I let out a gasp, and my head exploded. This, this, this king, Surprisingly gave me such a task. If I fail, not only will I be trapped here for life, but also...
I was still in a state of anger when Yusra suddenly smiled softly: "Right, wait a moment, you need to move your hands quickly and pick up my exploded equipment. Don't let the treasure beast eat it up..."
My heart ached again. Ah, she was just at level one, not really dead. Why am I so upset? This annoying woman, dying once would be enough for me to be happy.
In fact, judging by her age and her voice, she was still a girl. Regarding the word "girl", there was no need to be angry with her anymore. Besides, her face was burned, perhaps because of some accident that changed her original nature...
For a moment, I didn't know what to say. I didn't know how Yusra was feeling now. Maybe, the person who knows they are going to die is actually more at ease than the people around them. However, looking at her about to die in front of me, it was indescribably painful.
Yusra suddenly shouted: "You, move away, don't watch me die!"
I smiled wryly: "If I move away, I won't be able to get your equipment."
Yusra fell silent. Her eyelids seemed to grow heavier and heavier, and she involuntarily closed them. My heart still hurt badly, and I couldn't help grabbing her hand, but was bounced back by the system.
I shouted: "Don't fall asleep, talk to me."
Yusra slightly opened her eyes: "I'm so tired. Only cursing you can make me feel better. Do you want me to curse? Don't be able to retort."
My tears were about to fall. I nodded vigorously: "Cursing you, go ahead. If you can't think of anything to curse, I'll curse for you!"
Yusra thought for a while and said: "For a moment, I can't think of anything good to curse. Oh, right, you monster, why don't you get sick? I really want to see you sick!"
I suddenly jumped up. How could I have not thought of this?
I took out the "blood suction tube" in my hand, rolled up my sleeves: "Yusra, hold this and insert it into my hand. Here, here. Insert, don't be afraid, trust me!"
Yusra held the blood suction tube doubtfully and gently poked me with it twice. It didn't go in. I had to help her insert the suction tube into my arm.
In the game, there's no need to distinguish between veins and arteries. The suction tube entered my arm, and the essence of my blood flowed towards Yusra's body. My HP began to drop.
Although I took a lot of blood medicine, my HP was maintained. However, I still felt a sense of loss of vitality. My vision began to blur.
I don't know how long it was. Suddenly, there was a pain in my hand, and the suction tube withdrew. Yusra said softly: "I seem to be better. Your blood smells so good, hehe."
I patted my dazed head, somewhat unclearly: "Okay, when you want to drink, come and find me. But, you have to pay for it."
So tired. I took out the steel bed and tried it on the ground. Fortunately, the treasure beast didn't show up because it seemed to dislike the smell of my bed. I immediately lay down on the steel bed and fell asleep.
This was the first time I was so exhausted. It seemed that I wasn't just falling asleep in the game, but my body was really sleeping. I don't know how long it was. Suddenly, I jumped up.
Looking back, Yusra was gone. Oh, she can't be dead, right? It's over. I was just sleeping and forgot to snatch the equipment from her. Now she'll scold me to death.
Suddenly, I heard a voice behind me shout: "You really know how to sleep, like a pig. Come, take the medicine. This is for replenishing blood!"
I let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately. I took the medicine Yusra handed me and drank it. This blood replenishing medicine was really different from the blood pills. It made me feel much more energetic.
Looking up at Yusra again, her spirit seemed to be in good condition as well. Yusra seemed to be smiling behind her veil: "Why is your blood so effective? Did you eat some special food? Or is it some hidden property?"
I chuckled: "Nothing special. I just happened to suck the blood of a monster and got some antibodies."
Yusra gave a little "oh" and continued: "I'm hungry. You said you could cook, right? Hurry up and do it!"
I was infuriated: "You tell me to do it and you expect me to do it?"
Yusra pursed her lips: "You're a patient, you need nutrition."
I was shocked. This girl could be so sentimental. I...
I made a big meal and after we ate, I finally told her about the boss in the temple, Tiamat.
Knowing there was a chance to complete the mission, Yusra's eyes lit up and she immediately set off with me.
That little thing, Tiamat, curled up in a corner. At this time, several ordinary treasure-hunting beasts appeared, bringing some newly dug gems to it. However, Tiamat groaned a few times. It seemed that it couldn't eat.
