What appeared in front of everyone's eyes was a castle in the mountain.
The castle is located in the heart of the mountain, surrounded by mountains on three sides, with only one side protruding. It looks like it was built directly by digging into the mountain, which is quite similar to Helm's Deep Castle in the second part of The Lord of the Rings.
Compared to Helm's Deep, the castle in front of you is smaller in scale. Perhaps due to the passage of time, the castle has become dilapidated and has become the habitat of ferocious beasts in the valley.
Countless bones and remains were piled up everywhere in the castle, especially at the foot of the city wall.
Most of these bones belong to ferocious beasts, and a small number belong to humans.
The former flesh and blood became the best source of nutrients for the land. In front of the castle, large tracts of beautiful flowers bloomed on the land, coexisting with the dilapidated, magnificent and towering castle.
The few surviving beasts in the valley seemed to plan to rely on the castle to continue fighting. Unfortunately, they neither knew how to take advantage of the terrain nor how to use the defensive equipment - in the center above the castle, a huge crossbow could be vaguely seen.
The wooden frame was completely rotten, but the tip of the crossbow still shone with a sharp cold light.
What is really surprising is that the entire castle is made of steel. It is a real steel castle.
"Here..." Hong Lang touched his head and said in surprise: "What's going on? Why is there a castle here?"
"Could it be the arrangement of the wilderness itself?" Wen Wen asked.
King Kong shook his head: "It doesn't look like that."
"Is that..."
"It was built by adventurers." Shen Yi suddenly said: "There is no doubt that someone is ahead of us. They not only came to the deepest part of the Alien Beast Valley, but also built a huge castle here that can be used for resistance.
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Wen Wen immediately said: "I don't understand the meaning of this. The wilderness is just a place we use for exploration. Building a castle is too time-consuming and labor-intensive and is of no benefit to us. Our main battle location is still in the mission world."
Shen Yi asked back: "What if it was before the bloody city existed?"
Everyone was stunned at the same time: "You mean..."
Shen Yi leisurely said: "We all know that the wilderness existed before the city, and it has experienced a long period of changes. At the beginning, there was no city here, only the wilderness... At that time, a desert with strong defense capabilities
The castle may be more meaningful than anything else..."
His eyes fell on the mountains of bones under the city wall, and he suddenly imagined tragic scenes in his mind. In the scenes, countless ferocious beasts roared towards the castle, while the guardians in the castle fought desperately.
How many battles did they hold?
Shen Yi doesn't know.
But he knew that the final outcome of the battle would undoubtedly be tragic and heroic.
The castle fell, the defenders died, and the place eventually became a paradise for strange beasts.
As time changes, ferocious beasts have taken up residence here, prohibiting any adventurers from setting foot here again, and eventually turning this place into a secret place...
Until one day, someone rushed here with great strength, regardless of casualties, and finally unveiled the mysterious veil deep in the valley.
Everyone was still surprised, but Shen Yi had already stepped forward: "If you want to know more, you have to go in and take a look. Yiyu, Honglang, you lead the troops to clean up the ferocious beasts here, King Kong is responsible for the coordination, Wenwen, you follow me.
Let’s go in and take a look, hoping to find something good.”
"I'm happy to obey." She smiled softly.
Following the path among the flowers, Shen Yi and Wen Wen arrived in front of the castle gate.
The gate has long since decayed and can be accessed all the way.
After entering the castle, you can still see the bones lying everywhere. Due to the ferocious beasts' long-term presence, these bones were messed up by the activities of the ferocious beasts, leaving only scattered bones.
However, the traces of various cuts and axes on the city wall still record the brutality of those battles. One part of the city wall has even collapsed, and perhaps the previous breakthrough was located here.
In the center of the castle is a small square with stone-paved stairs on both sides leading to the central tower.
Shen Yi stood in the small square and looked to both sides, murmuring to himself: "A typical medieval ancient castle style building, but without any sculptures. The builders of the castle are very pragmatic. For them, the meaning of this castle is It’s about survival, not the pursuit of art…Although some of them do have extraordinary artistic attainments…this is not the work of the Chinese.”
