Chapter 22: Going deep into Switzerland

Leaving the central area of ​​the Death Mountains and entering the Swiss part. First, Rose and I could ride on the night shadow, and gradually the road became more and more uneven. I found that the road we were walking was extending downward, and the mountain walls on both sides of the road were gradually getting closer, and it seemed that there was a tendency to connect together, so we had to hike forward!

After moving forward a few kilometers, as we thought, the mountains really closed together, and the road we were walking became an underground passage. I really didn't expect the exit to look like this! I took out the torch I prepared before and lit it, and we continued to move forward. The underground passage was not flat, it was filled with a lot of gravel and some things that should not have appeared here. In some places, there were even rocks several meters high standing there and had to climb up to the top to climb over. Fortunately, I had wings and climbed up high.

Rose found a red thing in the gap between several rocks. Because it was too short, it couldn't tell what it was. It was not natural anyway. Pinched the top of the red object and pulled it up, and as soon as I tried to force it, the thing was crushed. I patted the red powdery substance on my hand. "It seemed to be rust!"

Rose reached out and dipped it in front of her nose and sniffed it, then patted it off. "It's rust, it looks like something is buried underneath."

"Dig it out and see?"

"kindness."

I reached out and inserted my hand into the crack of the rock next to me, lifted the rock aside, and a red stick of more than 60 cm was revealed, but it was still in the rock. "You retreat a little, it seems that it is buried deeper, I want to dig a bigger one."

Rose took the torch from my hand and stood aside. I began to turn the rock away with great fanfare. Soon the red object was dug out, and it was stuck on a long object under it. Rose walked back with the torch and illuminated the big pit, which was much clearer now.

After identifying it for a long time, Rose finally recognized it first. "Ah! It's a corpse!"

"Corpse?" I looked at the long object. According to Rose, it really looked like a corpse. The lower part of the long strip was obviously two legs, but it seemed that the knight's armor was too rusted and connected together. The arms of the corpse above could no longer be found, and the head was still there, but the problem was that the two-meter-long red stick was pierced at the head. It was obvious that this was a corpse that was shot through the face and nailed to the ground by a spear. The tail of the spear was stretched out from the ground just now.

Rose squatted down and looked at the rocks beside the corpse. "It shows that it is a battlefield, and someone has fought here. This is a player's corpse, and the death time is no more than five days. According to the erosion speed of the corpse in the game, it is about 5 days."

"So, the rocks nearby don't seem to be there as before. I feel like someone blows down the rocks on the top of the cave. You see, there is not even a stalactite here, and the rock layer on the top is too new, obviously because of the fall of the surface."

“That’s why the road is so difficult to walk.”

I thought about not taking off the helmet of the corpse. If the corpse was turned on for 5 days, the scene would be very spectacular. For my appetite, I should not watch it. "Maybe the Swiss player wanted to come in, but was killed by the guard NPC. Even the top of the hole collapsed during the battle. Let's leave him alone and keep moving forward."

"I'm worried about the front!" Rose said while crawling out of the pit.

"Front?"

"It is shown here that it is not the central area of ​​the collapse, and the center that caused the collapse seems to be in front. If even this is so serious, will the front be completely blocked?"

I looked at the passage ahead, "If you are right, it is very likely that it will be blocked! Let's hurry up."

Along the way, I felt that Rose was right, because the road was getting harder to walk. We almost crawled through the cracks of gravel. It was hard to imagine that this place was once a spacious passage where the army could be opened. After finally passing through the cracks of two giant rocks, we really saw the isolation wall made of rocks. The tunnel was really landslide! And it was very tight, and we could basically not find any gaps.

Suddenly I found that the rose was burning on the rock with a torch. "What are you doing?"

"Let me see if there is a crack. If it is clear, the wind will blow out." As she said that, the torch in her hand shook. Rose happily leaned the torch up, and the flames were obviously tilted towards the cracks of the rocks as if they were about to be sucked in. "I think I've found it!"

I jumped over in two steps, hugged Rose and kissed her in the face. "Catch the torch, I'll open the way."

Summoned out Steel Claws and Trail Blazers to help, both of which are hole-breaking champions, and of course they are the most suitable for digging tunnels. Trail Blazers have now become steel-shaped, and their whole body is covered with armor, like a giant armed caterpillar. The strong limbs of Steel Claws are also a good tool for digging tunnels. Unfortunately, the Rose Vine cannot help, and his penetration of rocks is limited. Although he can also dig, the speed is too slow.

