Chapter 308 Ancient Relics City (9)
It has been two days since entering the dungeon. The bad news for Chen Kai and the others is that they have moved less than three kilometers in two days... This speed is definitely a strange movement speed in the city. After all, the entire dungeon is flat without ups and downs, but in order to avoid the patrolling half-dragon puppet and scarlet beast, they had to slow down and hide.
The first day, when they just entered the dungeon, they spent almost most of their time hiding in the house where the ancient elves were originally. The group of people who had just taken not many steps were forced to escape back in a panic by several scarlet beasts. These scarlet beasts wandered around for a whole day, forcing hundreds of Chen Kai and others to crouch in a building less than 200 square meters.
Fortunately, Chen Kai and the others still have space tents, otherwise hundreds of people would be able to squeeze out people to death in such a small environment. However, it was this experience that made Chen Kai and the others understand a truth. If they really couldn't escape, entering the building would definitely be the safest thing, of course, the premise is that they had to close the door of the building.
So after the scarlet beasts left, Chen Kai and the others began to pay attention to the buildings on both sides when they were in action. But what made them feel depressed was that almost all the surrounding buildings were closed, so that the group could only force the door to enter. This caused some unnecessary damage. Chen Kai and the others illegally entered the room seven or eight times before they discovered a rule and found ordinary houses without any traps.
Of course, the biggest feature of this kind of house is that it is small. Both the door and the room inside are smaller than the house where traps are laid. However, this situation is normal. Only those rich and capable people can set traps in their homes, while ordinary people do not have the money or ability to set them up. This also allows the former to have huge houses, while the latter can only live in a narrow house. The door inside the smallest house found by Chen Kai and the others is only less than 1.7 meters tall, and Chen Kai needs to wake up to get in. As for the space inside, although there is a yard, the yard is small, and four or five people are a little crowded. The only larger one is the room, but it is also very small. After Chen Kai entered, his head hit the ceiling and couldn't even stand straight.
However, not all small families are safe, because some special races in the game are born short. Except for the dwarves, a race with silver bloodline, which can have silver dwarves of more than three meters tall, other short races will basically not build the house very tall. Although the format of the house in this dungeon has been unified, these small races still limit the height of the door. So when Chen Kai and his friends found a house with a height of only about 1.5 meters, Fei Yun, who had just opened the door, was almost turned into a corpse by a dense spell trap. Fei Yun, who was almost seriously injured, finally survived under the treatment of the Demon Queen bath water, which was actually diluted, because there were too many magic traps that hit him. If it weren't for his equipment, Fei Yun would have been stunned at the Underworld.
Fei Yun, who finally recovered from his almost charred state, almost crawled up from the ground. Chen Kai and the others also understood that some houses in the dungeon looked very small, but the doors living inside might be extremely powerful goblins instead of weak goblins. So Chen Kai and the others chose to avoid some particularly small portals, rather than forcibly pushing the door in as before.
Of course, the previous experiment wasted a little time, but after gaining experience, Chen Kai and the others moved faster. In the nearly kilometer behind, they almost walked through it extremely safely except for avoiding three or four waves of half-dragon man puppets and scarlet beasts on the road. Compared to Master Keno who had been in the dungeon for so long but still had no idea about finding the trick, Chen Kai and the others had no doubt that they had much higher IQs.
However, if Master Keno** is really low, this sentence is not entirely true, because now he is using the rune knowledge he has learned from the ancient mage to make the energy core taken out of the corpse of the scarlet beast into a magic weapon. There is no doubt that the energy core that can maintain the release of scarlet rays for a long time can generate extremely terrifying power, and relying on the runeology of the ancient mage, Master Keno is carefully carving runes on the energy core.
As the last rune was carved, he installed the energy core on his bone staff. The flashing red light became the symbol of the staff after it was completely completed. The terrifying scarlet energy began to flow as the rune was activated one by one, and rushed into the magic wand constructed by the bones to activate magic circles. Slowly placed the staff in his hand flattened, and a scarlet energy ray shot out from the top of the staff and instantly blasted the thick wall into a big hole. Looking at the powerful attack, Master Keno found that he finally had a life-saving attack.
However, he knew very well that the chance of using the power of the scarlet beast to kill the opponent was obviously not high. However, if he outputs the full power, he still had the chance to severely damage the opponent. Of course, all this was based on the fact that the calculations of the undead Master were not wrong. If Master Keno had the calculations incorrectly, there would probably be no good results.
