Mechanical Alchemist Chapter 156: Distorted Light Gate
Hunting for a fight on the 19th, she had already disappeared by the time the five major families and the large forces from the City Guard came to pursue and encircle her.
The commotion in the camp at dawn was noisy all night long.
Those guys were probably trying to find the accomplices of the wanted criminal, but in the end they found nothing.
As an accomplice, Su Lun is even more at ease.
He found a remote cliff to rest for the night.
There is nothing wrong with camping on a rock wall, except that occasionally some strange-looking bugs will climb up to "say hello".
No one slept peacefully. Early in the morning, Su Lun was squatting on the only way to the ruins not far from Dawn Camp.
He and a group of individual hunters who had no money to live in the city were guarding the area, waiting for the large hunting team to pick them up and go with them.
Not long after, large troops began to leave the city.
Hearing that there was a hunting group heading towards Dongcheng, Su Lun casually joined a group whose destination was close and set off.
Following the group, we can learn some news about last night.
Going hunting can also make up "origins"
There is a huge black lake near the Central Ring Road in Dongcheng District.
There is a building ruins by the lake, where the [1911 Hotel] was found.
Before coming, Su Lun thought there wouldn’t be too many people here.
When the results arrived, there were one or two thousand people.
These guys have built a small camp here with rocks and mechanical equipment.
Looking at the flags on the tents in the camp, there were dozens of large and small hunting groups.
The people responsible are naturally the several large hunting groups directly under the five major families.
Su Lun was not in a hurry to enter the camp to inquire about the cursed space like other hunters, but instead took a look at the camp's defense situation.
What he was thinking about was not how to get in first, but how to escape after coming out of the cursed space.
Hands in his pocket are the cards given by Mr. Hei last night, although this makes Su Lun feel that the copy is much less dangerous.
But it always feels like something is going to happen again.
Looking around, I didn't find the guy who seemed to be the card-cloaked man I saw before.
Su Lun didn’t look much further and entered the camp.
In addition to the hunters who were armed with live ammunition, there were also traders who looked like "scalpers" selling information everywhere in the camp.
These guys have brought their business directly to the frontline of hunting. They do not need to enter the ruins themselves. They can only buy the latest information from the hunters who come out, and then aggregate and sell it to make objective profits.
Those who come here to hunt wilderness are mostly capable hunters.
No one would be stingy if they could buy some information to increase their chances of survival.
The business of the information merchant is good.
While Su Lun was wandering around the camp, a middle-aged man with a mustache approached him: "Hey, brother, do you want to buy information? The latest information, guaranteed to be worth the money."
“How much?”
“Fifty thousand.”
“Then forget it.”
“Ten thousand?”
“No money.”
“Check, poor guy”
Su Lun was not in a hurry to spend money, but pricked up his ears and listened around.
It is better to listen to one family than to listen to everyone.
I made some inquiries and found that it was similar to the information I bought from Fox, and there was also some new information.
Probably, the "ownership" of this cursed space belongs to the five major families, but they cannot eat it themselves, so it is open to all hunting groups. After entering, you must complete a certain exploration task designated by them. If you complete it, the harvest will be yours, and there will be additional rewards; if you fail to complete it, you will have to pay a hefty "ticket" when you come out.
Most of the ninety-nine guest rooms on the first floor of the hotel space were explored one by one in this way.
These conditions don’t sound wrong.
Risk exchange for return.
As for what the five major families want, in their words, they only want the high-end items on the second floor of this space and the final "source of the curse"
The twisted light door of the cursed space will appear twice a day, and about a hundred people can enter it at one time.
The casualty rate varies from high to low.
Sometimes the group disappears for no apparent reason,
Sometimes most people survive,
Generally speaking, the mortality rate is around 60%.
This is still an acceptable range.
Also because exploration missions were arranged in advance, people in the camp also roughly guessed through the casualty rate that there were several rooms on the first floor that were "high-risk rooms" that could not be explored.
