Starting from Zero

As the monster’s body completely disintegrated, Mira and Heiyan also quietly disappeared into the air. The huge rocky hall now lacks the rare beast like a skyscraper. And it seemed even more empty.

"Is it over?" Prometheus could hardly believe everything in front of him, until the monster's projection disappeared completely, he finally reacted to the self-talking question.

"No, it's not over yet." I said as I walked towards the center of the Rock Hall.

Prometheus just asked casually, not really hoping to get an answer, didn’t expect I actually answered his question, but when he saw me in the middle of the field When he left, he was puzzled, but he quickly realized something, so he hurried to follow him by running. Of course, he was not stupid enough to get ahead of me, he just chased behind me and slowly followed me to the middle, not daring to surpass me.

Actually, my behavior is easy to guess. I just killed a super BOSS. Although it was only a projection, it was also a high level monster of the genuine. So, it is normal to check if there is something exploded in the past.

In fact, most of the monsters in "Zero" are non-explosive equipment. After all, the main feature of "Zero" is reality, and in the real world, if you kill animals casually, you can jump out. Isn’t that weird to use weapons or armor? So most of the monsters in "Zero" don't explode equipment, or don't explode equipment directly.

The monster in "Zero" is not really non-explosive equipment, after all, players need to equip them, and if the monster does not explode the equipment, then you can only rely on missions or go to the system store before spending. Buy it, or build it yourself. However, the efficiency of the above three methods is very low. If only relying on those three links to obtain equipment, then players may only be a beggar before reaching level 1,000. So monsters still have to explode equipment, just for the sake of reality, so you can’t jump out of equipment or gold coins directly, but use another method, which is to produce materials.

In the entire game, except for the first one or two hundred levels, the enemies that players fought were wild beasts. In most cases, the wild creatures that fought with players were devil beasts or other types of magic. biology. Among these humanoid creatures, if they use equipment themselves, they can directly explode equipment or explode money after death. After all, it is reasonable for the enemy to wear armor or carry gold coins. However, if it is not a humanoid creature and the other party has no social organization, then this kind of creature can only produce material. Because they are magical creatures, the fur, meat, bones, teeth, claws, and crystal nuclei of these monsters are all spoils of war that can be collected. Take these things to the blacksmith's office to exchange for money, or synthetic equipment. If it is exchanged for money, you can buy equipment in the store, and if it is synthesized, you will usually get some special equipment that is different from the type of equipment sold in the store. Of course, you also need to pay for the synthesis, so you have to harvest a lot of materials, otherwise a set of materials will definitely not be able to make a set of equipment.

Although according to the above rules, the monsters in the game are basically non-explosive equipment, but the creature in front of you is a little different. First, he wears armor itself, so it proves that this is a creature that can use equipment, so its probability of exploding equipment will be very high. Second, this thing is an energy body. Although energy creatures do not explode equipment in the game, they often explode various crystals. For example, ghost creatures often explode soul crystals after being destroyed. Every time I go to the guild warehouse, I pour out spoils for a period of time. Of war, you can turn out piles of soul crystals, among which ninety-nine percent are contributed by ghost creatures.

Since this thing meets the characteristics of explosive equipment, it must be confirmed.

When I walked to the place where the monster smashed and collapsed, I realized that this thing had exploded. It's just that what he exploded was not a piece of equipment, but a piece of crystal.

"This...is it Soul Crystal?" Prometheus looked at the crystal as big as a football in disbelief, and even started to tremble.

Soul Crystal is indeed often seen a lot, but like diamonds in the real world, it belongs to the type that the larger the volume, the higher the value. Generally, Soul Crystal, which is only the size of an olive, is a one-time consumable with a low value, and anyone can buy it in large quantities. However, the ones as big as goose eggs are high-level goods, and only high-level players are willing to spend money to buy them, and the ones as big as oranges basically belong to the guild-level configuration, except for some magic equipment in the guild city. Outside, the individual can hardly afford it. However, this piece in front of me is amazing. Think about it, how many oranges are there in a football? Even the oranges are all guild equipment. What is this? National equipment?

