Chapter 49 Cursed Mission

Hongyue took the map away from my hand, rolled it back into the cylinder, and stuffed it into a long cylindrical container. "Are you interested?"

"I don't even know what you want me to do, so why would I be interested?"

"This is a map!"

"I can see it!" Anyone who can't see it must be a fool!

"But it's more than just a map!"

"Huh?" I didn't even notice this! "What the hell is this, can't you just say it all in one go?"

Hongyue snapped her fingers, and a dozen girls walked in. They used iron rods to overlap each other to form a stretcher, and a large metal box was hung underneath the stretcher. The girls placed the box on the floor in the middle of the room and left with the stretcher, and I walked over and looked at the metal box.

The box is not very big, the ratio of length, width and height is 100:70:50 (cm). The surface is golden, but it is definitely not gold. There are exquisite relief decorations around and on the top of the box. Especially on the top, a delicate six-pointed star is displayed in relief, with an obvious depression in its center. This depression was made into a strange shape, and its appearance was very irregular. It was neither a geometric figure nor the shape of anything.

"What did you see?"

"The lock is very strong!" I said jokingly.

"Our guild spent one million crystal coins to buy this thing and this map, but we lack the key!"

"Then why are you looking for me? I'm not a locksmith! You should be looking for a thief!"

"That didn't work at all. I hired the most powerful locksmith from the Thieves Guild, but I couldn't open it even after working all day!"

I pulled out the Holy Dragon's fang from my waist. "There is only one way for me to open the lock, if you don't mind...?"

Hongyue tilted her head and spread her palms to signal me to please. I raised the Holy Dragon's Fang and slashed it at the box. There was no sound and my sword failed to touch the box. A strong force dragged the blade of my sword. There was only one centimeter difference between the tip of the sword and the box, but I couldn't cut any more. The sword was blocked!

Hongyue looked at me and said slowly: "As you can see, we even experimented with cannons, but..."

"Does that mean there's no need to talk unless the key is found?"

"right!"

"Then what do you want me to do? You don't think I know where the key is, do you?"

Hongyue held up the scroll again. "You really don't know, but I know! What I need is for you to get it back for me!"

"Don't tell me that the painting is where the key is? Whose thing is this? Throwing the treasure everywhere but hiding the key!"

"That's the truth. The treasure is already in our hands, but we can't use it! We need the key!"

"Why don't you go by yourself?"

Hongyue pulled her sleeves up to her shoulders, but there were many ugly black marks on her snow-white and pink arms. If you look closely, these things seemed to be not simple lines, they should be some kind of writing! When I wanted to get closer to study, Hongyue put down her sleeves. "Our guild carried out such a mission. Unfortunately, all the people we brought were wiped out! Then everyone who participated in the mission had this thing on their arms, and this thing continued to spread. When it covered the entire You will die once when your whole body is in your body. After resurrection, these things will retreat to the palm of your left hand, and then start to spread again. This thing only starts to spread when we are online, and we will die once in about 48 hours online. Already died three times! All of us with these marks have no way of entering that place again, so we need you to complete the mission!"

"Where's your brother?"

"He also went there with his most capable subordinates the day before yesterday, and the result was the same as ours!"

"Why does it sound so like a pit of fire to me?" The risk factor is so high!

"I won't force you if you don't accept it!" Hongyue's eyes dimmed.

"I'll take it!" For a person like Hongyue to speak so humbly is tantamount to asking for help. No matter what the reason is, I have no choice but to help. Even if I take a step back, I have to accept it for the sake of the relationship between the two largest guilds in China! "Give me the drawings, and you can line up someone to take me to the gate!"

Hongyue's eyes suddenly became bright. She stood up immediately. "Thank you! Really!" She walked out and seemed to have a few words with the people outside, and then came back. "I'll ask Bing'er to take someone with you!"

"No, just have someone take me to the door!"

"Don't refuse. We have sent several waves of people, and we have a basic understanding of the place. Although it is useless to have more people, it is definitely not enough for one person! Our experience is that a team of 5 people is most suitable! Our 3 groups of 5 The human team went very far, and the other combinations all fell very quickly!”

"In this case, you give me one person, and I will find the remaining three places myself!"