The extraordinary artistic attainments he refers to mean that the structure of the castle itself is a kind of art. Its overall grandeur and richness have strong resistance capabilities without losing the artistic appreciation of the appearance. Even if no artistic buildings are added, it still looks beautiful. It also shows the builder’s extraordinary architectural level.
However, this is what puzzles Shen Yi and Wen Wen - what is it that makes a group of adventurers insist on building such a castle in this desperate place?
What is it that makes so many ferocious beasts attack here one after another?
Judging from the shocking traces of battles throughout the castle, the battles that took place here were far more tragic than imagined. There were battles taking place in almost every corner, and the blood even dyed the land red, even after decades of brutal violence. The beast is entrenched, and numerous bones can still be seen everywhere...
How many people and lives are buried here?
This may be a mystery that can never be solved.
At that moment, he looked at the tall central tower in the center of the castle.
Maybe there can bring him some answers.
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"Ho! It's finally here!" The fat man shouted excitedly.
Running all the way, I was out of breath and almost made the fat man collapse from exhaustion.
Not only him, but Amber, Tang Zhou and others also breathed a long sigh of relief.
They were running really hard these days.
But after arriving at Ant Hill at this moment, the scene before everyone's eyes still made everyone's hearts tremble.
Looking around, there are ant corpses everywhere on the hills, just like black sand covering the earth.
Blood and water dye the land red, and maybe it won't be long before the Ant Hills will be renamed the Red Earth Highlands.
How could the Ant Hills, which had once been so talked about, become like this? Everyone couldn't believe their eyes.
Only the fat man was complacent, as if he had expected all this to happen - which was indeed the case.
But despite this, Fatty couldn't help but shudder when he saw the endless ant corpses. How many ant nests did the captain and the others remove?
After this battle, a new corridor of life has been opened up again, making it much more convenient for adventurers from the third area to go hunting for wild food.
"Who...who did this? The adventurers from District Three?" Tang Zhou asked in a voiceless voice.
What he fears most is that adventurers from the third level of difficulty will join forces again to open up the Life Corridor. If that is the case, it means that adventurers from the high zone may appear in this area at any time to ambush them. The danger is even greater than that of the Imprisoned Son.
Fatty wanted to tell Tang Zhou not to worry, this was not done by people from District 3, but at that moment he suddenly thought of what Shen Yi said: Leave some mystery to your team members when necessary, and seize every opportunity to establish majesty. .
So at that moment, his mind suddenly changed, and he decided not to talk about it for the time being, but walked directly onto the hills.
He first pretended to observe it, and then said: "This is not done by a level three adventurer."
"How do you know?" Amber asked.
The fat man chuckled, pointed to the wilderness in front of him and said: "Look, if adventurers with difficulty level three are opening up the corridor of life, then they don't need to expand the combat area to such a large area. Since it is a corridor, it should be a straight line. , the targets that level three adventurers have to deal with are only the ferocious beasts in this straight line, there is no need to provoke creatures outside the straight line, causing unnecessary battles."
He paused for a moment and saw that everyone was paying attention to what he was saying, so he continued: "Look, there are at least seven or eight large ant nests in this area. The entire fighting surface is square instead of linear. What does this mean? This This shows that the people who cleaned this area were mainly focused on fighting, rather than opening corridors. However, during the battle, these people opened the road all the way to the third difficulty area. I think this is also for convenience. They went directly across District 3."
"You mean this was done by people from District 2?" Amber couldn't believe her ears.
On the contrary, Tang Zhouta Dun and the others looked at each other, and were even more shocked by the fat man's ability to "see the smallest things". At first, the fat man had a pig-like look on his face, but he didn't expect that this guy was so amazing in terms of observation.
They don't know that there is a term in the world called "backward reasoning". Based on knowing all the conditions, everyone can do it with the benefit of hindsight.
On the contrary, Fatty was really enjoying the way Tang Zhouta Dun and the others looked at him at this moment. He was very sure and continued to show off shamelessly: "Yes, it can only be done by people from the second district."
"But how can the adventurers in the second area have the strength to sweep across the Ant Hills?" Du Zhiyun absolutely does not believe that there is such a powerful existence in the city.
