Leave the heart of the Death Mountains and enter the Swiss territory. At first, Rose and I were able to ride the night shadow, but gradually the road became more and more uneven, and I found that the road we were walking was always going downward, and the mountain walls on both sides of the road were gradually getting closer, and there seemed to be a tendency to connect together, and we had to go on foot!

After a few kilometers of progress, as we thought, the mountains really came together, and the road we walked became an underpass, I really didn't expect this exit to look like this! Taking out the torch that Rose had prepared before and lighting it, we continued on. This underground passage is also uneven, it is full of a lot of rubble and some things that should not be here, in some places there are even rocks several meters high that have to climb to the top to climb over, but fortunately I have wings to climb high is not a problem.

Rose found something red in the gap between several rocks, and because it was too short, it was impossible to see what it was, and it was not natural anyway. Pinch the top of the red object and pull it up, only to crush the object as soon as you exert force. I patted the red powdery substance on my hands. "It looks like rust!"

Rose reached out and dipped a little in front of her nose and sniffed it, then patted it off. "It's rust, it looks like something is buried underneath."

"Dig it out and see?"

"Yes."

I reached into the crevice of the rock next to me and lifted the rock aside, revealing a red stick more than 60 centimeters long, but still in the rock underneath. "You step back a little, it looks like it's buried deeper, I'm going to dig bigger."

Rose took the torch in my hand and stood aside, and I began to flip the rock away with great fanfare. Soon the red object was dug up, and a long strip of object was inserted underneath it. Rose walked back with a torch to illuminate the pit, and it was much clearer.

After identifying it for a long time, it was Rose who finally recognized it first. "Ahh It's a corpse! ”

"Corpses?" I looked at the long object, it really looked like a corpse, according to Rose. The lower part of the strip was clearly once two legs, but it seems that the knight's armor was so rusted that they were joined together. The arm of the corpse above was no longer visible, and the head was still there, but the problem was that the two-meter-long red stick was worn in the place of the head. It was evident that it was a corpse that had been nailed to the ground by a spear that had pierced through the door, and it was the tail of the spear that had just protruded from the ground.

Rose crouched down and looked at the rocks beside the corpse. "It's a battlefield, and there's a lot of people fighting here. This is the corpse of a player, and it takes no more than five days to die, which is about the same as 5 days based on the rate of corpse erosion in the game. ”

"So the nearby rocks don't seem to be there, it feels like someone blew the rock off the top of the cave, you see there isn't even a stone stalactite here, and the rock layer at the top is too new, obviously caused by the surface layer falling off."

"That's why the road is so difficult."

I thought about it and didn't take off the corpse's helmet, if the corpse of 5 days was to be opened, the scene would be spectacular, so I should not look at it for the sake of my appetite. "It could be that a Swiss player tried to get in, but was killed by a guard NPC, and even the roof of the cave collapsed during the battle. Let's leave him alone and move on. ”

"I'm worried about the front!" Rose System Error! -0x000000008, 200560220 Rose said as he crawled out of the pit.

"Ahead?"

"This shows that it is not the central area of the collapse, and the center that caused the collapse seems to be in front. If even this place is so serious, will the front be completely sealed? ”

I looked down the passage ahead, "If you're right, there's a good chance it's really sealed!" Let's go, let's hurry. ”

Along the way, I felt more and more that Rose's words were right, because the road was getting harder and harder. We crawled almost through the crevices of the rubble, and it was hard to imagine that this was once a wide passage where troops could be opened. After finally drilling through the gap between the two giant rocks, we saw the separation wall made of rocks, and the tunnel really collapsed! And it's so tightly plugged that we basically can't find any gaps.

Suddenly, I found Rose burning around the rock with a torch. "What are you doing?"

"I'll see if there are any seams, if they do, the wind will blow out." As she spoke, the torch in her hand shook. Rose happily leaned the torch up, and the flames were clearly biased towards the crevices in the rock, as if to be sucked in. "I think I found it!"

I jumped over in two steps, hugged the rose and kissed her on the cheek. "Grab the torch and I'll get out of the way."

Summoning the help of Steel Claw and Trailblazer, both of whom are cave champions, they are of course the most suitable for digging tunnels. The Pioneer was now steeled, and was covered in armor, like a giant armed caterpillar. And the strong limbs of the steel claws are also a good tool for digging tunnels. Unfortunately, the rose vine can't help, his penetration into rocks is limited, and although he can dig it but the speed is too slow.