Although it was extremely shocked that such a large Soul Crystal could be exploded, Prometheus was wise not to move any evil thoughts. In fact, he wasn't ignoring his mind, but he was trampled on by himself as soon as he came up with an idea. I have just witnessed 3 minutes with my own eyes and the familiars, letting go of what they thought was invincible. Under such a shocking education, no one would think that he was capable of challenging me, even if he sacrificed his life, he would never take it away. This crystal, let alone the revenge that followed.

Although Prometheus gave up his intention to possess this crystal, my behavior still shocked him even his chin was about to fall off, because I did not cherish it. The Soul Crystal was put away, but suddenly raised his leg and stamped on the surface of the crystal. With a click, the crystal exploded into fragments all over the floor. At that moment, Prometheus felt his heart shattered along with the crystal, but when he came back to his senses, he found that I did not collect the pieces, but looked up and looked diagonally like a sleepwalking. Moved slowly above and towards the exit.

Prometheus followed my line of sight and found that he only saw the rock on the top of the cave, nothing special. Last but not least, he glanced at the fragments all over the floor. Prometheus finally gritted his teeth and stood up and followed me, and then tried to follow my line of sight to find what I was looking at, but after trying for a long time, he didn't find any results. In the end he had no choice but to ask: "Purple Moon, what are you looking at?"

I didn't answer Prometheus's words at all, and my head was still at forty-five degrees. The horn moved slowly while looking at the diagonally upwards, but he passed a small bottle in his hand. It was not until Prometheus took it and said, "Will the eye drops be used? One drop on one side, don’t use too much, it’s expensive. Yes."

Prometheus reacted for a while, took off the helmet quickly, and poured the liquid in the bottle into his eyes. After blinking a few eyes to adapt to the feeling of the potion, he looked up again but was stunned, because a cloud of white smoke appeared in the cave that was still empty.

"This...this is..."

"Soul Fragment." I simply replied.

Prometheus is not stupid, and soon realized the origin of this thing. "Is this the monster from just now?"

"Yes, but it's just a very simple trace of soul thought, so even the form gathers does not raise. When the monster disintegrates, his body only takes away the main body. The control line of consciousness, the souls stored here cannot be taken away. The remaining souls formed Soul Crystal after the monster disintegrated. Just after I broke it, this strand of Remnant Soul was released, so I started to break it down. The instinctive consciousness of mankind moves closer to the main consciousness."

"You mean it will bring us to where the ontology is?"

"Aren't you too stupid."< /p>

After being evaluated by me in such a way that I don't know whether it was praise or sarcasm, Prometheus also took the conversation again, and could only move forward with me following the thing. Since the soul itself is incomplete, and it has been sealed by Soul Crystal once, this fragment of the soul will become very weak. Not only can it not gather its form, but it also moves at an amazingly slow speed. We followed it for more than half an hour before moving from the hall to the outside passage, and it took nearly an hour to go through the whole passage, and finally it was at night that the thing finally moved to the previous one. The exit position of the maze. However, although it is dark, it is also a cave anyway, so the change of light from the outside has no effect on us at all.

"Huh, is this thing going to float outside the cave?" Prometheus finally couldn't help but ask when looking at the fragment of the soul still floating in the maze. He really lost his temper by this thing. If you are asked to track a snail running a marathon, you will probably have a feeling with him. Even people with slow temperament can quickly get sick with something that is faster than the speed of the tortoise. After all, we have only moved less than 300 meters in this more than an hour, an average of about three meters in one minute. What speed do you call this? The tortoise runs faster than this, right?

Of course, only Prometheus is anxious, I'm not anxious anyway. Mobile office in the technological age, although there are not too many technological products in the game, there are many magical products. I used the crystal communicator to get in touch with the god of war and Aphrodite, and also took the time to have a phone call with Rose. Naturally, there is no rush to do things, but Prometheus is even more anxious, because I have been using communication tools to chat, he is not easy to interrupt and talk to me, so he can only stand alone and wait.

