Chapter 126: Totem City
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"It's so cold!" Red Moon said tremblingly.
"Hold on, it's an overcurrent that won't last long."
"But I'm freezing!"
"Hold on."
As soon as I finished speaking, the air pressure outside suddenly returned to normal, and the strong wind stopped instantly. I quickly removed the protection of the mercury shield and spread my wings, the light coming back to us bringing some warmth. Red Moon's face had turned white, and her body was shaking terribly.
"Are you alright?" I asked, holding the red moon.
"I didn't ...... It's okay, it's just that the body is a little stiff. ”
"Xiaofeng." I quickly summoned Xiaofeng to help. A large ball of fire immediately solved our problem, and we felt like we were back to normal immediately. However, the problem in this place is relatively low, Xiaofeng can't stay outside for a long time, and I quickly let her go back after her body is not cold.
The depth of the valley was beyond our imagination, and the intermittent cold air just now circulated every 20 minutes, quite precisely. Red Moon and I hid all the way down to the bottom of the valley, and it took about the whole afternoon.
At the bottom of the valley is a frozen river, and you can see that there is still some water flowing under the ice.
The river is more than 50 meters wide and is flanked by frozen cliffs. Compared to above, the temperature here is slightly higher, but the ambient temperature is still in the minus 40 degrees. It was completely dark, but it was very bright. The surrounding ice crystals all reflect a blue light, which looks quite dreamy.
"Look." Red Moon suddenly ran to the front, but the ground was too slippery, and she had just run two before she fell down with a fork. I wanted to help her, but it was a little farther away. Didn't have time.
"Slow down, it's not snow, and the ice doesn't have much to do." As I spoke, I slammed the tip of my right foot on the ground. With a bang, a large row of steel nails popped out at the bottom of the Demon Dragon Boots, and when he changed his left foot to the ground in the same position, the same steel nails popped out. With this, there will be no slippage when walking.
Red Moon helped me to my feet, and followed me carefully to the spot where she began to see. The environment here is no different from where we landed, surrounded by crystalline ice. But here there are plenty of traces of battles on the ground and walls. The glacial ground beneath his feet was clearly under heavy punch. The huge radiant cracks on the ice can only be found by true red. As for the large and small potholes in the walls, it is even more obvious, and ordinary people will not have such a strong destructive power.
The traces of the fight stretch all the way forward, this is the best signpost, as long as we follow this route, we will definitely catch up with the real red. "Red Moon. Come here. ”
"What for?"
"I'll carry you, hurry up like this."
Red Moon thought about it for a moment and jumped up. I put my toes on the ground a little bit again.
The spikes were retracted, and I flicked my feet. An ice blade popped out. Ice skating is much less strenuous than walking, and it's fast. Strangely enough. Although the traces of the fight were everywhere, we saw no corpses or bloodstains along the way, nothing but the smashed potholed ground and broken ice all over the ground.
After running for a while, the river suddenly entered a cliff and there was no road. The river entered the mountain through a hole in the cliff, but the hole was below the ice and we couldn't get in. The traces of the fight also stopped here. The fact that the ice surface was not damaged indicates that True Red did not follow the river into the mountain. It is surrounded by cliffs on three sides, and the only entrance is in the direction we came. If True Red hadn't gone down into the river, it would have to go from above.
Red Moon and I quickly began to find our way along the cliffs, True Red couldn't have disappeared for no reason, there must be some other exit to this place.
After searching for a while, I suddenly found a hole in the cliff above me more than 50 meters above the ground. The ice here is so smooth that the mix of reflections and refractions makes it difficult to see a lot of things, otherwise we wouldn't have taken so long to find the hole.
I aimed the dragon tendon cable at the top of the hole, and as soon as I moved my finger, the head of the cable flew out and embedded it in the ice. Picked up the red moon and changed into the steel nails on the soles of his shoes, stepped on the cliff wall, and went directly to the hole and drilled in.
The inside of the cave was brighter than the outside, and the blue light shone from the depths of the cave. The entire cave is made entirely of ice, and there is ice everywhere on the top, bottom, left, and right.
"Oh my God! What is this? Red Moon was suddenly frightened by something in front of her.
Not far in front of us was a human under the ground, his body all under the ice, with only one hand stretched out on the ice and looking towards the sky as if trying to grasp something. Although the corpse looked like it had been a long time, the person's appearance was mostly intact, except for the fact that his skin was a little shriveled, and he looked like a living person.
I cautiously walked over to the poor creature and looked at it beneath the ice. "Looks like Europeans."
"It's scary." Red Moon carefully kept her distance from this guy.
"Maybe we should ask it what it knows."
"Good idea."
