In the Grand Canyon on the other side of the planet, the eighteen marines still turned on their searchlights on their chests, one after the other, and eighteen pairs of metal armored boots stepped on the gravel, making a squirming sound, and were moving towards the ground in a suppressed and silent way in this crack that seemed to never end.

No one knows how deep they have gone underground, because except for the energy and transmission machinery of their armored power combat suits, the other equipment has long been inoperable.

While taking the lead in the front, Captain 031 looked at a non-metallic mechanical watch in the mask that had been specially issued for this mission.

From the above time, he could tell that they had walked for more than two hours in this narrow passage that zigzagged down by now, and although it was a little beyond the scheduled time, he still took the lead.

In 031's opinion, it should not be far from their final destination?

Due to its deep penetration into the earth's crust, the temperature here is much hotter than the maximum of more than 40 degrees Celsius on the surface of the planet!

Captain 031, who was leading the team at the beginning, just looked at the thermometer embedded on the outside of the armor, and here, it had reached a high temperature of almost seventy degrees Celsius?

He couldn't imagine it: if there were really bugs underneath, wouldn't they be afraid of being roasted if they stayed in this hot environment for a long time?

This universe is truly amazing......

Can you evolve that terrible bug that is not afraid of strong acids, and can survive in this hot environment? It's possible that those bugs, thrown into boiling water at 100 degrees Celsius, may not be able to cook, right?

Anyway, Captain 031 thought as he walked, if it were a human being, there would definitely be no way to survive in this harsh and high temperature environment without protection!

"Attention everyone! If you find the situation in front, you can tap the action! ”

Suddenly, Captain 031, who was walking in the front, suddenly stood still.

After he raised a fist violently and whispered to the Marines behind him, asking them to convey it to everyone behind him one by one, he grabbed the electromagnetic rifle in his hand a little nervously, and after gently opening the safety and pushing the bullet to load, he turned off the searchlight in front of his chest, and slowly walked forward, step by step carefully.

In fact, they don't need to be reminded by the captain, all of them have already seen it.

Not far below this rift path, about fifty meters away, there was a large gap in this narrow passage that could accommodate several marines standing side by side, and outside, there seemed to be a faint red light coming from that side, it seemed that it was like the kind of red light naturally emitted by the planet's magma?

"Quick! Be lighter and watch your feet! ”

031 continued to lead the way in front, carefully admonishing.

Finally, in the short distance of fifty meters, even if they moved slowly and cautiously, it only took less than a minute for them to reach this gap.

“……”

"God......

"Damn UPL, ah......"

It's a massive underground cavern......

The first few Marines to come out of the gap, including Captain 031 who took the lead, had just taken two steps out of the gap when they were immediately frightened by the scene in front of them.

They could never have imagined that there would be such a huge internal cave in the crust of this planet, and in the cave, there would be such a huge nest of insect swarms?

The previous 031 captain looked around, and only saw a swarthy insect nest at the end of the line of sight, and even, in the dark places that the line of sight could not reach, there were more?

“……”

He felt that this huge underground cave was at least several times the size of the island where they had a ground base?

In the red glimmer of a river of dark red magma flowing out of nowhere, he could clearly see that on the floor of the huge cavern below, and even on the edge of the cliff gap where they stood, there was a thick layer of reddish-purple strange material.

They seem to be special substances formed by the condensation of some fungus? Or is it some kind of active substance that flesh and blood condense and multiply?

And then on top of these strange, let's just live fungus blankets, there are countless flesh and blood buildings of different heights, green or red, large and small.

They were the size of their human command center or barracks, and they all seemed to be alive, constantly moving? On top of their massive bodies, there are many huge arthropods with hideous fangs? Or maybe it's a tentacle?

Then, in the void between these fungus blankets and huge flesh buildings or flesh creatures, countless insects, large and small, were busy back and forth.

Among them, there are four-legged puppy bugs like the ones that attacked the base before, there are also snake bugs that shoot bone spurs, and of course, those huge mammoth-type monsters!

