Section 18 Rough Stones

"Evacuate all the people, the temperature is too low at night, and the soldiers have to conserve their strength to defend the town and carry out daily patrols. During the Winter Snow Festival, they are driven to search the mountains at night, and many people have developed a rebellious mood. ”

The Fire Vision archer from Sanjin found Landis, who was listening to his men under a tree.

Landis looked at the messy footprints on the snow and exhaled a sigh of white air.

"I've been searching for two hours, and the hounds don't respond at all, they're just being led and running around, so it's really not a way to find them." He whispered to himself.

He stamped his feet and watched as several subordinates around him were rubbing their hands together to keep warm.

"In such cold weather, the soldiers are understandably resistant. Even I felt cold, let alone them. Let them all withdraw. His voice was slightly low, but he made this decision anyway.

Thinking back to the young man's smile, the few times the two met but had a very pleasant time together, Landis wanted to hold on a little longer.

But the people under his hands are also people, and he can't let so many people suffer from the cold because of Timmy alone. Moreover, as the night deepened, the chill in the air around me could almost penetrate the surface of the body and penetrate the bone marrow, which was unusually cold.

As someone who participated in the battle to recapture the Seal of the Demon Dragon Leyline in the Snow Mountain, Landis certainly had reason to suspect that the unusual low temperature of this year's Winter Snow Festival was inextricably linked to the destruction of the seal by the demons.

Faced with this power that can affect nature, he has to admit his insignificance as a human being.

In myths and legends, the fall of the dragon is a judgment descended by the gods together.

Only a god can overcome this power, right?' He thought silently in his heart, "Give the order to go out and tell everyone to close." Tonight, all the taverns in Sanjin Town, those who participated in the search mission, I will ask for a drink. ”

"Yes!" The subordinates saluted and retired, and then they had to divide into several directions to gather the soldiers and convoy members who were scattered in the mountains and forests for the search mission.

"Don't bother, just send a signal."

The female knight, dressed in light leather armor with only a piece of metal carapace embedded in the vital part, took off the ornate longbow behind her back and pulled the bowstring with her bare hands.

Fire elemental energy poured out between her fingers, quickly forming a red arrow. The two fingers were released, and the long arrow flew towards the starry night sky, exploding into a brilliant firework at a height of hundreds of meters.

Bang~~~

The fireworks go off first, and then the sound falls into everyone's ears. The sound passed, but the fireworks lingered in the air for a long time, and the beautiful flame petals slowly fell under the image, as if they were interpreting the whole process of the flowers from blooming to withering.

Seeing the fireworks signal and hearing the sound, the soldiers who were on the search mission in the mountains and forests naturally knew what it meant, and resolutely returned down the mountain, while the leading officers in the team shouted loudly to inform each other, in case anyone did not see the signal, and by the way, they also called back the people from the Legon Fender family who participated in the search together.

Landis gathered his men and returned to Sanjin Town to rest, needless to say

The other side

Xu Yun looked at the ice in front of him depressedly, and could only sigh unwillingly.

He had tried all the means he could now, but there was nothing he could do with the ice in front of him. With no tools in his hand, he took out a few useful gray items from the corner of the broken ice wall on the other side, and whether he knocked or smashed, he was helpless to use the ice.

Obviously, I have seen the name of the holy relic displayed by the system through the ice in front of me, but I can't get it, I am really unwilling.

"I can't let that guy punch me and make a hole, can we? Forget it, let's not talk about whether you can smash it open here, I'm afraid that Lao Tzu's life won't be able to hold him up again. ”

Of course, the Frost Armor King didn't mind crushing himself to death, but no matter how he thought about it, he wouldn't cooperate with Xu Yun to beat him in the direction he wanted to fall.

was able to smash open the ice to get the treasure inside before, which was completely shit luck for Xu Yun.

"Human nature is really greedy, and when you get it, you want more."

"It's the same as drawing cards.,Just draw a miracle and think about whether you can do it again.,And then the stones from the liver have all become the cushions of the card pool.,After you go up, you will smash the salary.,When the role is full.,Only to find that you can only eat soil in the next few months.。

"But the worst thing is the weapon pool." Xu Yun kicked on the ice angrily, and the soft leather boots on his feet were not as hard as the ice element.

