"Hey, I didn't expect that I would end up in this situation."
Walking among the ruins and broken walls, Duan Qing lamented in distress.
After discovering this ruins before, based on the instinct of the game, several people decided to comprehensively search this place - this kind of place almost has "there are treasures here" written on their faces. It would be a shame not to conduct a blanket search.
Several people have years of gaming experience.
After a brief discussion, they formed a unified opinion, then simply divided into groups and decided to explore the area separately. But before that, what they needed to do first was to obtain the consent of the pair of great magician sisters.
If they don't agree, everything is in vain.
The two women with very different appearances but equally beautiful glanced at each other, and then agreed to allow these adventurers to explore. They also believed that division of labor and cooperation were the best way to explore at the moment. However, they requested that everyone start again later.
Gather together and exchange various information with each other.
"We will continue to move forward and check the situation ahead. In the evening, let's meet at the square near the ruins."
Christine left these words and left with her sister.
The subsequent grouping was also very fast. It was impossible for Broken Mountain Yue and Xueling Huanbing to be grouped together. Although they were already teammates, they belonged to opposing guilds and did not like each other. Fortunately, the two
Everyone is a high-level player, and each brings a newcomer to ensure basic safety, so Duan Shanyue chose Liu Qingniu - they had some like-minded interests before, while Xueling Huanbing chose Sister Mengzhu, although the previous two
There was some estrangement between the women, but after repairing some relationships, they were finally able to get along well. The most important thing is that both of them are female gamers.
What Duan Qing doesn't understand the most is why female gamers are born to get together. No matter in the past or now, Duan Qing has seen countless groups of female gamers like this. It seems that only when they are together can they have something in common.
The language is the same...
No matter what, the final result is: the third group member, one person - Mo Shang Qingshan.
Of course Duan Qing himself had protested, but the effect was very little. As a strong player among the players, Duan Shanyue felt inexplicably very relieved about this, and Xue Ling Huan Bing also said it with sincerity. If you encounter danger, remember to hold on for one more person.
Yes, and remember to shout for help - the remaining people will come to save you.
I am just a rookie player of ten levels! And I am only one person! One person! It doesn’t matter how many things I can do in such a search mission. If I really encounter something strange, I will probably die here...
...This is close to the center of the ruins!
Duan Qing angrily opened the door of a certain house with force. With the sound of wood breaking, the door fell to the ground with a very cooperative snap.
Looking helplessly at the wooden door that said "end of life", Duan Qing looked into the room.
It's inside the house. In fact, it is no different from the outside. Due to the erosion of time, the roof of this house has collapsed. With the help of the light from outside, the situation inside is also clearly visible. Duan Qing observed the layout of the room a little.
Just walk towards the corner of the house - there are still some remains of wooden furniture left by humans.
After rummaging through the boxes and cabinets for a while, I found almost nothing except the rubble left by the rocks in the house. Duan Qing stood up helplessly and looked around - this should be a bedroom, in the middle
There should have been a bed, but now there are only traces of it surrounded by wooden debris. The only remaining bedside table next to it is still standing, but it is also in a shaky state. Duan Qing has also turned over some similar ones before.
Some of these wooden cabinets contain scraps of clothing, while others contain scraps of paper and sheepskin. It seems that these ruins have existed for a long time, and even the sheepskins have not survived the long river of time.
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Of course, not everything was damaged. Duan Qing also found some iron tools, but they were tools like scissors and sewing needles, which were not of great use. Duan Qing was picking up those tools.
When doing things, you can also see some simple explanations of the system.
【Rusty scissors】
[It is an ancient item from an unknown era, it is rusty and can no longer be used]
Most of the other things were described in this way. After this period of game experience, Duan Qing also understood that this system was actually implying the status of the item - it did not even mention the quality of the item.
Those are items with almost no effect. If you use them as weapons, they will probably break due to extreme decay.
After climbing through a large hole that appeared due to the collapse of the wall again, Duan Qing came directly to another room. In addition to the rubble still everywhere, there were also some collapsed wooden shelves and wooden boxes.
Hey, treasure chest... Duan Qing sneered and said he wouldn't be fooled again.
The first time he saw a box like this, Duan Qing was excited. However, it turns out that in a game like Free World, it is impossible to put a treasure box somewhere that is obviously unrealistic. Duan Qing's
My hand touched the box in front of me a little, and it shattered to pieces on the ground like a pile of weathered sand.