"Well, there are many people in our guild who have been cursed. The longer it takes, the greater our losses will be. You go find the person you want to take and gather here at 1 o'clock today! You can send someone to get it when you go back We have the materials needed to build the city!”

"OK!"

I returned to the city and talked to Ying about the material issue, and then I prepared people to do the task with me. Ying and the others are very busy, so it’s not easy for me to call them. I haven’t seen Son of the Night until now, so I guess it’s not online! Thinking about people who are not busy, there is only one big pot of rice. This guy should be able to do it. Although he has no special skills, his attributes are very balanced, and he cooperates well with me. After much deliberation, I decided to bring Rose with me. Although she is very busy, we do need a nurse in the team, and she is a resurrection mage. She can resurrect us on the spot within two minutes. If someone dies, we can resurrect on the spot, so that we The success rate is also higher!

Originally, the ruins exploration team needed a thief who could open locks and unlock mechanisms, but it happened that there was no thief around me! Wu Qing is an assassin and knows nothing! Yuzhe is a ninja. Although he can solve traps, he can't open locks! Not to mention gold coins. Although she can steal, she is also an assassin just like Qing Wu! Think about it, this thief should go to Hongyue to find one! If it doesn't work, just look outside. There are so many people working part-time these days! China lacks everything but people!

It was almost 12 o'clock when I left the dedication city. I said hello to Rose and Big Pot Rice, and then went offline to have a meal. It was almost 1 o'clock when I came up. I quickly found the rose and the big pot of rice, which they had just eaten. We quickly passed through the transfer station of Goddess City, and then arrived at Dedication City. There was no way, everyone didn’t have a return ticket for Dedication City!

As soon as we came out of the teleportation point in Dedicated City, we saw two female players from the Goddess Alliance. They ran over immediately after seeing me. "Is it Ziri?"

"kindness!"

"President and the others are already in the square, I'll lead the way!"

After following them to the square, we saw Hong Yue circling back and forth there. There was a girl behind her who was talking to a guild member with her back to us. I walked over with the rose and the big pot of rice: "Red Moon!"

Upon hearing my voice, Hongyue immediately looked over, and the girl next to her also turned around. It turned out to be Bing'er! I immediately realized that something bad was going to happen and forgot about the big pot meal! Sure enough, Bing'er's expression immediately became exaggerated, and she rushed forward waving her staff.

"Bing'er, what are you doing?" Hongyue's voice was obviously angry.

Seeing Bing'er rushing over, Da Guofan quickly hid behind us. I grabbed the broken staff. "The overall situation is the most important thing!"

Hongyue also walked up and took Bing'er's shoulders. "Don't be impulsive!"

Bing'er looked at my eyes and then at Hongyue, then she put away her staff and pointed it at the big pot of rice. "Remember it! I won't just let it go!"

Da Guofan quickly explained: "I didn't mean to take away your first kiss! If you want to blame me, I should blame the boss. It was his horse that pushed me under the bridge!"

"How dare you say that!" Bing'er raised her staff to hit again!

It seemed that it was impossible to cooperate in this mission by letting her vent, so I just let her out without stopping her. In the private chat, he said to the big pot of rice: "You kid, let me beat you a few times to vent your anger. Don't run away!"

But Da Guofan ran and replied: "I'm not beating you, of course you don't care!"

"Stop and let her vent her anger! You're pretty good at kissing someone! Besides, she's a mage and you're a warrior. What's the big deal if you get a few sticks from her? Your armor isn't made of paper! "

"Okay!" Da Guofan reluctantly replied, then pretended to be knocked over and fell to the ground. When Bing'er got the chance, she immediately rushed forward, waving her staff and knocking on it randomly. The guy from Big Pot Rice even cooperated very well and started howling like a wolf on the ground. "Help! I killed someone! Ah! Boss, save me! Ouch! Bing'er, stop fighting!... Spare my life! Heroine, spare my life!... Boss! This will be considered a work-related injury and my medical expenses will be reimbursed! Ah! It hurts!..."

Even Bing'er started laughing when the big pot of rice started making noises. I didn't have time to care about them, so I walked over and said to Hongyue: "There are some problems with the professional configuration of our guild. Can you give me a thief? I have a lot of assassins but I can't find a thief who can open locks and unlock mechanisms!"

