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Ye Qing's thoughts were interrupted when he bumped into something.

What the hell?

It wasn't that it hit bottom, but Ye Qing's arm brushed against something.

Ye Qing turned his head and simply used a holy light talisman to create a temporary light source. After seeing something on the wall of the deep pit beside him, Ye Qing was slightly surprised.

The reason was simple. What she touched was a face that had been solidified into stone.

That face was filled with pain and unwillingness, as if it had become like this in the moment before death.

No, there's nothing underneath...

With this thought in mind, Ye Qing held the Holy Light Talisman and looked around. Even Ye Qing couldn't help but feel his scalp numbing at the sight before him.

In this neat cylindrical pit, faces like this can be seen everywhere.

It was as if a large number of people here were tortured and petrified at the moment before death. Ye Qing immediately thought whether it was Beatrice who did it, but as a tree demon, Beatrice did not have such ability.

And when Ye Qing was inside Astra, when he found out Beatrice's race, he found out that she was half-elf.

Even though Beatrice's body is now a half-elf, she shouldn't have the ability to turn people to stone.

An ominous feeling suddenly emerged in Ye Qing's heart. She used a holy light talisman again and threw it to the bottom of the pond.

As the holy light talisman slowly fell, the light sources along the way gradually illuminated the space below. When the holy light talisman fell to the bottom, Ye Qing could vaguely see that there seemed to be a statue at the bottom.

I'm afraid that's what I hit just now?

In the water, Ye Qing's strength and agility were reduced, so she didn't plan to throw a flying knife to test it.

If the thing at the bottom was activated halfway, it would be extremely dangerous for Ye Qing.

Slowly relaxing the witch's spinning, Ye Qing continued to fall. She tried her best not to look at the hideous faces around her to avoid increasing her pressure.

But if it’s okay if you don’t watch it, then it would really be a disappointment to Ye Qing’s opinion of the Dream Designer.

Suddenly, Ye Qing felt as if his arm was grabbed by something.

"Well?!!"

Having your arm grabbed by someone underwater is a very scary thing. No matter what grabs you, if the other person doesn't let go, can Ye Qing continue to hold on?

Without any hesitation, Zhengyi directly cut off the thing that was holding Ye Qing's arm.

However, just as Ye Qing swung her sword, she suddenly felt something grabbing her right hand that was holding the sword! !

what the hell!

This time, Ye Qing really got goosebumps all over his body. Being suddenly caught in such a depressing and silent environment, not to mention underwater, anyone would be scared to death.

Switching from his right hand to his left hand, Ye Qing drew his sword again.

However, more and more arms stretched out from the walls on both sides, grabbing Ye Qing's left and right arms, and even grabbing her calves and joints, leaving Ye Qing no room to exert force.

It was as if he wanted to drown Ye Qing alive!

Are you kidding me?

In this highly tense situation, looking at the arm that was about to cover his face, Ye Qing clenched his teeth, and his figure suddenly disappeared into the bottom of the pool. Instead, a pitch-black heavy hammer appeared at Ye Qing's original position.

"Cough, cough, huh..."

After returning to the surface, Ye Qing breathed in deep gulps of fresh air. Even though he knew that this was a virtual reality game, the environment just now still brought Ye Qing a lot of pressure.

Chapter 14 Fear

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If Ye Qing had not been careful and left a mark of loyalty on the shore, he would not have even reached the target of phase transfer and would have been drowned alive.

What the hell is down there?

Ye Qing wiped the water off his face and gradually calmed down.

Even though he had finally gotten rid of the depression he had just felt, Ye Qing still felt a little numb on his scalp when he thought about it.

It was as if there were countless figures at the bottom of the pool, waiting to bury Ye Qing's life in the dark bottom of the pool.

"We can't just go down like this. We have to get rid of those arms first."

Ye Qing looked at the bottomless pool. His strength and agility were suppressed underwater. He didn't even have time to chop those arms, let alone break free from their control.

In Ye Qing's mind, quite a few ways to deal with those arms have already emerged.

