Chapter 265 The Strange Old Man

Looking at the flying monster, Kristina threw a series of magic spells at it without any hesitation. The monster was already half-cooked before it even hit the ground. As for us, we rushed directly from under the monster. Go over there and chase Zhen Hong into the pile of monsters over there.

The group of monsters on the opposite side obviously did have a very high level of intelligence. Several monsters actually separated from Zhenhong and ran over to block us in front of us, while the monsters behind us surrounded Zhenhong together.

Of course, when we see a monster charging towards us, we can't continue to charge forward. We can only fight the monster in front of us first. As for Zhen Hong, we can only hope that she will hold on for a while longer or, preferably, take the initiative to charge over. .

After our side was stopped by the monster, Zhenhong finally landed on the ground. Because it was only blown away by the shock wave, Zhenhong's consciousness was very clear. Seeing a monster rushing towards her, she turned around in the air. She turned around forcefully, then stepped on the monster's forehead with her head and feet. Then when the monster's claws covered her forehead, she suddenly exerted force and used the monster's forehead as a stepping stone to rise up again. But a monster behind actually stepped on the back of the monster in front and ran all the way up, then jumped forward, opened its mouth, and bit Zhenhong.

Seeing a big mouth pressing towards him, Zhenhong's hands and feet were not long enough to touch any part of the monster. From this angle, he would definitely fall directly into the monster's throat. Of course, although Zhenhong couldn't help it, she suddenly heard Kristina's voice calling her name from behind. Zhen Hong suddenly turned his head and saw a light bomb flying towards him. Zhen Hong, who reacted instantly, turned around and punched the light bomb, and the light bomb immediately exploded with a powerful force. The air wave directly blew Zhen Hong away horizontally.

The big mouth of the flying monster suddenly closed with a bang beside Zhenhong. Zhenhong looked at the monster's white teeth in front of him and suddenly reached out and grabbed the monster's mouth, and then moved forward with the help of the monster. The force of the attack caused his body to be pulled in the direction of the monster, and he turned over and sat on the monster's neck.

The monster reacted quickly. When he felt the real red falling on his neck, he hugged himself into a ball along with the falling posture, then hit the ground with a bang and rolled forward. An ordinary person would definitely be thrown out at this moment, and then crushed into pulp by the monster's huge body, but Zhenhong's physical skills are very strong. There is no tendency to lose balance at all. When the monster landed, Zhenhong suddenly did a backflip. He hooked his hands around the gap in the monster's carapace and immediately performed a series of backflips. The pace was completely synchronized with the speed of the monster's rolling. As a result, the monster flipped over seven or eight times. Trap her around the monster.

The monster that had rolled seven or eight times completely lost its keen intuition of the touch on the body surface. Not knowing that Zhenhong was still there, it immediately let go of its curled up body, but Zhenhong suddenly fell from the sky the moment it stretched out its body. , his hands drew a brilliant golden stream of light in the air. "The Eightieth Form of the Great Powerful Tianlong Fist - Earth Explosion." Accompanied by a bang. The monster below let out a sharp, muted howl, and even the monsters fighting us here couldn't help but turn their heads and look over.

I have no intention of letting go of the distraction of the monster in front of me. The body directly curled up into a ball and rolled forward to the belly of the big tortoise-like monster in front of him. Then the body suddenly stretched out, and the Eternal Sword pointed towards the sky: "Eternity - Divine Thunder Flame Slash." A beam of light as thick as a well shot out from the tip of the Eternal Sword and shot straight into the sky. The monster above me did not block the rise of the beam at all, and it was also lifted up together. After the beam shot into the sky, it immediately A thunderbolt fell from the sky and hit the monster's body. Along with a burst of crackling electric sparks, the monster fell to the ground covered in smoke and could not get up for a long time.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when the monster in front of me was maimed, I thrust through the joint blockade of the two monsters and finally reached Zhenhong's side. At this time, Zhenhong was also very busy. Although Zhenhong's move just hit the monster badly, the monsters nearby quickly surrounded him again.

A gibbon-like monster stretched out its hand to catch Zhenhong. Zhenhong saw the opportunity and made a small jump, landing directly on the opponent's paw. Then it rebounded and jumped into the face of the monster on the opposite side. Taking advantage of the opportunity when the monster hurriedly reached out to grab his face, Zhen Hong took off again, flipping forward at least 3,600 degrees in the air, and then suddenly spread out his body and assumed a punching posture again.

