Volume 20, Chapter 86: Poseidon Temple and Its Body

As the monster's body completely disintegrated, Mira and Black Flame quietly disappeared into the air. The huge rock hall now seemed even more empty without the skyscraper-like monster. 【】

"Is this the end?" Prometheus could hardly believe what he was seeing. It wasn't until the monster's projection completely disappeared that he finally reacted and asked as if talking to himself.

"No, it's not over yet." I said as I walked towards the center of the rock hall.

Prometheus just asked casually, not really expecting an answer. Unexpectedly, I actually answered his question, but when he saw me walking towards the center of the field, he became confused. , but he soon realized something, so he hurriedly ran to follow. Of course, he wasn't stupid enough to overtake me. He just caught up behind me and slowly followed me to the middle, without daring to overtake me.

In fact, my behavior is easy to guess. I just killed a super boss. Although it was just a projection, it was a real high-level monster, so it was only natural to go over and check to see if anything had exploded.

In fact, most of the monsters in "Zero" do not explode equipment. After all, the main feature of "Zero" is reality. In the real world, if you kill an animal at will, a weapon or armor will pop out. , isn’t that strange? Therefore, most of the monsters in "Zero" do not actually explode equipment, or they do not directly explode equipment.

In fact, the monsters in "Zero" are not really incapable of exploding equipment. After all, players need equipment. If the monsters do not expend equipment, they can only rely on completing tasks or buying them in the system store before spending money, or by themselves. Built. However, the efficiency of the above three methods is very low. If you only rely on those three links to obtain equipment, then players may only be beggars before reaching level 1,000. Therefore, monsters still have to explode equipment, just for the sake of authenticity, so they cannot directly explode equipment or gold coins, but use another method, that is - produce materials.

In the entire game, except for the first 100 or 200 levels, many of the enemies that players fight are wild beasts. After that, most of the wild creatures that players fight are Warcraft or other types of magical creatures. Among the humanoid creatures, if they use equipment themselves, they can directly expend equipment or money after death. After all, it is very reasonable for the enemy to wear armor or carry gold coins or something. However, if it is not a humanoid creature and the other party does not have a social organization, then this creature can only produce materials. Because they are magical creatures themselves, the fur, flesh, bones, teeth, claws, and crystal cores of these monsters are all trophies that can be collected. Take these items to the blacksmith to exchange them for money, or to synthesize equipment. If you exchange money, you can buy equipment in the store, and if you synthesize it, you will usually get some special equipment that is different from the type of equipment sold in the store. Of course, synthesis also requires 'paying' money, so you must harvest a large amount of materials, otherwise you will never be able to combine a set of equipment with just one set of materials.

Although according to the above rules, the monsters in the game basically do not explode equipment, but the creature in front of you is a little different. First, he wears armor, which proves that he is a creature that can use equipment, so the possibility of it breaking equipment is very high. Secondly, this thing is an energy body. Although energy creatures don't often explode equipment in the game, they often explode various crystals. For example, ghost creatures often explode soul crystals after being destroyed. Every time I go to the guild warehouse, I pour out the loot for a period of time. I can always find piles of soul crystals, 99% of which are contributed by ghost-type creatures.

Since this thing meets the characteristics of explosive equipment, it must be confirmed.

When I walked to the place where the monster shattered and collapsed, I found that it had exploded. It's just that what he exploded wasn't any equipment, but a crystal.

"This...is it a soul crystal?" Prometheus looked at the crystal in front of him in disbelief, which was as big as a football. He even started to tremble when he spoke.

Soul crystals are indeed common, but they are the same as diamonds in the real world. The larger the size, the higher the value. Generally, soul crystals that are only the size of olives are one-time consumables with very low value and can be purchased by anyone in large quantities. However, items as big as goose eggs are high-end goods, and only advanced players are willing to spend money on them, while items as big as oranges are basically guild-level configurations, except for some magic equipment in guild cities that require Outside the country, individuals can hardly afford it. However, the piece in front of me is amazing. Think about it, how many oranges are there in a football? Even orange level ones are guild equipment. What is this? National equipment?

