"...Is that really what happened?"
"Holy shit, you don't believe me, brother, ah - I'm hurt both physically and mentally..."
"It's not that I don't believe you. Don't you do this kind of thing very rarely?"
Next to the rock formation at the foot of Falling Star Mountain, a team of several players, like other teams, had just set off towards the mountain. One of them, a man in full armor who looked like their captain, was rushing towards several other people.
Asking questions.
"That's it... Mi Zitou and I are both honest people. How could we do something unkind so easily? Even if we don't think about ourselves, we still have to think about other brothers.
, for the sake of our guild..."
"Okay, okay, okay." The man walking in front waved his hand hurriedly, and then turned his Chinese-character face back: "Anyway, I will be the one to wipe the butt in the end...Who are they this time?
, are there any powerful people or something like that?”
"Well, the light in the cave was too dark and things happened too quickly, so Id didn't even see clearly." Another swordsman walking behind continued: "But their team seems to have only three people, two men and one woman.
The technology and equipment are very good, and the level should be very high..."
"I just don't know if they are still in that cave now." The swordsman who spoke before said with a ferocious look on his face: "The last time we stole... uh no, we were attacked by a sneak attack, so we were defeated. This time
This time our strongest team of Dawn Glory has finally gathered together, I don’t believe it..."
He pulled out his thin sword and made a sword flower in the air: "I can't find my way back!"
"Come on, you are the strongest in the team..." The first one to stand up and cause trouble was the tall man in armor: "There are many people in our guild who are stronger than you, and no one who comes here can do it."
Come back as dead as you guys, huh, four against three..."
"If you were to represent our guild, the president would probably be pissed to death."
"Hey Hey......"
Perhaps because of the good relationship between them, the remaining people in the team laughed for a while, and took the words just as a joke. The sword player put it away with some embarrassment.
With his own weapon, he continued to outline his revenge blueprint: "As soon as we find the hole, we will go in separately. Whoever finds it should not say a word. I will personally kill the big man in black armor..."
"Are you sure you can find them?" Mi Zitou on the side interjected again: "It has been so long, even if there is really something inside, they have probably finished searching it, right?"
"How is it possible? We have been there for several days. How could they have such good luck..."
"Don't compare your luck with others easily. If their character fails, we will all spit out our blood, and..." The man paused: "Don't forget the strength they have shown.
Wherever they appear, if they don't have any preparations and clues, I won't believe it."
"...What should we do? Should we guard the entrance?"
"Those people must have come to Falling Star Mountain for a purpose, right? Their level and equipment are so high, I think... they probably came to climb the mountain."
"Nonsense, aren't we all mountain climbers..." the resolute man walking in front said, and then suddenly stopped: "Ah?"
"You mean...they're going to climb Falling Star Mountain?"
"That's what I guessed too." Mi Zitou, who stopped next to him, spread out his hands: "Otherwise, what would these experts be doing here... Only fools and rookies would believe the news about the ruins?"
"Ha." The leading man waved his arm, then put his hands on his hips and asked: "Then how do we find them? Should we also climb up? You know..."
No one can climb Falling Star Mountain at this stage - this is the truth summarized by many players who have tried it, and the people present are not novices, so naturally they have heard this sentence, and some of them have even tried it
pass.
"I know, I know, please listen to me first." Mi Zitou smoothed his messy head, and then looked at the front of the mountain road: "If they want to climb the mountain, they must go through the fog, right?"
"Probably, no one has found a second way up the mountain so far..."
"And no one has gone further than that fog." Mi Zitou explained: "Even masters must at least start from that place, so... they may still be there now.
It’s stuck in that place, right?”
"Uh, that makes sense..." The armored man nodded: "You mean, we just go to that place to block them?"
"Yes, those few people are very strong. Even if they can't get through the fog, they can probably get back, right? Then we will wait there and catch them off guard..."
"Hahahaha!" Ye Lin on the other side suddenly laughed: "You still have the nerve to forgive me? Aren't you also a bad student..."
"This is called strategy, do you understand strategy?" Mi Zitou argued: "And if we want to meet them, this is the only way, or you still have to bet on the slightest possibility...
Are they still fainting in that cave and haven’t come out?”