Hiss~

He jumped to his feet in pain.

In the past, I used to kick the ice with the sole of my shoe, but this time I used the toe of my shoe, and the one who suffered was the big toe.

"Forget it, this is fate, Lao Tzu admits it. See if there's anything else around. Sighing again, Xu Yun felt like a middle-aged worker who had been laid off, and he didn't stop sighing.

Since he knew that he had nothing to do with this ice, he naturally didn't want to look at the ice in the other two corners, so as not to see the system display the color name again, which would only add to his sadness.

But what can he do without observing the environment in the room? You can't sit down with the Frost Armor King, can you?

Not to mention that the frost element around the Frost Armor King is strong, although he will not continue to lose blood when he stays by his side, it is really cold.

It's not just a cold bar when playing games, and it's none of your business to sit in front of the screen, it's a real experience.

Gollum~

"I'm hungry, it's annoying. The reality is so troublesome, when I was at home, I ordered a takeout, and I really couldn't eat instant noodles, and I dealt with it in five minutes. What now? ”

Xu Yun began to grope for his coat pocket, if he remembered correctly, when he was eating at noon, he took out a piece of biscuit that he had left uneaten and was casually put in his pocket.

"Ha, at this time, I would like to thank Landis for being in such a hurry that he was in a hurry." He thought with a wry smile.

Lunch was eaten while the horses were resting, and Landis washed the horse's nose and fed it with water before it was his turn to use the brush. While he was scrubbing his horse's nostrils and feeding him with water, Landis stood aside and nibbled on the jerky and the biscuits he had taken out, and when he was done with his work, he ate two biscuits before urging him to go on the road.

It is simply the face of the landlords who oppress the working people.

Xu Yun's hand groped in the pocket of his robe, and found the biscuit he was looking for in his right hand pocket, but the touch of his fingers told him that the biscuit had broken into a pile of slag.

"It should be the Frost Armor King's punch that shattered it, well, some of them can be eaten, and no one is watching anyway."

Xu Yun took out the biscuit crumbs from his pocket and stuffed them into his mouth, the biscuits were broken quite thoroughly, almost no need to chew, just swallow them directly with saliva.

Still, he grinded his teeth as he was customary.

Standing in the center of the sealing array, the frost armor king's frosty eyes stared at him, and when he saw him chewing and eating, he angrily pounded the thick ice armor on his chest, making a thumping bang.

A low, heavy roar reverberated from deep in its throat.

"Heh~ You're hungry too, aren't you? It's a pity that we only have a little cookie scrap, and you can't taste half of it on your tongue. Xu Yun smiled, he could see the emotions of longing and taking in the fierce eyes of the Frost Armor King.

The demons would definitely not feed the Frost Armor King when they imprisoned him, and from their conversations, it could be heard that these fallen people wished that the Frost Armor King was hungry and weakened, and that they could save some effort while maintaining the seal.

And even if you want to please this guy with food, you can't feed it enough to feed it with that big body.

Hilichurls can communicate, but she is not the naïve linguist girl in the library, and the little girl knows how to find players to try to communicate with hilichurls, she doesn't know hilichurl in the first place, and she doesn't have a powerful traveler to help act as an intermediary.

"Those demons must have some purpose in imprisoning the Frost Armor King here. Otherwise, who would do such a labor-intensive and unbeneficial? ”

"It shouldn't be to drive it to attack the seal recaptured by the church, it's going to be done early, there's no need to wait until now. What's more, they had already captured the leyline seal before, and it seemed that they had broken some of the seals. ”

"It's not attacking the Seal... This was the Frost Armor King's lair, but it was far from the relic room where they were resting. ”

"The hilichurls are not solitary creatures, and the Frost Armor King is the leader of a tribe, but following Tirad all the way down, I haven't met a single hilichurlhurl, not even a corpse."

"There are a lot of holy relics frozen in the surrounding corners, although most of them are scrap."

