Returning from the abyss

Chapter 133
There are a total of nine people in the dungeon where Tumen is located.

He was in a cell with a young man, and two other cells, one with three and the other with four.Chen Fangyu, who is older, has a lot of people in the first team. Among those assigned here, there are three men and one woman; the other man, Deng Wei, has only three people in the entire team, and the other two originally signed up with him. No extra personnel were arranged to go in.

Lu Ning estimated that this number was because someone had already run away.

"By the way, have you seen Xi Ren? I was quite worried if I didn't see her. She has been reluctant to improve her fighting skills. She said that there is no problem with her younger sister's protection, but they are not separated forever."

As soon as Tu Men came up, he was quite happy to see several teammates, so he asked.

"She's a little safer than us now."

Lu Ning has no way to expose Mo Xiren's true nature with empty words now, so she can only deal with Tu Men's words, but in the end, this sentence actually made him smile.

"That's good, tell me, what to do next? I'll listen to you."

Obviously he was also a captain before, but now he obeys the orders of others without hesitation. Tumen also has a good sense of how to deal with himself in the team.

fair enough.

"Set fire to it."

Zhao Chenshuang threw a flint into Tumen's hand with an expression of fearing that the world would not be chaotic.

"what?"

"We have done a good job of sneaking and saving people. Now it's time to give these stupid villagers some revenge! Don't say that you have no grievances at all. You were thrown into an underground cell like this and eaten like food. ..." Zhao Chenshuang showed a sinister smile that could even be called a classic villain expression, "Burn it, the greater their loss, the happier we will be! Isn't it?"

As she said, there is no one who does not have such a fire in his heart.

The predicament at the opening of the promotion test really caught them off guard, but it didn't dampen their fighting spirit—everyone can save enough [-] registration fees anyway, so it's not like they can't overcome this difficulty.

After shouting in unison, the people who were released immediately started looking for dry firewood to start the fire.

The entire mountain village began to be lit with dots of fire, which was different from the orderly formation of torches formed by the villagers "last night". This time, because more people escaped early, the people in the village were caught off guard. was lit.

"It's almost time to retreat."

More and more villagers were alarmed by the fire, and the gong sounded again.Seeing this, Lu Ning immediately summoned her companions and ran to the deep mountains and old forests.But those who were still fighting in the village soon suffered the bitter fruit. More and more villagers surrounded them in groups. These villagers with extremely vigorous vitality could not even be killed normally, let alone their physical strength far beyond ordinary people?

After calming down the chaos in the village for a while, several patriarchs immediately organized people to go into the mountain to search, and because the loss was more serious this time, some people soon went up the mountain to seek help from the hunters.

Lu Ning and the others quickly ran to the mountain, followed her familiar route all the way around the hill, and soon found the stream where she met Shu Xingruo and others.

This time, no one came out from behind the tree.

Of course, this time she came a little earlier.

"Please...if there is time..."

Everyone hid in the shadow of the woods, only Lu Ning stood behind the tree alone.She didn't dare to change any of the conditions, even if the chaos in the village was completely different from before, she still hoped that there would be time when the time reset.

Finally, after more than five minutes of quiet waiting, four people walked out of the forest not far away, and the silhouette of the top hat on the head of the frontmost person was incomparable under the moonlight.

"You guys are finally here, I... have been waiting for a long time."

When Lu Ning walked out from behind the tree, the four of them only showed alert expressions for a moment, but when they saw that it was Lu Ning, they immediately relaxed.

"Shu Xingruo, Ye Tisi, it's great to see that you two are safe and sound."

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The moon moved to the center of the sky.

"10:30."

Outside a cave in a deep mountain, Cheng Wuling holds a watch in her left hand and puts it not far in front of her. The fingers of her right hand are spread out, and the fingertips of her thumb, index finger and middle finger are pinned to the tallest tree nearby, the moon in the sky and the distant A mountaintop coincides.

The pointer continued to move, but the position of the moon did not move again. Since ten o'clock, the position of the moon has been fixed at the current position in the sky, and the displacement of [-] degrees per hour in normal astronomical phenomena has disappeared.

Her emotionless pupils stared at the moon in the night sky, as if to peel away all the secrets.And in fact, she's doing it too.

"Curse of blood, three rituals, three races, time freeze, time reset, red moon, missing hunter, singing of murlocs, deep mountain hunting of pig-faced men, moon time, hilltop castle, health and sanity, possibility of missions Choose, Bloodbath—”

She lowered her head slightly, looking at the stream below her feet.

