Chapter 14 Safety or Profit?

After we all stood on the marble platform, the golden sphere had already flown to a height of about one and a half meters above the ground, and its speed was so fast that its surface structure was barely clear. As the golden sphere rotated, we found that the scenery in the room began to rotate slowly. At first it was just spinning slowly, but the speed became faster and faster, and soon the outside environment was completely unclear. It felt like the surrounding screen had turned into a stream of light, and no specific thing could be seen.

This high-speed rotating state lasted for more than ten seconds, and then the speed began to slowly decrease, and then became slower and slower, but soon we discovered the changes around us. Before the rotation started, we were in a rather dilapidated hut. Although the floor was made of marble, this structure looked like it should be the platform of the teleportation array, and the walls and top of the room were very dilapidated. However, the situation has obviously changed now. Although we still can't see clearly the surrounding situation while turning, we can already confirm that the room we are in is no longer the thatched house before. At least the original room does not have this kind of granite roof. of.

As the platform swung further down we soon noticed more and more differences around us. The first thing that caught our attention was the size of the room. The original thatched house was only slightly larger than the marble platform at our feet, but the current room is at least the size of a small supermarket, and the platform we are on only occupies less than a third of it. to the area.

It took about ten seconds for the platform to level off, and at this time the situation in the room finally fully came into view. but. The situation in this room is such that we have no time to observe the environment here at all, because just when we can see a little more clearly about the situation outside, people outside obviously also see us.

Unlike the teleportation array in the thatched house over there, this side of the teleportation array is guarded, and it's not just one or two guards, but a large group of guards.

Previously, this special teleportation array rotated too fast. Even though the guards knew someone was coming, they couldn't see clearly who it was, so they just assumed it was one of their own. Who knew that after seeing it clearly, they realized that it was not one of their own, so the guards immediately rushed forward with weapons. and. Some of the guards actually broke out and ran outside. Apparently he went to report the news.

When I saw a few guards rushing out, I shouted directly to Zhenhong: "Zhenhong, go intercept those people."

Zhenhong rushed forward without saying a word, while Christina threw out an energy blast that knocked away all the people who rushed forward. Zhenhong took this opportunity to get through the crowd. I don't know if I can catch up with the two guards outside who came to report the news.

Although I really want to support Zhenhong. But it will be a problem if we don't kill the guards in the room, so we can't leave yet.

After the guards recovered from the power of the energy shock, they discovered that I had blocked the door, and the gold coins protected Christina as she continued to stand on the teleportation array and began to cover her with fire. The guard in the middle was at a loss for a moment. From a strategic perspective. They should actually rush away from my side now, and then go to support the reporting companions to ensure that the news of the invasion can be sent out. However, from a tactical point of view, the output of Christina's firepower point is too high. If this firepower point cannot be removed as soon as possible, At the firepower point, their casualties will be horrific, so tactically they should kill Christina first, or at least ensure that she cannot continue to take advantage of their firepower.

Both sides seemed to have very urgent matters. The guards really didn't know what to do for a moment, and time didn't allow them to think too much. So, something went wrong while busy, and these guys actually did something very special. Stupid thing. The guards actually divided into two teams without any discussion. One team turned and rushed towards the gate in an attempt to break through my line of defense, while the other team rushed past Christina and the gold coins in an attempt to capture her. Problems on both sides are solved at the same time.

If the number of guards on their side is large enough and the combat effectiveness is strong, this kind of decision-making is not a bad method, but unfortunately, the enemies they face are us, even after they are weakened, they are very difficult to deal with. enemies, and more importantly, their numbers are not enough to form a numerical advantage. After the troops are divided, the number drops even more, and the advantage turns into a disadvantage.

The number of guards is actually not very large. It is just a teleportation array. Eight guards are already a lot. One of them has just been sent out to report the news, and there are only seven people left. Now the seven people divided their forces again, three of them came to attack my defense line, and the other four ran towards Christina and the gold coins. In other words, each of them only needed to deal with two enemies, even if I only have to deal with three enemies. Players like us usually have to face enemies hundreds or thousands of times our own. After a war, people like me and Zhenhong can kill at least thousands of enemies, like Christina and Gold Coin. Not to mention, it is basically a battlefield meat grinder. It is common for a large-scale legion-level magic to kill tens of thousands of people. Now as long as you face two or three people, this is not a level thing at all! Of course, we are not in the state of sweeping thousands of armies on the battlefield now, but as the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and a rotten ship still has three thousand nails. Even if players of our level are weakened, It's not a problem to deal with three or five guards.

