Chapter 139 The NPC Who Left and Returned

"I think other people might want to talk to us about this situation now." Kristina said: "The reaction of those NPCs is obviously abnormal. The NPC tribe here cannot only involve our side of the mission, so they If something goes wrong, I think other players will also be in trouble."

"Then let's find out more about it. Oresia, I'm going to trouble you about this job."

"Don't worry, I'm good at this job." After Oresia agreed, she asked us to wait where we were for a while, and then she would notify us after she found another player team. In this way, it can speed up, and secondly, it will not scare people away. After all, we have a large group of undead with us. If we encounter this suddenly, normal people will definitely be worried.

After arranging the plan, we could only wait where we were, while Oresia quickly slipped into a hole in the wall and disappeared. According to her, there are many players here, and it takes at most ten minutes to find someone. Even if you bring them back, it will take less than half an hour.

"What on earth could cause these NPCs to suddenly rebel?" Since we had nothing to do, Kristina asked, asking us all to think about what was going on.

Ashford shook his head and said: "I can't think of anything. Those NPCs are originally a group of very peace-loving creatures. Their characters are very simple, just like children who are not yet sensible. They are very kind to each other, and sometimes They can do some pranks, but overall they are a very easy to get along with. As long as you give them some gifts at the beginning and act kindly, they will treat you very well, even if it is really because of something. If you offend them, they will probably just ignore you. Such an active attack has never happened before."

"If you exclude problems within the race, it should be external factors." I said aloud.

Alice turned to look at me and asked, "President Ziri, do you think it was someone who caused this change in them?"

I nodded and admitted: "You said it yourself, every time you do this mission, there will be a team of players causing trouble. No matter how unlucky you are, you won't do more than a dozen missions in a row and always crash with others." Right? Of course, unless someone deliberately confronts you and sabotages the mission. But although your Iron Crusaders are not a tolerant guild, they are not to the point of having enemies all over the place, right? So I think, the most normal The corollary is that there are actually hidden obstacles in your mission. Maybe every time you do a mission, a reverse mission will be issued simultaneously, which will cause you to encounter hostile players every time."

Ashford asked: "Could it be that this time a group of hostile players affected the attitude of the NPCs and made them no longer friendly?"

"It may not be just an attitude problem, of course, this is the most likely. If they do something and then blame you, then it is understandable that this group of NPCs will become violent. However, in addition to this, if you use a large black What about magic, like blood sacrifice or something like that?”

"What kind of magic is Blood Sacrifice?" Tank asked aloud. This guy is a paladin and doesn't know much about magic.

Kristina explained to me: "Blood Sacrifice is a large-scale group magic. To be precise, it is a magic circle. After it is arranged, it can produce a very large area of ​​influence, and then gradually change the creatures within the area. You have to be grumpy, irritable, warlike, bloodthirsty, or emotionally unstable. If you arrange this kind of thing in the city, it will easily develop into a **. However, there are actually very few such sacrificial magic circles. Used alone, it can be turned into a very cutting-edge recruiting array by combining it with several other magic arrays. It can transform all the ziyounpc in the city into combat recruits, and then dispatch them as you like. Essinger's There is also such a large magic circle under the ground, and it is also mixed with various auxiliary magics, which can enhance our own combat effectiveness."

After hearing this, Alice sighed: "No wonder people say that Essinger is the fortress least likely to fall. This defense is too exaggerated! You Essinger has tens of millions of you NPCs, right? If they were all converted into soldiers, That’s more than the entire entrance to many countries!”

"Actually, the number of Zi YouNPCs in Essinger is not tens of millions, but 200 million." Kristina suddenly broke the news, shocking Ashford and the others. "The numbers you calculated are for the first floor of Isinger, but Isinger does not only have one floor. Besides, we also have an empty city of Essinger that is upside down above the ground city of Essinger?"

"In this calculation, two hundred million is indeed not too much."