"...Okay, okay, let's do it like this." Seeing that the other members, including Ye Lin, had no words to refute for the time being, the man who was the temporary rescuer and captain took the lead and said: "Let's climb
Go up there and wait for a while. If you don't encounter them, forget it. If you encounter them... we will encounter them."
He patted the shield on his back a few times, and said with some anticipation: "If you hadn't described them so wonderfully, I wouldn't have come here to wade through this muddy water..."
"Yes, yes, everyone knows that Brother Tie is a man of great benevolence and righteousness, and he would not hesitate to go to his brother's side..."
"Stop! Stop doing this and leave quickly. If everyone leaves soon and you can't find anyone, don't blame me. It's all your time that was wasted..."
"Maybe they died in the fog long ago... I don't believe that anyone can really get through that weird fog."
"Do you think everyone is the same as you?"
"Isn't this coming back to find a place? Okay, okay, I won't say anything until I beat them. Let's talk based on our strength then, okay? I have already thought about how to beat that person along the way, and I will try it out later.
....”
On the sparsely populated road up the mountain, five people came out noisily.
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According to convention, a place full of civilized atmosphere like this must have some mechanisms and traps as protection, but Duan Qing and others walked carefully, but still did not encounter any dangers worthy of vigilance - they did not even
As long as you keep this kind of vigilance, you will have reached the end of the road.
Then, they were completely attracted by the scenery of this place.
The wide hall and the smooth rock walls are not polished very regularly, but the large cave that appears at the end of the road gives those who see it a refreshing feeling. The light of the torches cannot even completely let them see the hall.
The end of the room can only be seen if they walk a few steps further, and the two rows of stone pillars extending here along the road they walked along are also completely spread out in this hall, arranged regularly in this hall.
end direction.
In that place, a huge square platform lies there quietly. The dark rock material and the non-fancy surface seem to tell those who see it that it is calm and heavy.
"This..." Nan Tieshan, who was holding a torch, was the first to say: "What is this...?"
"It seems to be a platform." Duan Qing walked forward, half-kneeling on the ground, and reached out to touch the dark surface of the platform: "Or is it an altar? A magic circle?"
He looked back at the other people, and unexpectedly received a bunch of "I don't know" expressions.
"Before we figure out the purpose of this thing, we'd better not act rashly." Xue Ling Huanbing looked around at the row of stone pillars surrounding the platform, and then quietly looked at Nuo, who had a dull look on his face.
The young man from the Ser tribe shook his head secretly: "So I suggest..."
She looked into the darkness in other directions of the cave: "Let's search separately to see if there are any other clues."
"Agreed." Nan Tieshan finally suppressed his excitement and took a deep breath: "We only have four...well, three of us. It would be faster to search separately. Do you need a torch?
I have two more here..."
Duan Qing silently took out a torch that he had pulled out before the fire at the entrance of the cave was about to burn out, and the woman in the black cloak... had already taken out her piece of light-emitting white stone, and
He walked aside without thinking.
"whispering sound......"
The poor big man had to choose a direction by himself: "Ah Sneeze!"
"What's wrong, brother?" Duan Qing, who had already walked out, turned around and asked.
"It's okay, maybe someone is scolding me behind my back..."
He rubbed his nose, and then walked in the direction he came from - the two people scattered to the left and right, so he had to choose the direction behind.
There were indeed things around the cave hall, but Duan Qing, after checking it out, found helplessly that these stone statues and sculptures seemed to be just decorations and had no actual purpose. Some sculptures seemed to be used for support.
It collapsed due to the erosion of the times, leaving an empty base and rubble on the ground. Duan Qing knelt down and picked up a stone, hoping to find something under the light of the torch, but after looking at it for a long time, he could not find anything.
Didn't see it.
"It looks like an ordinary stone..." He checked it over and over for a while, and finally threw it back to its original place helplessly: "Is this the same material as those stone pillars?"
"I'm sorry." A voice suddenly came from behind him. Duan Qing turned around and found that the young man from the Nosier tribe was standing behind him with his head bowed, looking ashamed as he didn't know what to do.
