Chapter 42 The Missing Companion
After I asked, Christina immediately said, "No big problem, the magic has basically recovered."
"That's good." I said and turned to Chihuo Longji and asked, "Are you adapting now?"
Chihuo Longji shook her head and said, "I'm still a little uncomfortable, but it should be fine soon. If you want to set off now, I don't care."
"You'd better be careful." As I said, I looked at other houses in the town, and after thinking about it, I decided to continue hunting crystals. However, I also greeted Christina and the others. If I encounter a monster that I can't solve, I will lead it here, and then everyone will kill it together.
After briefly speaking, the arrangements were made, Chihuo Longji and Christina went back to rest, and I continued to search forward. The big toad that had run away. At the speed of the guy's movement, I don't expect to catch up with it. I hope that the monsters I encountered later would not appear like this kind of individual with super moving power, otherwise I would have to do nothing!
Fortunately, there are only a few creatures like the big toad just now. I didn’t find that kind of thing again during the next move. However, most of the monsters I encountered in the houses behind were strange existences. Basically, there are five to fifteen monsters of various types in each room here, some of which are ghosts and some are demons. Anyway, they are not normal creatures.
However, although the shapes and abilities of these creatures are strange, there are only two kinds of things that these guys explode after their death. Among them, all spiritual bodies must be the psychic crystals in the end. As long as they are entities, they must have that kind of red spherical crystal, and this crystal will definitely appear in the monster's heart.
I followed the reconnaissance of the streets and killed a lot of strange things along the way. Finally, when I walked back to the house where Christina and the others rested, I already had more than 500 psychic crystals and almost 300 red crystals in my hand.
When I returned to the house with these things, I unexpectedly found that someone was chatting inside. Before I could ask what was going on, I saw Sakura Yu Shenqi and Chihuo Longji walking down from the second floor together.
"Huh? Yingyu? Why are you here too? Are you alone or with someone else?"
"I am with Sister Zhenhong." As Sakura Yu Shenkai said, he jumped down the stairs and said, "When we first arrived here, we encountered a scary ghost. Sister Zhenhong and I were both scared to death. Later, we ran and fought back and finally hid here. Unexpectedly, we met Sister Christina and Sister Chihuo unexpectedly. Oh, by the way. On the way we came, we also saw a big toad flying out from here. Could it be that you were the ones who fought away?"
"That...it's a good thing for you to find us anyway. Since everyone is here, let's act together and search the town quickly?"
In fact, according to the previous plan, we should go directly to the soul well that the female ghost told me. But the current situation has changed again.
When we were teleported to this place, the people with me were Minhong, gold coins, Christina, Matsumoto Masaga, August Suzuki, Sakura Rain, and Chihuo Dragon Kid. Including me, there were eight people. The geographical situation here, according to the description of the female ghost I conquered, should be a medium-sized mountain, plus a circle of villages at the foot of the mountain. In other words, the area is actually not small. However, in such a large area, Minhong, Christina, Sakura Rain, and I were all teleported to this town, and in fact, our landing points were only less than 200 meters apart.
Such a high-density concentrated landing means that the teleportation does not randomly keep us in the entire activity area, because if that is true, we should be scattered very openly with each other. It is impossible to concentrate so densely together, so according to my judgment, the remaining gold coins, Matsumoto Masaga and Azuki Fujimoto were mostly not thrown far away, but should be in the village. The reason why it is difficult for us to meet each other is that our strength is severely suppressed, so the detection range has been greatly reduced. In addition, the heavy rain outside produces quite a lot of noise, so there is no way to use the sound to locate the companion's position. In addition, the rain curtain blocks the view and the dark light caused by the clouds above our heads, it is difficult to find others even if it is a distance of fifty meters, let alone two hundred meters.
So, Matsumoto Masaki and the other three are still in the village. They just don’t know where they are wandering around.
Although there is no detailed tips for our landing point, because I have just gone out to clean up all the monsters in half of the village, now there is actually only another half of the village where Matsumoto Masaki and others may exist. This way, the search range is actually much smaller.
