Chapter 94 City of the Dead

"Wow...this...this...is really spectacular!" Zhenhong was a little embarrassed when he spoke.

"How many people will it take to fill the entire lake?" Jin Coin asked.

Rose just glanced briefly, and then said: "About 700,000 people. Considering the different proportions of dead bones and semi-rotten corpses, the error is about 100,000 people."

"That means there are at least 600,000 bones here?" Christina asked.

I nodded and said, "Rose's estimate should be relatively accurate."

"Okay, now I kind of regret not switching to the undead class!" Christina said jokingly, and the purpose was just to make everyone relax a little bit. The atmosphere at the scene was really too depressing, and everyone was trembling in their hearts.

"Oh, it seems that our investment has responded." As I finished speaking, the hot spring of the dead suddenly started to move again, and the bones began to roll and twist, and it felt like there were Something was moving under the bones, and it was obviously coming towards us.

Because of its high speed, the thing quickly reached the shore near us, and then we saw the bones on the lake shore turning over. Then all the bones began to move to both sides, revealing a passage among the bones. Almost at the same time that the passage was completed, a skeleton wearing a tattered cloth robe and holding a huge scythe slowly walked out of the passage.

Although this guy looks like a skeleton, if you really think of it as a skeleton soldier. That is really looking for death, because the sickle in the hand of the guy in front of us has clearly told us that this is a god of death.

Death is not the name of a god in the game, but refers to a type of NPC creature. Of course, you can call it a monster or a boss. Anyway, it is a non-player character set by the system. Although they only have one more robe and a sickle than ordinary skeletons, this branch has nothing to do with skeletons at all. They are a more extreme existence than lichs. Although they are slightly inferior to lichs in terms of knowledge and magical abilities, this race has a combat power that far exceeds lichs. Unlike the all-powerful Lich, the Death God is a fighting machine. They are the reapers on the battlefield. All enemies are weeds to them.

Because of the very powerful existence in the body's setting, the number of Death Gods is quite rare. After all, they are extremely powerful existences. If there are a lot of them, the average player will not survive.

Although the existence of the God of Death is relatively rare. But there are many players who know them. After all, every time this thing appears, a large number of players die in battle. So players are extremely careful about this race. As for the one in front of us...it should be regarded as the middle and lower level among the Shinigami, or the worst type of Shinigami.

In fact, the God of Death is also divided into three, six, and nine grades, but in fact, in most cases, the God of Death we see is the one we see in front of us. They are the weakest group among the Shinigami, but most people's impressions of the Shinigami come from this type of Shinigami. Therefore, it can be said that even the worst Shinigami cannot underestimate their combat effectiveness.

Seeing this god of death coming out, everyone on our side kept as calm as possible and no one acted rashly. It wasn't that we couldn't defeat him, but we wanted to get more information from this guy, so we didn't attack him.

After the god of death completely rose from the channel, he immediately took a step forward and came directly to the shore.

The God of Death is not a low-level skeleton soldier. They have quite high-end intelligence. Therefore, when this God of Death appeared, he did not rush up directly like ordinary low-level undead. Instead, he first looked around the group of us with his black eye sockets, and then he suddenly smiled slightly. He bowed and saluted us. To be honest, if ordinary people see this scene, they will definitely be shocked, because the God of Death is almost one of the most untouchable boss types. The current success rate of challenging such bosses is less than 10%. This shows that this type of boss The greatness of. Under such circumstances, the God of Death should not take anyone seriously, but the God of Death in front of us saluted us first. This is definitely not the treatment that normal people should receive.

"I think he should be the leader of this group of people, right?" The god of death immediately looked towards me and asked after saluting. Through the two holes in his eye sockets, you can directly see the two purple soul fires burning in his eyes. Although this god of death does not appear to be of a high level, he is actually on the verge of evolution. The soul fire in the eyes shows that this guy is transforming to a higher level, because there is only one ball of pure low-level death fox fire, which is located in the skull cavity where the brain was originally stored. Therefore, normally what you see through the eyes of a skull should be a large ball of soul fire burning in the brain. However, this is not the case. This guy has his own independent soul fire in his eyes, and the main soul fire in his brain is also hidden. The outside is wrapped in a layer of darkness, and the situation inside cannot be seen at all.

