Chapter 70: Muddle Through
"Theoretically it shouldn't be true, but we are a special case." I pointed at the crystal and asked Jette: "What do you mean, do you know about the black unicorn?"
Maomao asked excitedly without waiting for Jette's answer: "Is my demon pet sealed by the black unicorn?"
"Where was it sealed?" Jette asked.
"In a passage."
"Is that passage in the underworld?"
"No, that's the passage to the human world."
Jette shook her head and said, "That's not right. Black Qilin cannot leave the underworld, and the one who comes to the world is definitely not Black Qilin. However, the one who sealed this little thing should be Black Qilin's subordinates."
"He still has subordinates?" Ah Wei asked in surprise.
Jie Te nodded and said: "Most strong people will have a few followers, not to mention that Black Qilin is so strong, what does it mean to have a few followers? But Black Qilin really doesn't have any official followers, because Black Qilin doesn't like those who flatter them. Guy. But although Black Qilin has no followers, he often finds some temporary subordinates to help with things. Generally, these subordinates will be protected by the power of Black Qilin during missions. "
"You know so well, have you done this before?"
"Me?" Jie Te said regretfully: "I just thought, it's a pity that they don't want me at all. To be able to run errands for the black unicorn, you have to be at least a high-level ghost to have any hope. In the past few years, you have been fighting wars in the world, and the underworld is full of ghosts. The employment pressure is also very high! You don’t know that the competition in the ghost market is fierce, and it would be very difficult for a newly born white soul like me to find a job collecting free energy fragments. "
"Ghost market?" Ah Wei asked stupidly.
I patted him: "It's a talent market. Do you understand the job fair? This is the underworld, so of course it's a talent market."
"I never thought being a ghost would be so hard!"
I said to Jie Te: "Since you know about Black Kirin, do you know where to find him?"
"this……!"
"What's wrong? Is there any problem?"
"It's a big problem."
"How to say?"
"The Underworld is different from other realms of the dead. This land is layered. Ours is the first level of the underworld, and there are more than ten levels below! You can't see it until the seventeenth level at the bottom. Black Kirin!"
Ah Wei said: "So the information from our guild is correct. The black unicorn is stuck at the junction of the seventeenth and eighteenth floors."
Jie Te said: "You must never believe that information, it is a thing of the past!"
"How do you know our information is wrong?"
"It's strange that the ghosts in the underworld don't know this! Three weeks ago, Black Kirin destroyed the connection point between the eighteenth level of hell and the seventeenth level at the expense of most of its own power, and the entire space was detonated. The ghost soldiers in the underworld, organized by the King of Hell, fought a battle with the escaped black unicorn. However, although the black unicorn lost most of its strength in the explosion and was seriously injured, the guy's strength was too exaggerated. None of the ghost troops who participated in the interception came back. The King of Hell finally ordered that the connection point between the sixteenth floor and the morale floor be sealed."
"So you can't go down to the seventeenth floor, right?"
"I don't think you need to go down."
"Why?"
Jie Te said: "Although the connection point between the 16th and 17th floors is sealed, Black Qilin is not the kind of character that is easy to deal with. If he can break open the connection between the 17th and 18th floors, he will definitely be able to do it." Passing through the upper floor. The entrance to the eighteenth floor was originally equipped with a permanent one-way transmission seal. But he still came out. The entrance to the seventeenth floor only had a temporary simple seal that could not block him. In my opinion, it is only a matter of time before the entrance to the seventeenth floor is opened."
Ah Wei asked: "That's not right! He is sealed below the seventeenth floor, so where did he get his subordinates?"
"Teleported." Jie Te quickly replied: "Black Kirin himself is the target of the seal, so it cannot be transmitted, but he can send creatures like imps directly to the third level or even the first level of the underworld. But I don’t think he can hold on for long. Although he can break through the entrance to the seventeenth floor and enter the sixteenth floor, he will never reach the fifteenth floor.”
"why?"
"The door to the underworld will automatically close. Although the boundary between the seventeenth and eighteenth floors was blown open by the black unicorn, the passage will be closed again later, which means that the men around the black unicorn can only come over for a small amount of time. . Once these men are sent out, he will have no men left to send."
"Even without his subordinates, he can still blast open the passage!"