Not far in front of him lay a corpse. His throat was cut open, and his whole head was immersed in the stream. The blood flowed out, dyeing the stream red, and then slowly poured into the cave behind Cheng Wuling.

The poor victim probably didn't understand why he died.

But there was no pity in the murderer's eyes, because this man's death was worth something to her, nothing more.

"The next thing to do is to verify three things, and then it's time to start the task. I don't know how they are doing now? It's best not to have too many downsizing. We haven't even passed the novice tutorial yet."

She turned and walked into the cave.

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After meeting Shu Xingruo, Lu Ning felt relieved.There was no injury left on her body, which meant that the time reset could at least completely eliminate the physical damage. The next thing to do was to find a cave and wait for the next dawn.

As the only person who escaped from the time reset, Lu Ning's words were absolutely effective at this time. Everyone went up the stream and quickly found the previous cave. Individuals can still do it.As for continuing to go inside, this is still unnecessary, Lu Ning doesn't want to experience the powerful singing of those murlocs again.

After settling down, everyone sat down in small groups and began to make friends.

Although Tumen's voice was quite low, the conversation was full of enthusiasm. Mo Lianren was also pulled over. Here, Lu Ning whispered to Shu Xingruo, Su Zhilan and others about the current situation and what Cheng Wuling meant.

"She's going to investigate tomorrow? It's not like her style."

Shu Xingruo knew more about Cheng Wuling than Lu Ning.

"For her, things that can be confirmed now will not be postponed, and she can relax after making preparations in the early stage. Now, in terms of the chaos in the mountain village, it is okay for us to go back secretly. Will she give up such a good opportunity? "

"She should have some plans." Ning Yeyi sat down against the cave wall, picked up a stone stained with fluorescent moss, and said while looking at it, "I probably guessed something, such as the last mission to eradicate Blood disaster——she probably wants to make that idea."

"Perfect clearance?" Lu Ning's eyes twitched. She almost didn't think about the completion of the optional missions, and only included them as information for reference. After all, now a typical mortal body confronts extraordinary missions, she already knows that there are How difficult.

"Because this is exactly what we want to do. The points for completing all nine missions will be very rich, right? And the last one is obviously a group mission, I want to try it too." Ning Yeyi reached out and wiped a little light Moss, put it in front of the nose and smell it, and then put it in the mouth.

"Don't put everything in your mouth!"

Su Zhilan next to her quickly grabbed her, but Ning Yeyi obviously had eaten a little.

"Don't worry, I'm basically sure it's non-toxic. If there is a problem, I'll go out and wait for a reset." Ning Yeyi looked indifferent, and smacked his lips lightly, "It's not very different from ordinary moss except for the light. .”

"It's up to you, but you said you have to do the last mission, do you have any idea?"

Lu Ning asked.

"It's all speculation. I want to wait until tomorrow daytime because of the requirement for a certificate. First of all, aren't the few missing hunters a good clue? Although I haven't compared them, the strength of the hunters should be top-notch here. Aren't you surprised that some of the best of these tops are missing?"

"is a little."

"Secondly, under the curse of the mountain village back then, why didn't the patriarchs who took out the dirty blood ceremony come out earlier? Could it be that they just succeeded in research? No... there is no place for this kind of 'research' in this village, at least It doesn’t exist on the surface. Considering that only the villagers knew about it at the time, if we really want to research countermeasures, we should work together instead of developing them secretly, then another possibility is that someone taught this method.”

Lu Ning nodded, she also judged this way before.

"Third, the mountain village that has been closed for so long is not out of touch with the times. Don't say what they got from the arrested people. Things like light bulbs and circuits must be laid and used. If people are cursed and come out If you don't go, it's nothing more than the reverse—someone walks in.

"Finally, it is also doubtful that murlocs can use our language to communicate. Their appearance makes us subconsciously think that they cannot leave the water, but who knows the truth? In addition, the water, which is difficult for humans to touch, is always a place for reconnaissance. Blind area, how do we know what is at the bottom of those Moon Lakes? Do you remember our mission? Investigate the secrets of Moon Lake.”

After Ning Yeyi finished speaking, she put away the four fingers she had stretched out, and let out a breath.

"All of these point to the fact that the mountain village, the murlocs, and the pig-faced people are not the root cause of the problem, and there is someone behind the scenes who is pushing it—who manipulated the time? Who caused the red moon? Among these things What is the logical relationship between them? Why do you want to do this?"

Her question aroused everyone's thinking, and at this time, the moonlight that fell not far away also began to be stained reddish.

(End of this chapter)