There is a huge "concert hall" suspended in the sky above Polaris.
Decorated mainly with gold and white, the splendid pipe organ forms screens on the left and right wings, surrounding a throne composed of countless percussion instruments in the middle. In the "corridor" formed by the screen, there are two rows of skeletons wrapped in gold and white patterned shrouds. Their bodies have been transformed into musical instruments, from cellos, violins, accordions to clarinets. , trombone, trumpet and other orchestral instruments are all available.
On the throne, sits a skeleton pasted with gold foil. A crown composed of musical notes is worn on the skull's head. Its ribs on both sides have been replaced with mechanical skeleton arms several meters long. The drumsticks and baton are also conducting the concerto of the two orchestras while playing. A solemn holy prayer sonata is beating people's eardrums.
The entire concert hall is large enough to cover the North Star House, and its height almost reaches the ceiling. The sitting golden skeleton has two normal arms resting on its knees, and a pair of empty eye sockets seems to be staring at the earth.
"What kind of monster is this!" Maoyou was shocked when he saw this formation. All the enemies that everyone had faced before were no more than a few people in size, such as the leader Guyu, but they had never encountered such a behemoth.
Lu Ning also feels this way. If nothing else, he can crush most of the previous leaders with just a single blow of his size. Not to mention that as a leader in crisis, he may also be the strongest leader. Tai Ning cannot There is no other means of attack.
"Lu, can this thing really be hit?" Rosa questioned, "Honestly, I don't think I can break such a big thing."
"I don't think you can either." Lu Ning stood at the entrance of the passage and did not continue to be inferior to the courtyard. Now Tai Ning was just conducting the performance, but once the enemy was discovered, he didn't know how he would react.
"Our weapons probably won't be easy to use." Qiao whispered. "With such a large size, we must use those special things. I have seen people use them before, such as explosives and missiles..."
"He's right. Lu, against such an enemy, even if your Crescent Moon is fully charged, it won't be enough to cause fatal injuries. We don't have powerful destructive weapons or props in our hands."
Even Mayuri's three-meter-tall steel giant was dwarfed in front of this large concert hall. Rosa's words were not only a reminder, but also a question.
"It is true that there are no annihilation weapons among the props." Lu Ning thought about this enemy for a long time, and finally felt a little troublesome, "I am not helpless at all, but the benefits of doing so are negative."
"Then don't do it!" Maoyou said quickly, "Who are you going to fight after such a guy comes out? We have no obligation to deal with these leaders. Anyway, it is so big that it can't even get out. As long as we don't do it in the future, Isn’t it okay to come to this courtyard?”
"Lu... I think so too." Ping Na whispered, "How many stars did you get for killing the leader just now? But how much does it cost to deal with such a leader?"
one star.
The value of the big devil is still only one star. Although the leader of Xuanyue Crisis will be given two stars, the value of the leader of the trap does not seem to have increased. This is also one of the issues Lu Ning is considering.
"But we have a big problem now."
"Um?"
"Have you noticed that the winter courtyard... no, I should say that the layout of all courtyards in the small garden is a little different?"
"Oh, you said that, the door is in a different position, right?" Rosa said.
Lu Ning nodded. The four gardens in the small garden were connected in different ways to the three surrounding arc-shaped rooms. For example, in the Autumn Garden, there are triangular doors on both sides and a single door in the middle. The three arc-shaped rooms are not connected internally.
The door of the Winter Garden opens exactly at the two intersections of the three arc-shaped rooms. It is also a triangular door, but there are only two doors connected in this way, and there is no direct path to the outer corridor. To put it simply, the small garden area of the Winter Garden is closed, and the same is true of the Spring Garden, which is designed so that you cannot directly enter the outer corridor through the small garden.
"This means we either have to wait here for five minutes, or we have to step into the courtyard." Lu Ning explained briefly, and everyone looked a little ugly.
Five minutes is not long, but waiting at this time always makes people feel uneasy.
The hesitation didn't last long before he was broken by a broadcast.
