Chapter 7 Cold Wave Shrimp Soldiers
Ergou's family is very poor. The yard is not made of mud walls, but a fence made of branches and sticks.
Zhou Yuan found a relay point after digging twice, and climbed over.
The whole yard was dark, without any lights. He approached the only decent main house in the yard and carefully leaned against the window.
"Mom, I'm cold."
"Go soak in the warm water bucket quickly, my child's father, don't go to the Dragon Palace to steal treasures again. If you go a few more times, Ergou will die."
"I dare not go again. Today, Ergou almost couldn't come back. I will never go again."
"What? Ergou didn't take it according to the method I gave him. Don't dare to offend the guards of the Dragon Palace. This is how I lose my job. Ergou can't make a fool of himself again."
A young woman's voice came, and Zhou Yuan guessed that she was Cui Niang, Ergou's new wife.
"Cui Niang, tell us the entrance to the Dragon Palace. We are blessed by you, so how dare we not listen to you.
It's just that people have different steps. You said that we can only walk 36 steps, but Ergou attracted the attention of the Dragon Palace guards after walking 32 steps.
Fortunately, he ran fast and was not greedy, otherwise he would have been poked in the water."
"Ah, it's also Shitou's fault that he is not smart. If he entered our house, he would have taken Ergou's place.
In this village, we can only trust Shitou. As long as he stays, our two families can become one."
"Dad, why do you say that? It's embarrassing.
But you are right. I trust our family. If I entered someone else's house, I dare not tell them about the Dragon Palace.
I'm afraid they will bury me alive for those beads."
"Cui Niang, give me a hand, add some hot water to Ergou, so that he can be scalded thoroughly."
"Hey, it's coming..."
Zhou Yuan was stunned when he heard it outside the house. Ergou's family didn't have a fever, right?
There is a Dragon Palace in Qingsha River under the stone arch bridge. Can Ergou steal things from the Dragon Palace?
"Hoohoo..., finally alive.
The Dragon Palace is not a place for people to stay. It's freezing cold inside. Going there once can kill you."
"Dad, mom, wife, we took more than 20 beads, which is considered rich. We can't show them off.
If I come back from military service, you can say it's my trophy.
If I can't come back, and Brother Shitou comes back, you can say it's my legacy."
"Bah, what nonsense are you talking about? I'll definitely come back.
When you come back, we'll move to the city and live a good life."
"No, dad, if we all leave, who will mark it regularly?
If the next heavy rain changes the river course, future generations won't be able to find the entrance to the Dragon Palace."
"That's right. We have to leave a way for the younger generation. When you come back and bring Cui Niang into the city, your mother and I will stay."
After waiting for a while, Zhou Yuan tiptoed out of Ergou's yard with the family's yearning for a better life.
"I underestimated Ergou. I didn't expect this family to be calculating.
I thought Ergou was sincere in sharing everything with me, but it turns out that he was attracted by my helpless and easy-to-win family."
"This Cui Niang is also a smart person. Ergou's family has no choice.
If she falls into a family with many brothers, they may really kill her for the so-called Dragon Palace."
Zhou Yuan didn't know whether the so-called Dragon Palace was true or false, but there must be some place in Qingsha River that produces pearls and is dangerous and controllable, so that Ergou's family can benefit.
He faced the moonlight and quickly came to the stone arch bridge.
There was a thick layer of algae floating on the river, the river water was a little turbid, and the flow rate was relatively stable.
Zhou Yuan took off his clothes, bit the hatchet firmly with his mouth, and dived into the river with a plop.
He thought the entrance to the so-called Dragon Palace would be very secret, otherwise Ergou's family would not say anything about marking and counting steps.
But what he didn't expect was that the entrance that was very secretive to Ergou's family was extremely conspicuous in his eyes.
He saw a black vortex on the riverbed covered with mud, sand and water plants.
There were two lines of bloody words on it.
[Dungeon: General Qingsha's Lair]
[Recommended challenge level 15, recommended challenge number 5~10]
Very good, the challenge level and challenge number are clearly marked, and the vision of gamification has made new contributions.
However, there was a small problem. There was no character level mark on Zhou Yuan's attribute panel.
"Is there a bug? What the hell is the challenge level?
My gamification is not a different system from this dungeon, so how can there be incompatibility?"
Zhou Yuan was not puzzled that he could see the dungeon information. He was used to the blood bars all over the street, and it was not strange to see a dungeon portal.
But he couldn't figure out why the dungeon portal had a challenge level marked on it, but he didn't have this attribute.
"Ergou said that thirty-six steps is a safe area. He has short legs and I won't compete with him. I will just take twenty steps."
Zhou Yuan didn't intend to retreat. After all, Ergou's family had done experiments. It would be a pity not to take a look at such a good opportunity.
He plunged down suddenly and touched the dark portal.
The next moment, he entered a spacious passage. The length of the passage was limited, but the width was comparable to the four-lane road on Blue Star.
The most important thing was that the ground was paved with dark red corals, and pearls of various qualities were inlaid in the gaps between the corals, like a starry road.
On both sides of the passage stood six shrimp-headed monsters with human bodies. They held three-pronged forks and stood still, like hard stone statues.
Not only did they have blood bars on their heads, but also their identity information.
[Level 15 Cold Wave Shrimp Soldier]
The freezing cold spread throughout the passage, and Zhou Yuan's water droplets actually showed signs of freezing.
"There are quite a few pearls under your feet, why did Ergou have to run to the edge of the safe zone."
Zhou Yuan picked up a hatchet and pried it, and then he understood why Cui Niang's ex-husband and Ergou approached the shrimp-headed monster.
The reason is that these pearls are very firmly inlaid and difficult to pry off. Zhou Yuan pried for a while and broke a lot of them, leaving only two in good condition.
The magical thing is that the closer you get to the cold wave shrimp soldiers, the brittler the coral ground becomes, and the chance of prying out intact pearls also increases a lot.
Fortunately, Zhou Yuan's purpose of coming here is not to collect pearls, but to check the Dragon Palace in Ergou's mouth and the copy in his own eyes.
Therefore, after harvesting six pearls and walking about twenty steps, he gave up the urge to move forward.
The names and levels of these shrimp soldiers look like gatekeepers, but they can cause temperature changes in a small range.
No matter how stubborn Zhou Yuan is, he knows that he can't beat the other party, so there is no need to attract the other party's hatred and experience the other party's attack power in person.
The last one who was so stubborn that his wife remarried, Ergou's family should thank that big brother.
However, not contacting and not trying does not mean that Zhou Yuan cannot estimate the strength of these cold shrimp soldiers.
"Assuming a game rhythm, the initial character attribute is 1, and at least one attribute value is gained for each level up.
Then the difference between my strength and the cold shrimp soldiers is at least 15 attribute points, and the skills are impossible to estimate."
"Of course, such an assumption is only an ideal state, and the actual gap may be even more exaggerated.
With such strength, coupled with the refresh characteristics of the dungeon, they can indeed be called immortal monsters."