Artificer Adventure Guide
Chapter 2: Side quests sometimes yield unexpected rewards
"Boom——"
In his drowsy dream, Carl was suddenly awakened by a shaking sound.
He opened his eyes and the chitinous ceiling just broke and fell.
The heavy rock directly flattened the pool in the middle of the room, and the Mind Flayer larvae fell all over the floor and soon died.
The transformation chamber where Carl was was also hit, but fortunately, the rock was not big, and it helped him to break the transformation chamber and let him get out.
"Hey! Kid! Help me open this thing!"
Seeing Carl regain his freedom, the half-orc female warrior called him loudly.
With the idea of "one more person, one more combat power", Carl quickly ran to the opponent's transformation chamber.
Most of the Mind Flayer's things are made using a kind of biotechnology. These transformation chambers are like the things made by the directional mutation of the Zerg in "StarCraft", so ordinary people don't know how to operate them.
But as a mechanic, Carl's understanding of related fields is not limited to pure machinery.
After a quick inspection of the conversion chamber, Carl soon found an abnormal depression.
He stretched out a finger and pressed it carefully.
"Guji~"
Carl's finger sank in without any hindrance, and the sticky, slippery but very warm liquid wrapped around his finger, which made him have some bad associations.
But the conversion chamber did not open, as if the depression was not for opening and closing the chamber door.
This situation made the orcs in the conversion chamber look anxious, and their light green faces became even more emerald.
I don't know if it was because of the excessive excitement, but suddenly, a psychic wave spread from the orc's brain to the surroundings.
Carl was the first to be affected by the psychic wave, and a mixed emotion of anxiety and anger was captured by him.
Immediately afterwards, as if in response, psychic waves also appeared around Carl's brain.
At this moment, a psychic energy followed Carl's finger into the depression.
"Swish~"
The lid of the conversion chamber opened, and both the orcs and Carl were stunned.
Seeing that his method worked, Carl immediately walked towards the survivors next to him.
After rescuing two people in the same way, he said to the orc who was about to leave:
"There are still a few survivors here, wake them up too. No matter what happened here now, more people can give us more combat power!"
After standing there for a while, the orc gritted his teeth and joined the rescue.
Soon, all five people who were not killed by the ceiling were rescued. The orc slapped them left and right to wake them up.
Relying on her own muscles, the female orc warrior said to the people who had just woken up:
"We were captured by the mind flayer as a container for transformation. Now something happened in his territory. If you want to live, follow us!"
After that, she didn't care about these guys and dragged Carl out.
The door of the transformation room was also opened by psychic energy, but when Carl opened the door, what appeared in front of him was a corridor burning with flames.
"Bend over and walk! The smoke will choke you to death!"
Forcing Carl to bend over, the orcs ran skillfully, looking very experienced.
Carl followed closely and prepared to escape from here.
The group of seven people quickly passed through the burning corridor and came to a wider hall.
This hall looked like an enlarged version of the transformation room just now. There was a petal-shaped platform in the middle, and doors leading to other locations around it.
It can be seen that this mind flayer seemed to like this design very much.
On the petal-shaped platform in the center of the hall, several professionals of different races were locked up in things similar to transformation chambers.
But their conditions were far worse than those of Carl and others who were used to transform into mind flayers.
"Don't look! Go! Time is running out!"
Seeing that Carl seemed to want to save these people, the orcs acted a little anxious.
This group of people didn't have much fighting power at first glance. Instead of wasting time saving them, it would be better to find an exit and escape quickly.
The vibrations outside were getting less and less, and the orcs thought it was a sign that the battle was about to end.
If the enemy of the Mind Flayer won, everyone might still have a chance to survive, but if the Mind Flayer won, they would be in danger.
"You go first! I'll catch up with you soon!"
Seeing Carl's insistence, the orcs gritted their teeth, but finally left with the rest of the people.
Carl did save her, but she couldn't risk her life for Carl's kindness.
Watching the orcs and the other five people run into a certain passage, Carl quickly ran to the machines and saved these people as before.
"Plop!"
There were a total of eight cabins, but seven of them fell straight to the ground when the cabin door was opened, leaving only a tiefling girl who looked about the same age as Carl, panting and half-kneeling on the ground.
At this time, she was sweating like a pulp, and the big sweat slid down her fiery red skin, soaking her skin with a shiny luster.
The tiefling's unique devil tail hung limply from her lower back to the ground, looking listless.
The bra and shorts that barely covered the key parts were clinging to her body because of sweat.
The light-colored fabric was almost transparent against the dark skin.
With a faint tingling in his brain, Carl's mind emerged with a tiefling woman who once threatened the status of the leader of the 3D area.
But he quickly reacted and realized that now was not the time to think about it.
Inwardly cursing himself for being horny, Carl forced his neck to turn and look at the victims who were like vegetatives next to him.
But in the eyes of the tieflings, it seemed that Carl was puzzled about the state of these people, so she explained:
"This is the facility used by the mind flayers to make slaves. They have become empty shells without minds under the torture of psychic energy. Come this way! This is the exit!"
After explaining, she directly pulled Carl and walked towards another road different from the orcs.
"Do you know where the exit is?"
If the tiefling girl had said this when Carl was about to save people just now, the orcs might be happy to save her.
"Not everyone is willing to save a tiefling like you. The real exit is still some distance away from here. We must first find enough equipment to save our lives."
"I was awake when I was captured, so I remembered the uses of some rooms here."
As they spoke, the two had already arrived at the door of a room.
"This is the cleaning room. After the mind flayers capture people, they will clean and disinfect them. Low-value equipment will also be thrown here for processing. I hope there will be something useful here."
As she said this, the tiefling girl kicked the door.
"Hiss~"
But the quality of the mind flayer's buildings obviously exceeded her expectations, so she could only breathe in the cold air while enduring the pain, and froze in place.
"Most of the buildings here require the assistance of psychic energy to use. Let me do it."
Raising his hand, Carl recalled the feeling just now and activated his weak psychic energy again.
"Shh~"
The door of the cleaning room was opened, and various low-level armors and equipment were piled into two garbage mountains, quietly placed there.
And the moment the door opened, in the middle of the two garbage mountains, a strange creature that looked like a brain but had four beast claws turned around.
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