Passing through a narrow shaft, the sky and the earth instantly changed color.
After looking around, Zhou Yuan discovered that the dungeon 【Painted Skin Ghost Cave】 was a ruined city.
The portal to enter and exit the dungeon was behind him, constantly rotating on a dilapidated city gate with peeling paint.
The place where they settled was in the city gate passage. If they walked further, they would enter the ruined market.
The sky here is gloomy, and there is a cold mist flowing in the air. The mist is not the common white, but a light gray.
From a distance, everything here is shrouded in gray fog, as if covered by a layer of gray filter, appearing both dilapidated and bleak.
"The floor tiles are unusually damp, showing signs of water seepage. The mist in the air shouldn't be an illusion, but real, diffused water vapor."
Jing'an Captain Jiang Ren walked out of the city gate in a few steps, bent down and touched the tiles paved on the main road in the city, then pried open the tiles with a sword and pinched a handful of soil underneath.
He felt the cold and wet sensation in his hands and concluded that the fog here must be water vapor.
"No one has entered? It seems that although the Yin Gui Secret Realm is large, it can only accommodate 20 people."
The warrior team waited for a while and saw that only eight Divine Arm Masters had entered besides Zhou Yuan, which made it clear that there was a limit on the number of people allowed into the Yin Gui Secret Realm.
"Exit the city gate and observe for a quarter of an hour."
Captain Jing'an was worried that the fog was unusual and had no intention of taking immediate action.
Instead, team members are required to stay near the exit, observe the environment and adapt to the fog.
This observation actually led to something going wrong, and Zhou Yuan was the first to notice the anomaly.
After he walked out of the city gate and completely entered the light gray fog, he first felt a more obvious coldness, as if he had entered a cold winter.
【Ding, contact with atomized Yin fluid, gaining the negative status 'Yin Cold'】
Zhou Yuan had discovered some of the 'Yin Fluid' when he was killing the Painted Skin ghost.
The attribute panel describes it as quickly restoring a small amount of Qi after use, superimposing the 'Yin-Cold' state, and while continuously losing blood, alleviating negative states such as coma and temptation.
This thing looks okay and seems to be able to be a spiritual object to replenish qi, but the side effects should not be underestimated.
Zhou Yuan stared at the attribute panel and waited patiently. After about five minutes, his health bar dropped by 1%, but the blue bar was activated.
If the game rhythm is changed to normal, the player will most likely complete a pre-task and obtain restraining props.
Or prepare some more blood medicine and just rush over to get it done.
But normal warriors and soldiers cannot take these two paths and can only use their limited health bars to withstand this large-scale environmental damage.
Moreover, Zhou Yuan has a spirit attribute of 4 points, and both the qi attribute and the spirit attribute are 2 points. He will lose blood every five minutes, let alone a normal soldier.
Sure enough, before a quarter of an hour had passed, only about ten minutes had passed, and some soldiers began to feel obvious abnormalities and discomfort.
"Captain, I feel unbearably cold. My body and fingers are numb from the cold."
"Captain, I'm having trouble breathing. My chest feels like it's blocked by something, and I'm feeling weak and nauseous."
Zhou Yuan looked back and saw that the health bar of the person who complained of vomiting was originally low, only 93%, and now it had dropped to 89%.
"Those who feel unwell will be sent back to the city gate, while others will continue the inspection."
About ten minutes later, all the ordinary soldiers of the Divine Arm retreated back to the city gate, leaving only eleven warriors and Zhou Yuan standing on the city gate avenue.
"It seems to be a problem with Qi. Without mobilizing the Qi in my body, I can't resist this cold gray fog.
Zhou Yuan, since your Three Talents Seal can attract spirits and sense energy, then take the elixir. Don't let your vitality be exhausted and your fighting power be compromised."
"promise."
In order to protect the only two remaining archers, Captain Jing'an gave Zhou Yuan two bottles of Yuzhen Powder to help him replenish his vitality and maintain his combat effectiveness.
