Chapter 973: Keeping the Family (Four K)

"This is..."

The village chief looked at Claude's photo and wondered, "Where did you get this image?"

"This person I met in the forest."

Li Ang asked: "Have you seen it?"

"I've never seen it. After progeria becomes more serious, people in our village rarely step out of the village."

The village chief replied: "But I have heard of it. According to the oral tradition of my ancestors, there are many strange things lurking in the forest outside, including a weird, ugly, crazy, three-armed monster.

Is he still alive now?

According to time calculation, he has existed for at least two to three hundred years. "

so long?

Li Ang's heart moved, and he looked at Hohenheim. They tacitly agreed not to say that the new "medicine" promoted in the village was a gift from the three-armed weirdo Claude.

Soon, everyone arrived at the foot of the mountain.

I saw the village chief stepping out, with his back to the player, and pressed a button on a stone at the foot of the mountain.

boom--

The rocks on the mountain suddenly trembled, and as a large number of stones rolled down, a huge rock that was weathered by the wind and sun and covered with cracks slid smoothly to the left, revealing an arch entrance.

"call..."

The village chief wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and led the others into the archway to an ordinary stone gate.

The stone door is gray-white as a whole, has not been polished, has a rough surface, and has no door handle or keyhole.

There is a sunken vacancy directly above it, which looks like a rectangular parallelepiped.

The village chief instructed the players to take out the stone they had obtained in the underground palace before, flip the bricks over, and place the flowing cloud pattern outwards.

Slowly insert the bricks into the gaps.

Since the stone gate is located at a high level, the work of placing the masonry was completed by Shinji Cho.

When the brick was perfectly inserted into the gap, the flowing cloud pattern in the middle of the brick slowly lit up with a circle of dim white light.

The stone door trembled, shaking off a lot of dust.

Ding Shinsi controlled the Kui Niu mecha and took half a step back, ready to take out the [Turtle Harvest Jie Miao] shield in front of him to block any incoming attacks.

After a few seconds, nothing happened.

Li Ang coughed and asked the village chief: "Village chief, key."

The village chief looked straight at the stone door, stunned for a moment, and then came back to his senses, "Oh, I'm sorry, actually I have never seen the complete gate of the Holy Mountain..."

He smiled awkwardly, reached into his collar, and took out a strangely shaped copper key, shaped like a slender stick.

Jogging to the stone door, he slowly placed the copper key with a large number of grooves on the top against the stone door.

The copper key did not encounter any resistance and was integrated into the seemingly solid stone door.

Accompanied by a series of complex mechanical sounds that sounded like the operation of a gear system, the stone door automatically divided into two leaves, one left and one right, and slid into the mountain, revealing a three-meter-high, oval-shaped aperture.

The aperture is white as a whole, and the outer ring is brighter than the inner ring, constantly emitting white particles visible to the naked eye toward the outside world.

The particles in the outer ring float randomly and randomly, like sparks, arising and dying.

The particles in the inner circle rotate counterclockwise as a whole and meet in the middle.

Door? !

The moment they saw the aperture, this word appeared in the minds of all players at the same time.

The aperture behind the stone gate is almost exactly the same as the star gate they saw in the real world, except for the different colors - the star gates are of various colors and are made of starlight.

The aperture is pure white, and the white particles that are constantly pouring out seem to be more unstable than the star gate.

The village chief pulled out the copper key and took a few steps back.

Taking a deep breath, his eyes reflected the slowly rotating light door, and with a tone mixed with complex emotions such as reverence, melancholy, and regret, he sighed: "This is the gate of the Holy Mountain."

He paused and looked at the brave man,

He understood the players' shock as surprise at the gate of the Holy Mountain, and said with a smile: "According to the rules established by our ancestors, I will leave first.

This door will only be open for three minutes at a time.

All brave men, please enter as soon as possible. "

After that, the village chief put away the copper key, quietly exited the mountain and disappeared around the corner under the protection of the village guards.

Shinji Ding looked at the light ellipse and swallowed, "This is..."

"Um."

Hohenheim nodded solemnly without explaining anything. He walked forward to the light door and looked at it carefully.

"Behind this door is a pure solid mountain rock wall, with no more space."

