Chapter 721 Ancient Relics

There is a smooth tunnel directly opposite the warehouse gate.

Dorothy manipulated the mechanical cornerstone and climbed into the tunnel. Soon she left the castle and appeared in the endless desert.

A miniature map was displayed in the upper right corner of the cabin screen.

The red dot on the map represents the location of the mechanical cornerstone.

The flashing red arrow represents the current direction of travel.

The small area circled by blue lines in the center of the map is the excavation site of the ancient ruins, which is Dorothy's destination.

After setting the coordinates, the mechanical cornerstone can automatically go to the destination.

During the journey, the forward route will occasionally be blocked by towering sand dunes.

Dorothy can manually operate the mechanical cornerstone to bypass the sand dunes.

However, the girl decided to take this opportunity to try the drilling function of the mechanical cornerstone, so she pressed the black triangle button on the console.

The metal pointed cap of the mechanical cornerstone immediately hummed and rotated, and the entire head turned into a thick drill bit, pushing into the base of the sand dune, and yellow sand flew out with the drill bit.

Like a red-hot awl piercing cheese, the mechanical cornerstone cleared the way with a roaring drill, easily penetrated the sand dunes, and advanced in a straight line.

After crossing the sand dunes, the ruins of the ancient civilization were in front.

Thousands of years ago, this place was originally a prosperous and fertile city, but now it has been buried by endless yellow sand, with only scattered broken walls and ruins left.

Among the ruins, there are a dozen pits scattered, all of which are bottomless.

These pits were dug by the Witch of the West. Diving a thousand feet, you can reach the ruins of the ancient city buried under the sand.

Dorothy looked at these caves and hesitated.

She was not sure which cave to choose as the entrance for this trip, or simply drive the mechanical cornerstone to dig a new tunnel and try to explore the area that Theodora had never reached before?

Unable to make up her mind for a while, she prayed silently and asked her guardian angel to guide her.

At the same time, Ma Yun finally received a system prompt: Turn on the "Goddess Mode"!

"Wow! It's finally my turn!"

Student Xiao Ma excitedly climbed onto Dorothy's body.

"Even if there are good things in the hole dug by the old witch, they have long been taken away by the old witch. There is no value in exploring it!"

"The right way is, of course, to dig a tunnel yourself!"

After making up his mind, Ma Yun was about to operate the mechanical cornerstone to dig a hole, but suddenly remembered something and quickly opened the star disk to check the attribute panel of this construct.

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·Mechanical Hornstone

Challenge Rating: Level 6

No alignment, Large Construct

Hit Points: 155 (10D10+10×10/Hardness 10)

Speed: Walk 60 feet/Climb 30 feet/Dig 30 feet

Defense: 20 (Large -1, Natural +10, Dexterity +1)

Melee: 15-foot mechanical tentacles x 10 +9 (1d6+6, grab/DC19), ram +9 (3d6+6 pierce)

Skills: Perception +5

Senses: Darkvision, Tremorsense, Passive Perception Awareness 15

Attributes: Strength 23, Agility 13, Constitution -, Intelligence -, Perception 16, Charisma 8

Special Abilities: Construct Characteristics, Magic Detector 300 feet (Dark Vision/Tremorsense), Damage Reduction 10/Adamantium

Auxiliary Devices: Searchlight, Gas Bottles × 12 (Each bottle can provide one person with 24 hours of breathing), Cabin (can accommodate 4 medium-sized creatures), Storage Box (recovers ancient artifacts)

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"Wow~ This steel giant squid is quite powerful!"

Ms. Xiao Ma was very excited and praised.

She originally thought that the mechanical hornstone was just a vehicle.

Now it seems that although the mechanical hornstone has no intelligence attribute, it is at least a semi-intelligent construct that can execute more complex commands. When attacked, it can also automatically counterattack according to the preset program, which is quite powerful.

At this time, Ma Yun suddenly remembered another very important thing.

"Brother Fei! Sister Feng! Where are you?"

"We have entered your module, but we can only choose the God's perspective at present. It is not time to go into battle personally."

Gao Fei answered in the Star Plate Team Channel.

"Where are your characters?" Ma Yun asked.

"It is in this desert ruin, not far from where you are." Jiang Feng pointed to the small map on the cabin screen, "Xiao Yun, do you see the green cursor on the map? Your brother Fei's character and I have set up a temporary camp there, and it seems that we are involved in this expedition as treasure hunters."

Ma Yun observed the cursor and murmured: "Your camp is only two miles away from me, I will go to find you!"

As she said, she started the mechanical cornerstone and turned around to move towards the camp.

At this moment, the game perspective switched to the camp.

Gao Fei and Jiang Feng received a system prompt at the same time, and they could "descend to the gods"!

The two quickly switched to the subjective perspective and took over their respective roles.

Before he could see the situation around the camp clearly, another system prompt popped up:

"A small group of sandworms are about to attack the camp! Escape the camp as soon as possible and join the teammates driving the mechanical horn stone!"

"Huh? A small group of sandworms...how many are there?"

Jiang Feng showed his Twilight Sword and pistol, and vigilantly observed the movements around him, while saying to his boyfriend:

"We are both level 8 warriors. Three or five sandworms are not enough to pose a threat to us. There is no need to run away. It is easier to kill them all."

Before he finished speaking, the sand and soil around him trembled and flew, and one after another hideous sandworms came out, waving huge and sharp jaws, twisting their poisonous tail stingers, and surrounded the camp.

"One pair, two pairs, three pairs... No way? There are twelve sandworms!" Jiang Feng was so angry that he couldn't help but swear, "Damn it! You call this a 'small handful'?!"

"You stupid woman, you still count hammers! Hurry up and run!"

Before the sandworms surrounded him, Gao Fei grabbed his girlfriend's hand and ran towards Ma Yun's direction!

A whole dozen sandworms chased after them, and the rolling yellow sand flew up.

Gao Fei and Jiang Feng turned on "Sprint" and ran at full speed, moving 60 feet per round.

The crawling speed of sandworms is 30 feet, and they don't have acceleration methods such as "Sprint", so they can't catch up with them under normal circumstances.

However, the two sides were not chasing on a flat runway.

In the game, soft sand is a typical "difficult terrain".

Unless the player is naturally adapted to the desert environment like the sandworm and can move freely in the quicksand, or has mastered skills such as "walking through the forest" that are not hindered by difficult terrain, running on soft sand will reduce the movement speed by half.

Every time you run a certain distance, you must make a DC10 reflex save.

If the save fails, you will fall into the quicksand and slowly sink.

Even if you can eventually escape the quicksand trap, it will delay time and you are more likely to be caught up by the sandworm behind you.