dark moon

Chapter 20 Battlefield
Darkness, emptiness, and dead silence are the most real feelings everyone has right now.

The space outside the observation room is so large that the light cannot even reach the boundary. It should be a hall.

The hall fell into deep darkness, with only the cold fluorescence of the crystal energy lamp hitting the faces of the shadow chasers, making everyone look pale and looking particularly weird.

Click, click, the footsteps echoed in the empty space, gloomy and monotonous, like whispers from ghosts in the dead of night.

Crash, the sudden sound of occasionally kicked debris on the ground is as sudden as thunder on a rainy night.

"That won't work, and we're not reading a bedtime horror story."

Although I really wanted to ask what kind of deep hatred could cause others to read scary stories before going to bed, everyone still completely agreed with Shuuer's judgment that this was not good.

It's not because of fear. If the shadow chasers are afraid of this level of darkness, then they might as well hide at home, cover themselves with quilts and shiver to avoid being embarrassed.

The key reason why this doesn't work is because darkness seriously affects everyone's control of the environment.

Shadow Chasing is different from ordinary adventures. Ordinary adventures mostly have clear goals, but Shadow Chasing has no clear purpose. The only goal is to find new and unique things to bring back to your world.

This determines that during the shadow chasing process, you need to carefully observe the environment and look for special items, so you must have good sight.Indeed, experienced shadow chasers can find the exit in the dark, but such shadow chasing is meaningless.

"Mia...forget it." I wanted the elf mage to illuminate it with a sticky light ball, but after thinking about it, I forgot about it. Even a gold-level mage's magic power is not infinite, not to mention that elemental mages are famous for consuming magic. It's better to save her magic power and use it in serious places.

"Millity... er, forget it." Necromancer's dark light technique is also an option, the problem is, if you think about the black air in the room and the scene of a few green will-o'-the-wisps floating around everyone, it won't make sense. Man-made pressure.

"Alas." Shuer sighed deeply and said sadly, "Miridi, Mia, please change to a high-power lamp."

"Pfft, hahahaha." The Shadow Chasers, who had been holding back from the beginning, finally burst into laughter.

It's actually not funny at all.

For high-power crystal energy lamps, the number of crystals that need to be filled has increased from fifty terels to three hundred terels, and the price has also soared from five small silver coins to eight large silver coins. Two lamps are sixteen, which is fifteen A difference of one and a half times.After the shadow chase is over, these expenses will be deducted from the total income and divided equally among the seven people. Each person will have to bear more than two large silver coins.

Thinking about the impoverished church behind her, and thinking about the Dark Moon Communion that can only be made with red algae water disguised as wine. With all this money, it is better to buy Lisa a hair accessory and get a sweet smile. Speaking of which, her smile is so cute...

So, it's not funny at all, really.

"boom."

A huge fist of light fell from the sky and hit the ground heavily. The universal divine skill, the holy fist, was not very powerful, but it was definitely full of momentum.

"Turn on the light, you bastards." That's probably what it means to be angry.

As a result, two high-power crystal energy lamps dispelled the darkness, and the light finally came.

This is indeed a hall, with an area of ​​at least three thousand square meters. No wonder the words echoed.However, the hall is not empty at all, there are many things piled in the room.

It was a sack filled with sand.

A large number of sandbags were built into bunkers half as high as a man. The bunkers were facing the entrance and intertwined with each other, leaving only a confusing path like a maze.Behind each row of bunkers, there is a box containing firearms. The weapons in the box are well maintained and you can smell the smell of oil.

All the bunkers looked in good condition and were neatly stacked as if they had never been used. However, upon closer inspection, some of the sandbags showed signs of damage, but they had only been carefully repaired and put into use again.

"This is not very pleasant." Shuer's mouth twitched, "The battlefield actually starts from here."

Indeed, only the word battlefield can describe everything in the hall.

A scene from the past has even appeared before everyone's eyes. A group of frogmen were hiding behind a bunker and shooting wildly at the entrance. A large group of unidentified black shadows were swarming out of the entrance, facing the bullets without fear of death. Attack the bunker position.

what exactly is it?What exactly are you attacking?What are you defending against?
Standing in the bunker position, looking at the metal door with bullet marks on the back, everyone felt the chill in their hearts getting heavier and heavier, and even those deliberate jokes could not dispel it.

"No matter what it is, the frogs still won." Taking a deep breath, Shuer slowed down his speaking speed and brought out the power to calm people's hearts. "Although there were losses, we finally won."

Indeed, the frogs won.

There were still blue-purple blood stains on the sandbag in front of Xiure.The blood stains on the metal floor have been washed away, but the blood that has seeped into the sandbags has remained forever to bear witness to this battle.