Because these monsters have high intelligence, they can generally understand our fighting methods. Really red so many times in a row. Those monsters also knew her fighting characteristics, so as soon as the gibbon monster in front saw Zhenhong assuming this posture again, it immediately started to retreat, for fear of following in the footsteps of its companions. You must know that he is not a defensive monster, and he cannot withstand such an attack head-on like the previous companions.

The tall and long-legged monster originally thought he was safe after taking a few steps back, but what he didn't expect was that right after he stepped back. Zhen Hong suddenly activated her skills. "The First Form of the Ultimate Secret of the Great Powerful Tianlong Fist - Ten Thousand...Dragon...Breaking...Sun" Along with a roar of a dragon, a huge golden magic circle suddenly appeared in front of Zhenhong, and then he saw densely packed unknown... How many golden divine dragons swarmed out of the magic circle like a blowout, completely submerging the monster in an instant. The surrounding monsters originally wanted to come up to help, but just as they were rushing forward, they saw a golden light shining in front of them. A monster that was closer just had its entire arm wiped and completely disappeared. Half of the monster in front of him disappeared. As for the monster that took the hit head-on...well...we'll need a magnifying glass to see its...pieces?

Boom. Amid the lingering power of Wan Long's Breaking Sun, Zhen Hong landed calmly in a half-kneeling position, as if her body was equipped with a steam engine. White smoke was rising, and a crackling sound could even be heard from the ground. In front of her was a road leading to the sky. Thirty meters wide and at least three thousand meters long, a straight line. Nothing is left on this straight line, whether it's monsters, forests or rocks. Anyway, nothing is left, only a big ditch is left. .

"I'll wipe it. Boss, please take it easy!" Kristina and the others were shocked when they saw this terrifyingly powerful gold coin. Although the ultimate move is very powerful, the problem is that there is not only one monster here. The amplified move is really enjoyable, but what should I do if I run out of magic power? Aren't you going to fight the monsters at the back?

Before Zhenhong could even answer, he saw the monsters on the opposite side suddenly turned around and left the scene, leaving a group of us standing there in a daze.

"What's going on?" Kristina came over and asked me doubtfully.

I shook my head in confusion and said, "Maybe you were scared?"

August Xun looked at the ditch in front of him and said: "I don't think so. We have been fighting these monsters for a while before you came. Their fighting power is very strong and they cannot be scared away so easily."

"Then what are they...?" Kristina asked.

Matsumoto Masa congratulated: "Perhaps they went back to bring in reinforcements. Zhenhong's tricks were too powerful. They felt that they needed to re-evaluate our combat effectiveness, so they evacuated first."

"Anyway, let's restore the consumption on ourselves first." I said and took the initiative to cancel the combined state. Then we started to ask Xiaochun to treat everyone and recover. Of course, we also used some medicine.

The Blazing Dragon Princess was resurrected by me just before using reincarnation, so her current physical condition is still perfect. Without treatment, she immediately flew to the top of the tree canopy to keep watch for us. As a result, as soon as she went up, she immediately jumped down again.

"Hurry up, those things are back!"

"Damn, why are you back again?" Kristina complained.

"I'm back just in time. I can practice my skills." Zhenhong moved his arms and said, "It's been a long time since I let go and destroyed like this. These things are really durable."

"You'd better control yourself a little, we're not here for exercise." As I said that, I saw a row of trees at the edge of the forest in front of me suddenly falling forward, and then I saw a large group of dense monsters rushing towards me. come over.

"Damn it. It seems like things are really going to be very bad this time!" Gold Coin couldn't help but say after seeing the scene in front of him.

Although we are worried about our losses, since the monsters are coming and we can't escape, there is nothing to hesitate about. I directly asked everyone to put on a defensive posture and prepare for a head-on confrontation.

We were already prepared for a tough battle and while we were waiting nervously, the group of monsters ahead suddenly changed a little. The monster group suddenly began to separate when it was approaching us. Then the central army stopped advancing, while the monsters on both wings continued to advance. They quickly formed a circle around us and surrounded us inside.

Although we were surrounded by these guys, we didn't feel anything. They can seal off this space, and we are actually trapped. Being surrounded by these monsters is actually meaningless. Besides, we can fly. They blocked our front, rear, left, and right but did not block the sky. What is the difference between this and not surrounding us?

