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~~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. 】