King from scratch

"Exclusive top-secret high-definition treasure map, sell at a loss, buy it and earn it, don't miss it when you pass by!"

"Eat and drink well, please—"

"The latest armor, fully enclosed form, to ensure that you can return safely from every adventure!"

"The goods that have just been dug out from the ruins, the state of total loss, the challenge of luck and eyesight!"

"Aizhijin's latest equipment for sale is a perfect replica. It is of high quality and low price. You can buy the latest equipment of Aizhijin here for only one-tenth of the price of Aizhijin! What are you waiting for?"

"Form a team, bring your own transportation, experience is preferred, don't bother Xiaobai."

"One-day tour of the ruins underground is about to go, the location of this trip..."

With warm greetings and dense crowds, this market spontaneously formed by players is much more lively than the temporary shop of Aizhijin next door.

Eat, drink and have fun, these four words constitute the main theme of the market.

As a race that doesn't need to eat, the players' love for food is amazing.

A small number of stalls in this market sell various snacks - the atmosphere is at odds with the surrounding group of stalls that seem to be enthusiastic like pyramid schemes.

"So, where are we going next?" Embers' eyes jumped in the market, sometimes staying on things that made him feel novel, and his mouth was not idle: "I think we can go directly to the ruins. Interesting, but there are so many interesting things in this world, do you know that feeling when you wake up and suddenly find that the whole world has changed? New things come out one after another, but you have to get used to it..."

He Xingwen bought all kinds of snacks from the vendors at the food stalls with credit points.

Hamburgers are nothing, this kind of snack with no technical content has long been reproduced by players, and players have even researched various flavors based on it.

What is really amazing is the pastry made from a different world of crops. It has a variety of shapes, rich taste, and can be matched with various condiments. It is simply the king of fast food.

The fast food here refers to all kinds of snacks that can be eaten directly. Perhaps because there is no sense of hunger, players are not interested in studying staple foods, but are more interested in studying various snacks.

He Xingwen stuffed these snacks into Embers' hands, and the long speech disappeared from his ears.

He Xingwen was able to continue walking along the market in silence, and randomly stuffed Embers with a bunch of snacks when he was about to finish eating, so as to prolong the quiet time.

"Treasure map?" He Xingwen stopped at the booth selling treasure maps.

As soon as the player looked at the fat sheep, his tongue burst into a lotus flower: "This is the first time? Don't know about the treasure map? Let me briefly introduce it to you. The treasure map is the place that the player records when exploring the ruins. You Just follow it, and you're sure to find something."

He Xingwen was a little puzzled: "Then why didn't they dig it themselves? And leave the opportunity to others?"

The other party restrained his exaggerated tone and expression, and explained: "Some are because the surrounding environment is too bad to support them to continue exploring, and some are because they have other things to do and don't have time to check these suspicious points one by one. , so there are these treasure maps.”

"So, there may not be treasures, right?" Emboss interjected enthusiastically, "Then you are lying. And even though you have said so much, who knows if you just scribbled on these treasure maps? Will anyone really buy this thing?"

He Xingwen stuffed the snacks to Embers, and after successfully shutting him up, he quickly took a step away from the stall before the stall owner's face became even more ugly.

"How?" He Xingwen walked around the bazaar, and said to He Tong in amazement: "Some people formed a team to explore the ruins, and some went to the ruins to engage in tourism, they really can play with everything. "

He Tong: "It's very lively."

Embers swallowed the food in his mouth: "So you just want to take a look around to see the situation? You are so strange."

He said it as if he wasn't surprised at all.

He Xingwen ignored him and continued to talk to He Tong: "Are you interested?"

He Tong shook his head, thought for a while, then fixed his eyes on the booth not far away and said, "It's quite interesting there."

He Xingwen glanced at the stall he was looking at. It was a stall selling wreckage dug out from the ruins. This stall was similar to gambling stones. The products were all covered with a thick layer of dust and sold at a uniform price. Depending on the luck of the players and the Pick with eyesight.

The bet is the player's mentality of buying an artifact in case.

After all, you can guess without even thinking about it. Those wreckage must have been sifted by the stall owner himself, and what is left is what the stall owner thinks is rubbish.

But even so, the traffic of this stall is still amazing.

He Xingwen has no interest in gambling, but there can only be one reason for He Tong to say this.

After all, the "interesting" of intelligent life is also roughly equivalent to "valuable". Cold data will not produce irrational evaluations due to emotional fluctuations, unless it has other values.

He Xingwen was a little surprised: "Is there really an 'artifact' in this pile of garbage?"

He Tonggubo was not surprised: "There are real treasure maps in the pile of treasure maps just now." He gestured to the booth where the wreckage was being picked up bustlingly: "There is a technological product that is still working there."

