CHAPTER 40

Sour Apple looked at the expression on the white fairy tale's face, from madness to joy, to excitement to disappointment, and finally to despair, but in just a minute, the expression on her face seemed to reveal the whole of her love from bloom to withering.

She cautiously guessed: "Is it looking for you in the past year, don't skip words."

The white fairy tale didn't speak, just stood there, tears fell like pearls with broken threads, she herself was extremely beautiful, her skin was white, and her face at this moment was as if crystal droplets had fallen on the fine and flawless white jade, which was touching and lovable.

Sour Apple didn't ask again, because she had already seen the questioning of the Flowing Year in the world. She was originally very strange, why Liu Nian took the initiative to contact the white fairy tale at this time, and after reading the messages in the world, she realized that he had his purpose. White Fairy Tale has a suitor who also studied goblin engineering, and in order to pursue White Fairy Tale, he made several goblin repairers at cost price for Genesis, but White Fairy Tale never looked at that person at all.

Come to think of it, it must be that the flowing year also knows that the player who made the goblin repairer knows the white fairy tale, so he contacted the white fairy tale when he couldn't find other goblin engineering players he knew, but, I don't know why the old man didn't get the answer from the white fairy tale in the end, and the white fairy tale now looks sad and sad.

"Fairy tale, go to bed, it's not early." Sour Apple sighed, the most complex and illogical thing in the world is probably feelings.

"Why did he do this to me?" The white fairy tale stood in place, only feeling that one of her hearts had already been riddled with holes, and the pain was so painful that she didn't even feel it, but the passing years sprinkled a handful of salt on it, so that she had to face this embarrassing fact. She couldn't help but feel a little resentful, and finally cried loudly: "I treat him like this, even if he doesn't appreciate it, he doesn't have to treat me like this, wouldn't it be better for me to miss a little bit?" Why do you hurt me again and again?"

Sour apples can't say anything.

Ask what the world is like, and teach people to live and die.

Time flies. I don't know how much time has passed.

Ye Ci sat in the deep palace, with a bonfire lit in front of her, the meat was burning on the bonfire, and the fourth child squatted beside her and shook his head and tail, looking at the meat on the bonfire, salivating. Ye Ci raised his head and looked up, the originally huge palace roof was so small that it was almost invisible.

She and Liunian didn't know how long they had been walking in the spiral palace, and it was already dark all around, except for the torches on the walls that provided some light.

Although in the previous life, Ye Ci had not done epic tasks, but from the discussion on the forum, it was not difficult for her to know that each epic task focused on testing the quality of players was different. Some are about operation, some are about cooperation, some are about intelligence, and this task is obviously about the patience of the player.

Ye Ci took a deep breath, raised his hand, patted the huge head of the fourth child, and then threw the barbecue to it, it immediately let out a low chirp happily, and feasted on the barbecue. Ye Ci was a little envious of the fourth child when he saw him eating so happily, in fact, it was not bad to be a hunter's pet, he could be so carefree.

A steady footstep sounded in the darkness, and he slowly walked towards Ye Ci. She didn't even look back, didn't even move the place, just said lightly: "This trip is so long, let's eat something." ”

Liu Nian walked to the opposite side of Ye Ci and sat down, and Xiao Wu stopped in a mess not far away. Liu Nian first picked a piece of barbecue and threw it to Xiao Wu, and then he picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth: "Well, I forgot how many floors there are, anyway, it took a lot of time just to climb the stairs." ”

Ye Ci didn't politely express his gratitude, but just looked at the flowing year opposite and smiled. After a few days of getting along, she and Liu Nian became more and more tacit, although they were players from hostile continents, but in this dungeon, they cooperated seamlessly. "I feel like I haven't seen the sun in a long time, both in-game and out-of-game."

Liu Nian curled his eyebrows: "Hunters are all professions who live in the dark places of the jungle, but I didn't expect you to like the sun?" ”

"A hunter is a hunter, I am me, and I love the sun." Ye Ci tore off a piece of meat and stuffed it into his mouth. In fact, in her previous life, she was the person who liked the sun the most, but after being reborn, she gradually fell in love with the sun, the scorching, warm, symbolizing the sun of passion, which was so beautiful. Suddenly, she asked Liunian: "Do you like the sun and don't skip words."

