Chapter 176 Two wooden houses! (Three-in-one)
"Forest No. 1" cabin resurrection point.
The players who were wiped out by the group were resurrected in a small open space behind the wooden house. The expressions on their faces were not very good-looking.
Especially several female players.
It's not that they are timid, but those scenes just now were so disgusting!
Various stumps, severed limbs, blood plasma, brains, and carbonized bodies. The smell of blood was mixed with the stench of the rat men, as well as the pungent smell of burnt protein, which made them almost vomit.
"Dongyang, can you lend me a bomb?"
Polaris suddenly turned his head at this moment.
Dongyang raised his eyebrows, thought for a moment, and chuckled:
"Okay."
He pulled out two bombs, one red and one blue.
"You take your pick."
"Thank you..."
Polaris didn't hesitate and took the blue ink bottle from the opponent's hand.
"After the dungeon ends, I will return the money for this bomb to you."
He carefully put away the ink bottle, raised his head and said to Dongyang.
At the same time, my mind felt a little calmer.
With this high-destruction item, I have one more chance to gain mission contribution points.
"It's not urgent. You can do it later... By the way, are you interested in joining the 'Yingling Pavilion'? I can make the decision and give you a cadre position."
Dongyang smiled.
"Thanks, but I'm used to being alone and don't like to join a guild..."
Polaris shook his head.
"Okay."
Dongyang showed a regretful look and shrugged.
Nugget Jin and Wang Wangwuji came over.
"Polaris, let's take action!"
"Well..."
Polaris looked at them and then at the others.
"Then let's continue to cross the road just now... We have killed most of the rat men. After cleaning up the rest, we should be able to pass there."
He took out several extraordinary materials that he had picked up before his death.
"These are everyone's trophies. They will be distributed after the copy is over..."
The others nodded and smiled.
Polar Star's frankness also made Dongyang raise a brow, and the latter simply handed the extraordinary materials he picked up to Polar Star.
"Since it will be distributed at that time, I will leave these with you."
Dongyang said.
"Okay."
Polaris took it and nodded.
"Let's keep going!"
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When the players returned to the place where they were fighting, they found that the place was empty and the rat people had disappeared.
Even the corpses on the ground disappeared, as if the battle just now was just a collective hallucination.
"Where did they go...?"
Kotoujin asked in a low voice.
"I don't know."
Polaris answered.
"But it's always better to be careful... Let's keep moving forward. It would be a good thing if there are no obstacles from these rat men."
Everyone then moved forward.
It seemed that the rat crowd had really evacuated. There was dead silence all around, and not even a shadow of a rat could be seen.
But when they just left this area, Kotou Jin, who was walking on one side of the team, suddenly stepped into the ground - as if it was not soil, but a swamp.
"Eh?!"
Kotoujin made a surprised sound.
Wang Wuji, who was beside him, also discovered something unusual.
"Your feet...?"
Wang Wangwuji saw Nugget Jin's feet sinking directly into the ground, reaching his knees, and even kept going down, sinking deeper and deeper.
Everyone stopped and looked at them.
"What happened...?"
asked the centaur.
Polaris suddenly frowned because he felt his feet loosen.
Looking down, I found that my feet were starting to sink down like gold nuggets.
"Everyone, be careful! This area..."
he reminded loudly.
Before everyone had time to react, the next second——
Boom! !
The entire area they were in collapsed directly downwards, like a sinkhole. The players exclaimed and fell into a deep pit uncontrollably.
There was a crackling sound.
Silt rained down on them.
"Ouch...my bulging cap! My elbow! It hurts me to death!"
"Bah, bah, bah...! What a mouthful of dirt!"
"Is everyone okay?"
"I'm fine, I just fell on my butt."
"Don't panic, calm down."
Everyone lost a small tube of blood due to the fall. After screaming in pain a few times, they all got up.
They looked around and found that it was a dark cave. Only the light above their heads shone down, and they could barely see a small area around them.
"It's at least five or six meters deep, almost two stories high. We can't climb up..."
Polaris wiped the dust and dirt from his face, looked up and said in a deep voice.
"The only thing we can do is move forward."
Dongyang frowned, patted the sand on his body, and pointed ahead.
Under the originally dim light, one could vaguely see an irregular passage about the height of an adult.
It looked like it was dug out by some creature.
"Is this leading to the lair of those rat men just now?"
asked the nugget gold.
"It's very possible. I remember their name was 'cave rat people', which can also explain why they disappeared without a trace in a short period of time."
