Chapter 21 Clear Goals

As much as we don't want this to happen, the fact is that it does happen. A normal-looking human face appeared above the wellhead and he quickly glanced inside. Then the guy's eyes instantly widened to the limit. The cause of all this was a flying stick flying up from the bottom of the well. So. Although the guy moved very quickly, unfortunately he didn't react as quickly as I was prepared. The dragon tendon rope that flew out from the bottom of the well accurately shot into the guy's throat, then passed through his throat all the way back, and finally opened its metal claws and accurately grabbed the guy's cervical vertebrae.

After confirming that the dragon tendon rope successfully locked the guy's cervical vertebrae, I immediately pulled down hard, and the guy's completely limp body rolled directly into the well mouth and was dragged down to the bottom by me.

Although this guy was dragged down by me, I know that this can only delay the time for us to be discovered. There is no way for us to completely hide it, because it is impossible for no one to see the guy when it falls, although others are the first to see it. The reaction might be to believe that the guy he had shot down before was not dead, and then took advantage of the opportunity when he stretched his head to look around and pulled him into the bottom of the well. However, this was their guess after all. In the end, someone would definitely come over to take a look whenever they had time. See what's going on below, so it's still a sure thing that we were discovered, and it's impossible to solve it at all.

"What should we do now?" Jin Coin asked, looking at the body that I pulled down.

Although Christina is a mage, she is obviously more decisive than gold coins in this matter. She took out her staff without asking and said: "What else can you do at this time? Just fight! Take advantage of it. We still have enough magic power now, so we can just go out and rely on real facts to push it. The worst thing we can do is to strategically retreat and find some marginal tasks to restore the magic power. When the magic power is full, we can refresh again. "

Zhenhong flipped the fist helmets on both arms down, directly activated the attack mode of Qianjin Fist Arms, and then said: "I like this idea."

Since both of them have this opinion and Jin Coin is hesitant, I don't want to change it. After softening the eternity, he attached it to his fingers and claws, then raised his head and said, "In that case, let's fight! It's not a fatal mission. There's no reason why we can't handle it even with our strength!"

"Hey... I can finally let go and have a big fight." Zhenhong, a violent maniac, cheered as he stepped on the well wall, bounced left and right twice, jumped up to the well mouth, and jumped out.

Looking at Zhen Hong who had disappeared at the mouth of the well, I shook my head helplessly, and then gave Jin Coin a wink. The latter nodded quickly and rushed towards me. I clenched my fist and squatted down. The gold coin jumped up and stepped on my upward fist. Then I suddenly exerted my strength and punched upward. The gold coin stepped on my fist and shot directly out of the well mouth and disappeared at the edge of the well in an instant. edge.

"You go first. I'll do it myself." Christina looked at me and said directly.

I nodded and stepped on the well wall like Zhen Hong, bouncing back and forth twice before jumping up. As soon as I came out, I saw Christina rising directly from the well with a large number of golden light particles like a golden little sun.

Although Christina appeared in a very fashionable way. But I have no time to care about her now, because the red and gold coins outside are already in a ball with the enemy. Although I said before that I was going to have a big fight, everyone obviously still had some restraint. A master is a master. Even when the blood is high, you will not really lose your mind. At least True Red and Gold Coin use high-destructive single-target attack skills and physical skills to fight. This method tests skills, and the fighting time may be longer. It was stretched, but I had to admit that this was actually the way to fight that saved the most endurance and magic power. If you don't get additional supplements, using this combat mode can increase the battery life by at least 20%, and the number of enemies killed will be directly increased. Of course, if conditions permit, most people still prefer to explode all their magic power in a short period of time to resolve the battle as quickly as possible. Only when the magic power is really insufficient will they consider this time-consuming and laborious method.

