Chapter 1067 Five. "The Sunken Land" (5)

  5. Forbidden place

"Step into the fog, and you will be randomly teleported into the depths of the vast swamp. The faster you find the exit to the next stage, the higher the score. Beating other players will give you extra points..." Ernie Hamilton Wayne yells at the students walking towards the mist.

The    Mist sent them across the swamp with invisible and obscure forces. Mildred Hampley and Brits Thiel on the edge of the dead forest watched the students engulfed in the mist, and whispered: "Why don't you tell Mr. Lu Li the truth?", "This is his chance... You are not Didn't you say it?" When the figure stepped into the fog, they stopped the riddles between each other and returned to the hunter's hut.

  Lu Li walked out of the fog. The vast and gloomy, dim and oppressive vast swamp stretches into the distance, with vines entwined with twisted branches, and the roots of the dome rock wall hanging into the depths of the swamp are like scallops of shells. Lu Li couldn't find any familiar sights around, and he was obviously not around the safe area. Because of the "Tree Whisperer", Lu Li leaned towards his natural ally, the Dead Woods to the south. Unfortunately, they are long gone, and the dead bodies stand like tombstones above the mud. Only the tremors that came from deep in the east every twenty minutes shook the branches, making the trees seem to be still alive.

A cry for help like a crude trap suddenly sounded at the edge of the woods. Lu Li followed the sound and saw a girl with a weak upper body, and even the bravest man would scream like a woman, dripping juice, spider body. Alien. It was bound tightly by the roots of a tree, calling out to Lu Li for help and claiming to be from the lower level of the Giant Tree Academy. Rather than doubting the identity of the girl, Lu Li was even more puzzled that the sap would corrode her roots—he was able to determine that this was a cemetery where trees formed their own tombstones. , instead of resurrecting them. So what is the root of this tree that doesn't respond to him and doesn't have the scent of plants? Lu Li told the Inhumans about his conjecture, and the Inhumans who recognized the exorcist did the same—the injured "roots" flinched and burrowed back into the soil. The Inhuman finally realized that his lion was almost ridiculously killed by a lone hyena in the terrible shadow of the bushes.

   This alien called himself Ida, the pollution did not corrode its mind, and swore to Lu Li like a knight: "What you point to with your sword is the road." Lu Li took it and approached the source of the tremor, the digging area of ​​the earth dwellers. Just like the trade and commerce of the Wiener Antifreeze Port belongs to the merchants, and the local people's business is one of the main suppliers, Lu Li can get help from there.

   On the way close to the mining area, Lu Li encounters messy footprints on the soft soil of the swamp. Usually, the tremor will annihilate all traces, which means that the footprints will not be left for too long. These footprints follow Lu Li's path, and then disappear abruptly after a certain distance. Ida hurriedly threw stones, but led out the owner of the messy footprints—a team from the surface, migrating to the late night city. Lu Li brought food and water to the hungry, medicine for the boy with a high fever, and then brought the group of residents close to the land dwellers to dig the mining area.

   Kindness doesn’t always pay off, but this time was an exception. The exorcist's goodwill was soon fulfilled: the bloodline alliance took over the mines. And because they sheltered the migration team, Lu Li and Ida were able to disguise themselves as members of the team and pass the blockade of the Bloodline Family Alliance. It's just that they seem to have jumped into this cage on their own initiative - the earth dwellers are forbidden to fight, and there is no exit here. They are trapped here like several players hiding in the mining area. However, Lu Li was not without gains. He bought the information about the exit from the land dwellers: from love to worry, from love to fear, from the lover, without worry - like a reminder, but also like a mantra for divination in Lu Li's life.

The arrival of   Lu Li was discovered by Nunes. He exchanged the information of the swamp curse title in exchange for Lu Li to join his team, a team from the town of gods, the Knights, the Giant Tree Academy, and the noble council. After getting to know each other, Nunes led Lu Li to retrieve the information - Nunes said that he found the backpack and the parchment inside it because of the tremors he rummaged through the things in the depths of the swamp.

Please allow me to temporarily abandon the integrity of the writer, and give up the foreshadowing and foreshadowing that all literary works should have, just to point out the source of all conspiracies: this piece of parchment from the swamp, evil and terrifying - the parchment deceived Lu Li and pretended to be In exchange for Lu Li's trust, the exorcist from the old days almost dragged all the efforts of the late night city into the abyss - readers, remember: all the actions of the parchment calling itself Will Ken are called the shadow of conspiracy shrouded.

   Lu Li, who was blinded by the evil parchment, joined Nunes' team, bribed the land dwellers, and followed the guide of the evil parchment to leave the mining area from the muddy mud in the depths of the abandoned mine. But soon they came back here, because the bloodline family alliance might have clues to the second level. They captured a bloodline family player, tortured him and couldn't pry open his mouth, but released a kind-hearted Lu Li to let him speak: it seems to be always by our side, like an object that we put down, like something that can be seen everywhere— —Like the previous piece of information, it’s like a puzzle.

   When they were about to leave, they found that two companions had disappeared in the depths of the mud. Follow the traces into the depths of the dark mine, and two fork roads with footprints appear in front. The teams were scattered due to the fork in the road and encountered a new fork in front of them. A certain force prevented them from retreating and drove them to move forward until everyone walked into the mine-like cave. In the end, only Lu Li walked out of the exit of this labyrinthine mine. The earthlings who were waiting here told him that it was the sacred artifact of the earthlings. It was placed here, so that the creatures called by the guardian of the earth were lost in the labyrinth and became the nourishment of the sacred artifact.

  Lu Li was spared due to his cooperation with the Dijuren Firm, but his companions did not. On the way to the depths of the mining area as a guest, Lu Li saw the items belonging to his former companions... and their remnants that were being eaten. In the deceitful consolation of the old man whispering the parchment, Lu Li, who came to the depths, saw the source of the tremor—the guardian of the earth who was caught by the people of the earth—the swamp is growing every moment, like a legend. The beasts in it devoured the power of the swamp, preventing it from spreading to the world.

  Theoretically, the guardian of the earth protects the world, the same as the human camp. But the land dwellers are merchants and outsiders - precisely because they are merchants, Lu Li bought the right to use the giant spear to kill the guardian of the land. When the spear was pointed at the guardian of the world bound in the rock wall, the exorcist no longer wanted to exit. He thought of the meaning of its existence, of the corpse of his companion on the fire—the spear shot shattered the chains that bound the guardian of the earth. The beast that escaped the trap set off a huge wave of rocks in the cave, burying the cave.

   When the deadly underground cave made a crashing sound, Lu Li climbed out from under the gravel, and the fog leading to the second level also appeared at this time.

   (end of this chapter)