"This is no problem!" She turned around and shouted to the back: "Go and ask Anmaru to come over!"

After a while, I saw a guy with only his eyes walking over, "Sister, did you call me?"

"Yeah!" Hongyue pointed at us. "This is Ziri, the president of the Frost Rose Alliance. He wants to help us complete that task. Now we are short of someone in the team who can unlock and unlock mechanisms. Please cooperate!"

"Okay!" The man named Anmaru nodded. He seems to be of average height and has a well-proportioned figure, but why does he cover his face so tightly? Is it ugly?

Hongyue turned to introduce us: "His name is Anmaru. He is the number one assassin in our guild. He has successfully completed 37 assassination missions so far!"

"Then how many missions has he performed in total?" Rose asked.

"37 times!"

"100% success rate! Whether it's your luck or your strength, you are a very powerful assassin! But...!" I turned to face the red moon. "I want a thief!"

Hongyue explained: "Although he is an assassin, he is a special assassin. In fact, he is a tomb robber who changed his job from a thief to a tomb robber. However, many of his assassination skills are very good, so our guild has always allowed him to be an assassin!"

"Grave robber? It's a new profession! Well, welcome to join us!" I stretched out my hand to shake his hand. Although he shook my hand, he didn't say anything. He seems to be a relatively cold person, but this is better. It is not a good thing for a thief to talk too much!

We have solved it here, and the ground there is almost beaten. Bing'er has no stamina anymore. She is currently riding on the big pot of rice and tapping her staff with her staff. The mage's stamina is too low and she is really not suitable for such a job of beating people!

Seeing that the rice in the big pot was almost done, he pushed up the mask. "Wow! It's finally over!"

Bing'er had always been angry that Da Guofan was covered in armor and it wouldn't hurt to hit him anywhere. But now that he pushed his mask away, it meant that he had a soft spot. She didn't use her staff anymore and hit him with her fist.

"Oops!" Da Guofan's nose was hit, and two tubes of nosebleeds flowed down.

Bing'er wanted to continue beating her, but the big pot of rice suddenly turned over and pushed her to the ground, and then nibbled on her little mouth.

Rose smiled and said: "Wow! I didn't expect him to be so powerful!"

Bing'er, who was being pinned down, struggled hard at first and beat the big pot rice with all her strength, but then she hugged the big pot rice man's neck and began to actively seek for him!

I walked over and knelt down beside them and said, "Hey! Are you two okay? This is a square!"

Bing'er seemed to wake up suddenly, pushed the big pot of rice away, got up, patted her clothes and ran behind Hongyue! I patted Da Guofan on the shoulder. "Love Saint!"

Big Pot Rice said with a smile: "I call stupid people lucky, you are the love saint! Don't tell me what Hongyue means to you, you don't know, we all see it!"

"Ahem!" You have mentioned my pain point! "Come all over! We are ready to set off! Bing'er, stop hiding and lead the way for us!"

Hongyue pushed Binger out behind her. "Take them quickly, we are still waiting for help!"

"Oh!" Bing'er's face was as red as a burning cloud. "Come with me!"

We followed Bing'er through the teleportation station of Dedicated City to a place called Tianji Temple. This teleportation point is actually not in the city. It's really strange! The temple mentioned here is actually a relatively large pavilion with no walls around it, just a few pillars supporting the roof!

After leaving the temple, there is a forest, and it is a tropical rainforest. Plants grow everywhere and there is no place that can be called a road! The two warriors Da Guofan and I had to act as trailblazers in front. Unfortunately, my magic sword was reduced to the fate of being used as a machete! But having said that, the Holy Dragon's Fang is extremely sharp. If I swing it hard, the wind blade it brings can cut through thorns and thorns!

After walking less than 0 meters in total, I saw a not very big mausoleum. In the center of the mausoleum was a small building. Three of the four soul-locking towers around it had been broken, and the only remaining one was covered in bruises. Bing'er explained: "It was broken by people from our guild. They were originally automatic defense systems. Those who disarmed them were blown back by lightning. We had no choice but to let the mage destroy it completely!"