As for the information on the second floor that Su Lun wanted to know, there was still very little.
To sum up, the first floor is mostly filled with first-level weirdness;
As for the second floor, it is said that all weirdos start at silver, and there are an unknown number of second-level weirdos.
Su Lun also understood that the higher the floor, the higher the combat effectiveness of guests transformed into monsters, and the better the materials produced at the same time
The death rate in this instance is not low. Although there are a thousand or two thousand people in the camp, not many actually dare to go there.
There are exactly two batches a day, which can almost fill up a hundred people at a time.
Su Lun signed up for the next round of exploration into the cursed space and received a mission to explore Room 1088.
Then I sat in the candidate area and listened to the temporary captain explain some precautions.
"After entering, no one is allowed to hunt the guests in the hotel in advance! Otherwise, after midnight, these dead people will definitely become 'ghost species', and you will harm yourself and others!"
“Remember 1021, 1055, and 1071, these three rooms are not allowed to be opened, and you are not allowed to harass the residents of these three rooms!”
"You can look for clues, but don't offend the guests and do something strange. Otherwise, you will be caught by the hotel security and locked up to death! Last time, a guy with sperm in his head harassed a noble lady. He himself was happy, but he also made the lady who was originally a guest on the second floor not go up until midnight, and the deformation on the first floor turned into a second-level weirdness, almost wiping out the team."
“Before the ghostly fog appears, we have enough time to look for clues. But remember, don’t trigger some difficult plots casually. The fewer changes there are, the greater the chance we will survive in the end.”
“”
Su Lun listened silently, which was pretty much what he had guessed.
Although the plot unfolds the same every time you enter the cursed space, the ending is different because of human intervention.
For example, when the ghostly fog falls at midnight, there is a big difference between the guests in the room and those who are not in the room.
Although both will become weird, the combat effectiveness may be the weird difference between black iron and silver.
There is also a big difference between dead and alive. The dead will become "ghost species" and the living will become "zombie species"
And just when Su Lun and the others were listening to the temporary captain explaining the precautions.
The camp suddenly became noisy.
“Look! The cursed space exit has appeared!”
“He is a member of the Falcon Group”
“Hey, there are a lot of people who survived this time. It looks like they have gained a lot.”
“”
Not far from the camp, an oval distorted light gate several meters high suddenly appeared.
Like a black hole, sucking in all the surrounding light.
This is also how regular cursed spaces appear.
Just during this noisy moment, some hunters who were more or less injured gradually walked out of the dark light door.
However, although these survivors looked a little embarrassed, they all had smiles of relief on their faces.
Coming out alive means that the harvest has now become "real money".
The first time these people came out, there were already professional businessmen guarding the door of the space, vying to bid for the treasures they brought out.
“Thirteen pieces of black iron, five pieces of silver curse materials”
“Oh, it’s actually a rare ancient inauguration material”
"Oh my god, Brother Belloc, where did you find so many alchemy books? This batch of goods can sell for at least seven million!"
"Wow~ High-purity gems, this is a good material for enchantment. One piece is worth three hundred thousand, brother, you are rich, this bag is worth it"
“”
Merchants are counting the harvest of the hunters.
The quotations stimulated the excitement of the hunters outside again and again.
Not to mention that the hunters may have hidden treasures that they have not yet taken out. Just from the harvest before them, the average per capita benefit is more than one million.
For the vast majority of ordinary hunters, this is wealth worth gambling on.
Su Lun also followed the crowd of onlookers and squeezed in, but his eyes fell on the twisted light door.
The omniscient eye took a look and identified the result.
【1911 Hotel】
Detailed explanation: A large complex cursed space sealed a limb of the super-level creature ‘***’. The guests have been contaminated by corpse gas, and at midnight, they will become completely deformed and weird. If you survive in the space for twenty-four hours, the space exit will appear again; if you die in the space, your energy and blood will impact and destroy the seal. The current breaking progress is 1157/3000;
Su Lun felt unfazed when he saw the information about this cursed space.
