Chapter 623: 'What's wrong?' (please vote for this chapter)
"They..."
Hearing this question, Shu Gui's face turned slightly ugly, "They ran away."
At the same time, Zhang Yusi dug out her medical bag.
"Thank you. I can just do it myself. My medical kit is not used up yet."
Shu Gui waved his hand, took out his opened medical bag, leaned against the bunker where he had just hidden, and while treating his wounds, he told He Ao and Zhang Yusi a complete account of what had just happened.
The whole incident was not complicated. Shu Gui, Ivel, and another person from World Tree appeared in this area from the beginning.
To be precise, they appeared in the third space area from the hall just now.
That space area is very small, but it is an area with relatively few monsters, just like the area that He Ao and the others first arrived at and is now transformed into a safe house by He Ao.
Shu Gui and the others only encountered some flesh spiders at first, and they quickly eliminated those flesh spiders.
Under this situation, Ivel took the initiative to come to Shu Gui and expressed his hope to form an alliance with him. Multiple people would have more power, and the three of them could help each other.
Although Shu Gui was on guard, he couldn't figure out what was going on at the time, and since there were two people on the other side, the situation was stronger than the others, so he reluctantly agreed to form a team.
At that time, Ivel promised him that if he obtained extraordinary items, the three of them would share the items according to their contribution, and expressed his willingness to give some of his own portion to Shu Gui.
Shu Gui did not accept this gift, but with Yvel's expression of goodwill, he still increased his trust in Yvel.
After completing the team formation, the three began to decide which direction to explore.
At that time, there were two directions for them to explore next to the space they were in.
To the left is a half-closed gate, with a dim light shining inside.
To the right is an open, unobstructed, dimly lit passage.
From He Ao's understanding, the left direction should lead to the fourth space away from the hall, and the right direction should lead to the second space away from the hall, which is also a direction closer to where He Ao was at that time.
Finally, Yvel decided to explore to the right.
There are no obstacles on the right, and the road is smoother.
In a sense, their choice was actually correct, because He Ao was also walking in their direction at that time. If everything went well, they would eventually be able to meet up with He Ao.
It's a pity that things don't go so smoothly in this spaceship space.
"At the time, we didn't expect what we were going to encounter. We thought it would be the same as the previously recorded ruin explorations, and that there would be a relatively safe space in the early stage."
Shu Gui smiled bitterly, and glanced at the scattered corpses behind He Ao, "We were walking towards this passage, and before we even entered the passage, we met these monsters. In fact, it wasn't just these little monsters, there was also a huge creature on his back.
Tentacled humanoid monster.”
This monster is the monster guarding the hall. In the monster's memory chip, He Ao has seen the record of its previous arrival in the area where Shu Gui and they were at that time.
"And after that?"
Zhang Yusi took out the wound medicine from the medical bag, handed it to Shu Gui, and asked casually.
"What happens after that is very simple," Shu Gui sighed, "Evel told me that his ability requires some time to prepare, and asked me to try my best to withstand the monster's attack."
"Actually, he ran away with another D-level World Tree?"
Zhang Yusi reacted quickly and asked quickly.
"Yes,"
Shu Gui nodded, raised his head and looked into the depths of the gray space.
"These two bastards were very fast. I was walking in front. As soon as I raised my gun, Yvel led his World Tree men and rushed into the half-open gate on the left.
"
"They closed the floodgates?"
After listening to this narrative, Zhang Yusi asked in a low voice.
The position where Shu Gui is now has actually crossed the entire second space and is closer to the hall.
If the gate is still open, even if Shu Gui is injured, he will go to the closer gate instead of walking through the second area where monsters overlap and approach the direction where He Ao and Zhang Yusi are.
"Um,"
Shu Gui nodded, turned around, looked at He and Ao standing in front of him, and smiled,
"It's very dangerous to go this way through a group of monsters, but after the gate is closed, I can't open it, and there is no other way. I can only explore deeper here, and stand still and be constantly attacked by monsters. There is only a dead end.
One piece.
"Fortunately, the tentacle monster only met me once, and then turned around and left for some unknown reason. As it was leaving, these small monsters gave way to it, and I took the opportunity to follow the monster not far behind.
Most of the way.
"But then the monster was too fast and distanced itself from me. I was delayed by the monsters around me. These monsters also scratched my legs and destroyed my ability to move. So in the later stage, I could only lie on the ground.
The ground moved forward little by little."
At this point, he sighed, "If those monsters hadn't wanted to tease me and hadn't killed me, I might not have been able to see you. Even if you had come a little later, I would have died here."
At this time, Zhang Yusi turned around and glanced at He Ao.
Because He Ao cracked the monster's memory chip and guessed Shu Gui's approximate location, they ran over without stopping to check as they walked along.
If He Ao had not cracked the memory chip, they would most likely still be exploring the area near the hall in order to find clues about Shu Gui.
