Chapter 21 Clear goals
Although we didn't want this to happen, the fact was that things happened. A very normal-looking face appeared above the wellhead and quickly glanced inside. Then the guy's eyes instantly glared to the limit. The reason for all this was a pivotal line flying up from the bottom of the well. Although the guy was very fast, unfortunately he was not prepared for me. I reacted quickly. The dragon tendon rope that flew out from the bottom of the well accurately shot into the guy's throat, and then passed through his throat and went backwards. Finally, he opened his metal claws and accurately grabbed the guy's cervical vertebrae.
After confirming that the dragon thorn rope successfully locked the guy's cervical vertebrae, I immediately pulled it down hard, and the guy's body, which had completely softened, flipped into the wellhead and was pulled down to the bottom of the well.
Although I pulled this guy off, I knew that this could only delay the time when we were discovered, and there was no way for us to hide completely, because no one could see that guy when he fell down. Although others' first reaction might be that the guy he had hit was not dead, and then he took advantage of the opportunity of his head to look around and pulled him into the bottom of the well, but this was their guess after all. In the end, whenever we had time, someone would definitely come to see what was going on, so it was still a foregone conclusion that we were discovered and could not be solved at all.
"What should I do now?" Jin Qin asked, looking at the body that I pulled down.
Although Christina is a mage, she is obviously much more decisive in this kind of thing than gold coins. She took out her staff without asking, and said, "What else can I do at this time? Just fight directly! While we have enough magic power now, just go out and rely on real skills to force it. At worst, it's just strategic retreat to find some marginalized tasks to restore magic. When the magic power is full, come back and brush it again."
Zhenhong flipped the fist helmet on her arms down, directly activated the attack mode of Qianjin fist arm, and then said: "I like this suggestion."
Since both of them had this opinion and the gold coins were hesitant, I didn't want to change it. After softening the eternal force, I attached it to my fingers and blade claws, and then looked up and said, "Since that's the case, then fight! It's not a deadly mission, it doesn't matter. It's not a reason why our strength can't be handled!"
"Yohoo... I can finally let go of my hands and feet and have a big fight." Zhenhong, the violent maniac, stepped on the well wall and rebounded left and right twice, jumped directly to the wellhead and jumped out.
Looking at Zhenhong who had disappeared from the wellhead, I shook my head helplessly and then gave Jin Coin a wink. The latter nodded quickly and rushed towards me. I clenched my fist and squatted. The gold coin jumped up and stepped on my fist. Then I suddenly exerted force and punched it upwards. The gold coin stepped on my fist and shot it directly out of the wellhead. I instantly disappeared at the edge of the well.
"You go first. I'll do it myself." Christina said directly when she looked at me and looked at her.
I nodded and stepped on the well wall like Zhenhong, and rebounded back and forth twice before jumping up. As soon as I came out, I saw Christina rising directly from the underground with a large number of golden light particles like a golden sun.
Although Christina's appearance is cool, I don't have time to care about her now, because it's so hot outside, and the gold coins have become a ball with the enemy. Although I said I wanted to do a big fight, everyone obviously still has a sense of responsibility. Experts are experts. Even if they are passionate, they won't really lose their minds. At least Zhenhong and Jincoin use high-kill single-body attack skills and physical skills to fight. This method tests skills, and the battle time may be extended, but I have to admit that this is actually the most endurance and magical battle method. Using this combat mode can increase the battery life of at least more than 20%, and the number of enemies killed will be directly exploded. Of course, most people still like to explode all their magic power in a short period of time to solve the battle as soon as possible. Only when the magic is insufficient will they consider this time-consuming and laborious method.
After looking at the situation nearby, although Zhenhong and Jincoin had already fought, the situation seemed to be much better than we expected. Zhenhong felt like a heavyweight boxing champion was fighting with a group of people who had just recovered from serious illness. She saw her knocking down the people who rushed up one by one with one punch with her left and right. Although she rarely had a fight to solve the battle in one by one, anyone who was hit by her would either collapse to the ground or be knocked out directly. There was no way to conduct a second attack. It was precisely because Zhenhong was too fast to clear the enemy that although many people ran towards her, they could not form a surround, because the crowd had been knocked down before they formed an encirclement.
On the other hand, the fighting rhythm of the gold coins is not as fast as Zhenhong. After all, she is a semi-assisted hybrid combat profession, not as strong as the legion-level main tank like Zhenhong. However, because the gold coins became a monk halfway and had been transferred from the thief profession before, her agility is much higher than that of ordinary Taoist professions. Even if so many people are besieging us here, she can still dodge easily among the crowd. Since I came out, she has never been touched by anyone. Of course, although the gold coins are good in dodging, the attack is not possible. After all, the Taoist priest is not a swordsman and does not have many melee skills. She mainly relies on those sets of basic swordsmanship to support the field. Fortunately, the agility of the gold coins is very high, so although it is slow to kill enemies, it is not a problem to protect yourself.