"Wrong." Jie Te said: "Black Qilin wasted his mana and sent his men up. You don't think you are sending them out for a walk, right? The mission of these men is to bring back the light crystal to replenish Black Qilin's physical needs."
"Why does the black unicorn need the light crystal? Shouldn't he need the wronged soul?" Maomao asked in confusion.
Before Jette could answer, I spoke first: "No need to explain, I know the reason."
"You know?" Maomao immediately turned to me and asked.
"It's very simple." I asked back: "What color absorbs the most heat under the sun?"
"Black." With this kind of common sense, the cat naturally answered quickly.
I continued to explain: "So! Black is the color that can absorb the most energy. The black unicorn is not really a representative of evil. The reason why he is so violent now is because everyone hates him, which makes him... He stayed in the eighteenth level of hell for so long. The black unicorn is not evil. His color shows that he actually yearns for light. Only things that reject light will show white color, because light Everything is reflected. The leaves show green color not because they like green color, but because they do not absorb green light, but people tend to misunderstand these seemingly simple things."
"If everyone had your understanding, maybe I wouldn't be like this." A very sad voice appeared around us.
"Who are you?" Eve and Ah Wei all looked around in panic. But of course they couldn't see anything.
We looked around nervously, and Ah Wei asked a few more questions, but the guy who made the noise seemed to have suddenly disappeared and showed no response.
"Have you left already?" Ah Wei asked.
I shook my head: "I can't see anything anyway."
Maomao asked in a low voice: "Who do you think it was just now?"
"Black Qilin?" I said it first, but it was wrong to think about it. "impossible!"
"Jet, do you know what it is?" Karaka asked.
"I don't know." Jie Te actually had the same reaction as us. He is also a low-level person here. Many ghosts like to absorb other ghosts to increase their own strength. If Jet is caught, it will be over. "I am also a newcomer in the underworld. I don't know much more than you do!"
No one was sure whether the surroundings were safe, so I had no choice but to summon Emmenis and Bailang. "Please help check if there are any other creatures around."
Amynis pointed at Jette and said, "Does this count?"
"Of course not."
Eve came up to Amynis and stared at Amynis carefully for a long time. "Don't you think I'm the enemy too?"
In fact, Eve was more interested in the humanoid familiar that suddenly appeared, Emmenis. After all, to most players, the humanoid familiar meant high-end and rareness, but Emmenis obviously didn't like being looked at as a monkey. "Miss, can you please use your brain? Will other people's demon pets attack you after you form a team with others?"
"Of course not!"
Amynis jumped up to me like a rabbit and hugged my arms. "You know and still ask?"
"What do I know?"
"After forming a team, your teammates' magic pets will not attack you. This means that the magic pet can know from the owner who is a member of the same team as the owner. And I am the magic pet of Master Ziri. I naturally know that you have formed a team. The master wants me to find enemies, and if I include you, there’s something wrong with my brain!”
Instead of being angry, Eve smiled and said to me: "Zi Ri. Your demon pet's IQ is so exaggerated!"
sweat! Amynis is real. She is already a complete person, and her IQ is naturally not low. Besides, apart from the humanoid NPCs in this game who are specifically set to be heartless, how many of them are fools?
"Emenis, stop making trouble. Come and see if there are any enemies nearby?"
Amynis looked around and said: "There is no camouflage or anything like that within the range that I can see. I think there should be no enemies! I have just recovered from the earth disease, and now my ability has declined a bit, so it is not necessarily guaranteed to be absolutely perfect." It’s safe!”
I looked at Bailang again. Bailang was much crisper than Amynis, and he answered directly: "There are no dangerous creatures that I know of are nearby. However, the air here has a very strong odor, which is really unpleasant! "
"Stink?" Maomao sniffed a few times: "Why can't I smell it?"
"Bailang has a dog's nose. You're not even a cat. How can you smell it?"
I was talking. Bailang suddenly put his ears to the ground. "Master. There is a group of cavalry approaching from the direction downwind of us, but there are not many in number."
Jette suddenly said: "This is the country of the undead, and most of the members float around like me. The fact that you can ride a mount has been materialized, so you are definitely not an ordinary kid."
Bailang ignored Jie Te's words and continued: "There seems to be something following the cavalry team."
"What exactly?"
"Maybe it's a kangaroo." Bailang's words completely confused us.