"I like it." Liu Nian nodded, although he answered quickly, he didn't have the attitude he liked, and he looked very sincere.

"Why?"

"I'm more afraid of the cold, so I like to bask in the sun." Liu Nian laughed.

It really doesn't sound like a man's words. Whether it is Bai Mo or Tan Polang beside Ye Ci, none of them are afraid of the cold. Therefore, Liu Nian's answer made Ye Ci a little surprised: "Are you afraid of the cold?" ”

"Well, I'm afraid of the cold." Liu Nian narrowed his eyes and replied very sincerely, but behind his calm voice, there seemed to be more hidden joys and sorrows of the past. Ye Ci wanted to ask, but in the end he didn't ask anything. She just smiled: "I rarely meet men who are afraid of the cold. ”

"The same rice raises a hundred kinds of people, of course, there will be all kinds of strange things." Liunian didn't explain, just faintly crossed over the question. He looked up, too, to see what had been the original huge transparent canopy, but he didn't see anything. This makes the environment around him even more slippery, as if he used to live.

Ye Ci knew that there must be an unknown past behind such an indifference as Liunian, and this kind of past belonged only to Liunian alone, and he would not take out these pasts for anyone to taste together. There is something like this in everyone's heart, as if they are like this themselves.

So, she smiled and missed the topic: "How long have we been in the dungeon?" ”

"Four days and seventeen hours." Regarding the memory of time, the passing years are clearer than Ye Ci: "The bottom is still bottomless, it's not how long you have to go, will it delay your time?" ”

Ye Ci paused slightly, lowered her eyes and thought about it, the plan really didn't change quickly, she originally wanted to return to the Eastern Continent within seven days, mainly because she wanted to go to the Inferior Demon Habitat a little earlier, in this way, she could prepare for what would happen after discovering the Mithril Vein as soon as possible, but now she doesn't know if she can get her wish.

"I can't say." Ye Ci smiled bitterly: "If any time is controlled according to my own ideas, then I am God." ”

Ye Ci's words made Liu Nian laugh, but this is not the truth, the time and things that human beings can control are actually very, very small, and more are actually plans that do not change quickly. "Don't think about it so much, keep going, maybe we're almost there."

Ye Ci got up and looked at the bottom of the black hole outside the railing, maybe he didn't have any expectations for this, but Liu Nian was right, and it would not be too bad to keep moving forward.

The two sat for a while, replenished their strength, and continued to walk forward. In the course of so many days, they no longer knew how many layers of the palace they had walked through, how many undead and orcs they had killed, and how many robots they had manipulated, but it was as if there was no end, hopeless and hopeful.

Now two people can move forward with thirty robots, in fact, they can bring more, but the palace is empty, so the area that can be accommodated on each floor is really limited, and it will be very inconvenient if they walk with too many robots.

Another layer went down, and the light was a little darker.

However, this layer does not seem to be the same as all the layers above. This floor is not as narrow as all the palaces above, but it is spacious and has more torches. It was dark where there were no torches, but it was very bright where there were torches.

"Wait a minute." In such a dark place, the Eagle Eye Technique was obviously greatly restricted, and at this time, Ye Ci's flashbang came in handy, she nodded at Liu Nian, and then fired a flash bomb directly in front of her, just the light that was not bright, or let Liu Nian and Ye Ci see the road ahead.

It was a fork in the road, with two equally swarthy paths that seemed to lead to endless despair.

"Let's go to the left first." I observed it left and right, and finally picked one at random.

Ye Ci had no objections, and walked towards the road on the left with Liunian. This level was very quiet, quiet and even a little wrong, there wasn't even a monster, in the darkness, only the cacophony of the rusted bearings of a group of robots and the sound of steel hitting the ground. In such a quiet environment, if there is a little noise, it will be so obvious, not to mention the sound caused by so many robots at the same time, echoing in this quiet palace seems to be like a roar of noise.

Both of them were standing at the intersection on the left, and they were about to go ahead when suddenly both of them were bounced back, as if they had been ejected when they first entered the dungeon.

Ye Ci hurriedly took out the goblin compass to see what it was, but the only hint from the goblin compass was that De Philai was still some distance away from them, and there was no other hint.