"The corpses and wounded were taken away, uh, moved, and the blood stains were cleaned up. The battlefield was cleaned very carefully, and the defense facilities were carefully repaired. Obviously, victory belongs to the defending side." Shuer patted the sandbags. , narrowed his eyes and whispered, "The question is, why did they also take away the enemy's corpse?"

"Otherwise? Are you going to stay here and create a plague?" Militi patted the pendant on her chest. However, it was not just the pendant that fluctuated. "Give me a few corpses and I can create twenty plagues." "Thank you for reminding me, I won't." Shuer rolled his eyes, not bothering to pay attention to the guy who was trying to seduce him at this moment, "Makajelen, check the hall, and then go look at the exit of the hall, Saff, follow. "

"Morbuck, Mia."

"clear."

One is a mineralogy expert, and the other is a magic expert. With two people checking the collection, they are enough to discover most of the rare items with hidden value.

"What the hell, why is this kind of door again?" A few minutes later, the remaining three people responsible for guarding heard the wailing from the halflings. It seemed that there was no way to stop Macajron in front of the specially constructed machine. The statement that the door is not true.

"Huh, trouble." Shuer sighed.

It is indeed troublesome.

Of course, even for this kind of door, there are other ways to open it, but it will take a lot of effort in vain. If all the doors have this kind of structure, the shadow chasers will waste a lot of time on the work of opening the door, and the progress of exploration will be slow. Much slower than expected.It's usually fine, but in this form... Shuuer couldn't help but look back at the way he had looked.

"Mia, come back first." Shuer raised his voice.

"I haven't found anything special yet." Carrying a large gun with a barrel composed of a large number of thin tubes, the elf mage hurried back, "What's wrong?"

"You have more experience than me, and you have more experience chasing shadows than me." Shuer did not shy away from mentioning the other person's strengths. "In this case, what do you have to say?"

"Open the door... This should be a problem of energy supply." Mia said thoughtfully, "No facility can move on its own for no reason. If you want it to run, you must have an energy supply, whether it is magic energy or crystal energy. Be it energy from other worlds, there must be one."

"In this situation, it is obvious that all the equipment has lost its energy supply, so the door cannot be opened and the lights cannot be turned on. You wouldn't think that these frogs are living in the ruins in the dark. They must have lighting facilities. , it’s just that there’s no energy right now.”

"That is to say..."

"That's right, as long as the energy supply is restored, it will be possible to restart the lighting facilities, and you won't have to worry about the continued consumption of crystals."

"Ahem, that's not what I mean." Xiure coughed dryly, "I mean to restore the energy supply. Can the door be opened?"

"I can only say that it is possible." Mia was still very strict, "I can't guarantee it."

"That's not right." Shuer asked doubtfully, "Both flamethrowers are automatically triggered, and the metal plates on the ceiling are retracted. How can they move on their own without energy supply?"

"Two sets of energy supply systems." Mia said matter-of-factly, "One ordinary system, and one emergency energy supply system that only supplies energy to the most critical facilities."

"Okay, I understand. It seems that the air quality here is also maintained by this backup system."

Mia shrugged casually and returned to her treasure hunting journey without saying a word. However, looking at the obviously foul weapon she was carrying, she always felt that she was not hunting for treasure, but a powerful weapon. Could it be that Is this a common problem among elemental mages?
"In this case, the goal has been slightly changed." Shuer stopped Macajron, who was still trying hard, and Moback and Mia, who were busy. "We are now pausing the collection of items and giving priority to finding energy supply equipment. After the energy supply is restored, Treasure hunt again.”

"Mia, can you follow the energy channel and find the direction of the energy supply equipment?"

"Of course it is possible when there is energy." Mia shook her head and said, "The problem is that there is no energy supply now, and the energy channel is no different from a piece of scrap metal."

"Isn't there a backup system?" Shuer asked.

"Are you sure the two sets of system power supply equipment are together?"

"Not sure, but it's worth a try. It's safer than running around in such a large ruins."

"That's right." Mia choked and finally nodded, then I'll give it a try.

"Boss, are you thinking too far?" The halfling finally couldn't help but speak, "If this door cannot be opened, we can't go anywhere."

"Have you forgotten who you are?" Xiuer squinted at him for a long time, and said angrily, "We are not those frogmen, we are combat professionals, just a thicker metal door, the trouble is indeed Trouble, but can it really stop us?"

"Saff, open the door."

"Yes."

Behind Macajerun, the energy of fighting spirit surged, and the light of fighting spirit flashed on the giant sword in both hands, tearing the air and slashing across the metal door.

(End of this chapter)