Chapter 287: The Abyss
"Ah! Ah! ”
Zhao Tianhe, who was killing well, was suddenly pulled by Artoria next to him.
"Huh? What's wrong? Looking at Artoria's rather solemn expression, Zhao Tianhe paused.
"Look at your system panel prompts!" Artoria prompted.
This thing is usually muted by Zhao Tianhe, and it's not just him, basically all brave people do this.
However, after Zhao Tianhe looked at it, he was also confused!
It turns out that when he killed those monsters just now, he gained experience points!
"What's going on?" Zhao Tianhe thought for a moment, and then smiled slightly. "Humph! Looks like it must be because of my extraordinary talent! That's why you can get experience points by killing monsters outside the world! ”
But it's not.
"What?!" In the command room, Bachet heard the reports of the front-line soldiers.
Among those warriors, there are also many former braves, and they have actually gained experience points after killing these monsters!
"What's going on?" Bajiet paused for a moment, and then realized one thing, and that was that his luck was too good!
"It's a treasure land! Although the principle is unknown, report it immediately! Bregette shouted as he urged the communications staff on the side.
Sure enough, after learning the news, the top immediately decided to send several True King-level people to the Land of Gluttony and this unknown area, and the Sky Hall took the lead, and the three major research institutions formed a research team to rush over!
And Zhao Tianhe, who learned the truth, shook his head helplessly, but then he was excited!
Because this way it will be more enjoyable to farm monsters!
On this side, Zhao Tianhe was killing well on the battlefield within the enchantment, and on the other side, in addition to the research team, there was also a professional exploration team that was transferred over.
After all, the army's reconnaissance methods are still relatively limited, and the main detection direction is still the surface and air, and the efficiency of underground exploration is too low.
What's more, the army has really found something terrible from the ground!
In the research room among the War Trees, several military mages are showing the research team a very large exploration image.
"This is three hundred meters underground." A young man dressed in a lightweight, short-sleeved robe explained, pointing to the huge image that took up almost the entire roof of the room.
The image looks so flat and sharp that if you don't look closely, you won't even be able to tell if it's an image.
But the problem is that the area of this huge flat stone slab is likely to reach more than 200,000 square kilometers.
"We've tried to use spells to locate shockwaves, but unfortunately this thing has a certain magic blocking effect, or magic interference." The young man explained. "The specific area we can determine is only about 20,000 square meters, but from the traces of the shallower soil layer diffusion, at least 200,000 square kilometers, and we can't detect the specific boundary."
"Is that so? Maybe it's more convenient to use the terrain eye? Even if there is magic interference, it can be reversed by observing the law......" The explorers on the side heard this, and they had already begun to ponder and prepare specific measures.
However, an old man at the head frowned and said, "What is this?" ”
It's a crucial question, but no one can answer.
"It should be the creation of some kind of monster society, and it is also a very powerful monster society." The young man said with a serious expression. "That's why we don't dare to act rashly, after all, once a god-level world-destroying monster king emerges inside, then I'm afraid we won't even be able to escape......"
"This thing was made by a monster?" The old man touched the beard on his chin, took a deep breath, shook his head, signaled that he was going to contact someone, and then turned away.
"Who is that?" The young man from the army asked cautiously looking at the others.
"That's the archaeology teacher in the history department of St. Veil College, and I'm here mainly to record things." The man who was asked said with a nonchalant smile.
"Oh, that's it? I thought it was some kind of big guy......" The young man smiled and shook his head.
"Haha, a big man is indeed a big man, after all, are people also professors! It's just that in these years, it's okay to write history, archaeology, what is the ancient test? Do you want to go to the inner world to investigate ancient monsters? Like that gluttonous ......," the man teased with a laugh. "There is a lot of money every year, I think it is an idle job that cheats to eat and drink, and there must be someone behind it!"
"Yes." The young man of the army smiled contemptuously when he heard this.
On the other side, the old man, who everyone thought was eating dry rice, hid in the toilet and nodded to the communication crystal: "...... Is that so? Want to give it a try? But I would suggest it's better not to try, after all...... Whatever the outcome, it will overturn a lot of existing beliefs, and that one may well be from here, and we ...... Well, I'm going to keep it a secret, but the boys who go with you will have to find a way not to make them talk. ”
"Okay, I'll do my best."
After speaking, the old man hung up the communication, sighed and walked out of the toilet.
