The Age of Machines

Chapter 778

They stared at the lock for a while.

In fact, it's just an ordinary magic lock.The rhombus-shaped magic runes on the lock are not difficult to see. They often play dungeons, and in the wild, they see many kinds of runes on the lock. Everyone does not need to get close, just look at the style of the lock, and the inscription on the lock. Graphics, you can know its level.

There are many ways to open a lock, and the thief himself has very powerful lockpicking skills.Sometimes ordinary locks can be opened with just a word of incantation, and the lock can be opened without even opening the lock by fiddling with the hidden mechanism on the lock.

Wei Shengmo has seen a lot of locks, and the locks in the game are also divided into ordinary locks [there is no mechanism or magic lock], mechanism locks and magic locks.The latter two should be classified into one category, but sometimes in terms of circumstances, they are separated and each needs a different "key".

Judging from Wei Shengmo's experience, he said to everyone: "Ordinary magic locks. But this lock has other magic circles..."

"What's the use?" Tanuki asked.

Beixi and Weishengmo looked at each other, and then they raised their hands and pushed the door open at the same time. The bone door opened gently to both sides, and the road leading to Berbos Lake was in front of them.

Open your mouth every day, and then what?
Rashomon was careful, he knew there must be a reason for the two of them to do this.And what they want to get to the bottom of here is the door or the lock.So the line of sight never leaves the lock.

What's also amazing is that he found that after the two bone doors were separated, the merged lock in the middle disappeared naturally.

"Gone."

"What?" One day at a time, I still haven't found out.

Tanuki looked at Rashomon's finger and suddenly realized. "The lock is gone."

Ukiyo-e raised his eyebrows, "I see." He seemed to understand something. "The magic circle on the lock is used to hide the lock. If it is separated, it will disappear, and it will appear after merging."

When they first came here, the door was already open.Maybe when the lollipop came, the door was also open, and then she found that the door was quite weird, so she merged the door, and found a lock at the merged place, and then, strange things happened.

This is what Ukiyoe thought in his heart.

He said with emotion: "The lock must be more than it looks. Tangtang probably discovered some mechanism hidden in the lock, and accidentally lost contact with us."

As he said, Beixi and the two closed the bone door again.

Once touched, the magic lock reappeared, it was still the seemingly ordinary diamond lock.There are no weird magic runes on it, but common sealing spells, plus a circle of other magic circles.

Of course, they now roughly understand the purpose of the magic circle, but how does this relate to the disappearance of the lollipop?
Wei Shengmo still said: "This is still an ordinary lock." He checked it repeatedly, and pursed his lips: "There is no hidden mechanism."

After Ukiyoe heard this, "Impossible. If it is really an ordinary lock, then Tangtang's disappearance cannot be explained."

The locks are inlaid on each half of the bone door.Silver-white, the outline is not even, and the edges and corners are different.It looks like there are irregular patterns on the surface, but in fact they are just magic spells, the spells of sealing.And in the outer circle, there are other characters that are not required for the sealing spell, so they judged that there are other magic circles.

The knowledge of the magic circle here is very broad and profound.

Beixi didn't know much about it, but he did a lot of research on common formations and characters.

"If the magic circle is just a simple hidden lock, I don't think it's actually meaningful." Rashomon said at this time.

The crowd looked at him.

He hesitated a little but still spoke his mind. "First, as you can see, compared to the door, the lake area inside is actually more attractive to us. If it weren't for the coordinates left by Tangtang here, we wouldn't spend time here thinking about whether there is an anomaly in this door."

With the coordinates provided by the lollipop, they could only focus on the door.Not because of this reason, in fact, in their eyes, it is just a bone door that looks a little different.In the bustling lake area ahead, there are more novelties waiting for players.

"Secondly, the magic of just hiding the lock is too unscientific. If you want to hide the lock, then the premise should be that the door is open. Then imagine, if the door is open, then for us, what attracts attention will never be It will be this door."

It's the Lake District ahead.