When the Undead Division obtained its new weapon, Chen Kai and the others continued to crouch in the extremely narrow house and waited for the scarlet beast outside to leave. The luck of encountering two patrol teams in a short time was a bit bad. However, no matter how bad it was, it would be better than being blocked in the middle of the road by the two waves of scarlet beasts and half-dragon man puppets.
Because I don’t know how these scarlet beasts smell, Chen Kai and the others dare not eat when they encounter these monsters, for fear that the taste of food will attract them. However, it is even more troublesome for Chen Kai and the others to know the road. Although Chen Kai and the others have magic crystals to indicate the direction, the size of this dungeon made the group both shocked and depressed. Even if there is a certain direction in such a huge dungeon, it is extremely troublesome and difficult to find a place without a map. The most important thing is that the light source around is still very dim. If you accidentally encounter an enemy, Chen Kai and the others may move slowly. Because they need to keep listening to the movements of those monsters. Relatively speaking, the half-dragon knight is best to discover because the opponent’s footsteps are extremely heavy and the scarlet beasts are almost like thieves.
Not only are their steps extremely light, but most importantly, their movement speed is extremely fast, so it is quite a headache to face the scarlet beast Chen Kai and the others. The most important thing is that these scarlet beasts are as common as hunting dogs carried by guards in the city in real life. Not only are they numerous, but sometimes they do not appear alone, and there are even more than three scarlet beasts that are over the road. Looking at the scarlet beasts outside the door staring at hundreds of eyes and tentacles passing slowly. Chen Kai and the others were in a very bad mood, because they found that the half-dragon man puppets that could be easily discovered with heavy steps, these tentacle monsters that are comparable to hunting dogs, are the most annoying things.
Fortunately, Chen Kai and the others have finally found some ways to find the scarlet beast. First of all, the starry eyes blessed by Chen Kai's eyes. Although this effect is not very reliable, the success rate is at least 50 to 60%, which is higher than the mage's detection spell. As for the second method, Fei Yun not only sets traps in places where he passes, but unfortunately this method can only be used to go where he has walked and cannot tell whether it is the huge half-dragon knight or the scarlet beast. Relying on these two methods, Chen Kai and the others have barely avoided the wave of scarlet beasts after wave. Of course, if there is no last method as the bottom of the box, Chen Kai and the others will unfortunately bump into monsters like scarlet beasts. As for the last step, the two elves are using their powerful strength to explore the way forward, and then use the message crystal to inform the group behind.
Of course, because the dungeon has extremely powerful magical interference, the communication effect is really terrible. Originally, even if you could have nearly ten kilometers of magical communication capabilities on the ground, you can convey a complete word in the dungeon, even transmitting a sound. Fortunately, a simple sound signal like a knocking sound can still be transmitted, otherwise Romans, who found danger ahead, really didn't know how to notify Chen Kai and the others behind.
When Chen Kai and the others were ready to set off, Romans had already moved forward for nearly a hundred meters. Of course, he would not go forward too much, because if he ran too far, he would completely lose contact with Chen Kai and the others. The light environment in the dungeon is not very good, and Romans is not a player who does not have a system map and cannot see the position of his teammates on the system map. So once he leaves Chen Kai and the others are too far away, Romans may be lost in the dungeon. Of course, it is sometimes a dangerous thing to be too close, because once he encounters a scarlet beast and the other party relies on the powerful dark vision to directly see the group behind him, it will be so fun.
However, Chen Kai and his team's luck seemed to have reached this place today. After only a minute of departure, Romans quickly sent an extremely urgent knocking signal. This made the team who had not yet completely come out of the house quickly turn and run back at a fast speed. When Romans escaped in a very embarrassing manner, Chen Kai and the others closed the door of the house without hesitation to completely isolate the inside and outside.
At the same time, in just a few dozen seconds, Chen Kai and the others heard extremely fierce footsteps, which were the unique sounds of the half-dragon knight with heavy bodies. But there were also many light footsteps mixed in. There was no doubt that only the scarlet beast had such footsteps. When Chen Kai and the others looked out through the gap in the door, their only action was to subconsciously cover their mouths, because there were too many monsters outside the door. It was fine if three huge half-dragon puppets, but the seven scarlet beasts were so cruel. The most important thing was that Chen Kai and the others also saw a monster that they had never seen before.
