Chapter 434: A Barrier that only Works for Me

Although I know that I can't leave this place by conventional methods, I can't just sit here and wait for death! I tried sensing the Earth Gate and found that it still works. Now I feel more relieved. If there is no other way to leave here, at least I can still use the Earth Gate to leave, but it is a little troublesome. But having a backup plan at least gives me some confidence, so I don't have to blindly rush around.

To leave here, the first thing to do is to research along the normal path. Although I know that 80% of the time it cannot be opened, I still have to give it a try to feel at ease.

After coming out of the room I was in just now, I entered a quite large room. This room seemed to have the functions of a hall and a corridor, and it was open at both ends, so I could directly see the situation outside the castle tower.

Looking at the woodland outside, I couldn't help but walk to the entrance on one side. This place is a circle of balconies surrounding the building. It seems to be unobstructed and unobstructed. You only need to move forward five or six meters to leave the castle tower. But I know it won't be that simple.

Steps from this balcony surrounding the castle tower lead down to the ground level at the base of the castle tower. This base part is slightly larger than the castle tower itself, and unlike the wooden superstructure, the base below is made of stone, which is the same structure as the city wall, except that it is not a wall but a stone The platform is much stronger than the city wall.

After walking down from the balcony to this place, there was only a one-meter-high fence between me and the ground outside. The height of this fence just reached my waist. Even for ordinary people, a fence of this height has no blocking effect at all. You can climb over it at any time if you want to. But I won't be so reckless as to really think that I can get out of here just by climbing over.

I tried to open the Phoenix Dragon Space and found that it actually worked. Then I took out a piece of junk equipment that I didn't know when I had swept it in, and then threw the equipment outside the castle tower without hesitation. Got out.

Although this move of mine is an attempt. But I actually have no hope, and I can even imagine the thing bouncing back from the barrier or being burned. However, just when I thought the equipment would be bounced back, the small dagger flew out of the castle tower and inserted into the soft mud outside the castle tower without encountering anything in between. Interception.

"Holy shit!" I looked at the dagger stuck on the ground a few meters away in surprise. My mouth was so open that I didn't know how to close it. "What's going on?"

I'm still a little unsure about the success of the first trial. He quickly took out another two-handed heavy sword from the Fenglong space, and then threw it into the distance with all his strength. The heavy sword spun and flew more than thirty meters under my power before disappearing into the woods. Because of the obstruction of the trees, I couldn't see where it flew, but I was very sure that it did fly out.

Two consecutive experiments have proven one thing, that is, weapons can be thrown. Now it turns out that the structure of this seal is very different from the protective shield-like thing I imagined. At least I know that weapons can come in and out freely.

After thinking for a while, I suddenly snapped my fingers, and a death guard appeared next to me. Then without saying a word, he jumped out of the fence in front of me, and then landed on the ground outside with a thud.

"Holy crap! Can the Death Guards go out? Does it mean that this place has no protection at all? Or is it because the Death Guards are not living creatures?"

I thought about it for a while and decided it would be better to try again, so I summoned Hong Ling. Hong Ling itself is a big demon native to China. No matter what kind of biological characteristics the seal in this place is for, as long as it can seal the big demon. It should be effective against Hong Ling. Unless the seal can accurately identify the target and only seal the target creature, it should be triggered.

The summoned Hong Ling also jumped out quickly, and then broke my guess again. She actually went out too.

This seal actually doesn't work on monsters. So what does it work for?

I couldn't figure out the characteristics of this seal at all, so I finally had to risk it myself. Anyway, even Hong Ling went out. There's no reason this thing would work specifically on me, right?

After thinking about it, I took two steps back and then started to accelerate forward. I stepped on the guardrail in one step and jumped out. Then I saw a translucent light film suddenly flashing in the air in front of me. Then I felt like I had hit jelly, and my whole body fell into a smooth and soft environment, but the resistance in front of me was getting bigger and bigger. Then when my inertia was exhausted, the thing started to rebound. It instantly bounced me back to the position where I had jumped.

"Your sister! She actually reacted to me!" After I got up from the ground, I looked in disbelief. There have been so many tests before, even the red feather of the monster has gone out, why can't I get out? Secretly saying that I am more like a monster than Hong Ling?

