Chapter 5 On the Way Back

"I don't know much, I only explored the outer area in the early stage, and it was the first time to go deep here, and there were only a few simple explorations of the nearby terrain."

The Alchemy Society built flying alchemy machines and traveled hundreds of miles in the desert to draw a rough map, which is the map that Snod now uses, and it is not clear where on the map and what is behind the rocks.

There are indeed unknown dangers in the desert, and the alchemists think that they are not vegetarians, and they will solve whatever problems they encounter, and they will always reach their destination in the end, but reality has given them several slaps.

In the later expansion of the game, the subsequent expedition sent by the Alchemy Association finally went deep into the desert to achieve their goal, at that time, the name of this expedition has long been forgotten, and no one will know who Snod is and who Lolo is.

Mephis could not directly break these points, so he could only grasp the initiative of dialogue as much as possible, persuade Snood to retreat, and achieve the ultimate goal of not dying if he didn't die.

"Perhaps a little presumptuous, Captain Snood, can you know your goal? I know a little bit about the situation in this area, and if your goal is near, I can show you the way, and if it is far away, I can also provide you with advice. ”

Snod instinctively wanted to refuse, Yu Guang glanced at the situation of the expedition, many of his subordinates were not cold, and they needed to collect their corpses and take them back for burial, and at the same time, taking care of the wounded also required a lot of manpower, and it was too unrealistic to move on, and finally he sighed, took out a map from his pocket, and spread it out in the front of the car.

"You should know the legend of this desert."

"It's not a legend, it's clear that this was once a fertile land, the capital of ancient Beloka, but this qiē was wiped out in the millennium war, and the once rolling mountains have become what they are now after a long time."

"The purpose of our trip was to find the ruins of Beloka, and based on the documents found elsewhere, we have roughly confirmed the location of the ruins of Beloka."

This is a very simple map, through guò aerial photography, some places are not even marked with distances, Mephis, with his experience in the game, did not understand what was drawn on it, but he had to force it down, and finally barely understood what was drawn on the map, so as to find their current location, and then take the initiative to point it out to Snod.

"We passed through here before, and six kilometers from here is the sand scorpion nest, where many caravans have died, and further on, there will be sand thieves roaming nearby, and devourers at night."

"Devourer?"

Mephis sighed, and hurriedly recalled the illustrated book in the game in his mind, as a senior enthusiast, it is a necessary skill to memorize the monster illustrated book, and he can explain it when he opens his mouth.

"This is a giant beast that lives four or five meters deep underground, senses ground creatures through guò temperature, and will release ground thorns to make the prey lose its mobility when hunting, and then move to the bottom of the prey and eat it together with the bloody sand, it looks very similar to a sandworm, but it is more hidden than a sandworm, difficult to detect, and the disadvantage is that it moves slowly and is relatively sluggish."

"I see, it seems that we are really not well prepared."

Snod nodded, he had heard the merchants tell them about strange things in the desert, and when they spent the night in some places, there would always be one or two fewer people to count during the day, and no one knew about it, but there was a rumor of this kind of monster among the mercenaries, but no one had seen it with their own eyes.

Next, Mephis simply asked for a pen and paper, in front of everyone, redrew the terrain around here, where there is danger, where there will be quicksand, where there are monsters infested and how to deal with them, which toxin should be dealt with and how to deal with first aid, these rich knowledge made the alchemists speechless, some people reacted quickly, hurriedly took out a small notebook to record, looked at Mephis's eyes were shocked, and guessed that Mephis was a non-human immortal.

Now Snood has fully believed in the identity of the Mephes scholar, even if he is still young on the outside, the inner knowledge reserve is genuine.

After listening to all kinds of precautions, Snood finally pointed to a distant place on the map with a tentative mentality.

"Our destination is here, do you think we can reach it in two days?"

Mephis followed the direction of Snod's finger, his expression suddenly collapsed a little, he opened his mouth at first but did not make a sound, and after a while, he changed to a strange tone and asked rhetorically.

"Uncle, is it difficult for you to live well?"

"Hmm... You're right. ”

Mephis stared at this uncle, as if to say that your life was given by lottery when you bought toilet paper? With the current state of the team, even if each person has thirty lives, they will have to die on the road. Without him, the location that Snod pointed to is the penultimate dungeon in this desert during the game period, the temple of the Forgotten Realm, which has a huge magic guide Karakuri, which can be called the dungeon boss of the rookie killer, and Tu Youyou is quite sharp.

Snood sneered awkwardly, this time he had figured it out, life is not a cheap thing, although it was a pity that this mission was abandoned halfway, but he also gained a lot of valuable experience to prepare for the next exploration. The problem of funds can be found again, people will not be suffocated by urine, and if their lives are gone, there will be nothing, and now Snod simply gave up the original task and ordered the team to return the same way.

First the sand thieves attacked, and then the monster infestation, many alchemists were seriously injured, and many alchemy machines could not be used and could not be carried, so they could only be abandoned here.

Mephis also helps to take care of the wounded, and the knowledge of first aid does not need to be learned in the game, he knows a little. I have to praise the Alchemist Association for being very well prepared in this regard, and all kinds of first aid and nutrition are well prepared, which fully reflects the greed for life and fear of death in the profession of alchemist.

