Seeing that the undead army successfully prevented the barrier from closing, Caesar did not immediately walk out of the entrance and return to the desert. Instead, he turned back and looked at the tall tower standing in the center of the oasis.
The lighthouse is the core of this divine realm, the palace that the Djinn once built for himself, and also the hiding place of the Pen of Order.
Caesar knew very well that someone dared to come here with a magic lamp and would rather release him than break in. The purpose must be the magic pen in the lighthouse!
This is an artifact that he has been waiting for for thousands of years. How can he let others get it first?
Caesar hurriedly moved the giant's body and rushed towards the lighthouse.
On the other side, in a cave somewhere in the oasis.
Bing Lanqing was being kept under house arrest in this slightly damp and gloomy cave, huddled in the corner, motionless. The cave entrance not far away was covered by a transparent barrier, preventing it from escaping.
Outside the cave, a stone frog covered in colorful beads was lying on a piece of bluestone. Its cheeks bulged and it made a frog sound from its mouth. It closed its eyes and rested. The two frogs were sleeping on their own. , no one bothers anyone.
Until a certain moment, Bing Lanqing, who was sleeping in the cave, suddenly opened his eyes, jumped to the entrance of the cave and looked outside anxiously.
Just now, it suddenly felt the presence of the 'Magic Fungus Spore Sac', which was her father's prop and later fell into the pocket toad's mouth.
In other words, Pocket Toad has gotten in here!
Following Bing Lanqing's movements, the stone frog on the bluestone outside the cave immediately opened its eyes.
Seeing Bing Lanqing, who was always extremely cold on weekdays, suddenly appear at the entrance of the cave with an anxious look on his face, Shi Frog's eyes lit up and he hurriedly jumped in front of the cave and said attentively: "Xiao Bingbing, are you hungry?" ?I have fresh food here!”
As he spoke, the stone frog opened his mouth and spit out a bunch of dragonflies, grasshoppers and other small creatures, rolled them with his tongue and sent them into the barrier.
"Eat quickly, they were just caught today, guaranteed to be fresh!" Shiwa looked at Bing Lanqing fawningly.
Bing Lanqing looked at the pile of bugs with mucus on the ground, with disgust on his face. The reason why it has been on a hunger strike here is not because it really wants to die to prove its ambition, but simply because all the food provided by this guy is spit out in front of it. It is so damn disgusting, who can eat it?
Seeing Bing Lanqing's indifferent look, Shiwa opened his mouth and was about to say something, when he suddenly heard a giant roar from the distance and was startled.
"No, my master is calling me... I'm sorry, Xiao Bingbing, I have to leave first!" After Shiwa finished speaking, he immediately turned around and prepared to jump away.
Bing Lanqing in the cave hurriedly said: "Wait! If you let me out, I will go too!"
"Quaa?"
Shiwa looked back at Bing Lanqing in shock. He couldn't believe his ears, and then he was ecstatic: "Xiao Bingbing, you finally figured it out and are you willing to accept me?"
"Get out! My husband is here, I want to see my husband!" Bing Lanqing scolded mercilessly.
"What?"
The stone frog's eyes suddenly widened. The word 'husband' was like a sharp arrow that pierced its petrified heart, causing it to feel a twinge of pain in its heart. The stone frog's skin turned red visibly to the naked eye, and he was furious: "Okay, then I will kill it with my own hands in front of you to make you give up!"
"You dare!" Bing Lanqing immediately grinned at it angrily: "If you dare to kill him, I will commit suicide!"
"Xiao Bingbing, you... would rather sacrifice yourself for other frogs than accept me?" Shiwa covered his heart, feeling that his stone heart was stung again, and he was in pain.
"So you'd better give up. No matter how long you imprison me, it's useless. It's not sweet if you force me to do it. It's impossible for us to be together!" Bing Lanqing snorted coldly.
Another knowing critical blow, Shiwa covered his chest and rolled on the ground in pain.
After a while, Shiwa calmed down, stood up and looked at Bing Lanqing again, his eyes gloomy, and with a wave of his right paw, the barrier in front of the cave suddenly dissipated.
"Well, I will definitely prove to you that I am better than any frog! I will use my actual actions to make you change your mind!"
After saying that, Shiwa no longer cared about Bing Lanqing's reaction, turned around and jumped in the direction of the lighthouse.
Bing Lanqing was a little stunned when she looked at the barrier that opened in front of her. She couldn't believe that it was released so easily.
Seeing the figure of the stone frog disappearing quickly in front of him, Bing Lanqing hesitated for a moment, but still hurriedly followed.
…
At the same time, Mu You's figure had already appeared under the lighthouse first, and under the guidance of the troubadour, he successfully opened the stone door under the tower with the magic lamp.
After the enchantment of the Djinn Realm was opened just now, Mu You secretly asked Coke to do some tricks, transforming Caesar who appeared in the entrance into a walking 'cat stick'.
As we all know, no cat can resist the temptation of a cat teaser, so as soon as the entrance opened, a group of cats immediately rushed towards Caesar.
