Chapter 198 The Ghost Reappears (6500 words)

  The door on the island opens.

  Taurus and a young man in a suit came out from behind the door, glanced at the scene behind the door, and frowned.

   At this time, a dozen members of the Illuminati not far away rushed over as if they had seen their relatives.

   "President, it's not good, the vice president was ambushed..."

   "Three hours ago, the vice president was dragged into the water by something and disappeared..."

   "We searched all over the neighborhood but couldn't find it, I'm afraid it's already..."

  …

   Before Taurus could ask, everyone talked about the situation in a hurry.

   Taurus immediately raised his eyebrows when he heard the words. After a few words, he already understood what happened, and immediately signaled everyone to come in with his eyes.

  After letting more than a dozen people into the door, he glanced outside vigilantly, and decisively closed the door, leaving only the last crack that could no longer be closed.

   "Really vigilant..."

  In the distance, Mu You shook his head, and controlled the beetle that eavesdropped on the island to return.

   This situation is obvious. After hearing what happened, Taurus probably guessed that the Gemini had died, and there was a high possibility that someone was watching around, so he simply gave up the search and all other plans, and prepared to spend the day behind the door.

   "What should I do, do you want to go there?" Lin Xue looked at Mu You and asked.

   Mu You shook his head, it was useless to chase after him. With the cautiousness shown by the Taurus, the next day, the door must be heavily guarded, and it is impossible for a fly to enter.

   After waiting for a while, Mu You reached out to put away the returning beetle, and took off the picture crystal on its back.

  Input the magic power, and a picture automatically appeared above the crystal, which was the picture taken in front of the door in the previous two hours.

This close-up shot is indeed much clearer than their peeping from a distance. When Mu You pulled the door open at the end, he repeatedly played the short tens of seconds of the scene many times, focusing on the scene inside the door. Hope You can see some clues to where the Taurus is hiding.

   However, Taurus is not a fool, it is impossible to open the door casually in the wilderness.

  Behind the door is a very ordinary wooden room, which seems to be a basement storage room or something.

   "Look, can you see anything?" Mu You asked Lin Xue for reference.

   "Well, move forward..."

  Lin Xue watched for a while, then suddenly spoke.

   Mu You moved forward for a few seconds.

   "Further on...yes, right here..."

   Mu You zoomed in on the screen she had stopped.

  Lin Xue adjusted her glasses and pointed to a man behind the golden bull. This was a young man wearing glasses.

   "His glasses seem to be fogged up."

   "Oh?" Mu You was taken aback, and looked carefully.

  The young man was always inside the door, and the light inside the door was relatively dim. It was difficult to see things like foggy glasses, even if they were magnified. Lin Xue subconsciously paid attention to such details because she wore glasses all the year round.

   Mu You discovered this clue only after her guidance. At this time, he turned back two seconds and compared the pictures of the first few frames after opening the door. The lens of this person's glasses had indeed changed obviously.

  “The condition for fogging of glasses is to go from a low-temperature and dry environment to a relatively high-temperature and humid environment. When water vapor condenses, it will fog up.”

   "Now the temperature in our sea area is about 17 or 8 degrees, and the lens opposite the door can fog up so quickly, the temperature should be below 5 degrees." Lin Xue said.

   "Five degrees below..."

   Mu You pondered for a while, this is indeed a judgment condition, but there is only one temperature, and it seems that the region cannot be determined. There are too many places on the earth with a temperature below five degrees.

   "And here."

At this time, Lin Xue pointed to another corner of the picture: "From here to here, the light gradually changes, and it gets brighter as it goes out, so the invisible place above should be a skylight or an exit, and the light passing through here It is very weak, indicating that the outside light is not strong, and it can only be the stage when the morning is just dawn or the evening is about to enter the night."

Lin Xue pondered for a while and said: "The opening time is 10:30, which is calculated according to our country's standard time, but the light on the opposite side should be around 5:00 am or 7:00 pm, according to the time zone. The ones currently in these two time periods are the East Third District and West Eighth District."

   "After locking the time zone, combined with the temperature below five degrees, the exclusion range is greatly reduced. In addition..."

