Chapter 17: Memory of Deviations
After parting ways with Jefferson, Finn and his party continued their way deeper into the tunnel, occasionally killing one or two skeletons emerging from the darkness.
The gold veins of the Melore pit are buried deep underground, so the pit was not designed to be excavated in the open pit, but instead a ladder was built on the surface to allow miners to descend to a natural cavern beneath the surface to extract the gold buried there.
Unfortunately, the edge of the underground cavern where the gold mine is buried is separated by a thick rock wall from the lair of the undead, which is also hidden deep underground.
Not surprisingly, Jefferson and the miners encountered undead creatures in the depths of the pit precisely because a new tunnel recently dug with micro-explosives led to the entrance to the carrion maze.
As the four of them continued to advance, Fein noticed that the rock walls of the tunnel on the left and right sides of the line of sight were gradually beginning to show signs of manual repair.
He knew that the traces of the manual excavation could not have been left by the workers of the Merlor pits.
Therefore, the appearance of these traces can only tell one thing.
That is, the underground dungeon called is almost here.
Sure enough, not much time passed, and Finn and his party reached the end of the tunnel, and Arroyo, who was walking at the front of the four-person team with a glowing stone in his hand, suddenly found something on a stone wall blocking the front of everyone.
Arroyo stopped his progress, bowed slightly, and stood in place, touching the stone wall blocking the end of the tunnel with the help of the light source of the glowing stone, and then turned his head to look at Finn who was following him.
"My lord, this is a false wall, and it's actually a stone gate." Arroyo reported to Fein, "This stone door seems to be able to be pushed open, but the crack is locked, please give me a moment to pry it open." β
With that, Arroyo took out a lockpicking pin from his body that he had purchased in Dawnwind City.
"Wait a minute, Arroyo." Seeing Arroyo preparing to pick the lock, Finn spoke up and hurried to stop him.
"What's wrong, sir?" Arroyo looked at Finn strangely.
"Check for traps before picking the lock, especially for this kind of door." Finn pointed to the stone door beside Arroyo, "Just to be on the safe side, I suggest you check this stone door first." β
"Ahh Your reminder is right, my lord. Arroyo patted his head embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, I was negligent." β
In many dungeons across the mainland, all kinds of traps are often hidden in some inconspicuous places.
If an inattentive adventurer or grave robber accidentally triggers these traps, the careless person will usually receive an immediate response from the trap designer, such as poison gas, rolling stones, quicksand, spiked floors, squeezed walls, etc......
These traps are enough to kill people, and the mere thought of them makes the scalp tingle.
Arroyo's movements were fairly quick, and it didn't take long for the young thief to spot a thin blue-black line that almost melted into the background under the crack in the stone door.
"It's okay, if it weren't for the adult's reminder, God knows what the hell is connected to the end of this thin wire." Arroyo sighed inwardly, then took out a small pair of scissors from his waist bag, squatted down and carefully cut the thin blue-black wire with scissors.
After cutting the thin blue-black thread, Arroyo held her breath and took a slight step back.
After a while, he made sure that nothing unusual had appeared around him, and then continued to check the rest of the stone gate.
After about half a minute, Arroyo breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there was nothing else suspicious on the stone door, and then stood up, holding the glowing stone in his left hand and twisting the tiny lock-picking pin with two fingers in his right hand.
Arroyo skillfully snapped the small hook of the needle into the keyhole of the stone door, and patiently turned the needle with his right hand.
After a while, the lock of the stone door made a crisp sound, and the thief young man released his fingers to pick the lock pin, gently placed his right hand on the stone door and tried to push it, and then a smile full of accomplishment appeared on his face.
"Guys, the door is open." Arroyo looked back and smiled at the group.
"Well done, Arroyo." Finn gave Arroyo a thumbs up.
As the words fell, Finn and Arroyo worked together to push the heavy stone door open, and then led Arya and Lilith in the back of the line through the door frame of the stone door and into the space behind the door.
When the four of them entered the new space, they all felt like they had entered a huge dark room.
Fein glanced around with the special vision given by his dark vision, and found himself standing next to a stone wall, standing on the edge of a rock hall with a very large interior, and in the four corners of the hall were piles of bones that looked like hills.
"I remember, this should be officially within the scope of the copy of the carrion maze." Finn quickly flipped through the memories in his mind and whispered to himself, "Still, it's weird...... I don't think the structure of the carrion maze is like a rock hall. β
The scene in front of him was different from the image in his memory, and Finn narrowed his eyes, and the two eyebrows between his forehead and sockets wrinkled together unconsciously.
Soon, Arya on the side noticed Finn's strange appearance.
"Hey, Finn, are you alright?" Arya reached out and patted Fein on the shoulder.
