Chapter 144: Peaceful Advancement

Along with an extremely unpleasant roar, the entire underground tomb began to tremble. I looked back and saw that the mixed-race figure flashed past my mouth. Then I turned back to look at the slowly falling stone door in front of me. After thinking about it for a while, I sighed helplessly and turned around to go back.

In fact, the stone door in front of me fell very slowly, let alone running past it. As long as I didn't deliberately delay, I could easily bend down and get through the stone door before it fell at a slightly faster walking speed. But even if I passed it, it was actually the same as before. It doesn't make any difference if you stay, it's just a matter of opening another door. However, if I go there, the mixed-race people behind will definitely be doomed. If I come back, she will at least have some hope. , all text typed by hand

Anyway, I decided to help, so I didn’t stay in the passage. I turned around and went back to the tomb. As soon as I came in, I saw that stupid girl leaning on the lid of the sarcophagus in the center, pressing down hard, trying to stop what was inside. Something comes out. This sight made me laugh. It was the first time I met this Coke player, and he actually tried to prevent the undead creatures from the coffin from coming out.

After entering the tomb, before I could say anything, the mixed-blood over there saw my presence at a glance. He relaxed a little and shouted to me: "Come here and help. The one inside is about to come out." Read the latest chapter

Of course I would not go over to help, but pointed to the coffins on the wall next to me and said, "There are a total of nineteen sarcophagi here. Even if you can suppress one, I will block another one, and the contents of seventeen will remain." What will we do when we get out?"

The mixed-blood was stunned by what I said. He quickly reacted and shouted: "Even if you can't block everything, at least you have to do something. Come help quickly, I can't hold it down anymore."

"Don't bother, there's a king's knight down there, you can't suppress him."

"We can't wait to die if we can't suppress it," the hybrid shouted.

"Then you keep pressing on it." I said, walked to a coffin by the wall, knocked twice, and then shouted to the other side: "How long are you going to sleep? Come out and help. Don't worry. , I won’t let you work in vain, I will replenish you with dark energy.”

The mixed-blood over there was so surprised that he forgot what to say when he heard my words, but the coffin was already shaken. Then a crack suddenly opened in the mixed-blood's astonished eyes. With a sound of friction between the sarcophagus cover and the ground, all the covers of the eighteen wall coffins in the surrounding circle bounced up, and then the sarcophagus cover was pushed away from the inside, followed by a crash of metal armor, and a man named The king's knight, wearing heavy plate armor, walked out.

This king's knight is slightly different from ordinary dark creatures. The level of this thing is actually not very high, of course it's not low either. However, this unit is recognized as one of the more difficult creatures in the undead system. The most troublesome thing is that these guys are not afraid of light magic and have their own aura. What's even more annoying is that these halos can be superimposed infinitely, which means that the more king knights there are, the more terrifying they are. If the number exceeds a thousand, they are almost the kings of a group, and any other type of soldiers will be scum in front of them. Of course, it doesn't mean that the King's Knight can really go on indefinitely. Although their halo can indeed be infinitely superimposed, the problem is that the range of influence of the halo is limited, so there is an upper limit on the number of king knights that appear in a unit area, which determines that their halo cannot be truly infinitely superimposed. . According to the calculations of some players, without considering combat, the maximum number of superimposed halos is 3,800 halos. This is without combat. If you want to participate in a battle, the knights cannot get too close to each other. There must be room for movement, and the previous number is the number of halos superimposed on the knight in the center of the team. If there is to be a battle, the front needs to be vacated. Based on this calculation, the number of superimposed halos on the knights of the king is unlikely to exceed one thousand. Five, normally it would be considered good if it reaches one thousand. Of course, calculating these is actually meaningless, because the king's knight is a rare unit. Even the King's Knights of the Black Temple usually number no more than a thousand. Therefore, the biggest obstacle limiting them is not the range of the halo but the number of King Knights themselves.