The area of ​​Essinger is larger than that of Shanghai in reality, and the city in reality is flat. Even if there are buildings, they are only multi-story inside the buildings, but Essinger is different. Essinger itself is divided into several floors. Although some floors are not inhabitable, there are more than one floor where people can move in. Secondly, the buildings in Essinger are generally very tall, and the internal space of the public building may be relatively large, so it will not have any impact. However, the interior of the building you stay in is the same as the Moyao Building, with many rooms divided into layers. . More importantly, there is something called hyperspace in the game, which is to place a large space in a small space. This technology is already considered a popular technology in the game. Although the cost is relatively high, our guild has been criticized by other guilds as a typical example of extravagance and waste. Using hyperspace in civilian buildings is a small waste. It's not a big deal for us.

It is precisely because of this series of characteristics that the actual space area of ​​Essinger is much larger than it appears. In addition to players, there are more than 200 million younpc in Essinger, but even if they are combined with players and Taking into account all kinds of creatures, Essinger's per capita area is still much wider than most current city standards. In other words, Essinger has crammed more than 200 million people into it, which is actually quite loose.

We were chatting here, and suddenly we saw something flashing in the hole in front of us, and then we heard a sound like opening a champagne cork, followed by a clanking sound, and then we saw something. It hit the top of the channel in front of us, then rebounded and fell right in the middle of our group.

"Eh? What is that?" Seeing this, Ashford actually wanted to go up and pick it up, but I reacted and kicked the thing away, but as soon as it flew into the air, it exploded. With a loud noise, the skeleton soldiers around us fell down in a circle instantly. Alice and the tank were both knocked away by the shock wave as they were closer to the explosion point. Alice was more seriously injured. The tank had high defense, so it was just He fell down, shook his head and got up again.

This sudden attack completely confused us. Many players didn't realize what was going on, but they were all veteran players. Even if they were not elites, they were still masters, so their reactions were pretty good. After a brief panic, a defense line was immediately formed, and the attack from the opposite side was not slow at all. After a series of bang bang bang sounds, I saw several jars exactly like the one flying over.

"Mage, stay back." I yelled loudly and ran forward with Eternity in hand. I turned Eternity into a structure like a badminton racket. I jumped up and swung several times in the air to knock all three jars away. I went back, but there were two others that I really couldn't stop.

One of the tanks fell in front of Kristina, but the girl reacted very quickly. She directly threw an extremely effective quagmire spell to the location where the bomb landed, and then quickly grabbed the child of night next to her and shouted: "Quick Flash" .”

The Son of the Night took Kristina to teleport away. The bomb exploded after being more than half submerged in the mud. However, because the soft mud has a strong ability to absorb impact, the power of the bomb dropped a lot. , and caused no harm.

The tank on the other side blocked a bomb with its shield. Unfortunately, the rebound angle was not right. It actually fell into the pile of undead next to it and blew up a large number of skeleton soldiers. Fortunately, the skeleton soldiers were originally cannon fodder units, and there were thousands more behind them. , these few are no longer missing.

Two consecutive attacks were ineffective. The attackers on the opposite side probably realized that this kind of thing was useless to us, so they directly changed their attack methods. Because of the interception of those bombs, I am now standing at the front of the team. Because this section of the passage is relatively straight, my sight range is relatively far. The sound of opening a bottle did not appear again in the passage ahead. Instead, there was a sudden chirping sound, and at the same time, a fire dragon was seen spreading along the passage very fast.

"Holy shit! Everyone lie down!" I shouted and threw myself forward to the ground. The undead behind were all commanded by me, and their speed was relatively fast. Although Ashford and the others were a little slower, they He got down in time. After we all lay down on the ground, we saw the fire dragon rolling along the top of the passage and rushing toward us. The entire passage was illuminated red in an instant, and we could feel the billowing heat waves coming from above our heads.

