Chapter 63 - Crossbow, Brain Eater
Chapter 63: Crossbow, Brain Eater
The young man with gray hair’s reminder did not make Zhou Chen retreat. He quickly entered the door and observed the situation inside.
It looked like a long room. There was a wooden box on the ground more than twenty meters away. There was nothing in the middle. The only thing that was suspicious was the dense black holes on the walls on both sides of the room.
“That box looks like it is free for anyone to take. This is definitely weird. The flames should be coming from these holes.”
Out of caution and the young man’s reminder, Zhou Chen slowly walked inside.
At the beginning, nothing happened, but when he walked a little further than two to three meters, the dense holes on the walls on both sides spewed out hot flames, instantly filling the room.
Zhou Chen immediately retreated to prevent his clothes from burning.
After he retreated, the flames from the holes on the walls quickly stopped.
“Is this a test of speed…”
Zhou Chen immediately thought of charging through to the treasure chest when the flames stopped.
A few seconds later, he moved forward and triggered the fire spewing mechanism on the two walls. Then, he retreated and waited for it to stop. He carefully observed the holes and waited for them to stop spewing flames before quickly entering.
However, just as he moved half a meter forward, he immediately retreated, because the flames that had just stopped appeared again. The speed was too fast.
“This fire trap’s trigger speed is too fast. There’s no time to pass through it. This is a problem.”
Zhou Chen immediately judged.
He realized that the setting of this place was abnormal. Generally speaking, the system would not set up missions that were completely impossible to complete, but this room with fire traps seemed to be at that level of difficulty.
The box was on the other end of the twenty-meter long sealed room. There was nothing in the middle, but once a person entered some distance into the room, it would be filled with flames. The flames were triggered very quickly, and there was no room for maneuver.
“I wonder how this fire trap was triggered. Maybe it’s because of the pressure on the ground. I’ll try to use the Windrun skill to float over.”
After thinking for a while, Zhou Chen activated Windrun’s short floating ability and flew inside, but he was quickly met with failure. The triggering speed of the fire trap did not decrease at all. He was even slightly burnt by the flames because he floated too fast and retreated too slowly.
“Looks like the flame is not triggered by the pressure on the ground. This is quite troublesome. Could there be a mechanism somewhere that can turn off the flames?”
Zhou Chen quickly changed his mind. He began to search the room by the ceiling, walls, and the ground near the door, knocking to see if there were any loose or hollow bricks. After failing to find anything inside, he retreated outside and looked around near the door, but he still did not find anything.
“This is not working, I’m not good at solving riddles.”
He frowned. He was thinking of giving up on this place like the young man before. He did not want to barge in and become barbecue.
Just as he was about to leave, an inspiration struck him.
“This method seems feasible!”
He quickly took out a bottle of white potion from his inventory and took a small sip. His entire body turned invisible and disappeared in the air.
The white potion he drank was the Invisibility Potion he had obtained from the strange fish pool. Since the slightest sign of entry would trigger the fire, he thought whether he could evade this mechanism by turning invisible? If this plan did not work, he could only give up.
Zhou Chen felt very strange in the invisibility mode. He could not see his body or his limbs. If not for the various feelings in his body being intact, he would have thought that he had become a ghost.
In his invisibility mode, he walked through the door and quickly walked inside. When he arrived at a spot, he immediately slowed down and took a step forward with his right leg.
The holes in the walls did not spew flames.
“It works!”
Zhou Chen was immediately refreshed when he saw this. He took another step forward.
The holes on the wall on both sides still did not react.
Zhou Chen knew that he had used the right method. He immediately ran forward and arrived at the end of the long room in two seconds, and opened the box.
Inside the box was a small crossbow and three bolts. They looked rather exquisite.
“Long-range weapon? It’s really good, but I feel that this small weapon won’t be too powerful.”
All the weapons that Zhou Chen obtained before were melee weapons. He had never seen long-range weapons before in dungeons and had only seen them a few times in the trading area. The prices were very high.
Zhou Chen quickly put away the crossbow and the bolts. While the invisibility effect was still on, he quickly returned to the door and left.
Next, he continued to search for unfamiliar areas to obtain more harvests.
Ten minutes later, he did not discover any new rooms. He encountered a few tentacle monsters that looked like octopuses in the passage. These monsters were not difficult to kill, but they had an ability to cause the target’s head to swell. Zhou Chen quickly killed them with the help of the Frost Necklace.
[Passive Plunderer triggered: You have stolen the Brain Eater’s passive skill “Spirit Enhancement I”. Detected that it is superior to the passive skill you already have. It will automatically be replaced.]
After this battle, Zhou Chen’s spirit attribute increased.
After walking for a few more steps, Zhou Chen realized why the Brain Eater had such a name. He saw a man’s corpse in the passage. Its head was pierced through, and there was nothing inside.
There was a long wound on the man’s chest. Zhou Chen remembered that he had seen this person before. It was the person who had brushed past him before fighting the bear monster.
“This person is really unlucky to have encountered such a monster.”
Zhou Chen expressed sympathy for this man who had died a little miserably. This was because the frequency of monsters appearing in the passage was not high. Most of the monsters were in specific rooms. The monsters which occasionally appeared in the passage were weak. It could be said that the man had won the lottery when he encountered the Brain Eater that had the ability to attack spirits.
After confirming that this person did not leave any items, Zhou Chen quickly left. After walking for a while, he realized that things were not that simple. He encountered a few more octopus-like Brain Eaters that were chasing a gray-haired young man who was crawling on the ground and fleeing.
“Why are there so many monsters? I remember this passage was safe.”
Enduring the feeling of his head being slightly swollen, he relied on the Frost Necklace on his neck to exert its cooling support. He quickly walked forward and stabbed the disgusting monsters’ bodies with his spear.