"Can't you get in, don't skip words. Ye Ci wrinkled his eyebrows: "Could it be the road on the right?" ”

The two of them hurriedly walked to the road on the right to take a look, but what they didn't expect was that they were bounced out by something with the same result.

"There must be a mechanism here." Liu Nian and Ye Ci almost said the key to this problem in unison. After speaking, the two couldn't help but look at each other and smile: "Where do you think the mechanism is?" ”

Liu Nian thought for a while: "I think it should be in the middle of the two roads." This speculation is the same as Ye Ci's, she shrugged her shoulders: "Then what are we waiting for?" ”

In the middle of the two roads, there is a tall sculpture, at least taller than Ye Ci and Liunian. It was a statue of a goblin, dressed in rich clothes, with many fragments of precious stones on it, and it seemed that this statue was very beautiful in the distant past.

Liu Nian lit the torch, bent down, approached the base of the sculpture by the firelight, and carefully looked at the words written there.

Ye Ci only heard a strange word muttering from Liu Nian's mouth, it sounded confused, she also bent down and approached the base, looking at the dense words on it that she couldn't understand and asked, "What are you reading?" ”

In a large area of darkness, in fact, the place where the firelight can illuminate is very small, so the torch in Liunian's hand can only barely illuminate the inscription on the base, and Ye Ci must be very close if he wants to see what is written on it, and even, he must be very close to Liunian.

It's just that the minds of the two people at this time are on this inscription, and no one noticed that in that pitch black, the distance between the two people is actually only a stone's throw away.

Listening to Ye Ci's question, Liu Nian subconsciously turned his head, but found that he had encountered something, he was slightly stunned, and he couldn't see clearly. Ye Ci only felt a softness on her cheeks, and immediately, she seemed to understand what that softness was, so she took a step back as if she had been electrocuted, a little panicked, but she desperately pretended to be calm and looked at Liunian.

And Liu Nian was also stunned there, he looked at Gongzi You, who was close at hand, under the firelight, her cold and hard face looked very gentle, and the firelight blurred her sharpness, but there was a little more feminine feeling. Her long silver hair was tied back at the back of her head, but there were many fine pieces of hair on her forehead and cheeks, and her amber eyes shone with a turbulent light. Flustered and strong.

This is really a look that I have never seen before, flustered, probably never appeared such a look on Gongzi You's expression, but now it has appeared.

Sometimes, the time, place, and environment can obscure some people's minds and make people very strange. will make people do things that they shouldn't have done.

It's like now, Ye Ci looked at Liunian, her heart trembled uncontrollably, she felt that she should say something and do something at this moment, but she seemed to have lost all her strength and ability, she could only maintain her original posture, she couldn't do anything, she couldn't say anything, she just looked at Liunian quietly.

Look at the boundless spring water between his eyebrows and eyes, look at the affection at the corners of his lips, and look at the warm temptation that he slowly approached him.

Liu Nian felt that it was actually too fast, which would scare away Gongzi You, and it would make him a little farther away from her. However, in such a situation, he didn't seem to have a way to control his heart, and he couldn't control his movements, he just wanted to be closer, closer.

The warm breath of Liu Nian blew on Ye Ci's face, making her feel a little flustered and a little at a loss. This has never been done before, at any time, Ye Ci seems to be able to grasp all the situations and strategize, but why did such an ability lose at this moment?

She could only feel that the year was getting closer and closer to her, that breath was getting hotter and hotter, and her own blood was boiling more and more.

Finally, at the moment when Liu Nian was about to touch Ye Ci, her body moved back a little, successfully widening the distance between the two of them a little more. However, just such a subtle action has already made Ye Ci feel physically and mentally exhausted, so hard.

And Liu Nian also seemed to have regained some reason because of Ye Ci's debt, he stopped quietly, looked at Ye Ci quietly, and then stepped back, stretched out his hand, and gently pushed the long hair that Ye Ci's cheeks were in his mouth, and said lightly in a voice that only he could hear: "In this way, it is actually very good." ”

Ye Ci could feel the touch of Liu Nian's slender fingers running across her cheeks, hot and burning, and she clenched her fists tightly, almost embedding her nails in her palms.

