Chapter 249: "The End of the Hungry Ghosts" five branches have surfaced one after another
"You are saying that you have deduced the progress of the branch line of 'Mysterious Leyline' to 75%, but you are stuck in the final answer link?"
Jiang Qian quickly extracted the key information from the dense words of the black brother Apu:
"Tell me about your problem-solving process."
"Oh, okay..."
Apu recalled it carefully and told it truthfully:
"Let me highlight the key points. The first branch plot was triggered when we hid in an ancient church to avoid the eyes and ears of hunters, and accidentally triggered the mission."
"The information point is a network line map hidden under the church... There are some inexplicable numbers drawn on the edge of the map, which I can't understand."
"Fortunately, Shanta is a fan of decoding! She actually found the code book in the library according to the diagram on the back of the map, and interpreted that this picture is the distribution map of the 'mysterious leyline'. Hey, don't mention how cool it is!"
Apu’s face was full of pride:
"The second information point is a code word, which roughly means: The mysterious earth connects humans and gods. This is a clue we obtained from the house of a highly respected priest in church records..."
"The third information point comes from the diary of a local stranger who lives in seclusion in the mountains and makes a living by hunting. He once witnessed a strange scene in the mountains, which can be roughly described as: when small herbivores drink water from a certain spring, they will He was inspired to be as brave as a large beast. To sum up, he believed that gods gave power to all things through mountain springs. ”
"After finding these three clues, we triggered the permission to fill in the answer. The question is: Where is the source of the mysterious leyline... The answer is limited to 20 characters."
After Apu finished speaking, he looked at Jiang Qian:
"How is it? Is there any matching information in your database?"
"Where's the earth vein distribution map?" Jiang Qian asked.
"It's in the backpack behind your seat. Why don't you take it and take a look for yourself?"
Jiang Qian followed his instructions and took out the spider-web-shaped leyline distribution map Apu mentioned. While spreading it out, he continued to ask: "What was the wrong answer you tried to fill in?"
"Well, Santa and I have tried to verify it. The wrong answers are: North Sea, North Sea Islands, Paradise, Mysterious Land..."
Apu was a little embarrassed and gave four wrong answers and explained:
"According to the location of the ley line map, the source of the mysterious ley line should be in the North Sea, so we tried the North Sea and the North Sea Islands, but the result was no... Later, Santa tried to fill in 'Paradise', um, because the clue said ley lines It connects humans and gods. Maybe gods are in the sky..."
Jiang Qian stared at the ground map, his expression unmoving: "So you filled in the 'mysterious place' because after the dungeon announced the coordinates for the second time, it mentioned information about the mysterious place on the North Sea, so you tried to fill in the answer, right?"
"That's it..."
"Yes, the wrong answer has been falsified from all dimensions."
"Hey, are you making fun of us?"
"It's a compliment, please be careful."
As he spoke, Jiang Qian took out the atlas and pen and paper from his backpack, and compared the river channels and the lines of the leyline map in the atlas to make a miniature copy of the longitude and latitude lines of the map.
At this time, Jiang Qian had already turned on his spiritual vision, and his control of details was particularly precise. With the support of auxiliary lines from a professional atlas, a miniature version of the earth vein map was soon displayed on the atlas with complete latitude and longitude.
The origin of the earth's veins is located on an inconspicuous island in the North Sea Islands that Ap just mentioned.
Fortunately, the exact name of the island can be found in this atlas!
"Devil's Eye Island, try this answer." Jiang Qian put down his pen and said.
Apu was stunned for a moment, holding the steering wheel and looking at Jiang Qian several times: "Are you sure? If I fail the verification this time, I will have no more chances..."
Jiang Qian did not give much advice: "The risk is yours, and the decision-making power is also yours."
"Um..."
Apu hesitated for a while, then suddenly shouted several times to the back row: "Santa? Santa?"
After trying unsuccessfully, he glanced at Jiang Qian and said, "Brother Qianlong, can you help me wake up Sangta first?"
"..."
A few minutes later, Shantae shouted so excitedly that she nearly flipped the roof of the van off!
"Oh~ It's incredible! My props can be taken out!"
By this time Apu had stopped the van.
He then entered the correct answer and looked at Jiang Qian with admiration after unlocking the item:
"Oh my Savior! How did you do it?"
"Build on your answers."
Jiang Qian smiled modestly.
His open-minded and reliable performance undoubtedly made this potential alliance soar in his favorability.
Jiang Qian tore off a few pages from his notebook and handed them to Apu:
"I have to go. The information you provided is very meaningful. If there is any news in the future, I will contact you through these pieces of paper. Please be vigilant. Of course, you can also take the initiative to contact me by..."< br>
After explaining to Apsanta and the other two, Jiang Qian jumped out of the van, stretched out his blue-gray wings, and soared into the air under the admiring gazes of the two!
That night, Jiang Qian unexpectedly received a message from the postman - Kangaroo:
The city the kangaroo goes to is "Youlong City", which is the city closest to the coastline.
