Chapter 392 Fire God Festival

"I really don't want to be a disaster ()"

"Ah ~ comfortable."

"Wow~ woo woo woo~"

One person and one dog soaked in the hot spring, while moaning happily.

Yi Lin never expected that soaking in the hot springs in the game would bring such an enjoyment as if her soul was sublimated.

It's so comfortable.

The hometown of fire was originally famous for its hot springs.

It is adjacent to an active volcano and is rich in hot springs. Logically speaking, there is nothing wrong with it.

The Land of Fire also has another easy-to-understand name.

——Hot Spring Township.

The endless spring water flows into the pool along the channel.

Wang Tiandi washed off the dirt all over his body, and changed from a "earth dog" back to Wang Tiandi.

After learning that Yi Lin is a serious "big engineer", Li Lei and Han Meimei directly gave them VIP-level treatment, and took Yi Lin and Wang Tiandi to live in the top hot spring hotel in the village, with indoor hot springs and self-service facilities. The kind of luxury meals, couple suites, jacuzzi.

Although Yi Lin and Gouzi are not lovers, or have any other special relationship.

But when enjoying this kind of comfort, Yi Lin didn't bother to care about these details.

After taking a good bath with Gouzi, Yi Lin took off the dirty engineer robe with little durability left, and changed into the complete set of equipment provided by the hot spring hotel.

...

【Fire Yukata】

【Fire Source Belt】

【Fire source clogs】

...

Although these three-piece suits are only equipment with a rarity of "D", in addition to significantly changing the appearance, they can also slightly reduce the "hotness".

No, when Yi Lin and Gouzi put on the "three-piece bathrobe", they immediately felt that the air around them was much cleaner.

That's right.

The dog also put on a bathrobe...

For some reason, I saw Gouzi standing up straight on his hind legs, pulling his paws carelessly on his belt around his waist, smiling recklessly, and looking like a scumbag, without any sense of disobedience.

In Gouzi's smile, there are three points of fatigue, three points of free and easy, three points of willful, and a part of looming unsatisfactory, this is just like a male dog who has just finished making a big sword!

The village has a unique architectural style.

Stepping on the wooden floor, it creaked, and the four walls of the room were hung with unique calligraphy and paintings in the game world, full of ancient charm.

The eaves outside the house are particularly wide, like an umbrella, isolating the ashes falling from the sky. Wrapped in a bathrobe, Yi Lin looked out through the paper window, and the volcanic ash fell like black rain, adding a bit of desolation and dilapidation to the village.

But in Yi Lin's opinion, this taste has a different flavor. The heat from the hot spring inside the house is steaming, which is completely opposite to the dilapidated scenery outside. The inside of the house is like two worlds, which brings a strong sense of contrast to Yi Lin.

Yi Lin casually called out the two mother spirits.

After not seeing each other for a long time, Nie Hongxiu and Bai Xiaoyi discovered that there was a hot spring in the house, so they leaped towards it, pulled up the curtain, and swished into the hot spring.

Yi Lin couldn't imagine how the mother spirit soaked in the hot spring.

But they are happy.

Yi Lin was very satisfied when she saw the rising bond value.

"You guys soak first, I'll go out for a walk."

A row of neatly folded paper umbrellas stood neatly on the wooden shelf by the door. The paper umbrella is opened, with messy "flame" patterns painted on it, which looks very good.

On the side, [anti-ash mask] is also provided free of charge.

[Anti-gray mask] is also a piece of equipment.

Equipped in the accessory slot.

The effect is simple: provide fresh, ash-free air.

Yi Lin left the dog and the mother spirit in the luxury suite.

He was alone, stepping on clogs, holding a paper umbrella, and wearing a [anti-ash mask], walking slowly in the vast ashes.

In the village, every passer-by walks in the village, holding a paper umbrella and wearing a mask, making it difficult to tell who is who.

Yi Lin was walking on the road, and the others didn't know whether Yi Lin was a passer-by or a local, so Yi Lin easily mixed into the village.

The village is very quiet.

Occasionally, pedestrians pass by in a hurry, and they will not chat or strike up a conversation on the road. The villagers quickly walked past Yi Lin, without even looking at Yi Lin, a strange man in a bathrobe walking around the village.

Although the sparrow in the hometown of fire source is small, it has all internal organs.

Item shop, weapon shop, armor shop, blacksmith shop.

Passing by a shop that no one cares about, Yi Lin has a new feeling of "I'm still in the game".