Anyway, there is no hurry to do something about Soul Well. We just happened to use this opportunity to search for whether Matsumoto Masaki and others are also in this village. In this way, we can gather together as soon as possible. In such a ghost place where people are not familiar with their lives, the survival rate is higher.
I didn’t meet Shin Hong and Sakura Yu Shenqi before, so I thought it was an accident that I met Chihuo Dragon Ji and Christina. Now it seems that this is entirely because the previous teleportation only covers a large range and does not throw us around. Now that so many people have gathered together, it is naturally not difficult to find the rest.
After Christina and Makoto got down from the upper floor, I briefly told them, and of course they had no objection to it, so we started to enter the street outside and began to search for Masaki Matsumoto and their location.
"This is the first time since I entered the game that I feel that it is a mistake to choose the mage profession." Christina said while walking with my shield.
As a mage, Christina certainly does not have a helmet, but this is not a problem at all, because among all the general-type spells that can be learned by other mages in the system, there are at least ten kinds of magic that can be used to block rain. What is said here is that this method has the ability to prevent rain, but also means that the consumption of this magic is very low, which allows the mage to support this spell through the entire rain process without seriously affecting the individual's combat effectiveness.
However, although there are many magics that can be used to shelter from the wind and rain. At this stage, everyone's abilities are suppressed very well, so even a super mage like Christina dare not say that she has a lot of magic power. The result is that she doesn't dare to use magic to block the rain at all now, because the consumption of any magic here is amazing. Even the small magic that blocks the rain cannot be supported by Christina's current magic power for a long time. It is precisely because there is no way to use magic to block the rain, Christina can only consider using other methods.
It was originally a good choice to get a warrior-like helmet because Christina actually had armor on her body. Her robe was not made of braids. In fact, the set of things on Christina should be called mage armor instead of mage robe. The upper part of this thing uses something like the light armor worn by warriors. The difference is that Christina's set of things is more tight and looks more beautiful. After all, the armor used by warriors needs to consider the structural strength and range of movement. The mages do not need too much physical movement, so the armor does not require any movement, and the thickness does not need to be so exaggerated. Because of this, the armor on Christina looks similar to a one-piece armor, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a corset armor. As for Christina's lower body...
Below her waist is a circle of skirt armor of about the same length as a miniskirt, which is actually a circle of armor that extends downward along the waist. There is also a real skirt inside this circle of skirt armor. This is made of braided fabric. The top of this skirt starts from the waist and extends to the outside of the skirt armor, but the length is different. The front part of this set of skirt lining is actually very short, which is just a little longer than the skirt armor, but the back is dragged to the ground. The entire skirt uses asymmetrical design with a short front and back, with a long front and a long back.
Of course, this skirt is not made of ordinary materials, but is made of silk threads produced by five or six different magic creatures and silk threads pulled out of several magic metals. In addition to its terrifying magical characteristics, the skirt of this material is almost perfect in physical characteristics. Not only is it extremely tough, a thin layer of silk can have the defense of Kevlar armor, but more importantly, this thing is gentle as if it is the best silk, and this thing is not invasive and does not touch water or drip. Even if it is placed in mud and rubbed, as soon as it is picked up, the mud and water on it will flow down by itself, and there is no trace.
Because of such terrifying performance, Christina's skirt is not afraid of water at all. Moreover, there are sleeves made of similar materials under her upper body armor, which extend to the wrist. In other words, Christina's clothes are almost waterproof. They can be worn as raincoats. The only problem is the head.
Among the mages, there are usually two types of things on the head - headwear or head crown. However, whether it is headwear or head crown, it doesn't seem to be able to block rain. Christina's own head crown is quite large, but it still has a large number of hollow designs. Anyway, it is definitely not possible to use rain hats.
If you can't block the rain on your head, your eyes will be affected by the heavy rain. Even if you ignore the wet feeling on your body, just blocking your vision is a major problem. Therefore, Christina's best way is to get a knight helmet and buckle it on your head. The advantage of doing this is that it can block the rain, and the second is to not affect the combat attributes.