"I am Ziri, the president of the Frost Rose Alliance, and these are my subordinates. Are you the master here or do you just live here?"

"I'm just a guard here. I'm neither the owner nor just living here."

"Guards?" I looked at this god of death in confusion and asked, "Do you still have an organization here?"

"Yes." The god of death said, "Do you want to go inside or do you need anything else?"

"Can we go in?" Rose asked directly over me.

The god of death turned his head and glanced at the rose, but since skeletons can't show expressions or eyes, we can't see what he meant. However, this guy quickly said: "If you can abide by some Necessary rules, we allow outsiders to enter here. However, I need to explain to you first that if you die accidentally here, we will not take care of it. "

"Of course." I said, "We have the ability to protect ourselves."

The God of Death nodded and said: "I know this very well, that's why I let you in. Otherwise, you wouldn't see me at all." After the God of Death finished speaking, he immediately added: "Also, let me tell you, we There is an entrance fee here, so you need to decide for yourself whether you want to go in."

"Does everyone who comes here need to pay an entry fee?" Rose asked.

"No, city residents have free entry and exit, but you are outsiders. So..."

"What about the charging standards? How do you settle the bill?"

"Our currency is mainly high-energy crystals, but all other items with magic energy can be used as currency, let alone magic cores and the like. Of course, the crystals with dark energy attributes you just had are more valuable. Some."

"So how much is our entry fee?"

"Fifteen units of magic energy for each person."

"How much is one unit?"

The god of death hesitated for a moment, but finally reached out and took out a purple currency that looked like crystal from his chest. But the way this thing is processed is very strange. It was actually cast. A crystal that could be cast was something new. However, that is not what we need to worry about now.

After the god of death took out the currency, he said: "Be careful, this is a purple magic crystal coin. It is a currency with a very large denomination. I can only get ten of these purple magic crystal coins after I have been on duty here for a year. This The value of one purple magic crystal coin is ten thousand units of magic energy."

"Can you let me feel it?" Christina asked.

The god of death was obviously hesitant. But Rose responded quickly. A piece of uncut, rather large black crystal was inserted directly into it. When the other party saw the crystal, he immediately handed over the purple magic crystal coin. "Take your time, it belongs to you."

Christina is the one with the strongest sense of magic here. So after a simple experiment, we found out the energy density of this purple magic crystal coin. According to Christina's test, we obviously made a loss just now, because the energy in that black crystal is at least equal to one and a half of this kind of purple magic crystal. Coins, and more importantly, according to this god of death, dark energy is a more valuable currency, and this purple magic crystal coin contains only ordinary magic power. In this case, the black crystal we gave is at least It's equivalent to more than twenty yuan of this kind of purple magic crystal coin.

Although we made a loss here, because we let him take advantage of it, the god of death became very enthusiastic towards us and began to introduce us to some general situations here. In fact, if we hadn't unexpectedly gained the favor of this god of death, if we wanted to know these common sense things once we got there, the price we would have paid would have been even greater. Besides, we don't really care about the black crystal ore here.

According to the introduction of this god of death, this place should be a complete city of the undead, filled with various types of undead creatures. These undead creatures live together in this place, and the hot springs of the dead above provide a constant supply of fresh blood here, so this place is surprisingly prosperous.

In this city of the undead, everyone lives like ordinary city residents. Since few light forces appear here, the undead creatures here are not very averse to the light element, mainly because they have too little contact. , many undead don't even know exactly what kind of damage the light attribute will cause them.

Because the undead are very low-consuming creatures, they do not need to produce many materials. The survival of ordinary undead is enough to rely on their own absorption, so there is no need for food here, and there is little need for clothing. Things, as for the living environment...not to mention that. The undead are rarely picky about their living environment.

