[Player Qi Leren, start the mission: Queen's Inheritance]
[Mission Background: Hundreds of years ago, the first batch of demon ant queens gnawed at the gap between the two worlds with their own talents and skills, and established their own kingdom in a huge underground cave. The queen ant killed her competitors and became the only queen. Every queen since then has inherited this field in the same mysterious and unknown way, until this time, an accident happened. The dragon ant queen is getting old, but the chosen heir is assassinated to death, which symbolizes that the holy flame of the domain's existence is about to be extinguished, and there is still a glimmer of life before everything goes irreversible.]
[The first step of the Queen's Inheritance Mission: Find the Dragon Ant Queen]
[Data synchronization countdown, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, synchronization complete.]
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Qi Leren opened his eyes and nervously looked for Ning Zhou. Fortunately, Ning Zhou was not teleported to other places, but stood beside him. The two held hands together at the same time, and breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.
Just in the middle of last night, the Twilight Township Trial Office sent the executive officer Miaoli to arrive at the underground Ant City with the prophet's letter. This matter was entrusted to Qi Leren and Ning Zhou. Set off to the palace of the Dragon Ant Queen.
The palace of the Dragon Ant Queen is located at the border of the underground ant city. The queen has set up a special teleportation point, which can directly transport people into the palace. After all, this is her domain, and she has extraordinary control over this land.
The guardian of the teleportation point is a Holy Fire virgin, she is wearing priestly clothes, and her eyes are covered with a black patch, as if she was born without vision. According to legend, the virgins of the holy fire guard the holy fire that symbolizes the survival of the underground ant city. They follow strict precepts, almost never contacting the opposite sex for life, and they are not allowed to hurt each other, let alone take off their blindfolds, otherwise they will be severely punished.
These holy fire virgins enjoy a lofty status in the underground ant city, and the queen grants them power, but the price is that they will not be free for life.
The Virgin of the Holy Fire checked the Prophet's handwriting with her hands, and kindly reminded them that no one has come out of it since the Dragon Ant Queen's inheritance ceremony began.
"This is unusual." The Holy Fire Virgin said meaningfully, "You may be in danger after entering."
Although the well-meaning Virgin of the Holy Fire warned them, the two still insisted on entering, so she gave them a pass, sent someone to open the teleportation array, and told them the direction of the palace—going west, in the huge underground tomb The westernmost part of the city, near the fissure where the holy fire is burning, is the queen's palace.
After a burst of white light, Qi Leren and Ning Zhou received a new quest prompt, which seemed to be a quest with several links, but think about the second step of the main quest that was triggered when entering Purgatory [The Demon King's Sacrifice] ]... This [Queen's Inheritance] is not scary anymore.
First...to find the Dragon Ant Queen.
But in front of him is a city shrouded in mist. Oil lamps are lit on the streets and corners, and the dim lights are faintly visible in the deep fog. But looking up, the West could not see the light of the holy fire that the virgin of the holy fire said.
"Is this the palace of the Dragon Ant Queen?" Qi Leren asked wonderingly, it was completely different from what he had imagined.
"It's also her mausoleum," Ning Zhou said.
People in Qi Le remembered that the dragon ant queens of all ages had been building a mausoleum for herself since she ascended the throne, and spent more than 20 years building her palace into a huge underground city. Here she exercises her power, and here she rests forever.
[1113.]
A number prompt appeared suddenly, Qi Le was stunned for a moment, looked at Ning Zhou, Ning Zhou nodded, indicating that he also received it.
"Here is..." Qi Leren just wanted to say that there is something weird here, but the Yuying released by Ning Zhou has already called out: "Enemy attack, enemy attack!"
In the mist not far away, a strange creature crawled vaguely.
Qi Leren held his breath, and his right hand had already tightly grasped the gun Chen Baiqi gave him.
Hearing a strange sound of "tearing", the monster hiding in the shadow suddenly rushed out, rushing towards Qi Leren like lightning! Ning Zhou protected Qi Leren behind him, and with a wave of the Judgment Sword in his hand, the sharp blade split the monster in half in an instant.
Two puddles of ooze fell to the ground, gurgling out dirty blood.
"What is this? A demon?" Qi Leren glanced at the ooze on the ground, a little disgusted.
"...It's a demon." Ning Zhou said.
Demons, ordinary people can easily confuse demons with demons, but the two are actually not the same kind of creatures. The main base of the demons is in the Demon Realm on the other side of the gap between the two worlds, but the origin of the demons has not yet been resolved. Their existence history is much shorter than that of the demons, and most of them are concentrated in the area of the underground ant city. Demons are mostly rational, but demons rarely have the ability to recognize behaviors, and they don't even have human-like shapes. They are creatures completely dominated by desires. Killing and eating are the meaning of their lives.
An endless stream of monsters attacked the underground ant city once a month, causing a lot of trouble to the underground city. Even the Dragon Ant Queen has nothing to do with these creatures that frequently invade her domain. She can only organize the subjects and the army of soldiers and ants to light up the flames and jointly resist the invasion of this group of monsters.
In the mist, this mausoleum belonging to the current Dragon Ant Queen is full of hidden monsters. The Qi Le people are sure that the Dragon Ant Queen may be in big trouble, otherwise it would be impossible to let monsters run amok in her tomb.
