Chapter 132: Welcome to Vault Seventy-One
After that, the group encountered several more attacks, but as they got used to the attacks of the Chaos monsters, most of them were able to deal with these monsters with ease. And after that, I don't know if the Dao has learned enough lessons, and it is rare for Chaos Monsters to enter the Order Barrier to come to their troubles, but this does not mean that their test is over.
"How long do we have to get to our destination, Rhodes?"
Marlene wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead, for this noble-born mage lady, walking for such a long time can be regarded as fatal, not only her, but also Lijie and the others next to her are more or less tired. What's even worse is that they don't even know how long they have been walking, how many minutes? Dozens of minutes? Or a few hours? Marlene took out her pocket watch from her bosom, but helplessly saw that the hands under her were pointing in the direction of three o'clock———Well, if she remembers correctly, the first hand pointed to six o'clock, and the second time it was two o'clock......... Have they been walking for more than ten hours?
But Rod's answer was even more desperate.
"I don't know what to do."
"I don't know what to do?"
Marlene's eyes widened, revealing an expression of disbelief and staring at the man walking in front of her, and Lijie next to her also changed her complexion, not only that, but Joey in the back suddenly rolled her eyes helplessly after hearing this answer, and screamed.
"Don't do that, boss, those people have experience, how about asking them?"
Their answer will be equally incomprehensible.
Rhodes waved his hand and squinted at the three guides in front of him, who were now striding forward with torches held aloft. A long, bright silver-white thread could be seen emerging from their torch as if it were being twinn, and then spreading all the way forward until it disappeared at the end of the chaotic mist. That's what it means to guide the remnants. A sign that they will not be lost in the chaos. Of course, there was no direction in the chaos, and even on several occasions, Rhodes felt as if he was going in circles in place, but ............
"There is no distance, no time, no time in the Land of Chaos. There is nothing you can imagine, everything is broken here, in short, when we will be able to reach the Vault depends on how strong our relationship with the Order is, and if our luck is good enough, then in ten minutes we will be able to see the doors of the Vault. ”
"So what happens if we're not lucky enough?"
Hearing this, Anne asked excitedly, looking at her appearance. It seems like I wish I could have stayed here a little longer. Hearing Anne's inquiry, Rhodes slowed down, turned his head to look at the girl who looked excited and curious, and then shrugged his shoulders helplessly.
"Then it is not impossible for us to walk for a few days, or even ten days. Of course, this is based on the amount of time we can perceive. All in all, the destination was there, when we changed the arrival. We'll be there. If it's not time for us to arrive, then we won't be there. So it doesn't matter if you're walking or running. It's all the same. ”
"Holy Soul is above, this is really terrible!"
Hearing this, Joey immediately raised his head and shouted, and the expressions of the others at the moment were also extremely complicated, since stepping into the land of chaos, everything they had experienced completely subverted all the common sense and laws in their minds. How can there be such an unreasonable thing, when we are going to arrive, it will naturally come. If the time is not enough, then we can't get there no matter how we go?
"Why do you have to keep walking, boss, take a rest, maybe we'll get up and get to our destination?"
Joey cried and rubbed his legs. Then look around, only to see that outside the barrier of order, there is a dim and whistling chaotic fog everywhere, and what is even worse is that this place is not as dark as many people think, from time to time everyone can see a dazzling light tearing through the darkness, and then entangled with the darkness, and finally turned into an orange light. But soon, the brilliance will turn into a blue or emerald green color, so to speak, like a group of people walking in a discotheque, except for the dazzling and blurred light and the black shadows that appear from time to time, which makes people feel dazzled.
More often than not, however, the chaotic fog that envelops the barrier of order takes on a soft, but bright, indescribable color, which makes everyone wake up with a bright light even if they want to close their eyes and rest. It was a very painful experience, and although Marlene cast a small masking spell to weaken the light with Rod's consent, it was still a very painful thing for many people.
"Don't worry."
And at this time, the remnants of the leader finally spoke.
"Here, order is fairly stable. No, too slow. ”
"I hope so."
Hearing the remnants speak, Rod raised his eyebrows, and then he glanced at Joey, who couldn't stop crying.
"You also have to continue to follow, in the barrier of order, our purposeful walking is also a kind of force of order, as long as we continue to walk with the idea of 'reaching the destination', then we will increase the force of the barrier of order, and reach the destination. So, keep going before complaining. ”
"Holy Soul is above, ........."
Hearing Rod's answer, Joey had given up completely, he screamed, hung his head helplessly, and followed Lando step by step. Although Lando, Marfa and the others didn't say much, they already understood their thoughts by looking at their depressed and helpless expressions.
