Chapter 445: The Forsaken Realm of Gods (34) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]

"I remember..." Guan Hongyan's voice rang out faintly in the room that was as quiet as death, "I remember in the original plot... there was also an elf ranger who joined in the middle."

Everyone:……

Is this the inevitability of the plot?

"Then should we let him join?" Lu Changfeng asked weakly.

"From the perspective of exploring the rules, it would be best to do so," White Moth silently raised his hand, "but there is a problem. Our carriage can't accommodate all these old people."

"And I think..." She murmured for a while, "Hector looks like he's about to break."

*

Elves are a very "romantic" race.

In Slenkmed, elves are immortal.

They advocate platonic love, but do not require the other party to respond to their feelings. In the long life of the immortal species of thousands of years, an elf may have loved countless people at different stages, but not every love has a result, and not every one of them has received a response.

So for the elves, being a sea king is as easy as breathing, and "love every girl I meet" is a statement, not a metaphor.

The growth period of the immortal species is much longer than that of humans, and the elves are a race that is particularly favored by the Creator. Before truly entering the last few years of life, an elf can maintain the appearance of a human in his early twenties and live for thousands of years.

Therefore, an elf who looks to be in his twenties may actually be hundreds of years old, and may even have seen off countless people he once loved during his long adventurous life.

The point of saying so much is... In any case, it wasn't Hector's fault that the elf boy confessed to him.

It must be a problem with the elf boy’s view on love.

Moreover, it is not certain whether the other party is a teenager. There may be a reinforced company of people who have taken his arrows and accepted his loyalty.

Hector was disheartened at the bottom of the pit, and the elf boy was puzzled: "Why?"

Why call me sir?

Hector closed his eyes: "I'm wearing women's clothes."

"I don't believe it," the elf boy said righteously, "You clearly look like a noble lady."

There's no way it could be a man!

"You're lying," Hector said numbly, "We just don't want you to go into this pit. Didn't you notice that there's a big pit in the middle of the room?"

Didn't this person notice that he fell into a pit?

"Oh...oh, I noticed it. I also want to know why there is a pit here," the elf boy was stunned for a while, and said sincerely, "But I think it is more important to pledge allegiance to the young lady first. After all, the young lady's sister just died at the hands of a beast."

Hector: ...

"I've told you, sir," he gritted his teeth, "Can't you just open your eyes and see?"

The elf boy opened his eyes wide and met the gaze of Enoch, who was craning his neck to look down.

Enoch: "...Hi, good afternoon."

The elf boy's eyes widened: "You are not dead?"

"This..." Enoch said awkwardly as he held the stretcher and wiped the blood plasma dripping from his face. "It's like death."

His heart is actually dead, and he is just a shell here.

It all started that afternoon when he stopped a newly arrived adventurer in Bessey on the side of the road.

What a bad fate.

The elf boy was thoughtful.

The elf boy knelt firmly on one knee: "Although your sister is not dead, I am still willing to be your knight!"

Hector:?

"Excuse me," he raised his voice, "I am a man and I don't need a knight!"

"No," the elf boy shook his head firmly, "You are dressed just like a noble lady. You don't have to respond to my loyalty, but I will still be loyal to you..."

Hector: ...

"Xu Zichen, do you think he can't tell the difference between men and women?" Guan Hongyan muttered.

"I think they look alike." Xu Zichen nodded.

Elf boy: "I am willing to offer my loyalty and honor to this lady..."

Hector made a prompt decision: "Help, Sister Yan! Help, Brother Xu! Stop chatting, save me first!"

Before he could finish his words, Xu Zichen flipped down from the edge of the pit with one hand, and with a quick and decisive move, he finally rescued poor Hector.

"That's it," Xu Zichen held the back of the elf boy's head with one hand, and with the other hand he pulled the arrow out of his hand and threw it aside, "Why are you waiting if you don't knock him out?"

“That’s not…” Hector’s expression was desperate, “That’s not me who can knock others out, right?”

Hello, does anyone remember?

A few days ago, he was just an innocent passerby who came out to get some wine. Even if he was forced to embark on the path of a wizard, he could only cast a few simple spells.