But the problem comes back. We haven't figured out whether those arms are skills or units, so how to deal with them becomes a problem again.

If I want to confirm this, it seems that I can only go down and take a look.

Thinking of those arms grabbing his own under the water, Ye Qing couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.

It’s not that she is timid. She dares to confront the lich Zira who challenges the bottom line of human acceptance. Now the things at the bottom of the pool are not a big problem.

Pulling the witch's spinning again, Ye Qing left his loyalty on the shore and slowly dived into the small pond as if he was going down for the first time.

While Ye Qing was constantly trying to get into the water, the professional tasks of other teammates were also in full swing.

Yue Liang's mission was completed quite quickly. With group taunts and Fili's treatment, he was able to fight in and out of the pile of miscellaneous soldiers as if nothing had happened.

The same goes for Fili. Most of the monsters' attention will be diverted by Yue Liang, so it is quite easy for Fili to complete the professional mission of a priest.

After all, priest missions only require obtaining specific items from monster nests, which is much easier than combat missions and is more about testing the cooperation between players.

Of course, there are priests who can kill their way through an entire monster lair alone, like the priest mentioned above, but that’s a story for another time.

The young man with glasses is a bit special. Although he is using a crossbow, he can only do the professional tasks of the archer profession at present. He can only hope that a corresponding similar profession will be released in the future.

Compared to Ye Qing who was "badly beaten" by the legendary mission and grabbed by those arms underwater, his companions were basically relaxed and happy, and they even managed to squeeze out time to take a look at the main storyline.

After completing the task, Huangfu Wen Ning rushed back to Astra. After arriving at the city library, she began to search according to Ye Qing's request.

Ye Qing’s second attempt was not without results.

After Ye Qing flew up again with the help of phase shift, she was sure that the arms that were trying to drown her were not units but skills.

"Ahem... I can't choose, I can only rely on my line of sight to predict and stop it. If it weren't for my skill, I would have eaten my loyalty."

Ye Qing shook his head. The feeling of suffocating underwater was still not pleasant, but this time he gained more.

She looked at the arm that was petrifying on the shore and wanted to try to stop it, but then she thought that she didn't have any skills like purification at the moment, so Ye Qing could only watch the arm continue to petrify in the sun.

The originally dark purple arm continued to petrify until it turned into ashes and dissipated. Ye Qing couldn't help but sigh softly.

She originally wanted to try bringing one arm up to see if she could find an effective way to deal with these arms on the ground, but now it seems that the Dream Designer has left her no chance to take shortcuts.

Is it that we can't use force to deal with these things, or is it that...

Looking at the arm that turned into ashes, Ye Qing raised his head thoughtfully.

"Waibi waibi~"

"...Should I reply with a waibibabu?"

Hearing the voice coming from the other end of the voice call, Ye Qing's mouth corners slightly raised.

"I found what you are looking for. There are three related records."

In the Atlas City Library, Huangfu Wenning placed the three records he had just found in front of him. It was a pity that he couldn't use the in-game function to take screenshots of these documents, otherwise Huangfu Wenning would have taken screenshots and sent them to Ye Qing first.

Fortunately, the contents of these three articles are not particularly long, so Huangfu Wen Ning can give Ye Qing a brief summary.

"Tell me?"

"The first one is about the early development of Atlas. According to the recorder, when the Imperial Expeditionary Force first arrived near the underground labyrinth, they suffered heavy losses."

In the past, Ye Qing did not study the background of the game itself in depth, but was more interested in the gameplay and strategies. Now, after hearing what Huangfu Wen Ning said, she was also a little curious.

"what reason?"

"Well... this involves the second recorded article."

ha?

The content of the first article has to be found in the second article. Is this some kind of crossword puzzle?

It is possible that the designers of Fantasy Dream left the puzzles intentionally, which is also in line with the richness of a legendary quest. After all, if Divinity Fantasy was just a simple fighting game, it would not have attracted such high attention around the world.

In the past life, there was a group of players who specialized in exploring the background of fantasy plots in the divine world, and they often used some "shocking" titles, which resulted in Ye Qing often having no interest in clicking on those plot decryptions.

