Chapter 118 Lost and Found

After following the smoke generated by the Soul-Chasing Incense for nearly a hundred kilometers, I finally understood why Yiwen Taoist was so generous in giving me a handful of Soul-Chasing Incense! This soul-chasing incense sounds like it can track targets, but in fact it's useless at all. Just like me now, it was only around ten o'clock when I got the soul-chasing incense and left Tianzhu Mountain in the morning. It's already past two o'clock in the afternoon, and I'm still running around chasing the smoke. If I had known that this would happen to me You should have asked those heavenly soldiers if they had any other solutions. After all, this thing was too troublesome. Although the smoke produced by the soul-chasing incense has been flying in the target direction, its moving speed is only slightly faster than a person running on foot. You must know that the other party may be anywhere, and he is not waiting for me. If he uses the teleportation array to go to another place before the smoke catches him, the smoke will have to turn around and continue chasing. If he wants to follow When this smoke finds its target, it can only run slowly behind it. If the person holding the soul-chasing incense is tracking a busy person like me who is always running back and forth, he probably will never catch me in his life. , because every time Zhuihunxiang didn’t reach my location, I would be teleported to another place.

"Master, this thing is too slow. How long will it take for us to reach it if we follow it like this?" Yeying asked me while taking small steps to follow the unhurried smoke.

I was already extremely depressed about the speed of the smoke, but now I felt even sadder after hearing Ye Ying's words. "Hey...if I had known how fast this thing was, I shouldn't have wanted it in the first place!"

"Master." Victoria's voice suddenly sounded during the spiritual contact.

"What?"

"Actually, I think you made a mistake yourself."

"What did I do wrong? What did I do wrong?" Victoria's words surprised me.

"It's that soul-chasing incense. I don't think Taoist Yiwen gave it to you because he didn't care about it, but because it was meant to be used one by one."

"What?" He was stunned by Victoria, and then he took the large handful of Soul-Chasing Incense in his hand and looked at it in confusion. "You mean to set this thing on fire all at once?"

"No, I mean to light one at a time, just like using a compass. As you have seen along the way, the smoke it generates will not turn at all, but will always drift towards the target direction, so we just need to light it Use a stick of soul-chasing incense, and then quickly fly a long distance in the direction it moves, and then tap it again to confirm that the direction is correct. If you accidentally chase too far, it will be much faster to chase back. no?"

"Damn, I wonder why that stingy Yiwen Taoist suddenly became so generous? This is how the soul-chasing incense is used after working on it for a long time!"

In fact, many things in life are like this. They seem very complicated, but in fact it is just that we have made the wrong entry point and direction of effort. As long as we find the right goal, many things are actually easy to solve.

With Victoria's suggestion, I immediately took back Ye Ying, then summoned a flying bird and flew forward for more than a hundred kilometers before stopping and lighting a stick of soul-chasing incense again. It turned out that the smoke produced by the soul-chasing incense was still there. I was flying forward, thanks to Victoria for reminding me. If I were still following that cloud of smoke, I would probably have to wait until night to catch up to this place. And if I really chased for that long, they might have to change places halfway. After all, It is unlikely that a player will stay in one place for several days in a row.

Using this method, I would stop and light a stick of Soul-Chasing Incense every 100 kilometers to check the direction. I was stunned to find that the smoke produced by the Soul-Chasing Incense was pointing to the side of me after nearly two thousand kilometers. Obviously, the flight just now produced a slight direction error, and the opponent should be nearby, otherwise a small error would not be able to cause such a large angle change in the direction of the smoke. Because the distance was already very close, I did not carry out jumping tracking this time. Instead, I retrieved the flying bird and followed the smoke on foot to slowly search forward.

I arrived very quickly this time. After only walking a few hundred meters, I found a cliff in front of me. What I didn't expect was that there was a city gate more than ten meters above the ground on the cliff. In front of the city gate. There is a long approach bridge that allows people outside to follow the approach bridge to reach the same height as the city gate. Judging from the direction of the smoke, that guy should be in the mountain behind the city gate. It's just that this city is such a "nature", and it really takes a lot of effort to sneak in.

I waved away the smoke, and then carefully moved along the plants in the forest to the edge of the cliff. After activating the invisibility function on the cloak and coordinating the illusion of Amynis to make myself invisible, I immediately climbed up the cliff and gradually moved along the cliff wall towards the city gate.

In fact, my target was not the city gate, but the row of small holes above the city gate. The city gate was built on the cliff, which means that the inside of the mountain should have been hollowed out and built into a city, and if the row of small holes are not ventilation openings, they must be shooting openings, regardless of which one they are. It must lead to the interior of the city, it is enough to know this.

