Chapter 20: The House of the Dead
Until this moment, Chen Xi still didn't quite believe his eyes, while the rest of the people looked as usual, in fact, the victory was already laid when Sun Baiyuan destroyed the fourth tower.
At this time, the time for the dragon rider to summon had arrived, Sun Baiyuan had already flown back to the ground, and came to everyone, he patted Chen Xi's shoulder, and smiled happily: "How is it, it's exciting enough, right?" ”
Chen Xi smiled bitterly and nodded, the desperate fear just now almost made his heart stop. You know, he has the only game point he has to play this game, and failure means death.
Without saying a word, everyone began to clean up the battlefield, this time the enemy dropped very little, and the undead army, which only turned to dust after Adonis's death, did not fall at all because it was not killed. So only six or seven small wooden crates and two black iron crates were collected. The wooden boxes are full of low-grade props such as small bags of coins, chicken legs, and small pots of wine, and the two black iron boxes are also medium-sized recovery props, which can be regarded as making up for the large amount of recovery props consumed by everyone.
Chen Xi originally thought that this was the end, but everyone actually took out a silver treasure chest from each of the ruins of the seven spires, and finally even got a golden treasure chest from a dark wreckage on the ground.
One gold chest and seven silver chests, what a bountiful harvest! Everyone came to have fun. At that moment, Chen Xi started his lucky draw again, and in addition to the four large recovery items, there were also two skill improvement scrolls and a griffon's feather. The result is unsatisfactory, the Griffon's Feather can summon a griffon to assist the player in battle, and it can also be ridden, but the flight speed and altitude are far inferior to Pegasus, and the effect is not very large.
Finally, Chen Xi took a deep breath and stretched out his hand towards the golden treasure chest......
A golden light flashed, and after the box was opened, it was actually a key carved from gray and white bones, one end of the key was the sawtooth of unlocking, and the other end was a skeleton grinning and playful shape, the carving was extremely exquisite and realistic, and it was also extremely weird.
"The Key to the House of the Dead!" Using this item will open the Legendary House of the Dead and obtain the Legendary Treasure.
For a while, everyone except Chen Xi was dumbfounded, and after being stunned for more than ten seconds, they suddenly burst into ecstatic cheers, Sun Baiyuan, Tank and Xiaotian actually pounced together, grabbed Chen Xi and threw it into the sky, while the phoenix jumped up and down laughing in place like a little girl.
Chen Xi also knew that he had opened a terrible treasure again, and he was thrown up and down in mid-air, and his heart was also full of joy, such a feeling is really not much in his life! At that moment, he seemed to feel that his heart was hot, very warm......
Everyone went crazy for a while, and then stopped, everyone looked at the white bone key in Chen Xi's hand together, Phoenix saw that Chen Xi still didn't understand a little, so he smiled and said: "Our big lucky star, the key to this undead treasure house is the treasure of the two key keys together with the golden goblin key, I really didn't expect that your luck was too good, and you actually got two big keys at once, which makes us senior players who can't play this game dozens of times embarrassed." ”
Chen Xi suddenly realized, and immediately meditated in his mind to use the key of the Treasure House of the Dead, only to see a miserable white light flash, and suddenly a hole in the ground opened in front of everyone, and a stone staircase leading to the ground was revealed at the entrance of the cave.
Everyone went down the stairs and found that they were in a huge underground mausoleum, there were skulls hanging on the walls of the crypt, and the skulls' eyes flashed with a dim light, and there were sarcophagi in the middle of the crypt, and there were dozens of them. In one corner of the crypt stood a stone hut, so small that it looked like a parking lot or a sentry box in a government compound. It is estimated that it is difficult to lie down alone.
Everyone was looking around, only to hear a "squeak", the door of the small stone house opened, and a person came out of it.
It was only when the man took a few steps closer that everyone could see where it was a person, clearly a neatly dressed skeleton.
I saw that the skull was wearing a hat with feathers, clothes embroidered with patterns, and long boots, but it looked like it had been underground for many years.
"Hehe, hehe, I don't know how many years have passed, I, an old mausoleum keeper, have finally seen a living person again!" The skeleton laughed as it walked, and took off its hat to salute the crowd. Its voice was hoarse and old, full of vicissitudes.
