Chapter 22 Going Deep Into Switzerland

Leaving the central area of ​​the Death Mountains and entering the Swiss territory. At first, Rose and I could ride Yeying forward. Gradually, the road became more and more uneven, and I found that the road we were taking was extending downwards, and the mountain walls on both sides of the road were gradually getting closer, and it seemed that there was a connection to the mountain. The common trend is that we have to move forward on foot!

After advancing for a few kilometers, just as we thought, the mountains really came together, and the road we took turned into an underground passage. I never expected that the exit would look like this! We took out the torch that Rose had prepared before and lit it, and we continued moving forward. This underground passage is also uneven. It is filled with a lot of gravel and some things that should not be here. In some places, there are even rocks several meters high that you have to climb to the top to climb over. Fortunately, I have wings. Climbing height is not a problem.

Rose found a red-colored object in the gap between several rocks. Because it was too short, she couldn't tell what it was. It was not natural anyway. He pinched the top of the red object and pulled it up, but the thing was crushed as soon as he applied force. I patted the red powdery substance on my hand. "It looks like rust!"

Rose reached out and put a little bit in front of her nose, sniffed it, and then patted it away. "It's rust. It looks like something is buried underneath."

"Would you like to dig it out and take a look?"

"kindness."

I inserted my hand into the gap in the rock next to it and pushed the rock aside. As a result, a red stick of more than 60 centimeters was exposed, but the bottom was still in the rock. "You step back a little. It looks like it's buried deep. I want to dig bigger."

Rose took the torch from my hand and stood aside, and I started to turn over the rocks and throw them away with great fanfare. The red object was soon dug out, and its bottom was inserted into a long object. Rose came back with a torch to illuminate the big pit, and now it was much clearer.

After a long time of identification, Rose finally recognized it first. "Ah! It's a corpse!"

"Corpse?" I looked at the long object. According to Rose, it really looked like a corpse. The lower part of the long strip was obviously once two legs, but it seemed that the knight's armor was too rusty and connected together. The arms of the corpse above can no longer be found, but the head is still there, but the problem is that the two-meter-long red stick is pierced through the head. It was obvious that this was a corpse that had been shot through the face with a spear and was nailed to the ground. What just stuck out of the ground was the tail of the spear.

Rose knelt down and looked at the rocks next to the body. "This place clearly shows that it is a battlefield, and someone has fought here. This is the corpse of a player, and the time of death is no more than five days. According to the corpse erosion rate in the game, five days is about the same."

"So it seems that the rocks nearby are not there originally. It feels like someone blew down the rocks on the top of the cave. You see, there is not even a stalactite here, and the rock formations on the top are too new. , obviously caused by the peeling off of the surface layer.”

"That's why the road is so difficult."

I thought about it without taking off the helmet of the corpse. If the 5-day-old corpse was opened, it would be a spectacular scene. For the sake of my appetite, I decided not to watch it. "Maybe the Swiss player wanted to come in, but was killed by the guarding NPC. Even the roof of the cave collapsed during the battle. We'd better ignore him and move forward."

"I'm worried about the front!" Rose said as she crawled out of the pit.

"Front?"

"This shows that this is not the central area of ​​the collapse. The center of the collapse seems to be in the front. If it is so serious even here, will the front be completely sealed?"

I looked at the passage ahead and said, "If you're right, it's probably really blocked! Come on, let's hurry up."

Along the way, I felt more and more that Rose was right, because the road was getting harder and harder to walk. We almost crawled through the cracks in the gravel. It is hard to imagine that this was once a spacious passage for troops. After finally getting through the gap between two giant rocks, we finally saw the isolation wall made of rocks. The tunnel really collapsed! And it was blocked very tightly, and we basically couldn't find any gaps.

Suddenly I found Rose holding a torch and burning it on the rock. "What are you doing?"

"Let me see if there are any cracks. If it is open, the wind will blow out." As she spoke, the torch in her hand began to shake. Rose happily leaned the torch forward, and the flames were obviously leaning towards the cracks in the rocks, as if they were about to be sucked in. "I think I found it!"

I jumped over in two steps, hugged Rose and kissed her on the face. "Hold the torch and I'll clear the way."