Xu Yun swallowed the last bit of biscuit crumbs, although his stomach was still growling, but he could eat a little bit of it. This body should last a while.

He pondered, using the faint fluorescence of the elemental crystals to provide some light, and paced aimlessly.

A slash that had accumulated for an unknown number of years of dust entered the edge of his vision.

Well?

That's right!

There had been fierce battles here, otherwise it would have been possible to leave so many badly damaged relics behind.

Moreover, these relics are diverse, Landis said that items with special powers are extremely rare and precious, and the people who can wear them are also powerful and powerful.

With so many strong people gathered here to fight, it can cause the strong to fight...

"There's an ancient treasure trove here!"

Xu Yun's thinking was instantly clear, and he deduced it backwards along the results, and all the previous clues were connected in series, and they were logical.

He hurriedly held the elemental crystals, the light of one was really faint, he took the two purple quality elemental crystals in his hands, and then walked quickly to the corner of the wall he had found before, groping along the corner.

The room is quite large, not so much a room as a small square in front of the treasury door, which explains why there is only a huge door frame at the entrance of the room, but there is no door.

It was originally used as a passage for walking, so why install a door?

Because the light was so dim, Xu Yun didn't dare to move too fast, so after ten minutes or so, he finally found the entrance when he came in, the gate blocked by a wall of black smoke.

Opposite the entrance to the plaza is naturally the main entrance to the treasure house. He decisively turned around and saw the Hilichurl King who was still standing in the center of the seal staring at him, the darkness didn't seem to be able to cover its eyes, its gaze had been following Xu Yun.

This time, Xu Yun went straight towards the Frost Armor King.

The Frost Armor King's breathing gradually became heavier, and a pair of four-fingered fists kept opening and closing, and his fingers moved flexibly.

But Xu Yun didn't pay attention to it at all, and began to circle a few meters away from the circle formed by the purple symbol of the seal. Marked by the purple symbol on the ground, he silently counted as he advanced, and after finding the position of the character directly opposite, he walked with his back to the Frost Armor King, and walked alone into the darkness.

The Frost Armor King was unwilling to rush forward, and stomped on the ground with his big feet, using the leaping attack that Xu Yun had seen on the Abyss Battlefield (in the game) many times.

But its body took off, and as soon as it leaped beyond the scope of the symbol, dozens of chains glowing with purple light suddenly appeared in the dark space, and these chains were tied to it at one end, and the purple light symbol on the ground was connected to the other, and with a round of strong light at the purple light burst on the symbol, all the chains instantly shrank into the character at the same time, and Shengsheng dragged back the Frost Armor King who had been vacated.

Bang dong~

The Frost King's massive body slammed into the hard stone floor, and the frost armor and the stone slab collided and cracked, sending countless debris flying.

A small piece of ice on the cold ice armor grazed Xu Yun's shoulder and flew into the darkness.

Xu Yun wiped the non-existent sweat on his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief silently. At this time, I am glad that these demons are strong enough.

The Frost Armor King got up, roaring angrily, thrashing his breastplate, but after all, he didn't make any more attempts, maybe it had tried many times, but this time the result was no exception.

Ignoring the movement behind him, following the direction marked in his heart, Xu Yun advanced more than ten meters in the dark, and the road ahead was blocked by steps.

Climbing up the steps, the stone steps under his feet were particularly broken, and he could hardly find a complete stone brick, and he found a huge depression in the stone steps after a few steps.

Although the pit is not deep, and you can't hurt or die if you fall, you will definitely be taken aback.

Bypassing the notched pit, he continued to reach a small platform attached to the stone steps, the floor of which was also covered with attack marks, and in the corners of the walls were several pieces of waste that could not even be named.

The platform was only a few meters long and wide, and beyond this distance, Xu Yun was blocked again.

This time, in addition to a wall of relics covered with the heavy smell of vicissitudes, there was also a huge circular metal door embedded in the wall.

The elemental crystals in his hand could only illuminate a small area, and the reason why he knew it was a round metal door was because he saw the curvature of the door frame and the main body of the door panel, which reminded him of the bank vault door in the movie he had seen.

