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Chapter 259 Preliminary Exploration of the Palace
Control the game character to wander around the platform, looking for clues.

Walking and walking, the gray stone platform, which was originally empty in front of me, suddenly appeared a huge building looming like a phantom!
It was a building that looked like a palace. The front alone was hundreds of meters wide, and it was located on a pedestal more than 20 meters high. In the center of the palace was a huge gray-black gate that was more than ten meters high. It is made of gray and white stones with the main tone.

There are three platforms and countless steps in front of the palace and on the left and right sides.

On both sides of these steps, there are nine curved triangular stone arches and stone pillars that decrease in size from large to small, about [-] meters high, like a fan frame, with a unique sense of ceremony.

Brief summary.

This is a grand and majestic stone palace!

Leaving aside the palace and the stone arch itself, which are still unclear for the time being, each step in front of you is more than half a meter high, and there are at least hundreds of steps in a rough count, and the bottom step is just around the corner. Under Ze's eyelids!Less than ten centimeters!
"This... just now there was nothing."

Shocked, Zhou Ze pressed the pause button of the game, analyzing whether this looming palace is real or a false illusion?How did it appear out of nowhere.

"Mirage?"

No, no, it can be seen so close, it should be real.

In the center of the huge platform with four stone pillars, there is actually a hidden palace that cannot be seen without getting close... If this palace really exists, is this the palace that is the civilization relic to be explored in the main line of the game?

Probably.

Tentatively manipulating Guo Jiuri to take a step forward, stepping up the palace steps that seem vague and real.

footsteps fall.

Stepped on the half-meter-high gray-white steps.

In an instant, the hazy palace that was looming in front of him suddenly became solid, as if the illusory atmosphere shrouded in the air completely dissipated, revealing the real scene behind it.

"Sure enough, this palace can only be seen when you get close, and the sense of illusion disappears after stepping on the stairs."

Zhou Ze breathed a sigh of relief. Although he couldn't understand how the palace was hidden, even knowing the uniqueness of it was far better than not knowing.

Turning the angle of view, he glanced at the huge palace above the stairs.

Want to go in now and advance the main line?Or should I level up again outside to make Guo Jiuri's combat power stronger before entering the palace?

With Zhou Ze's steady personality, he tends to level up first. Guo Jiuri's current combined combat power is only about [-]. There may be traps or monsters hiding inside the civilization relics.

Saved a file in situ.

Let Guo Jiuri camp on the stone platform and collect some dry firewood nearby to spend the night.

After collecting firewood, there is still a period of time before it gets dark, so I just go out to hunt and collect crystal nuclei to improve my strength.

Another two hours of tossing.

it's dark.

Go back to the tent and light the bonfire.

On the spacious stone platform, Guo Jiuri took off his blood-stained clothes and threw them aside while roasting the monster meat. He has almost adapted to the living environment in the rainforest now.

Night has just come.

There was a strange noise in the dark night sky.

Buzzing noise.

Before Zhou Ze could check what happened, he heard a bang!
A giant spear as thick as a thigh and five or six meters long fell from the sky, and pierced Guo Jiuri, who was sitting in front of the fire to warm himself up. too late.

Zhou Ze in front of the screen was also dumbfounded.

what happened to this?

He didn't rush to read the file, but observed what happened after Guo Jiuri was pierced by a spear and died...

Sure enough, as expected, the culprit hiding in the night and throwing the iron spear, a half-human mechanical creature with a black body like ink, landed on the stone platform after Guo Jiuri was stabbed to death.

The upper body of this mechanical creation is a humanoid structure, with a head, upper body and arms, but the lower body is a disc-shaped aircraft, very much like a UFO.

The width of this aircraft is more than ten meters, and the humanoid mechanical creation with only the upper body is more than two meters high (note, this is only the upper body), and there are hundreds of pitch-black iron spears erected around the aircraft.

At this moment, the humanoid mechanical creature stretched out a giant black hand, and pulled out the iron spear that was stuck on Guo Jiuri's body.

Its eyes dotted with jet-black crystals shone brightly. It picked up the bloody Guo Jiuri and threw it away. The parabola should have been thrown out of the range of the stone platform, and protruded from the bottom of the aircraft like a cleaning tool. The device cleaned up the blood and water residue on the ground in just ten seconds...

This... This airship machine is specially designed to clean stone platforms?
"I haven't seen it during the day, so it's probably only dispatched at night. It seems that we can't stay on the platform at night."

No wonder there was no dirt on the stone platform, and the creatures in the tropical rainforest were unwilling to approach it. There was such a reason.