Summon Steel Claw and Trailblazer to help. Both are burrowing champions, so of course they are the most suitable for digging tunnels. The pioneer is now made of steel, with armor all over his body, like a giant armed caterpillar. The strong limbs of the steel claw are also a good tool for digging tunnels. Unfortunately, Rose Vine can't help. Its penetration into rocks is limited. Although it can dig, the speed is too slow.

The two big guys stood on the rock and started digging. The gravel was flying behind them, and rocks kept falling down from above, but they were not digging as fast as they were. Soon the surrounding loose rocks were dug out, and the progress was obviously faster after the landslide stopped. Amidst the rumbling noise, the Trailblazer first began to move forward, and the steel claws followed and began to clean up some small debris. Rose and I don't dare to follow in now. There are gravels flying out from the cave. If we go in now, we will definitely be hit.

After a few minutes, the gravel and the sound stopped at the same time, and the steel claw ran out from inside. "It's dug through."

"Okay." I took back the steel claw and pioneer, and took the rose through the passage. The wall blocking us is more than thirty meters thick, but two tunnel experts have helped us complete a prototype passage with a diameter of more than four meters. It is not a trivial matter for two people to think about it.

After passing through the wall, the opposite side is still inside the cave. What collapsed was the middle of the cave, not the entrance. However, there are not as many gravels here as there are, and the road is easier to walk.

Along the way, the sound of rumbling water gradually appeared in the passage, and the sound became louder as we moved forward. It seemed that we were approaching the entrance of the cave. As we approached the entrance of the passage, the light gradually brightened and the torches were extinguished by us. The passage here is much damper than that one. The ground is so slippery and full of water that walking on it feels like skating!

After turning the last corner, a white water curtain appeared in front of us. No wonder the passage is so wet. It turns out the exit is behind the waterfall! Fortunately, they were all wearing armor. If Rose had still used the old mage robe, she would have turned into a drowned rat! Put on your helmet, pull down your mask, and walk slowly to the waterfall. First, we put the Car Demon Dragon Gun into the water to test the impact. Fortunately, it seems that the waterfall is not high, or we are not far from the top. The next step was to head out and take a closer look. The result proved how wise I was. The height of the waterfall is nearly 100 meters. We are relatively high in the middle of the waterfall. What's more, there is also a mountain cliff on the opposite side. The distance between the two cliffs is less than 3 meters. If we had jumped out just now, we would have hit the opposite mountain wall!

There was a hole on the opposite mountain wall slightly higher than here. I raised my hand and shot the dragon tendon through it. The head of the rope got stuck in the rock. After pulling it for a few times, there was no problem. Then he came back, hugged Rose, and jumped out. As soon as you jump up, you immediately adjust your feet in front of you. After passing the waterfall, you will immediately reach the cliff on the opposite side. Use your feet to cushion the body on the cliff wall to stabilize your body. The dragon tendon rope was controlled to start to take up the line, and we were pulled up by the way. After entering the opposite passage, we looked back at the location we just came out of, and we could hardly find it. It was really well hidden.

The passage on our side is also a tunnel, but it is only a dozen meters long and ends there. The exit was covered by a large number of plants. After carefully pushing aside the plants blocking the entrance, we discovered that we were in a forest, with a slope behind and a cliff leading up to it.

Walking out of the cave with Rose, we began to worry about how to go. The mission of Ring of Stars (if you don’t remember the mission, please refer to Chapter 9 of Volume 2) says that you have to go to the Temple of the Earth Mother in Oskar, a permanently neutral place, to trigger the mission, but I only know that this permanently neutral place refers to Switzerland. . As for whether Oskar refers to a forest, a valley or a city, I have no idea at all, let alone the Temple of the Earth Mother!

Rose reminded me: "Isn't the Mother Earth familiar with you? Why don't you just go in and ask her where the temple is?"

"Why didn't I think of that! Just wait for me." Open the space door and directly enter the realm of the Earth Mother Goddess. I ran into the palace of the Earth Mother and quickly found the Earth Mother who was playing chess with the giant god.

The Earth Mother was very strange when she saw me running in. "What's wrong with you?"

"Yes!" I quickly walked over and said, "I want to ask you about a place."

"Ask me?"

"Yes. I would like to know the location of your temple in Oskar, the permanent neutral land. It is best to have detailed coordinates or a map."

