322.Chapter 320 319 Gold and Dead Bones of the Xike Death Domain

Chapter 320 319.The Gold and Dead Bones of the West Ke Death Domain
Happy Stick’s treasure hunting program has been a long time coming.

Back in the day when he dug up the first gangster vault from the sewers of Scarlet Castle and got information about the Blood Vulture Arsenal, he had been trying to activate this secret treasure quest from Lord Murphy here.

However, this quest has a prerequisite that the internal reputation of the Blood Vulture Clan must reach the rank of “Family Knight”, and this level of reputation was not opened until after the Wolfsbane invasion not long ago, so I don’t blame Brother Stick for being slow to take action, but really, the progress of the game is stuck here so that he can’t do anything about it.

This time followed the winged cavalry instructor to the count of Xike for training is a good opportunity, plus he and small rich brother spent tens of thousands of gold coins from the small count of Xue Lun here to get Xike City underground vault drawings and information, just fist rubbing palms waiting for this wave of excavation completed a night of wealth.

That is to say, Rod was small rich brother funded the establishment of a company, so far almost no output, although the small rich brother does not urge him, but Rod himself is under great pressure, he is a pretty high requirements for their own guys, always think that they must make a little bit of achievement in order to hand over the work.

But Happy Stick does not know the “inside story” of Xike City, Murphy and Xue Lun also did not tell the players the news of the undead legion hidden under the ruins, so far, this is not yet open to the “backstory”.

The lack of information has cast a shadow over the Happy Stick’s treasure hunt since before it began.

The worst part was that Happy Stick himself didn’t realize this! It was still happily waiting to make a fortune. Therefore, by the time they arrived outside of Xike City in the afternoon of the second day, Stick and his subordinates were immersed in the joy of being “rich” and knew almost nothing about the real threat in front of them.

The “Big Bird Turning Group”, with whom they had agreed to work together to develop this secret treasure, had also set up camp nearby and was waiting.

The Woo Meow Brother’s group traveled in a very foreign way.

Although they are not vampires and can’t fly, they have a special “Stone Ghost Civilian Airliner”, which is big enough to carry all the team members for a quick trip, so Woo Meow Brother just left from Scarlet Castle this morning, but arrived at the destination earlier than Happy Stick.

After Instructor Valander announced the dismissal of the group, Stick immediately brought his men to join Woo Meow’s team, and when they arrived at the campsite in a cavalry formation, Woo Meow’s special “Heavenly Eye” Smokey Sang had just completed a psychic reconnaissance of the ruins of the city in front of them.

The expression on the man with the sobbing stubble wasn’t too pretty.

“The situation over there is very quiet, very much in line with the environment of a ruined city that has been abandoned for two years and no one has set foot in it, and it even reminds me of the scenery of some apocalyptic wastelands.”

Smoksan rubbed his chin as Stick approached, clutching his cavalry helmet and dismounting from his horse, and spoke to Brother Whoop Meow and Stick:

“Most of the buildings in Xike City are still intact, only the defense part of the city was completely damaged, the gates are shattered all over the place, and I can see with my scrying magic that much of the city is filled with gray-green smoke.

That would be the remnants of the psychic plague, which I have marked on the map.

Those areas are ones you should never enter.

I consulted my mentor, who had worked in the Tower of the Ring before, and he warned me that not even Silver-ranked warriors are immune to the terrible effects of the Psychic Plague, and that we would die within five minutes of stepping inside.

The good news, however, is that the road to the Bank of Westcorp is not blocked by the plague, and I’ve just mapped out a safe path that will allow you to rush in at the shortest possible speed.

But I can’t do any detective work on what’s going on inside the bank, I haven’t learned the advanced skill of using the reverberation of psychic energy to detect the interior of a building, so you’ll just have to improvise once you’re inside.

And since where you’re going is underground, my advice is to be careful, in case something goes wrong it’ll be hard to escape again.”

“What about the enemies in the city?”

Stick asked cautiously:

“Have you found anything to focus on?”

“There is! There are ghoul-like things that roam around the plague areas of the city in very large numbers but they are wandering blindly so don’t mess with them it shouldn’t be too much of a problem, there are also weird flying creatures that look like decaying birds flying through the sky of the city in swarms, it’s a defense against the air that is almost impossible for even vampires to break through with their wings.

