Chapter 191 Kyoto Dungeon

It was late evening on February 15th in the town of Rjukan, Norway.

There is not much difference between the town of Rjukan at night and the town of Rjukan during the day. From September to March of the following year, the town is never illuminated by sunlight.

"Then we'll have to wait for them here for several days." Anson Lu put his hands in his pockets and looked around the empty town.

"Well, it's not a good thing to release a copy too early. I don't know what to do with it." He sighed softly.

Anson Lu put his hands behind his head, exhaled a breath of hot air, and walked back to his room.

February 15, Kyoto, Japan.

Yu Mingdao poked his head out from the crowd and looked towards the bottom of Kyoto Tower, where two Sequence players were standing.

Monsters will only appear at night, and players entering the Kyoto dungeon will first gather under the "landmark building" - especially sequence players, who need to follow this rule.

The reason why they did this can be traced back to the rigid requirements issued by the Evolution Foundation - after entering a round of cooperative challenge copies, if the monsters are still a long way from appearing, all players must first gather under the local landmark building.

When it comes to the landmark building in Kyoto, Japan, it is of course Kyoto Tower.

At this moment, the two sequence players standing in the center of Kyoto Tower Square attracted the attention of all the players.

The first player to queue up for this copy is the captain of the law enforcement team - Lorenzo.

Damn, he’s the leader of the law enforcement team, so this copy is secure.

Although it was crude, this was indeed Yu Mingdao's first thought deep in his heart.

Although he couldn't say that he liked Lorenzo, he had to say that as the captain of the law enforcement team and the second strongest fighter in the world certified by the system, this man was still very reassuring as a teammate.

At least it's better than being ranked hundreds of players behind.

Who is the other Sequence Player? Yu Mingdao shifted his gaze and looked to the right of Lorenzo.

Another player in the Kyoto instance seemed to be a girl in a white dress. She was pure white from her hair to her ankles, and her every move exuded a refreshing and simple aura.

Yu Mingdao was stunned for a moment, "Isn't this the girl next to Brother Anson Lu?"

He still remembered that in the Hokkaido dungeon, it was Yuri who used an ice wall to save countless mage and priest players from the Ghost Warrior's "Sword Slash".

Otherwise, those players will definitely not escape the fate of death.

At this moment, Yuri put her hands behind her back, her white skirt swaying gently in the cold wind. She turned her head slightly and looked at the crowd of people who were talking with emotionless eyes.

"Isn't that the person from Hell Lighthouse?" someone next to Yu Mingdao said.

"Yes, that's the 'Snow Country Walker'." said another person.

"Stay away from her. The old chess player is now a wanted criminal, and his guild members are definitely not any better."

"Fortunately, there is more than one sequence player in this instance. With Lorenzo here, we can still be saved."

Yu Mingdao listened to the words in his ears and couldn't help but smile helplessly.

They rely on sequence players on the one hand, and are afraid of sequence players on the other hand... these people are really hopeless.

Yu Mingdao adjusted his glasses and said, "Everyone, I think there is definitely a misunderstanding in the Moscow incident. There is no need for you to jump to conclusions."

"The evidence is conclusive. It was Anson Deer who did it."

"Oh, have you watched the two rounds of videos in Hokkaido and Tokyo? He is the mage who has always been with Anson Lu. His name is Yu Mingdao."

"No wonder he's speaking for the Sequence Players. Has he lowered his head for so long that he can't even raise it again?"

"Yes, yes, yes. Sequence players are superior to us, but those monsters may go berserk at any time. It's not just Anson Deer. Do you think those rumors about Lorenzo are normal?"

"Stop talking. Be careful of being targeted by the authorities. Many people have been thrown into jail for spreading rumors before."

"What kind of rumor is this? It's the truth. Do you have to make everyone cover their mouths before you're satisfied?"

Seeing that they showed no sign of stopping, Yu Mingdao sighed and walked towards Yu Rui in full view of everyone: "Long time no see."