She now somewhat understood why He Ao had to spend time cracking the memory chip first.
A sharpened knife will never stop chopping wood.
Sometimes He Ao's thinking is too fast and she can't keep up with the progress.
Only when the incident was over, did she suddenly have a feeling of realization that "this has not even happened".
"I see."
He Ao nodded lightly. In fact, although it was beyond his expectation that Ivel would betray others, he was not surprised. After all, he had fought with Ivel before, and he could clearly feel that this was a
A person who does things ruthlessly and unscrupulously.
From Enke's many reminders, we can also see Ivel's behavior.
However, it may not be the right choice for Ivel to enter that gate.
Because according to the data in the storage chip of the tentacle monster, the tentacle monster does not remember much about the entire area behind the gate. This proves that the 'danger' in that area is even fearful of the tentacle monster.
In addition to the area behind the gate, the area with even less data is the area immediately behind the gate, which is suspected of having an 'elevator'.
The area behind the gate is the fourth space past the lobby, and the elevator area is the fifth space.
In addition to Ivel, the sudden departure of the tentacle monster described by Shu Gui is also a point that attracted his attention.
Judging from Shu Gui's description, the monster simply gave up killing him and rushed back all the way. Shortly after the monster returned to its previous dormant hall, He Ao and Zhang Yusi arrived there 'just by chance'.
It looked like they came back specifically to guard He and Ao.
But these are just conjectures at the moment.
"Is your injury okay?"
He Ao lowered his head and glanced at Shu Gui's bandaged leg, "Can you walk?"
"It should be okay."
Shu Gui put away the medical bag, stood up, and stepped on the ground with his injured leg. He Ao could clearly see that his face was in pain, but he still took two steps, half jumping and half walking.
Seeing this scene, He Ao thought for a moment, dug out two relatively long metal rods from a pile of mechanical debris stacked on the side, and then bent them with his hands to make a pair of simple
metal crutches.
He handed the pair of crutches to Shu Gui.
"Thanks."
With a look of surprise on her face, Shu Gui took the crutch and put it under her arm at just the right height.
The weight of this crutch is not light, the two of them should weigh more than 40 kilograms in total, but this weight is not bad for a D-class transcendent.
Moreover, He Ao had read Shu Gui’s information before entering the ruins. Shu Gui’s codename was ‘Prison Tyrant’, and he was an extraordinary person who preferred fighting.
This pair of metal walking sticks can also be used as weapons.
While Shu Gui was getting used to the cane, He Ao then asked, "How is your mental state?"
"Um?"
Hearing this question, Shu Gui was stunned for a moment, then realized something. He shook his head, "It's not good. I often have hallucinations now. I feel that the reason why I can still stay awake is largely due to the injury on my leg."
The pain is a constant reminder to me.”
In a sense, pain is a natural focus.
This is also in line with the ‘focus on resisting pollution’ method summarized by He Ao before.
He Ao thought for a moment and said, "Clear distracting thoughts, try to empty your mind, and try to distinguish between the environment and reality,"
Then he paused and said, "Maybe your injured leg can be used as a breakthrough."
Then he briefly told Shu Gui about the way to simplify thinking to resist pollution.
During this whole process, Shu Gui's face was full of confusion.
He could understand what He Ao said and what it meant, but when he tried, he couldn't figure it out.
This is the difference in understanding. Shu Gui's injury was a blessing in disguise. If he hadn't been injured, he would have gone crazy.
He Ao looked at Zhang Yusi, "Shu Gui's condition is not very good. You can send him back to the safe house first and bring the plasma cannon with him. I will continue to explore for a while."
Zhang Yusi looked at He Ao. She thought for a while and finally nodded, "Okay."
It is the wisest choice for her to follow Shu Gui back to the safe house now.
One is because Shu Gui's health is indeed in bad shape.
Second, her mental state has actually fluctuated a bit now, and she may not be able to persist in exploring further. Although according to Shu Gui, the next area is a relatively safe area, but after crossing that area,
The pollution may become stronger.
And the third thing is what He Ao specifically mentioned, the plasma cannon.
He Ao brought Zhang Yusi out before because He Ao judged that it would be safer for her to follow him.
In fact, the safe house's defense against powerful C-class monsters was not that strong. Yasien stayed there simply because he could not move forward.
But now, with the plasma cannon, Zhang Yusi has the strength to fight against C-class. Coupled with the two D-classes Ya Xien and Shu Gui, as well as the gate that can isolate the safe house, the safe house has initially become safe.
Protective ability.瓓
And He Ao is very likely to enter a more dangerous area next. It is no longer so safe to follow He Ao.
So overall, returning to the safe house now is the wisest and best choice.
This is He Ao's thinking, and Zhang Yusi can roughly understand He Ao's thinking.
In fact, they no longer need He Ao to escort them on their way back.