The good news though is that the psionic environment here is stable so far so you don’t have to worry about monsters that don’t match the strength of this place.”

Smoke Sand explained expertly:
“According to my mentor Heru’s explanation, monsters with too outrageous values are usually not born in places with stable spiritual energy environments, unless this is a mega-scale camouflage boundary in itself, however the chances of that possibility appearing are too small, with Xicao City destroyed, it’s not like this place is a strategic location.

Still, my understanding of psychic energy is only at the apprentice stage right now, so I might have missed some details.

So the advice I can give is not to go all the way in!
Leave some people outside to take over, so that if something happens inside it won’t be a total loss.”

“This is natural, I will leave some people behind.”

Brother Stick nodded and received the city map that Smoke Sang handed to him that planned safe passages and dangerous areas, he opened it and took a look at it and was very satisfied with the results of Smoke Sang’s work, and thought in his heart that maybe he should also train professional scouting psychic masters for his own team, these guys can overlook the situation of the vicinity of a few kilometers from the sky, and it is simply a walking “humanoid radar! These guys can look down from the sky at the nearby situation for several kilometers, simply a walking “human radar”.

“Smoke Sang, and Qu, you two stay outside the city.”

Brother Woo Meow also made arrangements.

He handed the green Gneiss Heart to Qu and instructed:
“After we go in, Smoke Sang maintains observation of the city’s interior at all times, and once a problem is detected you two immediately ride this to our rescue.”

“No problem!”

Qu gestured an OK sign.

The guy was becoming more and more of a sharpshooter now, and he’d found himself a tawdry cowboy hat to cover half his face, a face scarf to cover his mouth in the same classic fashion as Sister Marianne’s, and a cowhide cartridge chain to tie around his body with a large-caliber revolver to his left and right on each side.

The main weapon was a precision-calibrated witch-hunting rifle, and a trench gun modeled after the “Hammer Guard” that Sister Marianne had ordered.

They were armed to the teeth, so to speak.

As one of the top teams in the game at the moment, Brother Meow Meow knows that sharpening a sword is never a bad idea, and has always spared no expense in arming his own brothers.

This can be seen from the “unbreakable” heavy shield and “undefeatable” war hammer carried in the hands of Sanwu Dou, this is the game’s current players can get the most top-stream equipment, to the gold level do not have to change the weapon of God.

Of course, this is also the biggest reason why Brother Stick is looking for Brother Mewtwo to cooperate in treasure hunting, he must find players who can save the day at critical moments, and there is no doubt that Brother Mewtwo’s Big Bird Troupe is such a player.

These guys were expensive, but expensive naturally had its reasons.

“Let’s go, let’s enter the city!”

Happy Stick gave an order.

His thirty handpicked subordinates and Brother Woo Meow’s group of five rolled onto their horses and galloped towards the ruins of Xike City ahead that revealed an uneasy gloom in the pale sunlight of the afternoon.

“To be honest, I’m a bit uneasy.”

As Qu watched this large group of “secret hunters” run towards the land of wealth and death, he rubbed his brow and said to Smoke Sang:

“The closer we get to Xicor City, the more uneasy I get, there seems to be a voice reminding me not to step in, as you know, we are all Avalon believers now, and Father Eugene has repeatedly warned us that the God of Avalon will give warnings when his believers are in danger.”

“So what else can you do?”

Smoksan rolled his eyes and pulled out his beloved phylactery and clasped it in his hand as he said:

“These guys are all mesmerized by gold, they can’t even listen to advice right now, besides, we all live three days at a time, if something really goes wrong it’s just a matter of enduring it for three days.

Let’s not talk about this. How about the stewardess that was introduced to you before? Didn’t you say that your family is urging you to go on a blind date?”

Hearing this question, Qu rolled his helpless eyes.

He spat in a low voice:

“Flight attendants are good, good in all aspects, even a little too good, but not so good by the standards of a blind date…”

“Why?”

Smoke Sang asked curiously, Qu shrugged and whispered:

“Isn’t the reason stated? Live too well.

So good that I’m a little afraid to go on, you see, I’m a normal man, right? I’m not in the habit of cuckolding myself or being a catch.”

