Chapter 133: First Arrival at the Rugged Stone Hall

Chapter 133: First Arrival at the Rugged Stone Hall

Before Datalia inspected the members of the 9th Company, Katarina had to say goodbye to Tianhe. After all, she was still a member of the 9th Company, and she didn't want to make things difficult for the executive officer Datalia because of Tianhe, so she chose to return to the team.

After passing through this passage, Tianhe came to the Rugged Stone Hall. When he first came here, Tianhe had to admit that the name of the Rugged Stone Hall was too suitable for the terrain here. There were strange rocks here. At first glance, except for the platform where the temporary camp of the 9th Company was located, it was almost difficult to stand anywhere else.

Moreover, after exploring this place, Tianhe found that it seemed a little strange. There were three ancient ruins and mechanisms left by an unknown civilization, but they were all covered with black mud and could not be used.

The Ninth Company was worried that monsters might appear in the black mud at any time. In addition to the common hillbillies and abyss mages, there were also those strange dark shells. The Ninth Company had several encounters with them and suffered many losses.

Therefore, the progress of the Ninth Company in the underground mining area was once deadlocked, and they urgently needed to find a force from the outside to seek a breakthrough. Until the passage was blocked, their actions of opening up this passage allowed them to indirectly meet Tianhe and his team, and the problem of black mud was directly solved.

Tianhe then set about purifying the earth veins and black mud of the rugged stone hall, and under Dadalia's orders, the Ninth Company sent part of its forces to guard around Tianhe, and Katarina was among them.

The other personnel continued to study the black mud. After all, the Ninth Company had a contract with Liyue, and now they had the executive officer in charge, so the Ninth Company no longer had to worry about safety issues.

Since previous research has shown that black mud is closely related to the abyss, they can conduct more research on black mud and the abyss. Zhiqiong, under the protection of Yelan and Jiuqi Shinobu, continues to draw the map of the rugged stone hall, while Dadalia can openly follow Tianhe, claiming to be his guardian, which earns Yelan's cold stare.

But what's interesting is that every time Tianhe cleans up the black mud on an ancient ruins mechanism, he needs to use Lumen Crystal to charge it and activate it. Even Tianhe doesn't know why he is so familiar with this mechanism, as if the existence of Lumen Crystal has something to do with this mechanism.

As Tianhe purifies the black mud and charges a mechanism, the color of the crystal on this mechanism changes from the original deep red to the light blue. This surprised Tianhe a little, but the energy that the Lumen Crystal can replenish is also limited, but there is a mechanism next to it that can replenish it at any time, which is a bit unbelievable.

Tianhe didn't care much about it. As he became more and more proficient in purifying the black mud, he also purified the ground veins of the rugged stone hall, and many monsters appeared. However, there was no Dark Shell/Black Snake Knight among them, and the Ninth Company of the Fatui next to them was also a well-trained elite force.

Due to the orders of Executor Dadalia, they had been on guard and waiting for a long time, and they were itching to take action. So when the monsters appeared nearby one by one, they attacked them.

With the methodical coordination of the Ninth Company, the monster projections emerging from the earth veins were continuously eliminated. Finally, the earth veins were purified by the Sky River, and only the last mechanism of the ancient ruins was left. The first two had been purified, and after being charged by the Sky River, they turned into light blue crystals and completed the activation.

Therefore, Tianhe purified the black mud near the mechanism of the third ancient ruins, and after the purification was completed, Tianhe immediately charged it. As Tianhe finished charging, the crystal on the mechanism also turned light blue, indicating that the last mechanism was also successfully activated by Tianhe.

So, the three mechanisms responded, but were suddenly interrupted from nowhere. A black fog appeared in the center of the three mechanisms. As the black fog gradually faded, a humanoid creature appeared in it, but it was not actually a human.

"Who is it? Who came here and wanted to mess up the task assigned to me by Her Royal Highness the Princess? What have you done?" An Abyss Apostle Riptide walked out. He was the one the players jokingly called the Water Apostle.

But at this moment, it looked very angry. It raised its double blades and pointed them at everyone in front of it, wanting to kill them all. Suddenly, it saw Tianhe, and seemed to feel a familiar breath from him, like Her Royal Highness the Princess, which made its pupils shrink slightly.

To know how the Abyss will develop in the future and what the ending of Abyss Apostle Torrent will be, please look forward to the next update from our Xianyu author~ Hehe