After all, the purpose of lollipops here is water!
"I think that if it's concealment magic, then it should be to hide the lock when the door is closed. This will ensure that the lock will not be found."

Scratching his face day by day, "So Luo Sheng, are you saying that the magic of the lock is not for concealment?"

Luo Shengmen said: "I just think it's unreasonable. Because some explanations don't make sense, what happened to Tangtang at that time must be inextricably related to this door."

The disappearance of the lollipop must have triggered something.

Bei Xi glanced at the bone door that was pushed open, and Rashomon's words gave her an idea.Looking at Wei Shengmo, the man stared at the door thoughtfully.Beixi patted him, "Close the door."

Then Beixi backed away and walked to the coordinates left by the lollipop, which was the last step only two meters away from the bone gate.

Wei Shengmo pulled back the bone doors on both sides one by one, and the moment the bone doors touched, the doors closed again, and the diamond-shaped magic lock slowly appeared.Seeing the situation, several people stood silently aside, waiting for Beixi to speak.

Beixi looked at the locked gate.

"If I were Tangtang, why would I stop here and think?"

Several people followed her and landed on the bone door.

The civet cat thought for a while, then opened its lips and said, "The locked gate."

Bei Xi tilted his head, "Maybe I also tried to push the door in the past. I found that there was a lock on the door, and it needed a spell or a key. Looking at the keyhole, it is estimated that there are more elements that need a key. Without a key, maybe It is to be found on monsters in the wild, or hidden in treasure chests somewhere."

"Tangtang will choose to go back."

If there is no mission in the wild, finding a key is simply impossible.Lollipop knows this, so it doesn't choose to spend time on it.

"Yes, I will choose to leave." Bei Xi pursed her lips, "So I left the door and prepared to return along the steps, but..." Bei Xi paused.

She lowered her eyes and frowned slightly. "What happened made me stop thinking about going back."

Just when Lollipop was about to go back, something or something made her stop.

Beixi was also not at the scene. She was able to analyze Lollipop's thoughts at the time, but she couldn't know what happened at that time.But after saying that, it became clear to the others that the door that had been opened when they arrived might just be something triggered by the lollipop.

And when they didn't come, the doors did close together.

In other words, there is a kind of magic on the door. When the player triggers it, or opens it from a distance, or directly, the player will enter another space.

According to this idea, it is also possible to explain how the lollipop disappeared.

"She opened the door," Tanuki said.

But how did Lollipop learn the magic word to open the door, or get... the key?
Wei Shengmo: "That lock can only be opened with a key." He saw that there was no magic word to open the lock, so he judged that the lock needs a key to open. can also be opened.

Just lollipop and not him.

Under the circumstances at the time, the only thing that could open the door was the key.

"See if there's a box nearby."

On both sides of the steps are dense grass forests, maybe that corner hides the treasure chest, and Lollipop found it.

Everyone dispersed to search separately.Don't need to go too deep, after all, lollipop doesn't have that much time to go deep inside.They searched the fringe area carefully for 2 minutes. The area is not very wide, and it doesn't take too much time for such a small place, but they found nothing.

There was no sign of the box.

One day at a time, they joked: "Could it be that the key that Tangtang got fell from the sky?"

Or how to explain where she had found the key to the door.There were no organs nearby, and for the sake of safety, they also checked the bone door and the wall posts on both sides one by one.Still nothing was found, and there was no mechanism to hide the key.

Beixi stared at it all day long and thought about it.

One day at a time, he turned his head and found Beixi looking at him. He was startled and said, "President, what do you want me to do? I didn't kidnap Tangtang."

Everyone laughed helplessly when they heard the words.

Beixi didn't speak, and looked at the steps behind him again.

"Why did Tangtang give us the coordinates as soon as he got the key and was about to open the door?"

The lollipop disappeared within 2 minutes after giving the coordinates.

A few people were stunned when they were asked this question.

Rashomon was silent for a few seconds before saying, "She knows that opening the door will be dangerous."

