Sherlock's conversation with the werewolf diplomat sent from the Eternal Fire ended in failure.
Although the proposal made by the werewolf was very tempting, Sherlock seemed to have no intention of agreeing from the beginning to the end. After repeatedly confirming that Sherlock had no intention of cooperation, the werewolf had to leave dejectedly.
But this does not mean that the Eternal Fire Dungeon has given up its efforts to resolve the disputes with the Eternal Kingdom Dungeon through peaceful means. In the next few days, not only will diplomats be dispatched every day, but also diplomats will be sent with them.
Gifts were given to Sherlock, and even relevant officials from the Merchant Alliance came to coordinate matters between the two dungeons.
The news about the sudden appearance of a secret forest near the Eternal Kingdom dungeon spread all of a sudden. Including the Merchant Alliance, other surrounding dungeons, as long as they were in the border areas next to the secret forest, most wanted to come and share it.
Of course, no dungeon is as close as the Eternal Kingdom dungeon. And the players did not participate in these messy things in the past few days. They were concentrating on building it.
The stronghold of the Secret Forest, and another stronghold established by conquering the Eternal Fire Dungeon.
It's just that all their efforts and attacks were blocked by the other side. Some players wanted to use self-destruction attacks to blow open their city walls and gates, but they were also blocked by the defensive magic arrays and long-range bows and arrows arranged around them.
The magicians were repulsed, and they were killed outside the wall before they even got close.
After all, as the largest dungeon in the northern underground world, Eternal Fire still has a lot of foundation. It is a bit too difficult for current players to break through their defenses. Of course, if the Gundam is dispatched,
That's definitely another matter, but Sherlock doesn't intend to do that. The players' behavior of almost committing suicide is actually accumulating wealth for him. Every player who dies needs a pension.
After this matter is over, you can ask the Eternal Fire Dungeon to compensate for the related pensions, resettlement expenses, etc. Sherlock did not stop the players from attacking almost to death.
After the players tried to attack several times, they were blocked by the defensive force of the Eternal Fire Dungeon, and their attacks gradually stopped. Only some labor union forces will continue to try to attack the Eternal Fire.
The stronghold of the underground city.
Other players are constantly exploring the wealth of the secret forest, that is, the wood located in the secret forest. It is a very depraved and terrifying forest resource for the residents of the underground world, but for the underground city of the eternal kingdom, it is
It's not a big problem at all. After all, there are still many players who love learning for the sake of gaming.
Sherlock doesn't care about these things, because he is trying to discover the treasures of the Secret Forest. What makes Sherlock feel strange is that the people in the Eternal Fire Dungeon are constantly exploiting the trees in the Secret Forest by the people in the Eternal Kingdom Dungeon.
At that time, there was no response. And the diplomats who came for diplomacy did not ask the Eternal Kingdom Dungeon to give up resources. All their requests were to lease the land here, but they did not mention anything about the wood.
Regarding resources, they are willing to donate all the resources to Sherlock, which makes Sherlock very sure that they are not building a stronghold here for the wood here, but for something similar to security somewhere here. As for
Sherlock wasn't very clear about what it was, but he believed that as long as he continued to occupy this place, he would be able to quickly learn about other secrets here.
When the Eternal Kingdom dungeon confronted the NPC stronghold in the secret forest, the players in the Free City of Victoria had also traveled for several days and arrived at the territory of the Duke of York. Under the leadership of Lancelot, the players went here
There are not many player trees. Except for the hamster boss who built the portal, there are only nearly a hundred players left, and they are all pretending to be teachers and mercenary guards, so they entered the Duke of York and did not encounter them.
Too many obstacles.
As a knight, Lancelot was very good at choosing secret strongholds. It didn't take long for him to find a suitable place to establish a temporary stronghold on the edge of the Yuehe Palace. It was located in a valley.
, although there are highlands on all sides, there is only one entrance to enter. For those players who can infinitely resurrect, this is a very suitable place. After all, as long as they are not killed all at once, these players can continue to resurrect.
Come and continue fighting, but the opponent has no way to do so. This is one of the reasons why Lancelot chose this place as his stronghold. After the stronghold was determined, the hamster boss quickly started to build it according to the method Lilo taught him.
The rune magic portal was opened. The whole process lasted about a day, while the remaining players were guarding the portal nearby.
It doesn't really matter whether you keep it or not, after all, no one comes here at all.
For people on the ground world, things like rune magic arrays are very unfamiliar.
When the portal was established, it was immediately connected to the portal in the Free City of Victoria.