The two big guys started digging on the rocks, and the rubble flew behind them, and the rocks kept collapsing from them, but not as fast as they did. Soon the loose rocks around were dug up, and the progress was noticeably faster after the collapse stopped. In the rumbling noise, the Trailblazer began to move forward first, and the steel claws followed up and began to clean up some small debris. Rose and I don't dare to follow up yet, there is constantly rubble flying out of the hole, and if we go in now, we will definitely be smashed.

After a few minutes, the rubble and the sound stopped at the same time, and the steel claws ran out of it. "Dig through."

"Okay." I retract the Claws and Pioneers, and take the roses through this passage. The wall blocking us is more than 30 meters thick, but two tunnel experts have already helped us complete a prototype passage with a diameter of more than four meters.

After passing through the wall, the opposite side is still in the cavern, and it is in the middle of the cavern that collapses, not the opening. However, there is not as much gravel here as there is over there, and the road is easier to walk.

The rumbling sound of water gradually appeared in the passage along the way, and the louder it got the further you went, and it seemed that you were about to reach the entrance of the cave. As we approached the entrance of the passage, the light gradually brightened, and the torches were extinguished. The passage here is much wetter than the other side. The ground is very slippery and watery, and walking on it is like ice skating!

Turning the last corner, a white curtain of water appeared in front of him. No wonder it's so humid in the passage, it turns out that the exit is behind the waterfall! Fortunately, they are all wearing armor, and if Rose still uses the previous mage robe, it is estimated that she will become a soup chicken! Put on your helmet and pull down your mask and walk slowly to the waterfall. Let's take the car dragon gun and stick it into the water to test the impact, but fortunately, it seems that the waterfall is not high, or we are not far from the top. The next step was to stick my head out and take a closer look, and it turned out to be a system error for me! -0x000000008,200560220 wise. The height of the waterfall is nearly 100 meters, we are in the middle of the waterfall is relatively high, and what is even more damn is that there is also a mountain cliff opposite, the distance between the two cliffs is less than 3 meters, if you jump out directly just now, you will definitely hit the opposite mountain wall!

There was a hole in the opposite side of the hill that was slightly higher than this, and I raised my hand and shot the dragon tendon rope through. The cord head got stuck in the rock, and after pulling a few times, there was really no problem, and then he came back and hugged the rose, and jumped out. As soon as you jump, your feet immediately adjust in front of you, and when you cross the waterfall, you will immediately see the opposite cliff, and your feet will cushion on the cliff wall to stabilize your body. Control the dragon tendon rope to start reeling the line, and by the way, pull us up. After entering the passage on the opposite side, I looked back at the location we just came out of, and I could hardly find it, and it was really well hidden.

The passage on our side is also a tunnel, but it is only a dozen meters long before it ends. The exit was covered with a large number of plants, and carefully removing the plants blocking the entrance to the cave revealed that we were in a forest, with a slope behind it, and a cliff going up.

Walking out of the cave with Rose, we began to worry about how to go. The quest for the Ring of the Stars (see Volume II, Chapter 9 for those who don't remember the quest) says that the quest can only be triggered by the Mother Earth Temple in Oskar, a place of permanent neutrality, but I only know that this place of permanent neutrality refers to Switzerland. As for whether that Oskar meant a forest or a valley or a city, I didn't know at all, let alone the Mother Earth Temple!

Rose reminded me, "Isn't Mother Earth familiar with you?" Why don't you go in and ask her where the temple is? ”

"Why didn't I think of it! You wait for me a moment. "Open the door of space and go directly into the realm of the gods of Mother Earth. Running into the palace of the Earth Mother Goddess, he soon found the Earth Mother God who was playing chess with the giant god.

Seeing me running in, Mother Earth was very strange. "Do you have something?"

"Yes!" I hurriedly walked over and said, "I'd like to ask you about a place." ”

"Inquire with me?"

"Yes. I'd like to know where your temple in Oskar is in Permanent Neutrality, preferably with detailed coordinates or a map. ”

"How do I know where the temple is?" Mother Earth looked at me the way she thought she should have known the location.

"That's Mother Earth Temple! How could you not know? ”

"Why should I know?"

