In the real society, with the improvement of scientific and technological power and people's increasing awareness of environmental protection, the environment of the entire earth is constantly improving.
Except in a few special areas, severe weather phenomena such as "sandstorms" have only appeared in textbooks and some TV programs.
Liu Yifei's luck was not bad. He was not born in one of those "special areas." Therefore, in his more than 20 years of life, Liu Yifei was not lucky enough to witness a sandstorm.
I haven’t even seen it, let alone the opportunity to experience the power of this harsh climate~
And if the adjective "furious" is added in front of the sandstorm, then most people probably won't want to stay in that environment.
However, to everyone's surprise, Liu Yifei and his friends' adventure target was exactly on the opposite side of the seemingly endless and furious sandstorm...
After entering the sandstorm area, Liu Yifei wanted to "thank" the programmer of the game "Invincible Heroes OL" from the bottom of his heart.
Do you dare to create a more deceptive scene?
Damn, do you still have even a little bit of conscience?
Do you dare to show for once where is the lower limit that you are so proud of?
The team of nearly a hundred people has been deep into the sandstorm area for almost two hours. Here, Liu Yifei truly experienced what it means to be difficult!
Two hours!
Even if the team no longer has the speed bonus of "Blessing of the Earth", the basic marching speed is not that slow!
In these two hours, the entire army rested on the spot three times! And the distance they advanced was not even ten miles!!!
Appalling!
What makes Liu Yifei even more troubled is that communication between them has become a very serious problem.
It's okay to talk to Xue Lan and the little assassins. We can solve the problem through the player's unique private chat channel. But if you want to talk to the tauren around you, then be prepared to eat a full meal the moment you open your mouth.
The sand in your mouth!
So much that you don’t even have room to vomit…
But what makes people feel helpless is that the instructions given by the magic map are still clear, and everyone's goal is still straight ahead. Everyone doesn't know whether they need to pass through this weird and terrifying sandstorm area, but there is a little shadow in their hearts.
...
Damn~
Are there really any ruins of the main city in a place like this?
Even if there were, it would probably have been completely destroyed by the violent sandstorm, right?
There are also the remaining subordinates of the Rockbreakers. They must have been living in this barren land, right?
As the adventure progresses, haze gradually creeps into everyone's mind.
Fortunately, the team is strong!
The tauren shamans can add basic elemental shields to all members in time, and although the "body protection stone skin" spell will increase the burden on the warriors and affect their mobility, the comparison is still severe.
It is stronger to be blown around in the wind and sand or to lose blood frequently.
Taking into account the supply problem, the combat proportion of the legal profession has gradually decreased. The top priority is to be able to keep the team and MP recovery to keep up with the rhythm. Under this endless sandstorm, various monsters are pouring out.
He became the opponent of the soldiers in the team.
At this time, Liu Yifei could only join the center of the battle group and add his underworld killers to the battle sequence.
As a result, the young assassin and Xue Lan can't share much experience, but they have made a lot of money in the past two days, and now the mission is their top priority.
As the leaders of the undead creatures, it goes without saying that the Underworld Killers are powerful.
The thick armor and the heavy horse-killing sword also made the impact of the sandstorm on them minimal. In addition, the Tauren Shaman's set of buffs increased, but they became the main force in protecting the team's safety.
Under the blinding sandstorm, the whole team struggled to move forward, and walked for nearly two days. On the morning of the sixth day after Liu Yifei and the others entered the earth elemental world, they finally saw some "relics" of artificial buildings.
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"This...should be a building similar to a sentry tower, right?"
Under the fierce sandstorm without a moment's rest, Xuelan barely restrained his mage robe from flying around, while staring at the tattered "relics" in front of him, he said in the private chat channel.
"Maybe so. This place has been abandoned for I don't know how long. This damn sandstorm has been around for I don't know how long. God knows what this thing was used for."
Liu Yifei has also been a little irritated by the violent sandstorms in the past two days. This damn environment makes people feel extremely depressed all the time. If it weren't for the "God's Pain" and the Minotaur tribe waiting for him, Liu Yifei would have wanted to commit suicide and return.
The city has left this place!
Rather than stay here and suffer, Liu Yifei would rather go back and do the most boring job of city internal affairs management! Even if it is so boring that he lies on the lord's castle in a daze!
"But since man-made structures have appeared, at least we can be almost sure that the map Gretatz gave us was not a lie...Okay, let everyone take a rest here, with this broken wall blocking it.
At least the wind and sand are not that big. Let’s take a rest and continue on the road in a while.”
Under Liu Yifei's instructions, the three people immediately began to divide the elite tauren around the branch.
It was impossible to shout out here. Every time there was an order, they had to be notified one by one. It was an unspeakable trouble. Fortunately, Liu Yifei and the tauren had discussed it well and decided on a few communication gestures, so the three of them could not.
I was so upset that I wanted to smash the game simulation helmet to pieces.
