Players’ NPC daddy.

"That's definitely not possible. I plan to study and become a well-known scholar. Only in this way can I leave behind clues that are of great research value for future adventurers to decipher."

"Then you really need to read more, otherwise the riddles will either be too simple or look like a joke. But as for the riddles... I recommend you keep them at the druid's place, to ensure the quality and quantity. I can recommend you to go there, it's also convenient to study there, you just need to bleed."

"I'm seventy years old. I can't stand that."

"You are old but still strong. You just led us out of the ultimate place of life."

The door of the captain's room slowly closed. It would take decades, hundreds of years, or even thousands of years for it to open again.

But no matter how many years pass, the golden apples hidden behind the fake painting depicting the golden apple forest will not decay or change, it will just wait quietly.

Chapter 1215 More difficult than reaching the sky

"Everyone, take your positions—pull!"

[Somado] is completing the most difficult task in history, hiding the Dead Bear and ensuring that it will not be found by other players.

There is a swear word in Greenland: This is harder than climbing to the sky.

What does it mean that other players won’t find you?

Players are like a combination of groundhogs and dogs. Not only do they have extremely sensitive noses, they can also dig holes everywhere. They are also masters of counter-routines. Compared with the difficulty of defending against them, Titans and evil gods are nothing but chickens and dogs.

So don't even think about making a secret treasure trove that won't be discovered by anyone. As soon as you finish it and leave, it will be dug up by players, and you might even be laughed at for being "fresh".

But we can change our thinking, which is to turn this place into a well-known place with a lot of people coming and going.

For example, the branch of [Hermes's Travel Hat], or the trading building.

Captain Babo was somewhat unwilling at first; to find the legendary ship in an unknown secret place or cave and then obtain evidence of the existence of the treasure was the romance of pirates and adventurers.

But if it comes to eloquence, Captain Babo is an uneducated man; if it comes to the romance of finding treasure, Captain Babo is not even qualified to compete with the stranger.

Greenland convinced Captain Babo with just a few words.

Rather than burying it in an unknown place, which is a more unexpected approach, it is better to build it under a landmark building that is popular and even very famous.

The bustling surface buildings formed a strong contrast with the tranquility of the legendary ship's anchorage. Not only that, because this landmark building belonged to them, they could freely install various mechanisms pointing to the anchorage inside and ensure that they would not be accidentally triggered.

"The most important thing is that we can make it into an Easter egg for you. Ahem, no, part of the clue, such as a portrait or a statue."

Captain Babo changed his mind on the spot and succumbed to the romance of the stranger.

However, as for the idea of ​​turning himself into an egg and leaving it inside, he politely declined while his scalp was tingling. Besides not wanting to die, he was also quite shy, so he could just put a few books he wrote inside.

In addition to being a pirate, his other dream is to be a story writer, but this dream must start with literacy.

After making a plan, they started working on it, starting with the track that would allow the Dead Bear to sail into the sea.

The Humpback Turtle Dragon King, who had just attempted to become the overlord of this sea of ​​golden apple trees, expressed strong support for this and was even willing to offer his body.

His bones and tortoise shell were used as building materials for the Dead Bear's resting place.

Every profession has its own expertise. Blazer had nothing to do except working as a laborer to carry materials, so he had some time to study the Sea of ​​Golden Apple Trees.

From the current perspective, the sea of ​​golden apple trees is using its leaves to absorb the power of the sun and convert it into its own vitality.

If the sea of ​​golden apple trees really grew by drawing vitality from the earth like the world inside the bottle, then the surrounding area would probably become a dead sea.

There is a huge hidden danger in this matter.

Among the sea of ​​golden apple trees, the best is undoubtedly the golden apple, but as it stands, not a single golden apple will be born for thousands of years.

But the absence of golden apples does not mean that the Sea of ​​Golden Apple Trees is useless. On the contrary, it still has a strong attraction to the surrounding sea monsters.

Blaze looked at a rabbit not far away, where there was a rabbit, the product of the Devil Basilosaurus's [Whale Fall Z]. Unlike ordinary cute rabbits, it had some characteristics of the Devil Basilosaurus.

Its biggest feature is undoubtedly its sharp fangs, but it is a vegetarian and is currently gnawing at the bark of the golden apple tree with its bloody mouth wide open, trying to dig out the nutritious parts.

The leaves, branches, and sap of the golden apple tree sea all contain extraordinary vitality and are still incredibly delicious. They are much more powerful than the water of life overflowing from the bottle of life.

Even now, the sea monsters are still restless in the surroundings. In addition to wanting to land and become king, they also want to gnaw on the golden apple tree sea to gain the vitality therein.