"How do I know where the temple is?" The Earth Mother looked at me with a look that suggested she thought she should know the location.

"That's the Earth Mother Temple! How could you not know?"

"Why should I know?"

"Aren't you the Mother Goddess of the Earth? Don't you know where your temple is?"

"Of course!" the Earth Mother Goddess said with certainty: "I didn't build the temple, how could I know where it is?"

"But it's you who's being sacrificed there!"

The Mother Goddess of the Earth thought for a moment and said: "That is the matter of those races themselves. They worshiped my power and built my temple. But I didn't know! It's like those famous people have many portraits and many people. They like to hang portraits of celebrities in their homes, do these celebrities need to know where each of their portraits are?"

"This...!" Habitual thinking kills people! We have always been accustomed to thinking that temples were built for God, but no one has ever asked God if he wants it, and no one has told God where to build his temple!

"This place we are in now is my residence. The temple was built by other creatures and has nothing to do with me. If you want to find the temple, you should ask the locals. Since they spent a lot of time and money to build it, it must be very Famous, even if the road is broken, there should at least be some clues, such as rumors, stories and the like. Go investigate nearby, at least there will be more than I can tell you."

"Thank you, I won't disturb you anymore." He quickly left the palace of Mother Earth and returned to the outside of the space door.

"How's it going? Where is the Earth Mother Temple?" Rose asked immediately as soon as she saw me.

I told her directly what Mother Earth said. "The Earth Mother suggested that we ask the locals."

"Then let's hurry up, the sun is going down!"

"It doesn't matter, it's not haunted here!"

Rose immediately laughed when she heard what I said.

"What's so funny about this?"

"I laughed because I thought of something."

"What did you think of?"

"You just said there are no ghosts, and I was thinking that ghosts should be afraid of us."

"Why?"

"Idiot!" Rose knocked on my helmet. "Think about it! I am a Resurrection Mage, who specializes in bringing the dead back to life. You are the evolved soul-killing Mage, who specializes in killing the living. If any ghost encounters us, we will be in big trouble. I will resurrect him, You kill him again. Then he comes back to life, isn't that miserable enough?"

"Hahahaha! When you say that, our husband and wife are really scary. We can play people to death."

Rose stopped laughing and said, "But what we need now is to find a living person to ask for the way out."

"It doesn't have to be a living person. When I changed jobs last time, I took a auxiliary profession called psychic. It has a soul-reading skill and can ask directions from corpses and undead spirits."

"But there's not even a soul here!"

"Then let's search as we go! Ask whoever you meet first."

We walked through the forest for a certain distance and finally found our target. There was a body on the tree beside the forest path with an arrow nailed to the trunk. It seems that this is a scenery and not the corpse of the player. Otherwise, it would have slowly decayed and been refreshed. If it had died, it would not have turned into a skeleton.

I walked over and used the soul-reading technique on the skeleton, but it had no effect, indicating a failure. The success rate of zero-level skills is a bit low! After using it more than twenty times in a row, I finally succeeded, and a faint blue-white light and shadow flashed across the skeleton. Rose exclaimed: "You succeeded?"

"Can you see?"

She nodded vigorously. "can see."

"It seems that this skill does not allow me to hear the undead speak, but allows the undead to communicate with normal creatures!"

After a while, the skeleton made a weak sound, but its mouth did not move. "Who's calling me?"

"it's me."

"What's the matter with you?"

"I want to ask for directions. Do you know the Temple of the Earth Mother in Oska, the permanently neutral place?"

"You are now standing on a permanently neutral ground. This country is a permanently neutral ground. I know there is a Temple of the Earth Mother, but I don't know the specific location. That Oskar may mean the Oskar Forest."

"Where is the Oskar Forest?"

"I don't know. I only know that there is such a forest that is famous for producing sulfur. I don't know where exactly it is."

Rose 'inserts' in and asks, "Do you know how to get out of this forest?"

"Go forward along the road in front of me. When you encounter a particularly thick tree, pass to the left, then keep walking and you can get out."

"Okay, thank you for your help. Do you want us to bury you?"

"Grateful!"

We quickly dug a hole to bury the skeleton, and then started to move along the road. Sure enough, we encountered a big tree not far away, but there seemed to be a dense jungle on the left side of the big tree, and the road led to the right.