  As Xue Lin spoke, her finger actually pointed to another location.

   Mu You looked, it was an oil painting hanging on the wall. Because the distance is too far and the light is too dim, the details in the painting cannot be seen clearly, but it can still be seen from the outline of the basic content that this is a landscape painting.

   "The last is this painting. The content is natural and realistic. From the perspective of style, it should be a Western European classical style oil painting... Although this is not absolute, I know that there is a city where this style of painting is more popular..."

   "Where?" Mu You asked.

   "Moscow."

Lin Xue said: "Moscow has the world's most prestigious oil painting market. It is located in the third east district, which is more than five hours later than our country's time. It should be more than five o'clock in the morning. The annual average temperature is 1-8 degrees Celsius. The temperature also meets the conditions... In fact, whether it is true or not, as long as we go back and check the temperature in Moscow today, we will know."

   Mu You looked at Lin Xue quite surprised: "You are really amazing."

   Just such an ordinary-looking picture, she has analyzed so much content in a short period of time, and even directly pinpointed the city...

  But, are these people actually staying in West Russia...

Mu You's expression became strange. As far as he knew, the players in Russia were allies with China, because the corresponding empires on both sides in the Astral Realm were both the Laner Empire. That is to say, their game goal It is consistent, which naturally avoids many conflicts.

   This group of people escaped from the country. It’s not good to hide anywhere, but they hid in Russia... Could it be that they wanted to hide under the lights?

This is not wrong. From a customary point of view, when this group of people escapes from the country, they must first go to the territory of the hostile force. The national search will also start from this aspect, and they do the opposite and hide in the territory of an ally. Capital, this one is really hard to notice...

  Of course, whether it is true or not, don’t bother Mu You, and pass these clues to the state department through the shooter later, and let them check it themselves.

   "What's next?" Lin Xue asked.

   "Let's go, this group of people will definitely not dare to show up in the future, and it doesn't make sense for us to continue to stay."

   Mu You shook his head, these clues are enough, there is no need to continue wasting time here.

   Then the two left the vicinity of the island and took a boat to the devil's sea.

   "From here, you have to be careful. If you die here, you have no chance of being resurrected. Moreover, the bottom of the sea will be more... spectacular." Mu You said

"Um."

  Lin Xue nodded. Mu You had already mentioned this to her before. There are many ghosts in the silence of the seabed here.

   And the reason why they come here is of course to gain experience.

  Before, it was difficult for Mu You to walk here, but after Lin Xue's ghost fire detonated, this place full of ghosts has become a place of experience for them.

   Immediately, the two got off the boat and sank underwater.

   Mu You took Lin Xue to find a submarine mountain range, and stopped on one of the pointed peaks.

   Looking down, the mountain peak is at least fifteen meters high.

   "This is really, it's scary..."

  At this time, Lin Xue had already seen the countless bones on the bottom of the sea, and the densely packed ghosts floating on the bones.

  Although she had already made sufficient psychological preparations before, she was still shocked by the scene in front of her at this moment. She never thought that there was such a huge army of undead hidden in the bottom of the sea.

   "The scene is a bit scary, but the next experience reward will make you forget about it." Mu You said with a smile.

   Now both of them are wearing murloc masks, and they can talk normally underwater.

   "Get ready, I'm going to start monsters."

   Mu You spoke, and immediately jumped off the mountain.

  Before landing, he had already cast out an ordinary Underworld Fire Technique from far away.

  Ghost fire is not a real flame, but a soul fire, so it will not be affected underwater.

  The next second, the underworld fire exploded on one of the ghosts, and the ghost let out a mournful howl.

   And this is like poking a hornet's nest, the densely packed ghosts around suddenly rioted, scrambling to rush towards Muyou.

  Mu You immediately teleported a few times and returned to the top of the mountain over there.

  At this time, Lin Xue had inserted the death scythe on the peak, and at the same time held a magic wand, facing down the ghost army coming from all directions.

   Such as zombie siege or something, the visual impact is not so shocking.

  The two of them immediately held up their wands and began to cast spells continuously, shooting out bursts of ghost fire.

