Exiled from the underworld, I am still fearless

"One day, we will meet again in another dungeon world. At that time, I hope everyone will not forget that we used to be teammates who fought together."

The truck travels alone in the wilderness.

Zhang Shan's voice was not loud, but it was clearly heard by everyone.

As Mengxin who entered the dungeon world for the first time, until now, Zhang Shan didn't know how many players were still fighting in the Tower of Infinity.

Each time is a completely different world, with different original residents, different natural environments, and different game rules. If this is the case, the core concept is equivalent to connecting countless games together to form a complete infinite journey. .

The experience so far has proved the importance of teammates in a copy world.

But above teammates, there is a more precious fetter.

That's right, it surpasses the so-called "community of interests" and the "system teaming function". It can span countless copy worlds and always exist.

Its name is called [Friends].

What Zhang Shan said to everyone at the end gave the meaning of this precious bond even more importance.

Although everyone wants to be the first to clear the level, there may be something more worth maintaining than a certain victory.

His thoughts are very frank. On the basis of ensuring that the first player who clears the level is a member of his own team, it doesn't matter who the lucky one is. Therefore, he will keep the key for the time being, so everyone can rest assured.

Of course, everyone has different values, he just expressed his thoughts.

In the cab, Ash held the steering wheel with one hand and straightened his hat with the other.

"Third brother, you don't need to say it. If you and Sister Hill didn't dislike me, I wouldn't be able to go so far. Say third brother, third brother forever. We will always be brothers. Since we are brothers, whoever wins is the same."

Misaka Mikoto quietly leaned against the iron railing of the rear compartment.

She stared at the key in Zhang Shan's hand with a dazed look in her eyes.

"Even if you give me the key, I'm afraid I won't have the courage to insert it in the end, so please everyone."

Later, Liuhua also said that there was no problem.

Liuhua belongs to the kind of person who has no scheming, and the end point is unknown now. In this case, there is no unnecessary internal conflict at all.

As long as someone in the team can get the final victory, everyone will get some side rewards.

For her, that was enough.

As for Kagura, her main mission has been permanently stuck in the second stage, and she can only unconditionally assist the team.

Putting the key in his pocket carefully, Zhang Shan roared firmly.

"Okay, our goal is, the desert lake!"

"Ow!"

The truck is galloping all the way in the wilderness.

With previous combat experience, even if it gets dark this time, their full formation is fearless.

Night falls
Fight
Sun rise
Stop and rest
The evening of the second day.

At an unimaginable speed, they finally drove the truck to a position less than 10 kilometers away from the [Desert Lake].

As early as noon, they found a road.

The scenery on both sides is very desolate. As the distance from the target gets closer, there are more and more yellow sand in the field of vision.

Fortunately, this desert is not the harsh death desert, but a gravel desert with relatively flat landform and hard weathered sand.

And, the highway under the wheel has never been cut off.

During the high-intensity driving in the past few days, Ash's voice was also a little hoarse. He yelled while sitting in the cab while driving.

"Third brother, it should be this desert, but I don't know where the lake is."

Zhang Shan kept looking ahead.

"It should still be ahead, slow down the speed first."

"Row."

Now that the key to unlock the World-Exterminating Core has been obtained, this desert is likely to be the location of the final mission.

If this is the case, then players who have obtained other keys will definitely gather here.

It has been nearly ten days since the dungeon was opened, and they must be the best players to be able to kill here in this extreme living environment, so they must not relax their vigilance.

"Liuhua, you have a good view from your position, pay more attention to your surroundings."

"Oh."

"Can you see clearly like that, take off the blindfold."

"This is to seal the true eye of my evil king"

"Wait until the copy is over before sealing it."

"Forehead"

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The road in the desert seems to stretch endlessly.

Gradually, the terrain on both sides of the road began to become uneven, and several huge rock hills appeared.

"Zhang Shan, look over there!"

Following Liuhua's voice, Zhang Shan looked to the right.

Under a rocky mountain in the distance, a building half-buried under sand and gravel appeared. Looking forward, there are more and more abandoned buildings of this kind on both sides of the road.

Seeing the ruins among the gravel, Zhang Shan thought.

Sure enough, this was once a city, or a military base.

Soon, they found a sign erected by the side of the road with four large characters written on it.

【Ilanka City】

That's right, this name just corresponds to the [Elanka Desert Lake] in the main mission.

Obviously, everything that used to exist here served the construction of [The Core of Extinct World].

Unlike the previous towns, the ruins in the center of this desert can deeply feel the meaning of the end of the world. The glorious civilization of mankind has now become a tomb.

The truck didn't stop and continued to move forward.

There is no need to look at the ruins, they just need to go all the way to the deepest point, which coincides with the desert lake on the map.

"Crench!"

I don't know how long it took, but with Ash's brake, the truck drifted sideways and stopped.

Before his eyes, a spectacular scene appeared.

The road was cut off, and there was a cliff at the end. At the same time, the sound of water was heard in my ears.

