Chapter VII The Closed Passage

Damn, what the hell is this......

Roland looked at this task prompt, and couldn't help but secretly scream in his heart, the difficulty prompt behind it was not good news.

According to the classification in the game, the general missions will be divided into Normal, Hard, Expert, Hell, and it is estimated that the reality will not be too bad.

And now the difficulty of this difficult level of mission is simply a disaster for him, which means that his chances of survival have been greatly reduced.

"What do you think, let's go, I know a secret place, as long as we get to the front, we will soon be able to leave this forest."

Seeing Roland's strange face walking behind, Randall Knight hurriedly urged him in a whisper, now is not the time to grind.

"Yes......"

Suddenly, Roland woke up and immediately put aside the doubts in his mind for the time being, and the most important thing now is to escape.

Running wildly, Roland and the others walked through the dense jungle and came to a relatively empty place.

"This is it......" Randall Knight said as he calmed his breath.

In front of them was a dilapidated log cabin, a hut standing in the Forest of Shadows, as if something strange was shaking in the dimness, no matter how you look at it, this house looks like a terrifying haunted house.

Roland looked around suspiciously, it was still in shadow, it was not close to the edge of the forest at all, shouldn't they be running to the edge of the forest now?

And he hadn't seen this place in the game, so could it be that there were some secrets hidden here?

But...... It was possible that he had missed it, after all, the game was like the real world, and Roland couldn't have searched every place.

"Well, you come with me first, and I'll tell you as I go...... This is a secret passage that we have discovered! ”

Randall seemed to see the confusion on Roland's face, quickly explained, and walked towards the dilapidated hut.

Immediately Roland did not suspect anything in his heart, followed and listened carefully to his explanation, and now in this situation, Randall had no reason to lie to him.

When he listened to what Randall said, he probably understood what was going on, and he was secretly relieved.

Hidden in this hut is a secret underground passage that leads to the outside of the Forest of Shadows, which is half the way compared to walking in the forest, and can be left in about three hours.

With a squeak, Randall held the knight's sword in one hand, and slowly pushed open the wooden door that seemed to fall at any moment with the other.

When the door was pushed open, it was pitch black, and there was no light source in the room, making it impossible to see what was inside.

"Rookie, can you illuminate this place with the healing technique you are good at? I need to find the location of the passage......"

"Okay, Mr. Randall......"

Suddenly, Roland used his healing hand on the void in front of him, and in an instant, a sun-like light appeared on his hand, illuminating the surroundings.

It turns out that the healing technique can also be used as a flashlight, but this is only an expedient measure, and no one in the game will do this, because Roland is blue when he uses the healing hand, and he can't last long now, at most ten minutes.

With the emergence of the healing light, the scene in this small cabin also emerged clearly, only to see that it seemed to be a pile of miscellaneous items, piled up with a large amount of wood, and the rats in the corner seemed to sense the arrival of Roland and the two, and hurriedly moved on the floor and fled to a safe place.

"Found it, come on, rookie, we'll be able to get out of this damn place soon."

Knight Randall's gaze scanned the wooden house, and then his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said with a quick breath.

He seemed to be well acquainted with the place, and immediately went into the cabin, and pulled a torch out of one of the piles of wood, and with a click, the torch lit up, illuminating the small area.

Seeing this, Roland hurriedly stopped using the healing hand, after all, in order to deal with the unexpected events that may occur next, it is better to retain some magic power.

"Come here, the passage is over here!"

Immediately Randall Knight shouted to Roland, and walked towards the cabin with a torch in one hand.

Roland was close behind, and at the same time, his mind was trying to recall clues about this place.

But no matter how hard he tried to think about it, there was no impression of this place in his memory of his previous life, as if it had appeared out of thin air.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang in front of him, and when he looked up, he saw Randall holding one hand against the stone statue next to the wall, and with a strong turn, the wall automatically and slowly opened, revealing the dim passage behind him that led somewhere.

Rescued...... Is this the passage Randall's mouth about?

Roland looked at the mercenary knight beside him in disbelief, never expecting him to know such a secret passage.

If nothing else, according to Randall, they should be able to escape before the monster finds them, and this passage will be able to leave the Shadow Forest directly.