"Huh?" Finn suddenly came back to his senses, "Oh... I'm fine. β
As the words fell, he looked at the elf girl beside him and smiled awkwardly.
And thenβ
"Click-"
The sound of the floor sinking suddenly reached the ears of the four without warning.
Although the four of them were 100% sure that they were not moving, the touch of the floor sagging slightly came from their feet at once, and they clearly felt that several pieces of the floor under their feet suddenly sank down a centimeter or two.
"Well, did we step on some mechanism?" Arroyo grinned, nervously resting his hand on the hilt of the dagger at his waist, a drop of cold sweat soaking from his back.
"Perhaps...... Right? Arya looked around uncertainly.
Arya could feel the movement of the floor sinking, too, but the traps she had imagined didn't come at her.
The atmosphere was suddenly extremely weird.
"Well, why don't I look back and see if the stone door when we came in is still there." After a while, Arroyo suggested to himself, "If that stone gate suddenly disappears, then there will be no way back for us." It's a terrible thing to think about, haha......"
As he spoke, he turned around with a smirk and stretched out his hand to touch the location of the stone door, and a ghostly expression quickly appeared on his face.
"Oh,!" A foul word came out of the thief young man's mouth, "Look at my crow's mouth, when did this damn door close?!" β
"What did you say?!" Hearing Arroyo's scolding, Arya was startled, and turned her head to look at the same place as Arroyo, and then found that the stone door that Arroyo had pried open not long ago was indeed closed at this moment.
There was no sound from the stone door closing again, and if it weren't for Arroyo's multiple eyes, she wouldn't have noticed.
At this moment, the only way to retreat behind the four of them was gone.
"Don't care about that door just yet!" Arroyo and Arya were staring at the stone gate in a daze, and Finn immediately roared next to him, "Guys, get ready to fight, we are surrounded by the undead!" β
As the words fell, Finn clenched the hilt of the Whizzing Blade with both hands, and his two eyes moved left and right to observe the movements in various parts of the hall.
Just as Arroyo and Arya noticed that the stone door was closed, Finn saw countless dark green soul fires lit up in the four piles of bones in the four corners of the hall, and countless skeleton monsters immediately crawled out of the four piles of bones.
The skeleton monsters are still mostly skeleton warriors and skeleton shooters, with a few zombies with carrion on their bodies, and a handful of ghouls with terrifying claws on their hands.
It took about a second or two for the undead creatures to get used to the environment in the rock hall after crawling out of the pile of bones, and then they all turned around and approached where Finn and the others were.
For a moment, Arya and Arroyo turned their heads when they heard Finn's voice, and their hearts were almost suffocated at the sight of the tricky scene in front of them.
Even Finn, who has a lot of experience in the game, couldn't help but gasp at this time.
"Quantity, a lot." Lilith walked over to Fein and sighed as she looked at the group of skeletons approaching from all directions.
Unlike Finn, Arya, and Arroyo, Lilith was still very calm in her expression and tone of voice at this time, and did not reveal a trace of panicked emotion.
Finn turned his cheek slightly to look at Lilith, and found that Lilith's eyes were still as calm as the surface of a lake, and his heart suddenly regained a little calm.
"Really, Lilith didn't panic, what are you anxious about?" He said to himself in his heart.
Calm down, Finn, calm down.
The current situation is just a little bit off from what you remember, you must be able to think of a way, can't you?
You know, in your previous life, you were a legendary player who had been through a lot of battles......
"Finn, can I cast a spell?" Suddenly, Lilith looked into Finn's eyes and asked, "I feel like they're desperate for relief. They're so pathetic. β
Burst......
In the premise of Ferdia, the low-level undead are merely the minions of the high-level undead.
After the death of these unrested deceased, their souls could not travel to the plane, and after being transformed into undead creatures by evil sorcery, they could only cling to the white skeletons and rotting corpses to continue to endure torture.
They are unable to disobey the orders of the High Undead, and often have to do things that go against their original nature, until one day they too will be promoted to the High Undead and give birth to their own evil will.
Finn remembers the setting of low-level undead creatures in the game, and in his previous life, he helped a ghost wandering in the wild perform a requiem ritual.
Sometimes, he also feels sorry for some of the souls of the dead who have been transformed into undead creatures.
"But this doesn't seem to be the most worrying problem right now, Miss Lilith?!" Although he didn't say it, Finn was already complaining frantically in his heart, "Compared to those bone racks, we seem to be in a desperate situation now, hey?!" β
In an instant, Fein figured out something.
That is, the reason why Lilith can always stay calm is not because this warlock girl has a strong psychological quality, but because she seems to be missing a string in her head.