"[Mechanically] ... It would be right to say that this big pillar is the 'key'. ”

Wutong circled around the altar, carefully looked at the lines on it, and walked around the altar to observe the figures on the ground, although the rune array on the ground was worn out and covered with thick moss, but still could observe something from the traces above.

"This metal pillar, including this altar, should be the pivotal device that controls the entire dungeon!"

Sycamore stretched out his finger and pointed to the twelve slightly shallow marks around the altar, which were originally used to insert the twelve thunder totem poles, although they had been covered with a layer of moss, but they were much thinner than the rest of the place.

"If I'm not mistaken, this altar must have been built with the mechanical technology of ancient high-class goblins, to put it simply, this thing is like a switch, whenever this pillar is raised... I guess it only rises during lightning and lightning events, like a lightning rod that draws lightning from the sky into the depths of the device, and then stores it for energy use. ”

Everyone looked at each other, and Lingyue Shuangxue couldn't help but shout: "Hey, hey! Boss, "Endless" is a fantasy theme, not a science fiction theme! What you're talking about sounds like the content of a mechanical civilization! ”

Wutong smiled: "Yes, that's right, it sounds a little out of place with the overall environment of "Endless", does it?" In fact, the fantasy world of "Endless" itself contains the branch of civilization 'steampunk', and the goblin civilization is the successor of 'steampunk civilization'. ”

"Steampunk? What is that? Referring to the steam engine? The origin of industrial civilization? Lingyue Frost and Snow, who didn't know much about this, was a little puzzled.

"Steampunk, a hybrid of 'Steam: Steam' and 'Punk: Punk'. 'Steam' stands for large machines powered by steam, while 'punk' is a non-mainstream fringe culture..."

After all, the super players are professional in this convenience, and infinitely explained casually, saying: "I took a chance glance at these contents in the official information package, and put them in the game, which means the world where technology and magic coexist, and some traditional online games in the past were based on steampunk as the theme, as long as the content has both content that represents the productivity of science and technology, and games with supernatural content. ”

"Yes, some traditional online games call this type of civilization 'magic civilization', if you want to know about it, you can search for it on the database of the virtual community and there will be a lot of relevant information."

Hammer nodded in agreement, and said: "But according to the results of our team's research on the official information package, in the background of "Endless", it seems that the steampunk civilization has decayed and lost, and magic... That is, the arcane and divine arts in "Endless" seem to be in rapid decline, and according to this progress, the world in "Endless" may return to the "right track" of the real world as we know it in tens of thousands of years, and technological civilization will re-emerge and occupy a dominant position. More details are not available in the official information package. ”

Wutong nodded, the background of the super players is really not comparable to ordinary players, even if he has finished gnawing the library of the Venane Academy and gnawed on a large number of precious private treasures of the ** masters, the information he obtained is only slightly more than theirs.

Otherwise, the official information package bound to the VIP account of the Supreme Platinum Edition is only useful for these extraordinary super plays, and even if you give him a Supreme Platinum, it is impossible for an ordinary player to have the patience to read it and study the value contained in it.

According to the background description of "Endless", not only the goblin civilization that inherited the steampunk civilization has perished, but also the arcane culture representing "occultism" and the god culture representing "metaphysics" are showing serious signs of decay in the current world era of "Endless".

The contents recorded in those books describe that in earlier times, the status of mages was equal to that of gods, which shows how high the level of arcane civilization reached at that time, and the gods have long since ceased to show miracles, send oracles, appoint godwalkers, and even have long lost contact with believers.

Judging from the ancient scrolls of the major temples, we can find clues that describe the "Ragnarok" divine war in the primeval era, judging from the "unbeliever" of Wutong, it is not possible to understand that the gods who have not appeared for thousands of years have long been wiped out in the divine war of Ragnarok, but this point is that the major temples refuse to admit it, and the external rhetoric is that the believers are not pious enough.

These are too far away for players, not to mention the incomparably distant primeval and ancient times, even in modern times, the events of hundreds of years ago are already out of reach for players, except for some idle historians and archaeologists, I am afraid that no one will be interested in what is buried under the dust of history.

The original power of a mage is knowledge, and the more knowledge he has, the greater the power of the mage, although this power is not reflected in the lethality.

Like this Earth Spirit Temple, if you don't have the accumulation of knowledge, even if the participating team carries a wanderer with superb trap skills, I am afraid that it will not be able to find a way to open this Thunder Totem Array, which is not something that the wanderer's lock-picking skills can do.

There is a specialization in the art industry, which is why the adventure team usually needs the cooperation of different classes, and no one is a genius who can be omniscient.

"Well... I don't understand, but it sounds awesome, but I wonder how the hell are we going to open this thing? Xiao San chattered impatiently.

