The door to the island opens.
Taurus and a young man in a suit walked out from behind the door, glanced at the scene behind the door, and frowned immediately.
At this time, more than a dozen members of the Illuminati not far away rushed over as if they were seeing their relatives.
"President, it's bad, the vice president was ambushed..."
"Three hours ago, the deputy was dragged into the water by something and disappeared..."
"We searched all over the area but couldn't find it. I'm afraid it's already..."
…
Before Taurus could ask, everyone explained the situation in a flurry of words.
Taurus immediately raised his eyebrows when he heard this. In just 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 in, he glanced outside cautiously and decisively closed the door, leaving only the last crack that could no longer be closed.
"You're really vigilant..."
In the distance, Mu You shook his head and controlled the eavesdropping beetle on the island to return.
This situation was obvious. After hearing what happened, Taurus probably guessed that the Geminis had been killed and that someone was probably watching around them, so they simply gave up the search and all other plans and prepared to spend the day behind closed doors.
"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 caution shown by Taurus, in the next day, there must be a lot of security behind the door, and it would be impossible to let a fly in.
After waiting for a moment, Mu You reached out to put away the returning beetle and took off the image crystal on its back.
After inputting magic power, a picture automatically appeared above the crystal, which was exactly the picture taken in front of the door in the previous two hours.
This close-up shot was indeed much clearer than what they could see from a distance. When Mu You finally pulled the door open, he played the shot of just a few dozen seconds several times, focusing on the scene inside the door, hoping that You can see some clues about where the Taurus is hiding.
However, Taurus is not a fool and would not open the door just outside in the wilderness.
Behind the door is a very ordinary wooden room, which seems to be a basement storage room or something.
"Take a look, can you see anything?" Mu You asked Lin Xue for reference.
"Well, move forward..."
Lin Xue watched for a while and then suddenly spoke.
Mu You pulled the progress forward for a few seconds.
"Go forward...yes, right here..."
Mu You enlarged the scene where she stopped.
Lin Xue adjusted her glasses and pointed at a person behind Jinniu. This was a young man wearing glasses.
"His glasses seem to be fogged up."
"Oh?" Mu You was stunned and looked carefully.
This young man is always inside the door, and the light inside the door is relatively dim. It is difficult to see clearly even if the glasses are fogged up, even if it is magnified. Lin Xue also subconsciously pays attention to such details because she wears glasses all year round.
It was only after her guidance that Mu You discovered this clue. Now he scrolled back two seconds and compared the first few frames after opening the door. The lenses of this man's glasses had indeed changed significantly.
"The conditions for glasses to fog up are when they go from a low-temperature, dry environment to a relatively high-temperature and humid environment. Water vapor condenses when it encounters cold and fogs up."
"The temperature in the sea here is about 17 or 18 degrees Celsius now, and the lens opposite the door can fog up so quickly, the temperature should be below 5 degrees Celsius." Lin Xue said.
"Five degrees below..."
Mu You pondered for a moment, this is indeed a judgment condition, but there is only one temperature, and it seems that it is impossible to determine the region. There are too many places on the earth with temperatures 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, getting brighter as it goes out, so the invisible place above should be a skylight or an exit, and the light coming from here It is very weak, indicating that the outside light is not strong, and it can only be the stage when dawn is just dawning in the morning or when dusk is about to fall."
Lin Xue pondered for a moment and said: "The opening time is 10:30, which is calculated according to our country's standard time. With the light on the opposite side, the time should be around 5 am or 7 pm.
Right, according to time zones, the two time periods on the earth are the East 3rd District and the West 8th District. "
"After locking the time zone, combined with the temperature below five degrees, the exclusion range is greatly reduced. In addition..."
Lin Xue said, her finger actually pointed to another location.
Mu You looked at it and saw that 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 clearly seen, but from the basic outline of the content, it can still be seen that this is a landscape painting.
"The last one is this painting. The content is natural and realistic, and from the style point of view, it should be a Western European classical style oil painting... Although this is not absolute, I know there is a city where this style of painting is more popular..."
"Where?" Mu You asked.
"Moscow."
Lin Xue said: "Moscow has the most prestigious oil painting market in the world. It is located in the East Third District, more than five hours behind the time in my country. It should be around five o'clock in the morning, and the average temperature throughout the year is 1-8 degrees Celsius. The temperature also meets the conditions... Actually, we will know whether it is or not as long as we go back and check the temperature in Moscow today."
Mu You looked at Lin Xue in surprise: "You are really amazing."
Just such an ordinary-looking picture, she actually analyzed so much content in a short period of time, and even directly pinpointed the city...
However, this group of people is actually staying in Western Russia...
