Chapter Seventy-Four: The Deadly Trap
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"What is this?" Catherine stood around the corner in distress, and even through the corner, she could feel a gust of wind blowing out of the passage, "Why is there such a strong wind in the tunnel?"
"I don't know. Pannis shouted hoarsely: "Maybe it's natural, but I think it's more likely man-made, another defense." ”
"Is there a way to crack it?" asked Catherine, "it's too hard to get through like this." ”
"You're going to ask Vivien about this. "She's the one who has the most say, I don't see it," Pannis said. ”
"I'll go check it out first. Vivien stacked several layers of shields and enchantments on herself, and raised her illuminator against the rock wall around the corner. For a wide range of strong winds, although the enchantment can protect the caster's surroundings from strong winds, its principle is only to support a windless space around the caster, and the wind pressure outside will still act on the entire windless space, which means that the wind will press the entire enchantment on the rock wall, so it is impossible to use the enchantment as a trick to pass through this tunnel.
As soon as Vivien showed up, she leaned against the wall with the help of the wind, keeping the barrier from being destroyed by the wind, while leisurely looking at the tunnel in front of her. Illuminated by the beams of light from the illuminators, everything in the tunnel is clearly visible. This is a straight tunnel about 50 meters long, and the four walls have traces of slight trimming, so that the four walls of the tunnel are completely free of undulations and corners, allowing strong winds to pass without hindrance, and there can also be no shelter and borrowing points along the way.
"This trap is almost unsolvable. "I climbed out of the rock wall with difficulty, and ran a long way to a place where the wind was less noisy, and everyone else was waiting. Vivien lifted the protection on her body, and after thinking for a long time, she said: "I can see that the setting of the trap is actually very simple, only one kind of hurricane magic circle is used, but there are very many of them, there are two opposing magic circles every three meters, and the magic circle is hidden inside the rock wall, unless the rock wall is destroyed, it is difficult to destroy the magic circle." This array does not increase the power of the spell, but the hurricane spell is special because the wind automatically stacks and gets stronger and stronger. ”
"Can you use a spell to destroy the rock wall?" Catherine asked, "Destroy these circles one by one, and the trap will be lifted." ”
"It's hard, don't forget we're underground. Vivien shook her head, "It's too narrow here, and the inside of the wall is unknown, so I'm not sure I can destroy it without causing it to collapse." With the current environment, once it collapses, it is very likely that we will all be stoned to death here. ”
"In other words, you can only push forward?" Catherine said in a very tangled way, "There is no other way?"
"I can't think of any other way anyway. Vivien shrugged and said, "However, if one person rushes over, he can destroy the magic circle inside the rock wall by physical attack from the opposite side, so that it will be much easier for others to pass through." ”
"I kind of see what you mean. Catherine squinted at Vivien: "That is to say, let me go over desperately against the wind, destroy the circle, and then you can easily walk over." ”
"Ha, eldest sister, your guess is getting more and more accurate. Vivien grinned and patted Catherine's arm hard: "So, for the sake of the buried treasure, come on, big sister, hehehehe." ”
"I'm scared of you. Catherine sighed helplessly and began to remove the scales from her body one at a time. Although it is safe to wear scale armor, for such a narrow passage full of strong winds, wearing armor will increase the weight of the body and cause excess burden, and it will increase the force area of the strong wind due to the presence of armor, so it is better to take off the armor and move forward lightly.
"I'll go with you. Pannis thought for a moment and stood beside Catherine: "The two of them go together, and they can take care of each other in case something happens." ”
"Actually, it's not necessary. Catherine, who had removed her armor, moved her limbs vigorously, and fastened all the places where the petticoat she was wearing could be used for a ride: "It will take a lot of effort to pass here, and there is no need to waste the physical strength of two people." ”
"I'm a little uneasy. Pannis's face was a little worried: "I always feel that there are some problems that have not been considered, and it is better for the two of them to be safer." ”
"It should be fine. Vivien said, "I haven't found any other magic traps." ”
"I'm afraid that if the builder insidiously sets up a few physical traps halfway through, it will be troublesome. Pannis was still very insistent: "So, to be on the safe side, I'd better go over too." ”
"That's hard work for you. Catherine thought about it carefully, and what Pannis said made sense, so she no longer refused: "I'll go ahead, after all, my fighting spirit is one order higher than yours, and the improvement of physical fitness is naturally higher than your fighting spirit, and I can help you block a little wind before I go, so that you can save some effort." ”
While Pannis placed the goblin illuminator at the last corner of the wind passage against the wind, a glimmer of fighting energy flashed on Catherine's body, and a large amount of fighting energy was infused into her body, continuously strengthening her physical fitness. Taking a final deep breath, Catherine rushed into the wind without looking back, struggling to face the fierce strong winds. Pannis frowned, with a distressed look on his face when he couldn't remember something, and thoughtfully hid behind Catherine to take advantage of the situation to follow up.
