Chapter 24 Mysterious Gourd

I really didn't know what to do with an elixir in my hand that I couldn't swallow. After thinking about it for a long time, it seemed that I should cut it open and eat it. Since ordinary things can't be opened, then use a sharper weapon. At the moment, all I can think of is eternity. So far, there haven't been many things that eternity can't cut.

I took off the dragon shield from the magic dragon suit and laid it on the ground, then put the elixir on the shield. The parts of the Magic Dragon Suit are strong and self-repairing, so you don't care even if they are chopped to pieces. I took out the eternity and thought about it and turned it into the shape of an axe, so that it would be easier to use.

After I was ready, I swung the ever-changing ax over my head and struck hard at the elixir on the shield. With this ax, even if it was a top-level artifact, it should have made a crack, right? There was a loud clanging sound of metal, and the huge reaction force made my jaw go numb. I lowered my head and looked at the effect, and I said 'fuck', there was no response!

There was a dent in the center of the dragon shield, and the elixir was set into the shield like a gem. I looked at Eternity in disbelief. Damn it, it actually curled up. Is this an elixir?

The eternal body is a 'liquid' metal, physical damage does not pose a problem to it, and the curled blade will automatically recover after a few seconds. But the elixir in front of me is really a headache.

Turning the shield over and tapping it on the back, the elixir fell out of the depression. The shield quickly returned to its original shape after the elixir left. I picked up this strange elixir and looked at it carefully. The smooth surface was undamaged. What the hell is this? Feeling that it was impossible to get rid of it, Wu put the elixir on his shield and continued to smash it. Summon my magic pets and ask them to help find a solution. Lingling tried it with her holy sword, but she was also unscathed. The holy sword was knocked out and inserted into the ceiling, but the elixir that was harder than diamond was still intact.

"What are you doing?" Rose suddenly walked in.

The demon pets dispersed naturally, making way for a passage. Rose came over and took the elixir. "what is this?"

"This is the elixir that Erlang Shen gave me as compensation. After the city was destroyed, I suffered a serious level drop, so I gave this thing to me."

Rose looked at the elixir and said, "I heard that the compensation level thing is an elixir! How did you get an egg?"

"I don't know either. The ones given by Erlang Shen are all in gourds. I didn't know they were so big at first."

"What about other people's elixirs? Are they also this big?"

"No, I'm so big. I can't swallow it at all."

Rose smiled and said, "If you can't swallow it, won't you cut it open?"

I laughed: "If I could cut it, I would have cut it long ago. I cut Eternity with a curling blade just now and it didn't cut it."

Rose looked at the elixir in her hand in surprise: "What's so hard?"

"I also suspect that this may not be an elixir at all."

Rose took the elixir and looked up and down carefully for a long time and suddenly said: "Go and get me a grinding wheel."

"What do you need a grindstone for?"

"Just bring it."

"Okay, okay."

After a while I took back the grinding wheel and gave it to Rose, and she started rubbing it with the grinding wheel to get an egg. It only took a minute for Rose to create a black area on the surface of the egg. Rose held the suspected elixir object and pointed the black part at me: "See? The pink color is plated, and the inside is black. Are other elixirs like this?"

I quickly took out another elixir. This one is also pink like the others. I used the Eternal Transformation knife to easily cut open the elixir. The inside of it was as pink as the outside. It seems that the color of the elixir is pink. Now I can basically conclude that this is not the elixir.

"How did you come up with the idea of ​​using a grinding wheel?"

Rose turned the other side of the fake elixir to me: "Did you see anything?"

I shook my head. "No."

"look carefully."

I looked closely for a long time and finally found a small black crack. It turned out that some of the coating was scraped off when I chopped with a weapon. However, because my weapon was sharper, the gap left was so small that it was almost visible. Don't come out and lose color. Even such small traces can be found on roses. It seems that girls are more careful than men.

Now that we know there is a coating on the outside. I simply used a grinding wheel to remove all the outer coating. Now this fake elixir has fully revealed its true identity. This thing is a black sphere, and it is not the ordinary black, but a kind of empty darkness similar to that in the universe. If you look carefully, there seems to be something inside, as if some nebulae are rotating inside. .

Judging from the feel, the surface of this thing is very smooth. It also feels a little cool, and no matter how long you hold it, it won't get warmed by the temperature of your hands. The elixir was not perfectly round at first, but after polishing it turned into a perfect circle. It seems that the thickness of the outer layer is not very uniform!

Rose took the black ball and looked at it for a long time before jokingly saying: "This seems to be something that the Saints often burn."

"What are the Saints burning?" I thought for a moment and suddenly realized: "You said this is a universe?"

Rose handed over the black earth. "Look inside. Those white vortexes are clearly nebulae! This is completely a universe!"

