Chapter 215
There was only one light spot left on the game map, flashing a dazzling light.
And the end is not far behind it.
Walking along this increasingly desolate path, the scenery around me gradually changed from monotonous to blank.
Yitu looked up, but could not see the end of the road, nor the starting point of the road he came from.
They seem to be walking on the river of time. As time goes by, the colors they possess are exhausted and they eventually turn into black and white.
The three of them had nothing to say, and just walked forward in silence.
In the dark, it seems like there is a scythe of the god of death hanging above the neck, making it impossible to breathe.
They have no choice but to continue moving towards an unknown destination.
So far, all three of them have only one resurrection card left.
Although Xu Heng and Hua San did not revive immediately at the second password point, they used their revive cards at the starting point of the next station.
If the journey goes smoothly, perhaps they can all leave here alive, Yitu thought.
The path was very long, and no one knew how long they had walked before they vaguely saw the end of the road.
It was a high and overhanging cliff, and on the left side of the cliff stood a black square stone tablet about one meter high.
On top of the stone tablet sits a little boy wearing a white hat.
When Yitu and the other two got closer, they discovered that the little boy was only about three years old, with empty eyes and no legs under the hem of his white robe.
The little boy was a ghost-like NPC who served as a guide. When Yitu realized this, he felt a surge of unease in his heart.
There was no way out, and what awaited them ahead was a bottomless abyss.
"There is no road." Mountain, and. 冫, evening"
The little boy tilted his head and looked at them, his childish voice very cold.
Huasan looked at the black stone tablet under the boy, on which was engraved a passage.
I have been walking, just to seek the truth of the world, but to no avail.
Until I came here, it was death that gave the answer
It turns out that I have never escaped the clutches of fate, and what has bound me has always been】
"What has been binding him?" Xu Heng couldn't help but look up and ask.
The words on the stone tablet are not complete, and the last two inscriptions that reveal the secret have been deliberately erased and no trace can be found.
The pale little boy pointed to the other side of the cliff with his right hand and said, "The answer you want is right there."
Yitu looked in the direction of his finger. The other side of the cliff was hidden in the silent darkness and could not be seen.
"Then how do we get there?" Yitu looked at the little boy and asked.
The boy told him, "I can build a bridge for you, but in return, I will take something from you."
Hearing this, the three of them were stunned.
Huasan was the first to react, frowning and asking:
"What of his are you going to take? Can I take mine?"
The boy shook his head. "No."
Then he pointed to Yi Tu who was standing on the side and said again:
"He must come and exchange with me. Only he can find the death code."
As soon as the boy finished speaking, Xu Heng's face suddenly turned grim.
You have to know that the boy in front of you is a ghost NPC. As an NPC in the Death Code Card Field, imagine what kind of requests he would make?
Apart from death, he could not think of anything else that could be exchanged for something of equal value.
Compared to the heavy moods of the other two people, Yitu's face did not show any excessive emotions, as if he had already expected it.
He looked directly into the boy's empty eyes and said calmly:
"What do you want to take from me?"
The boy tilted his head and smiled, his voice still cold:
“No, I never felt like it was a deprivation.”
"Come with me."
The boy left the stone tablet, and a platform made of rubble rose at the foot of the cliff.
Yi Tu was about to raise his foot to follow, but Xu Heng grabbed his hand. The young man's face turned pale at some point.
This reminded Yitu of the night they lost Ou Cheng, Xu Heng's eyes, and the pain and screams that echoed in his ears.
"Yitu, I think we should..."
Xu Heng forced a smile on his face, but before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Yi Tu.
"It's okay, maybe it's not what we think."
"What else could it be?!" Xu Heng couldn't help but raise his voice. "Didn't you see that every other player on the map disappeared in this stage?"
There were four teams in total, and the one with the least number of people left had only one person left, while the one with the most number of people only had two people left.
Xu Heng was right. They all suddenly lost one of the password points at the third one, as if an invisible hand had erased all traces.
Didn't Yitu notice this? No, they all noticed this.
On the way here, they already knew the answer.
However, no one looked back, but just walked forward in silence.
Because they know that there is no way out behind them.
"So Ah Heng, I have no choice." Yi Tu said softly.
He stroked Xu Heng's hand away and opened his mouth to say something, but the words came out in a sigh.
"I beg you for one favor."
"You say." Xu Heng's lips trembled slightly.
"Help me think of a better reason, otherwise I really won't be able to explain it to Han Yu."
When mentioning Jiang Hanyu, Yi Tu couldn't help but reveal a gentle smile on his face.
Xu Heng stood there in a daze, his voice bitter: "No, I can't do it..."
Yitu stopped listening, he just waved his hand and walked towards the cliff.
The boy had been waiting for a long time. He looked at the bottomless dark cliff and said:
"You're the last person to come here."
"Before you, they all made the right choice, decisively and bravely."
