The Age of Machines

Chapter 192 The Broken Lock
The elf saluted, then retreated into the room, and the halos on everyone's bodies gradually disappeared with the elf's exit.When the wooden doors were closed, the small lock automatically locked the wooden door, and everything seemed to return to the original appearance.The surroundings returned to silence, silently.

"All right."

Finally able to speak, everyone was holding back too many questions and couldn't finish asking them all in one breath, looking at Beixi hesitant to speak.Beixi laughed softly, walked up to the vine and said, "Go up first, and I'll tell you about this tree."

The 7 people couldn't wait to keep up with Beixi, and slowly climbed up along the vines around the big tree.The vines are very thick, and at least 4 people can stand in a row.Beixi asked Nuomi Duanzi to light up the magic lamp, and a group of people began to climb up.

"President, why do you know Elvish?" It was the first time Rashomon saw a player who could speak Elvish.The elves are known to players, but it is unusual to learn their language.

"I learned it in the library. Because I accepted a task about elves, I thought I should be able to use elf language, so I went to the library to learn it."

Nuomi Duanzi suddenly realized, and said, "That's the task for the two of us."

This is the first time I've heard that foreign languages ​​can be learned.After thinking for a while, he asked, "How do you learn languages ​​in the library?" The others were also curious, as long as they learned a foreign language, it would also mean that there would be a lot of quests and legendary equipment.

"Go to the librarian and give me some money."

"How much did it cost to learn the elf language?" Hong Jiao was more concerned about the price.The elves are a common race. Except for some players who choose elf archers, who are born with the ability to understand elf languages, other professions can only speak human languages ​​at the beginning.

"It depends on the race. Elvish language cost me about 2 gold coins." Everyone was shocked, how expensive is it?It's not worth spending so much to learn a language.As mentioned above, you can accept the mission, it also depends on your character and opportunity.Some people may not really know some legendary missions even if they can speak Elvish.It's not as good as the shooter of the elves. At present, no one has completed the legendary task. 2 gold coins can buy a piece of gold equipment with good attributes in the market.Everyone can only say that it is really proud to be the president.

Rashomon was filled with emotion, Beixi looked at his expression, raised his eyebrows and smiled and said, "What kind of expression is that? I learned nine languages ​​for 2 gold coins, and I think it's worth it."

"How come there are nine kinds." Nuomi Duanzi was stunned.

Peacock said indifferently: "The elves have many branches. From the royal family to the lowest elves, there are many tribes, and the languages ​​are of course different."

Hei Shicheng stood aside, nodding silently.

The elves are a very ancient race.There have been several civil wars, and it has also gone from division to unity and then to division.Languages ​​have been differentiated for a long time, and of course there are many different languages ​​in a race.

"Oh, how do the elves talk to each other?"

"Low-level elves are spiritual communication. As for the higher-level ones, I don't know too much." Beixi glanced at Peacock, this kid knows a lot.

"What level is the elf we just saw down there?" A good bird touched the vine when the forest was growing, and there was a soft touch from it.Shengshi has achieved the ultimate in virtualization, so the players experience in the game always feels no different from reality.

"That's a wood elf in the elf branch. I can't tell from the level, and being able to speak elf language should not be low-level. The wood elves are the gatekeepers of the tree of time."

Everyone circled around and walked to the second floor of the Tree of Time.Beixi summoned the glutinous rice dumpling, and the magic lamp shone on the door plate of the wooden door. Everyone saw a few symbols engraved on the door plate, which looked like a kind of writing. "Is this Elvish?"

Bei Xi shook his head, no. "It belongs to the goblin. This is not what we are looking for!" After finishing speaking, Beixi continued to walk up.

Several people looked at each other, what exactly is Beixi looking for?Could it be that the lost weapons of Nuomi Duanzi and Rashomon are in it?

"President, I have another question."

Beixi looked back at the red flood dragon, feeling helpless.These children have too little knowledge about games. In fact, Beixi doesn't think about the experience he has now after playing games for five years in his previous life.The few of them have only come into contact with the Tree of Time today, so how can they be compared.

"Why didn't you let us talk just now?"

"There is a rule for entering the Tree of Time. Give the gatekeeper the crystal! One crystal can only be used by one person, and one crystal can be exchanged for the qualification to enter the Tree of Time. The exchange ceremony is very serious and solemn for the gatekeeper. The matter. When the contract is signed, there must be no noise, otherwise it will affect the contract."

contract?

Hao Niao touched his chin when the woods grew up, thinking of the halo that surrounded several people before.Presumably that is the contract!A few people also thought of the aperture, and they understood it in their hearts.

"You can look at the position of the arm, palm or back of the hand, there should be contract lines."

Nuomi Duanzi took off his gloves and tattooed vines on the back of his hands.Dark green with golden light flowing.

"This is your pass when you get started. It is also a gatekeeper, a tool to monitor your behavior. Don't do anything that hurts the tree of time, and nothing will happen."