With the help of the extremely faint light of the dungeon, Chen Kai could roughly see the figure of this monster clearly. Compared with the scarlet beasts, the monsters seemed to be more familiar. After searching in his mind for a long time, Chen Kai finally found that the monsters outside looked very similar to the two-headed dogs in the underground world, but there was no doubt that the monsters outside were just like the two-headed dogs, but in fact they were definitely two different existences. At least Chen Kai felt that the two-headed dog outside should be a puppet creature, which was the same as the half-dragon man puppet.
But just this was enough to make Chen Kai feel scared, because he knew very well the combat power of the two-headed dogs in the underground world. At that time, those huge dogs almost destroyed Chen Kai’s defense line just by just a sprint. Of course, what Chen Kai was even more afraid of whether this two-headed dog puppet would have a terrible sense of smell. Fortunately, the big dog did not turn his eyes toward this place in the end, but followed the half-dragon knights in front of him along the street with huge steps.
It was not until this huge wave of patrol troops left that Chen Kai and the others dared to gasp loudly and the crowded room. Romans was trying hard to deal with the wounds on his body. In a short period of time, he was attacked by seven scarlet beasts and almost made this elves swordsman of the holy realm level unable to escape. Fortunately, neither the half-dragon knight nor the two-headed dog puppet were moving faster. Of course, even more fortunately, Romans did not directly hit the encirclement of these scarlet beasts, otherwise he might not be able to escape.
In the end, Chen Kai and the others did not leave the house again. Although the huge patrol team had left, Romans, a powerful man from the Holy Land, was injured and needed some rest, and they also needed some time to rest. The entire dungeon seemed to have fallen into the tranquility of the past as Chen Kai and the others calmed down. The plants radiating light above their heads seemed to have gradually dimmed at some point in the day. Chen Kai and the others had seen this situation yesterday, so they didn't have much thoughts about the dungeon that became darker.
Of course, these luminous plants only have a dim time of about six hours, which is basically equivalent to the dark night in the dungeon. After six hours, these luminous plants will slowly shine again until the maximum light reaches around twelve o'clock on the ground, which is something Chen Kai and his friends explored when they were bored. Because there are such luminous plants in each residence, of course some plants have withered and died. The residence where Chen Kai and his friends were originally had this plant, but now there are only some withered rhizomes left.
In such a small house, the group of people cannot move and open even if the tent is extremely crowded. This has led to many functions in the space tent that cannot be used, and even the living environment becomes a bit urgent. Fortunately, the group mainly needs a place to rest now, even the space environment in the space tent is better than in the outside house.
Chen Kai and his friends, who were huddling in the tent, began to sort out the harvest all day. Because most of the illegal invasions were private houses, Chen Kai and his friends found very few valuable items. In this underground world, books are simply rare among rare animals. Of course, it may be because of time that most books have turned into dust. In fact, Chen Kai and his friends found that they rarely see complete wooden items in the entire dungeon. I don’t know if it was not preserved well or why. Basically, the wooden products found were in serious decay or even a pile of mud. As for other metal products that were slightly better preserved, they basically only retained some whiteboard weapons, and only a very small number of items were preserved in good condition.
Chen Kai and the others are checking these items in good condition. Among them, what they are most interested in is a book-like thing, which is a huge book-like item with a thickness of 30 cm and a length of more than 1 meter and a width of nearly one meter. This is the only thing Chen Kai and the others found that looks like a book. The only problem is that it is too big and too heavy. Even if Chen Kai wants to pick it up, it must be done with the burst of power. The most important thing is that it is difficult to open the book. At least it has to face more than a dozen mechanical locks with extremely complex structures. Of course, if it is just like this, those elf mages don't need to hit Chen Kai and the others' tents.
Because it is useless to deal with mechanical lock mages, black dwarves like Armander and half-baked trap experts like Fei Yun are useful people. However, in addition to mechanical locks, this large-scale, suspected book-like thing is also attached with quite powerful protection magic. Fortunately, these protection spells will not have an effect on those who come into contact with it. Otherwise, Chen Kai would find it difficult to pick it up, let alone stuff it into his backpack.
Chapter completed!