Chapter 872 Disappearance Conditions
“Is it an illusion?”
Mo Tan stood alone in the clearing in the forest, blinked in confusion, and murmured uncertainly. One sentence: "I feel like I just heard something very concerning."
Mo Tan took two deep breaths on the spot, trying to calm himself down, and took the 'weird' login voice just now seriously. He jotted it down, then immediately put it behind him, opened the friend panel and asked his companions about the situation.
Taking into account the time I wasted in the 'Chaotic Neutral' personality and the time spent switching personalities twice after being offline (perhaps plus going to the toilet), I am conducting a dog search and rescue activity with my friends. 'Mo' has left the realm of innocence for fifty-two minutes.
As the majority initiator of this child-finding operation, Mo Tan obviously did not want his crotch to stretch during the search and rescue process at this moment, and his current personality can be said to be very reliable, but even so, he still He does not have the right to freely decide whether to leave the chain. Just like just now, even if he doesn't want to leave, at the moment when the premonition is triggered, he can only leave two ambiguous words and then irresponsibly "evaporate". Nothing else can be done.
Even though the friends of the Wangwang team have gotten used to it, and even some members of the Beautiful Girl Mercenary Group said that it is understandable that this is normal in online games, Mo Tan is still very, very uncomfortable.
Under his current personality, Mo Tan is a very responsible person, and because of this, he is particularly resistant to his irresponsible behavior.
But he couldn't blame anyone, because whether it was the core reason why he suddenly dropped the chain in the middle of the work, or the bad behavior of lingering for half a day after losing the chain, or even himself He was angry with himself and drank half a bottle of Coke after drinking Dr.Pepper. The childish behavior that caused him to go to the toilet twice was all his own fault.
So, what else can be done? Acting as a mentally ill person who beats himself up in extreme anger?
Mo Tan let out a long sigh, suppressed his nameless fire, swallowed the suffocation, and regrouped to start sorting out the new information sent by Ji Xiaoge and Dabus.
Although it only lasted less than an hour, because the two teams were very efficient, the search and rescue operation had already made considerable progress. Yes, it was just a development. As for the situation, 'Progress' still stops at the moment before Mo Tan goes offline.
To put it simply, no one has gotten any new clues about the Hog Black-skinned boy since the smell stopped.
The movement trajectory of a group of people after Motan went offline is as follows:
First, they went to the place that Ji Xiaoge had noticed while searching in mid-air, which was not far north of this open space. In the cave in the distance, some incomplete dark snake skins were found inside. It can be basically concluded that they are the skins shed by the reptilian monsters such as the 'Night Viper'.
Under this premise, Dabbs and Lucie, two members who like to use their brains, immediately came to a conclusion, that is, this place is probably the nest of a certain group of night vipers. The fact that the place where the kobold boy disappeared was very close to here was enough for them to come up with a relatively pessimistic guess.
A group of quite powerful monsters and a kobold boy with weak physical fitness suddenly disappeared.
Combining the above clues, the possibility that Hog Heipi was buried in the belly of the snake is infinitely close to 100%.
However, neither the Wangwang Team nor the Beautiful Girls Mercenary Group gave up. They first carefully searched the lair and returned to this area after finding no clues that could confirm that Hogg had been killed. In the open space, several teams were eventually separated and conducted a dragnet search.
Tatianna, Christina, Anthony Dabbs head south.
Jadeka and Kasena head west.
Mika and Yaya go east.
Lucie and Wang Ba dare to go north.
Ji Xiaoge, who has the strongest mobility, volunteered to act alone, patrolling at high altitude while ensuring that he could at least be within the support range of a certain team.
Up to the moment when Mo Tan went online, the four groups plus Ji Xiaoge's one-man special team had expanded the search area three times. Lucie and Wang Badan's Northern Group even encountered each other on the road. Although the two monster attacks were mid- to low-level monsters that could not even break through King Ba's defense, this discovery still made everyone a little nervous.
The reason is simple. Even if the kobold boy is not eaten up by the night viper, his chance of survival has become increasingly slim when everyone has been searching for him without gaining anything.
