Hidden Map (73159)

A Skeleton has learned Holy Light Slash? What's wrong with this world? But Gu Xi quickly got used to this situation. In the Chaoyang Radiance Guild, Gu Xi had seen many necromancers and Death Knight who used light-based spells or skills.

In retrospect, it's not a big deal that a Skeleton has learned Holy Light Slash.

Gu Xi, however, was somewhat curious about the paladin's situation.

"Check!"

Under Gu Xi's command, all the Undead Army rushed out onto the main street.

Gu Xi's exploration has finally yielded results.

On this main street, Gu Xi discovered more than ten corpses of fallen paladins, along with three severed vines.

At the top of one of the vines, the Black Apple Flower had not yet been dispersed.

Gu Xi sighed as he watched the paladins die embracing the vines.

"Send a few skeletons to the bus stop for route 19."

Upon hearing Gu Xi's order, Luna did not try to dissuade him, even though these corpses were all level 6 or higher in life, and even though they could be used to create stronger and better undead, she did not stop Gu Xi's idea.

After sending the paladin's body away, Gu Xi walked up to the three vines.

Gu Xi reached out and lifted the vine still adorned with Black Apple Flower, a message reached his ears.

You have obtained 1 Black Apple Flower. Quest progress changed (1/20).

However, Gu Xi's attention was not on this. When he lifted the vine, Gu Xi noticed that there was dried green liquid at the severed end of the vine.

Following the trail left by the liquid, Gu Xi could see where the vines had sprung out of the ground.

There are three pits on this street, which means that there were only three vines that attacked this street.

If all three vines were cut down by the paladin, then what possessed that paladin, and why did the other paladins die?

An idea popped into Gu Xi's mind.

Before Gu Xi could figure this out, Luna floated over.

"Sir, it has all been cleaned up."

Gu Xi was about to order them to move to the next block, but just as he gave the order, Gu Xi gaze fell on the hole that the vines had created.

He hesitated for a moment, but finally said, "Luna, call Ghost and Corpse Poison Fly over and have them check down these three pits."

After receiving Gu Xi's order, Luna didn't ask why. She quickly returned to Aryadovi City and began mobilizing the troops Gu Xi needed.

Ghost Gu Xi still has quite a few subordinates, but the number of Corpse Poison Fly is clearly dwindling.

During the previous expedition to the Sewer, a considerable number of Corpse Poison Fly were taken away, and a batch was later distributed to Shaya.

There aren't many Corpse Poison Fly left that can be used in Aryadovi City.

Gu Xi has no source of Corpse Poison Fly; these things are truly a case of "every group that dies is one less group."

But now is not the time to think about these things. After releasing the Corpse Poison Fly and Ghost, they went into the pit on their own.

Gu Xi stood above a pit and waited. After a while, several Ghost flew up from the pit and started gesturing and talking to Luna.

Unlike Gu Xi, Luna, as Ghost, can directly communicate with Ghost.

After listening, she turned to Gu Xi and said, "My lord, they found another section of the vine roots down there."

Upon hearing this, Gu Xi's eyes lit up.

"Let's go down and take a look."

After saying Gu Xi jumped into the pit, and Gu Xi soldiers quickly followed, almost filling the pit to the brim.

Fortunately, Luna noticed something was wrong immediately and ordered the undead that wanted to jump down to split up. The slow-moving Zombie guarded the outside of the pit, while the Skeleton Spearman who needed to coordinate the battle simply didn't come down.

Next came the Skeleton Two-handed Swordsman and Skeleton Mage from the Bonecleaver Battalion.

The undead split into three groups and moved forward simultaneously through the pits, while Gu Xi had already led Luna to the front.

The pit is not very high above the ground, located about three Mido underground.

After entering the passage through the pit, Gu Xi reached out and touched the soil in the pit, then said with a disdainful look, "A disgusting smell of blood."

Then Gu Xi pressed his arm heavily against the edge of the pit, revealing the marks of Gu Xi excavation.

It's not hard to tell from a glance that the vines and roots from the Apple Tree were brought here by someone.

In order to precisely target every street surrounding Westminster Abbey, they actually set up at least one checkpoint in every main street and alley.

They also use blood mixed with special energy to attract the roots of the Apple Tree.

Finally, the cultists on the ground activated the ritual, enraging the tree roots and vines, and using pedestrians from the nearby streets as sacrifices to guide the Apple Tree into a strange transformation.

And they did a great job; judging from the Apple Tree that shaded half of Westminster Abbey, the operation was quite perfect.

They had even calculated their final escape route: as the Apple Tree mutated, the retracted Apple Tree would incidentally destroy the channels that guided the roots underground.

Even if someone discovers that the Apple Tree popped out from the ground, they have no way of finding the location of the Apple Tree by following the passage.

All they could find were collapsed tunnels. Digging out through those tunnels would be worse than fighting a direct battle in Westminster Abbey Square.

But the cult members never expected that they would encounter such an unexpected situation.

A dozen or so paladins had gathered on this street, risking their lives to cut the Apple Tree.

The severely damaged Apple Tree did not retreat to their original position; instead, they became stuck in the tunnel.

These three tunnels were transformed into tunnels that did not collapse.

Gu Xi was so certain of all this because after he had walked through the three tunnels, a message popped up in front of him.

[Hidden map discovered: Underground Tomb. Find the core location of the Underground Tomb, the Crown of the Sacred Tree, within twelve hours!]

[Note: This is the first time this hidden map in the instance has been discovered. If the exploration task is not completed within twelve hours, this hidden map will be removed from the instance.]

Looking at the information in front of him, Gu Xi couldn't help but give a silent "yes."

I told you the exploration of the first dungeon was important.

If you go straight to Westminster Abbey in the first round, you won't get this hidden map.

Now that there's an extra hidden map, it's like having an extra place to fight.

Gu Xi didn't bother to find out why the core area of the underground mausoleum was called the Crown of the Sacred Tree.

At that moment, he was considering how to move the Apple Tree without causing the tunnel to collapse.