Chapter 4: Into the Darkness
In the past few days of resting in the squad space, Shen Mu and Roma discussed with each other the idea of their respective strengthening routes, conceived a bright future fantasy, and occasionally competed with each other in a fitness style, but just to familiarize themselves with their new exchange and enhancement abilities and equipment as soon as possible.
If it were really serious, neither of them would be better off now......
Shen Mu didn't want to be pierced by a 30mm depleted uranium armor-piercing bullet, and Rohm didn't want to be hit by Shen Mu's 'wind roar' on the body before he even entered the mission scene.
After the discussion, the two will walk around each other when they have nothing to do, occasionally manifest a small island, take a luxury yacht to fish on the seaside, or manifest the pyramids of Egypt and bask in the sun on the top of the tower!
In the last few days, Shen Mu and Rohm made the final preparations, Rom replenished the ammunition and energy in the AMP mecha, and finally exchanged a D-rank side plot for a universal capsule in the manga "Dragon Ball", and loaded the huge AMP mecha into it.
When ten days passed, the two stood on the altar again, but this time because the world they went to was the world of Diablo, and the environment inside was roughly equivalent to the medieval period, so the two of them could change their clothes, put on a medieval ranger clothes, and put on a chain mail outside, which looked really a bit of adventurer's style, and finally each person exchanged a bag of gold coins, about a hundred or so pieces, and they were prepared.
With the notification of the main god space, two pillars of light fell, enveloping them inside.
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As if for a moment, Shen Mu and Roma had already emerged from the altar platform into a muddy land.
A cool cold wind blew, bringing a rotten stench in the air, which made people feel sick.
At this time, it was still early, and the sun overhead was hanging high in the sky, but for some reason, it was blocked by a dense black cloud, and the sunlight shining down seemed to reveal a feeling of sickness, which cast a shadow on people's hearts for no reason.
Shen Mu looked around and found himself in a wasteland, the ground was overgrown with weeds, some of which were almost knee-high, but the leaves were slightly withered and yellow, and they didn't look like they had much life. And behind Shen Mu, someone erected a cross with a long-decayed wooden stake...... A rotting human corpse was tied to it with thorny rattans, the corpse was ragged and foul-smelling, and some maggots were faintly visible under the rotting skin, and from that distorted expression, the corpse's unwilling struggle and roar before death could be faintly seen.
"Look at his chest!" Shen Mu stretched out his finger and pointed to the skin on the chest exposed by the corpse and said.
When Rohm looked closely, he found that the corpse's skin was almost completely decomposed, but only the skin on his chest remained largely intact, only in a state of dehydration.
Drops of scarlet blood seeped out of the skin on the corpse's chest, ran down the dehydrated, dry skin, and then coalesced into small characters that filled the corpse's chest.
"The method of announcing the mission in the main god space is really getting more and more disgusting!" RΓΆm looked at this scene and said a little speechlessly.
Ignoring Rohm's nagging, Shen Mu looked carefully at the small words on the corpse's chest.
[Reincarnation enters the mission scene: "Diablo 2"]
[Number of reincarnators: 7 people]
[Main Quest: Arrive at Camp Rog within 12 hours, and then survive in this world for 12 days!] γ
[Mission Reward: Obtain Tier D side story, 2000 reward points!] γ
[Hint: During these 12 days, the reincarnation can move at will in this mission scene without being restricted, but it must not be revealed in any form about the identity of the reincarnation and the existence of the main god space, otherwise it will be erased!] γ
[Hint: This mission mode is a killing mode...... Reincarnators can fight each other, with one point for each reincarnation killed and one point deducted for the death of a reincarnation...... After the regression, the resulting points will be counted, and if the score is positive, each point will be awarded 1000 bonus points for all members...... If the score is negative, 1000 reward points will be deducted for each negative point, and the reincarnation who is not enough reward points will eventually be wiped out! γ
Shen Mu and Rohm gasped, glanced at each other, and looked at each other speechlessly.
Compared to the previous two missions, this time there is a kind of transformational change, first of all, the freedom of the main quest, which hardly gives you any quests, just allows you to survive safely for 12 days...... But there is a so-called killing mode installed.
This is simply forcing reincarnators to kill each other in order to earn bonus points.
As you can imagine, after 12 days have passed, when the survivor returns to the squad space, every bonus point earned will be stained with other people's blood!
"That's not right!" RΓΆm looked at the blood on the corpse and suddenly said out loud.