Ye Qing was stunned for a moment, then motioned to Huangfu Wenning to continue.

"The second article is about the development of the Astra underground palace. It involves fighting between multiple races, so I also read it out. It says that the tragic losses of the first expeditionary group of the empire came from the infighting within the group."

Seeing that there was no sound from Ye Qing, Huangfu Wenning paused and continued.

"And the thing that caused them to kill each other seemed to be taken from the underground palace. As for what it was, none of the three articles had a detailed record."

A certain "existence" that caused the Imperial Expedition to kill each other, and it may have been taken out from the underground city.

Ye Qing carefully recalled the bosses and monsters in the ninety-nine floors of the dungeon, and found that many of them had similar skills or effects.

As the president of a top guild who was only one level away from completely conquering a dungeon in her previous life, Ye Qing certainly remembered the characteristics of those monsters, so she could also identify a few targets.

But Huangfu Wen Ning's next words made Ye Qing completely rule out these targets.

"But there is a description in the middle of the first article: It is an existence that makes people unable to look away. It is not like a living thing. No, or it should be said that it is just what we see."

Chapter 15 Changes

ps: Today is the second update, and I still owe ten more

"Most of these recorded papers are not well preserved, especially the first one, which is missing a lot. This is the only connection I can find."

Listening to Huangfu Wenning's description, Ye Qing's brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

Is it just what we see?

By linking the descriptions of several articles together, it is not difficult to infer the relationship between the two.

The first expedition group had internal strife because of some "existence" they brought out from the dungeon. If the internal strife was caused by the uneven distribution of gold, silver and jewelry, it would be strange to leave such a record.

Just imagine, if the internal strife was really because of money, then the expedition team could completely replace the term internal strife with sacrifice.

Anyway, they all died in the dungeon, and even their bodies were not found. Who could find out that it was an internal struggle? It is impossible for the person who coveted the gold, silver and jewelry to self-destruct. The person who could design such a plot logic might as well kill himself.

By association, it can only be a description of the thing they brought out of the dungeon.

I couldn't look away, it didn't seem like a living thing.

"Sister Huangfu, please continue talking. I have to try something."

Ye Qing unfolded the witch's spinning again. She did not turn off the voice call and dived into the water again.

"Okay, give me some time."

As he dived into the deep pool again, Ye Qing felt more and more unfamiliar with this small pool.

It was clearly the same pool of water, the same bottomless cylindrical pit, but Ye Qing always felt that the things around him were no longer the same as before.

Thinking of this, Ye Qing slowly closed his eyes when entering the deep pit, allowing his body to continue sinking.

"The first one is basically a diary from someone in the expedition group. It records some things that happened after they arrived in Astra. But the part that records the events is incomplete, with only a few words of description left. It is difficult to get any useful information."

Huangfu Wen Ning went through it carefully again before slowly repeating it to Ye Qing. She seemed afraid that she might have missed something, so she even turned the document over.

Then she flipped through the second article and began looking for relevant descriptions in it.

Huangfu Wenning was not a fool. She certainly understood that Ye Qing's request for help meant that she had encountered some troublesome tasks, and the key to these tasks might be in these records from a hundred years ago.

In this case, she certainly couldn't miss any useful words.

He closed his eyes and slowly sank. Apart from Huangfu Wen Ning's description, there was only endless silence in his ears.

The feeling of diving with eyes open and with eyes closed is indeed different. Ye Qing even felt that the surroundings seemed to become empty, as if he had dived into the sea.

Apart from the occasional ripples on the water, there was no other sound.

"Although the second article is very detailed, there is not much useful information. It mainly describes the difficulties in the early days of Astra's establishment. The expedition team seemed to have received some kind of help and finally opened up a channel for transporting materials in."

Indeed, considering the environment around Astra, this doesn't seem like a place where such a huge stone city can be easily built.

In addition to the large amount of stone used in the entire Astra, there are also those solid outer barriers. If it is excavated on the spot, the nearest place will probably be a barren mountain area.