However, although these undead seem to have no needs, this city is not really as lifeless as a dead city. On the contrary, this place is actually quite lively.

First of all, although the undead here have no need for survival pressure, self-evolution and becoming stronger are always the ultimate goals of the undead. Therefore, these guys are eager for methods and items that can increase their strength. If there is a demand, there will naturally be a market. Over time, it naturally formed a considerable scale.

Secondly, in addition to fighting for strength, the undead also have some psychological needs. Even if the body does not exist completely after becoming an undead, it is still a complete corpse that is completely hopeless. But precisely because they do not have a body that can be used to enjoy material life, the undead are even more eager for the comfort of the spiritual world.

Based on the above two basic needs, this undead city has unexpectedly prospered. Not only are there many undead, but it has also formed a fixed trading market. Therefore, it can be said that this place is a safe version of the undead commercial city. Of course, this is what the God of Death told us. We haven’t seen what the inside of the city looks like yet.

In addition to telling us the basic situation here, Death also told us some more important information. The first is the details of the monetary system of this place. Although we can also trade with raw ore, it is best to go to a specialized bank to exchange it. They can buy ore. Then convert it into the official currency here. The advantage of this is that it will not be hacked. The energy structure of the ore body is unstable, so there is no way to quantify it specifically, and it is inconvenient to carry. Sellers will use various excuses to lower prices. This caused certain losses. Go to the bank to exchange it. Although there is a certain fee, it is actually a safer and more economical way.

In addition to currency, this place has some other special endeavors.

One of the special common sense is that light-based abilities must never be used in this place. Otherwise, they will definitely be besieged. Of course we can understand this kind of information, but there are also some things in this place that we don't understand. For example, the undead here have their own personalities. The skeleton undead are all innocent, the zombies are all reckless, and the ghosts are all sinister. Anyway, each race has its own characteristics.

Out of curiosity, we quickly walked through the passage with the God of Death and entered the city of the undead, which is actually located on the island in the middle of the lake we saw before, but the area of ​​​​this place is obviously not as small as it looks from the outside. , it should have used a spell similar to compressing space inside, so the island doesn't seem big from the outside, but after coming in, I found that this place is not only not small, but even a little too big.

"Wow, this place is simply a paradise for dark fans!" Gold Coin shouted as he entered the city.

In fact, there are many dark fans in reality and in games. They all like undead or skeletons and think these things are very cool. In fact, I am one of them, otherwise I would not have regarded Essinger as the guild headquarters. It is simply because Essinger is a magical city and has a dark style, so I particularly like Essinger.

Although the city in front of me and Essinger are both dark, the specific architectural styles are very different. Essinger is completely black on the ground. Most of the buildings in the city are black or dark purple. They use golden outlines and red or blue as decorative colors. Anyway, no matter what the building is, it is generally like this. Several colors. Colors such as white or green cannot be seen on Isengard, because that is not the style that dark series should have.

However, the city in front of us is almost pure white. Of course, don’t imagine what the gospel of heaven looks like just because I say this city is pure white. In fact, the main reason why the city is pure white is that it is almost entirely made of bones.

All the buildings in the city use a lot of bones, some are from giant monsters, some are from humans, and some are bones from other animals. Anyway, these are all white bones, and then they are made with a gray-white adhesive. The caulking also acts as an adhesive. The building built in this way is naturally white, and after we asked the God of Death who had not left yet, we learned that the adhesive used in the building was actually a mixture of ashes mixed with some special substances. In other words, these adhesives are still bones in nature.

In addition to using a large number of bones to build the city, various types of skulls can be seen everywhere in this city. Although the humanoid skulls are the most numerous, there are also many various kinds of monsters and even dragons. These skulls are all placed on the main streets of the city, and their purpose is actually as decoration. Of course, there are also a large number of skulls used on various buildings in the city, and there is even an entire wall with the skulls’ faces put together. This style full of evil value really makes me a little excited.

