The Age of Machines

Chapter 799

Ding, congratulations on getting the [Gultz Secret Scroll].

The old and yellowed parchments turned into a ray of light in Lollipop's hands, and when the outer ring of the magic circle turned, the light disappeared, and a complete parchment was finally spread in Lollipop's hands.

"Sure enough, it's a map about a certain place." Ukiyo-e saw that the route was clearly drawn on the parchment scroll, and the destination seemed to be in this large area of ​​Lake Birbers, but they couldn't tell where they were right now. , with Ben not knowing how to start walking to the route on the map.

"Where is the starting point on the map?"

Lollipop took a look along the route and looked up at them. "The Lake District begins."

"Then this road is the passage to the lake area of ​​Borbos at the beginning?" One day is a route that points to the lake area. It seems that there is only one passage leading to the interior of Gulz on the other side of the lake area.

"What are the black signs around this route?"

There are some black marks on the map besides the route, and more importantly, there is no text they can understand on the entire thumbnail map.

It's Gould.

Even if the area above is marked with the name of the area, they don't know what the name is.

Lollipop flipped the parchment back.

The patterns are intertwined with dense text, but the text is also Guerz.In fact, they were also mentally prepared before coming to the ruins. Most of the things in the ruins are not found in the outside game world, and they are not common.Not to mention those rare equipment and skill books, in fact, what constitutes the ruins is almost a country or ethnic group that once existed.Sometimes nature can also be a battlefield.

Compared with dungeons, ruins are more focused on age and time.In the ruins, words are a theory.Knowing that what Beixi was looking for was not simple, everyone had a mental preparation for the target ruins this time.

But from head to toe, they have no chance to learn the language.It may also have a relationship with too few NPCs.If this is in other ruins, this kind of situation will probably not happen.

If the player does not have the help of the system or NPC, they will really fall into a helpless situation.

Although I got this parchment now, it is still a mystery whether I can really use it.Lollipop stuffed the scroll into his pocket, and the civet cat looked at the time and told them that it was time to go back to the Berbers Lake District to find Beixi and the others.

They also did markers along the way.After all, it is necessary to run the map to track the monsters that have been let go.

After walking a few steps, Lollipop took out the [Book of Punishment] again.It stands to reason that the number of her mission monsters is already full, but why did the system not prompt that the mission has been completed after killing the last monster and obtaining the parchment scroll.

Lollipop was puzzled.

At this time, the few people in front noticed that they couldn't help but turned to look at the lollipop that was standing there, "Tangtang, what's wrong?"

The raccoon cat and the others looked at the [Book of Punishment] in her hand. When they saw the lollipop, they looked puzzled, and the raccoon cat asked, "Could it be that the task has not been completed yet?"

Lollipop shook his head, held the book in one hand, and opened his task interface with the other, but was surprised by another task that popped up at some point.

Seeing the surprise on her face, Rashomon and the others also raised their hearts. "The task is not over yet, right?" Ukiyo-e looked serious.

Lollipop closes the task interface.Holding the heavy [Book of Punishment], she frowned slightly. "Ask me to deliver this book to Meredith."

"what?"

Big question marks floated above their heads.

The civet cat hesitated slightly, "Then Meredith, isn't she already dead?"

Lollipop is also at a loss.She shook her head and said in confusion, "I don't know." In fact, none of them knew whether Meredith was dead or alive.

Although the clues along the way indicated that Meredith was in danger, in fact, there were no words that clearly pointed out where and when she died.As for [Merenoli] just now, it seems that it did not clearly mention whether Meredith died or not.

"Is Meredith dead or not?" I couldn't figure it out for a day.

This question is immediately a mystery.

What made them even more helpless was that the last column of the lollipop mission was sent to Meredith, but no coordinates were given.That's right, even if the coordinates are given, it is useless. There is not even a map in this space, so there is no way to find it.

Furthermore, whether Meredith is dead or alive is still a mystery.

