The Age of Machines

Chapter 976 Curse
"Wow, this is the first time I've seen her in this situation."

Lollipop was summoned urgently by the fan, and standing in front of Elena's bed, seeing her like this, Lollipop couldn't help being surprised.

"Can't the fan purify?"

"Hmm. Kind of weird."

"Why is it strange?" Lollipop, who had just arrived, was at a loss.But don't rush to get answers from them.Although this Yi Lianna is just an NPC, but looking at it like this is quite pitiful.If they were really demonized, how would they get their command?
If he could save her life, this Rez would definitely be grateful to them.

Lollipop was thinking like this, the sacred scepter in his hand was facing Elena's injured wrist, the faint light flickered among the gemstones, Lollipop murmured a few words, and the light burst into full bloom, filling the entire wooden house .

Due to the management of the guild and other reasons, Wan Shan rarely pays attention to his equipment, so the current equipment is naturally not as good as the professional lollipop.

The holy light is very dazzling.

After four seconds, the room gradually darkened, the light disappeared, and there was a long silence.Everyone stared at the wound on Elena's wrist for a long time.

Still not healed.

Still the same as the fan, it suppressed the devilish energy, but after a while, the devilish energy would come back again, trying to occupy Elena's body.

This kind of weird phenomenon, if the system does not prompt, what can their players guess?
However, the task has not been triggered at all, and there is no prompt.It's just that this kind of thing happened, and they simply participated in it.

Lollipop put down the scepter holding the weapon, picked up Elena's injured wrist and studied the wound carefully. "Is this a scratch? Why is the wound so big? Beibei, what level of monster hurt her?"

Bei Xi paused, "A high-level monster...probably."

"It's not your style to speak so uncertainly. What level is it?"

Beixi raised his forehead, and said helplessly: "At least above the high level. I don't know. I thought it was a low-level monster, but now I'm a little confused."

Lollipop

Seeing the devilish energy rising again, the scepter flickered and suppressed the devilish energy again.Then he looked at Beixi, "I and Fanzi didn't understand what was going on, so you called me here. This kind of situation can be solved only by treatment and purification. Is there some mystery in it?"

There is something in the words of the lollipop.

Probably want to say, will there be any tasks.

His eyes asked Beixi, but the mission was triggered?
It is not easy for them to mention the word [task] in front of NPC.It seems to them that everything they do is purposeful.

Although it does have a purpose, at least from the perspective of the NPC, it will be somewhat concerned.

Bei Xi shook his head, "I don't know."

"Beibei, think carefully about what details you have forgotten. You and Honglian are the first witnesses who discovered that Irina was attacked by monsters. The situation is so weird now, there must be something that has not been discovered. "

Honglian listened and felt that what this human lady said made sense.

Although Lei Ze had a handsome face indifferently, there was extremely obvious worry in his eyes.Even if he came, it seemed to have no effect.

Guren began to recall.

Beixi is a person who pays attention to details. It should be impossible to say that he didn't notice anything.But the scene at that time... She came in to kill the monster first, and then went to see the cave, and didn't carefully observe the situation at that time.

"I remember, when the monster came in, it grabbed Elena, and seemed to want to take her away." Honglian recalled.

"Then Beixi shot and killed the monster, and then went to check the hole in the ground. After that, Elena began to feel uncomfortable."

"What's weird about this?"

Rez also cast his eyes on the two of them. Although he didn't ask questions, he could see that he cared very much.

"No..." Guren was a little frustrated.She can only recall so much.When I saw Elena being attacked, I was thinking about this matter. When I was worried about Elena, I naturally focused on Elena at the first time, and didn't pay special attention to other things.

"Beibei, don't you have any impression of that monster?" Wan Shan was puzzled.

With Beixi's experience, there are very few monsters who will not recognize it.But she couldn't even tell the level of the monster properly, probably because she really didn't know it.

Wan Shan felt that he had asked a stupid question.For this kind of thing, if Beixi knew what the monster was, he wouldn't be so helpless now.