Chen Xi stepped forward and raised the white bone key in his hand, and the old skeleton keeper immediately became solemn: "It turned out to be a warrior who got the key to the secret treasure, okay, you are eligible to obtain the secret treasure of the Treasure House of the Dead." Saying that, the old skeleton raised his hand and made a gesture, and a large box flew out of the small stone house, and it fell in front of everyone with a "bang".
Everyone looked at it, but saw that this big box was as white as jade, and they didn't know what huge bones it was made of, and the box was carved with countless images of the undead, adding a bit of gloomy horror.
If no one next to the old skeleton stepped forward, he opened the box with difficulty, only to see that there were more than ten kinds of treasures in the box, and everyone was dazzled for a while.
"Voodoo Doll - Use this item to seal enemies in a Voodoo Doll for 60 seconds (boss enemies will be sealed for a shorter time depending on their strength)."
"Necromantic Bottle - Using this item will unleash a large number of necromantic attacks on all enemies within a radius of two hundred meters, inflicting heavy damage on enemies."
"Mortal Skeleton - After using this item, the mortal skeleton will shoot a mortal sight, and enemies that come into contact with it will die instantly (this item only works on a single target, and has no effect on the boss at the end of the level)."
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These props are all ghostly things, and they really live up to the name of the House of the Dead.
Seeing the end, Xiao Tian and the phoenix let out a scream almost at the same time, Chen Xi looked carefully, and it turned out to be five orange-red scrolls placed in the innermost part of the box,
"Elemental Djinn - Merlin's exclusive hidden skill, which can summon any one of the five elements of earth, water, wind, fire, and air to assist the player in battle, and the duration of the elemental djinn consumes 3% of Merlin's mana per second, and the elemental djinn will automatically disappear when the mana is exhausted."
"Ice Dragon Arrow - Yelena's exclusive hidden skill, Elena shoots an arrow with the power of the Ice Dragon, which can inflict heavy damage on the enemy while freezing the enemy and incapacitating them."
"Dragon's Breath Bomb - Lancelot's exclusive hidden skill, Lancelot uses his spear to send out a dragon's breath-like explosive bomb, with extremely considerable range and lethality."
"Berserker Bloodline - Posival's exclusive hidden skill, Posival who inherits the Berserker bloodline uses this skill to instantly increase attack power, defense, and speed by 100%, but life and fighting spirit will drop at a rate of five percent per second, once either life or fighting spirit drops to 1%, the skill will automatically stop."
"Heroic Spirit Summoning - King Arthur's exclusive hidden skill, using this skill, King Arthur will summon powerful Heroic Spirits to assist in the battle", the existence time of Heroic Spirits consumes 3% of Fighting Qi per second, and the skill will automatically end when the Fighting Qi is exhausted. ”
Looking at these five hidden skills, everyone's breathing seemed to stop, these five skills are really powerful, obviously more useful than the five hidden skills in the Goblin Hut, and even speaking, these five hidden skills can be regarded as hidden arcane skills.
If you can take down these five hidden skills, then everyone will have the skills of the characters in King Arthur's game. Each character's skills are four normal skills, two arcane skills, and two hidden skills. With this last hidden skill, everyone's combat power can increase by a large margin.
Under the expectant gaze of everyone, Chen Xi asked the old skeleton, "May I ask...... How do we get these treasures? Do you want to buy it with gold? ”
"Buy? Hehe, sir, you are really joking with my old bones, an old undead like me who has been dead for an unknown number of years, what's the use of asking for money? The old skeleton tilted his head and "looked" at Chen Xi with the hole in the black hole, and asked with a smile.
"Although these treasures are good, they are nothing to the deceased. However, I smell the smell of barbecue and wine, and ah! I don't know how many years since I tasted these deliciousness!" The old skeleton suddenly smacked his lips and said.
Chen Xi hurriedly asked, "So, can we exchange these with you?" As he spoke, he took a roast turkey from the leather pouch around his waist and placed it in front of the old skeleton's eyes.
"Change? That's so boring! For so many years, my old bones have been guarding this grave alone, and today someone finally found out here, so why don't you accompany my old man to have a good time. So saying, the old thing took out a dice clock and three dice from his pocket.
"Ding, the Guardian of the House of the Dead has invited you to play dice, do you choose to accept it?" A prompt suddenly sounded in Chen Xi's mind.
