Chapter 243: Hooked.
Chapter 242 Hooked
The brown-haired dwarf’s name was One-Eyed Jayne.
His left eye had been scratched and blinded by a wild animal, and a faintly glowing glass ball was embedded in it.
Now he was sweating profusely from the pain, and with his only remaining eye he stared at the elf in front of him who floated in the air as if he were a phantom, and then at the skeleton wearing a red bandana, and for a moment his thoughts raced.
“We’re guards hired by the archaeological team, who are you people!?”
The other party had crossed the tripwire and magical traps he had set up in front of the door, and had obviously come prepared.
“He said he’s a bodyguard hired by the archaeological team.”
Daelin turned back to Mr. Xia.
A bodyguard?
Bodyguard Nima’s bodyguard!
Mr. Xia held down his dagger, he just hated not having enough vocabulary.
Now the so-called “give up market share”, but just let the past has been eating the empty salary of the two five to do work.
Darlene drifted to the other side of the room with interest and looked into Jayne’s eyes.
This year’s president was the famous dwarven archaeologist Ian Hoddle.
“Oh.”
The strangest thing about the other party’s entire body was this glowing eye.
Most importantly, it was handsome!
With a little DIY on this color, it’s a prosthetic eye that bubbles red!
But the dwarf’s mood at the moment was not relaxed at all.
Mr. Xia: “This doesn’t need to be translated”
This organization was basically infiltrated cleanly by the Lion King’s people down below, except for the top.
So he could only dryly throw out a sentence:
“He’s lying, he’s got problems.”
In the original plot, he pretty much walked onto the stage after the disaster erupted, and was a small leader in the Gullivern Mountain replica group.
The other guy reveals half of his biggest secret in a few words.
As for the one in front of him, Mr. Xia vaguely remembers that his name is One-Eye or something.
But with the outbreak of the Void Catastrophe, the Lion King’s manpower quickly retreated back to Veritas and voluntarily ceded its trade in the region, and the Scintillating Gold Alliance rose from the dead.
“Yes.”
The two chatted back and forth, completely throwing Jayne to the side.
Daelin poofed out a laugh, then repeated Jayne’s words.
Jayne hurriedly said, “I’m really an escort, I have a practicing certificate issued by the Shimmering Gold Alliance, you can all look through my stuff, I swear on my father’s name, I’m definitely a proper escort!”
“Is that some kind of magic prop? Why didn’t you dig it out just now?”
Jayne immediately replied in a broken generic language:
–Really, it’s a two-fifty.
In everything related to the copy, the humanoid creatures were basically dwarves who had rebelled against the Shimmering Gold Alliance.
What the hell is this person ……
Mr. Xia thought to himself.
Darin: “He said he ……”
He didn’t know how to spell an academic term like “Space Homeostasis Observation Device”, and he didn’t understand the player’s hackneyed term “engineer’s eye”.
The only reason he remembers it is because the other player drops “Engineer’s Eye”.
This is a pan-commercial organization established by the Dwarf Totemist Guild and the Archaeology Guild, with the aim of preserving the traditional culture of the Dwarves as well as independently exploiting the relics that are widely distributed in the southern mountains.
It was the first time Mr. Xia heard the term “Scintillating Alliance” in the common language, so he asked about it.
Daelin drifted back and asked again with gusto:
“So it’s his eyes that are the problem?”
This thing was used to detect rifts and belonged to the necessary props after the version update.
Although he wasn’t a plot party, he still knew about the Scintillating Gold Alliance’s full complement of two-fifths.
It was a pity that the organization had been severely suppressed by the Lion King Trading House in the past, and had reached the point where they had to sell their old antiques to make ends meet.
“He said you lied!”
Mr. Xia: “Translate translate translate, his accent is too heavy”
“How do you know everything, are you really just an undead?”
“…… I can read universal language.”
“I really”
“Because there’s no need for that, it’s not a threat”
After all, even the rest of the camp thought his fake eyes were decorations!
By then the whole black trench coat and sunglasses, and a living player with a full forge point to get a Winchester M1887 model, proper T-800!
“Who’s your handler?”
He asked, getting right to the point.
The reason he was here was because a day ago, the Split Toe Clan had received a mysterious commission.
A wounded griffin had traveled through a hidden rift in the air and delivered a letter of commission signed “Hops” to the Rift Toe Clan, along with a deposit.
The party claims to be archaeologizing at a site in the mountains, and the operation is about to end.
However, he knew that there were multiple teams out there to ambush him, so he asked for the help of the Zanros.