After taking a look at the situation nearby, although True Red and Gold Coin have already engaged in battle, the situation seems to be much better than we expected. Zhenhong felt as if a heavyweight boxing champion was fighting a group of people who had just recovered from a serious illness. She could see her punching left and right, knocking down the people who came up to her one by one, although it was very difficult. She can rarely resolve the battle in one go, but everyone she hits either collapses to the ground on the spot or is directly knocked away. There is no way to carry out a second attack, and it is precisely because Zhenhong cleans up the enemy so fast. , so that although there were many people running towards her, they could not form an encirclement because they were all knocked down before they formed an encirclement.

On the other side, Gold Coin's battle rhythm is not as fast as that of True Red. After all, she is a semi-auxiliary hybrid combat profession. She is not as tough as a legion-level main tank like True Red. However, because Gold Coin became a monk halfway, she was previously a thief. She came here, so her agility is much higher than that of ordinary Taoist priests. Even if there are so many people here besieging us, she can still dodge easily among the crowd. From the time I came out to now, she has been able to dodge easily. No one has ever touched it. Of course, although the action of gold coins is relatively good in terms of dodge, it is not good in attacking. After all, Taoist priests are not swordsmen and do not have many melee skills. They mainly rely on a few basic sword skills to support themselves. Fortunately, the agility of gold coins is very high, so although it is slow to kill enemies, self-protection is not a problem.

After seeing the situation clearly, I headed directly towards the gold coins. In contrast, Zhenhong doesn't need to worry about her side at all. It's her enemies who should be afraid, not her. On the contrary, the gold coin side seems to be fine, but it is actually very dangerous, because as long as the gold coin is hit by the enemy once, her fighting rhythm will be destroyed, and once she loses her own rhythm, she will inevitably be hit continuously, which will only form a vicious cycle. So without thinking about it, I rushed to the vicinity of the gold coin and started fighting with the enemy. If there was any problem with the gold coin at this distance, I could support her at any time. Anyway, with her situation, even if she lost her rhythm, she wouldn't give up in a few moves. If she is put down, at least I still have time to save her.

"do not come."

I just rushed to the gold coins and knocked down a few enemies. The person on the other side of the gold coin suddenly yelled at me, and while we were fighting, I was almost injured by a guy in front of me who was dressed like an assassin from Assassin's Creed. Fortunately, I reacted quickly and raised my leg after dodging the attack. He kicked the guy away with one kick.

"What the hell are you doing?"

"I'm pulling someone in!" Jin Coin replied loudly.

As soon as I heard it I knew immediately that I had misunderstood. It's not that gold coins can't defeat those around her. She is deliberately letting the surrounding enemies form a circle around her and gradually increasing the density of people. This is clearly her strategy. If nothing else, she plans to wait until there are enough people and then use a big move to clear the surrounding area instantly. This method can be said to save more mana than relying on the combination of physical skills and small skills, but in actual combat, it basically won't. There is such an opportunity, because the ultimate move is a face-to-face attack, and it is obviously a waste if one ultimate move only hits a few people. But the enemy is not stupid either. How could they get together in a group and let you beat them? But now the situation is special. The demon here doesn't know what the attack method of gold coins is, and she deliberately behaves relatively weakly so that those people think that she is easy to bully, regard her as a target that can be solved first, and therefore gather around her. around.

It can be said that the idea of ​​gold coins is indeed a good one. So much so that even I was deceived and actually came here to help her when she was in danger. Little did he know that she was just pretending.

Now that I already know the idea of ​​gold coins, I don't need to be so anxious. After looking at the situation around me, I simply rushed towards those places with many people. Anyway, I am a tank type like True Red, and most people will do very little damage to me. These monsters are in two camps. They are still fighting with each other. Although the third party like us who suddenly ran out is obviously an enemy to both sides, the two sides are not wise enough to immediately abandon their predecessors and deal with us together.

As soon as I left the gold coin side, a small group of monster-like monsters appeared in front of me. I was about to go up and fight, but suddenly I saw a large golden ball of light flying over my head, and then I originally The targets all turned into human-shaped torches and started rolling all over the ground, and there were all such existences around me, so I didn’t know which way to rush.