With no solution, everyone decided to go to the Birbers Lake area to have a round with Beixi and the two of them.Time is running out, they have to go out, otherwise once this space is closed, the mission they got from Quinn will fail, and then they have to stay here to do other missions.

This runs counter to their original purpose.

This trip is not for adventure, but for fruit.

Soon, the group finally met Beixi and Weishengmo.As soon as Lollipop saw Bei Xi, he hurriedly approached her and Wei Shengmo with the [Book of Punishment] in his arms.

These two are the pinnacle of intelligence in the guild.Of course, this includes the degree of mastery of the knowledge in the game. Compared with other people, the two of Beixi must know the most.The civet cat naturally knows a lot, but a lot of it comes from Rengel's side.She has only been in Karans for a long time, and strictly speaking, she is on par with the two of Beixi.

"President!"

Seeing Beixi is really like seeing a savior.

Seeing that she was still holding the book, Beixi was quite puzzled. "Why are you still carrying this book?" As a quest prop, shouldn't it disappear automatically when the quest is completed? This book is a quest item, and naturally after the player completes the quest, it will be given to the player as a temporary NPC. The player is rewarded, and then disappears again.Quest items cannot be taken by players to the mission destination.

There is a situation where the lollipop is still being held...

Beixi's expression became weird, "What other stupid tasks do you have in this book?"

Beixi wanted to go out and do Quinn's mission.

Their goal is fruit, and there is not much time left.There are other places in this ruins besides Juling Island. They have to speed up their progress. It is meaningless to stay here to waste time.

Now that Quinn's mission takes less than 5 minutes, the only hope is the key in Lollipop's hand.It turned out that Lollipop still had missions belonging to this sealed space...

Beixi definitely didn't want to force Lollipop to give up the mission.Even if some tasks are abandoned, there will not be a big penalty, but the player will still lose some prestige.Even if it's just an ordinary daily task outside, once you give up, your reputation will be deducted to some extent.

Lollipop also had a worried face.

"I thought it would be over to catch those monsters back, but I just found out that there is another quest!"

"What mission?"

"Give this book to Meredith." Lollipop shrugged. In fact, she already had the idea of ​​giving up.First, I find it very troublesome. Second, for the sake of the overall situation, it doesn't matter if I give up some reputation.Anyway, there is no penalty for level drop or attribute drop for this task.It's not an epic, legendary mission, there's no need to pay attention to it at all.

Otherwise, it would be linked to the three moons, and Lollipop and the others were actually not willing to spend time thinking about it.

As soon as she said this, both Beixi and Weishengmo couldn't help frowning.Meredith's life and death are a mystery!
At first everyone thought he was dead, but now the mission of lollipop made what happened behind Goulds even more difficult.From the beginning to the end of the whole story, they haven't found the most important clue yet.

It's very difficult.

At least it will take time.

But only at this time, what they lack the most is time.

Beixi hesitated to speak.

Lollipop saw her appearance and smiled: "President, if Goulds hadn't been related to the three moons mentioned by Quinn, I wouldn't have taken care of these tasks." The meaning of Lollipop was very clear. , she did this only for the original purpose of the whole team, not a personal problem.

Although they all have their own edges and corners, but in the face of the big picture, they will naturally give up the individual.

Beixi was not too hypocritical at the moment, pursed her lips, and said, "Tangtang, try to see if the key can open it."

Lollipop nodded, and opened the task interface while walking to see what she was sliding in front of her. Beixi reached out and took her arm.Lollipop looked at the person sideways in doubt, "What's wrong?"

Beixi: "Delete the task?"

"Yes." Lollipop replied naturally. "Or keep it to occupy my taskbar."

"Keep it."

Lollipop was stunned for a moment, really puzzled, and asked, "Why?"

The civet cat beside him said lightly: "It's still a bit of a joke."

Rashomon followed up and said, "Even if we get out of this space, we are still in Goulds' area."

"But the time is different. This is the old Goulds." Every day is a day of spreading hands. Even after they go out, they are still in Goulds, but it is somewhat different from where they are now. "And have you forgotten that the passage is blocked?"