The equipment in "Zero" does not prohibit you from wearing multiple pieces of equipment in one position. As long as you have a way to put it on, the system will not prevent you from wearing it. For example, if you have a way to put it on, you can wear ten layers of robe on your body. Although it looks very bloated, it is indeed possible to wear it. There is no doubt about this. However, what you wear does not mean that the system will admit that the things you are wearing are "equipped" by you.
It is not the same concept when worn on the body and equipment. For a simple example, many weapons in Zero have attribute limits, which require the user to reach the minimum strength or agility, and of course there are attributes such as levels. The mage's staff usually requires intelligence to be used after it reaches the level. However, before your attribute is hit, it does not mean that you can't get that thing. You can still pick it up and use it, but the system does not recognize that attribute, that is, although you are holding a weapon in your hand, the attributes of this weapon will not be calculated into your combat power. You are actually exactly the same as those without a weapon.
The same concept is also true for this mage robe. You can put ten layers on your body. But the system only recognizes the innermost layer, because that is the first one you wear, and it is the "equipment" equipment recognized by the system.
Like Christina now, she can block the rain by just putting a large helmet on the outside of the head crown, but the system will not calculate the properties of the helmet. Christina's own head crown can still play a role. This will not affect combat effectiveness, but also ensure that it will not affect the sight due to water in the eyes.
Unfortunately, although this method is simple, it cannot be used now. The reason is that all space channels are forbidden to be opened in this place. When I first arrived here, I discovered that I could not open the Phoenix Dragon Space, the Earth Gate, and even the space storage window on my body. Anyway, all the doors with storage capacity cannot be opened. Because everyone's storage space cannot be opened, although we have a lot of unused equipment on our hands, we just can't take it out. Christina herself actually has a helmet, which she used when she dived, but unfortunately she couldn't take it out. In order not to be wet by the rain, she had to borrow a shield from me.
There are two removable shields on my Dragon Soul suit. They are hung on the upper arm of my left and right arms, but this shield is a folded shield. It is not big when it is put away. It looks like a large shoulder armor when hung on the arm. But in fact, this thing will be expanded directly into a large shield of standard shape as a standard shape as a large shield. Although this shield requires high attributes and Christina cannot be equipped, it does not prevent her from holding a shield as an umbrella. Of course, the shield is not used to block the rain after all, so it is actually very hard to put it on the head. After all, this thing is warrior equipment and the weight is not light. Fortunately, Christina can barely handle it.
"Actually, you don't have to hold that thing up." Zhenhong suddenly said from the side.
Christina looked at Zhenhong with a depressed look on her face, "If I don't hold this, I'll be a chicken. Do you want to see me embarrassed?"
"I don't mean that. I mean, who can you borrow the wings from them?"
"Wings?" Christina was stunned for a moment, then suddenly reacted and said, "Huh? Why didn't I expect it?" She said and turned around and looked at us.
There are only three people with wings here, I, Sakura Yu Shen Hina and Chihuo Dragon Kid. Christina is the most familiar with me, but the problem is that I am a man and she is a woman. If I want to use my wings to block the rain, I must be close to me. However, although Christina doesn't mind this very much, she can't care at all. However, there are not many opportunities for Sakura Yu Shen Hina and Chihuo Dragon Kid Kid Kid and Christina to meet, so everyone can only recognize me. It's really hard to say that they are familiar with each other. After all, it's less than three days for everyone to spend time together.
Although he was a little confused, Christina finally chose Sakura Yu Shenqi, because Sakura Yu Shenqi seemed to be the best to talk, and girls could talk more. Besides, Sakura Yu Shenqi also has a characteristic that I and Chihuo Long Ji do not have, that is, she is a semi-assist, similar to gold coins. In contrast, once a fight occurs, I and Chihuo Long Ji will definitely be on the front line. In this case, if there is an emergency, Christina will not even have a chance to react whenever I run, and it will definitely be even more embarrassed at that time. Therefore, in comparison, it is best to stay with Sakura Yu Shenqi. At least Sakura Yu Shenqi doesn't have to rush forward, and Christina can also be with her all the time.
Of course, Sakura Yu Shenqi would not refuse Christina's request, and directly spread the snow-white wings behind her back on her head and overlapped them to form an existence that looked like a canopy.