There are a total of nineteen king knights here, but only eighteen came out. There is still one elite king's knight who is sealed in the central sarcophagus and has not come out. However, this is also a matter of time. The undead creature will not instantly enter its normal state after waking up. Instead, it will be like a person who wakes up in the morning. Its physical and mental energy will slowly start up. It will be very weak at first and it will take some time to gradually enter the state. However, although it takes time, this time is not long, because it should be said to be very short.

"Ah..." Just after the eighteen king's knights here came out, the mixed-blood over there suddenly let out a scream and the sarcophagus cover was lifted down, and one of them was dressed even worse than the king's knights around him. The exaggerated knight also slowly sat up from the sarcophagus.

This is the elite king knight, or king knight leader, an advanced creature belonging to the king knight. In addition to the aura's much larger range of influence, its own four-dimensional attributes are also better than the average king knight. However, these guys are better than Generally, the real eliteness of king's knights lies in their combat skills rather than their basic attributes. Their high agility combined with combat skills means that the probability of being hit is basically very low. Even if it is a range of damage, they can avoid hitting the front and reduce their own damage, which makes it very difficult to deal with them.

Although these guys belong to the advanced class of undead creatures, for me, as long as they are undead, they are fine. Don’t forget that my affinity with undead creatures is full.

"Are you really willing to pay?" the elite king knight who rose from the sarcophagus asked.

I threw a bag directly over. It contained black crystals, and they were charged black crystals. This thing is very different from the crystal powder I usually give to the undead as rewards. The difference between the two is like the difference between diamonds and crystals. Although they are both crystal clear, their value is not at the same level at all.

The elite king knight who took the bag was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted and quickly opened the bag. He found that it was filled with small pieces of charged black crystal, so he immediately poured it out.

There were a total of twenty black crystals in this bag, and he did not swallow them all. He asked his companions around him to give one to each of them, and after receiving two of them, he divided up all the black crystals. After swallowing the black crystal directly, the elite king knight jumped out of the sarcophagus. After landing, he seemed to remember something, turned around and pulled out a big sword from his sarcophagus and carried it behind his back.

"It feels so good to have something to eat as soon as I wake up." The elite king knight sighed and then said to me: "What do we need to do? Dear Lord Black Magician."

This title made me stunned for a moment, and then I remembered that I had just turned on the black magic aura in order to increase my affinity. But it doesn’t matter. I waved directly and said: "I'm going to the depths of the tomb, please help me."

"That's no problem. This is our territory. It doesn't matter where you want to go. However, the undead creatures along the way are not necessarily intelligent. Those stupid young men still have to fight. There is no guarantee that you will arrive as if you were visiting. destination."

"Do you think I have no fighting ability?"

"That's true." The Elite King Knight nodded and asked, "Then where are you going?"

I showed him the map directly and pointed him to the destination. "right here."

"Why is this place?"

"Is there any problem?" Seeing the reaction of the elite king knight, I was a little curious.

The elite king knight shook his head and said: "The problem is not a problem, the key is that this place is not under my control."

"Aren't there a lot of places that are not under your control? Didn't you say you can guarantee passage?"

"No, no, no. If it is a normal place, I can guarantee that we will pass. Although there will be fighting, it will not affect our passage, except for this place."

"Why is this place so special?"

"Because it's a paradise for banshees."

"Banshee?" When I heard the name, I frowned and asked, "Are you talking about the Styx Banshee?"

"Do you think I would be afraid of that kind of thing?" The Elite King Knight asked me.

I shook my head. "I think it's unlikely. So, the banshee you are talking about should be the Banshee of Hanas?"

"So you know?"

"I didn't know it at first, but I was lucky enough to see one before. Then I knew."

"Seeing them still standing here alive, you are really a very powerful guy."

"No, no, no, we were allies the last time we met Hanas Banshee."

The elite king knight thought for a while and said: "If you have been an ally with a Hanas banshee, can I understand that you can actually communicate with them?"

"I'm not sorry, but she can." I stretched out my hand, and Ling appeared beside me.

Suddenly there was a sound of metal clashing around, and the king's knights who were still standing on one side suddenly knelt down on one knee with a crash, and then saluted neatly: "See you, sir."

"Do you know each other?" I looked at the elite king knight with some surprise and asked.