[Warning: The weather unlocking of the lower corridor area of the Autumn Garden has begun. The area will be completely closed within ten minutes. The crisis time will be postponed for thirty minutes. All personnel please pay attention to changes in various facilities. 】
As if the situation wasn't bad enough, less than ten seconds after this broadcast ended, another broadcast came:
[Warning: The weather unlocking of the Autumn Garden No. 2 courtyard area has begun. The area will be completely closed within ten minutes. The crisis time will be postponed for thirty minutes. All personnel please pay attention to changes in various facilities. 】
"Someone is planning to fully unlock the Garden of Autumn." Rosa's face darkened. "Otherwise, it would be impossible to unlock areas continuously."
"Lewanska, or someone else. Obviously someone has also received the task of fully unlocking it. Even if he is not willing, he should take the risk now that it is getting more and more difficult to obtain stars."
"Then can we use weather unlocking to deal with this guy?" Rosa pointed at the concert hall in the sky with the anchor.
"I thought about it, but we don't have an invisibility cloak now, so we don't dare to enter the courtyard at all..."
"My score can be exchanged for another one." Maoyou said.
"Well?"
"After just completing that mission, I now have seven stars in my hand." Mao You shook his arm, "Three-level props can be exchanged."
"Where did you find the mission?" Qiao was a little surprised.
"It's just... I dropped by while I was running away."
In this way, the impression seems to be that Maoyou really likes to run around, and he was the first to find the weather unlocking switch. This person is indeed very good at finding things, but he just collects them quietly. It’s pretty cool to have so many stars.
[Warning: The weather unlocking of the inner corridor area of the Autumn Garden has begun. The area will be completely closed within ten minutes. The crisis time will be postponed for thirty minutes. All personnel please pay attention to changes in various facilities. 】
"Someone is indeed doing the unlocking. It's not just Lewanska who is doing it at such a frequency. He doesn't have enough manpower." Lu Ning immediately asked Mao You to exchange something, and something like water soon appeared on his hand. A generally invisible cloak can completely hide one's figure when put on one's body.
"Lu, let me confirm again. If you find the switch, just press it and then come back, right?"
"Don't run away."
"Hey, I don't have anywhere to run, right?" Mao You gestured with his thumb, and the hand disappeared. The invisibility of the invisibility cloak is perfect, sounds, smells and other things also disappear from sight, making it impossible to detect by normal means.
"Hey, Lu, if the Garden of Autumn is really unlocked, wouldn't it be triggered next..." Rosa was a little worried.
"Frostfall."
“You know what the word frost reminds me of?”
"I have a bad history."
"..." Rosa glanced at Lu Ning, so confident that she choked a little, and then said, "The patroller on the ice field."
"I don't know what the outside world is like yet. You know I spend all my time in the alleys."
"Okay, but it's just a word in history. The reason why they are famous is because it should be the last recorded thing before the world became what it is now."
"Are there any famous rumors that we can take precautions against?"
"The cold wind from the north turned everything it passed into frozen soil. The city-states trembled because of it, and the country must be prepared. It seemed that the world at that time had become riddled with holes, and the purpose of the patrols was not clear. They just swept through all the cities they encountered along the way, and then triggered a cold wave in the center of the world at that time. After that, all records were basically interrupted. When history continued again, the mastermind appeared."
"It sounds more like Dahan's supposed enemy."
"Frost, it should mean sending everything into the harsh winter, right? Instead of adding to the already cold cold, the world at that time should still be saved..."
"We don't have to worry about what the world was like at that time. The question now is what level of enemies we have to face." Lu Ning raised his head, "There is still one place left."
[The weather lock in the Autumn Garden has been lifted. From now on, the "Frost" state will be maintained permanently in the Garden No. 1 Courtyard, No. 2 Courtyard, Lower Corridor, and Inner Corridor areas. All units entering the garden are advised to be aware of the cold fog. 】
"Maoyou is a step too late. In this case, only the winter and summer gardens are left without weather unlocking. In other words, the probability of monsters appearing in these two gardens will be much higher than elsewhere. Although the lower corridor of the Autumn Garden makes I find it interesting, but now is not the time to discuss it."
Five minutes have passed, and the elevator behind her can be used, but since Maoyou wants to unlock it, she needs to do something.