Yi Lin walked around the village and memorized the structure of the village in a short while.

On the north side of the village of fire source, there is a spiraling stone steps, with beams and pillars made of mahogany, about three meters apart, distributed in ten steps. From a distance, the stone steps and mahogany door beams look like a giant dragon entrenched in the village. A shrine with a solemn appearance and red wall paint stands quietly on the high slope at the end of the stone steps, like the head of a red dragon, faintly exuding awe-inspiring and inviolable power.

Yi Lin squinted her eyes, staring thoughtfully at the shrine bathed in ashes.

The entrance of the stone steps is guarded by guards similar to Han Meimei and Li Lei. Yi Lin has not triggered any missions yet, and it is not good to sneak into the shrine on the high slope directly.

If it triggers something that shouldn't be triggered, wouldn't it be throwing a stone at the foot?

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

"Whirring whirring!"

Yi Lin walked around the village and was about to go back to the hot spring hotel. When she passed the blacksmith's shop, there was the crisp sound of iron forging and the whirring sound of the bellows.

"Wait, the rhythm of this blacksmithing..."

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

The corner of Yi Lin's mouth twitched slightly.

He didn't pay much attention when he passed by just now.

But now passing by again, the rhythmic voice and the faint sound of iron hammering in memory overlap together.

Back then in Rab Town, when his "Question Mark Excalibur" was being re-forged, Yi Lin was outside the door listening to the sound of iron hammering for several hours.

"It can't be such a coincidence, can it?" Yi Lin pushed the door open and entered.

"..."

Really!

In the dimly lit room, a shirtless figure was swinging a big hammer, hitting the red-hot embryo one after another, causing sparks to fly everywhere. Against the background of Mars, the round beads of sweat dripping from the blacksmith's body appear crystal clear and reflect shimmering light.

It's Blacksmith Galang.

Why is he here?

Yi Lin paused.

He reacted quickly.

With the title of [Honorary Guest Engineer], he sneaked into this village.

It seems that the false rumors that "the brave are the villains" are raging and spreading in the village.

Blacksmith Ge Lang knew his identity clearly.

In case you recognize it...

wrong.

Yi Lin touched the [anti-gray mask] on her face.

The whole face was covered so that not even a sliver of skin was exposed, and he could recognize it as hell.

Yi Lin breathed a sigh of relief, and began to back away smoothly with her paused footsteps, preparing to act as if nothing had happened, to come and leave quietly, without taking any dust away.

Although he still has a task of [The Road to Recovery of the Unknown Excalibur] on him, but at this time, the [Saint Blood] on him has not been collected yet, so there is no need to reveal his identity so early, it is better to dodge first.

"It is you."

Yi Lin didn't have time to get out of the way.

Blacksmith Ge Lang's forging action suddenly stopped.

In the firelight, he turned his head slowly, his face full of stories remained indifferent.

...

...

The blacksmith's door was closed.

It was hot and dry inside.

But compared with the outside, it seems nothing.

Sitting opposite Ge Lang blacksmith, Yi Lin reluctantly took off the [fire mask], and sighed softly, "I'm already dressed like this, how did you manage to recognize me?"

"It does not matter."

It seems that it is very difficult to extract information in large tracts from the mouth of the taciturn blacksmith Ge Lang.

Yi Lin thought for a moment, recalling the architectural style of the Fireland, and the strange layout of more than one blacksmith shop, Yi Lin thought of a possibility.

"Is this your hometown?"

"yes."

"Then what are you doing squatting in Rab Town?"

"wait."

"Waiting for what?"

Blacksmith Ge Lang was silent for a moment, then shook his head again.

You are so cool.

Yi Lin firmly believed that this strange NPC must have a special mission.

This is indeed the hometown of blacksmith Ge Lang.

In addition to being famous for its hot springs, the town of the source of fire seems to have a lot of blacksmith shops, and everyone is a good blacksmith.

"By the way, what about them?"

Yi Lin finally remembered her former teammates.

"In 'Poseidon'."

"The giant beast of water, Poseidon?" Yi Lin lowered her head in thought.

The two "navigation pointers" given by Homeros back then were Poros and Aurora.

Poros' navigation pointer is on Ningyou.

As for Poseidon...

"The giant beast of water is actually hidden under the sea of ​​clouds?"

After Yi Lin figured it out, she looked surprised.

"yes."

"I see."

Erin understood.