The elite king knight immediately said: "No, we don't know him. But this is a high-level demon and must be a top existence among the dark forces, so..."

Ling turned to me and said: "The king's knights are the guards of high-level demons, so they know a lot about these things."

I nodded and did not ask this again, but said to them: "So can we go there now?"

The elite king knight immediately nodded and said: "No problem. Since there is a high-level demon here, it won't be a problem. Hanas Banshee is still a dark force after all, and it still needs to give some face to the high-level demon." .”

"Then leave quickly. I don't want all my targets to be killed by Hanas Banshee."

"Your goal?" The elite king knight asked me with some confusion.

After hearing the other party's inquiry, I gave them a rough explanation of what happened this time. After listening to this, the group of king's knights finally understood my purpose. The elite king knight who led the team said directly: "These enemies of yours may have been tricked. You actually asked them to go to the residence of Hanas Banshee to look for things. Isn't this asking for death?"

I also nodded and said: "I guess so. These guys must have been tricked. Even entering the graveyard of a big lich is definitely much safer than going to find the Banshee of Hanas."

Ling Ye said: "Except for the Dracolich, I don't think there are any undead creatures that can be as difficult as the Hanas Banshee, but there are many creatures that can kill the Hanas Banshee. At least we have them here. Specially restrain her existence.”

"Do you still have someone to restrain the Banshee of Hanas?"

Ling nodded and said: "Hanas Banshee is a spiritual body. She can switch between energy state and material state at will, so it is difficult for ordinary creatures to reach her. And because she has many special abilities, It’s very troublesome. But we have a strengthened high-level heroic spirit here who specializes in defeating the Banshee of Hanas.”

Originally I didn't know who Ling was talking about, but now I know. It turns out Ling was talking about the king. I didn't know that a heroic spirit like the king could specifically restrain Hanas Banshee. But it’s not too late to know now.

After confirming that we really don't need to be afraid of the Hanas Banshee, it's time to do it. As a local creature, the elite king knight began to lead us, but before that, the problem we needed to solve was how to raise the fallen gates in front.

The reason why no one touched the necklace on the sarcophagus lid of this elite king knight was because the necklace was a mechanism activating device. As long as someone takes the necklace, a large number of gates will be lowered in all the passages in the tomb to seal the passages into sections. These gates are all made of half-meter-thick stone slabs, with defensive spells such as solidity, defensive energy, and prohibition engraved on them. As long as this thing falls down. Basically, the people inside are not allowed to move. It is not impossible to destroy such a gate, but normally, it usually takes an hour or two to destroy a gate. Even if you are very patient, you can only destroy a dozen or twenty gates in a day, but even if you destroy so many gates. The range you can move is not very large, after all, the arrangement of doors is quite dense.

However, these doors will not remain closed to trap players inside. They will rise again after twenty-four hours after falling. In other words, even if you do nothing, the stone door will open by itself at this time tomorrow. Of course, this mechanism is not that simple. Although the door will open by itself the next day, a large number of undead creatures will appear in all closed compartments within these 24 hours, and then you just have to fight. Those undead souls are basically in a state of infinite resurrection within these twenty-four hours. After being knocked down, it will resurrect immediately and continue to attack you, and you have to hit it over and over again. If you think you can use this method to level up, you are wrong, because these undead creatures only have experience when they are killed for the first time in these 24 hours. No matter how many times they are resurrected, their experience points will be the same. Zero, expecting to gain experience through them is basically a dream. The first reaction of most players when encountering this kind of thing is to log off directly. Anyway, they have no experience in killing monsters if they stay here. Struggling to open those doors has the same effect. So it is better to log off in time before being dragged into combat mode by monsters. When the time comes the next day and go online again, these undead creatures will still be there. But at this time, the passage door will open, and you only need to clean up these undead creatures.

