Latest website: Almost immediately after the village chief finished speaking
the last word, the players' ears also sounded the system prompt.Prompt that the current mission objective has been updated, from [find a way
to enter the holy mountain], updated to [kill the beasts, complete the
commission of the guardian clan village chief, and get the key to the holy
mountain],The task time limit has also been changed to 18 hours.In other words, the village chief in front of him is indeed the key npc for
the script task.The players glanced at each other, Hohenheim coughed lightly, looked at the
village chief and asked: "We just want to make a pilgrimage to the holy
mountain, and we didn't expect this to happen again.Hmm... Your Excellency, what kind of monster is that monster? How did you
destroy the gate of the holy mountain? ""This..."The village chief hesitated for a while, and slowly said, "Actually, I am not
very clear. There is no relevant record in the village.The villagers of my grandfather’s generation kept secrets about that matter
and never told them to later generations...""and many more,"David couldn't help but interject, "You just said that the gate of the holy
mountain was destroyed by a strange beast fifty years ago, right?Are you not present at the time? "The village chief should have said: "Of course, I was not born yet."? ? ?The players looked at the head of the village with white hair and wrinkled
skin, and the village chief, who looked at least 70 years old, fell silent for
a while.David opened his mouth and hesitated: "I don't know if you, the head of the
village...this year, Guigeng?""According to the outside season, I should be twenty-four years old."The village chief sighed, touched the white beard on his chin, and said
leisurely: "Thanks to my usual attention to health, I go to bed early and wake
up late, eat small meals, have a balanced diet, and exercise every day to
maintain such a good maintenance."Pay attention to health and grow up...Are you the legendary god-level
programmer?It seems that he noticed the expressions on the faces of other players, and
the village chief sighed: "The other people of the same age in our village are
basically dead. I am considered the oldest group in this age group.Although this is not a good thing to celebrate..."David hesitated: "What the ** is going on..."The village chief sighed again, beckoned, and asked the servant to fill up the
tea and slowly explain.Their family of guardians has guarded the holy mountain for countless years,
and it has at least a thousand years of history based on the incomplete
genealogy.Their mission is to guard the sacred mountain, receive brave people from all
over the world, and release primary trials to screen out some pilgrims with
poor strength or poor temperament in advance.This is to prevent the too weak and brave from entering the sacred mountain to
challenge, and as a result, deaths occur and cast an ominous shadow on the
sacred mountain.It is also to prevent people with low-mindedness from mixing into the ranks of
pilgrims, abusing the wishing blessings of the holy mountain and causing harm
to the outside world.None of the villagers will take a step beyond the scope of the holy mountain.
The trials they propose will usually be carried out at the foot of the holy
mountain in several dungeons that can change freely.Those dungeons are reset every twenty-four hours, and they are filled with
strange monsters, deadly or non-fatal traps, and foreign brave men step into
them or complete trials and walk out.Either die in it, swallowed by the dungeon reset effect, and the villagers of
the Guardian Village will never actively interfere.Pilgrims from outside have always been in an endless stream. Foreign travelers
who want to go home and brave men who want to realize their wishes have
embarked on the pilgrimage one after another.Their arrival will inject new vitality into the guardian village, bring
external materials, improve the lives of the villagers, and also bring
insights about the outside world, so that the closed village can know what is
happening outside.However, about a hundred years ago, the number of foreign tourists dropped
from the outside world gradually decreased. According to the few words left by
the pilgrims,It seems that several powerful principalities in the outside world, due to
some belief reasons, have erupted in long-term wars. The scale of the wars is
getting bigger and bigger, and other countries that tried to stay out of the
matter at the beginning are also involved.Because the science and technology trees of each island kingdom in the script
world are completely different, the form of war becomes extremely complicated.
