Chapter 83: Drowning Flower
Chapter 83: Drowning Flower
"We can find a chance to add the function of resetting the copy..."
Rogge, who was observing secretly, naturally also heard Niu Niu's muttering.
As time goes by, there will definitely be more and more players who complete the Exile Island, and what will definitely come with it is the need to reset the world.
Of course, Rogge would satisfy their needs... and collect some "taxes" at the same time.
Boo…boo…
The pink little snail placed in the sea water seemed to become more active, spitting small bubbles in the water.
Moreover, judging from the feedback from the spirit candle, there seems to be the rhythm of life inside this little pink conch.
However, Rogge doesn't know what it can hatch at the moment, but the day of hatching should be getting closer.
After retracting his gaze, Rogge turned his attention to the prayer chapel.
Nonia knelt quietly beside the spirit candle, facing the flame pattern in the center of the prayer chapel that was already cracked.
Her lips moved and she murmured softly.
"O supreme primordial fire... the source of all life, the pillar of the world, if you are still burning and still have residual heat, please dispel my confusion..."
"If you have been extinguished, please let your ashes guide me and help me find hope in this broken world..."
She prayed for a long time, reciting the mantra over and over again, but received no response.
"Flame... where have you been?"
Eventually, her voice faded and her mood became depressed.
Watching this scene, Roger remained silent.
In such a world full of despair, people like Nonia can only feel infinite loneliness.
Before she died, the world should have been normal.
But after Roger woke her up, what she saw was a broken, chaotic and desperate world.
She prayed to the great faith of the past, but all she got in response was loneliness...
Rogge silently withdrew his gaze.
Not sure if it was an illusion, Nonia suddenly felt that the candlelight in front of her became brighter.
The warm candlelight dispelled the coldness and embraced her.
She raised her head, and the slightly swaying candlelight was reflected in her clear pupils.
Looking at the spiritual candle in front of her, she unconsciously stretched out her hand, slowly touched the candle flame, and felt the warmth coming from it.
After a moment, she withdrew her hand, moved back towards the wall, lay down on the floor, curled up into a ball, and closed her eyes in the warm candlelight.
Outside the prayer chapel, the roars of some zombies could still be heard...
……
"Uh-huh~"
On the coast of the Exile Island, Li Miao bent his body, stretched, and took a breath of the slightly salty sea breeze.
Beside him, Yuanfang was wearing a garrison medium armor suit and sorting out the weapon in his hand.
As for Brother Yu’s outfit, it’s a bit weird.
He was wearing the same Law Knight suit as Li Miao, but without a helmet.
Besides, the others were holding helmets, but he was carrying a fishing rod on his shoulder...
"What about the rest?"
Brother Yu looked around.
"Brother Mangzi has already left with Shangan and Bulong. Mushroom cousin is getting married, Storyteller is still developing by brushing wax oil, and as for Guagua... her best friend is heartbroken."
Li Miao knows the situation of all the group members very well.
"What does Guagua's best friend's broken heart have to do with her?" Brother Yu was a little confused.
Li Miao gave him a strange look: "Brother Yu, you are a married man, this shouldn't happen..."
"Don't you know that a girl's busiest time is when her best friend breaks up?"
"……All right."
Brother Yu thought about it and it seemed to be true. He seemed to have heard his wife mention this before he played this game.
At that time, Mrs. Yu didn't call him the whole day, so he had a great time fishing all day!
"How's the offshore situation? Any new bait or big fish?"
This is what Brother Yu cares most about.
Li Miao spread his hands: "The group and the forum are all discussing the Sin Furnace. This thing can strengthen weapons. +2 directly adds two points of attributes, which is very strong. I guess everyone plans to strengthen their weapons before exploring the offshore."
"But..." Li Miao touched his chin, as if he had thought of something: "Some people said that a large sailing ship appeared near the coastal camp again. It should be the ship of Gulard mentioned in the storyteller's video."
"That's nothing rare."
Brother Yu shook his head and then looked into the distance.
"Yuanfang, are you ready?"
"Wait, I also called other people." said from afar.
"Others?" Brother Yu was a little surprised.
Just as he was wondering, two frog-headed players who looked like they only trained their legs and not their bodies came out of the patrol corridor.
Needless to say, one of them is the Scheming Frog, and the other player’s ID is “Venerable Liqun”.
"Big Brother Yuanfang, I'm here. This is Liqun. We are both newbies, so please take care of us!"
The Scheming Frog smiled and introduced himself.
