Chapter 157 Distorted Light Gate
No. 19 was not interested in fighting. By the time the five major families and the large forces from the City Guard came to pursue and encircle her, she had already disappeared.
At dawn the camp was noisy all night long.
Those guys were probably trying to find the wanted criminal's accomplices, but they found nothing.
As an accomplice, Su Lun is even more at ease.
He found a remote cliff to rest for the night.
There is nothing wrong with camping on a rock wall, except that occasionally some strange-looking bugs will climb up and "say hello".
No one slept peacefully. Early in the morning, Su Lun was squatting on the only way to the ruins not far from Dawn Camp.
He and a group of individual hunters who had no money to live in the city were guarding the area, waiting for the large hunting team to pick them up and go with them.
Not long after, large troops left the city one after another.
Hearing that there was a hunting group heading towards Dongcheng, Su Lun casually joined a group with a nearby destination and set off.
Following the group, I can find out some news about last night.
Going hunting can also make up "origins".
There is a huge black lake near Central in Dongcheng District.
There is a building ruins by the lake, where the [1911 Hotel] was discovered.
Before coming, Su Lun thought there wouldn't be too many people here.
When we arrived, we found that there were one or two thousand people.
These guys have surrounded a small camp here with rocks and mechanical equipment.
After looking at the flags on the tents in the camp, there were dozens of large and small hunting groups.
Those responsible are naturally several large hunting groups directly under the five major families.
Su Lun was not in a hurry to go into the camp to inquire about the cursed space like other hunters, but instead took a look at the camp's defense situation.
What he was thinking about was not how to get in first, but how to escape after coming out of the cursed space.
He still had the card given by Mr. Hei last night in his pocket, although this made Su Lun feel that the copy was much less dangerous.
But... I always feel like something is going to happen again.
After looking around, I didn't find the guy who seemed to be the card-cloaked man I saw before.
Su Lun entered the camp without looking any further.
In addition to the hunters who were armed with live ammunition, there were also intelligence dealers who looked like "scalpers" selling information everywhere in the camp.
These guys have brought their business directly to the frontline of hunting. They do not need to enter the ruins themselves. They can only buy the latest information from the hunters who come out, and then aggregate it and sell it to make objective profits.
Most of the people who come here to hunt wilderness are capable hunters.
If you can buy some information to increase your chances of survival, no one will be stingy.
The intelligence merchant's business is good.
While Su Lun was wandering around the camp, a middle-aged man with a mustache approached him: "Hey, brother, do you want to buy information? The latest information, guaranteed to be worth the money."
"How much?"
"Fifty thousand."
"Then forget it."
"Ten thousand?"
"No money."
"Tsk, poor guy."
Su Lun was not in a hurry to spend money, but pricked up his ears and listened around.
Instead of listening to one family, listen to everyone.
After asking about it, I found that it was similar to the information I bought from "Red Nose" Fox, and there was also some new information.
In other words, the "ownership" of this cursed space belongs to the five major families, but they cannot eat it themselves, so it is open to all hunting groups. After entering, you must complete a certain exploration task designated by them. If you complete it, the harvest will be yours, and there will be additional rewards; if you do not complete it, you will have to pay a high "ticket" when you come out.
Most of the ninety-nine guest rooms on the first floor of the hotel space were explored one by one in this way.
These conditions don't sound wrong.
Risk for reward.
As for what the five major families want, in their words, they only want the high-end items on the second floor of this space and the final "source of the curse."
The twisted light door in the cursed space will appear twice a day, and about a hundred people can enter it at one time.
The casualty rate has been high and low.
Sometimes the group disappears for no reason,
Sometimes most people survive,
Overall, the mortality rate is around 60%.
This is still an acceptable range.
Because there were exploration missions arranged in advance, people in the camp roughly guessed through the casualty rate that there were several rooms on the first floor that were "high-risk rooms" that could not be explored.
As for the information on the second floor that Su Lun wanted to know, there was still very little information.
To sum up, the first floor is mostly filled with first-level weirdness (black iron and silver);
On the second floor, it is said that all the weirdos start with silver, and there are an unknown number of second-level weirdos.
The death rate in this dungeon is not low. Although there are a thousand or two thousand people in the camp, not many actually dare to go there.
Just two batches a day, almost a hundred people can be gathered at one time.
Su Lun signed up for the next round of exploration into the cursed space and received a task to explore Room 1088.
Then I sat in the candidate area and listened to the temporary captain explain some precautions.
"After entering, no one is allowed to hunt the guests in the hotel in advance! Otherwise, after midnight, these dead people will definitely become 'ghost species'. You will harm yourself and others!"
"Remember 1021, 1055, and 1071, these three rooms are not allowed to be opened, and you are not allowed to harass the residents of these three rooms!"
"You can look for clues, but don't offend the guests and do something strange. Otherwise, you will be caught by the hotel guards and locked up to death! Last time, a guy with a spermatozoon went to harass a noble lady, but he himself It was great, but it also made the lady who was originally a guest on the second floor not come up until midnight, and the deformation on the first floor turned into a second-level weirdness, almost wiping out the team."
"Before the ghost mist appears, we have enough time to look for clues. But remember, don't trigger some difficult plots casually. The fewer accidents, the greater our chance of surviving in the end."
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Su Lun listened silently, and it was pretty much what he had guessed.
Although the plot unfolds the same every time you enter the cursed space, the ending is different because of human intervention.
For example, when the ghostly fog comes at midnight, there is a big difference between the guests being in the room and not being in the room.
Although both will become weird, maybe the combat power is the weird gap between black iron and silver.
There is also a big difference between dead and alive. The dead will become "ghost species" and the living ones will become "zombie species".
And just when Su Lun and the others were listening to the temporary captain explain the precautions.
