Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 400: Unexpected Pitfall

The upper level of the Deep Church.

Li You stood next to the joystick controlling the giant valve, frowning in thought.

At this time, after defeating the group of Youshen bishops, Anli and Horace had said goodbye to Li You and the others and left.

But a few unintentional words they said before they left made Li You realize a problem that he had previously overlooked.

After defeating Louis, Anri said to Lee:

"…It seems that Aldrich has left this church. You see, I found this little doll in the empty coffin, and it tells me that the ogre's goal is to go to his true homeland.

"Aldrich's true homeland is Irithyll in the Frost Valley - an ancient phantom city.

"The pilgrim also mentioned that the Phantom City is located farther ahead of the Fran Fortress. It seems that we can only move forward there."

The little doll is the key prop to cross the Irithyll barrier, but fortunately it is not the only one. Li You also found one from the body of Archbishop Louis.

Compared to this, there were two details in Anri's words that caught Li You's attention.

First of all, they have to go to the front of the Fran Fortress.

At first glance, it sounded fine, but Li You thought about it carefully, it was wrong? In front of the Fran Fortress?

Don't forget that the world he is in now is different from the game setting. The undead and ashes he sees are all in the same world as him.

In other words, under this premise, if Anri and Horas want to go to the Frigid Valley, they must defeat the first Lord of Cinder, the Abyss Watcher, and Fran's Undead Army before they can move forward.

But if they were allowed to defeat the Undead Squad, Li You's Dark Ring would become ineffective and unusable, and he would not be able to choose any other ending in the end.

The remaining ashes in this world all have their own ideas and missions. Anyone who can defeat the Undead Army blocking their way will definitely go and fight, and will not wait for him to take action.

Thinking of this, Li You was shocked!
Oh my god, he originally thought that putting everyone in the same world was a convenience for him, but it turned out that it was actually a trap for him? And such a big trap! ?

We really can't let our guard down against this dog system!

After cursing the system in his heart, Li You felt a little troubled again.

The Fran Undead Squad guards the road leading to the Frost Valley. Even if Anri and Horace can't defeat them, others will keep trying.

Apart from anything else, Onion and Hillis, they all have reasons to move on.

So far he has not received any system prompts, which seems to mean no one has defeated the Undead Squad yet, but Li You immediately felt a sense of urgency.

I can’t let you take away my BOSS and my extra rewards!
But then again, it would be fine if he himself didn't fight the Immortal Squad, but how could he convince others not to fight as well?
At first, Li You originally wanted to use the hovercraft to fly directly to Lengleng Valley, but now it seems that he can't do that anymore.

Otherwise, when he is happily picking up trash in Lenglie Valley, he turns around and sees the system prompt "Ding, the Xinwang Street Dance Team has been defeated by others, and the Dark Ring can no longer be used", which would be really fun.

So what should we do to avoid having the Salary King and the BOSS taken away by others?

So at this moment, Li You stood alone beside the joystick, concentrating on thinking about how to deal with it. Behind him, Youzi and the other two were expelling the maggots crawling everywhere.

Maggot men are a specialty of the Deep Church. They look like humans transformed into maggots and are quite unpleasant.

“…How long are you going to stay in a daze!?” V swung his sword and cut off the swollen and pale body of a maggot man in front of him, then turned around and shouted to Li You, “Don’t just stare… No, you don’t even look at it!”

Li You then turned around, looked at the corpses of maggots scattered all over the ground, and said, "Sorry, there is a question I haven't figured out."

At one side, Yuzu in tyrant form opened his mouth and spewed out flames, engulfing the remaining maggot men and burning them until they squeaked and screamed, and the battle was finally over.

V swung the knife, wiped the dirt off his face, and looked at the neatly dressed Li You. He couldn't help but complain: "Are you finally going to become a black-hearted boss and exploit the labor force? When will you follow the workplace procedures and take action against your subordinates?"

Li You glanced at her speechlessly: "Don't pin your Arasaka tricks on me!"

He looked at Edge and Yuzu again, Yuzu had returned to her human form and was looking at him along with Edge.

Li You thought about it and simply told them part of his problem.

"…So to put it simply, you want to save all the Cinder Kings for the final fight, but the Undead Squad is a roadblock and you have to fight them?" V thought for a moment, "That's easy, can't you just kill all the other Ashes?"

Li You: 6.

Classic solution to the problem.

Is Lothric too urban?

But it seems that it is not impossible, after all, Li You has the Undead Slash in his hand...