Assassination infiltration, destruction behind enemy lines, large-scale
airship bombing, dispersing poisonous gas in the atmosphere to create
poisonous acid rain...The long war has destroyed the original social order, and the number of
powerful pilgrims has decreased.It seems that affected by this, the underground cities at the foot of the holy
mountain are gradually abandoned.Since then, the village has become a bit wrong. Many villagers have suffered
from premature senescence, declining before they are old, and they will be old
before they are 40 years old, and they look like 80 years old.By the generation of the village chief’s grandfather, even the longest-lived
people in the village can hardly live past thirty."For generations, we have also wanted to figure out the cause of this aging
disease and solve it once and for all,"The village chief sighed: "But as guardians of the holy mountain, we are not
allowed to step out of the scope of the holy mountain, nor can we enter the
holy mountain as pilgrims, accept trials, and make wishes...Ahem, by the way, fifty years ago, my father was just born not long ago. He
also heard my grandfather later mentioned that there was a powerful strange
monster who destroyed our top secret holy mountain gate in the dark.You guys should have seen the optical stealth devices in our village, right? "The players nodded, and on the way to the village chief’s house, they saw a
boxy, refrigerator-like large-scale optical camouflage device on a square. The
technical level was in sharp contrast with the surrounding medieval villages."Including the optical stealth device, our village has preserved a lot of
equipment and props that were given or abandoned by heroes of the past.
Although most of them are now abandoned, there were still many that could be
used fifty years ago. "The village chief said, "And fifty years ago, the senescence in our village
was slightly milder than it is now. The guards at the entrance to the holy
mountain have the average strength of some brave men."David and Hornheim exchanged glances. The guardians responsible for guarding
the sacred mountain naturally cannot even have the ability to defend
themselves.Although they are extremely weak now, they have to be wary with pitchforks and
swords when they encounter outsiders.But in their bloodline, there is still a trace of extraordinary power hidden."However, that monster easily broke our defense against the gate of the sacred
mountain, brutally killed the guards, violently damaged and stole a rock on
the gate of the sacred mountain,"The village chief said slowly: "After that rock was stolen, the gate of the
holy mountain no longer reacted to the key.Several dungeons affected by the sacred mountain have all failed and no longer
have a reset effect.We also don't know whether the aging effect of our village is related to that
rock.Of course, if you can retrieve the rock, it would be great. "The players looked at each other, the mission goal has been written to kill
the beast, complete the commission, it is naturally impossible not to
complete.Hohenheim nodded and asked, "Where is that monster beast now?""Northwest, in an underground cave five kilometers away."The village chief added: "It should be there."Hornheim frowned slightly, "Should?""I don't know the details,"The village chief smiled bitterly: "In the past, our village could organize
patrols to inspect and patrol various underground cities.But now...you have seen it too, it is really powerless.The reset effect of those dungeons has long since disappeared, and has become
a nest for monsters, which is too dangerous for us.The only thing I know is the words left by my grandfather-that ‘giant monster
covered in shadow’ after stealing the rock, fled towards the underground cave
in the northwest. "Li Ang squinted his eyes and tapped his palm fingers on the wooden teacup
containing the warm tea.Several players seem to be silent and silently thinking, but in fact they have
already discussed it in the spiritual link of [Group Linking Heart].Hohenheim: [The polygraph spell on my body shows that he did not lie]David: [But there must be some concealment. For example, when it fell to the
cause of aging, his eyes flickered. 】Li Ang: [This should be normal. After all, from the perspective of breath
monitoring, this guardian race is a certain dark race. Whether it is long or
short life, it involves the core secrets of their race. Of course, it is
impossible to follow a group of outsiders. But this script world is really
malicious, letting a dark race be the guardian of the holy mountain...]Ambori: [Uh...what shall we do now? The defensive power of this village is
quite empty. Although there are three guards squatting outside the door who
think they are very concealed, we can easily sweep with these guards. How
about now, using Veritaserum or psychic-type spells to force the village chief
to speak additional content? 】Hohenheim: [I personally hold a conservative opinion. These people are the
guardians of the sacred mountain. Shooting against them may trigger some
mechanism, such as directly triggering thunder and lightning in the sky.