Time passes minute by minute, although there is no time to speak of in the chaos at all, but Rodning can use this method to calculate, the influence of chaos is everywhere, here, any abandonment of order will become the force of chaos, even the player is no exception. Rod still clearly remembers that there was an unlucky player who lost the concept of time after walking into the chaos because of carelessness, and as a result, he was never able to come out of the chaos again, and was directly confused by the chaotic flow of time, and finally had to choose to delete the number and retrain, which is really a sad story.
The ground beneath their feet began to reorganize. A solid ground was formed, but unlike the previous ones, this time the ground was formed with dry and bare loess, and there was no fresh grass, only dry soil and rocks. The originally flat ground suddenly had a height, and it stretched diagonally downward. This sudden change lifted everyone's spirits, and although they didn't know what it meant, they instinctively felt that it should be a good thing.
Sure enough, until this time, the three remnants of the people who were leading the way in front also stopped, and then, they raised the torches of order in their hands. The three of them opened their mouths and shouted loudly as if they were shouting something. The strange, muffled language couldn't help but shake even the air, and with the shouts of the three people, the brilliance of the pillar of order in their hands became brighter and more dazzling, only to see silver-white lines flying out of the flames, spreading forward, and merging with the order sign in front of them that vaguely disappeared into the chaos mist, and then. Suddenly, a gust of wind howled.
"Wow ..............."
Anne's eyes widened in surprise as she stared at the scene in front of her. I saw it after the howling wind. The chaotic fog that had been wrapped around the barriers of order in all directions suddenly drifted backwards as if the wind had blown away, revealing everything that was hidden behind them. As the fog receded, a hard stone wall appeared in front of everyone. It was only then that they realized that they had walked into a cave, and when they looked up, they could see the black stone wall overhead. In front of them were smooth stone walls, and a round, heavy, large metal gate embedded in the stone wall. It looked like it was some years old and rusty on it. On either side of this metal gate, two identical torches of order are inserted. With the arrival of the three remnants, I saw that the two torches shone brightly, and then the golden light shone up, forming a dense network of light, and then spread out to both sides. Seeing the scene in front of him, Rod couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
Such a pure protection of order is not something that ordinary shelters can obtain.
"Who's the visitor outside the door?"
A low, hoarse voice rang out, and at the sound of this voice, the man in charge replied.
"It's me, my lord, the lost traveler who has returned to his homeland! I brought guests invited by the Elders! ”
“………………………”
After listening to the man's answer, there was silence behind the gate, and after a long time, only a low, shrill sound was heard, and then the ring on the round metal gate began to rotate in order, and then, with a roar, the gate slowly opened.
"Marlene, Lizzie, Annie."
Taking advantage of this time, Rod took a few steps back and looked at the people around him seriously.
"Remember, and inform others. After entering the shelter, do not disperse, do not leave, and definitely do not eat what someone else gives you. Adults and children, or even the elderly, should never eat what they give you. I don't expect to see any idiot turn into a bargaining chip for me. You're just walking into a dangerous madhouse, understand? With that, Rhodes looked at the others. John, Marfa, you are in charge of keeping an eye on the other people, and not allowing them to go alone, not even in the bathroom, understand? ”
"Yes, sir."
Hearing Rod's order, John and Marfa hurriedly nodded, and Rhodes withdrew his gaze. At this time, the gate had been completely opened, and the three remnants had already entered it. The man in the lead looked at Rhodes coldly, and then made an inviting gesture to him.
"Welcome, Seventy-One, Vault."
Then he spoke.
Refuge, great miracles.
In an ancient, almost indescribable past, the Five Dragons of Creation transformed their bodies into entire continents and banished Chaos. But Chaos didn't leave immediately, they kept trying to get back to this realm. At that time, the first generation of ancestors living on this continent built one shelter after another deep underground in order to escape the threat of chaos, and they placed the source of the fire of order connected to the dragon soul body of this continent in the shelter to fight against the raging chaos. And after the order was completely stabilized and the chaos was expelled from this worldly realm, people came out of the shelter one after another and began to continue their lives on the earth. And those shelters are sealed in the dust......... Until they turn on again.
And now. Rhodes and others walked in this miracle of history.
The shelter in front of you looks like an underground city, with a ceiling tens of meters high and various buildings on both sides, and the entire shelter looks like a cone composed of countless small squares, narrow, and only allows two people to walk side by side on these square buildings, forming various roads and stairs. From a distance, it looks like a spider's web that hangs over the city.
However, the city is devoid of life.