Fortunately, after entering the maze, Prometheus's suffering is finally coming to an end. The group of soul fragments that had been floating in the air had been dropping in height, and when it was in the maze, it had fallen from a height of two meters above the ground to a height of less than a foot above the ground and was moving. Since the soul fragment is too weak, crossing the wall will cause the loss of Soul Power, so the soul fragment can only walk along the passage like us, and cannot penetrate the wall. After spending more than half an hour turning a few turns, the soul fragment turned into a dead end, and then it was completely covered on the wall that blocked the way and wriggled.

Seeing the soul fragment that was blocked by the wall and no longer moving, I finally understood the meaning of the sentence at the entrance of the maze. The function of the maze is to confuse people's judgments. Yes, when we think we are going out from the exit, we have actually been misled. The exit of this labyrinth is not the passage at all, but behind the wall of a dead end. Just because most people think that the exit of the maze must be open, that's why our inertial thinking goes the wrong way.

Because I don’t know if I will encounter a maze map in the future, I do not intend to destroy the soul fragment for the time being. Carefully using magic power to get the group of soul fragments from the wall, and then I began to look for mechanisms on the wall. After confirming that there was no mechanism, I simply started to make holes in the wall with the Eternal Sword.

pu... Long sword The feeling coming through the wall clearly tells me that this thing is empty, and the wall itself is not thick, at most one foot.

"Is there a passage behind this?" After I pulled out the weapon, Prometheus finally found that there was light coming through the hole I had poked in the wall.

"Nonsense, do you think I'm mining?" After taking out a Spirit Armor worm and stuffing it into the wall through the hole, I used the senses of the beetle to sense the situation behind the wall and confirm that it was just An empty passage, I directly withdrew the beetle to greet Prometheus to retreat, and then a burst of Fireball blasted the entire wall into flight.

After the broken wall, it turned out to be an empty cave. After entering, you can find a building on the left. It looks like a temple, and the statue at the top of the temple’s main entrance clearly illustrates this. It is the temple of Poseidon.

"I finally know why it is called the Poseidon Cave." Looking at the statue, Prometheus exclaimed.

"I think I know too." Prometheus felt a little strange when he heard me, but when he turned his head back, he found that I was not standing behind him. Originally, after entering the cave and discovering the temple, he ran in front of me because of excitement, but after a while he found that I was not behind, but ran to the corner of the cave on the right front.

The cave we entered is probably a rectangle. You can imagine it in the shape of a computer monitor. The Sea God Temple is located on the left frame of the display, and the entire side is completely occupied by the temple. As for how deep behind it is, we can’t see it at all, because the entrance to the temple seals the entire hole on this side. wall.

According to this structure, the entrance we just entered is probably located at the lower right corner of the monitor, on the bottom border of the monitor. As soon as Prometheus came in, he was attracted by the temple on the left, and ran in front of me. When he realized that I was missing, he realized that I was standing on the side bezel located in the upper right corner of the monitor. Before another exit.

When Prometheus found my position, he rushed over, and when he stood behind me and saw the situation inside the door through my shoulder, he was completely stunned.

The exit I found is not the same as the mountain, but another cave. However, it is not a dry cave on the ground, but a water cave. Yes, outside this exit is a circular cave with an area much larger than the basketball court at worst, but the entire cave is a huge underground lake, except for a ladder extending down to the water at the entrance, the cave** There is no land, and the top of the cave is very low, so tall people can even reach the ceiling with just one hand.

Although this cave is completely a water hole, it is much brighter than the outside. There seems to be a light source underwater, and the whole water illuminated by it is a shiny cyan-green, which looks very gratifying.

"Aren't we going down here?" Prometheus asked timidly.

"No, let's see the situation in the temple first."

Although that group of soul fragments entered the cave after us, it was too weak. As for entering this cave, it only came to the entrance of the water cave and then completely dissipated, so it was impossible to use the guide on the road afterwards. Of course, if there is no accident, it is estimated that we will not be able to use it, after all, we have found a channel that could not be found before. In fact, I guess that the fragments of the soul dissipated, and Prometheus was still a little happy. After all, the moving speed of the thing was really a bit slow, making people want to find something to put it in and drag it to run.

Exiting from the water cave, we came back to the Sea God Temple located on the other wall of the cave. Unlike what we imagined, this place is almost similar to the Earth Temple in China. Although the facade of the building is well repaired, after entering, I found that the place less than ten meters away from the gate is a wall, and then it is in front of the wall. A row of Poseidon statues were erected. Of course, the one in the middle was Poseidon. On both sides stood the Guardian God with seven Poseidon pillars and three Divine Beasts of the sea.