Helplessly, I looked back at Christina, who was floating in the sky and showing off her power. I had no choice but to walk back to her side and act as a shield for her. Christina's intention is obvious, which is to use her advantage in magic recovery speed to clear out the monsters here.

After we entered this buff mission, our magic recovery speed dropped significantly. This, like our other attributes, did not cause us to worry because the buff mission was designed to weaken everyone's attributes. However, this weakening is also proportional to our previous attributes, which means that if you are relatively strong, you will still be relatively strong in the buff mission, but the gap with others has been narrowed after the weakening. The buff task will not make the weak become the strong, it will only shorten the gap between the two. Therefore, the original advantages are still advantages in the buff task, but they will not be so abnormal.

When Christina is outside, because she has the special advanced mode of the Yuan** Emperor, her magic recovery speed can almost catch up with the consumption speed of her mid-level and low-level magic when she fully activates it. In other words, as long as she does not use her ultimate move, Christina can Na's magic power is almost unlimited in time. Of course, it is impossible to still have unlimited magic power in the buff mission, otherwise this advantage would be too scary. If Christina's attack speed still had unlimited magic power, she would probably be able to wash the entire mission world with magic in just one hour. Such terrible output is not acceptable for buff missions.

However, although Christina's magic recovery speed in the buff mission is limited to a relatively low state, this recovery speed is still a very fast recovery speed compared to us. Here At this speed, Christina can actually restore her magic power to a full extent in just an hour. Once our magic power is exhausted, it won’t be able to replenish it for more than six hours. This is why Kristina Why did Tina want to steal someone's head? Compared with ours, her battery life is obviously better, which can maintain the maximum group combat effectiveness. Besides, Christina has an advantage when it comes to clearing out miscellaneous soldiers. Compared with her, we are still a little slower.

As Christina exploded with all her might. The surrounding monsters were quickly cleared away, leaving only two or three kittens, and the remaining monsters were sitting on the ground stupidly looking at Christina, who looked like a little sun in the sky. They were all frightened by Christina's attack power. Just as Christina was floating there, it was like an anti-infantry mine that exploded, pouring a torrential rain of golden light bombs around her. Not only were these light bombs extremely large in number, they all had automatic guidance capabilities. No matter how much those who were attacked tried to dodge, it was useless. Many people even dodged three or four consecutive attacks from the light bullets, but still suffered from the fifth and sixth time the light bombs came back.

I didn't miss any of the frightened demon gold coins. I went up and killed them all with one sword, while I caught Christina who fell from the sky. Although this move looked very powerful, the cost was also high. Now Christina's magic power has almost bottomed out. It even lost the ability to maintain flight. But this situation is not very worrying. At least I don't think there's anything to worry about. All the monsters we can see are already dead, and there seems to be nothing that can deter us. Besides, Christina is the only one on our side who has lost her fighting power. I don’t have any consumption of true red and gold coins. If we encounter any danger, we can still go up and fight.

"Why would we sneak in if we knew these guys wouldn't beat us?" Jin Coin said, looking at the corpses on the ground.

Zhenhong also nodded and said: "That's right! I thought these things were difficult to deal with. I didn't expect it to be so bad! We were so careful before, but after a long time, they were all useless!"

"That's wrong." I suddenly discovered with vigilance that among the combat creatures here, there were actually a few that I had paid special attention to before. When the monsters were fighting in the village before, I actually paid attention to the targets with the highest energy response, so I paid special attention to them at that time. So the impression is quite deep. However, among the corpses here, the targets I am paying attention to are the only ones missing. In other words, the real boss is not here, and what we have cleared out are just miscellaneous soldiers.

Christina and the others looked at me in confusion when they heard my shouting and asked: "Boss, what are you shouting for? What's wrong?"

"The most powerful monsters are not here!" I told them what I had discovered.

