Arknights, but the family has fallen again

and many more?

Ott suddenly realized something.

Four people?

This is the maximum number of people that can enter a dungeon in Darkest Dungeon 1.

But Old Road is the first tutorial level, so there should only be two heroes...

If Alina and I are not counted in the combat power, then Ghost Shark and Skadi are just right!

Yes!

Alina came first, and this time's dream entry does not share the same mechanism!

Doesn't that mean that when I fell into the dream, the ghost shark was summoned first, and then she took me into the dense forest?

Then Skadi was chain summoned?

What did that ghost shark want to do by bringing me to the woods...

Ott looked at the buzzsaw on Ghost Shark's side, then at Ghost Shark's lips, recalling her seductive licking.

Better be careful!

A carriage whipped by a black shadow quickly overturned in front of the four people, and the shield emblem on the carriage attracted Ott's attention.

Speaking of which, the Liberi don't seem to have many racial characteristics besides the ear feathers? So if I add some ear feathers, wouldn't that allow me to take off the hood at will?

Looking at the crow-patterned shield emblem, Ott said again: "Let's look in the direction the carriage is heading."

"Although I don't have much fighting power, Ghost Shark and Miss Skadi should be able to break through those... vicious people."

A sickly blush appeared on Ghost Shark's fair face, and she gasped, "...Lord of All Things, I have no right to disobey your will."

Chapter 12: Who is the mastermind behind this?

Skadi glanced at Ghost Shark and remained silent for a while.

She nodded as well and responded, "When we dance... remember to stay a little distance away when fighting."

Ott and Alina both nodded.

After walking along the old road for a while, Skadi tightened her belt and held the greatsword in her hand.

She stretched out her hand to signal Otto and the deer girl to stop.

"There are other people ahead."

Ghost Shark activated the circular saw on her own, and ominous words uttered from the corner of her mouth: "Hehe... cutting... some things should not be together from the beginning..."

Alina couldn't help feeling a little scared. She quietly tugged at the corner of Otto's clothes and asked in a low voice: "Is it really okay for her to be like this?"

Ott adjusted Ghost Shark's headscarf and replied, "Her medical records mentioned that she had a neurological infection."

The nun smiled and narrowed her eyes. Although she was a shark, she had a cat-like expression.

Catsharks are also sharks!

Then, Ott pointed to the Originium crystal on Alina's body and said, "Something like this is in her spinal cord."

"Honestly speaking, the fact that I just had a mental disorder is lucky in itself."

It was hard to tell whether he had heard something or was just following the script... A hooded bandit holding two knives came up to the four of them.

He laughed strangely and said, "Haha! Look what I see!"

Ott rolled his eyes.

If this goes on, there won’t be enough elders in the Soul Palace.

Skadi said calmly, "Hunter."

Then she added, "...bounty hunter."

"What about you?"

The robber grinned, not trying to hide his smile: "Robbery! Food and money! Hand it all over!"

Skadi asked, "Before we face off, mind telling us..."

However, before further conversation could take place, Ghost Shark had already taken the lead in attacking based on her increasingly clear intuition and Otto's previous "instructions"!

"Everyone! Separate!"

The buzzsaw roared and flew towards the robber with its owner.

"shark!"

Skadi screamed, but she couldn't prevent the robber from being turned into a bow and arrow in an instant.

The bounty hunter adjusted his pointed tricorn hat and said helplessly, "...I could have learned more about this place."

Ghost Shark, his face flushed crimson, said, "Useless! Confused puppet! Frenzied empty shell!"

"Ghost Shark's intuition seems to be very sharp right now..." Ott wiped the blood off Ghost Shark's face with his sleeve and concluded, "It seems she decided that these... bandits were not worth talking to, so she took action."

Alina couldn't bear to look at the tragic scene before her, so she hid behind Otto.

The nun hugged his left arm like a small animal protecting its food, and pushed Alina aside intentionally or unintentionally.

"Hehe... My Lord..." She murmured scriptures that no one could hear clearly.

"Shark..." Skadi shook her head, and there was an unconcealable pity in her eyes as she looked at the ghost shark.

The bounty hunter didn't show a sigh. He put the sword back and pointed ahead, saying, "Although I didn't have a chance to ask him, there looks like a tent ahead."

