Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 267 Snail Shell Ship

At first glance, all you see is endless snowfields, as if there is no end to them.

But in fact, the temperature did not reach the standard of the snowfield, it was just a little chilly, and the warming potions distributed by several people were enough to solve the temperature problem.

Alde judged that a large-scale illusion had been cast here. In fact, they were just moving forward in an underground cavity, but what they saw was a snowy field.

The purpose of illusion is obviously to cover up what one wants to hide and to make people who accidentally stray into it give up.

Olde held the staff in one hand and covered one of her eyes with the other.

Above her head, there was a nearly transparent magical eye floating.

This is a spell called the Mystic Eye, which can see through illusions and the flow of magic power. Because it is visually connected to one's own brain, if one does not cover one eye, the brain will not be able to process too much information, causing extreme dizziness.

But perhaps the illusion was too powerful. The Mystic Eye could only see an area with a radius of about twenty meters around it. Anything farther would still be obscured by the illusion.

The tiefling wanderer Nimya was leading the way, while the dwarf Draeg and the halfling Perrin were walking in front and behind Alde respectively. This was the standard formation for adventurers to advance.

They had been walking for nearly ten minutes. The aurora in the distance had not weakened at all, and the distance did not seem to have shortened. However, if they looked around carefully, they would find that every time they moved forward a distance, the scenery in the distance fluctuated as if they had teleported.

This is the illusion adjusting itself to ensure that it can perfectly cover people's vision.

However, the Aurora has nothing to do with illusion. Through the secret eye, Alde vaguely saw some divinity in the Aurora.

That was the Demon King's Ring guiding the Demon King's followers, Ordai, to find himself. It wanted to return to the Demon King's finger. As long as you follow the aurora, no matter what the illusion creates, you will never get lost.

Continuing forward, suddenly a huge black object came into view. It looked like a strangely shaped ship.

"Is that also an illusion?"

"Not sure, but it's in our path."

When they got closer, they saw that this black behemoth looked like a giant cephalopod, with tentacles as thick as tree trunks and shriveled like jerky. The cold magical light illuminated its ominous and terrifying outline.

"What's this?"

"It doesn't look like a ship."

The three adventurers looked at what appeared before them in shock. Nimia even touched one of the tentacles in front of him with her finger, and it felt as cold as stone.

“This is a ship.”

Orday stepped forward and used her secret eyes to clearly see that this thing was real and not an illusion.

"It's a conch shell ship, a magical ship belonging to the illithids."

"..."

The three of them looked at each other and unconsciously covered their scalps.

The Illithids are hideous creatures with purple skin and octopus-like heads that feed on the brains of intelligent creatures.

The most terrifying thing is that this monster will implant its young into the body of a living person. After the young have eaten up all of the host's gray matter, the original host will become a mind sucker.

This process is extremely painful and irreversible, and even one of the most powerful spells in magic, the Wish, cannot prevent it.

"No one wants to encounter a mind sucker, not even the evil demon from the Nine Hells!"

For a Tiefling who is a mixed evil being to say this, it is really very convincing.

"This snail-shell ship has been here for a long time. It crashed." Olde's secret eye saw that there was still a long groove at one end of the snail-shell ship, left by the collision.

"And we have no choice now but to go in and take a look at the situation."

Alde pointed with her staff, and the three looked up to find that the aurora that had been there just a moment ago was now gone.

–‐‐——–‐‐——

It takes a lot of courage to approach a conch shell ship, because you never know when an octopus head will suddenly pop out and eat your brain.

What’s even more fucked up is that these octopus heads called mind suckers are all ridiculously strong and can use psychic energy to attack.

However, Alde felt that there was no need to worry about the problem of the mind suckers.

The snail-shell ship is actually a biological warship. The main body of the snail-shell ship is actually organic matter, such as huge blood vessels and tendons, and the outer shell is reinforced with wood or metal.

The tentacles of the snail-shell ship should remain moist for a long time and have a large amount of mucus.

Now it seems that the tentacles of this snail-shell ship have completely shriveled up like jerky, and the mucus has long disappeared.

In other words, this is the corpse of a conch shell ship, and it has been stored for a very long time and has turned into a mummy.

No matter how terrifying a mind-sucking monster is, it is still a living creature and cannot survive without food or water, so the probability of encountering a mind-sucking monster on this snail-shell ship is very low.

In fact, Olde was more puzzled as to why a conch shell ship was found in the place where the Demon King's Ring might be stored.

The current speculation is that the Snail Shell Ship accidentally crashed here while performing a space jump, and it may be avoiding some kind of attack.

However, the aurora has disappeared, and no one knows when it will reappear. Perhaps it is just a hint for Olde to go to the Snail Shell first to take a look.

The four men circled the Snail Shell and finally found a hole they could enter on the armor plate on one side.

The armor plate that originally covered the hole had disappeared without a trace, and there were very obvious bite marks on the edge of the hole. Even though the snail-shell ship had now turned into 'jerky', the bite marks were still clearly visible.

Oldie touched the bite marks at the hole and said:

"This is a bite mark from a red dragon. It seems that the Conch Shell may have jumped here urgently to avoid being hunted down."

Nimia was a little timid:
"Is there still a red dragon nearby?"

Draeger comforted:

"Impossible, this happened so long ago. Don't be afraid, explore the way ahead."

Exploring the way is the wanderer's task. Even if Nimia is afraid, he has to do his job well.

She gritted her teeth, drew the dagger from her waist and rushed in first.

The inside of the conch shell ship was unexpectedly warm, and they felt as if they had entered the body of a huge monster. There was a faint stench of rotting flesh and blood in the air.

The place they entered was probably a corridor on the Snail Shell. At first glance, it was all dark, shriveled and wrinkled muscle tissue. The ceiling, floor and walls were all the same.

No one would like this style of corridor. It felt like walking in the throat of a monster. Except for Oldie, whose expression did not change much, everyone else showed expressions of disgust.

At this moment, a gust of decayed wind blew gently, like a ghost's hand caressing the skin, making people shudder.

The only exception was Oldie, who was not only not afraid, but even seemed very excited:
"Keep going, let me see if I can find anything interesting."

(End of this chapter)