Several treasure-hunting beasts ran to that small hole and tried to bite open some, but the temple walls were not damaged at all. It seemed that the stones here were extremely excellent. Only Tiamat itself could possibly bite them.
The treasure-hunting beasts didn't notice us spying, and soon left through the small hole.
I turned to Yusra and said: "How is it, have you ever fought with the treasure-hunting beasts? What do they resist?"
Yusra shook her head: "The treasure-hunting beasts can swallow all kinds of magic and weapons, and they are very agile. Even the ordinary treasure-hunting beasts we couldn't defeat them."
I said: "We can't just be trapped here! Let's try, see this boss, it's very weak, its strength might have dropped a lot."
Yusra gritted her teeth: "You only know fighting and killing. You didn't see how painful it was? You don't know how pitiful a sick person is. Why do you kill it?"
I was stunned. I didn't know? I'm even more pitiful than you.
This Yusra, when fighting monsters, was as ruthless as me. When she saw the sick monster, her heart softened. Was it because she had been sick once before?
Thinking of her face behind the veil, I was distracted by some story I didn't know.
Suddenly, I heard Yusra say in a very gentle voice: "Little dear, be obedient, don't move. I'll help you take out the things in your stomach, okay?"
I shivered. Was this really Yusra speaking? How cheesy!
Yusra was squatting in front of Tiamat, gently touching this boss. I was dumbfounded, not knowing whether it was because Tiamat was sick and had no strength or because she was playing some trick on me, yet it didn't move.
It seems that you can get along well with a boss. I hurriedly took a few steps forward and cast a healing spell at Tiamat.
Suddenly, Tiamat's eyes emitted red light, and its mouth opened, swallowing my healing spell. What a big mouth!
Yusra quickly calmed Tiamat down with soft words, then glared at me: "Don't be a nuisance, get out!"
I walked out of the door in frustration. What kind of setting is this for a game? Do women have such advantages? If bosses could be dealt with like this, I'd get a sex change operation and become a woman! Ah, even if I wanted to do it, I can't do it now...
After a while, I grew impatient and finally heard Yusra's voice: "Okay, fool, come in!"
I was stunned. When did I become a fool? I rushed into the door and shouted at Yusra: "Who is the fool?"
Yusra giggled: "I forgot your name. By the way, what's your name?"
"Against Heaven!"
Forget it. With this woman, I'm not much better than a fool. I have no way to deal with her.
Looking around, I didn't see Tiamat. I asked curiously: "Hey, where's that little dear?"
Yusra said calmly: "I adopted it as my pet."
I was stunned. I was stunned. So powerful! 60-level Boss pet!
I said hurriedly, "Then, where is the city-building stone?"
Yusra took out a dark blue stone: "Here it is. I used the 'anatomical surgery' of the doctor to extract it from it."
I was overjoyed: "Then, please put it back on the altar."
Yusra pouted: "No, such a beautiful stone, I want to keep it for myself. Using it as a medium, I'm sure I can perform ultimate magic."
I was sweating profusely: "You, you shouldn't do this. You want this stone, I'll help you find another one next time. This time, you must put it back!"
Yusra chuckled: "Joking with you. You think I'm a child? I don't know the value of things, right?"
I would rather you were a child, like you, a big kid, or a girl. They are really too difficult to deal with. Senorita is younger than her and loves to act spoiled. I used to have headaches thinking about it, but now I remember, Senorita is really very cute!
The blue stone was placed back on the altar. A strange light and shadow began to flicker in the room. Blue smoke filled the entire temple. We held our breath and waited for the change.
After a while, a series of booming sounds came from outside, and the small holes on the temple walls began to heal. We couldn't help trembling with excitement. It was a success!
We rushed out of the secret passage. Before us was a magnificent scene. Countless tall buildings were rising in place, gradually reaching towards the clouds. The broken ground slowly recovered into white marble slabs. Strange sounds began to emerge from the dark clouds in the sky, but they were still tightly pressed together, preventing sunlight from penetrating.
In just two hours, all the buildings of the Dark City were restored to their former appearance!
We were all stunned by the huge changes before us. It took us a long time to recover. We walked closer to those buildings, reached out to touch them, and confirmed that these were not illusions.