In the normal space, there is no way to go to the depths of the entire Goulds.

"Even if the time is different, it's still Goulds. Meredith may not be in Goulds at all." Ukiyoe folded his arms, as if thinking of something.

"Then where is she?"

"In the moon." Wei Shengmo's cold voice interrupted all their thoughts, and pulled everyone's thoughts to the [moon].

It's the key word that runs through everything they're going through now.

"You'll know when you go out. No matter whether the mission can continue or not, this place should be the top priority." Wei Shengmo reminded them that the purpose of gathering here was not for them to have heated discussions here.

Several people were quite ashamed.

Lollipop also put his mind to it, took out the key that holds everyone's fate and walked to the lake.She knelt down beside her, looked at the lake for a while, then looked back at Beixi and the others, and said, "Should I just stick the key down?"

In fact, she wasn't sure if the key would work.

"Try it. No, we can only admit it!"

Bei Xi nodded in agreement with the civet cat's words, but he could only admit it, after all, they were wasting too much time on their own.Saying this, I just hope that Lollipop will not feel any burden.

Lollipop exhaled, holding the key tightly for fear that the key would fall if his hand slipped.They are staying in this space now because of her.If she hadn't been too curious, she wouldn't have picked up the key and opened the bone door.

The thoughts in his head were chaotic, and the lollipop didn't stop moving. The cold touch of the ice key continued to spread to the palm of his hand, which was cold and biting.Even so, the lollipop was still gripped tightly.

The time is only 2 minutes.

When the key touched the surface of the water, everyone on the field seemed to hear a crisp jingle, and the tip of the key touched the surface of the lake, as if it could no longer be penetrated.The magic circle unfolded from the intersection. At this moment, the golden light they saw when they first came here suddenly appeared from the lake, and then spread rapidly.Sweep away all the dead silence and gloom in this area.The grass under their feet was also covered with a thin layer of gold, and light spots shot out one after another, dancing around them.

Lollipop noticed that the temperature of the key in his hand gradually warmed up, and then the lake no longer had the strength to resist the key, and slowly sank until it was half submerged. Lollipop didn't know what to do at this time.The magic circle is still spinning on the lake, what next?
There was no movement for a long time.

Lollipop froze in front of him in a bent over posture.

Time passed by second by second.

When everyone was still wondering what happened to the lollipop and why there was no movement, the lollipop didn't look back, but just shouted loudly: "What should I do next! Who knows!"

Crowd:  …

They only saw that the key had already submerged half of the lake, and the magic circle unfolded with the key as the center.Several people looked at each other in blank dismay, and took another step closer.

Bei Xi glanced on tiptoe.

Wei Shengmo pulled her, and now that she is by the lake, she is not afraid of any accident, she will lose her balance and fall into the water.

"There's a keyhole in the middle," said Rashomon.

"Tangtang, turn it around." Beixi reminded softly.

Lollipop exhaled, to be honest, she felt sore in her arms.Thinking about it, he turned his wrist hard and turned the key to the right, making a full turn.

Waited quietly for a few seconds, but there was no movement.

Now it's less than 1 minute.Beixi and the others couldn't help but frown, why is there no movement?
Wei Shengmo asked at this moment: "When you came, which direction did you turn when you opened the bone door?"

Lollipop seriously recalls. "right!"

Wei Shengmo's tone didn't fluctuate, "Then turn left, but this time you have to turn twice."

Lollipop didn't ask why, and immediately started to follow Weishengmo's instructions.When the key was turned twice, they stood aside and clearly heard the "click" sound after the key was turned.

It's strange.

Just after the lollipop spun, the air seemed to be silent for a few seconds.Then the golden light flourished, and the originally calm lake had huge waves, like a gust of wind blowing, and the lake began to stir.

After a berserk, they saw the lake in front of them move aside, and a staircase formed by condensed water appeared in front of them.Even if they stood on the shore, they could still see the shining golden gate below the bottom of the lake.

That's the exit!
(End of this chapter)