Online Cluster: Great Tomb
Chapter 9: Getting In Deep
“Kak... Brother Rei.. Brother Reiga, wake up!”
The gentle touch on the shoulder I could feel with a slight shock. I woke up from my sleep in a sitting position hugging an AR-15 gun on the second floor of the cabin balcony.
“Emh? Ah... Princess…? Sorry, I overslept on guard turn.”
I rubbed my eyes slowly with a still feeling of sleepiness. I didn't expect to fall asleep in the game.
“What time is it now?”
I asked him with my eyes still soft but I tried to stand up from my seat.
“Half eight in the morning. Breakfast first, Brother. The others are waiting!”
I opened the status window and looked at the bar that indicated my character's need for consumption. The bar looks very red which means my character needs food and drink.
“Initial, Put! Later kususul.”
“Don't be long, Sister. You see, the others are waiting.”
“Iya.”
After the Princess left the balcony, I walked to the boundary of the balcony to look right at the nest of the ants. Surely while hugging my beloved AR-15. I also looked towards my crotch which felt a little disturbing.
“What the hell is Junior?! Early in the morning was excited! Besides, I forgot we were in the desert. Hahh... hot!”
After calming down with Junior, I immediately went to the dining room where the others were already sitting in their respective chairs circling the large round table and there was already plenty of food on it.
Honestly speaking, some of them had already started eating first but I didn't mind it.
“Hoo, who's cooking? Zia?”
I asked as I sat on the empty seat and without excuse took the food I wanted. Well, even so all I took was a plate of white rice and two pieces of fried chicken.
“Iya, Zia who made it. But Rei and the Princess helped me!”
Rei used to call himself by his own name. Although I'm used to it, still not many people call themselves by name.
“Help what? Help with the dishes, huh? Ahaha..”.
“Loh, how do you know?! Lord was still sleeping!”
I just laughed and picked up the cutlery. I mean, she and the Princess have the same eating hobby. Just eating, that's all I know. At first I was just kidding when I said that.
“Oya cuy, last night you went there, right? How to?”
I immediately responded to Dimas's question while we ate.
“Aah... Last night I found the same egg room like a food storage room like that.”
“In that case, the plan can be executed, well?”
I chewed and swallowed the food, then answered Dimas's question again as the others watched.
“For that matter, I think we can ignore his plan.”
“Eh, why?”
I put down my cutlery and tried to think.
“Actually I thought of another way. But a little-I mean, very risky. This method can only be done once a stage. Different from the previous plan that gradually, if using this way we only have one chance.”
I took a glass of water and drank it. Then I went on to ask their opinion.
“What do you think?”
While waiting for them to decide, I continued my eating.
“I'm coming. Which way is no problem.”
“I'm the same as Novan anyway.”
Hearing Novan and Fadli's reply made me unsure. Since they would only follow the way that would be agreed upon, in case of any unwanted trouble, they would definitely regret it. But. yasudah.
“Others?”
After asking that, Bang Sema raised her voice.
“About the percentage of this way works what percentage?”
I drank some water, then tried to think of the answer to that question. In the end I found no way to answer it.
“Yah.. if asked that I also do not know Bang. It's a once-attacking way, so our focus is clearly on the Queen. But I myself just found the same egg place where they eat. So maybe if we can quickly find the Queen's room, it could be an advantage.”
“Ohh... wait, even so it seems that it will be difficult to limit their numbers. Even though I'm alone, it's hard if it's that much.”
“EEh..”
Ah, I let out a disappointed tone and did not know what to answer to hear it directly from Bang Sema. Because according to my personal judgment, Bang Sema's abilities are the highest in our clan.
“Ah, Rei!”
“What? / Yes?”
Reflexively me and Rei responded to Zia at the same time. Well, since our calls are both similar, this kind of thing happens a lot.
“Not Rei, but the Reiga!”
“Iya, what?”
“What if this way is combined the same way as before?”
I tilted my head slightly in confusion. But in retrospect, maybe something like that could be. But I don't know what to combine from these two ways.