Looking down from the edge of the cliff in the breach, in addition to the bugs they had seen, there were countless eggs piled up next to the mushroom blankets, or Roshan-shaped buildings.

Every now and then, one or two of those four-legged puppy bugs burst out of the eggs and soon became powerful......

Even, 031 They also saw countless flying dragon bugs, or the kind of alternative bugs that were lying on their stomachs, couldn't be named, and had never seen before, and the other party didn't seem to be easy to bully just from the hideous outside?

And, the most terrifying thing is: just as far as they can see, the approximate number of those bugs seems to be in the tens of thousands? And what about the ones you don't see in the distance because of the dim light?

031 felt that he didn't dare to think about it anymore, this must be the nest of bugs, right?

Or is this just one of their nests?

Is it possible that these insects, like ants on the earth, have one colony after another?

Anyway, Captain 031 wouldn't believe that there is only one hive of insects on this planet?

"Be quiet! Everyone, slowly retreat into the gap! ”

After taking a deep breath, 031 quickly said softly.

Then, waving his hand back, he led the team back into the gap.

"Captain, what are we going to do?"

It was so dangerous, they retreated back in time, and it didn't seem to alarm the swarms?

It wasn't until everyone had withdrawn from the gap to make sure that there was no movement from the swarm outside, and the Marines looked at each other a few times before they all looked at their captain, 031.

"032, take the things off your back, be careful, be light."

Nodding to the team members, 031 exhaled and said to a member of Team 032 who had been carrying a large square rucksack and had been silent all along.

Then, 032 glanced at the captain and said nothing, just walked over without saying a word.

When he turned and crouched down gently, allowing the captain to assist him in untying the heavy cabinet from the back of his armored power combat suit, the two joined forces and gently lifted it to the side of the gap.

"What is this ......?"

Seeing the strange behavior of the captain and 032, everyone else was a little confused.

The thing 032 was carrying on his back, they had already seen it when they set off from the base.

It's just that when they were transporting the ship, no matter how they asked, this 032 was like a piece of wood, and he didn't say a word.

And when they asked the captain, the captain also shook his head, to be honest, the rest of them had been very curious about this thing for a long time!

Before that, when they were still bragging about the armored transport ship, they had speculated and bet many times that the thing that 032 was carrying was: either some important combat supplies, such as ammunition or food; Or, is it some kind of expensive detection instrument with the latest anti-jamming equipment?

And now, it's finally time to reveal the puzzle.

When they came up curiously, and watched Captain 031 and 032 waste a lot of effort before gently opening the mechanical password lid of the cube-shaped big guy, when they clearly saw the contents of the lid and the logo, everyone gasped and took several steps back in unison......

"Ah......h

One of the Marines screamed, but fortunately, he suppressed his voice in time.

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"Hey! I said, Galen, do we need to keep fighting? ”

In the game platform of the Hope, Galen and Darius's two elite marines, a total of twenty marines, were resurrected by the stone bridge outside Stratholme.

So far, in just one hour, they have cleared up the special map that little Annie has created to train their cold weapon combat skills: the Stratholme Dungeon, and the dead group has been wiped out as many as thirty-two times!

These marines, from the very beginning, only knew how to chop indiscriminately, but now they have learned to divide labor and be responsible, respond to each other, and form a formation against the enemy!

So, after their 10th hard annihilation, they managed to eliminate the Speed-type Elite Monster entrenched outside the Gates of Stratholme, the Elite Ghoul who had eaten them eleven times!

Of course, this is still the simplest mode......

Then, after they eliminated the elite ghoul at the city gate, they began to advance steadily, relying on the ability to reset the map with infinite resurrection, and so far, they have successfully encountered the first real boss in the city of Stratholme!

Then, without accident, the twenty of them were blocked by each other, and they could no longer explore the city deeply......

If it's just that you can't get an inch, it doesn't matter, but that boss, that monster who is also a giant ghoul, and is called Timmy by the mages of those cursed sects, actually ate as many as twenty-two of their two marines!

This made many of them think that in addition to practicing their melee skills, they came to this map more to deliver food to the undead in the city, right?

