Chapter 9 ：Taotie

I can't help but ah, my head exploded, this, this, this king, even handed me such a task, if I don't succeed in doing it, I'm not stuck here for the rest of my life!

 I am angry, Audrey suddenly softly laughed: "By the way, wait, you remember to hand and foot quickly, to pick up my explosive equipment, do not be eaten by the treasure-eating beasts ..."

 I heart another burst of pain, hey, she is not just hanging only one level, and not really dead, I so hard to do what? Such a nasty woman, die once I'm not happy enough.

 In fact, look at her age, listen to her voice, but also a girl, punch "girl" this word, there is no need to regenerate her anger, not to mention, her face was burned, perhaps because of what the accident changed her original temperament it ...

 I don't know what to say, I don't know how Audrey is feeling right now, maybe it's easier for someone who knows she's going to die than for the people around her. However, I watched her about to die in front of me, just can't tell you how hard it is.

 Audrey suddenly screamed: "You, you go far away, don't look at the way I die!"

 I smiled bitterly, "If I go far away, I won't be able to grab your equipment."

 Audrey didn't speak anymore, her eyelids seemed to be getting heavier and heavier, and she couldn't help but close them. The pain in my heart was still so great that I couldn't help but grab her hand, however, it was bounced back by the system again.

 I called out, "Don't you sleep, talk to me."

 Audrey slightly opened her eyes, "I'm so tired, only scolding you can make me feel better mentally, will you let me scold? No talking back."

 My eyes were tearing up and I nodded vigorously, "You curse, feel free to curse, if you can't think of a curse, I'll help you!"

 Audrey thought for a while before saying, "Can't think of anything to curse again for a while, oh yeah, you monster, why don't you ever get sick ah, would love to see you sick ..."

 I jumped up, why didn't I think of it?

 I felt out the "blood-sucking vessel" in my pocket and rolled up my sleeve: "Audrey, take this and stick it into my hand, here, right here, stick it in, don't be afraid, trust me!"

 Audrey doubtfully took the blood-sucking vessel, gently poked it twice on my hand, didn't insert it, or I helped her, inserted the blood-sucking vessel into my arm.

 There is no need to distinguish between any veins and arteries in the game, as the blood suction tube entered my arm, the essence of my blood flowed towards Audrey's body, and my HP started to drop.

 Although I took a lot of blood pills and my HP held up, but I still had a feeling of losing my life force, and my eyes began to blur for a while.

 I don't know how long it took, but there was a pain in my hand, and the suction vessel pumped out. Audrey whispered, "I seem to be doing much better, your blood tastes so good, hehehe."

 I patted my dizzy head and slurred a little, "Fine, when you want to drink it, find me again, but there's a charge."

 Too sleepy, I took out the wire bed and put it on the floor to try it out, luckily, the Treasure Eating Beast didn't seem to like the smell of my bed and didn't show up, so I immediately laid down on the wire bed and fell asleep.

 For the first time so tired, I seem to not only in the game to sleep, but the body is really sleeping, I do not know how long, I suddenly leapt up.

 Turning my head to look, Audrey is no longer there, dang, it can't be dead, right, finished, I just focus on sleeping, I forgot to grab the equipment for her, this will be scolded by her.

 Suddenly, I heard a voice behind me call out, "You're still really good at sleeping, come on, take the medicine, this is a blood replenisher!"

 I let out a long breath, fortunately. Took the soup medicine that Audrey handed me and drank it, this blood tonic is really different from the blood medicine, it made my spirit much better at once.

 And then looked up to see Audrey, the spirit also seems to be very good.

 Audrey seemed to be wearing a smile behind her veil, "How is your blood so effective, did you eat some treasure? Or is it a hidden attribute?"

 I hemmed and hawed, "Nothing, just happened to suck the blood of a monster and got some antibodies."

 Audrey gave an oh-so-sweet sound and added, "I'm hungry, didn't you say you know how to cook? Why don't you go make it?"

 I was furious, "I have to do it if you tell me to?"

 Audrey's mouth pouted: "People are sick, need nutrition."

 I pour, a goosebumps, this girl will also be pouting, I ...

 Made a big meal, after we ate, I then talked to her about the BOSS in the Temple of Ware, Taotie.

 Knowing that there is hope to complete the mission, Audrey's eyes lit up and immediately set off with me.

 That little thing Taotie was curled up in the corner, when a few more ordinary treasure-eating beasts brought it some newly dug gems. However, the Taotie groaned a few times, it seemed like it couldn't eat.