"Okay, this place is inside the city. You can move on your own. But remember, don't enter other people's houses without permission. All shops open to the public are open. If the door is closed, don't Go and open it, otherwise it will be very bad. Goodbye, I hope you can come out alive." After the guy finished speaking, he returned to the previous passage. Obviously he had a mission here and could not just run around. .

Although a city full of undead sounds scary, it actually doesn't feel that depressing after entering it. If you really want to say it's scary, Essinger is much scarier than here. The flow of people or ghosts in this place is very large. However, although their appearance is messy and weird, but excluding these external things, these undead are actually not much different from the crowds of people shopping.

Because we were all used to it in Essinger, we quickly adapted to the environment when we got here. You must know that Essinger is also a place where the undead run all over the streets. Although we did it it wouldn't scare some little ones. Therefore, some adjustments were made to the undead in the city. Those who look more disgusting or scary are concentrated in special areas, and the undead that can generally be seen wandering on the streets are the kind of undead that look relatively normal.

Of course, we are guild leaders. Of course, there is no fear of this place just because there are so many undead, so we adapted to the environment almost as soon as we entered.

"It looks like we need to find where the bank here is first." Christina looked at the large group of undead on the left and right and said.

"I think that should be the bank, right?" Zhenhong suddenly pointed to a building in front and said. To be honest, the sign outside the building is really simple and easy to understand, because it shows two skull claws making the motion of giving money, so you can tell at a glance that this is a bank.

It turns out that Zhenhong's guess was correct. After entering the bank, we quickly completed the fund exchange with the help of a very "enthusiastic" undead, and the undead also saw that we paid Two purple magic crystal coins appeared to be our guides.

Just as we were adapting to the urban environment, the situation over Song Zhenghe's side had undergone a slight change.

The Gunslinger died quickly due to being outnumbered, but before this guy died, he still had a small peak. He directly used his large-scale skills to kill three players and some equipment from the affiliated guild of our guild in seconds. Fortunately, this ratio is not very large.

After the gunman died, Ghost Hand Nobunaga targeted these members of the affiliated guilds of our guild, but the other parties were all professionals, so their reaction was very fast. As soon as the Gunslinger was killed, these people immediately gathered together to form a defensive circle.

When Nobunaga saw the other party, he knew that he had been discovered by the other party a long time ago. The other party's reaction was clearly to prevent the oriole behind. However, Ghost Hand Nobunaga obviously misunderstood the real reason why people formed this formation. Ghost-Hand Nobunaga, who had already surrounded the opponent, became energetic again at this time. Because he learned his lesson, he called in a lot of reinforcements while the Gunslinger was still fighting those people, so now Ghost-Hand Nobunaga's number The advantage is already quite exaggerated. If the opponent resists, they will definitely be killed quickly.

Under such conditions, Ghost-hand Nobunaga was naturally very satisfied. Therefore, after the computer room personnel surrounded those people, Ghost-hand Nobunaga did not immediately order the attack. Instead, he deliberately walked out of the hiding place with airs. Instead of looking at those people, he put on a strategizing look and showed off to Matsumasa and the others: "How is it? Is the manpower I arranged good?"

Song Zhenghe was actually quite disdainful, because he knew the real reason why those people on the opposite side gathered together. In fact, just when Ghost Hand Nobunaga ordered his people to go up and surround these people, Matsumasa congratulated them on receiving a request for assistance from those people through the God of War.

They gathered like this because someone in the team was preparing a collective teleportation array, and this would take a little time. What they needed now was for Matsu Masagi to hold off the ghost-handed Nobunaga from starting a war immediately.

The reason why these people came here before was to help Matsumasa and the others to destroy Nobunaga's purpose of strengthening Japanese high-level players, but now this task was accidentally completed by the Gunslinger, so there is no way for them to stay here. It made sense, so these people immediately decided to leave here.