After seeing the situation here clearly, I went straight to the other side of the gold coins. In contrast, Zhenhong didn't have to worry about it at all. What should be afraid of is her enemy rather than her. On the contrary, the gold coins seemed to be fine, but it was very dangerous, because as long as the gold coins were hit by the enemy once, her fighting rhythm would be destroyed. Once she lost her own rhythm, she would inevitably be hit continuously, and it would only form a vicious cycle. So I rushed to the vicinity of the gold coins without considering it and started fighting with the enemy. As long as there was any problem with the gold coins at this distance, I could support it at any time. Anyway, with her ability, even if she lost her own rhythm, it would not be a few moves for people to let go. At least I still have time to save her.
"Don't come over."
I had just rushed to the vicinity of the gold coins and released several enemies. The gold coins suddenly started to scream at me, which made me almost injured by a guy in front of me who was dressed like an assassin in Assassin's Creed. Fortunately, I reacted quickly, and then avoided the attack and kicked the guy away with one leg.
"What the hell are you doing?"
"I'm pulling people!" Jin Qin replied loudly.
I immediately understood that I misunderstood. The gold coins weren't really unable to beat the people around me. She was deliberately letting the enemies around her form an encirclement around her and gradually increasing the density of people. This is clearly her plan. If nothing unexpected happens, she plans to use a big move to instantly clear the surroundings when there are enough people. This method can be said to be more magical than relying on the cooperation of physical skills and small skills. However, there is basically no such opportunity in actual combat, because the big moves are all face attacks, and if a big move only hits a few people, it is obviously a waste. But the enemies are not stupid. How could it be gathered together for you to fight? However, the situation is special now. The demons here don't know what the attack method of the gold coins are, and she deliberately acts weaker to make those people think she is easy to bully, treat her as a priority target and gather around her.
It can be said that the idea of gold coins is really good. Even I was deceived and even came to come and help when she was in danger. Little did she know that she was just pretending.
Since I already know the idea of gold coins, I don’t have to be so anxious. Looking at the situation around me, I just rushed to those places with a lot of people. Anyway, I am a tank-type like Zhenhong, and the harm to me by ordinary people is minimal. These demons themselves are two camps. They are still fighting each other. Although the third parties who suddenly ran out are obviously enemies to both sides, the two sides are not so wise that they immediately abandon their predecessors to deal with us together.
Not far from the other side of the gold coins, a small group of monster-like demons appeared in front of me. I was about to go up to fight, but I suddenly saw a large ball of golden light flying over my head, and then my original targets turned into human-shaped torches and began to roll around the ground, and there were all such existences around me, which made me not know where to rush.
I looked back helplessly at Christina who was floating in the sky with great power. I could only helplessly walk back to her and use her shield to serve as a shield. Christina's intention was very obvious, which was to use her magic power to restore speed to clean up the monsters here.
After we arrived at this buff task, our magic recovery speed decreased significantly. This, like our other attributes, did not cause us to worry, because the buff task was originally intended to weaken everyone's attributes. However, this weakening was also proportional to our previous attributes. That is to say, if you are stronger, then you are still relatively strong in the buff task, but the gap with others is narrowed after the weakening. The buff task will not turn the weak into the strong, but it only shortens the gap between the two. Therefore, the original advantage is still an advantage in the buff task, but it is not so perverted.
When Christina was outside, she had the special advanced mode of Yuan** Emperor, so her magic recovery speed could almost keep up with the consumption speed of her activate the medium and low-level magic with all her strength. In other words, as long as she didn't use the ultimate move, Christina's magic time would be almost infinite. Now that she was in the buff task, of course it was impossible to still have infinite magic, otherwise this advantage would be too scary. With Christina's attack speed, if she still had infinite magic now, she would probably wash the entire mission world with magic in just one hour. Such a terrible output is not acceptable for the buff task.
However, although Christina's magic recovery speed in the buff mission is limited to a relatively low state, this recovery speed is still a very fast recovery speed compared to us. At this speed, Christina can actually restore her magic power in just one hour. Once our magic is exhausted, it will not be able to make up for it without more than six hours. This is also the reason why Christina wants to steal the head. In comparison, her battery life is obviously better, so she can maintain the maximum team combat power. Besides, Christina has an advantage in clearing the batons, and we are still a little slower than her.