Hohenheim said slowly: "In other words, this oval aperture should be some kind of teleportation array. If you step into it, you will be teleported to another location."

"The target mission has been updated."

David raised his head and said, "My mission now is to enter the Holy Mountain and complete the trial."

"me too."

Amberli nodded. The previous mission goal of [Kill the monster, complete the village chief's commission, and obtain the key to the Holy Mountain] has been completed and replaced with new text.

"It seems like you have to step into it."

Li Ang said in a deep voice, and quietly released the group mind connection technique in his psychic powers, pulling Ding Shinsi and Liu Wushao into the network.

【Eh? 】

Before Ding Shinsi could react, Li Ang spoke very quickly and introduced the situation he had learned from Liu Wushao before - the stone brick above the gate of the Holy Mountain, the pattern engraved on it, was in the Abnormal Society. Appeared in the database.

Li Ang: [Do you know about this? 】

Shinji Din: [Huh? This, I don’t know. My daily job is to be studied, because my Kuiniu mecha is quite special. In order to reduce the possibility of information leakage, some information that I don’t need to know will not allow me to read it. 】

Ding Shinji's Kui Niu mecha contains fragments of the souls of alien beasts unearthed from the Demon Prisoner's Cave by the Special Affairs Bureau.

The pilot of the Shanhai series mecha is not only the operator of the mecha, but also the [anchor] that suppresses the soul fragments of the alien beasts and interacts with them.

When the power of the mecha is released and it enters the rampage state, the restrictions on the soul fragments of the alien beasts will be lifted, the potential power of the alien beasts will be unleashed, and the performance of the mecha will be greatly improved in all aspects, even beyond the limitations of the mecha itself.

But this also brings potential negative effects, that is, the driver may be affected or even controlled by the soul of the alien beast during the long-term struggle with the cleverness.

In order to reduce risks, Shanhai mecha pilots such as Ding Shinji are really just pilots. What they shouldn't know will never be known to them, and their intelligence authority is lower than that of front-line operators like Xing Hechou.

Li Ang: [Okay. From the appearance point of view, this elliptical aperture is more than 70% similar to the star gate. Considering that the pattern appeared in the Abnormal Society database,

We cannot rule out the possibility that this script world is related to the Abnormal Society.

Hmm...Does the teleportation array at the Abnormal Society look similar to this thing? 】

Ding Shinji hesitated for a moment, [The teleportation array being used within the Special Affairs Bureau looks completely different from this one.

Our teleportation array is made of the talismans and formations of the Abnormal Society, and receives continuous energy supply from nuclear reactor-level power generation devices.

It looks like a large cabinet, or container.

If this thing is also a portal,

It should be more advanced than the teleportation array currently used by the Security Bureau. 】

Li Ang: [Is that so...]

Is this aperture a replica obtained from the Abnormal Society's research on the star gate?

Or is this a stargate previously captured by the Abnormal Society?

A large number of possibilities were intertwined in his mind. Li Ang smacked his lips, rubbed his palms, and sighed: "The soldiers will block it, and the water will cover it.

However, since the mission goal requires us to enter the portal, it proves that there is no direct fatal threat behind the portal, and there will be no settings such as opening the door to kill. "

"Um."

Hohenheim nodded, looked away from the aperture, and said calmly: "Everyone, remember to turn on the intercom later.

To prevent the portal from randomly teleporting us to different locations. "

After that, Hohenheim took out a walkie-talkie from the backpack compartment and pressed its button.

Tie the intercom with a rope,

Then throw the walkie-talkie into the aperture like a hammer.

According to the description of [Inazuma Eleven Walkie-Talkie], Unit 1 can observe the distance from other walkie-talkies from the side. However, this time, the light of Unit 1 flashes without any change.

"Out of call range..."

Hohenheim's face changed slightly, and he reached out to try to withdraw the rope.

Snap.

The rope broke off on its own as soon as it was pulled up. Hohenheim held the broken rope with a more solemn expression.

It wasn't that he had a headache because he couldn't get the walkie-talkie back.

The cross section of the rope is extremely smooth, without any roughness, as if it had been gently cut by a high-frequency cutting knife.

You can only enter, but not exit...

Hohenheim dropped the rope,

After pouring himself a few bottles of magic potion, the book of sand in his hand automatically turned the pages and released several group gain magics, which were applied to the players.