Because Matsumasa knew that he was leaving, he naturally didn't like the encirclement that Ghost Hand Nobunaga now called, but since the other party needed time. Then Song Zhenghe had no choice but to pretend to be impressed and say a few clichés.

Regardless of whether Oni-hand Nobunaga heard Matsumasa's cliche and actually meant he was not interested, Oni-hand Nobunaga seemed to be quite useful anyway. However, his good mood was quickly broken, because just when Matsu Masagi finished speaking the routine, a blue-white light spot suddenly lit up in the center of the group of people in the field, and then this light In the blink of an eye, it expanded into a huge ball of light and enveloped all the attackers. Then, just like when it appeared, the ball of light instantly shrank into a point of light, and then disappeared completely in a flash. . When the light ball completely disappeared, Nobunaga and the others discovered that the attackers he hoped to catch disappeared with the light ball. But don't talk about the attackers now. Even the leaves and weeds on the ground where they had just stood were gone. Only the bare ground was left.

"It seems that someone's plan has failed!" Blazing Dragon Lady looked at the location of the disappeared group of people and said deliberately in a sinister manner.

"What did you say?" It was the angry Ghost Hand Nobunaga who immediately exploded when he heard the words of Blazing Dragon Princess. He turned around and pointed directly at the Blazing Dragon Lady and asked loudly: "Try saying it again."

"It's a fact. If you weren't in a hurry to show off your arrangements just now, and just ordered the arrest, they would definitely not be able to complete the collective teleportation after their team was rushed away. Even if a few can escape, it won't be like Is there nothing gained from this now?"

"What do you know?" Ghost-hand Nobunaga argued: "I was mentally torturing the enemy. Using this calm and unhurried attitude to stimulate the opponent and put pressure on them, as long as the opponent loses calm, we will arrest or encircle them later. It will become much simpler. But how do I know they have this kind of magic that can teleport a large group of people instantly?"

"Okay. We've all been quarreled." Song Zhenghe stood up at this time to smooth things over and said: "Don't say a word. They have run away, and there is no point in us staying here anymore. Everyone goes back and is busy with their own things. Right." After Matsu Masaru finished speaking, he said to Nobunaga Ghost Hands: "Nobunaga Ghost Hands, although your mission failed this time, I think it is not a complete loss."

Ghost Hand Nobunaga looked at Matsu Masagi in surprise and asked: "What do you mean?"

Matsumasa explained: "At least we know that foreign forces like Gunslinger are unreliable. We..."

Before Matsumasa could continue, Nobunaga Ghost Hand interrupted him first. "Don't think that I don't know what you are thinking." Ghost-hand Nobunaga said with a cold face: "Although I am not as smart as you, I am not stupid. Don't you just want me to stop talking to the Russians?" Are you cooperating? Huh, if I cut off contact with the Russians and don't get their support, my strength will plummet. Then you can ravage me at will, right? Do you really think I'm an idiot? Gunslinger It's the Gunslinger, my Russian partner is another matter. Don't think that I will completely believe your words just because we have dealt with the common enemy together. Let me tell you, this is a dream."

After saying this, Onishou Nobunagane didn't wait for Matsumasa to congratulate them for explanation. He waved and shouted "Go", and then left the scene with his own people.

Song Zhenghe and August Xun stood there stupidly, and it was not until Ghost Hands Nobunaga and others were gone that the four of them gathered together again. August Xun looked at Song Zhenghe with a strange expression and said: "When did Nobunaga Ghost Hand suddenly become smart?"

Song Zhenghe said with a smile: "It's not that he has become smarter, but that this kid has become bad."

"What?" August Xun obviously didn't understand the joint.

Matsumasa explained: "Nobunaga Nobunaga obviously made a mistake in this matter. Not only did he fail in his mission to train high-level players in the new day, but he was also robbed by the Gunslinger. In the end, it was because he wanted to show off. Suddenly we missed the best opportunity to deal with those attackers. At this time, we use a preaching tone to educate Ghost Hands Nobunaga. In fact, we are attacking his prestige, because a leader who needs others to preach is obviously not so It’s easy to put others at ease.”

