Chapter 3 (Volume 22) Deserted Village, Ghost Village

After I expressed my intention to help, the skeleton-like girl slowly raised a hand with difficulty and pointed at the only remaining piece of furniture in the room.

This is a very ordinary chest of drawers, with five layers of drawers at the bottom. The upper cover can be opened, and there are also storage compartments inside, where you can put small odds and ends.

Seeing the other party pointing at the chest of drawers, Zhenhong immediately walked over and put her hand on the top cover and looked at the girl, with the intention of asking which drawer. The girl swallowed hard, and then said: "The pattern on the front... can be turned."

Zhenhong turned her head and looked at the baffle on the cabinet with a slight surprise. There was indeed a relief of a golden chrysanthemum, but it didn't look like it could move. But since the other party said it, it shouldn't be wrong again. Zhenhong tried to turn it, but found that she couldn't move it, but she felt that the thing could be pressed down, so she pressed down gently. After the golden chrysanthemum sank a little, there was a sudden strong thrust. Zhenhong let go, and the golden chrysanthemum popped out of the horizontal plate. Now you can clearly see that there is a rotation behind this thing. The shaft can indeed rotate.

Seeing that Zhenhong had touched the mechanism, the girl immediately said: "Turn clockwise."

Zhenhong nodded and started to twist the golden chrysanthemum. It turned out that this thing was not a switch, but something like a crank. It's not just a simple turn that will open the mechanism, but it needs to be turned continuously for many turns. Zhenhong twisted there for a long time and found that there was no reaction, so she turned to look at the girl in confusion for answers. I also looked at the girl with confusion, waiting for her explanation.

The girl took a breath before speaking: "You need... you need to turn it many times. The opening is... at the bottom of the well outside. You need to keep turning until... it can't turn anymore, and then press the golden chrysanthemum back. Otherwise, let go... The mechanism will be restored."

When Zhenhong heard this, she was stunned for a moment, then looked back at the golden chrysanthemum in her hand. The gold coin simply ran outside and stood at the mouth of the well and looked down, but she saw nothing except a rich purple mist that could not be dissolved. You can't see it, not even the water at the bottom of the well.

"I can't see anything from here," Gold Coin shouted into the room.

When we heard the sound, we looked at the girl, but she had no reaction at all. The eyeballs that lost their shape showed that she had already passed away.

"It seems that I can only do as she said." I stood up and walked to Zhenhong to ask her to get out of the way, and then summoned Everett. This golden chrysanthemum is not only the opening device of the mechanism, but also the power to start the mechanism, and the rotation resistance of this thing is very small. This only shows that the gear set in this thing must be very large, so I estimate that this thing definitely needs to rotate. It takes many laps to fully open the mechanism. Human wrist rotation is terrible. It can only rotate about 180 degrees at a time. Continuously turning back and forth will definitely not make it faster. Therefore, I directly asked Everett to take over Zhenhong's job.

Everett is a constructed creature, which is not much different from a robot in nature. His wrist can be continuously rotated in one direction without worrying about breaking. and. The most important thing is that Everett's wrist can rotate as fast as an electric drill. Thousands of revolutions per minute are absolutely no problem. I'm so exhausted that I can't even do this.

After pinching the golden chrysanthemum, we saw Everett's wrist begin to rotate slowly, and then the speed became faster and faster, and in the end we could only see a completely blurred hand shadow. After turning at this speed for more than ten seconds, I suddenly heard a click. Everett's hand stopped instantly.

"The end?"

Everett nodded and said: "It can't turn anymore. I'm afraid that the bearing will break if I exert too much force."

"That'll do it. Press it and try it."

Everett followed the instructions and pressed the golden chrysanthemum into it. This thing is just like a spring switch. Before, it popped out after pressing it once. But now it becomes the same as before, embedded in the groove and unable to rotate. Seeing this result, I temporarily put away Everett and walked outside, and Christina and the others immediately followed me out.