It seems that it is not possible to play, Chen Xi smiled bitterly and chose yes in his heart, and then squatted down with the old skeleton, and put the dice and the dice cup on a large stone slab, Chen Xi looked at the dice and dice cup smooth and white, as if it was also made of bone, and couldn't help but think that it was really funny enough to play bone dice with a bone shelf.
At this time, Sun Baiyuan suddenly said: "Chen Xi, the first skill is to choose the elemental djinn first!"
Chen Xi agreed, and immediately chose the Elemental Djinn Skill Scroll on the other party's bet, while the old skeleton chose seven large roast chickens, six large pots of fine wine, and three bottles of sweet spring on Chen Xi's side in one go.
Everyone's face immediately darkened, these three big recovery props - big roast chicken, big pot of wine and big bottle of sweet spring are extremely rare, only the silver treasure chest can open one, and now the big recovery props in everyone's hands were all pulled away by the old skeleton, can they not have a black face, you must know that the recovery props of this game are crucial, and the props can't keep up with only a dead end. If you lose, it means that this clearance is completely over.
The old skeleton gritted his teeth and smiled: "Let's compete for the first one." As he spoke, he raised his claws like chicken feet, threw the dice into the dice cup, and the three dice were dripping and spinning in the cup, and finally stopped slowly, and everyone looked nervously at the points, which turned out to be six, six, three, a total of fifteen points. The maximum of the three dice is three sixty-eight points, and this old skeleton rolls fifteen points, and the winning odds are already extremely high, and everyone is sinking in their hearts when they see it.
Chen Xi gritted his teeth, picked up three dice and blew it, and then threw it, the three dice were dripping and spinning in the cup, and suddenly the first dice turned over, it turned out to be a five, and then the second dice also stopped, it was still a five, and only the third dice were still spinning.
"Hey, hey, the first two dice rolled two five-ones for a total of ten points, and the third dice "must roll a six to win me, hehe, it looks like I'm winning!"
"Nonsense, if you roll a five or fifteen, it's also a tie." Xiao Tian shouted loudly in the back.
"Hey, hey, hey, the number is the same, the dealer wins, don't you understand the rules of the table?" The old skeleton laughed like a cunning old fox.
"Damn, what kind of bullshit rules are you meowing, you've watched too many Hong Kong gambling movies, you ......" Xiao Tian had to point at the old skeleton and scolded.
Just as the old skeleton was smirking triumphantly, the third die finally stopped spinning, and everyone almost didn't dare to look at the point, the odds of victory were too slim.
Xiao Tian was the first to shout: "Six! It's a six!, sixteen, and we win! We won!"
Chen Xi let out a sigh of relief, there was a feeling of being about to collapse and be powerless, this is not the same as the goblin hut, playing carousel gambling in the goblin hut, losing is losing all the gold coins, and the gold coins are gone, you can open the treasure chest again, but once the big recovery props are lost, everyone is likely to not even be able to pass the fifth level, no way, this game relies too much on the recovery props.
"Ding, the player wins the first round and wins the stake Elemental Djinn Skill Scroll." The system prompt sound sounded in everyone's ears, and Chen Xi saw that the scroll of the elemental djinn had already appeared in his hand, and he immediately handed the scroll to Xiao Tian, and he was so happy that the bear child screamed and jumped.
"Chen Xi, choose the Ice Dragon Arrow this time." Sun Baiyuan prompted again, and at the same time gave Xiao Tian, who was about to go crazy with joy, a neck slip, so that the bear child quieted down.
The old skeleton never expected that Chen Xi would be able to turn the tables and win at the last moment, and couldn't help but stay for a few seconds before he said gloomily: "Boy, good luck, this one is smaller, or I'll come first." Before the words fell, he had already rolled the dice, but this time he rolled two ones, one two, a total of only four points, and Chen Xi could only win by rolling three ones.
Chen Xi unhurriedly followed Sun Baiyuan's prompt, selected the phoenix's ice dragon arrow as the bet for the second game, and then threw the dice, and when the three dice were settled, everyone looked nervously, and it was exactly three ones.
"Haha, win again!" This time, everyone couldn't hold back their joy and cheered together. Chen Xi grabbed the skill of the Ice Dragon Arrow in his hand, and then handed it to the phoenix. The phoenix is already smiling like a flower.
"This, how is this possible? The old skeleton was almost crazy, a pair of bone claws desperately pulled at his wig, and finally it copied the three dice and stuffed them viciously into Chen Xi's hand: "This time it's bigger, you come first!"
