What was in front of everyone was a three-way intersection, but among the three roads on the left, middle and right, only the middle intersection was blocked by a thick copper gate.
"Everyone, we have to divide our troops into two groups." After reading the words carved on the door, Yun Ming learned how to open the door: "There are two grooves on the door. We need to find one on each of the two roads next to it. Keys, then bring them back and insert them into the corresponding grooves.”
Benita stretched her head forward and took a closer look: "The shapes of these two grooves are so strange, one is square and the other is oval."
"Well, the key mentioned in the inscription on the door should be just a general term. In fact, it is more like a token of some kind."
Bai Fei suggested: "It will definitely not be easy to obtain such key props. It is either fighting monsters or solving puzzles. Let's just explore together on the same path. There is strength in numbers."
"Sorry, the game planner didn't give us a chance to take advantage of the situation." Yun Ming pointed to some text on the door: "It says here that only two people can pass on the left and right roads."
"Okay, so how do we allocate manpower?"
"Isn't it tiring to work with men and women?" Pu Cheshi still did not forget to give Yun Ming an assist.
Unfortunately, Yun Ming vetoed his proposal: "No, boys will be paired with girls. I am a shooter who plays with guns. If I want to fight monsters, I must at least have a warrior in front of me."
The Pu chariot attendant still refused to give up: "Bai Fei is also good at melee combat."
"But what if the way to get the key is to solve the puzzle?" Yun Ming asked rhetorically. The implication of this sentence is that Pu Cheshi and Benita are both somewhat different in aspects that require using their brains.
After Yun Ming pointed out his weakness, Pu Che Shi had no choice but to give up: "Then let's do it."
"OK, I will protect our magician." Bai Fei protected Benita behind her and looked at the two roads for a while: "It seems there is no difference, which way are you going?"
"Men on the left and women on the right?"
"Can."
The four of them were grouped into groups and agreed to gather at the fork in the road an hour later. Benita summoned another light elf and handed it to Yun Ming and Pu Che Shi. The two groups waved goodbye and walked into their respective passages.
Let’s take a look at the boys’ group first. This time the leader is the Pu Che Shi who has excellent armor protection.
"Yun Ming, don't you think one hour is not enough? After all, it will take time on the way back and forth."
"It's okay, this is just a side mission, it won't take us to a distant place. Besides, you can see the status of your teammates in the mission bar. If Bai Fei and Benita are injured by wild monsters and cannot join us, , we can also know in time.”
"If you die, you will be eliminated directly. The system will prompt you. In the three situations of [surviving], [injured], and [dying], just pay more attention to the task bar and you will know. It is not a big problem." Yun Ming has some thoughts on the difficulty of this script. Confidence, based on experience, should be considered an average level.
"[Master Keslin] is still in a state of survival. It's really difficult for him. He can still support himself until now without teammates." Pu Cheshi was glad that the player randomly selected by the system to be alone was not him.
Yun Ming strongly agrees with this: "This script is set in a dark sewer. If I were alone, I would probably be very scared."
"Huh? Don't you have any prop cards or skill cards for lighting?"
"There are flashlights, but the effect of dispelling darkness is not as good as night pearls and light elves. If it is not a large-area lighting, tools like flashlights can even amplify fear, because you will involuntarily think of what unknown things are hidden in places that are not swept by the light beams. …”
These words made Pu Chai's waiter get goosebumps: "Don't say it, I've already started thinking wildly."
Yun Ming chuckled: "Human beings' fear of darkness is one of the most instinctive and primitive reactions. Before Homo sapiens learned to control flames, he fell into panic every night. This mentality lasted for tens of thousands of years, and was finally preserved It has entered the depths of our DNA and is still influencing modern people today who have a rich night life and should not be afraid of the dark."
"This theory has no scientific basis, right?"
"I don't know. Maybe after tens of thousands of years of human evolution, the genes adapted to the dark will overwrite the genes that fear the dark." Yun Ming added: "Speaking of this, the insect phobia we discussed before is actually a phobia. A primal fear.”
Pu Che Shi did not agree with this statement: "Would ancient apes be afraid of an insect?"
"It's much earlier than that. Due to climate reasons, the Carboniferous Period more than 300 million years ago gave birth to the era of giant insects that was unique in the history of paleontology. At that time, the ancestors of mammals were extremely weak and were the prey of giant insects."
"So the fear of bugs has been inherited along with human evolution." Pu Cheshi found this view very novel: "Such an analysis seems quite reasonable..."
"Shh, don't talk and listen carefully." Yun Ming suddenly fell silent.
