Chapter 154: Searching for the Holy Artifact
"Painted skin?"
Li Ran said in shock.
The nightmare skin displayed by Lan Defi changed from dry to full, like bark infused with energy.
Only this time it’s not ghosts painting human skin, but humans painting ghost skin.
Suddenly, a bold idea came to several people's minds.
"Assuming we can put on this thing, can we enter the sea of ghost land?" Li Wangu asked.
This is also a question in everyone's heart.
"Who wants to try?"
Lan Defei hung up the filled nightmare skin like a piece of clothing. It looked like a bark coat.
When several people saw this, they frowned.
"Then I'll do it myself."
As she said that, Lan Defi put on the nightmare skin that looked like tree bark.
How to wear it?
She cut a zipper-like opening in the middle, then cut off her lower body, and put it on just like she usually puts on a coat.
I have to say that the biology doctor is really brave.
Li Ran gave her a thumbs up.
After putting it on, it's like wearing a bark coat.
It is within the acceptable range.
"It doesn't feel too big, I just don't know if it has a ghostly aura." Lan Defei spun around in front of everyone as if she was wearing a new piece of clothing.
"If Huang Xia is still alive, she can help us identify whether there is a ghost smell on it." Xue Jin said.
Li Ran frowned slightly and stared at Lan Defei's nightmare coat.
(Tip: The nightmare skin needs to be continuously injected with blood to acquire the ghostly atmosphere.)
Lan Defi took off her "coat" and placed it on the table. The originally plump bark shriveled up again.
"A bag of blood can only last about five minutes," Lan Defi said.
Xue Jin said with a graceful look on his thumb nail: "We may have to prepare a lot of blood."
"And the Nightmare Skin." Li Wangu added.
Li Ran pointed to the square of the storage center and said: "I killed a lot of nightmares there the day before yesterday. I can still pick up some there. After I pick them up, I can cut them into pieces and wear them." "After injecting blood into them, they will have a ghostly atmosphere
. No need to test anymore."
Li Ran said this, and several people believed it.
Everyone only needs to prepare a Nightmare Skin and enough blood.
With that, the first rule of entering the Ghost Sea is solved.
But Li Ran believes that even if he knows the rules, there are still great risks.
Besides, there are four rules that follow, and they have no clue.
"Here are the rules. It depends on how you understand them. In the next two days, you can prepare according to your own understanding." Li Ran said.
There is a Cangming Supermarket in the hotel, which is the same as the Happy Supermarket in Happy Home.
You can buy all the props you can think of here, including diving suits and oxygen bottles. However, because of the underwater breathing medicine, the diving equipment is useless. You can also buy various biological and human organs here.
Everything you have seen and never seen before is available here, and you can buy it by spending points.
Li Ran also prepared a lot according to the literal meaning of the rules and spent nearly a thousand points.
The storage space is large enough to hold all the items. Among them, one grid contains the human blood*99. The
purchase took about an entire morning. After a simple bowl of instant noodles at noon, Li Ran planned to go to the mountains to the south. have a look.
The information provided by Uncle Xu mentioned that it is said that the giant on the southern mountain is guarding a sacred artifact, but no one has ever seen it.
Li Ran wanted to try his luck. If he could find the sacred artifact, he would make a lot of money.
Regarding the strength of the giant, you can refer to the strength of the giant butcher who cooks a bowl of bone fairy soup, with a guile value of 4200.
Even if there is a gap in the guile value between the giants, the gap will not be too big.
Li Ran's current guile value is 5,580, and after the little devil baby possesses his soul, it is close to 8,000. There is no problem in dealing with these giants.
He told everyone his idea, and they understood.
Besides Li Ran, who else can go alone here?
Even Zhao Yingzhi, who has more than a thousand guile points higher than them, does not dare to act alone now.
Four people hugged each other and one person wandered away.
Maximize guaranteed survival rate.
After leaving the hotel, Li Ran stopped a taxi and headed to the southern volcanic area.
In Li Ran's view, the location of Cangming Airport is very contradictory.
