pjbooks Chapter 190 Rock Skin Leggings and the Diary from Two Years Ago
Chapter 190 Rock Skin Leggings and the Diary from Two Years Ago
The pale blue light stood out starkly in the dim mine tunnels.
That's a color unique to high-quality (blue) equipment.
"Wow! What a great start!"
Wang Fugui rushed over and picked up the glowing equipment, his face trembling with excitement.
"The first monster dropped a mana potion! This dungeon is incredibly loot-rich!"
He shared the equipment's attributes in the team chat.
【Name: Rock Skin Leggings】
[Quality: Excellent (Blue)]
[Equipment Requirements: Lv.25, Constitution 70 or higher]
[Attributes: Defense +55, Constitution +8, Strength +5]
[Special Effect: Resilience (Passive) - When you receive blunt force damage, there is a 15% chance to become immune to the negative effects such as stun and knockback that are inflicted by that damage.]
[Description: Made from the toughest leg scales of the rock-skinned earth dragon, wearing it will make your lower body as stable as a rock.]
A pair of blue leggings with pretty good stats, you could even say they're top-tier.
Especially that "toughness" effect,
For Wang Fugui, a shield warrior, it was practically tailor-made.
It allows him to be more stable when taking on monster attacks, creating a safer environment for his teammates to deal damage.
"Fatty, this is yours."
Chen Yifan glanced at the attributes and lost interest.
"Hehe, then I won't be polite!"
Wang Fugui was overjoyed and immediately changed out of his tattered, unsightly blue-quality leggings.
After equipping the [Rockskin Leggings], he jumped twice on the spot, feeling the heavy texture, and looked satisfied.
"It feels completely different, like it's welded to the ground. Fanzi, from now on, you'll stay right behind me. Go ahead and poke me, I guarantee you'll be as steady as a rock!"
Chen Yifan ignored his vulgar analogy and instead focused his gaze on the corpse of the earth dragon lizard.
Lin Xiaoyu seemed to sense something and reached out her hand towards the corpse.
The next second, the tips of the [Bloodthirsty Poison Vine] vines that were wrapped around the corpse suddenly split open, turning into mouthparts covered with fine, sharp teeth, which pierced deep into the flesh of the earth dragon lizard.
Glug. Glug.
A chilling swallowing sound rang out.
The enormous corpse of the earth dragon lizard visibly shriveled up, all its flesh and blood being greedily absorbed and transformed by the vines.
In just half a minute, only a withered skeleton and a complete lizard skin remained on the spot.
The vines that absorbed flesh and blood became even darker in color, even faintly shimmering with a metallic sheen, and their barbs became thicker and sharper.
This was the most important reason why he recommended Lin Xiaoyu buy the [Bloodthirsty Poisonous Vine].
Given enough flesh and blood to feed it, its growth rate will be beyond imagination.
"Let's go, let's go deeper."
Chen Yifan did not linger in the same spot.
He now only wants to seize every moment and take advantage of the special rules of this instance to make a leap forward in the team's strength, especially his own level.
Because he knew very well that Li Yang's death was just the beginning.
The Li family of Longdu may already be on their way to revenge.
In this world, the only thing you can rely on is the ever-sharpering knife in your own hand.
The three continued walking deeper into the mine tunnel.
The further you go in, the stronger the smell of sulfur and decay becomes.
On the walls, the glowing moss grew denser and denser, its eerie blue light illuminating the entire mine tunnel as if it were a ghostly realm.
Along the way, they encountered several more waves of monsters.
There are swarms of incredibly fast "carrion burrowing rats," and "slime dripping spiders" that are adept at launching sneak attacks from the top of their burrows.
Without exception, with the three working together skillfully, these monsters became nourishment for the [Bloodthirsty Poison Girl] and experience points for Chen Yifan.
Wang Fugui's shield became increasingly stable, Lin Xiaoyu's control over the vines became increasingly precise, and Chen Yifan abandoned ordinary methods.
Two epic daggers hovered beside it, always able to appear at the most dangerous angles and in the most lethal places.
External channel—control of matter.
This was the method he chose that best suited him from the inheritance that Luo Tian had given him.
Two hours later.
Chen Yifan's level has been successfully raised to Lv.27.