Yuri stared at him twice and nodded very lightly, her snow-white hair fluttering. She remembered this person, but seemed to have no idea what to say in this situation, so she simply remained silent.

"Before, I was taken care of by you and Ansenlu." Yu Mingdao said with a smile.

Yuri still had her white arms behind her back and just nodded slightly in response.

Yu Mingdao felt a little helpless. He had heard that the people in Hell Lighthouse were complete weirdos, but he didn't expect Yuri to be so difficult to communicate with.

"Let's cooperate on this copy as well," he said sincerely.

"Okay." Yuri finally responded.

One day later at noon, Japan, Kyoto, commercial street.

It was raining heavily and Yuri had just cleared out a round of monsters, so he found a commercial street to have lunch.

She stopped outside a sushi restaurant. The dark green eaves protected her from the rain. She raised her eyes and looked up at the gray sky.

Silky rain continued to fall, bringing with it a gust of wind that blew up the girl's snow-white hair.

After being lost in thought for a long time, Yuri opened his friend panel and stared at the name "Anson Deer".

The status shows that Anson Deer has left the instance.

Anson Lu sent her many voice messages, and she listened to each one many times.

Just when he was about to post something, Anson Deer sent a message: "Okay, don't reply to my message, just focus on completing the dungeon, we'll play together when we come back."

"Okay." Yuri replied simply.

She was in a daze for a long time, and her slender fingers typed on the chat panel: I miss you...

But in the end I deleted the text and closed the panel.

This is... missing you.

Yuri put her hand to her chin, thinking, and then she recorded her new emotions in her little notebook.

There are densely packed words recorded on it: happy, sad, missing, lonely, bored...

These were emotions she had never experienced before, but by staying with Anson Deer, she seemed to have regained them little by little.

"Miss you." Yuri leaned against the outside of the store, listening to the sound of the rain, and wrote in a notebook: "It's just that I can't wait to see someone, the feeling of being passionate... and feeling lonely."

After a long time, she closed the notebook and was about to walk into the sushi restaurant when she heard a call from behind.

"That..." The voice sounded familiar.

Yuri turned around and looked at the man running towards him in the rain without emotion.

Yu Mingdao's hair and white coat were all wet by the rain. He took off his foggy glasses, lowered his head, and wiped the lenses with the corner of his clothes.

After wiping the lenses, he put his glasses back on, raised his head, and gave Yuri an embarrassed but polite smile. There was a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth and some bruises on his face, which did not seem to be caused by a monster.

"What's wrong?" Yuri asked.

"I want to ask you something about Anson Deer." Yu Mingdao wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

"What?"

"Is it really him who killed those players in Moscow?" Yu Mingdao asked sincerely with a complex light in his eyes.

"I can't answer you."

"Please, tell me." Yu Mingdao said hoarsely, "I don't believe that kid. I don't believe Anson Lu would do such a thing."

Yuri put his hand on his chin and said in a cold voice: "…I'm sorry, I can't answer that."

Anson Lu had told her not to reveal anything about him and Lorenzo to anyone else.

Yuri might not listen to other people, but this is Anson Deer, and Yuri only listens to him.

Yu Mingdao opened his mouth, his eyes behind the lenses flashing with reluctance. Finally, he just sighed softly, smiled and said:

"Okay, I get it. I'm sorry if I offended you."

Yu Rui shook her head slightly, her clear eyes staring at Yu Mingdao's blood-stained coat.

"You're hurt," she said.

"I had a fight with those people. They all said... that Anson Deer was a wanted criminal and a monster out of control. It's only a matter of time before you get out of control too. They asked me to stay away from you."

"It's okay, you can stay away from me." Yuri's voice was emotionless and without hesitation.

"I know what kind of people you and Anson Lu are. He has saved me many times," Yu Mingdao whispered, "and he also gave me a travel voucher so that I can reunite with my children."