Although he was extremely shocked that such a large piece of soul crystal could be exploded, Prometheus wisely did not have any evil thoughts. In fact, it's not like he didn't use his brain, it's just that he crushed the idea as soon as he came up with it. I just witnessed with my own eyes that my pet and I defeated a being that they thought was invincible in three minutes. Under such a shocking education, no one would think that they have the ability to challenge me. Even if they sacrifice one life, he will never take it away. This crystal, not to mention the revenge that comes with it.

Although Prometheus gave up the plan to possess this crystal, my next behavior still shocked him so much that his jaw almost dropped, because I did not take the soul crystal away at all. , but suddenly raised his leg and stamped on the surface of the crystal. With a clicking sound, the crystal exploded into fragments all over the ground. At that moment, Prometheus felt that his heart was broken together with the crystal, but when he came back to his senses, he found that I did not collect the fragments, but looked up diagonally upward as if sleepwalking. And moved slowly towards the exit.

Prometheus followed my line of sight and found that he only saw the rock at the top of the cave, and there was nothing special about it. With a last nostalgic glance at the debris on the ground, Prometheus finally gritted his teeth and stood up and followed me. Then he tried hard to follow my line of sight and try to find what I was looking at, but after trying for a long time, he couldn't find any results. In the end, he had no choice but to ask: "President Ziri, what are you looking at?"

I didn't reply at all to what Prometheus said. My head was still at a 45-degree angle and I was looking at the slow movement diagonally above me. However, I handed over a small bottle in my hand. I didn't speak until Prometheus took it. He said, "Do you know how to use eye drops? One drop on each side, don't use too much, it's very expensive."

After being stunned for a moment, Prometheus reacted, quickly took off his helmet, and then put the liquid in the bottle into his eyes. After blinking a few times to get used to the feeling of the potion, he looked up again but was stunned because a group of white appeared in the cave that was originally empty. of smoke.

"This...this is..."

"Soul fragments." I replied simply.

Prometheus was not stupid, and he quickly realized the origin of this thing. "Is this the monster from just now?"

"Yes, it's just a simple soul thought, so it can't even gather its form. When the monster decomposed, its body only 'took away' the control line of the main consciousness, and the soul stored here cannot be taken away. The remaining soul formed a soul crystal after the monster disintegrated. Just after I smashed it, this residual soul was released, and then it began to move closer to the main consciousness based on the broken instinctive consciousness."

"You mean it will take us to where the main body is?"

"Aren't you too stupid?"

After being commented by me in this way of praise or ridicule, Prometheus was too embarrassed to answer the question, and could only follow the thing forward with me. Since the soul itself is incomplete and has been sealed once by the soul crystal, this fragment of the soul has become very weak. Not only is it unable to gather its form, but it even moves at an alarmingly slow speed. We followed it for more than half an hour before moving from the hall to the outside passage, and it took nearly an hour to cross the entire passage. Finally, it was not until night that the thing finally moved to the previous place. At the exit of the maze. However, although it is already dark, this is a cave anyway, so changes in outside light have no impact on us at all.

"Huh, is this thing going to float all the way outside the cave?" Prometheus finally couldn't help but ask as he looked at the soul fragments still floating into the maze. He was really worn out by this thing. If you were to follow a snail running a marathon, you would probably feel the same way. Even a slow-tempered person would get sick following something that is faster than a tortoise. After all, we have only moved less than 300 meters in more than an hour, which is an average of three meters per minute. About meters. What do you call this speed? A real turtle would probably run much faster than this speed, right?

Of course, only Prometheus is anxious, and I am not anxious at all. In the age of technology, there is mobile office. Although there are not many technological products in the game, there are many magic products. I used the crystal communicator to contact the God of War and Aphrodite, and I also took the time to have a phone call with Rose. Naturally, he is not in a hurry when he has something to do, but Prometheus is even more anxious. Because I have been chatting using communication tools, it is difficult for him to interrupt and talk to me, so he can only stand there alone. Stupid wait.

Fortunately, after entering the labyrinth, Prometheus' suffering was finally coming to an end. The fragment of the soul that had been floating in the air had been falling in height. After arriving in the maze, it had dropped from a height of two meters above the ground to a height of less than a foot above the ground and was moving. Because the soul fragment is too weak, passing through the wall will cause the loss of soul power, so the soul fragment can only walk along the passage like us and cannot pass through the wall. After spending more than half an hour making several turns, the soul fragment turned into a dead end, and then completely covered the wall that blocked the way and began to squirm.