It's no wonder that after jumping into the sea that day, both the little fat man and Blacksmith Ge Lang were safe and sound. It turned out that it was a coincidence that we ran into the "Poseidon" passing by.

"By the way, there is one more thing."

He was chased by the airship all the way before, and escaped in a hurry, so that Yi Lin has always forgotten the matter of recasting the question mark sword. Now that Blacksmith Ge Lang recognized him through the mask, Yi Lin can't come in vain, let's check the progress of the task.

"It was agreed before."

The blood drop of the saint is one word different from the "blood of the saint" in the task requirements. Yi Lin knows it won't work, but it won't hurt to try.

Seeing the drop of uncoagulated blood in the vial in Yi Lin's hand, blacksmith Ge Lang's muddy eyes lighted up slightly, and he stared straight at the "drop of blood" in the vial. After watching with strange eyes for a while, Blacksmith Ge Lang shook his head again: "It's not enough."

"Ding!"

[Main task: The road to recovery of the "Unknown Excalibur"! Mission objectives updated. 】

[Current goal: Collect the complete "Blood of the Saint". 】

[Current progress: 14. 】

[Mission Difficulty: SSS]

[Task time limit: None. 】

[Task Reward: Unknown. 】

"OK."

In fact, if it wasn't for that flamboyant player who messed up the situation, his main quest should have been updated long ago. But if you think about it carefully, if you update later and update earlier, it will not affect the completion of the task at all.

"In other words, there are a total of four 'drops of the saint's blood' in the world, and it is estimated that they are inseparable from the Holy See."

While Yi Lin was thinking about this matter, Blacksmith Ge Lang suddenly changed the subject.

"You, are you looking for the 'Six Evil Generals'?"

Yi Lin raised her head in surprise and looked at Blacksmith Ge Lang. It's a pity that Blacksmith Ge Lang, an NPC, has too strong a character, and his expression remains unchanged. It is impossible to see any strange emotions from his face.

"Yes, but how do you know?"

"It's not important." Blacksmith Ge Lang didn't intend to explain Yi Lin's doubts at all. After a full ten seconds of silence, he resumed the topic: "Go to the 'witch'."

"shrine?"

"Um."

"clear."

Yi Lin nodded, turned and prepared to leave.

In the darkness, Blacksmith Ge Lang whispered again, as if talking to himself.

"It's time to end."

At this time, Yi Lin still didn't understand the meaning of this sentence.

...

...

In order to avoid people misunderstanding that he is a brave man, Yi Lin left Wang Tiandi in the hot spring hotel, alone, and after saying goodbye to Ge Lang blacksmith, he came to the stone steps leading to the shrine.

"stop!"

Not surprisingly, Yi Lin was stopped again.

Two spears crossed in front of Yi Lin.

"Let's do the courtesy first and then the soldiers."

Yi Lin sighed softly, if it wasn't for this being the hometown of Blacksmith Ge Lang, if it wasn't for Yi Lin and the task of "recasting the Excalibur" fell on Blacksmith Ge Lang, Yi Lin would have slipped in in a more straightforward way. How could he be stopped here.

Blacksmith Ge Lang's thin noodles still have to be given.

If Blacksmith Ge Lang gets angry and doesn't complete the task for him, there will be some trouble.

Yi Lin has already discovered that the NPCs in the game world are very moody, they will turn their faces when they say they turn their faces, and they will turn red in seconds.

"During the 'Vulcan Festival', Miko-sama didn't see anyone."

The two guards who stopped Yi Lin are just [Lv30] children, so they are not a threat at all in terms of force.

"Fire God Festival?"

Yi Lin suddenly smelled the mission.

No wonder Blacksmith Gelang asked him to find the "Witch".

Yi Lin pretended to leave, but in a corner where no one was paying attention, she activated her skills, turned into a faint shadow, and walked over between the two guards again.

Hmph, where did he get stopped, and where did he want to get in.

Moving quickly along the stone steps, Yi Lin soon arrived at the fire source village shrine.

There are no guards around the shrine.

"It seems that this witch thinks that the two guards at the door are enough to stop anyone."

Yi Lin chuckled, and her perception was released. With him as the center, everything within a radius of 30 meters was presented in Yi Lin's "perception" in another way.

"There are only two people inside."

"An old woman, a young woman."

"Who is the witch?"

In the shadow state, Yi Lin easily entered the shrine.

In the shrine, incense is burning, rich but not pungent.