"Is there any movement?" I asked when I saw the gold coins still lying at the mouth of the well.

Jin Coin just shook his head and said: "The fog is too thick and I can't even see what's going on below. I can't even use magic to expel the fog. And I also discovered a very strange situation."

"what's the situation?"

"I wonder if the fog in the wellhead can absorb sound. I threw some stones down, but I couldn't hear the sound of hitting the bottom at all. If it's not the fog that can absorb sound, then there can only be one answer!"

The answer that the gold coin didn't say was that this well may be connected to another space, and it may be the entrance to a space passage, so the stone did not hit the bottom of the well here when it fell, but flew directly to the opposite side.

"No matter what the situation is, we have to go down and have a look." I said, turning around and looking around, and then I found a huge stone standing at the entrance of the village with the name of the village written on it. I walked directly over and circled the big rock twice. After confirming that the thing was big enough, I shouted to Zhenhong over there: "Hey, Zhenhong, can you do me a favor? Get this thing to the edge of the well."

"I'm happy to oblige." Zhenhong walked over, then looked at the boulder that was more than three meters high, and then suddenly raised his hand and punched it into the rock, followed by a burst of force from his whole body, accompanied by a shock , the big stone suddenly fell towards her, and her other hand immediately pushed it up, and firmly caught the big stone with a bang, and the only impact on her was that her waist was slightly Just bent a little.

After holding on to the boulder weighing more than ten tons, Zhenhong suddenly exerted force and thrust her waist upward. With her strength, the part of the boulder that had sunk into the ground was uprooted, and then she carried it sideways. Looking at Zhenhong's petite figure carrying such a big thing, it feels like a four or five-year-old child lifting a car, but in fact, except for the fact that it took a little effort to get this thing out. When it comes to actually carrying this thing, Zhen Hong has no trouble at all. Of course, she really didn't feel anything when she carried it by herself, but we still looked super shocked.

After completely lifting the rock, Zhenhong immediately walked towards the wellhead. Every step she took could cause the feeling of a small earthquake, and every time she stepped down, she could step on a few centimeters deep crack on the ground. The big hole made it feel like she was not walking on a hard rammed earth road, but as if she was walking in a desert.

"I have to say that you really feel like a little monster now." Jin Coin couldn't help but teased as he watched Zhenhong rumble over.

Zhenhong walked to the well and threw the boulder directly next to the gold coin. The bang made the gold coin almost bounce off the ground and knock it down. "Zhen Hong, you are taking revenge!"

"Who told you to say I look like a little monster?"

"Okay, check this place out for me. I'll go down first to explore the way. You guys wait up there." After I said that, I directly raised my left hand and pointed it at the boulder. With a move of my finger, there was a pop, and the head of the dragon's sinew rope came out. Shoot straight out. Then it embedded itself into the rock with a clang and opened instantly, locking itself completely. After having this fixed point, I walked directly to the well and stepped in.

After jumping from the wellhead, I immediately fell into the fog that blocked my sight. But this situation is surprising. When I came here, this place must be at least ten meters deep. But what surprised me was that almost as soon as I entered the fog, I hit the ground directly in the next second. Judging from the time of falling, I guessed that I had just passed four to five meters before reaching the bottom. If I had known that the depth was only this small, I wouldn't have had to fix the dragon tendons. Just jump down!

After landing, I immediately observed the surrounding environment and found that I was indeed at the bottom of the well, but this well was different from what I had imagined. This is a dry well, with the ground underneath. There is no water, but there are many...skeletons. There are a lot of these bones. It seems that they are not just human bones, but also some bones of unknown objects. Anyway, the bottom of my feet is full of these things. The so-called ground is completely made of bones. There is no soil or anything else at the root. what.

The well I am in now is obviously not the same well as the one I jumped from before, because there is no fog in this well, and there is a black vortex spinning there less than one meter above my head. , and my dragon tendons are still connected to the vortex. Obviously, I fell in from that whirlpool-like place, and this is indeed not the main map space.