Don't think that the wings on players are very small and cannot stop much. In fact, in "Zero", all human-shaped creatures with wings have the ability to stretch and contract. This kind of stretching and contraction is not entirely caused by folding, but more of a magic effect, which feels a bit like blowing a balloon. For example, my wings. When I close the wings behind my back, there are two options. One is to completely disappear and there is no shadow of the wings at all. This is also the mode I use in most cases. The second is to let the wings hang on the back, but the wings are folded. In this mode, I
The wings look like two huge umbrellas hanging behind the back. The length is about one meter, not as long as I am, and the thickest part is about the same thickness as the waist of a slim woman. If this size does not change, the spread wings will not generate enough lift to bring me to the sky. However, in fact, I can just spread these pair of wings and form a pair of huge wings with a maximum wingspan of more than eight meters and a front and back width of one meter eight. Such a large pair of wings, if they close at the top of their heads, they will naturally form a large blocking area.
Sakura Yu Shen Hina is petite, so her wings are obviously not as big as mine, but it is still no problem to help Christina block the rain.
With the mobile awning of Sakura Yu Shenqi, Christina is obviously much more enjoyable, at least she doesn't have to hold a large shield weighing dozens of pounds.
Moving forward like this in the rain, Christina and Sakura Yu Shenqi always remained in the middle of the road, while Zhenhong and I were on both sides, and Chihuo Dragon Girl was in the front.
The current goal of the operation is personnel search rather than area cleaning, so there is no need for a carpet-style propulsion strategy. It can only be a dragnet-style investigation. The advantage of Chihuo Dragon Kid is to keep the weakest among the three tanks to protect Sakura Yu Shen Hina and Christina. Because of the strong single-player penetration ability, Matsumoto and Masahiko can completely act separately. Our task is to enter the buildings on both sides to search for the possible existence of Masahika Masahika and others, and then quickly retreat if there is no enemy. Of course, if the enemy pursues, we also need to lead the enemy outside the gate and block the opponent's forward route. Finally, kill these guys. As for the two crystals, of course, you can collect it if you can. The monsters that are difficult to deal with are not easy to deal with.
Using this method, our propulsion speed is not fast, but it is not slow either. We were almost at the entrance of the village in more than ten minutes, but we still haven't found any trace of Matsumoto Masaki and the other three.
"It's strange, are the three of them really not in this village?" Looking at the entrance of the village in front, Zhenhong became confused like me.
Christina asked, "Do you want me to send a bigger flare to pull them out?"
"Don't!" This time the conversation was the female ghost who followed us. She was responsible for taking us to the soul well after we searched here, so she was always by our side.
Christina looked at the female ghost in confusion, although she didn't ask. But she probably knew why she opposed it. In fact, the situation in this kind of place is very clear. There are too many monsters. If you release magic with a very loud sound effect, you may be able to draw out a lot of things. So it would be better to use large signal flares in this kind of place to search for one room by one. At least this is safer, right?
Although Christina didn't ask, the female ghost still explained the reason, and the meaning was similar to what we thought. Of course we wouldn't be stupid, but we really did that, so we went back to our previous way of action and continued to search for one room at a time.
I carefully pushed away a piece of wood in front of me, and after I was sure that nothing was going to rush out, I stepped in carefully. However, before I could even land on my feet, I heard a sudden sound of wood shattering from behind. In such a heavy rainstorm, I could still hear such a loud noise across the road, but the sound on the opposite side was already very loud. I turned around and rushed over without thinking. Before I even got to the middle of the road, I saw two red and white balls flying into the house there. Then there were two explosions, and two big holes were blown open on the front of the house.
Although we don’t want to release the signal flare to attract unnecessary monsters, we won’t be squeezing because of the loud noise during the battle, otherwise we would be putting the cart before the horse.
After two big holes were blasted on the building over there, I also crossed the middle point of the road. When Chihuo Longji saw me, she shouted, "Don't move." Then she rushed into the opposite building. However, as soon as I rushed in from the first floor, I immediately heard a loud noise from the above floor, and then I saw a lot of broken wood pieces falling from the street outside, and a human-shaped object was still there.
