"No. E131 on the fifth floor, um... it should be right, right?"
The spiral staircase did not seem to be too long, but Duan Qing felt that he had walked for a long time, as if the length of this stone staircase was not as short as he saw. In the surrounding tower-shaped space, there was a slight gap between the brown walls and the stairs. However, when Duan Qing tried to study the brick joints in those walls, he didn't even touch them. ——Like an illusion produced in the line of sight, the wall also retreated as Duan Qing stretched out his hand, and then stood again on the far side of the stairs where Duan Qing was.
"You are trustworthy in the magic skills of the Principality."
Wandering in the illusory magic space may be a little uneasy for ordinary people, but Duan Qing himself enjoys it. This is not only the confidence brought by his game experience, but also the certainty that the law is still here. The results within the Fortress. However, his desire to study this place seemed to be impossible to realize, because the last words left by the quartermaster before he came in were always reminding him.
You only have five minutes...is that what they say?
Recalling the content of these prompts in his mind, Duan Qing finally climbed to the top five floors, and then found the place where his key should be used in this space that was not much different from the first floor. He confirmed the number on his key again, and then looked at the small door with the same number in front of him. In the end, he couldn't see anything fishy, so he simply opened it.
Fortunately, he was in the right place.
"My requirements are not high... just give me some clothes that are almost usable!"
With a creaking and twisting sound, the wooden door slowly retreated, revealing the scene inside to Duan Qing's eyes. He had imagined what the inside of the hut would look like, and even imagined that it would be empty except for the things he was supposed to receive. However, the scene behind the door still exceeded his expectations.
This seems... to be a place where a person has lived.
Wooden walls, warm fireplaces, green potted flowers and plants, simple tables, chairs and benches, everything shows the warmth of this place to those who come here, and the warmth that the people who have lived here have enjoyed. But these are not the first things Duan Qing noticed. It can even be said that... everyone who comes in will have the same reaction as Duan Qing, first focusing on the narrow square table across the room.
Bottles and jars containing various unknown liquids were placed on the left and right sides of the square table, and directly in front of the square table, a wooden photo frame was quietly placed there, perhaps due to the distance. Duan Qing couldn't see clearly what was inside the photo frame.
In fact, he was not in the mood to think about this problem anymore.
"No..."
His brain was shaking involuntarily. Duan Qing held it in for a long time before slowly squeezing out a few words: "You really want to give me a lot of potions..."
As if countless mythical beasts were racing through his heart, Duan Qing grinded his teeth for a long time, and finally raised his right hand, wanting to throw the legendary fifth-level key to the ground, but the next moment he discovered that this was impossible to do. The thing - the small key that led him here disappeared from his hand at some point.
"Remember, you only have five minutes after you open the door."
Vitak's original words suddenly echoed in his mind, and Duan Qing finally understood the true meaning of those words. The quartermaster's smile appeared in front of his eyes. He beat his chest bitterly for a while, and finally gave up. Ending his fight against fate, he lowered his head and walked to the front of the square table: "If I don't move, there will be nothing... Sigh, I should have known better and wouldn't have opened the door in a hurry."
"So angry..."
Taking out a cloth bag from his waist - this is one of the common items for adventurers in the free world - Duan Qing looked back and forth in front of the table for a few times, then reached for one of the golden potion bottles and grabbed it: "I hope you can give me a surprise... Huh?"
The scene that happened in front of him really gave him a surprise - he grabbed an empty hole with his hand, and then passed directly through the bottle.
"this……"
With an inexplicable light in his eyes, Duan Qing moved his gaze away from the table and moved it to every corner of the room. The wooden walls, tables and chairs, the fireplace, the candlesticks on the table, the flowers and plants on the ground... everything seemed so real, even the firewood burning in the fireplace was making a crackling sound. But when Duan Qing walked to them and stretched out his hand to touch them, the result he got was the same as that of the potion bottle.
"Such a real illusion... hum." Then Duan Qing shook his head: "What a pity..."
"I am someone who has seen the Emerald Forest."