Polaris said.
"Let's go, everyone, it's very dark inside, be careful!"
He secretly became vigilant, and after speaking, he took the lead and walked ahead.
Seeing this, everyone calmed down a little and calmed down. Although several female players naturally dislike darkness, this seems to be the only way.
Shasha...
The cave passage is not spacious and can only support two people side by side, so a large number of players queued up to enter.
Polar Star and Horseman walked at the front, Dongyang and Kuangbenkuang followed at the end, and the female player was protected in the middle by everyone's tacit understanding.
Zhizhi...
The distinctive shriek of rodents came faintly from the front of the passage.
Everyone's footsteps suddenly stagnated, and their hearts became excited.
Polaris was about to speak in the chat room, but was interrupted by a familiar murmur:
"Yes, yes..."
To the right of Polaris and the Centaur, a frantic shout suddenly sounded:
"Yes!!"
It's like it's exploding in your ears, so close!
Woohoo!
Because the passage was dark, everyone could only hear a burst of wind.
Then there was a muffled sound, and the centaur felt a pain in his left arm.
"My hand...!"
Bang!
There was a gunshot.
Polaris made a prompt decision and relied on intuition to pull the trigger toward the centaur.
The brief flash of fire allowed everyone to vaguely see a cloth-robed rat-man, which was shot in the head by Polaris. The rat head exploded like a watermelon and sprayed on the earth wall of the corridor on one side.
The smell of blood is coming!
It turned out that there was a recessed gap to the right of Polaris and the centaur, where the rat man had been squatting just now.
Zhizhi...zhizhizhi! !
It seemed that because the gunshot was too loud and easily transmitted in the corridor, dense footsteps and crazy screams soon came from the front.
Polaris' expression changed.
"The sound of gunfire has attracted the rat men! Run and rush forward! We have no way to retreat...!"
He took the lead in sprinting. Seeing this, the people behind him knew there was nothing they could do, so they gritted their teeth and followed.
Soon, they saw some light ahead.
Rushing all the way to the light, it was a spacious open space with a large hole like a sinkhole above the head, and the light shone from above.
There is a branch road on the left and right ahead.
At this time, the Rat Man had already rushed out of the two forked roads.
"Kill!"
Polaris shouted.
Everyone immediately took out their muskets and shot at the rats in front.
Bang bang! Bang bang bang...! !
There was a crackling gunshot, and the rat man at the front fell to the ground, blood splattering everywhere.
But after a round of shooting, the players also turned off their guns and were reloading ammunition.
"—It's our turn to perform, brother!"
The dog-headed blonde sent a text message to Wang Wuji.
The latter cast a tacit look at him and nodded.
"——Understood!"
The two immediately took out the dark red potion "Beef Powerful Bottle", uncorked the bottle, raised their heads and drank it.
"Get out of the way!"
"Let's hold on!"
The two of them were red, with veins popping out, and they growled at their teammates.
Others were shocked when they saw their appearance.
"Nugget gold, you...?!"
The dog-headed golden man with red eyes explained:
"This is the latest medicine produced by the circus, obtained from Mr. Jack!"
“No time to elaborate, it’s up to us!”
The two men's figures grew taller at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then their muscles swelled like balloons, and two sharp horns sprouted from their heads.
"Uh-huh!!"
They roared, pushed aside Polaris and the centaurs, and rushed to the front.
With a pop, two more arms grew from the shoulder blades on their backs!
Suddenly he became a four-armed minotaur!
Bang! Snap!
Bang bang! !
Two huge tauren stood in front of everyone, and their eight arms swung out, hitting each rat man hard.
Punch to the flesh! Every move brings blood!
Everyone was a little dumbfounded, why did the painting style change? !
The two normal players turned into monsters in the blink of an eye, and even started beating up the rat men!
Bang!
A gray-robed rat-man with his head smashed was casually thrown to the feet of Polaris by the dog-headed gold, leaving the latter slightly stunned.
"This is... too fierce!"
Polaris whispered.
But soon, he looked up and saw a rat man wearing leather armor and carrying a machete.
"Be careful! The elite monster is coming!"
He warned aloud.
Clang!
It was too late to remind him. One of Wang Wuji's thick arms was chopped off by the machete.
"Ah!!"
He howled in pain.
The dog-headed gold next to him saw that his good friend was injured, and immediately dropped the gray-robed rat man in front of him, picked up an upside-down wooden stick under his feet, and threw it at the leather-armored rat man.
when! !
Sticks and machetes clashed.
