Chapter 348 The Disappearing Clockwork City

Next, Mu You asked Lin Xue some details about the skin, such as the death knell.

According to Lin Xue, the death knell is not a real physical prop, but appears together when the God of Death must be summoned.

As for the effect of the bell, in addition to suppressing the enemy's actions, there are also different levels of punishment such as blocking the flow of magic power and even directly lowering the level. According to the good and evil value, the higher the evil, the more serious the punishment, but there is a prerequisite, that is, it must be a negative value. , it can be activated. If used on someone with a good or evil value above zero, it will have no effect.

The discussion about the God Skin ends here, more information needs to be explored slowly.

Seeing that Mu You and the two were about to go back, Lin Xue also planned to follow them back to the store, but Mu You naturally refused.

"You should rest well these days and don't act recklessly."

Mu You insisted on keeping Lin Xue at home, and then left the manor with Xiaoya. Lin Hai sent a car to take the two back to the pet shop.

In the car, Mu You turned on his phone and followed the forum news.

Sure enough, the top trending search topic on the forum now is 'City of Dawn changes ownership'.

Yesterday, when Mu You and the others left the Tomb of Death, it was seven o'clock in the evening, and the gate time had not yet arrived. However, because something happened to Lin Xue, he still went back to Earth first to settle down Lin Xue before going back to the earth again. Go out and continue leveling.

When he came back midway, he had already taken a look at the forum and found that when they killed the Z World Walker, the game seemed to have sent an announcement to all online players at the time.

[It has been detected that the City Lord of Dawn City ‘Z Realm Walker’ has died, and City of Dawn has not yet been born. The selection process for the City Lord of Dawn City will be restarted...]

[The city leader selection process failed to start. 】

[The City of Dawn is currently in an ‘occupied’ state and the city owner cannot be replaced. 】

In just three sentences, the forum exploded in an instant.

"what's the situation?"

"Z Realm Walker is dead? Who killed him?"

"What does it mean to be occupied? Dawn City was attacked and fell by the enemy?"

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The players who saw this information were all confused. Why did the Z World Walker, who caused such a fuss before, suddenly die?

More importantly, after his death, Dawn City did not return to the hands of normal players as everyone expected, but was already 'occupied'...

Ordinary players actually do not understand the specific rules of the operation of Sky City and can only guess.

At this time, many imposter voices emerged.

"To be honest, I was the one who killed Z Realm Walker, but I killed him too quickly and left no evidence!"

"Damn, is it really true?"

"How you killed me, tell me in detail!"

"Don't listen to the nonsense upstairs. I was the one who killed the Z-world traveler, and I'm on my way to collect the reward."

"Nima, I fought hard for a whole day to kill Z Realm Walker, but you all jumped out one by one to grab the fruit? Do you still have any moral integrity!"

"Who killed him?"

"These guys upstairs are so fake. If a master like Captain Ghost and Emperor come out to claim them, they still have some weight. Who do you think they are?"

"Anyway, I don't believe anyone until I see tangible evidence..."

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There was an uproar on the forum, and a large number of posts appeared, all claiming that the person was killed by himself, but in the end no one could provide evidence.

At this time, many people had actually thought of the Ghost Captain, especially those related to him, like Jiuyou and Lion, because Mu You had just discussed with them on Thursday how to restrain the Z World Walker, and this person turned around and It's hard not to think of being stabbed.

Many people immediately sent him private messages to ask, but at that time Mu You had already gone back to practice leveling behind the scenes and had no time to look at this.

Only now, when Mu You logged into the forum, did he see a large number of red dots in the backend mailbox. Jiuyou, Tianzi, Solomon and others, as well as members of the Secret Art Conference such as Lion and Libra, all sent him messages asking about this matter.

Mu You did not deliberately conceal this, and frankly admitted that Z World Walker's death was related to him.

Of course, admittedly, he had no idea about the bounties jointly set up by the big forces. One was that he also had no evidence. Even if the big forces offered bounties for his sake, they were just a sign of goodwill. He accepted the bounty. It's gold, but it's a favor.