“What do you mean?”
“Ahh! I get it!”
Instantly Haqqi raised his voice and spoke to Zia.
“What does it mean Zia used the thing that Shah brought?!”
I tilted my head at an increasingly sharp angle and became more confused.
“Tuh Haqqi understands! So I mean, while we're looking for the Queen's place, why don't we put the stuff that Shah brought into every aisle? If so, we can make time!”
I put my hands together and leaned against my chin while thinking hard until my eyebrows almost touched.
“Lord don't understand?”
I shook my head to answer Rei's question.
“Whatever else understands?”
I asked them and they all nodded. I felt ashamed for not understanding the intent of Zia's plan.
“Shah understands?”
I asked with a serious face.
“Do not understand also.”
“MANTAP! I have a friend!”
I put on a big smile with pride for having a friend who both did not understand.
“Why be arrogant anyway his face?! Well, the point is that we can have more time to fight with the Queen. Most of the ants we fight are just those in the room of the Queen.”
Zia. It's getting me confused not a bitch.
“Eh? Why fight?”
““Eh?!””
At once they were all confused. Well, I understand what Zia said. What I'm afraid of is why fight the Queen?
“Well, I understand what Zia means. Why fight the Queen? What I mean is that if we can find the Queen's room, yes just use the goods that Shah brought. We go, keep on leadingakin. After that the rest of the usual ants, right?”
Simultaneously they are heard saying “Ahh..” with a tone of understanding. The item the Shah was carrying was a C4 bomb. Moreover, he brought as many as five staks. There's no way the Queen can survive such a big and big explosion, is there?
“But Rei, then won't the Queen's body be destroyed? Wouldn't it be hard to hear?”
I nodded in agreement hearing that from Fadli. But it's not a problem.
“Destroyed doesn't mean there's nothing left, right? Anyway we have.. that one, a tool that can squirm monster information has Shah!”.
“Somehow my things are all used.”
He put on a flat face. Well, I replied to her with a small smile that had a lot of meaning.
“No problem. I gladly received his things. Than you to be a burden, at least not his goods useful.”
He just froze in his seat. Relax, I don't feel sorry for him at all. Not one bit while continuing to put on that meaningful smile.
“Yaudah, we use the way Rei aja. If this continues, it will not finish the discussion. Eat up first we leave!”
In the end we will leave with a plan that has not been very mature. But it is true what Bang Sema said. This can be continued after breakfast.
After we had all finished breakfast, without a warning from anyone, each person went to the storage box and prepared all the items they needed. Including myself.
I brought all the items I had previously put into the storage box. Don't forget a bottle of deodorant. I also took one more ozyline and put it on my clothes because the ozyline that had fallen when I died was killed by an ant last night.
“Don't forget to use the same deodorant bring a flashlight, yeah! All in all, if anyone has the same rope iron pegs please bring! I'm waiting outside.”
I walked out of the cabin with my AR-15. Arriving outside the cabin I used the deodorant I carried while waiting for them.
Dimas, Lazy, and Bang Sema came out of the cabin and immediately gathered near me.
“Oya, I forgot to tell you that last night I also found a place that leads deeper in the egg room. The place is full of charcoal.”
“No temptation to enter?”
I shook my head to answer Bang Sema's question.
“In a bang, seriusan dah. Fitting flashlight just don't look at the base.”
“Hmm.. pull.”
After that one by one they came out of the cabin and when everything gathered, we immediately went towards the nest with Bang Sema in the front row.
Just like me last night, the ants approached us to make sure. None of them tried to attack us. Thank goodness that didn't happen.
Arriving at the hole that leads into the nest, Bang Sema took out a steel rope along with an iron peg that had indeed been fused. He threw the steel rope into the hole and tried to stick it to the surface of the sand,
“Ah, Bang jerk!”
I approached him and dug up the sand. After that he stuck the peg into a small hole that I dug, then buried it. If only plugged in the surface, of course, it will not be strong to withstand our body weight because the surface here is not soil but sand.