Lollipop threw Elena another purge.The wound was then treated, but to little effect.The wound couldn't heal no matter what, maybe because of the lingering demonic energy, no blood flowed out, but the black liquid attached to the wound, which couldn't be eliminated no matter what.

The color of Beixi's eyes changed slightly.

"I haven't seen that monster before. But with wings, it doesn't make sense to say it's a high-level monster. I shot it in seconds. But if it's a low-level monster, it's impossible to cause Irina's current situation. "

"middle level?"

Beixi and Lollipop shook their heads.

The intermediate ones can be completely dispelled with the ability of their player priests, and as far as the lollipop and fan are concerned, the advanced ones can also be easily dealt with.

In this case, is there any other option besides the lord?
"I killed him in one shot."

Beixi had to emphasize his tone.

Lollipop sighs.

troublesome.

What happened here? Before the two came, did other monsters hurt Elena?
The more I thought about it, the more likely this was, and Wan Shan said, "Could there be a monster that hurt Irina before the two of you came?"

Beixi was taken aback.

"It's not impossible."

Rez said in a deep voice: "This is the inner area of ​​the orc tribe, and the prophet's residence is not far away. If the lord steps here, he will definitely attract the attention of the prophet."

Bei Xi asked: "Isn't the Prophet cultivating?"

"During cultivation, you can feel everything outside through your consciousness. If you really find a powerful monster breaking in, the prophet will definitely take action immediately." Honglian explained.

Beixi stroked her chin and began to think.

The whole house fell silent.

Rez walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, looking at Elena's pale face with distress in his eyes.Lollipop stood watching, curling his lips.

I remembered the gossip that Lan Lin said.

Now three of the four people in the complicated relationship are here, but it still looks very harmonious?
While thinking about it, seeing the devilish energy in the wrist rose again, he quickly purified it again.There is no way to go on like this.

Lollipop thought to himself, the battle is still going on outside, the two priests on their side are here, and they don't know if the other priests can nurse their teammates.

"Fan, you come."

Bei Xi opened his mouth suddenly, and hooked his fingers towards the fan. The two walked out of the wooden house under the suspicious eyes of the three, and stopped only tens of meters away.

"Why, so mysterious?"

Beixi took her arm, made her bend down, and whispered: "The whole thing is weird."

"What's wrong?"

"Just when I was going to look for Elena, she was attacked. Don't you think it's a coincidence?"

"(⊙o⊙)... What if there is a plot setting, and then let the player trigger a mission or something."

"But there are no missions so far. If it weren't for the fact that the players in this game are too free, like Elena, I didn't receive the mission, and it would be impossible to stabilize her situation."

"But it's really strange that there has been no mission. No matter what, we are all working so hard, she still can't get better, and it's enough to trigger something."

Bei Xi let her go, her brows slightly raised.

"It's nothing if the conditions are not triggered, but all tasks have already been set. If the player just steps on that line, it will be triggered naturally, and then walk towards the set content and complete the task." Mission. Even if it is in the middle of the whole thing, the mission can be carried out without pressure. Since it is set, as long as we enter the mission line, the mission will come out naturally. But it does not appear now, I think Elena is injured, not according to the already The set plot tasks are going on, but sudden events."

"Sudden?"

"NPC attacking NPC?" Wan Shan was puzzled. "But if the monster is an NPC, you can't kill it. It should be a monster... But like you said, this thing is indeed strange."

"I remembered that the moment the monster was killed, it immediately turned into smoke. The monsters killed on weekdays either leave their bodies and disappear for a while, or their bodies appear to rupture and then disperse into smoke. The monster, like The smoke itself was condensed, and my bullet scattered it without any power. The body is not broken either."

"What do you suspect?"

Beixi didn't have a date yet, but at least he knew that the monster was either a familiar or a clone.Some monsters have familiars that can be dispatched, most of them are low-level or mid-level.Familiars at the level of lords and leaders will have advanced ones.

These are powerful existences that will only appear when the progress of the expansion piece reaches 80.00%.

As far as the level of the player is concerned, for a low-level monster, it is also possible that the other party is a high-level existence. Although it is a high-level monster, its identity must not be simple.