Because of this damn cheating setting, no one touched the necklace at all. No one wanted to be locked in it. Besides, the thing was of no use at all. It looked like a gem, but after taking it off, you would find that it was a mission item. , cannot, cannot be put into space equipment, and cannot leave a certain range of the human body, otherwise it will automatically be transferred back to the original position on the sarcophagus cover. Of course, some players realize that this thing must be a very important mission item, otherwise they would not activate such a complicated and deceptive setting as soon as they take it away. But the problem is that there is no prompt at all on that thing, and no one has discovered what this thing is so far. No one cares about the mission items in the end. Anyway, I couldn’t find a place to turn in the task after I took it.

Anyway, now that the mechanism has been activated, the only thing we can do is to go down little by little. Although it is quite troublesome to open those gates, it is not absolutely impossible. And the key problem is that I don't have 24 hours to waste time here, so I have to go down.

"Get out of the way." After asking all the king's knights to get out of the way, I inserted eternity from under the stone door's crack, and then let the exposed part of eternity turn into a structure like an expansion shear.

With equipment like Eternal that can be transformed at will, it is actually very easy to pry open the gate. Although each of these gates weighs four or five tons, it is still easy to do it using the lever principle. The key problem is that the average player does not have the appropriate equipment. Although there is a gap between the gate and the ground, the wind element is not big enough, so you can't push ordinary weapons or crowbars in. Therefore, the method most players use is to forcefully break the door, and lift the door like I did. method is not used much.

After the eternal transformation was completed, it turned into a lever with a super long arm, and then I asked the elite king knight to help push it down with me. The gate over there finally rose a little bit with our strength. Shuangxue, who was squatting by the door, immediately reached into the gap under the door. A large block of ice instantly appeared between the gate and the ground, easily filling the gap between the two and holding the door there so that it could not fall.

After the door was held up, we relaxed our strength and pulled out the eternity to let it change again and become a structure suitable for its current state. Then we continued to use force and lifted the gate upward again. Shuangxue quickly followed up and used ice blocks to hold the gate, and then we continued to deform and pry the door, and then she continued to hold on.

After six times in a row, a gap about a foot high was finally exposed under the door. Of course, this gap is still too small, and people will definitely not be able to get through. But the main reason why the gate is difficult to install is that it cannot be used up, not that everyone really can't do it. With such a big gap, you can actually lift it up with force. Of course, you have to do something else before doing this.

The elite king knight went directly to the door and lay down, and then shouted a few words over there. Soon there was an undead creature lying under the door and exchanging a few words with him. After the undead on the other side knew the situation on our side, the elite king knight got up and said to us: "Okay. It's time to start."

After communicating with the undead over there, we can ensure that the undead on the opposite side will not cause trouble for us, and we can also get some help from them. Under the command of the elite king knights here, the four king knights walked to the door, stretched their hands under the door to hold the bottom of the gate, and then asked if the other side was okay. After learning that the other side was ready, we shouted one, two, three, and all the king's knights worked together, and then we heard a rumbling friction sound as the gate was finally slowly lifted up.

As the gate rose, the situation on the other side of the door was also revealed. Because the gate is very thick, people standing on both sides of the gate at the same location will not interfere with each other. There were four people standing by the door on our side. It's the same on the opposite side, but instead of the king's knights, there are four bronze zombies. The strength of these guys is also very terrifying. There are four zombies and four knights on our side. Eight people share the weight of four to five tons. Although each person still has to bear a weight of five to six hundred kilograms, this is after all. In the game, these are advanced undead creatures, not real humans. They can still lift a weight of five to six hundred kilograms.

Under the combined efforts of eight undead creatures. The gate was finally fully raised. When the bottom of the gate is 1.8 meters above the ground. Suddenly the power was released, and the gate rose by itself. Then it locked into the wall with a click. This is also a setting. As long as the gate is lifted to a height of 1.8 meters, it will automatically return and lock. Unless someone moves the necklace again, it will not fall down again.

Once a gate is completed, the undead creatures on both sides of us will be victorious masters. Compared with the ones on our side, the number of undead on the opposite side is significantly larger. There are at least dozens of undead creatures densely packed in the range that can be seen from the passage, and at a glance, they are all at least mid-level undead creatures. Not even a low-level unit can be seen.

