Chapter 23 The Swamp
Huang Chao took a railway car and drove out of the desert into the jungle. It took two days on the road. He had nothing to do on the railway car, and he couldn't drive back to Shimaki to go elsewhere, because the railway car was a moving vehicle. He had to use it to practice basic meditation every day.
The dark forest is full of malicious eyes. Werewolves, treants, and wizards hid in the deep woods, monitoring Huang Chao's railway car all the way.
Fortunately, the armor of the railway car is strong and the speed is fast, so that the opponent has no interest in attacking. Huang Chao successfully arrived at the imperial camp deep in the jungle.
After many battles at this time, Huang Chao has reached level 36, strength 20, agility 30, intelligence 130+29, constitution 35+23, life 3400, magic 200, much stronger than before.
The space-time energy is "31.00%", and the source power is "62/1000". According to Huang Chao's estimation, it is still far away to return to reality.
Conditions in the camp were dire. The exterior of the tents was dilapidated, with signs of elemental damage. The camp was full of wounded people sitting on the side of the road, and not far away, it seemed that someone was transporting corpses.
Sure enough, just like in the game, alchemists attacked the camp.
In the center of the camp, Huang Chao saw Wei Er who came here to support.
Even though he knew the plot was like this, he still felt a kind of surprise: "Wei Er, long time no see. How are you?"
Wei'er smiled politely, but couldn't hide the heavy look on her face: "Hi Huang Chao, I heard about your record in Zerafis, it's really amazing."
"By the way, Professor Duke, the person in charge of the camp, is in need of help. You should visit him."
Huang Chao knew it in his heart, and said without changing his face: "Okay, let's go."
At the end of the camp was a huge mountain wall, and in the middle of the mountain wall was a closed metal gate. A middle-aged man with strange glasses is directing people's work.
When he saw Huang Chao approaching, he showed a relieved expression, and hurried over and said, "You are His Excellency Huang Chao, the Blessed One. It's an honor to meet you."
"I wish you had come earlier. The alchemist came here an hour ago, destroyed the entire camp, and then walked through the gate of grandeur."
He pointed to the huge stone door on the mountain wall and continued: "After he went in, he closed the door from the inside. We think that door leads to the clockwork core, but we can't open it now. See the robot over there?" ?He was made to open the door, but he lacks an energy source, and the waste factory has such an energy source. Your Excellency, please go there to retrieve the energy source, and only you can do this."
"No problem." This is the main task, Huang Chao immediately took it, and then thought of another thing, "By the way, is this robot specially made by you?"
"No, the robot and this gate are both masterpieces of ancient dwarves. Through archaeological discoveries, we have gradually figured out their uses."
"Oh." Huang Chao said in his heart, you didn't make a robot that can't be used, so you can still be saved.
He brushed his equipment at the gambling merchant in the camp, and updated several pieces of high-level equipment. Most of the enemies he faced next were poisonous creatures, and he had to build up his poison resistance.
Huang Chao has played it many times, and he knows all the details by heart.
Outside the camp, Huang Chao encountered three raccoons. It turned out that the brothers of the raccoon Spocket suffered from black blindness and needed the meat of blue boletus to treat it. Huang Chao took this side task.
Before setting off, he summoned the Djinn and healed the wounded conquerors in the camp. The effect of "group therapy" is very weak for these ordinary people, but after repeated many times, it also has a certain recovery effect.
Seeing that everyone was getting better, Huang Chao left the camp directly and headed for the Path of Corruption. It is a dark forest, tall and dense trees cover the sky, no matter day or night,
The jungle is shrouded in darkness. There are some fluorescent creatures suspended on the trail, bringing a magical color to the woods.
At this time, several groups of spores floated in front of them, each of which was the size of a human head, like a lantern suspended in the air, emitting a green light. Huang Chao quickly sent out five-color magic arrows. If these things were not destroyed as soon as possible, they would self-explode and shoot out acid.
Huang Chao rushed forward, and immediately saw a huge chimney-shaped creature, spewing spores into the air. He knew that this was the mother body of the spores, which could continuously produce self-explosive spores.
Before he could make a move, the ground shook violently, and a huge monster emerged from the ground.
"Mug monster, this thing is hard to hit, dodge one step first." Huang Chao teleported away immediately, and cast skills on the monster. This guy is four or five meters tall and has fungal features on his body. Its melee attack is powerful, its long-range spit of poisonous gas is also very fierce, and its blood volume is extremely thick, which is comparable to that of an elite.