Not a single scratch is visible on the walls and metal doors.

Reaching out and touching it, before his fingers could touch the frame of the prototype metal door, a glowing amber halo instantly lit up, covering the entire wall and the circular portal.

also made Xu Yun see the whole picture of the wall and the metal door thoroughly, and it was not much different from what he guessed.

He'd seen this kind of gate, and a similar round gate appeared in some ruins puzzles in Genshin Impact games.

And it just so happens that there is one on the Longji Snow Mountain.

There was a faint force of resistance coming from this layer of amber halo, but Xu Yun only used a little force to ignore it.

The palm of his hand finally pressed against the metal frame of the portal, and the touch from his skin was as hard as he had imagined, but not cold.

It was also through the amber halo that covered the entire wall that Xu Yun saw the ceiling of the ruins for the first time. The ceiling was so high that he had to tilt his neck to see the stone slabs that had been stitched together into the ceiling, and the beautiful stone edging where the ceiling and the wall met.

The intricate pattern was even more elaborate than the embroidered edge of the laurel branch on the robe that Floya had given her.

"In its heyday, I don't know how magnificent and beautiful this ruin should be. It's a pity that it has now become dust left in the corner of history in the ancient years. ”

The Frost Armor King in the center of the small square in the rear seemed to be stimulated, and it began to roar again after a while, this time it stopped beating its chest, and began to pound the ground, and the hard square stone slabs on the ground were beaten again and again, and finally it was overwhelmed, and small cracks began to appear.

Knowing that it couldn't come out of the seal, Xu Yun didn't bother to pay attention to it.

With a slight emotion in his heart, his gaze moved down to the metal round door.

The frame of the metal gate is engraved with a circle of characters that are very different from the purple symbol, and the reason why it is not a symbol but a character is because:

Xu Yun can understand.

This is a special character similar to the divine script, but the form is different from the caption text that Xu Yun saw on the back of the Seven Saints summoning card earlier.

But undoubtedly, it has power.

"In the name of Faris the Holy Emperor of Light, refuse all those who are not permitted to do so. Known as the Emperor of Faris's Desperate Sigh, he guards everything that enters. Xu Yun read the meaning of the characters, "There are only twelve characters, but he can translate two paragraphs." ”

This layer of amber energy seems to have been emitted by these twelve characters, and they look like the seal symbols carved into the ground by the demons.

But the technique is much more clever.

The Majin's seal symbol also overflows with faint purple light,

But before these characters light up, their power is completely restrained, and they look like just ordinary inscription engravings. ”

Xu Yun's fingers moved along the ring-shaped metal door frame, looking for any hidden brackets.

"But, I want to go in now, what should I do?

No matter how you think about it, the puzzles here can't be the same as in the game.

If it's the same, I'd better just find a place to lie down and wait to die, without the Vision, I don't have the elemental power to activate the mechanism at all. ”

With the movement, his finger came to the character that was closest to Xu Yun under the door frame. This character is the size of Xu Yun's head, and one palm can only cover one-third of it.

As the fingers touched the body of the character that exuded amber brilliance, the wisps of amber power seemed to meet the sponge water, and they were actually sucked into the palm of his hand under Xu Yun's gaze.

The original bright character was not very sufficient, and the amber energy was absorbed by Xu Yun's fingers, and the brilliance quickly dimmed.

Erxu Yun's eyes widened, and he found that the red warning light, which occupied more than half of it, was slowly fading towards the edge.

After two minutes, the glint on the character was completely gone, and it seemed as if it had been hollowed out, except for an inscription groove dented in the metal frame.

He looked at his palm, which was still the same as before. But the red warning light covering the field of vision has faded to only a tenth of the left, and this is not true.

"There is no system explanation, there is no gameplay guidance, everything depends on the player's own exploration, am I entering the world of soul games?"

