth, Emile suddenly raised her head and looked at the sky, and said in a panic, "Uncle, I can't tell you anymore." It's going to get dark, and my mom says that the monsters will come out after dark, and I'm going home. After saying that, he didn't even want a basket, so he hurriedly ran away.
When it gets dark, the youkai will come out. It seems that adults don't like to use this story to scare children. I looked up at the sky, and the sun had completely sunk to the other side of the mountain, and a pale yellow crescent moon hung high in the sky. A few faint black clouds floated slowly, casting shallow shadows on the ground.
It seems that I have to ask an adult, and there will always be an NPC that will tell me what is going on here. I was just about to go to the village, but I was frightened by a qiē in front of me.
A few farmers who were standing not far away disappeared in the blink of an eye, and Xiao Mi'er's figure also disappeared into thin air. The fat chickens that had just run in front of me were now skeletons; The basket I held in my hand...... I turned my head, and there was still some basket, just a few strands of blood-stained rags scattered on the ground......
This is a bit evil, I hurriedly called out Xiaoying and the group, took out two handfuls of guys, held them tightly in my hands, and cautiously touched the village......
Xiao Hei seemed to have seen something, and suddenly with a low roar, he rushed forward, and I ran after him.
Bypassing a section of the collapsed earthen wall, Xiao Hei couldn't stop roaring at a white figure, the white shadow dangling around, but there was not even a trace of intention to attack. I threw a real peek into the past, and it actually showed an NPC called Blacksmith Grantong, which is strange, how can a blacksmith be a pile of bones? And it moves.
Just in case, I turned on my sneak and walked quietly, only to see him staggering to the wall, as if bending down to take something, and then turned and walked to a mound of dirt, and picked up his right hand vigorously. What's going on? I watched him stunned—he slammed for a moment, then put something aside as if he was holding it, and then took it back and continued to swipe his hand. This action ...... He must be striking iron, and it dawned on me.
Since he wasn't aggressive, I naturally didn't need to ignore him. After the stealth was gone, I walked up to Grantone, but he continued to focus on the "iron" as if he didn't see me.
"Hey! Can you hear me? I asked aloud, but he didn't even pay attention to me, and didn't even look back. I tried to push him and pushed him to the ground, and the white skeleton looked around as if it had picked up something from the ground, and continued to pick up the invisible hammer in his hand. I was angry, and I pushed him again, and this was good, and he got up from the ground suddenly, looked around a few times, opened his mouth and ran out, and danced like he had seen a ghost. If he could have made a voice at this time, he must have been shouting, "There are ghosts—there are ghosts—"
Halo, what does this mean? I walked around the village, and I didn't see a single living thing, just skeletons that didn't know what they were doing. I also tried to slash them with a dagger, but who knew that the system prompted me not to attack the undead NPC, and I couldn't ask questions, and I couldn't fight them, so I really had to die alive.
Originally, I wanted to go back and ask Tutor Dicardo again, which is called taking out the return to the city stone, but the system actually prompted me that I can't use it. I turned around for a long time and found nothing, and I wanted to ask someone to help me inquire, but I didn't know that it was the same as in the Yellow Springs Hell, and I couldn't get news. What the hell am I in, I'm in a dilemma.
I crouched weakly at the base of a wall, watching the skeletons walking around in front of me, and occasionally a bone chicken or skeleton dog ran past me, and one of the skeleton dogs actually lifted one leg and made a peeing motion at me. Although it didn't really pee on me, it made me want to kick it all over the bones with one kick.
Forget it, since no one can communicate with us, and I can't find a monster to fight, I might as well go offline first, and then inquire tomorrow morning, I was disheartened, I thought about it, or go to bed first.
As soon as I got off the line, there was a sudden commotion in the whole skeleton village, all the skeleton shelves were scurrying around, trying to find a place to hide in the corners of the wall, dark clouds covered the moon, and in the hazy moonlight, a black strange figure appeared on this ruin.
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