Mu You stood in front of the mountain wall and looked at the small and deep cave entrance in front of him.
He took out a hand-drawn map from his pocket and reviewed the contents on it again.
After confirming that all the details had been memorized in his mind, Mu You put away the map, took out the troll shrine, took a deep breath, and stepped into the crypt with the shrine.
As soon as he stepped into the crypt, a cold and damp atmosphere immediately enveloped him. At the same time, there was a suffocating air mixed with the smell of troll body odor and rotting flesh and blood that poured into his nose.
Mu You frowned and endured the discomfort as he walked on the dirt path.
As expected, countless troll ghosts emerged one after another around him, each one baring its teeth and claws, surrounding him and constantly checking and inspecting him.
Mu You is now using the skin of a mysterious man, wearing a mysterious robe, an invisibility cloak, a thousand faces on his face, deep concealment activated, plus the shrine in his hand... It can be said that he has used all the current methods to hide his identity.
Of course, the effect was surprisingly good. In the end, none of the ghosts blocked his way, and Mu You passed the dirt path smoothly.
After walking forward for more than thirty meters, the vision finally opened up.
What comes into view is naturally the underground tunnel mentioned in the game text.
What surprised Mu You was that the tunnel was not as rough and primitive as he imagined. Instead, it was built quite finely. The boulders were cut according to strict proportions and stacked tightly together. The surfaces of all the stones were also polished. Smooth as a mirror.
If it weren't for the fact that these stone walls were covered with dust and thick moss due to long-term carelessness, Mu You wouldn't even believe that this was a building built by a wild monster like a troll.
Mu You soon had no time to care about these details. As soon as he entered the tunnel area, he immediately felt the breath of many living people, coming from all directions, and at the same time there were faint footsteps, wandering aimlessly.
Sure enough, if a real person enters this place, he will receive much more information than in the game!
Mu You wasted no time and immediately headed towards the first high troll grave marked on the map.
The method of traveling is the same as in the game, which is to use missiles to explore the path and cooperate with the time pocket watch to find an unguarded path.
However, this operation is much more convenient to use in reality than in games.
There are no pictures in the game, only a few texts, so most of the additional operations require prediction and time estimation to keep trying.
In reality, there are far less scruples. Just keep firing missiles all the way. If you hit, you will immediately backtrack and stop. If you don't hit, you will keep moving forward.
Moreover, since you can directly see the exact location where the missile hits in reality, it is equivalent to Mu You being able to know the direction of the invisible troll in advance.
Therefore, even if there is a place guarded by trolls, he can hide from the side and go around without waiting for the patrolling trolls to go away. It is not the least bit efficient.
In less than five minutes, Mu You successfully arrived at the first burial site.
But from here on, the rest of the time will be a race against time.
As long as the tomb has been absorbed, patrols may discover abnormalities at any time, which will trigger a higher level of guarding force.
Therefore, the longer he delays, the more difficult his actions will be. Starting from absorbing the first tomb, the next step must be done in one go and as quickly as possible.
Mu You has designed a route in advance that connects the nineteen scheduled tombs. If you follow this route, you can pass through all the high-end tombs in the shortest time.
Placing the shrine flat on the grave in front of him, Mu You watched as the magic circle quickly poured out and enveloped the entire tomb. Like the mouth of a corpse-eating monster, it swallowed the tomb in a big mouth, and then continued to squirm. Absorb the remains in the tomb into the shrine.
Mu You scanned the surroundings vigilantly. Once he noticed signs of a patrolling troll passing by, he immediately retraced time, took away the shrine and hid it. After the guards left completely, he continued to put the shrine back for absorption.
This is a bit slow, but it is safer.
Mu You held his pocket watch in his hand and stood ready, ready to play a hide-and-seek game with the trolls at any time.
However, this first tomb absorbed much faster than he imagined.
Just a minute later, a reminder came to my mind.
[The niche has absorbed all the energy in the tomb and accommodates half of the Troll Priest corpse. The filling progress is (1.5/20). 】
"Half portion?"
Mu You was stunned and quickly turned around to look.
Sure enough, the magic circle covering the tomb had disappeared and was returned to the niche.
On top of the shrine, the second skull at the bottom also lit up with purple light, but only one eye was shining, while the other eye was still dim.
"what's the situation?"
Mu You hurriedly approached the tomb and carefully looked at the content carved on the stone tablet next to it.
The owner of this tomb was once a priest of a certain troll tribe. As a priest, he must be considered a high-level troll, otherwise it would be impossible to condense the purple skull.
It wasn't until he saw the time of death marked on the epitaph that he finally understood: the troll died too long ago, more than two thousand years ago, which caused a lot of energy that could be extracted from the corpse to be absorbed. When it comes up, it is only enough to fill half of the pit of the shrine.
After seeing the cause and effect, Mu You immediately cursed inwardly, what a cheater, the energy of the corpse can actually be released, why didn't you tell me earlier!
With this setting, the twenty high-level tombs he found were not enough to fill this niche...
However, Mu You had no better way at this time. The action had already begun and there was no chance to stop. He could only continue.
Before leaving, Mu You slightly processed the tomb that was disturbed by the magic circle, and smoothed out as much traces of tampering with the tomb as possible.
This kind of thing is absolutely impossible for game characters, but due to time constraints, it is impossible for Mu You to restore it to exactly the same state, so it can only delay the time of discovery as much as possible.
With the experience of the first extraction, the next step will be much smoother.