Now that the source of the Bottle of Life is gone, the sea of ​​golden apple trees cannot grow infinitely.

If the giant sea beasts were allowed to eat them, the last golden apple tree in the world, the Golden Apple Tree Sea, would completely wither and die, or the Golden Apple Tree Sea would develop some kind of self-preservation idea and begin to actively absorb nutrients from the ocean and land for replenishment.

In either case, the consequences will be dire.

"It seems we have to use the old methods." Blaze pinched his chin and thought about the plan.

The old-fashioned method, of course, is to bring in nature’s balancer – the stranger.

First of all, there are the so-called farming tycoons in Greenland. They not only like to farm, but also like to farm in harsh environments. The most noteworthy thing in the harsh environment is undoubtedly biological disasters.

When they dug up the bark and tested whether the phloem layer could be used for planting, many monsters had already set their sights on this place, but they did not dare to approach because they were afraid of the ogre's terrifying appearance after its transformation.

In addition to the farming bosses, there is the exploration team.

Although the ecology in the Golden Apple Tree Sea is very empty, the ecology in the surrounding waters is rich. They all want to climb up and eat everything here, and they all want to come up and dominate. The most important thing is that many of them have [Whale Fall Z]. The ecology here is changing all the time.

The presence of these two groups of powerful strangers cannot completely solve the crisis that the Sea of ​​Golden Apple Trees will encounter. After all, the strangers can stay in this world for a limited time, and hungry monsters are invading all the time.

The final solution is to let these two groups of foreigners alleviate the current crisis first, and then introduce the forces of the major kingdoms to establish a proper response policy.

But the power of the kingdom... that's a complicated and troublesome matter. A territorial war might start within a few days of their arrival, and the thugs they send out might even be strangers.

In a sense, it is more dangerous than the sea monsters that are eager to attack around. If the foreigners fight with each other, this place might be destroyed directly.

Blaze felt his head swelling, this was beyond his ability.

"Who is the one who is both free and reliable and strong?" Blaze thought about the right candidate.

Individuals come into consideration and are excluded for various reasons.

Suddenly, a person's name appeared.

"By the way, where's Lancelot?"

This is definitely not because Lancelot is the right person, but because he suddenly found that this guy is missing.

"She won't be taken to heaven with him, will she?"

Chapter 1216 On pins and needles

Lancelot, a LV120 lake fairy knight, is very powerful.

It was a pity that she was on a ship where she was of no use to anyone, in a place where she would be a hindrance if she didn't behave herself and work harder.

When Blaze found Lancelot, Lancelot was covered in dust and was swinging a sledgehammer to smash the tortoise shell that had fallen from the Mountain Turtle Dragon King.

Blaze pinched his brows and thought hard about what Lancelot had done in the Bottle of Life.

When she saw that Galahad was so intoxicated with the comfort and happiness in the golden apple forest that he was unwilling to leave, she became very discouraged and collapsed, as if something she had been insisting on had collapsed.

If she was left alone, she might never recover, but the activities of the Hundred-Headed Dragon Ladon turned the entire Golden Apple Forest upside down. Even if she wanted to give up, she had to save her life first, so she ran and started fighting.

The stranger brought with him some proverbs, among which there were some particularly profound ones, such as "Man is a donkey and life is a whip. Even if man does not want to walk, life will whip him to keep walking."

Blaze never quite understood this. After all, donkeys can also gain levels. If a donkey is whipped continuously, there is a high possibility that it will turn into a monster.

Compared to this sentence, Blazer prefers another one, which is [Time is a rolling wheel. If people don’t run, they will be ruthlessly crushed and forgotten by time].

Of course, Lancelot probably needed a reward after work rather than these chicken soup for the soul. Blazer brought a barrel of rum and waited until Lancelot found him before extending his hand to greet him.

"I have something I want to tell you."

"I know what you want to ask, but I don't know either." Lancelot put down his sledgehammer, wiped his sweat, and shook his head. "I only know that the Eternal King lost his scabbard, but I don't know where it is."

"Scabbard? Ah..."

Blaze was stunned for a moment, then he understood what Lancelot meant.

According to legend, the Eternal King had the Sword in the Stone broken because he violated the Knight's Oath in a duel. Therefore, under the guidance of the great wizard Merlin, he obtained the Broken Steel Sword from the Fairy of the Lake, and the Broken Steel Sword was a complete set with a scabbard.

Looking back now, Blaze feels that this is actually a second chance that Merlin has found for the Eternal King, who has begun to change and betrayed himself by pulling out the sword from the stone.