We entered various shops in the game. Although all the equipment was restored, there was no automatic vending function, nor were there NPCs. We still couldn't buy or sell things.
I ran towards the teleportation array in the city. The style of this teleportation array was completely different from modern ones.
Looking at the target locations that could be teleported to in the array, I was stunned. There were only three targets: "Niu City", "Shopping Mall", and "Phantom City".
It turned out that this teleportation array could only connect to other ancient cities. I transmitted the target to the management window of Friendship Town. Inputting the Dark City, the system prompted: "The city cannot be opened."
Go to other ancient cities would be fine too. I clicked on Niu City. The system prompted: "You don't have ancient currency on you. You cannot pay the transmission fee."
Oh, it seems that this can only be viewed and cannot be used. The ancient currency in the city must have been eaten by the food-loving beasts long ago.
Want to build your own teleportation array? The system prompts: "The building you want to build is incompatible with this city..."
Oh no, we still can't go out. The system didn't prompt that the reconstruction was successful either. The excitement dropped again.
Yusra came back from a city-wide tour and frowned: "Nothing can be used. In my pharmacy and medical clinic here, I can't use any skills. The tools and equipment inside don't match my skills."
I tried them out in the tailor shop, blacksmith shop, and carpenter shop respectively. Sure enough, these ancient tools and equipment couldn't be used by me.
I scratched my head: "These not being usable is a minor matter. Why hasn't this task been completed? The city has clearly been rebuilt."
Yusra said: "This problem is for you to think about. I'll continue to study my array magic."
Suddenly, I took out a low-level gem and threw it on the ground. For a long time, there was no reaction. Yusra looked at me curiously for a long time.
I thought for a while: "The food-loving beasts are gone. Is it because you caught their heads, or because the protection shield of the Dark City has taken effect?"
I continued to murmur to myself, "The food-loving beast should not have been an original creature of the Yucity. Moreover, after the great war, Yucity failed to automatically recover... This indicates that during the war, your baby had already swallowed the building stone and thus disabled all the defense facilities of Yucity."
Yusra suddenly said, "The food-loving beast was sent by the Demigod!"
It seemed that she was quite smart. Perhaps the key to the Yucity being breached was that the food-loving beast swallowed the building stone, causing all the defense facilities of Yucity to fail.
I slowly consulted the legends and materials about Yucity, and Yusra stood quietly by watching.
My gaze suddenly fell on a passage, "The daughter of the old architect of Yucity, Orson, was captured by the fat Demigod. The architect was very sad, but the city lord was unwilling to send warriors to riskly rescue his daughter. Soon, the sad architect disappeared, and there were no more senior architects in the city to repair the walls, so the city was soon breached by the Demigod with a hole..."
I felt that I had found the problem. The location of the building stone should be the highest secret. Apart from the city lord, perhaps only the people in the Architect Temple knew about it. Maybe it was this architect who, in order to get his daughter back, brought the Gorging into the city and pointed out the location of the Architect Temple.
However, even if I found the reason for the city's breach, it couldn't explain the reason for the incomplete mission.
I reviewed it again and couldn't find anything else. But I found the location where the Demigod's army was stationed back then, the huge rock mountain in the south of the city.
I don't know if there will be any clues there. I told Yusra and we went to check it out together.
The scene outside the city was very astonishing. We saw countless food-loving beasts, food-eating beasts, etc., emerging from the ground like a tide, heading towards the south of the city.
I turned to Yusra and said, "Summon your baby and have a look."
Yusra seemed reluctant to listen to me, but obediently summoned the Gorging.
After the Gorging emerged, it squeaked a few times. The army of food-loving beasts became somewhat agitated and gathered towards the Gorging. I hurriedly shouted, "Yusra, tell the Gorging to bring those monsters back underground."
Yusra quickly lowered her head and touched the Gorging's head: "Baby, tell your followers to go back underground, okay?"
The Gorging seemed not to have heard Yusra's words. It only looked towards the south, with a kind of nostalgic feeling in its eyes.
I frowned tightly: "It seems that it is still missing its original owner. These beasts should have been controlled by the Gorging before. When you received the Gorging into the pet space, they headed towards the south. It seems that in the huge rock mountain, there must still be treasures controlled by the fat Demigod, or... the Demigod himself is sealed there!"