Hyperdimensional Warlock

Chapter 3978 Reconnection Screen

Angel's eyes lit up.

After a night, is there any news about Sigismund?
Angel nodded quickly. He had originally planned to go online and ask Laplace about Sigimund's situation. Unexpectedly, he just came back and happened to catch the live broadcast.

"...Illusion node."

"Understood." Angel made a hand gesture to leave it to me, then stretched out his clenched fist. A large number of illusion nodes then emanated from his palm, like flying fireflies, surrounding Laplace along their trajectory.

Laplace also took over the illusion nodes skillfully, and in reality, she made better use of the illusion nodes.

A ten-point node can even produce an eleven-point effect.

In the Dream Crystal Origin, she could only use one tenth or one twelfth of her potential at best.

Such super-effective performance also makes the live broadcast images extremely clear.

In the picture, Sigismund was in the dark deep sea with a hemp rope tied to his wrist. He was being pulled towards an unknown place by a masked woman who was only wearing tight underwear and had a hot and curvy figure.

It is worth mentioning that Sigismund was also wearing the same mask at this time.

This mask is a bit like an inflated iron box, covering the entire face, with only transparent material around the eyes, so you can vaguely see outside.

"Is this the current live broadcast screen?" Angel asked curiously. Are you sure it's not a "screen recording"?
Laplace nodded: "The Sea of ​​Mirrors now presents this picture. According to the real-time projection property of the Sea of ​​Mirrors, it can be determined that Sigimund's current state is as shown in the picture."

Angel's eyes flashed with confusion: "Wasn't he swallowed by a huge whale before? Why is there no whale now?"

Laplace shook his head, his eyes also full of confusion: "I don't know about that either. When the main body reconnected to the screen today, it was already this picture."

How did Sigismund escape from the whale's belly? The live broadcast did not capture it.

Angel: "Who is this woman with the mask?"

Laplace still shook his head: "When the screen was reconnected, this woman had already appeared."

It is possible that the masked woman saved Sigismund, or it is possible that the masked woman kidnapped Sigismund.

Otherwise, why were Sigismund's hands tied?
However, when Ingres looked closely, he found that the situation in the picture was a little strange.

It is said that Sigimund was kidnapped by the masked woman? That doesn't seem likely.

Because although the hemp rope was tied to Sigismund's wrist, it only tied the left wrist, and the right wrist was free. Sigismund's dominant hand was his right hand, and the sword at his waist was still there, which meant that it was easy for Sigismund to cut the hemp rope.

And he didn't do that.

This makes the scene look more like Sigismund can't swim anymore, and the masked woman is dragging him forward with the hemp rope to prevent him from sinking to the bottom.

The situation on Sigismund's side was also very strange. At first, Angel thought he was unconscious, but when he turned around underwater several times, the Vulcan halo reflected his face, and he could clearly see that his eyes under the mask were open.

If he was sober, why would he let a lady drag him to swim?

Are you injured?
This is what Ingres did not understand.

Another point is that both of them have full-face masks, but you can see inside through the transparent material of the eyes. And Angel just noticed that inside their masks, there is not oxygen, but... water.

There is a deep ocean outside, but there is still water inside the mask.

What kind of gameplay is this?
Angel asked his doubts, but Laplace couldn't explain it clearly. She had logged off an hour ago and knew not much more information than Angel.

"They have been swimming like this for almost an hour."

In other words, Laplace also watched a full hour of deep-sea diving...

"Whether Sigimund is injured or not is unclear at the moment, but it is possible." Laplace paused and pointed at the masked woman. "And when she was swimming with Sigimund, she would occasionally turn her head to ask about his condition and even swim over to ask."

Although no sound could be captured and her lip reading could not be read due to the mask, her caring attitude could still be seen from some details.

Therefore, Laplace believed that the masked woman should have no ill will towards Sigismund.

But what exactly happened between them and where the masked woman was going to swim with Sigismund is still unknown.