The damage caused by the detonation of the ghost fire to the spirit body is as high as 1500 points, and the blood volume of the ghosts here is generally below 1200 points, and it can be cleaned up in one wave. Can finish.

  However, even this is still not enough, because there are too many ghosts and the speed is too fast. Even if the two of them can shoot a ghost fire in a second, they can't clean it up at all.

  In the blink of an eye, the entire mountain will be overwhelmed by ghosts.

   Fortunately, Mu You dared to come, he must have made sufficient preparations.

  The moment the ghost climbed up the mountain and was about to attack him, the barrier of the fool automatically formed around him.

  Everything around was frozen, and because Lin Xue was standing close to Mu You, she was also wrapped in the enchantment, enjoying the effect of time freezing, and everything around her became as slow as a snail.

   The two finally had enough time to release their magic and clean up the surrounding ghosts.

   "Boom boom boom..."

   A series of dark flames flew out overlappingly, constantly hitting the ghost climbing up the rock below.

The range of the ghost fire detonation is three meters in radius, which is actually not very big. On average, three or four ghosts can be hit at a time, and seven or eight ghosts can be affected in denser areas, and they are basically taken away in one wave. Magical finishing touches away.

  At the same time, after the ghosts were bombarded to death, the surrounding light spheres that were about to dissipate were all automatically attracted by the death sickle, and then swallowed into the sickle and turned into soul points.

   This is also the reason why Mu You specially brought Lin Xue to brush ghosts. The way of manipulating corpses for combat requires a huge amount of soul points to be consumed every time.

  Last time, Grandma Lin Xue's body was revived for only about five minutes, consuming 170 points.

   Moreover, the corpses they can manipulate are not only Grandma Lin Xue's.

   "My body is in the Black Forest."

   This is what Vivian suddenly said to Mu You and Lin Xue yesterday when they discussed the matter of breaking the tower.

  Although she didn't say it clearly, the meaning was clear: she didn't mind her body being resurrected in the same way, and used for them to deal with the Wizarding Association.

  Vivian's body is even more powerful. Her level will only be higher than Grandma Lin Xue's, and her consumption will definitely be greater.

  If you want to control two corpses at the same time when the tower is destroyed in the future, the soul points currently stored in the sickle are simply not enough.

  That's why Mu You thought of this sea of ​​death. While coming here to gain experience, he also added some soul points to Lin Xue for future use.

  These ghosts have no lifespan, but they are pure soul bodies after all. After death, each ghost can replenish one to three soul points according to the level.

  Amidst the blooming of the underworld fire, the surrounding ghosts kept falling down.

   Using this method to spawn monsters, the limit is not the time, but the magic power of the two of them. Whether it is natural magic power or ordinary magic power, the consumption is extremely fast.

  Mu You is fine, the intelligence he majored in now has a double crystallization, and his magic power reserve is enough to support him to release sixty or seventy times of ghost fire explosions in a row.

   But Lin Xue is much worse. Because of her professional characteristics, she majors in agility, and her intelligence is not high. Just releasing the ghost fire ten times is the limit.

  Under the slow-motion time, the two quickly used all their magic power on the underworld fire. At this time, the ghosts in the surrounding attack range have almost been cleaned up.

   Seeing that the magic power of the two of them was about to be exhausted, Mu You immediately pulled Lin Xue and teleported into the sea, and the barrier of the fool was automatically released.

   Immediately, the two swam to the surface of the sea, left the devil's sea by boat, and recovered their magic power in a safe place outside.

   After the crystals overflow again, come back and continue to brush ghosts in the same way.

  One hellfire detonation can harvest about 15 experience points on average. If one round of mana is used up, Lin Xue can get about 150 experience points. For Mu You, nearly 1,000 experience points can be earned after one round of mana is used up!

  In terms of the efficiency of gathering experience alone, this is even higher than the previous defensive line killing murlocs. The only difference is that there is no material reward for gathering ghosts.

  However, such a brushing method consumes a lot of time. It takes about 40 minutes to restore the magic power, plus sailing back and forth by boat. Moreover, there is a time limit for the Fool's Barrier.

   After ten consecutive rounds, today's Fool's enchantment was used up first.