If it was just that, Mr. Xia and Arthur wouldn’t care, instead, they would think if this dwarf was crazy, sick and desperate like this.
However, the deposit sent by the other party was actually the gold bars they had spent a while ago, which was worth playing with. This was, after all, Goldtooth’s legacy.
Apparently, this “Hops” guy had deliberately recovered it from the market, investigated its origin and returned it to its user.
That’s why Mr. Xia decided to come here to see what the other party was selling.
…
Faced with such a direct question from him, a flash of horror flashed in Jayne’s eyes and he immediately returned:
“I’m employed by Master Halgen of the Shimmering Gold Alliance, but I’m just a logistician who stays outside, I …… ah ah ah ah–“
Teacher Xia cut off his other two fingers.
This time one of his hands became bare.
“You still have five fingers.”
Jayne gritted his teeth, “I’m really just a logistician, I don’t even have the right to follow them into the relics, if you have a grudge against Master Halgen, you shouldn’t make things difficult for a little person like me!”
Although he couldn’t hear much, he didn’t need to translate Mr. Xia to know that he was talking tough.
Still denting his persona at a time like this, it was really hard.
“There’s something wrong with your energizer stone.”
He simply said it openly.
“You’re the last survivor of the four camps on this mountain. Ask her.”
Jayne looked as if she didn’t believe him, but Darlene, who had been given the chance to speak, was already excited and started talking.
“He didn’t lie to you, the kind of totems that emit white light in your camp can defend against the weaker beasts, but they are more like a tonic for the stronger beasts.
“We’ve been to the first three camps where the people fell, they attacked each other around the totems under the control of the strange beasts until the last one fell too.
“As for this camp, those of your men ……”
She looked over at Mr. Xia, “Nuh-uh, they’ve all been killed by this guy, but they’re already showing signs of being under control, and you’re supposed to be the one with the least symptoms – you were supposed to be having nightmares just now, too, right?”
Jayne gulped uneasily.
The persistence in his face was gone.
Yes, he did just have a nightmare …… a long time ago.
Mr. Xia said at the right time:
“You’re not toolmen, you’re the bait that feeds the tools.”
“The people above you know you can’t take on Halgen, that’s why you’re doing this.”
Jayne was still hesitating when a low hiss suddenly came from outside.
A shudder ran through his soul.
“You watch.”
Mr. Xia threw down a sentence and drilled out of the tent carrying a toilet plunger.
Confirming that he had indeed left, Jayne then shakily picked up the severed finger on the ground and removed the ring to put it on what was left of his hand.
A healing glow emanated from the ring as his injuries slowly scabbed over and his pale face improved.
He hurriedly slumped to the doorway and peeked out.
A giant tall-legged spider slowly approached the Soul Vigilance totem in the middle of the camp.
Its body was nearly transparent, as if it was carved out of crystal, not like a monster at all, but rather like an exquisite work of art.
But as it got closer and closer, Jayne got a good look at its abdomen.
It was as if a hideous, twisted face had piled up on top of it, like ripples rippling through the water, dissolving at any moment and reappearing elsewhere in the blink of an eye.
There was no shortage of people he recognized in there ……
Jayne’s heart stuttered.
That guy …… wasn t lying!
“Survivor ……”
An unfamiliar realization squeezed rudely into his thoughts, as if greeting his food affectionately.
“Don’t move, I’m coming for you ……”
As if sensing him, the spider suddenly twisted its head and darted over!
Fear and despair overwhelmed Jayne like a tidal wave, and the will to live made him crawl backwards desperately!
However, hiss-
The tent was split in two by the sharp spider legs, and the transparent spider feet with barbs were nailed around him like javelins.
Jayne realized with horror that he was trapped in a cage.
His body stiffened completely, as if all his courage had been doused as if it had been quenched.
All he could do was watch as his opponent’s mouthpiece stretched open, revealing the chaotic gray swirls at its innermost reaches.
Then, his soul was pulled, and his entire body fell like a cloud, and his consciousness became indistinct.
Just as he was about to fall, the spider let out a hiss of pain!
Snapping his eyes open, he saw a dagger sticking out of the spider’s abdomen.
The flesh there quickly withered and crumpled.
At the same moment, a figure carrying a silver plunger leapt high into the air, a dark purple glow covering the discarded weapon in his hand before stabbing it viciously into the monster’s mouth!
For a brief moment, Jayne did feel a twinge of sympathy rise for the monster.
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(End of chapter)