“Ch, old feudal! It’s called eroticism don’t you know? But you have a point, what decent man would pay for an eight-handed bus.”
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Xike City used to be the capital of the Transylvania region, and the location of the capital of the entire Portia Confederacy, and to be able to sit on such a title was ample proof of the affluence and prosperity that this place once had.

Not to mention, even though this place had already become a ruin, its current city area, which was still intact, was still three times the size of Scarlet Fortress.

Of course, from another perspective, with both places in ruins, having to compare the pile of ruins to be more perfect was obviously a very boring move.

The secret hunters quickly traveled through the dead city, riding their horses through the empty streets with no one in sight, following the safe route that Smoke Sang had mapped out as they galloped along.

Along the way, they could see houses collapsed in the war and strange holes left in the stone because of the corrosion of the plague, and there were still traces of the chaos before the city was broken and some blood stains that could not be cleaned on the streets.

But what was disturbing was that they did not see a single intact body in the entire abandoned city.

It seemed that
It seemed that someone had deliberately “cleaned” this place after the disaster.

“I’m feeling a little gross.”

Brother Woo Meow vigilantly gripped the Witch’s Staff in his hand and the imitation Holy Blade at his waist, as an Oak Knight who would become a Red Knight in the future, he passively possessed the talent of [Junior Weapon Master] after his transformation, allowing him to skillfully use a variety of weapons in combat.

Of course, this was only a talent, and not the same concept as the “Weapon Master” profession that Cat was pursuing now.

After Brother Meow Meow stepped into the ruins of Xike City, the natural spiritual energy aura that always accompanied him was severely weakened, making it difficult for him to recognize the hidden dangers around him through his senses, which made the Oak Knight’s heart become increasingly uneasy, and his four brothers were all looking left and right as he was a bit nervous.

Not only them, the members of Stick’s team with higher perception attributes would also look suspiciously at those abandoned buildings that had long been uninhabited, as if there was always a pair of eyes staring at them behind those windows sealed with wooden boards.

“Shit! This ghost place!”

Happy Stick cursed, he was also annoyed.

This annoyance didn’t just come from the action itself of stepping in knowing that there was danger, but also from the perception of danger that transcendent beings like vampires possessed themselves.

He knew he had to move faster and then evacuate as fast as he could.

There was no staying here for long.

The good news was that after speeding through the city, they arrived without much hindrance at the street that housed the Bank of Westcott City, the most damaged part of the entire city besides the industrial area.

Previously, when Little Earl Sherron sold the information about the underground vault of the West Ke City Bank to Stick, he had reminded him that after the Pioneer Legion had broken the city with the plague, all the visible wealth in the entire bank area had been looted by those bastards, and that only the deepest underground vault had remained untouched.

There was a psychic lock there that had to be opened with a Sicor family key, and that key was sitting in Stick’s personal pocket at the moment.

“Pro! You take the newcomers and guard here! We’ll be back in half an hour at most!”

Rod shouted to his lieutenant as he jumped off his horse in front of the ruins of the bank that looked as if it had been shelled.

He didn’t dare to delay any longer and rushed into the ruins of the bank with the other eight brothers of the Tiger and Leopard Riders and the five of Brother Woo Meow, and after they left, the twenty newcomers of the Hammering Regiment also rode their horses and patrolled the surrounding area very consciously.

This scene was all caught in the eyes of Smoke Sang outside the city with his Scouting Technique, while Brother Qu had already unleashed the Heart of the Stone Ghost to converge the bodies of the constructed creatures with stone and was ready to rise up in the air to receive them.

The Pathfinder Legion’s looting of Sike City two years ago had been very thorough, but the good news was that after that kind of looting, Stick wouldn’t have to spend any more time searching for a way to the vaults below.

The passageway was just plainly there, as if a black beast’s mouth that had been blown open with gunpowder to the underground was waiting to swallow the greedy adventurers in one gulp.

“Everyone take these teleportation scrolls, if something goes wrong and you can’t escape in a moment, you can just tear the scrolls and go back to Scarlet Fort.”

Before going down to the vault, Stick took out from his bag the scrolls he had bought from Lady Tris before he left and distributed them to everyone.

