Chapter 36 The Underground Labyrinth of Shamar
Mingzhao's feet landed on the solid floor, not on the soft, sandy feel.
Before me was a spacious corridor, with dim, antique oil lamps lit on the walls on both sides.
The sandworm seemed very afraid of this place. After Mingzhao jumped down, it went back into the sand above its head.
Walking along the corridor, soon a wall came into view, covered with murals.
After studying the murals for a while, Mingzhao concluded that they meant that this place was once a desert, and there was a self-sufficient kingdom in the desert.
Later, the sea submerged the desert, leaving only this island. The surviving creatures quickly became extinct because they could not obtain the necessary resources, and civilization completely disappeared.
Prince Abdullah of this country was taken away in the only ship as soon as the ocean had arrived.
He left home and became a foremost alchemist. Years later, he returned to his hometown only to find it deserted.
Unwilling to see a civilization perish, he gathered various magical materials he had discovered in the outside world and used alchemy to revive his people.
But alchemy cannot truly bring back lost lives; the souls of his people are trapped in bodies created by alchemy, never to find peace.
Abdullah himself was cursed as a result, his soul was distorted, and he became an immortal monster, wandering in this underground labyrinth for eternity.
Mingzhao had just finished looking at all the paintings on the wall when a notification popped up on the panel.
[Congratulations to the player for unlocking the [Desert Treasure Hunt] main storyline dungeon: The Lost Civilization of Shamar.]
Main Quest 1: Rescue the people of the Shamar civilization and let their souls rest in peace. 0/200
Main Quest Two: Kill the mutated Abdullah and lift the curse on the Shamar civilization.
Mingzhao didn't know what it meant to save the people until he saw the 0/200 at the end.
Since they were forcibly revived by being awakened from the soil, let them die again and return to the sand.
As for Abdullah, he's probably the final boss.
Having clarified the main quest, Mingzhao bypassed the stone wall and headed into the deep underground labyrinth.
She hadn't walked two steps when a small stone figure appeared before her, with a red diamond embedded in its abdomen.
Mingzhao recognized it at a glance—it was the Flame Diamond she had obtained from opening a chest before!
She was overjoyed. It turned out that the gems that brought them back to life were the gems from the game!
The red gemstone's stone figure has the ability to launch small fireballs.
This posed almost no threat to Mingzhao, who had already learned some of the Lingbo Weibu (a martial arts technique).
Mingzhao activated his Eyes of Truth and discovered that the villain's weakness lay in the precious diamond on his chest.
She shot the little man in the head, and the little man's head shattered into stone fragments, but those fragments quickly returned to the little man's shoulder and reformed into a new head.
It seems that only by striking the jewel can these villains be truly killed.
But Mingzhao didn't want to break the precious diamond, so she came up with a solution.
She first shot the little man in the head, and while the little man was recovering and unable to attack, she approached him and stunned him with a curling iron.
Then he took the gem off and threw it into his backpack.
With the spatial barrier in place, the pebbles immediately lost their anchor and scattered on the ground, turning into ordinary stones.
Seeing that the number after the task list had changed to 1/200, Mingzhao finally felt relieved.
The monsters in the maze have various attack methods depending on the type of gem.
The Flame Diamond provides heat and fire energy, allowing the revived little man to breathe fire.
The Frost Diamond provides ice-type energy, and the revived little man can fire freezing rays. As long as you avoid being hit by the rays, they are easier to deal with than the fire little man.
Aquamarine provides water-based energy, allowing these little figures to transform into water at any time, seep into the ground, and reappear elsewhere. They can also condense into water spheres for defense.
Bullets are completely ineffective against the Blue Little People; the only way is to get close and use a curling iron to stun them, which takes a lot of time.
The little figures in the Life Gem are most like real life forms. They can split themselves infinitely, like locusts. They look scary, but they are actually not a threat at all.
Because the Diamond of Life cannot be split, it actually makes it easier for the little person to remove the Diamond and put it in her backpack after she splits it.
The more troublesome ones are the little people who have the Space Diamond and the Time Diamond.
The Time Golem's ability is that time slows down when people are within five meters of him.
At first, Mingzhao had no way to counter this skill. Both bullets and electric arcs would become very slow and be dodged by the Time Man.
It wasn't until she had fought several time-manipulation figures that Mingzhao realized the slowing effect came from a sound wave she couldn't hear.
Because every time a bullet is fired, or when she shouts "Are you afraid to love me?", this delaying effect will momentarily lose its effectiveness.
So Mingzhao started trash-talking while fighting monsters. The little man couldn't understand it, but his voice drowned out the sound waves, and he was caught with almost no chance to fight back.
The ability of the Space Dwarf is similar to Space Walk; it often disappears from one place and reappears in another.
However, its operating range is not large, basically within the range of 100,000 volts, which means it has to discharge 100,000 volts each time, which consumes a lot of batteries.
After killing about 50 villains of various kinds, Mingzhao had figured out their respective tactics.
The number in the taskbar was slowly increasing. After playing for a while, Mingzhao suddenly felt that something was wrong.
She stopped fighting monsters and stared at the numbers in the quest log for a long time.
75/200……76/200!
Besides her, there are others in this maze!
Mingzhao immediately became alert and shouted in the lowest possible voice, "I am the Milk Dragon!"
Only after transforming into a milk dragon did I begin to cautiously continue fighting monsters.
She soon saw the corpses of some little people that she had not killed.
The person dealt with it in a very simple and brutal way; all the gems on the little man's body were shattered into fragments, which broke Mingzhao's heart.
Once the number reaches 180/200, it becomes very difficult to find new Sims.
But Mingzhao didn't want to miss out on the reward for this mission, so she activated her Clear Vision.
The Clear Vision ability allows one to see through objects and also to see the attribute points of villains.
However, the little man is also made of stone, and is transparent within the field of vision. Only the gem inside his body can be seen, floating in the air as a collection of various colored energies, with green blood appearing on it.
It's like playing a shooting game where the camera cuts through the target.
Three hours later, Mingzhao finally found the last little space creature trying to travel through the spatial rift.
At the end of the maze was a huge, earth-yellow energy cluster, and Mingzhao closed the Void Vision.
As she approached the end of the maze, before she even got close, she heard bursts of gunfire and the sound of wings slicing through the air.
Another person who had passed through the maze had already encountered Abdullah!
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