Mu You also took advantage of Caesar's gaffe and sneaked in. Under the guidance of the troubadour, he arrived at the lighthouse as quickly as possible.
"Rumble..."
Under the dim light of the magic lamp, this tower, which had been silent for thousands of years, finally opened for the first time. As the two stone doors in front of him trembled and moved apart, a dark and deep entrance appeared in front of Mu You.
Keke trotted to the stone door and took a careful look inside. Then he seemed to see something terrifying. He quickly backed away and hid behind Mu You. He said with lingering fear: "Mu You, it's dark inside, like a haunted house." Yes, there is definitely a problem! Let’s go back quickly!”
"Then you can just stay outside and wait."
Mu You said casually, and quickly checked the things on his body to make sure that he had everything he should bring with him, and then he felt relieved.
"Quack!" Frogzi called out aggrievedly on his shoulder, a little anxious.
"Don't worry, after I get the magic pen and destroy the enemy, I will have plenty of time to help you find a wife!" Mu You comforted it, then took the oil lamp in his hand, took a breath, and stepped into the darkness in front of him.
Looking at Mu You's disappearing figure, Coke hesitated for a moment, but chose to stay outside the door. He looked around suspiciously, and immediately prepared to find a corner nearby to hide.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a loud roar came from behind.
Cola looked back and saw a huge blue-skinned giant flying towards the lighthouse at an unimaginable speed. The ferocious aura that seemed to crush everything made Cola suddenly frightened. He tucked his tail and jumped into the stone door in front of him without thinking.
A moment later, Caesar's huge body also appeared in front of the tower.
As soon as he saw the stone door open in front of him, he immediately let out an unwilling roar again, and then transformed into a blue light and penetrated into the stone door.
The scene fell silent for a while.
Until tens of seconds later, two frogs walked through the jungle and jumped one after another. It was Shi Frog and Bing Lanqing.
The stone frog jumped in front of the entrance and did not rush in. Instead, he turned back and shouted to Bing Lanqing: "Xiao Bingbing, it's very dangerous here. You wait for me outside first, and I'll go... uh..."
Unfortunately, before it could finish speaking, Bing Lanqing jumped over it and plunged into the darkness inside the door.
"Wait for me, Xiao Bingbing..." Shiwa hurriedly followed.
As the two frogs also disappeared from the entrance, the scene became completely silent.
…
Mu You only felt that the light in front of his eyes dimmed. When he opened his eyes again, he had appeared in a dark and deep passage, and the shadows of the frog and the troubadour beside him had all disappeared.
The first thing I did after entering the tower was to quickly check my belongings, because the genie had reminded me before that some props might not be usable during the test of the magic pen.
Mu You originally guessed that maybe there was a rule that props other than relics could not be used...
However, the results of this examination made him even more desperate.
Not only the props except the relics, but at this time, except for a suit of ordinary clothes, all the magic props on his body disappeared!
Not only that, even the magic power in his body disappeared completely, and his body also degraded back to the ordinary state without any attribute blessings before becoming a player.
It was difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. He was accustomed to a high-level body. Suddenly losing all his strength at this moment made Mu You feel an unprecedented emptiness.
"So this trial must be conducted in the form of an ordinary person?" Mu You frowned secretly.
After checking his physical condition, Mu You had time to explore his surroundings.
Looking to the left and right, there were walls on both sides. There were some dots of material embedded in the stone walls, providing a faint light to prevent it from being completely dark. Mu You looked up and saw that the stone wall above was so high that he couldn't climb over it with his current body.
Looking back, there was a wall behind him, blocking his way.
In other words, the only way to go is forward...
Mu You looked at the deep darkness ahead, exhaled, and walked forward.
Before he had gone far, a mechanical clicking sound suddenly came from the darkness ahead, as if his footsteps had disturbed something.
Mu You looked up, and in the faint light of the passage, a mechanical beast in the shape of a war horse slowly walked out of the darkness ahead.
"hiss……"
After discovering his figure, the war horse immediately stopped, raised its head and let out a whine. Then it lowered its head, revealing the sharp horn on its forehead. At the same time, its left front hoof began to kick on the ground. It was a precursor to an imminent attack.
At the same time, Mu You felt something suddenly holding in his hand.
Looking down, he discovered that there was a writing brush in his hand. It was as long as an ordinary wand. Except for the bunch of wolf hair at the top, the whole shape looked like a dead branch that could be seen everywhere.
[The pen of illusory order! 】
The moment he saw the pen, the name of the pen automatically came to his mind.
Fake pen of order...what does this mean?
Do you want him to use this money to kill this robot horse?
Mu You looked at the horse ahead with a strange expression.
It's a pity that there is no time for him to think about it.
After a burst of kicks, the war horse swung its hooves and charged towards him suddenly.
Mu You looked stern. If it were before, he wouldn't have cared about such a low-level mechanical beast and could easily solve it with a casual strike.
But now, after losing all his power and regressing back to an ordinary person, this robot horse can kill him in various ways!
Seeing the roaring charge of the war horse, Mu You hurriedly dodged to the side, jumped up, stepped on the stone wall, and jumped over the head of the war horse. With the help of some parkour skills, he finally narrowly avoided the collision.