"What?" After hearing my words, Zhen Hong and Jin Coin immediately looked around. Although they were not as careful as me, they had actually paid attention to the most powerful monsters before. After all, everyone was in the battle. They will be able to pay attention to the most conspicuous targets, and the strongest demons are undoubtedly the most conspicuous existences, but now these guys are obviously not there. They didn't pay much attention when I didn't mention it before, but now as soon as I woke up, they immediately realized that they really didn't see the strongest beings.

"It seems that the high-level demons I saw before are really not here!" Zhenhong said after checking the body.

Jin Coin also nodded and said: "Those masters are not here, could it be some kind of trap?"

"We don't question traps. After all, the other party didn't know we were coming, so it's unlikely that we would have arranged such a trap beforehand. Besides, if it was a trap, the other party would have launched it now. The lack of movement for so long can only mean that it was an accident. But you still need to be careful about where those high-level demons go.”

"Then what should we do now? We can't just wait here, right?" Jin Coin asked.

"Of course we don't have to wait. Just be careful and run into those guys suddenly. We don't need to deliberately look for them. Don't forget that our goal is to destroy the soul collector. We can ignore other tasks that do not affect us. .”

"Understood." Jin Coin nodded and said, "Then shall we enter the teleportation array again now?"

"Of course, but let's not go down this time."

"Of course."

After confirming the target, we came to the location of the previous teleportation array again. The subsequent teleportation process was completed very smoothly like last time, and we did not see any guards on the other side of the teleportation array, but those who came last time The bodies of the guards we killed were all missing for some unknown reason. I wonder if someone had cleaned them up after they were discovered.

Although the body of the guard is missing, this is not the point. Our goal is obvious, which is to focus on finding the soul collector. Then destroy it and ignore anything irrelevant to the mission.

In fact, making such a decision is also a compromise on our part. Previously, we thought that this buff task could be done just like a normal task and we could explore if there were any other benefits. However, the situation we have encountered so far shows that the buff task is far from being as simple as a normal task. Maybe there really is something like side quests here, but according to my observation, this kind of quest requires luck and a lot of time to complete, and it feels quite risky to rush to complete such a complex quest without knowing the rewards, and it’s impossible to do it. Fortunately, I will frame myself in it.

What we can do in this situation is try not to pay attention to those side tasks and concentrate on conquering the main tasks. Of course, in the future, we still need to complete side tasks several times to investigate the gains and losses, but this is the first time we have entered the buff task, and we have not yet fully understood the true difficulty and rewards of this task. In this case, rushing to test more complex side tasks is obviously not worth the gain. I was blinded by the possible benefits before. The best explanation is that after going around in such a big circle and still finding nothing.

Concentrating on conquering the main mission, when we entered the previous staircase that connected up and down, we walked up directly according to the information from General Qiman's inside information. There were no layers of underground structures as expected from here. Instead, there were circles of enclosed stairs, and we ran around them for at least a hundred times. I finally reached the top of the stairs when I almost felt dizzy. This shows how deep this stairwell is.

The top of this deep stairwell is not directly connected to the ground. Instead, it was a huge underground palace. This place is a large continuous stone palace complex with a large space inside. The distance between the roof and the ground is generally more than six meters, and the passage is wide enough to drive a tank. The walls are almost entirely covered with various murals, but none of the creatures are familiar to us.

"Why do I feel like this is a mausoleum?" Jin Coin asked, looking at the surrounding stone pillars and murals on the walls.

"Because this is a mausoleum." Christina answered while raising her staff and shooting out a thick light beam like a searchlight. With the light beam shining on us, we immediately discovered the mausoleum placed in the center of the passage ahead. A sarcophagus.

