After leaving the inn and stepping onto his decent brown land chocobo ostrich, Zuo Ci immediately embarked on the journey to the Steel Fortress. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Although Qi had earlier suggested that he would only need to hurry up for a day and a night to reach his destination, Zuo Ci knew that this trip would not end so quickly. The main reason is that Qi also mentioned that he needed a gold price to take the flying ship, but he only had 390 silver on his body, which was far from the same. In addition to having to hunt monsters and collect some loot to sell for money, he also has to think of other ways to make money...... In addition, Zuo Ci also needed to improve his level, and after the crushing mental and physical torture of the power of the two blood crows, his desire to become stronger in this brave continent had risen another level.

So, Zuo Ci traveled to the wild area after a short time on the main road, and let the ostrich mount run while observing the surrounding environment, looking for suitable wild monsters. Once he finds his target, he stops the ostrich and launches a stealth approach, unleashing a series of killing moves.

After walking and stopping like this, through the shrub area, Zuo Ci came to a stone forest area that looked like the karst landform of the real world, and the rocks that formed the Optimus Pillar also looked like the carbonate rocks in reality. Perhaps this land boundary was also a coastal area in ancient times, multiplying countless limestone and dolomite, and was lifted into land by the later crustal movement, so that these sword-shaped, mushroom-shaped, tower-shaped, knife-ridge-shaped and other huge stone pillars were combined in a breathtaking form in front of the eyes of adventurers.

At this time, just after noon, in order to avoid the scorching sun, Zuo Ci found a mushroom-shaped stone rock that looked around and saw no monsters roaming, and hid in the shadows under it to rest for a while.

When people stop, they can't help but think. Zuo Ci leaned his whole back straight against the stone pillar, his eyes looked through the boundary of the mushroom cap carved from limestone, looking at the cloudless clear sky, and his mind was constantly combing through the various experiences that had happened in the last few days.

What he minded the most, of course, was the prophetic words that Shura said when he was away from him in a bloody corpse - [The next time the full moon comes, there will be no chance to return from hell?] - Is this statement that changed the basic gameplay of the whole game true or false? Shura's tone at that time didn't seem to be joking, and even if he wanted to threaten the point, there was no need to rely on telling such a lie to achieve his goal. If that's true...... Then, when the full moon is at full height on the 15th of next month, we must not lose our lives in this extremely dangerous world, this life that is firmly bound to the consciousness of the origin of reality, will be lost at all, and one will die and die.

Another thing that he was particularly concerned about was the epic quest to "get the Molten Flame Collection", and the black-clad swordsman who mysteriously didn't even have his name.

What kind of book is "Molten Fire Collection", you can know the details if you succeed in stealing it in the future, but why he encountered this task that came to him, he is still very puzzled. Could it be that this is the game's plot design? Or is this a class quest for thieves? Why is this epic task just a simple sentence and no more explanations? …… After not staying in this brave continent for a long time, Zuo Ci has begun to have some doubts, too many of the designs of this game are not in line with common sense, and they are too unexpected. However, the key to this quest to "get the Molten Flame Set" should be attributed to the mysterious black-clad swordsman - [The quest comes from him, and all the hints are from him, maybe unlocking his identity and the truth of the whole thing will emerge?] Thinking so, Zuo Ci took out the conch for communication given by the black-clothed swordsman from behind his back, held it in front of his eyes with one hand, and let it observe the position of the scorching sun.

The palm-sized conch is mainly milky white in color, covered with dotted markings, and looks no different from a real-world conch.

[In the future, if you are in danger, you will ask me for help from the conch.] - Zuo Ci remembered that the black-clothed swordsman had indeed said this when he confessed, and had fully shown him how to use the conch, but he had not tried it himself...... Although he was in a game world, and any strange and strange things could be the result of a few lines of code, he was still curious about the conch's summoning ability.

[Is it true that you can summon a conch just by speaking to it?] With the mentality of trying, Zuo Ci put the conch mouth to his mouth and said softly: "Hey, are you there?" Come out and talk. ”

The words fell, and there was an occasional call from a few stone gulls in the silence around them, but other than that, nothing happened.

A little embarrassed by this silence, Zuo Ci glanced at the conch in his hand and smiled helplessly and self-deprecatingly.

At this moment, there was a sound of an ostrich walking from behind the stone pillar in the distance, and Zuo Ci got up to avoid the pedestrians who were coming, but when he reached out to grab the reins of his own ostrich, it provoked a cry. Then, several passers-by on the other side of the stone pillar quickly appeared in the field of vision fifty meters away, a group of two, a man and a woman, both of medium height, lean, equipped with the same light soft leather suits, the clothes looked ordinary, but the weapons were excellent and eye-catching, the man carried a half-man-high sharp axe, and the woman had two twin spears with silver light pinned to her waist on both sides.

