"If he doesn't come in, he can't be killed. We are trapped here!" Sass said with a sullen face.
"No, we're not trapped, let's go, let's go to the nodes of time and space together." Qin Lun said with a smile.
"So what if we go, we still need to pass the node of time and space..." Cora paused in the middle of speaking, and lowered her head in frustration.
"Listen, our husband and wife don't want everyone to kill each other, why don't we go outside and kill the guardian to see if we can break the magic of the space-time node, or think of other ways, what do you think?" Sass He looked at everyone vigilantly, with heavy guard in his eyes.
"Don't be nervous, Sass!" Qin Lun smiled and waved his hands, "Sill was the first to find the space-time node, but we still didn't do anything to you couple before, did we? Believe me, everyone goes to the space-time node first Take a look!"
"Then... okay!" Seth and Cora looked at each other, secretly relieved. In the world of Nars, 100 life soul points will be deducted for killing members of the same team. Since Qin Lun and others did not use the guardian to assassinate them before, they should not do it now.
The underwater corridor is not very long, and everyone soon came to the front of the node of time and space. This space-time node is like a huge underwater vortex, and the water flow is slowly turning like a millstone, but the surface is covered with a layer of colorful and mysterious light, like a silk veil.
When everyone entered within three meters of the space-time node, a soft female voice suddenly sounded in their minds.
"The crystal lake teleportation point has sensed visitors from the watch world, the identity of the intelligent race has been confirmed, and all six members meet the transmission criteria. The sealing circle will automatically close, please quickly pass the teleportation point for visitors from the watch world. Five minutes later, the sealing circle will resume Open it, and you will no longer be able to enter the inner world!"
"What's going on here?" Seth froze in shock, looking at Cora.
"The completion of the guidance task has reached 50%, and... the sacrifice requirements have been met!" Hill scanned the apostle's soul seal, and took a deep look at Qin Lun, "Unexpected changes... You are right! "
"It just happened to be right..." Qin Lun smiled faintly, and waved his hands to everyone, "You go in first, I'll be right over!"
After finishing speaking, Qin Lun awkwardly swam towards the exit of the underwater tunnel again.
"Woo..." Seeing Qin Lun's actions, Michelle's eyes widened in surprise. She is not an apostle, so she cannot speak in the team channel. When she opened her mouth, a string of bubbles popped out of her mouth. The centaur girl was about to turn around and chase after her, but Hansen grabbed her and shook her head slightly.
"Let me come first!" Relieving the trouble of killing each other, Sass's spirit was lifted, and he immediately showed the attitude that an MT should have, and was the first to swim to the water vortex at the teleportation point.
The vortex-shaped teleportation point quickly swept him away without a trace, but only ten seconds later, Sass poked out his upper body from the vortex again, and waved to everyone, signaling that the other end of the teleportation point was not in danger .
Everyone swam through the water vortex at the teleportation point one by one. Only the centaur girl and Hansen stayed where they were, waiting for Qin Lun's return.
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"Crash!" A few minutes later, the heads of Qin Lun and the others popped out of the water.
"Ahem!" Michelle's face turned pale, and she breathed heavily. Fortunately, the lung capacity of centaurs is much larger than that of ordinary humans, otherwise it would be difficult to persist for such a long time underwater. She has no legal body.
"Your Excellency Qin Lun, this way, this way!" Cora waved vigorously at the three of them on the shore of the lake. Excited, she even forgot Qin Lun's plot identity, and directly called out his real name.
Qin Lun shook his head helplessly, and turned to look around. This end of the teleportation point is also a lake, but the area is much smaller than the harbor in the Crystal Lake camping area.
The small lake is surrounded by a circle of meadows, to the south there is a small forest that can be seen through at a glance, and to the east is a small hillside, with lush green grass everywhere, dotted with various wild flowers in bright colors.
Hansen took the lead and swam towards the shore of the lake, Qin Lun and Michelle followed behind him slowly. Qin Lun's swimming skills are not good, and the centaur girl is because there is another huge "person" on the horse's back.
"You got all the guardians here, in case it wakes up... Ouch!" Seth saw the things on Michelle's back, and his bull's eyes widened again in surprise. It's just that before he could finish speaking, he was kicked by Cora, and he immediately stood aside in embarrassment, not daring to express his opinion.
"Qin Lun, how do you know that once the seal is broken, the guardian will lose its power? And that sacrifice requirement..." Cora shaved her husband severely, and asked with a smile on the team channel in a happy mood.