Where did these monsters come from? no one knows.
There is no map of Queen Dragon Ant's palace. It is said to be the palace here, but it is actually more like a huge underground city. During the queen's healthy period, there were few people living in it. Instead, it was constantly expanding, as if to build a complete palace for the queen. The afterlife.
"The queen's residence is in the west, that direction." Qi Le grabbed Ning Zhou who was walking south, and pointed in the opposite direction.
Yuying on Ning Zhou's shoulder let out a cheap titter, and was rushed by Ning Zhou to explore the way.
Qi Leren looked at the expressionless Ning Zhou, and felt amused in his heart. It wasn't the first day he knew that Ning Zhou was easy to get lost. He got lost when he was doing the mission of offering sacrifices to the witch. But this kind of shortcoming is really cute in the eyes of Qi Leren who has a love filter.
On the way to the west, there are monsters hiding in the mist everywhere. If only Qi Le came here, I am afraid that he has fallen into a huge crisis at this time, because these monsters have strange abilities, some can be invisible, Some can transform, some can be disguised as plants, and there are even many monster lairs, which look like a collapsed deep well, with monsters constantly emerging from it.
Ning Zhou's combat experience is much richer than that of Qi Le's. With his response, the two moved forward smoothly, but the inexplicable number has dropped from 1113 to 1109.
"This should be the number of people." After a long silence, the people of Qi Le expressed this well-known guess.
Ning Zhou nodded.
This declining number is telling them that the human beings in this underground tomb—maybe there are also demons—faced the crisis of being wiped out by the endless and ever-increasing demons.
The two traveled all the way west amidst the many crises, and the time has passed from morning to afternoon, and then night. Although the underground time cannot distinguish between day and night, after eight o'clock in the evening, the monsters enter a state of excitement, and the number is far greater than in the morning.
The people of Qi Le were also tired, and the palace was still hidden in the mist. They didn't know how long they would have to walk, so Ning Zhou suggested to rest for a while. The two walked into a house in a street at random, and Ning Zhou opened The enchantment hides the figures of the two to avoid being harassed by demons.
"Actually, I don't know what the difference is between the barriers. The barrier you set up in the Garden of the Holy Sepulchre seemed to be one-way, and it didn't prevent me from going out, but the barrier used by Mrs. Catherine in the underground casino was different. It's two-way, can't you get in or out?" Qi Le people thought of Mrs. Catherine and asked casually.
"Well, there is a difference." Ning Zhou asked, "Do you want to listen?"
"... Is it very long?" Qi Leren keenly felt that this was a big topic.
"I studied it when I was in the Holy See, for about a month." Ning Zhou said.
"Forget it, let's talk about something else." Qi Leren refused to waste time on learning knowledge, he wanted to use the time to talk to Ning Zhou.
"Okay." Ning Zhou said.
Qi Leren pursed his lips, choked for a long time, and choked out a sentence: "Are you hungry?"
"Um."
"Then I'll cook something to eat."
"good."
Qi Leren felt a burst of despair for his brain that could not fall in love. Resignedly, he took out the cooking utensils in the inventory and started cooking. This time the time was not tight, so he slowly fried steak for Ning Zhou , He had never cooked Western food before, and it really failed. He quickly pulled the fried steak to the plate in front of him: "I'll fry another piece for you!"
"Let me do it." Ning Zhou probably couldn't stand it any longer, so he took the pan and came by himself.
Qi Leren was studying silently at the side, watching Ning Zhou fry the steak, it was just right, and even fried two eggs, one for each person. Before Qi Leren could pick up the fried steak in front of him, Ning Zhou had already put the medium-rare steak on his place, and took the fried steak away.
"That's fried." Qi Leren wanted to snatch it back.
"I want to eat."
"Half of that person."
Ning Zhou shook his head: "I want to eat whatever you cook."
At this moment, a firework exploded in Qi Leren's heart. The inexplicable joy and excitement made him want to rush out of the barrier and run to the street in the mist, shouting to the whole world, "My lover is the best in the world" , even if the audience is a group of monsters who want to suck his brains dry.
This kind of Qi Leren, who was brainwashed by love hormones, smiled throughout the meal, with a sticky feeling that people in love do not know. He even felt that eating and sleeping outside was not hard at all, because in Here, they can fall asleep under the same blanket as a matter of course.
Yu Ying, who had been letting the wind outside, also flew back, passed through the barrier unhindered at all, and reported the situation outside to Ning Zhou. After the steak was not left for it, Yuying squawked angrily and chased the Qile people to beg for rations. Ning Zhou gave it ordinary bird food, but it refused very proudly: "Don't eat junk food!"
In the end, Yuying didn't eat anything, and just harassed the two of them around, until Ning Zhou took a deep look at it, and it finally died down, squatting in the corner sullenly eating bird food. Eyes full of resentment stared at the young couple who were having a lively conversation.
So angry, I had to eat bird food to relieve my fire!
PS: The prototype of the Holy Fire Maiden is the Virgin of Vesta in Rome (I have always suspected that the prototype of the Fireproof Maiden in the Black Soul series is the Virgin of Vesta). They are responsible for guarding the holy fire. Once the holy fire is extinguished, it means that the city is in crisis, but Weiss The virgins of the tower do not need to be blindfolded, and the blindfold is required for the plot.