Chapter 19: The Empty Ruins

[The third senior sister asked you, is she beautiful? 】

[Beauty]

[Not beautiful]

[Others]

Familiar questions, familiar three options.

After thinking about it for a while, Chu Ge still chose something else.

[You were in a hurry and said that the senior brother was still waiting for you, so you chased in the direction where the senior brother left, and then you looked back, and the third senior sister was standing not far behind you, looking at you with a lonely expression, and you had an urge to go back. 】

It's impossible to go back, with Chu Ge's many years of experience in watching horror movies, even if he falls to death, it is estimated that it is better than being entangled by this weird senior sister.

It's only a matter of three hours to fall to death, and I don't know how many hours it takes to be entangled.

Good women are afraid of pestering men, and good men are also afraid of pestering women, and it also applies here.

[You try to chase after the elder brother, but after stepping through several doors in a row, you find that you have lost the trace of the elder brother. 】

[You begin to look around, this is a strange courtyard, the courtyard is relatively desolate, and there are a few slender bamboos with sparse branches and leaves growing in the corners. 】

Bamboo? This reminded Chu Ge of the bamboo whistle given to him by the senior brother, and its material was Dao bamboo, so are these bamboos Dao bamboo?

But the game didn't give Chu Ge a chance to solve his doubts, and the text quickly emerged.

[At this time, you heard someone shouting loudly from behind you, telling you to hurry out, and then you turned your head along the way, and saw the senior brother standing outside the door when he came, with an anxious face. 】

[You decide:]

[Hurry up and leave the yard.] 】

[Continue to observe in the courtyard.] 】

[Miscellaneous.] 】

Why is the elder brother outside the door? Chu Ge was secretly thinking about it, and at the same time, he was also thinking about the possible results of these options.

But it seemed that he had been thinking for too long, and the options quickly disappeared, followed by red warning text.

He forgot that the game was playing in real time!

You have strayed into the ruins. 】

[Empty Ruins: When the real and the unreal appear at the same time, their conflict with each other will lead to the creation of the empty ruins, in the empty ruins, there will be many bizarre scenes and strange and mysterious creatures, many special things can only be produced in the empty ruins, in which danger and opportunity coexist. 】

Empty ruins? Is this a place like a dungeon uncharted realm?

And in the area formed by the conflict between the real and the unreal, will the power of the landowner still work?

Then, sure enough, the words continued to emerge, confirming some of the conjectures in Chu Ge's heart.

【Attention! Note! Note! 】

[The Empty Ruins are not a real and illusory place, it is difficult for the power of the landowner to reach here, and he will not return to the Qingshan Temple after dying here. 】

will not return to the Qingshan Temple, will the character die permanently, or will the novice village of the Qingshan Temple be directly over?

However, according to the previous description of the game, it is to let him leave Qingshan Temple alive, and if he dies here, then this main quest may be considered a failure, but I don't know what kind of punishment there will be.

Moreover, many secrets in the Taoist temple have not yet been solved, Chu Ge doesn't want to leave Qingshan Temple now, but he doesn't know how to leave the empty ruins, so he can only wait and see what happens, silently looking at the words on the screen.

[The surrounding environment is changing, countless lights and shadows are circulating, but just when you are about to completely enter the empty ruins, a hand suddenly grabs you, and you look back and find that it is actually the senior brother. 】

[Then, as soon as the screen turns, you come to the place where you entered the door before, only this time, the door has long since disappeared.] 】

"Be careful, don't run around. ”】

[You heard Senior Brother say this to you, and then he disappeared in front of you. 】

Chu Ge: ???

According to the game text, if he understands correctly, the Void Ruins should not be considered a real and illusory place, that is, it is a real place.

However, isn't the elder brother fictionalized by the power of the landowner?

Why was he able to enter the ruins and rescue him?

Chu Ge felt that there were countless doubts in his mind, but the game obviously didn't give him an answer, but only gave him the next option.

【Go to the garden on the left】

【To Sanqing Palace】

【Leaving the Taoist Temple】

【Rest in place】

[Others]

To arrange the magic circle, you need to go to the spring in the back mountain, so Chu Ge decided to go to the back mountain to observe first.

As for the monster that the senior brother encountered, he thought that he had the peachwood sword and the small lightning strike charm in his hand, and even if he was defeated, he would be able to fight at least for a while.

[You left the Taoist temple, and the door of the Taoist temple that was originally opened closed the moment you went out, and you pushed it, but you couldn't push it open, and you felt that it seemed to have a deep hatred for you. 】

This door still has a grudge? Chu Ge was surprised.

As for it? Didn't you burn it with fire last time, why are you so careful, Chu Ge complained in his mouth, but unfortunately this word could not be transmitted to the game.

[After seeing that the door could not be opened, you looked around, Qingshan Temple stood on the mountainside to the position close to the top of the mountain, at this time there were clouds and mist around the Taoist temple, and the lush pine forest could be seen under the clouds, and the pine forest was surging with the wind. 】

You see a path going down, leading into the depths of the pine forest, with no end in sight, you know, this is the way down the mountain, and it is safer to go down the mountain during the day than at night. 】

[Behind the Taoist temple, you see the peak straight into the clouds, and including the bottom of it, there is the position called the back mountain by the disciples in the temple, and it is also the position where you need to arrange the formation. 】

So you decide:]

[Stay where you are and continue to observe]

【Descending along the path】

【To the back mountain】

[Others]

Without too much hesitation, Chu Ge chose to go to the back mountain, and at the same time, he opened his personal interface and took out the peachwood sword and the small thunder strike talisman.

Although the character will automatically choose to take out the items and fight automatically during the battle, in order to avoid being attacked by the character too late to take it, Chu Ge took precautions and chose to prepare the character in advance.

It is worth mentioning that in the game, it is not necessary to use the aura of the small cave in the human body to open the small cave of the human body, because the character himself has the aura in his body.

And perhaps due to the different worlds, in the game, the energy consumed to open the small cave is much lower than in the real world.

[You decide to go to the back mountain.] 】

[At the same time, you took out the peachwood sword and the small lightning strike talisman from the small hole in your human body, and you are ready to fight at any time. 】

[You hold a sword in one hand and a small lightning strike charm in the other, even in the daytime, you walk cautiously forward, because you know that in the mountain, unknown creatures may come out at any time. 】

Next, the screen seemed to be pressed the pause button, and the text paused to beat, Chu Ge knew that this was the character in the game walking again, and the time spent walking would not skip with the text.

So, I waited patiently for a few minutes before a new text appeared on the screen.

[It took a few minutes for you to finally reach the entrance of the back mountain, there is a trail here, the trail is overgrown with weeds, growing waist-high, you can't tell if there is any creature hidden in the weeds. 】

[You decide:]

【Moving on】

【Return the same way】

[Others]

You choose to move on, but just as you step into the grass, a breaking wind sounds, and you see a sickle arm like a blade swinging towards you. 】