Hongjiao clicked his tongue a few times, and suddenly wondered what punishment would be given if he did something that hurt the tree.So I asked.

Beixi kicked him angrily, and in the midst of his instructions, there was also a tone of command. "Don't do anything to harm the Tree of Time. Otherwise, you will be directly punished by the system, down 10 levels, all attributes will drop, and you will be blacklisted by the elves, and you will be killed once in the future."

"I rub it, is it so serious?"

"This punishment is indeed too heavy."

Beixi shook his head. The Tree of Time has this value for the player to be punished like this.This is a giant tree built from the most ancient period of the elves.Has a very big secret.

The future is also the place where players are vying to come.Because the lava plateau has not yet opened, Beixi can be regarded as a group of people with legends to appreciate the charm of the tree of time in advance.

A group of people arrived on the third floor. Bei Xi looked at the house number with a magic lamp, and shook his head, no.Continue to go up with everyone.

Bei Xi remembered that the place where the group of creatures lived should be limited to the 10th floor of the Tree of Time, after all, they were all low-level NPC monsters, and they couldn't go up to the 10th floor.

"Hey, I know this word." Nuomi Duanzi was surprised to find that he could understand the words on the wooden door plate.Overjoyed, he pulled the red dragon over.

Hongjiao glanced at the house number, rolled his eyes, and sneered: "Nonsense, this is the language of our Karans imperial capital. Is it because you have a low IQ or are you trying to insult my IQ?"

Ukiyo-e brushed past the two of them, stopped, and looked at the words on the door plate. 【City of Asia and Europe】

Read these four words thoughtfully, and continue to go up.Now they have passed the fifth floor and are ready to go to the sixth floor.Surprisingly, the house number on the fifth floor finally contained words they were familiar with, but it was not the destination either.

"Let's go, everyone go up." Hongjiao waved his hands and quickly followed Ukiyo-e.

Everyone didn't know what was behind the wooden door, and there were different languages ​​on the wooden door on each floor.They guessed, or place names, or some kind of introduction.I don't understand and there is no translation.You can only climb up layer by layer along with Beixi.

Finally, on the seventh floor, Beixi looked at the words on the door plate and finally smiled. "right here."

The seven people were all relieved, and they would be exhausted if they climbed down again.Each layer is far apart, a distance of 3-4 minutes.Just going around in circles can kill people. I really don't know if anyone has climbed to the top of this tree.
Peacock leaned closer to the house number and looked at it for a while.Curling his lips, he finally gave up.can't read!I really don't know how Beixi recognizes these characters. In his opinion, there is no difference between the languages ​​of foreign races.

Nuomi Tuanzi touched the writing on the sign, and found that it was uneven, and it was actually carved.

"Beixi Da, what does this house number say?"

Beixi thought for a while and said, "Bam's village."

Beixi doesn't know Bom's language, so it can only be said that he found it here by impression.I used to come to the Tree of Time often, but my memory is a little fuzzy, and I can't remember which one of the 10 floors this village is on.

"What's in the door?"

"another world?"

When Lin Zi grows up, Hao Niao and others have long been very interested in the world inside the door.No idea what's inside each door.He was still asking about Beixi, when he heard the exclamation of Nuomi Duanzi from behind.

"Fuck."

Beixi felt a 'thump' in his heart, and several people quickly looked around.The figure of the glutinous rice dumpling was still there. The wooden door was opened, and although the lights were on inside the house, there was nothing there, and a cloud of hazy light gradually swallowed the door. Beixi's face darkened, and he quickly closed the wooden door tightly.

"Sure enough, something went wrong."

Several people came up and asked one after another: "President, what's the matter?"

Beixi lowered his head and carefully looked at the small silver lock hanging on the doorknob. It was loose and the iron buckle on it was broken.

"It seems that the time lock is really broken."

In the past, when Beixi was in the Tree of Time, there would always be something like a broken time lock.If this happened, it would be easy for the things trapped in the Tree of Time to escape.Not only that, but if it is more serious, the tree of time may be swallowed.This is a very serious consequence, so not only the player but also the guardian elves must be very cautious when entering and exiting the Tree of Time.

Beixi looked at the time, and he had to go offline to sleep in half an hour. If all the staff went down, it might not be enough time to come back.But if you let the glutinous rice dumpling stay inside alone, it seems not safe.

"Red Jiao, go down and call the gatekeeper up."

"Ah? What's the name?"

"Knock on the door and wait for him to come out by himself. Just explain the situation to him!"

Hongjiao scratched his head, suddenly said: "Can he understand me?"

"." Beixi sighed, forgetting about it.

"Someone is pulling the wooden door, I'll go down and call for someone."

When the woods were getting bigger, a good bird came forward and said, "Give it to me."

"Don't open the wooden door. I don't want everyone to disappear once I come up!"

Several people nodded repeatedly.Naturally not as stupid as glutinous rice dumplings.
(End of this chapter)