The two big guys were standing on the rock and started digging. The gravels were flying behind them, and there were still rocks falling down on them, but they were not as fast as they dug. Soon, the looser rocks around were dug out, and the progress was obviously faster after the collapse stopped. With the rumbling noise, the pioneers first began to move forward, and Steel Claws followed and began to clean up some small pieces. Rose and I didn't dare to follow in now. The gravels kept flying out of the hole. Now that we were in, we must have been smashed to pieces.

A few minutes later, the gravel and the sound stopped at the same time, and the steel claws ran out of it. "Dig through."

"Okay." I took back the steel claws and the pioneers and brought the rose to cross the passage. The wall blocking us was more than 30 meters thick, but two tunnel experts have helped us complete an original passage with a diameter of more than four meters. I thought about it but it was not a pity for the two of us.

After crossing the wall, the opposite side is still inside the cave, and the collapse is in the middle of the cave rather than the entrance. However, there is not as much gravel here as there, so the road is easier to walk on.

There was a rumbling sound of water gradually appeared in the passage along the way, and the louder the sound was, the louder it was. It seemed that it was about to reach the entrance of the cave. As we approached the entrance of the passage, the light gradually became brighter and the torches were extinguished by us. The passage here was much wet than that. The ground was very slippery and watery, and walking on it was like skating ice!

Turning the last bend, a white water curtain appeared in front of me. No wonder the passage was so wet, it turned out that the exit was behind the waterfall! Fortunately, they were all wearing armor, and if the rose had used the previous mage robe, they would probably have turned into a chicken! Put on a helmet and pull down the cover, and slowly walked to the next side of the waterfall. First, take the car magic dragon spear into the water to experiment with the impact force. Fortunately, the waterfall is not high, or we are not far from the top. The next step is to stretch your head out and take a careful look, which proves how wise I am. The waterfall is nearly 100 meters high, and we are in the middle of the waterfall, and what's more damn is that there is a mountain cliff opposite. The two cliffs are less than 3 meters apart. If they jumped out just now, they would definitely hit the opposite mountain wall!

There was a hole at the opposite mountain wall that was slightly higher than this one. I raised my hand and shot the dragon tendon rope over. The rope head was stuck in the rock. After pulling it a few times, there was no problem. Then I came back and hugged the rose. I jumped up and immediately adjusted my feet to the front of me. I passed through the waterfall and immediately saw the cliff opposite. I cushioned the cliff on the cliff wall to stabilize my body. I controlled the dragon tendon rope to retract and pulled us up. After entering the opposite passage, I looked back at the location we had just come out. I could hardly find it. It was so hidden.

The passage here is also a tunnel, but it is only ten meters long and it is over. The exit is covered with a large number of plants. Carefully pushing apart the plants blocking the hole to find that we are in a forest, with a slope behind it and a cliff upwards.

When we walked out of the cave with the rose, we began to worry about how to go. The mission of the Ring of Stars (see Volume 2, Chapter 9 for those who don’t remember the mission) said that we had to go to the permanent neutral place of Ausca to trigger the mission, but I only knew that this permanent neutral place refers to Switzerland. As for whether that Ausca refers to a forest or a valley or a city, I have no idea, let alone the Earth Temple!

Rose reminded me: "Don't Mother Earth know you very well? Just go in and ask her about the location of the temple?"

"Why didn't I expect it! Wait for me for a while." Open the space door and directly enter the realm of the God of Earth. Run into the palace of Earth, and soon find the God of Earth who is playing chess with the giant god.

Seeing me running in, Mother Earth was very surprised. "Do you have something to do?"

"Yeah!" I hurried over and said, "I want to find out about a place with you."

"Inquiry with me?"

"Yes. I want to know where you are in the permanently neutral place of Osca, preferably with detailed coordinates or maps."

"How could I know where the temple is?" The Earth God looked at me and said that she thought she should have known this location.

"That's the Temple of Mother Earth! How come you don't know?"

"Why should I know?"

"Aren't you the Goddess of Earth? Don't you know where your temple is?"

"Of course!" The Earth God said with certainty: "I didn't build the temple, how could I know where it is?"