It is said that this city believes in a mysterious giant beast of the sea, which has several thick and powerful tentacles. It looks like an octopus, but is much larger than an octopus. It can often swallow cruise ships on the sea.
People fear it, explore it, and try to conquer it!
But it usually fails.
Therefore, it is believed in as a sea totem and called: Wandering Dragon!
But through the kangaroo's description, Jiang Qian quickly determined that the North Sea monster was the Kraken sea monster tattooed on Monat's body.
Of course, when Kangaroo arrived in Youlong City for the first time, he would definitely not have explored most of the side missions like Apu and Shanta, so the clues he provided were very general and it was difficult to grasp the key points at once.
Therefore, after Jiang Qian gave encouragement to the other party, he asked him to continue exploring and try to find the Guardian camp players hiding nearby and find ways to obtain side information from them.
After replying to Kangaroo, Jiang Qian received a "letter" from Monat, informing them that they were about to leave there.
Everything is moving forward at full speed.
Early the next morning.
Jiang Qian received additional clues about Pulsating City from Crocodile, and news about Frozen City from Beth:
Crocodile found the mysterious mountain spring that "can give power" in Frozen City, and after confirming the effect of the spring, he immediately informed Jiang Qian of the news and waited for a decision.
Here, what is different from the information provided by Apu is that the mountain spring water only makes the animals more manic and ferocious, rather than really being as good at attacking as large ferocious beasts.
The message from Beth made Jiang Qian fall into deep thought:
Frozen City is a city that feels inexplicably cold.
This kind of coldness is not in the physical sense, but the shiver that permeates from the clues of the city and acts on the spiritual level!
According to Beth's description: The specialty of this city is "window toys", which can be understood as living specimens or beautifully made dolls sealed in glass covers and sold as ornamental ornaments.
There are many kinds of "window toys", which are different from ornaments enclosed in covers, the most common of which are specimens.
Even after the devastating disaster, there are still countless window toys left in the frozen city. Looking at the sun, they look like living bodies that have just been sealed in the clear ice, dead but not stiff, and lifelike.
Jiang Qian read between the lines of Beth's description and imagined the window toys in the frozen streets and alleys of the city.
After a brief silence, he asked Beth:
"Why do you feel cold?"
Toys of this level, based on imagination alone, do not bring any burden or excitement to Jiang Qian, indicating that there may be some source of mental pollution in Frozen City, which will affect players within the city.
After a while, he received a reply from Beth:
"Because there is no freedom."
Jiang Qian closed the note thoughtfully.
At this time, there is a branch line connecting the "source of disaster" in Lotus City and the so-called "mystery of scientists' conspiracy" in Twin Cities. Among the branch clues in the six cities, only Pendulum City has yet to reveal a corner of its mystery.
As he continued flying, Jiang Qian quickly integrated the various clues he learned in his mind.
Among them, what he cares most about is the branch information about the "Twin Cities" provided by the Tyrannosaurus team: First of all, the Twin Cities are the location of the Biologists Forum.
Naturally, Dr. Kate often travels between the Twin Cities and Lotus City due to communication needs.
In this strong academic atmosphere, Dr. Kate met his lifelong academic rival, Hermit, the character for whom Kate wrote a special message in "The Miracle of the Gene".
The two men specialize in similar fields, have similar academic abilities, and both have published numerous books.
Jiang Qian even felt that even the name of the city "Twin Cities" was a strong hint of the relationship between the two.
On this basis, the Tyrannosaurus team obtained information about Dr. Kate's granddaughter Elizabeth, and without finding any more effective information, they decisively went to Lotus City to search for the whereabouts of Kate's granddaughter, hoping that Elizabeth could fill the role of the side mission. blank.
Of course, they failed.
Embarrassingly, a group of six of them didn't even unlock the answer questions for the Twin Cities side mission. Jiang Qian was very disappointed with their IQ.
Therefore, he also reminded Canyon Lao Liu to pay more attention to the information on side missions in the Twin Cities to avoid missing important clues.
"I don't know what's going on with Lao Liu..."
Jiang Qian overlooked the miniature wilderness jungle below him, continued to fly high, and advanced towards the target location.
……
The intersection of the Pendulum City and the Twin Cities.
In the courtyard of an abandoned farm, Canyon Lao Liu and Dongbei Jia Cuicai were standing back to back, holding weapons.
Surrounding the two people were foreign players with different costumes and hair colors.
Ironically, these foreigners are also guardians!
"Monkey, Brother Monkey, what's going on? How come these idiots are tricking our own people!"
Dongbei Home Cooking is not good at fighting. This urgent situation of being beaten scared him so much that he was sweating on the back of his forehead. He was most afraid of being repeatedly thrown away during the fight!
Canyon Lao Liu was equally depressed: "Don't ask me! Ask yourself how you translated it?"
"Ah? I, I translated everything according to your original words!"
The two were whispering. Outside the encirclement, the foreigner who was the leader of the guards coughed and sneered:
"You've been talking for a long time, don't you just want to trick us into going to the military fortress to fight for our lives?"