In the room, a young woman wearing a red and white ancient-style priestess robe is kneeling in front of a ferocious statue of a fire dragon, sitting with her back to the door.

Looking from Yi Lin's point of view, the young woman's black hair was as smooth as satin, falling casually, reaching her waist, and her slender waist was outlined by the waist.

The old woman in Yi Lin's perception was sitting on a low chair in the corner of the shrine, with her eyes closed and her head bowed, her breathing was calm, as if she had fallen asleep.

At the old woman's feet, there was a small carving knife with dried blood on it.

whose blood?

This old woman is... a guard?

Yi Lin frowned, but there was no answer, so she could only continue to observe.

On the weapon rack in front of the fire dragon sculpture, there is a simple longbow with a quiver leaning against it.

"bow?"

As an elite player, Yi Lin has long been used to searching for valuable treasures after entering the house. This simple bow fell into Yi Lin's sight immediately.

This appears to be a special weapon not sold in the store.

Can it be sold?

Is it worth it?

It can't be "Excalibur", right?

After Yi Lin asked herself three times quickly, she couldn't get an answer for the time being, so she could only focus her eyes on the beautiful back.

【Fire Priestess Kikyo】

【Lv70】

It's an NPC with a green name.

"Um?"

at this moment.

The witch Kikyo still turned her back to Yi Lin, bowed deeply to the ferocious fire dragon statue in front of her, then slowly got up and walked towards the longbow on the weapon rack.

And just after Kikyo moved, Yi Lin suddenly discovered that the original green name turned yellow in the blink of an eye.

The yellow name means neutrality.

"Come out."

When Yi Lin noticed that the name of [Fire Priestess Kikyo] had turned yellow, Kikyo quickly put the longbow on her back, holding an arrow between her pale fingers.

"Oh? It's actually this kind of expansion."

Yi Lin emerged from the shadow without haste, and walked out of the shadow slowly.

After all, the opponent only has Lv70.

Yi Lin was a little surprised, he didn't expect that this witch could detect his existence who activated [Shadow Follows] and [Shadow Slay] at the same time. But when Yi Lin noticed that when he appeared, Kikyo's gaze changed focus slightly, she knew it.

It turned out that the other party didn't really perceive his specific location, but was aware of "someone".

"Who are you?"

Kikyo stepped back slowly with one foot, held the longbow back with his right hand, and assumed a posture of attacking at any time.

Yi Lin spread out her hands, indicating that she didn't have a weapon in her hands, and at the same time showed her title [Honorary Guest Engineer], and smiled kindly: "Don't be nervous, I'm a 'Great Engineer' from the Great Engineer College Trust, come to solve your troubles."

"who?"

Kikyo's facial features can't be called stunning when viewed separately. But when blended on this fair face, it makes people look very comfortable. Kikyo put on a fighting stance, but there was no anger, surprise, or doubt on her expression. Instead, she looked like a pool of clear water, peaceful and peaceful, making it hard to think of doing something against her.

"Garang."

"It's him?"

Revealing the name of blacksmith Ge Lang is really useful. When Kikyo heard it, the top of her head instantly turned green again. She breathed a sigh of relief, she didn't seem to blame Yi Lin for coming uninvited, and put the arrow in her finger back into her quiver.

Kikyo shook her head: "But I don't have any worries."

Yi Lin was slightly taken aback.

Isn't that what Blacksmith Ge Lang said?

"You go."

Yi Lin was silent for a moment.

Then he smiled and said, "Okay. So... goodbye."

This time, Yi Lin really swaggered, pushed open the gate of the shrine, and left here.

Kikyo looked at the back of Yi Lin leaving, her expression was calm, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

...

...

Yi Lin went straight back to the hotel.

"It seems that there seems to be something else hidden."

Yi Lin suddenly remembered what Blacksmith Ge Lang said.

——"It's time to end."

Looking back at this moment, I feel that there is another deep meaning in this sentence.

Finish?

end what?

Go back and ask Blacksmith Ge Lang, it probably won't work.

"Although the contact time is not long, the NPC Kikyo feels very strange."

"To take a step back, in the game settings, if you don't say 'specific lines' or show 'specific props', you can't trigger the task. But if you don't regard this scene as a game, Kikyo's reaction is very strange. It's like...she doesn't want anyone to accept the task and solve the 'thing' that Blacksmith Ge Lang said."

"Let's collect information first."

"Fire God Festival? Huh."

