Chapter 70
Before setting off, Su Xing went to the dilapidated palace, placed his dragon ball in the palm of the mermaid sculpture, and naturally put the replica into his backpack.
"What are you doing...?"
The captain of the guard who followed him was a little puzzled.
Rather, it seemed that confusion had always surrounded it since it saw the mermaid boy.
And from what the queen said, the other party didn't seem to be a pure mermaid. He could also transform into a human and go to land and breathe the air. This shocked the captain of the guard.
Su Xingyuan watched the dragon ball start to work the moment it was put down. A power purer than the imitation began to spread around. He said calmly, "It just makes our journey to the abyss smoother."
The black-haired mermaid turned her head, blinked, and said with a smile: “You don’t think that I’m the kind of person who is stingy, do you?”
The captain of the guard quickly shook his head, indicating that he definitely did not mean that.
Su Xingyuan didn't care. After the incident was over, he would naturally take the dragon ball back. But since he was going to enter the abyss, he must use the dragon ball that could restrain the evil energy overflowing from the abyss. Otherwise, it would be a waste to leave it there.
"When do we set off?" Su Xingyuan asked.
The captain of the escort team immediately said in a serious tone: "Ten hours later, Mr. Su Xingyuan."
This is the fastest speed they can come up with.
For the Queen, she cannot fall asleep until the matter in the Abyss is resolved, and the players are happy to complete the task early and clean up the task bar.
Neither side had any objection to the ten-hour preparation time.
Especially for players, ten hours is more than enough to adjust the status before taking on a mission. Otherwise, they won't be able to refresh the status with one click during the battle.
Su Xingyuan quickly arranged his time, clicked [Home], and entered his own territory.
Now that the materials have been collected, first of all, he needs to have a new weapon.
Su Xingyuan opened the workbench and found the knife he saw at that time.
[Name: Moon-Breaking Blade]
[Description: A long sword that is fused with moonlight, with extremely high magical conductivity, capable of range attacks; after equipped, Strength +20, Intelligence +7, Agility -2; comes with built-in skills]
[Required materials: Magic Crystal*20, Moonstone*1, Star Sand Ore*10]
【Confirmation of casting】
A white light flashed, and the casting countdown appeared on the screen.
【7:59:59】
Eight hours, just right.
He left the workbench there and let it operate by itself, and Su Xingyuan collected and checked the rewards that had been accumulated before.
When his home reached stage five, he received a home appearance package. Seeing it lying in his backpack, Su Xingyuan opened the appearance package.
After opening it, he paused when he saw the "beautified" content inside.
Good guy, Gothic style.
Since there was still time, he curiously installed the [Appearance Pack - Gothic] on his [Home], successfully making his originally desolate home suddenly look extremely gloomy and terrifying, and even the entire untreated wasteland looked harmonious.
Originally, Su Xingyuan was still planning to turn his home into a famous tourist attraction, and then get some money from the hunters so that he could sell them to the mall in exchange for gold coins - in a holographic game with a high degree of freedom, this wonderful idea can be fully realized.
But now, he needs to consider the possibility that the hunters who enter here will be frightened by the horrific and gloomy scene, or simply doubt the player's taste.
...Isn’t this even better?
The player thought very optimistically and decided to put this plan on the agenda.
During this time, the warehouse was filled with many materials collected by his little slaves, as well as recovery potions made by Leafa.
Not knowing what strange things he would encounter after entering the abyss, Su Xingyuan sorted out his backpack, cleared out unnecessary things, and then threw all the blood-restoring potions he had made into the abyss to show his importance to this mission.
Then, he called up the control panel, clicked on the undead skeletons that worked diligently for him, and sent instructions:
Dig up the trees from the jungle dungeon and plant them in the wasteland of the main home, arranging them neatly.
After giving the order, he went straight to the bed and lay down.
——Like every heartless capitalist, the boss doesn’t care how the employees execute their orders, he just needs to give orders.
When Su Xingyuan opened his eyes, his home had been completely transformed thanks to the efficient work of the undead skeletons.
It refers to the trees that were moved here, which have become extremely hideous after being assimilated by the Gothic appearance pack, and it seems that this place finally has a bit of the flavor of hell.
If it is a normal functioning home for normal people, living in such an environment would definitely make people feel uncomfortable, but for players, this is just a slightly curious appearance package. If you don't like it, you can just change it or remove it.
He was content to give the undead skeletons a ten-minute break.
Walking to the workbench, the [Moon-Breaking Blade] had already been cast.