An hour later, at the base of the Ancient War Tree, the exploration team and several True King-level powerhouses, including Heinstein, stood at the edge of a hole made of the roots of a large number of trees.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this time we are likely to face an unimaginably powerful monster social civilization, and it is also a very unique civilization!" A sturdy middle-aged woman said to the crowd. "This exploration requires us to cooperate with the formation on the surface, and at the critical moment, we may need to go through that stone wall with the powerhouses of the True King level, or enter the deepest part of the Stone Continent, you must understand the danger! Because none of the spells we have can tell what's in there! If you want to quit, say it now! ”
As a result, no one withdrew, and everyone was excited to know that Heinstein and his true kings were by their side.
After all, these people are legends who are active on the front line, and the possibility of their group of logistical explorers meeting them is really low.
But only the old man from the archaeology department did not have any emotional fluctuations about this, and his gaze at Heinstein and the others was also a little subtle.
It's like looking at an ordinary passerby...... There is no curiosity whatsoever.
The rest of the people in the group thought that this old man who studied the art of dragon slaying was pretending to be coercive, but Heinstein and the others didn't think so.
Is this the guy you said you were going to take special care of? It didn't seem to be anything special...... Heinstein looked at the old man and ate a small metal ball very casually.
"You're Mr. Heinstein, aren't you? It is said that the space mage closest to the top ten Amir! A teenager looked at Heinstein wistfully.
"Well, it's pretty much it, but the spatial laws of this world are very troublesome, and our play here is very limited." Heinstein explained very casually. "And it's a shame that a lot of our world's technology can't be applied here."
Although over the years, countless good and powerful heroic spirits from all dimensions have been summoned to the Holy Council, including many of the great scholars and archmages of that world, but in the final analysis, because of the different laws of the dimensions, almost all knowledge cannot be used.
Those scholars can only use their own talent system to become a warrior, after all, most of them are not much better than the natives of this world if they want to return to their old profession and engage in research.
"Hey! Little Branch! Come over here and don't bother anyone! A middle-aged man frowned and shouted when he saw the teenager chatting with Heinstein. There are also circles to be set up along the way, don't be lazy! ”
"I know, I know......" The young man called Xiaoke walked over listlessly with his arms down, took the tools in the hands of the middle-aged man, and began to arrange the magic circle along the way.
Heinstein watched their work, and in a few glances he almost understood it, and he wanted to grab it and practice it himself, but he couldn't.
After all, if these true king-level actors are too omnipotent, where will they put their face as experts?
So along the way, everyone walked and stopped and arranged the relevant detection and safety insurance circle for retreat along the way, although theoretically Heinstein and others can actually be omitted in the latter, but this is not an ordinary place, and it is better to do all the insurance that can be done.
The surrounding passages are reinforced and supported by the roots of the ancient war tree, leading all the way to a large crack at the bottom.
"I don't know if this can lead to the bottom......" The group stood beside the huge abyss of the canyon not so much a crack as it was, looking down at the bottomless abyss.
"I guess it's impossible...... Anyway, I'll test ......," a middle-aged man took out a piece of equipment from his backpack and was about to try it out, when Heinstein walked over.
"Let me try it, if you just test the depth, you can just hit it." As he spoke, a distorted orb of space appeared in front of him, and he threw it down.
This distorted space ball is a kind of compound magic, once it hits the target, it will cause a variety of compound damage such as space tearing and collapse, in short, it is to instantly shatter people or objects many times.
The middle-aged man did not stop it, after all, as Heinstein said, there is no need to complicate such simple work.
As long as Heinstein hits a spell, he will know the sound.
However, Heinstein suddenly became stunned, because he felt his space ball disappear!
'How is that possible...... It's perfect to disappear! My spell has been cracked! Heinstein looked uneasily into the abyss, and began to hesitate whether to continue the temptation or turn back, for it was obvious that something was wrong underneath!
And it was something that was enough to make him feel incomprehensible!
'There is no sense of crisis, which means that there is no killing intent in the existence below, is it some kind of defense mechanism? Heinstein thought about it and decided to leave the hell.
However, an inexplicable voice suddenly appeared in Heinstein's head.
"The 1791st Open Door Trial, passed."
"The screening process is starting...... Congratulations, you have been chosen by the Great Mother Goddess! You can participate in the next Glory Trial! Your Trial Number is 11791-1! O glorious No. 1 Trialist! Great grace awaits you, through all hardships and obstacles, to become the final victor! ”
"Based on the No. 1 trialist, the missing target is being searched...... A total of 22 trialists will participate in this trial, and I wish you all a great start! ”
“?!” Heinstein's first reaction when he heard this bunch of inexplicable words was not to calmly analyze what these words meant, but what this sentence represented in his mind!
You must know that the brain is the core and foundation of all living things, and it is the container that carries all the cause and effect of a living being.