Those players quickly came to the territory of the Duke of York through the portal, and began to use all available tools and materials to build their stronghold. These players really liked building these walls, houses, etc.
Things, their love for construction was a bit incomprehensible to Lancelot.
It is something that only coolies can do, but they are happy to do it every day, and are even willing to pay for the materials out of their own pockets. This is probably one of their hobbies, or so Lancelot thought.
Lancelot is not only paying attention to these players, he is also paying attention to his pseudo-fiancée Guinevere.
Although she was a little unhappy, Victoria's Queen Lilo had already betrothed Guinevere to him, even though Lancelot had not yet confirmed whether Guinevere was a boy or a girl.
It sounds like he means a man, but during the past few days of travel, the more Lancelot looked at Guinevere, the more he felt that Guinevere did not look like a man. The more he felt that this was probably because Guinevere was trying to protect himself.
That’s why he lied about being a man.
Among them, there are often scenes where the hero and the heroine are disguised as men. At this time, Lancelot has already made up about 1 million words of this kind of romance in his mind, and at the end
In the ending, as the male protagonist, he will die on the battlefield for protecting the heroine Guinevere. As a knight, this method of death in battle is still acceptable.
Players don't know what nonsense the NPC Lancelot is thinking in his head. They just want to quickly build a stronghold, then pick up their weapons and go to the Duke of York's castle to rob it.
You can vaguely see a bit of prosperity and luxury in the castle in the distance. Just the shape of those European-style castle buildings has already made players yearn for it. If they could occupy the castle as their stronghold, what would it be like?
OK.
Some players have already begun to plan how to capture the castle and make it their own. Some people are also speculating whether the Duke of York's castle will become a second NPC city like Winterfell. It's possible.
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In the distant goblin forest.
It has been almost five or six days since Zhuang Genbao was captured by those little goblins. During this period, Zhuang Genbao did almost nothing. He just worked for those little goblins every day, repairing all kinds of things.
A log cabin or something like that.
It was as if he was being used as a slave by them. And Tomato beside him was similar to him. Although he was a wanted legendary warrior, Tomato had not received any special treatment since he was captured by the goblin. For the goblin
In general, he is just an ordinary human being, there is nothing special about him, at least that's how tomatoes show it.
As for Tomato's two forest wolves, they stayed with Tomato without any hindrance. The little goblins didn't seem to have any hostility towards the forest wolves, and seeing that the forest wolves were willing to accompany Tomato, they even became a lot friendlier to Tomato.
Genbao needs to be friendlier.
As for the little flying dragon, the goblins did not accept the little flying dragon like they accepted the forest wolf. Instead, they rejected the little flying dragon outside the world tree. Zhuo Genbao can occasionally visit the little flying dragon. At least he should confirm his own
The adventure rewards have not disappeared, right?
The situation changed on the seventh day.
Just when Zhuo Genbao had finished a day's hard work and was about to return to his cabin to "sleep" or log off the line, he was suddenly tapped on the shoulder by a tomato next to him. Zhuo Genbao raised his head and took a fancy to it.
Tomato on the side made a silent gesture, and then whispered to Zhuan Genbao: "Shh, don't talk. I think we can escape tonight. The guard strength is not very strong today."
Although it was unclear when Tomato started observing, and he was sure that the goblins' guarding force was not very strong tonight, Zhuo Genbao still trusted Tomato very much. He nodded, and then followed Tomato's instructions.
First of all, we need to remove the shackles on their bodies. There is something like a tree vine that binds their hands. This is something that the goblin tied to their hands. It seems to be able to hinder the use of their magic power. After grabbing the root treasure and tying this thing,
I feel like I can't use my magic power normally.
Zhuo Genbao was thinking about finding something sharp to cut off the vine. The tomato on the side had already shrunk his hand into a small strip, and then dragged it out from the vine. Could this be the legendary bone-shrinking skill?
?
Zhuo Genbao looked at everything Tomato did in shock. Tomato didn't care about Zhuo Genbao's expression. He asked Zhuo Genbao to put his hand on the table, then nodded to Zhuo Genbao and said:
"are you ready?"
Although Zhu Genbao didn't know what Tomato was talking about, he still nodded and replied:
"I'm ready come on!"
After Zhuang Genbao finished speaking, Tomato quickly raised his fist, and then punched Zhuang Genbao's hand. Zhuang Genbao heard the crisp sound of bones, and then his hand collapsed.
, there is no way to control it.
Zhu Genbao felt that his hand was probably broken, but he didn't feel any pain.
He realized what Tomato wanted to do, and after his hands grabbing Genbao were smashed by Tomato's fists, he squeezed out of the vine easily. This was another type of bone-shrinking technique.