Luo Luo was busy around the car full of wounded numbers, and while treating the wounded, he had to mask the smell of blood with special potions, so as not to attract monsters again. There were many people wailing in the car, and most of the people here were seriously injured, but they were lucky to have at least survived.

In the evening, Mephis excused himself to be unwell and returned to the car early to rest, no one felt strange, and most of the people who could still move were tired enough, not to mention that Mephes was still injured. Actually, Mephis didn't feel uncomfortable at all, and when he returned here, he found a comfortable position to half-lie down, and his consciousness dived into the large library.

Maybe it was because he didn't destroy too many monsters in the battle, so he didn't get much experience, and he didn't upgrade to produce new changes, but his spirit was restored, and Mephis felt that he could look forward to the new magic guide book, and the magic guide book to choose had already been thought of.

[Book of Mist]

[The flowing water cannot reflect any appearance, but the still water is like a mirror, which can accept a qiē thing with an open heart and honesty - Wentini, the spirit of the lake. Bellew. 】

【Spiegel Water Stop (Proficiency E)】

[Real Mirror (Proficiency E)]

【Elemental Summoning (Unsealed)】

【The Great Flood (Unsealed)】

[Summoning the world's most beautiful, beautiful, generous, and empathetic lake spirit to descend (unsealed)]

Can you write a magic book well? What does the last skill mean! This author is completely shameless!

Mephis has seen this water elf, of course in the game, players hate and love her, because this guy is very unreliable, and the rewards given by the task are also very strange, and he worked hard to complete a series of tasks provided by Belle, and as a result, this elf gave a salted fish, and after eating, he restored his vitality to 10 points, and Mephis wanted to strangle her back then, but unfortunately he couldn't beat her.

However, many players don't know that on the basis of getting the salted fish, continue to brush the task to brush the favorability, and the follow-up task can be triggered after a month, and the final reward is this "Book of Mist".

Touching the magic book this time, sure enough, just like last time, the magic power was instantly drained away, and the spirit became tired, as if the author of the novel stayed up late to make up for the update. Unlike last time, Mephis had both zài magic books around him, and he felt that his spirit was full, and when he read other magic books, he had an illusion similar to 'eating up'.

Mephis is a little regretful, before level 10 of the game era, Demon Sect scholars can only hold two magic books at the same time, but I didn't expect that it would be reflected in this way when there is a zài in reality.

"It's a pity, otherwise I really want to take all of you with me."

Looking at the hundreds of magic books in the library, if they can be summoned, it feels like an infinite book system, and you can smash any enemy to death while smashing and playing, and at that time, you can really shout 'Lao Tzu is already invincible in the world'.

Mephis returns to reality and can't wait to touch the Book of Mist, the beautiful blue cover is painted with a self-portrait and signature of the Spirit of the Lake, it is undeniable that this elf is really a beautiful woman, but unfortunately it is too narcissistic, when touching this magic book, the magic revealed in it makes Mephis feel cool and comfortable, calm and calm, unlike the "Book of Fire" as enthusiastic and unrestrained.

Most importantly, this book can be used as a mobile air conditioner.

That's right, when the air conditioner is used, that's why Mephis finds it alone in the many magic books.

Mephis let the Book of Mist float around her, and naturally emitted her magic, feeling cool and refreshing even in the desert, and in the rare comfort, Mephis fell asleep.

Before dawn the next day, Snood woke everyone up and prepared to go on the road, he squinted his eyes and looked at the sky, the weather is not very good today, the wind and sand in the middle of the night now I don't know how long it will last, the sky is gray, the vision is very bad, this is not a good thing, human beings may be limited by the field of vision, the monsters don't care, in the face of yesterday's scuffle, the result may be very tragic.

Snod lowered his head and looked at Mephis's redrawn map, which marked a path out of the desert, perfectly avoiding all dangers, and this route would not alarm any monster lair except for the sand pirates.

"It's incredible, maybe this is the reward of goodness......"

Before the start of this expedition, Snod searched all the towns and villages on the edge of the desert, in order to find the guide can be described as painstaking, although he found many guides, but as soon as he heard that he wanted to go deep into the desert, these guides immediately refused, on the one hand, it was too dangerous, on the other hand, no one had ever set foot in the depths of the desert, this is a dangerous ominous place, and no one who does not believe in evil has never returned.

"There's another magic guide book, where did this guy hide the magic guide book?"

Snod used his peripheral vision to observe Mephiss not far away, and now there were three magic books floating beside him, among which the blue book was emitting magic power, and it could feel cool even in the scorching desert land, so the surrounding alchemists also came over to rub the air conditioner, and a group of people gathered around Mephis.

This bunch of guys...... Snod shook his head, his gaze stayed on those magic books, it was the first time he had seen someone use the precious magic books so casually, and the mages used the magic books, often holding them in their hands solemnly chanting long incantations, Mephis's control of the magic books was beyond Snod's understanding.

"Scholarhood, floating magic books, and manipulating magic at will, it's none other than ......"

"There's someone up ahead."

Mephis's voice interrupted Snod's conjecture.

Three hundred meters in front of the team, vague figures could be seen, and the speed of those figures was very slow, not as fast as a sand thief on a camel, but no one dared to take it lightly.