The blazing wind melted the ice and snow, reflecting the silent abandoned place red.
Although the street fighting that Xiaoye practiced before was too simple - for example, she failed to consider that the opponent was not a living creature, at least in terms of "controlling the moves without tearing down the map", her Pokémon still achieved some success. The fire-breathing dragon breathed out fire just right, and not a single spark touched the flammable wooden house wall.
However, the ice puppets that were supposed to be afraid of flames did not disappear in the high temperature - but in an instant, they had broken through the obstacles of the flames, and their translucent bodies still shone with a cold light, showing no signs of melting!
The next moment, the flame dragon disappeared in the red light, replaced by a tidal wave created by the combined efforts of the spiny shells. Although the water flow cannot break the solid ice, the huge swirling force is enough to immobilize them. The jumping adventurer landed on the edge of the roof, but before he could turn around, the horrifying scene captured by the camera filled the live broadcast room with exclamation marks.
An ice puppet had climbed onto the roof at some point. Perhaps due to the stimulation brought by the high temperature and loud noise, the ice puppet changed from its previous sluggish behavior and flew towards it like a ghost, its hands turned into sharp blades and was about to stab. An unlucky drone hovering nearby was knocked out of Mars, just in time to capture the ice puppet's ghostly approach, scaring the audience into typing gleefully at the big ice face that filled the screen.
The boy who was jumped three feet high had no time to adjust his posture, and his whole body fell into the white fabric of the cloak. He vaguely heard hissing coming from behind, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
Before he could struggle to stand firm, a cold light illuminated his vision.
The iron sword on the adventurer's waist was unsheathed, drawing a galaxy-like light in the dark night sky. The hands of the ice puppet that popped up were cut off abruptly, and its body lost its balance and fell to the beam.
Xiao Ye sheathed her sword and another poke ball popped out of her hand. After receiving the signal, the Terashima siblings immediately took back their Pokémon and quickly retreated following Xiaoye. The one who was left behind on the battlefield was——
Ghost Stone singing loudly.
No matter whether the ice puppets and the audience who were devastated by the magic sound saved their lives - when the group successfully found a room with no one and no puppets to stay temporarily, Ghost Stone had also returned to the trainer with a smile, and He sang the chorus with a satisfied look.
After seeing the big ghost obediently return to the elf ball, the frightened Nanguo siblings finally dared to let go of their hands covering their ears and turned their eyes to the rescued NPC, ah no, the Himi boy.
His face didn't look as young as Lily's. If the hood of his cloak hadn't added a few centimeters to his height, he probably wouldn't have been much shorter than Beidou. Although he had just been rescued from the ice puppet group, the boy did not seem to feel at ease. A pair of green eyes stared at the three people in front of him warily.
"Adventurers? Why do you want to break in here without permission?" The boy hugged the seal ball in his arms tightly and said coldly.
Lijiu rolled her eyes and immediately showed her enthusiasm for talking to NPCs, "Hey, I'm sorry, we got here by mistake. Little brother, do you usually live here?"
"Don't ask around. The foreigners should leave as soon as possible!" The boy didn't take this at all and said with a stern face: "You will only cause trouble to Master Silver Robe if you stay here!"
Hearing this, Lijiu and her brother looked at each other, and both of their eyes lit up with the light of "capturing the key words".
"We would like to leave. There are too many monsters outside and we can't escape." The girl said with a smile, "But the 'Sir in Silver Robe' you just mentioned is-"
As soon as these words came out, the boy jumped up like a hedgehog with exploded fur.
"As expected, you are also here for Master Yinpao!" The boy and the seal ball in his arms were bulging with anger. "Stop dreaming, I won't reveal a word!!"
Seeing that the communication was at an impasse and the yellow name on the boy's head was turning red, Xiaoye spoke slowly, "I'm sorry, you misunderstood - she wants to be friends with you."
"Huh?" The boy and the girl turned their heads with question marks on their faces.
"When we entered this village by mistake before, we were rescued by that adult, so we respect him very much." Xiaoye said without changing her expression, "I think talking about our common idols would be a good way to get closer?"
"Is that so?" The boy was so fooled that his face was blank, "Then your vision is not bad..."
Seeing this, Lijiu immediately took over the conversation cleverly, and spoke endlessly of thirty thousand words of praise for "Master Silver Robe" - probably the swordsman who saved them once - which made the little boy dizzy. Huh. Xiaoye took the opportunity to roughly explore the three-story wooden house. After making sure it was safe enough, she returned to the first floor and saw that the living room was already so busy that it looked like a fan club.