I took out the tail necklace from the bracelet and wrapped it around the arm that was stretched out in the air, and the whole corpse suddenly lit up with white fluorescence.
"Who? Who woke me up? ”
"A person passing by." I grabbed the necklace and said, "Did you see a girl passing by here this afternoon?" ”
"I've been sleeping, and I don't know if I do."
"And how did you die here?" I'd love to know the cause of this guy's death, because if we don't know, that could be our cause of death as well.
The corpse's voice sounded slowly: "It was an oriental monster that killed me, and legend has it that it should be a kind of mascot for the Chinese." But I don't know why the Orientals use such a dangerous thing as a mascot. ”
"Can you describe what that thing looks like?"
"It's hard to say. After all these years, my memory is a little blurry, and the shape of this thing is very special. It has a rough appearance similar to that of a four-legged carnivore, and has long white hair all over its body. By the way, it has a pair of horns on its head, which are somewhat like antlers. ”
"Kirin?"
"yes, that's it."
Hongyue clasped her hands on her chest and pondered, "Obviously, there is a frost and snow unicorn living here. However, the legend says that the unicorn should be a gentle creature, and it shouldn't hurt people! ”
I tapped on the ice and faced the corpse below and asked, "Why are you here?" ”
"I am a paladin of the Templar Order, and I have come to hunt down the Kirin on orders of the Church."
Hongyue said with relief: "It's strange! ”
"Why did the church let you hunt the unicorn?"
"Because the unicorn is an evil beast, it does not honor the guidance of the gods."
"God? Which god? ”
"Of course, it is incomparably bright, magnanimous, and selflessly brightens God."
Hongyue disdainfully said: "Even creatures that don't respect themselves can't tolerate it, it's indeed lenient and selfless enough." ”
"You can't slander the incomparably great God of Light." This paladin is really strong-willed. "You must pay the price for what you speak, and be quick to the incomparably great......"
I pulled the necklace off, and the light on the corpse disappeared instantly, and the sound suddenly stopped.
"What an idiot." Red Moon turned and continued walking towards the cave.
I hurried to follow. "What kind of madness are you angry with an NPC? At least we got part of the news. ”
"But we still don't know the whereabouts of True Red."
"At least we're not on the wrong track." I pointed to a huge rift in the ground that had just appeared in front of us. The entire wall here is covered in dense cobwebs. If you touch it again, it will probably fall apart completely.
"It's a masterpiece of true red again."
"It looks like this punch is not small."
"Which punch is too strong for True Red?"
"Huh. It's windy here. I pointed to the aisle ahead.
Red Moon followed me to the other end of the passage, which came to an abrupt end after turning a corner. We entered a huge unimaginable space. It is a world made of ice, and the walls, the ground, and the zenith are all made up of ice. There is something even more spectacular in this huge ice cave - a city.
The area of the city in front of you is not large. Not to mention Isinger, even compared to the Cloud City entrusted to the Blood Alliance, this is not a big city. But the structure of the city is simply amazing. It turned out to be made entirely of ice. The entire city has only one wall, and the other three directions are directly protected by icebergs. The only direction facing the passage is a five-kilometer-wide ice wall, and on top of the wall is a row of ice sculptures of various monsters.
There are a few tall buildings in the city behind the city walls, and the top structure of the buildings can be seen directly from here. Judging from the roof of the hanging cornices, this is a Chinese-style building, but this should be considered the boundary of India, how can there be a Chinese city?
"It's so red." Red Moon suddenly screamed.
On top of an icicle in front of us, True Red was looking at something with her feet on her feet. Hearing the shout, she immediately turned her head back. "Why did you come down too?" True Red rolled over and fell to the ground and ran towards us.
"It's not for you." Red Moon complained half-truthfully: "As we walked, we suddenly found that you were gone, and as a result, we found a hole, and we wanted to see if you were inside, but the ground suddenly collapsed, and we fell together." ”
"Then how did you get there?"
I pointed to the red moon: "We didn't jump straight down. I've been crawling down with the red moon on my back since the ice broke apart. By the way, there are a lot of cracks on the road, what the hell are you fighting with and there are potholes everywhere? ”
"A medium-sized magical beast, there are a lot of them, but they were all killed by me." True red doesn't matter.
"Then why didn't we see the corpse?"
"It's all made of ice, and when it breaks, it's ice slag, you must have seen it and didn't pay attention."
I nodded and pointed to the city in front of me, "Did you go in?" ”
Zhenhong shook her head: "Do you see the ice sculpture on the city wall?" ”
"What's wrong?"
"Those are magic ice statues, golems and similar things. Attacks automatically as soon as you get close. I've tried several times, but I can't get close. ”
"Is it so powerful?"
