Because there were no infected bodies, Kalinge took a very short time to go up the mountain this time, and arrived at the Falling Moon Tower before midnight. There is no note or box under the rock wall today, it seems that Wusong no longer needs him.
Now the problem is... no one opened the door for him. Even if Wu Rime knew he was standing here, he probably wouldn't open the door for him.
Kalinger knocked on the stone wall a few times symbolically, shouted loudly, and finally picked up a bunch of small stones and threw them non-stop towards the area where the gate once appeared.
None of this worked. It is estimated that the mage could not hear at all.
Kalinger remembered the spherical quadruped golem. There is an organ on the golem that can send messages. According to previous experience, the mage must have left a lot of golems in the mountains. If you look carefully, you should be able to meet them.
So Kalinger changed tack. Instead of looking for demons today, bounty hunters scoured the mountains for quadruped golems.
Things like golems were originally one of the enemies that bounty hunters might face. In the past, Kalinger took over the work on golems several times, and three of them were particularly impressive:
The first time was to search for a lost espionage insect construct, which was laborious and poorly paid, which was very annoying; the second time was to assassinate a certain necromancer with two hunters, and the necromancer died quickly, but instead Iron golems and flesh and blood golems are very difficult to deal with; the third time was entrusted by a mage to destroy an out-of-control stone shield guard. When receiving the task, Kalinger thought it was only slightly taller than an adult orc, Unexpectedly, it was a triploid unlucky thing... In the end, Kalinger successfully destroyed its magic core. He was not injured by the shield guard during the whole process, but almost fell to his death.
Kalinger is still very experienced in dealing with golems. He understands how golems work, and is always on hand with aids that can disrupt them.
While paying attention to the traces on the ground, he drew out the broadsword on his back and coated the blade with shimmering powder. This is an enemy-disturbing magical preparation. Sprinkle it on the surface of a metal object, and the object will attract magical constructs with detection and detection functions. If the construct has the ability to attack, it will be affected by the preparation. Automatically enter hostile state.
Whether it is a chimeric corpse with the ability to patrol, or a magic eye for monitoring, or a golem of any material, as long as it has the function of "detection and hostility", it will be attracted by the potion.
This medicine can only act on metal objects, and it has no effect on living things. Usually hunters use it as a trick to deceive patrolling golems or corpses, lure them away, and sneak into the destination themselves.
Now, Kalinger used the preparation on his own sword, and there was a certain risk in doing so. Because, it's probably not just the "Scout" golem who will be attracted.
Generally speaking, there will not be only one type of golem on the mage's site, but various constructs of different shapes, which are used for surveillance, investigation, communication, chores, offense and defense, etc. In case there is something like a tower guard hidden near the Moonfall Tower, it will also be awakened by the preparation, come straight to Kalinger, and automatically switch to a hostile state.
Kalinger stretched his arms and shoulders, ready for battle.
Looking at the rock wall illuminated by the faint blue light, he sighed to himself: "Why is it so difficult to meet you? It's harder than meeting the king and princess."
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Rime is still reading, and now he has read the section "How to avoid the faux pas of leaving without saying goodbye". At this time, the gears in the upper part of the library creaked, and a small metal ball connected by a chain slowly descended, flashing orange light on and off.
Wu Ri stood up abruptly, then fell down on the chair because of a brief dizziness.
"The tower guard activated the early warning?" He looked at the high place in surprise. After the first orange light ball, two more balls also began to glow and descend.
"What's the matter... all three are activated?" Wu Song hurriedly pushed away the book and took out a scroll of parchment from the inside of the robe.
After the scroll was unfolded, Rime's hands stroked its surface, and the fingertips picked up lines from the text, picking them up into the air like silk threads. Accompanied by a mantra command, the lines expand into a flat "paper" formed by illusion.
"Paper" is a layout plan overlooking the mountain forest.
The void in the center of the map is the Moonfall Tower, surrounded by figures and lines representing trees and roads. There are some glowing dots on the map that are four-footed golems, and the legend calls them "Eye Spiders".
Rime can locate any eye spider and retrieve its investigation records. The current situation is that the constructs inside the tower are normal, while all the eye spiders outside the tower are moving, the three tower guards in the guard area around the tower have been activated, and all the constructs are facing the mountain road. gather somewhere.