He constructs you as a person by accepting the world that all bodies feel, so the most profound of the illusions is the spiritual illusions, which can deceive you fundamentally, that is, from the level of the brain and the soul, so that you see what he wants you to see, and hear what he wants you to hear......
And the bunch of words that just appeared in Heinstein's mind actually meant that he had been tricked!
If he can make you hear, and you don't understand what it's all about, then everything you hear and see, even the emotions of pain, sadness, frustration, sadness, and sorrow, will become unbelievable, and of course, reason!
Reason is also one of the ways the brain works, and it can also be distorted by mental illusions.
'Psychic Illusions...... When did I get in?! Heinstein turned to glance at it, only to find something that frightened him even more.
Several other true king-level performances are the same as him!
"You've been tricked too?!" A strong man covered in tattoos looked at Heinstein and asked in surprise.
"Wouldn't it?! I thought you weren't the only one who wouldn't get hit! Obviously, your physique is completely different from ours! Another insect-like creature said, holding his head. What's going on?! When did we get hit?! ”
"What's wrong? Is there anything out of the ordinary? Do you want to start the backhaul node now? The employees in the exploration team looked at the invincible powerhouses beside them and asked with some doubts.
The three of Heinstein looked at these ordinary employees and were a little surprised, because if all this is not an illusion now, it means that these ordinary people have not been recruited!
Or did they not realize that they had been tricked? Something is wrong...... This illusion is too real...... And, it continued...... ' Heinstein covered his head and listened to the completely unnatural unfamiliar voice in his head, and his body trembled slightly.
He was sure that this kind of unfamiliar voice that he had never heard before could never be an illusion caused by a low-level spiritual illusion, but the kind that was forcibly implanted by a high-level deep-seated illusion!
Things are completely out of his control!
"Please calm down and get ready, the trial is about to begin."
“9…… 8…… 7……”
"What are you numbers?" Suddenly, an old voice rang out.
Heinstein looked at it, but it was the old man who was asked to take special care from the upper echelons to speak.
"You've been tricked too? So...... Are you the same as us? Heinstein asked. Also, I'm Number One, probably because my attack first touched the unknown object, or will. ”
"Well, I'm number four, and it's just the four of us here, in order?" The old man nodded and said. "The professor of archaeology at the classical college of St. Ville, Batistan, is still a little inferior to you in terms of strength, but it's more or less, well, the kind of fifth echelon, hehe."
The so-called fifth echelon refers to a half-step true king level like Kusta, which has strength comparable to that of a true king, but has such and such flaws, so it is not a real true king.
"What are you talking about?" The young man on the side listened to the conversation of several people and asked with some doubts.
"Then we might disappear." Batistan glanced at the boy and casually materialized a book and threw it to him. "This is the details and analysis I just recorded, hand it in."
"Oh......" Xiao Ke nodded, glanced at the middle-aged woman next to him, and handed her the book.
"Professor Batistan, what ...... are you?" the middle-aged woman asked with some confusion, but before she could finish speaking, a total of four true king-level powerhouses such as Battistan and Heinstein disappeared......
"What the hell is going on?!" The team member next to him asked with a confused expression. "How are we going to explain it?! The true king-level powerhouse is gone! ”
"Don't ask me! In a word...... Hand this in......" The leader woman covered her face and raised the book in her hand helplessly.
The ground is a fog and mysteries, and the surface is not very good......
More than ten seconds ago, a voice suddenly appeared in Zhao Tianhe's mind.
Zhao Tianhe, who was not as experienced as Heinstein, did not realize what this meant, but he was also extremely uneasy.
This is normal, even if you are a fool, it is very natural to feel uneasy when someone else's voice suddenly pops up in your head.
“11791-8? What does that mean?! And why do I feel a little familiar with this voice......" Zhao Tianhe frowned and carefully recalled where this voice came from, but he always felt that his memory was a little vague......
"What's wrong? Ah? Artoria asked with some confusion, but Zhao Tianhe only shook his head, because he didn't know whether this matter was good or bad.
"Ahh I remember! Zhao Tianhe suddenly shook his spirit, and then shouted in horror. Isn't this Nima the prompt sound of the brave system?! ”
Yes, this prompt is actually the prompt tone of the Brave system.
It's just that according to the habits of each college and education, most of the Heroic Spirits will accept the advice to turn off this inexplicable prompt sound at the beginning, and if there is a problem, just look at the attribute panel afterwards.
But Zhao Tianhe's academy over there happened to not have this habit, so Zhao Tianhe didn't start turning off the prompt sound until some time ago.
Needless to say, Heinstein must have been shut down from the beginning, so they couldn't hear the origin of this voice at all.