Chapter 21: What's in the Box
"Ahem, cough, cough ......" A figure covered with all kinds of flame burns was lying on the ground, with large and small red bubbles on the exposed skin, he supported the ground with his hands, and tried to turn over and stand up several times, but he couldn't.
"This one is dead. Well, this one too. Someone who was not far away confirmed the death of several other people, and while searching for something from their bodies, heard the commotion, stood up and clapped his hands.
The figure lying on the ground heard the sound and heard the footsteps, obviously very flustered, but the flame burn on his body almost paralyzed the nerves all over his body, and several hard attempts only slightly supported him off the ground with his hands, but it also caused part of the bubble to burst, blood and water mixed with cell fluid flowed out, and the almost numb body appeared an indescribable tingling pain.
"Come on, come on, it's over, don't rush. Ye Xiao walked over and helped Blanco turn over, letting him lie on the ground in a more comfortable position, and at the same time took off some valuable things from his body.
Panic and fear filled his heart, Blanco gasped suddenly, tried hard but couldn't say anything, just looked at Ye Xiao tightly with inexplicable eyes, with a cautious and nervous face.
"Don't be excited, no--be excited-" Ye Xiao stretched out his hand to signal Blanco to relax, otherwise if he gasped like this, he might pass out directly, and under this kind of injury, being unconscious was almost equal to death.
"Don't you dare...... Kill me, I'm ...... I'm ......" Blanco spoke in fits and starts, as if threatening and pleading, muttering as if comforting himself.
"It's all this time, can you tell me what you're thinking. Ye Xiao squatted down next to Blanco, looked around and asked him.
"Killed...... I, Paul...... Be...... Won't let it go...... Your cough cough cough ......" was another rapid cough and wheezing.
"I told you not to be nervous, come, follow me, inhale - exhale - yes, yes, that's it. Ye Xiao was demonstrating, waiting for Blanco to calm down.
"Actually, I didn't want to kill you, and I didn't want to do such a senseless entanglement with you. Suddenly hearing Ye Xiao's words, Blanco suddenly came to his senses, and his weak and tired eyes began to glow, as if he had suddenly found hope for survival.
"I don't know if you've ever thought about what this place, what they're trying to do, and what we're going to do. Ye Xiao looked at the darkness around him, and said slowly with a calm gaze.
The oxygen in the air entered the brain, and Blanco's spirit was already much better, at least he could already think at the moment, thinking about whether Ye Xiao was afraid of the forces behind him. Although he knew that it was almost impossible, he still wanted to live, so he began to pay attention to what Ye Xiao said, and then he was puzzled.
"Sure enough, you didn't think about it at all, so I don't want to entangle with people like you, it's such a waste of time. Ye Xiao looked at Blanco's face and smiled lightly, then turned his head and the sound seemed to float from all directions.
"From the beginning, I was skeptical that their purpose was. Ye Xiao paused, raised his head and thought for a moment before continuing: "We are too old. It took so much effort to get us here, just to select official members for the Shadow Alliance? Aren't those orphans and children more valuable than us to invest in? So if you want to say that we can still hunt elemental monsters and create some value for the Shadow Alliance, then I ask you, how did those elemental monsters come about?"
Ye Xiao asked, Blanco was silently thinking, his brain was in a mess, and he couldn't speak at all.
Then I wondered what they were trying to do, and I soon realized that something was wrong. Ye Xiao suddenly shook his head and laughed for a while.
"Their vision is so accurate, really accurate. All of them can cultivate their spiritual power and become magic apprentices step by step, even if they don't usually practice much. Then I wondered when it became so easy to start practicing magic. Then I asked someone, you know, not everyone has never been exposed to magic before, some people have tried it before, but their qualifications are limited, and they can't cultivate spiritual power, but here they are. Ye Xiao pointed to the land under his feet, and said with an exaggerated expression: "It's all of a sudden, it's weird, isn't it?"
Then, I figured it out. With a long sigh, Ye Xiao said with some melancholy: "We, we are all a group of animals that have been raised in captivity! β
"Slaughtered us all. Ye Xiao tilted his head and said this sentence very easily.