I cleaned my tagan from the sand that stuck, then approached the hole and looked into it. Well, the depth can't just change, right?
“Then I go first!”
I came down exactly the same way as last night. While Bang Sema jumped from top to bottom without hurting himself. I mean, he's totally free-falling from above. I'm honestly surprised he could do that!
“Whoa!!! What the fuck?! Superhero landing?!”
“Hm? Can't you?”
“Funny bang! Could have broken my character's leg!”
“Hehehe... less your bars!”
Other than us, no one does not use those steel ropes. They all went down slowly and very carefully.
Not far from where I stood, I saw a flashlight, a bottle of deodorant, and an ozyline. I took it and put it in the inventory, except for the flashlight. Because I'm sure those things were mine last night, that's why I took them back.
If a player is killed by another player, then all the items that the player has will automatically move to the player who killed him. Whereas if a player is killed by a monster, then his belongings will fall where he died. It is one of the basic systems of this game.
“Everything's down?”
I asked while looking towards all of them to make sure it and all had gone down.
“OK, don't try silly things that can make us all die! Especially you, Shah!”
I continued while opening the AR-15 safety that I was holding. Even so, I decided to carry the AR-15 on my back with the rope attached and replace it with the FN-57 while crossing both my hands which were also holding a flashlight.
Until we met the forked road and decided to split up. I also told the Shah to divide the C4 he brought. Each carried 45 C4 bombs. I've also told you the quickest way to find the Queen's place is to follow the ants going deeper and deeper. For the detonator, I entrusted it to Bang Sema.
We can't use earpieces to communicate with each other because no one takes care of the channel connection from headquarters. That's usually Lazy's job. So we won't communicate with each other.
Clearly, when one finds the Queen's room, the person should use all the C4 he carries as close as possible to the Queen. After that you have to send a message via WhatsApp, a friend message, a clan message, or whatever it is. As long as it can transmit information, then it is enough.
Of course I took a different path than last night and followed one of the ranks of ants. While hoping to find the Queen's room quickly, I actually saw a flash of light from the front of the hallway where I was.
After running and approaching the light source, I actually met Fadli in the egg room.
“Eh, Rei?!”
“Lah, really?! Your path is the same way I connected well?”
“Yah. But good. We can find the Queen's room if it's gini. Stay follow the opposite direction of the ants carrying eggs.”
That was totally unthinkable to me last night! If so, maybe last night I found the room!
That way I followed Fadli right behind him. Since he was in front and also using a flashlight, I decided to keep my FN-57 and flashlight and use the AR-15.
It didn't take long for us to find a room where the ants stuck to each side until it looked a little disgusting and amused to look at it. In addition to all that, there was a place slightly higher than the others and it was there that we saw an ant that was three times larger than the usual.
“Fad, the... Queen?”
“From the size of the heck yes.”
“Woah... HE'S FAT!!!”
Fadli just laughed at what I just said. Since we had already found the room, we had to use the existing C4 and put it as close as possible to the Queen.
“Well, how do we get there now?”
Our distance to the queen is at least more than 15 meters.
“Ahh... um... throw?”
“Yaudah throw aja yak!”
And finally we both agreed to throw this C4-type bomb at the Queen ant. With innocent faces we threw all the C4 we had at the Queen one by one. Some landed right at his feet.
“Try sending a message to another, Fad!”
“Okay, bentar.”
I took out one of the deodorant bottles and used it. Don't forget I also sprayed it on Fadli while he was sending a message.
“Already! I told them to go back to the passageway, continue to take the path you or I took.”
“Still. Now back to the egg room!”
“Kuy!”
I was with him back towards the egg room because the two roads that passed before were connected to it, then obviously the others would gather there. On the way we met Lazy, Zia, the Princess, and Haqqi.
I waved my hand to give you a sign. After that, we walked to the egg room.
“C4 is installed?”
“Iya.”
I answered Lazy while looking back to make sure no one was left behind.