Zhenhong said again: "It's so powerful that it's not very powerful, I'll punch these things one by one."
But as soon as they are broken, they will slowly melt into the ground, and then a new entity will appear on the wall, and I have been fighting here for a long time, and I will not be able to finish the fight. ”
"Infinite rebirth." Hongyue looked at Bingcheng and said, "Have you tried using fire?" ”
True Red didn't answer, but took a torch from behind and handed it to us. The torch field has a large block of ice at the top, and it looks like a burning flame.
"Frozen?"
Zhenhong nodded: "I just lit it, but the fire on the torch froze completely." ”
I flicked it with my hand, and the torch was still clanging. "Good guy, that's tough."
"Shall we go back the way we came, or do we find a way to get in?" True Red asked me.
Hongyue said: "It's all here." Will the purple sun agree if you don't go in? ”
"Absolutely." My unexpected answer froze Red Moon. I took out the map, marked the location on it, put it away, and said to the two of them, "There's a lot going on in the guild. We don't have time to delay here, let's leave first, and come back later when we have time. ”
Although taken aback, Red Moon agreed with me, and we returned to the canyon first, and then climbed up the valley little by little. Back on the snowy peak, we finally reached the Chinese border after dawn after another night's trek. Once you've crossed the border, it's easy, take out the scroll and teleport directly back to Isinger.
As soon as True Red and Red Moon arrived, Isinger couldn't hold on to going offline. I myself ran to tell the roses that they were safe, but I didn't know that I had pounced. The players who stayed behind said that several of the main leaders of the guild had gone to Steel City. I had no choice but to run to the Steel City again.
Out of the teleportation array, it felt that something was not quite right, and Steel City could only hear the sound of some large mechanical cooling fans quietly. Steel City is the heavy industry base of the guild, and it has the loudest voice of all the cities, but today it is surprisingly quiet. I ran around the city for a long time and could hardly see people, except for some automated machinery rumbling to work, most of the equipment stopped, and what was even more strange was that some large equipment was actually missing.
The last time I came to the steel city, there was more equipment than now, and then we introduced a lot of new equipment from Germany and the United States, and we also developed a lot of equipment ourselves, and then said that these equipment should be very much, but the steel city has become more empty than the last time, which is really strange.
Suddenly, I saw someone running over in a hurry, and I quickly grabbed him. "I finally saw a living person."
"President?" This player was caught by me.
"Where are all the people here? What are you doing in a panic? ”
This player points to the top. "Everyone is busy with the things you brought back, and I still have to go get the parts, so you better ask someone else." With that, the player ran away like a gust of wind and ran to the original ground passage, but it was unrecognizable.
Originally, the only entrance to the surface of the steel city was a long stone staircase passage, but now it has turned into a large group of elevators and countless spiral stairs. On the wall in front of you, several large lifts laden with goods are slowly rising, and many players are busy loading items on a parked lift. A large number of NPCs and players on the artificial spiral ladder are running up and down like ants on a hot pot, and they don't know what they are busy with.
Seeing that there might be some big project going on on the ground, I found a lift and followed it up to the ground. I was completely dumbfounded as the surface situation came into my sight.
Above the elevator turned out to be a warehouse, and the huge space was no smaller than that of a large passenger plane. The room was full of large and small boxes, and groups of demonic beasts pulled flatbed carts to transport some boxes to the outside of the warehouse.
I walked out of the warehouse almost unconsciously. The sight outside was even more shocking. The desert at the top of the steel city is gone, and instead there is a huge work area like a field airfield. The steel floor was extremely hard, and some oddly shaped buildings stood irregularly in all directions, which felt quite strange. Looking back at the warehouse I walked out of just now, its appearance is not the same as that of a normal warehouse. This guy seems to be a turtle shell on the ground, like a bunker more than a warehouse.
A large crowd of people is building the base of a building in a huge flat square. Because there is only a foundation, I can't tell what I'm building. Just as I was about to walk over, Walmarti's voice suddenly appeared behind me: "Purple Sun? You're here so soon, huh? ”
"Walmart? What's going on here? ”
"Look over there and you'll understand." Walmart pointed to our side.
I turned my head and saw a huge support frame and a large number of workers, and the corner of the warehouse blocked most of the thing, so I had to run over to look. As soon as I left the shadows of the warehouse, I saw the whole thing in its entirety.
First of all, I saw a large array of steel arches, all of which were huge, and all of them were painted with yellow and black stripes, which looked quite powerful. Inside these arches, a giant crane is busy back and forth on the tracks. These arches were apparently built to support the crane.
