nyslfriends Chapter 162 The NPCs in the Game
Chapter 162 The NPCs in the Game
Three hundred meters...
Four hundred meters...
at last.
When there were still a few dozen meters of rope left, the tension stopped, and the rope was no longer being dragged into the water.
this means.
Karl is either somewhere he's staying, or he's on his way back, or he might have been swallowed whole by some enormous creature.
Richard didn't know.
My mind will uncontrollably make wild guesses.
It's really unusual that Karl could swim hundreds of meters out of a ten-acre pond.
"It should have reached the bottom."
Richard pretended to breathe a sigh of relief, patted Betty's head, and smiled:
"Don't worry, he's fine."
Betty nodded, but kept shrinking into Richard's arms, seemingly still a little worried.
Time ticked by, and more than half an hour passed, but the water remained calm and still.
If Karl doesn't return soon, the effects of the Spirit Fish Potion will wear off.
Just as Richard was hesitating about whether to take the initiative to drag the rope up...
The water surface suddenly began to shake violently, the rope was pulled taut, and a huge pulling force suddenly came from underwater!
Richard frowned and immediately gripped the rope, trying to pull the person up.
But just then...
The tension in the rope suddenly disappeared.
Followed by.
A figure radiating light suddenly burst out of the water, landing on the shore with a huge splash!
It's Karl!
He was soaking wet, his leather armor was covered in seaweed and mud, and his face was a little pale, but thankfully he was not missing any limbs.
Betty quickly ran over and handed him the towel she had prepared.
Carl took the towel, wiped the water off his face haphazardly, and took a few deep breaths before he could catch his breath.
Richard also went over. Although he was full of doubts, he did not ask immediately, but waited for Karl to catch his breath.
A while later.
Carl's breathing finally calmed down, and he took something out from the place where the rope was tied around his lower back and handed it to Richard.
"Sir, look at this."
Richard looked down and saw that Karl was holding a broken stone brick.
This stone brick is about the size of a palm, very hard, with a pitted surface covered with moss and scale.
The stone bricks are dark gray in color, exuding an ancient and weathered aura. The edges of the bricks are very irregular, as if they were broken off by something.
Some blurry patterns can be vaguely seen on it, which seem to be some kind of ancient script or pattern, but they are no longer recognizable.
Richard took the stone brick; it was icy cold to the touch, and he could even feel a very faint trace of magic within it.
Carl took a sip of the clean water Betty handed him and began to slowly recount everything he had seen underwater.
"The bottom was reached at a depth of about fifty meters, but it wasn't flat; it was a funnel-shaped slope."
"As I went downstream along the slope, the water pressure got stronger and stronger. Just when I was about to lose my temper, I saw many of these stone bricks lying scattered at the bottom."
"The Radiant Ring's brightness was limited, so I couldn't see very clearly, but I guessed it looked like the site of some kind of old building. I picked up a brick and quickly swam back."
...
Richard was suddenly startled!
"Remains!?"
"You mean there's an ancient architectural ruin at the bottom of this pool?"
Carl was still in shock, seemingly unable to believe what he had seen with his own eyes from 100 meters underwater.
"That should be true."
"Some of the stone bricks are arranged in a very regular pattern, which could not possibly be naturally formed, and there are also patterns carved by humans on them."
"It must be very old, it's all dilapidated and covered with a thick layer of mud, so you can't see what it used to look like."
Richard suddenly remembered the ten rock crabs that had gone down with Carl and quickly asked:
"Why didn't the rock crab come back with you?"
Mentioning the rock crab, Karl gave a wry smile and shook his head, saying:
"As I was swimming back, I encountered a huge school of fish, so densely packed like a storm, that it surrounded me."
"The rock crab couldn't see my hand gestures or keep up with my speed. It got separated from the school of fish and is probably still looking for me."
Richard frowned.
This is the drawback of forced domestication; it can only be controlled through gestures or commands, unlike animal trainers who can control animals simply by thinking or looking at them.
"What kind of fish are they? Do they have any extraordinary aura?"
"They were just ordinary fish, and they didn't attack me. There were so many of them, like a swarm of flies that blotted out the sky."
Richard breathed a slight sigh of relief. As long as it wasn't a supernatural monster, that was fine. He continued to ask:
"So that's how it is..."
"Are there any aquatic monsters down there?"
Karl tilted his head back and took another sip of water before hesitatingly saying:
"At least I didn't encounter any. When I was exploring down there, I didn't sense any signs of life."
"Maybe I'm just lucky, but I guess the site isn't dangerous."
Richard looked at the stone brick in his hand.
I looked again at the dark pool.
My heart was filled with astonishment.
A mine is a purely systemic creation space.
According to the game's setting, this should simply be a place for mining, fighting monsters, and acquiring resources.
How could ancient ruins appear?
According to the game's setting, this should simply be a place for mining, fighting monsters, and acquiring resources.
How could ancient ruins appear?
Who built it?
Why would it be at the bottom of a pool of water in a mine?
Sudden.
A thought exploded into Richard's mind like a thunderbolt...
--Dwarfs!
...
no doubt.
There are NPCs in the game.
Most of them are residents of Pelican Town, and their daily routine involves chatting and interacting with them, and flirting with pretty girls or young ladies.
Simultaneously.
There are also some alien races, such as the witch's servant being a goblin.
There was also a Shadow Clan member who lived in the sewers, and a dwarf.
And that dwarf...
They live right at the entrance to the mine!
...
At the beginning.
Richard believed that the original game's NPCs did not exist on the Huanxing Continent.
So when I first went down into the mine, I didn't see the dwarf on the first level, and I didn't think anything was wrong.
But now...
Richard frowned as he examined the cold stone brick in his hand, and then he realized...
The patterns on the stone bricks resemble a circuit board that has been severely worn and corroded.
The dwarven civilization on the continent of Huanxing is quite backward; they usually live in very deep underground cities.
The equipment is forged using underground magma, and the finished product is extremely fine and sharp.
It is a favorite base material for many enchanters, and he himself has a dwarven steel longsword given to him by his second sister.
In contrast, the dwarves in the game once created a glorious civilization.
The evidence is found in the game, where some intelligent mechanical relics of the dwarves can be discovered, whose craftsmanship is several levels more advanced than that of the current goblin civilization.
pity...
According to the game's lore, a racial war lasting a thousand years took place between the dwarves and the Shadow Clan, which nearly wiped out the dwarves.
and so.
Richard made a bold guess.
The dwarves of this world once had a glorious past, but due to certain natural disasters and man-made calamities, they have declined to their current state.
And the underwater site of that old building...
It is very likely...
It is the remnant of an ancient dwarven dungeon that has been submerged in this world!
It is estimated that the system forcibly opened up the bottom of the pool in order to restore the setting in the game, thus creating a real connection between this body of water and the dwarf ruins.
Only in this way can it be explained!
And in the magma layers from the 80th to the 120th in the mine, there are large numbers of Shadow Clan members...