“So just wait for everything to gather, get out of this place, continue to ledakin dah.”
I continued while pushing Fadli who was walking in front of me. He became increasingly slow - instead he stopped and blocked the path.
“Oi, go! What's up?”
I peeked out from behind his shoulder and saw an ant that was slightly larger than the others. His head and jaw are also large. Honestly, it's pretty intimidating.
“That army ant!”
“Oh, so whose physical form army is like that, well?”
Fadli nodded at my question. The ant looked right at us and slowly approached. Well, without a second thought I told Fadli to step aside and shoot the ant in the head once.
Despite the fall, he was still able to move and try to get up. I approached him, stomped on his head and gave two more shots in the head before he finally stopped moving completely.
“Dah! Ayok, continue!”
After the six of us finally reached the egg room, there were already Dimas, Novan, Rei, and Shah who realized our arrival.
“Lah, Bang Sema where?”
The four of them turned in unison into the egg chamber. Where Bang Sema was slaughtering the existing ants as well as destroying the eggs that he passed until there was nothing left.
With just a punch and a kick, he can crush the heads of the ants. If it were me, something like that would not be possible. That's why I prefer to use a weapon. Even so, her gloves were indeed a good item.
“Um... Bang? Why?”
“Hm? Clean-up really!”
He casually stomped and then pulled out the head of an ant while answering me.
“Well, that's not the case. Do you not know if they can communicate with each other if threatened?”
“No. Anyway, I'm bored. So seek entertainment!”
I let out a long sigh and turned around to look at every passageway there was. And sure enough the ants approached us from all directions with countless numbers.
“Well, that's what I mean!”
While pointing towards the ants that are attached with high speed.
“Owh... sorry!”
I put my face towards Bang Sema.
“Everything in! Our ways have failed! Priority now kill as many ants as possible!”
I told them all to immediately enter the egg room while giving small shots at the ants.
“Hoho…! Not from earlier!”
With an irresistible expression, Bang Sema approached towards the entrance hole of the egg chamber and struck all the ants that wanted to pass through it.
“Ah, Bang! Careful!”
“Santuy!”
One blow is death for one ant. High reflexes and high speed. Even so he himself said that he could not cope with everything. It means it's only a matter of time.
“Those with firearms, help Bang Sema! Don't get hit by him!”
We helped Bang Sema defend the entrance to this place with small shots at ants that we think are out of her reach.
Zia uses the Desert Eagle weapon, Dimas with QBZ-95, Fadli AK-47, Shah and Putri using UMP45, and Novan with his Vector. As for Rei, Lazy, Haqqi, and Shah standing behind us all because they had no firearms.
The barrage of noise and the flash of fire that came out the muzzle of the gun continued for two more minutes until I myself ran out of magazines for my AR-15. I threw it on my back and replaced it with the FN-57 until the next two magazines.
“They are endless!!!”
As I shouted that, I remembered that we were in the egg room. I looked towards where the wall made of charcoal was located.
“Bang Sem, still have the same rope peg?!”
“HAH?! NOT HEARD!”
The noise from the weapons we use causes our hearing sensitivity to decrease.
“Don't shoot me!”
I asked Zia, Dimas, Fadli, and Novan before running towards Bang Sema while putting my FN-57 into the holster and pulling out a sword. For a short time I slashed down some ants that were nearby.
“Tali equals pegs! Same rope pegs! Still there?”
“There!”
He jumped back to open the inventory and took out what I asked for. At once he handed it to me to defend the entrance into the egg chamber of the ants.
I wasn't as strong and fast, so I almost got hit by the jaws of an ant a few times. But luckily Bang Sema immediately came back forward and told me to retreat while she held back the ants.
“It! you back off!”
“OK!”
I ran backwards while bowing to dodge the flying bullets and immediately picked up a very long steel rope and peg that it took out.
“Syah, come here!!”
“Iya!”
I shouted as I ran towards the wall made of charcoal together with the Shah.
“Install this! The strong!”