He had met and talked with Li Miao and Yuanfang before, but Brother Yu was the only one who was rarely seen fishing all day long, so this introduction was actually for Brother Yu.
"Hello Liqun, I'm Huazi, and this is Da Chongjiu."
Li Miao stepped forward, shook Li Qun's hand enthusiastically, and joked.
"Go to hell." Venerable Li Qun was obviously quite familiar with Li Miao. He raised his middle finger and cursed with a smile.
The atmosphere suddenly became lively and friendly after the two of them joked around, and they soon started to communicate with each other.
"Give."
The Scheming Frog handed the defensive sword and other equipment in his hand to Yuanfang and Li Miao.
There is no doubt that these weapons have been strengthened. Yuanfang had already made sufficient preparations and asked the Scheming Frog to strengthen the weapons in advance.
Of course, they all used wax oil, and the extra equipment was exchanged for war ash. They didn't lack any anyway, so there was no need to waste time on such things.
Even Brother Yu got a +2 defensive greatsword.
"I have it too?"
Brother Yu was a little surprised. After taking the weapon, he politely thanked him.
"Haha, Brother Yu, you should thank Brother Miaozi. This is what he prepared for you." The Scheming Frog said with a smile.
Hearing this, Brother Yu nodded to Li Miao with satisfaction: "Thank you, Miaozi. I'll take you fishing some other day."
Brother Yu is the oldest among this group of young people, and he also used to call Li Miaomiao "Brother".
It was okay when they just met, but after they got to know each other, Li Miao felt uncomfortable hearing it, so he simply asked him to call her by her nickname.
"Thank you, bro."
As for fishing, forget it...
Li Miao said silently in his heart.
After getting to know each other and getting ready, they also boarded the Spirit Fire Raft.
Next, they will explore the entire offshore area of Exile Island together as planned.
Soon, everyone set off.
Yuanfang quickly made a reasonable plan for their exploration.
Since the offshore waters of the Exile Island are much larger than those of the Candle Firewood Island, it is easy to get lost if the routes are too complicated, which will waste a lot of unnecessary energy.
Although they didn't have a compass, fortunately they had three important reference points.
The Exiled Island, the sun in the sky, the junction of the waters near Zhuxin Island and the waters near the Exiled Island.
And I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or for some other reason, but the place where the two seas meet happens to be where the sun rises.
This allows them to easily tell where they are.
After simply drawing a cross to divide it into four areas, everyone began to explore the southeast direction. Since the Scheming Frog and the Liqun Master had only been in the game for a short time, they did not have a Spirit Fire Raft.
But the frogman Zhu Ling obviously doesn't need it.
The exploration mission assigned to them from afar was originally in the sea.
In this way, every time the exploration team advanced for a period of time, they would stop and wait for the two frogmen Zhu Ling to dive to explore the situation in the sea. After completing the general exploration, they would continue to move forward.
The two frogmen were very busy.
Observing the environment carefully from afar.
But Li Miao and Yu Ge are rather boring.
Without saying a word, Brother Yu took out his fishing rod, skillfully put on the hook, and threw it out.
【Fishing in progress...】
"Brother Yu, is fishing so addictive?" Li Miao said.
"No, I don't feel addicted." Brother Yu replied casually.
"..."Li Miao.
If you don't feel addicted, you will still fish every day...
However, even if he wanted to help at this moment, he couldn't, and they hadn't encountered any monsters or anything for the time being.
After thinking about it, Li Miao also took out his fishing rod, and came to Brother Yu's raft and licked his face and said, "Brother Yu, give me some bait."
"You go fishing without bait?" Brother Yu looked at him with disdain. After hesitating for a moment, he handed him a small piece of ordinary bait made of wax oil.
"..."
Li Miao looked at the ordinary bait in his hand, then looked at Brother Yu, his eyes full of disbelief.
"Brother Yu, you can't even give me a sandworm bait?"
"You mainly play the combat content, why do you need sandworm bait? Can't you just use some ordinary bait to kill time?" Brother Yu glanced at him.
"..." Li Miao wanted to cry but had no tears: "Brother Yu, I just prepared weapons for you, and you said you would take me fishing, but you treated me like this?"
Hearing this, Brother Yu seemed to feel that what he did was a bit unfair. After hesitating for a moment, he took out a sandworm bait and handed it to him with a painful heart.
"Okay, here you go."
Alas, it's like feeding ginseng to pigs, what a waste...