Mu You looked strange. As far as he knew, the player forces in Russia were allies with the country, because the corresponding empires in the star spirit world on both sides were the Ranel Empire. In other words, their game goals They are consistent, which naturally avoids many conflicts.
This group of people escaped from the country and hid somewhere, but they hid in Russia... Could it be that they were trying to hide under the light?
This is true. According to custom, 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. However, they did the opposite and hid in the territory of an ally force. Capital, this is really hard to notice...
Of course, I won't worry about the specifics of whether it is true or not. Mu You can go back and pass these clues to the national department through the shooter and let them investigate on their own.
"What's next?" Lin Xue asked.
"Let's go. This group of people will definitely not dare to show up next time. There is no point in us staying."
Mu You shook his head. These clues were enough. There was no need to waste time here.
The two then left the vicinity of the island and took a boat to the Devil's Sea.
"From here on, you have to be careful. If you die here, there is no chance of resurrection. Moreover, the bottom of the sea will be more... spectacular." Mu Youyou
"Um."
Lin Xue nodded. Mu You had mentioned this to her before. There were many ghosts in the silence of the seabed here.
And the reason why they come here is of course to gain experience.
Mu You could not move here before, but after Lin Xue's Hellfire explosion, this place full of ghosts has become an experience treasure for them.
Then the two got off the boat and sank underwater.
Mu You took Lin Xue to find an undersea mountain range and stopped on one of the sharp peaks.
Looking down, the mountain peak is at least fifteen meters high.
"This is really, really scary..."
At this time, Lin Xue had already seen countless corpses on the seabed below, as well as the dense ghosts floating on the corpses.
Although she had been mentally prepared before, she was still shocked by the scene in front of her. She did not expect that there was such a huge undead army hidden under the sea.
"The scene is a bit scary, but the experience rewards that follow will make you forget this." Mu You said with a smile.
Now both of them are wearing fish-man masks and can talk normally underwater.
"Get ready, I'm going to attack the monsters."
Mu You said something and immediately jumped off the mountain.
Before landing, an ordinary Hell Fire Technique was already shot out from a distance in his hand.
Hellfire is not a real flame, but a soul fire, so it will not be affected underwater.
The next second, the underworld fire was in one of the
The ghost's body exploded, causing the ghost to let out a shrill howl.
But this time it was like poking a hornet's nest, and the dense ghosts around him suddenly exploded, rushing 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 planted a death scythe on the peak, holding a wand at the same time, facing down the ghost army coming from all directions.
Like Zombie Rising, the visual impact is not that shocking.
The two men immediately raised their wands and began to cast spells continuously, blasting out streams of hellfire.
The damage caused by the Hellfire explosion to the spirit body is as high as 1500 points, and the HP of the ghosts here is generally below 1200 points. They can be almost cleaned up in one wave. Occasionally, some with high HP can be hit once or twice with ordinary Hellfire. 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 shoot a ghost fire in one second, they cannot clear it out.
In the blink of an eye, the entire mountain will be overrun by ghosts.
Fortunately, Mu You must be well prepared if he dares to come.
The moment the ghost climbed up the mountain and was about to attack him, the Fool's Barrier automatically formed around him.
Everything around him was stagnant, and because Lin Xue stood close to Mu You, he was also wrapped in the barrier, enjoying the effect of time stasis, and everything around him became as slow as a snail.
The two finally had enough time to release their magic and clear away the ghosts around them.
"Boom boom boom..."
One after another, the hellfire overlapped and flew out, constantly hitting the ghost climbing up the rock below.
The range of the Hellfire blast is three meters in radius, which is actually not very large. It can hit an average of three or four ghosts at a time. In denser areas, it can affect seven or eight ghosts. Basically, it will be taken away in one wave. The few who are strong will be taken away with ordinary weapons. Magical finish to take away.
At the same time, after the ghosts were bombarded to death, the surrounding remnant soul light balls that were about to dissipate were all automatically attracted by the death sickle, and then swallowed into the inside of the sickle, turning into soul points.
This is also the reason why Mu You specially brought Lin Xue to fight ghosts. The method of controlling corpses in combat requires a huge amount of soul points to be consumed every time.
Last time, Grandma Lin Xue's body was resurrected for only about five minutes, and 170 points were consumed.
Moreover, the bodies they can control are not just those of Grandma Lin Xue.
"My body is in the Black Forest."
This is what Vivian suddenly said to Mu You and Lin Xue yesterday when they were discussing the matter of breaking down the tower.
Although she didn't say it explicitly, the meaning was clear: she didn't mind her body being resurrected in the same way and used by them to deal with the Wizards Association.
Vivian's body is even more powerful. Her level will only be higher than that of Grandma Lin Xue, and her consumption will definitely be greater.