Who can use Xu Zichen's move without practicing it?

"Then let Delmis teach you the art of sleeping." Xu Zichen waved his hand, threw the unconscious elf boy aside, and glanced at Hector. "Do you want me to pull you up?"

Hector's fall looked pretty bad.

“No need.” Hector gathered his skirt, stubbornly stood up from the ground, holding onto the wall of the pit, and walked forward a few steps. “How are we going to get up now…hiss.”

"What's wrong?" Guan Hongyan lay on the edge of the pit and looked down.

"I seem to have stepped on something," Hector walked a few steps to the side and lowered his head to look to the side, "A bone...?"

A piece of hand bone was stuck in the soil for some reason. When it saw Hector looking at it, it waved to him in a friendly manner.

"The skeletons that were digging the pit just now," the unhappy voice of his teacher Delmis came from the pit, "many of them were broken by him."

A piece of hand bone pointed to the side in a very human way.

Looking in the direction of the hand bone, there was a pile of white bones scattered on the ground at the bottom of the pit. Most of them had been crushed after the elf boy fell down. A few still looked intact, but there were also many cracks on them.

"Shouldn't elves be the lightest race?" White Moth muttered as he lay on the edge of the pit, "How come this thing is broken?"

"These bones look like they've been buried for a long time," Yun Guang explained. "They're naturally brittle."

The rib in Guan Hongyan's hand was also very brittle.

"There weren't many skeletons to begin with, and there will be even fewer if they are squeezed like this," Bai Jinshu crossed his arms and looked at the bottom of the pit, "Why not make this elf into an undead and let him dig out my skeletons instead."

A piece of hand bone at the bottom of the pit applauded in welcome.

"Why are you clapping?" Xu Zichen grabbed the hand bone and pulled it out. "I just want the world to be in chaos."

The hand bones twisted in his hand.

"There shouldn't be much distance left, it's already so deep," Su Hao also jumped in, "Why don't we just dig it out ourselves, and hurry up, otherwise this person will faint and what will happen."

What if his teammates come looking for him later?

Everyone nodded and jumped down on their own initiative.

"Should I come down too?" Enoch spoke weakly while lying on the stretcher.

"Why are you still up there?" Guan Hongyan looked up.

Now that everyone has left, why hasn't he come down yet?

"No one is here to take me down..." Enoch wanted to cry, "How can I move alone in the middle?"

He would fall if he moved.

Lu Changfeng kindly turned his stretcher around and placed it on the ground.

"It seems like it wants to say something?" Hector looked at the finger bones moving in Xu Zichen's hand, and subconsciously felt that the other party wanted to say something.

"What?" Xu Zichen looked up in surprise, "Could it be that this thing is not controlled by Delmis?"

Bai Jin said: "I'm not schizophrenic."

The hand bones were clapping and waving, and it was obvious that they had their own consciousness.

"So what it is doing is..." Xu Zichen put him on the ground according to the gesture of the hand bones.

Five finger bones dragged a piece of forearm forward on the ground, crawled to the place where they were pulled out just now, and pointed downwards.

"Is there something here?" Yun Guang guessed.

The phalanges gave a thumbs-up.

Guan Hongyan broke open the phalanges and the ulna, and measured downwards with the ulna.

"It's the bottom," she looked up, "there should be something underneath."

Everyone looked over.

*

"Huh, it should be cleaned up," White Moth let out a sigh, "What is this?"

A corner of the pit in the middle of the lounge was cleared out, and it looked like there were obvious traces of a magic circle. When it was dug out, it was even flashing blue light.

"It feels like an alchemical pattern?" Xu Zichen touched his chin, "Dermis, do you recognize this thing?"

"I don't know." Bai Jinshu squatted down and touched it with his fingers, "but this pattern... is incomplete."

There are obvious signs of fracture on the edge, and it does not even have the most basic integrity for an alchemical pattern.

This thing can only be said to be a semi-finished product, it cannot even be called a normal alchemical magic pattern, and it has no function at all.

"Incomplete..." Yun Guang glanced at the bottom of the pit, "Do we have to continue digging out? This is a bit difficult..."