Tomato said to Zhuogenbao:
"Don't worry, I took the time to find a healing potion these days. It's the best healing potion for goblins."
As he said this, he took out a bottle of potion from his pocket and poured it on Genbao's hand. His two broken bones quickly healed as before.
"Let's go get our weapons and armor back, then leave here and follow me carefully. The number of those little goblins guarding today is very small. They seem to be going to the World Tree to do something.
The ceremony will be held every two days, come and follow me."
After Tomato explained, he took Zhuogenbao and left the room where they were detained.
The door locked by the little goblin was nothing in front of Tomato. Zhuanggenbao looked at Tomato, picked up the vine from before, and pushed it on the door lock. Then the door lock was opened, and the two of them
He walked out swaggeringly.
Tomato seems to be walking around in his own home. He is very familiar with every corner. Every time he comes to a corner, he will put a sequin-like object on the tip of his toe and stretch it out to see if anyone is around the corner.
These scenes feel like I have seen them in a movie. I feel that if they were in the real world, a character like Tomato would definitely be at the level of an agent.
But tomatoes are just a bunch of data in the game world.
Although he didn't want to admit it, Zhuo Genbao had to face this reality. Even though he already had a feeling of respect for the tomatoes in front of him, it was as if he had really been taught by his teacher, as if he had seen a great person.
Dude, the existence of 666 is chasing after him. As a player, he actually feels this way about the characters in the game. He has only seen this kind of thing in the news. Some players have special feelings towards NPCs in the game.
Like it or hate it, etc., but I never thought that this feeling would appear in me.
You must be stupid for treating NPCs as real people, right? Zhuo Genbao thought this way.
Tomato didn't know what Zhuo Genbao was thinking about. He just took Zhuo Gen Bao and walked left and right in the goblin's territory. He evaded the goblin patrols countless times, and then pulled Zhuo Gen Bao away.
The little goblin's sphere of influence.
Zhuo Genbao looked back at World Tree again. He knew that World Tree was connected to the open beta. He didn’t know when he would be able to come back here again. The next time he came back here, it must be to occupy World Tree. Zhuo Genbao
That's what I thought.
Zhang Genbao shook his head, and instead of thinking about the World Tree, he followed Tomato and disappeared into the dense forest.
Not long after the two of them left, behind them, a little goblin stood on a tree trunk and looked at the direction they left. Then he turned back to his companion and said: "Those two guys left, we need to
Follow them?"
Behind the little goblin stood another little goblin. The little goblin was wearing a golden armor. He was different from the other goblins. He looked very noble. The little goblin nodded and said:
"No, let them leave. This human being can establish a bond of friendship with the flying dragon. He might be able to help us. Track them first. If they can indeed communicate with these ancient creatures, it will be of great help to our search for the princess."
It’s also very beneficial.”
After the little goblin finished speaking, the other little goblins on the side also nodded and followed the leaving tomatoes and grasping root treasures according to the goblin's orders.
Of course, Zhuo Genbao didn't know this, but Tomato seemed to know that someone was following him. After leaving the goblin's territory, he didn't relax at all, and continued to move around with Zhuo Genbao, constantly changing himself.
direction of travel and determine their location through various techniques.
After more than an hour of tense escape, Tomato finally stopped in front of a wooden house with Zhugenbao.
The wooden house was built on the trunk of a huge tree and was obscured by thick leaves. You couldn't find it unless you looked carefully.
The exterior looks like it has some age, and the walls are covered with green moss.
When Zhuo Genbao entered the wooden house, he found that the furnishings and furniture in the wooden house were quite new and not as old as they looked from the outside.
Tomato leaned against the window and looked outside, and then said to Zhuogenbao:
"I don't know if those little fairies have followed you. We can only rest here for about an hour. Don't worry about your little flying dragon. Your little flying dragon will follow you in the next few days based on your scent. Of course not.
Now, otherwise those little goblins will follow your little flying dragon and come to find you. I have put something on your body to cover up your scent. I will take it off after we get out of the forest. Don't worry.
Well, its sense of smell has a very wide range."
Zhuo Genbao believed in what Tomato said. He didn't expect Tomato to be so good at the Feilong field, and he knew so many things. It seemed that he could learn a lot from him.
When he sighed, Tomato also sat down, and then frowned, and he said to Zhuogenbao:
"These little goblins seem to be preparing something. I don't know what they are planning, but I have a very bad feeling."
Just after Tomato finished speaking, Zhuang Genbao's eyes lit up.
It's here, it must be the follow-up mission to the adventure mission.