Rime checked one eye spider after another, and finally saw the real-time information of encountering hostile creatures on several of them.
Taking a closer look at the information, he immediately recognized who it was.
Rime positioned an eye spider, picked up the light spot with his fingertips, and unfolded a new phantom paper from it. He picked up the glazed pen on the table, and wrote vigorously on the "paper" without dipping the ink.
At the same time, Kalinger was surrounded by four eye spiders.
This kind of scouting golem itself has no combat power, but he has to be careful with it, because they may release the spells stored in advance.
Kalinger knew that there was a small red dot on the sphere, and he could communicate with the caster by pressing it. When he was thinking about how to press the red dot safely, the golem made a sound on its own initiative, and the little red dot on the top also brightened up: "Come closer, please press here, please press here, you can talk."
Kalinger pressed it skillfully, followed by the same prompt as last time: "Please wait a moment, don't move your finger. It's connected, you can move your finger."
Before he could speak, the golem quickly made a flat but angry voice: "Why are you again? What the hell did you do?"
Kalinge chuckled: "As long as you don't speak face to face, are you so irritable?"
"I'm also grumpy in person! Now I'm asking you, what have you done?"
"I have something to ask you," Kalinger said. "Because I can't 'knock', I can only get your attention in this way. Well, now that I have contacted you, please open the door for me."
"No! Get out!"
Inside the Falling Moon Pagoda, Rime quickly finished writing the words "Don't open! Get out!", and almost threw away the pen in a fit of anger.
Fortunately, he quickly realized that it was a glazed pen rather than a quill, and that it was left to him by Teacher Jinghu.
Wu Ri leaned on the chair, rubbing his eyes in worry. He had shown repulsion and hostility as much as possible, and the bounty hunter still didn't give up.
He could guess that the abnormality of the construct must be due to the enemy-disturbing potion. If you want to eliminate the effects of the potion, you must either use a potion with a counter effect, or cancel the ability of the affected construct to awaken it again. Either way, he had to open the tower door and walk out. These things cannot be done remotely.
He doesn't want to go. He didn't want to face Kalinge, and he didn't want to face the people in Heishu Village. He is very self-aware that he is not good at communicating with people in person.
So he scolded the villagers with letters and chased away bounty hunters through golems—he wrote and the spiders read his words remotely.
In fact, the eye spider can directly transmit the sound, and Kalinge's voice is transmitted back in this way, but the rime can't, he can't directly scold people, because he is likely to speak badly, and the tone is not fierce enough, so there is no sense of majesty at all. up.
At this time, Kalinge's voice came again: "I don't understand, why are you unwilling to even talk? I am a bounty hunter, and bounty hunters have always cooperated with mages, and I am not one of those who discriminate against spellcasters." Knights of the Temple... Oh my God, I see your Tower Shield! It's coming! It's coming!"
Rime's complexion was tangled. These tower guards and shield guards were developed by Mr. Jinghu himself, Wu Rime knows how powerful they are.
Although Kalinger asked for trouble, it would not be too good if he was killed by the shield guard...
Rime wrote on the phantom paper: "You still don't run when you see the shield guards? The range of their guards is only halfway up the mountain. You run faster, and you'll be fine if you run down the mountain. Get out of here!"
Kalinge replied immediately: "Is there only three shield guards in your tower? Is it too few?"
In fact, there used to be more than three. Over the years, various things have happened to the Falling Moon Tower, and now there are only three left. But Wu Ri didn't intend to answer properly, he just wanted to drive the hunter away.
So he wrote: "Too little? Then don't run away, stay and fight with them. After you die, I will tell your story to the poet at the foot of the mountain, and let him write a duel between a mentally retarded hunter and a shield guard and then be killed. The story of the shield guard stepping on an adult blanket and then smashing his head. At least it can wake up the world. Goodbye, I will close the communication. I wish you a miserable death."
On the other side, Kalinger stood on the mountain road in the early morning, carrying a broad-edged sword, listening to the above words read by the eye spider, and watching three shield guards who were two circles bigger than a bear approaching from different directions... He was a little nervous, but Not afraid, even couldn't help laughing out loud.