He spat, raised his pistol and aimed it at Canyon Lao Liu's head:
"I'm sorry, but we're just going to kill the first person. We won't die."
That last sentence can be understood by Canyon Lao Liu without the need for a Northeastern home-cooked translation.
Don't die...
This mentality is easy to understand.
Even the dungeon hints that the guardians have two options: fight! Or hide.
But is it really so?
Canyon Lao Liu looked at the people who surrounded him. The six players kept the bottom line and did not eat humans or crawlers. All of them had the physical characteristics of Nordic people, and all of them held props.
Very powerful!
It also means that these people have at least unlocked side missions in one of the Twin Cities or Pendulum City.
To put it more exaggeratedly: these people are all treasures! It's a shortcut!
Must win! Take off immediately after taking it!
Canyon Lao Liu was even a little excited when he thought of this.
He poked the trembling dark man with his elbow:
"Oh, don't panic, just tell them what I say... Just say: The most courageous and resourceful defenders in this dungeon have formed a powerful military alliance. After rigorous layout and intensive strategic and tactical output, they are preparing to Fight the enemy camp at the North Sea military fortress! ”
"The defenders are determined to win, and the hunters are like a pile of loose sand! The final winner must be us defenders!"
"Now, as little messengers in the Guardian Legion, the two of us are just performing the task of summoning other Guardians to participate in the victory attack."
"If they were involved..."
Canyon Lao Liu crackled and muttered. He couldn't remember so many words when he was nervous about Northeastern home-cooking. He was so anxious that he just wiped his sweat:
"Brother Monkey, Brother Monkey, can we be more streamlined? Do you think it's okay for me to chat with them like this? Just say..."
"No! Translate it for me without changing a word!"
Canyon Lao Liu’s hair stood on end at that time.
If this sentence were simplified to the extreme, only four words would be left: "I am a liar"!
"But I can't remember it either~ What should I do, Brother Monkey?"
The two of them were whispering again, which made the surrounding guardian players impatient.
Especially the foreigner who spoke just now, who obviously had the highest status among the crowd, was so angry at the arrogant behavior of the two players in the same camp:
"What happened to you two? Why do you think that no one can understand Northeastern dialect?"
The Nordic guy didn't hold it back and started talking in Chinese! To be precise, it is an authentic Northeastern accent.
As soon as these words came out, Canyon Lao Liu and Dongbei Jia Cuicai were stunned.
Especially the Northeastern home-cooked dishes, the experience at that time can be said to be like a spring breeze! I am no longer nervous and my legs are no longer trembling. I feel like I have seen my long-lost brother:
"Oh my god, fellow villagers meet fellow villagers!"
The Nordic brother rolled his eyes and said with some disdain: "There are tears in my eyes."
"Oops! Brother, where are you from in the Northeast?"
"I don't know how to bank in Northeast China, but the eldest sister of my second uncle's family has found a son-in-law from Northeast China. Now our family talks like this..."
"Oh! Oh! Mother-in-law!"
"..."
This dramatic scene directly stunned Lao Liu in the canyon.
Even the other foreign players around them couldn't understand what the two were communicating, but looking at the joyful atmosphere, they all hesitated: Can't we fight today?
Northeastern home-cooked food has completely overcome the fear of war, and happily chatted with relatives across the street:
"Don't worry, relative, I'll translate it for you~"
"Don't bother, I understand."
The keen eyes of the Nordic drag brother refocused on Canyon Lao Liu:
"Brother, please stop fooling people and tell the truth. Why should I sacrifice my life for you?"
Canyon Lao Liu's heart is filled with turmoil!
I am excited because the translation crisis has been resolved, but anxious because my routine has been seen through. It's excusable. Who would let someone have relatives in the Northeast?
But Canyon Lao Liu cannot and will not retreat at this time.
He must prove his strength in front of Qianlong Wuyong!
"You must participate in this decisive battle. The option of evasion is just a cover-up for the dungeon."
Canyon Lao Liu put away his weapons, took two steps forward, and solemnly launched a new round of lobbying:
"According to the location calculations from the second coordinate announcement, the hunters' general attack on the human military fortress will be launched within 5 days. It is now the 26th day of the 72-day survival process of the dungeon. After 5 days, the time in the dungeon has not yet passed half. And at that time , the outcome may have been decided, and the worst outcome is that mankind is on the verge of extinction, and the mysterious place in the North Sea will be invaded.”
"We don't know what the consequences of these things happening are now. But have you ever thought about it? Once the guardian camp is defeated and the hunters win the absolute initiative, then the long and unknown survival progress in the next few dozen days will be What can we do to ensure our own safety?”
Canyon Lao Liu stared at the deep blue eyes of the Nordic guy and took another step:
"What will those crazy lunatics who eat all the same kind do to us?"
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PS:
Typos and flaws will be corrected first.
I'm a little lacking in energy today, so the update will be postponed. Don't worry, I won't be a deadbeat! The snake boss still owes 4 updates, the modest one owes 5 updates...
(End of chapter)