Except for the statue in front of this wall, the Sea God Temple is basically empty. After searching carefully and confirming that there was no other passage, we could only leave here, but this Sea God Temple didn't give us anything. On the contrary, it gave us pretty good things. Because the moment we stepped into the Sea God Temple, the system reminded us that we were blessed by a sea god. In the future, our underwater movement speed can be increased by 5%, and it will increase by 20% within 24 hours from now, and this 20% booster reward can still be used repeatedly, that is, we only need every twenty Once in four hours, it is equivalent to permanently gaining an attribute that increases underwater speed by 20%. Of course, it is really not cost-effective to run once a day for such an attribute, but if there is any task that requires underwater speed, it is not bad to run it once. Besides, even if you don't brush it in the future, the annual 5% bonus will at least take effect.

In fact, after receiving this reward, we understood that this temple is simply not the focus of the mission, it is just a mission assistance point. This temple can increase the underwater movement speed, and the other side is a water hole. This is not clear to tell us that the next stage of the mission should be carried out underwater?

After getting the bonus attribute here, we went directly to the entrance of the water cave. From the entrance of the cave, there is only the third rank above the water on the downward steps, and the fourth rank is already underwater. However, because the water is particularly clear and the brightness is also high, you can still see the steps that don't stop at the surface of the water. On the contrary, this step seems to extend to a deep place under the water, but I don’t know why the people who repaired this step should repair the step to the bottom of the water. Anyway, after entering the water, you can swim forward. Is there a fart to use the steps?

"Do you wear a helmet to breathe underwater?" Before entering the water, I turned my head and looked at Prometheus and asked.

Prometheus hurriedly nodded and said: "Of course. Although not as good as yours, I am also top equipment."

I simply ignored Prometheus. Then he pulled the mask and jumped directly into the water. Prometheus watched me go down and jumped down. Because of the full-covering helmets we wear, we can still speak underwater, but because the sound has to travel through the cross-medium in the water and the air, the sound sounds a bit strange.

"Adyna." After entering the water, I directly brought Adyna out of summon. The small dragon girl was sent by me to perform a branch mission, so now only Amina is the fastest underwater.

"Damn, President Purple Moon, do you have a mermaid familiar?" Prometheus, who saw Aanna for the first time, immediately cried out in surprise.

For his make a fuss about nothing, I didn’t take it seriously, so I directly let Amana dive down with the hand that held me. As for Prometheus, Amana is anyway I won't hold him, and I won't hold hands with a man. I just threw a rope to him and let him pull the rope by himself.

Anyone who has swam should know that it is actually very difficult to dive under the water, especially when you can swim. Originally, we expected that it would take a long time to dive after launching, but with Anana and the auxiliary effect of increasing the underwater speed by 20%, we were like three torpedoes straight into the bottom of the cave.

The water hole we entered is obviously a conical shape. The hole just came down is only a little bigger than a basketball court, but the cave is wider as you go down, and later you can’t see the walls all around at all. . Fortunately, Grandma has underwater sonar skills, so we don't have to worry about finding an exit.

After diving for almost six to seven hundred meters, we reached the bottom of the cave. If in reality, the water pressure would have crushed us. But here is the game, with armor protection, we can't feel any water pressure at all.

There is a small door on the bottom wall of the cave where we came down. When we walked past, we discovered that the stairs at the entrance of the cave actually extended to here. If there is no Shui, follow this ladder to be able to walk all the way down.

Different from the unobstructed entrance above, there is a door at the exit at the bottom of the cave. The door panel is not metal, but a large shell is used to block it. This is clearly the style of Sea Clan. In fact, I wonder if this underground Water Element is directly connected to the sea.

Although there is a door, the shell-made door is actually just leaning against the exit to block it, and it can be opened by pulling it. After passing through this door, there is a passage about several meters long in front of it, and there is also a shell door at the other end of the passage. After we swam over and opened the shell door, we immediately entered a slightly wider passage than before. However, this channel does not extend forward, but horizontally in front of us. The position we entered is in the center of this passage. The passages on our left and right sides are all passages, and there are shell covers in front of them.

