Chapter 21 Hound Steps and the Hook-Calling Potion!
Gong Qiying sat on the cleaned altar, staring at the ceiling in a daze.
It was a new day, and the crystal ball was showing the adventurers' new tricks, but he had no intention of watching.
Because he suddenly realized one thing - is his life too monotonous?
What he had to do every day was to repair the underground city, which was indeed very interesting, but he couldn't just do one thing for his whole life, right? He didn't want to be an immortal in the underground city.
But if he wanted to do anything else, he couldn't leave the dungeon, so he could only eavesdrop on the conversations of the adventurers and imagine what the outside world looked like from their conversations.
That sounds pretty sad.
People say that life is about building connections with different people, but he has been in this world for quite some time and has yet to make a single friend.
“A bit lonely”
Gong Qiying looked bored as he continued to look into the crystal ball. He saw quite a few familiar faces.
Wilder is here again. He seems to regard his encounter with Sakaki (Miya Kiyoshi) as an adventure. He thinks he can gain benefits from Sakaki, who seems to know a lot of mysterious knowledge. Therefore, he plans to keep it to himself and breaks into the dungeon alone.
The result is that he died in some corner. I guess he won't give up like that.
An adventurer with giant blood was also there, challenging the dungeon diligently every day like punching a clock in, but unfortunately he hadn't even gotten to see the gargoyles guarding the gate.
This guy always thinks about the fun of fighting. He clearly knows that the spray of the curse frog can kill people instantly, but he still gathers the curse frogs together before fighting. It's really...
Respect, blessing, misunderstanding.
I don’t know if it’s Gong Qiying’s illusion, but he feels that the time this guy has been cursed seems to have gotten longer. Could it be that dying more often really does improve immunity?
Stellan was there too. This time she wasn't with her companions. She planned to face the monsters alone. Judging from her attitude, she was determined to figure out the map even if she died.
With the awareness of certain death in mind, she explored more calmly, and some insidious traps were no longer a threat to her.
To sum up, we can find that the traps in the Senn dungeon have several common characteristics: high density, low damage, strong obstruction, hidden location, and need to cooperate with monsters to kill.
Stellan summed up a rule herself: wherever there are a large number of monsters, there must be traps, but where there are traps, there may not be monsters.
After actual exploration, the results were indeed similar to the rules she summarized.
"This guy has some talent,"
Gong Qiying began to admire her. This elf was the one who made the fastest progress among all the adventurers. Maybe her performance was not very good at the beginning, but she was able to put what she learned into practice.
Look, Stellan has come to a corner on a narrow road. What will she do?
The moment Stellan saw the corner, she stopped, picked up a stone from the ground and threw it over tentatively.
"Patta, patta," stones fell on the water, making a series of noises, but nothing else happened. Does this mean that there is no monster ambush around the corner?
Absolutely not!
The best way to deal with Lao Liu is——
She took out a bomb and threw it quickly and accurately!
“Boom—”
“Ah!”
The explosion was accompanied by the monster's screams, and the smell of burnt flesh came. Stellan took a deep breath in intoxication.
"Phew, I'm happy."
"That's it!" Gong Qiying snapped his fingers. He was very happy to see the progress of the adventurers!
"You should give me some reward. Let me see."
Not long after, Stellan saw a strange zombie staggering towards her, carefree and completely defenseless, as if deliberately luring her to kill him.
This is actually the cannon fodder sent by Gong Qiying to deliver the reward.
However.
Stellan frowned, dodged to the side, and watched the zombies walk past her, but she didn't attack! ?
"That's strange. This monster won't explode after being hit by me, right?" Stellan said to herself, "Or will it turn into another powerful monster after it dies?"
She has been trained to be suspicious by the Thane dungeon.
“.”
Gong Qiying was silent for a moment, thinking, why are you thinking so much, just fight quickly!
He controlled the zombies and walked in front of Stellan again, staring at her motionlessly, and opened his arms as if to embrace her.
Stellan showed a look of disgust, bent down, squeezed past the zombie, and walked away quickly.
"Hey, you can tolerate this?"
With no other options left, Gong Qiyingming ordered the zombies to rush over and attack Stellan.
"Sure enough, he's exposed!"
Stellan kicked the zombie's head off, then jumped back instantly, staring at the zombie's body with vigilance, fearing that something unexpected might happen.
There is no possibility of variables. Once the zombie dies, it turns into ashes and disappears without a trace, leaving two spots of light in its place.
Huh? It's not a lie?
Stellan was stunned for a moment, even a little uncomfortable, but she still walked over and picked up the light spot.
A weapon and a prop. The weapon looked like a pair of grappling claws, but she didn't know how to use this kind of weapon.
"Why not sell it for money?"
As soon as she thought of this, a combat skill called [Hound Step] appeared in her mind. This is a combat skill that comes with the hook.
And when she understood the effect of the hound's pace, she smiled happily again.
"It seems like a very powerful combat skill. No, no, why can a weapon give me combat knowledge?"
She tried to take off the hook, but the hound's pace disappeared from her mind, as if the knowledge had never existed.
“So magical”
Stellan was amazed. She had the urge to send the hook to the elves to have a craftsman study it.
It’s a pity that it’s too far and it takes too much time to send it there.
Apart from the hook, there was another item that she was a little confused about.
It was a small box with a simple appearance. When it was opened, there was something golden inside, and it was impossible to tell what it was.
As if afraid that she wouldn't understand, a message was poured directly into her brain.
【Summoning Finger Potion X5】
[After using it, you can see the summoning marks drawn by the helpers or fighters in the same underground layer. Summon the helpers, and they will help you conquer the dungeon until you defeat the regional boss. Summon the fighters, and they will fight with you.]
“What kind of magical thing is this?”
It was the first time that Stellan knew that there were props that could summon other people across regions!
"Can it really be summoned? Is the person I summoned a living person or something? Do they also have this kind of prop?"
A lot of questions arose in her mind, and she looked at the Finger-Calling Potion hesitantly. This thing seemed to be a consumable, but if there were five in total, she could try one, right?
Thinking of this, she couldn't wait to raise the Hook Finger Medicine and sprinkle the contents into the sky.
"What changes will there be? What will the summoning mark look like? I'm really looking forward to it."
As she looked expectantly, a golden summoning symbol slowly emerged not far away.
(End of this chapter)
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