Blanco's eyes widened, obviously shocked by what Ye Xiao said, he wanted to refute but also had a faint feeling that what Ye Xiao said was likely to be the truth, and this feeling was not only brought to him by Ye Xiao, a large part of it was his own feelings, so he was even more shocked and frightened.
"Actually, you're right. Suddenly changing the topic, Ye Xiao suddenly said: "I really don't dare to kill people, because I really haven't done it before because I have no experience, and it's actually disgusting to stab people with a knife and bloody, so I use poison." β
"I've been merciful enough to say so many things to you, to make you a ghost, to let you relax and not let you die so painfully, let's just count it as a special offer for newbies, then I will never see you again. Ye Xiao looked at Blanco's eyes that had already begun to blur, took something into his arms, got up and left here.
The arrow glowing with white light was especially conspicuous in the dark, Ye Xiao looked at the white cursor floating on his finger, and moved quickly in the direction of the arrow.
Finally, when Ye Xiao walked to a place without any features, the white arrow began to tilt and point to a clear position.
Pushing aside the two plants that glowed with blue light next to each other, the fine blue light dots flew like dandelion seeds, and the cursor in his hand was also pointing straight at the land below at this moment, Ye Xiao pulled out a dagger and immediately excavated.
Dingββ
It didn't take long for the dagger in Ye Xiao's hand to touch a hard metal object, making a crisp metal impact sound. Ye Xiao immediately lifted his spirits, sped up the speed of excavation, and dug out a small boxy metal box in a few strokes.
Wiping off the soil on it, Ye Xiao observed carefully and found that there was nothing out of the ordinary. There are no esoteric patterns or mysterious flashes, except for a lock-like protrusion on one side, which looks like an ordinary small metal box.
Ye Xiao didn't stay here too long, but immediately returned all the way, and the process was very smooth. As soon as he returned to the treehouse, he couldn't wait to take out the metal box, and leaned the ring in his hand towards the lock-like protrusion, and the things he had scavenged from Blanco and the others were casually thrown aside, after all, the most important thing at the moment was the thing in his hand.
The stamp on the ring was imprinted with the protrusion of the metal box perfectly, and as soon as Ye Xiao wanted to mobilize his spiritual power, the white light automatically surged towards the metal box, and the ring and the metal box were immediately surrounded by white light.
Click.
With a slight sound, the light quickly faded, the metal box slowly opened automatically, and the contents also appeared in Ye Xiao's eyes.
A thumb-sized clear crystal.
Ye Xiao pinched it between his thumbs and looked at it carefully in the sunlight, and suddenly found that the small crystal was flickering with mysterious symbols frequently, which looked like a kind of text.
"Hmm-" Ye Xiao looked at the crystal and groaned for a moment, but still infused his spiritual power.
Ye Xiao put the crystal under his eyes and carefully injected spiritual power into it, while carefully observing the changes in the crystal. But at the moment when the spiritual power touched the crystal, a ray of light suddenly shot into Ye Xiao's eyes from the crystal, and the words and messages flowed and combined like a waterfall on Ye Xiao's retina, and then suddenly disappeared.
As if a needle stabbed his eyes, Ye Xiao subconsciously raised his head and took a step back, and then he felt that his eyes were hot and smoky, and then something rushed into his mind along the spiritual power.
Everything happened too fast and urgently, Ye Xiao didn't have time to react at all, and when he came back to his senses, the idea in his mind that he didn't know what the message was had already expanded towards the entire spiritual space.
After a long time, Ye Xiao, who had closed his eyes, opened his eyes, let out a long breath and muttered thoughtfully: "It turned out to be a meditation technique, and it is necessary to use the spiritual power cultivated by this meditation technique to open the information hidden in this energy recognition crystal." β
"Induction meditation, the alchemist's transcendent meditation technique, then I want to see what kind of treasure can be unlocked by using you as a key. Ye Xiao looked at the Recognition Crystal in his hand, a smile spread along the corner of his mouth, and then he couldn't help laughing.