Chapter 658 Not a Princess, but a Queen

The palace was extremely deserted, except for a few guards at key positions, there was no one else.

After passing through a palace again, Ouyang Shuo couldn't help asking, "Kalia, are you the princess of the kingdom?"

Kalia obviously paused, stopped, turned her head and said, "It was before."

"Before?" Ouyang Shuo was puzzled.

"Half a year ago, my father died of illness, and I succeeded him." Kalia said very flatly.

"..."

Ouyang Shuo was ashamed, it turned out that Kalia was not a princess, but a veritable Queen of Atlantis.

"Sorry!" Ouyang Shuo apologized.

Kalia smiled, "Father walked away peacefully, it must be a relief!"

Ouyang Shuo was silent, that is to say, the burden of the Atlantis clan was all on the woman in front of him? It's no wonder that at such a young age, Kalia has vicissitudes in her eyes that don't match her age.

The two walked forward in silence, and finally came to a hall deep in the palace. I don't know where Kalia pressed a mechanism, and the ground of the hall dropped slowly, and then entered an underground cave.

The cave is so huge that you can't see the edge at a glance, and the high dome is 20 meters high. The whole cave seemed dark and damp, but there was a dazzling golden light in the center.

In the middle of the cave is a golden pool of one meter long and one meter wide. There is a viscous golden liquid flowing in the pool. It seems that it is about to bottom out and almost dry up. A fist-sized golden crystal was suspended right above the pool. The shape of the crystal was exactly the same as the purple crystal hanging around Kalia's neck.

Like the purple crystal, the golden crystal is also dull, as if it is about to fall into the water at any time. Even from the corner of the eye, it still illuminated the pool with a golden light.

The golden crystal is surrounded by irregular stone shields, and a human face is carved on the surface of the shield, which is lifelike. They are like guards, loyally guarding the golden crystal.

Ouyang Shuo roughly counted the shields, large and small, with a total of twelve sides.

"That is the golden magnetite, and it is also the source of energy for our Atlantis civilization. Ten thousand years ago, when disaster suddenly struck the empire, it was the magnetite that formed an energy barrier that sheltered this corner of the land, followed by the ruins of the city. They were buried together in the depths of the sea." Kalia explained, "The magnetite is the lifeblood of Atlantis."

"The one hanging around your neck too?" Ouyang Shuo asked.

"That's right." Kalia nodded, "Magnesia can absorb sunlight and convert cosmic energy into energy. From low to high, it can be divided into five grades: white, green, blue, purple, and gold. Low-grade magnetite European stones are all derived from high-grade magnetic European stones."

"Depending on the situation, something is wrong with the golden magnetite?" Ouyang Shuo took the initiative to bring the topic to the mission point.

At this time, the ocean-going fleet led by Zheng He was dealing with the Spanish fleet at sea. Every moment Ouyang Shuo was delayed meant that the ocean-going fleet was in danger.

Kalia's eyes dimmed, "That's right. The energy shield formed by the magnetite consumes a lot of energy. It has lasted for so long, no matter how powerful the magnetite is, it can't hold it anymore."

"Can I do something?" Ouyang Shuo asked.

"Yes." Kalia nodded.

At this moment, a system notification sound came from Ouyang Shuo's ear.

"System prompt: Congratulations to player Qiyue Wuyi, who officially started the S-level large-scale plot mission [The Lost Atlantis]. Destroyed and sank to the bottom of the sea, a small group of people survived under the protection of the golden magnetite.

Task requirements: Fill all the gold liquid in the golden pool, charge the golden magnetite, and raise the lost city of Atlantis to the surface of the sea and reappear in the world.

Mission Reward: Unknown. Friendly reminder: Players will get different mission rewards by choosing different mission branches. If the task fails, there will be a corresponding penalty. Please choose the task branch carefully. "

"Branch 1: Complete the plot task alone. After completion, you will be rewarded with a top technology of Atlantis, a purple crystal, 50,000 merit points, 150,000 reputation points, and several other rewards."

"Branch 2: Share the plot task and invite other players to complete it together. After completion, you will be rewarded with an Atlantis intermediate technology, a blue crystal, 10,000 merit points, and 30,000 reputation points."

"Friendly reminder: If the player chooses Branch 1, 200,000 gold coins, 100,000 merit points, and 300,000 reputation points will be deducted if the mission fails. If the deduction is not enough, the corresponding actual achievement value will be directly deducted; if the actual achievement If the value is not enough to deduct, it will be directly turned into a negative number until the repayment is completed."

"If the player chooses Branch 2, there will be no mandatory penalty for mission failure."

The difficulty of the two side missions is very different, the rewards of the missions are also very different, and the punishment for mission failure is even more different.

The former is high-risk, high-reward; the latter is low-risk, and the return is considerable.