After Randall's knight had fully opened the path, the two of them walked in one after the other, and little by little their figures disappeared into the darkness, and then the dilapidated house was as silent as death, except for the creaking of rats on the floor.

As Roland and the two deepened, this passage did not seem to be as simple as he imagined.

First of all, this passage is very spacious, even if more than a dozen people walk side by side, it will not seem crowded, as if it leads to an underground palace, and it is obvious that someone spent a lot of work to build this place.

And from the words carved on the wall, it can be seen that this place belongs to another race, as for which race, he is not sure, even Roland can't see which race the words on the wall belong to.

"Mr. Randall, when did you discover this place?"

Immediately, Roland hesitated for a moment, and said to the Randall knight not far in front, even if there was no problem here, he didn't believe that such a huge project definitely had another purpose. "This place was discovered when we went to this forest to explore the treasure, maybe you don't know, there is a legend among us mercenaries that there is a very large treasure buried in the Forest of Shadows............"

At this time, the expression on Knight Randall's face was much more relaxed, as if he was a tour guide to introduce this place to Roland, and of course added some "heroic deeds" about him.

But these news in Roland's mind is no less than the explosion of a bomb, this place may be a hidden copy, but I didn't expect that this low-level copy will also hide another hidden map, you must know that no player has ever discovered this passage before.

A copy that has never been found in the game, even Roland, who was a former player, doesn't know what is hidden inside, what the danger is, and there is a high probability that there is a danger hidden in this passage that is even more terrifying than that monster.

Vaguely, Roland began to feel some anticipation for this place, he had always been a very curious person, and now there was such an unexplored copy in front of him, like a beautiful woman lying in front of him, and there was a voice in his heart that drove him to go in and find out.

The eerie atmosphere around the passage made the two of them vigilant, as if a mysterious monster would emerge in the darkness.

After a period of walking, Roland and the two came to an intersection with two dimly lit passages in front of them, and on both passages were carved old sages in white robes.

But the strange thing is that one of the passages in front of me was blocked by a thick rock, and there was no gap.

"Mr. Randall, which passage are we going through?"

Suddenly, a hint of foreboding appeared in Roland's heart, and he hurriedly said to Randall Knight beside him.

"I ...... What we're going to do is ...... The passage on the right ............"

Knight Randall stared at the blocked passage with a somewhat sluggish expression, completely devoid of the excitement of coming to this passage, and spoke intermittently.

The passage on the right?

Roland looked intently, and saw that the passage on the right was the passage in Randall's mouth, but now it had been blocked by a boulder, blocking their way, and it was impossible to move the huge rock with the strength of the two of them.

"Damn, the last time I entered here, it was obviously unblocked, which bastard blocked this place!"

With a bang, Randall Knight slammed into the wall beside him in anger, venting the anger in his heart.

Now that their retreat is blocked, it is unrealistic to go back, according to the information provided by that difficult mission, it is estimated that the mysterious monster is still looking for them in the forest, and now there is only a dead end to go back.

Now the only way out seems to be another passage, and if you go in, you may be able to get a mysterious turn from it.

"Mr. Randall, where does the other passage lead?"

"I don't know...... I hadn't entered that passage, but my gut told me that I shouldn't have gone into that place......"

Apparently Randall didn't know exactly what the end of the other passage was, and his face was full of panic and hesitation.

At this time, Roland also fell silent, no matter which choice he chooses, he may fall into a situation from which he will never recover, and now it is really a difficult choice.

Just as the two of them hesitated, a deafening muffled sound suddenly came from above them, as if something heavy had hit the rock.

Oh no, there's a good chance that guy is coming......

Roland secretly screamed in his heart, there was a small cabin above them, and the huge roar this time was probably the mysterious monster, if not it was not a good kind.

"No, I don't want to die, damn it, let's go into another passage, maybe the end leads to the outside of the forest."

Randall also realized this, and the palm of his hand holding the knight's sword couldn't help but tremble, and the corpse of the paladin immediately appeared in his mind.

Could it be that they only had the option of entering that passage, and inside was an unknown hidden copy, whose danger was no worse than facing that monster.