Chen Xi looked at Sun Baiyuan with the dice, and Sun Baiyuan said: "This time, the remaining three skills are all available, you can choose whatever you want." ”
So Chen Xi was casual, selected the skill Dragon Breath Explosive Bomb, then took a deep breath and threw the dice. The three dice turned for a while and stopped, and it turned out to be a four or two one, a total of only six points, and the loss has accounted for eighty percent of the big ones.
"Hey...... Good fortune won't always favor you. The old skeleton sneered and rolled the dice, but this time it rolled a three-one, and it couldn't lose again.
In the cheers of everyone, Chen Xi handed over the skill scroll to Sun Baiyuan, and then selected the skill madness bloodline, and then looked at the old skeleton calmly, meaning how to compare this.
The old skeleton tugged at its wig, its teeth rattling, and it gritted its teeth and said, "This time, you will throw it first, and it will be smaller." ”
Chen Xi threw the dice, and this time he rolled three fours, a total of twelve points, if it is smaller, it can be said that the situation is not good. The old skeleton smiled and rolled the dice, only to roll three fives, another fiasco.
Chen Xi handed the skill to the tank, and then selected the hidden skill Heroic Spirit Summoning belonging to King Arthur, and looked at the old skeleton calmly.
The old skeleton was like a gambler who was in a hurry to lose, and said angrily: "This is still you first, throw it quickly!"
Chen Xi subconsciously picked up the dice and threw them, but this one actually rolled three sixes, which was basically a win if it was bigger.
Who knew that the old skeleton smiled gloomily: "Hey, hey, three sixes, this one is smaller, you are doomed." ”
"Ahh Everyone was stunned, why is this still smaller.
"Old thing, you're foolish, this one should be bigger!" Xiao Tian pointed at the old skeleton and scolded angrily.
"Hehe, who made him throw too fast without waiting for me to say it, I said that I would compare it to anything, this is my rule." The old skeleton sneered in return, throwing the dice into the cup as he spoke. This is a shameless trick, everyone is so angry that their eyes are on fire, and the old skeleton is triumphant, obviously the victory is in hand.
Who knew that the three dice were spinning back and forth in the dice cup, perhaps because of the coincidence of the factors of strength, angle and collision between the dice, one of the dice jumped out and fell to the outside of the dice cup, and the bones rolled straight to the ground. At this moment, everyone was dumbfounded.
Xiao Tian was the first to shout: "The dice are out of the cup, you lose, this rule is the same everywhere, don't think about it." ”
The old skeleton man trembled for a long time, and finally said with difficulty: "Okay, you win." ”
Chen Xi immediately took the skill scroll summoned by the Heroic Spirit in his hand, and everyone erupted into cheers of victory, who would have thought that the five hidden skills would be gathered so easily.
At this time, the old skeleton suddenly spoke again: "It's not interesting to play like this, so let's make it big, okay?" ”
Chen Xi was stunned for a moment and asked, "What's big?" ”
The old skeleton knocked on the big treasure chest beside him and smiled coldly: "Hehe, I still have more than a dozen gadgets in this box as my next bet, and your bet is in addition to the roast chicken wine just now, plus the five scrolls won from me, we will decide the winner, how about it?" ”
"Brother Chen, bet with it and let the old guy lose everything!" Xiao Tianxing shouted.
"Chen Xi, come on!" The phoenix also excitedly forgot about the beauty's reserve, and shouted loudly with a fist.
The tank was silent, but with a smile on his face and a look of encouragement in his eyes.
Only Sun Baiyuan said calmly: "Chen Xi, don't be swayed by our words, make decisions according to your own heart, remember, no matter what, everyone will support you!"
Looking at everyone's trusting eyes, Chen Xi nodded heavily, then turned back to look at the old skeleton's impatient expression, and then looked at the evil props in the big treasure chest, although it is full of evil energy, but the effect is also extraordinary, it can be said that with these props, the difficulty of everyone clearing the customs can be reduced a lot, as for the effect of a small number of props is better than hidden skills.
Chen Xi thought silently for a while, and finally said to Sun Baiyuan and the others: "I'm sorry, captain, I have a very bad premonition, I suggest that we give up this one." ”
"What?!You're going to give up, you coward!" But it was the old skeleton who was the first to shout, waving its claws so excited that it seemed to jump.