Seeing the soul fragment blocked by the wall and no longer moving, I finally understood the meaning of the sentence at the entrance of the maze. The function of a maze is to confuse people's judgment. Yes, when we think we are going out through the exit, we have actually been misled. The exit of this maze is not the passage at all, but is located behind the wall of a dead end. Just because most people think that the exit of the maze must be open, it leads to our habitual thinking going the wrong way.

Because I don't know if I will encounter a maze map in the future, I don't plan to destroy the soul fragment for the time being. I carefully used my magic power to 'get' the soul fragments from the wall, and then I started looking for the mechanism on the wall. After confirming that there was no mechanism, I simply used the Eternal Sword to start drilling 'holes' in the wall.

Pfft... The feeling of the sword penetrating through the wall clearly told me that this thing had no backup, and the wall itself was not thick, only one foot at most.

"Is there a passage behind this?" After I pulled out my weapon, Prometheus finally discovered that there was light coming from behind the hole I poked in the wall.

"Nonsense, otherwise you thought I was mining?" I took out a ghost beetle and stuffed it into the wall through the hole. I used the beetle's senses to sense the situation behind the wall and confirmed that it was just an empty passage. He directly took back the beetle and told Prometheus to step back, and then blasted away the entire wall with a burst of fireball.

After the broken wall, there is indeed an empty cave. After entering, you can find a building on the left, which looks like a temple. The statue at the top of the main entrance of the temple clearly shows that. This is the temple of Poseidon, the King of the Sea.

"I finally know why this place is called Poseidon's Cave." Looking at the statue, Prometheus sighed.

"I think I know it too." Prometheus felt a little strange after hearing my words, but when he turned his head back, he found that I was not standing behind him. Originally, after entering the cave and discovering the temple, he ran in front of me out of excitement, but after waiting for a while, he found that I was not behind, but ran to the cave on the right front. ''hole'' corner.

The 'cave' we entered is roughly rectangular, you can imagine it as the shape of a computer monitor. The Poseidon Temple is located on the left border of the monitor, and the entire side is completely occupied by the temple. As for how deep it is behind, we can't see it at all, because the entrance to the temple seals the entire hole on this side. 'wall.

According to this structure, the entrance we just entered is probably located in the lower right corner of the monitor, on the bottom border of the monitor. As soon as Prometheus came in, he was attracted by the temple on the left, and ended up running in front of me. When he realized that I was gone, he realized that I was standing on the side frame in the upper right corner of the monitor. Before another exit.

After discovering my position, Prometheus hurried over, but when he stood behind me and saw the situation inside the 'door' over my shoulder, he was completely stunned.

The exit I found was not outside the mountain, but another cave. However, it was not a dry cave on the ground, but a water cave. Yes, outside this exit is a circular cave with an area not much larger than a basketball court, but the entire cave is a huge underground lake, except for a section at the entrance that extends downward to Apart from the stairs in the water, there is no land in the cave, and the top of the cave is also very low. People who are very tall can even reach out and touch the ceiling. .

Although this cave is completely a water cave, it is much brighter than outside. There seems to be some light source underwater, and the entire water is illuminated with a shining green color, which looks very pleasant.

"We're not going down here, are we?" Prometheus asked timidly.

"No, let's go check out the situation in the temple first."

Although the soul fragment also entered the cave after us, it was so weak that after entering the cave, it only had time to float to the entrance of the water cave. It completely dissipated, so guides were no longer available for the rest of the way. Of course, if nothing else happens, we probably won’t be able to use it. After all, we have found a passage that we could not find before. In fact, I guess Prometheus was a little happy when the soul fragment dissipated. After all, the moving speed of that thing was really slow, making people want to find something to put it in and drag it away.

After exiting the water cave, we returned to the Poseidon Temple located on the other wall of the cave. It’s different from what we imagined. This place is almost like the Earth Temple in China. Although the facade of the building is quite good, after entering, we found that there is a side less than ten meters away from the main gate. Wall, and then there is a row of Poseidon statues in front of the wall. The one in the middle is of course Poseidon. Standing on both sides are the patron saints of the seven Poseidon pillars and three Poseidon beasts.

