novelhk Chapter 46 Unknown Map Fragments
Chapter 46 Unknown Map Fragments
He glanced at the countdown.
Two hours and eleven minutes remain.
Lin Mo stepped out of Medusa's Treasure House and took a deep breath of the dry air outside.
Although it didn't smell good either, it was much better than the musty and fishy smell in the treasure house.
He mounted his horse, and the skeletal warhorse snorted, exhaling a plume of white, cold air.
"Sant, do you remember that dragon's nest the tavern owner mentioned?"
Shant rode up and said, "He said there's a black dragon's lair on the island, and the entrance is hidden by magic; you need a key to see it."
Lin Mo took out the rusty iron key from the military book and weighed it in his hand.
The key was heavy, like it was made of lead.
The surface is rusty, but the teeth marks on the key are very clear, and not a single tooth is missing.
"Let's go. Let's go look for it."
If you pay money to buy something, wouldn't it be a huge waste to leave without exploring it?
Two horses slowly made their way along the small hill in the center of the island.
The mountain in the center of the island is not high, only a few tens of meters high.
The mountain was covered with dense forest. Lin Mo slowed down, his gaze sweeping over every tree, every rock, and every patch of grass.
The tavern owner said the entrance was in this area, but didn't specify the exact location.
He has to find it himself.
After searching for about twenty minutes, he suddenly saw something ahead.
A stone tablet.
Hidden in the grass, the stone tablet is black, about the height of a person, and covered with thick moss and vines.
If it weren't for the faint glow emanating from the monument, Lin Mo would never have noticed it.
He dismounted, walked to the stone tablet, and reached out to tear off the vines.
The stone tablet is carved with a black dragon, its wings outstretched, and flames spewing from its mouth.
At this moment, the key in his hand emitted a light, which shone on the stone tablet and reflected a huge light screen, revealing the hidden entrance behind it.
A nest passageway that is more than three meters wide and five meters high.
A cold, damp airflow surged from deep within the entrance, carrying a musty, stale smell and some indescribable fishy odor.
Standing at the cave entrance, Lin Mo pondered and weighed the situation.
Should we take our profits and call it a day, or go down and take a look?
To be honest, this exploration of the otherworld map was more than worthwhile and yielded huge rewards. Not to mention the Tier 3 strategic treasure "Death Boots" found in the Serpent's Treasure, the legendary hero "Sant" alone is enough.
But now that I've triggered this hidden area, I feel really bad if I don't go down and take a look.
Lin Mo did not hesitate for long.
He decided to go down and take a look. From all angles, this nest was an "abandoned" dragon's nest, otherwise the entrance wouldn't have been sealed by magic.
Therefore, the possibility of a black dragon below is very small.
The tavern owner said he didn't know if there was a black dragon down there.
That makes it a 50/50 probability. Adding my own analysis, the probability is reduced by half again. In other words, the chance of finding a black dragon below is only one in four.
However, the probability of finding a treasure chest is 100%.
"Let's go in and take a look."
Lin Mo took a deep breath and led the way down.
Sante followed closely behind.
The passage below was very long, and he walked very carefully, afraid of triggering some kind of trap.
But he was clearly overthinking it; he walked all the way to the bottom without anything unusual happening.
It was pitch black below, but the wind blowing in his face and the sound of footsteps in the empty space told Lin Mo that the space here was not small.
At that moment, Lin Mo felt something under his feet. He looked down and found it was a gold coin, covered in dirt and dust.
Even if a gold coin is dirty, it's still a gold coin.
Santa is a vampire and a necromancer with night vision. He told Lin Mo that there was a passage ahead with what seemed to be a black dragon inside, a dead black dragon.
Shant went inside and lit the brazier.
This allowed Lin Mo to see the situation inside.
A large underground space with piles of gold coins like small mountains in front, creating a visually stunning effect. However, in reality, the storage unit is only 4000.
Too little.
