After successfully escaping the ice and snow blockade, Du Yuqi identified the direction and said:
"We may need to take a slight detour. Now that we left so smoothly, we have plenty of time. So I plan to stop by Count Ratness's residence on the way. I forgot to take something because I was in a hurry."
That's right, when old Count Ratnes entrusted his son to Du Yuqi, he directly gave Du Yuqi the three secret treasures that he had looted and accumulated in the Count's mansion as a reward. At this time, the +11 Kulan Flame Shadow Sword in Du Yuqi's hand was one of the three secret treasures.
It was an extremely urgent matter at that time. Du Yuqi did not take the other two secret treasures because he was in a hurry to save people. Now that there is plenty of time, he naturally cannot miss them.
There is a saying that there is strength in numbers, and this statement is absolutely true.
When Du Yuqi was traveling alone before, no matter how well he tried to hide his tracks, he was eventually dragged into the battle. Now with this temporary team, everyone has a clear division of labor, and the difficulty of traveling in this chaotic and complex city can be said to have decreased proportionally.
First of all, Duize, who has night vision ability, can filter out most of the risks, and Mingxi seems to be particularly familiar with the city of Xiatli. He can be called a living map. Once a threat is discovered, he can lead everyone through alleys, detours, and even climb over houses.
Although Xi's injuries were not completely healed, she could at least exert 60% of her strength, and the role she played was even more powerful. She could actually cast a spell called "Breath of Wind" on everyone in the team, making everyone's weight seem to have been reduced. Not only did the attack speed receive a significant bonus, but the movement speed also saw a clear increase.
When she showed this move, even Duize was surprised.
It turns out that in the organization of the Sons of Ramis, there is an awakened Qigong master: Baihua Liaoluan. She also used the breath of wind to bless Duize and Mingxi. Although the attack speed increased by the breath of wind she blessed was much stronger than Xi, it did not have the effect of increasing the movement speed!
In other words, after Dang Xi learned the Breath of Wind, she could even improve this move to make it more comprehensive and powerful. This is the difference between a genius and an ordinary person. Even if the moves she performs are the same as those of others, she can still have a distinctive personal style and imprint.
Of course, it is impossible to travel through this chaotic city without being involved in the chaos. But even if he is forced to be involved in the battle, facing some thugs and robbers, Xi's style is to confront them head-on. When he rushes forward, he will first release an extremely huge energy shield. Within the coverage of the energy shield, friendly forces are safe, and the enemy must break the energy shield before they can hurt their teammates.
Although the energy shield only lasts for about three seconds, the situation on the battlefield changes rapidly. When two people draw their guns and open fire face to face, even a tenth of a second can decide life or death. How much more so if you seize the three-second advantage, you can suppress others' attacks unscrupulously?
Within these three seconds, Duize can fire nearly fifty bullets in one breath, Mingxi can summon a mecha Hedel and a flying fire-winged dragon Flit, who always has a lollipop in his mouth and shoots three improved magic star bullets in a row. This skill is like a ray of starlight shining by, which can automatically find enemies within the range and jump continuously like chain lightning, inflicting continuous damage to the opponent.
Therefore, such a direct, simple and rough offensive was like a combination punch, which stunned the enemy as soon as they met, and they almost collapsed in a short time due to the tragic casualties. In such a situation, Du Yuqi only felt that his movement was like a gust of wind, sometimes turning into a breeze to lightly bypass the streets, and sometimes turning into a storm to sweep through the obstacles ahead!
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As a result, Du Yuqi quickly arrived at the Earl of Ratness's Mansion. This speed of advancement was indeed much faster than the most optimistic scenario in the plan!
At this time, the Earl of Ratness's mansion was gloomy, because at least dozens of people had died inside, so it looked particularly gloomy, and it had also been thoroughly looted by several groups of daring thugs, so no one approached it even during the day, let alone at night.
After entering the Earl's Mansion, it was in a mess, and the scene was devastated. Fortunately, the corpses would not rot in this cold weather, otherwise the stench would be overwhelming. Du Yuqi went straight to the stables in the back garden of the Earl's Mansion, and found three ash trees arranged in the shape of a "品" character, and then found a red stone half buried in the soil in the middle.