Shaking his head, Li You threw this artistic proposal out of his mind.

You can't do this kind of thing.

So, it can only be...

Li You looked at Yuzu, thought for a moment, and then patted his shoulder.

"It's up to you, Yuzu!"

Yuzu: “…Hmm?”

Li You had a temporary solution, so he put this problem aside for the time being.

As for the second thing in Anri's words that caught his attention, it was the "pilgrim" she mentioned.

Who are the pilgrims? They are turtle-shelled people like Yuel in the Fire Shrine, and most of them belong to Londor, the Land of Wandering Souls.

And the pilgrim next to Anri...it couldn't be anyone else.

He was the one who "drew the true power" for her, and he was also the one who offered her to the King of Wandering Souls as a companion.

These people in Londor are still harboring evil intentions.

Li You did not comment on their ideas. After all, the details were unclear, and it was not impossible to infer the good side from the existing intelligence. However, Li You had always been disgusted with the behavior of these people in Londor.

In addition, they would sacrifice Anli in order to become the so-called King of Wandering Souls. Li You really had no good feelings towards them.

"I didn't notice it before, but it turns out that the people of Londor also contacted Anli so early." He thought for a moment, "In that case, when we meet the pilgrim again, we should kill him."

When necessary, Li You never shows mercy when taking action.

After figuring out the two problems, he finally nodded: "Okay, let's go and see what we are here for."

The maggots in this area have been cleaned up. V is wiping the slime that splashed on his body with disgust on his face, while Edge has long been accustomed to it.

Edge also said to V: "You still need to exercise your mental endurance. You don't know what strange things you will see if you follow this guy around."

V looked at the slime all over her body and was impressed: "You are amazing for not changing your expression like this."

Edge smiled and said, "It's okay. I've followed him through so many worlds, and I'm used to it. No matter how disgusting it is, I won't break my defense... unless I can't stand it."

As they were talking, Li You in front of them had already pushed open the door on the right side above the stairs. Inside was a gorgeously decorated bedroom with a large bed at the end and a number of gorgeous baby cribs placed between the bed and the door.

Sitting on the big bed at the end was a woman with dishevelled hair and wearing a black robe. She was tall and plump, kneeling on the bed, with her loose black hair covering most of her face. Only from her chin could we tell that she was not bad looking.

However, what was more terrifying than her was that she was holding an extremely huge maggot man with bumpy skin. The maggot man was resting his head on her legs, and his long body was wrapping around her back for most of the way, wrapping her up inside.

Rosalia, the "Mother of Rebirth".

Seeing this guy's look, V and Edge felt a chill in their backs: "Li You, this is..."

Li You gave them a brief explanation.

Rosaria, in simple terms, is the goddess served by the Finger Cult. This goddess cannot speak, but she holds the power to regenerate people. Whether it is appearance or ability growth, it can be reshaped.

As for the price, it only requires a blue tongue obtained by transforming into a dark spirit and hunting others...

Just when Edge and V were stunned, Li You said, "But we also got a blue tongue from the Undead Settlement before. So if you want, relying on Rosaria's ability, you should be able to return to your original appearance, Edge."

Aggie was stunned on the spot!

She looked at Rosalia on the bed, then at Li You, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Um... let me ask first, does her 'rebirth' have anything to do with this maggot man?"

Li You was also stunned for a moment before he said, "I'm really not sure about this, there should be, right?"

"All I know is that there is a limit to the number of times a person can endure Rosaria's rebirth. If they are reborn too many times, they will become maggot people... the kind outside."

"vomit…"

Faced with such a great opportunity, Edge decisively refused on the spot: "No, thank you, I think I'm fine the way I am now."

Li You shook his head and said nothing more.

He really wasn't sure what the process of Rosalia's rebirth was. In the game, it only took a flash of light to complete it, but if it was actually done... maybe it really was related to the maggot man?
For example, swallowing the person who wants to be reborn, and then spitting him out after rebirth...it’s better not to think about it too much.

He looked at Rosalia's blurry face again, then walked to the campfire in the middle of the room and lit it with the power of the Ring of Darkness.

Meanwhile, V was joking with Edge: "Didn't you say that you wouldn't break down no matter how disgusting it was? Why can't you hold it in now?"

Aggie: “…How about you go?”

"No, I'm very satisfied with my current appearance." V refused with a smile, "How about you consider implants? It's very simple to implant artificial skin for you, and it won't affect your abilities in any way."

