Chapter 247 An Increasingly Strange Mission Unfolds

The Giant Scorpion Tribe was just the starting point of the hidden mission, and there were only a few details to explore. Hui Yan was led by the deputy guard and the mute slave, and took a look around. Except for the temple murals, which were considered "exciting discoveries", there were no other details. The only thing that could attract Ember's attention was a funeral held on the street.

"Who passed away?" Yu Jin looked at the white silk hanging around the courtyard and asked intentionally. He did not think that the funeral was held in such a conspicuous place because the designer simply wanted to enrich the scene.

"Some toad who wants to eat swan meat." Deputy Konoe's eyes flashed with disdain.

"Oh?" Yi Yan raised his eyebrows, "Then can I go and express my condolences?"

"That's not necessary!"

Deputy Konoe rejected Ember's request with a strong attitude: "A tailor's son died unexpectedly, how dare you trouble an honored guest to condescend to express his condolences? I think it's almost time, so let's go directly to meet the boss!"

As he spoke, the deputy guard held down the shoulders of Ember to prevent him from suddenly jumping out of the car, and then drove the giant scorpion under the seat to quickly return to the center of the tribe. Then, ignoring the cold gazes of many guards, he led Ember into the extremely gorgeous building. magnificent tent. Here, Ember saw the expressionless shaman guards, three bowed servants holding wooden boxes in their hands, the sad-looking giant scorpion patriarch in black robes, and the white chrysanthemum on the patriarch's chest. .

This is obviously a costume to mourn the deceased!

Regarding this, Yi Yan was puzzled: "How come someone happened to die in the family of the giant scorpion leader?"

As the saying goes, there must be monsters when things go wrong. Ember does not believe that two funerals appearing in one game at the same time can directly explain the past as a "coincidence". Especially since the status of the two deceased people is extremely different, it is difficult for Ember to explore. heart of.

"I have completed the preparations. These are the protective equipment specially given by the patriarch. Take them all."

The shaman guard gave the order, and the three bowed servants handed the wooden boxes in their hands to the three of them. Look at the decisive momentum, as if he was the real leader of the giant scorpion tribe, and he was "trapped" The black-robed patriarch on the throne was just immersed in sorrow and had no objection to the shaman guards taking over the throne.

Seeing this situation, Yi Yan couldn't help but blurt out: "I would like to ask, has Mr. Patriarch been sad recently?"

"mine……"

"Why do distinguished guests care about other people's family affairs? Let's focus on the fossils. It's not too early now. We'd better get on our way immediately. If we miss the time, the shaman will blame me for not providing good hospitality."

Before the leader of the giant scorpion clan could say the third word, the shaman guard forcibly interrupted, and then with an irresistible attitude, he stepped onto the giant scorpion mount with thoughtful embers and rushed straight out of the tribal city. Go to next fixed event.

[Tip: Exploring the diary "Fifteen o'clock on the fourth day", because you are performing the hidden mission "Journey to the Sand Sea", a fixed event - "Sand Sea Storm" is triggered. 】

[Introduction: During many years of exploration, the Sanchong tribe accidentally discovered that an important link in uncovering the mystery of fossils was actually related to sandstorms. Therefore, the shaman guards took you on a journey to chase the sand sea storm. strange journey. 】

[Tip: Please be sure to explore carefully to trigger subsequent links. 】

Looking at the black line appearing in the sky, the shaman guard nodded with a smile: "The giant scorpion tribe's wind-inducing array is operating normally, we can take action!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the shaman guard opened the wooden box and took out a yellow cloak decorated with scales and hooks. He asked Ember to imitate himself and put on the cloak, and then put on a device similar to a respirator. Wear it on your face, and finally get into the groove on the side of the giant scorpion, and secure it with hooks.

Seeing the confusion on Ember's face, the deputy of the guard explained: "The place we are going to is located deep in the sand sea below the storm. You can't ask why it is there, because we don't know. What we know is that that place It will follow the sea of ​​sand and disappear and appear, and we can only reach it smoothly by relying on giant scorpions. This is a secret we discovered very accidentally! Okay, stop chatting and act quickly. If the storm comes later, Now, we don’t have time to care about your life or death!”

Hearing this, Yi Yan couldn't help but marvel, thinking that the hidden mission triggered by this fossil was really hidden deep enough. Without the generations of searching by the Three Insect Tribes, who would have thought that important clues were actually hidden under the storm?

Afterwards, Yi Yan began to follow the method of the shaman guards, put on the cloak and mask, and then locked the hooks on the body with the giant scorpion carapace one by one, ensuring that the groove could fully carry him through the sand sea, while waiting for the storm to arrive. , while gently rubbing a [smokeless incense] hidden in his hand, while thinking about the various experiences of the Giant Scorpion Tribe.