"This is troublesome, will you not run into the underwater maze?" Prometheus asked with some worry.

"I hope you don't have a crow's mouth attribute." After I finished speaking, I turned to the right first. As for why I chose this side, it was just because I was here. Anyway, I haven't walked on both sides, and there is no intelligence for us to analyze. Instead of standing there and wasting time, it's better to just choose and walk around.

Although Prometheus didn't know why I had to go to the right, he just followed me to see me to complete the task. It was not him who took the task, so he could only follow me.

Since the passage is not too long, we quickly reached the entrance on the right. Open the shell door, behind it is a small compartment about the size of a household toilet, and besides the shell door we entered, there is an energy barrier here.

"Huh? Isn't this your waterproof barrier?" My first reaction after seeing this energy barrier was that it seemed to be the waterproof door at the entrance of Atlantis. Although this thing can block the passage of water, it does not block other things. People and items can enter and exit at will, but the water cannot pass.

What I know about the waterproof door of Atlantis is only that it can prevent water and facilitate the passage of people, but Adyna is from Atlantis after all, so she knows better than me Much more. After checking the barrier, Anna told me that the working principle of this door is different from their waterproof door. Although it has similar functions, it is not a thing.

Although I found that the second waterproof door technology is quite strange, but think about Poseidon’s Poseidon family itself living in seabed, and they are not completely aquatic creatures, so there is a waterproof door technology It is also normal.

Although Prometheus has never seen the waterproof door of Atlantis, he is still very curious about the door in front of him. After all, a door that can only isolate water is really rare. However, his curiosity about the door was scared and disappeared immediately after passing through the door, because, just after the door, he saw the same monster as the projection that I had killed before.

"Purple Moon...President Purple Moon, shouldn't this be the main body?"

"It looks like it is." After scanning it with the star pupil I knew right away that this was the monster body I was looking for, because I had fought against the projection of this thing before, so I was considered to have fought with him, so Xingpu could read his attributes. This thing in front of me is indeed a very good BOSS, but it is not the level three to five thousand we guessed before, but...the level eight thousand. "Damn, the level is broken!"

"Huh? What's the situation?" Because I can't see the display on my side, Prometheus still doesn't know that the thing in front of me is eight thousand level. Abnormal rare beast. Of course, this does not prevent him from continuing to pretend to be a vibrator, because they were discouraged by an Avatar at the beginning, and this will naturally be more afraid of encountering the main body.

Since I heard Prometheus’s inquiry, I directly showed him the star pupil attribute. As a result, Prometheus, which was already shaking like a sieve, would directly follow He collapsed on the ground like a mud. Eight thousand level! What is that concept? A two-thousand-level monster can force their entire guild to besiege for several hours and lose dozens of people before they can barely be killed. How strong is this eight-thousand-level monster? The entire guild flies into annihilation between raising your hands!

When I saw the projection of the monster before, I planned to catch the familiar because I think the attribute of the monster is quite good, suitable for use as a powerful fighter-type monster. But now it seems that this guy has exceeded expectations a bit, he is really strong and outrageous. Eight thousand level! It's not Divine Race yet!

Because I have a suppressing attribute for Divine Race, even the 10,000-level Divine Race I can retreat in front of him. As for the 8,000-level Divine Race, I can barely fight. . But this monster is not Divine Race! If he fights with me, the attribute will not be discounted at all, and I cannot be strengthened, so I simply have no chance of winning with this thing.

I have almost this relationship with this monster and the 8,000-level Divine Race. I can’t beat this monster. This monster can’t do the 8,000-level Divine Race. The 8,000-level Divine Race can’t do me. This whole is a triangle loop.

"Then what, President Purple Moon. I think we should run first?" After shaking for a while, Prometheus finally got up the courage and shivered suggested.

I almost agreed at that moment, but suddenly I stopped again because I thought of the projection in the hall before. The monster in front of us was lying on the ground, curled up with his back to us, so we couldn't see his situation clearly, but I remember that when the projection was disintegrating, the chains on the ground were disintegrated together. What is this indicating? This shows that the chain is also a projection, and the only reason why the chain produces a projection is that the monster's body is also locked.

