Chapter 14 Safety or Profit?
After we all stood on the marble platform, the golden sphere had flew to a height of about one meter five from the ground, and the speed was so fast that it was basically unclear about its surface structure. As the golden sphere rotated, we found that the scenery in the room began to rotate slowly. At first, it was just turning slowly, but the speed was getting faster and faster. Soon, I couldn't see the outside environment clearly. I felt that the surrounding pictures turned into streaming light, and I couldn't see anything specific.
This high-speed rotation state lasted for more than ten seconds and then the speed began to slow down again, and then became slower and slower, but soon we discovered the changes around us. Before the rotation began, we were in a rather dilapidated thatched hut. Although the ground was marble, the structure seemed to be the platform of the teleportation array, and the walls and top of the room were very dilapidated. However, the situation has changed significantly now. Although we still couldn't see the surrounding situation clearly during the rotation, we can already confirm that the room we were in was no longer the thatched hut before, at least the original room did not have this kind of granite roof.
As the platform further reduced, we soon discovered more and more differences around us. The first thing that caught our attention was the size of the room. The original that hut was just a little larger than the marble platform under our feet, but now the room has at least a small supermarket area, and the platform we are in only accounts for less than one-third of the area.
After about ten seconds, the platform had slowed down. At this time, the situation in the room finally completely entered our sight. However, the situation in the room was that we had no time to observe the environment here at all, because just when we saw some of the situation outside clearly, the people outside obviously saw us.
Unlike the teleportation array in the thatched hut over there, there are people guarding this side of the teleportation array, and it is not one or two guards, but a large group of guards.
The special teleportation array was rotating too fast before, and Guard Guang knew that someone had come. He couldn't see who was coming, so he thought it was his own people. Who knew that after he saw it clearly, he realized that it was not his own people, so the guards immediately rushed up with weapons. Moreover, there were people among the guards who were separated and ran out directly, obviously reporting the message.
Seeing the guards rushing out, I shouted to Zhenhong directly: "Zhenhong, go and intercept those people."
Zhenhong rushed up without saying a word. Christina shook her hand and threw out an energy impact to shake all the people who rushed forward. Zhenhong took this opportunity to get through the crowd, and she didn't know if she could catch up with the two guards outside who reported the news.
Although I really want to support Zhenhong, it is also a problem if the guards in the room are not killed, so we can't leave for the time being.
After recovering from the power of the energy impact, the guards found that I was blocking the gate, and the gold coins protected Christina and continued to stand on the teleportation array to start covering the fire. The guards in the middle were a little at a loss for a moment. From a strategic perspective, they should actually rush away from me first, and then support their fellow workers who reported the news to ensure that the invasion could be sent out. However, from a tactical perspective, the output of Christina's fire point is too high. If this fire point cannot be removed as soon as possible, their casualties will be very terrifying, so they should tactically kill Christina first, at least to ensure that she cannot continue to exert her firepower advantage.
Both sides seemed to be very urgent, and the guards really didn't know what to do for a moment, and time didn't allow them to think too much, so they made a mistake in their busy schedule, and these guys did a very stupid thing. The guards actually divided two teams without any discussion. One team turned around and rushed to the gate to try to break through my defense line, while the other team rushed over to Christina and the gold coins, trying to solve the problems on both sides at the same time.
If there are enough guards on their side and strong combat power, this decision is a good way, but unfortunately, the enemies they face are enemies who are very difficult to deal with even if they are weakened. What is more important is that their number is not enough to form a numerical advantage. After the division of troops, the number will drop even more, and the advantage will become a disadvantage.
The number of guards is actually not a large number, just a teleportation array. Eight guards are already quite a lot. Just one out to report the news, and there are only seven people left. The next seven people are divided again, three of whom come to attack my defense line, and the other four are running towards Christina and gold coins. In other words, each of them is done with two enemies, and even I only need to deal with three enemies. Players like us usually have to face hundreds or thousands of times their enemies, and fight a war
Come down, like Zhenhong and I, can kill at least thousands of enemies, let alone Christina and gold coins, basically, it is a battlefield meat grinder. It is common for a large legion-level magic to destroy tens of thousands of people. Now, as long as we face two or three people, this is not a level of thing at all! Of course, we are not in the same state of sweeping thousands of troops on the battlefield. However, as the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and a rotten ship has three thousand nails. Even if players of our level are weakened, it is still no problem to deal with three or five guards.