After successfully forming a circular circle around us. All the monsters sat down quietly around us. From the looks of them, they clearly didn't intend to fight, because this posture didn't look like they were going to fight.

"What are they going to do?" Jin Coin asked me.

Although I really want to answer, the truth is that I am actually confused. "Well, I'm not sure. Maybe they're waiting for some powerful monster to appear, or maybe they just want to besiege us temporarily. Who knows."

Because I don't know what they are going to do. So we can only be careful to guard against these monsters suddenly rising up and attacking. As soon as they plan to swarm us, we will fly immediately. Anyway, none of them can fly. Wouldn’t it be stupid for us not to fly and bully them?

Just when we were carefully on guard to see what the monsters in front of us were going to do, a passage suddenly opened in the direction in which they came from in the circle surrounded by those monsters. All the monsters are moving to both sides, gradually making a way out here.

"What are you doing? Let us leave?" Jin Coin asked again.

Kristina shook her head and said, "This was not the direction when we came."

"It's absolutely impossible for them to let us go. These guys should have other purposes. But they didn't take the initiative to attack, which should be a good thing." I said to Kristina and the others: "Let's go forward first. , see what they want to do.”

Masamoto Matsumoto also nodded in agreement with my opinion, so everyone started moving towards the gap together.

At first we were worried that the monsters would suddenly rush up and attack us after we entered the passage, but the fact is that these monsters behaved extremely strangely. Although they showed considerable hostility towards us, they were able to maintain restraint and resolutely stayed away from the central passage. Some monsters even bared their teeth at us while drooling. At a glance, it was clear that they wanted to eat us, but even they looked like that. The monster didn't really do anything unusual to us. It just demonstrated to us outside the passage, but it didn't dare to step forward.

"It's really strange. What kind of position is this?" Kristina suddenly approached the edge of the passage given by the monster, and then approached a monster. At this time, the distance between her and the monster was less than one meter, but the monster still didn't move her.

"Hey, don't get so close, be careful of that thing suddenly attacking." Masamoto Matsumoto kindly reminded him.

Kristina shook her head and said, "They won't attack."

"how do you know?"

"Because these are all trained monsters you see."

"What? You mean these are raised?"

Kristina's sudden revelation made everyone here suddenly stunned, and then they gathered around and asked: "What on earth did you find?"

"Actually, I can't say that I discovered something. I just have a feeling."

"Feeling? Please be more reliable, okay?" Jin Coin complained.

"I'm not talking nonsense." Kristina said: "I am a body of elements, and I am very aware of all elements. There is a very strange elemental fluctuation on these monsters. I can't explain it at the moment. It’s different, but I can guarantee that these monsters are not natural and wild monsters.”

"Then the way they are now means that the people who raise these monsters want us to go there, right?"

"Almost." Kristina nodded.

"Although I don't know what the situation is now, apart from moving forward along the path made by the monsters, it seems that we can only do this." August Xun said.

"Then keep going."

Under my command, everyone started walking forward again along the passage left by the monsters. When we were halfway through the passage, the surrounding monsters collectively turned around and followed us along both sides of the road. Go forward. It looked like they were being escorted along the aisle.

Although we were confused, we didn't know where the monsters wanted us to go and it was impossible to know the answer, so we didn't have any other evil intentions and just followed these monsters forward.

The monsters were very fast, and our speed was not slow either. Soon we left the place where we just fought and reached the foot of a hillside. There is a big hole halfway up this hillside. Look at the size of the hole. Monsters should not be able to enter, so there must be other creatures living here, or the owners of these monsters.

Just after we arrived near the entrance of the cave, the surrounding monsters suddenly dispersed on their own, and a monster walked out of the big hole over there, which made us stunned.

This is a creature that at first glance you think is a tiger. This guy has all the characteristics of a tiger, including tiger skin, tiger head, tiger tail, and huge tiger claws. But the only difference is that this guy's body structure is not on all fours like a tiger, but upright like a human. It's not that animals imitate humans' deliberate standing, but there are changes in the body structure. Speaking of which, this thing is a bit like the tiger tribe among the orcs, except that the tiger tribe orcs have a tiger head, and their bodies are more like humans. At least the tiger tribe's bodies have no fur, but are the same as humans. Hairless skin. And the guy in front of me was dressed in skins that looked exactly like a wild tiger. If the image wasn't so realistic, we might even have thought it was a man dressed in tiger skin.