"kangaroo?"
When we were all thinking about why a group of kangaroos were approaching us, Amynis suddenly said: "What are you thinking about? Are they obviously zombies that Bailang said!"
"Zombie?" Ah Wei looked at her in confusion, waiting for an explanation.
Amynis said impatiently: "You are so stupid. This is the underworld, how can there be kangaroos! The zombies in China are the kind of things that jump around in official robes. Bailang must have heard that thing .”
After hearing Amynis say this, I also think it is possible. He quickly asked Bailang: "How are you sure it's a kangaroo?"
Bai Lang said: "That thing's pace is one hop after another. Unless it has one jumping leg, it is jumping. So I guess it's a kangaroo."
I said to everyone: "It looks like they are Chinese zombies."
"Chinese zombies?" Ah Wei said anxiously: "I used to summon European zombies. I don't know if Chinese zombies will work!"
"The iron top doesn't work." Maomao said: "There are many types of zombies, but the European version of zombies I have seen does not exceed level 400. I think zombies are low-level undead creatures in Europe. However, Chinese zombies seem to be positioned as It’s a mid-range product between level 400 and 800, so your corpse exorcism technique may not work.”
Standing next to me, I regretfully said to Ah Wei, "I knew I would have brought your wife here!"
Ah Wei shouted: "The gold coins are also poisoned. The diarrhea doesn't stop. Fortunately, Essinger also has a toilet built with tablets. She was still squatting in it before we came out."
Maomao asked in confusion: "Could the Jingguo Sacred Toilet be built with a tablet, right?"
I asked in surprise: "Don't you know?"
Maomao nodded: "I haven't been in the meeting for a long time, and I have seen the Guoguo Divine Toilets. But no one told me where it came from!"
Awei smiled and said: "I tell you. Once Ziri went to Japan to cause a volcano to erupt. It turned out that the eruption point was under one of the Yasukuni Shrines in Little Japan. Those tablets were raised to the sky by lava. As a result, Ziri We brought them all back. Later, we used those tablets as wooden blocks to build a toilet, which is the Jingguo God toilet you saw later."
"Hard enough!" Maomao said, holding out his thumb.
Ah Wei turned to me again and said, "Don't say Jin Coin is sick, it's useless even if he's fine."
"Don't she have two professions? I remember that one of her professions was a Taoist priest! How could it be useless!"
"The Taoist priest is true. The problem is that she is a magic Taoist priest, not a zombie Taoist priest."
Maomao asked: "Is there any difference?"
"The difference is huge." Ah Wei opened his mouth to explain but was stopped by Kara.
"The enemy is coming soon, think of a way first!"
"Running is one way."
"Run?" Karaka wanted to say something else, but I pulled him away and almost bit his tongue.
After running for a while, Bailang reminded us that the enemy was getting closer.
"These zombies are jumping around pretty fast." I suddenly stopped. Karaka and the others were almost out of breath. The running time was too long and everyone's endurance was at the bottom, and no one could run anymore.
Amynis said: "Why don't we sit on mounts? As long as Ye Ying runs, these little guys can't catch up."
"That's right!" I slapped myself on the forehead: "I even forgot that you have already taken the antidote."
Karaka gasped and said: "Speaking of which... Huhu!... Why are we running?... The zombies are of a high level... We may not be able to defeat them!... Aren't you very powerful?"
"I have my own reasons for this, so just leave it alone and just run." I quickly summoned a flying bird to jump on and lent my guardian spear to Eve, as for Karaka. He can fly with me on a bird. The other demon pets were naturally put away first, and Scott and the others were sent to the space gate by me. Anyway, it was almost 12 o'clock, and the space gate would be refreshed after three opportunities in a few hours. Not using it is also a waste.
I actually had my reasons for running. Not to mention the zombies chasing the soldiers, I'm not afraid even if the Corpse King comes. The key problem is that I guessed who was coming.
I have taken the elixir of heaven's compensation, and the fairy energy of that thing is not a big problem in normal times, but in the underworld, it is like a fluorescent stick in the dark night. Although it is not very bright, it is very eye-catching because the surrounding is too dark. I'm in the same situation now, usually on top. The evil energy on my body can completely block the weak fairy energy, but this is the underworld, and my evil energy is completely inconspicuous when mixed with the Yin energy here. On the contrary, the fairy energy is like a light bulb.