How could anyone build an airport on a volcano?
Going south, the outline of the mountains towering above the clouds gradually becomes clearer.
The largest mountain on the island is also a silent volcano.
It is like a child that cannot be woken up. If you make it angry, the consequences are unimaginable.
From a distance, the entire mountain looks like a trapezoidal beast crawling on the ground. When you get closer, the huge mountain immediately feels oppressive, and the people inside it are as small as ants.
The taxi took Li Ran to the foot of the mountain, where there was a winding dirt road leading to the top of the mountain.
But the driver was unwilling to go again.
In desperation, Li Ran had no choice but to hike up the mountain.
The dirt road is winding and rough, and can probably pass a car.
If two cars intersect, it would be terrible.
But Li Ran doesn't think many people will come here.
The forest is vast and the cliffs are steep.
You can see the big trees everywhere, with their vines entwined and the huge tree crowns intertwined with the airtight wind. The whole mountain exudes wild vitality.
It is hard to imagine that such a wild mountain is actually a silent volcano.
When a volcano erupts, dark red hot magma will be the first to engulf the forest. Poisonous volcanic ash reaches the sky like a mushroom cloud. Red-hot rocks are pushed to the high school and fall like meteorites. Red flames streak through the billowing sky of poisonous smoke. mark.
Although Li Ran had never witnessed a volcanic eruption with his own eyes, just imagining the scene in his mind was enough to shock him.
"Are there really giants in such a primeval forest? I believe there are savages more."
Along the mountain road up the mountain, looking at the vast vegetation all around, Li Ran felt as if he had accidentally broken into the forest of the giant country.
Just when he was wondering where those trolls lived.
Heavy footsteps came from behind.
"Uh-huh!!"
"Ho-ho!!"
Two deep roars came from the front.
Li Ran frowned slightly and hid in the grass on the side of the road.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Then, he saw two giants appearing on the dirt road one after another.
The extremely ugly heads look like human faces that have been made fat by soaking. Their skin is like dark gray rocks. They only have four fingers and toes. Their huge and bulky bodies are like two hills.
There is a rolling log on the shoulders of the two giants. There is a wooden cage hanging in the center of the rolling log, and a little girl is locked in the cage.
Giants capture humans and eat them?
On second thought, this is nothing to fuss over.
He had already seen it when he was in the terminal, and Wu Xing was made into soup in the end.
What's even more terrifying is that these giants will not die even if their heads fall off, and their vitality is extremely tenacious.
Thinking of the scene where the giant butcher fished his head out of the soup barrel still makes people feel numb.
After the two giants walked away, Li Ran walked out from the side and followed them cautiously.
The giant roared low as if communicating something.
Probably there will be fresh ingredients or delicious food tonight.
You can tell with your toes what's going on in the heads of these clumsy giants.
Li Ran also noticed that the guile values of these two giants were between 4000-4500.
If a fight breaks out, Li Ran can use his elusive shadow skills to play with these two giants in the palm of his hand.
Following the giant, we came to a huge cave.
The two giants placed the wooden cage at the door and got into the hole.
From the outside, the cave is lit by fire.
The giant can make fire and cook?
Are you born to be a chef?
There are more than a dozen cages placed at the entrance of the huge cave. Three cages contain people, and the other cages are empty. However, there are shocking blood stains on each cage, indicating that humans were once imprisoned in those cages.
Where did those people go in the end?
A pile of human bones on the edge of a cliff should be the answer.
Li Ran quietly came to the edge of the cave and eavesdropped on what was going on inside.
"Help, help, help us." The little girl in the wooden cage that had just been put down stretched out her hand from the cage and shouted to Li Ran.
The humans who were still in the other two cages felt like they were seeing a savior when they saw Li Ran. They stretched out their hands and shouted for help.
Li Ran turned a deaf ear and paid no attention to the imprisoned NPCs.
"Help me, I will repay you," the little girl shouted.
Li Ran's ears twitched and he turned around to look at the little girl imprisoned in the cage.