Zuo Ci still jumped on his mount as he thought, ready to change the direction and run to avoid the two, and disappeared into the stone forest for heavy cover. The passers-by who came had completely different plans, and the two of them hurried towards Zuo Ci, and when he turned the ostrich's head to turn in the direction of his left hand, the girl with the two guns in her hand had already jumped and landed in front of him, blocking his way.

"Look, this man is a lackey of the Lion Guild!" The man who was running towards Zuo Ci with a lion tattoo on his left arm stopped his mount two meters away from him, and this opening showed that the comer was obviously not good.

"Oh, that's the right one! Although this shabby outfit looks like a rookie kid, the money on him should be enough for dinner for the two of us, right? The female gunner raised her eyebrows and laughed twice, and without hesitation, she pulled out the silver spear from her waist -

The sound of gunfire resounded over the stone forest, accompanied by the screams of land-traveling ostriches, which provoked the stone gulls that had stopped between the crevices of the rocks high to flee in panic.

Zuo Ci rolled over from his mount and jumped to the ground on one side in time, barely avoiding the first burst of bullets, but this wave of attacks had frightened his brown ostrich and couldn't restrain himself, so he turned around and dropped his master and hid behind a sword-shaped stone pillar not far away, weakly exposing half of his head to observe the battle situation, looking very pitiful.

Zuo Ci had already drawn the dagger from his waist, and while observing the gunman's movement to one side, he did not take lightly the knife and axe hand on the other side, who had already stepped off the bird's back. It's just that he also knows that the consequences of fighting to the death must end in a fiasco, and a little observation can show that the combat power of the two of them is higher than his own, not to mention that he is still suffering from the enemy. Therefore, at this time, the only strategy that Zuo Ci thought of was to escape...... If they can get away with the killing moves of the two, I wonder if they can launch a sneak run to the side of the uncompetitive land ostrich at the moment when they are relieved, and run as fast as the bird can go......

Of course, the best tactics of this fantasy must be even more difficult to implement, and the characters in this game really have to fight, and if there is a disparity in rank, after a burst of killing, the one with the lower level will inevitably die. After all, the level is related to combat power, and if the level is low, not only will your basic attack power and defense not be the opponent, but the speed and attack radiation range are also a problem.

Soon, the stalemate was broken again by the gunners, with a cry - "Extreme Shot!! The girl's body glowed slightly red, and the frequency and speed of her shots increased exponentially. Zuo Ci leaned over and rolled, although he dodged the rain of bullets aimed at the vital point, his right arm and waist were still hit by several shots, and the blood instantly dripped red from the stone rock ground where he finally stayed, but he didn't care about the injury, but distracted his attention to the knife and axe hand on the other side who had not made a move for a long time, but ...... The axe man disappeared in an instant.

[Where?] The loss of tracking down his opponent made Zuo Ci feel a little more anxious in his heart...... He suspected that this situation was due to the axeman's stunt to hide his figure, but he strangely noticed that the female gunman on the other side seemed to be looking around for a companion?

When he was puzzled, a black shadow flashed from the corner of his eye, and Zuo Ci reflexively turned his face away for a second, but found nothing. However, when he once again shifted his gaze back to where the female gunner should have stood, the opponent with the two guns had disappeared without a trace......

Frowning slightly, he was thinking, and a slightly hoarse voice came from the sky overhead—"Hehehe...... Rookie thief, are you looking for me? ”

Seems to know who is coming. Zuo Ci looked up at the sky, but saw the boundless towering stone pillars and the scorching sun that illuminated his eyes.

Suddenly, there seemed to be a black shadow flying down from the sky, and when Zuo Ci came back to his senses and turned his face, the black-clothed swordsman who had mysteriously not even left his name appeared in front of him.

"I'm sorry, I seem to be a step too late, and you're injured and bleeding." The swordsman wore his usual sinister smile, which was whiter in the early afternoon sun, "When you called me, I was lying down to calm my nerves, my mind was a little swollen, and I was a little sleepy, so I came here a step late." But don't worry, those two people have been hung on the top of different stone pillars by me just now, and they won't be able to get down for a while...... You clean the wound first. ”

"I'm fine." Zuo Ci endured the pain and took out a small bottle of healing medicine called a blood bottle from his backpack, which he had found at the grocery store in Crow Blood Village. After drinking the potion, the whole person's state improved in an instant.