It is already very difficult to dig the hole in the lounge. If we want to dig outwards, the complete pattern may be as big as a house.

Not to mention how long it would take to dig, if the complete pattern covers the entire house, then the house would have to be moved if it is to be dug up.

That would be a huge project.

"No." Bai Jinshu shook his head. "It's not that we haven't finished digging. This pattern is just a small piece. It's that the person who made it didn't make it complete."

He stood up thoughtfully and replicated the pattern in the air step by step.

"This pattern is only a part of a larger magic pattern," Bai Jinshu took a step back and observed the pattern that was dug out, "the other parts are not here."

"Can you tell what this is used for?" Guan Hongyan asked curiously.

"I can't tell," Bai Jinshu shook his head. "Magic Pattern Studies is a very complex subject. If you want to understand the function of a magic pattern, the most basic thing is that the magic pattern must be a complete pattern."

Unless it is a familiar pattern, no one can tell what the magic pattern is for just looking at this small part.

"Then this thing was left by the Great Mage?" White Moth thought, "The president of the Hunter Association disappeared, and he also disappeared. Could the disappearance of these two people be related to this place?"

"It's possible," Yun Guang nodded. "If that's the case, then it's not just the Hunter Association's houses that have this pattern, the Church of the God of Light and the Thieves' Family's houses should also have this pattern."

"So this thing is available at all the unloading points along the route to the Perran Perran Mine?" Guan Hongyan continued.

"Well... then it's spread all over the continent." Yun Guang held up his chin.

It sounds like the Grand Mage did something to this continent.

The concept of "the entire continent" appeared twice. One time was that the adventurers had to travel across the entire continent to open the gate to the kingdom of God, and the other time was that this unknown pattern was likely to be spread across the entire continent.

The two times this concept appeared were both related to the Grand Mage, and it is hard not to suspect what he did.

Could it be that this thing is the truth that caused his disappearance and the truth that caused this world to come alive?

"No matter what, we need to continue digging here, or are there any clues that we haven't discovered yet?" Yun Guang glanced at everyone with different expressions and took the initiative to ask.

"It should be gone," Bai Jinshu paused for a while before answering, "We need to go to the next unloading point to check."

Only when we discover that this pattern also exists at the next unloading point can we be sure that this pattern is likely to spread across the entire continent and is the main destination of the magic sand from the Perrin Mine.

Everyone nodded in agreement and decided to get out of this pit first.

[Is there anyone who knows this pattern? ]

【without. 】

【This is too small. 】

[Even the gods can't recognize it, how can you expect us to recognize it? ]

[There is strength in numbers. I am curious about what this thing is for. Could it be used to revive this continent? ]

[It's hard to say. It's possible, but I don't know what this great magician wants to do. The first lesson in learning magic patterns is that magic patterns are a whole. All patterns are connected from beginning to end to form a complete magic pattern. Once a gap appears, the pattern is useless and has no effect. This pattern is useless even if it is spread all over the continent.]

[Yes.]

As the discussion continued, everyone came up from the bottom of the pit. Guan Hongyan, the last one to leave, climbed onto the ground and said to the person behind her in surprise, "Who's that? Why aren't you coming up?"

Why is Enoch still in a daze at the bottom of the pit?

"Enoch?" White Moth squatted by the pit and shouted a few times, "Enoch! We are leaving!"

"Hold this kid." Xu Zichen put the still unconscious elf boy into Su Hao's hands, and then he rolled over and pushed Enoch. "What's wrong?"

Enoch, who was standing at the bottom of the pit, suddenly came back to his senses: "Nothing... nothing."

"Nothing, why are you in a daze?" Xu Zichen frowned, "You're still staring at that pattern. Do you know what this thing is for?"

"I don't know..." Enoch scratched his head, but decided to tell the truth, "It looks familiar to me."

"Look familiar? Hey, think about it again," Zhao Yinglai urged, "Have you seen it somewhere before?"

"I can't remember it," Enoch wiped the blood from his face and racked his brains for a long time, "I just feel like I should have seen this pattern before..."