The creature in front of us didn't do anything else after seeing us. It just waved at us and turned around and entered the cave. Masamoto Matsumoto and I looked at each other, and finally nodded and walked in together. Of course Kristina and the others chose to follow.

"Who do you think lives here?" Jin Coin asked after entering the cave.

"I don't know." Zhenhong's answer was very straightforward.

Kristina said: "It should be a guy who is engaged in biological genetic research. Didn't you see the monster outside and the tiger-headed man just now? Maybe it was made by people here."

"Gene research? Is there such a thing in the game?" Masamoto Matsumoto asked doubtfully.

I explained to Masamoto Matsumoto from the side. "There is no genetic research in the game, but there are scholars in bloodline research. Our guild also has similar research, mainly studying how to reasonably mix monsters, and then get stronger next-generation creatures. This method is in reality It will take many years to research it, but the research progress in the game is quite fast.”

"Guests, please go faster, we don't have much time." As we were talking, we suddenly heard an old voice in front of us. Because the tiger-headed man has traveled a long way, we don’t know the sounds he makes from time to time, but it doesn’t seem to be the same, because the tiger-headed man looks very young and strong, but this voice sounds kind of... The feeling of dying in your seventies or eighties.

While we were wondering, the voice sounded again: "Please don't hesitate, we really don't have much time."

Masamoto Matsumoto glanced at me. It seemed that they wanted my opinion, and after thinking about it for a while, I decided to speed up the process. Anyway, if it doesn't work, the worst possible outcome is to hang it back up. Many people have died here. Everyone has said that you will not lose equipment if you die here, you will just be teleported and lose one level like normal death.

After we sped up the progress, the sound didn't appear again, but we soon passed through this extremely long straight tunnel and reached an open room. At the entrance of this room is a fountain, and there are channels on both sides and behind the fountain that connect the room with the fountain. Counting the road we came in from, there are a total of four passages connecting this place.

After we walked into this place, the tiger-like man stood at the passage opposite the fountain and waved to us, but we had no choice but to go around the fountain and continue to follow him.

This time the passage was not as long as before. Not far after we walked there was an ascending step. After going up, we saw light after walking a few steps. Then after moving on for more than ten meters, we walked out of a hole.

This end of the passage obviously passes through the inside of the mountain just now, and this side is not the ground, but a small platform halfway up the hanging rock. At this time, a stone pillar was standing on the platform, and a person was tied to this pillar with a long chain. This man looked to be at least eighty years old. The skin all over his body was as dry as old branches. He had a lot of hair and beard, and only some rags were left on his clothes. It looks so miserable.

"Who are you?" Kristina was the first to go up and ask after seeing this guy.

The guy tied to the pillar didn't answer Kristina's question. He didn't even look at us. He just closed his eyes and said, "You don't have much time. Listen to me and commit suicide quickly." "

"Suicide? Is there anything wrong with your head?" Zhenhong asked directly.

The old man seemed to have already known our reaction, so he didn't show any excitement. Instead, he said very calmly: "If you don't believe me, check your own status. Some of the things that affect your strength should have been reduced."

Although we didn’t believe this old man, he said so, so of course we still checked the attributes just in case. The fastest gold coin breathed a sigh of relief after reading it, and then said: "You old guy, you are not honest even when you are tied to a pillar. Our attributes have not changed at all."

"Wait a minute." Just after Jin Coin finished speaking, Yingyu Shenchu ​​suddenly shouted. "President. My experience points have dropped!"

"Experience points?" Low-level players look forward to upgrading every day. So I often stare at my own experience bar, but advanced players have a huge amount of experience to level up, and the experience of advanced players is astronomical, so no one remembers their specific experience value. However, there are of course exceptions to this. At least Ying Yu Shen Hina remembers her own experience points.

It was normal that we didn't notice it when we didn't pay much attention, but now that Sakura Rain God Hina has shouted it out, of course we found it when we took a closer look. Our experience points are indeed declining, although the speed is not fast. It takes several seconds for a small amount to be deducted. At this speed, it is impossible for my experience points to be deducted completely when we die.

We had just confirmed that the experience value had indeed dropped. The old man suddenly said again: "How is it? Are you scared now? As long as you continue to stay here, your experience will continue to decline, and when the experience It is not enough to support the current strength. You will be downgraded, and then the deduction will not stop, but will continue until you leave here."