Except for the statue in front of this wall, the Poseidon Temple is basically empty. After searching carefully to confirm that there was no other passage, we had no choice but to leave here. However, this Poseidon Temple did not give us nothing. On the contrary, the things it gave us were quite good. Because the moment we entered the Poseidon Temple, the system prompted us to receive a blessing from the Poseidon. In the future, our underwater movement speed can be increased by 5, and it will increase within 24 hours from now, and this enhancement reward can still be obtained repeatedly, that is, we only need to do it once every 24 hours. It is equivalent to permanently gaining the attribute of underwater speed increase. Of course, it's really not cost-effective to run it once a day for such an attribute, but if there are any tasks that require underwater speed, it's not a bad idea to run there just once to brush it up. Besides, even if you don’t come back to farm in the future, at least the annual bonus of 5 will still take effect.

In fact, after getting this reward, we realized that this temple was not the focus of the mission at all, it was just a mission support point. This temple can increase movement speed underwater, and there is a water hole on the other side. Does this clearly tell us that the next stage of the mission will be carried out underwater?

After getting the bonus attributes here, we directly entered the entrance of the water cave. From the entrance of the cave, there are only three steps going down above the water, and the fourth step is already underwater. However, because the water is extremely clear and bright, you can still see that the steps do not end at the water surface. On the contrary, this step seems to extend all the way to a very deep place under the water, but I don’t know why the person who built this step wanted to build the step all the way to the bottom of the water. Anyway, you can swim forward after entering the water. What use are the steps?

"Does your helmet provide underwater breathing?" I turned to look at Prometheus and asked before entering the water.

Prometheus nodded quickly and said: "Of course. Although it's not as good as yours, mine is still top-notch equipment."

I simply ignored the words behind Prometheus, then pulled down my mask and jumped directly into the water. Prometheus saw me getting down and jumped down too. Because we all wear full-coverage helmets, we can still talk underwater, but because the sound has to travel through the cross-media between water and air, the sound sounds a bit strange.

"Grandma." After entering the water, I summoned Grandma directly. Xiaolongnu was sent by me to perform a branch task, so now only Aina is the fastest underwater.

"Holy shit, President Ziri, do you still have a mermaid demon pet?" Prometheus, who saw Ariana for the first time, immediately screamed in surprise.

I didn't take his fuss seriously at all, and just let Aina hold my hand and dive down. As for Prometheus, Aina wouldn't hold him anyway, so I even more I don’t know how to hold hands with a man anymore, so I just throw him a rope and let him pull the rope.

Anyone who has ever swum should know that it is very difficult to dive underwater, especially if you can swim. Originally we expected that it would take a long time to dive after entering the water, but with Ah Di Na and the auxiliary effect of increasing the underwater speed, we were like three torpedoes going straight into the hole. bottom.

The water hole we entered was obviously a cone. The mouth of the hole we just came down was only a little bigger than a basketball court, but the deeper we went down, the wider the hole became. In the end, we couldn't even see the surrounding area at all. The wall of the hole is broken. Fortunately, Grandma has underwater sonar skills, so we don’t have to worry about finding the exit.

After diving for almost six to seven hundred meters, we reached the bottom of the cave. If in reality, the water pressure would have crushed us into human pie. But this is a game, protected by armor, and we can’t feel any water pressure at all.

There was a small door on the wall at the bottom of the cave we came down from. When we walked over, we discovered that the stairs at the entrance of the cave actually extended to Here, if there is no water in this 'hole', you can walk all the way down the stairs.

Unlike the unobstructed entrance above, there is a 'door' at the exit at the bottom of the cave. The 'door' panel is not made of metal, but is blocked by a large shell. This is clearly the style of the Sea Clan. In fact, I even doubt whether this underground water system is directly connected to the sea.

Although there is a door, the big door made of shells actually just blocks the exit and can be opened with a pull. After passing through this 'door', there is a passage about several meters long, and there is also a shell 'door' at the other end of the passage. After we swam over and opened the shell 'door', we immediately entered a passage that was slightly wider than before. However, this passage does not extend forward, but lies across in front of us. The location we entered was in the center of this passage. There were passages to our left and right, and there were shell covers blocking them all in front.