The boy's initial hostility had long since melted away in the Nanguo siblings' passionate essays on Rainbow Talk. At this moment, they were proudly telling the story of the silver-robed swordsman who chopped down three hundred ice dolls with one sword - a story that was mostly made up by himself. . Seeing Xiao Ye return, he bowed to the adventurers neatly, "I'm really sorry for misunderstanding you just now. I'm Oliver, thank you for saving me!"
Xiaoye touched the boy's head and fed a tree fruit to the seal ball in his arms, which immediately increased the NPC's favorability progress bar by a large amount.
"We plan to walk around next. Do you want to come with us? Or stay here until dawn?" Xiaoye asked.
"I..." Oliver hesitated for a moment.
He raised his eyes and looked at the person in front of him - he didn't inquire about where this place was or why it was abandoned, nor did he inquire about the identity of the silver-robed master in a roundabout way like other adventurers. He should be... not an accomplice of those bad guys, right?
"If you plan to go in the direction of the lighthouse, I will go with you." The boy said.
The adventurer blinked, "Maybe you need some help?"
Oliver thought for a moment and finally nodded.
"I want to go to the lighthouse and find a photo."
After the rest, the team with increased numbers set off again.
According to Oliver, the "Lighthouse" is located in the center of this abandoned village and is the tallest building in the entire village. Every winter, there are often heavy winds and snowstorms in this area. The blizzards bury the sunlight and moonlight, making it difficult to identify the direction. The light of the lighthouse can penetrate the wind and snow and guide the way home for outsiders.
"Actually, I've been here several times, but there are too many ice puppets near the lighthouse and I can't get in." Oliver complained with a flat mouth.
"Why not go in during the day?" Xiaoye asked puzzledly, "According to what the silver-robed master said, the ice puppets will stop moving after dawn, right?"
Oliver and Seal Ball looked up at the adventurers in surprise, completely convinced that these three people were stupid young men who entered here by mistake and had nothing to do with the mastermind behind the scenes.
"This place will be covered in snowstorms during the day, making it impossible to get in." He explained with rare patience, "I have tried many times, but no matter how I walk, I will just walk in circles - but it is okay to leave, don't worry. "
The Terashima siblings nodded in realization. It's a limited time copy, I understand.
A thin layer of fog filled the abandoned village at night, making it difficult to see clearly in the distance. Coupled with the fact that there were similar ruins and dilapidated wooden houses everywhere, the Terashima siblings were turned around and lost their sense of direction within a few minutes. However, Xiao Ye remembered the direction Oliver pointed at before setting off very well, and took the three of them down the alley to hopscotch, avoiding the ice puppets and approaching the lighthouse.
Although I heard from Oliver that he had met other adventurers, they didn't see anyone along the way. There were only two-meter ice monsters wandering around on the ground - probably in such a huge dungeon with red monsters all over the ground. It is not easy for a few players to meet each other. It wasn't until they passed a path covered with ice willows that they discovered something unusual.
Long Xing carefully stretched out his legs and touched the ice puppet lying on the ground with his toes, "Are these guys...still alive?"
For some reason, there were all motionless ice dolls and ice doll parts lying near the path. It suddenly looked like corpses were scattered all over the ground, which was strange.
Oliver sighed maturely and began to worry sincerely for these empty-headed adventurers who dared to break into the old village. "What nonsense are you talking about? Ice puppets are not alive in the first place."
"What?" Long Xing's eyes were wider than wind chimes, "They can walk, run and scream, and now you tell me they are dead!?"
Oliver: "..."
Although he knew that the other party might be trying to be arrogant, the boy was still shocked by this natural and unpretentious look.
"Have you never seen magical creations? It doesn't matter if they can walk or run. I have also seen clay dolls that can give birth to children." Oliver wrinkled his nose, showing a somewhat disgusted expression.
Long Xing: "..."
Originally he was deliberately being stupid, but now he is really shocked.
The waveguide detection showed that there was no living ice puppet nearby...or in other words, it was still standing. Xiaoye did not stop the yelling of her companions, but carefully examined the appearance of the ice puppet's "corpse". There are more or less traces of cutting with sharp objects on their bodies, and some are even cut into two pieces at the waist. As she stretched out her hand to carefully examine the fracture, the boy's cool voice came.
"You'd better leave it alone if you don't want to be hunted like I was before."
Oliver pointed to the broken pieces on the ground, and said with annoyance: "When you encounter them, their scent will be remembered, and no matter where they escape before dawn, they will know it - you don't even understand this, how dare you come here for a stroll?"
Lijiu was stunned for a moment, and her face turned from white to green, "Then, wasn't the ice puppet who was chasing you just now..."
The boy nodded calmly, "We are approaching. Don't be afraid. The farther away we are, the weaker the induction. By the time they move over, we will be far away."