"At this rate, even if we deduct ten years, we may not be able to deduct all our experience points, right?" Kristina asked.

The old man suddenly laughed and said: "Do you think that's the end of it? To tell you the truth, the absorption rate is gradually increasing. Although it seems very slow now, the absorption rate will soon increase tenfold. Then After a period of time, it will increase tenfold. Let alone ten years, if you can persist for ten days, even if you don't go back, you will be forcibly transferred back to Novice Village."

"Holy shit, didn't you tell me earlier?" Gold Coin immediately lost his composure when he heard that the speed at which experience points were deducted would continue to increase. Although the current speed is not fast, if it increases ten times, it will not be slow. And if it continues to increase ten times, the speed will be even more terrifying. If you keep scrolling like this, no matter how much experience you gain, it won't be enough to reduce it.

After the gold coin asked, I suddenly stood in front of the old man and said, "There are several questions in your words that I want to get answered."

"Just say it, my old man is a kind man. I will tell you what I know."

"Thank you very much." I first clasped my fists with both hands, and then continued: "First, you have been urging us to commit suicide quickly, and the reason is that our experience points will be deducted here, so why don't you let the outsiders What if the monsters give up blocking the world and then let us leave? Don’t say you can’t control it. You just made those monsters make way for us, can’t you make them remove the space blockade?”

"You're right, you just can't control it. Because the space blockade was not caused by those monsters at all."

"What's the meaning?"

"The meaning is very simple. The space blockade in this place is not blocked by those monsters. Like me, they are poor people who are trapped here and can't get out. Therefore, even if they want to let you go, there is no way to let you go. go out."

I nodded to agree with the old man's statement, and then asked: "So. The second question. Since these monsters also hope that we can leave here, why do they have to attack us? Just because my companion broke it That egg?”

"Of course not." The old man said: "Actually, these monsters are all sterile monsters. This egg is not theirs at all. Their bodies are completely unable to produce offspring. The eggs you broke were all made by me."

"Make it? How do you make eggs?"

"Why can't eggs be made?" the old man said: "Haven't you heard about the superior goddess Nuwa creating humans? Compared with a living person, a monster's egg is much simpler. Although I can't create it. Man, but I can make monster eggs.”

"Is this what you are doing now?" I glanced up and down at this guy. Next to him, Masamoto Matsumoto and Sakura Kamina also expressed disbelief.

I don't know if this old man has a personality problem or if he has been locked up here alone for a long time. In short, he feels like there is something wrong with his head. After hearing that we didn't believe him, he actually shouted like a child and wanted to demonstrate it to us on the spot. Not to mention the result, this guy actually made us a monster egg in front of us. This monster egg was initially a glowing golden light spot, and then as the light spot rotated, more and more light particles began to merge into the light group, and the light group gradually grew larger, and finally became as big as a watermelon. It looked like it suddenly exploded, and as light spots spurted out, all that was left on the scene was a white egg.

"Damn, it's really an eye-opener!" Jin Coin muttered: "An old man who can lay eggs."

"You are the only one who knows how to lay eggs. These are eggs condensed by my magic power, not laid by me!" The old man roared excitedly and the chains on his body rattled.

"Okay, okay, my men didn't mean that. Come back to the topic. Since our experience points will be absorbed here, is there any way to solve it?"

"It's very simple. You can get out as soon as you die. This space blockade is useless to your souls."

I frowned and asked, "Then you mean that your purpose of killing us was actually to protect us?"

The old man shook his head without hesitation and said: "I'm not that kind. The space blockade in this place will absorb the power of all the creatures here and strengthen itself, so the more people you come, the longer you stay here, the seal It will be stronger. My old man has been planning to escape. If you stay here like this, you are helping the guys who sealed me to strengthen the seal. Do you think I want to get you out quickly? "

When we heard the old man's explanation, we immediately believed it, because the reason sounded very reasonable. If you are trapped here, normal people will definitely want to escape. The old man doesn't want us to increase or decrease the difficulty for him, so he needs to kill the intruders and then let them get out, so that the seal cannot absorb the power and cannot continue. Strengthened.

Thinking of this, I suddenly discovered a problem. "its not right!"

"What's the matter?"

"There is a problem here!" Masamoto Matsumoto also discovered the problem and asked: "You said this thing will absorb everyone's power to strengthen the seal, but why don't you strengthen that thing yourself here?" (To be continued) . If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please read it.)