"Well..." As soon as the fire dragon rolled over me, I suddenly felt a sense of suffocation, and suddenly I remembered that this was a passage. Such a large-scale flame combustion must consume a large amount of oxygen. There is little oxygen in this sealed illusion, how much oxygen can be left after burning like this? Suffocation is only the initial symptom, and the feeling of suffocation will definitely occur later.

Realizing that something was wrong, I quickly shouted to Ashford and the others behind me: "There is no oxygen. Those who have the ability to adapt to the anaerobic environment will stay, and those who can't hold on will quickly retreat. The air in the back area will be better."

Upon hearing my call, Alice and Al quickly turned around and ran away. Ashford looked at me helplessly and turned around and ran away. The Son of the Night and Tank were eventually forced to leave, and Kristina and I were the only ones left here.

"It's really terrible. Fortunately, we got a bunch of undead before!" After putting down the mask, I immediately felt a breath of fresh air filling my lungs, which made me feel much better. Although there is still a small amount of oxygen in the surrounding air after the burning, just like altitude sickness, it is really difficult to adapt to that low-oxygen environment. The most important thing is that it feels very uncomfortable, as if there is pressure on the chest. It was like a stone. Although I could still breathe, every time I breathed it felt extremely strenuous.

My Dragon Soul suit helmet comes with air filtration, which allows me to move around without being affected underwater or in toxic environments. It can also guarantee six hours of oxygen supply in a complete vacuum or an oxygen-free environment, so I have nothing to worry about in a short period of time. questionable.

Compared to me, Kristina is obviously more relaxed. She has now directly turned herself into a big flying light bulb, with a pair of beautiful shining butterfly wings spread out behind her back, and occasionally she will flap twice, bringing countless luminous crystal powders to float down. This is Kristina's elemental elf mode. In this mode, she is no longer a human body, but an elemental elf. The main ability of this elemental elf itself is unlimited mana. Although it takes time to restore magic, the recovery speed is super fast. As long as you don't use one big move after another, you can basically ignore the magic power limit. But what Kristina needs now is not the magical ability of the elemental elves, but the special attributes of this race.

Because magic elves are energy creatures, they do not consume oxygen and do not climb into extreme environments such as high temperatures, extreme cold, and toxins. To put it bluntly, it means immunity to the three systems of ice, fire, and poison, and physical damage is halved. There is no need for oxygen, no matter the atmospheric pressure or water pressure, or any extreme environment will not affect her survival. The only thing in nature that has a greater impact on her race is thunderstorms, because thunder and lightning belong to energy and have powerful damage to energy beings like her. Of course, she also has the ability to control lightning, so even a lightning mage can't restrain her, it can only threaten her.

"What exactly is attacking us?" Kristina floated over directly after completing the transformation. In this mode, she also has the ability to levitate. This levitation ability does not require the assistance of wings. As long as she does not want to land, she can keep floating without consuming anything, just floating. Moreover, she can move quickly in this state. Although she cannot keep up with a galloping horse, she is much faster than most players. The most important thing is that this method of movement does not consume stamina at all, and it does not matter even if she keeps flying. Of course, this is levitation, not flight, so the maximum height above the ground is only about 1.5 meters. If it is any higher, she will have to flap her wings to enter flight mode. Relying on levitation will not work.

"I don't know who attacked us, but they definitely didn't want to be friends with us." As I said this, I saw a fire dragon appear in front of me and roll towards me. I was so scared that I quickly lay down again. Compared to my side, Kristina is much simpler. She didn't care about the flames at all, and even reached out to touch them. In this mode, she is not afraid of fire, or in other words, except for the damage caused by the magic elements in the magic flame, simple high temperature has no meaning to her.

"If you're not afraid of fire, just find a way to do reconnaissance. I can't rush forward like this!" I looked at Kristina and asked.

Kristina just nodded when she heard my words, then clasped her hands together in front of her, then slowly opened them, and released a little elf from her palms like a bird. This little elf looks almost exactly like Kristina herself, except that the entire body is less than ten centimeters from head to toe. It can be said to be truly small and exquisite.