Brother Yu shook his head in his heart.
"Hey, thanks, Brother Fish. Look, I'm going to catch something good!"
Li Miao chuckled, put up the sandworm bait and started fishing.
The Scheming Frog and Venerable Liqun had come up once, and after taking a breath, they sank into the sea again to continue exploring.
【Fishing in progress...】
Li Miao and Yu Ge sat side by side and began to wait.
After waiting for a while, there was no movement in the sea, and Li Miao began to feel restless.
But at this moment, his fishing rod suddenly moved.
"In stock!"
Li Miao suddenly became alert and quickly picked up the fishing rod.
But at this moment, a huge pulling force was felt on the fishing rod.
Even Li Miao's figure was pulled forward.
"What the hell?"
Li Miao was a little shocked, and began to wrestle with the opponent in disbelief, which caused the entire spirit fire raft to tilt a little.
His movements naturally attracted the attention of Brother Yu and Yuanfang next to him.
Brother Yu's heart skipped a beat. Could this guy really have something big?
However, although he was nervous, Brother Yu quickly put down his fishing rod, walked to Li Miao and started to help him stabilize it.
Wow!
"Hey! Let go!" The scheming frog suddenly popped up and shouted anxiously.
Li Miao and Yu Ge were stunned when they heard this, but they still chose to believe the scheming frog and quickly let go of the fishing rod.
bang——
Suddenly, there was a splash of water in front of everyone, and a monster like a blooming flower emerged from the water, causing everyone's pupils to shrink suddenly.
Below it were countless heads and corpses, and at the very bottom were ankles tied with stones. The swollen eyes of the heads were filled with despair and fear, and there was a piece of crystal coral in their mouths.
Above them were intertwined blue-grey arms, like a drowned person's desperate struggle for the surface of the water...
【Drowning Flower】
[Rank: Embers]
【Level: 14】
【War: Drowned Flower】
[Talent: Weakness (Life within a 10-meter radius will be slightly weakened)]
[Skills: Dying Struggle, Grudge of the Drowned]
[Explanation: Being deprived of life is not uncommon, but the way they die is obviously not so clean. The torturers use air corals to prolong their death, causing them to suffer for a long time... Resentment is intertwined into mud, and the strugglers' final despair blooms the flowers of drowning on it...]
Like the Law Knight, it is also a boss-level monster with special combat abilities!
"Miaozi, you really caught a big catch!"
While Brother Yu drew out the Law Knight's greatsword, he also made a joke.
Fortunately, it was just a boss that was caught. If this guy really caught a big fish, he would be the one who was unhappy!
"Fuck!" Li Miao's face turned green.
"what--"
As the two were talking, a strange blue-grey flame ignited on the Drowned Flower, and a strange groaning and wailing sound came out, interweaving and attacking everyone.
Li Miao and Yu Ge took out the Law Knight's shield without saying a word and protected the other three behind them.
However, as the sound wave swept over, the two still felt their health points drop significantly.
"Magic attack!"
Everyone realized this immediately, and Li Miao and Yu Ge quickly put away their shields and took out their merman bone forks.
At this moment, a blood stone was ready to explode in the distance, and as the two retreated, it shot towards the Drowned Flower.
But the next moment, something shocking happened.
The Drowned Flower intertwined its hands while wailing, blocking the way in front of itself firmly and igniting the flames of war.
Bang!
The blood-red color exploded, and the blue-gray illusory flame vibrated for a moment, but did not cause any further damage to it.
"This is..." Yuanfang frowned slightly, as if he realized something.
"Can this thing block magical attacks?" Li Miao was stunned.
However, the Drowned Flower did not give them much time to react.
Wow!
Countless hands loosened their hands, and the drowned flowers bloomed again, with a somewhat strange beauty.
As the war broke out, dozens of hands began to extend strangely and suddenly attacked several people!
"Brother Miao, block it!"
"You two, stand back!"
There was a shout from afar, and then someone took out a short bow and poison-feather arrows, with the bowstring taut!
Li Miao and Yu Ge had no time to respond. They held the Law Knight's greatsword and shield in their hands, staring closely at every attacking hand.
In an instant, the sounds of large shields colliding and flesh being chopped apart were intertwined. In the distance, three spirit fire rafts were moving flexibly and continuously shooting arrows, accurately attacking different parts of the Drowned Flower, trying to find its weaknesses.
"what--"
The wailing sounded again.
"Resist with fire."
A deep voice reminded from afar.
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(End of this chapter)