Marlene frowned and looked around uneasily, perhaps because outsiders were too rare, many residents looked at them curiously, but look at those people - the Holy Soul is above, Marlene has not been to the slums since becoming a mercenary. Originally, she thought that the people in the slums were pitiful enough, but compared to the remnants in front of her, it was simply the gap between nobles and beggars! Almost all of them were yellow-skinned, skinny, and most of them had no clothes, just a few broken rags, and everyone was unkempt, and almost all of them were naked. And because of that. The neatly dressed Marlene and the others are among the outliers at the moment.
Not only that, but the stench of the whole city is also unbearable. Not to mention Marlene and Lijie, even Anne wrinkled her little nose. As for Joey and the others, they were no better, and if they could, they really wanted to cover their mouths and noses so that the disgusting breath could be a little away from them, but the problem was ...............
"The boss is really good......"
He looked at him silently. Rode, who walked in front with his hands behind his back, Joey sighed privately, and hearing his words, Lando and Saul next to him couldn't help but nod. None of them came from good backgrounds, not to mention Joey and Lando. As a half-demon, Thor naturally has lived a lot of hard lives. But even they couldn't stand the stench, but Rhodes was still able to keep his face from changing, and he didn't even frown. This couldn't help but make everyone admire, and even Soth looked at Rod differently at the moment. In any case, in their eyes, Rhodes was a noble child, and they didn't expect him to be able to endure these things more than himself. Since the bosses are like this, then their subordinates naturally can't sweep the boss's face, so no matter how uncomfortable they are, they can only endure it.
Perhaps because everyone was fully armed, although they were watched by many people along the way, no one dared to stop them, on the contrary, when everyone's eyes swept over, those remnants retreated like frightened little animals, as if Rhodes and the others were some terrible devil beasts, as long as they saw them, they would eat them.
"What a pathetic ..............."
Li Jie looked at these ragged remnants and sighed involuntarily. She shook her head, feeling unusually complicated in her heart, in fact, Lijie didn't know exactly what kind of fire Rhodes had to look for for in order to do so, and it wasn't until Marlene's explanation that she understood the relationship between the tinder, the shelter, and the remnants. That is, did the ancestors of these people, who looked poorer than beggars, live on the ground hundreds of years ago? They had only fled here to escape the Chaos, but now ............... I'm afraid no one would have thought that they would live such a life.
Led by the remnants of the leader, Rhodes and the others walked up the spiral staircase to the top of the vault, which was a triangular stone tower that looked like it was three stories high. The man came to the tower and knocked on the stone door in front of him, and with the sound of "boom", the stone door gradually opened, and then the man turned his head to look at Rod.
"The elders are inside, you ..............."
"I'll just go and see him alone."
Sensing the subtext, Rod coldly interrupted him, then he turned his head and after glancing around his men, he set his eyes on someone standing behind the most man.
"Seven Loves."
"Ah, I'm here, master, is there something wrong?"
"They'll be handed over to you."
"Understand, leave it to me, I promise you that you will never let these fools do stupid things."
"Good."
After receiving the answer from Seven Loves, Rod nodded in satisfaction, and then he turned around and walked into the stone tower in front of him.
The heavy stone door closed behind him, and Rhodes walked forward slowly, a dark, gloomy green glow emerging from both sides of the wall, illuminating the otherwise gloomy passageway, but Rhodes did not relax, instead, he squinted his eyes, put his right hand down at his side, and quietly watched ahead. From the moment he walked into this tower, Rhodes sensed a cold aura locking on him, it was obvious that the other party was also a person who had stepped into the realm of legends, otherwise, he would not have had such strength. But............... Such a blatant spying is not so much testing himself, but deliberately showing himself his strength. In that case............
"Hmph."
Rod narrowed his eyes and snorted coldly, just for an instant, the soul power as sharp as a sword suddenly burst out on his body, and the aura that had locked him completely collapsed at this moment, and then a series of rapid coughs sounded, echoing in the corridor. After a few moments, an old voice rang out.
"Young man, are you going too far by doing this?"
"I'm sorry, I don't think so."
Hearing what the other party said, Rhodes was still expressionless.
"Before complaining, it's better to think about whether it's the right thing to do. Although I am a guest, I can't complain about anything, but I still have to say that I really don't like the feeling of being spied on, especially since that guy is doing it so blatantly. I thought, will you give me an explanation? Otherwise, depending on the situation, I may not be able to respond in a way that will reassure you, including the remnants outside. ”
"Hehehe............"
Hearing Rod's answer, the old voice laughed instead of being angry.
"You know us well, young man. I think we can have a good talk, come in........."
With these words, I saw that the stone slabs in the corridor in front of Rod began to move staggeredly, and soon, a secret door appeared from it, and then slowly opened. A dazzling, bright and soft candlelight emerges from it. Seeing the scene in front of him, Rod raised his eyebrows, stretched out his hand, and opened the secret door in front of him. (To be continued......)