Secondly, it was impossible for him to collect the reward in person. It was not worth exposing himself for something so flashy and of little practical value.

After hearing the confirmed answer, Jiuyou and other leaders of the big forces breathed a sigh of relief. There have been too many imposters in the past half day, which made them very confused. Now that the great god himself admitted it, they finally felt confident. .

"Great God, what about the occupation of Dawn City..." Jiuyou then asked this key question again.

"I don't know this either."

Mu You sighed. In the unborn Sky City, residents could not be added, and therefore deputy city leaders could not be set up. Theoretically, once a z-world traveler dies, even if there are others in the city at the time, they will be automatically excluded, and then the city leader selection process will be restarted. .

But in fact, it failed to develop as usual, so all Mu You could think of was the old man who appeared in the outer realm.

This guy is the instigator behind Z Realm Walker. Z Realm Walker’s understanding of Sky City probably comes from him. So this person probably used some means to get into Sky City’s ‘bug’ and forcibly interrupt the selection. program.

So after that, Mu You revealed some information about Hongxiu Qiluo to everyone, as well as ways to deal with her, so that no one would be attacked by her again.

'Iron barrel play', this is the method that he and Lin Xue have personally verified, which can perfectly restrain Hongxiu's chain.

Moreover, after this failure, the opponent's weakness has been exposed. It is estimated that he will not dare to show up again in the short term. Otherwise, once Hongxiu is caught, the position and identity of the person behind him will be exposed. Judging from the caution and carefulness shown by that person, Hongxiu will most likely not be allowed to show up again.

In short, this matter has come to a temporary end here.

It was already noon when he returned to the pet shop. Mu You was busy all day and had time to log in to the game.

His game character was still trapped in the clockwork city, and he had to transfer the character out first.

A day and a half passed, and Mu You thought that the goblins should have turned off the space shield, right?

As a result, when he logged into the game, the pop-up prompt caught him off guard.

[You appear in the wilderness...]

"?"

Mu You was stunned.

He was clearly offline in the clockwork city, how come he became in the wilderness when he logged in? Can the position be moved after logging off?

Mu You was confused and hurriedly controlled the character to turn around.

[You wandered around, surrounded by a barren plain, not anywhere you are familiar with, and there was no one in sight...]

[You came to the west side of the plain and finally found a familiar acid swamp here. ]

[A large amount of abandoned alchemical garbage was piled up here. The familiar smell and the scene of garbage everywhere made you quickly confirm that this was the garbage dump outside the clockwork city where you had scavenged before. In just one day, everything here has changed...]

I didn't find the clockwork city, but I found the original garbage dump.

In other words, it was not that his online location changed, but that the clockwork city disappeared by itself!

"Does it mean that this clockwork city has legs and can move?"

Mu You quickly guessed a possibility.

This group of goblins wanted to kill him at the time, but he was offline and escaped with a series of operations. These goblins looked for him for a day and couldn't find him. I guess they all thought he had escaped.

The ability of his mecha skin is too threatening to the Clockwork City. Letting such an enemy go, the goblins must be uneasy, feeling that the enemy may come back at any time, so they have to take the Clockwork City and run away.

Coming back to his senses, Mu You was a little speechless.

Because of this incident, he was still thinking about how to escape, but the other party was scared first and moved away overnight. But it’s better this way, so that he doesn’t have to spend the effort to fight wits and courage with the goblins.

[You appear in Dawn City in the dizziness of teleportation. ]

Back in Dawn City, Mu You first went to find the old goblin Eugene.

This crazy alchemist had been staying in Dawn City since he was rescued from the Undercity Temple.

Mu You thought that this guy was an alchemist after all. After he made an energy conversion device for himself, he would try to ask him to stay in Sky City and be a public NPC or something.

[You took out the three task items, the Ancient Power Furnace, the Golden Gear, and the Robot Coil*100, and handed them to the old goblin Eugene. 】

【Eugene was slightly surprised when he saw what you took out. As an alchemist, he knew how difficult it was to collect these three things. He didn't expect you to find them all so quickly, so he asked you what happened? You choose...】

Next, he was asked to choose whether to tell the truth. Mu You decisively chose no.