After seeing the changes outside, I immediately braked suddenly and turned around and wanted to rush back because I didn't know how powerful these creatures were. There were only two people with melee ability outside, and there were only two of them who had melee ability. I was not very relieved. Although any of them were all first-class experts, don't forget that this is the internal task of the BUFF task. The BUFF task itself is already rare, and now there is a deeper internal task. The difficulty is definitely very terrifying. Therefore, no monster in this place can be underestimated. To sum up the saying that players often say is: There are no monsters in hell. It means that there are no monsters in the difficult tasks of hell. Any monster must be treated as a boss.
Although I don’t know what the difficulty of the BUFF task we entered, even if the BUFF task itself is the lowest difficulty, that is, the advanced difficulty, the task here can definitely be considered hell difficulty. Therefore, all the monsters here must be treated as bosses or cluster monsters, and to deal with these high-difficulty monsters. The easiest way is to concentrate together and use the advantage of the number of people to scale the opponent’s strength advantages.
Originally, I thought it was pretty good, but unfortunately, things could not be as I thought. Just as I turned around and rushed out, the ceiling above my head fell down with a bang, and two figures fell down along with a pile of broken wood chips. One of them was really red, and her golden armor was easy to recognize. The other figure... Is his grandfather's octopus? But why did the octopus get ashore?
Although I didn't understand what the situation was, I made a judgment immediately. I shouted at Zhenhong over there: "You go and solve the one outside, leave this to me."
During the battle, Zhenhong rarely objected to my decision, and turned around and rushed out. I took advantage of the opportunity that the big octopus fell to the southeast, southwest and northeast. Eternity quickly condensed in my hands, and then turned into a hook and sickle gun form. It is definitely not possible to stab such things with a knife. The shape of this thing in the shape of the octopus shows that it has strong immunity to physical damage, and it must be accompanied by super strong body regeneration ability. Therefore, you cannot create small wounds when dealing with this kind of thing, otherwise you are simply showing your own strengths to others.
Taking advantage of the opportunity that thing had not yet reacted, I rushed up directly, stabbed the Eternal Hook and Scythe in my hand, and then picked it up. There was no resistance, and my Eternal Hook and Scythe directly cut off a piece of meat from the other party's head. This guy's body was almost translucent, and the fallen piece of meat began to melt quickly as soon as it landed, and it turned into a pool of water in less than ten seconds.
"Damn!" Seeing this result, I quickly looked out, and the result was exactly the same as what I guessed.
If a thing can be decomposed into water after it dies, it means that the body of the thing should actually be composed of a large amount of water. For example, the jellyfish in reality will quickly decompose into a pool of liquid as soon as it gets ashore and then disappears. More than 95% of the jellyfish's body is made of water, which is also the main reason why it can be decomposed into a large pool of water on land.
The octopus-like thing in front of me can be decomposed into water, which means it is similar to jellyfish. The body is basically made of water. However, although the creatures in the game have borrowed from many realistic creatures, the creatures in the game have been processed after all. They have been strengthened on the basis of some real creatures in reality in many aspects. Since most of the body of this octopus-like monster is made of water and can be decomposed into water after death, can I infer that as long as there is enough water, this thing can actually heal the wound quickly?
Just now, I looked outside because I thought of this reason, and the thing I saw was similar to what I thought. The one who fell outside was also an octopus monster, and at this time, the four of them, Dahong, Christina, Sakura Rain God Hina, and Chihuo Dragon Girl, were even pressed and beaten. The reason for this situation was not that the octopus was so powerful, but because the other party could almost regenerate infinitely. The octopus monster in the heavy rain could absorb the water droplets falling from the ground and the sky and repair the body. The result was that no matter how Christina and the others attacked, the monster would not die. As long as any damage appeared, it would be as good as before in less than five seconds.
It’s no wonder Christina and the others can’t handle this thing with such a perverted creature. However, compared to outside, I was actually more worried about myself, because they fought one by four. But I was fighting one by one. Unfortunately, although we were in the house, this house was obviously like the previous house and was like the one that was beaten into a screen like the one, and it was leaking everywhere. That thing could take any water source here.