The first guard who rushed in front of me didn't even wait for the cooperation of the two people behind him. He came up and struck him with a sword. I turned slightly to the side, stretched out my foot to trip him, and then stabbed the second guard with my sword. He grabbed the third person's wrist and pressed it down. He twisted his arm hard and took half a step behind him. He quickly made a fist with his other hand and hit it accurately with one punch. On the back of the guy's heart, the blade claws on his wrists stretched and retracted like lightning at the same time, leaving three holes in the guy's vest and heart.

After killing two guards in a row, I stepped out of the room and walked to the corridor outside. The first guard who rushed up tripped over me and fell out of the room and hit the opposite aisle. By the time he got up, I had already killed his two companions and stepped out of the room. The guy had just gotten up from the ground and before he could turn around, he felt a hand grabbing the back of his neck from behind, then squeezing his neck and pushing his head forward. With the bang, the guy's eyes were filled with stars, and he instantly lost the ability to think. Then before he realized what was going on, he felt a pain in his neck, and then completely lost consciousness.

It took me three seconds to take down the three guards. I stood in the corridor and looked back inside. Gold Coin is taking back her Tianzun Sword, and the three smoking charred corpses in the center of the room are probably Christina's work.

"How are you doing over there?" I was turning my head to look inside the room, when a real red voice came from the front of the aisle. When he turned around and looked over, he saw that Zhenhong was holding a guard's neck with one hand and dragging his body back.

"Kill them all. Were you not discovered over there?"

Zhenhong picked up the body in his hand and shook it: "I caught this kid just as he turned the corner. He didn't even have time to report it."

"That's good." After I said that, I looked at the aisle around me and found that this place looked a lot like the inside of a castle, and it had some European architectural styles, because Japanese buildings rarely have such an all-stone structure. of houses.

"Have you seen what it looks like outside?" Christina asked as she walked out of the room.

"No." Zhenhong said, "I suspect this place is underground. There isn't even a window. And I also found that this place is very humid."

"Underground?" I thought this was a European-style building. But Jing Zhenhong said that it might indeed be an underground building. Because even Japanese underground buildings cannot be made of wood, otherwise they will start to rot in less than two months. After all, the underground environment is very humid. Wood doesn't last long.

"No matter where it is, there will always be an exit, right?" Jin Coin said, "Don't we know it when we go out?"

"makes sense."

Fortunately, the underground structure of this place is not complicated. Although the corridor is very long and there are many rooms along the way, there are no side roads. Most of the rooms along the way are empty, and even the rooms with things are empty. It's a cellar or something.

When the corridor came to the end, we found a staircase, but the problem was that this staircase was an intermediate level. It not only had steps going up, but also going down.

"What should we do?" Zhenhong looked at me and asked, "Are we going up or down?"

"Go down and take a look first," Jin Coin said.

I looked at the gold coin and asked, "What's going down? This may be an underground structure, and the exit should be on top, right?"

"It's because I know this is underground that I suggested going down." Jin Coin said, "Of course the structure in the basement becomes more hidden as you go down, so all the important things should be down there."

"Are you planning to cheat?" Zhenhong couldn't help but tease.

Jin Coin smiled and said, "This is called coordination."

After stopping their playfulness, I accepted the gold coin's suggestion and walked down first. After walking down the stairs for less than ten steps, there was a turn, and then there was a door. After pushing open the door, what you see is a vast expanse of sky, because the inside of the door is filled with rolling thick fog, and you can't see anything except a vast expanse of white.

"Damn it, this place is not used to replace the maze, right?" Seeing the smoke-filled room in front of him, he immediately guessed the purpose of the gold coin.

In fact, the fog in this room is not just thick, it is even divided into three layers. On the floor of the room is a dense layer of fog that is as dense as cotton candy. People standing in it can only see the part above their knees. As for the part below, they cannot see it at all, let alone stepping on something. , even if there is a big pit ahead, you still can't see it.

In addition to the super thick layer of fog under the feet, above the height of the knee joint to a height of about two and a half meters above the ground, this part is the second type of fog. The visibility of this kind of fog is better than that under the feet. The visual distance is a little more than three meters. You can barely see people from a distance of four meters, but you can basically tell whether there is anyone there. As for who it is, whether it is a man or a woman, or even whether it is a human being, it is impossible to tell clearly.

The third layer of fog in this room is right above our heads, and its lower part is located two and a half meters above the ground. How much more is above is completely unknown, because we can't see where the ceiling is at all. It was obscured by this dense fog. In fact, except for one floating on the ceiling and the other settling on the ground, there is almost no difference between the fog above the head and the fog on the ground. They are both equally dense. Visibility was only a few centimeters.