In this way, Zhou Yuan obtained the spiritual object from the secret realm and had an open opportunity to replenish his energy.
In fact, this phenomenon is not uncommon. The trusted subordinates and descendants of warriors and generals always have the opportunity to come into contact with spiritual objects that replenish qi.
The Wei court's spiritual awakening assessment did not provide a spiritual object for nourishing qi, but rather a stable supply of spiritual objects.
If you don't have that quota, and you can only rely on cobbling together a few bites of spiritual food, even if you are lucky enough to feel and control qi, you will not be able to become a warrior.
It is probably because the energy dissipates and returns to the mortal world, and without stable spiritual objects to nourish it, the energy will eventually dissipate.
"The Divine Arm Team leaves four quivers behind and all of them withdraw from the Yin Ghost Secret Realm."
When Captain Jing'an discovered that ordinary soldiers could not survive here, he ordered them to leave.
It is not easy to train a few masters of divine arms in the camp, but we cannot let this cold gray fog poison eight of them to death at once.
"promise."
With the departure of the Divine Arm Hand, Zhou Yuan and Shangle County Lieutenant Cheng Fei each received two spare quivers.
But it is inconvenient to carry it with you, so you can only return halfway to replenish it, which is faster than replenishing it by entering and exiting the secret realm.
"Let's go and test the quality of the secret realm ghost."
Led by Captain Jing'an, the warrior team headed towards the market ahead.
The ghosts there are of different levels, the lowest is only level 5 and the highest is only level 10.
They would enter the dilapidated rooms from time to time and walk in an orderly manner on the streets, as if they were ordinary residents living here.
"There's no trace of the Painted Skin Ghost. It seems that skin is not easy to make."
As the warrior team continued to advance, they soon triggered the attack range of the outer ghosts.
They all looked at Zhou Yuan and his group. Their emerald green pupils and misty, shadowy bodies made them look both unreal and terrifying.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
Zhou Yuan and Shangle County Lieutenant Cheng Fei were the first to draw their bows. The swift arrows killed many ghosts in an instant.
The warriors in the front row also gathered their energy and weapons, activating various weapon special effects and facing the attacks of the ghosts head-on.
There are about thirty or so ghosts that are directly or indirectly attracted by hatred.
But they could not break through the defense of the ten warriors and soon fell under the double attack of the archers and warriors.
Ding ding ding, the experience prompt sound kept ringing, and Zhou Yuan became the biggest beneficiary of killing the Yin Ghost.
He did not check how much experience he had gained, but instead kept an eye on the health bars of each warrior.
"Very good. I didn't lose much health in one wave of monsters. I guess I can swipe a few more waves."
Although the vaporized Yin fluid was also continuously lowering Zhou Yuan's blood volume, the concentration of this thing was ultimately too low to have much effect.
The warriors may have a higher resistance and have not felt any obvious discomfort so far.
"Stop, I have something to report."
Cheng Fei, the Shangle County Lieutenant, was good at running and was used to finding high ground to stand on. He had just subconsciously climbed up to the houses in the street when he made a new discovery.
"Since County Magistrate Shangle has made a discovery, please speak frankly."
"Captain, this secret realm is like a city. I don't mean the appearance, but the inner phenomena.
I just climbed up to a residential building and saw ghosts wandering around in several nearby courtyards.
If all the houses here are like this, then the number of ghosts here would probably be unusually high."
It's hard to say how many people can live in a city, but looking at the building density of the Yin Gui Secret Realm, it should be able to accommodate four to five thousand people.
With this kind of density, if players come here, they will naturally kill the boss, and the low-level ghosts will only be regarded as the background of the dungeon.
But the warriors can't do that. With such a high density, it would take a lot of spiritual energy to push all the way to the Demon Lord. It would most likely be a losing deal.
"I didn't expect this place to be so dangerous. Slow down your advance and explore the houses in the neighborhood."