With Christina's full strength erupting, the demons around were quickly cleared to only two or three kittens, and the remaining demons were all sitting on the ground and watching Christina who was like a little sun in the sky. They were all frightened by Christina's attack power. Just now, Christina was suspended there and was like an explosion of anti-infantry jumping thunder pouring golden light bullets around like rain. Not only were these light bullets numerous, but they all had automatic guidance capabilities. No matter how those attacked dodge, it was useless. Many people even dodged three or four attacks in succession, but still drowned in front of the light bullets that had been blasted back on the fifth and sixth time.
I didn't let go of the scared demons' gold coins, and I killed them all with one sword. I caught Christina who fell from the sky. Although she looked quite fierce just now, the price was very high. Now Christina's magic power has almost reached the bottom. She doesn't even have the ability to maintain flight. However, this situation is not very worrying. At least I don't think there is any need to worry. Anyway, all the demons you can see are lying on the corpse, and there seems to be nothing to intimidate us. Besides, Christina is the only one who has lost the combat power here. Zhenhong and I, the gold coins, are not consumed. We can still go up to fight when we encounter any danger.
"If I had known that these guys had been so careless, why would we have to sneak in?" Jin Qin said, looking at the corpses all over the ground.
Zhenhong also nodded and said, "That's right! I thought these things were difficult to deal with. I didn't expect that they were not very good either! We were so careful before, and after a long time, they were all useless!"
"No." I suddenly realized that there were fewer people in the fighting creatures here that I had paid special attention to before. When the demons were fighting in the village, I actually paid attention to the targets with the highest energy response. Because I paid special attention to it at that time, I was quite impressed. However, now there are only those targets I pay attention to in the corpses here, which means that the real bosses are not there, and all we cleaned up are just miscellaneous soldiers.
Christina and the others looked at me in confusion when they heard my shouting, "Boss, what are you calling? What's wrong?"
"The most powerful demons are not here!" I told my discovery.
"What?" Zhenhong and Jinzi immediately looked around after hearing my words. Although they were not as detailed as I observed, they had actually paid attention to the strongest demons before. After all, in the battle, everyone would instinctively pay attention to the most conspicuous targets, and the strongest demons were undoubtedly the most conspicuous existences, but now these guys were obviously not there. They didn't pay much attention when I didn't say it before. Now, as soon as I reminded them, I immediately found that they really didn't see the strongest existences.
"The few high-level demons I saw before really don't exist!" Zhenhong said after examining the corpse.
Jin Qin also nodded and said, "If those masters are not there, will it be a trap?"
"There is no doubt about the trap. After all, the other party doesn't know we will come, so it is unlikely that this trap will be arranged for us in advance. Besides, if the trap is really the one who should start now, it will be impossible for the other party to start it. No movement for so long can only mean that it is an accident. However, the whereabouts of those high-level demons still need to be careful."
"What should we do now? You can't wait here, right?" Jinzi asked.
"Of course we don't have to wait. Just be careful to suddenly encounter those guys. There is no need to find them deliberately. Don't forget that our goal is to destroy the soul collector, and you don't have to worry about other tasks that do not affect ours."
"I understand." Jin Qin nodded and said, "Then should we enter that teleportation array again now?"
"Of course, but we don't go down this time."
"That's certain."
After determining the target, we came to the location of the previous teleportation array again. The subsequent teleportation process was as smooth as last time. And we did not see the guards on the other side of the teleportation array. However, the corpses of the guards we killed when we came here last time were gone. I wonder if someone had cleaned them up after they were discovered.
Although the guard's corpse is gone, this is not the point. Our goal is to concentrate our efforts to find the soul collector. Then destroy it, and ignore anything that has nothing to do with this mission.
In fact, making such a decision is also a compromise for us. We thought that this buff task could be done like an ordinary task while studying whether there are other benefits to discover, but the situation we have encountered so far shows that the buff task is far less simple than an ordinary task. Maybe there are really side tasks here, but according to my observation, this kind of task requires luck and a lot of time to complete, and it feels quite risky to rashly complete that complex task without being sure of the reward, and maybe even box yourself in it.
What we can do in this situation is to try not to pay attention to those side tasks and concentrate our efforts on the main tasks. Of course, the side tasks still need to be completed several times in the future to investigate the gains and losses, but this is the first time we have entered the buff task, and we have not fully understood the real difficulty and rewards of this task. In this case, it is obviously not worth the gain. We were blinded by possible interests before. As a result, after covering such a big circle, we still gain nothing. It is the best explanation.