Moreover, based on past strategy experience, we are unlikely to use the method
of "deception and concealment" to get through. 】Ding Shinsi: [Cross the stage? 】Hohenheim: [It is to deliberately avoid the strategy route designed by the
system, and follow the text description of the task to complete the goal at a
minimum. For example, our current task is to "kill the beasts, complete the
entrustment of the guardian clan village chief, and get the key to the holy
mountain", we can go to the dungeon to kill a low-powered beast casually, coax
or threaten the village chief with violence. Entrust, get the key. At the text
level, we have completed the task requirements, but at the actual operation
level...some stealing behaviors may increase the difficulty of the task. 】Word games are an important part of the killing game. Don't play if you are
unhappy.Not only the system can set up word games to entrap players, but players can
also use loopholes in the text level to steal chickens and play slippery
(sometimes the behavior of stealing chicken and slippery is also part of the
strategy link).But now everyone is carrying out a difficult script task for players of the
first echelon, and there is no reason to take the risk and seek further away.The players quickly negotiated the decision in the spirit link, and Hohenheim
stood up first and said to the village chief: "Yes.As pilgrims, we have no reason to refuse the trial.But before that, we want to know the shape of the rock at the gate of the holy
mountain. "The village chief stunned, "Huh?""What we have to do is retrieve the rock that repaired the gate, right?"Hohenheim said calmly: "Suppose we finally find the'huge monster covered in
shadow' and successfully kill it, but what if it lives in a ruin full of
rocks?If we know the identifiable specific features of that sacred mountain rock,
things will be much easier. ""Oh, that's right."The village chief stood up and walked into the next room. After a while, he
brought out an old tawny scroll that was at least several decades old, with a
rock painted on it.The rock is a long strip, pure white, with a complex pattern resembling a
cloud.The village chief explained: "The rock at the gate of the holy mountain is
indestructible and emits a faint light in the dark and non-light environment.
If it is not abandoned in a corner, you can definitely find it."Hornheim carefully observed it, and took the scroll from the village chief,
"It's not too late, we will set off now."The village chief paused with his palms rubbing back and forth, "So fast?""Complete the trial as soon as possible, and we can go on the pilgrimage as
soon as possible."Hohenheim smiled and did not explain that the mission time limit for this
phase is 18 hours.It is very possible that the scope of the dungeon will be very wide, or that
the monster is not in the dungeon in the northwest, but in other areas,Players need to travel farther to track and lock to their location."Oh, uh, then I wish you all the brave sirs a smooth journey."There were many pauses in the village chief's words, his eyes flickering, and
he stopped talking."what happened?"Li Ang asked: "If you have anything to help, you can just say it. We are very
helpful.""No, it's nothing."In the end, the village chief swallowed the words without saying anything. He
stood at the door and watched the players walk towards the head of the
village.After the player walked out of the village entrance, the entire village was
once again covered by optical camouflage, assimilated into an ordinary rocky
scene at the foot of the mountain."Let’s go. This time the system gives a time limit of 18 hours. If there is no
monster or rock in the dungeon to the northwest, we will have to search a wide
range again~www.mtlnovel.com~Hornhai Mu retracted his gaze to the village and
said lightly.With a clear direction and goal this time, everyone's speed suddenly
increased.Ding Shinji drove the Kui Niu mech, activated the pulley mode, and dragged the
people sitting on the sled to the front.As the wind whizzed along the way, other people continued to discuss the topic
just now in the spiritual link, and in addition to the group's heart
technique, Li Ang released another spiritual link to Liu Wuxiao.Li Ang: [It's me. I opened a private channel, and other people could not hear
the discussion between the two of us. Just now I noticed that after the
village chief took out the picture of the rock at the gate of the holy
mountain, your spiritual link fluctuated...]Liu Wuliu interrupted: [I have seen the cloud-like pattern in the middle of
that rock. 】Li Ang: [Have you seen? where? 】Liu Wuluo: [Special Affairs Bureau, Abnormal Society, Database. 】
