045 An Unexpected Discovery (2nd Update)
As for the eight magic silver bracelets he had just asked Benjeno to create, three of them will be given to the three players with the highest contribution as additional rewards for building the Mystic Tower.
The other two are awarded to the player who has contributed the most to the construction of the martial arts arena, and now there is an opportunity to announce the increase in the reward content, and the last three he has not yet thought about, Du Wei is ready to find a reason to distribute them to other players who have made outstanding contributions.
As soon as the streamer team that had been devastated by the Shadow Forest went online, they found Du Wei to receive the two-hour enhancement effect, and the people who had been strengthened regained their confidence and attacked the Shadow Forest again.
Niko, a cat allergic type, wanted to pull Shui Shui and Hell Cook Lady with her to find Du Wei to receive the enhancement time, but whenever the Hell Cook recalled the terrifying illusion, she was a little hesitant, she didn't want to step into the Shadow Forest for a while, and it was a waste to get the enhancement time now, so it was better to wait for the future to overcome the magic barrier and use it.
In Shui Shui's opinion, Niko is a daredevil, where would she dare to enter the Shadow Forest with the two of her, and when the time comes, she will not be killed, so she politely rejected her proposal.
Nicol pouted and found Du Wei to receive two hours of enhancement, tied the vines that could be used to drag things around her waist, and then carried her backpack into the Shadow Forest alone, and the area that had been repeatedly explored by the player was basically empty of monsters to hunt.
This time, she chose a different direction, entering the Shadow Forest from the east side, where players are least few, only to find a very strange scene.
After she went a little deeper into the Shadow Forest, many monster corpses began to appear lying horizontally and vertically on the way, and the wounds of these monsters were very hideous, and some even had stumps and broken arms hanging all over the woods, which was exactly the trace left by Du Wei and his party when they returned from the eastern area.
Niko followed the trail and plunged headlong into the depths of the Shadow Forest with the help of the enhanced bodily functions, slowly changing the surrounding landscape.
The forest landscape slowly turns into low shrubs, and eventually emerges from the forest into a hilly area.
The monsters along the way are vulnerable to both Dewey and the guards, and since most of them can't fly, they can only push over by land, and by the way, they also pull out a few goblin colonies and kobold camps, only hiding their bodies slightly near the village, and not continuing to push sideways, so as not to find the abnormality as soon as the player leaves the village from this route, and then have unnecessary associations.
Niko was pleasantly surprised by the discovery, and she thought she must have triggered some kind of special event.
In many games nowadays, the monsters are also divided into factions, and in her mind, it must be the traces left by the migration of a large monster community or the battle between the monsters of different camps.
Coming to the hilly area, Niko glanced at the strengthening time, and now there was less than half an hour left, which was no longer enough for her to return.
In this case, it is better to go deeper, explore more unknown areas, and get first-hand information to trade in the tavern.
With her goal in mind, Niko quickened her pace, and soon followed the bloody path of Dewey and the others to the vicinity of the Demon Silver Vein.
There were only two caves in the veins, and the entrance of the cave was full of abandonment of gathering equipment, and the inside was dark, and Niko walked around and saw no trace of the monster.
After thinking that eighty percent of the monsters had entered the mine, she decided to go in and find out after thinking about it for a while.
It's not enough to find the information of the mine, if you can detect the type of monster or vein hidden inside, the value of the information will definitely be higher.
The cat-allergic Niko first stood at the entrance of the cave and shouted, "Grandchildren! Your aunt and grandmother are here! There is a kind of coming out to fight! ”
There was an echo in the cavern but nothing happened, and Niko ran to another cave and shouted, still unresponsive.
Aren't there any monsters in there? Niko is overjoyed, her vertical pupils can see in the dark, and she can explore some distance deeper than the average player even when there is no light source.
She put down her small backpack and casually picked up a pickaxe from the door to enter the cave, relying on the faint sunlight shining in from the outside to see the situation inside the cave after just a few meters, Niko's eyes contracted, adjusting to night vision mode.
After walking a few dozen meters further, she saw a strangely colored ore peeking out of the cave wall.
Niko stepped forward and swung the pickaxe and smashed it into the ore in a daze, the sound of steel clashing sounded, and the pickaxe was bounced out of her hand, and Niko's hands were numb in shock.
She didn't know how to mine, how could she know how to go to the soil layer on both sides of the loose ore, and Niko, who had only mined in the game, thought that mining was to smash the ore with a pickaxe, and it would be done if it was smashed.
She turned back to pick up the pickaxe, and when she picked it up, she saw that the end of the ore had been twisted, how could this tool not be as hard as the ore, and Niko was in her heart, and for a moment she didn't know how to get the ore out.
Once her hands were restored, she tried to chisel at the ore with her pickaxe, this time with some less force, and the pickaxe was not directly ejected, but the end of the contact with the ore was still blunt.
Reluctantly, Niko dropped her pickaxe and stumbled inwards for some distance, picking up a small piece of broken magic silver that had fallen to the ground.
"Well, at least there's a consolation prize." Niko looked at Shattered Silver and muttered to herself.
When she walked to a depth of more than 100 meters, she couldn't see even with her vertical pupils, so she had to go back and go out to see what color and material the ore was.
The scene seen in the cave with the vertical pupil is different from usual, and it is difficult to discern the color of the ore, except for its faint glow.
Walking out of the mine, Niko took a deep breath, the air outside was still fresh, and the inside of the mine was damp and cold, mixed with a smell similar to rust, which was very uncomfortable.
She picked up the Broken Demon Silver and looked closely, it was a crystal with a silvery-white luster, and when exposed to the sun's light, it would also reflect blue-purple spots, a bit like the light emitted by the inside of the shell when it was illuminated by a light source, but it was not so colorful, only the two colors of blue and purple alternated.
Niko placed the strange stone in the leather armor's personal pocket, and after many tests, players found that this was the only way to preserve the item and ensure that they would be 100% reborn with them after death.
Although the capacity is small, it can ensure that important items will not be lost, which is equivalent to a carry-on safe case in some hardcore games.
Along the way, Niko collected a lot of things, and her backpack was full of all kinds of iron tools collected from the ruins of the battlefield, and she didn't feel the enhancement effect when she came, and now she will be stupid when she wants to go back.
The backpack couldn't be carried at all, and the vines that were originally intended to be used to pull things were untied and thrown away, and some things that didn't look very valuable were cleared, and finally she slowly moved back to the village with two shovels as crutches.
Before she even entered the Shadow Forest, Niko was exhausted and out of breath, still with too many things, and she had to lose weight.
She reluctantly threw away some of her equipment, and at the same time abandoned the two shovels and replaced them with two goblin daggers that she had previously placed in her backpack, and continued on her way.