But the Eternal King did not cherish it and lost its scabbard. Just like the Sword in the Stone became incomplete because its blade was broken, the Broken Steel Sword also became incomplete because it lost its scabbard.

"In the past, I always thought that the scabbard was lost because of that person's conspiracy, but that person seemed to trust you and gave you the Broken Steel Sword as a fairy in the lake, but she did not tell you about the scabbard, which means that the loss of the scabbard has nothing to do with that person."

Lancelot looked bitter and shook his head.

"Perhaps it is because of our prejudice against him that we missed the chance to truly retrieve the scabbard."

"If people's hearts have changed, what does it matter if the symbol is complete? If people's hearts have not changed, what does it matter if the symbol is incomplete." Blaze knocked open the barrel of rum, scooped a glass of rum from it and handed it to Lancelot.

"But finding the lost scabbard would be a good adventure. I'll just keep this in mind."

"Adventure...? You are really open-minded, as if everything is interesting."

Lancelot looked at Blaze deeply, then drank the rum in the glass, took a long breath, and looked determined.

"If you are not here for the clue of the scabbard, then you are thinking about the future of this land. Although I have accomplished nothing in the past, I am willing to spend the rest of my life protecting this sea of ​​golden apple trees!"

"Yeah, yeah, that's good."

Blaze pursed his lips and resisted the urge to say something like "Then count you in."

In fact, his best candidate was Callisto. This female hunter from the Age of Gods possessed many extraordinary skills that were extremely effective in jungles and woods environments, not to mention that she had been the overlord of the island for a long time and was very experienced.

But Callisto couldn't take care of the entire archipelago by himself, so having a helper was always helpful.

Lancelot also reminded Blaze of one thing, which was the Broken Steel Sword.

Blaze took out the Broken Steel Sword. This holy sword from the legend was held in his hand. The cold hilt and the gorgeous sword blade that reflected his face made him feel a little unreal.

The effect of this holy sword is extremely simple, and its full power can be seen from its name, which is [Broken Steel], which has a destructive power that is no less than that of space cutting.

The most valuable thing is that only those who are qualified to hold the hilt of the sword will light up the words left by the fairy in the lake that describe the power of the Broken Steel Sword.

If he remembered correctly, the strangers loved to snatch the enemy's weapons during battle. It would be funny if the Broken Steel Sword was snatched away and could still exert all its functions in the hands of the enemy.

"Come to think of it, this sword is really powerful. Even [Ares Howl] can..." Blaze suddenly remembered something important.

"Wait! [Ares Howls]!?"

The weapon that the scholars of the Age of Gods had painstakingly created and used to kill gods was destroyed. He only had time to collect the body of the old friend who had accompanied him for a long time, and then he went to pull out the sword in the stone.

The arsenal was inherited to him. Logically speaking, he would one day pass the arsenal to the next person, just as Chiron passed it to him. Only in this way could the essence of the Age of Gods - inheritance from generation to generation - be continued.

It was a big deal if it broke. How would he explain it to Chiron?

Blaze immediately took out the wreckage of "Ares' Howl" from the armory. The word "Damaged" displayed on it made his scalp tingle.

This is a world-class weapon. Even though the world-class weapon manufactured by the Age of Gods technology is somewhat different, it is still world-class. It is actually broken.

"Let's treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor."

Blaze put the two sections of [Ares' Howl] together. The cut left by the broken steel sword was unusually neat. The two sections were put together so tightly that even the crack disappeared.

[Ares Howl/Under Repair]

"it is good!"

As expected of the wisdom of the scholars of the Age of Gods, it actually possesses the ability to self-repair.

Blaze breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly felt that the sun was shining and the future was bright.

……

Somewhere in an unknown place, a ray of blue light appeared in the completely dark space.

After the light jumped in an orderly manner several times, words appeared in it.

[Confirmed: Chainsaws X destroyed]

【The God-killing Plan Failed】

【Final plan launched】

[Startup failed, confirmed that the Ark is damaged]

[Start self-repair]

Chapter 1217 You guys are so heartwarming!

The penguin was bored and was solving a Rubik's Cube with his left hand, spinning a pen with his right hand, and unlocking the digital lock that appeared on the screen with his eyes. He could not neglect the training of his physical abilities even during working hours.

It's not that he had nothing to do, but as a small official employee, he couldn't participate in some of the major events that followed, such as the promotion of joint products, the testing of co-branded products, and of course, tax issues.

But he can't be said to be completely idle, he still has a lot of work to do, such as sorting out the mess of preset stories in the past, which is a big box.