On Mo Tan's side, after briefly exchanging information with Ji Xiaoge and others, he closed the message board and stood motionless in place, thinking.
He did not join the search process in a hurry. After everyone had been searching carefully for half an hour, it actually made no difference whether there was one more Mo Tan or one less Mo Tan, so he felt Instead of just finding a direction to meet up with your companions, it is better to stay for a while where the clues are broken. Even if you may not gain anything, at least it will be more efficient than the first option.
Mo Tan never thinks that he is born with the fate of the protagonist, nor does he think that things that others can't handle will be solved as soon as they meet him. For example, in this situation, everyone has become helpless. With his head stuck, he couldn't come up with any better solution.
In terms of knowledge base, Dabus can’t be much worse than him.
Even though she is smarter and calmer, Lucie of the Beautiful Girls Mercenary Group doesn't give in too much.
Since they can't think of any better way, Mo Tan naturally can't come up with a better idea just by doing brain exercises like Brother Yixiu.
But having said that, this person actually still has some strengths that are relatively difficult for others to copy.
For example, the ability to think beyond the current problem and from multiple perspectives.
This advantage is due to his mental state that is completely different from ordinary people. It is not something to be proud of, but it is still useful.
Just like now, Mo Tan, who is desperately using his brain, has consciously diluted the concept of 'finding someone' from the bottom of his heart, and replaced it with some more abstract content, and then combined these things in reverse to make it become something again. specific.
The focus of thinking gradually changed from searching for a missing teenager in the dense forest to why the teenager disappeared, and extended to the characteristics shared by the entire Black Skin family.
"As long as we, the black-skinned people, do not return to the village well, we will never come back."
Mo Tan repeated the kobold matriarch in a low voice He narrowed his eyes slightly as he once said: "Only the black-skinned people should return to the village well, otherwise they will never go back again."
He carefully remembered this information in his heart, and then put it in his mind. I left it behind and started pacing in this small clearing.
If Yaya's judgment is correct, then Hog Heipi disappeared here, at least his smell disappeared here, as for the way to make a person's smell completely disappear in such a place.
< br>"Being swallowed directly by a snake counts as one."
Mo Tan, who knew very well that there was a night viper nest not far away, frowned and did not continue to think along this line of thinking. On a perceptual level, he was more inclined to believe that Hogg was still alive, but on the other hand, his rationality told him that there was something fishy about this.
Although he has been dealing with monsters like Night Viper for less than twenty-four hours in total, Mo Tan has roughly mastered the habits of that kind of monster. They are very cautious and can attack before the time comes. He endured it until the last moment, which can be seen from the few shallow marks nearby.
Those are some seemingly intricate and meaningless traces, but if you think about it in a targeted way, you can imagine the outlines of several thick black giant snakes swimming around. This is the first time anyone has seen it. Yaya discovered it when he came back here for the second time. Ji Xiaoge had mentioned it in his friend's message before.
Obviously, those ferocious monsters had shown their faces here before. Combined with the fact that Hogg's scent disappeared, the hypothesis that the latter was buried in the belly of the snake is undoubtedly tenable.
But
"Something is wrong."
Mo Tan followed those shallow traces and returned to the place where he was standing before, murmuring in a low voice: "Although Those night vipers will indeed hide themselves perfectly before launching an attack, but the moment they decide to attack, they will attack with thunderous force, no matter how weak the opponent is." He said as he followed. The traces made a third circle.
"So, where are the traces?"
Mo Tan looked around at the almost undamaged plants and trees, frowning and said to himself: "If they really attacked Hogg, then Where are the traces of the moment of action? "
The smell that disappeared suddenly.
Evidence that the night viper has been here.
An attack that never existed.
Characteristics of the black skin family.
This information was integrated in Mo Tan's brain with extremely high efficiency, and eventually weaved into a vague web.
This network requires a node, a node that is easily overlooked but crucial.