Focusing on the main task, we went up and down as we entered the previous staircase that was connected up and down, and went upwards according to the information provided by General Qiman's inside. From here, we did not have the underground structures as imagined. Instead, we ran around the closed stairs. We ran at least 100 times. When we were almost dizzy, we finally reached the top of the stairs. It can be seen how deep the stairwell is.
The top of this deep stairwell does not directly connect to the ground. Instead, it is a huge underground palace. This place is a large group of stone underground palaces with a large space inside. The roof is generally more than six meters away from the ground, and the passage is wide enough to drive tanks. Almost all the walls are covered with various murals, but none of them are known to us.
"Why do I think this place seems to be a tomb?" Jin Qin asked, looking at the surrounding stone pillars and the murals on the walls.
"Because this is a mausoleum." Christina raised her staff and shot a thick light column like a searchlight. As the light column was shining, we immediately discovered a sarcophagus placed in the center of the passage ahead.
In fact, because the distance was far away, we found that there were more than one sarcophagus, but in a row after the light column lit up. The way these sarcophagus were placed was strange. They were not placed in the tomb chamber, but in the passage, and were not placed against the wall, but in the center of the passage. All sarcophagus were placed quite densely, almost one meter apart. After we approached, we counted and found that there were thirty in this passage alone. So many sarcophagus could not be the coffin of the tomb owner. If this was not the burial staff, it would only mean that the tomb owner must have been slashed and buried here by the whole family. Otherwise, how could it be possible to use more than thirty coffins at a time?
"Do you want to open it and see?" Jin Qin saw these sarcophagus and had an old problem recurred, and wanted to get some money.
I glared at her directly and said, "Did you forget our lesson?"
Zhenhong also nodded and said, "You should restrain the gold coins, now the mission is the first."
Jin Qin defended: "I'm just giving a suggestion! If you don't open it, just don't open it."
I shook my head helplessly and walked forward with everyone, not touching the sarcophagus. However, sometimes you will look for you if you don’t look for anything. We just passed fifteen of the sarcophagus, which is when we just walked to the center of the sarcophagus, and suddenly all of them moved by themselves.
"Damn, I didn't touch anything!" Jin Coin saw that the cover on the top of the nearby sarcophagus was sliding automatically to the upper and lower ends, and thought he had encountered some mechanism.
"It's not your business, these things are the guardians here." As I said, I protected Christina and retreated to the wall, but before we could really stand by the wall, I suddenly heard the sound of the mechanism turning from behind. When I looked back, I found that there were several stone slabs as big as door panels on the wall, and after these stone slabs protruded outward, they began to slide to one side in the rumbling sound. Before these things were completely opened, I had already seen the general situation behind the stone slabs.
The stone slabs on these walls are not passage doors at all, but covers like the coffin slabs in the center. Behind these stone slabs is not a passage, but narrow rectangular grids that can only stand one person. To put it bluntly, it is a kind of coffin embedded in the wall that is vertically embedded.
"Retreat quickly, retreat to a place without a coffin. Standing here will be surrounded!" While the stone slab has not yet fully unfolded, I quickly reminded Christina and the others to leave this place.
Fortunately, we reacted quickly, and the opening speed of those stone slabs was indeed very slow, so we finally successfully retreated to a place without a coffin.
Just after we arrived at this position without a coffin, we did not wait for the corpse that crawled out of the coffin, but first waited for a broken dragon stone, and it was behind us. At the top of the passage we had just walked, a huge rock as wide as the entire passage and as thick as dozens of meters was slowly descending.
The situation is very obvious now. Once this stone falls down, the passage will be completely blocked. There are only two roads we can choose. Either hurry back to the stairwell we came up before before this thing has fallen. The advantage of doing this is that we don’t have to worry about the corpses here, but the disadvantage is that we no longer have to expect to destroy the soul collector. In other words, running back is basically equivalent to giving up the task.
Obviously we cannot give up on the task, so there is only one choice we can make - stand still.
We do have the chance to contact the soul collector when we stand here, but once the stone behind us falls down, the passage where we are located becomes a dead end, and we happen to be at the end of the dead end, and there is a army of monsters with no specific number and strength in front of us. Although this is quite dangerous, it feels that this is still more reliable. After all, no matter how many monsters there are, it is always hopeful to be killed. Compared to completely cutting off hope and being blocked outside the mission area.
After making up my mind, I took Christina and the others to stand in front of the Broken Dragon Stone and didn't move. Anyway, the stones at our position could not be smashed.
The corpses there were deliberately waiting for us to choose. Although the covers were all opened, no corpse came out of the coffin. However, this strange quietness caused us to feel greater psychological pressure. Fortunately, we are not rookies anymore, so this pressure made us a little cautious at most and would not affect our emotions.
Chapter completed!