Wind is one of the most common phenomena, everyone can be said to live in the wind all their lives, almost everyone is accustomed to the existence of the wind, no one will feel that there is anything special about it. However, when the wind is strong enough to a certain extent, this habitual existence can become a disaster. Strong winds can make people unable to breathe, strong winds can make people unable to open their eyes, strong winds can make people unable to move forward, and further strong winds can make people unable to stay on the ground at all.
In the current tunnel, if ordinary people or low-level professionals come in, they can't stand at all, they will only be pressed against the wall by strong winds, even if they belong to the silver level of high-level professionals, they need to use all their strength to barely move forward in the face of such a wind, and they will be blown away if they are not careful. There are only professionals above the gold level who can face the wind pressure and move forward relatively steadily, which is why Catherine decided to take the lead in breaking through after her trial.
After walking more than ten meters, Catherine realized that she was a little overconfident. I don't know how the magic circle inside the rock wall is arranged, theoretically no matter how it is arranged, the further forward it goes, the weaker the wind force should become, but in fact, after advancing dozens of meters, the wind force has not changed at all, and it still maintains the initial strength, and for the opponent Catherine, the reserves and physical strength of the fighting spirit are being rapidly consumed, and she will naturally feel more and more pressure.
Step by step, no hesitation, no retreat, no stopping, no talking, no breathing, no opening of the eyes, only burying your head forward, forward, forward, until you cross the finish line, or until you run out of strength and are repelled by the wind.
"Come on, Catherine. The knight girl encouraged herself: "This is the last barrier, this is the last enemy that hinders you from realizing your dreams, as long as you defeat him, you can get the treasure of an entire kingdom." You can't lose, Catherine, the gold coins are beckoning to you, be sure to rush over, think about the taste of rolling in the pile of gold coins, it's a scene that can only be seen in dreams, come on, come on, come on. ”
Under the continuous self-suggestion, Catherine's speed of progress suddenly increased a lot, clenched her teeth, the muscles on her face were twisted because of the force, and under the strengthening of her fighting spirit, she actually reached the pace of normal progress against the fierce strong wind, and quickly advanced towards the end of the passage.
"Not true. Pannis, who was still three or four meters away from Catherine, suddenly changed his face, obviously figured out something, reached out and grabbed Catherine's back, and at the same time shouted in his mouth: "Open the Douqi shield, you can't go any more." ”
Unfortunately, Catherine in the wind could not hear Pannis's words clearly, under the pressure of the wind, Catherine could only vaguely hear Pannis shouting something, but she didn't know the content at all, and the reality of the situation did not allow her to stop and ask, so she could only continue to move forward with questions.
With one step, Catherine had a feeling of stepping into the air, the violent hurricane was very unreasonably weakened to almost negligible, while on the contrary, there was a strong reverse air flow from behind, and she shot forward like an arrow under the dual force of her full force and the air flow behind her, and the speed was almost enough to catch up with the speed when using the sprint skill.
"It's here. Catherine smiled with joy on her face, and successfully breaking through the Tempest Corridor meant that she was one step closer to the treasure, and nothing could stop the maidens from her tracks, nothing could stop her from pursuing the gold coins.
However, the smile that was excited and excited suddenly became stiff in an instant. Catherine was in the midst of increased speed and strength, keenly sensing something touching her body. It was an object that could not be seen in the light of a small light, slender, but tough. From head to toe, from left to right, there are more than a dozen places on the body that create the sensation of touching.
"It's over. Catherine's heart sank into the valley, and the knowledge of various traps in the past adventure made her think about what she was about to face while touching it, but at this time, it was too late to open the Douqi shield, her speed was too fast, so fast that she couldn't open the Douqi shield in time, so fast that she sent herself to a dead end.
Time seemed to be stretched for a long time in this second, and in Catherine's perception, she could clearly feel that the invisible object was tearing her skin little by little under its own power, breaking her muscles little by little, neck, chest, waist and abdomen, limbs, every key part of her body, was attacked.
The fear and despair of death gripped Catherine's heart, and although she knew exactly what was going to happen, she could only watch herself die.
"Only, have you made it here?" In the last milliseconds of her life, Catherine's last movement was to raise her gaze upwards. There is only a rock wall above, a depressing rock wall, and there is no hope, no sky, and no moon in sight: "Father and grandfather, die for debt, no, for credibility and duty, and before you die, are you in the same mood as I am now? ”
In the next moment, three bright moons rose in Catherine's eyes.