However, not long after the group of people retreated under the shabby and leaky half-wall, a rash Tau-headed warrior suddenly rushed in from outside. Liu Yifei looked up and felt terrible.
This bull-headed warrior with a broken horn on his head is named Wotir. He is the "liaison officer" of the reconnaissance team and is responsible for patrolling and guarding around the camp during the team's rest. Seeing it running in so recklessly, it is not surprising.
As if it could bring some good news...
"Your Excellency Liuyun! News came back from the front, saying that a group of very powerful earth elemental creatures appeared around the team, and judging from the direction of their travel, it seems that they are also heading here."
Sure enough...
Liu Yifei secretly felt depressed, so he had to carefully cover his mouth and nose and get closer to the other party and said: "How many are there, how far away are they, and what is their strength?"
"A group of eleven earth elemental creatures, all with strength above the spiritual level, are still three miles away from here." Wotir replied in a rough voice.
Under normal circumstances, the alert and detection range of this group of tauren elites can be expanded to a range of twenty miles around the team, but now, extending the detection distance to three miles is their limit!
If the reconnaissance team continues to move forward, it is very likely that they will lose contact with most of the people behind them, resulting in being completely lost in this endless sandstorm.
This strange sandstorm not only raises huge doubts about the survivability of the adventurers, but also has a considerable degree of interference with magic power. The communication magic is greatly reduced under this sandstorm, even for the strong spiritual level.
No matter how powerful you are, you can't resist this overwhelming force of nature.
Fortunately, this sandstorm is not only unwelcome to outsiders like Liu Yifei, but also has considerable destructive power even to natives such as earth elemental creatures. If not, batches of powerful earth elementals would still appear from time to time.
Biological creatures are enough to give Liu Yifei and others a headache.
"Three miles away... Everyone get out of here, retreat a hundred meters to ambush nearby."
After thinking for a moment, Liu Yifei issued the order again...
The distance of a hundred meters is already the limit of Liu Yifei's field of vision here. If they retreat further, they may only be able to understand the opponent's situation through some detection magic. However, since the opponent is a spiritually powerful being,
There was no guarantee that someone would notice when being spied on by detection magic, so just in case, Liu Yifei asked everyone to hide in this location.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for Liu Yifei to see a dozen vague shadows entering the abandoned building in the opposite direction. Others were fine, but the "figure" walking at the front was particularly tall!
According to Liu Yifei's visual inspection, the opponent should be about four meters tall, with big arms and a round waist, and is extremely strong!
Thinking that the other party was a creature of the earth element, Liu Yifei felt a headache from such a big lump of earth~
Since they entered this sandstorm area, this is the first time they have encountered a unit with sufficient intelligence. If they want to understand the current situation and the surrounding situation, this team of earth elements cannot be let go under any circumstances!
After a moment of silence, Liu Yifei made two gestures to both sides of the team. A total of twenty tauren divided into the first and second teams by Liu Yifei nodded neatly, walked around an arc, and touched the other side of the ruins building.
past......
A group of earth elemental creatures had just entered the ruins wall to rest, and before their buttocks were warmed up, one of the guys with particularly big "eyes" suddenly shook his body, and then spoke in a muffled voice.
"Someone touched my magic alert. It seems there is an outsider here?"
"What? There are outsiders?
Hahahaha~~~
Harry, weren't you knocked unconscious by the wind and sand this morning? Where do we have outsiders here?
Maybe some blind low-level clay doll accidentally guessed your warning? Anyway, this is not the first time such a thing has happened, so what's so strange about it?
Alright, alright~
Although we were ordered to go out on patrol, it was just a routine matter~
Except for those neighbors who sent people in to cause trouble a few years ago, our place has been quiet for how many years? Where did the outsiders come from?"
Said a black-brown earth element lying leisurely on the ground next to him.
“It’s always right to be careful~
Although those neighbors have become much more honest over the years, their desire to spy on us has never stopped. If it weren't for this sandstorm, we might have been enslaved by others long ago."
"Slavery? Fuck freedom! Fuck the damn sandstorm!
If I could leave this hellish place, I would rather be enslaved!
If you stay here, don't you have to be enslaved by the guys above?
Are they much better than the big lords outside?
Not only are we ordered to do this and that all day long, but we also have to endure this damn weather! We are simply worse off than being enslaved by others!"
The dark brown earth element lying on the ground seemed to be full of complaints. When his companion mentioned it, he couldn't help but said bitterly.
"Black Jack, just shut up that lousy mouth of yours!
Since you want to leave here so much, why don't you go by yourself? The superiors have never tied you up with chains. I don't think you live a happy life every day? Why don't I see you like this when the superiors assign tasks?
Have you ever complained?"
"Damn Sendel! If you don't target me for a day, your elemental core will be itchy, right? I'm just talking casually, what about you? If I hadn't offended you outside... I'd offended you...
How could I hide in a place like this where no one can poop?