Xu Yun shuddered violently

"Don't! The soul world is too dangerous, and Miyazaki's old thief's heart to kill me is obvious. ”

"Fortunately, Lao Tzu wore Teyvat, the green mountains and green waters are beautiful, even if you don't do anything for a lifetime, it's good. The soul world is just too miserable. What has happened to the people who are alive there? ”

Looking up at the characters on the doorframe again, the phrase 'In the name of Faris the Holy Emperor of Light, refuse all permission to be exceeded' was broken.

The meaning of permission in it is gone.

"Ahhh It seems to be self-defeating, forget it, just suck it all and pull it down, even if you can't get the treasures inside, only absorb the power in these characters, Lao Tzu will also earn it. ”

"The power of one character can heal injuries, and if I absorb them all, will I level up? I don't know if this system has upgraded this gameplay. ”

After a little consideration, Xu Yun chose the side of the character that was being absorbed energy, grabbed the edge of the metal door frame with one hand, stepped on the character with one foot and only the empty groove, and lifted his body slightly, and then reached the character of the previous height.

If concocted in this way, the power in the character will naturally not resist without independent concepts, and it will be absorbed by Xu Yun, and all the red warning glimmers in Xu Yun's field of vision will disappear, and the pain on his body that has been stimulating his brain will also disappear.

He seems to be back to full health.

And the content shown by the six characters on the side of the Faris Holy Light Emperor is partially missing,

Go on.

He stepped into the character with his feet, grabbed the arc of the door frame with his hands, and raised his body again.

Ten minutes later, all six characters on the left half of the circular metal door turned into a dull empty slot. Xu Yun jumped lightly from the upper edge of the door frame several meters high, and when he reached mid-air, he grabbed the crossbar in the center of the circular metal door and hung it in the air.

Unexpectedly, the crossbar was not forced, and under the negative pressure of his weight, it slowly turned downward, but at the same time, Xu Yun also heard the sound of the inner gear of the metal door turning and the machine biting. In the end, the crossbar became a vertical bar, and it was difficult to grab one end of the metal rod, so he could only let go and fall back to the ground.

Originally, I was hanging on the crossbar to observe the metal door to find out if there was a mechanism, but I didn't expect that the crossbar on the bright side was a mechanism.

It was so simple that Xu Yun almost thought he was dreaming.

At the same time, as all the energy in the left half of the text was absorbed by Xu Yun, the repulsive power brought by the amber halo that appeared on the back of the wall and outside the metal door also disappeared.

Waiting for the sound of the gear turning inside the metal door to stop completely, the door that had been closed for an unknown number of years 'bang~', the right side automatically popped out from the door frame, opening a gap for Xu Yun to enter the inside of the door.

"Oye~ just thought about how to pull it away, and it bounced off on its own. This thing looks very heavy, and if you want to grab the metal handle and pull it away, you have to have the height and physique of the Frost Armor King. ”

Xu Yun cheered, and quickly moved his steps to the open gap, even if it was just a gap, with Xu Yun's current young body of Timmy, it was easy to get in.

was happy, Xu Yun suddenly felt that something was wrong, the roar of the Frost Armor King, who he had listened to as background music before, and the sound of pounding the ground didn't know when it stopped.

It can't just give up, after all, this layer of amber halo is still there, it was so intense before, and now it suddenly stops, there is definitely something wrong.

Xu Yun turned his head sharply, and saw that the Frost Armor King had already stood up, he no longer leaned over and pounded the ground, but stood up straight, and the huge pupils that bloomed with the brilliance of the frost element stared at his side. His feet were already outside the seal.

With the elemental brilliance that bloomed on the Frost Armor King's body, Xu Yun saw that the ground slab in the area where he had been imprisoned earlier had shattered, and one of the purple symbols had been split into two parts, and the brilliance had been extinguished.

"I'll rub!" A drop of cold sweat quickly ran down his forehead.

The Frost Armor King stretched out his short, stout legs (which only made up one-third of his body for his size). But even so, the legs of the Frost Armor King are taller than Xu Yun's whole person) The big foot stepped on the floor tile and made a heavy footstep sound, and it began to accelerate, this action Xu Yun has seen many times.

"I'm Gan, Frost Charge?!"