   After such a day, the experience of both of them has skyrocketed.

  Mu You gained a total of more than 9,700 experience points, and was directly promoted to level 12, and the experience of level 12 is already 8610/10240.

Lin Xue's experience is much less than his, only 1570 points, but she is now at a low level and needs less. With so much experience, she has soared from level 7 to level 9, and the experience bar is 672/1280, It's over halfway, and there are only the last 600 experience points left before the tenth level.

   You know, it's only been twenty days since she entered the game!

  Up to ten levels in twenty days, Mu You believes that this speed must have broken the current level-up speed record for internal beta players around the world.

   This is no wonder, after all, no one can enter the door twice in a row at the beginning of the game like Lin Xue, and there are also high-level players with experience.

  In addition, after this day, the soul points absorbed by the death scythe have reached as many as 6880 points, which is definitely enough to control the bodies of Grandma Lin Xue and Vivienne at the same time.

   This trip was very fruitful, and it was already 8:00 pm, which was close to the return time, so Mu You didn't plan to make any more fuss. Before he left, he had to go to the bottom of the ship to see the ghost ship.

   Afterwards, Mu You let Lin Xue into the backpack, and he dived into the bottom of the sea again, and found the entrance to the landing bend before.

  This time there is no need to switch to the ghost form, because when he hits the water, the surrounding ghosts will automatically disperse, making way for him.

  Although ghosts have very low spiritual intelligence, they still have the basic instinct of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. Mu You and Lin Xue visited thousands of ghosts this day, and in their eyes they already looked like a **** of death. Now when they saw him going into the water again, they instinctively felt scared and fled around.

  This is also one of the reasons why Mu You stopped collecting experience: because the one-off burst was too much, and the effect similar to the curse of the swamp was generated on the bottom of the sea, making all the ghosts afraid to approach...

   Shaking his head, Mu You stepped directly into the bunker, followed the Path of the Dead, slid all the way down to the deeper seabed, and then swam into the sea bend hidden in the interlayer between the two sea areas.

  As soon as he entered the boat landing bend, Mu You immediately noticed the huge ship moored on the beach in the distance.

  The Ghost has now been repaired by the Ghost crew. Not only the hull has been restored, but the hull and mast, which were originally full of decay and rust, have also been taken care of spotlessly, just like a new ship that just left the factory.

"not bad…"

   Mu You's eyes lit up when he saw the brand-new ship. This group of ghost crew members were much more reliable than he imagined.

  He pulled the rope on the side of the boat and jumped onto the deck.

  At the moment on the deck, the boatman is directing other skeletons to carry out the final cleaning work. When they saw Mu You, all the skeletons hurriedly saluted and lined up in front of them.

   "Master, the Ghost has been repaired, and all the cabins have been cleaned up, please take a look!" The boatman Chao Muyou reported.

"Um."

Mu You wandered around on the deck and looked around, and found that apart from being clean, the biggest change of the ship was that many plant branches and leaves grew naturally on the hull. grow out.

   Mu You was not surprised by this. It should be affected by the tree of life, which caused the life breath on the hull to be too strong. Many plant seeds can grow naturally without soil.

   Such trivial things have no effect on navigation, just pay attention to frequent pruning, and save some wood for future use.

Then Mu You entered the cabin and inspected it. The well-repaired hull is divided into three floors. In addition to the captain's room, treasure room, power room, canteen and hall, there are hundreds of private cabins. , the highest can accommodate thousands of people live at the same time.

After looking around, Mu You was very satisfied. The guns and other weapons on this ship were all rotten, but anyway, he didn't intend to use it as a pirate ship anymore, and used it as a transport ship, whether it was transporting people or transportation. goods, there is a lot of business to do.

   "Captain, look... when shall we set off?"

  At this time, the boatman came over and asked cautiously.

   Mu You looked back, and the other ghost crew members were also looking at him expectantly.

   Imprisoned on the bottom of the sea for more than 700 years, now that the Ghost is finally repaired, the only thing they are looking forward to now is the moment when they will see the sun again by boat.

   Mu You didn't whet their appetites, got off the boat, put the storage bottle in front of the bow, and then asked all the crew members to push the boat with all their strength until the boat was put in the bottle.

