Hollow Knight: Hallownest

Mo Rong walked aimlessly on the street, bored.

Although I want to visit Hallownest, I still don’t know where to start.

Ever since Delia gave him the pocket of geos, he had no shortage of it for the time being. He could spend the entire three thousand geos at will. Are all knights so rich?

Looking at the bone nails on his back, it seemed that he had automatically obtained the license since the last game. No one would trouble him when he was walking around in the street openly.

But the truth is who would trouble a champion?

Morong walked into Woou Trading Company and waved to the clerk inside.

"Man, do you sell maps?"

The last time he bought a map, he only thought about going to the streets and forgot that there was such a place.

"Sell it! Come with me."

As he spoke, the waiter led Mo Rong to a counter and asked:

"Sir, where do you want the map?"

"Crossroads."

He thought about it, first go to the crossroads to find the shaman there, see if he can learn his spells, and ask about absorbing souls by the way.

"Okay, please wait a moment."

The clerk leaned over and fiddled with the counter for a while, then took out a few rolls of maps and handed them to Mo Rong.

"Sir, which one do you want?"

"Why so many?"

Mo Rong looked at the seven or eight maps in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.

"Of course, these maps are all provided by different cartographers, so they each have their own merits."

Mo Rong spread out the maps one by one and looked at them carefully. He found that the quality was almost the same as the ones he bought on the street last time. However, some maps seemed to be deliberately attractive by the cartographer. He drew a few question marks on the maps. It makes people look at it and can’t help but explore it.

Since they were all roughly the same, Mo Rong picked a map with more question marks to add some fun to his travels.

"How to sell this?"

"One hundred gigolos."

Morong happily gave it to Gio, which was a drop in the bucket for him.

"By the way, man, are there two stag beetles fighting in our city?"

"Yes what's the matter?"

"Other than the large elevator, where is the other one?"

"When you go out and walk forward, you can see the sign after climbing a few steps."

"Okay, thank you."

Now that you are rich, your travel mode must be upgraded to a higher level?

Morong walked out of the business and followed the clerk's route. Sure enough, he saw the sign for Lujiao Station not long after.

There were a lot fewer people here, with only a dozen or so sitting on the benches aside, waiting for the return of the next stag beetle.

There is a large, deep hole ahead, which I guess is the tunnel dug by a stag beetle.

There was something similar to a bus stop next to where the stag beetle was parked. Murong walked up and took a look. It would cost sixty euros to get to the crossroads from here, which was not too expensive.

After a while, the ground where the insect stood began to tremble slightly, and the sound of multiple footsteps on the ground gradually became clearer. A bright light gradually came closer to the hole. After the dust subsided in order to stop the body, a huge stag-horned insect stopped. In front of everyone.

After the two chatted with him for a while, they put Geo into a cashier-like box next to the platform, then boarded the stag beetle. After another sound of treading on the ground, the stag beetle disappeared into the hole again.

After waiting for about twenty minutes, it was finally Mo Rong's turn. He threw himself into Gio and climbed onto the back of the stag bug. He sat on a soft cushion that it carried and let out a long sigh of relief.

"It has to be a stag-horned insect. It's just comfortable to sit on."

"Of course, what we focus on in this industry is comfort and speed."

The leader of the stag-horned insects running below chatted with him. Although they were moving quite a bit, Mo Rong didn't feel much jolt. He felt like he was being shaken to sleep.

"Brother Stag-horned Insect, how long will it take for us to arrive? I'll take a nap first."

"Don't worry, passenger, just sleep. I'll call you when you get there."

Feeling the breeze blowing across her face and the heavy footsteps under her feet, Mo Rong slowly closed her eyes.

......

In the laboratory of the Soul Sanctuary.

In front of a storage and transformation device, the soul master was staring closely at the black and white matter that was constantly mixing inside, holding valves of other devices in his hand.

After a burst of roar, the material fluctuations in the device gradually subsided, leaving only a mass of black. Just when the soul master's eyes showed joy, the mass of black instantly exploded and smeared on the wall of the device.

"Oh, why did it fail again?"

"The parameters are correct, the steps are correct, and the data fluctuations are very similar. Why can't it succeed?"