The first guard who rushed to me didn't even wait for the cooperation of the two people behind me. He came up and slashed him with a knife. I turned slightly, stretched my foot to trip him, and then stabbed the second guard's throat with a sword, let the guy's body rush over, pinched the third man's wrist and pressed it down, twisted his arm hard and moved half a step around him. The other hand quickly clenched his fist, and hit the guy's back accurately. At the same time, the blade claw on his wrist stretched and stretched like lightning, leaving three holes in the guy's vest and heart.
After killing two guards in a row, I walked out of the room and came to the aisle outside. The first guard who rushed up had tripped by me, fell out of the room and hit the aisle opposite. When he got up, I had killed two of his companions and walked out of the room. The guy just got up from the ground and before he could turn around, he felt a hand grabbing his neck from behind, and then pinched his neck and sent his head forward. With a loud bang, the guy felt Venus all over his eyes, and he instantly lost his ability to think. Before he could realize what was going on, he felt that his neck hurt, and then he completely lost consciousness.
I took three guards here in three seconds. I stood in the aisle and looked back. The gold coins were retracting her Heavenly Sword, and the three smoked charred corpses in the middle of the room were probably Christina's masterpieces.
"How are you doing?" I turned my head and looked into the room, but Zhenhong's voice came from the front of the aisle. When I turned my head and looked over, I found that Zhenhong was holding a guard's neck with one hand and dragging his body back.
"It's all killed. You haven't been discovered?"
Zhenhong lifted the body in her hand and shook it, saying, "I caught this kid just turned around and had not had time to report the news."
"That's good." After I said that, I looked at the aisle beside me and found that the place looked like the interior of a castle, and it had some European styles. Because Japanese buildings rarely have such houses that are all stone-structured.
"Did you see what's outside?" Christina asked after she walked out of the room.
"No." Zhenhong said: "I suspect this place is underground and there is not even a window. And I also found that this place looks very wet."
"Underground?" I originally thought it was European-style building, but after Jing Zhenhong said that, it was indeed an underground building, because even Japanese underground buildings could not be made of wood, otherwise it would start to rot in less than two months. After all, the underground environment is extremely humid. The wood can't last long.
"No matter where it is, there will always be an exit?" Jin Qin said, "Don't we know when we go out?"
“That’s right.”
Fortunately, the underground structure of this place is not complicated. Although the corridor is long and there are many rooms along the way, there are no forks. Most of the rooms that appear along the way are empty, and even rooms with things are all places like cellars.
When the corridor reached the end, we found a staircase. But the problem is that this staircase is an intermediate level, which not only has upward steps, but also downwards.
"What should we do?" Zhenhong looked at me and asked, "Are we going up or down?"
"Go down and take a look first." Jin Coin said.
I looked at Jinjin and asked, "Why do you need to go down? This may be an underground structure, and the exit should be above, right?"
"It was because I knew this was underground that I suggested going down." Jin Qin said: "The structure of the basement is of course the more hidden the more it goes down, so the important things should be below."
"Are you planning to not leave the empty space?" Zhenhong couldn't help but tease.
Jin Coin said with a smile: "This is called coordination."
I stopped their play, but I still accepted the advice of gold coins to go down first. I walked down the steps less than ten steps and turned a turn, and then followed by a door. After pushing open this door, I saw a vast area, because the door was full of rolling thick fog. I couldn't see anything except the white area.
"Damn, this place is not used instead of mazes, right?" Seeing the smoke-filled room in front of you, the gold coins directly guessed the purpose.
In fact, the fog in this room is not just rich, it is even divided into three layers. On the ground of the room is a layer of fog that is as dense as marshmallows. When people stand in it, they can only see the part above their knee joints. As for the part below, they cannot see at all, let alone step on something. Even if there is a big hole in front of you, you can't see it.
In addition to the super rich fog under your feet, above the height of the knee joint, up to about two or five meters above the ground, this part is the second type of fog. The visibility of this fog is better than that of the one under your feet. The visual distance is about three meters, and you can barely see people at a distance of four meters, but you can basically tell whether there are people. As for who they are, whether they are men or women, or even whether they are not.
The third layer of fog in this room is above our heads, and the lower part is located two or five meters above the ground. I don’t know how much there is, because we can’t see where the ceiling above is, and they are all blocked by this dense fog. In fact, except for one floating on the ceiling and the other settled on the ground, there is almost no difference between the fog on the top of the head and the fog on the ground. They are the same thick and visibility is only a few centimeters.