However, the moment he held the brush tightly and leaped over the war horse to land, he suddenly found that the perspective in front of him changed. The war horse in front of him turned into a solid "rune body", densely packed with numbers and runes. They were neatly arranged together according to a certain pattern, and finally gathered into this mechanical creature.
In addition, the stone walls on both sides and the ground beneath their feet have also turned into walls composed of runes.
Mu You looked down and realized that even himself had turned into a humanoid digient composed of countless runes.
"Is this the power of the Pen of Order?"
Mu You immediately thought of this.
Everything in the world is composed of order, and the ability of this pen is to allow him to see through the appearance of things and see the entity of order within.
The test of the Pen of Order should not give him an impossible task. It seems that the 'Perspective of Order' in front of him is the real test for him...
Mu You hurriedly looked up at the war horse.
At this moment, thousands of mysterious runes are circulating in the body of the war horse in a unique order.
For Mu You, who had never been exposed to the laws of order, he could not understand any of the runes, but this did not prevent him from discovering the slightest imperfection in these runes.
Near the liver of the war horse, one of the runes is crooked and mixed among the neat runes, making it look particularly awkward.
It felt like one of the gears in a perfectly functioning precision instrument was missing a corner. As the gear set kept jamming, it made him suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder.
"Perhaps this is the weakness of this war horse?"
Mu You suddenly felt that he had found a trick. If this was the opponent's weakness at the rule level, then just by amplifying this weakness, he might be able to kill the war horse, or at least stop it.
As for how to zoom in... Mu You looked at the pen in his hand.
This pen is obviously the 'weapon' provided to him in this test, a weapon used to change the rules!
"hiss……"
In a brief moment of thought, the war horse in front had turned its head, neighed again, and stamped its hooves towards him.
Mu You took a breath and held the brush like a dagger.
Seeing the horse charging towards him, he leaped up, stepped on the wall again, turned over at the same time, and thrust his right hand towards the horse's back.
Unfortunately, he underestimated the speed of the war horse and overestimated his own ability, so the thrust missed his grandma's house.
Mu You shook his head secretly and subconsciously reached into his pocket to press the pocket watch.
The result was exactly the same but came up empty.
Mu You was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that he no longer had a pocket watch to use.
Mu You was a little embarrassed. The pocket watch dependence caused by his long-term fighting habit made him instinctively want to go back and start over once he failed.
It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in this trial, and there is only one chance for all actions, so everything can no longer be as careless as before.
Mu You took a breath after landing, held his breath and concentrated on staring at the horse in front of him that suddenly stopped and turned around.
A few seconds later, the war horse charged towards him again.
In this narrow passage, there is little room to hide, either up or down.
This time Mu You made the choice.
The moment the horse rushed towards him, he slid his shovel under the horse and grabbed the saddle of the horse. He then looked at the horse's belly and stabbed upwards with the brush in his right hand.
This time it finally hit!
The soft tip of the pen was now like the hardest and sharpest dagger in the world, easily piercing the steel body of the war horse and accurately hitting the uneven rune inside.
The moment the pen tip crossed over the rune, it automatically shattered and disappeared, and the two surrounding runes were also scratched, becoming crooked and on the verge of breaking.
"Woo..."
The war horse whined, and the left front foot suddenly seemed to be broken, and it staggered.
"It really works!" Mu You's eyes lit up.
The next moment, the war horse swung its body wildly, trying to throw Mu You off it.
Mu You didn't insist, so he stopped as soon as he felt good. He rolled out from under the horse's belly, jumped up after landing, held the brush tightly again, and took a defensive posture.
The war horse in front was probably offended. This time, he didn't give him any time to react. He turned around, snorted and rushed towards him at high speed.
However, Mu You, who had gained experience this time, was not panic at all. He saw the right moment when the war horse came and jumped up again. However, he did not think about going around the horse anymore. Instead, he grabbed the reins on the back of the horse's neck, and then used his arms to With all his strength, he sat directly on the horse.
The right hand holding the pen was raised and stabbed from the side of the horse's body!
The tip of the pen once again eliminated a deflected rune, but Mu You was still not satisfied and raised his hand to stab down again.
A series of runes around him were continuously eliminated by Mu Youzha.
Mu You is not sure what the meaning of each of these order runes is. In short, they are just random destruction.
After stabbing for more than ten times in a row, the order of the runes in the war horse's body was turned upside down. The war horse finally let out a scream, and the forward speed became slower and slower. After swaying left and right for a while, it completely fell to the ground and never recovered. Made a sound.
"Finally solved..."
Mu You got off the horse. After the battle, he felt bursts of burning pain all over his body. When he lowered his head, he saw that there were large scratches on his body, all of which were injuries from the fight with the horse just now.
And this is only the first monster. Mu You believes that the test of the Pen of Order will definitely be more than that simple. The most troublesome thing is that he has no way to recover now, so what will happen if his health bar is not enough and he dies? ? Did the test fail directly?
(End of chapter)