"But it is you who worships there!"

The Earth God thought for a moment and said, "That's the business of those races themselves. They worship my power and built my temple. But I don't know! It's like those famous people will have many portraits. Many people like to hang portraits of celebrities in their own homes. Do these celebrities know where each of their portraits is?"

"This...!" Inertial thinking kills people! We have always been accustomed to thinking that the temple was built for God, but no one has asked God whether he wants it or not, nor has anyone told God to build his temple wherever he has built!

"The one we are in now is my residence. The temple was built by other creatures and has nothing to do with me. If you want to find the temple, you should ask the locals. Since they have built it with money and money, it must be very famous. Even if the road is broken, there should be at least some clues, such as rumors, stories, etc. Go to the nearby area to investigate, at least more than I can tell you."

"Thank you, I won't disturb you." He quickly left the palace of Mother Earth Goddess and returned to the outside of the space gate.

"How is it? Where is the Temple of Mother Earth?" Rose asked immediately as soon as she saw me.

I told her the words of Mother Earth. "Mother Earth suggests that we ask the locals."

"Then let's hurry up, the sun is about to set!"

"It's okay, it's not haunted here!"

Rose immediately laughed when she heard me say this.

"What's so funny about this?"

"I laughed because I thought of something."

"What did you think of?"

"You just said there were no ghosts, and I was thinking that ghosts should be afraid of us."

"Why?"

"Idiot!" Rose knocked on my helmet. "You think! I am a resurrection mage, who specializes in making dead people alive. You are an evolutionary profession of the Soul Death Mage, who specializes in killing living people. If any ghost meets us, it will be in trouble. I resurrect him and you kill him again. Then he will die. Isn't it miserable enough?"

"Hahahaha! It's really terrible to me, a couple, when you say that, you can make people die of."

Rose stopped laughing and said, "But what we need now is to find a living person to ask for the bottom lane."

"It doesn't have to be a living person. When I changed my job last time, I got a supporting professional psychic. There is a soul reading technique that can ask the corpse and the undead."

"But there is not even a figure here!"

"Then look for it while you go! Ask who you meet first."

We traveled through the forest for a long time and really found our target. A corpse on the tree beside the path in the forest was nailed to the trunk by an arrow. It seemed that this was a set, not a player's corpse, otherwise it should have been slowly rotten and refreshed. If it died, it would not turn into a skeleton.

He walked over and used soul reading technique toward the skeleton, but it had no effect, and the prompt failed. The success rate of the level zero skill was a little lower! After using it for more than twenty consecutive times, it finally succeeded. A faint blue and white light flashed out of the skeleton's body. Rose exclaimed: "Have you succeeded?"

"Can you see?"

She nodded vigorously. "Can see."

"It seems that this skill does not allow me to hear the undead speak, but allows the undead to communicate with normal creatures!"

After a while, the skeleton made a faint sound, but its mouth did not move. "Who is calling me?"

"It's me."

"What's wrong with you?"

"I want to ask for a way. Do you know the Temple of Mother Earth in the permanent neutral land of Ausca?"

"You are standing in a permanent neutral place now, and this country is a permanent neutral place. I know that there is one of the Temple of Mother Earth, but I don't know the specific location. That Uska may be talking about Uska Forest."

“Where is the Aoskar Forest?”

"I don't know, I only know that there is such a forest that is famous for producing sulfur. I don't know where it is."

Rose inserted it in and asked, "Do you know how to get out of this forest?"

"Follow the road in front of me, when you encounter a particularly thick tree, you can pass it left and then walk it all the time."

"Okay, thank you for your help. Do we need to bury you?"

“I’m grateful!”

We quickly dug a hole to bury the skeleton, and then began to move along the road. Sure enough, we encountered a big tree not long after walking, but the left side of the big tree seemed to be a dense jungle, and the road led to the right.

"What's going on?" I looked around.

Rose looked at the distance of the road. "Maybe this is a beast path, so it's just a circle in the forest. You have to leave the road before you can get out."

"Then we Zuo Zhuan?"

"You'd better go up and make sure?"

I climbed up the top of the tree and flew up and looked around. Good guy, the large forest could not be seen at first sight. I jumped back to the ground. "No, I can't see the boundary!"

"Then we have to go here. We should fly faster from the sky, right?"
To be continued...