Ying Yu Shen Hina suddenly nodded and said: "I understand. Ghost Hand Nobunaga is afraid that our preaching will expose all the mistakes this time, and also lose his prestige because of being preached. He plans to use this method. Come and carry this matter over lightly, which means lifting it high and putting it down gently."

Blazing Dragon Princess also nodded and said: "I understand too. Ghost-hand Nobunaga has not become smarter. He is just angry because of shame. However, I have to say that he got it right this time."

In fact, these analyzes are very correct. Ghost-hand Nobunaga is not a smart person. This failure is so serious, someone has to take the blame, and Ghost-hand Nobunaga doesn't want to take the blame himself, at least he can't bear it all by himself. Therefore, although Nobunaga's outburst just now was directed at Matsumasa and the others, it was meant for his own people. The purpose was nothing more than to downplay the specific reasons for the failure of this mission, which was a bit of a diversion. The meaning is in it.

After Nobunaga and Matsumasa separated, there was nothing important. Ghost Hand Nobunaga and the others are unwilling to continue cultivating super players in a short period of time. After all, that kind of high-return task is not a piece of cake, it is not something you can get if you want to. You need to wait for the opportunity.

It was quiet on the Japanese side, but it couldn't be quiet on our side during the mission, and the reason lies in the building we found after leaving the bank.

There is a rather tall building behind the bank. This building is considered one of the largest large buildings in the entire city. So we think this is a very important building. In fact, when we walked around to the street behind and actually entered the building, we discovered that this was actually a large shopping mall.

certainly. What is sold in the shopping mall of the undead will definitely not be ready-made clothes and cosmetics. In fact, there are indeed cosmetics here, but these cosmetics are very weird. As for the reason why the undead need cosmetics... of course it's not for aesthetics. But to blend into human society.

In fact, these so-called cosmetics are all things that can disguise the undead into looking like humans. Although some of them look inferior, some of them are really quite good. It would be better to talk about the item called Magic Skin that Christina and Gold Coin were trying to buy just now.

To be honest, in my opinion, this thing is the painted skin in "Liao Zhai". As long as you put this thing on your body, you can use a special magic spell to deform it. Not only can it transform into various human shapes, but it can also Disguise some equipment. Of course, this thing has flaws. First, there is no way to maintain the transformation for a long time. Second, because this is a magic equipment, magic power fluctuations will always exist. It is not a problem for some people who are not vigilant. If those who are alert , it must have been revealed immediately. So this thing actually doesn't have much practical value.

Women are probably born unable to resist shopping. As soon as they entered the mall, even the roses were a little out of control. They were walking back and forth between the layers of merchandise, comparing this with that. The meaning of shopping mall. And, unfortunately, not only do they have so much storage space that they can clear out this place, but what's even more terrible is that they do have so much money that they can buy these things.

The currencies in this city of the undead are just another form of magic crystal. With such a large amount of magic crystal mined by our guild, we guild leaders naturally have a lot of magic crystal in our hands, so we only need to It is definitely no problem to go to exchange and short this mall. In addition, in fact, during the previous exchange process, we also confirmed one thing, that is, the magic crystal is indeed the high-energy crystal here. This has been confirmed by the bank. In other words, the mission we received before was actually to clean up a magic crystal mining area. As for what was brought here... we will probably know this after we finish the investigation here.

When I came here just to stroll around the lower floors, I didn’t pay too much attention to the things in this place. It’s just that some of these women have a special liking for shopping, so after seeing some weird gadgets, I couldn’t help but think about it. Want to buy. However, after we visited the lower three floors and entered the fourth floor, we suddenly discovered that this place was not just a place selling useless gadgets. Even the expressions of Rose and the others returned to their serious look. Apparently they also discovered the things I noticed.

"It looks like we might really have to make a big purchase this time!" Christina said, looking at the thing right at the top of the stairs. (To be continued...)