Hong Ling outside the station looked at me quite surprised, and then she jumped up without waiting for my order, and was not affected in any way. After coming up again, Hong Ling tried to jump out again, but still got out without any response.

After repeated tests, the result I got is that all my transformed creatures can freely enter and exit this castle tower. To them, this place is no different from an ordinary house. They can enter and exit at will without any obstruction at all. However, as long as I try to go out, a light curtain will suddenly appear in front of me to block me back. Even if I jump hand in hand with the demon pet, the result is that I will be bounced back but the demon pet will fly out, and if I If you don't let go, you will pull back your magic pet as well.

"His grandpa, what's wrong with this thing? Why don't you let me out?" Looking at the air that has become clear again, I just can't figure out why I can't get out.

Although I don’t know why I can’t get out, but since the magic pet can get out, I need to finish things first. I let Ling lead the team and led my demon pet out to intercept and kill the two players. Then I left the corridor outside the castle tower and returned inside to start investigating.

It's impossible to really get out of this place. There must be a way for me to get out, but this must require conditions, so I need clues now.

The area of ​​this castle tower is not small, so the investigation needs to be done in order. Don't search randomly, otherwise you may miss some clues. I plan to go to the top to look for it first, because the height of this kind of building is usually a more important location, and the relatively small area makes it faster to find. You can also overlook the entire island from above. This way you can determine what's going on outside.

Ling's speed was obviously much faster than I expected. Before I reached the top of the building, I heard a thunderous rolling roar in the distance, followed by a series of explosions. It seemed that the movement was quite loud. .

He accelerated a few steps and climbed up to the attic, opened the window facing the direction of the explosion, and saw a flash of red light, and a large forest on the edge of the island suddenly fell down. But before all the trees fell down, a blue flash suddenly appeared in front of them. It looked like something like a knife, but as soon as it flew not far away, it was slapped by Mira who suddenly appeared. It dispersed, and immediately after Mira opened her mouth, there was a ray of destruction, and there was an explosion on the ground. A big fireball rose into the sky, but I saw a person being thrown away, but before he hit the ground, he was penetrated by a straight beam of light that suddenly shot up from the forest. Before he hit the ground, his body was broken into dozens of pieces. .

After this ray of light flashed, calm returned to the forest. Then I heard Ling report that the mission target had been killed.

Let Ling and the others come back on their own, while I continued to rummage on the top floor. To be honest, this place doesn't have much. The entire room is about five meters square. The area is really small, and there is no furniture. There is a chair-like shelf in the center of the room, and a pair of armor is placed on this shelf. certainly. I will never touch this armor, because this thing is obviously the center of the seal. As long as this armor is taken away, the seal will be completely finished.

After circling around this gorgeous-looking armor, I finally found nothing else, so I had no choice but to go down and look for it. The structures on the lower floors are larger than each other, but there is basically nothing inside. This itself is not a place for people to live, it is just a seal, so there are no daily necessities and a lot of furniture inside, only a few things. Almost every room can be seen at a glance, and basically nothing can be hidden.

Just because this place is empty, I feel quite helpless because I can't find any clues at all! Just when I returned to the second floor, Ling and the others also came back. Of course, I asked them to spread out to help search. With more people, we can always find something that one person would miss.

In fact, my idea was quickly verified, because we actually found a mechanism here, and this mechanism cannot be discovered by one person no matter what.

The design of this mechanism is very fucked up because it is a linked mechanism. First of all, the armor I found on the top floor is not only the core of the seal, but also the switch of the mechanism. The armor was not a piece of scattered parts hanging on a shelf, but a human-shaped structure assembled together, looking as if a person was sitting there. However, there is something wrong with the sword hanging on the waist of this armor. This saber is not fully inserted into the scabbard, but a section of the blade of about one centimeter is exposed, and the blade is not fully inserted into the scabbard.

This is actually the first triggering condition of the mechanism. To activate the mechanism, you need to insert the knife completely into the scabbard, and you still need to keep pressing this thing, because as soon as you let go, the knife will pop out and become like that again. Stretch out a little bit.

If you are alone, let alone the light movement mechanism that does not work, even if it works, you will not be able to see it, because the final entrance of the mechanism is in the center of the hall on the first floor.