The most powerful ghost in the underworld is probably the King of Hell. He must have been the first to discover my existence, so it goes without saying that those zombies were sent by him to pick me up. Maybe he himself is on the team.
Although the King of Hell is a ghost, he is actually an immortal. This time something big happened in the underworld. He definitely wants to ask the gods for help. It's impossible for him to let go of someone who finally got down. If I were touched by him. Not only would he not harm me, but he would warmly entertain me. But he will definitely ask me to help deal with the black unicorn later.
If in normal times. Receiving a mission to deal with Black Qilin should be considered a good large-scale mission, but I currently have a mission to help Black Qilin rescue him. What do you think I should do if I receive another mission with completely opposite content? The mission punishment in "Zero" is notoriously harsh. If the mission reward is 10, the punishment is 100. The result of taking on two opposite tasks is that no matter what you do, you will end up losing 90%.
It is for this reason that I would rather commit suicide than let the King of Hell see me. Otherwise it would be worse than death!
"Why are you running away?" Karaka lay down next to me and asked me why.
I don’t want them to know about this mission. After all, they have nothing to do with us, and there is Ashford behind Karaka. It sounds like we are allies, but in fact everyone knows that we are just a pack of wolves, we usually fight side by side, and whoever is injured will be eaten by our companions. "The monsters behind make me feel bad, so I don't want to come into contact with them. And it's also important to send the medicine back. Don't you want to go back quickly?"
My reason was very good, and I immediately blocked Karaka back. This guy's strength is limited to combat, and his playing skills are still far behind our level.
Seeing that Karaka stopped talking, I turned to Jette, who shrank into a ball of light and was held by me: "Do you know where I can return to the human world?"
The small ball of light that changed in Jiete flashed and said: "I don't know about the underworld. There are many places in the underworld where you can return to the earth. But I only know three."
"Which three?" Because everyone was in the air and couldn't get too close, I turned on the team's shared channel, and everyone heard what I just said. Eve couldn't help but ask.
"The first one is called Huanyang Gate, which is a teleportation gate. Ghost officials from the underworld and some souls who have been captured by the wrong people go to the earthly world from here, but there are a large number of ghost soldiers guarding it. Even if you are not an ordinary character, If you want to rush over, you have to peel off some skin."
"What about the second one?"
Jette continued: "The second one is called the Wheel of Karma. This Wheel of Karma is a high-level magic weapon, specially used for reincarnation. As long as you jump in, you will leave the ghost world. But the wheel of Karma is not necessarily connected to where. , and if you go out from there, you will be forced to reincarnate into other creatures. It is recommended that you do not go in. If you are reincarnated into a long-lived creature such as a turtle, it will be thousands of years before you have to come back and jump again."
"What's the third one?"
"The third one is called the Lotus Pond. It seems that it was originally a lotus pond in the yard of a wealthy family in the human world. Later, the family was killed in an unjust case and was silenced in the pond. As a result, a large number of innocent souls appeared and penetrated the space in the pond, directly connecting to the underworld. Here it comes. From here we can enter the bottom of the pond and then climb up from the pond to the human world."
Eve immediately said: "Then let's go back from the pond?"
Karaka also said: "It's just a little water, maybe a little mud, so it shouldn't be a big problem."
I refused and said, "No. It's better to go back to Yangmen."
"Why?"
"No reason, just because it's easy to get around here."
"Are you kidding?" Eve disagreed with my point of view: "If you want to go, you can go by yourself. I won't go."
I smiled and said, "Then I'll send you under the lotus pond, and you can leave on your own. I have other things to do."
"OK."
It's really different if you're not one of your own. Eve finally insisted on leaving the lotus pond. I also dutifully sent her to her location. Karaka hesitated and stayed, even though Ashford had told this kid before coming out to just listen to me. But he was an ordinary person after all. Seeing that he was about to succeed, he still didn't believe Ashford's words and decided to make the decision himself.
They were sent to the edge of a black forest of dead trees. Jiete told them that as long as they kept walking forward, they could see the pond in the center of the forest. As long as they jumped in from here, they could escape from the world.
After the two of them entered the forest, we also turned and flew towards Huanyang Gate. Jie Te kept trying to persuade me not to go there, but I just didn't stop. Later, even Maomao began to doubt me and kept asking me if I was sure. Only Ah Wei remained silent.