"Hehe, maybe I was too cautious, but I think I made the right choice. We've got the most valuable stuff, and the rest is just the icing on the cake, which is just a nice-to-have. But once we lose this one, we will lose everything. Not to mention ......"
Chen Xi paused for a moment, then sneered and said to the old skeleton: "There are many stories that have such a plot, in the continuous victory and get carried away, take it lightly, and then bet everything on the last hand, and the result is a complete failure." And to give you a piece of advice, your acting skills are a little fake, although it is a skeletal face without expression, but your tone and body movements are a bit artificial, especially the last dice you rolled, as a veteran of playing dice, how could you make that kind of mistake, let the dice roll out of the dice cup, and lose too fake. ”
After Chen Xi said that, he looked at everyone, and seeing that everyone was appreciative, Sun Baiyuan stepped forward and patted Chen Xi's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Good boy, there is really you, since it has been decided, let's go, there is no need to waste time here, there are still four levels waiting for us behind." ”
Phoenix also stepped forward and smiled, "I also believe that your decision is right. ”
"That's it, Brother Chen, with these five hidden skills, we can still clear the customs without those messy things."
Xiaotian said with a hippie smile, and glanced at the old skeleton as if he was demonstrating.
Chen Xi was a little secretly amused, and said in his heart that this bear child was still provoking NPCs, wouldn't it be to provoke the old skeleton and then destroy it and explode the equipment.
At this time, the tank also came up and patted Chen Xi on the shoulder, grinning. The people walked together to the steps that led to the ground.
"Wait......" a voice suddenly came.
Everyone hurriedly turned around, only to see that it was the old skeleton who spoke, and at this moment it emitted a faint white light that was completely different from the treacherous and obscene image of Fang Cai, and only heard it say: "Warriors, congratulations on your successful passage through the test of the House of the Dead, there have been two times before you who have been given the key to the House of the Dead, but they have failed, and they have been defeated by the greed of this last dice. ”
When everyone heard this, they all changed color in shock, they didn't expect Chen Xi's guess to be true, if it wasn't for Chen Xi's bad premonition and decisively gave up the last one, then everyone would have lost everything.
At this time, the old skeleton said again: "The secret treasure of the Treasure House of the Dead is actually the scroll of these five hidden skills, and the rest are just deceptive things. With a wave of his hand, the props of the many evil sects in the big treasure chest turned into ashes and scattered.
"What? It's all fake!" The crowd was even more shocked.
"Yes, the warriors who can destroy the necromancer Adonis and obtain the key to the house of the dead are all chosen warriors with great potential, and my mission here is to warn them of two truths, first, to forge ahead while guarding against arrogance and rashness, but also to guard against greed. It's like this last dice, only those who can overcome greed can see the hidden trap in it; Second, only one's own strength is truly powerful, and opportunism with the help of foreign objects is nothing more than a vain one. So the treasure of this house of the dead is those five hidden skills, and the other props are all just disguises. ”
Everyone never imagined that the old skeleton would say such a thing, and they were shocked in their hearts, and after thinking about it, they felt that what the old skeleton said was very reasonable, and everyone had a more or less understanding in their hearts.
At this moment, the white light on the old skeleton's body was even more intense, and the whole body was becoming more and more transparent, only to see it wave its hand for the last time, and said: "Warriors, goodbye, good luck to you" After that, its body became more and more transparent, obviously about to disappear.
At this time, Sun Baiyuan suddenly asked eagerly: "Excuse me, how many warriors are there in the two waves we came before, can you tell us"!
The old skeleton hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "There is only one warrior who came here for the first time, and there are four people who came here for the second time...... Before the words fell, the old skeleton had disappeared and disappeared.
"One man...... Four people ......" Sun Baiyuan read to himself, and then raised his head sharply and looked at Phoenix, Tank, and Xiaotian.
"A person must be a 'dragon king'." Xiao Tian was the first to shout.
"There are only two or three teams of four people, but more than ninety percent of them are the team of Crazy Tiger and Crow." Phoenix said with a frown, and Tank nodded heavily in agreement.
Chen Xi was confused while listening, Sun Baiyuan patted him on the shoulder and said, "When the game is over, I will explain it to you in detail, now let's go out quickly." ”
At that moment, everyone walked out of the underground mausoleum, and the light and shadow suddenly began to change in front of them, and the fifth level had begun.