Twenty fresh, sweet, hot human set?

By now, though, they've learned a lot of opportunistic things, and they've come up with a lot of ways to target the undead or use the strange energies on their weapons.

For example, using the flames of the city to burn the undead, and smashing the undead with those strange water bottles around stone or wooden houses? Or, against the abilities and spells released by those strange monsters, use the energy of your own sword or axe to counter them to offset the damage, and then hack them to death?

"Let's fight again, right? But this time, we won't go to the right after entering the city, but try to go to the left instead? ”

After thinking about it, Galen felt that they should try again, anyway, there was still a little time before the meal was over.

If you go to the right of the city, they've tried it many times before!

On the corner of the street more than a hundred meters to the right, there was that horrible ghoul named Timmy blocking the way, and Galen was a little afraid of it!

For now, they can't beat each other for the time being, so don't go to deliver food anymore, right?

And if they don't want to refresh this dungeon and reset the small area of the city gate that they have managed to get through, then they can only walk to the street to the left of the city gate and try it.

"Left? Left is left! Guys, let's go! ”

As if Galen's idea was good, Darius waved his hand and asked Dawn to re-equip all of them with armored power combat suits, and then took the lead in carrying his battle axe and walking towards the city gate.

"Brothers, all follow, let's go to the left after entering the city this time, and just fight one last time! As long as you defeat a random boss, let's quit and go to dinner! ”

In fact, Darius had already noticed it just now.

Not far to the left of the city gate, he had seen from a distance: in a dead end, in addition to a few skeletons and ghouls and a small number of cursed sect apprentices, there seemed to be only a small boss standing not very large, only the size of an ordinary human?

Then, if they clean up those zombie skeletons and ordinary ghouls on the road first, it shouldn't be too difficult to deal with when they are on the opposite side of the lone boss, right?

Anyway, this dungeon,Now they have lowered the difficulty.,All monsters,Will only move within a certain range.,It's no longer like when the real difficulty started.,Just entered the city gate and was blocked by a group of monsters and beaten!

Soon, the twenty men and women of the Marines, each holding their own golden Demacian greatsword or a Noxian battle axe with red angry energy, entered through the gate of Stratholme, which had been opened by them, and after giving up the difficult direction on the right, they turned to the street on the left.

"Quick, quick, quick! Everyone side by side, first lure out those little monsters, and then beat them one by one! ”

People were forced out, and after being eaten more than 30 times, Galen and his gang also learned a lot of good ways to open up a desert dungeon!

For example, now, when they pull monsters, and when they encounter those who feel powerful, they all come forward obscenely, pull them out one by one, and then twenty people surround them and hack them to death!

And when they encounter those small skeletons or slow zombies who are weaker than them, they will rush up and cut the pieces randomly.

"Darius! Lookout, there's a patrol of elite ghouls coming over there, but don't lure them in! ”

“……”

Finally, after they obscenely and little by little cleaned up the mobs on the road, they finally came to the front of their goal this time!

In the cul-de-sac of this street, in front of a strange human dressed in pale cloth armor, with pale skin tones, hair, and eyes?

"Galen, what do you think of this guy's strength?"

Outside of the departure distance of this boss, Darius asked Galen a little uncertainly.

"I think he's pretty easy to deal with!"

Galen looked at the strange man standing in front of him in front of a skeletal gate for a moment, and nodded.

"You see, he doesn't have the fangs and claws, nor the heavy armor of the patrolling elite Death Knights, and he looks like an ordinary person? Except for holding a wooden mallet in his hand, at most, just like those previous Cursed Cultists, put a little bit of ability, right? ”

Looking left and right, up and down, Galen finally came to a conclusion: The pale cloth robe and complexion-colored humanoid monster in front of him should be easier to deal with?

First of all, he wasn't as tall as a Marine himself! Judging from the experience of their Marine Corps more than 30 times, in this Stantholm dungeon, the bigger the body and the more hideous the appearance, the more powerful?!

Secondly, he doesn't seem to have any reliable weapons? Even if he planted a wooden mallet, he probably couldn't smash the armored power combat suits on his people, right?