Technological products that can still function are basically equivalent to artifacts for players.

To be able to withstand the impact of the devastating disaster at the beginning, most of the things preserved in the ruins have the most basic point: extremely strong or with extremely high-strength protective devices.

The ability to have these two characteristics proves that it is by no means an ordinary object.

Intelligent beings wouldn't cover a bowl with bulletproof glass unless the bowl could produce unlimited rice.

Embers swallowed the food in his mouth, looked seriously at the stalls in the distance, then turned his head to look at He Tong, and finally said to He Xingwen: "I think this journey will become very interesting."

"Are you going to buy it and take a look? I haven't seen anything from the Salfa Federation. I heard that they have developed 'science'? Tell me, this word is really strange. Now look, this 'science' It seems very powerful, after they disappeared, so many people came here one after another to hunt for treasure..."

He Xingwen stuffed him with snacks, gagged his mouth again, and then shook his head at He Tong: "Let's go, let's go to the ruins."

There was a sudden exclamation from the lively stall behind him, and the players gathered quickly, talking about the scientific product that could be activated.

A new lucky person is born, and perhaps another great god will appear among the players, who will write his legendary story in the game.

But this has nothing to do with He Xingwen.

For players, in this game that has just started on the right track, there are countless adventures, colorful plots and hidden missions, unique dungeon settings and daily missions.

But for planning...

The joys and sorrows of human beings are not common, I just think they are noisy.

Gan, if it wasn't so easy to fall off the horse, I really want to play games.

After leaving the player gathering place, the surroundings returned to silence.

The scope of the ruins is too large, and players who used to only pick up garbage on the ruins have now gone deep under the ruins, so that the ruins outside the gathering place have returned to their proper style of painting.

Collapsed buildings, sinking ground, and metal buildings were poured into strange shapes because of the huge impact at that moment. Without the road cleared by the player, the difficulty of walking on the ruins instantly increased.

Some collapsed buildings rise abruptly, while some ruins are only concealed. If you step down, you will fall directly into a natural trap and die instantly.

So it is not difficult to understand why there are so many protective equipment in the market.

Because it is not safe to pick up garbage in this ruins, on the contrary, the ruins are full of dangers.

"Looking at the situation of this ruin, they encountered a terrible existence at that time. No wonder there is no one here. For weak humans, this is simply an irresistible natural disaster..."

It is impossible to be quiet. After eating all kinds of snacks that He Xingwen bought, Embers quickly returned to his chatty nature, talking non-stop when no one was paying attention.

God knows where he got so much to say?It's almost like not speaking in 1 years, so you have to seize the opportunity to talk endlessly.

"Oops..." As he spoke, Embers encountered a natural trap on the ruins and fell into the pit with his foot on the ground.

He Xingwen, who was walking in silence, stopped and breathed a sigh of relief for the long-lost silence.

The heavy falling sound is still going on. I don’t know where this trap leads. Under the dark hole, there are steel and steel, and you can vaguely see the appearance of various wastes piled up below. more terrifying monsters.

But if you think about it carefully, there should be no existence more terrifying than an undead creature like Embers.

Worried about the other party's safety, it is better to worry about whether the ruins below have been smashed by him.

He Xingwen had a clear idea, so he walked again.

Sure enough, just as He Xingwen took a few steps, Embers miraculously appeared beside him again.

"I observed it from below. The space is quite large. Let's go down here to see what's going on inside the ruins?"

He Xingwen stopped, regretting that he could not get rid of this noise polluting machine in time.

"Come on, come on, I have to go down anyway, this hole is here, isn't it just right?"

Embers turned his neck left and right to make sure there were no other intelligent creatures around, and calmly took his head off his neck...

He Xingwen's eyes drifted over.

Embers hugged his head and winked at him: "I'll show you the way, you just follow my head."

Then the opponent jumped out of the hole, leaving his head behind.

It... Oh, no, he floated around He Xingwen: "Let's go, how are you going to get off? If you just jump off, you have to pay attention to safety. Although I'm fine, other people may die if they jump off, but It doesn't matter if you're dead, but it might be a bit troublesome to fight the corpse, but if you don't mind that the organs are not original, I can use other things instead..."

"No thanks."

He Xingwen took a deep breath, and opened his skill list - he didn't forget that he was still wearing a player template. Although this thing is easy to fall in front of players, it doesn't have such a skill in front of strange unknown creatures like Enbos. kind of worry.

He Xingwen used the druid's [catalysis] skill.

Seeds germinate on the ruins. The ruins are not land in the conventional sense. Strictly speaking, they are a strange combination of steel and bricks under the impact of external forces.