Stop laughing at me!
Except for the natives who were hiding here from the beginning, aren't everyone huddled here for similar reasons?
Don't tell me, Sendel, you are a guy who can't control your own hands and feet, how much better can you be than me..."
The dark-brown earth elemental man named Black Jack originally wanted to continue talking, but at this time, a rich voice attracted everyone's attention: "Stop making noise, someone is really coming over, everyone."
Alert position."
The one who made the sound was the largest earth elemental man that Liu Yifei noticed before.
He is over four meters tall, and his body size is exaggerated and staggering.
As soon as he entered the ruins wall, he found a corner and squatted down silently, as if he were a huge black rock rooted there forever.
But as soon as his previous companion's alarm sounded, he immediately stood up straight and looked outside.
His body was so big that when he stood upright, his head could reach over the top of the wall. So when he raised his eyes, he saw several figures gradually emerging in the direction from which the group of people came.
"Hey~
Something is really weird today! Is there someone following us?"
Black Jack also poked his head out from the side, glanced at it and said strangely. As he spoke, he raised his hand flexibly, and at the same time, a small whirlwind-like spiral airflow began to form on all the earth elements present.
Whirlwind armor, air magic, group gain, silent spell casting, instant spell casting.
If a knowledgeable air elemental mage sees this move, he will definitely be very surprised!
Because this skill is a mid-to-high-level spell that can only be mastered by air mage after level 45, and it can only be released on a single target. Anyone who can achieve group gain with such ease is definitely a master of air magic! It’s just that he is not
I thought that the other party was actually an earth elemental.
"Have you received any notification today that someone will pass by our area?"
Another earth element hidden behind the wall suddenly inserted his arm into the sand pile beneath him, but when his arm was raised again, a huge earth-yellow war hammer had been "carried" by him from the yellow sand.
When it came out, it was as if this huge weapon had been buried there all along, just waiting for its owner to come and take it out.
"No, they are not from the camp, maybe they are lost outsiders. Be careful and prepare to fight... Are there eight of them in total? Please pay attention~"
The earth elemental with the largest physique said calmly.
And just when the eleven earth elements in the ruins wall were all attracted by the eight "figures" that suddenly appeared in the direction they came from, they didn't know that just behind them, fifty people
The ruthless killer has quietly sneaked over~
As the high-end and top-level killing weapon of the ghost camp, the Dark Killer is fully worthy of the title of "Death on the battlefield"!
In addition to its extremely powerful attack capabilities, the most surprising thing is its powerful stealth and stealth capabilities.
For more powerful opponents, it is not difficult for those who have entered the realm of legend or above to see through their figures. However, for opponents of the same level or with lower strength, the stealth abilities of the Underworld Killers are almost insurmountable~
Although this group of underworld killers controlled by Liu Yifei did not have the mentality of a true spiritual powerhouse, their strength had not shrunk. Under Liu Yifei's command, they swarmed towards the center in a semi-surrounding manner.
small ruins, and then just when the opponent focused all their attention on the strange situation ahead, they launched a lightning-fast sneak attack!
The huge war blade thrust out from the void behind him was instantly swallowed up by eleven figures in the ruins.
The gloomy but sharp sword light formed a curtain of swords filled with murderous intent!
Just one face-to-face encounter, the four earth elements suffered a devastating blow!
After learning about the soul contract from Gretatz, Liu Yifei also learned that this kind of high-level elemental life, which was probably under a certain force, could not be killed at will, so he also carefully ordered the "heavy damage" to the underworld killer.
"order.
The four earth elements who failed to respond in time were the first to suffer.
One had a leg cut off, lost his balance and fell to the ground; the other said goodbye to his arms in an instant, and his two arms were constantly tumbling in the air under the influence of the sandstorm, but eventually lost the power of the elements.
The restraints disintegrated into pieces of stone.
The other two were even more seriously injured!
One of them escaped the knife slashed at his back by the first underworld killer, but was stabbed diagonally by another giant blade, cutting off half of his head!
If it were placed on an ordinary creature, this would definitely be a fatal blow! Fortunately, the opponent was an elemental creature, and it only suffered a serious blow~
The last one had two big holes in his waist pulled out by two underworld killers!
The middle of the torso is almost like a skeleton, supported by the last pitiful stone body, which is so weak reflecting the huge shining blades around it...
In short, these four unlucky guys lost the ability to resist almost instantly. As soon as they relaxed a little, they were closely guarded by three or four underworld killers.
Several giant war blades were attached to them, but they didn't dare to move even if they had the strength to spare. After all, the elemental creatures were just not easy to kill, not actually indestructible.
Compared to the four earth elements who were defeated instantly, the other seven gradually caught up with the wind-like attack rhythm of the Underworld Killer after surviving the initial panic~
And the most eye-catching one among them is the giant earth element man with a huge body, who was favored by Liu Yifei from the beginning...