If you want to control two corpses at the same time when breaking the tower in the future, the soul points currently stored in the scythe are simply not enough.
That's why Mu You thought of this sea of death. While coming here to gain experience, he could also replenish some soul points for Lin Xue for future use.
These ghosts have no life span, but they are pure soul bodies after all. After death, each one can replenish one to three soul points according to their level.
As the underworld fire bloomed, the ghosts around him kept falling.
When using this method to spawn monsters, the limit is no longer on time, but on the magic power of the two people. Whether it is natural magic power or ordinary magic power, it is consumed very quickly.
Fortunately for Mu You, the intelligence of his major now has double the crystallization, and the magic power reserve is enough to support him to release sixty or seventy times of hellfire blasts in a row.
But Lin Xue was much worse. Due to the characteristics of her profession, she majored in agility and her intelligence was not high. She could only release Hellfire ten times, which was her limit.
With the slow playback time, the two of them quickly used all their magic power on the Hell Fire. At this time, most of the ghosts within the surrounding attack range have been cleared away.
Seeing that their magic power was about to be exhausted, Mu You immediately pulled Lin Xue and teleported into the sea, and the Fool's Barrier was automatically lifted.
Then the two swam to the sea, took a boat out of the Devil's Sea, and restored their magic power in a safe place outside.
After the crystals are overflowing again, come back and continue to brush the ghost in the same way.
spirit.
A Hellfire blast can harvest about 15 experience points on average. After using up one round of magic power, Lin Xue can probably gain 150 experience points. On Mu You's side, after one round of magic power is used up, he can gain close to a thousand experience points!
In terms of the efficiency of gaining experience alone, this is higher than the previous line of defense farming of murlocs. The only difference is that there is no material reward for farming ghosts.
However, such a brushing method consumes a lot of time. It takes about forty minutes to restore the magic power, plus sailing the boat back and forth. Besides, there is also a time limit for the Fool's Barrier.
After ten consecutive rounds of brushing, today's Fool's Barrier 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 level at level 12 was already 40.
Lin Xue has much less experience than him, only 1570 points, but she is currently at a low level and needs less. With so much experience divided, she has soared from level seven to level nine, and her experience bar is 672/1280. Already halfway through, there are only the last 600 experience points left before reaching the tenth level.
You know, it has only been twenty days since she entered the game!
Upgrading to level ten in twenty days, Muyou believes that this speed must have broken the current upgrade speed record for global beta players.
It's no wonder, after all, no one can be like Lin Xue, who entered the game twice in a row at the beginning of the game, and there are also high-level players who gain experience.
In addition, after finishing this day, the number of soul points absorbed in the Death Scythe has reached 6880 points. Even if the bodies of Granny Lin Xue and Vivian are controlled at the same time, it will definitely be enough.
This trip was fruitful. In addition, it was already eight o'clock in the evening, which was close to the return time. Mu You didn't plan to bother anymore. He had to go to the landing point on the bottom of the sea to see the ghost ship before leaving.
Then Mu You let Lin Xue get into his backpack, and he dived back into the seabed and found the entrance to the landing bend.
There was no need to go through the trouble of switching to ghost form this time, because as soon as he got into the water, the ghosts around him dispersed automatically, making way for him.
Although ghosts have very low intelligence, they still have the basic instinct of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. Mu You and Lin Xue had killed thousands of ghosts in the past day, and they were already like gods of death in their eyes. When they saw him entering the water again, they instinctively felt fear and fled around.
This is also one of the reasons why Mu You stopped gaining experience: because the one-time explosion went too far, it actually created an effect similar to the swamp curse on the seabed, making the ghosts afraid to approach...
Shaking his head, Mu You stepped directly into the sand pit, followed the path of the dead, slid all the way 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 has the hull been restored, but the hull and masts, which were originally full of decay and rust, have also been kept spotless, like a new ship just out of the factory.
"not bad……"
Mu You's eyes lit up when he looked at the brand new ship. This group of ghost crew members was much more reliable than he thought. Not only did they repair the ship, they also made the hull clean and brand new.
He pulled the rope on the side of the ship and jumped onto the deck.
At this moment, on the deck, the boatman was directing other skeletons to carry out the final cleaning work. When they saw Mu You, all the skeletons hurriedly saluted and hurriedly lined up in front of them.
"Captain, the Ghost has been repaired and all cabins have been cleaned. Please take a look!" the boatman reported to Chao Muyou.
"Um."
Mu You walked around the deck and took a look, and found that the biggest change besides becoming cleaner was that many plant branches and leaves naturally grew on the hull. From the deck and the walls of the hull, there were abrupt grow out.