Since the row of small windows is still a little far away from the city gate below, and the players and NPCs coming and going below rarely raise their heads to look up, coupled with my invisibility ability, no one can detect me at all. He moved smoothly to the small window on the far side, and then carefully attached it. The window is not completely open. Its exterior is an approximately square hole cut out of the cliff. It is about the same size as a 17-inch monitor screen. It is possible for slender assassins and mages to squeeze in. Go, a warrior like me wearing armor will never be able to enter. Moreover, there is a wooden board covering the inside of the window, so the situation inside cannot be seen from the outside.

Looking at the hole, I thought for a moment and took out the eternity, and then turned the eternity into a bow hand drill. This kind of drill bit is generally used by carpenters. There is an arc-shaped crossbar across the main drill, and the two ends are connected by belts and drill rods. Just pull the crossbar back and forth with your hands to make the drill bit rotate quickly. The advantage of this thing is that it does not require additional power, it is purely manual operation, and if you pay attention, it will not make too much noise.

With eternal sharpness, I easily opened a small hole in the wall and inserted a ghost worm through the hole. After passing through the half-meter-thick wall, the ghost beetle quickly crawled into the passage. This is a passage like a corridor. The inside of the backing is the wall, and the outside side is a square window, and the thing behind the window is a cannon. Those windows are not vents at all, they are all firing ports, and they are also firing ports for cannons. These cannons are hidden in the mountains. During battle, as long as the cannon bodies are pushed forward so that the barrels extend out of the mountains, they can easily attack a large area outside. However, it is difficult for the enemy to aim at the cannons hidden in the mountains. Even if they hit , with the half-meter-thick granite outer wall outside coupled with some simple spell blocking devices, it is estimated that unless it is a large magic cannon, ordinary weapons will be difficult to damage the cannon inside.

Now this corridor full of cannons is basically empty, but through the sight of the ghost beetle, I saw two NPC guards chatting next to a small door, which was obviously a passage to the inside of the mountain, and These two NPCs are on duty.

One good thing about NPCs is that they will not be resurrected. If there are two players standing there, I have to find a way to get around them, because even if the player is killed, he will be resurrected in the resurrection hall, and after resurrection, he can still call the police. Therefore, player guards are quite difficult to deal with. Relatively speaking, NPCs are much easier to handle. As long as the attack is carried out cleanly and without being discovered, there is no need to worry about triggering the alarm later. However, although everyone knows that NPC guards are unreliable, few guilds use players as guards to stand guard. After all, everyone is here to have fun. If others go out to level up and do tasks and have a great time, would you be willing to just stand here by yourself? Just because everyone doesn't like to stand guard, unless they know in advance that someone is going to attack, few guilds will use players to stand guard. This place is obviously among the ordinary situations.

After confirming the positions of the two NPCs, I climbed to a window near the two NPCs, and then used the ghost beetle to help me see the opportunity. When the other party was not looking here, I suddenly opened the window. A wooden board covered the window, and two flying knives flew out almost at the same time, knocking two NPCs who turned their heads when they heard the sound to the ground. The handleless flying knife penetrated directly through the eyes of the two men and into their heads, leaving them no chance to scream.

I quickly jumped into the passage and closed the window. I hid the body next to the door behind the cannon, then quickly approached the door and leaned against it to listen carefully. It was unusually quiet outside the door, and there didn't seem to be any enemies. However, just to be safe, I carefully opened the door a small crack and let a ghost beetle out. After the ghost beetle confirmed that it was safe outside, I opened the door and entered the back passage.

Behind the room with the cannon was a criss-crossing tunnel. With the large number of ghost beetles I released for reconnaissance, I easily figured out the route and personnel locations here. After avoiding those people and easily passing through the passage, I entered the city through a small door.

As soon as I walked out of the door, I was stunned by the scene in front of me. After seeing the uniquely designed gate and defense system outside, I originally thought that there would be a magnificent underground city inside the mountain, but who knew that this place turned out to be a huge refugee camp. There is indeed a large space inside the mountain, but there are no large buildings. Various half-tent and half-house buildings made of wooden frames and canvases crowd the space inside the mountain. Various rock fragments and domestic garbage piles They are everywhere, and there is no order at all. This place is not a city at all, it is just a huge refugee camp.

Although I was dumbfounded by the situation in front of me, I did not forget my purpose. He found a less noticeable location and took out a stick of soul-chasing incense and lit it again. The smoke quickly condensed and drifted towards a temple-like building made of large stone slabs and wood in the center of the city. After clearing the smoke a few times, I climbed directly along the wall to the roof of the underground city, and then quickly climbed to the top of the building on the dark roof of the cave. After fixing the front end of the dragon tendon rope to the roof of the cave, I pulled the rope and slowly descended to the top of the building. With a flick of my wrist, the rope head automatically released and retracted.

