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Chapter 2161 Orc Curse Chapter 23
【Valley of the Beasts】is the name of this canyon. Legend has it that hundreds of years ago, this was a checkpoint. Beast tides from the orcish regions would invade through here, and the Crusader Expeditionary Force fought a desperate battle against the beast tide here, ultimately winning a pyrrhic victory.

The beast tide failed to pass the checkpoint, but the Crusader Expeditionary Force suffered heavy casualties, with no survivors. The checkpoint was also destroyed and turned into a pile of ruins, which now looks no different from an ordinary hilltop.

This area is not well hidden; there are even markings on the ground. A has passed through here several times, but has never realized that it is actually a place of considerable historical significance.

This highlights the importance of world reputation. People like to chat and boast, and there are important pieces of information hidden in folk tales and neighborhood rumors. However, because players are very annoying as outsiders, no one is willing to talk to them about these things.

They're still chatting, and they're even unwilling to do business, the kind of people who won't make money even if they have it, for fear that the money in the players' hands might be tainted by something unclean.

That... isn't exactly prejudice.

In some games, monsters drop money, which is almost common sense. But in the infinitely realistic world of Godlock, how can monsters drop money unless they already have money on them?

Given that NPCs are known to be unwilling to do business and buy materials, and that it is difficult for players to convert the materials dropped by monsters into cash, how can players obtain the most basic currency?

Like most lawful players, A chose to persevere. Even though his world reputation was still very low, his regional reputation was rising. As long as he managed things properly, he could gradually start to make a name for himself.

So how do other players who don't want to suffer this hardship deal with it? They don't even see it as a problem. They know before logging in that it's a game with a very high degree of freedom, so they just casually start robbing people.

It's a bit troublesome not being able to save your progress and determine if the target of your robbery is a tough one, but it doesn't matter. You won't lose your account if you die anyway, and being wanted is even more exciting.

The problem lies in the theft of currency. Stealing goods is one thing, but stealing currency is a different story. Currency obtained in this way is tainted with sin and bloodshed, and Hermes's Hat, which controls eight or nine out of ten of the world's economic channels, does not accept this kind of currency.

Ordinary merchants don't have Hermes's traveler's hat's unique method of identifying whether currency is clean or not. They only know that if they accept a transaction from a stranger, there is a chance that they will receive currency that has been blacklisted by Hermes's traveler's hat.

According to Dali Feizhuan himself, describing the initial difficulties as suffering was an exaggeration; it was just very ordinary, simply being wary of strangers.

Do dangerous tasks, help out, and the problem will be solved. If you want it to be faster, help for free. Nobody can refuse something free.

Now that things have deteriorated so much, the wariness towards strangers has escalated to fear of dangerous individuals, making it extremely difficult to improve favorability.

Dali Feizhuan snapped out of his daze and looked back, wondering where the tail that had been following him had gone.

Did they give up, or were they held back?
Dali Feizhu didn't plan to think too much and focused on the present.

【Valley of Beast Chasers】On the surface, it is just an ordinary mountain range, with no trace of any canyon features. Judging from Theresa's attitude as a special inspector, it has been deliberately hidden.

Guided by the map, they arrived at a place that looked quite ordinary.

If they were just passing by normally, they would probably just walk past without paying attention. But if it's pointed out that there's a problem here, they suddenly realize that everything is wrong.

The tree isn't growing quite right. The shadow cast by the mountain peak under the sun seems to have a hidden meaning. Oh, is that crevice in the rock a symbol of the Crusades?

The group, like seasoned tomb raiders, touched this and that, and soon found the entrance.

Throughout the entire process, the little angel's eyes sparkled, and she muttered something in a strange female voice, claiming she was protecting them. Dali Feizhuan requested some Western-style exorcism incantations so the little angel could at least recite them fluently, but the little angel looked at him with disdain, saying that such things had no scientific basis and were just a hoax, and then went on to strongly advocate feng shui.

Although feng shui is not a scientific discipline, there are large-scale data examples to prove that feng shui only lacks a basis because current scientific understanding is insufficient.

If the feng shui is real, then the related folk Taoist practices must also be real.

This chain of events left them speechless, and then the girl used another question to completely silence them.

What comes to mind when you think of a priest?

The words "little boy" almost slipped out, but he managed to hold them back with a powerful brick.

Good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels fast. Although Taoists are sometimes called "ox-nose" (牛鼻) to criticize them for using cheap tricks, cheapness and shamelessness are two different things.

However, the girl's enthusiastic praise of the Taoist priest's high moral character made them feel a little embarrassed. For over a hundred years, people in the west still considered the "Respect for the Ancestral Master" ceremony to be a chivalrous gesture exchanged before a duel.

Let the beautiful things remain beautiful.

Getting back to the main point, they found it very accurately; the shadow cast by the mountain peak intersected with an inconspicuous crack in the ground to form a cross, which was the simple cross symbol of the expeditionary force.

After spreading themselves out towards the crack, they successfully found the hidden space behind it.

While knocking open an entrance that allowed people to pass through, they also prepared cover to prevent anyone following them from taking advantage of the situation and catching up from behind.

Everyone knows the tricks, but criticizing these "idiotic" tricks is only possible if you yourself don't fall into them.

The covering was a handful of yellow mud, which was slapped onto the crack and then applied from the inside out. In no time, the crack disappeared.

With their escape route completely blocked, they had no choice but to move forward.

Beyond the crack lies an even larger crack, and beyond that, a dead end formed by piles of rubble. It's as if this is telling those who enter out of curiosity, or who stray into this place by mistake, that they have wasted their time and curiosity.

Dali Feizhuan rolled his eyes and complained that the person who arranged this place was so cautious that he was sick, and generously added that there would definitely be many more things like this later.

As it turned out, the jinx who threw bricks was right. They smashed through the wall that had created a dead end and continued forward, only to find themselves in another dead end. At first, they were happy to repair the wall they had damaged, but later they couldn't take it anymore and just smashed their way through.

Finally, they were almost certain that the visitors were after the secret buried deep beneath the mountains, and the endless dead end finally disappeared.

This secret is written by the bones scattered all over the ground.

(End of this chapter)