"Why don't you let the barbarians come and 'pluck the turnips'? The cook, the brute, the dwarf, the eagle, the Grom beast, plus I can also help a little, with our second-order strength, maybe we can pull it out? ”

Three days of life rubbed the chin of one of his heads, and the other head nodded in agreement, the troll is a giant species, although three days of life is a wizard profession, but Wutong estimates that his melee ability will not be worse than that of a warrior.

"You think that twenty bear barbarians can't pick up the guy, the six of you can handle it?"

Wutong was very suspicious, although it was said that everyone had been promoted to the 2nd rank, and their strength had made a qualitative leap in the melee route, but it seemed unrealistic to say that the six of them were greater than the combined strength of the twenty bear barbarians.

When Wutong asked, he didn't know the bottom of his life for three days, and muttered: "You have to try it anyway, right?" "Yes, yes!" The other head chimed in.

Directly ignoring the two heads who had a bad taste of chatting with themselves, Wutong circled around the altar while trying to find a way, but they waited, the fighters outside couldn't wait, and shouted: "Hey, hey! You're all right inside!? ”

"We're not doormen, what's the matter with the pestle all the time?"

Although the goblins are not much of a threat to them, it's boring to keep chopping these trash fish with little experience, right?

"Ahh I've got it! ”

What is surprising is that Wutong, who was pinned on by everyone, failed to come up with a way, but Xiao San shouted, leading everyone to look at Meow Niang, Xiao San excitedly supported his tail, and said happily: "The big pillar rose last time because the goblins inserted the thunder totem into the surrounding holes, why don't we try it too?" ”

Wutong was stunned for a moment, the last time on the night of thunder and fire, he was still in a state of eggs, and his perception of the surrounding environment was not clear, but it was not as clear as Xiao San's knowledge, and he hurriedly poured out twelve dark totem poles the thickness of sea bowls from the dimensional bag.

There was no need to call the barbarians to help, so the troll wizard volunteered to step forward, grabbed the heavy bowl mouth of the thick thunder totem one by one, and thrust it down one by one according to the marks on the altar, and heard "Click!" Click! The sound of the machine locking was heard, and soon the twelve totem poles were re-inlaid around the altar.

But after the totem pole was inserted, everyone looked at the big pillar in the middle expectantly, but after a while, there was no reaction, and they couldn't help but focus their eyes on Xiao San again.

"Uh..."

Xiao San panicked, last time she obviously saw the goblins insert the pillar in, this thunder totem array was activated, why didn't it work this time?

Anxiously circled around the pillar a few times, Xiao San turned around with big eyes and suddenly hammered his palm with a small fist: "Ah! Come to think of it! After plugging in the pillars, the goblin wizards seemed to be doing something with their claws pressed on these pillars, and then the pillars burst out of the arc to activate! ”

Do you need a special start-up method?

After glancing at each other, everyone shouted in unison to the barbarians who were blocking the goblin tide outside: "Keep sperm under the knife!" ”

When they rushed out of the sacrificial hall, the corpses of the goblins had piled up and blocked the stairs of the entire pyramid, and the original group of goblin wizards and goblin priests had already been cut down!

Everyone was dumbfounded, what should I do?

"Sure enough, the task of the competition is not easy!?"

Infinite sighed, this is just the reselection task, it is already so difficult, so how difficult is the final selection and chief battle in the future?

The requirements of the secondary mission are to scout the kobold tribe and the goblin tribe, but the task obviously can't be so simple, otherwise the content that each team can detect is almost the same, how to judge the merits?

So in order to win the re-selection mission, you must detect more information that is different from others, and on the side of the goblin tribe, the ground tribe has almost been trampled by the players, so what is the secret.

If you want to detect more information, you have to dig up those hidden hidden maps, such as undiscovered dungeons, secret rooms, ruin caves, etc., if you go through the architectural ruins of those goblin tribes, you may be able to turn out some rooms buried by collapsed earth and rock, but how many players have the ability to explore the underground? Not grave robbers and marmots.

Besides, finding a hidden secret room, how can there be a high score to open a dusty dungeon, and the key to opening the dungeon is this thunder totem array, this thunder totem array has been placed here for countless years, no one has moved, after the barbarians used brute force to pull out the twelve thunder totem poles, it directly lost the possibility of opening, and by mistake, the ruins of the temple of Zeke, the god of goblins, have not been opened until now.

Theoretically speaking, the ruins of the Zeke Temple, according to the trajectory of the plot, should be opened at the same time as the Dragon Fortress [Dallas Trifan].

But because someone opened [Dallas Trifan] in advance, and also opened the second layer of [Dallas Trifan], coupled with the influence of [Storm Moon Surge], the kobolds of the Dak kobold tribe mutated and evolved in advance!

Under the superposition of the two, the power of the kobold tribe and the strength of the kobold climb too fast, and the speed at which players improve their strength can't keep up with the kobolds, so the difficulty of [Dallas Cui Fan] has always been high, resulting in players rarely coming to brush the dragon fortress hidden in the sea of dogs, and so far the first layer of [Dallas Cui Fan] has rarely been damaged, let alone the second layer.