His eyes scanned the room again, looking for the key to everything here. Finally, he walked back to the square table filled with potions and tried to pick up the white photo frame. The touch of nothingness once again proved the illusion of the object in front of him. He shook his head, then held his knees, trying to take a closer look at the appearance of the person in the photo frame.
His purpose failed again, because the piece of paper in the photo frame was blank, and it seemed that it was unrecognizable due to its age.
"Even if it fades, it should leave a little outline, but you didn't even design a head. It's really insincere... Well, what is this?"
Duan Qing looked carefully at the front of the photo frame - a piece of paper that had been rolled into a tube was spread there, with some remains of vegetation mixed in. It seemed that a bouquet of flowers had originally been placed here, but it had withered due to the passage of time. Gone. Duan Qing stared at this picture, and finally settled on a small wooden box between the photo frame and the white paper.
"Hey……"
I don't know how many times he reached out his hand, touched the wooden box, and then... successfully picked it up.
"You are the one."
He opened the box and saw a necklace lying inside.
【Elesis's Embrace (Epic)】
[Defense ability: none]
[Equipment requirements: Spirit 10]
[Intelligence +1, Spirit +2]
[Special effect: Poison Guard, greatly improves your resistance to poisonous damage. 】
[Special effect: Toxic recovery. When you cause toxic damage, you will recover a certain amount of health. The amount of recovery depends on the amount of damage and the character's mental value. 】
【Seal:0/3】
["I would like to dedicate this work to the person I love most. The radiance in your eyes and the warm embrace will always be the beacon that illuminates my path forward."]
【——Marla H. Kerrien】
"Huh...hehe."
Duan Qing exhaled and then laughed: "Haha, haha, hahaha..."
"Poison resistance necklace..."
His laughter died down.
Resistance has always been an indispensable part of fantasy games, because magic occupies half of the world. Therefore, in order to fight against this powerful force, resistance has become an inevitable method in this world. However, compared with common magic elements such as earth, fire, water, and wind, other damage resistance and defense methods are still relatively rare in the free world. The same is naturally true for toxin-related content, but since Duan Qing has seen it in this game After being hurt by toxins, he knew that resistance in this area would one day appear in the world, but he did not expect that he would get one first, and it would be of epic quality.
However... this necklace seems to hide a few more secrets, and it is a bit more targeted, a bit too strong... a waste of its epic foundation.
"Do all purple clothes in the free world have this characteristic?" Taking out the silver-white necklace from the small wooden box, Duan Qing murmured: "It is very useful in the hands of some people. In the hands of some people, it is useless at all... Or something like this, a prop that specifically suppresses certain attribute damage... Huh?"
The picture of "soaking in the poisonous pool to recover blood" that was still imagining in his mind disappeared. Duan Qing read the instructions carefully, and then his face darkened again: "The damage I caused? It's not the damage I received? Asshole. …”
"If it weren't for the bite of the black snake, this necklace would be like useless wood to me..."
Complaining these words, Duan Qing still reluctantly took this exquisite necklace into his arms, and then watched the picture in front of him gradually distort, and finally turned into the appearance of an ordinary empty room - seemingly lost With the support of some kind of force, the illusion in the hut disappeared. Apart from the masonry walls, the only thing left before Duan Qing's eyes was the old square table where the small wooden box was placed.
"It seems... the secret hidden in this necklace is quite deep." Duan Qing whispered: "But I like it."
"You didn't trick me this time. I just prayed to God and prayed to Buddha... Hmm, how should I get out?"
As if he had forgotten his previous vow not to believe in metaphysics, Duan Qing made a fair evaluation of this lottery, then walked out of the small door and began to look for the way out. However, the situation he encountered was different from what he had experimented with before. Same, even the wall looked like a shy girl, not even letting him touch it.
"Strange, could it be that the time has not come yet? Or did I understand it wrong again?"
After mentally estimating the length of five minutes, Duan Qing looked back and forth at the situation on this floor a few more times, and then walked towards the location of the stone staircase: "It's nothing, anyway, let's just visit for a while..."