   After all the crew members also entered the bottle, Mu You took the bottle and left the boat landing bend, followed the path of the dead, and returned to the Devil's Sea again.

   Then he opened the cork and turned the mouth of the bottle upwards.

  The ghost ship in the bottle will automatically rush out of the bottle along with the sea water.

The ghost ship that was freed from the shackles quickly returned to its original shape, and then under the effect of buoyancy, it floated up at an increasing speed until it rushed to the surface of the sea. Like a whale, it broke through the waves from the sea, jumped into the air, and finally Accompanied by countless raindrops, they fell back to the water surface, splashing layers of waves.

  The moment they broke through the sea, all the ghosts on the deck cheered and wept with joy. Even though it was night and they couldn’t see the sun, it didn’t prevent them from being excited to see the sun again after a long captivity.

   At the same time, a reminder appeared in Mu You's mind.

  【Ghost has gone to sea, hull status: normal. The maximum load is 1150 people, and 313/1150 people are currently boarded. You can set and change the course of the ghost ship at any time, and you can remove and add boarding personnel at any time. 】

   "The heading..."

   Mu You teleported back to the deck and took out the Compass of Destiny.

  After it was opened, the compass, which was spinning aimlessly, quickly stopped in one direction.

  Mu You knew without guessing that this was the direction of the capital of the empire, because now he only had this goal in mind.

  【Set course successfully, current course: the capital of Laner Empire, estimated time of arrival: five days. 】

   It takes five days to sail, but this only refers to the estimated time without obstacles. In fact, there are various port checkpoints along the way, and the actual arrival time is estimated to be at least a week.

  After the settings were completed, the time had already come to 9:40 in the night, and Mu You had no time to delay. He set up a dark teleportation array in the captain's room, ordered the crew to set sail, set off in the direction of the capital of the empire, and then stepped into the teleportation array.

  However, before returning to the snowfield, he went to Anning Village first, left the chocobo in the Wooden House, and then teleported back to the snowfield.

   Twenty minutes later, after everything was over, the three returned to the door.

  After a busy day, Lin Xue and Xiaoya both said goodbye and left.

   Mu You stood guard in front of the door, watching the door close with his own eyes, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

  After asking Vivian to help close the door, Mu You fell on the sofa, eating snacks to satisfy his hunger, and turned on his phone.

  The game is online, still in the cabin.

  Mu You first manipulated the character to collect the chocobo, and then transferred the equipment and props that should be transferred to arm the character.

  After making all the preparations, he manipulated the character to go out, taking advantage of the effect of thousands of people and thousands of faces, he walked out of the village swaggeringly, and then rode a chocobo to the Misty Mountain.

  He is going to find a blacksmith now. Of course it is the fastest way to go through the teleportation array, but after all, it will consume lifespan. In the case of chocobos, it can still save money.

  【You set off on a chocobo to the foot of Nanshan Mountain in Misty Mountain. In progress, estimated time 2 hours and 10 minutes. 】

  Mu You remembered that it took 20 hours to go to the Misty Mountain before, but now it only takes two hours, that is to say, the speed of the chocobo is nearly ten times faster than that of the donkey.

   Moreover, riding a chocobo is much more comfortable than riding a donkey. No monster can keep up with its speed as it sprints all the way, and there is no need for Mu You to watch over the game at all times.

   Next is the waiting time, Mu You has nothing to do, the game is hanging in the background, just about to browse the forum for a while, when a phone call comes over suddenly.

  The call came from an old-fashioned mobile phone, which hadn't rang for a long time, and the only person who could call this mobile phone was obviously Lu Yao.

   "The list for accepting 'Sunflower' on the World Forum, is it you who put it up?"

  Mu You connected, and Lu Yao's voice came from the opposite side immediately, and he was stunned by the first sentence he spoke.

  He did hang up this task casually the night before, but it was just out of luck, and he didn't expect someone to contact him so soon.

   "Yeah, what?"

   "The reward is two excellent items?"

"right."

   "Then I'll take this order!" Lu Yao said decisively.

  (end of this chapter)