So, since time is running out now, and they are about to quit the game and go to eat, so, let's pick this soft-looking persimmon and pinch it out of breath?

"That's not a wooden mallet! That seems to be called a staff? ”

Darius was the first to correct Galen's erroneous statement, and the apprentices of the Cursed Sect they had met before, those freaks also liked to take a wooden mallet, but it was not as big as the one in front of them.

"But you're right, this guy does look like he's a bully!"

After correcting the other party's erroneous statement, Darius also nodded.

The more he looked at it, the more he felt that this guy in front of him was a bully! The other party, at most, is just like those cursed cultists, and will put some strange ability spells, right?

Then, taking advantage of the gap between the opponent's attacks, other people who were not attacked by the opponent's ability spells rushed up in a swarm to cut him?

Looking at the other party's body, it must not be more difficult to cut than those ghouls, right? All it takes is one man to rush forward and slash him, and he's dead!

"That's it! This time, I'll take the lead! Attention, everyone, I'm going to get ready to open the monster! ”

Since Darius also thinks that this guy in front of him is easy to bully, then he must be right!

Galen decided, fuck it!

Therefore, he began to beckon the other team members, and after a while, he himself first poured the power of Demacia's justice into his body, and after improving his resistance to those strange and strange spells, he took the lead in rushing forward, once the other party attacked him first, then the others could take the opportunity to go up and cut down the other party!

"Onward! Ready, as soon as the other party starts attacking me, you will charge directly! ”

After saying that, Galen carried the big sword that emitted golden light, and after letting the light energy on the sword cover most of his body, he took the lead and took a few steps forward, reaching within the reaction distance of the other party.

"Oh? Look, what did I find? There was a group of strange guys who came to Stratholme, to our world of death? Hehe...... It's so interesting! ”

Dressed in pale cloth armor and covered in bloodless eccentrics, the strange man surprised Galen and Darius.

After they entered the reaction distance of the other party, the other party did not attack directly, but spoke first and spoke lines? That's a bit of a rarity!

"Ouch, my mother! Brothers, look, this guy, it can even talk?! ”

Curious, Darius took two more steps forward.

"Hey! Who the hell are you? Lao Tzu doesn't look like a good thing for you, you must be in the company of those undead, right? Hurry up and explain, otherwise, Lao Tzu will go over with an axe and directly chop you alive! ”

Darius asked arrogantly as he raised the huge battle axe in his hand that glowed with red rage.

You know, they've been fighting for so long, and this is the first time they've encountered a monster that can only be so tall and can take the initiative to speak, and those opponents they have encountered before, except for those cursed cultists who can only shout and kill, are only the kind of monsters that will beat them to death and tear off their armor and eat meat?

"Alright, Darius! It's just a game character set up by Little Annie, and it's just an NPC endowed with a certain degree of intelligence by the dawn of the brain, so don't talk to him, hack it to death, and then everyone hurry out to eat! ”

Galen, who didn't want to waste any more time, grabbed Darius and stepped forward directly with his broadsword.

"Hehehe...... A bunch of impudent fools, feel the horror of the deep chill of Malekhi......"

The necromancer, who calls himself Malecchi, doesn't seem to care about the enemy's offense.

In his opinion, the twenty strange people in front of him were just a group of apprentices wearing strange armor and holding sophisticated magic weapons.

This must be true, in his Malecchi's opinion, these people are a group of apprentices of paladins and warriors through and through!

Their rank is just apprentices, and they can't be higher!

And who is he, Maleki?

He Malaki was one of the first mages to join the Cult of the Damned!

Specializing in cold ice spells, he has also studied a lot of necromancy, and has shown extraordinary talent in dealing with the cold of the tomb, and within the sect, his talent and qualifications can be said to be among the top ones!

His insatiable thirst for power drove him to hone his mastery of dark magic and icy energy in preparation for the day when he would become an eternal lich.

The title of Pale Maleche is not for nothing!

As long as he continues to delve into the ice spells and the undead system, I believe that it will not be long before he can almost transform into a full-fledged lich and gain eternal life, right?