The dog-headed gold panted heavily and looked into those crazy rat eyes at close range.
"Yes, yes..."
The rat man muttered.
The wooden stick is quite heavy and difficult for players to pick up and use, but the gold nugget that transforms into a tauren makes it quite easy.
He hit it with another stick, and the rat man in front of him couldn't bear it and leaned back.
Wang Wuji endured the severe pain and used his remaining three hands to firmly lock the rat man.
"Smash it! Smash it to death!"
Forgotten Wuji shouted angrily.
Dog Toujin's eyes turned red, he raised the wooden stick and swung it down violently.
Snap! !
The head of the leather-armored rat man exploded instantly, splattering Wang Wuji's face with blood.
Everyone was immediately shocked by the bravery of the two of them.
"Keep shooting and help them take some of the pressure off!"
Dongyang said.
This area was a bit small, and if they used mechanical gloves to spray flames, they would most likely injure their own people, so they had no choice but to use muskets.
Everyone loaded their ammunition and fired in unison, killing another wave of ratmen.
But then, they saw a terrible scene.
A sturdy rat-man with two heads, wearing iron armor, emerged from the darkness of the left fork. It wielded a heavy hammer and knocked the gold nugget away with one blow.
Boom!
The tauren screamed and fell to the ground. Half of his body was covered in blood and his two arms were broken in reverse.
But he did not die, but struggled to stand up.
"As long as you can't stop me! I can keep getting up! Keep fighting!"
The dog-headed golden urn roared and lunged towards the armored rat man.
"Let me help you!"
Forgotten Wuji also rushed over, and two tauren blocked the terrifying armored rat man.
Polaris took the opportunity to take a breath, observed the battle circle, and found that there were no rat men rushing out of the two forked roads.
But this small area was already crowded with ratmen.
Even though Kotoujin and Forgotten Wuji held back the armored rat-man, the rest of them were still facing difficulties.
"Our mission is not to kill all these rat people, but to find the cabin!"
Polaris' thoughts were very clear and he spoke to the others.
"Dongyang, take the horseman and Kuangbenkuang to the left fork. Chen Xi and Su Keying, you four ladies, go to the right fork and search for the whereabouts of the wooden house separately!"
Dongyang raised his hand to shoot, and a rat man flew away. He frowned and said:
"What about you?"
Chen Xi and others also turned to look at him.
Polaris grinned and took out the bomb.
"Two of them, Kotoujin and I, will end our marriage for you! It's just one life... but you'd better not die again. If you can't find the cabin in the future, you will at least have a chance to be resurrected."
"Thank you, good brother!"
Dongyang patted him on the shoulder, winked at Kuang Benkuang and the centaur, and the three of them ducked and ran towards the fork on the left.
On the way, a ratman noticed them, but was shot away by Polaris.
Four female players, Su Keying and Chen Xi, also followed the instructions and headed for the fork on the right.
After they entered the fork in the road separately, Kotou Jin and Wang Wangwuji finally could not withstand the pressure and were hammered to the ground by the armored rat man.
Although the two transformed into bull-headed men, they were no match for this elite rat man.
They were all in tatters and had suffered huge injuries. Even with the recovery speed of the "Beef Power Bottle", they could not keep up with the damage they suffered.
The remaining rat men gathered around and attacked Kotou Jin and Wang Wuji.
Polaris fired another shot, knocking down a ratman, put away the musket, grabbed the blue ink bottle and rushed over.
Nugget Jin and Wang Wangwuji saw Polaris's movements and quickly understood his intentions.
"Ah! Ahhhh!!"
The two tauren dragged their mangled bodies, struggled to get up, and grabbed the armored rat man with an angry roar.
Zhizhi...!
The ferocious face of the armored rat man was trembling. It wanted to lift the hammer, but couldn't move.
It was hugged tightly by two beefy men!
"Brother Polaris! We can only help you so far!"
The kobold shouted.
Polaris swooped, dodged the attacks of the two rat men, and rolled to the front of the armored rat men.
"That's enough."
He said solemnly.
Immediately, he removed the safety of the incendiary bomb and pressed the switch.
boom! !
A flame bloomed from his arms, illuminating the entire dark pit.
The health of Kotou Jin and Wang Wuji had already reached the bottom. After being affected by the incendiary bomb, they instantly turned into white light and dissipated.
The closest armored rat man was in the center of the incendiary bomb and was directly submerged by the blue fire.
It squeaked strangely, and the armor on its body burned red, and finally turned into molten iron. The rat men around him were all covered by the flames, struggling in pain.