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【No smoke incense】

Type: mission props

Introduction: This is a guidance item secretly given to you by the Giant Scorpion Patriarch. With it, the closest confidants of the Giant Scorpion Patriarch will not lose your location.

[Tip: This item cannot be taken out of the copy space of this "Gold Rush Town"]

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The second important information that Yi Yan saw after the mural was that the giant scorpion leader would provide necessary help to Yi Yi during this operation, and this smokeless incense stick hidden in the corner of the wooden box was to ensure the contact between the two parties. Key props.

"If my prediction is correct, the toad that was born in the tailor's house wanted to eat the swan meat of the clan leader's house. I don't know whether he got it or not. Anyway, the result was that both of them died. Even if the culprit was not the Sanchong tribe, I'm afraid There is some connection, which is why the entire Giant Scorpion tribe is so hostile to the Shaman Guards." Yu Yan thought carefully and made a judgment, "So, the assistance from the Giant Scorpion Clan Chief can basically be trusted."

Thinking of this, Ember relaxed and faced the coming storm.

Suddenly, a strong wind blew up, and the sky gradually darkened. The long yellow sand was like a sea, with ripples emerging. Soon, the cloudless blue sky was filled with dust, and embers squatted in the grooves of the giant scorpion's carapace. He watched with his own eyes as the day faded and black clouds covered the sky. If he didn't have a hiding place, he might not know where he would be blown to.

In such a harsh environment where it couldn't see its fingers, the giant scorpion was not affected at all. It violently swung its strong insect limbs and walked through the manic storm. Then, as if it felt some kind of guidance, it plunged into the yellow sand. , taking Ember and others under the sea of ​​sand.

Enduring the frenzied squeezing of the cold sand, Yi Yan waited for more than a minute, and then suddenly found that the cold sand around him suddenly retreated. He looked up and looked out of the groove, and saw a deep tunnel appeared in front of him. Looking back at the rolling sand flow falling behind him, Yi Yan suddenly realized that the giant scorpion actually carried them through a gap and broke into this underground ruins under the sea of ​​sand.

As for whether the rolling sand flow will fill up the ruins, there is no need to worry. Once the sand is filled around the gap, the influx will stop. On the ground of the corridor, the increasingly shallow but extending sand layer for hundreds of meters is a silent answer. Tell Ember that people from the Three Insect Tribe have visited this place many times.

"It's not easy. I haven't given up after failing so many times. It seems that the Three Insect Shaman values ​​the secrets of fossils more than anyone else!"

While Ember sighed secretly, he also raised his level of vigilance. He expected that the Three Insect Shaman would do anything to ensure that the secret was obtained, so he immediately modified the old idea slightly, and then quietly arrived on the giant scorpion. The underground palace at the end of the corridor.

Wow…

Kicking away the sand that covered his shoes, the shaman guard called on everyone to untie the hooks. He ripped off his yellow cloak, endured the dust and frowned, saying: "Every time I go to this damn place, I have to suffer. It lasts more than two hours." The trip is really difficult.”

After hearing this, Yu Yan realized that the game time had unknowingly approached six o'clock in the afternoon, which meant that his one-minute journey had actually sped up countless times. He immediately suppressed his surprise and looked at the gloomy palace. He asked curiously: "This is..."

"According to the shaman's speculation, this was once a fish-man palace, which proves that there were fish-men living here in ancient times. It stands to reason that the fish-men clan had long disappeared with the ocean and gone elsewhere, so this abandoned palace was gradually buried deep in the sea. Under the sea of ​​sand, but that sudden change told us that things are far from that simple!"

The shaman guard used modern lamps to illuminate the surroundings and said in a deep voice: "Later we found this place and found that the time when the fishman palace was completely abandoned actually coincided with the transformation of the sand sea into the sea. This means that those The fishmen briefly used this abandoned palace in order to invade the forest, and the past scenes that the shaman recreated using secret methods also prove her point of view, which is consistent with the facts."

Immediately, the shaman guard took out a glass sphere, placed it in the middle of the palace, and then illuminated it with a light beam from a lamp, which then diffracted and scattered rays of light throughout the palace, and a strange image was immediately staged.

In this illusory scene that looked like a holographic projection, the gloomy fish-man palace reappeared in glory. Dozens of strange fish-men of different colors gathered in the hall and whispered to each other, as if they were discussing something intensely. On the steps, stood a tall fishman with a crown on his head, walking back and forth with his hands behind his back with a gloomy expression, looking very anxious.