Then Tang Zhou said: "If there are enough people, maybe it can be done."
The fat man immediately shook his head: "There won't be many people, six or seven at most."
"Ah?" Everyone lost their voice at the same time.
Tadun scratched his head in confusion: "How can you be sure?"
The fat man was stunned, yes, how did I know?
He thought for a while, and when his eyes rolled, he asked him to come up with a reason, so he coughed and said: "Of course, look at the corpses. Look at the corpses of these ants. Judging from the corpses, most of the injuries they suffered It was artillery fire and bullet attacks, with a small amount of melee damage. From the traces of the damage, it can be seen that these attacks almost belonged to a limited number of people. If hundreds of people joined forces, then there should be more injuries and death methods on these corpses. ."
As for how to "analyze a limited number of people from the traces of injury", he won't explain it. You can understand it yourself.
But when he said this now, everyone immediately felt it made sense.
Tower Shield was the first to rush forward, pointing at an ant corpse and saying: "This is a whip mark. Judging from the depth of the whip marks, the adventurer's strength attribute is quite high. There is also this one, this one, these are all
The whip marks are roughly the same depth and should be made by the same person."
Tang Zhou was also looking at a group of ant corpses next to him: "This is another adventurer's attack, using a sword, almost cutting them in two. Judging from the corpses, the melee weapons used to kill these ants include axes, knives, and swords.
There are four kinds of whips. The sword has the highest power. Almost all wounds caused by the knife are damaged by freezing. The ax is also very powerful. But why does every ant corpse have both ax wounds and sword wounds?
"
Fatty’s interface: “Why can’t the battle ax and sword be used by the same adventurer?”
Tang Zhou suddenly realized: "Yes, why didn't I think of that?"
In fact, it's not that he didn't expect it, it's just that in the second difficulty, there are too few people who have the luxury of using two high-level weapons at the same time.
Then Tang Zhou looked at Fatty in surprise: "Aren't there only two or three adventurers in close combat?"
The fat man spread his hands: "So I said six or seven at most."
"This is impossible." Amber shouted: "Even a level three adventurer cannot possibly sweep such a large area with just a few people."
"That may be because they have something else." The fat man pointed to a wreckage in the distance.
Tower Shield Tiger rushed over, took a closer look, and shouted: "It's the T800 Terminator!"
As he spoke, he stood up, searched repeatedly, and suddenly pointed into the distance: "There is another one here, a broken mecha! There are also mecha soldiers on the other side!"
After searching all the way, Tower Shield found more than ten T800 wreckage and abandoned mecha shells.
Looking at all this, Amber Tang Zhou and others looked at each other.
There are nearly thirty abandoned Terminators and mechas alone. It is conceivable that there must be more Terminators in the hands of this group of people.
But a T800 Terminator is a double D-class. What kind of team is needed to have such a large team and sweep across the wilderness here?
And what huge gains did they gain here?
Seeing the dumbfounded expressions of the four people in front of him, Fatty's wretched mind suddenly felt extremely satisfied at this moment.
He patted everyone on the shoulder and said: "Now you know that there are people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the sky, right? But don't be discouraged, we will all have opportunities in the future. Now, let's continue to set off towards the target point."
Going forward all the way, the fat man was very proud of himself.
Finally these guys were suppressed.
But at that moment, Amber suddenly caught up with him from behind and whispered: "There is a problem you haven't explained to me yet."
"What?" The fat man's neck was tickled by Amber's breath and he couldn't react for a while.
Amber smiled slyly: "I remember you said that when we arrived at Ant Hills, there was no longer a threat here. How did you know about it at that time? Did you already know that a team was coming to clean up here?"
The fat man immediately became stupid.
Damn it! How could I have forgotten this?
If you brag too much, you will be exposed one day.
He looked at Amber, who put her index finger to her lips and shushed: "You don't need to explain, let alone explain with lies. Don't worry, I won't tell them."
After blinking at Fatty, Amber stepped back. It was obvious that she decided to maintain Fatty's leadership position.
What a good girl.
A warmth arose in Fatty's heart, and his mind became more active.