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"Aren't you Mother Earth? Don't you know where your temple is? ”

"Of course!" Mother Earth Goddess said with certainty: "I didn't build the temple, how can I know where it is." ”

"But it's you there!"

Mother Earth thought for a moment and said, "That's the race itself, they worship my power and build my temple. But I don't know! It's like those who are famous will have many portraits, and many people like to hang portraits of celebrities in their homes, do these celebrities know where each of their portraits is? ”

"This ......!" Inertial thinking kills people! We've always been accustomed to thinking that temples were built for God, but no one has ever asked God if the system is wrong! -0x000000008, 200560220 wanted, and no one told God where and where to build a temple of his!

"This is my dwelling now, and the temple was built by other creatures, and it has nothing to do with me. If you want to find a shrine, you should ask the locals. Since they built it at a cost, it must be very famous, even if it breaks the road, at least there should be some clues, such as rumors, stories and the like. Investigate the neighborhood at least more than I can tell you. ”

"Thanks, I won't bother you." Hurry up and leave the palace of Mother Earth Goddess and return to the outside of the space door.

"How? Where is the Mother Earth Temple? Rose asked as soon as she saw me.

I told her the words of Mother Earth God directly. "Mother Earth suggested we ask the locals."

"Then let's hurry up, the sun is about to set!"

"It's okay, it's not haunted!"

Rose laughed as soon as she heard me say this.

"What's so funny about that?"

"That's why I laugh because I thought of something."

"What do you think of?"

"You just said that there are no ghosts, and I was thinking that ghosts should be afraid of us."

"Why?"

"Stupid!" Rose knocked on my helmet below. "You think! I am a resurrection mage, who specializes in bringing the dead back to life. You are a Soul Fearor mage who has evolved into a profession that specializes in killing the living. If any of the ghosts run into us, we're in big trouble. I will raise him back, and you will kill him again. And then he died and came back to life, isn't that miserable enough? ”

"Hahahaha! When you say that, our husband and wife are really scary enough, and they can play people to death. ”

Rose stopped laughing, "But what we need now is to find a living person to ask for directions." ”

"It doesn't have to be a living person, I took a secondary class psychic when I changed jobs last time. There's a soul-reading spell inside that asks corpses and necromancers for directions. ”

"But there's not even a figure here!"

"Then let's look for it as we go! Ask someone first. ”

We had traveled some distance through the woods and we had found our target, and a corpse had been nailed to the trunk of a tree by an arrow on the side of the path. It looks like this is a set and not a player's corpse, otherwise it should slowly decay and spawn away, and if it dies, it won't become a skeleton.

Walked over and used the Soul Reading Technique on the skeleton, but it had no effect and failed. The success rate of Level 0 skills is a little lower! After using it more than twenty times in a row, it finally succeeded, and a faint blue-white light flashed on the skeleton's body. Rose exclaimed, "You succeeded? ”

"Can you see?"

She nodded vigorously. "I can see it."

"It seems that this skill is not for me to hear the necrons speak, but to allow the necrons to communicate with normal creatures!"

After a while the skeleton makes a faint sound, but it is a system error! - 0x000000008, 200560220's mouth did not move. "Who's calling me?"

"It's me."

"What's the matter with you?"

"I want to ask for directions. Do you know the Mother Earth Temple in Oskar, a land of permanent neutrality? ”

"You are standing now in a place of permanent neutrality, and this country is a place of permanent neutrality. I know there is one at the Mother Earth Temple, but I don't know the exact location. That Oskar could be the Oskar Forest. ”

"Where is the Oskar Forest?"

"I don't know, I just know that there is a forest that is famous for producing sulfur. I don't know exactly where. ”

Rose interjected and asked, "Do you know how to get out of this forest?" ”

"Follow the path in front of me, and when you come across a very big tree, pass to the left, and then keep going and you can get out."

"Okay, thank you for your help. Do we need to bury you? ”

"Thank you very much!"

We quickly dug a pit to bury the skeleton and began to follow the path. Sure enough, after walking a short distance, I came across a large tree, but the left side of the tree seemed to be a dense jungle, and the road led to the right.

"What's going on?" I'll look left and right.

Rose looked down the road. "Maybe it's a beast path, so it's only going around in the forest. You have to get off the road to get out. ”

"Shall we pass to the left?"