Because Zhang Yusi is carrying a plasma cannon, especially a plasma cannon with monster flesh and blood.
When Zhang Yusi and He Ao just walked over, none of the flesh-and-blood spiders in the shadows crawled out to attack.
It seems that the tentacle monster had a very high deterrent effect in this area before, so much so that even Zhang Yusi could scare those monsters with its plasma cannon.
Of course, you can actually kill those monsters, but it's just not cost-effective.
"Wait a moment,"
He Ao put his hand into his pocket and took out some small gray particles. These were the energy blocks of the mechanical helmets he had just dug out when he was looking for storage chips.
These mechanical helmets do not need to support high-energy-consuming weapons such as plasma cannons, so they do not have many energy blocks in reserve and are not large in size.
He Ao fed these energy blocks to the plasma cannon.
This plasma cannon originally had eight lights on and could fire eight shots. When Zhang Yusi came to rescue Shu Gui, Zhang Yusi fired one shot in order to clean up the monsters, and only seven lights were on.
After absorbing these small energy blocks, the brightness of the light increased by a little more than one, and then returned to more than eight.
After feeding the plasma cannon energy block, He Ao asked Shu Gui some details about the 'safe area' they arrived at when they arrived.
After everything was clear, Shu Gui picked up his short knife and walked back with Zhang Yusi.
He Ao watched Zhang Yusi and Shu Gui leave until they completely disappeared into the dark corridor.
These two people still have the ability to protect themselves. On the way here, all the monsters that could threaten them have been cleared away by He Ao.
Finally, He Ao turned his head and looked at the corpses under the dim light.
He walked past these corpses and moved forward step by step.
Soon, he saw a brighter light at the end of the passage.
This area illuminated by lights is the 'safe area' that Shu Gui and Ivel arrived when they entered the spacecraft.
He Ao walked into this area, glanced around, and soon found a damaged monitor in the corner, with an open metal door below the monitor.
These were the details he had obtained from Shu Gui before. There was a computer, a metal door, lights, and most likely a working power supply.
This area is not big, there are stools scattered everywhere, and it looks like it used to be a dedicated 'lounge'.
He Ao walked to the open metal door, took a look at the cut circuit inside, then reached out his hand, took out the power circuit, and pulled it out.
He connected these power lines to the main board module again, connected the memory chip found between the mechanical helmets to the main board module, and resumed the operation just done in the hall.
But this time, because there is already a ready-made program, he does not need to open Super Memory and crack it again.
Then He Ao short-circuited the switch and started the mainboard module.
Soon, some surface data that could be interpreted appeared on the display screen in He Ao's hand.
This storage chip stores very little data, which is far inferior to the chip obtained from the tentacle monster just now.
He Ao flipped through the information inside. There were also nearby maps, but they were fragments and not connected together like the information in the chip stored by the tentacle monster.
In these fragment maps, He Ao saw the halls he had visited before, the dim passage just now, and some scene fragments he had never seen before.
These maps are very scattered, with almost no logic, and most of them are useless information, but there is also some 'useful' information among them.
In these maps, three areas are highlighted.
The first one is the hall that He Ao just visited, which is marked in light red.
The second one is the area behind the gate of this safe area, which is marked in red.
The third one is the map where the elevator is suspected to be. The map is very incomplete and marked in red and black.
The deepest, dullest red-black color.
It seems that this color depth seems to be a mark of some degree of danger.
Is the elevator area the most dangerous?
This is also corroborated with the fact that the map of the elevator area in the tentacle monster's storage chip is the most incomplete. Even the tentacle monster did not dare to go deep into the elevator area.
He Ao closed the main board, stood up, and looked at the gate.
According to Shu Gui's account, after Evel and the others entered the gate, the gate was closed from the inside by Evel.
But at this moment, the gate that appeared in He Ao's field of vision opened a small gap, a gap that allowed one person to enter.
Seeing this scene, He Ao frowned slightly.
Shu Gui is indeed a human being, not a disguised monster.
When He Ao first met, he carefully observed his Life Card, scanned his body with his spiritual consciousness, and determined that his energy flow lines were normal.
And there was no need for him to lie at the gate. He Ao's inquiry was before letting him go back to the safe house. Before that, he didn't know what He Ao was going to do next.
If He Ao brought him to this area, his lie would be exposed as soon as he saw this door.
So He Ao is more inclined that Shu Gui didn't lie.
So this door opened again after closing?
He Ao stared at the gate, put away the bone sword, walked over step by step, and then walked behind the gate through the gap in the gate.
Behind the gate is a gray and black space.
He Ao turned on the flashlight of his microcomputer and shone it around him.
Then he made a movement, not far in front of him.
On the wall near the gate, there is a sentence written in blood.
This time, the handwriting is not the writing in the first area, but the writing in the second area that He Ao is very familiar with.
