Chapter 9 Visit from the Stairs
In the evening, the setting sun fell on the outskirts of the city, and a chill quietly appeared.
It's getting dark.
People at home began to prepare burning materials.
People outside began to consciously hurry up and want to return to their safe houses faster.
Especially looking at the sunset that is about to set on the horizon, almost all the people who are still left in this world are already secretly anxious.
Apartment building.
Seven floors.
A group of Swadia militiamen who had been busy all afternoon and harvested one acre of wheat were very comfortable.
In Shen Mu's apartment room, the brazier has been lit, and a large amount of wood collected from other rooms has also been put to use, burning the entire brazier vigorously.
This also has something to do with preparing a fire for cooking.
There were already Swadian militiamen, holding bone chopping knives and chopping hard at the bread rewarded by the system on the chopping board.
Chopping it down with a knife feels like you are really chopping a wood pile.
It often takes several times to chop off a piece.
The corners of Shen Mu's eyes twitched slightly as he watched.
But it’s understandable.
The bread in Qiqianli is similar to baguette which is thicker, harder and more solid.
The dough has not even fermented yet, so it goes directly into the bakery oven for baking.
Then we have this excellent food that is hard, has a long shelf life, and can be carried during long marches or travels.
Even at this time, Shen Mu began to miss the one-handed axes in the hands of those Swadia recruits.
These one-handed axes, which are usually used to chop firewood, can definitely deal with these hard solid bread tree stumps with ease.
Besides, Shen Mu doesn’t want to eat these breads.
After searching through more than 40 rooms on the entire floor this time, we still found a lot of fresh vegetables and cans, as well as rice, white noodles, steamed buns, soft bread and other foods.
For these riding and slashing delicacies from the medieval period, the dietary level was still at a low level.
"I really don't have that appetite." Shen Mu felt that he still couldn't eat it.
The only thing that felt good was the large pot of fresh wheat porridge being cooked on the brazier.
With a strong aroma of fresh wheat, it could barely satisfy Shen Mu.
"Come two people, follow me and patrol the corridor outside." Shen Mu didn't want to continue sitting here doing nothing, and planned to go out for a walk.
Two Swadian militiamen immediately stood up and followed.
Open the apartment door.
The corridor outside was already quite dark.
But I can barely see.
After walking around this 'sun'-shaped apartment structure, I didn't find anything unusual.
Of course, it is impossible to find any real abnormality when it is not completely dark.
“But you have to be careful about the spiritual scene inside this door.”
Shen Mu frowned slightly.
Right in front of him, a seemingly ordinary security door was firmly closed.
The room number above is room 7040.
In this room, after Shen Mu opened it before, he found that both time and space had changed, the spirit world scene!
Although when I first entered, there were only corpses all over the ground.
But.
Shen Mu thought about the memories of his predecessor, and he still felt a little uneasy about these spiritual scenes with various monsters or opportunities.
"If there is a chance, we must quickly resolve this spiritual world scene." Shen Mu pursed his lips.
After all, the entrance to this spiritual world scene is too close to my room.
Shen Mu was silent for a moment, and prepared to go back with two Swadian militiamen.
Just when passing by the stairs, a Swadian militiaman frowned slightly.
"Huh?" The Swadia militiaman seemed to have spotted something out of the corner of his eye, and the spear in his hand was pointed directly at the stairs with the fire door next to the elevator in front.
"Come out!" The Swadia militiaman shouted loudly: "I see you!"
Shen Mu followed the militiaman's gaze.
Right at the stairs, a short figure seemed to be frightened, turned into a black shadow and rushed down the stairs.
He looked like a teenage boy.
"Huh?" Shen Mu frowned slightly and stopped the two Swadian militiamen around him from pursuing them: "There is no need to pursue them." It was going to be dark soon.
I don’t know what will happen when I enter the dark stairway, so I’d better play it safe.
“Lord Shen Mu, what happened?”
Seven or eight Swadia militiamen heard the voices of their companions at this time, and immediately walked out quickly with weapons in hand.
“There is a figure that looks like a child, but it is very fast.”
The Swadian militiamen who first discovered the situation briefly explained the situation, with a slightly annoyed look on their face: “But I didn’t see what it was.”
“We will have to arrange sentries in the future.” The faces of these Swadia militiamen also looked a little solemn.
"It's okay, everyone should go back." Shen Mu's face was calm and he motioned for everyone to go back.
Especially looking at the sunset outside the window getting lower and lower.
After the sky becomes darker and darker.
Shen Mu glanced at the fire door at the top of the stairs, his face thoughtful: "The shadow just now seemed to be..."
Just now, he saw the black shadow momentary appearance.
The whole body is hairy, wearing a cloth robe similar to ancient times, and has a typical spirit world clothing style.
"Halfling?!" Shen Mu muttered to himself.
The remaining memories of his predecessor also reminded him that his predecessor had met a halfling before.
The clothes and height are indeed similar.
Before the union, the guy named Geng Jun said that there was a weirdo on the fifth floor of this apartment building, and there were spiritual races like halflings following him.
Maybe it was that guy's halfling who came up to investigate the situation.
"Go back, it's nothing serious." Shen Mu felt relieved a little.
Halflings, a spiritual race, are notoriously kind.
At least three years after the crystal wall system in the spiritual world shattered and hit the Blue Star, it was enough for everyone to understand some common information about the spiritual world, as well as information about related races.
This is why Shen Mu feels more at ease.
At least compared to the halflings, the jackals under Geng Jun he met before made Shen Mu more wary.
Jackals are a standard lawful evil alignment.
Go back to the room.
At this time, the originally relatively loose Swadian militiamen had spontaneously begun to arrange sentries to stand guard.
There are two Swadian militiamen standing guard at the security door of the room.
Responsible for observing the situation outside the room door.
and the burning of candles in toilets.
Then on the left side of this room, it has been connected to the next door, but there is only one entrance and exit, which is also the size of a security door. It is now blocked by various wood and other debris. There are also 2 Swadia Militiamen stood guard.
Because just outside the entrance and exit opened on the left wall is actually Shen Mu's 1-acre wheat field that has been harvested.
A lot of harvested wheat is still piled in the fields, waiting for the next threshing.
After all, this wheat field is formed by 20 apartment rooms. The space is very large. After dark, it may also be eroded by darkness.
If undead monsters appear at that time, militiamen will be arranged to stand guard to detect and warn in advance.
Shen Mu also expressed satisfaction with the spontaneous distribution of these Swadia militiamen.
This also shows the professionalism of these militiamen.
But just when Shen Mugang sat down and drank thick wheat porridge, a dialog box suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.
【Ding! Temporary task detected event occurred! 】
[Task release: Resist invasion. 】
[Mission introduction: Darkness is coming, and the undead monsters hidden in it are ready to move. Please protect your wheat fields, they are your assets. 】
[Task conditions: Resist attacks from undead monsters and ensure survival until daytime. 】
[Mission reward: dinar × 500; immigration (small scale) × 1 wave; random lottery scroll (low-level arms) × 1; Swadia light infantry template (protagonist) × 1. 】
“Mission?” Shen Mu was stunned.
Then, outside the window, the sunset, which was still struggling not to set over the mountain, had completely set.
‘Buzz! ’ In an instant, the originally dim sky was shrouded in deep darkness.
A chill came from the soul.
This made Shen Mu raise his head and look out the dark window, with no fingers visible, his face serious.
Now comes the most dangerous night.
(End of this chapter)