And the most frightening thing is that it is just a small monster, so there are a lot of them. Some of them are wandering on the ground, while others are buried in the ground and will pop out when people pass by.
If Huang Chao had just crossed over, he would have been terrified in the face of this monster, and it would be difficult to act under the panic. Even if he had the same attributes as now, he would only save his life.
At this moment, Huang Chao easily passed through the teleportation, dodging several poisonous mist impacts, and killed the opponent unscathed.
As Huang Chao continued to go deeper, he encountered more and more monsters. Most of them look like mushrooms, small mushrooms can explode themselves, big mushrooms can throw fireballs and summon small mushrooms... He has gone through several hard fights, and his body is covered with mushroom juice.
"Damn, you must eat some mushroom soup when you go back, so as not to leave a psychological shadow!"
Huang Chao's thinking is different. Normal people should "don't want to eat mushrooms again" when facing this situation. As for Huang Chao, who likes to eat, there is no reason to "not eat something". For example, these slices of mushroom monsters can only be asked to go back and add the same ingredients to the menu...
He entered the fungus cave, killed the boss-level magical monster, picked up the task item "blue boletus meat" from the corpse, and respected the raccoons in his heart: "Could it be that they want to eat the boss's meat?" , Tsk tsk, even I can't do this!"
There was no light in the forest, and Huang Chao often forgot the time, and only returned to the camp to rest when he was sleepy. After he returned to the camp three times, Huang Chao finally walked through the path of corruption and came to the withered swamp.
It's full of ultimate monsters. Werewolves lurk in the bushes, ready to devour every traveler. Huge treants sat in the clearing, sharpening their axes. Treants used to be the boss of Emberscar Mine, but they can be seen everywhere here. Bats hang from dead trees and can emit dizzying sound waves, and fern witches can suddenly flash around people and summon poisonous bee swarms.
Not to mention that every swamp will crawl out of undead creatures. Skeletons throwing lightning balls, skeletons in heavy armor, bloated zombies... A large number of undead creatures make the already dark forest even more terrifying.
Huang Chao's nerves were devastated, and he seemed to be watching the scariest close-up shots in horror movies all the time. A person is frightened to the limit and either collapses or is no longer afraid. Huang Chao practiced meditation to prevent him from having a nervous breakdown. So after a lot of scaring, Huang Chao finally got used to it.
In the face of the terrifying scene that he could not avoid before, he can already face it with a normal heart, and he does not rely on the calm state of meditation.
"This is progress. Even if I return to reality with nothing, I have exercised my guts."
Huang Chao is also thinking about the meaning of soul travel in his spare time. Every time travel will be a unique journey, even if the worst happens in the future, his space-time foil will be gone, and his attributes will return to normal levels, at least he will have many unparalleled memories.
The experience growth brought about by these memories is his most precious wealth. He is equivalent to countless years longer than ordinary people, and the attempts in these years can become life experience.
"The only concern is that if I stay in the fantasy world for too long, the memory of reality will gradually fade. People's attention is limited. If I really spend a few years in a certain world, I may forget many things in reality. There are many weird places. This can be covered up by occasional forgetfulness, but if I go to a place like the cultivation world, after thousands of years, what things in reality can I still remember?"
I can probably remember only the main plot such as the parents, and everything else is gone.
For example, let you think back to the scene in elementary school and the homework after school, what specific things can you think of? About elementary school, isn't it all some discontinuous memory fragments?
Huang Chao estimated that if he traveled too long, he would face the same situation when he returned to reality.
"But it doesn't matter, as long as the harvest is big enough, the price can be borne. If you are already a god and Buddha when you return, you don't need to care about things in reality at all, as long as you remember the important things."
"In the early days, I want to keep my memory, I can only actively recall the scene when I traveled, don't forget it one day..."
Huang Chao recalled the real scene, and felt depressed for a while. He killed super gods here and saved the world in various ways, but it was of no use. After returning, he still had to face the urgent reality.
Fortunately, he still has something to gain, his will is stronger, and his intelligence is greatly improved. Even if he goes back to increase his attributes by one tenth, it will have a clear effect.
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Coming to the scrap factory, a conqueror has arrived at the entrance. He told Huang Chao that if it was buried by rubble, he would go to the lumberyard and get explosives to blow it up.
The lumberyard is on the other side of the forest, full of werewolves, and the victims' bodies and diaries can be found on the ground, silently describing the tragedy that happened in the lumberyard. Occasionally, a few werewolves could be seen gathering next to a human corpse!
Did not say, kill it.
After experiencing this hellish scene, Huang Chao desperately killed monsters to vent his unhappiness.
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