Fortunately, in addition to gold coins, there were also 200 units of sulfur.
As a hidden area within an alternate world map, this amount of stuff is far too little and insignificant.
This is unreasonable!
Another hidden area is home to the legendary hero, "Shante".
So Lin Mo focused his attention on the dead black dragon's corpse.
This thing was huge, lying on a pile of gold coins. It had long since rotted away, leaving only some skin and bones. Even so, the terror of this black dragon could still be seen from this corpse.
Its body was enormous; including its tail, it was over fifteen meters long. Even when its massive dragon head was on the ground, it was almost as tall as Lin Mo.
As expected of a Tier 7 unit!
"It's a pity he's dead, but it's good that he's dead!" Lin Mo muttered.
"There's something in these remains!" Sant's words reminded Lin Mo.
As a necromancer and vampire, Sant possesses perception far exceeding that of ordinary humans, and he himself has the same physique as the vampire king.
Lin Mo immediately stepped forward to investigate. He and Shan Te worked together and found something inside the black dragon's corpse.
"What's this?" Lin Mo took a map fragment, about the size of an A4 sheet of paper, from Shan Te's hand.
The next moment, he received a prompt.
[Unknown map fragment: ? ? ? ? ]
【grade??】
If you can find a few more pieces, perhaps you could try piecing them together...
"A jigsaw puzzle?" Lin Mo asked indifferently.
There are many similar puzzle-like items in the 'New World'. He had picked up similar things in his previous life, but he never found any other puzzle pieces before he died, and he didn't know what this thing was exactly.
Therefore, subconsciously, Lin Mo had little interest in this kind of thing.
"That's it?" Lin Mo sighed and tossed the map fragment into the military manual's storage space.
They continued their search, but after turning over the contents for a long time, they found nothing of value.
Lin Mo refused to believe it: "I've peeled off the dragon's skin, I don't believe it. Maybe there's something hidden inside..."
......
Outside, a convoy of seven or eight armored vehicles had just departed from the direction of the sanctuary controlled by the Church of Judgment.
The large-caliber automatic weapons on the armored vehicle gleamed eerily, and these soldiers were not only equipped with modern weapons. The 'colonel' leading the group was also a lord-hero who possessed military treatises. As for the 'troops' he carried, a portion of them had just been released to intimidate Margaret.
The purpose of this "colonel's" visit was also very straightforward.
"General Butcher is now the supreme commander of the entire city of Hasburg and several surrounding cities. Everyone must accept the general's leadership. Now, any 'lords' who establish private territories must report to the Hasburg Naval Base within three days. If they refuse, the base will launch missiles at a fixed point and destroy everything here."
They are very tough, and so tough that they are unreasonable.
Margaret wanted to kill these "blasphemous" guys outright, but she couldn't. What kept her calm, besides the missiles in their mouths, was the type of soldiers the colonel led.
There are 100 cavemen and 50 harpies.
She wasn't confident she could defeat her opponent.
We can only agree to this temporarily.
"Madam, I expect you to keep your promise, or the missiles will utterly destroy your little territory." The colonel surveyed Margaret's 'castle' territory, his greed in his eyes undisguised.
After saying that, the colonel led the armored convoy away from the territory of the Church of Judgment, because he still had to notify the other survivors who had established 'territories', although as far as he knew, there were only three in the entire city of Hasburg.
One is Margaret of the Church of Judgment, whose territory is the "Castle".
There is another force in the south, whose leader is of Asian descent, and whose territory is the "Cemetery".
The last one is a territory a little further away to the west, established by a few young people. The lord is named Olivia, and the territory's attribute is "Barrier".
The colonel's task was to inform them one by one, because the general wanted to take in these lord heroes, and of course, they had no chance to refuse.
If they really don't know what's good for them, the colonel wouldn't hesitate to kill them all and take over their territory.
In short, whether they agree or not, these three territories must belong to the general.