After all, the other party was still a goblin. If he told him that he had just made a big fuss in the clockwork city and blew up the clock tower, scaring the goblins to run away overnight, he would probably turn against him on the spot and simply refuse to make a furnace for him.

【Eugene saw that you didn't say anything, so he didn't ask any more questions. He took the props you brought back and turned into the room. 】

【'Ancient Energy Conversion Furnace' is being manufactured and is expected to be completed in 48 hours...】

Ancient Energy Conversion Furnace... From the name, this old goblin seems to be planning to directly integrate the energy conversion device into the ancient power furnace. After the manufacturing is completed, his mecha skin will be equipped with this furnace, and there is no need to add magic crystals. Just put the forest spirit core in it, and you can get energy continuously.

It takes two days and two nights to build, so it can't be rushed. Mu You clicked the "City Lord" option in the game.

After a day of automatic construction, the City Lord's Castle has now been successfully upgraded to LV3, the population limit has increased by another 10 million, and the manufacturing rights of more buildings have been opened.

Mu You added population as usual, upgraded four types of temples and scarecrows, training grounds, etc.

In addition, three new buildings were built on the spot.

First of all, the most important: the dungeon.

This is the information provided by the emperor at the beginning. At the bottom of the dungeon, you can find the "truth".

Dawn City has been rushing to build progress all the way just for this thing, and now it is finally opened.

After Mu You chose to build, he hurriedly checked the instructions.

[Dungeon: Located underground in Sky City, it was built by ancient fools and is a place dedicated to the tribesmen to train their combat capabilities and levels. Only residents of this city can enter. It is divided into seven floors. The lower the floor, the higher the difficulty and the greater the danger.

Entering the dungeon requires a little fool reputation. Each person can enter up to three times a day, and each time lasts up to one hour. If you are dying or overtime in the dungeon, you will be automatically teleported back to the surface. 】

[The underground of Sky City is composed of high-density gemstones. This rock layer is hard and immune to magic, and is rich in energy. Mining this rock layer has a chance to obtain various renewable gemstones. Since the gemstone layer will grow over time, if it is not mined regularly, it will continue to squeeze the space of the dungeon until all passages in the dungeon are blocked.

Each floor of the dungeon is like a large maze, in which there are nests of various underground creatures. (The monster nest has been unlocked with the birth of Sky City, and monsters will continue to be produced. Please be sure to send people to clean it regularly to prevent monsters from flooding the dungeon.)]

The dungeon is simply a leveling copy for fools. Not only can you spawn monsters, but you can also mine and collect gems.

The gemstones and monsters in this copy will grow automatically. If no one spawns for a long time, they will flood. Therefore, at the beginning, players need to mine and spawn monsters all the way down, clear the maze road, find the entrance to the second floor, and then go to the second floor to clean it up. Repeat this until the seventh floor at the bottom.

Such a huge task, of course, cannot be completed by a single or a few players. It requires the joint efforts of the residents of the whole city to break through the dungeon at the fastest speed.

In addition to the dungeon, the remaining two buildings are the "Blacksmith Shop" and the "Pharmacy Shop", both of which are subsidiary buildings of the dungeon.

Among them, the Blacksmith Shop can turn various gems dug by players from the dungeon into upgradeable standard equipment, while the Pharmacy Shop is a place where treatment drugs and antidotes are automatically manufactured to help players deal with the poisonous monsters rampant in the dungeon.

After carefully reading the descriptions of these three buildings, Mu You pondered for a moment and issued a city lord announcement to the residents of Dawn City.

The announcement mainly mentioned two things.

First, it announced the opening of the dungeon, and by exploring the dungeon, standard suits can be synthesized in the blacksmith shop. For ordinary players, this is currently one of the most cost-effective ways to obtain equipment.

