"It should be around here."
After a while, in the sky covered with yellow sand, another group of sneaky players quietly approached this criss-crossed wasteland with their own light steps. Debris rolling down the slopes were also here.
The people's slight footsteps fell a little as they passed by, like elves floating in the steel jungle, and their whispered conversations collided and rolled in the air: "...Shh, be gentle, be careful not to be discovered by them."
"As long as we don't emit any breath or energy fluctuations, even that person shouldn't be able to find us easily, right? Are they all just following the wind?"
"Then please be careful. The reason why a legend becomes a legend must have many means and techniques that we don't know about. I have no confidence that I can match that person's ears and eyes... Come back! Don't go any further.
Okay, I'll use 'Perception Magic' to detect it a little more."
"But that guy actually dared to leave the team and go deep into the hinterland of the sacred mountain alone. I really didn't expect this. Why did they get here?"
A faint magical fluorescence appeared in the corner of the metal ruins as the conversation continued, and then gradually fell down as time went by. One of the players responsible for detection and vigilance also put away the cloak and
The face covered by the cloak pressed the hilt of the sword in his hand and retracted his voice: "How are they? Where are they?"
"Hey, we claim to be the best scout in the team, but we actually fail to succeed?"
"Come on, now we can't even confirm whether those two people are here. At least you have to determine the approximate location and range so that my 'Eagle Eye' can be effective - how about it?"
"The previous magic tracking did take effect, but it seemed to have lost its direction here. Based on our past experience, it should be that the resonance between the isolation element force field here and the metal ruins has increased, so the interference has been strengthened.
"
"Did they come to this place on purpose?"
Several players who had just wanted to pounce forward also hesitated, and the steps they wanted to take were swaying back and forth like the weapons in their hands: "They discovered our tracking, so
Did you purposely run within the 'flow line' of this LH area?"
"Impossible, the distance is a full eight hundred meters away, no matter how strong the guy is, he can't detect our tracking within this distance!"
"Then what if they had already guessed that we would track them and deliberately pretended to be ignorant and didn't find anything?"
"...The defeat of Lao Pao and the others is imminent. We cannot continue to be indecisive. Should we follow or not?"
The faces of several people looking at each other appeared and flickered in the sky filled with yellow sand. The prone figures finally disappeared into the shadows with a silent stare, and the low words that were incompatible with the wind finally followed.
A sound like a communication sound was dispersed under the faint winding of their respective forward movements: "...Hello?"
"..."
"I've heard about you from the alliance leader, and I also know that you are the 'special forces' who deal with them - where are you now? We are in the LH area - okay."
"After we find them, we will tell you the coordinates as soon as possible."
After pressing the message that sounded extremely hoarse in the yellow sand, one of the lurking players slowly poked his head out. He had already submerged into the depths of the jungle and then walked behind a wall of rusty metal.
In front of the high wall, he straightened his stooped back, and his scanning eyes were raised together with his head: "'Lone Wolf' calls to other members, 'Lone Wolf' calls to other members, have you found any trace of the target?"
"This is 'Fat Rat'. No trace of that person has been found."
"'Night Owl' didn't find it either - strange, are the traces you followed before correct?"
"What are you doing? Are you still doubting my 'Tailed Fox' ability? I just showed you my tracking record!"
"Don't let down your guard. The other party might be waiting to ambush us in some gap! If you want to quarrel, you can quarrel as much as you want after we get back... 'Ku Xiong', how are you doing over there?"
"..."
"'Withered Bear'?"
"..."
The silence in the communication spread rapidly at this moment, and the same spread was the uneasiness and vigilance of the members of the player team scattered in every corner. They all crouched down towards a certain formation.
They approached the specific position where they should exist, and then relaxed with their own exhalation sounds: "——Don't scare us, Ku Xiong, why don't you answer our words?"
"Look there."
In the center of these players who were surrounded by everyone, a short player with calm eyes broke the silence he had maintained for a long time: "What is that?"
"Yes - Feng Ye." Still constantly alert to the surrounding scene, the captain-like warrior player who had previously contacted other people subconsciously looked at the dagger raised by the little player: "
It’s not like you don’t know the internal structure of this sacred mountain ruins. As long as the structure of the furnace does not change, such cracks used to discharge wind pressure will exist in every corner... huh?"
"It's difficult, don't you think so?"
With the gaze of the player who looked like a thief, several people looked in the direction of the still whirring black crack. The flat metal channel continued to extend inward along the direction of the crack.
At this time, there was also a whimper like a ghost crying or a wolf howling from the depths, mixed with a little grinding of teeth from time to time: "... Huh, huh, this is definitely... the worst decision I have made in my life...
…”
"Don't worry, as long as you can continue to live, you will definitely face more painful decisions, such as facing my impulse to kill you immediately - there are still ten seconds."
"Oh, I almost forgot...the rock and soil barrier!"
"Shrink your body and reduce your wind-resistant surface! Another wave of wind is coming!"
The pitch-black scene slowly disappeared backwards as the two figures moved. The outlines of a man and a woman became identifiable due to the khaki energy light. The sharp wind that was enough to cut the rock was also at this time.
Crawling against the two players, they were constantly competing with the earth magic shield wrapped around them. He tried his best to support his body with the power of magic, and Duan Qing, who was blocking the front, used all his strength to resist.
With the attack of this wind, until the cutting power rubbed against the surface of the magic shield, making a tooth-gripping sound, and when the soil on the surface was almost worn away, the attack that was concentrated in the entire narrow passage
The metallic wind began to show signs of subsidence: "...Okay, the weight should be able to support it for another three minutes. I hope we can see the end."