After a pause, he continued:

"So I can't understand why Anson Lu did this. Why did he allow others to misunderstand him? He is obviously the kindest person I have ever met..."

At the end, Yu Mingdao's voice became more hoarse and excited. He realized his disrespect and smoothed his rain-soaked hair:

"I'm sorry, I'm so excited. I really want an answer, an answer that can be used to refute those voices."

Yuri was silent for a long time, and only whispered: "You can trust him."

"Believe it...?" Yu Mingdao looked a little surprised and puzzled.

"Well, other than that, I can't say anything else."

"That's enough, thank you." Yu Mingdao smiled and murmured:

"I knew he wasn't that kind of person... I knew it..."

Yu Rui glanced at him and walked into the sushi restaurant silently. Yu Mingdao did not follow him in, but left in the rain.

Three days later, at dusk, Kinkaku-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan.

The magnificent building, which was first built during the Japanese shogunate era, has now been reduced to golden fragments, a veritable ruin. Next to the ruins is a lake called Fujing Lake.

At this moment, all the players who entered the dungeon were standing by the lake, staring at a huge object above Fujing Lake.

Yuri raised his head, his eyes reflecting the giant, his snow-white hair fluttering in the wind.

[BOSS name: Black Star Cube]

[Boss health: 21%]

It was a magic cube floating in the sky, its shadow almost covering half of Fujing Lake. Its health had reached the bottom, but the players around it were almost all dead as well.

There is no doubt that this is the BOSS battle of this cooperative challenge copy.

The edges, corners, and center blocks of the Rubik's Cube rotated at the same time. The crimson, dark yellow, dark blue, light green, pure white, and red-orange squares changed positions in the air, and six-color light splashed.

During the process of the Rubik's Cube "switching states", it will absorb all damage caused by the player to it and convert it into its own health.

What's even more embarrassing is that if any player leaves the venue of the boss battle, the battle will be declared a failure, and all previous sacrifices and efforts will be wasted.

Therefore, the remaining thirty or so players could only stand there trembling with fear, watching the Rubik's Cube that was switching blocks at a very fast speed with a frown on their faces.

Even Lorenzo, the most powerful player among the players, had to rely on the Ring of Faith to float in the air, concentrating and observing the movements of the Rubik's Cube with bated breath.

Previously, the Black Star Cube had basically demonstrated all of its attack modes, and nearly three hundred players had been sacrificed in this battle.

This is information brought about by their death and sacrifice.

Finally, the cube turned its right side toward the group of players.

"Stay away." Lorenzo's deep voice was transmitted to all players through the voice channel.

“Clang.”

“Clang.”

“Clang.”

The cold sound of gears rubbing against each other echoed in the air, each sound was so thrilling, as if someone was pointing a revolver at their heads, the barrel was turning, and the bullets were assembled.

"It's white!" Yu Mingdao roared, and he raised his staff high towards the sky.

In an instant, the pure white squares on the surface of the Rubik's Cube transformed and grouped together to form a magnificent white surface. The hot beams surged on the surface of the nine squares, forming a magnificent ball of light in an instant.

[Boss Skill: White Group]

[Skill Description: When a complete white magic face is pieced together, this skill will be released immediately, gathering into a ball of light, which will spread into fifty deadly light waves with tracking effects in the sky.]

Lorenzo took a deep breath, his pupils were covered with dark red, and the whites of his eyes were replaced by deep darkness.

The circle of faith that originally emitted golden light was also replaced by dark and crimson light.

"Rain falls on the bell."

Lorenzo rode the Ring of Faith and soared into the sky. He slapped the huge black bell that appeared in front of him and blasted it towards the ball of light formed by the Rubik's Cube with all his might.

“Wow——”

In an instant, the black bell shattered and turned into a torrential black rainstorm, rushing back towards the sky.

At the same time, the blazing white ball of light exploded and turned into fifty rays of light that fell to the ground like a meteor shower.