After seeing us, these guys did not rush to fight like ordinary players. Instead, they saluted Ling very politely, and then expressed their respect to me. Because of the prior communication and the auras of Ling and I, these undead creatures are basically very fond of us. As long as we don't take the initiative to do anything that harms their interests, they will not take the initiative to attack me.

After saying hello to both sides, the undead immediately gave way to both sides of the passage, leaving us with the national highway. As we were about to walk over, we suddenly heard a scream from behind, and then all the undead present and several of us came. All eyes turned back at once.

When I saw the source of the noise, I felt a headache. The mixed-blood didn't faint all the time. At this time, she got up again.

Seeing her like that, I could only helplessly shake my head, and then said to her: "Don't make a fuss. If you want to follow me, just follow me, but don't make trouble for me. If you don't want to follow, just over there." Stay there, the door will open automatically in twenty-four hours, and you can go back then."

"I want to go find my brother and can't go back."

"Your brother must have gone back."

"You're lying. How could he go back down there alone?" the mixed-race asked me very indignantly.

I pointed to the sarcophagus outside and said, "Because you have killed him. So he should be on his way to the Resurrection Hall now."

"What? I killed my brother?"

"It's the necklace you just moved. It's a mechanism. As soon as it is activated, many such gates will be lowered in the entire tomb, and then a large number of undead creatures will be released in each closed area. This is how the undead creatures around me came to be. . Your brother's fighting power is basically negligible. He is no match for these undead creatures. In a nitrous battle, he will definitely die. Originally, he was still a filial son, and as long as he did not take the initiative to provoke, those undead creatures would not attack him. But I think With your brother's temper, it is more reliable to expect him not to take the initiative to provoke those undead creatures. It is better to believe that the sow will climb the tree. So I guess he should die by now. Also, it is best to log off immediately after you go out. Because after you trigger the mechanism, there will be undead creatures for you within three days. So you will be very angry after you go out. Also, not only the undead creatures, but also the players here may also hunt you down, because what is closed after you trigger the mechanism is The entire cemetery, so there are probably a lot of players killed by you. Although they don’t know who touched the trap, they just need to watch who is being chased here and follow them, so I suggest you log off immediately after leaving."

"Impossible, my brother will not touch those undead creatures. Although he has a bad personality, he is not stupid. He knows what things should not be touched, so I will follow you down."

"It's up to you. It doesn't matter to me anyway, and I won't deliberately look for your brother. I will leave when I find my target."

The mixed-blood didn't say anything, and I ignored her and walked straight forward through the tunnel of the dead.

In front of this passage is a rather large tomb, which is almost exactly the same as the one where we met the elite king knight before, except that the area is many times larger, and there are many more sarcophagi in the room. certainly. Because the agency was triggered. The king's knights here all got up.

I wonder if the undead creatures here often visit each other, but the elite king knight here actually knows the elite king knight around us. After the two elite king knights chatted with each other for a few words, the elite king knight here began to help us move to the next passage.

The entrance to the passage here is also closed by the gate, but it is not a big problem for us. Open the way in the old way, pry open the crack in the door and use ice to hold it up. After the height is enough, first communicate with the undead on the opposite side to confirm that there will be no battle, and then push the gate up with the undead on the opposite side in one go.

After opening the second gate, of course we encountered a large group of undead creatures. After a brief communication, we continued moving forward. There are no undead creatures like the King Knight in the next passage. I have said before that King Knights are a very popular unit even in the Dark Temple. Of course, it is impossible to have King Knights in every tomb here. However, although the king's knight is gone, there are many other undead creatures in the tomb below. Along the way, we encountered a lot of zombies and skeletons, and we also happened to encounter a large group of scavengers.

Although scavengers are also classified as undead creatures, these things are not actually undead creatures. They have basically no intelligence, and they don't actually eat only carrion. Compared to rotten carrion, these guys actually prefer the flesh of living people. It's just because these guys often appear near rotting places that they are named carrion bugs. It does not mean that they only eat carrion.