"This thing was probably left behind by the Great Mage..." Lu Changfeng analyzed, "If you have seen it, did you see it when you met the Great Mage?"

Enoch shook his head firmly: "I haven't seen the Grand Mage very often."

"That shouldn't be the case..." Guan Hongyan interrupted, "Your shop is almost opened under the Mage Tower. You must have seen him a few times. And this pattern doesn't look simple. If you can remember it, it must not be just a quick glance. You must have observed it closely. Think about it carefully."

Enoch: "Yes... I should have seen this magic pattern carefully."

But he searched his memory and could not remember having seen such a thing before.

"Don't stand in the pit yet. Think about it slowly," Guan Hongyan also nodded, "Let Xu Zichen pull you up first."

They were rushing to the next location. The bearded hunter who was hunting wild animals outside was about to come back, so they definitely couldn't stay here.

"What should we do with such a big pit?" Su Hao asked in a low voice.

"Let the skeletons fill it up slowly," Bai Jinshu raised his chin towards the skeletons in the room, and the skeletons began to work diligently again.

Filling a hole is always easier than digging it. Any tool can be used to fill the magic sand piled on one side back.

It’s just that this lounge was not very clean to begin with, and now after all this commotion, it’s even more messy and dirty.

"What should we do with this thing?" Su Hao raised the elf boy in his hand, "Should we take him with us?"

"...Are you sure his teammates won't come looking for him?" Zhao Yinglai twitched his lips. "The teammate who fell in love with the noble lady at first sight disappeared with her, and the adventurer who was with her also disappeared with her. It sounds like a story about human traffickers, doesn't it?"

"Then what should we do? Stay?" Guan Hongyan raised her eyes.

"If we stay, the fact that we dug a hole here will be exposed," Xu Zichen whispered, "Who would dig a hole in someone else's lounge?"

"Can't we just erase his memory and leave him alone?" White Moth questioned.

"Of course you can erase the memory," Bai Jinshu nodded, "but don't you have to follow the plot?"

According to the plot, an elf ranger will join the protagonist group later. If they want to follow the plot, then this elf boy must be taken away as well.

"Just leave a letter and take him away directly." Guan Hongyan searched the house and found a piece of paper. "Just say that he pledged allegiance to the noble lady and left with her. That's all. Elves love to do this kind of thing anyway."

That's a solution...

In the not-so-small lounge, a group of skeletons were busy filling a pit, several members of the exploration team were busy forging letters, Enoch was trying to recall when he had seen this pattern, and Hector was looking at himself in the mirror with suspicion.

No matter how you look at him, he looks like an adventurer in women's clothing, right? He's not Enoch, and he has cat ears on his head (Enoch:?), so how can he look like a noble lady worthy of the elves' loyalty?

That remains to be seen.

The aftermath was almost settled. It was getting late outside and it was almost evening. Yun Guang left some adventurers to borrow the rewards from the Hunter Association's supply point. In order to make it look good, he took some food from the front desk. Relying on the fact that no one was watching at the front desk, he quickly boarded the ghost ship.

The ghost captain very consciously sorted the skeletons back into the graves and emerged from the ground: "Where are you going?"

"Here," Yun Guang took out the map and looked around, and soon found the next unloading point, "We'll stay here tonight."

It is definitely more convenient to dig things at night than during the day.

As long as one more incomplete magic pattern can be dug out, it can be confirmed that this thing is underground at these unloading points. The magic sand is transported here because there are magic patterns underneath these locations.

The ghost ship sailed towards its destination. Everyone who had long been accustomed to resting on the ship found a place to sit. Enoch had been absent-minded ever since he saw the incomplete magic pattern. He racked his brains but could not remember any connection between himself and this thing. He sat by the boat and recalled his experience bit by bit.

The members of the exploration team gathered together. Zhao Yinglai and Guan Hongyan huddled together and whispered for a long time. Suddenly, Guan Hongyan looked at his watch with a shocked expression, and then looked at Enoch in the distance.

"Hongyan, what's wrong?" Yun Guang asked.

"Do you remember the player from yesterday?" Guan Hongyan frowned, "The one called Cockroach something."