The dark rainstorm formed by the explosion of the mad bell temporarily blocked most of the "white meteors", but most of the white groups still passed through the black rain and turned to chase the players who were scattered on the ground.

At this moment, Lorenzo's messy long hair was blown wildly by the wind.

"The world hates me." He began to recite.

This move will form a corresponding number of character arms based on the number of players who have died around. After being promoted to the second level, Lorenzo can form up to twenty arms condensed by the emotion of "disgust".

At this moment, the bodies of the players on the ground suddenly shattered and turned into black "disgust" characters that gathered towards Lorenzo in the sky.

Like the Thousand-Armed Buddha, Lorenzo's back accepted these characters and unfolded one dark, deep and ferocious arm after another. At the end of these twenty emotional arms were stern claws.

Lorenzo flew into the sky on the Ring of Faith. At the moment when the black rain was defeated by the white group, he relied on these twenty huge black claws to withstand the violently falling white light.

“Drink aa ...

He roared in the air, and the two forces, one black and one white, were like two giant beasts from ancient times fighting to the death, constantly colliding and biting each other.

Lorenzo knew very well that the [White Swarm] released by the Black Star Cube had a tracking effect and would never disappear before hitting the target.

If he cannot block these beams as much as possible, the players on the ground will be killed without a complete body, or even without a trace left.

But Lorenzo was not a god after all, and those white beams of light that he failed to stop were now falling towards the earth with an unstoppable trend.

The first to bear the brunt was Yuri who was at the front.

She was flying above the lake on the ice, her snow-white skirt and hair fluttering in the air.

The stream of light behind her kept approaching, not giving her any chance to breathe, just like a group of white snow wolves whose only eyes were on food.

Yuri raised his slender arms, creating ice walls and thousands of ice cones to block the pursuit of more than ten beams of white light.

"Bang!" The ice surface broke.

"Bang!" The ice cone shattered.

The rest of the surviving ordinary players had already run away screaming, with no intention of helping Lorenzo and Yuri share the pressure.

If this continues...it won't be long before my mana runs out.

Yuri made a judgment in his mind.

She looked up at Lorenzo, the only person who could possibly help her.

But Lorenzo was struggling to fight against nearly dozens of streams of light, and would not retreat even at the cost of his own life. Each of his dark arms was broken and seemed like it would collapse at any time.

Yuri withdrew his gaze, and along with the sound of the ice wall being pierced by the pipe, the stream of light behind him was getting closer and closer.

Her ears were almost deafened by the violent noise.

At this moment when the world fell into dead silence, only a figure passed by Yuri and ran in the opposite direction towards the beams of light that were chasing him.

Yuri's pupils shrank slightly. She turned her snow-white face away, her hair blown up completely, and glanced at the figure with surprise.

It’s Yu Mingdao.

More than ten white light beams searched for a closer target and rushed towards Yu Mingdao like pythons.

“Puff——”

Yu Mingdao spread his arms, and the blood in his body was drained away by more than ten beams of light in an instant, and the blood gushed out violently like a waterfall.

His body, which was riddled with holes, fell to the ground in an instant like a deflated balloon with the air deflated.

Yuri stopped and the ice under her feet broke. She took two or three steps closer to Yu Mingdao. The opponent's health had reached the bottom and there seemed to be no room for recovery.

"Tell that brat for me..." Yu Mingdao moved his pale lips, his voice hoarse and muddy, "I don't owe him the travel voucher anymore."

"And..." The light in the depths of his eyes gradually dimmed, "If possible, ask him to take good care of my child."

Yu Rui stared blankly at Yu Mingdao as he closed his eyelids in front of her. His charred and shriveled body disintegrated into a bloody mist and gradually merged into the land by the lake.

Dead silence.

There was a long period of dead silence.

All the sounds around seemed to be drowned out by the messy thoughts.

"……Why?"

She really wanted to ask this, but no one would answer her.