"Now I know why this thing can't be split open! To split a universe, I'm afraid it requires a power beyond the gods and earth."

Wei Na suddenly came over. "If I'm not mistaken, this should be one of the legendary ninety-nine shining stars."

"What is the Ninety-Nine Shining Star?"

Wei Na replied: "Ninety-nine flaring stars are a part of the instrument of creation."

"Then what is the instrument of creation?"

Wei Na thought for a while and said: "This is a legend, and it is only spread among the gods and does not exist in the mortal world."

"A legend only spread among gods?" Rose repeated in surprise.

I was surprised too. "A legend only spread among gods? What kind of thing is that?"

"It is said in the divine world that this world has a starting point. The entire world was created by a strange being. This creator is not human, nor does it look like any other creature. It is more like a combination of machine and soul."

"If the machine and the soul are combined, wouldn't it mean that it can only be a computer?"

Wei Na smiled and said: "I definitely wouldn't be able to understand these things before, but after getting the real body, my experience has improved a lot. And there are no computers in this game world. The things that create the world do have machinery. The ingredients. But the principle is completely different from that of a real machine. The periphery of this thing is a metal ring with ninety-nine holes, and there is a ball in each hole."

"These balls are the shining stars?"

Wei Na nodded: "Ninety-nine shining stars are ninety-nine spheres embedded in this ring, and there is a larger light ball in the center of this ring."

"Photosphere?"

"To the ball of light."

"What about these things?"

"After the creation of the world, the ninety-nine shining stars were scattered all over the world, and the whereabouts of the ring are unknown."

"What about the ball of light in the middle?" I asked.

"That ball of light is the creation star."

"What? You mean the founding star who governs the rules of the game?"

Vina nodded again. "The Star of Creation is the ball of light in the center of the ring. In fact, everyone has never known that the star of the Star of Creation should be the center of the heart, not the star of the stars. It means the heart of the object that created the world. The legend originally It was only circulated among the gods, and later it seemed that part of it was leaked to humans. Later, humans called the Heart of Creation the Star of Creation. Finally, even gods began to use the wrong name after humans!"

"Then what can these things be used for?"

"What can it do?" Wei Na said seriously: "It can destroy the world and be omnipotent. It can change time and space at will. Change any rules at will. In this game world, it is a more powerful existence than God. But this creation The star of the world seems to have no independent consciousness, it is just maintaining continuity." Vina suddenly said to me: "Shenlin. Since I got the physical body, I have also understood the true laws of human beings. Now that I think about it, you seem to be Bichuang. The World Star is a more powerful existence, because no matter how much it controls the world, it is still under your control. I think the rules it maintains should also be the rules you restrict."

I smiled and said: "Human society is very complicated. But you don't need to understand this, but you must understand that the creation star really dominates everything in this game. Normally we cannot 'meddle' in these things."

Wei Nan nodded and said: "I understand this, so in the game I still follow the rules of the Creation Star."

Rose asked: "Then what do these ninety-nine shining stars do?"

Wei Na said: "Ninety-nine shining stars are ninety-nine rules. The world is supported by countless rules, and everything has its own rules. Complete freedom does not exist. All physical things are subject to inertia. ', gravity and other rules, energy bodies are affected by rules such as divergence, resonance, interference, etc. This is also something that cannot be freely controlled. The Creation Star complexly controls these complex rules, but The ninety-nine rules were assigned to the ninety-nine shining stars."

"In other words, the Ninety-nine Shining Stars have the ability to adjust the rules?"

"Theoretically yes."

I quickly asked: "Then what are the rules of this place?"

"I don't know." Wei Na answered simply. "The law is invisible. Moreover, the Ninety-nine Shining Star cannot operate independently. It cannot be effective without the Ring of Commandments."

Rose asked: "Then do you know which ninety-nine laws these ninety-nine shining stars control?"

Vina nodded and shook her head. "I know a few of them. I don't think any god knows all the laws, and I know that even if all the gods in the world combined what they know into one, they wouldn't be able to come up with all ninety-nine of them."

Rose suddenly smiled and said, "I know what this thing is for."

"You know?" I looked at Rose curiously, ready to wait for her explanation.

Rose said: "Long Yuan said that the game should be deregulated, that is, there should be no online administrators such as GM. However, the meaning of this game is extraordinary, and it cannot be fully managed, so this creation system was created. "

"Still don't understand." Vina and I were both shaking our heads, and the humanoid demon pet and Ring Knight next to us also shook their heads. They are all real people who have physical bodies and know the real world, but Long Yuan's complex plan cannot be understood only by knowing the real world.