"Irina, how to deal with it? Do you have any idea?"

"It's not a simple infection. Go back and check it out."

"Ah."

The two are going back to the cabin.

After walking a few steps, Beixi paused suddenly. Looking around, the woods were silent and nothing seemed unusual.

Beixi narrowed her eyes slightly, and looked away.

"Let's go back."

Wait for the two to enter the cabin.

The person sitting in the canopy patted his chest, "My God, Beixi is really powerful. I was almost discovered."

"Hehe, it's really useless. She has already found you." The bird next to him mocked generously.

But the man was not angry, and smiled softly. "It's okay, I can't be found anyway."

"Hmph, don't be too proud. It is taboo to underestimate the enemy."

"She's not an enemy...um."

Hearing this, the black strange bird spread its wings and flapped on his head. "Stupid, remember your identity, you are a monster."

"Oh, the mission is complete, right?"

"Hmph, that orc girl hasn't turned into a monster yet. You are not allowed to go back to the abyss until she turns into a monster and completely hinders their plans."

"What if I get killed?"

"That's because you are useless. Remember, you must hinder their actions. Put on that stupid and ridiculous look, and don't let people see through."

The voice changed from heavy to light until it dissipated with the wind, and there was another murmur indistinctly.

"It's hard to say~"

"How about it?"

Bei Xi half-kneeled on the ground, looked at Elena's wound for a long time, making the lollipops beside them a little anxious.Things have to be taken care of here, they don't have much time.

The portal of darkness must be destroyed.

"Purify again."

Beixi seemed to have discovered something.

"Oh..." Lollipop raised his hand, and Bei Xi put on the technology glasses.

In order to see the changes in the wound clearly under the scorching holy light, she had to use her glasses.

"Purify."

The holy light rotates and spreads on the wrist.

The black substance attached to the wound gradually disappeared under the holy light, the wound was revealed, and a pattern appeared, but it disappeared within a second.

Beixi narrowed his eyes.

The holy light dissipated.

She knew what the red thing was in the black substance at the edge of the wound.

"Did you find anything?"

"curse."

"what?"

Bei Xi stood up, "Cursed magic of darkness."

"Compared to wound infection, using a curse to demonize a person... If you don't kill the cursed person, the curse will not be lifted."

Beixi had this kind of experience before.

"No wonder..."

It is better to go to the sacrificial hall to find the high-level apostle to disperse the curse, and their players currently have no ability to lift the curse.

Because of this, the demonic energy keeps lingering repeatedly.Originally, the prophet's protective shield was broken, and the entire orc tribe was filled with a faint magic energy. Now there is also magic energy in the air, but it is not strong.

But at least it can speed up the progress of the curse.The previous holy water, the purification of Fan Fan and the others, only played a suppressive role.

Now the process of curse continues.

It's just that Beixi and the others don't know where they are now...

And this curse also showed one thing, the monster killed by Beixi was not the mastermind.They don't even know what the real monster that attacked Irina is now.

Is it still lingering in the orc tribe, waiting to curse other people everywhere?
Rez asked in a deep voice, "Is there any other way?"

"Either kill the cursed monster, or we can only wait until the war subsides and take Elena to the imperial capital of Karans to ask the gods to help. Our ability is not enough to lift the curse."

Rez clenched his hands.

"We have no idea about monsters. We can only wait until the war is over..."

In the middle of Beixi's conversation, there is no need to continue, Honglian and Leizi both understand what she means.

Guren's eyes were slightly red, "What if the war lasts for a long time? How long is this curse?"

"We don't know either." Lollipop replied.

"It only takes one day if it's fast, and it's only a few days if it's slow. We can always use the holy light to help suppress it, but now that the demonic energy is gathering outside, and Elena stays here, our purification won't have much effect..."

Guren whispered, "I don't want Elena to die."

"Only by ending this war as soon as possible, not only Irina can be saved, but also the rest of the orc tribe can survive." Beixi said, looking at Rez.

"If it's for Elena, will you do your best?"

(End of this chapter)