Even when he saw that the "source of pollution" was the body fragments of an unknown super-order creature, he didn't feel any surprise.
Without such a super-level existence, it would be impossible for an entire hotel to transform into a wave of SS-level monsters.
Looking at the last sentence again, he muttered in his heart: "Sure enough, he is so pissy again"
Such a cursed space with good yields was shared, and the five major families really had no good intentions.
Su Lun was just suspicious before, but now looking at this information, it is ironclad evidence.
They seem to have learned another way to destroy this space through some method.
That means there is no need to explore, just use human lives to fill it.
Probably because the scope of land reclamation has become larger and larger recently and there are not enough slave groups, these guys are thinking of using this method to attract independent groups.
“I said why the death rate remains high, it turns out that’s the case”
The same dungeon, logically speaking, the more you clear it, the lower the chance of battle damage will be. However, the death rate here is always about 60%, which is very strange.
But it’s not all about annihilation. Some people are left alive to spread the news and attract more people.
No matter how you look at it, I think it’s fishy.
Seeing this, Su Lun was no longer interested in the treasures produced in those ruins. He set his sights on everyone who came out, paying special attention to the guys who were not injured or who were not so excited.
Soon, he discovered something
After the Distorted Light Gate appeared, it disappeared again.
Until evening, the entrance appeared again.
There were just over a hundred people in the camp, waiting in line to enter.
Su Lun was going to go anyway, so he led the living corpse in the middle of the queue.
His eyes scanned the team entering this time again, but still did not find the person who might be the "card cloaked man".
“Am I wrong?”
Su Lun didn’t think much and followed the team into the space.
And after he entered, he didn't know that a little incident happened outside.
The number of people entering the space is not constant, it is about a hundred people.
But in fact, the stronger the people who enter, the smaller the number.
Originally, more than a hundred people were prepared, but as they entered, the light door suddenly disappeared.
This unusual scene also confused everyone.
“Hey, how come only so many people came in this time, and the light door disappeared?”
“It seems like there are only more than sixty?”
“That’s not right, even when there were second-level professionals leading the team, more than ninety people entered. How could there be so few this time?”
“Is there something wrong with the space?”
“”
The news quickly reached the ears of the administrator of this small camp.
However, this did not attract their attention.
All kinds of strange things can happen in the ruins. This fluctuation in the number of people is probably normal in their opinion.
The leaders of the hunting groups of these five major families have another headache.
In the tent, several leaders gathered together sadly to discuss something.
"A death order has been issued from above, and this forbidden space must be broken as soon as possible. But now it seems that at least one or two thousand people need to be filled in before this space can be broken."
“I heard that there was a big mess at the base camp last night, and the mysterious item that the ‘Blood Ax Group’ got last time was snatched away. This caused the top management of the Black Tower to be furious”
“Hey, it’s useless to say that. Spread the news and find a way to attract more hunters”
“However, no matter how we spread the news, we can only get in two hundred people a day. We can’t kill people every time, right? The death rate is too high, just once or twice, no matter how many more people are there, it won’t be possible at all. Can’t attract individual groups”
“”
On the other hand, Su Lun and his group have entered the cursed space.
This is the street scene of Dawn City a thousand years ago.
A group of hunters appeared on the street, and in front of them was a luxurious building with a signboard of "1911 Hotel".
The temporary team leader also noticed the abnormality in the number of people. He was slightly confused, but didn't think much about it.
"The number of people this time is a bit small, please be careful. Remember the precautions I told you before, okay, let's disperse"
“Yes.”
Everyone dispersed.
Looking at the number of people coming in, Su Lun guessed something and thought to himself: "Did that person really come in?"
He was not in a hurry to enter the hotel to hunt for treasures like others. Instead, he found the source of the vague "malice" and followed him.