"So many people came to greet us - it seems we have found the right place."
Once again, they climbed over a high metal ridge. The naked swordsman named Jian Beidong smiled and put down the blazing sword on his shoulders. Countless flames of light wrapped around the sword then swayed and covered it. The dust between the metal ruins stirred up bright strips of light in front of the eyes of Xu Yu Liushang who followed him: "...I didn't expect that the compatibility between you and this sword would grow very quickly."
"Of course, I know a little bit about swordsmanship." He gestured a proud thumbs in the direction of the blue-haired woman. Jian Beidong, ignoring the swarming enemies in front of him, replied with a grin: "Although This sword has an overly enthusiastic flame, but in the end it is also part of the sword.”
"It seems that your understanding of swords has risen to another level." Xu Yu Liushang showed a disinterested expression: "It would be great if you could be like him and not only outstanding in your sword attainments."
"Say, what are you talking about? He's not proficient in all the eighteen martial arts, okay?" As if his sore point was pointed out, Jian Beidong jumped up with a look of dissatisfaction: "And now he is not overestimating his abilities. He has become a magician - just wait, if the two of us are dueling now, he will definitely not be my opponent!"
clang!
Above the dark sky wrapped in endless yellow sand, an arc descending from the sky cut through the top of the mountain where metal waste was piled up. The long-range attack that came from nowhere was followed by the one that Jian Beidong suddenly turned around and handed out. The sword edges collided accurately, and his passionate voice was refracted to the bottom of the invisible ridge. Turning around indifferently, the grinning swordsman then faced his naked upper body in front of the army of countless players coming towards him. The blazing sword energy splashing in front of him then seemed to be unafraid. Like a rock in the stormy waves, a huge energy shock wave collided in front of the rapids: "Turning the river for nine days!"
"Hahahaha! It's been a long time since I had the chance to use my sword skills to my fullest!"
The bulging sword energy set off a surging sword river among countless players rushing down the hillside. The large-scale attack uphill also successfully divided the group of players going down the hillside into two halves: "It's Jianbei. Dong’s famous sword skill ‘Grasping Mountains and Rivers Sword’! Assemble the team! Spread out the action!”
"It seems that they have done enough homework on us." He frowned and stopped raising his sword. Jian Beidong unconsciously let out two clear chuckles: "Or... Are we old friends?"
"Since they are the Avengers, they naturally know everything about Tianfeng's past." He was answered by the murmurings that spread out in an arc from the left and right sides of the players watching the teams gather: "We who were once teammates of Tianfeng Of course they have all the information in their hands."
"Well, my set of swordsmanship is indeed not suitable for dealing with scattered elite enemies."
With a beautiful sword flower in his hand, the naked swordsman also restrained his laughing expression: "At this point, I suddenly have a little bit of doubt about the decision of the two of us to rush to disrupt the competition and kick the gym. Suspicious."
"I'm no longer the 'Witch of Time' anyway, and the past information they have is no longer useful." He raised his long hair, murmured and turned around to block several more probing attacks from the distance. : "As for you - you won't make any progress in these three years, right?"
"...Okay, let's change the sword technique." Jian Beidong, who closed his eyes and meditated for a while, opened his eyes again and exuded a lonely and melancholy aura: "Come on, come on. "
"Let me use my travels and experiences over the past three years to weigh you guys down."
Still not losing any momentum and confidence in the "pair of N" combat situation, Jian Beidong, who came up as a group, once again crossed the long sword in his hand in front of these players who were attacking from all sides, once again The crisp sound of swords clashing with each other was also followed by the swordsman's strange and continuous new swordsmanship, extending along the gaps in the ruins of the metal hillside. He ignored the aftermath left by the blazing sword in the swordsman's hand in the direction he left. He didn't seem to be worried about the other party's whispers and then turned around and rushed towards the group of enemy players surrounding him in the other direction. The trajectory of the two front lines, one on the left and one on the right, was like the waves stirred up by two stones thrown into the lake, making a big noise in the direction of the top of the sacred mountain: "——Okay, such a big movement , Aren’t you organizational leaders entrenched here planning to show up?”
"Don't get carried away, woman." Among the countless bright sounds of fighting, a certain player's cold snort and threat also sounded: "Even if you use the attack of those mechanical bodies to attract most of our men, the remaining people It’s enough to deal with you two.”
"Oh, is it so?"
The fine sword energy was scattered on a corner of the hillside with the words of "Xuyu Liushang", forcing a shield warrior who was blocked there to retreat in an instant. Behind the shield warrior, who had received countless blows on the shield surface, Immediately afterwards, a rather experienced archer jumped out and fired an arrow from close range, accurately aiming at the center of Whispering Eyebrow: "Heart-piercing arrow!"
"Is it an archery skill with the effect of 'breaking the body's protective aura'?" The movement of stepping forward was delayed a little by the posture of dodging the arrow, and Xuyu Liushang, who was walking on spinning steps, also gave up his pursuit: "This is to maintain the stability of the encirclement, but -"
"Isn't it unwise to forcefully expose an archer in front of me?"
The long sword in her hand drew countless fine sword energy trajectories to the left and right of the archer who landed on the ground. The blue-haired woman approached the player without giving an inch before the threatening attack from behind was imminent. Having gained the long-range advantage, this experienced archer then became the final balance point in the siege. While retreating, he used the hard bow in his hand to continuously delay the opponent's attack: "Quick!"
"Fixed-point casting—Pillar of Flame!"