Du Yuqi found a lot of firewood, piled it around the red stone and lit it. At first, he didn't feel anything unusual. After a while, flames suddenly shot up into the sky, as if an invisible and colorless natural gas was spraying straight into the sky from below. Immediately afterwards, there was a strange crackling sound, like firecrackers, and some black and red mist lingered, circling in the air, and took a long time to dissipate.
After waiting until there was nothing unusual, Du Yuqi put out the fire, and then he found that the red stone had disappeared. He dug about two or three feet down and dug out a password box. The surface of the password box was silvery white, and it looked like metal or plastic, but it had a very good sealing quality.
If there is no process of gathering fire and burning, then there will be no hope of finding anything even if you dig one kilometer down.
When Du Yuqi opened the password box, a soft light immediately emanated from it. It could be seen that it was divided into five neatly arranged large grids, each containing five grapefruit-sized crystal blocks of different colors: red large crystal block, blue large crystal block, black large crystal block, white large crystal block, and colorless large crystal block.
Each large crystal block needs to be smelted with one hundred small crystals. It contains different special energies and can be widely used in forging, processing, aviation, alchemy and other fields. Like gold and silver on the earth, it is equivalent to hard currency and a store of value. Basically, once it appears on the market, there is no worry about sales.
For example, the dimensional ring on Du Yuqi's finger was almost exhausted and needed to be recharged with a large black crystal block - this was also the main reason why he was in a hurry to come to the Earl's Mansion.
Among the five types of large crystal blocks, the white and red large crystal blocks are relatively valuable, and the colorless large crystal blocks are the least valuable. Even so, even if the things in this box are taken out and sold at a low price immediately, they can be exchanged for tens of thousands of magic gold coins.
The first secret treasure that Count Ratnis took out to lure Du Yuqi was the +11 Kulan's Flame Shadow Sword, which represented the warriors' favorite equipment. The second secret treasure was the five large crystal blocks in this box, which represented the wealth that everyone would strive for.
Well, even though Du Yuqi didn't know the specific contents of the third secret treasure, he had already guessed it almost exactly.
At this time, Du Yuqi found that the light on the surface of his dimensional ring had dimmed to the point of being completely extinguished, so he started charging directly. The process was very simple. He just had to place the ring face close to the surface of the large black crystal block, and the energy stored in it would naturally flow into it slowly and continuously.
To be honest, this crystal technology is indeed extremely advanced, clean, fast and convenient. It only took about five minutes for the dimensional ring to be successfully charged. Wearing it on Du Yuqi's finger, it was like a deep black star. When Du Yuqi checked, he found an instruction inside the ring, saying that it had entered the stage of saturated charging, so the internal space would be increased by an additional 20%.
In fact, this charging saturation stage is usually not used, because it will consume at least one-third of the energy inside the black crystal block, and in return it will only increase the space by an additional ten days, which is quite uneconomical. Only an ignorant guy like Du Yuqi who doesn't have an instruction manual would do this.
After resolving the concern about the dimensional ring, Du Yuqi thought about it and, according to Count Ratnes' instructions, came to the back door of the Earl's Mansion.
The Earl's Mansion occupies a very large and luxurious area, so even the back door is large enough to accommodate a carriage. There are two gatehouses, one on the left and one on the right, which makes it look majestic and respectable enough. However, it is naturally very chaotic inside at this time. Combined with the remaining towering buildings, it shows the desolation of a building about to collapse and the monkeys scattering after the trees fall.
Du Yuqi came to the gatehouse on the left and saw that it was in a mess. All the things that could be moved had been moved away, and all the things that could not be moved had been smashed. The doors and windows were all damaged, and there were even people urinating and defecating in it. The stench was overwhelming.
After Du Yuqi entered the gatehouse on the left, he stood on the wall opposite the door and touched it carefully with his hand, and then found the brick that Count Ratnest mentioned, which felt obviously different.
Then, Du Yuqi started another fire nearby, and when the wisps of black and red mist came out of the wall again, he jumped directly to the top of the gatehouse on the right, pointed at the air above his head, and asked Duize next to him to shoot at a height of about ten meters - there was obviously nothing there!
Although Duize didn't know why he had to do this, he still did as he was told. Then a strange thing happened. After he fired four or five shots experimentally, the bullet suddenly emitted sparks and made a "pop" sound as if it hit something invisible, and was directly bounced away.