The entire pit is like an incinerator, which is bound to burn all the creatures inside alive.
boom!
Dongyang heard a loud noise coming from behind, he stopped and looked back.
There was only darkness and the faint screams of rats.
"Let's go."
He shook his head and continued running forward.
After a while, the bifurcated corridor on the left suddenly opened up, and the three of them arrived at a huge underground hinterland.
The ground here is covered with flowers of all colors and is very open. From the cracked gap high up, beams of light shot in like arrows.
Not far away, an ordinary wooden house stood there.
The whole picture is magnificent.
"That's...a wooden house!"
Dongyang said.
"Vice President, we finally found..."
Kuangbenkuang looked excited.
The next second, his head suddenly exploded.
Dongyang and the horseman were stunned. They looked towards the right front of the spacious hinterland. A three-headed chain-mailed rat man was holding a long bow as high as a man, drawing the bow and aiming an arrow at them!
"!!"
Dongyang and Maren's eyes widened.
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In the fork on the right.
Four female players, Su Keying and Chen Xi, were running forward in the dark.
Soon, they also rushed out of the corridor.
"Wow! This is...!"
What comes into view is a night sky without sun, moon and stars, but it still exudes a faint brilliance.
Under the night, there are piles of rocks flashing with blue-green fluorescence.
A path paved with colorful cobblestones winds forward, passing through the pile of rocks and disappearing at the end of the field of vision.
Beside the road, a small wooden house was standing there quietly.
"We... found the cabin?!"
Taiyin exclaimed.
"It seems so!"
Su Keying smiled.
"I want to tell them the good news!"
When she had just finished speaking in the chat room, she heard the voice beside her saying:
"Keying! Look over there!"
Su Keying raised her head and found several figures appearing out of thin air beside the colorful cobblestone path.
"Is Polaris and the others resurrected here?!"
she said in surprise.
After those figures appeared completely, they turned out to be Polaris and other six players.
Su Keying and her group walked over quickly and found that they were looking around blankly.
"Where is this place? Why did the resurrection point change...?"
Nugget Gold said.
He and Forgotten Wuji have returned to human form, but they have fallen into the negative state of "flesh and blood collapse". At this moment, several attributes have been reduced by half, making them semi-disabled.
"It should be that wooden house...!"
Polaris pointed to the wooden house next to the trail and said.
"Su Keying, you succeeded! This should be considered a new save point...so after we die, we will be resurrected here!"
"So that's it..."
A sudden realization flashed in Dongyang's eyes, and then he told the scene that he and the horseman Kuangbenkuang saw at the end of the branch road on the left.
"...We also found a wooden house, but there were stronger rat-man monsters guarding it, and we were all killed instantly."
He looked ugly.
"Forget it, the mission does not require us to find specific wooden houses. Now that we have found this one, our mission should be considered completed."
Polaris comforted.
He then took out a lot of "objects" from the rats and said:
"I was in the pothole just now. The situation was too urgent, so I only picked up these in the end..."
"Wow! Polaris, I love you so much!"
The dog-headed gold looked exaggerated and rushed over to give Polaris a hug.
Polaris just kicked him to the ground.
"Get out!"
The picture distorts and fluctuates.
Statue by the lake.
Chen Lun was almost smiling as he counted the spoils.
"Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen... oh! Twenty copies of extraordinary materials! There are also three copies of [low-sequence pure matter]!"
With a wave of his hand, he put these things into the blood poem ring.
He stood up, still holding a heart in his hand.
[Extraordinary Material-Heart of Iron Armor (Natural Faction)]
‘This is the extraordinary material of that armored rat-man. It is obviously a bit more advanced... Its strength should have reached the limit of [Sequence 9], but it still knelt down in front of Comrade Polaris, the ‘self-explosion soldier’. ’
Chen Lun shook his head.
‘Players with high-power bombs should not be underestimated! ’
He glanced at the lake again, a smile on his face.
‘A cabin has been found…nice! Your mission is accomplished! But before that…’
Chen Lun closed his eyes, meditated in his mind, and connected to the "Forest No. 1" cabin.
'I didn't expect to find two wooden houses at once. Let me activate the other one myself...! ’
In addition to the wooden house found by Su Keying and the others, Dongyang, Ma Ren and Kuangbenkuang also found a wooden house at the end of the left branch of the cave.
But before they could get close, they were shot to death by three rat-men with their bows.
Such powerful monsters can only be dealt with by oneself... Thanks to them finding the way for themselves, they save a lot of trouble!