The little girl was about eleven or twelve years old. She was wearing a dirty white dress and her head and face were stained.
"How to repay?" Li Ran asked.
If you have a mission, that's definitely a different matter.
If the little girl hadn't said anything about repaying her just now, and had just shouted for help, Li Ran would have ignored them indifferently.
The little girl was stunned when Li Ran asked her this question.
She groped around, then took out a small green flute and handed it out: "I... I only have this."
In reality, Li Ran turned around and left.
The promised repayment, but in the end he took out a small flute?
What the hell.
(Spiritual flute: It is said that in places with strong elemental aura, blowing it can control elemental spirits.)
[Trigger mission: Save the little girl. ]
[Mission reward: guile +50, points +500]
Taking the small green flute, the sound of the mission was triggered in my ears.
This sound is relatively simple, and you can get a reward for saving the little girl.
But he didn't think the task was that simple.
There is no one outside the cave now, and there is dead silence all around.
It's simply the best time to save someone.
Suddenly, Li Ran felt like a light on his back
. They turned around and his body suddenly stiffened.
Hidden among the dense trees was a huge, slyly smiling face.
It had an extremely huge face, full of wrinkles, and a pair of excited eyes staring directly at it.
It felt like a hunter who had set a trap, waiting for his prey to take the bait, and he was the prey.
"Fuck!"
Li Ran's scalp was about to explode.
A chill instantly ran from the tailbone to the Tianling Cap.
He originally just wanted to sneak into the cave secretly. He thought that these giants with heavy elm heads could be seen at a glance, and there was no need to use his senses at all.
Who would have thought that there was a giant lying in wait beside the cave.
This is simply a trap specially set for players.
Who comes and who dies!
Li Ran's mind felt like it was exploding, and he was startled the moment he turned around.
But he reacted quickly, and almost at the moment when the giant's arm was grabbing him, he escaped into the shadows, narrowly escaping the giant's capture.
The giant with a strange face retracted his arm and opened his palms in confusion. His palms were empty.
He looked at the ground, thinking that the little man might have been beaten to a pulp by it.
But there are none on the ground.
The giant was so angry that his eyes almost popped out.
Then he angrily walked to the cave, opened the cage where the little girl was kept, and grabbed the little girl out with one hand.
The little girl resisted, struggled, and shouted, and her voice penetrated into the giant's ears like the sound of mosquitoes.
Although it didn't catch another villain, it felt that the villain in front of it was also delicious, but there was no meat.
The giant grabbed the little girl and walked into the cave.
Under the shade of a tree on the side, Li Ran quietly emerged from the shadow.
"It's no big deal if you don't trigger the mission. If you trigger the mission, a giant will appear out of thin air. I'll ask you if you're afraid." Li Ran said in horror.
Many tasks in Weird World are deceptive.
The mission seems simple, but in fact it is all malicious.
If the player did not have life-saving skills, he would have been captured by the giant just now.
Players who are slightly slower may be beaten to a pulp on the spot.
Now that the giant has captured the little girl, he can only go to the cave to rescue the little girl.
These trolls are all good at cooking. If they were a step too late, the little girl would be cooked.
Thinking of this, Li Ran quietly came to the cave entrance again, ignored the shouts of the humans in the other two cages, and sneaked into the cave.
The cave was much larger than Li Ran imagined, and there was fire coming from the depths.
Li Ran also smelled a strong aroma of food.
If they hadn't witnessed the players being chopped into pieces and thrown into the broth, who would have thought that the rich aroma of the vegetables was actually cooked by humans.
The cave is so large and spacious that four large trucks can pass through it in parallel.
Li Ran seemed to feel like he had become a villain. The short journey into the cave actually took a long time before his field of vision broadened.
The fire illuminated the cave, and at the end of the cave was a village.
They are distributed in an orderly manner in a huge cave space.
The houses were made of huge banana leaves and heavy tree trunks. A huge bonfire was burning in the center of the village, and the fire illuminated the entire cave and the entire village.