[Broken Moon Blade] is just as its description suggests, it is a beautiful long sword, all silver-white. Even in the extremely dim light of the Gothic home, it can still reflect a touch of cool moonlight.
Overall, it’s very beautiful.
Su Xingyuan clicked [Equipment] and placed the replaced [Ding Fengbo] at the front of the backpack so that he could change the knife at any time.
At the same time, he added all the ten free attribute points he gained after reaching level 30 to [Strength].
Now, his personal dashboard is:
[Nickname: Su Xingyuan]
[Level: lv.30]
[Physical Strength: 48 (+101)]
[Intelligence: 110 (+7)]
[Strength: 84 (+20)]
[Agility: 64 (-2)]
[Defense: 44 (+2)]
[Remaining free attribute points: 0]
The time was almost up, and Su Xingyuan left his home and returned to Atlantis.
"Brother Su Xingyuan!"
Ariel, who was waiting for him here, immediately waved to him. Having entered the home before, he could roughly guess what Su Xingyuan had just done.
Ariel came up to him and said, "The captain of the guard thought you disappeared. Those ignorant guys just like to make a fuss."
This remark was quite pointed, and Su Xingyuan asked curiously, "You don't like him?"
Ariel puffed out his cheeks and said nothing.
He was indeed a little angry. After all, the reason why he picked a fight with Su Xingyuan was because of what he heard from the captain of the guard, so he decided to hate him for three days.
"Fifty carefully selected warriors of the Atlantis tribe have gathered at the entrance to the abyss," Ariel changed the subject, "I'll take you there."
“No need,” the mermaid boy blinked, looking away from the small map at the edge of his vision, and smiled mysteriously, “I know a shortcut.”
Before he finished speaking, the blue fish tail swung gently, and the mermaid boy moved through the ocean at such a fast speed that it could not even leave a trace on the retina. If an ordinary Atlantean passed by at this time, he would probably be a little puzzled as to why a gust of wind suddenly passed in front of him.
Ariel, who was left behind, narrowed his eyes: "!"
Damn it, he can’t keep up with this speed at all!
It turned out that when fighting with him, the opponent was not just letting him go, but was actually letting him go. If he had fought him at this speed from the beginning, he would definitely not have been able to touch even a corner of his clothes.
But Ariel was determined to follow the strong, so he did not choose to take the path he knew, but tried to catch up with Su Xingyuan.
So when he arrived at the entrance of the abyss, Su Xingyuan had been waiting for him leisurely for a while.
"The time is just right." The black-haired, green-eyed mermaid boy glanced at his arm as if he was wearing a watch, and said with a smile.
The captain of the guard looked at Ariel, his pupils trembling: "...What did you do?"
Ariel, who had all kinds of things hanging on his body, and even some small clothes, said: "..."
Ariel didn't want to talk. He now very much suspected that Su Xingyuan did it on purpose. The place where the mermaid boy took a shortcut was the famous underground world of the Kingdom of Atlantis, which was full of bad elements and of course there was also a red-light district.
God knows how horrified the child's expression was when Ariel got lost in that place and was seen by those mermaid sisters and tried to take him away.
"Now that everyone is here, let's go."
Su Xingyuan changed the subject as if nothing had happened, pretending not to see Ariel's sad look, and turned his gaze to the entrance to the abyss behind him.
The "Abyss" lives up to its name. It is a huge rift on the seabed. It is like a black hole that allows almost no light to penetrate. It seems that anything that enters it will be swallowed by it.
Even just looking at it can send chills down one's spine.
The captain of the guard team said in a focused manner, "The abyss has existed since the beginning of our tribe's records. We and the creatures of the abyss have always kept to ourselves. But from one day on, the abyss creatures that crawled out of it not only attacked our compatriots crazily, but the evil spirits they exuded also constantly polluted this sea area..."
It sighed and said, "If we can completely solve this hidden danger, we will not hesitate even if we die in there."
Su Xingyuan didn't say anything.
——In Atlantis, problems with the Abyss occurred much earlier than the time when the portal to the human world appeared in the game.
If the bosses behind the scenes are all those demon kings, this is enough to prove that their encroachment on different worlds began step by step.
Without thinking any more, he swam into the abyss without hesitation.
The moment he swam down, he felt like he had come to a completely different world, and the surrounding environment changed drastically immediately.
Atlantis is located at the bottom of the sea, and the temperature is already very low, but the moment darkness falls, it is like entering an ice cellar, and the cold is biting.
In such an environment of sudden hypothermia and great temperature differences, even the brave and warlike mermaids needed a certain amount of time to react, and their actions were frozen for a moment.