In such an environment. Apart from the general situation within three or four meters near the gate, we could basically see nothing else. Not to mention whether there are enemies here, we don't even know how big this room is, because apart from the fact that the ground can be stepped on with our feet. Neither the ceiling nor the surrounding walls are in a position where they can be seen at all. So how big is this place. What exactly is inside, we have no idea.

Faced with this situation, I really hesitated, based on the information I got from Qiman. The soul collector we need to destroy is not here, and the room in front of us is obviously a big pit. If we fail the mission due to some extraneous things, it will really be a waste of watermelons and sesame seeds.

"Well...should we just not go in?" Christina obviously had the same idea as me, so she asked.

I also hesitantly looked at Gold Coin and Zhenhong to ask for their opinions. Zhenhong quickly shook his head to express his abstention and let us decide, while Gold Coin looked a little reluctant and seemed to want to go down and have a look.

It's hard for me to deal with this situation, because I know that the theory of gold coins is correct. Generally, there are some good things deep in this kind of basement. Especially when there is such a powerful protective device halfway, it shows that there is something down there. nice one. It would be a pity to give up, but it would be a bit risky to go on.

"I still want to go down and have a look." Jin Coin thought for a long time and still wanted to go down.

I thought for a moment and then turned to Christina and asked: "What do you think?"

"I don't really want to go down, but if you think it's necessary, I don't care."

After weighing it for a while, I decided: "Then go down and have a look. Wealth can be gained through risk. If you don't take risks, there will be no gains."

"Then let's go down." After Zhenhong said that, he was the first to walk into the room, and we also entered the room one by one. However, Zhenhong is not really stupid and bold. After entering here, she did not rush forward with her head down, but waited for us to enter before slowly moving forward.

Watching Zhenhong move forward step by step, I knew she was testing whether there were traps or something under her feet, but I stopped her as soon as I came in. "Don't move yet, it's better for me to explore the way."

Zhen Hong also knew that I had many summons, so he didn't say anything and just retreated to my side.

I didn't summon pathfinding creatures as soon as I came up. Instead, I summoned a large group of ghost bugs and released them outside the door. These guys will disperse and lurk near the gate, which is equivalent to leaving a beacon for myself. If I encounter a problem and need to come back, I will at least know where the gate is. Otherwise, given the density of the fog in this place, it would probably not be that easy to find the gate as long as you walk more than ten meters in.

After placing the coordinates of the door, I created a large group of several hundred death guards, and then formed a large protected area around us. These Death Guards are scattered in the form of a grid, and the distance between two adjacent Death Guards is kept at about two meters to ensure that each other knows what is happening to the other. Using this method, hundreds of Death Guards can cover a large detection area around us. As long as any Death Guard is in danger, we will know immediately, so that we can avoid ourselves from unexpected accidents. unnecessary loss. As for the losses of the Death Guards... there were more than 50,000 people anyway. They should all be dead in a short time, right? Besides, the Death Guards can be replenished very quickly. As long as hundreds or thousands of people are not wiped out by large-scale magic, the number can generally be guaranteed not to decrease.

After arranging all these, I got a few more ghost bugs and grabbed them in my hands, and then I started to signal to True Red that they could start moving forward.

Seeing that I was so well prepared, Zhenhong and the others felt much safer. As the team moved forward, I started throwing a ghost bug on the ground every few steps. These ghost bugs did not move after landing, they just stood there to serve as road signs for us. As long as there are these ghost bugs, we can form a guidance belt, which is equivalent to a safety rope connecting us with the door exit, so that we are not afraid of getting lost. After all, just having a remote beacon is not enough, because some places can block long-range induction.

Because there are death guards in front of us to clear the way, we don't have to worry about "stepping on landmines", and there are ghost bug positioning coordinates, so we advance very fast and don't have to worry about encountering danger at all. The entire team advanced almost at a trot for more than 500 meters, but in the end they encountered nothing except a few pillars.

"Isn't this damn place endless?" Zhenhong said, looking at the identical fog around her.

Jin Coin said: "That's your illusion. In fact, we only walked more than five hundred meters."

"What? Only five hundred meters?" Zhenhong looked at me in surprise and asked.

I nodded and said: "Five hundred and three meters, this is an accurate number. I can sense the ghost bugs at the door. There is no mistake."

"Thanks to the president's summoned creature, otherwise a normal person would have a nervous breakdown before walking a thousand meters here," Christina said.

Just when I was about to continue my fight, I suddenly felt that one of the Death Guards had died, and I quickly warned loudly: "Be on guard, there is a situation." (To be continued...)