Aiji thought for a while: "It's not impossible to consider..."

"——You two, it's time to go!"

Over there, Li You and Youzi were calling out to the two of them beside the campfire, and they then came over and teleported away together.

……

Fire sacrifice site.

Li You sat by the campfire, looking at the two props in his hands, his brain thinking.

The two items are the magic scroll "Crystal Hail" and the weapon of the Crystal Old Man, the Crystal Rapier.

In the game, these two items are exchanged for the soul of the Crystal Elder, and you can only get one in a round. The reason why Li You was able to get both at the same time is thanks to the system.

[Congratulations on completing the achievement: Crystallized Elder. ]

[Achievement content: Defeat any crystal elder. ]

[Achievement Reward: Achievement Points × 700, "Crystal Hail" Scroll × 1/Crystal Rapier × 1 (Choose one). ]

Since he was asked to choose the achievement directly, Li You certainly did not hesitate.

Achievement selection scroll, soul exchange for dagger! Perfect!

Of course, it's not that there is no option to give up. Because when Li You went to find Rhodos just now, he told Li You that it's not just weapons and spells that can be made by twisting the soul, but also armor.

Li You looked at him askance at that time: So in this world, you stole the maid's job, right? And you also want to eat my boss soul?
He had confirmed before that after defeating the boss, the maids at the Fire Shrine would not update their corresponding equipment like in the game. So he was waiting here.

So now, with the set, there are three regular BOSS rewards, and you can get two of them by completing the achievement + Ludos Refining, and you still can't get the remaining one.

However, in Li You's opinion, this is not a big problem. After all, most of the BOSS's equipment emphasizes a pure appearance effect, and he doesn't care about it at all.

So just ignore the set option.

The same applies to the rewards given to the Deep Bishop.

[Congratulations on completing the achievement: Deep Cultist. ]

[Achievement content: Defeat Archbishop Louis of the Deep. ]

[Achievement Reward: Achievement Points × 700, "Deep Soul" Scroll × 1/Saint Candlestick × 1 (Choose one). ]

Since these two were useless, Li You just clicked on the magic scroll.

These two weak bosses give you things that have no practical value except for the crystal rapier, so there is no need to say more.

Compared with this, Li You is still thinking about how to prevent others from defeating the King of Fire in advance.

at this time.

"Li You, Li You——! Look here!"

V's voice rang in his mind, and Li You subconsciously raised his head and looked upwards.

On the ceiling beam, V was waving at him, with Yuzu and Edge beside him.

Li You: "......"

"Are you playing with the Bird's Nest again? I threw so many things at it, but it didn't seem to actually change anything..."

"——We got something!"

Li You: "???"

Did you really change it?

Li You remembered that he just threw some useless consumables in his backpack to them and let them play with the birds themselves. How did he actually get something in return?
"What did you get in exchange?"

"Come up and take a look! It seems interesting!"

Li You didn't say much. He leaped a few times in the hall of the Fire Sacrifice to catch the grappling rope and pulled himself onto the beam in two jumps.

The discouraged brother beside him clicked his tongue: "…showing off."

Not to mention the envy and jealousy of a certain person without knees, when Li You came to the beam, he immediately saw an orange wax pencil tied with a cloth strip in V's hand!

Li You: "!!"

"This is…!?"

A series of thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant, and finally converged into an inspiration, lighting up the light bulb on his forehead.

"——I have an idea! Let's go to Fort Fran!"

Yuzu, Edge, and V: "?"

——On this day, the hip-hop team at the end of the Fran Fortress and the Casas Underground Cemetery that was suppressed by them were cursing in their hearts.

If they had Li You's knowledge, they would probably say:

"It's so noisy downstairs/upstairs! Are you crazy to be doing renovations in the middle of the night?"

……

Soon after, Fort Fran.

"Drink——!!"

Jackbaldo, wearing onion armor and carrying a two-handed giant sword on his shoulder, roared and rushed to the hall of the hip-hop team. He wielded the simple but reliable oversized sword and killed two patrolling Gollums.

“…After many hardships, I finally broke through that troublesome fortress! I don’t know who placed so many dangerous explosive traps around the three beacon towers, and almost sent me back! Fortunately, I have a better skill!”

Onion gasped, and when he saw that there were no other enemies around, he took out his element bottle and took a big sip.

"Then, next up is one of the Salary Kings, the Farran Undeads."

Onion looked at the closed door of the hall in front of him, took a deep breath, and was about to rush over with the giant sword.