[What is it]
Mo Tan rubbed his forehead, and was suddenly startled in the next second, and then quickly took out the kobold matriarch Jialion from his bag. Take something for yourself.
Because of the continuous personality changes, Mo Tan, who was a little confused, only now remembered that he still had such a thing in his pocket.
That was a tube of blood, a tube of blood from Carion Blackskin.
Although the patriarch did not give any explanation, Mo Tan still knew this clearly.
Because he is a player
[Scarlett Blackpipe’s Blood]
Quality: Normal
Effect:? ? ?
[Note 1: Scarlett Blackpi's blood is red and smelly, and is composed of plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. 】
【Note 2: It cannot exorcise evil spirits. 】
【Note 3: Scarlett Blackpi's blood. 】
The above is the item description of this thing.
"Emphasized twice"
Mo Tan frowned and said softly: "This is implying wait a minute!"
His eyes suddenly widened, Quickly came to the place where Yaya finally lost Hogg's scent - between two crooked-neck trees.
"As long as we, the black-skinned people, do not return to the village properly, we will never come back."
He repeated this sentence again, then took out a [standard adventure torch] from his bag, lit it with a flint and carefully searched the small area in front of him.
Finally, two minutes later, Mo Tan, who was almost lying on the ground, found a slight trace of blood at the root of the tree on the right. Although it had dried, there was no trace of corrosion on it. , it can be roughly inferred that this is definitely not the blood of a poisonous monster like the night viper.
In other words
"If you are accidentally injured, it should not be considered as 'returning to the village well'."
Mo Tan took a deep breath, He unplugged the cork of the tube of blood with one hand and poured it onto the back of his hand.
Then——
“Does this satisfy the condition of ‘disappearance’?”
After saying this, Mo Tan gently used the back of his hand stained with Scarlett’s blood. He gently wiped the root of the tree with traces of blood on it.
At the same time, a strong sense of detachment came from all directions, and along with several flashes of silver light, Mo Tan suddenly disappeared in place.
A few seconds later
Suddenly appearing in the darkness, he opened his eyes suddenly, then put one hand on the ground, jumped into the air without hesitation amidst a whistling sound, and pulled out the corona sword inserted upside down behind his back.
Bang! ! !
A dull loud noise exploded under him, and Mo Tan, who had not yet adapted to the darkness, activated the special effect [Nuan Nuan] of the giant sword in his hand at the same time, turning the dark space The reflection was brilliant.
Unlike ordinary humans, Mo Tan, who had already activated the first level of [Reverse Scale] when he jumped up, was not blinded by his eyes. Instead, he widened his vertical pupils, trying to stand up here. In the scorching light, he immediately grasped the surrounding situation and the identity of the attacker.
From a certain perspective, he achieved his goal perfectly.
First of all, Mo Tan found himself in a rather spacious stone room, and accidentally discovered the kobold boy unconscious in the corner. If he guessed correctly, that person should be the one he wanted to search and rescue this time. The target is Hog Blackpipe, the nephew of the leader of the Carion clan.
Secondly, the moment he regained his vision, he discovered a large amount of blood. The source of the blood was the giant black snakes criss-crossing the ground, or it could be said that they were once things of the Warcraft Night Viper. It's 'once' because they have completely become things that will be marked in the eyes of Cordoba or most underage players, as if they were torn apart alive by something and then whipped to death for a long time.
Finally, the identities of the attackers were revealed.
They were two 'knights' about three meters tall, as if they were made of rocks. They wore rusty armor and Only a small half of the almost rotten cloak was left, holding a broad ax stained with dark purple blood and minced meat, standing murderously on both sides of the pile of snake corpses that should be coded, one of them remained standing with the ax in his hand. The posture looks very high-end, while the other one is slowly standing up straight, holding tightly the broad-bladed ax that just made a cut, and the empty face under the visor is pointed steadily. Inked sandalwood.
"Detecting unregistered individuals, secondary detection results: no matching command, no identification."
"Wait a minute! I."
"Exclude it immediately and praise the sun!"
Chapter 865: End
(End of this chapter)