"The demon's methods really don't work, the protective character of this treasure house, I didn't disappear until I absorbed the entire half of the energy, and the power of rejection disappeared. Their sealing circle, with a broken symbol, is invalid. It's a! ”

Xu Yun no longer hesitated, his palm climbed the gap in the open metal door, pulled himself into the air with a hard pull, and his upper body leaned forward and fell inside, followed by him contracted his legs, and his body was like a little hedgehog in a ball, rolling into the inside of the iron door.

Rumble~!!

The metal garage door was slammed with tremendous force.

Boom!

The circular metal door with a gap open smashed back into its closed state under the impact, and the door frame was vibrated by the huge impact, which directly shook Xu Yun off the circular corridor.

The door closes and the bracket automatically locks again.

But Xu Yun knew that the metal door only needed to turn the handle on the outside, and it would open again.

Holding the elemental crystal, Xu Yun quickly looked at the inside of the library door, it was smooth, and he couldn't find the mechanism locked from the inside.

"Slip ~ granular baby, bless me not to fail!" Xu Yun turned around decisively and ran towards the circular corridor, and the footsteps of his feet were all metal echoes.

The circular corridor was less than five meters away, and Xu Yun entered the inside of the treasure house.

There was no smell of decaying dust that had accumulated inside the treasure house due to years of closure, and he even heard a hint of wind.

The treasure house was not completely dark, there were several places that emitted fluorescence, and even a little gold was seen in Xu Yun's field of vision.

Golden!

A golden text item from the system.

Is it a five-star legendary item?

"God bless, the seven gods are powerful, give the kid a five-star weapon!" Xu Yun excitedly and quickly ran to the position where the golden light was flashing.

A god-forged weapon, it is an undoubted artifact in the world of Teyvat!

Because of the dim light, he tripped over the debris lying on the ground twice, but he didn't care at all, the gold was right in front of him, what was this little injury?

The area of this warehouse was actually much smaller than he imagined, and he had only crawled forward about a dozen meters in the dark, and he had come to the place where the golden text appeared.

This is a corner of the treasure house, where a metal box that appears to have been discarded lies on the ground slanted, cushioned by something pressed underneath, the mouth of the box tilting downward, and the lid opening in half due to the fall.

The moment he saw the box, the excitement in Xu Yun's heart was directly cut in half. Such a small box contains weapons, even if it contains holy relics, I'm afraid it can only hold one.

"Holy relics are also fine, golden quality holy relics, in my current situation, they are also absolutely powerful treasures." Xu Yun regained his spirits and picked up the box with trembling hands.

Breaking open the deformed lid of the box, Xu Yun looked at the contents of the box. This thing is very familiar to him, and he can get it every day in daily quests.

Rough stone

The system only gives the name of two words, two golden words. Everything else is nothing.

With one hand, he pinched out a rough stone from the box, in the shape of a diamond-shaped star, the surface was smooth but not reflective, so inconspicuous that even the pebbles picked up by the river were more beautiful than it.

But after pinching the rough stone in his hand, a line of text suddenly popped up in the system.

Obtain Primogems to open up space in your backpack.

！

Hahahaha, Lao Tzu also has a backpack!

Xu Yun couldn't wait to find the backpack, but he searched around and couldn't find how to open the backpack.

Just when he was depressed that he was being cheated by the system again, and he didn't know how to use the backpack function at all, the text of the system slowly surfaced again.

Use Primogems to exchange for backpack space, and one Primogem for one space.

"I'm going to be big! You've got a delay of more than a thousand milliseconds, right? Xu Yun couldn't help but scold. Turn on a function and bring a big panting. ”

But the system ignored him, and responded with two words as coldly as a program that had been written a long time ago

Yes/No?

"Yes, it has to be!" Xu Yun dared to blow up with the system at this time, and obediently swallowed back the dirty words in the back.

When he said yes, a method of exchanging the original stone for the backpack lattice came to Xu Yun's mind on its own, and it was like a sudden thought alive, but it stayed for a little longer, a full five seconds.

After Xu Yun understood this method, he burst into tears.