She didn't know why this person would risk his life to save her, even though they were supposed to be strangers to each other.

Yuri's eyes were obscured by her snow-white hair. She raised her head, stretched out the five fingers of her right hand towards the Rubik's Cube in the sky, and slowly clenched them.

A meteorite made of thousands of feet of ice broke through the sky, broke through the clouds, broke through everything in the world, and let out the most dull roar towards this world.

It was like a mad wolf from outer space, and the sound it made as it cut through the atmosphere was like a funeral song, a requiem mixed with rage and sadness.

Finally, the meteorite composed of snow and ice fell on the surface of the Rubik's Cube, and with an irresistible impact force, it crashed into the lake.

"boom--!!!"

The surface of the lake completely exploded, and the meteorite broke apart at the same time, turning into thousands of ice fragments, merging with the raging torrent that splashed out like a flood.

Lorenzo fell from the sky like an angry ghost that had escaped from a cage, with twenty broken black arms. He roared and rushed towards the Rubik's Cube that had fallen to the bottom of the lake, tearing it apart in just a few breaths.

Soon, Lorenzo, covered in blood, returned triumphantly from the bottom of the lake. He walked towards them tremblingly like an old general, with blood all over the ground.

He raised his mutilated right arm and looked at the survivors with determined eyes.

"We won," Lorenzo said.

All the surviving players raised their arms and cheered, their roars were deafening.

Only Yuri stood there at a loss, his slender snow-white shoulders trembling slightly.

Through the snow-white hair, her eyes, which had never revealed fear or sadness, stared blankly at the pool of blood on the ground.

Half an hour later, Yuri, Lorenzo, and the thirty surviving players left the Kyoto dungeon.

"Are you back? I've been waiting for you for a long time." Anson Lu leaned against the wooden house with his hands in his pockets, looking at her with a smile in his brown eyes.

Yuri lowered his head, his body trembling in the cold wind, and his snow-white hair was blown messy by the wind.

"Well...what's wrong?" Anson Lu realized something, raised his eyebrows, and walked towards her in two steps.

Yuri's white fingers trembled slightly, she held her right hand with her left hand, and light flowed in her clear eyes.

Anson Lu was stunned for a moment. It was the first time he saw Yuri with anxiety and fear in his eyes.

"What's going on?" His voice softened.

The Icelandic girl in front of me was like a kitten that had done something wrong. She didn't dare to raise her head, couldn't utter a word, and her snow-white hair and body were trembling slightly. I don't know if it was because of the cold or fear.

"I'm here." Anson Lu lowered his eyes and looked at her, saying softly.

"You are……"

"Well, I'm with you." Anson Lu exhaled a breath of hot air.

He was about to take her hand when Yuri's drooping head fell forward and rested lightly on his chest.

Anson Deer was stunned for a long time. Feeling the cold touch on her chest, the Icelandic girl buried her snow-white face deeper.

He stretched out his arms and hugged her gently, his movements as cautious as if he was hugging a delicate piece of glass.

In the snow, the two embraced each other in the deserted town.

"Don't go..." Her voice was so tired that it was almost covered by the wind and snow.

"I'm still here." Anson Lu exhaled a breath of hot air and hugged her tighter for a little longer.

"Let's just leave it like this for now, okay?" Yuri hugged his ears, his head still resting on Anson Deer's chest, "I don't want to think about anything... I don't want to think about anything..."

"Okay, let's leave it at that for now. Everything will be fine. It doesn't matter if you don't tell me now."

The two were silent in the snow and wind. The dim blue enveloped the earth. The setting sun slowly sank below the horizon, taking away the only remaining ray of light.

After a long time, Anson Deer let go of her slender shoulders and said in a gentle voice:

"Let's go back."

"go home……"

"Yes, I'm going home."

"……Um."

Anson Lu took her hand and held her cold fingers in his palm. The two of them walked in Norway at dusk, and the night slowly covered their backs.

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