In addition to a pile of rubbish that was too broken to be recognized, there was only a piece of rag that seemed to be part of clothing, and some useful information was left on it.
"Far...fa..." Duan Qing looked at the words written on the remains that looked like some kind of animal fur for a long time, and finally gave up on him.
Things that are too difficult: "It's all about law... Ah, never mind, let's do whatever it takes to love..."
Through the layout in front of him, Duan Qing can roughly guess that this place is a storage room, but after such a long time, no matter how good the storage room is, it can no longer store any items. Duan Qing shook his head and walked to the scattered room.
Next to the wooden shelf, I picked up the head of a spear... from the ground.
It seems that the barrels of these long guns were also made of wood in the past.
Duan Qing could not tell the material of the gun head, but he could guess that it was probably made of some kind of metal. The gun head was divided into four edges, but due to the corrosion of rain, three of the edges had been corroded together.
.This gun head has also lost its original function. If you want to use it as an attack method, you can probably only use it as a throwable object...
"What a rip-off!" Duan Qing threw it to the ground.
He raised his head, looked at the clear sky that was not blocked by the tree canopy due to the former village occupation, and silently questioned the sky.
After coming to the Emerald Forest for so long, they finally had a place where they could loot. Unexpectedly, in the end, they did not lose to the forerunners who first started playing the game, but they lost to time.
It seems that this ruin has been defeated by time, and nothing useful is left.
Duan Qing walked out of the ruins, kicked a fragment of the wheel away, and came to the road next to the river. The piece of wood fell into the river not far away with a thud. On the opposite side of the river bank, a rolling sound was heard at the same time. It was not loud at first.
The sound echoed in this quiet area, which seemed particularly noticeable. Duan Qing understood that it was probably the noise made by the other two groups of people who were trying their best to find it.
For some reason, Duan Qing suddenly felt depressed in his heart: probably nothing of value could be found here.
No wonder the two great magicians left so simply...
Duan Qing sighed, found a stone next to the river and sat down, looking at the river in the middle of the ruins. In front of the roadside where he was was the bend of the river, and the road also turned with the river and continued towards the river.
The unknown front stretches away. It seems that this bend by the river was once built along the river. Not far ahead, there are some stones filled in at the edge of the river, and some wood chips are floating on the edge of the river.
At the end of the stone extension, it seems that it may have been a pier built along the river. Now it has lost its function, and there are no traces of ships around it.
Duan Qing thought for a while, stood up, patted the soil, and walked over there.
When they found this river before, there was an idea in their mind that told him what purpose this river should have. Later, they found this ruined village based on this, and the purpose of this river was explained - if
Let him choose a place as a human settlement, then a place with a water source should be the best choice.
However, seeing the wood chips floating on the road between the river, this river may have had more functions in the past. For example, if the road made of stones in front was originally a dock, then it should be a good place to transport goods.
In the past, people here might have loaded the goods there and then transported them to the front. According to Duan Qing's observation, this section of the river should eventually flow to the foot of the tower. So as a village, what can be done here?
Just more...
As he got closer, Duan Qing discovered that those stones were not ordinary stones, but some stone pillars - the river here seemed to have become deeper, and the stone pillars had been submerged in the water, leaving only one exposed, but they were still barely able to form a
Duan Qing followed the stone pillars to the end of a road, and then looked around.
He saw some pieces of wood, a square sign supported by an iron pillar as tall as a person, and... a clear river flowing slowly.
The words on the sign were difficult to read - such an iron sign, no matter how corrosion-resistant it is, wouldn't be effective if placed in a place with such heavy moisture. Duan Qing tried to find a clue related to this place from it.
, but it is indeed just a rust-red sign, and no flowers can be seen no matter how hard you look at it.
Duan Qing looked around and saw that in addition to broken sticks, wood chips or broken boards on the ground, there were also a lot of stone chips and water plants, rusty iron nails and wires - there must have been some kind of building here before.
But now it was destroyed. He looked into the river again. The water was crystal clear, but he saw nothing. He hoped so, because in this weird forest, any living thing was dangerous.
Maybe you can find something to wipe this sign and you can see something? Thinking of this, Duan Qing looked back and saw that there was still a well-maintained stone house, located side by side in the middle of the ruins composed of a row of collapsed houses.
Duan Qing stopped and looked at the rather large house for a while, then walked there.
There was a loud crash of collapse in the distance, followed by A Niu's exclamation and the continuous roars of Broken Mountain: "Be careful! Do you want to kill us..."