The lower two floors of the three-story building under my feet are entirely made of stone. The structure looks very rough, and it feels like it was just temporarily piled up with a few stones. As for the wooden structure house on the top floor, it barely looks like a house. It looks like a house, but its level of "luxury" is at the level of a hunter's cabin at best. There are even uncut branches on the house that is almost entirely made of logs. If it weren't for the fact that this place is in the middle of a mountain, there might be everything inside. Rain leaks. It can be said that this house completely conforms to the style of this city. It feels as if someone put a piece of gold with an uneven surface and no regular shape on the head for decoration, even though everyone is wearing it. I know that gold is very valuable, but raw ore without any processing is not beautiful in any way. This is the city in front of you. Hollowing out the belly of the mountain itself is an extremely huge project, and the ability to build such a solid and thick city gate on the outside shows the level of construction here. However, the city that has been built with so much effort has turned into a slum inside. This is really disappointing. Humans cannot understand.

Although I can't figure out the situation, my most important goal now is not the construction level of the people here, but the guy who stole my things. After lighting a stick of soul-chasing incense and confirming the target location for the last time, I immediately canceled the invisibility. The reason I sneaked in before was not because I was afraid that people here would besiege me, but because I was afraid that I might scare someone off and scare the guy away. Now that I have found my target, there is no need to pretend anymore. Stratagem is only a method needed when the weak defeats the strong. When one's own side is far stronger than the opponent, there is no need to waste time calculating anything. The simplest and most effective method is to directly destroy all the opponent's defenses with overwhelming force.

After the invisibility disappeared, I directly swung the Eternal Sword and slashed downwards. With a cracking sound, the entire roof was split in two by me, and my whole body fell into the room along with the broken logs.

Everyone in the room was shocked by my sudden fall from the sky, and I was also stunned for a moment. I originally thought that the guy who took my things was in the room, but to my surprise, there were only three women sitting on a wooden bed in the room. They seemed to be chatting before, but now they all had expressions on their faces. Looking at me in surprise.

The women and I were staring at each other, when suddenly we heard shouting from the bottom of the stairs next to us. "What's going on up there? Huanmeng, Sisi, are you okay?" Along with the shout, a knight professional player ran up from below, but before he could even say a few words of concern, the three women discovered him first. to me standing on the other side. "Purple sun?"

"Ziri?" A person who rushed up behind the man screamed when he heard my name. When he saw me, the guy immediately screamed and turned around and ran down, shouting at the same time. Said: "Run quickly! Ziri is coming to kill again!"

Although I don't know what the relationship between the above people is and that guy, I don't plan to care about these people now, because the guy who escaped is the president of the guild that stole my things. Seeing him running away, I directly inserted Eternity into the ground, and then drew a circle around me. The stone slab on the ground was like tofu, and I cut a large circular hole, and then I took the The cut stone slabs fell together to the lower level. The guy just ran to the stairs on this floor. When he saw me suddenly falling through the floor, he immediately screamed and jumped down to the bottom of the stairs without even walking up the stairs. Seeing that he was still running, I punched through the floor of this floor again and fell directly to the first floor. The position where I stood happened to block the door. The guy backed away in fear as soon as he was halfway through. There were several people standing next to him. Judging from the badges, they all belonged to their guild. Moreover, these people obviously recognized me. They all retreated to the wall at the other end of the room in fear.

"Am I that scary? Why do you guys run away when you see me?"

They didn't take my words seriously at all. Instead, they became even more frightened. In the end, I don't know if their fear broke through the critical point. One of the soldiers suddenly shouted: "Everyone rush over together, and every one who runs away will be counted."

When he shouted those words, he and the other members around him suddenly rushed over. I was a little surprised by their reaction. Last time outside the small village of their guild, I knocked down so many people by myself and they dared to rush up. I was really desperate.

"Where do you want to go?" Looking at the sword swung by the fastest player, I casually stretched out a hand and firmly controlled the long sword with a squeeze. In his hand, no matter how hard the player struggled, he couldn't pull it out.

"Don't get entangled with him." The female player next to me was so fast that she didn't attack me at all and just bypassed me and rushed out. However, she suddenly screamed as soon as she rushed out of the door. With a cry, he flew back faster than he went out. The King and the Second King walked in from the door and stood there just blocking the entire door.

