Players are coming, fortunately I have a time travel simulator

As Edwin began to count the number of people, Qingbai Yejiu and Haicheng also appeared online. At first, everyone was surprised by their frequent appearances and disappearances, but after seeing them resurrect after death, they gradually became accustomed to it and accepted that they were the Chosen Ones.

The members of the second expedition included nine professors, as well as powerful students such as Leonardo, Chris, and Zhou Ning. Zhou Ning also brought two players with him.

Edwin had no objection to this. Before setting off, he pulled out some alchemical potions from his pocket and distributed them to everyone. "These are the Iron Armor Potion, which increases defense, the War God Potion, which increases attack power, and some Anti-Poison Potion. Don't be stingy. Use them whenever you encounter danger. Don't make any mistakes."

Everyone took the potion and nodded cautiously. After yesterday's adventure, no one dared to take it lightly again.

The weather in the morning was quite strange. It was an extremely rare winter snow and thunder, accompanied by paroxysmal acid rain. Lightning and thunder mixed with heavy snow raged for a full hour before suddenly turning into heavy rain.

"Let's go." It was not until the heavy rain had been going on for a while that Edwin finished measuring the weather and spoke.

The rain was pouring down. Zhou Ning had just reached the entrance to the ruins when he smelled a strong stench of decay. The fog in the ruins seemed even thicker than yesterday. The dark clouds were gathering and the rain was raging, making the surrounding scene look like the end of the world.

This place has entered the sphere of influence of the undead creatures, and there are figures in worn clothes wandering back and forth tirelessly nearby.

Suddenly, they seemed to sense someone approaching and slowly turned to look at the crowd.

Those were dead bodies with festering skin and extremely numb expressions.

After what happened yesterday, Zhou Ning knew that these corpses must be dealt with immediately. There were countless undead creatures in this ruin, and no one knew what was hiding in the dark. The longer the battle lasted, the more dangerous the situation would be.

This time, Zhou Ning did not choose to use a gun. Instead, he rushed forward and took the lead in slashing out a divine strike. An astonishing sword light surged and instantly engulfed a large number of corpses.

Almost at the same time, Rosie Lily finished her chant, and her alchemical flask, combined with a powerful fire spell, exploded among the corpses. Flames instantly rose up, and nearly ten corpses were blown to pieces before they even had time to turn around.

The extremely competitive Leonardo had no intention of stopping. He raised his flaming sword and rushed forward, jumping and slashing.

Everyone present was formidable, and their coordination was seamless. It wasn't long before they had eliminated most of the corpses. Zhou Ning dispatched the last undead with a single wave of fire, and the battle was declared over.

Although he didn't gain much experience from this battle, Zhou Ning harvested nearly 20 high-quality undead cores, so it wasn't a wasted trip.

The road ahead was not peaceful either. Broken bones could be seen everywhere on the roadside. Although many high-level undead creatures liked to wander at night, in this weather tide where it was difficult to distinguish between day and night, there was not much difference between day and night. Zhou Ning saw with his own eyes a giant skeleton dragging a huge sickle and wearing a black cloak wandering in the thick fog.

Although he wasn't quite sure of his strength, he knew he couldn't be provoked just from Edwin's attitude of facing a formidable enemy and the warning that the danger level was "extremely lethal" when he released his reconnaissance spell.

According to my level of 57, the creature that can give me the prompt of "extremely deadly" must be an ancient evil creature above level 69.

After standing there for 15 minutes and waiting until the giant skeleton moved away, Edwin finally breathed a sigh of relief and led the team around from the other side.

The weather changed dramatically in the next part of the journey, from rain to snow, then to sunny and then to snow, and then another rainstorm. Everyone finally fully experienced what meteorological tides are.

They walked and stopped, stopping from time to time to measure the weather to avoid possible natural disasters. After about an hour, they finally arrived at the place they evacuated yesterday, but this time they did not encounter the undead again.

Maybe it's just as Edwin said, the undead elements are not very active during the day, and those undead are used to appearing at night.