However, just as he started, he suddenly saw a striking brand of words on the stairs in front of him.

"Oh? Are there any suggestions left by our predecessors?"

Onion was curious, so he went forward and touched it.

"Warning! The dance hall ahead is under construction. Passengers heading to Irithyll please take the underground passage!"

onion:"???"

After all these years of hard work, this is the first time I have seen such strange suggestions.

Moreover, he knows each of these characters, so why can't he understand them when they are put together?
He looked up again and saw that behind this suggestion, there was a second, a third, and even more. Rows of suggestions were so dense that they almost occupied the entire staircase.

Onion was a little dazed, but still walked forward subconsciously, reading the content of the suggestions as he walked.

"Private dance studio, no entry without permission."

"The Undead Squad is suspected of gathering in a crowd. The street dance hall is under lockdown. The Dark Moon Police are on duty. All idle people, please leave."

"..."

There were a lot of suggestions, but the content was very strange and Onion didn't understand any of them.

After seeing so many abstract things in a row, even the good-tempered Knight Catalina couldn't stand it anymore. So he picked up the giant sword and decided to ignore those messy suggestions and go straight to challenge the hip-hop team.

But at this moment, an extra highlighted suggestion caught his attention. That suggestion was surrounded by several others and stood out.

Onion touched it subconsciously.

"Hello! Dear passengers, welcome to Li Sanguang Rail Transit. Please take your luggage and prepare for landing."

onion:"???"

Just as he finished reading this suggestion, there was a loud crash beneath his feet!
onion:"!?"

“Help!!!!”

He fell directly into the collapsed hole in the ground, and his last cry turned into a long echo and gradually disappeared.

After he fell, there was a rustling sound from the lawn nearby, and Li You and his group stuck their heads out.

“…How about it, my trap is well designed, right?” Li You said to Edge and V.

Aggie, V: “…………”

“…Is this your solution?”

Li You nodded: "Yes. I can't persuade everyone not to beat the hip-hop team, so I can only change my thinking and make it impossible for them to beat the hip-hop team."

V: "...I really don't know whether to praise you or scold you."

Edge looked at the bottomless hole and asked, "Is Onion...Jack Baldo okay?"

Li You waved his hand: "It's okay! Haven't we tested it several times? Going down here is like riding a slide, very safe, and it can go directly to the next stop!"

"This is what Yuzu worked overtime to dig. Haven't you tried it?"

Yuzu standing beside her puffed out her chest proudly.

Aiji couldn't help but put his hand on his forehead: "You are really amazing."

Li Youze smiled and said, "It's all thanks to this thing you got from the Bird's Nest."

[Orange Advice Wax Stone: Can write advice, and can also comment on other people's advice. In Lothric, where time and space intersect, this is a way for people to take care of each other, or to deceive each other.]

The Orange Suggestion Wax Stone looks exactly the same as the White Mark Wax Stone and the Red Mark Wax Stone. This is a prop used by Soul One to write suggestions, but the protagonist of Soul Three has this function built-in, so there is no such thing.

But Li You didn't expect that after a lot of random attempts, Youzi and the others actually managed to replace the wax stone.

Just what he needs now.

Aggie asked again: "What are your plans for follow-up maintenance?"

Li You said: "I plan to give it to the artificial puppet, or... another person, another person who is most suitable for this kind of thing."

He coughed and said, "After all, it's not suitable for me to cheat people. It's best to find someone with a similar temperament."

Edge and V looked at each other and shook their heads.

shameless.

——At the same time, in the downward channel.

"Ooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Onion let out a rare high-pitched scream, slid down the winding passage, and finally rushed out of the exit with a "plop" and fell to the ground.

"It hurts, it hurts... huh? It doesn't seem to hurt that much?"

Onion touched the ground, which was covered with weeds and ashes. It was these materials that absorbed the impact, which was not great to begin with.

He stood up somewhat confused, and when he turned around, he saw a burning campfire behind him, and next to the campfire there was a line of suggestions.

Although Onion instinctively didn't want to get close to Jianyan at this time, curiosity eventually overcame caution and he went forward and touched it.

"Dear passenger, you have arrived at the rail transit terminal, and your location is: Casas Underground Cemetery.

"Turn left and go down the passage in front of here, and you will reach Irithyll, the Frost Valley, but please be careful of the rolling ball trap in the passage.

"Finally, I wish you to be guided by the flames. Goodbye."

onion:"………"

What the hell is going on here!?
(End of this chapter)