This cliff is not too high, only 30 meters from the bottom. Below the cliff, there is a vast light green water surface.

Seeing this scene, Sitting in the driver's seat, Ash exclaimed.

"I'm sorry, is this... an underground lake?"

Judging from the water level, this can indeed be called an underground lake, but now the lake is in the open air, like a huge crater.

If you insist on describing it, the whole picture is like the shooting scene of the crater in "Your Name".

Looking around, the shape of this "crater" is a regular hexagonal shape. Judging by common sense, this is absolutely impossible to be formed naturally, but artificially built such a huge desert in the center of the desert city. lake.

Standing on the cliff, everyone looked at the vast lake below.

Soon, Zhang Shan heard the system prompt sound.

【Ding!Complete the fourth stage of the main task and get rewards, 200 points and 1000 unlimited coins. 】

【Ding!The fifth stage of the main task has been refreshed, please go to the task list to view it. 】

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Zhang Shan knew that because his level had already reached level 10, and the points required for each level up had changed from 100 to 500, that's why he didn't level up.

Of course, this kind of thing doesn't matter to him now.

Standing on the truck, he quickly opened the task list to check.

[The fifth stage of the main task: Carry the key to unlock the core of the world, and arrive at the control center in the center of the desert lake. 】

control center?

Seeing the task prompt, Zhang Shan quickly closed the interface and looked up at the center of the lake carefully.

Sure enough, in the very center of the lake, there is a facility floating on the water, which looks like a mini island.

Observing carefully, Zhang Shan also noticed another thing. There was a cliff in front of them, and the lake was below the cliff, but there was a lowered entrance nearly [-] meters away from the cliff.

This entrance is connected to a bridge that crosses the lake and leads directly to the small island in the center of the lake.

"There's a bridge over there!"

After discovering the bridge, Zhang Shan immediately asked Ash who was sitting in the cab.

"Can you drive the car over the bridge?"

Ash observed from a distance.

"Although the bridge is very long, the deck seems a bit narrow. Even if trucks can pass through, I'm afraid that the bridge will be broken. Third brother, let's not take this risk and walk over with our legs."

Zhang Shan pondered for a while and felt that it made sense.

"Okay, get out of the car first."

Along the way, they didn't meet anyone else, including the distance from the bridge to the island, and they didn't find anything unusual.

From this point of view, they should be the first players to arrive here.

However, in the next second, Zhang Shan's naive thoughts were instantly slapped in the face.

"~~~~~~"

A clear and desolate flute sound broke the silence of the air, and it was heard by everyone at a very close distance.

The sudden sound of the flute immediately aroused Zhang Shan's vigilance, and he subconsciously clenched the hunter's dagger in his palm.

Hear the sound and look.

I saw a bleak man leaning against a protruding rock on the edge of the cliff.

Perhaps it was because of this person's natural state of mind that was integrated with nature. If it weren't for the sudden flute playing at this time, Zhang Shan would not have noticed that there was another person here.

"careful!"

Seeing a stranger, Misaka Mikoto, who was the first to jump out of the truck, immediately stood in front of everyone, staring at this man vigilantly.

The reason why Sister Pao was vigilant was that she saw the exclamation mark above the man's head.

Obviously, this man is also a player.

As game veterans, Ash and Zhang Shan basically had the same idea. The first reaction was not to observe this man, but to scan the surroundings carefully to see if there was an ambush.

However, apart from their truck, there were no other players nearby. The strange man in front of him was obviously a "lone wolf".

The sound of Qingyuan flute is still going on.

It was only now that Zhang Shan began to carefully observe the male player who had been guarding here long before they arrived.

This person is tall and slender, with long hair tied behind his head, his resolute facial features are sharp and angular, and a scar runs across the nasal bone under his eyes.

His upper body was wearing a blue samurai uniform with shoulders, and a smooth shoulder armor was worn on his left arm. At this time, he closed his eyes and played the flute, and a slender samurai sword was quietly inserted on the ground in front of him.

Looking at this man's attire, Zhang Shan's pupils gradually flickered in disbelief.

"Fuck? No way."

Afterwards, he turned his head to look at Ash with some uncertainty.

Sure enough, Ash and him at the moment are basically the same kind of ignorant.

"Third brother, is this?"

Undoubtedly, at this moment, both Zhang Shan and A Shi thought of the same person.

This person is.
At this time, Xia Xier, who was not afraid of anything, raised his eyebrows and shouted at the man with curly hair.

"Hey, despicable inferior creature, what are you doing here, is there something wrong with your head?"

The sound of the flute stopped abruptly.

The man with the curly hair still didn't open his eyes.

Facing the pretentious silence, Xia Xier immediately had the idea that the other party was pretending to be B.

The beautiful angel's face gradually sank, and she called out the golden holy sword and held it in her hand.

"Dare to ignore me, do you want to die?"

These four words of Shahir have completely declared his position.

The man with the curly hair inserted the flute back into his waist, and then finally opened his eyes.

His deep voice came like the wind.

"Death is like the wind, always with me."