Then, Liu Nian put down his hand, turned his head, and continued to look at the inscription on the base, and said slowly while looking at it: "This is the statue of the current goblin king Chel, which records some of his great achievements, but these great achievements do not need to be paid too much attention to, after all, this kind of thing that sings the praises of virtue is available everywhere." ”

His voice was calm and gentle, as if nothing had happened. Listening to such a voice, Ye Ci only felt that his rapid breathing was very heartbeat, and gradually calmed down, and the lost strength just now seemed to return to his body.

She secretly went to look at Liu Nian, and Liu Nian was still meticulously translating the inscription on the pedestal for her, but Ye Ci didn't listen to anything at all, and her mind was full of just thinking, if, if she didn't retreat just now, and Liu Nian continued to get close to herself, what would happen?

She didn't dare to think about it, she didn't even have the ability to think about it.

For a moment, it seemed, something was messed up.

On the statue of Cell, he holds two scepters in his hands, one on the left and one on the right, and in this way, it seems that only these two scepters are the most suspicious. Ye Ci stretched out his hand and grabbed the one on the left, and then pulled hard, and felt a cold wind suddenly blowing in the calm darkness.

The gust of wind blew her long hair and cooled her confused mind, and she looked at the road to the left, and said slowly, "You pull the scepter on the other side." ”

"In that case, we're going to go our separate ways." Liu Nian looked at Ye Ci, and saw that her side vented a kind of resolute toughness, as if the softness she saw just now was just a fleeting * dream without a trace.

"Hmm." Ye Ci nodded.

"You don't have a problem alone, don't skip words.

Ye Ci turned his head, looked at Liu Nian, understood his concern, and showed a faint indifference on his lips: "In the copy, there are no men and women, only careers." I, Childe You, a level 10 hunter, have no problem. ”

Liu Nian was slightly stunned because of Ye Ci's voice, and then he also laughed. That's right, this is Gongzi You, this is the Gongzi You who makes his heart pound, the Gongzi You who knows his identity at all times, the sensible, strong, and decisive Gongzi You

"I, Liunian, a tenth-level hunter, I'm waiting for you at the end." As he spoke, he also stretched out his hand and pulled down another scepter. The cold wind suddenly sprayed towards him, cold and biting.

"Not necessarily." Ye Ci glanced at Liu Nian again, and then ran towards the boundless darkness without looking back.

In that lonely darkness, only her smug laughter remained, which was moving.

Liu Nian paused, then let go of the scepter and ran towards the other side of the road, it seemed that in the darkness he could still hear Gongzi You's laughter.

Ye Ci was running in the dark, and there were more than a dozen robots behind him who followed quickly, although the number of these robots was much smaller because of the separation, but they were more able to play their role. The road seemed to have no end, and running on this road, Ye Ci only heard the sound of his own shredded footsteps and the noisy metal sound that the robot followed. It's too dark here, even if the elf has night vision, it may not be possible to see too clearly, but fortunately, there is nothing strange here, so that Ye Ci can quickly follow the direction of the wind.

I don't know how long I ran, but suddenly Ye Ci stopped and stood quietly in the dark.

It's not much different from the previous one, but it's so quiet that you can hear even a needle falling on the ground, it's just ...... The quietness here is a little too different from the quietness in front of you.

Ye Ci closed his eyes, turned his ears to listen, there was no sound of the wind, the whirring wind just now was not at all here, as if it had disappeared in an instant. Did the wind get too quiet and she didn't notice? Ye Ci moved his long, pointed ears, listened carefully, felt it, and sure enough, there was no sound at all.

How so? Why did the wind suddenly disappear like that?

Ye Ci opened his eyes, brought his right hand to his lips, stretched out his tongue, and quickly left a slippery mark on the back of his hand, and then raised his right hand, feeling quietly, if there is a trace of coolness, it can prove that there is still wind here, but no, nothing.

Ye Ci finally gave up the plan to continue to search for an exit with the wind, but took out the last torch from the package, lit it, and carefully observed the place she occupied now.

It's very spacious, and the roof is so high that you can't see where the roof is, at least by the light of the torch in your hand. Looking back, this is the strength of the long corridor just now, and the walls on both sides are inlaid with a lot of Roman-style columns, with intricate and beautiful patterns, and there are huge frescoes between the pillars and columns, which mainly depict the former glory of the goblin country.