"We're in trouble now. We won't run into the underwater maze, right?" Prometheus asked worriedly.

"I hope you don't have a crow's mouth attribute." After I said that, I took the lead and turned to the right. As for why I chose this side, it was just because I was standing here. Anyway, we haven't walked through either side, and there is no information for us to analyze now. Instead of just standing there and wasting time, we might as well just choose one side and walk around.

Although Prometheus didn't know why I walked to the right, he just followed me to see me complete the task. He was not the one who took the task, so he could only follow me.

Since the passage is not too long, we quickly reached the entrance on the right. Pushing open the shell door, there is a small cubicle about the same size as a household toilet behind, and in addition to the shell door we entered, there is an energy barrier here.

"Eh? Isn't this your waterproof barrier?" My first reaction after seeing this energy barrier was that it seemed to be the waterproof 'door' at the entrance to Atlantis. Although this thing can block the passage of water, it does not block other things. People and items can come in and out at will, but water cannot pass through.

What I know about the waterproof 'door' in Atlantis is that it blocks water and facilitates the passage of people, but Ariana is an Atlantean after all, so she knows much more than I do. After checking the barrier, Auntina immediately told me that the working principle of this 'door' is different from their waterproof 'door'. Although the functions are similar, they are not the same thing.

Although it is quite strange to find the second waterproof door technology, consider that Poseidon's Poseidon type itself lives on the bottom of the sea, and they are not actually completely aquatic creatures, so there is waterproofing. Door' technology is also normal.

Although Prometheus had never seen the waterproof door in Atlantis, he was still extremely curious about the door in front of him. After all, a door that could only isolate water was indeed quite rare. . However, his curiosity about that door was immediately frightened and he disappeared after passing through the big door, because, just behind the big door, he saw the same person who I killed before. The monster with the exact same projection.

"Zi Zi Zi... President Zi Ri, could this be the original body?"

"It looks like it." After scanning it with Star Pupil, I immediately knew that this was the monster I was looking for. Because I had fought with the projection of this thing before, I could count as fighting with him. Therefore Xingtong can read his attributes. The thing in front of us is indeed an awesome boss, but it is not level three to five thousand as we had guessed before, but... level eight thousand. "Holy crap, the level is off the charts!"

"Ah? What's going on?" Because he couldn't see the display on my side, Prometheus didn't know that this thing in front of him was an 8,000-level perverted monster. Of course, this does not prevent him from continuing to pretend to be a vibrator, because in the beginning, his clones scared them away, and now they will naturally be even more frightened when they encounter the real person.

Since I heard Prometheus's inquiry, I directly showed him the properties of Star Pupils. As a result, Prometheus, who was shaking like a sieve, was now like a lump of mud. Collapsed on the ground. Level 8,000! What is that concept? A two-thousand-level monster can besiege their entire guild for several hours and cost them dozens of people before they can barely kill it. How strong must an eight-thousand-level monster be? The entire guild will be wiped out in the blink of an eye!

When I saw the projection of the monster before, I planned to catch a demon pet because I thought the monster's attributes were quite good and it was suitable for use as a powerful thug-type demon pet. But now it seems that this guy has exceeded expectations. He is really ridiculously strong. Level 8,000! Not even a god!

Because I have the attribute of suppressing the gods, even if it is a 10,000-level god, I can still escape in front of him. As for the 8,000-level god, I can barely fight. But this monster is not a god! If he fights me, his attributes will not be reduced at all, and I will not be strengthened, so I have no chance of winning against this thing.

I have almost the same relationship with this monster and the 8,000-level protoss. I can't defeat this monster, this monster can't defeat the 8,000-level protoss, and the 8,000-level protoss can't defeat me. This whole thing is a triangle cycle.

"What about that, President Ziri. I think we should run away first?" Prometheus finally plucked up the courage to suggest with a trembling voice after shaking for a while.