The camp suddenly became noisy.
"Look! The exit from the cursed space has appeared!"
"They are from the Falcon Group."
"Hey, there are a lot of people who survived this time. It looks like they have gained a lot."
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Not far from the camp, an oval-shaped distorted light gate several meters high suddenly appeared.
Like a black hole, it sucks in all the light around it.
This is also how regular cursed spaces appear.
In this noisy moment, some hunters with more or less injuries on their bodies gradually walked out of the dark light door.
However, although these survivors looked a little embarrassed, they all had smiles of relief on their faces.
Coming out alive means that the harvest has only now turned into "real money".
The first time these people came out, there were already professional businessmen guarding the door of the space, vying to bid for the treasures they brought out.
"Thirteen pieces of black iron, five pieces of silver curse materials."
"Oh, it's actually a rare ancient employment material"
"Oh my god, Brother Belloc, where did you find so many alchemy books? This batch of goods can sell for at least 7 million!"
"Wow~ High-purity gems, this is a good material for enchantment. One piece is worth three hundred thousand, brother, you are rich, this bag is worth it."
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Merchants are counting the harvest of the hunters.
The quotations again and again stimulated the excitement of the hunters outside.
Not to mention that those hunters may have hidden treasures that they have not yet taken out. Just from these harvests, the average per capita benefit is more than one million.
For the vast majority of ordinary hunters, this is wealth worth gambling on.
Su Lun also squeezed in with the crowd of onlookers, but his eyes fell on the twisted light door.
The omniscient eye took a look and identified the result.
【1911 Hotel】
Detailed explanation: The large complex cursed space sealed a limb of the super-level creature ‘***’. The guests have been contaminated by corpse gas, and at midnight, they will become completely deformed and weird. If you survive in the space for twenty-four hours, the space exit will appear again; if you die in the space, your energy and blood will impact and destroy the seal. The current breaking progress is 1157/3000;
When Su Lun saw the information about the cursed space, his heart was unmoved.
Even when he saw that the "source of pollution" was the limb fragments of an asterisk super-order creature, he didn't feel any surprise.
Without this kind of super-level existence, it would be impossible to make an entire hotel full of people become weird.
Looking at the last sentence again, he muttered in his heart: "Sure enough, he is so pissy again"
After sharing such a well-produced cursed space, the five major families really had no good intentions.
Su Lun was just suspicious before, but now looking at this information, it is irrefutable proof.
They seemed to have learned another way to break this space through some means.
That means there is no need to explore, just take human lives to fill it.
Probably because the scope of land reclamation has become larger and larger recently, and there are not enough slave groups, these guys are thinking of using this method to attract independent groups.
"I said why the death rate remains high, it turns out that's the case."
Logically speaking, the more times you refresh the same dungeon, the lower the chance of battle damage will be. However, the death rate here is always about 60%, which is very strange.
But it’s not all about annihilation. Some people are left alive to spread the news and attract more people.
No matter how I look at it, I think it's fishy.
Seeing this, Su Lun was no longer interested in the treasures produced in those ruins. He set his sights on everyone who came out, paying special attention to the guys who were not injured or who were not so excited.
Soon, he discovered something.
After the twisted light gate appeared, it disappeared again.
It wasn't until evening that the entrance appeared again.
There were just over a hundred people in the camp, waiting in line to enter.
Su Lun was going anyway, so he led the living corpses in the middle of the queue.
I scanned the team that entered this time again, but still didn't find the person who might be the "card cloaked man".
"Am I wrong?"
Su Lun didn't think much and followed the team into the space.
And after he entered, he didn't know that a little incident happened outside.
The number of people entering the space is not constant, it is about a hundred people.
But in fact, the stronger the people who enter, the smaller the number.
More than a hundred people were originally prepared, but as they entered, the light door suddenly disappeared.
This unusual scene also confused everyone.
"Hey, why did only so many people come in this time, and then the light door disappeared?"
"It seems like there are only more than sixty, right?"
"That's not right. Even when there were second-level professionals leading the team, more than ninety people entered. How come there are so few less this time?"
"Is there something wrong with the space?"
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The news quickly reached the ears of the administrator of this small camp.
However, this did not attract their attention.
All kinds of strange things can happen in the ruins. This fluctuation in the number of people is probably normal in their opinion.
The leaders of the hunting groups of these five major families have another headache.
In the tent, several leaders gathered together sadly to discuss something.
"A death order has been issued from above, and this forbidden space must be broken as soon as possible. But now it seems that at least one or two thousand people need to be filled in before this space can be broken."
"I heard that there was a big mess at the base camp last night. The mysterious item produced by the 'Blood Ax Group' last time was snatched away. This caused the top management of the Black Tower to be furious."
"Hey, it's useless to say that. Spread the news and find a way to attract more hunters."
"However, no matter how much we spread the news, we can only get in two hundred people a day. We can't kill people every time, right? The death rate is too high, just once or twice. If there are more, we won't be able to attract individual people at all. Come together”
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On the other hand, Su Lun's group has entered the cursed space.
This is the street scene of Auroville a thousand years ago.
A group of hunters appeared on the street, and in front of them was a luxurious building with a signboard of "1911 Hotel".
The leading temporary captain also noticed the abnormality in the number of people and was slightly confused, but didn't think much about it.
"The number of people this time is a bit small, please be careful. Remember the precautions I told you before, okay, let's disperse."
"Yes."
Everyone dispersed.
Seeing that the number of people who came in was greatly reduced, Su Lun guessed something and thought to himself: "Did that person really come in?"
He was not anxious to enter the hotel to hunt for treasures like others. Instead, he found the source of the vague "malice" and followed him. Thanks to ‘Felicape’ 500, and book friend ‘Yan Hongxue’ for regular rewards~
(End of chapter)