Ye Ci looked at these murals seriously, probably talking about the history and development of goblins, but they all picked up some positive or prosperous pictures. There is not a mural that says that the goblins are bad, and there is not a mural that says the decline of the goblins, and in these murals, it is easy to make people feel worshipful of the goblins. It's a pity that these murals are just some murals after all, just some dust that buries all the real past in history.

Looking forward along the mural, Ye Ci immediately saw a huge iron gate in front of him.

The iron door is already rusty, but it does not hide the exquisite workmanship of this door. Ye Ci walked into the iron door and carefully observed the iron door, there was actually a latch, and there was no keyhole, it was embedded in the wall, across the corridor, tightly sealed, and there was no place to open it.

Are you going to be trapped here?

Ye Ci narrowed her eyes, impossible, since the task prompted her to come here, then there must be a place to pass, but this place is very hidden, so she can't find it.

Just as Ye Ci continued to search for this iron gate, the voice of Liu Nian sounded in the team's conversation: "Little boy, where are you now?" ”

"The end of a hallway." Ye Ci thought for a while, and then explained: "Actually, it shouldn't be called the end of the corridor, because I'm separated by an iron door, and I don't know what's behind the iron door." What about you now? ”

"I suppose if your description is correct, I'm in the same situation as you." Liu Nian's voice sounded very relaxed, and there was no negative emotion, it was conceivable that he should be looking for a way to open the door like Ye Ci now.

"I'm looking for the mechanism to open the door, do you have any special findings over there?" Ye Ci continued to explore every inch of land and walls here, hoping to find something special, but there was nothing special to gain. She thought that since Liunian was in the same position as herself, maybe if he found anything there, if he followed his prompts to find his side, he should be able to find out soon.

"It's nothing special." The voice of the flowing year was slow, as if he was thinking about something. Suddenly, he asked, "By the way, what is the mural on the wall near the iron gate on your right?" ”

Ye Ci looked up at the mural on the right, this mural is not the same as other murals, the other murals are all about the evolution of the development of goblins, but this mural is a character mural, on which is painted a drow elf girl, her eyes are a little resentful, and behind her is painted the happy appearance of the goblin king Chell. And their background seems to be a beautiful garden, with neatly corrected trees and splendid flowers, and some chic pavilions, which look like the back garden of a royal palace, which is very beautiful.

"It's like a wedding photo, or it's interracial." Ye Ci looked at the mural and described his feelings about the painting according to his intuition.

Liu Nian listened to Ye Ci's description, and couldn't help laughing, "Why is your description a little weird." ”

"What's weird? These two people are originally interracial, one is a drow elf, the other is a goblin, I don't know what the offspring looks like? Ye Ci has a lot of academic research momentum: "However, it seems to be recorded in the National Library that this royal family generally does not engage in this kind of interracial wedding, it seems to be to ensure the purity of the bloodline or something, so this is really strange." ”

"Ha, I haven't looked closely at this." Liu Nian smiled hehehe, and looked up at the elf girl in the painting. Her skin is slightly dark, not the pale color of ordinary elves, which indicates that she is a branch of the black elves, but she has red eyes, which means that she belongs to the drow elves, a race that has almost disappeared from the elven race.

The drow elves are more heroic and warlike than the black elves, and they are more fascinated by nature than the white elves, so to speak, they are a minority of the high-level blood races of the elf race, however, the reproductive ability of the drow elves has always been very poor, and they like to live in seclusion in the depths of the deepest forests, and are not good at dealing with the outside world, so this group slowly disappeared from the elves, and now, the elves are not even sure, and there are no drow elves in the world.

"I heard that the innate perception, balance, stamina and wisdom of the drow elves are much higher than our white elves, and the initial points are also very high, so the points obtained without upgrading to a level are also more than us, which is really worthy of being a high-level race." Speaking of the drow elves, Liu Nian was a little curious: "It's just that this kind of clan doesn't seem to be open to players. ”

"Seems so, I haven't seen a living drow spirit anyway." Ye Ci remembered the time in her previous life, because she was a human mage, and the confrontation with the law profession was actually the most, and she remembered that when she was about one hundred and fifty levels, that is, about seven years after her fate was opened, she saw the so-called drow elf for the first time. However, it was an environment, and the Drow Elf she saw was just the memory of a Drow Elf mage, but just a few fragments also made Ye Ci Xinyue surrender, not only the superb technology, but also the high attributes of the Drow Elf's own high attributes made the mage profession seem to be tailor-made on their bodies, which was really a big killer.