Kalinge sighed: "It's wonderful, it's wonderful... Torn into three hundred pieces and let my mother and wife sew for three days and three nights, dueling with shield guards and being stepped on an adult blanket... Master Rime, where did you come from? Elf, you Is it like this in my hometown..."
In fact, the rime can still hear the situation here. He verbally said to turn off the communication, but he didn't. He just made the red dot on the spider's body seem to go out.
Wu Ri's face felt a little hot. In fact, he could write more mean sentences, but he didn't want to continue to write.
Dialogue will distract Kalinger's attention, after all, Kalinger is facing the tower guard.
Rime has made up his mind not to open the door or help Kalinger. Kalinger's fighting ability is not weak, as long as he is serious, he should have no problem escaping.
It's really not difficult for Kalinger to run. His enemy distraction potion was used on the sword, as long as he dropped the sword, the shield guards and eye spiders would not target him at all. But Kalinger chose not to do so.
The nearest shield guard rushed over and slashed with his arms. Kalinge jumped and climbed with a broad-edged sword, caught a thick branch, looked at the position, jumped down, stepped on the shoulder of the shield guard, and skillfully Snap the blade into the structural seam between its rear shoulder blade and waist.
This position is the weakness, or design flaw, of most large shield guards. Their offensive and defensive actions can't reach here, and after the blade gets stuck, it can't pull it out by itself.
After succeeding, Kalinger leaped away swiftly. Another shield guard rushed up and attacked the same kind with a sword hanging on it.
Soon, the three shield guards fought together. They are just as tough, just as solid, just as tactile and tireless. Although they attack each other fiercely, neither is actually able to hurt the other.
Kalinger hadn't even thought about actually fighting the shield guards. It is very difficult for human beings to injure metal constructs, unless some means are used to destroy its structure, but he did not bring professional tools or professional staff, so he had to come up with such a method.
He hid aside, mourning the broadsword deeply, and deliberately making various sounds of pain.
First grunting, occasionally screaming in a low voice, swearing, violent panting, coughing, gnashing of teeth, screaming, deliberately kicking the ground, rubbing plants, hitting stones with stones, breaking a handful of dead branches on the ground, coupled with suppressed pain call.
He had already guessed that when Wu Ri said that he wanted to turn off the communication, he must still be eavesdropping on the battle situation.
Although the eye spider can help the mage detect some things, and can make and transmit sound, most mages on the other end cannot see the picture. If he could have seen, he would have seen the three shield guards attacking each other, and he would have started cursing long ago.
Kallinger was right.
Those voices sounded in the rime, obviously the bounty hunter was besieged by the metal shield guards, had been beaten to the brink of death, and now regretted that it was too late to run away.
Wurime grabbed an old scepter with gems removed from the desk, hurried to the edge of the spiral staircase with a pestle, stepped on the floating plate, knelt down, and let the floating plate rise at the fastest speed.
Rime cursed in a low voice along the way. For him now, just walking fast like this is already a big burden, so he can't even swear coherently, and his voice is intermittent.
This is really a bit uncomfortable, but he really doesn't want to shut up, cursing is his only way to vent.
While he doesn't have much time, he doesn't want to be accidentally pissed off before it's over.
After leaving the Falling Moon Tower, he recalled Mr. Jinghu's engineering drawings as he walked, recalled all the first aid knowledge he had learned, and turned up the magic lighting in the canopy by a few degrees.
When he arrived at the location of the conflict, he stared blankly at the tragic scene in front of him: a shield guard was lying on the ground, and the other two shield guards attacked it like a storm, with a sword firmly stuck between its shoulder blades, The sword was already distorted and deformed, so it stuck even tighter. The shield guard itself was not damaged, but it was difficult to stand up again because of being suppressed.
Rime looked past the three behemoths, and saw a familiar figure leaning against the opposite tree.
Unscathed and smiling, Kalinger bowed to him as he did when they first met.
Rime instantly understood the truth of the matter. He really wanted to yell, but the hasty walk just now made his chest tight, and he was really powerless.