The mechanism on the scabbard is actually equivalent to a safety device. Only when the knife is completely inserted into the scabbard can the mechanism for opening the door be activated. Otherwise, even if the mechanism is found, it will be useless. As for the real location of the agency... most people probably can't find it either.

The location of this second mechanism is between the second and third floors, not in the mezzanine, but on the stairs going upstairs.

There is a railing column on the stairs from the second floor to the third floor that is actually movable, and if the knife on the top floor is not inserted in place, this thing cannot be moved. Only when the knife is inserted into the scabbard can the railing column move outward. promote. When this thing is pushed, the mechanism will not open by itself, and you have to find the entrance yourself.

The reason why we found this entrance was entirely because there were so many people, so we happened upon it.

First of all, Yeyue, who was looking for clues on the top floor, had obsessive-compulsive disorder and liked to keep everything tidy, so when she saw that the knife was not fully inserted into the scabbard, she helped her. Secondly, when Yeyue inserted the blade back, Er Er happened to be going down the stairs. As a result, he heard what seemed to be a slight clicking sound on the railing next to him. This sound is actually the sound made when the locking device of the mechanism below is released after Yeyue turns on the safety. Of course, normal people will not try to pull the railings and pillars into pieces, but because they heard the abnormal sound, the second generation tried it one by one. After checking the pillars near where the sound came from, I found the pillar that could be pushed open.

Of course, this alone is not enough. Because even if this mechanism is pushed, the entrance to the secret passage below will not be opened, only unlocked.

The real key point was that I was a little discouraged because I couldn't find any clues after searching for a while, so I was leaning on a pillar in the center of the hall to rest. This castle tower has no internal walls and uses a complete frame structure. Therefore, the four main support columns in the center of the hall are very thick and cannot be fully embraced by four or five people. I was leaning against one of the pillars. It turned out to be right above the secret door. II found the mechanism and pushed it, and the lock on the secret door behind me was immediately released. The secret door suddenly lost its support, and then I fell backwards. If I hadn't reacted quickly and grabbed the frames on both sides, I would have almost fallen straight down.

Such a complicated mechanism, if I hadn't been so strong, I wouldn't have been able to break it. If it were someone else who would be exhausted, he wouldn't even be able to discover the location of the mechanism.

After discovering the entrance, I just got up and found that the entrance was closed again, but it would be easy to deal with once I discovered it. I first learned from Niji that he had discovered the mechanism, but for some reason he couldn't pull it. Ling quickly guessed that there were prerequisites for the activation of this mechanism, so he asked everyone what they had just touched. As a result, I eliminated them one by one, and finally found the knife. So we discovered how the mechanism works.

Because the entrance to the underground is very narrow and cannot be opened when there are many people, I put away most of the magic pets and asked the two Death Guards to activate the mechanism. I myself took Jingjing, Yeyue and the king into the cave together.

Jingjing walked in the front holding a shield, I followed in second place to provide support, Yeyue was in third place, and the king was in the rear.

There is actually a downward staircase inside this pillar, but it is very narrow. You need to turn sideways to go down easily. However, after descending only two floors, you find that the steps suddenly disappear. The lower part doesn't look like there are no steps, but it was broken by something. There are only some protruding stones left on the wall, which are obviously the previous steps. But this is not a problem for us. The passage is not big anyway. We bounce back and forth on the wall and jump down. This speed is faster than before. Especially Yeyue, her tail can actually be like screwing screws in this vertical passage. form a thread, and then rotate and descend. Not only can the speed be controlled at will, but it can also be stopped at any time.

The depth of this hole is far less exaggerated than we imagined. It reaches the bottom after descending about twenty meters. Below is a circular stone chamber. There is a pile of broken stones on the ground in the center of the stone chamber. Judging from the material, it should be the previous stairs, but for some reason, they all turned into fragments and fell here.

There is only one exit in the stone chamber, so there is no need to choose a route. There is a passage after going out from the exit, but unlike the stone chamber, the passage has not been decorated. The floor of the previous stone chamber was still paved with blue strips of stone, and the walls were also made of black bricks. But here, except that the ground has been roughly flattened, the walls and other features have the feel of a natural cave, and the passages are also very narrow, in some places. You even had to knock out the protruding rocks on the wall to squeeze through.