The Puche attendant listened for a while: "The sound of water?"
"Like, but not sure." Yun Ming leaned over to check the ground: "The sewers we walked through before were all abandoned and dry. You can hear a sound similar to water here, and the road has become wet, indicating that there may be a reservoir ahead. .”
From his pocket, Yun Ming took out a [submachine gun] prop card and assembled it: "If there is a pool, the types of monsters I can think of include pythons, crocodiles, and multi-headed sharks. It is more convenient to destroy them with firearms. Do you have any long-range attack props? ? I still have firearm props stuck here."
Pu Che Shi raised a grenade launcher: "Of course, although my main direction is a warrior, I have bought a lot of prop cards and skill cards for other professions in the game mall in case of emergency."
"I'll go... [Grenade launcher] I've wanted to buy it for a long time, but I've been reluctant to buy it, but I just took it out of the hand of a sword-wielding person like you."
"This is the only heavy firepower prop card I have, but this one's lethality is also good." Pu Cheshi materialized the two prop cards and handed them to Yun Ming. He was holding a steel baseball bat in his right hand. It's a sack of baseballs.
Yun Ming took the baseball bat first.
[Name: Explosive Striker]
[Description: Prop card]
[Special Effect: Hit the baseballs to turn them into bombs that explode when they hit the ground! It will not explode if caught by a baseball glove]
[Note: Baseball beginners are advised not to use this item. We have received enough complaints. If you blow yourself up, can it be considered the company's fault? ! ——Madman Department Store]
Compared to the Explosive Hitter, this bag of baseballs is pretty normal except for the remarks.
[Name: A bag of baseballs]
[Description: Prop card]
[Special effects: none]
[Note: Who in the right mind would buy a whole sack of baseballs? Of course it will only be the customers who purchased the Explosion Striker first, right? ! If you want to complain, go to Kuang Ren Department Store! We are just a serious store selling sporting goods! ——Evil Shopping Mall]
"Haha..." Yun Ming tried the feel of the explosive hitter: "This thing is just a grenade making machine, but I have never played baseball."
Pu Che Shi shrugged: "I don't know how to do it either, so I have rarely used it since I bought it. However, Yun Ming, you are a shooting player, so you must have skill cards that improve your hit rate. It is more appropriate to leave it to you than to me." .”
"Okay then." Yun Ming put away the submachine gun and waved the baseball bat twice: "Not to mention its special effects, even if it is used as a melee weapon, it is very handy."
Silent all the way, the two of them walked in the sewer for another five minutes. In addition to the increasingly clear sound of running water, intermittent singing also reached their ears.
"This voice is really scary." Pucheshi shrank his neck. The singing voice made him feel that the end of the road leads directly to the underworld.
Yun Ming's face was extremely solemn: "Pu Che Shi, I can probably guess what kind of monster we are going to face later. Listen to me, don't open your eyes, and shoot six rounds without seeing clearly the first person you meet. Just shoot out all the grenades."
"Yeah." Pu Cheshi's intuition told him that Yun Ming was right.
After walking for another few hundred meters, the structure of the sewer changed. Yun Ming and Pu Cheshi climbed up the steps, and there was a waist-deep river flowing beside them.
"It should be right in front." Yun Ming pointed in the direction of the river downstream. In the dark sewer, there was a trace of light at the corner of the river. In addition, both of their ears could tell that the place with light was also the source of the singing.
"superior!"
Pu Che was wearing a treasure armor and rushed to the corner first. Then...he stretched out his arm, hid his head behind the wall, and cleared the grenade in one breath.
"Good job!" Yun Ming jumped out from behind Pu Che Shi, threw the ball with his left hand and swung the bat with his right hand, and hit the bomb out with an awkward table tennis serving posture.
After several explosions, the singing stopped completely. Not to mention that, Yun Ming took out his submachine gun and fired at the dust that was coming in his face. After finishing the shot, he crouched in the corner and waited quietly for two minutes before calling the Pu chariot attendant to come forward with him.
Behind the corner is a small circular space. The river is divided into two parts against the wall. There is a stone platform of about ten square meters in the middle. Now, the platform is in a mess, and the two culprits are cautious. came up here.
"...What kind of creature is this?" Pu Che Shi kicked the minced meat on the ground. The two people's saturation attack achieved gratifying results: the mermaid in the sewer was blown to pieces, and no shape could be seen at all.
Yun Ming found the key from the broken limbs - a golden square scale that could not be destroyed by explosions. "Let's go. We've got the open-door token. There's no search value here. You don't want to know what we just killed."