They say the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, and that's true at all. Ah Wei is my best friend, but we rarely get together. But best friends are best friends, and the trust and tacit understanding at critical moments cannot be compared to that of fair-weather friends. Before arriving at Huanyangmen, Ah Wei didn't say a word of doubt. He believed that I definitely had a solution.
Huanyangmen is actually built in a city. The dead souls also have their own cities, but there are not as many as in the human world. This black city made of stone gives people a sense of death and dilapidation. Jie Te told us that Huanyang Gate is in the center of the city, but he refused to go in with us because it was too dangerous for him.
There was nothing I could do if he insisted not to enter. After giving him some black crystal powder as a final reward, he left. I took Awei and Maomao to enter the city, but I needed to adjust my condition before going in.
I first summoned Night Shadow and then asked Maomao to ride on it, while Ah Wei and I walked over. Consciously injecting magic power into the black magic aura to make it more dazzling, the surrounding magic auras can already be directly seen. After calling the evil dragon Banon Juanlan, the dragon ring began to activate. The black evil energy quickly made the surrounding area look like ghosts in the abyss, and a large number of ghosts began to fly around. After sorting this out, I walked toward the city with Ah Wei and the cat on Ye Ying's back.
Guarding the gate of the city is a group of flame ghosts. This kind of ghost is quite powerful and is a rare type in the human world. The leader of these flame ghosts is a green-faced and fanged whispering ghost. This is also a very powerful ghost, and is rarer than the Flame Ghost.
As we walked towards the city gate, the ghosts passing by us all took a detour when they saw us flying. Some of the brave ones walked past us without dodging, but the speed was not much different from running.
The guards at the city gate were standing there listlessly. Suddenly, a dark wind blew through them, and they collectively shivered and all looked towards me. I know they saw us. But I still walked at that walking pace. But I whispered in my mouth: "Mao Mao, please don't move for a while, just pretend to be mute." Mao Mao nodded to express his understanding.
"Stop." The leading Yugui looked very embarrassed when he saw us approaching, and finally he bravely came up and stopped us. However, he still had a very polite tone when he blocked the road. It seems that my bluff is still very effective.
"What's the matter?" I asked in a bad tone. He will be shocked as soon as he comes to such a small character. As long as you relax, he will dare to climb up the pole.
Yugui asked very politely: "It seems that the three of you are not dead, right?"
"Do you recognize this?" What I took out was the Heavenly Court's access badge. This kind of thing is actually useless to the ghost world, but this thing is stained with fairy energy. These brats definitely don’t know the fairy cards, but they know the fairy energy, which will make them misunderstand my identity. Then I just need to scare him again, and he will definitely let go.
"I recognize you." Yugui's tone immediately changed. The attitude just now was like that of a hotel receptionist greeting guests, respectful but disrespectful; now it has completely changed into the attitude of a eunuch when meeting the emperor, even more enthusiastic than his own father. "The Immortal has come here to have sex with you?"
"Is this what you asked too?"
"The younger one deserves to go to the eighteenth level of hell. It's wrong to go to the younger one." Yugui looked frightened.
"Stop pretending there." I pretended to be arrogant and said, "I don't have time to waste here. The Black Kirin-born Heavenly Emperor is very calm. I'm just here to investigate the situation. Now I'm in a hurry to go back and recover."
"Then please go to the Immortal. Don't delay the Immortal." He said while retreating to the side: "Does the Immortal need us to clear the way for the Immortal?"
"No need."
"..." Yugui bowed his hands and stepped back to the side of the road to let us pass.
I immediately led Awei and the others forward. Seeing that their boss was like that, the Flame Ghosts quickly learned to bow their hands and face the ground, not daring to look directly at us. We just walked in without hesitation.
Ah Wei dared to speak only after he was far away from the city gate. "Phew! Boss, I admire you so much! You even managed to trick me into this!"
I smiled and said, "It would have been better if Xiao Longnu hadn't just recovered and felt unwell."
Maomao also said: "My heart almost jumped out of my chest just now."
"You don't have to worry so much. You don't have to worry at all when you see a kid like this. The only person in the underworld who knows this fairy card is the King of Hell, except for the bull-headed horse-faced and black and white impermanence."