"Damn it, I'll fight you!" A soldier suddenly burst out and swung the battle ax in his hand towards me. However, he was forced to stop as soon as he raised the ax above his head, because in my hand His eternity has turned into a hook and sickle spear, and the tip of the spear is pressed against his throat.

"Who else wants to try it?"

Frightened by my strength, the room suddenly became dead silent. No one dared to move at all. After all, as long as I wanted to kill them, they wouldn't even have a chance to react. However, this stalemate only lasted for a few seconds and ended because the male knight who was upstairs walked down together with three other women.

"President Ziri, can you put down your weapon first?" The knight first looked at the situation on the field, and then asked. I glanced at him, and although I was very disdainful, I still took back Eternity and let go of the sword of the player I had previously pinched, and the other player quickly retreated back among my own people. Seeing that they had returned to their own camp, I was about to ask about my things, but unexpectedly the knight actually spoke again. "President Ziri, I know that your Frost Rose Alliance is very powerful, but this is my territory after all. Don't you think you have gone too far?" Seeing my confused look, he pointed at the top of my head. That hole on.

I gave him a disgusted look, but still said: "I will compensate for the damage. I, Ziri, don't like to owe others anything, but only if you are not involved in their actions."

"No, no, no, I'm not talking about compensation." The knight took two steps forward and stood in front of everyone and said: "Do you think you can break into other people's territory, destroy other people's things and hurt them without their consent? Is it enough to just compensate the guests?"

I almost fainted due to the knight's words. "Are you sure you know what you're talking about?"

"Of course." The knight said with certainty: "I don't know how you understand, but I feel that breaking into someone else's territory is not just a matter of a casual apology and compensation."

"It seems I didn't understand it wrong, but you are really just an idiot."

"Why are you swearing?" This time it was one of the three women who spoke.

"I'm not cursing, but stating facts." I said before the other party continued to speak: "Do you really understand what the Frost Rose Alliance represents?"

"It's just a guild." The woman said without knowing why.

I smiled and shook my head. "So I said he was an idiot, but it seems like he is not the only idiot here!"

"Who are you scolding?"

"I said, I didn't curse, I was just stating the facts. You don't understand my identity, nor what the Frost Rose Alliance represents, nor do you understand your own identity and what your guild represents. .”

"Okay, then what is your identity? What does your guild represent? What do we represent?"

"My identity is the president of the Frost Rose Alliance, number one in the world's combat power list, and the Frost Rose Alliance represents strength. We are just a group of proud lions, and you are just a group of rabbits. They..." I pointed That president. "These hateful jackals have stolen my prey, and I am chasing them. As for you, you are just a group of rabbits who happened to be involved. You are not even qualified to enter the lion's diet, but you are now You actually asked the lion to compensate you for going down the rabbit hole, and you have to include compensation for mental damage and personal insult. I really don’t know whether I am stupid or you are stupid. Don’t you think it’s funny to ask the lion for mental damage compensation? ?"

"You just keep saying that we are incompetent. Okay, today I will let you see how powerful we are." The woman suddenly reached out and took out the long bow from behind and mounted an arrow, but she still Before the shot came out, the president next to him screamed first.

"No, he..."

He was obviously a step too late in shouting, and the arrow had already been 'shot', but the next second it was held in my hand. "The accuracy is good, but unfortunately the speed is too slow and the strength is not enough. The most important thing is that it has no magical effect. You don't think this thing can 'shoot' me to death, do you?"

"Wow, he can actually catch your arrow!" What almost made me faint was that after the woman finished shooting the arrow, the other two women and the knight beside her shouted together.

"Hey, hey, hey, did you guys run away from the mental hospital?"

"President Ziri." The previous president suddenly calmed down, then stood in front of the women and the knight and said: "You are chasing me here just to get your things back. I said That’s right, right?”

I smiled and nodded and said, "Wouldn't everything be fine if we did this? But to be honest, I really want to know who they are. Here..." I pointed to my head. "Is there something wrong?"

The president looked at the people behind him and seemed to have something to hide. "This has nothing to do with you. Just pretend that what happened just now didn't happen! Some of those things have been sold, but most of them have been hidden by me. I can take you there right away. But you have to promise not to do it again. Make things difficult for them.”

"Don't worry, I won't interact with mentally retarded people. After all, I am a normal person, so they should give way to them. Of course, don't blame me if they take the initiative to cause trouble for me. I don't like to be taken advantage of. The feeling. In addition, you must give me the things you hide, that’s for sure, and you must tell me who you sold them to for the part you sold.”

The president seemed hesitant, but finally nodded. "Okay. Let's go."

"Wait a minute." The knight from before actually jumped out again at this time. "You smashed our house and you haven't compensated yet!"