After devouring a large amount of flesh and blood, the Bloodthirsty Poison Vine has swelled to the thickness of a bucket, and a hard shell similar to keratin has even grown on the surface of its vines, greatly increasing its defense.
The team's strength is steadily increasing.
However, Chen Yifan's mind did not relax as a result.
Because he discovered a problem.
The monster distribution in this dungeon is too "normal".
They were like standardized products refreshed by the system, patrolling fixed areas, getting disturbed, then fighting and dying. Everything was orderly.
This is completely inconsistent with the chaotic, powerful, and rule-breaking energy atmosphere at the entrance.
There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.
This excessive "normality" is itself the biggest abnormality.
"Fanzi, look what that is?"
Wang Fugui's shout pulled Chen Yifan back from his reverie.
He looked in the direction Wang Fugui was pointing.
At the railway junction not far ahead, a human skeleton leans quietly against the rock wall.
The skeleton had long been dried by the wind, and it was dressed in a tattered miner's uniform from twenty years ago.
At his feet lay a rusted pickaxe and a flattened kettle.
Judging from their appearance, they were victims of the "psychic fusion" disaster twenty years ago.
Such skeletons are not uncommon in abandoned mining areas.
but……
What truly caught Chen Yifan's attention was the skeleton's tightly curled right hand, resembling a chicken claw.
There seemed to be something pressing down under that hand.
Chen Yifan stepped forward and squatted down.
Instead of touching it directly, he carefully used the tip of his dagger to pry open the skeleton's fingers one by one.
An old diary, tightly wrapped in oilcloth but with severely worn edges, appeared before the three of them.
Chen Yifan's pupils contracted slightly.
He used the tip of his dagger to pry open the oilcloth and turned to the first page of the diary.
On the yellowed pages were handwritten words in carbon ink, somewhat messy but still clear.
[March 17th, Sunny. That damn foreman Zhang gave us even more work. He said he discovered high-purity psionic crystal ore deep within the vein, and digging up one piece would be equivalent to a month's work outside. Bullshit! That place is creepy; you can feel someone blowing cold air on the back of your neck as soon as you go in. Old Liu said he thought he heard singing yesterday, and he was so scared he couldn't sleep all night.]
March 19th, overcast. Something happened. Xiao Wang has gone mad. Yesterday, he was working in mine area B-7, and when he came back, he kept saying that something in the rocks was talking to him. This morning, he smashed open his head with a pickaxe, constantly shouting "Give it to me," "Give it all to me." The foreman has covered it up, saying it was an accident. But we all know it wasn't.
[March 22nd, rain. We dug up that thing. It wasn't a psionic crystal. It...it was a black, heart-like thing. It was beating. My God, it's clearly a rock, but it was really beating! We all heard it. Foreman Zhang told us not to tell anyone, he locked it in a safe, saying he'd report it to his superiors.]
March 24th. It's over, all over. Foreman Zhang is dead. He opened the safe. We all saw it, that 'heart,' it's alive. It's singing to us, it's saying... it can give us eternal life...
The diary ends here.
The writing that followed turned into a chaotic mess of graffiti filled with despair and fear.
Chen Yifan closed his diary and slowly stood up.
His expression was more solemn than ever before.
A black heart.
A stone that can bounce.
A song promising "eternal life".
All of this is strangely connected to the "resurrection altar" they saw at the entrance.
Could it be...?
What other dungeon quests are there here?
Chen Yifan looked at the diary with a strange expression.
"What was that sound? Did you hear it?"
At this moment, Lin Xiaoyu suddenly spoke up.
"What was that sound? Nothing at all..."
Wang Fugui suddenly stopped talking.
A faint, ethereal song with a strange melody drifted from the depths of the mine.
The singing was ethereal and eerie, like a woman softly chanting, or like countless wronged souls wailing in unison.
Wang Fugui shivered instantly, feeling a chill run from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head:
"Holy crap! What was that sound?!"
Lin Xiaoyu's face turned pale instantly, and the Bloodthirsty Poison Vine beside her writhed uneasily, as if it had encountered its natural enemy.
Chen Yifan's gaze suddenly turned sharp as a knife.
He suddenly looked up in the direction from which the sound came.
He looked down at his diary again.
Sing?
Could it really be a hidden quest in the dungeon?