The Nanguo siblings shuddered and hurried away from the motionless ice cubes on the ground - they didn't want to be followed by such a terrifying thing all night.
Xiaoye opened her mouth and was about to speak when she suddenly heard a scalp-numbing gurgling sound not far away.
The body of an ice puppet slowly began to squirm. As if a monster that had been sleeping for a long time was gradually waking up, it twitched its arms and legs, trying to support its body.
"Ding--"
A ray of cold light passed from top to bottom, directly piercing the ice puppet's head and nailing it to the snow.
Lijiu: "..."
Long Xing: "..."
Oliver: "..."
Seal Ball: "..."
Audiences in the live broadcast room: "..."
"The hardness is not much different from ordinary ice cubes. Although they seem to be resistant to fire, the melee moves of Warcraft should be able to effectively kill them." After seeing the ice puppet no longer moving, Xiaoye pulled out his sword and looked at the blade with regret. A gap created by brute force.
"We can try other attributes next time... Why are you looking at me like this?"
Facing the innocent question marks above the head of the adventurer Beidou, the other three people chose to change the topic by shaking their heads violently.
"Let's go, let's go." Oliver urged. "The ice puppets cannot be completely destroyed. At most, they will temporarily stop moving due to injuries. Even if they are chopped into pieces, they will recover in a few days. Just wait until they are 'resurrected' before leaving. It’s too late.”
The group of people hurried away from the "doll corpses" on the ground. When she reached the end of the trail, Xiaoye asked tentatively, "So, are these ice puppets..."
"Of course it was Lord Silver-robed who knocked him down!" Oliver and Seal Ball puffed up their chests proudly, "We are lucky, we happened to meet the path Lord Silver-robed walked, so we don't have to hide any more!"
Just as Oliver said, they saw many ice puppets falling to the ground one after another. Without the enemies blocking the road, the wide street became unobstructed. It was not until the huge white lighthouse appeared dimly at the end of the fog that the group stopped.
Dense ice figures surrounded the lighthouse, blocking the ancient square and making it almost suffocating. The only door was filled with monsters looking at it eagerly, and there was no gap at all.
"Hiss... I'm glad you didn't give up after seeing this scene." Long Xing smacked his lips, feeling that he might suffer from trypophobia tomorrow.
The four quietly climbed onto the roof of a wooden house and carefully observed the movements of the ice puppets near the lighthouse.
"Boss, what should I do?" After staring for a long time, the Terashima siblings felt that there was no hope of sneaking in, and they all turned to the leader for help.
Xiaoye thought for a moment. After her waveguide power seeped into the interior of the lighthouse, it was as if she had entered a quagmire, and she could only perceive nothingness. Obviously, there is a jamming device installed in the lighthouse, which cannot be detected remotely, and it is probably impossible to use teleportation to escape.
"Let's go in and take a look first," she said.
Oliver's eyes lit up and he grabbed the adventurer's sleeve tightly, "Do you have any way to deal with those ice puppets?"
"That's right." Xiaoye smiled and once again threw out the elf ball of Ghost Stone, the general who had made great contributions to today's adventure.
A few seconds later, the expectant eyes of the Terashima siblings gradually died. They watched Ghost Stone rush out of the wooden house, fly three times around the lighthouse and sing loudly - and finally easily attracted the hatred of the ice puppets in the entire square, leading the long procession in the wild singing. Jump and run away.
The siblings covering their ears: "...we thought there would be a more handsome way to break out." (Sluggish)
Beidou covering his ears: "This saves the most effort, isn't it?" (Calm down)
Oliver, who was too inexperienced to cover his ears, said: "What are you talking about..." (deaf)
Seal Ball whose hands are too short to cover his ears: "..." (lost the ability to fight)
Although the process caused some hearing damage... at least, after a few minutes, all the ice puppets near the square were gone. The group seized the opportunity and headed straight for the lighthouse gate.
Oliver followed closely the pace of the adventurers, his glazed eyes shining brightly.
He had worked hard alone for that important photo in the lighthouse for too long, and had been disappointed too many times because of the ice puppet's guardian. Maybe today... he can finally revisit his old place and return to that haunting place?
As dust flew up, the old wooden door opened with a sound.
Xiaoye braked suddenly and stopped in place. The three people following her opened their eyes wide, and panic gradually appeared on their faces.
In the center of the hall, an ice-treading doll was doing a funny tap dance. When the door was pushed open, it had just completed a difficult dance step, waved its cane politely, and bowed to the visitor.
The fog gradually dissipated, and sparse light shone through the windows into the lighthouse, which also illuminated the bodies made of ice. Behind the ice-stepping dolls, countless ice dolls slowly turned their heads and looked at the uninvited guests.
Xiaoye took half a step back and slammed the door.
"Run away!"
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