dark moon

Chapter 33 Parasitic
"Saf, record, these nine letters should mean a grocery store or something."

"Such a big grocery store?" In front of a two-story building, several people looked inward. The building should have been neatly arranged in rows of shelves, displaying all kinds of groceries, but now, most of them The shelves have been overturned, and the broken shelves, useful products, and useless garbage are all mixed together.

"Well, let's record...a big grocery store." Xiure coughed dryly and added, "Although the place is large and has many varieties, the essence has not changed. It is still a grocery store."

"Well... that's true." Even if Xiure was talking nonsense, the female swordsman would probably nod in agreement seriously, not to mention what he said was not unreasonable.

"Boss, ahem, you two don't irritate us yet. Do you want to go in to this so-called big grocery store?"

"If you don't go in, it's too messy inside, the situation is complicated, and the danger is relatively high. Moreover, the possibility of harvesting something in this kind of store is very low. There is no point in going in. Go to the next one."

The experienced Shadow Chaser team can actually explore very quickly. Even if it is an absolutely unfamiliar world, most places can be judged by just a few glances to determine whether they are worth exploring.

Most people have misunderstandings about exploration in Shadow Chaser, especially newcomers like Macajron who are participating in Shadow Chaser for the first time.In fact, when adventuring in the world of Parvatiga, many places that need to be explored are worthless when chasing shadows.

Just like this, um, big grocery store. It does have a wide variety of products, and it seems that the chance of finding good things is very high. However, most of the products here are the most common things in daily life, and have no value in taking them back.On the contrary, in inconspicuous places, such as exhibition halls, laboratories, workshops and other houses, there are often opportunities to find good harvests.

"Eh? Exhibition hall? Is it the one across the street?" I don't know if Lin Jing just discovered it or if she had discovered it earlier and deliberately kept it secret in order to cause trouble. In short, she just pointed to the opposite side blankly until now.

"Moria, don't make trouble. That's the Character Hall, which is full of statues and character introductions. We don't understand their writing, so what else can we do there except admire a bunch of statues that look the same? Let's go, Next."

From the end of the battle to the present, Xiuer's team has explored half of the first floor. The first floor is basically industrial buildings, with various machines and conveyor belts of unknown use everywhere, most of which are beyond the team. members' understanding.Although during the exploration process, Mobark discovered several metals that Pavatiga did not have, but those were actually alloys, and the basic elements were no different from Pavatiga.

Of course, this journey of exploration is not fruitless, at least for Shuer.

"Huh? Is there anything gained?" Mia and Mility glanced at each other subconsciously, and then immediately looked away disdainfully.

In the stage of searching for loot, the division of labor of the Shadow Chaser team is also very obvious. Except for Macajerun who removes obstacles for exploration and Saff who ensures the safety of the projection environment, the others are good at different fields, like Shuer, who is mainly good at Even in the field of humanities and language, his gains are often related to this.

"I have misunderstood the frog people before, and I also misunderstood this city." As he spoke, without stopping, a few people walked around a building with nothing in it and walked into another room.

"When I first came down, because the environment of each level was obviously different, I thought that the frog people had a strong sense of hierarchy. People from different classes lived in different levels. The poor lived on the first floor."

"Isn't that so?" The dwarf roughly kicked away the two tables that were blocking the way, and dropped a silver plate in his hand.

"Probably not. We have also explored some houses just now. Does it look like a slum? Although the furnishings and supplies cannot be said to be luxurious, they are definitely not shabby. If this can be considered a slum, then the houses on the upper floors, It’s hard for me to imagine how luxurious it is. So I think the layers of the city are not divided by grade, but by function. The first layer is the industrial area, and people who work on the first layer basically live here.”

"I don't understand at all, idiot, do you understand?" The dwarf was not ashamed at all.

"Idiot, cough cough cough, I'm too lazy to pay attention to you." Macajerun is very free now. These rooms are not like the ruins he explored before. There are no traps or mechanisms at all, which makes him sleepy from boredom. " Boss, this looks like a restaurant."

"There is no such restaurant. It is not so much a restaurant as it is a place dedicated to providing food to a large number of employees." Shuer thought for a while, "Saph, what is this called in the book?"

"canteen."

"Yes, that's the name. Huh? Mia, did you two find anything?" Shuer noticed that the two mages looked at the kitchen door and then turned back, and their faces were a little strange.

"Well, you'll know when you go in and take a look." Mia's expression became even more gloomy.