I don’t know if it’s because it’s underground on the island in the middle of the lake. It’s obviously very humid in the passage. The walls are all wet to the touch. In addition, the ground is super slippery. I had to open the nail claws on the bottom of my boots. In order to stabilize their bodies, Wang and Jingjing also slipped and could hardly stand. I finally had to take them both back. Given the ground conditions, they couldn't help here. However, compared to the situation where Jingjing and Wang were unable to move even an inch, Yeyue was just like following the highway here. The slippery ground was really suitable for her snake tail. As long as Yeyue had half of her usual strength, she could She can move at twice the speed on the ground, and the narrow walls not only do not affect her ability to move, but allow her to change her coverage at will. She can even use her snake body to support the wall to move herself along. Move forward while hanging upside down from the roof of the cave.

"I said Yeyue, do you need to show off your superiority so nakedly? I know your tail is better than my legs, so you don't need to stimulate me like this, right?" Looking at Yeyue flying above my head, I I'm really speechless.

After hearing my words, Yeyue came down from above and landed next to me with a smile, and then said, "Shouldn't I adapt to the environment here in advance?"

"Do you still have to adapt? I feel like you grew up here! By the way, do you feel any unusual atmosphere?"

"As for the breath... I feel like it's getting colder and colder here."

Although only her body is that of a snake, Yeyue does have certain characteristics of a snake. For example, she is extremely sensitive to temperature and can feel subtle changes in temperature immediately, especially when the air temperature drops.

"Cold?" After hearing Yeyue's words, I realized that the surrounding temperature had indeed dropped a bit, but this was not the focus of my attention. What I asked Yeyue was actually another kind of breath, a very evil breath. My nose can smell a faint fishy smell in the air, not fishy, ​​but bloody.

"Didn't you notice?" Yeyue looked at me in surprise and asked.

I shook my head and said, "The temperature has dropped a bit, but haven't you noticed the smell of blood in the air?"

After Yeyue heard my words, she immediately took a few sharp breaths, then savored it for a while before nodding: "You don't say you didn't pay attention, but if you smell it carefully, it's true. Is there something injured in front?"

"I think it might be a pile of bones."

"This is a seal. Where did the bones come from for monsters to eat?" Yeyue asked me.

I thought it was right! Creatures from outside this place cannot enter at all. Even if there are occasional ones that enter here and are eaten, they have probably turned into bones long ago. There shouldn't be a smell of blood.

We couldn't figure out the reason, so we decided to move forward and take a look to find out what was going on. Since we couldn't get out now, we might as well explore first and maybe we might find something.

After continuing forward for a short distance, we found that the passage had become much wider. At least we no longer had to knock the stones on the wall, and we no longer had to move sideways. However, although the width of the passage has increased, the height of the cave roof has become shorter and shorter. After continuing for more than ten meters, after turning a corner, the top of the passage suddenly sank, turning into a state where the average height was only about 80 centimeters.

"I'm dizzy. Why are you so short? Which bastard built the passage down here?"

Yeyue smiled and said, "It doesn't affect me anyway." After saying that, she got in without waiting for me to say anything. By the way, I am more and more envious of this snake tail now. It is so much easier to use than human legs.

Because the average height of the passage was only eighty centimeters, I had to start crawling forward on all fours. What was even worse was that after advancing seven or eight meters, the passage began to narrow. After walking another five or six meters, the passage became only eighty centimeters high and only eighty centimeters wide. To be honest, this size is actually quite spacious without armor, but for me wearing heavy plate armor, this size is quite embarrassing.

Although in theory I can get by with the height and width of 80 centimeters, the problem is that this seems to be a natural cave, not dug artificially, so you can't expect it to be flat. Eighty centimeters is just an average size, and there are some gaps in it. The size is much smaller than this. Of course, I can easily get through it if I take off my armor, but how can I dare to take off my armor in such a dangerous place?

As he climbed helplessly, he kept knocking away the obstructing stones with the eternal hammer. The speed of progress was less than one meter in ten seconds, and he only advanced fifteen or six meters after losing all his strength. However, just as I was trying hard to knock the stone, Yeyue's cry suddenly came from in front of me.

"Master, come quickly! What a great discovery!" (To be continued ~^~)