Under the massive arches. An item that has been basically formed is undergoing final assembly. I can roughly tell that it's the head of an insect. I'm not an entomologist, so I can't tell what kind of insect it is just by looking at this incomplete head.
This insect head is made entirely of welded metal, and its sheer size is intimidating to look at. The giant head, which was almost two-thirds the size of the Great White Deng, had a pair of large pincer-like mouthparts in front of it, and it looked aggressive.
I suddenly remembered what it was. Look back at Walmart who has already walked up to me. "This is the ant fortress? You've already started building it? ”
Walmart smiled and said, "I started to let them build it when the people from the research institute came to show me that little ant totem. You were so busy with the last big clearance at the Lab that you didn't know why there were so many strange things in your storage space. ”
"I just don't like to organize things." I smiled and pointed to the huge head:
"How did you design the kinematics?"
"In fact, that's exactly what we're worried about." Walmart explained as I walked that way, "The Ant Fortress doesn't have any movable mechanisms at all. If it were in the real world, I think it would just be a relatively large sculpture. Like that big pincer-like mouth. It's completely one with this head, let alone biting something, don't even think about moving. But the ant totem you brought back insisted that as long as you made the rough shape, it could make the thing move. We're just worried about whether this guy is telling the truth or not. ”
"I think it should be true. After all, it doesn't do it any good to lie to us. ”
I looked at the big head, which was almost finished, and asked, "Did you only build one head?" ”
Walmart gestured behind us. It used to be on the back side of the vault, but now I see that there are a lot of these supporting arches here. "There's a chest of the ant fortress being built over there, and the one behind you is building the belly. The legs are being built in the two places on the left, and there are already three finished legs in the warehouse over there. It won't be long before we can do the final assembly. I hope that totem is telling the truth. ”
"What do you do when something this big is assembled? It doesn't seem to be a big enough hoisting equipment around here, right? ”
"Have you forgotten that we have a gravity defy device? Although those things can't be moved, they can still be used as lifting equipment that goes straight up and down. If the progress is fast enough, we will be able to see the completed Antfort tonight. Whether or not we can really make this steel sculpture move depends on tonight. ”
I brought these insect legions back in the rainforest for what they said was the level 800 mission level, otherwise I probably wouldn't have helped them. Each of the 13 races has its own castle, and none of them need to build complex joints, as long as they create physical shapes, they can use their magic to make these big creatures move. Although I was skeptical, I believed them for the sake of the level 800 mission. Walmart and I have the same opinion, but I am also worried about the truth of what they say, so I will build one of them first. If you can really move, it's not too late to rebuild other castles, and if you can't move, then you will spend money to buy lessons.
I haven't left Steel City all day today, and Rose is here too. After I met them, I showed them the Divine Soldier Sifang Venerable, and told them some information about the new national weapon of True Red, of course everyone was very happy, but now everyone's mind is focused on whether this steel ant can move or not, and there is no expression of excitement.
Due to some minor problems, the construction progress was delayed a little, and it was still not completed after dark. The huge square was lit up with a square lamp powered by magic crystals, and the metal ants were quietly crawling on the ground. Swarms of workers are busy making post-contrived connections and adjustments both outside and inside the ants.
This big ant is not solid, and there is a lot of space inside. Although the utilization rate of the interior space is not high due to its strange shape, the final effective area is still four-fifths of the effective space area of the Great White Shark. The whole ant used millions of tons of our steel, and if it weren't for this reinforced steel floor, it would have been stuck in the sand.
It wasn't until dawn that the giant metal ants were finally finished. The huge creature was now lying quietly on the ground, its body resting directly on the ground, and those long legs did not support the body, but were forked diagonally on the side. The black metal surface was painted with some red markings by the workers, which looked quite eye-catching, but now this posture really didn't show any momentum.
Rose handed me the totem again, and they said that I would be responsible for such an important work as the first start. He was pushed through the gate on the ant's chest into the inside of the ant's fortress, which was similar to the inside of the dockyard ship Great White Shark. The compact room arrangement creates a lot of space for the common areas. We climbed up the stairs until we reached the ant's head in the ant's fortress, where the control room was located.
Entering the inside of the control room, we took a general look at the internal environment. This place is more of an assembly hall than a control room. There is a hemispherical convex part on the left and right sides of the room, which is the eye of an ant, but the pure steel eye is opaque, we can't see anything through it, and even the light here is provided by our own light source.
In the middle of the room there is a one-meter-high platform. The top of the platform is slanted, like a control platform, but there is nothing twisted here, only an ant-shaped groove. The fool also knows that he must put the totem in my hand to activate this thing.
The red ant totem flashed red, and it suddenly screamed as I approached the trough a little bit. "Wait a minute."
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