"No. 11 on the fifth floor, um... it should be right, right?"
The spiral staircase does not seem to be too long, but Duan Qing feels that he has walked for a long time, as if the length of this stone staircase is not as short as what he sees. The surrounding tower-shaped space
, there is also a small gap between the brown wall and the staircase, but when Duan Qing tried to study the brick joints of those walls, he didn't even touch them - it was like something happened in his sight.
Illusionally, the wall retreated as Duan Qing stretched out his hand, and then stood again on the far side of the stairs where Duan Qing was.
"You can trust the principal's magic skills."
Wandering in the illusory magic space may be a little uneasy for ordinary people, but Duan Qing himself enjoys it. This is not only the confidence brought by his game experience, but also the certainty that the law is still here.
However, his desire to study this place seemed to be impossible to realize, because the last words left by the quartermaster before he entered were always reminding him.
You only have five minutes...is that right?
Recalling the content of these prompts in his mind, Duan Qing finally climbed to the top five floors, and then in this space that was not much different from the first floor, he found the place where his key should be used. He again
I confirmed the number on my key, and then looked at the door with the same number in front of me. In the end, I couldn't see anything fishy, so I just opened it.
Fortunately, he found the right place.
"My requirements are not high... give me some clothes that are almost usable!"
With a creaking and twisting sound, the wooden door slowly retreated, revealing the scene inside to Duan Qing's eyes. He had imagined what the room looked like, and even guessed that it was empty except for the things he should receive.
It looked like an object, but the scene behind the door was still beyond his expectation.
This seems... to be a place where a person once lived.
Wooden walls, warm fireplaces, green potted flowers and plants, simple tables, chairs and benches, everything shows the warmth of this place to people who come here, and the warmth that people who have lived in this place have enjoyed. But these are all
It wasn't the first thing Duan Qing noticed. It could even be... The reaction of everyone who came in would be like Duan Qing's, first focusing on the long and narrow square table across the room.
Bottles and jars containing various unknown liquids were placed on the left and right sides of the square table, and directly in front of the square table, a wooden photo frame was quietly placed there, perhaps due to the distance.
Duan Qing couldn't see clearly what was inside the photo frame.
In fact, he was not in the mood to think about this problem anymore.
"No..."
His brain was shaking involuntarily. Duan Qing held it in for a long time before slowly squeezing out a few words: "You really want to give me a lot of potions..."
As if countless mythical beasts were racing through his heart, Duan Qing grinded his teeth for a long time, and finally raised his right hand, wanting to throw the passed fifth-level key to the ground, but the next moment he realized that this was impossible to do.
The thing - the key that led him here disappeared from his hand at some point.
"Remember, you only have five minutes after you open the door."
Vitak's original words suddenly echoed in his mind, and Duan Qing finally understood the true meaning of these words. The quartermaster's smile appeared in front of his eyes. He beat his chest bitterly for a while, and finally gave up.
Ending the fight against fate, he walked to the front of the square table with his head lowered: "If you don't move, there will be nothing... Sigh, I should have known better and wouldn't have opened the door in a hurry."
"So angry..."
Taking out a cloth bag from his waist - this is one of the common items for adventurers in the free world - Duan Qing looked back and forth in front of the table for a few times, then reached for one of the golden potion bottles and grabbed it:
"I hope you can give me a surprise... Huh?"
The scene that happened in front of him really gave him a surprise - he grabbed an empty hole with his hand, and then passed directly through the bottle.
"this……"
With an inexplicable light in his eyes, Duan Qing moved his gaze away from the table and placed it in every corner of the room. The wooden walls, tables and chairs, the fireplace, the candlesticks on the table, the flowers and plants on the ground... everything was there.
They seemed so real, even the firewood burning in the fireplace was making crackling sounds. But when Duan Qing walked to them and stretched out his hand to touch them, the result he got was the same as that of the potion bottle.
of.
"Such a real illusion... hum." Then Duan Qing shook his head: "What a pity..."
"I am someone who has seen the Emerald Forest."