"What's going on?" I looked around.

Rose looked at the distance of the road. "Maybe it's an animal trail, so just go in circles in the forest. You have to get off the road to get out."

"Then let's pass to the left?"

"You'd better go up and make sure, right?"

I climbed up to the top of the tree and flew up to look around. Oh dear, there is a vast forest as far as the eye can see. Jump back to the ground. "No, I can't see the border!"

"Then we have no choice but to go this way. We should fly faster from the sky, right?"

"OK."

Summon Lucky and Rose to go up together, Lucky rushes into the blue sky and flies in the direction the skeleton said. As a result, before flying very far, the scene around us suddenly changed, and the forest ended! "It's an illusion!" But at least the skeleton was in the right direction.

After falling back to the ground, he put away his luck, put on his night shadow and ran towards the nearest city. The castle could already be seen from here.

There are big differences in architectural styles between European cities and Asian cities. Chinese cities generally have city walls outside the city, and the entire city is surrounded by the city wall. But the style in Europe is different. Only major cities are surrounded by walls like in Asia. Most cities have no walls. There is a strong defensive castle in the center of an ordinary city, and only important personnel usually live in it. There are private houses scattered around the castle. Once there is a battle, people in the city will quickly hide in the castle, leaving the house alone. Most of the cities built by players have city walls built in an oriental style, while system cities retain the original style. The city in front of us is obviously a systematic city. The open houses are scattered around the castle without protection. It looks small in scale. It should be called a village more appropriately.

After turning on the translation system, we entered the city directly. Anyway, we were wearing armor from hood to toes, so no one should be able to tell that we were not Swiss. Besides, Switzerland is a neutral country, and the national war has nothing to do with them. Even if they know that there are outsiders, there will be no reaction.

As soon as we entered the city, a group of cavalry suddenly approached us from the side and stopped us. As soon as I pulled the reins, Yeying actually stood up with his two hind hooves and kicked his front legs in the air twice before putting them down.

The knight who stopped us spoke first. "Which lord's army are you from? Why are you here?"

"We belong to no lord." Rose answered.

"Is that the ranger?"

"What is a ranger?"

"A ranger is a free knight who is not loyal to any lord. If you are not affiliated with any temple or lord, you are a ranger." The knight who blocked us answered me very patiently.

The knight next to him who looked younger and was riding a black horse said, "Look, your equipment doesn't look like the ones you just played! Why don't you even understand these common senses?"

I was also shocked by the knight's words. I thought it was a group of NPCs, but now it seems that they are obviously players. "We rarely move around and have been concentrating on leveling up, so we don't know very well. But we have a temple attached to us."

"Then you are the Knights of the Temple." The leading knight said: "Do you have a pass? Knights of the Temple must have a certificate when they go out to do business. This is the jurisdiction of the guild and has a lord. We cannot allow armed personnel to pass through casually."

"I just want to know how to get to the Temple of the Earth Mother in Oskar. I went into the city just to ask for directions."

"The Auska Forest is on the border of Italy, why did you come here? You have to cross the entire country to get there!"

faint! "Then how to go?"

"Bayonet, do you know how to get there?" the leading knight asked the silent knight next to him.

"It's far away there, so it's not appropriate to run there. It's better to use the teleportation array. Teleport directly to Olinyi'er City. After leaving the city, it's the Auska Forest. But I'm afraid it's hard to find the Earth Mother Temple. That place is the border. Wire."

"Border?" I suddenly thought of a bad thing. Countries in the game are isolated from each other by dangerous areas such as oceans, mountains, and special monster areas. This Temple of the Earth Mother is on the border of Switzerland and Italy. Could it be that the temple is a barrier used to isolate the country? So how dangerous is this Earth Mother Temple? Holding on to the last glimmer of hope, he asked for confirmation: "Don't tell me that the Earth Mother Temple is a gateway between two countries."

The young knight riding the black horse said: "Unfortunately, you guessed it right."

"Has anyone been in there before?" I continued.

The leading knight poured cold water on me again. "A lot of people entered, but no one came out. They all came back."

sweat! Now I know why the old guy who 'cheated money' asked me to come back after level 500. At first I thought he was making a fuss out of a molehill, but now it seems he underestimated the danger here, otherwise he must have suggested that I come back after level 800. .