But this world doesn't talk about science. Druids are the children of nature. Even the ruins made of steel and bricks can germinate the green of life.

My head chattered endlessly: "Wow, you are a druid? No, although I have never seen a druid, but a druid should not be like you, right?"

He Xingwen really wanted to ask what "I am like this" is, but considering the other party's non-human speaking characteristics, in order to prevent himself from accidentally killing him after hearing the answer, He Xingwen swallowed the doubt back.

The vines extended downward, weaving long stairs over the overgrown obstacles, sinking into the dark depths.

Small yellow flowers bloomed on the edge of the stairs, hanging softly at one end, embellishing the cyberpunk-like ruins with soft life colors.

He Xingwen and He Tong walked down the "stairs". The vines covered the dangerous sharp protrusions, and the green spread on the steel, quickly covering the area.

"The vitality of this thing is so strong," said with his head floating around He Xingwen, "It's green everywhere, to be honest, I think it's a bit bad..."

He Xingwen automatically blocked his chatter. On the way to the bottom of the "stairs", he took time to look at the skills of the undead profession.

He didn't pay much attention to this profession, because apart from the last skeleton army, the other skill names of this profession are a bit difficult to understand.

But after meeting Embers, He Xingwen became interested in it.

The operation of taking his head off his body really showed him off.

He Xingwen's gaze flicked across a row of [Corpse], [Life Medium], [Limb Manipulation], [Soul Slice] skills, and he always felt that the names of each skill were carefully thought out and terrified.

Deep in the darkness, the green stretches wildly.

The headless corpse standing on the crumbling "ground" "watched" this scene, feeling a little distressed.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang in the depths of the darkness.

He Xingwen withdrew his attention from the skill list, looked at the darkness that was close at hand, and released a lighting technique at random.

The light in his hand illuminates the darkness.

As Embers said, the space below this "trap" is very vast, and the collapsed ruins form an intricate area here.

The steel solidified into a grotesque shape, with protrusions and spikes coexisting, a [-]-degree slope lay across the top, and a dense shattered edge lay on the bottom. At the moment when the Salfa Federation was destroyed, the huge impact made this place become It has become a magical reality scene with no rules at all and full of imaginative limits.

It was not prepared for intelligent creatures at the beginning of its birth. Looking from above, there was no place to stay in this area at all. The steel buildings and gravel rubble that solidified at the moment of the huge impact formed a strange balance here.

But the power exerted by outsiders may cause this balance to collapse at any time.

This is one of the most common problems that trash pickers run into when going beneath the ruins, an underground area that can collapse at any moment due to their actions.

But these things at the moment can't affect He Xingwen and the others.

Because a piece of green is spreading here, vines are growing wildly, climbing along the steel and building debris, constructing the dangerous ruins into a plant paradise.

Plants are occupying this space, and a thick green carpet is wrapping the ruins—disrupting the original balance, which is the source of the loud noise that He Xingwen and the others heard.

Something fell, causing a large area of ​​ruins to collapse, creating an echo in the area.

The head that was no longer flying around pondered for a few seconds: "Wow, if you plan to go shopping in this way, then I have to say, this is indeed a good idea, but I still have a small problem, druid Is it so powerful? This is beyond my understanding of normal intelligent creatures..."

He Xingwen habitually ignored his words and forgot this little reminder.

The other party didn't intend to get relevant feedback from He Xingwen, he became active again, broke the silence of the scene, and flew around near He Xingwen and the others: "Follow me, I'm here."

He took He Xingwen and the others towards his area.

Walk along the "green carpet" through the otherwise unsafe danger zone until you see the headless corpse standing on the crumbling "ground" above.

That's not the ground, but a connection between two broken buildings.

To be precise, the junction leads to the entrance of another collapsed building.

And Embers stood at this precarious connection.

The original appearance of the collapsed building has become difficult to discern.

It was completely destroyed, but for some reason, on a certain surface—I don’t know if it was the wall or the ceiling or what, in short, a huge hole appeared on a certain surface of the building, a A stone slab of unknown purpose connected it to the pile of ruins under He Xingwen's feet.

He Xingwen looked at the distance between them. The other party didn't know how to climb up. It was almost the top of the pile of ruins.

Embers' head flew up and landed on his neck again, turning back into a human form.

He greeted He Xingwen and the others: "Look, there is an entrance here. I don't know what's inside, but there must be something good." He pointed to his eyes, triumphantly: "I saw it."

He Xingwen doubted what he saw. After all, from the perspective of the undead, the good things he could see... should not be good things in the normal concept of intelligent creatures.

He Xingwen waited for a while, until the vines completely covered the ruins.