His eyes scanned the room again, looking for the key to all existence here. Finally, he walked back to the square table filled with potions and tried to pick up the white photo frame. The touch of nothingness once again proved that what he saw in front of him was
He shook his head at the illusion of an object, and then held his knees, trying to take a closer look at the appearance of the person in the photo frame.
His purpose failed again, because the piece of paper in the photo frame was blank, and it seemed that it was unrecognizable due to its age.
"Even if it fades, it should leave an outline, but you didn't even design a head. It's really insincere... Well, what is this?"
Duan Qing looked carefully at the front of the photo frame - a piece of paper that had been rolled into a tube was spread there, with some remains of vegetation mixed in. It seemed that there was originally a bouquet of flowers, but it had withered due to the passage of time.
Disappeared. Duan Qing stared at this picture, and finally settled on a wooden box between the photo frame and the white paper.
"Hey……"
I don't know how many times he reached out his hand, touched the wooden box, and then... successfully picked it up.
"You are the one."
He opened the box and saw a necklace lying inside.
【Elesis's Embrace (Epic)】
[Defense ability: none]
[Equipment requirements: Spirit 1o]
[Intelligence +1, Spirit +]
[Special effect: Poison Guard, greatly improves your resistance to poisonous damage. 】
[Special effect: Poison recovery, when you cause poisonous damage, you will recover a certain amount of health, and the amount of recovery depends on the amount of damage and the character's mental value. 】
【Seal:o/】
["I would like to dedicate this work to the person I love most. The radiance in your eyes and the warm embrace will always be the beacon that illuminates my path forward."]
【——Mara?h?Kerrien】
"Huh...hehe."
Duan Qing exhaled and then laughed: "Haha, haha, hahaha..."
"Poison resistance necklace..."
His laughter died down.
Resistance has always been an indispensable part of fantasy games, because magic occupies half of the world in this world, so in order to fight against this powerful force, resistance has become an inevitable method in this world. However,
Compared with common magic elements such as earth, fire, water, and wind, other damage resistance and defense methods are still relatively rare in the free world. The same is naturally true for toxin-related content, but since Duan Qing saw it in this game
After being hurt by toxins, he knew that resistance in this area would one day appear in the world, but he did not expect that he would get one first, and it would be of epic quality.
However... the secrets hidden in this necklace seem to be more, and they are more targeted, a bit too strong... a waste of its epic foundation.
"Do all purple clothes in the free world have this characteristic?" Duan Qing took out the silver-white necklace from the wooden box and murmured: "It is very useful in the hands of some people.
Some people have no use at all...or items like this that are specially used to suppress certain attribute damage...Huh?"
The picture of "soaking in the poisonous pool to recover blood" that was still imagining in his mind disappeared. Duan Qing read the instructions carefully, and then his face darkened again: "The harm I caused? It's not the harm I received? Asshole."
…”
"If it weren't for the bite of the black snake, this necklace would be like useless wood to me..."
Complaining these words, Duan Qing still reluctantly took this exquisite necklace into his arms, and then watched the picture in front of him gradually distort, and finally turned into the appearance of an ordinary empty room - seemingly lost
With the support of some kind of force, the illusion in the room disappeared. Apart from the masonry walls, all that was left before Duan Qing's eyes was the old square table where the previous wooden box was placed.
"It seems... the secret hidden in this necklace is quite deep." Duan Qing whispered: "But I like it."
"You didn't trick me this time. I just prayed to God and prayed to Buddha... Well, how should I get out?"
As if he had forgotten his previous vow not to believe in metaphysics, Duan Qing made a fair evaluation of this lottery, then walked out of the door and began to look for the way out, but the situation he encountered was the same as what he had experimented with before.
, even the wall looked like a shy girl, not even letting him touch it.
"Strange, could it be that the time has not come yet? Or did I understand it wrong again?"
After mentally estimating the length of five minutes, Duan Qing looked back and forth at the situation on this floor a few more times, and then walked towards the location of the stone staircase: "It's nothing, anyway, let's just visit for a while..."
The spiral staircase ended at his floor just like the one he came before. The stone staircase in front of him only spiraled downwards, with no upward path. However, Duan Qing did not rush downstairs, but stopped at the stairs.