After thinking about the key, I immediately looked towards and walked over, but Prometheus was scared and didn't know what to say. Being with me today Prometheus feels that his heart is about to go wrong, which is too exciting. It was scary enough to kill a three-thousand-level projection before, but now I dare to take the initiative to challenge an eight-thousand-level monster. You know that I am only more than two thousand level, even if it is much higher level than these people, but compared with this monster, it is a scum! More than 2,000 levels and more than 8,000 levels, the level of 1/4/2021! Does this have a chance of winning?

Of course I am not arrogant enough to think that I can defeat this monster, even if he is locked. The level of eight thousand is too scary, people will not think that he can handle him with a state of more than two thousand. The reason why I dared to go forward is because I didn't plan to fight him at all.

As the president of the Frost Rose League, the world battle strength ranks first. Many people think that my specialty is being able to fight, but I think my biggest specialty is actually being able to say it.

"Zero" is indeed a battle-based game, but that only means that battle is the main theme, and system has never said that there is only battle in the game. Many things can actually be solved with words, such as my current position as a middleman in Divine Race. Although strength is also one of the main support points of this identity, if I were a clumsy tongue, how could those Divine Race listen to my arrangements and let me be the middleman? So, compared to battle strength, I think my communication skills should be stronger. The monster in front of him has a level of up to eight thousand, which means I lose iron than a fist, but looking at his image, he is obviously not an intellectual creature, so his psychological battle strength level may not be as powerful as that of the little monster. Is it the way to emerge victorious in every battle with one's strengths against the enemy's shortcomings?

"Hey, excuse me, are you awake?"

My voice is quite loud, and originally because the monster has been facing away from us, I was lucky to think that the other party was there. Sleeping Prometheus felt like he almost didn't draw it. It's as if you cautiously touched a sleeping lion in front of a sleeping lion and prepared to steal the meat that it hadn't finished eating. At this time, your companion suddenly shouted at the lion. What was your mood at that time? If it weren't for my inferior status, Prometheus would almost be ready to bullshitting directly at me. Of course, not daring to speak loudly for fear of waking up the monster is also one of the important reasons.

"Hey, are you asleep? Why didn't you answer?" Seeing that the monster hadn't moved for a long time, I shouted again, and Prometheus had simply retreated to the edge of the waterproof door at this time , Ready in case the situation is not right, Lima turned and fled.

Huh...With a sound like a train exhaust, Roshan in front of me suddenly moved, and then I saw him slowly sitting up from the ground, and then it seemed that he slept for too long After getting a little dizzy, he shook his head twice, and then seemed to be a little awake. The guy suddenly supported him and climbed up, accompanied by a clank of iron chains.

Finally, the monster who stood up completely turned around slowly. The body shape and appearance are exactly the same as the previous projection, even the chains on the hands and feet are not the slightest difference, but the pressure on people is countless times greater than that of the projection.

After turning around completely, the monster finally looked around, and finally looked down at me standing on the ground. Compared to his size, I am basically at the level of a cockroach. After all, this guy's claws seem to be three stories tall.

After seeing my existence clearly, the guy suddenly leaned forward, and then pressed the two front paws, which are more like hands, on the ground, and stretched his head towards me. . Despite the chains on his body, this room is not as big as the one above, so this monster can move almost unrestricted throughout the room. His head just stretched out in front of me, and Prometheus had already reached the other side of the waterproof door, only showing his face here, ready to wait for me to be eaten by the monster and immediately run away.

However, what Prometheus expected did not happen, but developed as I expected. The monster finally stopped his head about five meters away in front of me. Although it seemed that the distance was not very close, considering his size, the distance was actually quite close. If it is two people, this distance is basically equivalent to the distance that the other person can put out his tongue to sweeten you, and the monster in front of me is indeed able to roll me back into my mouth as long as I put out my tongue. Of course, he didn't do that.

"How many years has it been? Actually someone can find me. Congratulations to your brave little fellow." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote Recommended tickets, monthly tickets, your support is my biggest motivation.)