The magic wave coming from the distance instantly passed through Xu Yu Liushang's perception, and the steps he was about to move forward were stopped in place by a sudden rising pillar of blazing fire. The female swordsman with her mouth curled then had to turn around to avoid it, turning behind her A series of pursuits followed on both sides of the fire pillar: "It seems that they are not a ragtag group, at least the attack structure is still three-dimensional."
"That's natural. After all, we have endured in that person's shadow for so long." A swordsman player who walked out of the crowd also sighed like this. The long sword in his hand was like a sword piercing the night sky. It landed on Xu Yuliu's chest: "The training skills used to deal with him are used to deal with you. It is also a waste and failure for us."
There seemed to be a different power in the training. The long sword on Xu Yuliu's chest also collided with the opponent's attack during her blocking action, making an inexplicable dull sound. The two energy collisions that competed with each other then began. It was frozen for a moment as if shrouded in stagnant time, and the next moment it flew into the dusky sky with a crisp sound.
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"..."
The two figures who were still heading deeper into the unknown abyss suddenly stopped. The figure belonging to Duan Qing suddenly raised his head. Sensing the abnormality, Xueling Huanbing also hurriedly stopped his movement to continue jumping forward. , looked at the other person's raised head and made a confused voice: "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing." Duan Qing stopped looking upward and pressed his forehead to deny, "Maybe he had some bad premonition and felt a little uneasy."
"...When did your perception become so sharp?" After closing his eyes for a while, Xueling Huanbing finally shook his head and laughed: "If it's because of those soul-chasing chains-"
"No, no new threats have emerged yet." Interrupting the other party's words, Duan Qing reached out and pressed down the blood-red sword blade that Xueling Huanbing raised out of vigilance: "Even if those floating threats really appear, We just try not to fight with the wandering monsters, so that the restraint mechanism will not be triggered."
"But there are still a lot of questions that remain unanswered."
Returning his attention to the road in front of him, Snow Spirit Huanbing observed the surroundings and then let out a new sigh of his own: "For example, why are we violating the rules and jumping down against gravity."
"Well, maybe that's just an extreme case." Following the opponent's tentative steps forward among the metal scraps under his feet, Duan Qing replied with a relaxed look: "After all, the space here is full of distortions. In a state where the gravity near the iron cage is reversed alone, the possibility naturally exists. Although we are watching the monster in the iron cage fly high into the sky, this does not mean that all spaces follow the Same pattern, isn’t it?”
"But there are chains pulling on every iron cage and the metal platform we are standing on." Showing his eager movements, Xue Ling Huanbing continued without turning his head: "I thought those chains were used for pulling. The 'ropes' that pulled the metal platform floating upward, now it seems, they are all ropes used to hang upside down."
"But the ghosts and monsters we encountered appeared in the same direction as us." Duan Qing quickly gave a counterexample to support his side: "Their 'sense of gravity' should also be in the same direction as ours." Xiangcai is right."
"...I can't tell you anything."
She curled her lips and stopped glaring. Xue Ling Huanbing, who was speechless, puffed out her cheeks and said: "Anyway, things like this that require using your brain are all solved by you. If you think it's okay, then it's okay." .”
"How could I think it's okay? Of course I know that." Duan Qing answered her by looking around at the movements of the chains pulling the bottom of the platform and the cage: "It's just that we don't have any There is no capital to solve this problem, but no time to solve it.”
"There is still about an hour before the next eruption." Looking at the timer displayed on his system panel, Xue Ling Huan Bing also frowned: "What is certain is that the eruption will definitely start from us. "If we can't use this hour to rush to the bottom, we may really become a speck of dust in the free world."
"Because the elements attached to the surroundings isolate the magic circle, the strong winds that should have gradually strengthened do not seem to have affected us yet." Duan Qing also sighed and nodded: "If the final pressure-relieving energy bursts out, , I am pessimistic about whether this elemental isolation force field with a depth of several kilometers can finally stop it."
"So how much further do we have to go?"
Jumping out suddenly towards the new foothold, Xueling Huanbing's bright and blood-colored trajectory drew a deep diagonal line in the dark space "universe": "Will the adventurer map record our distance and height? ?”
"Compared to the mountain peaks we saw in the outside world that towered into the clouds, the distance we have descended now is almost negligible." Duan Qing replied helplessly as he followed the opponent's trajectory and jumped to the same foothold. : "As for how far we have descended, and how far we are from the 'core' described by Ful I... I am afraid that this kind of question cannot be judged and answered using common sense now."
"The distorted space misled our normal distance estimation - is this what you want to say?" His eyes kept comparing the direction the two people just passed with the unknown depths of the abyss below. Face nodded seriously: "Indeed, since the space has been distorted, we might still be standing still in the long exploration."
"It is also possible that we have crossed a longer distance than we imagined." Duan Qing replied optimistically: "According to our knowledge concepts in the real world, these twisted laws have always been related to time and space. Waiting for things to be hooked up, the virtual real world provides such conditions, then the results of their simulation-"
"Maybe it will also give us a big surprise."
No longer paying attention to those strange metal groups and iron cages that still appeared around the darkness of the endless abyss, Duan Qing made a certain decision and turned over and jumped out towards the bottom of the platform he was on: "Let's go."
"You, what are you going to do?"
"Of course we'll continue on our way."
Amidst the exclamations of the snow spirit and ice above, the dull voice of the gray-robed magician appeared in the center of the metal platform. He said hello to the direction of the black-haired female swordsman who stuck out his head. One hand has also been tightly grasping the chain connected to the bottom of the metal platform: "Huh... Fortunately, I have invested a lot in other attribute points, and the strength of my limbs is still sufficient."
"Why didn't we think of this shortcut before?"
After muttering these last words, the magician began to slide down the chain.