And the ruins of the Zeke Temple, due to the influence of someone, a group of barbarians pulled out the totem pillars that ordinary people with normal brains and would not pull out at all, causing the opening of the temple ruins to be delayed indefinitely, and the mutation and evolution of the goblins were delayed, not only in the competition for territory, but also regarded as an amusement park by the players who lacked a leveling place, and even the number of goblins fell extremely much because of the large number of players slaughtering.

As mentioned earlier, the monsters in "Endless" are not "refreshed by the system",But the "breeding" mode is adopted to increase,It's just that this kind of player generally can't see the scene of other people's breeding.,It belongs to the incognito increase the number of monsters.。

Therefore, whenever the number of monster groups decreases, the speed of reproduction and production will increase, and the number of groups will increase, and the reproduction rate will slow down due to the limitation of food sources, so as to maintain the reproduction of a monster group.

Once the player's slaughter rate exceeds the upper limit of the breeding rate... After all, it's not like a submachine gun that pops up from the ass to the little monster, and it takes a certain amount of time for the mother monster to gestation and the little monster to grow, although this time is relatively short.

If the rate of death exceeds the rate of reproduction, then the base of the monster group will continue to decline, and the number of reproduction will also decrease, which will eventually lead to the collapse of the monster group (attention!). Not extinction! For a period of time in the area, the monsters of that group will disappear until the scattered monster individuals hide and breed to a certain size, and then reappear in the area to carry out activities.

If the monster group is completely wiped out before it collapses, or if all the individuals who are scattered are male... What an embarrassment! Then this monster in this area will disappear completely, and it will be truly extinct.

However, generally speaking, this situation is difficult to occur, because often the place where the monster race gathers in large numbers is the living area suitable for their creatures to reproduce, even if a certain monster group in the area is extinct, after a period of time, there will be monsters of the same kind in other regions who accidentally run to settle in the area, and eventually they will emerge again like mushrooms after rain.

In the same way, the corpses left behind by monsters after death are not "refreshed by the system", but are replaced in the form of a food chain, or naturally degraded, or infected by negative energy and become undead creatures, or become food for other creatures, and become nutrients to increase the number of other biological groups.

Therefore, under the influence of some subtle butterfly effect, if the Sycamore still doesn't take out the twelve thunder totems today, then the ruins of the temple of Zeke, the goblin god, may still continue to be buried underground!

"Do you have to leave the Thunder Totem here, and after the goblin wizard refreshes, let's attack the temple again?" Guys, you look at me, I look at yours and you don't even pay attention.

"It's only 72 hours! Now there are only more than 60 hours left, we still took advantage of the first half a step and arrived at Aoraon first, it is estimated that the other participating teams have just arrived now, and they have not even arrived in Aoraon!

It takes about 4 hours to get to Auraon City by four-wheeled carriage from Fairhaven City, but with so many teams participating at the same time, it is not too easy to get a carriage in a short time, so it is calculated as 6 hours.

And it takes five or six hours to walk from Aoraon into the depths of the forest to reach the vicinity of the goblin tribe or kobold tribe, so why do you have to fight with the outer goblin sea for a while, right? ”

Lingyue Frost Snow couldn't help but say: "It's calculated according to fifteen hours, the contestants will consume about fifteen hours just to get here, and it will take fifteen hours to return, which means that the time to stay in the dungeon is only forty hours."

This is still considered according to the fact that as soon as we arrive at the goblin tribe, we can enter the underground temple immediately, we have the thunder totem in our hands, and we have taken such a big advantage, we are all stuck here, what if we change to other participating teams?

Also waiting for the Goblin Wizard to refresh? It's not so fast to give birth to wizards in the race, right!?

If we hadn't come to participate in the re-finals, or if we had chosen the kobold tribe's side, the Earth Spirit Hall would have been impossible to open, so wouldn't all the teams that chose the Earth Spirit Hall be disqualified? ”

"Yes! There's no reason for the contest organizers to set such a big trap, right? ”

Infinite They also agreed with Lingyue Frost and Snow's idea, but Wutong's mind suddenly appeared with the black face of a certain old man, and he couldn't help sweating, maybe the old man was too lazy to answer the question, and planned to brush off as many participating teams as possible as soon as possible and directly enter the final chief battle?

Anyway, the team in the chief battle does not need to participate in the previous primary, re-selection, and final selection, and participating in it will not be counted in the final score. "Come and prevaricate.

After all, for mages, wasting time is a waste of life, not to mention that they are ** teachers who don't have a few days to live, and they have this time to watch the children play at home, so it's better to go back to the laboratory to do a few more arcane experiments-

Trouble: I originally wanted to gnaw on the more than 50 steel hammers, but it turned out that there are still 2,000 short of writing... Forget it, the right is to save the manuscript.

(To be continued)