anovelconsole Chapter 140 Is it absolutely necessary to climb this mountain?
Chapter 140 Is it absolutely necessary to climb this mountain?
When Chen You slipped out of the Supreme Tower, he still had a barely suppressed smile on his face.
Good guy.
It turns out that if you're shameless enough and manage to break down an NPC's defenses, there really are hidden rewards to be won.
"Chat" truly lives up to its reputation!
The game's designer probably has some kind of twisted sense of humor.
He shook his head; business was more important.
He pulled out the tattered map and spread it out in his palm.
The map is made of neither paper nor cloth, and has a cold, stone-like texture.
The patterns on it were ancient and rough, and could only be barely discerned. The target location was in a vast mountain range to the northwest of Qianguang City.
Anything more detailed? That's all.
There were no red dot markers, no dashed lines, and not even a scale.
"Tsk, a substandard product."
Chen You pursed his lips, put away the map, and summoned his mount.
A giant white rabbit appeared out of nowhere, its furry ears twitching warily.
Chen You flipped over and mounted him, squeezing his legs together.
"Let's go northwest and wander around."
With its four legs propelling it forward, the giant white rabbit transformed into a streak of white lightning, traversing the silent streets of Thousand Light City.
The nights in the Origin Realm have no moon; only the glittering Milky Way flowing across the sky provides a faint light, casting distorted and deep shadows on the massive buildings.
The further out of the city you go, the dimmer the light becomes.
As soon as I stepped out of the city gate, a biting night wind swept over me, carrying the scent of wild grass and trees.
Looking out, the distant mountain range resembled a crouching giant beast in the night, pitch black and full of the unknown.
The white rabbit was extremely fast, and in less than ten minutes it had already ventured deep into the wilderness.
Chen You stopped on a hillside, frowning as he looked at the endless mountain range in front of him.
This area is too big; who knows where that so-called "forbidden existence" is hiding?
With this lousy map in my hand, I might not even find anything by dawn.
Try to feel it with your heart?
What kind of feeling is this!
There's nothing there!
"How about... we come back tomorrow?"
Chen You began to have second thoughts.
The visibility is too poor tonight, and it's not a good time to look for anything.
Just as he was about to turn the rabbit around and head home.
A very faint, almost imperceptible sound entered his ears.
"...Hiss...Luo...tsk..."
The sound was strange; it didn't belong to any known language.
It has no clear origin, as if it seeps out from all directions, from the void, carrying a sense of unsettling chaos.
If it were any other player, their first reaction upon hearing this sound would probably be to be alert to whether some elite monster had spawned nearby.
But Chen You's eyes lit up instantly.
Listen attentively...
He immediately understood that this was the guidance that Hill, the riddle teller, had given him!
This voice is what is known as the "compass of the heart"!
But this thing is unpredictable, sometimes it's intermittent, and it's impossible to determine its location.
How do I find it?
Based on my gaming experience, I'm guessing I'll be running around everywhere next.
The sounds you hear may differ depending on where you go, or the volume may vary.
After repeated trials and errors, the destination was finally found.
Based on what Hill said before, does that mean we need to search for 24 hours?
"Wouldn't that exhaust my rabbit to death?"
Chen You made a sarcastic remark, but a smile involuntarily appeared on his face.
Isn't that a coincidence?
He immediately opened his attribute panel and focused his gaze on the newly acquired, glittering title.
[Title: Sweet-tongued]
[Additional Skill: When you are not in combat, after hearing a certain sound, you can silently think "That sounds awesome!"]
The system will determine that the sound is "absolutely correct guidance," and you will instantly teleport to the source of the sound, regardless of space, distance, or obstacles.
……
This skill is practically tailor-made for the current predicament!
It's a perfect match for my major!
He took a deep breath, listened intently to the strange, unintelligible whispers, and then silently recited a phrase in his mind.
"That sounds great!"
Om-!
An irresistible, enormous pulling force instantly acted on the entire body.
The world before my eyes, all its colors, light, and scenery, is distorted, stretched, and finally collapsed into an infinitely small point.
The next moment, the light reappeared.
Chen You found himself no longer on that desolate hillside, but standing in an endless white world.
Beneath our feet was a thick layer of untouched snow, so deep that each step could reach above our calves.
The Milky Way overhead was even more dazzling and clearer than what I had seen in Thousand Light City, as if I could reach out and touch it.
Looking around, it was a vast, unimaginably flat plain.
It was so smooth that it looked as if a god had sliced it horizontally with a giant blade.
The entire platform is circular, with a bottomless, pitch-black abyss beyond its edges.
A howling wind swept up from the abyss, whipping up the snow and making a mournful sound.
"Wow... that's done it all in one go."
Chen You looked around, deeply shocked.
This is clearly the summit of a mountain range!
Moreover, it was a huge mountaintop platform that had been leveled by human hands... or rather, by divine intervention.
If you had to crawl on your own two legs, even if you knew the exact location, without the ability to fly, it would probably take a huge amount of time and energy.
Not to mention the possibility of falling off a cliff.
The title skill "Her lips are sweet" is practically a top-tier bug in exploration-type quests!
"This navigation is even better than Gaode Maps."
Chen You muttered to himself and began to explore this huge platform.
There was nothing here but snow and wind; the emptiness was unsettling.
The entire platform resembles an altar prepared to welcome some grand ceremony.
He tried to take the Shadow Pact Emblem out of his backpack.
The black emblem remained cold and unresponsive in his palm.
It seems that simply arriving at the destination is not enough; a specific triggering condition is also required.
Undeterred, Chen You strode forward, his steps uneven, along the edge of the platform.
He wanted to see if there were any interactive devices around, such as stone tablets or altars.
The edge of the platform is a sheer cliff, with sheer walls as if carved by a knife and axe, pointing vertically downwards, with no bottom in sight.
Just as he had walked around half of the platform and was starting to get a little bored, he caught a glimpse of an unusual light out of the corner of his eye.
He immediately stopped and stared intently in that direction.
Hundreds of meters below, on the dark cliff face, there was something emitting a soft white light, slowly moving.
The light wasn't intense, but it stood out remarkably on the pitch-black cliff face.
He was clinging to the cliff face, walking slowly at a steady pace along the narrow path that could only be called a path.
Chen You narrowed his eyes slightly.
That wasn't some kind of glowing prop, nor was it any kind of elemental creature.
That...it was a single person!
A person wearing a white linen robe, which was covered in frost and stains.
The light came from an old lantern he was carrying.
The lamplight, though dim, burned stubbornly in the fierce wind, dispelling a small patch of darkness around it.
An NPC?
In a place like this?
Just at this moment, we climbed to the top of this mountain?
Chen You's brain was working at lightning speed.
"oops!"
Chen You suddenly realized something and slapped his thigh.
"So that's how it is!"