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Chen Lun set off from "Forest No. 1".
He followed the players' footsteps and saw the sinkhole at a glance.
‘If it weren’t for these players, I might not be able to discover this cave...’
Chen Lun thought to himself.
He jumped down and went straight to the fork on the left.
Some ratmen appeared on the road, and he shot them all in the head with [Order Revolver].
Although it uses ordinary bullets, its power is far greater than that of ordinary flintlock guns. After Rat Man was shot, his entire head exploded into powder.
The slightly stronger leather-armored rat man couldn't stand a blow from his silver cane.
These monsters are very scary to players. In front of Chen Lun, if they can't make a move, they will be killed instantly.
After pushing to the end of the fork on the left, Chen Lun personally entered this wide "underground square".
As soon as he arrived, his spiritual intuition began to warn him.
Whoosh! !
A huge iron arrow flew through the air.
Chen Lun chuckled lightly, moved, and disappeared.
Boom!
The arrow hit where he was originally, blasting out a crater.
The tall rat man in chain armor was very vigilant. The three rat heads on his neck each divided their duties, looking left and right, trying to find the whereabouts of the human.
At this time.
Four or five lavender arc-shaped sword energies flew from above its head.
Zhizhi...!
The three rat-men fled in panic, but the sword energy was too fast. They were hit by the sword energy as soon as they took a step, and their bodies were cut with deep cuts to the bones.
It fell forward, twitched a few times, and then stopped moving.
Blood spread under his body.
[Kill the polluting creature "Many-headed Rat Man"! Get 800 experience points! 】
‘This kind of rat-man has a terrifying deterrent effect at a distance, but once it gets close, it is almost the same as the lowest level gray-robed rat-man. ’
Chen Lun folded his black wings and landed gracefully.
He wielded his silver cane and picked up the extraordinary material of the three-headed rat-man.
[Extraordinary Material-The Three Eyes of the Rat Man (Natural Faction)]
‘A transcendent material on the same level as the [Iron Armored Heart]…’
Chen Lun put it away and went straight to the wooden house.
What surprised him was that he didn't encounter any other dangers all the way to the door of the cabin.
'It seems that this wooden house is hidden in the deepest part of the rat's den. It is logically difficult to reach it. The three-headed rat-man should be the last guarding monster. ’
Creak...
He pushed open the door of the cabin and walked in.
It had the same furnishings as other wooden houses, and Chen Lun was not surprised.
Walking to the table, Chen Lun saw the familiar box this time.
Colorful graffiti and scrawled smiling faces.
"It's Philip's vulgar taste again."
Chen Lun shook his head and reached out to open the box.
He was prepared to be frightened by red lips popping out or colorful confetti flying in the sky.
But in the end, nothing happened until the box was fully opened.
There was just a small red ball placed quietly inside.
Next to the ball, there is a small piece of paper torn off casually——
"Put it on your nose and you'll get the answer you want. - Philip"
"..."
Veins popped up on Chen Lun's forehead, and he slowly picked up the red ball.
After seeing the note, he finally knew what it was - the clown's red nose!
‘You can’t be angry. Wouldn’t it be very shameful to be angry with a dead person? ’
He took a deep breath.
‘Not just a clown, everyone laughs at clowns, everyone is a clown... So what if you become a clown in order to become stronger? ’
Chen Lun secretly thought of strange reasons to convince himself.
Then he put on the red nose.
Buzz!
[You discovered [Three (Part) of the Extraordinary Laws of the Mysterious Realm]] and gained 10,000 experience points! 】
[The Law of Extraordinary Asymmetry (Incomplete): ...No leaves in the world are exactly the same, nor do they have exactly the same characteristics. The quantity of extraordinary characteristics is asymmetric, and the quality is also asymmetric...】
Chen Lun suddenly understood.
‘The quantitative asymmetry mentioned here refers to the same pathway. The quantity of high and low sequence characteristics is always asymmetrical, and one waxes and wanes while the other waxes and wanes...
The same applies between adjacent pathways!
The asymmetry of quality means that even if it is the same pathway and the same sequence, there will be subtle differences in different people...'
Chen Lun seemed to have figured something out, raised his hand and looked at his palm.
‘Asymmetry means imperfection, catalyzing evolution, spiraling upward. ’ Thank you Umr for the 500 point reward~
And everyone’s monthly tickets~Thank you very much~
In addition, I wish you a happy Chinese Valentine’s Day~
(End of chapter)