Rose explained: "The game has a main system, which is the Genesis Star. The computer security departments of various countries have one-way connections with the Genesis Star, and they can monitor the operations of the Genesis Star. Yes, this ensures that the game is fair and just. But Long Yuan created the Ninety-nine Stars because the electronic system was not completely reliable. These are like the veto systems of military computers. The Ninety-Nine Stars can control and contain them. The main system is the ability to contain the Creation Star. The ninety-nine shining stars are given special laws so that they can use these ninety-nine laws to limit the behavior of the Creation Star."

I nodded: "That does make sense."

Rose continued: "Actually, I suspect that these ninety-nine shining stars only have ninety-eight rules in total."

"Why?"

"Because one of them is a back door."

"Backdoor?" Wei Na asked: "You mean the special channel left by computer hackers in the computer?"

Rose nodded: "Absolutely. But this was not left by hackers. It was added by Long Yuan himself. In fact, you have walked through this backdoor."

"Me?" Wei Na was very surprised. "As soon as I left the prison cell below Duling City, I was brought to Isengard. When did you walk through that door?"

I smiled and said: "Rose is not talking about being in the game, but leaving the game. When your consciousness is imported into the outside body, it goes out through this back door. Normally, outside things cannot interfere with the in-game settings. You are originally an NPC, and you can't get out without this backdoor."

Wei Na immediately smiled and said: "Then this is the door of life and death!"

"ah?"

"If you pass through it, you will be reborn, so it is the door of life and death."

Ling, who was standing next to him, interjected: "I think it's more appropriate to call it Soul World Road."

"Now is not the time to discuss this name. I want to know how this thing came to me and where my elixir went."

Rose asked: "Can't you ask someone from heaven?"

I shook my head: "The Nantian Gate is completely a space gate. How do I know where it opens?"

"That would be more troublesome!"

Rose suddenly said: "I don't think you need to be anxious at all."

"Why?"

"Because this thing is so precious. What do you think will happen when Heaven finds out that this thing is missing? They will definitely come rushing to ask you to take it back."

"But what if they never realize they took it by mistake?"

Wei Na also supports my point of view: "The legend of the Ninety-Nine Glory Stars is indeed widely circulated in the divine world, but I have never heard of any religious group collecting the Ninety-nine Glory Stars! I think this may have accidentally wandered into the world. In Heaven, perhaps even the people in Heaven themselves don’t know that this thing exists! How could they come looking for it if they don’t know that they once had such a thing?”

"But how could it be mixed with the elixir?" I thought about it and suddenly realized something was wrong. I quickly took out the gourd containing the elixir and poured it out, but there was nothing. Turning around, I saw a small pink pill embedded in the lid on top of the gourd. "The elixir is here."

"Ah?" Rose stretched her head and looked. "Why are there two in your gourd?"

I explained: "When I first poured it, I poured it into the lid. The elixir was small and fell first. Then the shining star came down and fell on top. This guy was relatively big, so I didn't notice that there was something underneath. It’s a small place, I took the Yaoxing and put the lid back on it, but I didn’t know the elixir was stuck in the lid!”

"How careless!" Rose took the gourd and looked inside again: "Don't pull anything down again."

Originally, it was normal for Rose to look into the gourd. But this time something unexpected happened. When Rose put her eyes to the hole of the gourd, she suddenly disappeared and the gourd fell to the ground with a thud.

I and the demon pets around me were all dumbfounded. Why did a living person suddenly disappear?

"Rose? Where are you?" There was no answer around.

Weina picked up the gourd and put her eyes close to it and said, "Is there something wrong with the gourd? I heard that there are people in the Chinese fairy world who can pretend to be human..." Before she could finish her words, the gourd suddenly emitted white light again, but Weina Unlike being sucked in like a rose, her body was actually stretched so long. The top half of the body was completely inside the gourd, but the back half was still outside. The opening of the gourd is only as thick as a human wrist. But Vina was half stuffed in. The mouth of the gourd seemed to distort space. Vina's body gradually shrank from the waist and was inserted into the gourd, but the outside was not affected.

The mouth of the gourd was stuck all the way to Weina's waist. Her lower body was still outside, and she was still kicking desperately. It felt so strange!

Ling was the first to react. She shouted: "Help!"

Only then did we realize that some of us hugged the gourd and some of us hugged Vina's legs. People on both sides were pulled to both sides like a tug of war. The "tug of war" is halfway through. Outside, the eagle and the lark suddenly walked in, hugging each other, talking and laughing. The two of them immediately became stupid when they saw our strange behavior. "What are you doing?"

I yelled: "Come here and help first!"

"Oh!" Ying and Bai Ling immediately separated to help pull, and Bai Ling went to help chase Wei Na. The eagle came over to help us pull the gourd.

The eagle asked me while pulling: "Who is this?"

"It's Vina!"

"What? Is it Ostevena? Our goddess?"