Improve group physical resistance, increase group magic resistance, group underwater breathing, group night vision, group cat agility...

A circle of light spots of different colors immediately appeared under everyone's feet.

While drinking the potion, Hohenheim briefly introduced the effect and duration of the group gain.

After making all preparations, everyone stepped into the circle of light one by one.

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It's half past five in the afternoon.

Community, room, living room.

Miss Chai wore Li Ang's skin and sat upright, staring at the clock on the wall that was running steadily.

Five and a half hours, three hundred and thirty minutes, and nineteen thousand eight hundred seconds have passed since Li Ang teleported away.

There is no change in the position where he disappeared,

There was no sudden appearance of blood,

There are no changes in smell, sound, or light.

It was as if Li Ang had disappeared into this room and been erased forever.

calm...

Miss Chai took a deep breath and forced herself to breathe calmly.

Her rationality told her over and over again that the script tasks received by high-level players would not be simple.

Whether it's full play mode or direct teleportation,

It could be as short as a few hours or as long as several days.

Li Ang has only disappeared for less than six hours. Maybe he is still in the middle of the script task, and intermittently behaves abnormally according to his usual habits.

Talking and laughing, solving puzzles lightly, talking nonsense, and hammering the head of the boss at the end of the level into the wall.

Miss Chai smiled stupidly, and Li Ang's figure in a white coat with a dragon head seemed to appear in front of her eyes.

She was obviously older than Li Ang both in life and in death, but she always felt that she had an inexplicable sense of security when she was around Li Ang.

I always feel that I can live a peaceful life by not caring about anything, just eating and waiting to die every day.

You can even give up your thinking once in a while and just be a pure rice bug...

Wait, why do I feel like a dog waiting for its owner to come home? !

Miss Chai reacted suddenly, shook her head, and slapped herself gently to wake herself up.

The carefully polished skin conveys the burning feeling on the face,

Miss Chai glanced at the double-knife turkey huddled under the TV cabinet with the corner of her eye.

Fortunately, the brain worm had received orders from Miss Chai before, and its eyes were cloudy and lifeless. It was immersed in the spiritual energy network of the earth's brain worms. It communicated with other brain worms in different geographical locations quickly and efficiently through spiritual energy. interaction,

Activate the hive mothership, allocate troops, and formulate a landing raid plan...

He didn't notice the silly smile that appeared on the saint's face just now, as well as the inexplicable and unseemly act of slapping herself.

Fortunately, I almost embarrassed myself in front of my subordinates.

Miss Chai breathed a sigh of relief, but her heart gradually became depressed again.

The first instruction engraved in the genes of the brainworms is to obey the orders of their creator, Li Ang, the lord of flesh and swamps.

The second instruction is to obey the orders of the saint.

The third command is the development, reproduction and growth of the insect nest.

Li Ang did not set any grand and far-reaching goals for the insect nest. In order to facilitate control, all actions of the insect nest as a whole must be decided by him.

Agree on whether to implement various plans made by the brainworms.

But at the same time, Li Ang also formulated a backup plan.

It is certain that if he dies or disappears for a long time, the insect nest can continue to develop and continue to protect Miss Chai, Wang Congshan and human civilization on the earth.

I just don’t know what the specific implementation of the backup plan looks like...

Miss Chai frowned, feeling that she vaguely heard Li Ang's instructions, but that day she was lying on the sofa playing with her mobile phone, giggling at the new skin of Paper Man in the mobile game, and didn't listen carefully...

Tsk, the paper guy mistook me!

If I forget the backup plan that Li Ang told me and cause the insect nest to go out of control, then your mobile game will do a lot of harm to people, and you have to kneel down and apologize to the people of the world!

Chai Chai gritted his teeth and regretted, sighed heavily, and continued to sit upright, looking at the clock on the wall that continued to run.

Buzz——

The cell phone placed on the coffee table suddenly vibrated.

Chai Chai was alert, rushed forward, picked up the phone,

Unfortunately, the caller ID is not Li Ang’s backup number.

But Wang Congshan.

Chai Chai raised his eyebrows and answered the phone, "Hello?"

"Hello, Li Ang?"

Wang Congshan's natural voice came from the other end of the phone, "What are you doing now?"