If you weren't a crazy gambler, you wouldn't have chosen side mission one. I also want to know how difficult it is to complete the S-level plot tasks independently, it is almost impossible.

In his previous life, Pique struggled repeatedly, but he gave up the temptation of branch one and chose branch two.

If Ouyang Shuo didn't have the advantage of being reborn, he probably wouldn't have chosen branch one, the option of narrow escape. It's different now, he has the confidence to complete this side mission alone.

"Choose branch one." Ouyang Shuo said decisively.

"System prompt: The task branch line has been selected and cannot be changed."

As soon as the system prompt ended, Kalia continued to say as if he had received an instruction: "The gold liquid in the pool is actually refined from gold, and one gold coin can only extract five drops of gold liquid."

"Chi~~~"

Even though Ouyang Shuo was mentally prepared, he still gasped.

According to the standard titration, there are 10,000 drops of gold liquid in one liter of gold liquid, which requires 2,000 gold coins to refine. The pool in front of him is one meter long, wide and deep, which can fully hold a cubic meter, that is, a thousand liters of gold liquid.

This also means that two million gold coins are needed to fill the pool. At present, in the whole world, it is estimated that only Ouyang Shuo can take out two million gold coins at once.

It has to be said that Pique's choice in his previous life was very wise. No wonder this plot mission in the previous life involved the participation of tens of thousands of players. It is almost impossible to fill the pool by yourself.

Ouyang Shuo is going to make the impossible possible now, he is confident that Gaia will not launch a mission that makes players lose money. With such a harsh setting, the rewards after completion must be very rich.

"Understood!"

Ouyang Shuo nodded, took off the storage bag and aimed it at the pool. I saw that the gold coins were like flowing water, slanting down from the storage bag, converging into a golden trickle.

As soon as the golden trickle was poured into the pool, under the action of a mysterious force, it was refined into drops of gold liquid, which began to flow at the bottom of the pool, shining golden light and impressing with wealth.

Kalia on the side saw it, and a dazzling brilliance appeared in his eyes.

In fact, with the wealth of Atlantis, it is impossible not to have two million gold coins in the treasury. Even if not, it can be collected slowly at the bottom of the sea in 10,000 years.

I don't know how many shipwrecks and wealth there are at the bottom of the vast sea. They are buried deep in the mud along with the shipwrecks, and no one cares about them.

The people of Atlantis have underwater rebreathers. As long as they are patient, in 10,000 years, they may be able to completely turn over the entire Mediterranean Sea, even the Red Sea.

Unfortunately, the gold coins of the aborigines are ineffective against the pool.

Gaia's setting in this way is purely to create problems for players.

If you choose side mission 2, participating players not only need to obtain an underwater rebreather, but also have to go through five levels and kill six generals, and pass layers of tests to reach the surviving place of Atlantis.

When you arrive at the Survival Land, you have to continue to do daily tasks and swipe Atlantis' favorability to gain permission to enter and exit the palace. In this way, players are eligible to drop gold coins into the golden pool.

Gaia set it up in this way, one is to increase the player’s participation in the story mission, and the other is to take this opportunity to promote the Atlantis civilization that has disappeared, and at the same time be vigilant to future generations.

After all, as far as the earth is concerned, human civilization has completely become a thing of the past.

Perhaps their generation is even the fifth generation of humans on Earth. After tens of thousands of years, when the earth's magma erupts and cools down again, it will definitely glow with vitality again.

Until then, perhaps human beings will reappear on the earth and become the new masters of the earth.

At that time, the traces they left on the earth in this life will be regarded as ancient civilizations by the new generation of humans, and will become myths and legends, which cannot be verified.

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The golden trickle flowed continuously and endlessly.

Ouyang Shuo looked at the number of gold coins in the attribute panel, which kept beating at an indistinguishable speed, but his heart was rarely peaceful.

No matter how to keep it, two million gold coins will have to be spent.

In Friendship City, Ouyang Shuo spent one million gold coins. In Atlantis, he will consume another two million gold coins. In this way, there is only one million gold coins left in the storage bag.

Really complied with the saying: Money comes fast, and it spends fast.

Under the injection of a large number of gold coins, the gold liquid filled the pool at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the water level continued to rise, evaporating bursts of golden mist.

The golden magnetite above the pool immediately turned on the whale swallowing mode, sucking large strands of golden mist into it like a powerful suction fan.

The dull magnetite slowly exudes dazzling brilliance, becoming more and more dazzling.

The shield surrounding the golden magnetic stone seemed to be pulled by some mysterious force, and the lines on the surface began to light up one by one, and it continued to rotate around the magnetic stone.

The farther to the back, the faster the shield turns.

Later, Ouyang Shuo could no longer see the shadow of the magnetic stone, he could only see the more and more dazzling golden light radiating from the center of the shield, straight towards the sky above the dome.