After hearing what the guy said, the president quickly turned around and covered his mouth. I threw the dragon tendon rope out with a wave of my hand, wrapped it around the president's waist, pulled him hard to my side, and then grabbed him. I dragged him out of the room by his wrist. As for the knight, I wasn't even interested in talking to him. According to my observation, these people here are probably all disabled, and the knight and the three women should be mentally retarded. As for the president, it feels like he is responsible for taking care of these people. Based on these clues, the image of a kind-hearted person who made money to take care of mentally retarded children appeared in my mind. This is why I was suddenly so polite to that guy. According to my usual habit of growing hair, Anyone who dares to take my stuff would be a ghost if I didn't strip him of his underwear.

"Leave him alone and take me to find my things."

"Okay, okay." Realizing that I didn't care, the president immediately took me out of the city. Although the guy behind me followed him reluctantly, I didn't care about them at all. Come to think of it, I blame the character system of "Zero" for its beautification effect. If in reality I could tell at a glance that they were not normal people, I wouldn't have to put in so much effort.

Holding the guy in one hand, he jumped onto Ye Ying's back, and then drove Ye Ying to quickly rush out of this weird city. "Guide the way."

"there."

Following the guidance of the president, Ye Ying flew past at a fast pace, and soon we stopped next to a small waterfall with a height of only three or four meters.

"Where's the stuff?"

The president walked to the waterfall and walked directly through the waterfall. Only then did I realize that this was a place similar to a water curtain cave. After retracting Ye Ying and following him in, I discovered that the hole behind the waterfall was very deep, and the president had already walked forward for more than a hundred meters. I quickly picked up the pace and followed.

This hole first rose slightly from the entrance, and then began to slope all the way down. At first, the slope was not large. After walking three to four hundred meters, it suddenly turned into a deep well that went vertically downward, and it was impossible to see it at a glance. in the end.

"Did you hide your things down here?" I asked, looking at the deep well that was only one person wide.

The president nodded. "This is a cave we discovered during a mission. There is a group of caves underneath, and things are hidden at the entrance of that group of caves."

I looked down at the hole below again, then summoned the king and asked him to jump in first, and then let the president go down. I was at the back, sandwiching him in the middle to prevent him from playing tricks on the way. But this time I obviously thought too much. He was very honest all the way down to the bottom of the cave. However, just to be safe, not only did I not take the king back, I even released Bailang and Yeyue.

"Where are the things?" I turned around and asked the president, looking at the cave that suddenly stretched horizontally in front of me and became very wide.

"It's right there." The president took me to the side of the cave wall and pointed to a huge rock. "It's right behind here."

I turned my head and signaled, and the king immediately stepped forward and grabbed the edge of the rock and pulled back sharply. With a loud bang, the huge rock fell down, revealing a manually dug space of several square meters, and in the center of this space was a pile of boxes neatly stacked.

When I saw those things, I immediately ran over excitedly and opened the top box. "Haha, it is indeed what I want." The box was filled with the kind of metal that the Holy Mother of Gold and Stone split.

The president explained later: "The others were all gems, and we sold them directly. Because we didn't know what kind of treasure these metals were, we were afraid they would be sold cheaply, so we didn't rush to sell them."

"You will know how to settle accounts." I struggled to move the upper box out, and then summoned my magic pets to move out all the remaining boxes. I opened the boxes one by one and checked them. Everything turned out to be normal. They are all filled with metal, and together they weigh dozens of tons. After checking the metals and throwing them all into the Fenglong space, I asked the president: "How much did you sell those gems for?" What I meant was that if they weren't very valuable, I wouldn't chase them. Anyway, I really The only targets are these metals. Although gems are also valuable, there is no need to recover them if the quantity is not particularly large.

The president probably guessed what I meant, and immediately replied: "There are thirty-one gems in total, all of good quality, and a total of more than thirty thousand crystal coins were sold. If you don't believe it, you can go to the exchange to check the records."

I waved my hand to show that I was too lazy to care about this, and then planned to leave here, but as soon as I turned around, the ground suddenly shook. "what happened?"

The president looked back and said nonchalantly: "It's okay. It has happened several times when we came here. There may be a magma tube nearby."

"Oh." I nodded and planned to leave, but the vibrations suddenly began to get louder and louder. In the end, I could clearly feel that something was rushing towards us at a terrifying speed. I grabbed the president and asked, "Does this kind of sound often happen?"

The president shook his head with fear and said, "I don't know, this is the first time I heard such a sound."

"Looks like we're in trouble!" I said, taking out my eternity and turning towards the direction of the sound.