Second, it recruits exploration teams and strategy groups for the whole city. The top ten teams in daily exploration progress will obtain specific city positions and be announced throughout the city.

The city-wide announcement is actually equivalent to a list. People all want to pursue honor and show off, especially honor that can be seen by others.

Once the list is released, even if there is no substantial reward, it will definitely stimulate players to compete for the list, thereby indirectly increasing the speed of the dungeon attack.

The news that Dawn City has been upgraded to level 3 was spread this morning. A large number of people on the forum are already eagerly waiting for the latest building information. At this moment, the announcement was finally released and was immediately reposted and spread wildly on the forum.

The effects of the three new buildings also made countless people's eyes light up.

Dungeon! A copy that can spawn monsters!

The appearance of the copy is of great significance, because players do not consume action power when moving in the sky city, which means that after entering the copy, players can maintain a balance between physical consumption and the lifespan gained by killing monsters, so experience points and loot are pure profit!

At the same time, the equipment that can be crafted in the blacksmith shop was also quickly posted.

Sky Suit: A standard suit that can be equipped with up to ten parts of the whole body. Only fools can equip it. Starting from the second piece, each additional piece will activate a suit special effect.

And these suit special effects all respond to the name "Sky", such as increased attack power, defense, speed, life recovery, etc. in high-altitude combat.

If you can collect ten pieces, you will also open the final special effect: Sky Wings, which allows players to directly gain the ability to spread their wings and fly!

The equipment that can be made in the blacksmith shop will gradually expand with the level. At present, the LV3 blacksmith shop can only make black iron and some ordinary equipment, which is of little use to high-level players.

But it doesn't matter, this suit can be made continuously, and you don't have to worry about the low-level equipment being eliminated in the future. As long as you keep going to dungeons to collect gems, everyone's sky suit can be upgraded from black iron to the final epic suit!

The announcement is right. This is indeed the most cost-effective way to get equipment for the mainstream group of players at present.

After reading the information about the new building, the players in Dawn City couldn't wait any longer. They immediately posted various team-building posts on the forum, inviting each other to explore the dungeon together.

Players in other cities could only watch and envy, waiting for the players in Dawn City to bring the latest information inside the dungeon.

About ten minutes later, the first batch of "suicide squads" hastily assembled in Dawn City took the lead in entering the dungeon and began to explore.

However, before everyone could ask about their experiences in the dungeon, more than half of them were kicked out in a dying state just two minutes later.

"Damn, poison, so poisonous!" This was the first pathfinder player who died in the forum.

"What kind of poison?" Someone asked in confusion.

"The dungeon is full of poisonous gas!"

"Huh?"

"Yes, the text says that it is a poisonous gas that forcibly deducts 1% of life per second. Let alone mining and spawning monsters, people can't stand at all. They died in less than two minutes!" Other pioneers confirmed his statement.

"So scary?"

The other people in the outer city were all confused. If there was such a strong poisonous gas, what was the point of this dungeon?

Fortunately, as more and more information came back, the situation in the dungeon finally became clear.

"There is poisonous gas, but it only works on players below level 10. As long as you evolve once, you can ignore the poisonous gas!" said a level 12 player.

Only those who have evolved can ignore poisonous gas. In other words, there is a hard threshold for entering the dungeon. This restriction alone killed 80% of the city's population...

Countless people burst into tears immediately. Is the dungeon prepared for elites?

"Wait, why are you dead too?" Someone suddenly discovered this.

"I...can't beat the monsters, they were poisoned to death..." said the level 12 player just now.

"..."

Everyone wanted to despise him, but they soon discovered that such a situation was not uncommon.

Players above level 10 were immune to poison gas, but most of them couldn't hold on for long. In about a quarter of an hour, more players were kicked out one after another.

"Damn, the monsters on the first level were so tough. I just picked a gem and was bitten to death!"

"Isn't this too difficult? I can't beat him at all!"

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Players who died unanimously complained about the extremely high difficulty of the dungeon.

The other onlookers were also surprised. Generally speaking, isn't the first level a free pass? Why is the first level here so difficult to defeat?