 A few Treasure Raiders ran to the small hole and tried to bite through some of them, but the walls of the temple were not damaged at all, so it seemed that the stone here was very good, and only the Taotie itself could have bitten through it.

 The Treasure Raiding Beasts didn't notice us who were prying, and quickly left through the small hole.

 I turned to Audrey and said, "How was it, have you fought the Treasure Raiding Beasts? What are they resistant to?"

 Audrey shook her head, "Treasure Raiding Beasts can swallow all kinds of magic and weapons, and they are very agile, it's just ordinary Treasure Raiding Beasts that we can't fight."

 I said, "We can't be trapped here! Let's just try, look at this BOSS, it's very weak, it might have lost a lot of its strength."

 Audrey gritted her teeth, "You just know how to fight and kill, can't you see that it's in pain, don't you know how pitiful a sick person is, and you're still killing it?"

 I pour, I don't know? I'm more pathetic than anyone else.

 This Audrey, when she fights monsters, she is as ruthless as me, when she sees a sick monster, her heart softens, is it because she just got sick once.

 Thinking of her face behind the veil, I don't know what kind of story, I was momentarily distracted.

 Suddenly, I heard Audrey say in a very gentle voice, "Little boy, be obedient, don't move, sister will help you take out the things in your stomach, OK?"

 I winced, is this really Audrey talking? Meaty to death!

 Audrey was squatting in front of Taotie, reaching out and gently caressing this BOSS, I was dumbfounded, I don't know if Taotie was sick and had no strength, or if she ate her up, she actually didn't move.

 It turns out that you can also get along with the BOSS said, I busy walked up a few steps, to the taotie issued a healing spell.

 Taotie suddenly eyes shot out red light, mouth a, will my that healing spell swallowed up to go, good big mouth!

 Audrey was busy calming Taotie down with soft words, then blankly glanced at me, "Don't make a mess, get out!"

 Depressed, I walked out of the door, what kind of setting is this game, do women have this kind of advantage, if BOSS can be dealt with like this, I'll go and do a sex change operation and become a woman! Hey, even if you want to do it, you can't do it now ...

 After a while, I am waiting impatiently, finally heard Audrey's voice: "Okay, fool come in!"

 I pour, when did I become a fool. I rushed through the door and screamed at Audrey, "Who's the idiot!"

 Audrey smiled cheekily, "I forgot your name, by the way, what's your name?"

 "Chris!" Forget it, with this woman, I'm almost less than a fool, I can't do anything with her.

 Looking around, I didn't see Taotie, I wondered, "That, where's that little good boy of yours?"

 Audrey faintly said, "I took it as my pet."

 So strong! A level 60 BOSS pet!

 I said anxiously again, "Then, where's the city building stone?"

 Audrey pulled out a deep blue stone, "It's here, I helped take it out with the healer's 'Anatomy Technique'."

 I was overjoyed, "Well, put it back on the god table."

 Audrey pouted, "No, such a beautiful stone, I'm going to keep it for myself, using it as a medium, I'm sure I can make the ultimate magic."

 I was sweating profusely, "You, don't be like this, you want this stone, I'll help you find one later, this time you must put it back!"

 Audrey puffed and laughed, "Just kidding, you think I'm a child, don't know what's important?"

 I'd also rather you be a little kid, a big kid like you, or a girl, is really too hard to serve. Irene is even younger than her, and also loves to be pampered, I used to have a headache, but now that I think about it, Irene is really too cute!

 The bluestone was placed back on the shrine table, and a strange kind of light began to flicker in the chamber, and blue smoke filled the entire temple of the artefact. We held our breath and waited silently for the change.

 After a while, there was a roar from outside and the small holes in the walls of the ware temple began to heal, we all couldn't help but shiver with excitement, it worked!

 Rushing out of the secret passage, in front of us was a spectacular sight, countless tall buildings were being pulled up in place, gradually towering into the clouds, and the broken ground was slowly restored to alabaster slabs. Strange noises began to emanate from the black clouds in the sky, however, they were still tightly put together, not allowing sunlight to penetrate.

 In just two short hours, all of the buildings in the Phantom City were restored to their former image!

 We were all dumbfounded by the massive transformation before us, and it took a long time for us to recover, and together we approached the buildings, reaching out and touching them to make sure these were not illusions.

 We walked into the game's various shops, and although all sorts of equipment had been restored, there was no vending, and there were no NPCs, so we still couldn't buy or sell anything.