"The mission goal of Broken Starry Sky actually has false conditions!" Hill shook his head with a wry smile, "Qin Lun, why don't you explain it to us?"
"I want to know too!" Hansen wiped the water from his face and interjected lightly.
"Check this guardian, maybe you will know!" Qin Lun smiled and pointed to the "corpse" under his feet.
"He... is an apostle!" Seth squatted down, and was stunned as soon as he touched the guardian's body. The result of the inspection shocked him even more than the inexplicable fulfillment of the sacrifice requirement in the mission objective.
"Apostle?" Hill raised his eyebrows, and immediately bent over to check it, rubbing his chin and lost in thought. Compared with Sass, this old fox vaguely sensed the real answer to the mystery of Crystal Lake.
"Yes, the guardian is an apostle, or a former apostle who has lost his soul." Qin Lun slowly explained in the team channel, "Don't you find it strange that when the guardian fights with us, it appears as an entity. But using When the mist repaired the body, it showed supernatural laws, as if it were a… "
"Law body!" Hansen said with a flash of his eyes.
"Yeah!" Qin Lun nodded, "Ever since Hill found the space-time node and learned about the sacrifice requirements in the mission objective, I have been thinking about why the Broken Starry Sky is included in the first guiding mission of our newly established regiment. , gave such a highly targeted request to kill each other... "
"It's testing us!" Cora sighed and continued softly, "Or it's testing whether we can be as sincere and united as a real team!"
Hearing Cora's words, Hill's face was a little ugly, which was equivalent to giving him a heavy slap in the face. This has nothing to do with IQ. The task given by Broken Starry Sky is a test for ordinary teams, but for murderers, it is more like a nightmare.
If Qin Lun was not a special murderer, it would be difficult for him and Hansen to cross this psychological threshold.
"The sacrificial request in the guiding mission is actually not a false condition, but a smoke bomb. This sacrificial request does not belong to the Broken Starry Sky, but comes from the sealing circle at the teleportation point." Qin Lun said with a smile, "It requires We sacrifice 40% of our companions, and it seems that we need to kill each other, but in fact, this sacrifice requirement has already been satisfied."
"Could it be this guardian..." Hansen folded his arms thoughtfully.
"This guardian should be the apostle who entered Crystal Lake before, and his companions are probably dead. Although we belong to different teams, the sealing circle at the transmission point regards all apostles as the same type of people, so their Death has already met the sacrifice conditions for us."
Qin Lun sighed and said, "The magical power in the world of Nars is very powerful. This apostle's soul has long since disappeared, but a magician or the seal on the teleportation circle automatically captured the body of the law, turning him into a teleportation magic circle." Guardian of the Point!"
"No wonder I feel strong magical elements here!" Cora closed her eyes, spread her hands and felt carefully, "This inner world of Nars should be the real world of magic!"
"So, Michelle was able to pass through the teleportation point, could it be because of her father..." Seth frowned and looked at the centaur girl next to him.
"Well, for the series of tragedies in Crystal Lake back then, it is possible that the guardian's apostle team was hunting for something, maybe it was the magician who guarded the transfer point of Crystal Lake." Qin Lun touched his chin and nodded.
"In the end they were all killed, and the magician may have been severely injured. So out of helplessness, when he left, he transformed the apostle into a guardian to guard the teleportation circle on his behalf. The person who died in the investigation later The centaur police are probably the masterpieces of the guardians!" Qin Lun spread his hands and shrugged, "This can explain why Michelle can also enter this teleportation point."
"You...why are you all looking at me?" Michelle couldn't hear everyone's discussion on the team channel, looked at everyone with some anxiety, and asked softly, "Mr. Castro, you shouldn't be police detectives from Marseilles Bar!"
"Michelle, don't be afraid, we won't hurt you!" Cora took Michelle's arm and comforted softly, "You can see us as a group of superpowers, and here... is the world's superpowers. A place where capable users are concentrated. We came to the Crystal Lake camping area just to pass through the teleportation circle just now."
"Then can I go back?" Michelle asked with a sad face, "If I let my mother know that something happened to me, she will be worried to death!"
"Probably... yes!" Cora said uncertainly, "Judging from the federal government's ban and Sheriff Maloof's reaction, they should have contact with the other world, at least they can tell you that you are safe and sound." Pass it on to your mother!"
"Oh!" Michelle breathed a sigh of relief and slowly calmed down.
As everyone gradually clarified the ins and outs of the whole incident, the prompt message of Broken Starry Sky sounded in their apostle soul seals at the right time...