The spiral staircase ended at his floor just like the one he came before. The stone staircase in front of him only spiraled downwards, with no upward path. However, Duan Qing did not rush downstairs, but stopped at the top of the stairs and observed: "Well..."
"Is this the top floor?"
Subconsciously reaching out his hand, Duan Qing touched the side of where he was. He thought that the scene in front of him would still fly back as before, but just when he raised his hand, the ring on his finger A certain ring suddenly lit up with a bright white light. Involuntarily reaching out to cover his eyes, Duan Qing turned his head to the side, and waited until the bright light slowly faded before turning it back again - a dark, half-open iron door replaced the original position of the stone walls. , appeared in front of Duan Qing.
"Oh my God..." He exclaimed: "Is it really possible?"
Looking at the ring on his finger, he carefully pushed the door open a little more, and then used the light from the tower to see clearly the scene behind the door: at the junction of light and shadow, another stone staircase quietly walked along The outer edge of the stone wall stretched upwards and then disappeared into the dark shadows.
"The fifth-level key is on the fifth floor..." With excitement in his eyes, Duan Qing said in an exciting voice: "Then..."
"What's on the sixth floor?"
He pushed open the iron door and walked in. The next moment, a bright light surrounded his body, seeming to transport him to another place. After waiting quietly for the light to disappear, Duan Qing opened his eyes and found himself in a dark corridor. The sight in front of him attracted his footsteps and made him walk out slowly. It was not until his body completely appeared outside that those familiar figures and voices reappeared in front of him.
"Ah! Brother Qingshan is out!"
"Brother Mo, how are you?"
"Have you released any epic equipment?"
"Yes, yes... Hey, what's wrong with you? Can you say something?"
In the chaos of chatter, Duan Qing's eyes flickered for a long time, and finally he uttered a sentence with trembling lips: "Cheating..."
"This is really cheating!"
The extremely familiar shout appeared again at the door of the arms depot. Several players in the distance looked over there when they heard the sound, and then sighed silently.
"Look, another one is crazy."
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What happened after that was very simple, because after Duan Qing explained what he saw inside and what he got, he expressed his willingness to leave - this was something he had already thought about.
"Brother Mo, is there something urgent that needs to be dealt with somewhere else..."
"No, I may stay here for a while and check out other battlefield dungeons."
"Let's go together then! Why..."
"I'm only suitable to be a wild man, not a member of a fixed team."
Under the night, Duan Qing, who had just had dinner together, took the trouble to explain: "During the previous battle, you should have noticed that my position in this team is still somewhat in conflict with you."
"Brother Mo, what are you talking about? When it comes to being a loner, isn't Xiaomu much better than you..."
"So he is also a savage."
Duan Qing said with a smile: "The savages...should have the same consciousness as him. If you get benefits, you must share them, and if you bear troubles, you must make up for it. Besides..."
"I heard you mention it before. There should be a few teammates in your team, right? What will you do if they come back?"
Colorful Spiritual Light fell silent.
"Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain. I'm not the guy who wants to hang out here in the future. Sooner or later I have to leave." Duan Qing looked at the other person and then at the other two people behind him: "So, I'd better be honest. It’s more appropriate to be a savage.”
"Sigh... But if you leave like this, some people will be sad."
Qicai Lingguang whispered these words, and then looked towards a certain direction in the distance with Duan Qing - when he proposed to leave the team before, the angry red-haired girl gave up on him and had always been able to eat. The food that didn't come down, he threw the bowl and chopsticks and ran out of the tavern. At this time, he stood far away, as if he was not interested in their conversation at this time. As if sensing something, Qian Zhihe, who had not expressed anything before, also looked here at this time, then snorted coldly, and turned his head away.
"poor child……"
"Don't be offended, Xiao Qian has this kind of character." Qingtian on the side said: "But you... maybe I asked too many questions, so..."
"..."
This time, Duan Qing did not answer immediately. He looked up at the patio in the middle of the fortress and the part of the beautiful starry sky revealed above, and answered after a long time.
"It's nothing." He laughed: "It has nothing to do with you." (To be continued.)