And in this imperceptible stagnation, the attack directed towards the elite team suddenly arrived!
Thick darkness is the best protective color and is most suitable for sudden ambushes and assassinations.
The bad news is that the Suxingyuan does not have night vision capability.
“Squeak!”
The sound of a sharp weapon entering flesh rang out at the same time.
——And the good news is that the enemy’s position is clearly marked on his minimap.
In the darkness, a transparent fishing line with a huge force was rapidly moving through the water. The silver fishhook accurately hooked the body of a creature. Under the weight of the creature at the tail end, the fishing line, which was able to cut off a human's neck, suddenly became a killing weapon. In the hands of the black-haired mermaid, it was as easy to use as his arm.
Moreover, when it comes to assassination, Su Xingyuan is quite experienced - so the moment he saw the dark situation in the abyss, he moved the fishing rod that was special for aquatic creatures to the front of the backpack column, and wore the title of [Scavenger] to attract hatred for himself.
By the time the elite team injected magic power into the imitation dragon balls they brought with them to dispel the darkness around them that was made up entirely of filthy magic power that had condensed into substance, the black-haired mermaid had already ended the battle.
He simply pulled the fishing rod towards himself, and the fishing line returned to his hands like an obedient child.
And around him, the limbs of the abyss creatures that had just tried to attack them were falling down in pieces, and each cut surface was incredibly neat.
The elite team and Ariel who thought they could help fell silent: "..."
Even Ariel had assimilated with the environment in advance and also hidden in the darkness, concealing his own existence, and had no time to take action.
I always feel like I'm here for a walk in the abyss.
Oh no, maybe its only function is lighting, which at least proves that they are not really organizing a tour group.
Fortunately, the black-haired mermaid is magnanimous, and the player who is used to being a lone wolf does not mind the group of useless teammates behind him. Anyway, in the game, the NPCs who are doing tasks with the players never take action, but just watch from the side.
——Just like this group of mermaids.
The player, who had no awareness that he had acted too quickly, was checking the corpses of the abyss creatures.
Although the bodies were in pieces, their original appearance could still be seen through the puzzle.
It was also a creature with a human body and a fish tail, but compared to the Atlanteans, whose appearance was not good-looking but still acceptable, the abyss creature looked very mentally polluted. The sticky bubbles on its body made people wonder whether the surrounding sea water had become unclean.
"These are the lowest level of abyssal creatures," the captain of the guard explained to him, "We call them..."
"Miscellaneous soldiers."
Su Xingyuan added casually.
As the captain of the guard looked at him with a surprised look of "How did you know?", he turned his head and looked at the deeper darkness ahead.
The abyss creatures are perfectly hidden, but their red names and health bars are very bright and attractive. In the eyes of players, they are like small cakes piled together.
[Abyss Miscellaneous Soldiers][ ...]
In the midst of this group of red "Abyss Troops", Su Xingyuan said in a relaxed tone: "Can you guys step back?"
After witnessing the ferocious fighting power of the mermaid boy, the elite team retreated immediately without showing any courage. Ariel, who retreated with them, looked at the captain of the guard. The same situation made him decide to reconcile with the captain.
So, the current situation seems like they have isolated the black-haired mermaid together, leaving him to face danger alone.
The black-haired boy slowly pulled out the knife from his waist with his right hand.
*
At the same time, at the R Country Observatory.
The observation platform, which was very quiet in the past, suddenly started to make noises, instantly waking up the drowsy people who were guarding there.
The man with messy curly hair was really flustered for a while, and finally he found his glasses on the ground and put them on. He wiped the saliva that almost flowed out of him, and said in a somewhat confused voice: "What's going on? The observatory has moved?"
In his gradually clearer vision, he saw machines that looked like eight legs of a spider, constantly weaving together and eventually forming a huge screen.
The sensor door behind him opened, accompanied by the sound of hurried footsteps: "How is Diana? What did she observe?"
——Diana, the only hunter in the world with S-level observation ability. With the help of the special observation platform built by Country R at the cost of the entire country, she can almost be called an "omniscient".
However, even for an "omniscient being" whose ability is observation, almost an existence in a higher-dimensional realm of gods, such a load is still too much for the human brain.
Therefore, the role of the observatory is not only to expand her abilities, but also to limit her abilities and protect her spirit as much as possible.
This time, a huge abyss crack suddenly appeared in the sea near the port of Country R. No one had ever encountered such a situation before, and they could only preliminarily judge that it should be a variant form of a portal. When detecting the concentration of magic power, the detection equipment directly exploded.