As the boy finished speaking, black mist surged from the abyss, and some blurry images were swirling in it.
A hint of surprise flashed across Yitu's eyes, because he saw the Night King Jin Zirui in these fragments.
Like him, they stood in the same position, but the person who jumped from the cliff was not the Night King, but Xiong Chu, a team member who arrived here with him.
Xiong Chu was standing in the boy's place at this moment. There were only the two of them on the rubble platform, and the evil woman Bai Lie was nowhere to be seen.
Yitu didn't know what they talked about specifically. The Night King's expression was sometimes grateful, sometimes sincere.
Although he hid it well, Yitu saw through his disguise at a glance.
After the two finished their conversation, the Night King hugged Xiong Chu, and then Xiong Chu jumped off the platform.
Xiong Chu died, almost turned into a pool of flesh.
The Night King just sighed softly, turned around and raised his hand to signal Lady Shi Ning to follow, and the two of them passed this level smoothly.
Yitu didn't know what the Night King said to Xiong Chu, but judging from Xiong Chu's expression before he jumped off the cliff, he clearly did it voluntarily.
In other words, Xiong Chu used his own death to exchange for the passage of the Night King and the Evil Girl.
The truth of the matter may not be that Xiong Chu really sacrificed himself voluntarily. He was most likely deceived by the Night King.
Even though Xiong Chu and the Night King have a close relationship, as a member of the Curiosity Hunting Team, Xiong Chu and the Night King are more involved in interests.
He is not the Night King's card, so he does not have an unbreakable bond with him like the Chen twins.
Therefore, once faced with a situation that truly threatens life safety, Xiong Chu would not stand up for the Night King unless he was deceived.
However, the evil girl Bai Lie is likely to sacrifice herself for love, but it is obvious that the Night King has a greater use for her.
Therefore, the person who was left here forever became the abandoned child Xiong Chu.
In the rolling black fog, Yitu also saw the faces of the players from the other two teams.
The three people in the first batch were clearly not from the Huaxia region. They had distinct facial features and fair skin, and one of them even had beautiful red hair.
Players from Greater Europe. This information instantly popped up in Yitu's mind.
The next group of two people also had Asian faces, but Yi Tu had never seen them before, and their behavior did not seem like that of players from the Chinese region.
These two groups, like the Night King, did not hesitate much and chose one of them to jump off the cliff in exchange for the boy to serve as a bridge.
Yitu discovered a reality that he had to accept: the players who jumped off the cliff did so willingly and voluntarily.
When he realized this, a terrifying idea formed in his mind.
"Did you see it?" the boy whispered.
“I don’t see it as a deprivation; I would call it…”
"The gift of death."
Yitu turned to look at him, his breathing becoming disordered:
"I'm not the one jumping from here. You're just asking my companion to die for me."
This is the gift of death. What is given is not death itself, but the endless longing and regret that comes after death.
The boy smiled. "You are very smart. Everyone who comes here is very smart."
"If you can't experience death yourself, you must taste what death feels like."
Yitu felt a chill run through his body at his words.
He didn't understand what this card room wanted its players to understand.
Perhaps this was just a ridiculous prank from the beginning to the end.
Thinking of this, Yitu inexplicably wanted to laugh.
The boy ignored his emotional fluctuations and asked in a relaxed tone:
"Have you decided which companion you want to sacrifice?"
Yitu responded with silence, he couldn't.
"Why can't it be me?"
The boy looked at him with an evil smile:
"Because it would be meaningless."
"If you haven't lost a loved one right then and there, you don't deserve to know the secrets of the God of Death."
"Choose, choose what you should choose, and then do what you should do."
When Yi Tu heard this, he was shocked all over.
He looked at the boy standing next to him, and suddenly had the illusion that he was completely seen through.
He's not an NPC, he should know something.
But the boy didn't speak again, he just floated quietly in the air.
After a long time, Yitu made the only choice.
Xu Heng came to the platform, and the two of them looked at the abyss below their feet.
"Don't you want to ask?" Yitu said with difficulty, his voice full of bitterness.
Xu Heng smiled and said, "Nothing to ask...it must be me."
Yitu's eyes were filled with tears. Before he could speak, Xu Heng spoke up:
"It doesn't matter."
"I have no regrets anymore. I saw Ou Cheng for the last time."
Xu Heng patted Yi Tu's shoulder and said with a smile:
"Thank you."
"This is not your choice, it's my choice."
His words were blown away by the wind. Yitu heard them but couldn't catch them.
[Ding! Red Heart Jac information detection...]
[The target person has died. The target person Xu Heng's information has been collected...]
[Target character loaded successfully! Card Jack of Hearts has been activated. Please change the name!]
Yitu looked at the familiar face on the control panel in front of him, raised his hand and wrote two words in the air.
【Jack of Hearts-Xu Heng】
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