Our undead creature affinity is only effective for undead creatures with a certain basic intelligence. Just like you can't train mosquitoes, bugs without intelligence are very difficult to communicate with. Although there are also highly intelligent bugs in the game, scavengers are obviously not among them. Not only do these guys eat anything, they are also very aggressive. Any living or non-living thing that unfortunately enters their sensing range will become a target. It is even said that these guys sometimes even eat stones, so it is completely impossible to communicate with them.

After arriving at the passage controlled by these scavengers, the previous work was the same, except that when we pried open the gap in the door and the elite king knights went to communicate, there was no response from the undead creatures on the other side. Instead, one of them A carrion worm jumped out from under the door and suddenly landed on the face of the elite king knight, causing the guy to bounce up from under the door.

"Let me go quickly." After all, Ling had fucked the Dark Goddess, so of course he knew something about this creature. As soon as she saw the scavenger hanging on the face of the elite king knight, she immediately screamed. The King Knight next to me and I pulled out Eternity as soon as we let go. However, after the gate fell, it was held up by the ice and did not completely fall to the ground, leaving a large gap.

Just after we let go, there was a clicking sound under the door, which sounded like a large group of crabs crawling around. In fact, this is the sound of scavengers. These guys have really disgusting bodies. Unlike ordinary arthropods, these guys do not have a flat exoskeleton on their body surface, but a dark brown skin mixed with green spots. This skin is not only ugly in color, but also wrinkled and disgusting. It also has a large number of brown bristles on it, which makes people feel uncomfortable just by looking at it. Except for this huge, ugly-looking body that looks a bit like a cricket. These guys also have eight jointed limbs, the last two of which resemble the back of a cricket, are relatively long, and are obviously capable of jumping. But what they have on their faces is not the usual plier-like mouthparts, but a flower-like projectile mouthparts. This thing can split open like a petal, and then eject a fleshy thorn more than one meter long. There are many barbs on the surface of this fleshy thorn. Once it touches the body of the creature, it will hang on it, and then use the contraction ability of the mouthparts to pull themselves away. Pull to the creature's body. Then it uses the huge sting under its mouthparts to bite the target creature repeatedly. This sting can secrete a corrosive substance that can decompose most organic or inorganic substances.

The huge crawling sound means that there are a lot of scavengers over there, and they are still running this way. However, the ice block blocked the gate and prevented the gate from falling. Seeing that the insects over there were about to come over, Shuangxue suddenly ran over and put one hand on the piece of ice, and then the ice block immediately melted and was blocked by the gate. Crushed to pieces. It's a pity that during this delay, more than a dozen scavengers emerged from below. The scavengers further back were smashed into pulp by the gate, but among the dozen or so scavengers that emerged here, a few He just went straight towards the frost and snow over there.

"Ah..." After all, she was a woman. Shuangxue was startled by the disgusting bug in front of her. But just when she thought she was about to be touched by a bug. Suddenly a green flame flashed in front of her, and the insects crawling towards her instantly turned into a pile of fly ash and fell to the ground.

The panicked Shuangxue glanced gratefully at the big lich that took action over there. This guy was originally the guard of this passage here, but because of us, he has become a temporary ally. In fact, scavengers are definitely one of the more disgusting creatures among undead creatures. It's like rats and humans are both mammals, but humans still don't like rats. Although scavengers are undead creatures, these guys are also pest-like things among undead creatures, so they are a kind of thing that everyone hates. biology.

The few carrion bugs crawling towards the frost and snow here were burnt to ashes by the corrosive rays. The remaining ones climbed onto the bodies of several king's knights nearby. However, the knights all had heavy armor. These The scavengers won't be able to do anything to them for a while. If there were enough of them, they might be able to defeat the king's knights, but there were only a few of them, so they really couldn't do anything. The undead creatures on our side helped each other and killed all the scavengers that came over in a few strokes. Although this creature is annoying, its defense is actually very weak. Even ordinary people can easily kill a few of them. Their strength lies in their terrifying numbers and super high movement speed. These are their advantages. When the number is relatively small, it basically does not pose a threat.

"There are scavengers over there, how are we going to get there?" After eliminating the scavengers on his body, the elite king knight looked at us and asked. Although he is a local creature, there is no good way to deal with scavengers.

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