"Hahaha, I understand, tsk tsk, forgive me for refusing." Finding that Saff and Macajron were still a little confused, Shuer said with a mysterious face, "Guess, what is the staple food of frogs? There are dozens or hundreds of them. How much would a frog need to eat?"

"Uh..." The halfling suddenly discovered that sometimes having too much imagination is not necessarily a good thing.

"Not only that, I don't think this is a real city." Leaving the disgusted halfling aside, Shuer continued to explain, "Half of the first floor has been explored, but the necessary industries in a city Most of the facilities are not available here, which is not..."

"Stop now." Safu suddenly pulled Xiure's arm, "We can't go anymore." "Huh?" Without hesitation, several people seemed to be frozen, and their feet stopped in the air, motionless. Stand still.

"Well, it doesn't have to be like this." The female swordsman lowered her head with a red face and said in embarrassment, "It won't be like this right away."

"Hmm, are you saying we've reached the border?"

"Yes, the border is about 100 meters ahead." Safu whispered, "To be on the safe side, it's better to stay away."

The so-called boundary is naturally the invisible dividing line at the edge of the alien projection. Once touched, it will be drawn closer to the endless void, and everything from the body to the soul will be annihilated.There have been many shadow chasers in the past. Driven by greed, they took a chance on the strange objects right in front of them, thinking that it didn't matter if they got a little closer, and then they never came back.Sapph didn't want to see the person she cared about repeat the same mistakes, so she gave a reminder early.

"There is actually half a city outside the border." Shuer frowned.But if you think about it carefully, you chose this direction just because Saf measured that one of the departure points is nearby, and the departure point must be on the boundary line, so there is nothing unreasonable for the boundary to appear here.

In fact, for most shadow chasers who hope to escape as soon as possible, the appearance of a boundary is not a bad thing, because finding the boundary means that the escape point is not too far away. If you look along the boundary line, you can often escape quickly.

But that was for a flat area, and what we are in now is an eight-story three-dimensional city. The breakaway point may appear in the open space on any floor, as long as this location is on the boundary line.As a result, the emergence of border lines not only failed to bring convenience, but also caused trouble.

"Huh, that's fine." Xiuer finally sighed, "Stop exploring, Saf, first draw the position of this layer of boundary, it can be done."

"15 minutes." Saff threw the backpack on the ground without thinking and began to unpack equipment from it.

"Don't be anxious, take your time. With the schematic map of the boundary line, we will search each floor according to the location of the schematic map. We will be able to find the exit soon. It is estimated that we can go home by tomorrow at the latest."

"Is it really necessary to be so anxious?" Mia asked in confusion, "Ever since you discovered that the situation here may be related to plants, you have become more and more anxious."

"Fifteen minutes, it should be enough time." Shuer hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "I can probably guess why the guard outside committed suicide."

"They don't want to be like those frog people in the city, but they don't dare to escape?" Mia's guess is very reasonable.

"No, I think you reversed the order. They were parasitized first. In order to prevent the people in the city from becoming like them, they chose to commit suicide. This can also explain why the people inside didn't even collect their bodies. I don’t dare anymore.”

"Eh? Wait, wait, Xiure, you mean parasitism?" Moria jumped directly to Xiul from a distance, "Those frog people are not plants, how can they be parasitized by plants."

"There is a strange bug in my hometown. It lives normally underground in the winter. In the summer, it will emerge from the ground and freeze, and many plants will grow from its body. When the plants die in the winter, they will return to normal. Dig back into the earth.”

"Ha, that's really interesting." Lin Jing said enthusiastically, "It must be fun to keep as a pet."

"You are so courageous to treat a 40-meter-long worm as a pet." He rolled his eyes angrily at this guy with unusual preferences. "This kind of worm is actually parasitized by plants. No matter it is winter or summer, they are affected by plants." Control, it’s just that the plants in my hometown don’t have intelligence, and the actions of controlling insects rely entirely on instinct, but what if they become intelligent?”

"So you've been worried that we are also being parasitized?"

"Isn't it worth worrying about?" Shuer asked Mia, "Think about those hundreds of frogmen."

The elf mage was silent, lowering his head in thought.

"I don't want to hide it, you are in danger now." Shuer suddenly turned to the halfling, looked into his eyes and said seriously, "It's more dangerous than you think."

"Ahem, ahem, I just choked, I should be fine."

"Haha, the corpses of people who were lucky enough to chase shadows can be put together to build a city. You..."

"It's drawn, Xiu'er." The female swordsman suddenly presented the map to Xiu'er as if it were a treasure, "I didn't check the calculations this time, because they are all measured readings, no calculations are needed. Oh, don't start. "

(End of this chapter)