All we can do is keep looking and wait for change to come.

However, Angel looked at the deep sea in the picture. Apart from the occasional schools of fish passing by, he could not see the destination...

……

Because there were not many changes in the live broadcast screen, Angel felt that it was a bit boring to just wait for the screen to change.

So, taking advantage of this time, Angel asked about Laplace's mission status.

"How is your challenge going? Did you encounter any setbacks?"

Laplace shook his head. "Not bad. I originally thought this mission might be difficult, but after actually starting it, I found that it's just average."

"Random mission "Let's challenge the passionate hairstylist!""

The mission requires her to select 169 out of the 6 hair salons in the modern city to challenge, and she will pass the level if she gets the logo of the hair salon.

At first, Laplace thought he was going to challenge someone to a hairstyle contest.

But the situation was completely different from what she thought.

"In most hair salons, the staff there ignored my challenge and just kept selling hair care products."

"..."

"Some hair salons agreed to the challenge, but they were not allowed to touch the customers' hairstyles, so if they wanted to challenge me, they asked me to style my hair."

"Do you agree?"

Laplace shook his head. "No. I wanted to agree, but the clerk took out a price list the next second and told me the approximate price for different styles of hair."

At this moment Laplace understood that the other party did not want to accept the challenge at all, and was just trying to sell in a different way.

Angel: "...It sounds a bit miserable."

Laplace: "Not really. Although I didn't agree to style my hair, I still got the seal of the hair salon."

"??? How did you do that?"

Laplace: "I gave them two hundred Modern Coins, and they took out the store manager's badge, printed one on a piece of white paper, and gave it to me."

"Then, this emblem on the white paper is also counted in the mission challenge."

Angel: "..." How can this be accomplished? And where did you get the money from?
"Gleipnir had someone bring it to me."

"Ok."

Laplace continued.

When she found out that she could get the emblem by spending money, she changed her mind and just spent money to get the upper hand.

Angel: "Just by throwing money at it?"

Laplace nodded, but then shook his head.

“Part of it is done.”

According to Laplace's experience of spending money, it is impossible to complete the task by directly spending money to get the emblem.

The people in this hair salon must clearly agree to accept her challenge.

Only by spending money at this time can you obtain the emblem required for the task.

However, not many hair salons agreed to let her challenge them. Even if she hinted that they should pretend to agree to challenge her, most of the salon staff would just ignore her.

In addition, the amount of money spent by each store is different.

The first store was willing to pay 200 Modern Coins for the emblem, which was actually a bit high; but there were even higher prices, asking for a sky-high price of thousands of Modern Coins.

Even though Laplace got a lot of Modern Coins from Gleipnir, he couldn't waste them like this, so he had to give them up.

"I only got four emblems by spending money, which cost me about 1,200 Modern Coins."

"Of the remaining two emblems, one was won through a normal challenge. As for the other, I used a piece of my hair to exchange for a emblem."

Angel was surprised: "Can it be exchanged?"

Laplace: "It's not really an exchange. It's just that the manager of the hair salon seemed to like my hair very much. He promised that as long as I gave him a piece of hair, he would agree to my challenge and give me the badge."

Although Laplace's hair is basically equivalent to her "organ", the broken hair is just ordinary hair. In addition, she can control the growth of her hair, so she agreed to the other party's proposal without any hesitation.

In short, Laplace successfully completed the challenge mission in this way, obtained the "Fashion Magic Book", and became an apprentice magician.

At first glance, it seemed like she had only really experienced one formal kick-out competition, which seemed relatively simple.

But you should know that Hairmon is also one of the most basic fashion monsters, and the mission itself will not be too difficult.

I spent 1,200 Modern Coins on this, which is actually a bit over the limit.

However, no matter what, as long as the challenge is completed, it is worth congratulating.

In addition to congratulating, Angel was also very curious about the panel attributes of Hairbeast.

Laplace did not hide it and directly controlled some illusion nodes to display the current page of Hair Beast in the form of illusion.