"You'd better go up there and make sure, right?"

I climbed up to the top of the tree and flew up and looked around, good fellow, the big forest was as far as the eye could see. Jump back to the ground. "No, I can't see the border!"

"Then we have to go this way, we should fly faster from the sky, right?"

"Okay."

Summon Lucky and Rose to go up together, and Lucky rushes into the blue sky and flies in the direction that the skeleton said. As a result, I didn't fly far, and the scene around me suddenly changed, and the forest was over! "Holy! It's an illusion! "But at least the skeleton is going in the right direction.

Fall back to the ground, put away Lucky, change into Night Shadow, and run to the nearest city, where you can already see the castle.

There is a big difference between European cities and Asian cities in terms of architectural styles. Chinese cities generally have walls outside the city, and the whole city is surrounded by walls. However, the style of Europe is different, only the major cities are surrounded by walls like in Asia, and the general cities are not walled. In the center of an ordinary city there was a fortified fortified castle, in which only important people lived in normal times. The castle is surrounded by private houses, scattered around the castle. As soon as there is a fight, the people of the city will quickly take refuge in the castle, and the house will be left alone. Most of the cities built by the player have walls built in the oriental style, while the system cities retain the original style. The city in front of it was clearly a systematic city, with open dwellings scattered around the castle unprotected, and it seemed to be small in scale, which should be more appropriately called a village.

After turning on the translation system, we went straight into the city, anyway, we were dressed in armor from hood to toe, and no one should have seen that we were not Swiss. Besides, Switzerland is a neutral country, and the national war has nothing to do with them, so even if they know that there are outsiders, they will not react.

No sooner had we entered the city than a troop of cavalry suddenly approached from the flank and halted us. As soon as I pulled the reins, Nightshade actually stood up with two hind hooves, and kicked his front legs twice in the air before letting them go.

The knight who stopped us spoke first. "Which lord's troops are you? How did you get here? ”

"We don't belong to any lord." The answer was roses.

"That's the Ranger?"

"What is a Ranger?"

"A Ranger is a freelancer who has no allegiance to any lord, and if you are not affiliated with any temple or lord, you are a Ranger." The knight who stood in our way answered me very patiently.

A knight who looked young next to him and rode a dark horse said, "Look at your equipment doesn't look like the one you just played!" Why don't you even understand this common sense? ”

I was also taken aback by the knight's words, I thought it was a team of NPCs, but now it seems that it is clearly a player. "We don't move around a lot and we're focused on training all the time, so we don't know very much. But we have a subordinate temple. ”

"Then you're the Templars." The knight who took the lead said, "Is there a pass?" The knights of the temple must have documents when they go out to run errands. This is a guild jurisdiction, with lords. Armed men cannot be allowed to pass casually. ”

"I just want to know how to get to the Mother Earth Temple in Oscar, and I'm just going into the city to ask for directions."

"Oskar Forest is on the Italian border, why did you come here? You have to travel through the whole country to get there! ”

Dizzy! "How do you get there?"

"Bayonet, do you know how to go?" The knight who took the lead asked the knight beside him who had not spoken.

"It's a long distance over there, so it's not appropriate to run over, so it's better to use a teleportation array. Teleport directly to Olymp City, and out of the city is the Ozkar Forest. However, the Mother Earth Temple may not be easy to find, and that place is the boundary line. ”

"Boundary?" A bad thing suddenly occurred to me. The countries in the game are isolated from each other by dangerous areas such as oceans, mountains, and special monster areas. This Mother Earth Temple is on the border of Sweden and Italy, could it be said that the temple is used as a barrier to separate the country? So how dangerous is this Mother Earth Temple? Hold on to the last system error! - 0x000000008, 200560220 line hope verified: "Don't tell me that the Mother Earth Temple is a checkpoint between two countries. ”

The young knight on the black horse said, "I'm sorry to tell you, you guessed right. ”

"Has anyone been in before?" I continued.

The knight who took the lead poured cold water on me again. "There were a lot of people who entered, but none of them came out, and all of them hung up."

Sweat! Now I know why the old guy who 'cheated money' told me to come back after level 500, at first I thought he was making a fuss, but now it seems that he underestimated the danger here, otherwise he would have advised me to come back after level 800