No matter what Kalinger did, he couldn't leave these three shield guards alone. He summoned an eye spider, scratched spell glyphs on its top, and the eye spider ejected a small box from the side of its body.
Rime chanted the spell silently. Following his gestures, light golden sand grains floated out of the small box, flowing towards the three shield guards, slowly seeping in from the joints of their bodies.
After all the sand grains were submerged into the golem's body, slender threads changed from virtual to solid in the air, one side was the joints of the golem, and the other was the mage's fingertips.
Seeing this scene, Kalinger concentrated his attention and secretly marveled. This was the first time he saw the mage repairing the golem with his own eyes.
Rime threw down the wooden scepter, led the golem with his left hand, and drew various spell runes in the air with his right hand. The three golems first stopped moving, and then slowly resumed their stance for battle. One golem pulled out the distorted sword on the same kind, and then the three golems stood neatly, lined up, and slowly walked towards the Falling Moon Tower , back to the shelter where they were on standby.
After doing all this, the silk thread in the air is also gone. Wu Ri put down his hands, was silent for a moment, then turned and walked towards Kalinger.
"You..." Wu Ri found that her voice lacked confidence, and she couldn't finish her sentence for a while.
Kalinger answered immediately: "The sheriff is dead."
Rime froze for a moment.
"He hid, the food you gave didn't arrive in time, he attacked the family. I killed him," Kalinger said.
Wu Ri nodded lightly: "It turned out to be him..."
Kalinger asked: "You only know that an infected body has left the forest, but you don't know who it is?"
"Well. I only know the approximate range..." He slowly opened his eyes wide as he spoke, "Wait, just now... what did you say?"
"I said the Sheriff's dead. It's the Marlowe."
Rime took two steps forward and looked straight into Kalinger's eyes: "No... just now you said... food?"
Kalinger smiled: "Of course it is food. Yes, I can see that what you gave is not a medicine, let alone a medicine to prevent infection. It has no effect for humans to eat, but the infected body can use it to satisfy. Infection When the body is satisfied and comfortable, the desire to attack will decrease, and you will be lazy or even fall asleep... just like you did to other infected bodies in the mountains."
Rime seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. Kalinger felt that his expression had something to say.
Wu Ri said: "You know quite a lot... Yes, that's it. This is a magic potion."
"Is it just a magic potion?" Kalinger approached the elf, "Why don't you ask the outside world for help? Wouldn't it be good for everyone to develop a magic potion together? Besides, since there is an infected body, there must be a source of infection. Let's find a way together Is it not good to remove the source of infection?"
Being stared at by Kalinger, Wu Rime looked away instead. He didn't explain, turned his head and walked towards the Falling Moon Tower.
Kalinge followed closely behind: "It's not entirely my fault for the shield guard. I have always wanted to talk to you about serious matters, but you always have this attitude of rejecting people thousands of miles away. I am here for work, and you are also dealing with it." Infection from another world, we have the same goal, why can't we cooperate?"
"Because there is no need at all!" Wu Ri turned her head irritably, "The matter is almost over. Don't bother you to worry about it!"
Wu Ri lost the wooden scepter just now, and now, his steps are a little weak, and his eyes are dizzy for a while, maybe because he walked a little hurriedly for a while, coupled with the fatigue accumulated before...
Kalinger sensed that something was wrong with the elf. He asked "what's the matter with you", but the elf didn't answer, as if he didn't hear it at all.
Kalinge reached out and patted Wu Song's shoulder lightly. He had already noticed that Wu Song's footsteps were sloppy, so he paid special attention to the strength.
When his fingers touched the dark robe, Wu Rime suddenly fell forward. With quick hands and quick eyes, Kalinger grabbed the elf's waist and prevented him from falling directly to the ground.
Rime was not tripped, he passed out.
"It's so light." Kalinge picked up the elf and walked towards the Moonfall Tower. After walking a few steps, he thought again, the elf has passed out, so who will open the door for him
With no other choice, Kalinger had to go down the mountain.
With the magic lighting in the forest, Kalinger looked at the elf in his arms. The elf's skin was bloodless, and its head and limbs hung in a state of complete de-strength, like a puppet whose strings had been cut.
TBC