The anxious Aniu probably collapsed somewhere. It seems that they couldn't find anything valuable...or maybe they encountered some monster? No, it doesn't seem right...Since entering
They have not encountered wild monsters since entering this basin. Perhaps they migrated en masse? Or is there some protection in this place to isolate the invasion of monsters? Or is there some kind of demon boss that scares away the others?
All monsters?
Without any clues, Duan Qing could only make wild guesses. Although even he himself didn't know what clues he would need to find to be useful, apart from finding out what information could be used to support logic, there was no other way.
There is no other way.
By the way, if it is a system...
Duan Qing opened the system menu, skillfully found his adventure notes, and saw the following content on the map: "Emerald Forest - the ruins area around the Emerald Tower."
Although there are four more words, it still doesn't tell me where this is. Even Phil's tree house has Phil's name... Duan Qing shook his head and pushed away
Rotten wooden door.
This place was indeed much larger than the ruins he had been to before - this was the feeling Duan Qing felt in his heart the moment he walked into the house opposite. Then, he was attracted by the counter in front of him.
There are bank counters there like in the real world...
Although there is a lot of decay, the place in front of him still preserves the original structure. Although it lacks the glass and door panels for blocking, Duan Qing can still tell from the remaining remains that the place should have been divided into
There are several window counters, probably used for working and handling affairs respectively.
Finally I found a more important place...
Kicking open the half-barred door hanging in the air, Duan Qing walked around the counter. The place was still in a state of decay, and it was difficult to find anything useful. Duan Qing searched carefully for a while, and finally fell from behind.
An iron plaque was found among the rubble of the wall.
That should be a sign or badge.
The badge is round, as big as a palm, with a circle of lace carved around it. Duan Qing can see from these patterns that this logo should have been designed very beautifully. But the pattern in the middle is very simple - there are several pieces.
The large blank space seems to be a lot of stones piled together, or the white wood is placed randomly.
Because of its age, the iron plate is very rusty, but Duan Qing can still distinguish the original composition of this pattern from the yellow-brown background color. Because of this, Duan Qing cannot even recognize this simple pattern.
, what meaning does it represent?
Is this carved on stone? Or wood? Because they live among huge trees, do they use such a simple and majestic pattern as a logo?
Based on the current clues, these inferences are just random guesses. Duan Qing shook his head, put away the iron plate, and prepared to show it to Christine later. Maybe with the knowledge of the great magician, he could
Find out what the pattern of this badge represents.
There was another muffled sound, and the sound of collapse came from the other side of the river. Duan Qing thought that another group of people had accidentally collapsed a house. However, the next moment, the scream belonging to Mengzhu rang out.
stand up.
Duan Qing rushed out and immediately saw what was happening over there.
Across the river bank, on the opposite side is the direction where Mengzhu and Xueling Huanbing went. At this time, the girl is standing on the river bank, with her back to herself, looking at a certain house behind, the end of her ponytail trembling slightly, showing
I was feeling restless. Just when Duan Qing was about to ask loudly what the accident was, a figure suddenly flashed out of the house in front of the girl.
To be precise, that figure rolled out.
Although the distance was far away, Duan Qing could not clearly see the person's appearance, but from the black cloak, he could be sure that the person was Xue Ling Huan Bing. She got up from the ground in embarrassment, and held the long sword again.
It was lying across her chest, as if to warn something, but her head kept shaking slightly from side to side, as if she was not sure of the direction in which the enemy would appear.
His hand was so pricked? Duan Qing stopped shouting to avoid distracting his teammates, and instead tried to find a way to get over first. With the strength of Xue Ling Huan Bing, there should be no problem if he can hold on for a while and a half. On the other side
When A Niu and the two heard the commotion here, they should have arrived in time...
But in this way, the previous conjecture was overturned so quickly. There are actually monsters here...
The sound of arrows stabbing was heard, Duan Qing turned his head suddenly, and the situation over there finally changed.
The black cloak rolled up on the ground again. Where she originally stood, several slender things were stuck there, as if someone was using a crossbow to attack.
"It's a vine!" Before Duan Qing could understand the meaning of the scene just now, a shout belonging to Broken Mountain rang out from the other side of the river.
As soon as he finished speaking, a certain house in front of Mengzhu and Xueling Huanbing suddenly collapsed. Under the sunlight, a sudden green color emerged from the chaotic rubble in such a disharmonious manner.
That's a section of the vine.
This chapter has been completed!