"Hair Beast: One of the primary monsters in the Style series, it loves to design unique hairstyles for any creature."

「Current puzzle: 1/3」

"The abilities of this hair beast: 1. Hairspray Hands (Normal); 2. Unknown; 3. Unknown"

What Angel called "Curious Hairmon's panel" was not actually the Curious panel itself, but Curious Hairmon's forward-looking ability.

The forward-looking ability of Hairbeast is the "hair gel hand" which is relatively rare in the regular skill pool. The effect is: "When your hands touch the hair of any creature, it will secrete glue according to your own ideas. Even the messiest hairstyle can be made regular and shaped under your hands."

With this ability, you don’t need to use hairspray after washing your hair every day. You can just style it with a touch.

Generally speaking, this foresight ability is okay, and the glue secreted from the hands does not necessarily have to be used on hairstyles, it can also be used on other things... But for Laplace, it is of no use, and her hair does not need hairspray.

However, the reason why Angel suggested Laplace to choose Hairstylemon was not because of its ability, but simply because it was easier to earn style points.

Therefore, although this ability is not very useful, it is acceptable.

The only regret is that Hairstylemon requires more puzzle pieces.

If Laplace wants to unlock the puzzle, he has to complete the puzzle pieces. Fortunately, it is relatively easy for challengers to complete the puzzle pieces.

No need to go out of your way to look for the hair beast.

As long as you complete the side quests or wait for the main quest to end, you will be rewarded with puzzle pieces.

Therefore, as long as she completes more side quests in the future, it is only a matter of time before she completes the puzzle.

After talking about Hairmon, Laplace turned the focus of the topic to Angel. She was actually quite curious about how Angel and Algalon talked.

Angel: "It was a very pleasant exchange. Algaron's understanding of forging techniques is much better than mine. I learned a lot."

"It's just about the bottleneck of fantasy alchemy..."

Angel sighed: "There is still no clue at the moment."

Laplace looked at Angel's helpless sigh, a trace of thought flashed in her eyes. She actually had a vague guess... However, she felt that this guess was a bit too frivolous, so she thought about it and didn't say it out loud.

"There's no rush to break through. Your alchemy is already very strong now. At least, I haven't met an alchemist who is more powerful than you." Laplace said.

This is not comforting.

In Laplace's opinion, Angel's alchemical ability is superior to Algaron's.

Can Algarron refine a secret treasure like the "Unbreakable Heart Mirror"?
Obviously not.

Just this one piece of work is enough to kill Algaron.

Ingres nodded and said nothing more.

Next, they continued to chat while waiting for the live broadcast to change.

About another hour later, some small changes finally appeared on the screen.

The masked woman suddenly swam to Sigismund's side and seemed to be saying something, gesturing as she spoke.

Sigimund nodded, as if agreeing with her.

After confirming Sigismund's opinion, the masked woman began to drag Sigismund upwards. After a few minutes, she and Sigismund floated to the surface of the sea.

Before, when they were in the deep sea, they couldn't see anything.

When they floated to the surface of the sea, Ingres discovered that there was a storm on the sea. Not only was the weather gloomy, but the sea was also turbulent.

The two of them floated on the sea, like duckweed hit by rain, looking extremely small and weak.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the Vulcan Halo is not exposed to water, so the live broadcast is not affected by water droplets. However, due to the surge, the picture is still constantly fluctuating.

Angel noticed that after the masked woman and Sigismund floated to the surface, the masked woman took out a bottle full of liquid from her waist bag.

Then he unscrewed the cap on the top of the mask and poured the liquid in the bottle into the mask.

After filling his own mask, he also filled Sigismund's mask.

Angel was previously puzzled as to why there was water in their masks.

Now he understood that they had poured it in themselves.

The reason they floated up was probably to change water on the sea surface.

What exactly is this "water"? Angel looked at the bottle in the masked woman's hand and had a guess in his mind.

Could it be that the bottle contains... oxygen factor?