In fact, we couldn't see clearly because of the distance. After the light beam came on, we discovered that there was not just one sarcophagus, but a whole row. The way these sarcophagi are placed is very strange. They are not placed in the tomb chamber, but in the passage. They are not placed against the wall, but in the center of the passage. All the sarcophagi are placed quite densely, almost one meter in length. densely arranged together. After we got closer, we counted and found that there were thirty sarcophagi in this passage alone. It was obvious that so many sarcophagi could not be the coffins of the tomb owner. If these were not burial attendants, it could only mean that the tomb owner must have been confiscated by his entire family. Zhan was buried here together, otherwise how could more than thirty coffins be used at one time?

"Would you like to open it and take a look?" Jin Coin's old habit relapsed after seeing these sarcophagi, and he wanted to make a profit again.

I glared at her and said, "Have you forgotten the lesson we learned before?"

Zhenhong also nodded and said: "You'd better restrain yourself for the gold coins. The task comes first now."

Jin Coin defended: "Is this just a suggestion? If you don't want to open it, don't open it."

I shook my head helplessly and led everyone forward without touching the sarcophagi. However, sometimes if you are not looking for trouble, trouble will come to you. We had just passed fifteen of the sarcophagi, that is, we had just reached the center of the sarcophagi, and all of the sarcophagi suddenly started to move on their own for no apparent reason.

"Damn it, I didn't touch anything!" Jin Coin saw that the cover on the top of the nearby sarcophagus was automatically sliding up and down, thinking he had hit some mechanism.

"It's none of your business, these things are the guards here." I said and protected Christina and retreated to the wall, but before we actually stood at the wall, we suddenly heard something coming from behind. There was the sound of a machine turning. Looking back, I saw that several stone slabs the size of door panels had automatically protruded outward from the wall. After protruding from the wall, these stone slabs began to slide to one side with a rumbling sound, and before these things were fully opened, I had already seen the general situation behind the stone slab.

The stone slabs on these walls are not the passage gates, but the same cover plates as the coffin slabs in the center. Behind these stone slabs are not passages, but narrow squares where only one person can stand. To put it bluntly, it is a kind of erected coffin embedded in the wall.

"Quickly retreat to a place without coffins. If you stand here, you will be surrounded!" Before the stone slab was fully unfolded, I quickly woke up Christina and the others and left this place.

Fortunately, we reacted quickly, and the opening speed of those stone slabs was indeed very slow, so we finally managed to retreat to a place without coffins.

Just after we arrived at the location without a coffin and stood still, we were not asked to wait for the body to climb out of the coffin. Instead, we first saw a dragon-breaking stone, and it was actually behind us. At the top of the passage we just walked through, a huge boulder as wide as the entire passage and dozens of meters thick was slowly descending.

The current situation is obvious. Once the stone falls down, the passage will be completely blocked. There are only two ways we can choose, or we can quickly return to the stairwell we came up from before before this thing comes down. The advantage of this is that we don't have to worry about those corpses here, but the disadvantage is that we no longer have to hope to destroy the soul collector. In other words, running back to the base is tantamount to giving up the mission.

Obviously we cannot give up the mission, so there is only one option left for us - to stand still.

We do still have a chance to contact the soul collector if we stand still here, but once the stone behind us falls, the passage we are in will become a dead end, and we are just at the end of the dead end, and we don’t know the details in front of it. An army of monsters in numbers and strength. Although this is quite dangerous, it actually feels more reliable. After all, no matter how many monsters there are, you can always kill them. Compared with completely cutting off hope and being sealed out of the mission area, there is always hope.

After making up my mind, I took Christina and the others and stood in front of the Broken Dragon Stone without moving. Anyway, the stone couldn't hit us from this position.

I don’t know if the corpses over there are deliberately waiting for our choice. Although the covers are all opened, no corpse comes out of the coffin. However, this strange silence makes us have a greater psychological state. pressure. Fortunately, we are not rookies anymore. This pressure at most makes us a little more cautious, and it will not affect our emotions.

In this weird atmosphere, the huge boulder behind us finally sealed the entire passage with a bang, and just after the boulder completely fell to the ground, the sarcophagi in front that had been silent finally started to react. (To be continued...)