Chapter 87 Labyrinth Fortress
"Do you want me to go to the front to reconnaissance?" The thief looked at Qin Lun in confusion, "Have you encountered a biological nest again?"
"It's not a biological nest, it seems to be an artificial building with a high level of craftsmanship!" Qin Lun told the discovery of the dwarves, "This is also something I have always been worried about."
"Did the Grey Dwarf build?" The thief's eyes lit up and he asked quickly, "If it was a Grey Dwarf builder, then wouldn't we be about to complete the mission?"
"I also hope it is a checkpoint built by the gray dwarf in the dark area, so I don't have to worry!" Qin Lun shook his head with a wry smile and said to the apostle surrounding him, "I wonder if you have noticed how much time has the Starry Sky added to this branch plot?"
"A natural month...is there any problem?" Shieldguard Newton asked, frowning, while Weiss and Hill were in deep thought.
"Of course there is a problem. This time... is too long!" Qin Lun sighed, and then explained his opinion in detail.
Judging from the prompt message that the apostles had just entered the world of Torrell, the Broken Starry Sky has just been developed for this peak world of the Middle Demon.
When Qin Lun entered the world of Torrell, he encountered other apostle teams in various places. For example, he met the Lost Newcomer Group in the Jundar Elf Court, and a similar apostle team appeared in the Anker Elf. When saving the Snow Peak Dwarfs such as Lorraine in the Iron Star Fort, it was equivalent to snatching another apostle team's plot mission.
In just over a month, we met three apostles teams one after another. This is not the apostles in other corners of the world. It can be seen that Broken Starry Sky has invested so much human resources in this world. Qin Lun and Weiss teams entered the Torrell World this time, relying on the token of the world, which indirectly shows that Broken Starry Sky attaches great importance to the development of the Torrell World.
Since it is a full-scale invasion, as an important part of the Torrell world, the Shattered Starry Sky will naturally arrange a team of apostles, rather than knowing nothing about this area.
In this way, the problem arises!
The Broken Starry Sky generally gives plot tasks to the apostles, and there will be two obscure tips: one is the difficulty of the task, and the other is the stay time related to the task.
In terms of task difficulty, if the measurement of the Broken Starry Sky is very clear, it will definitely give the corresponding difficulty. For example: the team's initial guidance task is very accurate, and most guidance tasks will have accurate difficulty displays.
For some large plot tasks, due to the long execution time, the apostle interacts with the plot characters more frequently, and the tasks are prone to many unexpected twists and turns, so the difficulty of the task is likely to appear prompts that the difficulty is unknown.
On the other hand, regarding the time of stay, the tasks currently received by the apostles usually show the time of stay. This is because the Broken Starry Sky is very clear about the written history of the other world, so it can accurately estimate the approximate period from the beginning to the end of a plot.
However, there are also unclear places in the Broken Starry Sky, such as: the side plot triggered by Qin Lun and others in the Land of Death and the Troll's Claws - the Trace of Bodean!
The Land of Death and the Claw of the Troll are rarely visited, and there is no detailed written record at all. The Broken Starry Sky knows nothing about that area, so it naturally cannot give an accurate task time.
At that time, the Broken Starry Sky began with Qin Lun and others entering the Land of Death and leaving the Troll's Claws as the end point of the entire mission.
After understanding this, the stay time of the apostles assisting the Dwarf Exploration Team this time seemed strange!
It took Qin Lun and others less than a week to find the Miyin Hall mining area from the front branch that triggered the epic plot. Even if the return time is added, it will only be half a month.
At the same time, the Broken Starry Sky long ago means that there will be no additional time for everyone to stay, and the remaining half month is naturally not for them to find the hidden plot again.
This shows that when the Broken Starry Sky was calculating this plot task, it was speculated that it would take almost one month for the apostles to complete the task. So, except for the half month of round trip, where is the remaining half month spent?
There is only one answer. Before the apostles actually arrive at the Miyin Hall mining area, they must encounter some difficulties and have to spend about half a month. Is this difficulty consuming to find the right route, and Is it consuming to fight?
Qin Lun asked Lorraine why they used to infer the direction of progress, because of this. However, Lorraine's question and answer obviously cut off the first possibility. The dwarves had already found the right route this time.
So, there is only one last possibility left. Before they arrive at the Miyin Hall mining area, they will encounter a protracted battle that took about half a month.