Lu Ning stepped into the courtyard. At this moment, she felt the gaze from above. The skeletons of the two orchestras seemed to be looking in this direction. Although they still kept playing, the sacred prayer melody was still playing. A chilling sense of mourning began to mix in.
The golden skeleton stood up from the throne, and the two mechanical arms holding the baton waved harder, leading the orchestra to play an increasingly grand movement. It seemed to feel something, but nothing.
"wrong."
Lu Ning also immediately realized that Tai Ning, the biggest threat, did not focus on him. It just looked up into the sky, as if it just happened to catch up with her step into the courtyard. With her heart trembling, she had already buttoned up her sleeves, ready to use all her means to solve the problem at hand.
At this moment, Mao You finally triggered the alarm in the courtyard.
The music suddenly stopped for a few seconds.
Everything seemed to be in slow motion. Quiet, deathly silence enveloped the courtyard for five seconds. King Taining and his orchestra stood still as if time had been stopped. Only the falling snowflakes from the sky and the sharply dropping temperature told Lu Ning that they were not. in this way.
He could even feel his joints starting to ache, and the cold invaded every inch of his unprotected skin. Lu Ning felt that his blood had solidified at this moment, and the sudden heavy snow that rolled up in the sky completely engulfed his vision. It was terrifying. The cold wind is howling, and a faint lament is played again in the ice and snow.
"Winter's Wound?" Rosa's voice sounded behind Lu Ning.
"What did you say?"
"I said we have to find a place! This is Winter's Wound! The funeral song that guy composed before he died! No wonder this guy wants to appear in this area... Damn it! My finger!"
Lu Ning felt vaguely touched on her shoulder, and then retracted instantly, but something was still stuck to her body.
"Don't touch each other! Don't touch anything! Not even walls! Don't draw your weapons—"
Rosa's voice became smaller and smaller in the wind and snow, but Lu Ning also knew what was happening. She moved her cold and stiff arms, and said with difficulty: "Self-hypnosis."
Her body immediately stopped feeling cold.
The illusion of Bai Shu can be directly exerted on the summoner, and even cause certain real changes. Lu Ning immediately felt less cold, and her stiff limbs became able to move freely. However, this situation was only due to the effect of the illusion. She knew very well that if she really thought that she had the ability to withstand the cold, then she would not end up like the little match girl.
She braved the cold wind and walked to the large room that must be in the No. 2 courtyard. She found that the door had been opened, one hand was stuck to the switch, and Mao You's head was floating in the air with a sad face, looking at her, how she looked and felt. Horror.
"Lu, I, my hand is stuck..."
"Don't touch anything, just break it, you probably won't feel the pain."
"Break it!?"
"Or freeze to death outside, I think you know the choice."
Mao You forced his hand with a grimace, and half of his fingers were left on the switch. Lu Ning glanced at the figures behind him, there were three of them, and then dove into the room.
Mao You, Rosa, Qiao and Ping Na also ran in in embarrassment. In such a short time, the four of them were already covered with ice. Ping Na's face was even purple. What happened to Rosa's hand holding the anchor? They didn't dare to let go.
"It's cold in the room too!" Joe crossed his arms and shivered.
"At least it's better than outside... Haha! A little bit better..." Maoyou said with chattering teeth, "It's too cold, is it snowing?"
"That's right. Don't rush into treatment. Let's observe the situation outside first."
Lu Ning approached the small window on the wall and glanced outside, and found that she could not see anything. The glass was already covered with a thick layer of ice, and from time to time, huge snow particles hit it and continued to thicken the sealing layer.
"What are we waiting for?" Rosa saw Lu Ning's intention.
"Yes... after all, Mao You is a little late, so I am waiting for the crisis to arrive."
[Crisis Alert: All areas of the Autumn Garden have officially unlocked the weather. The weather state in the garden will be completely lifted and will not be returned. The normal crisis arrival time for all personnel will be permanently delayed by two hours.
Trap No. 14 has been triggered. Repeat, Trap No. 14 has been triggered. The special crisis "Frost" will be triggered in all areas except the Spring Garden, so everyone should pay attention. 】
Amidst the howling wind, music, and scraping of snow particles outside, there was an ice explosion.