Suddenly, a fish-man rushed into the hall in a hurry, holding a conch in both hands. The king of fish-men looked happy, and quickly took the conch and put it to his ear. He listened attentively for a long time, but the result was that he listened more and more. He became increasingly angry and eventually became furious. He smashed the conch on the ground and broke it in half. Then with a wave of his hand, he rushed out of the palace and disappeared with the murlocs.

The reappearance of the image ended here, but Ember recalled the broken conch left on the spot. Suddenly he remembered something, and quickly took out the fossil to compare the patterns, and surprisingly found that there was no difference between the two!

"It seems that you have noticed it too!" The Shaman Guard nodded inexplicably, "Yes, the fossil in your hand, according to Master Shaman's analysis, is actually half of the broken conch. When we first arrived at this fish When we entered the palace, we found that it was left on the steps, but the problem is that no matter how we search, we can't find where the other half has gone. For this reason, we even consulted the wise man in the gold rush town, and the wise man But it can only be seen that this fossil is a key that can be used to open a door."

"So, do you have any clue about the gate corresponding to this fossil?" Yi Yan asked. He always felt that the Three Insect Tribe's mastery of hidden tasks might have exceeded his imagination.

"Found it." Shaman Guards said truthfully.

"As expected!" Yi Yan's eyes lit up.

"But the problem is, the world behind the gate..."

The shaman guard shook his head suddenly, with a look of confusion on his face: "You'd better see for yourself."

Then, the shaman guard asked for the fossil from Ember, then walked to the fishman throne on the steps and embedded it in the groove at the top of the throne.

Ember could see that the area filled with fossils could only occupy half of the groove. However, even if the other half was missing, the mysterious door hidden behind the throne could still be opened as usual.

At least in Ember's view, there was nothing wrong with the space vortex that suddenly appeared behind the throne. However, when he followed the others and stepped into the other world connected by the space vortex, he suddenly felt the aura of decay coming towards his face. Even though he still hadn't taken off his mask, he could still feel how harsh the surrounding environment was through the gray foggy beach covered with black mud and rotting corpses.

[Tip: Exploring the diary "Eighteen o'clock on the fourth day", because you are performing the hidden mission "Journey to the Sand Sea", a fixed event - "Half Door World" is triggered. 】

[Introduction: Only half of the key can open half of the door. Although the door is still the same door, the world is not that world. However, even though this place is completely dead to the eye, there is still a lot of vitality hidden to solve the puzzle. Please be sure to explore carefully to trigger the follow-up link. 】

"Half-door world?"

Yi Jin raised his eyebrows, feeling more and more that the follow-up development of this hidden mission had deviated from the normal track. However, he knew that everything could never be separated from its original purpose. Even though the mission involved the second world, as long as the context was grasped, all problems could be solved. Can be solved easily.

So the question is, where will the context be hidden?

Ember naturally focused on the rotting corpses, some of which clearly had fish-men characteristics, while others were human. He had heard more than once that corpses could talk, so while following the shaman guards as they trudged through the mire, Ember silently looked around, and as his observation scope deepened, he realized that the place was full of The rotting corpse looked like something was wrong.

At first, he thought that the world showed the tragic ending of the sea of ​​sand turning into sea and the murlocs attacking, but later he discovered that this was not the case. The reason was that the corpses that seemed to belong to humans were actually different from normal humans, only in height. Decay hides these differences, but if you look closely you can still make out some of the bodies, with the remains of a single eye on the forehead and the outline of a suction-cup tentacle.

"One eye on the forehead...suction cup tentacles..."

Ember muttered these two characteristics with a very strange expression, because this is clearly the unique appearance of the aberrant, and thinking that Gold Rush Town is a combined variant of Hell Cat Nightmare and Hell Maple Night, he can basically confirm that this rotten The world probably evolved from Hell Maple Night.

Thinking of this, Yi Yan realized that the shaman guards in front of him were not aimless, but always moving straight in a certain direction, and couldn't help asking: "Where are we going?"

"Find a ship. That is the only valuable discovery we have in this world." The Shaman Guard said without looking back.

"Ship? What ship?" Yi Yan's heart moved slightly, as if he saw the context of his long-awaited mission at his fingertips, and quickly asked, "Does that ship have a name?"

"Why do you ask? That ship is almost in ruins. Who knows its name?"

The deputy guard behind him felt that the embers were very annoying, so he rushed to choke. Although the shaman guard was a little puzzled, he still told the truth patiently: "The first time I got on the ship, I could no longer see the writing. It’s just the name of the ship, but I once heard the old man in charge say that the name of the ship seemed to be... The Wavebreaker!"