I gave the stake to the Shah while stretching out his steel rope and throwing it into a hole that I did not know where it was going. But I hope it can be a place of escape.
I saw the Shah who stuck the peg and stepped on it until it really went inside.
I tried to pull the steel rope to make sure that the peg could hold us down. After confirming it I told them one by one to go down first.
“Syah, you come down first quickly! Rei, Laz, Put, Haq, here!”
After the four of them ran towards me, I asked them to follow the Shah down the hole using the steel rope we had prepared. After they understood, I ran towards Zia, Dimas, Novan, and Fadli to ask them to do the same.
“Bang, can it hold 30 seconds?”
“You saw me again what?!”
Well, it's got a point. After Zia, Dimas, Novan, and Fadli came down the rope, Bang Sema left her place and ran towards me. I shot the remaining bullets back at the HG I was holding to keep the ants chasing after throwing my sword away.
“Do not jump! It's deep!”
I warned him not to go down the hole the same way he did when he went into the nest.
Quickly Bang Sema came down the rope and I caught up with her. The ants that were chasing us somehow stopped at the top and did not try to get down. Instead they were like leaving us and I was confused when I saw that when I went down the rope.
Luckily the rope that Bang Sema put out reached its base and we also escaped from the pursuit of the ants. It's just that we jutsru went deeper and deeper.
...[.Player (Shah) has entered Serpent’s Shrine]...
...[.Player (Arlone) has entered Serpent’s Shrine]...
...[.Player (Lazy) has entered Serpent’s Shrine]...
...[.Player (Princess) has entered Serpent’s Shrine]...
...[.Player (Haqqi_SNLK) has entered Serpent’s Shrine]...
“Eh?!”
Just now, I got notified globally.
...[.Player (Zia) has entered Serpent’s Shrine]...
...[.Player (Zatfley) has entered Serpent’s Shrine]...
...[.Player (NowFun02) has entered Serpent’s Shrine]...
...[.Player (Fadli_Robby_A) has entered Serpent’s Shrine]...
...[.Player (Satuk) has entered Serpent’s Shrine]...
“Again?!”
...[.Player (Reiga) has entered Serpent’s Shrine]...
All those who reached the bottom first had turned on the flashlight, so we had a light source. Honestly, this place is very dark.
“Hahh... huft... just now it was so intense! By the way, you guys can global notifications?”
They all nodded. I put both of my hands on my waist while sighing deeply.
Global notifications are messages sent by the system directly to all players on all servers. This usually happens when a player gets an award or an artifact. But this time it's different.
“Yaaah.. satisfied mukulin ant kayak earlier. Ahahahaha!!”
“Continue? Now we go deeper!”
I raised my voice a little to Bang Sema and she just shrugged both of her shoulders.
“Hahh! Who knows if there is a path.”
I took out a flashlight and pointed it in various directions. This place is not a hallway, but a very large room. I slightly walked over and stepped on something that had a rustling sound.
I crouched down while glaring at what I had just stepped on to confirm it. It looks like a gold coin. Not far from there I found a light yellow oval shaped object that was bleached, shiny, and hard.
“Shyah, try here!”
I asked the Shah to approach me, but instead they all approached me while glaring at the two objects I was holding.
“That's gold, Brother Rei?”
“It looks like gold. If this... is like scales?”
I looked at my hand holding the shiny object and felt that I could get information from it.
“What?”
“Try to remove the object that can squirm the monster's information!”
He immediately opened the inventory and gave the item to me. Without thinking twice I tried to use the shiny object to see the information. If it doesn't belong to a monster, then it shouldn't work.
Unfortunately it worked and showed results that I didn't really want to see. Tenganku instantly trembled and immediately stood up from my previous position. Trying to direct the flashlight in a direction far in front before finally seeing a flash of light reflect my flashlight.
I looked back at the tool I was holding to confirm it once again. But sometimes there is a reality that I don't really want to admit to the point of not being able to say anything but one letter that comes out of my mouth.
“A!”