As soon as the elf appeared, it immediately fluttered the colorful transparent butterfly wings on its back, and then flew forward.

Generally speaking, butterfly wings are actually not suitable for flying because they are too large and very soft. Naturally, they are fine for small butterflies, but their fragile nature will not change. The pair of huge butterfly wings on Kristina's body are more like energy reflections than entities, so there is no strength problem at all. You can destroy wood, metal, or even diamond, but you cannot destroy a shadow. Kristina's wings are the projection of positive energy in the positive material space, so they are indestructible. However, although the elf's wings looked like projections like Kristina's, they showed a completely different flying ability from normal wings. After simply flapping the elf twice, the elf immediately shot away forward. , the speed is simply faster than the speed of flying birds. Looking at the light and shadow, it is at least more than 200 kilometers per hour. You must know that few birds can fly at this speed, and even if they can fly at this speed, Most birds with such speed can achieve such speed only in dive mode. When flying horizontally, I have never heard of any natural creatures that can achieve such speed.

Less than two seconds after the elf flew out, Kristina suddenly froze for a moment, then turned to me and said: "The NPC race that attacked us is the one we saw before."

"It's them again?"

Kristina nodded, and then asked me: "Do you want to fight back?"

I frowned and thought for a while and asked: "Is there a way to attack without causing harm? I want to catch a few alive and ask about the situation."

"I'm afraid not." Kristina replied: "The other party has a lot of money, and my method can only control one or two people. If the other party has a small money, I can still think of a way, but they have a lot of money. Calculating, I can control one or two people." Two, other people will rescue them, and will not leave their companions to be captured by us. If you want to capture the prisoners, it seems you can only go there and capture them yourself."

Since Kristina said so, I had no choice but to do it myself. After telling Kristina to follow me, I suddenly jumped up from the ground, and then rushed forward as fast as I could. However, before I ran ten meters, I heard another sound from the front. There was a roar, and then I saw something shining flying towards me.

Because I was sprinting and that thing was not slow, the relative speed of the two of us was even more exaggerated. I collided with that thing in almost a second, and I had no time to dodge.

Originally, it would be okay to be hit, but the thing in front of me was obviously some kind of attack weapon, so I also realized that I couldn't touch it. Unfortunately, this thing was completely different from the previous can-sized thing. The previous thing was a time fuse. If you react quickly, you can wait for the thing to hit the ground before kicking it out or choosing to escape, but this thing is activated by collision. Almost as soon as we hit each other, the thing exploded with a bang.

As soon as Kristina saw me rushing out, before she could run forward, she saw a flash of fire in front of me, and then I fell back, rolling and smoking.

"President, are you okay?" Seeing me rolling past her, Kristina quickly turned back to pull me, but I was already being helped up by a bunch of undead.

Shaking my head to wake myself up, I looked at myself. Fortunately, the Dragon Soul suit was very powerful, so there was basically no problem. "What kind of weapons did those guys across the street use to attack me?"

"Something like a rocket launcher." Kristina replied. Her scout elf is still in front, so she can see things that we can't see clearly here.

"Bazooka?"

Kristina also nodded with a weird expression: "It's just that the launcher is very similar. The ammunition is a spherical thing that looks like a combination of plastic and stone. It will also glow after being activated. You should have That’s right when you see it.”

I nodded and said, "I did see some light before I was hit. It turned out to be this thing."

Kristina continued: "Those little guys have a lot of weapons, and they all seem to be thermal weapons."

"Thermal weapons?"

"They all look similar. In fact, they should all be mechanical or magical equipment. My elf felt some magic fluctuations produced when the shots were fired."

I frowned and asked, "The thing that hit me just now was like a rocket launcher. What about the one before?"