In such an environment, we can basically see nothing except the approximate situation within three or four meters near the gate. Not to mention whether there are enemies here, we don’t even know how big the room is. Because except for the ground that can be stepped on with feet, both the ceiling and the surrounding walls are in completely invisible, so we don’t know how big it is and what is inside.
Faced with such a situation, I was really hesitant because based on the information obtained by Qiman, the soul collector we need to destroy is not here, and the room in front of me is obviously a big pit. If we fail the mission due to some extraneous things, we will really lose the watermelon and pick up sesame seeds.
"This...we'll just stop going in?" Christina obviously had the same idea as me, so she asked.
I also hesitated to look at Jinzi and Zhenhong for their opinions. Zhenhong quickly shook her head and said she abstained and let us decide, while Jinzi looked a little unwilling to accept it. It seemed that she wanted to go down and take a look.
I am also very embarrassed about this situation, because I know that the theory of gold coins is correct. Generally, there will be some good things in the depths of this basement, especially when there is such a powerful protective setting on the way, which means that there are good things under it. If you give up, it will be obviously a pity, but if you want to continue, it will be a bit risky.
"I still want to go down and take a look." Jin Qin thought for a long time and wanted to go down.
I thought about it for a moment and then turned to ask Christina: "What do you think?"
"I don't really want to go on. But if you think it's necessary, I don't care."
After weighing it for a while, I decided to say, "Then go and see. Wealth is in danger, and there will be no profit if we don't take risks."
"Then go down." Zhenhong was the first to walk into the room after saying that, and we also entered the room one after another. However, Zhenhong was not really confused and brave. After entering here, she did not rush forward with her head down, but waited until we entered before slowly moving forward.
Seeing Zhenhong moving forward step by step, I knew she was testing whether there were traps or something under her feet, but I stopped her as soon as I came in. "Don't move first, it's better for me to explore the way."
Zhenhong also knew that I had many summoned objects, so she didn't say much. She retreated to me directly.
I did not summon the path-seeking creatures as soon as I came up, but summoned a large group of ghost insects to release them outside the door. These guys will scatter and lurk near the door, which is equivalent to leaving a beacon for myself. If I encounter problems and need to come back, I will at least know where the door is. Otherwise, the concentration of fog in this place will be more than ten meters, and it will probably not be so easy to find the door.
After putting down the coordinates at the door, I created a large group of hundreds of Death Guards, and then formed a large protected area around us. These Death Guards were scattered in the form of a field grid. The distance between the two adjacent Death Guards was kept at about two meters to ensure that they could know what happened to each other. In this way, hundreds of Death Guards could cover a large detection area around us. As long as any Death Guards encountered danger, we could know immediately, so that we could avoid unnecessary losses caused by sudden accidents. As for the loss of Death Guards... there are more than 50,000, and they should not die in a short while, right? Besides, the replenishment speed of Death Guards is very fast. As long as they are not destroyed by a large-scale magic, hundreds or thousands of magic, they can generally ensure that the number will not decrease.
After all these were arranged, I made out a few ghost insects and grabbed them in my hands, and then I began to signal Zhenhong and the others to start walking forward.
Seeing that I was so prepared, Zhenhong and the others felt much safer. As the team advanced, I started to throw ghost bugs on the ground every few steps. After these ghost bugs landed, they did not move, but stood there to serve as road signs. As long as these ghost bugs were present, they could form a guide belt, which was equivalent to a safety rope connecting us to the exit of the gate, so that we would not be afraid of getting lost. After all, having remote beacons alone is not enough, because some places can block long-distance sensing.
Because there was a God of Death guard in front of him to open the road, and there were no worries about "stepping on landmines" and the coordinates of ghost insects, we advanced very quickly and we didn't have to worry about encountering danger at all. The entire team almost trotted forward for more than 500 meters, but in the end we didn't encounter anything except a few pillars.
"This damn place won't be boundless, right?" Zhenhong said, looking at the fog that was exactly the same around her.
Jinzi said: "That's your illusion. We have only walked more than 500 meters."
"What? It's only five hundred meters?" Zhenhong looked at me in surprise and asked.
I nodded and said, "Five hundred and three meters, this is an exact number. I can sense the ghost insects at the other side of the door, and there will be no mistakes."
"Thanks to the president's summoning creature, otherwise a normal person would have a mental breakdown if he couldn't walk a thousand meters here." Christina said.
Chapter completed!