He observed the position of his mouth: "Well..."
"Is this the top floor?"
Subconsciously reaching out his hand, Duan Qing touched the side of where he was. He thought that the scene in front of him would still fly back as before, but just when he raised his hand, the hand on his finger
A certain ring suddenly lit up with a bright white light. Duan Qing involuntarily reached out to cover his eyes. Duan Qing turned his head to the side. He waited until the bright light slowly faded before turning it back again - a dark half-open eye.
The iron gate appeared in front of Duan Qing's eyes, replacing the original positions of the stone walls.
"Oh my God..." He exclaimed: "Is it really possible?"
Looking at the ring on his finger, he carefully pushed the door open a little more, and then used the light in the tower to see clearly the scene behind the door: at the junction of light and shadow, another stone staircase quietly walked along
It extended upwards along the periphery of the stone wall, and then disappeared into the dark shadows.
"The fifth-level key is on the fifth floor..." With excitement in his eyes, Duan Qing said in an exciting voice: "Then..."
"What's on the sixth floor?"
He pushed open the iron door and walked in. The next moment, a bright light surrounded his body, seeming to transport him to another place. After waiting quietly for the light to disappear, Duan Qing opened his eyes.
, and then found himself appearing in a dark corridor. The sight in front of him attracted his footsteps and made him walk out slowly. But after his body completely appeared outside, those familiar figures and
Only then did the voice appear in front of him again.
"Ah! Brother Qingshan is out!"
"Brother Mo, how are you?"
"Have any epic-level equipment been released?"
"Yes, yes...hey, what's wrong with you, what's the matter?"
In the chaos of chattering, Duan Qing's eyes flickered for a long time, and finally he uttered a sentence with trembling lips: "Cheating..."
"This is really cheating!"
The extremely familiar shout appeared again at the door of the arms depot. Several players in the distance looked over there after hearing the sound, and then sighed silently.
"Look, another one is crazy."
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What happened after that was very simple, because after Duan Qing explained what he saw inside and what he got, he expressed his willingness to leave - this was something he had already thought about.
"Brother Mo, is there something urgent that needs to be dealt with somewhere else..."
"No, I may stay here for a while and check out other battlefield dungeons."
"Let's go together then! Why..."
"I am only suitable to be a wild man, not a member of a fixed team."
Under the night, Duan Qing, who had just had dinner together, took the trouble to explain: "During the previous battle, you should have noticed that my position in this team is still somewhat in conflict with you."
"Brother Mo, what are you talking about? Isn't his desire to be alone much more powerful than yours..."
"So he is also a savage."
Duan Qing said with a smile: "The savages...should have the same consciousness as him. When you get benefits, you have to share them, and when you have troubles, you have to make up for them. Besides..."
"I've heard from you before that there should be... a few teammates in your team, right? What will you do if they come back?"
Colorful Spiritual Light fell silent.
"The long-term pain is worse than the short-term pain. I'm not the guy who wants to hang out here in the future. Sooner or later I have to leave." Duan Qing looked at the other person and then at the other two people behind him: "So, I'd better be honest.
It would be more appropriate to be a savage."
"Sigh... But if you leave like this, some people will be sad."
Qicai Lingguang whispered these words, and then, together with Duan Qing, looked in a certain direction in the distance - when he proposed to leave the team before, the angry red girl gave up on him and couldn't stop eating.
After eating the food, he threw the bowl and chopsticks and ran out of the tavern. At this time, he was standing far away, as if he was not interested in their conversation at this time. It seemed that he sensed something, and Qian had not expressed anything before.
Zhihe also looked here at this time, then snorted coldly and turned his head away.
"poor child……"
"Don't be offended, Qian is just like this character." Qingtian on the side said: "But you... maybe I asked too many questions, so..."
"..."
This time, Duan Qing did not answer immediately. He looked up at the patio in the middle of the fortress and part of the beautiful starry sky revealed above, and answered after a long time.
"It's nothing." He laughed: "It has nothing to do with you." (To be continued.)
This chapter has been completed!