After confirming that there was no problem here for the time being, I directly raised my hand and aimed at the entrance of the space passage and shot a fireball. A few seconds later, I saw True Red falling from the entrance of the passage, followed by Christina, and finally the gold coins. .

"This is... an independent mission space?" Christina began to check the surrounding environment as soon as she came over.

Jin Coin pointed to the top of his head and asked, "Don't you think we should go out first and then talk?"

"It makes sense." After Zhenhong said that, she stretched out her hand and grabbed the gap in the wall, like a monkey, and climbed up in two or two. With True Red's strength, of course she could climb up such a shallow cave without any effort.

"Do me a favor!" Christina looked at me and said.

I smiled, folded my hands in front of me and made a holding gesture. Christina took a step forward and stepped on the palm of my hand. Then I lifted it up hard, and Christina immediately flew up, so red. He grabbed Christina's wrist and pulled her up. After that, I threw the gold coins up in the same way, and I climbed out in the same way as True Red.

"Is this... is there something wrong with my eyes, or did we jump into the wrong well just now?" I heard the sound of gold coins as soon as I came up, and I was stunned when I looked up. Outside this well is actually a small mountain village that is exactly the same as that over there. Except for the fact that there is no fog that blocks the view, there is almost no difference between the villages here and there.

"Why are both sides the same?" Zhenhong asked in surprise.

Christina frowned and asked, "Did we get the mission wrong?"

"What's wrong?" I looked at Christina.

Christina didn't answer, and directly showed me her attributes. I just took a glance and knew what she meant.

The attributes Christina showed me just now are very normal and have not changed at all, and this normal attribute is what makes it abnormal. According to the information given to us by the God of War before, the buff mission world will weaken the player's attributes, but our current attributes have not changed at all. This means that we have not entered the buff mission, and according to our previous speculation, we have just passed through When we got to that well, we should actually have entered the buff mission, and it shouldn't be like this now.

Completely confused about the current situation, Christina and the others could only focus their attention on me, waiting for me to make up my mind. As the president, you naturally need to make decisions at critical moments. However, I really have no way to do anything about this situation. After all, the information I know now is too little, and I am not an uncanny, and I can't just pinch my fingers and know what to do!

Fortunately, before I had time to make a decision, something came out to save me.

Actually, I came here wanting to say that it was human, but when the thing got closer, I realized that this thing might have been a person before, but now it definitely has nothing to do with people, because this thing is obviously a monster.

This thing is basically not much different from a human being. I can even confirm from his clothing and facial features that it is a male farmer in his forties, but now the farmer's head is tilted to one side of his body. Only the skin of the smaller half of the neck was connected to the head, but this guy was still walking quite steadily. Do you think this kind of thing can be considered a human being?

"Should this be considered an NPC or a monster?" Zhenhong asked us in a low voice while looking at the unknown object walking in the distance.

Christina and Gold Coin were both shaking their heads, but I discovered something else. I don’t know when it started, but we were surrounded. The place we are now is the small square in the center of the village, with the well behind it and surrounded by residential buildings. Now, the doors of these houses have been opened, and there are several figures standing behind each door, and there are even figures hidden in the alleys between the houses.

If it were just a group of people surrounding us, it wouldn't be a big deal. It's not like we haven't been surrounded by people before. However, what makes us feel a little nervous now is that although these people appear half-hidden around us, they all have their heads lowered without exception, and their faces cannot be seen at all, and these people Even though we were just standing there, we felt an electric numbness creeping from the tailbone to the top of the scalp, and it felt like all the hairs on the body stood up. The weird atmosphere makes people shiver.

"Are these...?" Zhenhong asked tentatively.

Jin Coin looked around cautiously and whispered: "I don't know. I can't see the negative energy attribute. By the way, our attribute values ​​​​are declining rapidly. It seems that we are in the right place. This is the exclusive space for buff missions!" (To be continued...)