Yi Lin has found an entry point.

As far as the shrine is concerned, it is impossible to sneak in casually in a short period of time.

Kikyo seems to have a "sensing" ability similar to Yi Lin's, and can detect him in a stealth state.

Yi Lin has always felt that his talent skills [Following Shadow] and [Shadow Killing] are very useful in combination, but he didn't naively think that these two skills can really be 100% unimpeded. In the Kingdom of Two Lions, didn't Homeros also develop a skill called [Juvenile Master Field·Selfless Realm], so that he could detect him in the shadow state?

In the game world, there are many things that cannot be measured by common sense.

The mutual generation and mutual restraint of skills also exists.

Back at the hotel, the two mother spirits and Wang Tiandi were boredly waiting for Yi Lin to come back.

"Ah~Master, are you back?"

After Bai Xiaoyi finished soaking in the hot spring, her transparent little face was flushed, very cute.

Nie Hongxiu still had a cold expression on her face, and she was floating in the corner with bare feet in the red clothes, silent.

It can be seen that when Yi Lin entered the room, she opened her eyes and nodded slightly to Yi Lin, which was regarded as a greeting.

"Swipe the bond value to the top, just around the corner, just around the corner."

Yi Lin nodded secretly, it was not difficult to see that the attitude of the two mother spirits towards her became more and more friendly. It's not easy!

"Well, let's go for a walk."

Yi Lin replied with a smile. After putting aside the paper umbrella and fire mask, he sat on the couch in a clean bathrobe, lost in thought.

Although the meeting with Kikyo just now was brief, Yi Lin noticed one detail.

On the arrow held by Kikyo's fingers, "Loop" is impressively engraved.

Yi Lin was too far away, so she couldn't see the structure of the circuit clearly, and she didn't know what kind of operation it was. But thinking about it, it was nothing more than a simple small-scale technique like the "acceleration circuit".

The structure of the bow and arrow is clear at a glance, and the places where the "core" can be embedded are limited, so it is absolutely impossible to construct some powerful spells.

"I have always been caught in a misunderstanding. The engineer's staff may not really be just a "staff". Any weapon can actually be regarded as an 'engineer's staff'. It may be a dagger, a long sword, or a shield. , it is not impossible for a real engineer to charge forward even with a sword and shield."

After Yi Lin figured this out, she took out the question mark Excalibur and took a look, then shook her head: "This Excalibur is too malleable, which is not conducive to the construction of spells. Just like the spells I constructed on the surface of 'Night Dire' , we must find stronger and more stable materials.”

While talking to herself, Yi Lin glanced at Gouzi who was shaking his head and wagging his tail not far away.

Wang Tiandi's eyes widened suddenly, his tail froze, it was so stiff that it was tied straight.

Gouzi was puzzled.

For some reason, just now it suddenly had the illusion that a catastrophe was imminent.

"Forget it, it's too dangerous."

Yi Lin's expression was calm, she looked away from Wang Tiandi, and temporarily gave up a bold idea.

After a while, Yi Lin took out a silver revolver from the [props].

...

...

Yi Lin lived in the Fireland.

During this period of time, after sneaking into the shrine, Miko Kikyo sent someone to formally welcome her, but there was no other movement, which made Yi Lin feel very strange.

As Yi Lin's guides in the Fireland, Han Meimei and Li Lei came to the hotel from time to time to chat with Yi Lin when they were away on patrol.

Han Meimei looks very down-to-earth, and the fine freckles above the bridge of the nose give people a sense of sight of the little girl next door.

Li Lei is a typical spirited guy. When Han Meimei was pestering Yi Lin, he bit his lip from time to time, trying to insert his mouth, but he couldn't. Seeing that anxious expression, Yi Lin secretly shook her head.

This guy's secret love is written all over his face.

Han Meimei seems to be longing for the "mysterious big engineering college", and pesters Yi Lin to ask some questions about "engineers" from time to time.

It's just like--

"I heard that engineers like to use their 'feet' to eat, is it true?"

"I heard that engineers are all bald. Why do you have such thick hair?"

"I heard that engineers generally don't live past fifty. Is it true?"

"I heard that many engineers are single, don't you? What a coincidence?"

I don't know which dog planned and designed these damn NPC lines.

Although these questions were asked, Yi Lin was physically and mentally exhausted.

But after getting to know each other well, Yi Lin also pretended not to have any intentions, and finally obtained some information about the "Vulcan Festival" from the two of them.