"I didn't tell you before, because I'm not sure yet." Qin Lun said with a wry smile, "But now it seems that what I'm worried about is becoming a reality."
"Haha, isn't this just right?" The apostles laughed at each other. Shieldguard Newton pinched his fists and smiled happily, "I've been bored these days. I thought this task would be boring until the end, but now it's very interesting. I've been climbing mountains and caves these days, and my bones are almost crisp. I just take this opportunity to treat it."
"Qin Lun, this is not like your style. What's wrong? Are you afraid of fighting if you have a few more beauties around you?" Rand teased with a smile.
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Without mentioning the fighting apostles and dwarves, the thief Biba quickly sneaked to the entrance of the tunnel and began to feed back the observed situation to the team channel.
The artificial building that Qin Lun called a high level of craftsmanship appeared on the Apostles' Team Channel. This is a building similar to a bastion. The exterior wall is pentagonal, made of large pieces of stone, and the center of each city wall is slightly sunken inward, highlighting the arrow tower at the corners.
However, an ordinary castle only has a wall and no roof in the center. However, this building has a huge top, which covers the entire fortress tightly, and looks like a steamer of special shape.
Fortunately, the radius of this building is less than two kilometers, otherwise it would probably be regarded as a dungeon by the dwarves. If there was really a dungeon in front of the exploration team, they would have to announce that the operation had failed and needed to find other surface cracks leading to the Miyin Hall mining area.
"This building is obviously a man-made thing. Will it be a fortress built by the gray dwarves? However, why did the gray dwarves build fortresses in such places? Have they expected that the shield dwarves would attack from the dark area?" The thief was puzzled by what they saw and asked involuntarily.
"It is probably unlikely. If the gray dwarves are taking measures to deal with the enemy, they can guard the entrance to the dark area of the Miyin Hall. The mining area here is a little far from the Miyin Hall urban area, there is no need!" Hill pondered for a moment, and then expressed his opinion.
"Monkey, can you sneak in and take a look?" Weiss asked the thief cautiously.
"I'll try my best. It may take some time. I don't know its entrance and exit yet." The thief seemed a little excited. This was a good challenge for him. "By the way, you'd better quit for a while, especially those clamoring dwarves, don't let them alarm each other!"
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After notifying Gillim, the Dwarf Exploration quickly retreated for a while and kept quiet.
Dwarves are not good at stealth reconnaissance. Almost no one in their race has changed into thieves or assassins, which does not conform to the aesthetics of dwarves. They advocate violent aesthetics and their combat skills are simple and direct. Even if they are the best forging and smelting, most dwarves like to create rough and atmospheric equipment.
However, although the dwarves are stubborn and irritable, they can still maintain considerable respect for the strong people in other professions. At least they understand that each combat profession has its strengths, especially in areas where they are not good at, the dwarves can also listen to other people's advice.
"Huh~~" After the thief approached the building for a certain distance, he couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
"Monkey, have you discovered something?" Weiss asked cautiously.
"This building seems not what we imagined... How should we say this? You can see it yourself!" The thief didn't know how to describe the mirror he saw for a while, so he simply fed back the observed images to the team channel again.
The thief ran around the building for a short while. Everyone was surprised to see that after close observation, this building that resembled a fortress was actually surrounded by imports and exits, and there was a passage without a gate almost every hundred meters.
These passages without portals are all the same stone walls behind them. It seems that they have to turn continuously as soon as they enter the door. The internal structure is strange and strange.
"This structure seems to be..." Just as the others in the team were confused, Rand suddenly frowned and said, "Can it be a maze?"
Rand was originally a firefighter. Although he was not an architect, among the apostles on the scene, he was the person who was most familiar with architectural structure.
"It's really a bit like it!" After Rand's reminder, others also woke up.
Although other possibilities have not been ruled out yet, combined with the fortress, there are many entrances and exits. Then you need to turn around immediately after entering the door, which is really like a huge maze.
"If it's a maze, the area seems to be complex enough. If there are traps inside..." Weiss glanced at the others and frowned and said, "Qin Lun, it seems that you've inferred that this maze will waste a long time for us!"
The maze is located on the path that the exploration team must pass. The dwarves must understand the situation inside, otherwise they will not be able to move forward with confidence.
Chapter completed!