Every house is very huge, and there is a huge table at the door of every house. There are all kinds of huge vegetables and food on the table. Smoke is curling up from the roofs of most houses, as if there is a fire all the time. Cooking.
Looking from a distance, the huge sense of proportion of the village is not unbalanced. The moment he saw the village, Li Ran seemed to have stepped into a paradise.
The premise is to ignore the troll people.
Wait, there's a troll village in the cave?
Only then did Li Ran realize that before he came here, his impression of trolls was still that they were bulky, tall, and ugly.
The troll village in front of him overturned his understanding of trolls.
Trolls who know how to ambush, hunt, cook, and even farm?
Various giant vegetables are planted around the village, and several giants are busy in the fields.
Seeing this scene, Li Ran was dumbfounded.
Isn’t this the self-sufficient human being in an agricultural society?
The difference is that humans don't eat people.
But in the eyes of these trolls, there is no difference between humans and the wild animals in the woods.
After hesitating for a long time at the entrance of the village, Li Ran walked cautiously against the cave wall and walked into the troll village.
When the first house appeared in front of him, he was like a mouse hiding in panic, hiding in the corner of the house.
The first thing that catches the eye is the extremely huge wooden door, the huge bloody chopping board for chopping meat on the table in front of the house, and a huge kitchen knife that can easily split a cow in half.
"Uh-huh!!"
The troll holding the little girl walked to the huge bonfire and was talking to another female troll wearing a chef's uniform.
Later, the little girl was handed over to the chef troll man and taken to a wooden house.
This feeling is suffocating and oppressive.
Humans were treated like livestock by these trolls.
There are huge clumps of grass next to the house. Through the grass, you can get close to the wooden house of the chef giant.
Under a tall platform, Li Ran saw the leg bones randomly discarded in the meat basket, and the blood had not even dried.
On the top shelf of the campfire hung five or six skewers of "bacon."
It is said that the pigs in the pigsty are carefree before going to the table. Apart from being unable to leave the pigsty, they have almost no worries.
But one day, the pig suddenly left the pig pen and witnessed his brother being stabbed through the throat by five or six strong men with a butcher knife. How did he feel?
Li Ran's mood at the moment was that of a pig walking out of the pigsty.
The same kind was made into troll food in front of him, and their limbs were discarded casually.
Humans seem to be livestock raised by these trolls and can be slaughtered at will.
"Help, help, help!"
The little girl's cry for help came from the wooden house nearby.
Then he heard the sound of heavy knives being dragged and rubbed.
I go, the little girl is going to be chopped up.
If the little girl dies, his mission will have failed.
Although, for Li Ran, failure in the mission is just a reward for losing a mission.
But what he was interested in was not just a mission.
There must be a lot of idle tasks in the large area of Troll Village.
Triggering tasks requires people.
There was no way he was going to the Troll Man to trigger the quest.
Once everyone is gone, he won't be able to complete any of the tasks here.
It even ended up being related to the unfound sacred artifact.
Besides, he just got the spirit flute from the little girl, and he hasn't found a place to use it yet, which means that the little girl still has follow-up tasks.
The little girl is just the beginning of this chain of tasks.
The beginning failed, and the follow-up is even more impossible to complete.
Thinking of this, Li Ran sneaked into the wooden house quietly.
He walked quickly and hid under a table.
The interior of the wooden house is very simple, with a kitchen and a stone bed.
The chef troll was boiling water. He found a huge stone pot and placed it on a simple table. A raging flame ignited under the stone pot. It picked up a wooden bucket filled with water and poured the water into the pot. .
The little girl was imprisoned by the giant in a small cage on the side table, placed together with a pair of huge radishes and potatoes.
Stoves, firewood piles, dining tables, ingredient tables, benches, bowl racks, knives, trash cans, agricultural tools... Looking around
, Li Ran was like a mouse hiding under the table, looking for a way to the dining table. shortcut.
The feeling of weirdness, oppression, and suffocation came up instantly!
(End of chapter)