 I ran towards the city's teleportation array, the style of this one was completely different from the modern ones.

 When I looked at the target places in the teleportation array, I was dumbfounded, there were only three targets on it: "Cow City", "Mall" and "Mirage City".

 It turns out that this teleportation array can only communicate with other ancient cities, ah, I in the management window of Friendship Town teleportation target column, input Phantom City, but the system prompts: "Unable to open the metropolis."

 It's good to see other ancient cities, so I clicked on Bull City, but the system prompted, "You don't have any ancient coins on you, so you can't pay the teleportation fee."

 Ahem, this seems to be something I can only look at but can't use, the ancient coins in the city must have been eaten up by the treasure-eating beasts long ago.

 If you want to build a teleportation array, the system prompts, "The building you want to build is not compatible with this city ..."

 It's over, it's over, we still can't go out, and the system didn't prompt us to rebuild successfully, so the excitement from just now dropped again.

 Audrey at this time strolled around the whole city and came back, frowning, "Nothing works, I can't use any skills in the pharmacy and healer's shop here, the tools inside don't match my skills."

 I also went to the leatherworker's shop, blacksmith's shop, and carpentry shop and tried each of them, and sure enough, I couldn't use any of these ancient tools and equipment.

 I rubbed my head, "It's a small matter that these can't be used, why hasn't this quest been completed yet? This city has clearly been rebuilt."

 Audrey said, "I'll leave that to you to think about, I'll continue to delve into my formation arts."

 I suddenly fished out a low-grade gem and threw it on the ground, for a long time, nothing moved, Audrey looked at me halfway strangely.

 I pondered for a while, "The Treasure Eaters are gone, is it because you caught their heads, or is it because the Phantom City Shield has worked?"

 I then muttered to myself, "The Treasure Eating Beasts shouldn't be the original creatures of the Spectral City, moreover, after the Great War, the Spectral City failed to repair itself automatically ... suggesting that during the Great War, that baby of yours had already swallowed the stone of the city's construction."

 Audrey suddenly said, "The Treasure Eater was sent by the Demon God!"

 It seems that she is quite smart, perhaps the key to the breach of the City of Psi lies in the fact that the Treasure Eating Beast swallowed the City Building Stone, rendering all the defences of the City of Psi ineffective.

 I slowly consulted the legends and information of the Phantom City, and Audrey quietly stood to the side and watched.

 My eyes suddenly stopped on a passage, "The daughter of Gaynon, the old architect of the City of Psi, was captured by the Demon God of the Big Belly, the architect was very sad, however, the city lord was unwilling to send warriors to risk their lives to free his daughter. Soon the grieving architect disappeared, and the city walls were no longer repaired by an architect of sufficient seniority, and so an opening was soon broken by the demon god ..."

 I feel that I have found the problem, the location of the city building stone should be the highest secret, besides the city lord, I am afraid that only the person who builds the temple of artefacts knows about it, perhaps, it is this architect who in order to exchange for his own daughter, brought Taotie into the city and pointed out where the temple of artefacts is located.

 However, even if I found the reason why the city broke down, it doesn't explain why the quest wasn't completed ah.

 I looked through it again and didn't find anything else, but I did find the location where the Demon God's army was stationed back then, the Giant Stone Mountain in the south of the city.

 Not knowing if there would be any clues there, I spoke to Audrey and went to take a look together.

 The scene outside the city surprised us greatly, only to see countless Treasure Eating Beasts, Corpse Eating Beasts and so on, drilling out from the ground, like a tidal wave, surging towards the south of the city.

 I turned my head to Audrey and said, "You summon your baby out to take a look."

 Audrey seemed reluctant to listen to me, but obediently summoned Taotie.

 After Taotie came out and squeaked a few times, the treasure-eating beast army had some commotion and gathered towards Taotie. I called out in a panic, "Audrey, tell Taotie to get those monsters back underground."

 Audrey hurriedly lowered her head and stroked Taotie's head, "Baby, tell your men to all go back underground, okay?"

 Taotie, however, as if she didn't hear Audrey's words, just looked in the direction of the south of the city, with a kind of fondness**-like feelings in her gaze.

 I frowned tightly, "It seems that it's still thinking about its original master. In the past, these monsters were supposed to be controlled by Taotie, and when Taotie was received by you in the pet space, they headed towards the south of the city. It seems that in the Monolithic Mountain, there must still be the treasures of the Big Belly Demon God to control these monstrous beasts, or ... the Demon God himself is sealed there!"