"Pure and wild female cockroach?" Xu Zichen continued.

"Just know what it's called, don't say it out loud," Guan Hongyan said, sitting a little further away from him in disdain. "It's this cockroach. She posted a video about us, saying that the game is alive and the NPCs have self-awareness."

"Now the outside world has discovered that Breath of Slenkmed is a real world?" Lu Changfeng speculated.

"No," Guan Hongyan frowned, "I'll post the hot comments in the group for you to watch the video yourself."

There was a vibration, and everyone's watch vibrated. Bai Jinshu looked down and saw that what Guan Hongyan shared was a video link.

"You see, no one cares about the changes in the game, but someone recognized Enoch as the account of Lao Zhang, the producer of Breath of Slenkmed," Guan Hongyan's voice followed, "and then someone said it couldn't be Lao Zhang, because his company had cooperated with Weiyu a few years ago. People from Weiyu said that there was no sequel to Breath of Slenkmed because the producer Lao Zhang had a car accident and became a vegetable, and the studio disbanded. Now the comment section is in chaos because of this sentence."

"Enoch...?" Bai Jinshu looked towards the corner where Enoch was still recalling where he had seen the magic pattern.

"Yes," Guan Hongyan whispered, "Now many people are saying that the person in the video is Lao Zhang. He ran out of ideas and couldn't make another Breath of Schlenkmede, so he told the public that he had a car accident. Some people also said that after Lao Zhang became a vegetable, he must have connected to Breath of Schlenkmede and lived on this continent, but this was refuted by someone who said that his family members were in a vegetative state. The level of development of holographic games at that time was not enough to allow vegetative people to regain a second life in the game. This technology has only been available in recent years. Do you think he looks like a player?"

Everyone shook their heads.

Enoch has a group of n.pc creditors who borrowed money from them many years ago. He once stole alchemical items in the Elf Kingdom, so he had to hide in the city of Besser for several years. He runs an alchemical shop with four dwarf craftsmen and has a file on being an adventurer more than ten years ago.

Even if these are the connections and properties that Lao Zhang, who has become a vegetable, has built up in the other world, he is just a player pretending to be an NPC, and there is a huge bug in this matter.

"We have never concealed our identities in front of him," Yun Guang frowned, "If he is a player or he is the producer Lao Zhang, he cannot fail to realize that we are not players, but outsiders."

But Enoch seemed to have mistaken them for a group of strange adventurers.

He looked exactly like an aboriginal.

"Let's observe for a while..." Xu Zichen looked at Enoch thoughtfully, "If he is really the producer, then the world may have something to do with him."

A game producer who has turned into a vegetable suddenly appears in the game, and his game character has turned into an ordinary NPC. This seems wrong no matter how you look at it.

"Compared to this, it seems that the elf is about to wake up." Zhao Yinglai pointed to the distance.

"I think we need to find a reason to keep him or get rid of him first," she said sincerely.

"If it really doesn't work..." White E twitched his lips, "Why don't you explain it clearly?"

*

In the distance, the elf boy who was thrown to the ground groaned and finally woke up from his coma. He looked at the faces around him who were looking at him.

"Why am I dizzy?" He sat up in a daze and found himself lying on the deck, surrounded by the group of adventurers. "Where is the lady I am loyal to... no, where is the gentleman?"

"You're awake," Guan Hongyan, who was standing next to him, clapped her hands. "The operation was successful."

Elf boy:?

Guan Hongyan: "You are already a cat girl."

Elf boy:!

"Where is the noble lady I am loyal to?!" he was horrified.

Hector, who was standing beside him and had changed back into normal clothes, said:?

Everyone nearby who wanted to explain it clearly:?

The elf boy got up from the ground, looked around in shock, and felt relieved when his eyes fell on Enoch, who had not yet changed her skirt: "Miss, you are here!"

Enoch tried hard to recall where he had seen the magic pattern but just couldn't remember:? ?

Everyone next to me: ? ?

“Hmm…” Guan Hongtang touched his chin in the crowd.

"I see," she said thoughtfully, "Not only can you not tell the difference between men and women, you are also face-blind."

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