Everyone held it in their hands with a look of disgust.

Obviously because this thing comes with a 1% chance of losing control makes everyone very uneasy, the previous tragic experience of the car car is enough to give anyone who is ready to use the teleportation scroll a lesson worth remembering, it is said that the poor car car because of that “star world journey” have left a bad psychological shadow, say anything not to try the NPC teleportation service again! The NPC’s teleportation service is not to be tried again.

“Don’t scare yourself, maybe there’s nothing down there?”

Brother Meowmeow braced himself to tell a joke, only to be scorned by the others.

Everyone followed the passage and fishtailed down the spiral staircase made of marble all the way down, not stopping at the first floor at all but going straight to the large vault on the second floor.

This process was quite smooth, except for a few black rats that were more than a meter long running around in the darkness, there was almost nothing else that would make a sound.

Rod to find the vault is also very conspicuous, the other vaults have been blown open by violent means but only the deepest vault intact, surrounded by traces of explosions and a few bundles of undetonated explosives, but that weighs several tons of iron door did not leave any traces of destruction.

“Its psychic lock is still full of energy!”

Brother Woo Meow went up and sensed it, and immediately turned back to Brother Bang with an ecstatic expression:

“This proves that it hasn’t been opened in these two years, and the gold inside is intact! Quick, open it and see what’s inside!”

“Take it easy.”

Rod also let out a long breath, his greatest fear was that he would get nothing after paying so much, but he still had to put on a steady as a mountain demeanor, and went forward to take out the key given by Little Xue Lun and insert it into that lock hole.

Along with the seventeen runes of the psychic key lighting up one by one, the heavy steel door slowly opened.

In the crowd’s expectant gaze, a golden light that one couldn’t ignore exploded in this dimly lit place.

Of course, gold itself would not glow!
Even more gold piled up together could not emit light, the reason for that golden light floating was because there was a circle of Spiritual Energy Guardian’s spiritual light flickering in the treasure trove, making the gold bars neatly yards together reflect a seven-colored dazzling light, and this scene made all the players in front of them forget to cheer or even breathe.

They stood dumbfounded in place, looking at the amazing wealth in front of them that had been unearthed by their own hands.

In fact, the gold bars stored in this vault was not much, after all, it was only one of the treasures in Xike’s financial treasury, and even less than one tenth of the family’s wealth compared to the Blood Vulture Cloisters, but this was already a super treasure that could not be described in words for the players!
Little Count Sherron hadn’t lied to them!
There really was treasure here!
Although he didn’t understand the exchange ratio between gold bars and gold coins, these gold bars were roughly estimated to be worth less than 500,000 gold coins, and according to the exchange ratio of 1:10, that’s 5 million RMB?
Uh, that doesn’t seem like a lot.

At least for the little rich brother that level this is not a big amount of money, but the rod brother at least can come up with the results to soothe his recent period of time is too heavy work pressure.

“Move!”

He barked an order!
The other fellows rushed into the vault like wild dogs off the leash to throw those gold bricks into the specially prepared psychic energy bags, but just as everyone was gleefully loading the gold bars, Little Hand, who had the highest perception in the place, suddenly twitched his ears, and while he decisively dodged into the shadows, he pulled on Brother Whimpering Meow and said:
“Did you hear anything? It seems like someone is coming in . In the back!”

“Bang.”

As soon as the words fell something heavy hit the ground in the back.

Making Brother Stick turn around abruptly, he saw the tattered bodies of the brothers who stayed behind at the entrance of the second floor basement being smashed hard on the ground, and a figure in gold clothes and armor, holding a skeleton giant hammer, slowly stepped out from the darkness.

“This earth will not allow anything to be taken from it again! Any! Bandits, weep!”

The guy roared, the giant hammer in its hand smashing out to send the brother beside Happy Stick flying out, followed by large swathes of chilly mist rising from all around, from which densely-packed grievous spirits came swooping out.

This scene saw Happy Stick’s cold hairs stand up, he and the surrounding brothers immediately drew their weapons and prepared to make a final resistance.

“Fuck ah! I knew it wouldn’t go this smoothly, every pile of treasure is bound to have a guard, right? This mechanism design sucks!”

(End of chapter)