"It's understandable!" If I had destroyed it directly, I wouldn't have even considered lifting it.

"Follow me!" Bing'er walked to the door of the central building and took us directly inside. The door of this building has only a frame left. It seems that there are many violent elements in the Goddess Alliance!

After passing through the gate and entering the building, I realized that this is just an entrance, and the real things are underground! In the center of the room is a spiral staircase that leads all the way down, and there is a steel pipe in the center of the spiral staircase that leads all the way to the ground.

When Bing'er was about to take us down, I called her to stop. "Does this pillar lead to where we are going?"

"Yeah! Keep going to the end!"

"Then don't take the stairs, come with me!" I took a few steps, jumped over, hugged the steel pipe, and then kept sliding down like a firefighter. But this pole is obviously much longer than the one in the fire brigade! I almost fell for a full 150 meters before landing at the bottom. It was really deep!

After waiting for a while, I saw Rose coming down, followed by An Wan, then Da Guo Fan and Bing'er. The place where we are standing now is the starting point of the corridor. Bing'er took out the map, and Rose used illumination to illuminate the map. Bing'er pointed at it and said: "We are here now, and there is a maze in front of us. The map only said that this is a maze, and gave instructions I found the exit location, but the path in the middle is really blank!"

"Do you know the coordinates of the exit on the opposite side? I'll just go there and have a look. It's easier to navigate the maze!"

"No! No one in our guild passed this maze! Everyone hung back before reaching the exit! The team that walked the farthest was Brother Piaomiao's team from the Hot Blood Alliance, but even they didn't see it Exit! Because we don’t know the location of the exit, we don’t know how far they were from the exit at that time!”

Big Pot Rice said: "What is so powerful inside? Can so many people be annihilated in just one maze?"

"That's the worst part, we don't know what hit us until the end!"

"Is there no system prompt?"

"There were hints that they were attacked by maze beasts, but we didn't see anything. Everyone died from physical attacks, and the wounds seemed to be caused by sharp objects. We judged that they might be the claws of animals, but we never looked. To such a thing!"

Rose dragged her chin and said: "Possibility one: This thing is so fast that it is invisible! Possibility two: This thing is invisible to begin with and is born invisible! Possibility three: This thing is a psychic system Monster, it creates illusions!”

"I roughly know the situation!" I quickly summoned the rose vine and asked him to check the underground. I also brought my little beetles out. It is not convenient to bring them with me at ordinary times, so I always let the rose vine bring them into the pet space. of. As soon as the rose vine came out, it started to detect the underground structure, and it paid off in a short while.

The labyrinth is actually sealed. It has a top and a bottom. After the rose vine appeared, it went down more than three meters and encountered hard rock. Although there was a 3-meter-thick soil layer in the passage that allowed the rose vine to move, the underground was sealed. In other words, if you want to use the rose vine, It is impossible to drill a hole through it! It seems that we can only rely on the little beetles! Five small dirt bags suddenly appeared on the ground, and beetles emerged from the ground one by one with blue lights. The two girls were startled. I quickly comforted them: "Don't be afraid, it's mine!"

In the past few days, the number of beetles has reached more than 800,000. Under my command, they crawled along the walls, floors, and ceilings of the passage toward the front of the passage. The huge number of 800,000 makes them the best thing to deal with the maze. As long as they encounter a fork in the road, the beetles will divide their forces and move forward, and every passage will be taken care of. For pathfinding work, you only need to ensure that there is a beetle in each branch. I believe that this maze will not have more than 800,000 branches!

Although my idea is very good, the designer of the maze is more ruthless than me! After only a dozen minutes, except for some beetles who encountered dead ends and ran back, almost all the side roads reported encountering teleportation points! Except for players and specific NPCs, all familiars, demon servants, and summoned creatures cannot use the teleportation station by themselves! The beetles found more than 200 passages with teleportation stations at the end for me. If I tried them one by one, I would go crazy!

It seems that the method of using beetles to explore the path is not possible! We reached the end of a fork in the road, and there was a teleportation point in front of us. While they all went to study the teleportation point, I looked carefully at the walls on both sides of the passage. "Bing'er, do you know how thick this wall is?"

"wall?"