I almost agreed at that moment, but suddenly I stopped because I thought of the projection in the hall before. The monster in front of us was lying curled up on the ground with his back to us, so we couldn't see his condition clearly, but I remember that when the previous projection disintegrated, it even disintegrated the chains on the ground. What is this indicating? This shows that the chain is also a projection, and the only reason why the chain produces a projection is that the monster's body is also locked.

After thinking about the key, I immediately walked forward, while Prometheus was so scared that he didn't know what to say. Prometheus felt like his heart was about to have a problem when he was with me today. The stimulation was too great. Killing a level 3,000 projection was scary enough before, but now I actually dare to take the initiative to challenge a level 8,000 monster. You know, I'm only over 2,000 levels. Even though I'm much higher than them, compared to this monster, I'm just a scumbag! More than two thousand levels, eight thousand more levels, a quarter of the level! Is there any chance of winning?

I'm certainly not arrogant enough to think I can defeat this monster, even if he's chained. Level 8,000 is too scary. No one would think that they could defeat him at level 2,000 or more. The reason why I dared to move forward was because I had no intention of fighting him.

As the president of the Frost Rose Alliance and number one in the world's combat power rankings, many people think that my specialty is my ability to fight, but I think my greatest specialty should actually be my ability to speak.

"Zero" is indeed a game that focuses on combat, but that only means that combat is the main tone. The system never said that there is only combat in the game. Many things can actually be solved with words, such as my current position as a middleman among the gods. Although strength is also one of the main supporting points of this identity, if I am a clumsy-tongued fool, how can the gods listen to my arrangements and let me be the middleman? So, compared to combat effectiveness, I think my communication ability should be stronger. The level of the monster in front of me is as high as 8,000, which means I am definitely inferior to the fist. But looking at his appearance, it is obvious that he is not an intelligent creature, so his psychological combat power level may not be as powerful as that of the little monster. Using one's own strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses, is this the way to win every battle?

"Hey, excuse me, are you awake?"

My voice was quite loud, and Prometheus, who had been lucky enough to think that the monster was sleeping because the monster had his back to us, felt that he almost missed it. It's like you carefully 'touched' a sleeping lion and prepared to steal its uneaten piece of 'meat', and at this moment your companion suddenly shouted at the lion, what do you think you were at that time? Feeling? If it weren't for his inferior status to me, Prometheus would have almost been ready to point his finger at me and scold me. Of course, not daring to speak loudly for fear of waking up the monster was also one of the important reasons.

"Hey, are you asleep? Why didn't you answer?" Seeing that the monster didn't move for a long time, I shouted again, and Prometheus had simply retreated to the edge of the waterproof door at this time, preparing for any eventuality. No. Lima turned and ran away.

Huh... Accompanied by a sound like the exhaust of a train, the mountain of meat in front of me suddenly moved, and then I saw him slowly sitting up from the ground, and then he seemed to be a little dizzy after sleeping for too long. He shook his head twice, and then seemed to wake up a little. The guy suddenly climbed up with support, and at the same time there was a jingling sound of the iron chain hitting him.

Finally, the monster, which stood up completely, slowly turned around. The figure and appearance are exactly the same as the previous projection, and even the chains on the hands and feet are the same, but the pressure on people is countless times greater than that of the projection.

After turning around completely, the monster finally looked left and right, and finally looked down at me standing on the ground. Compared to his size, I'm basically at the level of a cockroach. After all, this guy's claws look as high as a three-story building.

After seeing my presence clearly, the guy suddenly leaned forward, then pressed his two front paws that were more like hands on the ground, and stretched his head towards me. Despite being wrapped in chains, this room was not as large as the one above, so the monster could move throughout the room with almost no restrictions. His head just stretched out in front of me, and Prometheus had already got to the other side of the waterproof door, with only his face exposed here, and was ready to wait for me to be eaten by the monster for the first time. Time has escaped.

However, what Prometheus expected did not happen, but developed as I expected. The monster finally stopped its head about five meters in front of me. Although it didn't seem very close, considering its size, the distance was actually quite close. If there are two people, this distance is basically equivalent to the distance that the other person can sweeten you by sticking out his tongue, and the monster in front of me can indeed roll me back into his mouth just by sticking out his tongue. Of course, he didn't do that.

"How many years has it been? Someone is actually able to find me. Congratulations on your brave little guy."

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