Under such circumstances, Country R immediately decided to activate the observation station and position the observation range in the abyss, trying to know the situation in the abyss through the ability of Diana the Omniscient.
This was the seventh day of observation, and in the middle of the night, there was finally a sound from the observatory.
The core hunters of the first echelon of Country R quickly gathered at the observation platform.
Following a violent fluctuation like a bad TV signal, the scene in the abyss finally appeared on the screen produced by the spider-shaped instrument.
The omniscient gaze quickly swept across every corner of the abyss.
Several core hunters were concentrating on watching the contents on the screen, and the man wearing black-framed glasses who stayed in the observation platform the earliest quickly took out a small notebook and quickly recorded something.
The environment of the abyss is extremely dark, as if thick ink had been dripped into it. Only occasionally under the illumination of plants and minerals that can emit faint light can the densely packed monsters in a very small area be seen.
The most numerous one is undoubtedly a monster with a human body and a fish tail.
It sounds like a mermaid in a fairy tale, but it looks like a perfect match for the image of a merman in a horror movie, an absolutely ugly version of it.
"…They remind me of sewer mermaids."
A very weak voice sounded.
"Ha, I knew you were scared!"
Another voice said smugly.
"Be quiet, twins."
The man in the middle, who was as strong as a bear, said in a deep voice.
"Okay, Victor."
Silence suddenly returned to the observation deck.
The man in black-framed glasses observed the screen carefully.
These monsters are completely different from the ones you usually see in dungeons. If I have to say...
They have many similarities with monsters.
Having gained some understanding of the abyss, the man pressed his heavy black-framed glasses and said dejectedly, "It's over, Victor, we can't win. It's always troublesome to come here. There are a lot of them here. Fortunately, I have written a suicide note and put it on the bedside table in my dormitory..."
Victor: “…”
The veins on his forehead were throbbing. He had no idea why in this country full of martial virtues, the first-tier hunters, except for himself, were almost all weak, sick and terrible pessimists.
"Wait," Victor's eyes fixed, "there is light ahead."
The Omniscient One discovered this earlier than him, and quickly moved his gaze over as he passed through the group of monsters.
——They were also a group of mermaids with human bodies and fish tails.
However, compared to the things that made people lose their SAN just now, these are at least within the normal acceptable range...
Um?
The man with black-framed glasses fixed his gaze on one of the mermaids who looked very out of place.
It has long black hair like seaweed, a beautiful deep blue fish tail, and in the bright aqua blue light, those turquoise eyes are like a fantasy.
Not only does it not fit in, it has a completely different style from the surroundings.
The pessimist pushed up his glasses and made a bold guess:
"Finally a mermaid came to cleanse my eyes... I like this child, but I think it looks too strange, so its fellow tribesmen want to push it into the abyss to kill it. This kind of thing is easy to happen among the tribes in the dungeon."
Victor retorted: "If it's just an execution, there wouldn't be a need for so many people. They look like they are enemies of the monsters in the abyss."
He said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid they entered the abyss to fight."
Just like these hunters who risk their lives to protect their homes.
However, as soon as the man finished speaking, everyone present saw that the mermaids with the same style suddenly retreated a distance in unison.
——The tacit understanding left the beautiful little mermaid alone at the front.
Pessimist: "Oh, fighting. I remember when Diana's perspective came over just now, there were all sewer mermaids over there?"
So he added: "I see, this is a fish fight."
Victor: “…”
"How terrible! The little mermaid is going to die."
"I agree with you this time."
The twins were very sad.
"So no one is telling me the story?" The blind guy, the disabled member of the team, said in a good-natured way, "You guys always do this, always leaving me guessing."
Victor, who had had enough of this group of people: “…”
He took a deep breath and forced himself to focus on the scene in front of him.
The little mermaid seemed to be making a final resistance and pulled out a long knife.
"Wait, mermaids can use knives?"
No one cared about this issue, they waited with bated breath for its outcome.
The mermaid held the handle of the knife and swung it forward lightly.
The next moment, a huge crescent-shaped blade that seemed to be able to flatten everything was suddenly swung out, bursting out with dazzling silver light, and even dispelling the surrounding darkness in an instant. At a speed that was impossible to react to, it struck the group of monsters gathered in the darkness like lightning!
In the blink of an eye, the densely packed monsters were reduced to ashes by the sweep of the sword energy. The space that was originally a little crowded suddenly seemed exceptionally empty.
Everyone at the observatory: “…”
Everyone at the observatory: “???”
In such an empty space, the observatory fell into an eerie silence.
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