"What's wrong with our scholar? Don't be so discouraged." Duan Qing patted his arm in a funny way, then put away his smile: "It doesn't matter, we adventurers can't recognize anything, right?
?You are a young man who just debuted..."
"I, but I... I don't even know how to use these... stone pillars, and I don't know how to induce a 'miracle'..."
"Maybe you will feel that there is something sorry for you, but..." Duan Qing knelt down and looked up at the face of the young man whose chin was about to poke his chest: "We don't think there is anything here.
If there's anything wrong, that's enough."
"No one is born strong, and no one...is born omniscient."
He said earnestly and sincerely: "As a Nosier tribesman, maybe you are not very qualified, but you have already taken the first step on the path of an adventurer. This is worthy of recognition, and what adventurers like to do most is
, just take care of the newcomers.”
"We will help you."
The young man looked at Duan Qing in confusion: "I...can become an adventurer?"
"Yes, yes!" Duan Qing said with an expression of "You have finally awakened": "That's it! Don't think about the sacred land of the Nosier tribe, the sacred shadow, etc., explore the unknown like an adventurer, now
Secret, and then... harvest what you deserve!"
"As soon as I came here, I heard that you were deceiving others."
A female voice suddenly came from the other side. The two people turned around and saw that the woman surrounded by milky white light had already walked in front of them: "Stop bragging, come and take a look, we've found something."
"But I haven't finished checking the statues here yet." Duan Qing scratched his head and said, "What if there is something strange hidden here..."
"It's not just in case." The woman had already turned around: "It's just a pile of gravel. If you want it, I have a pile over there."
So Duan Qing had no choice but to follow behind obediently.
The three people walked to the previous black stone platform, then walked around that place under the instructions of the woman, and came to the wall behind the platform. Somewhere on the side of the wall, there was only a short head exposed.
The wooden sticks protruded from the rock wall, and I don't know what they were used for.
"There are some debris on the ground." Nan Tieshan, who had been waiting there for a long time, saw several people approaching and slowly stood up from a squatting position: "This thing should have been there before, and it has rotted away now.
.”
"What does this mean? There used to be a wooden frame fixed here?"
"I don't know, but there doesn't seem to be anything similar anywhere else..."
"I feel like it was a weapon belonging to a certain chief, and on a certain day of a certain year, he thrust a spear into this place because he revealed his bloodline..."
"Then this chief's martial arts is really strong. There aren't even cracks around this wall. Only bullets can produce such an effect..."
"Maybe it's just the remains of a decoration, or a flag, or a decoration. Hmm...could it be a broken arrow?"
"That might as well be...this is a hidden switch."
"Maybe." Duan Qing stepped forward and touched the wooden stick. After finding nothing unusual, he grabbed the front end of the wooden stick with one hand: "Then now..."
"How should I use this stick?"
He pulled hard.
With the sound of splintering wood chips, the wooden sticks turned into debris in his hands, slowly floating on the ground.
"Uh..." Duan Qing waved his hands awkwardly: "No, no, no, you don't blame me..."
"Hey, you broke it!"
"Don't blame me anymore. This stick must be extremely fragile..."
"But you tried hard."
"Oh, how did I know this would happen? You guys would have used your strength, right? Right, Art, please give me a few words."
"That, that... don't worry, I won't touch it casually."
"I didn't ask you to do this!"
"Ha ha ha ha......"
Several people argued for a long time, but Xueling Huanbing finally ended the dispute: "Why do I feel...where have I seen this..."
"What?"
"Look." She pointed to the hole left after the broken stick: "Does it look similar?"
"Oh——" Under the doubtful eyes of others, Duan Qing suddenly clapped his hands and shouted: "You were the one at that time..."
"When?" Nan Tieshan still looked puzzled.
"That's that time." Xue Ling Huan Bing took out her long sword. It seemed that she didn't want to waste any more words. Following her movements, the long sword accurately pierced the entrance of the hole.
among.
"I remembered!"
Amidst Nan Tieshan's shouts, Xue Ling Huan Bing twisted the hilt of the long sword again as before - after a buzzing roar, there was finally movement on the platform behind them.
A stream of light seemed to flash across the surface of the black platform, and then as it vibrated, the entire cave began to roar.
This chapter has been completed!