So, when he looked at the twenty people on the other side, who were either armed with swords or battle axes, and dared to challenge him, Malekhi smiled disdainfully and raised the staff in his hand.

"He's going to cast a spell! Everyone, rush! Hack him to death! ”

As soon as he saw the monster in front of him raise the wooden mallet in his hand, and after the head of the staff flashed with those blue-white lights, Galen quickly shouted, and at the same time activated the power of Demacia's justice with all his strength, covering the front of his body.

According to the previous plan, he should first let himself charge first, withstand the opponent's attack, attract firepower to his teammates, and strive to kill the opponent in the shortest possible time!

"Ice Tomb ......"

In an instant, after the blue-white light flashed, a terrifying cold snap swept in, and in an instant, the twenty marines Galen and Darius, who were about to rush up and slash the enemy into pieces of flesh with their indiscriminate knives with the strength of the crowd, were all frozen in large blocks of ice that exuded cold energy.

"Hehehe......"

Looking at the masterpiece he had just made, the twenty lumps of ice lumps, and the frozen and stunned faces of the strange people frozen in the frozen tomb, Malecchi nodded with satisfaction.

Then he stretched out his staff once more.

Ice Arrow!

Blue ice arrow spells began to shoot out from the tip of his staff.

He was so unhurried to break these strange people who dared to provoke him, along with their strange armor, into pieces of frozen shards with ice arrows......

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“……”

“……”

Soon, Galen and Darius, the twenty marines, were once again resurrected in front of the Stratholme Bridge at the beginning of the map.

They looked at each other like this, one by one, and neither of them spoke again.

"Galen......"

After a while, Darius was about to say something when he was immediately interrupted by Galen's raised hand.

"Okay, let's not talk about it yet...... Now, offline! Dine! Wait until the evening, and we'll continue! ”

Galen, who had a black face, didn't even think about it, and directly clicked the holographic button to exit the game, and disappeared directly in front of everyone.

"Uh...... That's what I was meant to say! ”

Shrugging his shoulders and seeing that Galen had withdrawn first, Darius waved to the others as well.

"Gotcha! Let's all leave, let's eat! ”

After saying that, he also had a black face and reluctantly clicked the button to quit the game.

it!

Finally, after sitting up from the simulation cabin, Darius suddenly felt that this splashed game map was actually not fun at all!

Originally, they thought that they finally ran into someone who looked like a bully, but what happened?

Twenty of their most elite Marines......

didn't even have a chance to resist, and instantly let the other party freeze into twenty large ice cubes?

Then, they were knocked into piles of frozen pieces one after another by the other party like beating beans?

That guy is definitely a lot harder than the ghoul boss named Timmy!

At least Darius thinks that the ghoul's attack method is still within the scope of their comprehension, and the one called Maleki just now, he can still have such a powerful ability? Or a frozen spell, or rather?

This broken game, in the end, is it still not allowed to be played?

Is it so hard to do at the easiest difficulty? A group of people have been tossing around for so long, and they are still wandering around the city gate area of Stratholme?

"Gone, Captain! Eat and go! ”

One of the team members greeted Darius, who was sulking from the simulated cabin, after passing by Darius's simulated cabin.

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"Huh? Stratholme ...... on easy difficulty Completeness...... 0.01%？！ ”

When the Marines quit the game, little Anne, who had already eaten and returned to her barracks single room, opened her permission panel out of boredom and looked up the information on the map she had made.

Then, she saw the degree of completion that surprised her.

Are they all spicy and stupid?

It's all tuned to the lowest difficulty, and it's only 0.01%? Before they were gone, they still had the face to go to the planet Azeroth to grab land and settle down?

"Huh? Died so many times? So perseverance? ”

After thinking about it, little Annie hurriedly added a hidden setting to the Stratholme dungeon on the real difficulty: once the other party clears Stratholme on the real difficulty, the big demon, Akmund, will appear and appear outside the city!

Hey! In this case, if you give them another hundred years, you probably won't even want to clear Stratholme on real difficulty, right?

That's right, that's how it should be!