Bai Xiaowen had seen this kind of drowning zombie when he was in the Lake of the Dead, but now to be on the safe side, he still used the insight skill.
Skill 1: Ominous Breath: Passive, the breath of drowned zombies brings misfortune. Enemies within melee range will be superimposed with layers of ominous breath as the combat time prolongs. Each layer of ominous breath will temporarily reduce all attributes by 1 point.
A maximum of 10 layers of auspicious aura will be stacked and will dissipate 10 seconds after leaving combat.
Skill 2: Slowness: Passive, all damage taken by drowned zombies is reduced by 25%. The basic attack speed of drowned zombies is reduced by 25%.
Sure enough, these new individuals are also called drowned zombies, and they are exactly the same as the zombies in the Lake of the Dead.
The slowness skill makes the drowned zombies thicker and more durable. The "ominous breath" skill becomes more and more powerful as time goes by. After 10 layers, the enemy's all attributes will drop by 10 points, which means a total attribute reduction of 40 points.
It's worth it, it's still scary.
Moreover, the drowned zombies here are already creatures of the 10th level standard template. Compared with the zombies in the Lake of the Dead, their attributes are almost doubled and their strength has soared.
However, Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi have improved even more in strength than when they faced the drowned zombies!
Li Shuyi rushed out directly and was met with an invincible slash, seven consecutive strikes, stacking her own passive first.
Three of the drowned zombies died as soon as they came face to face. The intelligent creatures would have fled in all directions. But these zombies did not know fear and were still driven by instinct, stretching out their arms to pounce on Li Shuyi.
In the surrounding fog, shambling black shadows kept appearing, which were drowned zombies that were attracted. In the blink of an eye, dozens of zombies had gathered here, forming a group of monsters.
The ominous aura is superimposed on Li Shuyi's body, but so what? Even if all attributes drop by 10 points, Li Shuyi still has an overwhelming attribute advantage when the two passives are fully loaded!
What's more, Li Shuyi will not give the zombies any time to superimpose their ominous aura. Her figure shuttles among the zombies like a butterfly wearing flowers, and every sword thrust will definitely penetrate the throat or head of a zombie.
Bai Xiaowen was remote, so he would not be affected by the ominous aura. He took out the Desert Eagle and kept calling names. The first drop of blood from the Blood Essence Stone was passively triggered, basically one shot per shot.
Arpet, the lobster man warrior, was stunned. It was not until the two of them killed the zombies like a storm that they came back to their senses.
"Dear guest, you and your entourage are so powerful!"
Li Shuyi smiled and lifted the undead disguise on her body: "With this thing here, I can finally let go."
"Well, Alpet, how far are the ruins?" Bai Xiaowen asked.
"It's almost here... look ahead!" Alpet said loudly, waving the fish excitedly.
Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi looked up when they heard the sound.
Behind the corpses of a group of drowned zombies, in the mist in the distance, a magnificent ruins appeared in front of the three of them. The ruins were very tall, almost like a temple standing in the clouds.
"When did it appear...Why don't I feel anything at all?" Bai Xiaowen was a little surprised. With his mental scanning range at this time, if such a large palace appeared within the field of vision, it should have been mentally sensed long ago.
However, Bai Xiaowen tried to reach out with his mental telepathy, but the location of the temple that he could see was completely empty, as if the temple was in another dimension.
"Let's move on." Bai Xiaowen said. It involves the dusty temple, and there may be some secret hiding methods.
The three of them continued to move forward, and the monsters they encountered along the way were basically dead swamp crocodiles, drowned zombies, and occasionally a few ghosts. However, no leader-level monsters appeared, and they were not the enemies of Bai Xiaowen and Bai Xiaowen at all.
"How much further to go?"
Bai Xiaowen frowned. The three of them had walked a long distance, but looking at the distance to the temple, they still didn't shorten at all. It was as if the temple was also retreating when the three of them moved forward.
Alpet showed a hint of fear: "Sir, I'm afraid the ruins think that we are not qualified to enter, and it has rejected us! We can't go any further. Going against God's will will offend the gods!"
"Alpet, which god do you believe in?" Bai Xiaowen suddenly turned his head, narrowed his eyes and smiled.
"...Well, no matter which god you believe in, you should respect all gods."
Bai Xiaowen smiled and said: "You are right Alpet, since this ruins welcomes us, then we can just go back the way we came."
Alpet was startled for a moment, then said happily: "Yes, sir."
Li Shuyi followed suspiciously, but she did not express her position.
The three of them returned all the way. After walking for a long time, Alpet said:
"Sir, we are almost at our village. We can leave the swamp by going south."
"No, keep going east." Bai Xiaowen said.
"Ah?" Alpet said blankly, "But if you go east, you will go deep into the swamp."
"No need to doubt, just move forward." Bai Xiaowen took the lead.
Alpet quickly followed.
While walking, Li Shuyi suddenly let out a light sigh.
"What do you see?" Bai Xiaowen asked with a smile.
"Well, this puddle has waist-deep wormwood next to it... Whether it's the shape of the puddle or the location of the wormwood, I seem to have seen it before," Li Shuyi said.
"Keep going."
"Hey, the high-lying mound that appeared here also appeared before!" Li Shuyi exclaimed, "It seems that when we were walking west before... the same terrain appeared, but in the opposite order.
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"Well, it seems you found the problem."
Facing the eyes of Li Shuyi and Alpet, Bai Xiaowen said: "Actually, the actual size of this swamp is much smaller than it looks. There is a 'mirror puzzle' here... with the lobsterman village as the central axis,
The west and east sides of the swamp are the inside and outside of the mirror! Just now we have been walking west, but we are actually moving towards the mirror image of the ruins, so naturally we are going in the opposite direction."
"So... the real ruins are in this direction?" Arpet, the lobsterman warrior, asked doubtfully.
"See for yourself...we are almost there." Bai Xiaowen said with a smile.
Alpet looked forward, looking far into the distance.
Poof, he knelt down.
Ahead, hidden in the mist, the ruins of a magnificent temple loomed. Different from the previous visible and inaccessible temple, this temple seemed more "real", and the abnormal feeling of alienation from another dimension finally disappeared.