"Stop asking so many questions, hurry up!"

"I'm pulling!" Ying Zuo's face turned red, but it still didn't work.

I said to Ying who was holding my waist and helping to pull the gourd: "Come here and pull the gourd directly. I'll find some help!"

The eagle listened to my words and moved to the front to hold the gourd, while I let go of the gourd and ran to the side. The eagle yelled there: "Hurry up! I can't hold it anymore! The pulling force of this thing is getting stronger and stronger!"

I quickly picked up the elixir I just took and swallowed it in one gulp. I felt a heat all over my body and then checked the properties, haha. At level 800, this is indeed my elixir. After the level was restored, the power of my magic pets on both sides suddenly increased, and after the level was increased, the attributes also increased. It seems that this elixir not only restored my level, but also restored my magic pet. But now Vina is still half inside the gourd and half outside.

I open the space door. He said to them: "Hurry in."

Because it was troublesome for players to enter, I asked the eagle and lark to step aside, and I slowly moved into the space door with the magic pet and the ring knight. Because of the level restoration, the number of sub-dragon cavalry also recovered. The 8-thousand-year dragon cavalry inside had been divided into two sides according to my request. As soon as we entered, they used ropes to help the gourd and Vina, and then began to pull out. In order to prevent Vina's body from being unable to withstand it, we also added several strengthening techniques to Vina, but I think this is redundant. If she felt something was wrong, she would have added it to herself.

There was a lot of space inside the space door. I summoned Luck and Plague. The effect came out immediately after the help of the two giant dragons. Vina and Gourd began to slowly separate to both sides, first the waist, then the chest, and then the shoulders. Vina left the gourd little by little. When the neck comes out, the suction suddenly disappears. Vina and the gourd suddenly lost their pulling force, just like the rope suddenly broke in a tug-of-war game. People on both sides of us shouted and fell to both sides.

Vina climbed out of the crowd. I tidied up my hair a bit. "Phew! Finally out!"

I quickly got up and said, "Are you okay?"

Wei Na staggered over and said, "I'm fine, but I saw your wife."

"You said the rose is inside?"

Wei Na nodded: "I am a god. Although I didn't pay attention at first and was half sucked in, I had the power to block myself at the exit, so I was not sucked in. Your wife is just an ordinary mage, so she can't stop this kind of thing. Powerful suction.”

"How's she doing in there?"

Wei Na said: "She fell into a pond. I saw her running away, and there was a monster chasing her, but I didn't know what kind of monster it was."

"Pond? Monster?"

"Oh! That's it. This gourd seems to be connected to a certain hyperspace. It is a completely different world inside. I saw many mountains and forests. There were trees all the way to the end of my sight. The space inside seemed very large. "

Weina and I walked out of the space door together. Eagle immediately came over and asked, "What happened just now?"

I held the gourd in front of me and said, "This is it."

"what is this?"

"This is the gourd that Erlang Shen gave me to fashion the elixir, but I don't know why this one seems so special."

Wei Na suddenly said: "I understand. The Ninety-nine Shining Stars were not put into this gourd by mistake, but were already in this gourd. The people in Heaven just took the wrong gourd when they were installing the elixir. This gourd is obviously It’s a magic weapon. It’s impossible for them to give you a magic weapon as well when they give you the elixir. They must have brought this special gourd over for some unknown reason when they were getting the ordinary gourd!”

I asked: "Vina, can you find a way to save the rose?"

Eagle asked: "What's wrong with the rose?"

Bailing was smarter than the eagle. She pointed at the gourd and asked in surprise: "Isn't the rose sucked in?"

I nodded: "It's very unfortunate that she was sucked in!"

Only then did the eagle cry out: "What? The rose is in this gourd?"

Bai Ling asked: "Have you tried private chat?"

I nodded: "I just tried it and it didn't work. Just wait a moment and I'll go offline and ask."

After exiting the game, I ran directly to Rose's room. Fortunately, Rose was also in the base, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to ask. After entering the room, Rose was already offline and sitting on the edge of the bed. When she saw me coming in, she immediately smiled. "I knew you were coming."

"How's it going?" I asked, "I heard from Vina that you were being chased by monsters?"

Rose asked in surprise: "Vina also went in?"

I shook my head: "She used her divine power to get stuck at the entrance when she was halfway sucked in, and then we pulled her out. She said she saw you being chased by a monster. What happened? You ran away?"

Rose shook her head: "No. I was killed."

"and you……?"

Rose shook her head again: "Death can't escape. After I was killed, my soul heard a prompt saying that the inside of the Qiankun Gourd would be resurrected after 3 minutes of death. As a result, I was not resurrected and went offline directly."

"Then I go in and rescue you?"

"No, it's useless for you to come in. It's better to think of a solution outside!"