"The canisters that were first fired were fired with something like a grenade gun. The loading method is similar to that of a shotgun. Once you fire a round, you have to open the barrel downwards and insert new ammunition. The second fire. And the fire dragon just now is actually a flamethrower, but that thing is actually hand-held, has no fuel tank, and is just like a water gun played by children. "

"Oh my God, is the other party a regular army?"

"Eh... President?"

"What's up?"

"They pushed a cannon out from behind."

"Cannon?" When I heard the name, I jumped up from the ground and shouted to the undead around me: "Charge, kill them!"

Cannon fodder is Qian or something? It is used to blow up the opponent's cannon into ashes. Those little guys over there just pushed out the cannons. I can't get bombed here, right? So now I can't lock down so many, and directly order the undead army to charge.

The skeletons had not received orders before, but now they started running as soon as they heard the order. These skeletons have little weight to bear and run very fast. With so many skeletons moving together, there was naturally a lot of movement, and they were discovered immediately. The group of dwarfs on the opposite side noticed that the undead army on our side had begun to charge, and immediately fired a row of rifle grenades in this direction. Those things the size of cans fell into the group of skeletons and exploded immediately. Almost every bomb could completely clear out the skeletons in a small area around them. It was a pity that the skeleton soldiers never cared about casualties. Cleared areas are quickly filled with more skeletons. They will not feel sad for their companions, nor will they be afraid of enemy weapons. Skeletons only hate living things and hope to kill something for fun, so those rifle grenades look very powerful, but they have no effect at all when encountering skeleton soldiers, and they are directly submerged by the sea of ​​skeletons.

The first round of grenades didn't work, and the flamethrower immediately started the second round of attacks. However, the skeletons were obviously not very sensitive to flames and rushed directly into the flames. Although some skeletons were blackened by the flames, it did not affect the skeletons' movements at all. The sea of ​​flames was directly filled up by the sea of ​​skeletons.

Probably realizing that their weapons were ineffective, the dwarfs on the opposite side finally activated their third line of defense, which was the weapon that blew me away. Although this thing looks like a rocket launcher, it is not a rocket launcher at all. Although it is carried on the shoulder and fired, the speed of this thing is much faster than the rocket launcher. Jingran can fire continuously at a speed of three seconds. .

Just listen to the constant banging, banging, banging sounds over there, and the skeleton forwards on our side are banging and banging, and the charging pace is finally contained for the first time. Although the damage caused by explosive weapons to skeletons is much lower than the damage to humans, powerful explosions can destroy the skeletal structure. The most important thing is that these are low-level undead, and the soul fire in their heads is very fragile. , easily dispersed by shock waves, so these skeleton soldiers are still very afraid of these weapons. Of course, when I say I'm afraid, I mean that the Skeleton Soldiers will be hurt by this thing, not that the Skeleton Soldiers' supervisor is afraid of this weapon.

Although a large number of skeleton soldiers rushed forward one after another, it was a pity that the attack mode of this weapon was continuous fire, so no matter how hard they tried, the skeleton soldiers just couldn't rush forward.

Although the stalemate between the two sides shocked me, it did not last long. Just ten seconds later, the explosion on the opposite side suddenly stopped. Kristina immediately reported that one of the rocket launchers had run out of ammunition.

Although this thing that looks like a rocket launcher can be connected and fires a spherical object that is much smaller than a rocket, no matter what, there is always a limit to the ammunition. It seems that the opponent's weapon can store a certain amount of ammunition and then maintain continuous firing for a certain period of time. However, the ammunition consumption of this continuous firing method is too large. Even if there is a magazine-like design, it will eventually run out. Fortunately, the opponent has not only one such weapon, but several. Otherwise, once the firepower is interrupted, the skeleton soldiers will definitely rush over and drown the opponent immediately with their fearless spirit.

"Good opportunity, rush, rush." ​​Seeing this situation, of course I shouted loudly to let the undead army speed up the charge, but unfortunately something happened at the critical moment.