It is not difficult to see from the attack power of the mechanical creation that knocked out Guo Jiuri in seconds, the civilized relic may be very developed, and there may be similar mechanical creations inside the relic, so we must be careful.

The third time to read the file.

Back when night had not yet fallen.

Ask Guo Jiuri to set up a tent elsewhere away from the stone platform.

Sure enough, the fourth night passed safely, and the mechanical creature did not attack Guo Jiuri who had set up a tent outside the platform.

On the fifth day, Zhou Ze manipulated Guo Jiuri to hunt crystal nuclei near the platform.

The whole day of thrilling and exciting hunting made Guo Jiuri almost exhausted, but the harvest was also huge. The crystal nucleus strengthened the physical strength of nearly a thousand combat powers. Now Guo Jiuri's physical strength is higher than that of Guda!
With a physical strength close to [-] points, it can be called a Doll Gundam!
Don't ask why Zhou Ze only strengthened Guo Jiuri's physical strength. The main reason is that his awakening ability is more suitable for melee combat, and the energy demand is not too high. The focus is on mental strength, but the energy crystal core cannot be strengthened. Spirit.

It can only greatly improve Guo Jiuri's melee combat ability, and it is more cost-effective to rely on thinking acceleration to assist in combat.

With a bug-level auxiliary ability of more than ten times the speed of thinking, it is a good choice to turn him into a sharp melee fighter.

The sixth day is another day to hunt for crystal nuclei.

Perhaps it was because he had hunted down almost all the carnivorous monsters nearby. Today, he only strengthened his combat power by 600, that is, he could not hunt the crystal cores of seven or eight monsters.

During the period, Zhou Ze also ran into the multi-tailed python that caused him to read the file for the first time.

But the difference is that Guo Jiuri's fighting power is no longer what it used to be. He rushed straight up and pulled out the body of the multi-tailed python from under the soil, and then stabbed the more fragile head of the multi-tailed python in the stalemate. , successfully revenged.

The crystal nucleus dug out from the head of the multi-tailed python is much larger than other monsters, and it is the size of a fist. After absorbing it, it has strengthened its combat power by 240!It is four times the effect of the crystal nucleus of the three-eyed monster.

the seventh day.

Considering that Guo Jiuri's combat power is not weak, the combined combat power is close to [-], and there are not many monsters near the platform.

Zhou Ze chose to try to step into the ruins of the palace in the center of the platform.

Go in early in the morning and try to leave before night, so as not to be killed by the mechanical airship throwing the iron spear again.

Climb the steps leading to the remains of the palace.

The size of this stone palace is temporarily unknown, but the stone platform alone is nearly the size of a football field, and the two gray and black giant gates standing under the stone arch in front are 12 meters high. It is five meters wide and has strange lines carved on its surface.

Zhou Ze shook his perspective and looked down at the smooth gray and white stone bricks on the ground, but found that these stone bricks were not exactly the same as the platform below, and there were more fine black and red lines between the brick joints.

This gray-black door is in the shape of a round arch, with one left and one right symmetrical. The door frame is engraved with patterns like snake scales, and the door is divided into several areas with very complicated symmetrical patterns engraved on them.

There are vortices like conch shells, and special patterns like monster horns, bones, etc. There are a pair of unknown stone monster heads holding two metal rings on both sides of the center, which are somewhat similar to the lion heads on the ancient gates of China. Knocker.

Guo Jiuri stood in front of the huge stone gate, with a difference in height, just like a little squirrel standing outside the door of a human house.

Walk up to the giant door and interact with it.

Put your hands on the metal knocker of the two monster heads of the giant door, take a deep breath, and muster all your strength to pull it hard.

The giant gate didn't move at all?
Instead, Guo Jiuri slipped and landed on the door.

This is too embarrassing!
Isn't more than 2000 points of physique not enough to open this door?

Zhou Zezheng wondered if Guo Jiuri's strength was too weak, and when he needed to level up again to open the door, he found that there was a button to push the door in the options, and he was stunned for a moment, realizing that the door might need to be pushed...

Change pull to push.

Sure enough, this time the huge stone gate moved, and a thick creaking sound was gradually pushed open a gap.

"This shit is really misleading. Since it's a door push, it's okay to pretend to be a pull ring."

Whispering and scolding the builder of this palace in his heart, Zhou Ze raised his vigilance even more, and was ready to manipulate Guo Jiuri to activate his thinking acceleration at any time to avoid the danger from behind the stone gate.

A monster popping out from behind the door or triggering some dangerous mechanism is within his consideration.