Lollipop is smart, and she's not reckless.She may have imagined a lot, opened the door with the worst intentions, and gave them the coordinates.It is also for the sake of everyone being able to rush here as soon as possible after encountering an accident.

"Then what makes her feel dangerous?"

Wei Shengmo said: "The key that suddenly fell from the sky."

Everyone looks at a day is a day.

The man was surprised, and found that everyone was looking at him for a moment, spread his hands and said innocently: "Don't look at me, I really just wanted to make a joke just now. After all, there is no place around here where you can get keys..."

Ukiyo-e: "One day, it seems that you are still useful."

A day is a black line.

"It seems that the key is the key."

"Tangtang was about to leave, but a key suddenly appeared in front of her eyes." The civet cat continued, "She felt weird. But a key will not appear for no reason. With her personality, she must check it out."

So she picked up the key and gave them the coordinates before opening the door.

After opening the door, it disappeared immediately.The lock was just an ordinary lock, but some runes on it that they couldn't understand, and the key might be the key clues to this matter.

"If it's a specific key, there will only be one." Ukiyoe folded his arms and looked at the others. "It seems that we can only wait for Tangtang to come out by himself."

In this case, there is generally no second key.

Others looked disappointed.

Day by day, he sighed, turned around and walked up the steps, then sat down on the steps.Ukiyo-e saw him like this, "What are you doing?"

"Do you have to stand and wait?"

Right now they are more worried about the safety of the lollipop, but at this moment they seem powerless.One day is more negative, so I decisively choose to sit and wait.

Ukiyo-e doesn't want to.

"There's always another way."

Ukiyo-e insisted, "It is impossible for the key to really fall from the sky. The sudden appearance can only be said to be controlled by a certain NPC."

Is it a certain boss in the ruins?
There are quite a few monsters with their own missions in the ruins, and what happened to the lollipop made them have to think about it.

Only now they have no clue.

A group of people looked far away at the merged gate and fell into deep thought.

"Boom...boom..."

The lollipop hadn't completely entered the passage, and the knocking sound could not stop echoing in my ears.

When she regained her sight, there was still a passage in front of her, but the trees on both sides began to decrease, and the stone walls took up the majority.And the knocking sound was because under the stone wall in front of him, a man in a brown shabby cloak was sitting cross-legged in front of her, with his back facing her, and was constantly beating the stone wall in front of him with a stone hammer.

One after another, full attention.

Lollipop hesitated a bit, but walked over slowly.She thought, maybe it's an NPC, who can have a conversation, and if she can receive the quest, maybe she can leave this damn lifeless space.

It seemed like a place that had been put aside for hundreds of years, she was fed up with this gloomy place.

There was no anger, which made her a little depressed.

She approached, only a meter away from the cloaked figure with its back turned.At this time, the cloak stopped moving, and Lollipop took the opportunity to say: "Hello."

The man didn't respond.

Lollipop saw his left hand covered by the long sleeve grope sideways for a while, then picked up a chisel, held a hammer in one hand, and struck again against the stone wall in front of him.

"Ding~ding~"

Lollipop tried to speak again: "Hi. I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm lost in here, can you help me?"

Her answer was still the sound of knocking on the wall.

Lollipop was not disappointed, moved slightly, and tilted his head to look.Very curious about what this man carved on the wall.

However, what caught the eye surprised Lollipop.

The chisel fell on the wall, and the crisp sound of "ding dong" could be heard with great force on the hammer in the man's right hand.But the fact is that the chisel held by this person did not leave any marks on the wall.

Hanging gouge?
What is this person doing? Appearing in this space, his identity is definitely not simple.Seeing that there is no name on his head, I don't know if it is an enemy or a friendly NPC.

Lollipop must ask clearly, this is her first clue after entering this space.

She wants to take the initiative.

So he stepped forward decisively and put his hands on his shoulders.

But at this moment, she couldn't help but stiffen her body.

(End of this chapter)