Still using the old method, Mu You quickly rushed to the second tomb site and started absorbing again.
This time the tomb was finally that of a normal chief, the time of death was within a thousand years, and the energy of the corpse was still well preserved.
Four minutes later, the second tomb was successfully absorbed.
The reason it took an extra two minutes was because a troll guard came over halfway, so Mu You had to put away the tomb and hide behind the tomb. He wasted some time playing hide and seek.
After absorbing it, Mu You smoothed away the traces as usual and rushed to the third tomb.
Soon, the third one...
The fourth one...
The fifth seat...
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As Mu You became more and more proficient, the subsequent absorption of the tombs also went more smoothly.
When he finished absorbing the ninth tomb, he suddenly heard a violent roar in the distance.
This roar seemed to trigger a chain reaction, quickly triggering more roars from the trolls, all of which were filled with extreme anger.
Mu You immediately knew that this must be an abnormality discovered by a troll in one of the tombs dug earlier.
"Gotta hurry up!"
Mu You immediately gave up trying to cover up the grave and went straight to the tenth tomb. It had already been discovered anyway, and covering it up would be a waste of time. He simply spent all his time robbing the tomb.
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[You absorbed the corpse of the totem summoner, progress 8/20...]
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[You absorbed the corpse of the great troll witch doctor, progress 8.5/20...]
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[You absorbed the corpse of the troll chief, progress 9.5/20...]
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The next absorption turned out to be even more difficult.
As more and more excavated tombs were discovered, the anger of the trolls also increased sharply. The noise quickly expanded from a small area to the surroundings. Gradually, the entire troll crypt began to riot.
All the Troll Guards began running frantically, trying to find this audacious intruder. The entire tunnel space echoed with the roars of ghosts and trolls.
The madness of these trolls indeed caused great obstacles to Mu You's actions.
However, he still insisted on continuing to search for the tomb according to his original plan.
As the scheduled tombs were sucked out one after another, Mu You finally solved eighteen tombs in a row, leaving only the last one.
At this time, only fourteen of the skulls below the troll's niche lit up.
Counting the tomb absorbed in the previous game, out of a total of nineteen tombs that have been absorbed, only nine are complete, and the remaining ten are all incomplete. The incompleteness rate is ridiculously high.
"The last one, I hope it is complete..."
Mu You exhaled helplessly. Twenty tombs could only fill up to three-quarters, which he had not thought of beforehand.
After leaving this time, the troll will definitely strengthen the guard of the tomb. If he wants to sneak in and rob the tomb again, he will definitely have no chance.
After that, the elves will directly flatten this tomb. The first thing they will do at that time will definitely be to clean out the tombs of the high-level trolls that still have their bones. In other words, once out, Mu You will no longer have the chance to absorb the corpses of high-level trolls.
But he was a little reluctant to ask Mu You to fill it with ordinary troll corpses. Filling ordinary corpses would reduce the quality of the urn, and it was easy to mix the ashes in, but it was difficult to separate them. .
Mu You shook his head and decided to wait until later to see if there was any chance of finding other troll burial sites.
There have been so many trolls who have died in history, it is impossible for them all to be buried in this place...
At this time, the riot in the entire crypt had reached its climax.
Countless trolls patrolled the tunnels like carnivals, and there was almost no quiet place in the entire tomb.
Mu You was already struggling at this time, and trolls kept passing by his body.
He was almost trying to survive in the cracks, moving forward bit by bit with difficulty. If it hadn't been for the time pocket watch that provided him with enough error tolerance, Mu You would have died hundreds of times by now.
On the last stretch of the road, Mu You struggled for half an hour before finally arriving.
Now this defensive intensity has almost reached the limit of his stealth. If he upgrades it again, he will be completely unable to move.
So Mu You has made up his mind to retreat after absorbing this last one.
As a result, when he came to the last cemetery and took a look, he was stunned.
At this moment, in front of the tomb in the corner, there was a troll standing straight on the spot, seemingly guarding the tomb.
This is a troll axeman with a green face and fangs. Different from the generally thin troll warriors, this troll is covered with strong muscles and covered with bloody tattoos. He holds a giant ax in his hand and has a Carrying two short spears.
[Level 15 troll berserker: attack power 100-135, health value 9500, magic value 500, abilities: soul purification, spear throwing, mad fighting bloodline...]
Level 15, which is not too high. Judging from the name, he is not a high-level troll, just an ordinary troll warrior. However, this is the first person Mu You has encountered who is guarding a cemetery without moving. Is he trying to fish?
The other trolls have already become ants on the hot pot outside, so they are just sitting here fishing. Are you embarrassed?
Mu You had no choice but to hide and wait aside, hoping that this guy would leave quickly after enough rest so as not to delay him from robbing the tomb.
However, after waiting for ten minutes, the troll still stood motionless in place, like a wax statue.
During this period, there were continuous alarms outside, and even a few trolls came nearby, shouting something to it, as if to let it go out to patrol together, but they were ignored by the other party.
Now Mu You could see clearly. This guy didn't seem to be fishing, but was carefully guarding the tomb behind him.
Mu You looked a little strange. Aren't all trolls wild monsters? How could an ordinary soldier behave so rationally?
But the more this happened, the more Mu You became interested: Could this tomb contain some big shot among the trolls?
To be able to be guarded by such a loyal and rational troll, none of the tribal chiefs in the tomb had such treatment before.
(End of chapter)