Ah Wei immediately corrected him: "There is also Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva!"
"To the immortal world, a Bodhisattva is equivalent to a monk. In the human world, they are not officials at all. How can we recognize such things? Besides, Buddhism was introduced from India. They are just foreign guests."
"Haha, so it can be divided like this?"
"Hush. We're here again." I had already seen the guard. Quickly ask Maomao and Ah Wei to be quiet.
This Huanyang Gate is actually not a gate in the ordinary sense. It looks like a black vortex standing there. This gate is erected in a square, surrounded by ghost soldiers wearing helmets.
"Stop." The leader of the ghost soldiers here is a loyal soul. He was a loyal soldier who died on the battlefield and was transformed. Therefore, his personality is relatively straightforward. He clearly feels that I have immortality in me and is still rude when he speaks.
This kind of ghost can't be forced. I walked over and handed him my badge first. "I am the vanguard of the Heavenly Court. The Emperor of Hell reported that the black unicorn penetrated the eighteen levels of hell and asked the Heavenly Court to send troops to suppress it. The Jade Emperor sent me here to determine the development of the situation. I have to go back and resume my life now."
Zhonghun just has a more upright personality, not a bad mind. Hearing that I am an official of a small sect in the fairy world, of course I have to be more polite. He really couldn't understand the sign I gave him, but he was not stupid. He could feel the powerful immortal energy that made him sure that this was indeed a card from Heaven. In fact, this was originally a genuine Heavenly Waist Card, but my usage was expanded a bit.
Zhonghun handed me the waist badge and asked casually: "Why doesn't the Immortal return to heaven from the Wheel of Six Realms? Wouldn't that be faster?"
I pretended to be surprised and asked: "The Wheel of Six Realms? What is it? Why haven't I heard of it?" Phew! It was so dangerous, I was almost taken into a ditch. There is no such thing in heaven at all. It would be terrible if I just made up an excuse. My combat power has not been fully restored yet, and most of my demon pets are still a little weak. It wouldn't be a good thing to fight. What's more important is that if the King of Hell is summoned, it will be troublesome. Then I won't be able to shirk the responsibility!
Zhonghun immediately held up his hands and said, "That's probably because I remembered it wrong. Since the Immortal has something important to do, please pass."
I was not polite and immediately strode towards Huanyang Gate. Ah Wei and Ye Ying followed immediately. When I walked to the door, I said to Ah Wei and the others in a private message: "Think about the target Isengard when you pass through. Otherwise, you will be teleported to another place."
Ah Wei and Maomao both nodded and followed in. As soon as the scene in front of us changed, we were already standing outside Essinger City.
"Huh! I'm finally back!" Maomao wiped the cold sweat from his head after jumping off Yeying's back.
Ah Wei looked around and asked curiously: "I obviously wanted to go to the gold coins, why did I come outside the city?"
Maomao said disapprovingly: "Isinger has teleportation shielding, do you think everyone can go into the ground? Why don't you, an old member, know as much as I do?"
"I know! But we are our own people, so why can't we get in?"
I said, "Because that teleportation array does not belong to us. Well, we are already outside the city anyway. Hurry up and get the antidote."
Ah Wei suddenly shouted: "By the way, tomorrow...oh no, it's already past midnight, it should be today. You have to help Michael intercept that Nile at noon today!"
"Tch! If you don't think about it, there is a large-scale outbreak of infectious diseases, and the angels must have been affected as well. It's strange that they can come out at noon."
"That makes sense, but what if they don't win? You'd better be prepared in advance."
"Okay. I get it."
In order to save time, we didn’t leave, so we just threw the scroll back to the city and returned to the city. Rose was leaning against the teleportation array in the parliament hall. When she saw me coming out, she immediately struggled to crawl over. I quickly ran over and helped her up. "Why are you like this?"
"Stop talking, where is the antidote? Have you found it?"
"Here it is." I quickly took out a small bottle of the prepared medicine and gave it to her.
Rose took the antidote and asked in confusion: "That's it?"
"No, this is for you. I brought back the formula and hard-to-find ingredients. The other things are easy to find. I remember there are quite a few in the guild. We can start preparing the medicine right away. You first Drink this and lie down for a while.”
Ah Wei ran over and asked, "Where are the gold coins?"