During the waiting time, He Xingwen asked a question by the way: "You didn't come here for it from the beginning, did you?"

Embers shook his head: "Of course not. I didn't know there was such a place until after I left the Canyon of the Undead. Besides, if there is any place on the mainland that is worthy of my special trip, it is only the magical kingdom."

He was happily dangling on it, and the stone slab supporting him underneath was also dangling happily.

"Do you know that magical kingdom?" Embers continued: "Yuan Gun Gun was brought by him. I have never seen such a strange creature as Yuan Gun Gun. I think it must be very interesting to bring the kingdom of Chuan Gun Gun. It's a pity. He won't let me go to the kingdom...huh?"

As Embers spoke, the dangling stone slab trembled violently, and fell from the joint, taking Embers standing on it with him.

He Xingwen looked at Embers who fell on the green carpet with a "slap".

He fell a bit badly, half of his body was flattened, and when he fell, his stomach was pierced by a sharp object lying on the rubble, and his stomach was almost ripped open, and his organs were all over the ground, but because there was no blood, So that this scene is not bloody.

But it's even more frightening. After all, not everyone has the opportunity to see the organs all over the floor rolling around and crawling back into their stomachs.

The flat Embers sat up, patted his body to make himself "fat" again, then opened his stomach and looked at the organs in his stomach, counting them one by one: "Large intestine, small intestine, spleen, Stomach... wait, where is my liver?"

He raised his head and looked around in place, as if he didn't want to understand where the lost liver went.

But he didn't dwell on it for long.

"It's not important anyway, forget it, wait until it grows by itself," Embers patted his stomach, stood up and said to He Xingwen and the others: "Look, this is what I said, organs will always run around, but it's okay , This kind of unimportant organ can just grow back, like the head and heart can’t, if you lose it, you have to find it quickly, otherwise the situation will become very strange.”

Ordinary people should not have this kind of distress. He Xingwen complained in his heart, deciding to accept the world of diverse intelligent creatures and not to evaluate the peculiar ecology of undead creatures.

They walked along the carpet towards the top of the ruins.

Embers is still concerned about this: "Are druids so strong? A single plant can occupy such a large space..."

He Xingwen glanced at the distance between the two ruins, and the vines stretched out the ladder, allowing them to safely walk through the suspension of the two ruins.

Behind the huge hole is a broken laboratory. Of course, the original appearance of the laboratory is almost indistinguishable now. The instruments and other furniture are fragmented, forming a closed space.

Maybe it used to have a door, but it sure doesn't have one now.

Countless sundries were piled up, and the door could not be found. In fact, He Xingwen, who stepped into this space, couldn't even tell whether they were on the ceiling or the wall.

There are only new ruins behind this opening, and there is no scene where people can smoothly enter the interior of the building as imagined.

Broken sundries and branches grew everywhere, blocking the space tightly, and only the entrance of the cave had a place to stay. The rest of the room was a dense "wall" made of steel and broken instruments.

"This seems to be a dead end." Embers took two steps forward, and with a stab, his heart, liver, spleen and lungs fell all over the ground.

He Xingwen retracted his drifting thoughts, and the light shone from his hand again, illuminating the front clearly.

It was indeed a dead end. A steel bar with unknown purpose and material was stuck into the ground—let’s call the thing under your feet the ground—and the steel bar ran through the entire room from top to bottom.

As for Embers, just one step down, he was just cut in half.

"Wow, the human body is really hard to use." On the head that was cut in half, Embers opened and closed his mouth: "Do you mind if I change to a more usable form?"

He Xingwen: "Please go ahead."

The organs and heads that had fallen all over the ground bounced together to form a human shape. With two hands, the human skin was peeled off from the top of the head, revealing the silver-white skeleton underneath.

Youlan's soul fire swayed in the skull's head, the opponent turned around and opened and closed his jaw: "Bones are much more useful than flesh."

"Be careful when you come down, this pillar is very sharp, why don't you get another plant to open the way?" Emboss turned around the steel bar and said to the "wall" in front of him: "It's tightly blocked. Really."

It was really tight, and it was hard for people to imagine how bad the situation was, but judging from the scene where the steel, bricks, and broken debris were solidified into a seamless scene, it was definitely the end of the world without a doubt.

He Xingwen clicked on the occupation list and poked into the skills of great scientists.

As an auxiliary profession, most of the skills of great scientists are non-aggressive, and as a science whose fundamental purpose is to study ether, most of their auxiliary skills are directly applied to ether.

For example, the skill "Ironization".

Waves appeared in the ether, spreading from He Xingwen's surroundings, and the solidified steel began to shake. No, to be precise, it was the building that started to shake.

The skeleton let out an exclamation, excitedly: "Wow~ what did you do?"