Mu You was not surprised by this. This should be due to the influence of the Tree of Life, which caused the aura of life on the hull to be too strong. Many plant seeds can grow naturally without soil.
Such trivial things have little impact on navigation. Just be careful to prune them regularly and save some wood for later use.
Then Mu You
After entering the cabin and inspecting it, I found that the well-maintained hull and the internal cabins are divided into three levels: the upper and lower floors. In addition to the captain's cabin, treasure room, power room, canteen and hall, there are hundreds of private cabins. It can accommodate thousands of people.
After looking around, Mu You was very satisfied. The ship's cannons and other weapons were all rotten and rotten. However, he didn't intend to use it as a pirate ship anymore. He used it as a transport ship, whether it was transporting people or transporting people. There is plenty of business to be done with goods.
"Captain, what time do 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.
After being imprisoned on the bottom of the sea for more than seven hundred years, the Ghost has finally been repaired. The only thing they are looking forward to now is the moment they see the light of day again by boat.
Mu You didn't whet their appetite, so he got off the boat, placed the storage bottle in front of the bow, and then asked all crew members to push the boat with all their strength until the bottle was stored in the boat.
After all the crew members entered the bottle, Mu You took the bottle away from the ship's landing bend, followed the path of the dead, and returned to the Devil's Sea again.
Then he uncorked the bottle and turned the bottle mouth upward.
The ghost ship in the bottle automatically rushes out of the bottle with the sea water.
The ghost ship, which was freed from its restraints, quickly returned to its original state, and then under the action of buoyancy, it floated up at an increasingly faster speed until it hit the sea surface. Like a whale, it broke through the waves from the sea, jumped into the air, and finally returned to the sea. Along with countless raindrops, they fell back to the water surface and splashed layers of waves.
At the moment they broke out of the sea, all the ghosts on the deck cheered and cried with joy. Even though it was night and there was no sunlight, it did not hinder their excitement to see the sky again after a long period of imprisonment.
At the same time, hints also appeared in Mu You's mind.
[The Ghost has gone to sea, hull status: normal. The maximum carrying capacity is 1,150 people, and 313/1,150 people are currently on board. The ghost ship's course can be set and changed at any time, and boarding personnel can be removed and added at any time. 】
"Heading direction..."
Mu You teleported back to the deck and took out the Compass of Destiny.
After opening it, the compass, which was originally spinning in no direction, quickly stopped in one direction.
Mu You knew without guessing that this was the direction of the empire's capital, because he only had this goal in mind right now.
[Setting the course successfully, current course: the capital of the Ranel Empire, estimated arrival time: 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, it was already 9:40 pm, 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 towards the empire's capital, and then stepped into the teleportation array.
But before returning to the snowfield, he first went to Anning Village, left the chocobo in the watchman's cabin, and then teleported back to the snowfield.
Twenty minutes later, everything was done and the three of them returned behind the door.
After working hard all day, Lin Xue and Xiaoya both said goodbye and left.
Mu You stood guard in front of the door and watched the door close with his own eyes, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
After asking Vivian to help close the door, Mu You fell on the sofa, nibbling snacks to satisfy his hunger, and turned on his mobile phone.
The game is online, still in the cabin.
Mu You first controlled the character to collect the chocobo, and then transferred the equipment and props that needed to be transferred, and armed the character.
After making all preparations, he controlled the character to go out. Taking advantage of the effect of thousands of people and thousands of faces, he swaggered out of the village, then rode on the chocobo and headed to the Misty Mountains.
He was going to find a blacksmith now. It would be fastest to go through the teleportation array, but after all, it would consume his lifespan. With Chocobo, he could still save as much as he could.
[You set off on a chocobo and head to the foot of the southern mountain of Misty Mountain. On the way, estimated time is 2 hours and 10 minutes. 】
Mu You remembered that it used to take 20 hours to go to Misty Mountain, but now it only takes two hours. In other words, 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, so you can rush all the way.
Under it, no monster can keep up with its speed, and there is no need for Mu You to monitor the game at all times.
Then it was time to wait. Muyou had nothing to do, and there was a game hanging in the background. He was just about to browse the forum for a while, when a phone call suddenly came through.
The call came from an old-fashioned mobile phone. This phone had not rang for a long time, and the only person who could call this phone was obviously Lu Yao.
"Did you place the order for "Sunflower" at the World Forum?"
Mu You answered the call, and Lu Yao's voice immediately came from the other side. The first words he spoke made him stunned.
He did take up this task casually the night before, but it was just out of luck, so he didn't expect anyone to contact him so quickly.
"Yeah, what?"
"The reward is two high-quality items?"
"right."
"Then I'll take this order!" Lu Yao said decisively.