Fighting with a creature that can regenerate infinitely as long as there is water is clearly a trick! However, it has become like this. It is probably impossible for us to run away now, so we can only bite the bullet and go on.
However, although this thing can be regenerated infinitely, I believe that infinitely regeneration in the true sense does not exist. In addition to the basic materials for building the body, regeneration also requires the control of the soul and the supply of energy. These are all essential. The regeneration ability itself can develop infinitely, and the materials for building the body required by the thing in front of me can also be seen everywhere, so what I can consume now is its energy and soul.
It may take a long time to consume the energy of this thing. After all, this is like completely exhausting the power of an electric machine. The time will definitely not be too short. But if it is to deal with its soul, it may not take long. If the soul of this thing is very strong and has a certain regeneration ability, it will be more difficult to consume this guy's soul. However, if the soul of this thing is not taken into account and has no regeneration ability, it will be much easier for me to deal with it.
Just as I was thinking about how to deal with this thing, it had stretched all its wrists and feet to a place with water, and then I saw that the gap on its head was recovering rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. In less than thirty seconds, the gap in this guy's head disappeared.
Looking at this thing's amazing healing ability, I once again affirmed that I had to use soul attacks to work. Fortunately, the switching of eternal ability is very convenient, and after I injected a little magic power, a faint blue light lit up on eternal.
In fact, this blue light is Hellfire. It should have been dark purple, and a raging fire that is several meters high should have risen. Unfortunately, the attributes are suppressed, and the purple flame has turned blue. Moreover, the flame that was originally several meters high is now covered with a thin layer of sword blade. However, the key to this flame is to burn souls, so the size does not have much impact, as long as it has it, it is enough.
While the thing had the last wound to recover, I rushed up with Yongheng. The monster opposite was blocking with his wrist foot as expected. And it also tried to use his wrist foot to bind my movements, but its first wrist foot just touched Yongheng and immediately it seemed as if it accidentally touched a red iron bar. With a squeak, the guy couldn't help but tremble. At the same time, its wrist foot curled back one after another, obviously it was so painful that it was so painful.
However, I didn't plan to let this guy go. Taking advantage of the time when it gave up the attack because of the pain, I rushed to it and stabbed it into the guy's forehead with a sword. The guy's tentacles all over his body suddenly danced wildly as if he was suddenly electrocuted. I didn't expect that after this thing was injured, it was caught off guard and was pulled out, and Yongheng stayed on its head. However, although I was pulled out, the guy began to melt slowly after the tentacles danced.
In fact, I have probably guessed the composition characteristics of this creature now. Strictly speaking, this thing is not a physical creature at all. It is actually a spiritual body, which is why an octopus ran to land. It fixes water around its soul through its soul, and then simulates a body that was exactly the same as it was in its lifetime. However, in fact, these bodies are nothing more than water, not real body, which is why the cut parts melt. As for wound healing... it should actually be called recondensation.
My eternity just now brought the soul-burning hellfire directly inserted into the guy's forehead, which was directly inserted on its soul. Then the hellfire began to burn its soul. As the soul was constantly burned, its control over the water around it became weaker and weaker, so it could no longer maintain its physical state. It looked like it had melted in our eyes.
Sure enough, no matter how difficult the monster is to deal with, it is actually easy to kill if it finds the right method. With my example, the octopus outside can't last long. Without the soul energy to gather the body, even if it is soaked in water, its regeneration ability will not play any role. Instead, the intact body begins to decompose and fall off.
After dealing with these two monsters, we indeed got two soul crystals, which means that these two things are really spiritual bodies. However, although we solved these two problems, we were not happy because we can now basically confirm that the remaining three Matsumoto Masaki and the others were probably not here.
We made such a big noise when we were fighting the two monsters just now, and they would have discovered it if they were sure. But there has been no reaction until now, which only means that Matsumoto Masaki and the others are not nearby at all. However, the five of us were sent to a village. Why are Masaki Masaki, Jin Coin and Humura the three of us exceptions?
"Do you still remember what you were doing when you were teleported?" I searched the house where I found the octopus monster and asked Makoto and the others why Matsumoto Masaki and the others were teleporting differently from us.
Chapter completed!