"Cough cough, cough cough... won't spending time affect the duration?" Trying hard to protect his face from being scratched by dirt, Xueling Huanbing coughed hard at his throat: "I thought the earth magic just now
The shield is about to collapse."
"Even if the shield value is only 1 point now, as long as the magic structure continues, its effect can continue."
He started crawling hard again, and Duan Qing, who was relying on the light of magic, also coughed and replied: "Since we don't know how long this road is, we should save a little energy and magic power. It is not too wasteful.
What a good sign."
"I understand how you feel now, but please allow me to repeat it again." Xue Ling Huan Bing, who was blocked by Duan Qing's magical light, blew the air in front of her hard: "There is no worse idea than this.
Got the idea.”
"Why, are you still cherishing your fair skin and long hair that can reflect silver light?"
"You know that's not what I'm talking about! I haven't been a eldest lady for several years! But, but-"
"Well, crawling through ventilation ducts is indeed not something that normal people can do at will, not to mention that it is a rotten ventilation duct that has been around for thousands of years and is still being attacked by strong winds all the time - don't worry, Miss, I
I will continue to crawl in front and act as your human shield."
"I can only hope that this trip will end soon, otherwise——"
The warning with a cold snort and the silence that followed did not last long between the two people. There was a sudden light coming from the front of this flat metal passage, and they hurriedly accelerated their crawling speed.
The two of them then climbed over the bright boundary one after another, with a low exclamation and a muffled sound of falling to the ground echoing in the dark space that became empty and wide: "——Oh!
"
"Why, would you rather be my human shield than my flesh pad? This is already the best punishment."
"Yes, my queen, I'm really sorry for you, little one, for making you suffer so much."
"As I said, I'm not a person who can't bear hardships. These scratches and wounds from crawling won't have any impact on me."
Pointing to the scratches on the surface of the brown leather armor wrapped around her body and her fair arms, Xue Ling Huan Bing put her hands on her hips and looked at the back of Duan Qing, who was still under him, lying on his body begging for mercy: "Just now
For a few moments, I thought we were really going to hang back - how could you even think of crawling in through an exhaust vent like this?"
"After all, this is the only place in the area designated by King Puli VI that can be called the 'road forward'."
Struggling to get up from the ground, Duan Qing's embarrassed face was now covered with various gray marks: "What's more, don't you want to see the inside of this metal mountain with your own eyes?
"
"Of course I'm interested in this, otherwise I wouldn't have nodded and agreed to this 'suicide' action." He looked up at the huge metal mountain in front of him and the fan blades that kept passing in front of him, appearing in the refraction of light.
Xue Ling Huan Bing's eyes swayed as the intertwined scenes emerged: "But I didn't expect that such a complex secret is really hidden inside this mountain."
"It must be so, otherwise those robots wouldn't use words like 'melting furnace' to call this place." Duan Qing pointed to the depths of the light and shadow that were constantly rotating: "We also have countless information,
The so-called Holy Mountain is a collection of huge ancient devices that want to use the Spring of Elements, but we have never found an entrance to this collection before."
"Does Puli VI often come in and out of this place?" Looking back at the position where the two people just fell, Xueling Huanbing's eyes followed the circular sequence of vents lined up in a row on the iron wall.
Moving forward: "From these vents that obviously don't look like the right path?"
"Puli VI is indeed one of the former mechanical guards, but God knows how much work the mechanical guards on the sacred mountain have to be responsible for." Duan Qing, who was patting his body vigorously to relax himself, replied without looking back: "If
If it’s a maintenance robot, wouldn’t it be normal to shuttle through these pipes?”
“That Puli VI doesn’t look like a maintenance robot—forget it.”
Seemingly understanding that there was no point in dwelling on this issue, Xue Ling Huan Bing's movements of pressing her forehead were frozen in place: "Let's just think that this is the path presented in the information it left us. Here's another
Where is it? Where is that guy now?"
"Wait a minute, let me mark it on the map first." Duan Qing took out his adventurer's manual, lowered his head and kept making gestures on the map: "This is the location we were at before, and
This is where we are now...well, judging from the parallel displacement, this metal wall is dozens of meters thick."
"This is a large-scale device that can cover the entire sacred mountain. How can it be done without such a thick copper wall and iron wall?" Xue Ling Huanbing shook off her long white hair indifferently: "Not to mention the ever-present strong wind.
, I think it’s a bit thin even when it’s dozens of meters thick.”
"I think so too, so there must be many other devices here." Looking around quietly, Duan Qing's eyes swung back and forth between the gears and fan blades presented by the endless interplay of light and shadow: "Of course,
It’s hard to say whether a device that has existed for thousands of years can still start normally, and what it has to do with the three energy decompression processes we have experienced previously.”
"Let's go, the answer may lie ahead."
Seemingly having packed his body and luggage, Xue Ling Huan Bing shook his long hair and turned around. Duan Qing, who was following him, did not follow him immediately, but took out a straight stick from his arms.
The metal carving knife turned around: "Don't worry, let me leave the 'mark' first."
"My cheap mentor is still waiting for me to expand his territory."
As he said these words, the energy controlling the magic carving knife in his hand began to vibrate and dance in the air like a bee. A medium-sized complex rune was then formed in the corner of this metal area, and finally with the
The unknown energy dissipated and was buried in the dark ground.
This chapter has been completed!