The giant stone door creaked and was pushed open. Under the support of Guo Jiuri's arms, a "narrow gap" more than half a meter wide and suitable for one person's passage was quickly opened. There is no way, this giant door is really too big .

Through the gap, Zhou Ze shook his perspective and carefully observed the scene behind the door.

Different from the clean and dust-free exterior, the inside of the palace was tattered and covered with dust. Many stone walls and stone pillars were dumped on the ground, and broken stones of different sizes were scattered all over the place.

There are many large damaged holes on the top of the palace to pour sunlight, so that the interior of the palace without a light source will not be dark.

In addition to the stone pillars that supported the entire palace without collapsing, there were also some metal artifacts that were strangely shaped for unknown purposes, and most of them collapsed together with the gravel.

The visible area of ​​the outer layer of the entire palace is close to half a football field, and there is a circular door opening leading to a deeper place in the deepest part. As for more, it is impossible to see clearly from outside the door.

In short, no danger was found.

"This dilapidated scene does look like a ruin."

As soon as Guo Jiuri was manipulated to take a step, the acceleration of thinking was automatically triggered.

Under the slow motion of twenty or thirty times slower, Zhou Ze could clearly see that there were dozens of hidden small holes on both sides of the top of the giant stone gate. The positions and angles were all different, and dense needles spewed out from the inside!Like a pear blossom rainstorm sweeping over.

"trap……"

Fortunately, Guo Jiuri was able to subconsciously turn on the acceleration of thinking, otherwise this save file would be finished.

Not only did Zhou Ze not panic, but he secretly rejoiced that there were traps here. If there were no traps in the ruins of the palace, he would feel uncomfortable, and the current level of traps is not worth fearing for him.

Forced to stimulate the body's functions with the little energy left, he hid behind the door at a speed far exceeding the normal state.

The intense and crisp sound of tinkling rang out intensively.

Most of them were pierced on the huge stone gate.

A second later, the ground was covered with fine silver-white needles, and a lot of them were stabbed on the extremely solid stone door, which shows how terrifying the penetrating power of these silver needles is.

"This trap is very primitive."

Zhou Ze glanced over the acupuncture needles on the ground, and found that these acupuncture needles were somewhat different from ordinary silver needles, they were smaller and sharper, and the tips were hard to see with the naked eye, while the tail spines contained inverted needles. hook.

Once this kind of needle is stuck in the body, it will take a lot of trouble to pull it out.

Of course, with the penetrating force of these needles, there is no need to consider the problem of pulling out. If you didn't dodge just now, you would not be tied into a hedgehog, but shot into a sieve.

After confirming that there was no subsequent acupuncture attack, Guo Jiuri stepped into the gate of the ruins again, bent down, picked up a silver-white needle from the ground, and used the breath of the abyss to see the material of these needles.

[Barbed Poison Needle: A stimulating trap poison needle, coated with an unknown special poison. 】

Well... the message is concise.

But knowing that the needles were poisoned might come in handy.

Ask Guo Jiuri to put away all the silver-white poisonous needles that can be collected on the ground, and wrap them in cloth strips. Maybe he will use them when he encounters monsters. At that time, he can also play with a pear blossom rainstorm needle. It is a poison attribute attack.

With the lessons learned from the past, Zhou Ze didn't dare to let Guo Jiuri go directly into the ruins.

Leave the ruins, go outside and collect a large stone to bring it up.

Zhou Ze was going to let Guo Jiuri play throwing stones to ask for directions.

Grinding all the road ahead with stones can effectively solve the problem of trigger mechanism.

Whoosh whoosh! !

Sure enough, when the stone was crushed to an area in the center of the palace, the sound of the mechanism starting sounded.

Dozens of pitch-black thick and long spikes formed a solid arc and fell from the top!It crashed to the ground, each spike was as thick as an arm, and the speed of the fall was close to that of a bow and crossbow, and the violent vibration even made the picture tremble violently.

After waiting for three or four seconds, the dozens of pitch-black spikes that felled slowly retracted to the dome of the palace, and the stone baffle covering the mechanism was turned over and disappeared.

This is obviously a dangerous mechanism that will be triggered cyclically.

Zhou Ze cast his eyes on the gray stone floor tiles hit by the spikes, and found that the indestructible gray stones had been pierced with a faint shallow pit, and he had a general understanding of the power of this trap in his heart.

As long as it is touched by any pitch-black spikes, it is impossible to escape the fate of being pierced into meat skewers, and a heavy armored tank may not be able to withstand this skewer.

(End of this chapter)