"What's wrong?" Shen Mu asked.
"You see, the reward for the main quest is the D-tier side story, 2000 bonus points...... And the reward of this kill mode is that you will get one point for each reincarnation killed, which is equivalent to 1000 reward points! Rom looked puzzled, stretched out his hand and pointed to the blood words and said, "Don't you think the rewards of the side plots are too few?" You know, we got three D-tier side plots last time, and even after deducting the unexpected plot rewards, there are also two D-tier side plot rewards, why one after this time? β
"According to my speculation, the danger level this time is definitely higher than in "Blade", but why is the reward given by the main god space so small?" Rohm said curiously.
When Shen Mu heard this, he thought about it carefully, and this was indeed the case.
Although there is no clear explanation, isn't it normal that the higher the difficulty, the higher the reward? Otherwise, how can I get those C, B, A, and S side plots? It can't be that the lower the difficulty of the task, the higher the reward, right?
"Perhaps, the main god space has other arrangements!" Shen Mu said in a low voice: "Don't pay attention to so much for now, let's find a way to find the Rogge camp first, the main god space will let us arrive at the Rogge camp within 12 hours, but we don't even know where the Rogge camp is now." β
"The main god space has not left us any clues, it seems that we can only choose one direction to take a look first." Rohm suggested out loud.
"That's it." Shen Mu nodded: "Roma, be careful yourself, if you encounter danger, take out the AMP mecha directly, this place is weird everywhere, don't capsize in the gutter!" β
"Don't worry, I'm not going to joke with my life."
The two of them pointed in a random direction and began to walk, anyway, the surrounding environment was similar, and it looked similar in either direction.
After the two of them walked a hundred and ten meters away, the corpse bound by thorns and rattans suddenly turned into a puddle of powder and fell to the ground in an instant under the action of some force, mixed with the soil at the roots of the weeds, and there was no trace left.
Shen Mu and Rohm walked for half an hour, and in addition to the wilderness, dirt, and weeds along the way, only one or two bushes could be seen sporadically, which was even more weird and gloomy.
"Something is wrong, if it is Diablo's world, there should be monsters everywhere outside Rog's camp, why haven't we seen any monsters after walking for so long?" RΓΆm reached out and scratched his scalp, and said with some annoyance.
Rohm is not worried about the danger, but is upset and irritated by this environment that is not even dangerous, after all, their purpose is to go to the Rogge camp, but now they don't even know the direction of the Rogge camp, so they keep walking blindly, what if the direction is just the opposite?
Originally, they hoped to find some clues along the way, but they didn't expect to walk for more than half an hour, and they couldn't see anything except weeds or weeds, which was the most disorienting part.
"I think it's good news, there aren't any monsters, maybe it means that we're not far from Camp Rog." Shen Mu lowered his head and pondered, then said.
"Why?"
"Quite simply, you didn't think of this without stepping out of the game. Don't forget, the mission scenario we're in isn't a game, it's a real world! In the game, the player encounters various monsters as soon as they walk out of Rog's camp, which is set for the game, but naturally this cannot be the case in reality. β
"If I were the leader of Camp Rog, whether it was for the safety of the camp or for the safety of the people living in the camp and around it, I would do everything possible to clean up the monsters around me, otherwise the camp would be surrounded by monsters at all times, and no one would live in peace."
"Moreover, the monsters in the game are infinite, and it doesn't take long to refresh them after death...... But in reality, it is obviously impossible to do so, to die is to die. No matter how many of these monsters there are, as long as they are killed, they will be killed, so having such a safe area without any monsters at all proves that Camp Rog is somewhere around us. β
Shen Mu picked up a dead branch from the ground, then brushed aside the grass to reveal a piece of soil, then drew a small circle on it, and then drew a larger circle on the outside, and said: "Let's assume that the small circle inside is the Rogge camp, then the outer circle is the safe zone we are in, and it should be safe in this safe zone, and there are no monsters!" But if we keep going in one direction......"
Shen Mu tapped a point with a branch, and then dragged it until it was out of the circle.
"Go in one direction, and sooner or later we will see the presence of monsters. And that means we're on the verge of safety...... If Rog's camp clears this safe zone, it will definitely have some eyeliner on the edge, that is, the archers in the game, otherwise, once the monster enters the safe zone again, and Rog's camp doesn't know about it, then there will be no point in clearing this safe zone. β