The soul master started the cleaning device, washed the liquid in the converter and then injected the same substance again. With the valve pulled down, the machine started again.

"Somas, how's the experiment going?"

A faint voice came from behind, startling the soul master who was paying attention to the experimental device.

"See your Majesty!"

Another figure that appeared in the laboratory was King Bai.

"Report to the king that the experiment on it... failed to proceed as expected."

Soumas sighed lightly. He asked himself that in this land, although he could not be called the top when it came to studying souls, he was definitely an authoritative person.

Since the establishment of the Soul Sanctuary, he has never encountered such a difficult thing. The black substance does not look like a normal thing.

The roar of the machine also attracted the attention of King Bai. He turned his eyes and stared at the running machine without responding to Soumas' words.

As the black exploded again, Soumas buried his head lower.

"Never succeeded even once?"

King Bai said softly.

Soumas was silent for a moment, but it was the best response.

"Your Majesty, don't be anxious. Give me some time and I will definitely find the reason."

King Bai seemed not to hear it and said to himself:

"Isn't he a product of this place? Then where did he come from?"

He walked slowly to the window and looked out the window without saying anything.

Soumas broke out in a cold sweat. He felt that if he didn't say anything, he might not be leading the Soul Sanctuary.

"Your Majesty! In fact, Wei Chen succeeded more than half the time!"

"Half a second, what do you mean?"

"Well, let me tell you, Your Majesty, that there was a time when the black substance was indeed fused with the soul, but it did not show a mind."

"and then?"

"Then...then Weichen didn't control the device well and accidentally blew it...exploded it..."

"It exploded? Where did it go?"

"Weichen... Weichen is not found, he must have disappeared."

Bai Wang's calm body was now emitting some fluctuations, and Soumas quickly defended himself.

"Please forgive me, Your Majesty! If there is one, there must be two! Give Wei Chen a little more time, and Wei Chen will definitely succeed!"

King Bai looked at the tall tower standing not far away, with a rare expression of surprise in his eyes, and then hid it again.

"No, you don't need to continue this research."

Soumas was heartbroken after hearing this. Sure enough, he still couldn't escape the fate of being dismissed.

"Wei Chen understands that Wei Chen will take the initiative to step down as the leader of the Soul Sanctuary and let the king down."

The figure of the White King gradually disappeared, and before leaving, he left behind a sentence that turned Somas' sadness into joy.

"You are still the leader of this sanctuary, continue your research, and you have not let me down."

After hearing this, Soumas was still a little in disbelief, and the look in his eyes gradually recovered.

"As ordered!"

......

Mo Rong was walking on the way away from the Antler Station, dusting himself off and cursing.

I agreed to wake him up, but when he arrived at the station, the deer-horned insect suddenly stopped and was thrown to the ground.

However, it seemed that they were in a hurry, so they just apologized to Mo Rong in a hurry, refunded him the fee, and ran towards the passage again.

It sounds like something is missing from him?

Forget it, he didn't want to do anything else. He unfolded the map he bought at Woou Trading Company and followed the route on it. He remembered that the shaman here seemed to be near where the fake knight was in the game, so he should go up.

Following the route in his memory, Murong walked forward, but the residents of the building next to him were a little unfamiliar. There were many maggots living here, the same servants that Murong saw in the City of Tears. He came from a distance, only glanced at it briefly, and then ran inside in panic.

Seeing that there were no other residents around, Mo Rong had no choice but to find one to ask. After thinking about it, he headed in the direction where the maggots escaped.

The deeper he went in, the more Mo Rong's brows frowned.

It seems that the maggot residents here don’t even have houses. They just put some storage shelves outside. Those shelves are filled with bottles and jars of unknown items. There is not even a fly lantern around. The only thing is What gave off the light were several candles arranged in an orderly manner.

I didn't expect that there would be such a barren place sandwiched between the Crossroads and the City of Tears.

Murong tried to find a maggot to ask for directions, but they hurriedly ran away before they reached him. Their heads were two or three times larger than their bodies, and they looked very funny when they ran.

This resulted in Mo Rong not finding anyone to ask for directions for a long time. When he was about to give up and leave, he caught a glimpse of a maggot next to a candle not far away. He looked much older, and he must not be like other maggots. Fear him.

So he stepped towards the candle.