When passing by the collapsed building where he met Archibald yesterday, Zhou Ning couldn't help but look over there. It was empty and there was no one.

However, the half-collapsed building had been repaired overnight, as if it had never been damaged at all. The rebuilt structure did not look habitable, but rather a floating mausoleum. It looked very familiar, much like the main base of the undead in Warcraft.

Zhou Ning: ...

He probably knew why the buildings here were kept so intact. The sleepless undead creatures silently carried everything.

Zhou Ning walked forward along the almost invisible path, and saw more buildings along the way. They also gave people the feeling of floating mausoleums. Although they were not dilapidated or collapsed, countless unknown vines and black plants were entangled on the buildings, which still gave people a sense of desolation brought by the passage of time.

Before long, they stopped and saw a staircase made of black rock, with an exaggerated number of steps, no less than 200. To the west was a dilapidated bell-less tower.

This is the destination of this expedition, the ruins where "wise" Earl Robbins once visited but returned empty-handed.

Looking up at the magnificent building before him, History Professor Albert said, "This should be a typical church architectural style from the Four Heroes period. St. Raymond's Church in Dockland adopted this style, with a spire on top, and the entire appearance exudes a sense of rising toward the sky. There must be a bell tower on the west facade, because according to legend, the gods reside deep in the misty sea west of the continent, and the sound of the bells travels westward for them to hear."

That's quite reasonable. Zhou Ning glanced around and agreed. Edwin couldn't wait to walk ahead, walking straight up the black rock steps towards the gate.

Not long after, Edwin arrived at the door of the building. He reached out, turned the handle, and pulled the door open with force.

The heavy door opened with a creaking sound of rust breaking.

In front is an extremely spacious hall, which has the characteristics of the St. Raymond Church style architecture: the nave is longer and narrower. Compared with the architectural details on the outside that have basically remained intact, two of the four rows of pillars supporting the hall have collapsed. The pointed arches of the pillars intersect at the top of the vault, like tall branches growing out of the ground, forming a strong upward momentum.

According to Albert, the two movements reflect reverence for God and a yearning for the Kingdom of God.

As soon as he stepped into the doorway, Zhou Ning's interface immediately sent a prompt, triggering a new task:

[Explore the Temple]: You accidentally entered a temple dedicated to an ancient god. Try to explore the temple as much as possible and uncover the secrets deep within history.

This is a B-level exploration mission. The mission requires you to explore the temple as deep as possible. The final mission progress will be calculated based on the exploration progress when leaving the temple.

Generally, this exploration task will only appear in the development of team dungeon maps... If I am not mistaken, this temple is likely to be a team dungeon that has never been discovered in the previous life.

Exploring a high-level map like this would probably earn no less than 600,000 experience points, and the extra rewards should be quite generous as well. "Following the gangsters and earning a considerable amount of experience points along the way, Zhou Ning was quite satisfied."

After following the expedition team in, Zhou Ning subconsciously glanced around and found that there was a side door on each side, which was closed. Leonardo walked over and reached out to pull it, but it didn't work. Instead, the gravel above his head kept falling, and there were signs of collapse.

"Don't move!" Professor Weasley scolded Leonardo. He withdrew his hand angrily and walked to the other side.

Zhou Ning smiled and looked away. He saw that the interior of the hall was decorated with a large gable in the ancient Faric style. Numerous vertical lines and buttresses divided the wall into five parts. The buttresses were covered with bright and gorgeous murals, giving people a deep but slightly exaggerated feeling.

On one of the murals, the background is a scene of smoke and flames. The earth appears blood red, with gallows erected everywhere. The land is barren and even the trees are withered.

Hordes of skeletons and zombies were heading towards the village. On the left was a vehicle filled with priests in white robes.

Behind the skeleton stood a rather tall man with a gloomy look, gray hair, and an ice-blue sword in his hand.

Zhou Ning: ...

His pupils suddenly contracted. He knew the man in the mural.

That's Death!