"We should be able to get some information from there."

But Alina hesitantly pointed to a shallow mound on the side of the road.

It was leaning against the roots of a dead tree, with a shovel resting on it.

"what is that?"

This is not something you should touch lightly on Blood Moon difficulty...and it was also the direct cause of my heart failure.

In Otto's vision, he clearly saw a translucent spirit slowly walking out from behind the dead tree roots. It was covered in a dark blue hooded robe. The cold wind whistled through the four people's clothes, but did not cause the spirit's robe to sway at all.

Alina shuddered, but she didn't know why.

Otto looked at the ghost that only he could see and pulled Alina.

He said simply, "That's a grave. It's best not to disturb it."

The deer girl nodded and moved aside obediently.

But Skadi said, "...I can't sense anyone else nearby. Let's take a look and see if there are any clues in the tent."

She was a little uneasy.

Ott looked at the campfire near the tent and said, "This looks like a stronghold or a checkpoint."

"Maybe we can find some maps of the nearby area!" Alina seemed to have thought of something.

Maybe it's the experience of the Integration Movement on the ice field?

Ott glanced at her and said, "It's not impossible."

There's no point in just figuring out the map here... After another "BOSS battle", the road back to Hamlet Town will be clear...

Otto's slight awareness of himself as the master of the dream made him vaguely realize that as long as he returned to Hamlet, he could escape from this active dream with no rest efficiency at all.

With this idea in mind, Otto and Alina participated in the investigation of the tent.

"What is this...?" The girl with deer horns looked at the strange sculpture she had just found, somewhat at a loss.

The sculpture looks partly like the roots of a tree and partly like a cluster of twisted tentacles.

And Otto raised his eyelids: Good fellow, it turns out you are an antique!

The dream once again gave vague confirmation.

Antique, short for Antique Merchant, is a hero who sacrifices almost all offensive capabilities in exchange for economic capabilities.

Antique dealers can find more valuable items when obtaining loot. In the game, the same interactive items can make her produce a bunch of expensive antiques out of thin air...

That being said...

Ott thought about the robber just now.

We didn't touch his spoils!

"It looks quite old. I think I can exchange it for some money." Otto returned the sculpture to Alina.

"That's it..."

Alina's expression darkened.

Unlike Otto and the deep-sea hunters, as a dead person, Alina is unlikely to "get out".

Alina was vaguely aware of this.

After all, she remembered the feeling of blood and vitality draining from her wounds—she remembered her own death.

However, she did not tell the other three people about this.

This sounds so suspicious!

Three of them, all arriving about a week after her.

They are related to each other, but Alina has nothing to do with them! ?

What can you say at this time, "I am actually a dead person"?

This guy sounds like the culprit.

If Alina hadn't had any impression of this place, she would have suspected that she had become an evil spirit and was here to murder them...

"These appear to be bread."

Skadi found a bag of black bread in the corner of the tent.

This is different from the "health food" that modern people eat, which only tastes terrible. This is real black bread mixed with sawdust, gravel, and even stones.

But Alina was very happy: "That's great! Now we can continue exploring!"

This is too positive.

Otto glanced at her: If I didn’t know that I was the mastermind, your reaction would be too much like that of the mastermind.

Chapter 13 Remember, actions speak louder than words. You said it yourself.

Although she has little fighting ability, Alina has spent more than a week alone in this strange place.

If you don't take action, you won't feel hungry, but once you move a certain distance, hunger will come suddenly.

This was the knowledge she had discovered.

She has also shared this with the other three people.

Will they believe it?

Alina, a common-sense person, was actually a little nervous.

But if you think about it carefully, these three people don't seem normal...

"I understand." A trace of imperceptible boredom and disgust flashed across Skadi's seemingly indifferent eyes.

She didn't like the black bread very much, just as she didn't like everything she saw these days...

In the end, she had no choice but to reconcile with it - after all, this was a land where even flush toilets were hard to find.

As expected, after marching a little further, the four of them were suddenly struck by hunger. Otto and Skadi had very complicated expressions while eating.

Otto swallowed a few times, then reluctantly said, "Since we just passed a checkpoint, there must be a large number of enemies ahead."

Skadi and Alina both nodded.