Until Ye Ci was reborn, she had seen more than ten Drow Elves, but either corpses or illusions, or portraits, ** Drow Elves had really never seen them. She couldn't help but think that if she could gather the maps of the Elven King Dorr and find the soul of the Elven King Dor, she wondered if she could ask about the Drow Elves.

"What? Have you ever seen a dead drow elf? Liu Nian followed Ye Ci's words and asked casually.

But she didn't want to, such a casual question made Ye Ci pause, and she hurriedly said: "Isn't there a picture in front of the portrait, don't skip words." Then she exhaled softly, almost saying something she shouldn't have said because of her laxity, although it was unbelievable to say that she was reborn, but she still had to be cautious and not miss a breath.

Although Liu Nian is smart, he can't see Ye Ci's expression, but in the team chat, he naturally can't hear anything from her quiet answer.

Ye Ci looked at the drow elf girl, there was a very beautiful ruby necklace hanging around her neck, especially the pendant, which was the size of a pigeon's egg, although it was painted on the wall, it was also lifelike and shining. She reached out and touched the necklace, only to think that the ruby pendant part was softer than the other wall parts? She stroked around, then pressed the ruby part of the necklace, but the iron door on her side didn't move.

It seems that she is overthinking.

She was thinking so, when suddenly Liu Nian chatted in the team and asked, "What did you touch just now?" ”

"Didn't you touch anything?" Ye Ci was a little strange: "I just touched the necklace of the drow elf girl, and the part of the ruby pendant was a little soft, as if it was not quite the same as other walls, so I pressed it a few times, but it was no different, what's wrong......"

Before she could finish her words, she heard a loud noise in her ears from the rusted bearings that had not been oiled for many years, and she suddenly looked back and saw that the iron door was slowly lifted up.

"The iron door on my side is actually open...... Ye Ci was a little surprised, and then she immediately thought of something, and hurriedly asked Liu Nian: "Is the door on your side also open?" ”

"Yes."

"Did you just press the jewel necklace around that girl's neck?"

"That's right, I didn't expect that this mechanism turned out to be like this, pressing the switch on your side is to open the door on my side, and pressing the switch on my side is to open the door on your side." When Liu Nian heard that the door on Ye Ci's side had also opened, he dropped his hand from the mural, and it seemed that his prediction was not wrong.

"Heh, it seems that the minimum number of people required for this copy is two people, if one person comes in, it is estimated that he will not be able to go on here." Ye Ci looked at the slowly opening iron door, and felt that there must be a limit to the time when this door opened, otherwise, the system would not be able to play such a game.

"It shouldn't be so easy to walk down there." The door of the flowing year opened before Ye Ci, so he saw more things than Ye Ci.

"Well, in such a deep palace, there is no stranger, it can only be said that this is the darkness before dawn, and it is absolutely impossible to continue this calm in the future." Ye Ci raised her hand and pinned the long hair on the side of her face behind her ears, and just as she was talking, she saw a patch of light behind the iron door, which came from the dense wall lamps inserted in the wall. Unlike other races that still use torches to illuminate, advanced and intelligent goblins have already produced such things as wall lamps, which are lit by small energy cores, but they are much brighter than torches, and the places that can be illuminated are far away.

In particular, so many sconces are inserted into the walls, and this long corridor is illuminated as if it were daylight.

And Ye Ci had long been accustomed to the light that his dark eyes suddenly saw, and he couldn't help but close it, it was too dazzling.

The corridor seems to have no end, with scarlet carpets on the floors and intensely colored murals on the walls. Of course, these are not the most eye-catching, in fact, the moment this iron door opened, the moment the dazzling light pierced Ye Ci, Ye Ci had already seen the most eye-catching thing in this corridor.

It was a neatly arranged group of robots, as if they were dead, silent and silent. Standing there silently is like an underground army, standing there majestically, guarding its master and everything that sleeps here.

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