Chapter 216
A bridge made of black stone appeared on the cliff, and Yitu stood alone on the bridge, looking back.
Huasan's heart trembled, and their eyes met in mid-air, and they were speechless for a moment.
At this time, the NPC guarding the bridge handed Yitu a lantern, the candlelight flickering in the wind.
"You should go now. Good luck." The boy's voice was still cold and emotionless.
Yitu took the lamp and looked at the faint candlelight in the glass cover. It was as if he saw the white spot when Xu Heng fell off the cliff, small and painful.
The flower umbrella came to him, and Yitu said nothing, just turned around and crossed the bridge.
They sacrificed Xu Heng here, which may become a scar that Yi Tu will never be able to erase from his heart.
Huasan didn't ask any more questions, even though he had no idea why Yitu chose Xu Heng over him.
However, in reality, only Yitu himself knew that this card game never gave him any chance to choose.
The third password point seems to be the simplest of the three levels, but it is actually the most difficult one.
It means self-sacrifice, self-termination and self-fulfillment.
The NPC in this level requires the player who holds the death code to witness the death of their relatives and loved ones with their own eyes.
Xu Heng is, but Huasan is not.
Yitu never had a choice, so he had no outlet for his depression and pain.
What he couldn't accept the most was that Xu Heng also guessed the rules of the game.
The one who had to sacrifice could only be Xu Heng.
So he told Yitu that he had no regrets and this was his final choice and answer.
Those who sacrifice themselves voluntarily cannot be resurrected or reborn.
Xu Heng's name completely faded from the map, and along with it, the item hints belonging to him also disappeared.
The black bridge leads to the depths of darkness, and those who cross the bridge never look back.
After the candlelight went out, the lamp also disintegrated into a point of light in Yitu's hand, forming an inconspicuous number, 9.
9 is the third death code, and the last four-digit code is left.
Yitu and Huasan stood at the entrance of the woods for a moment, then walked towards the unknown existence.
As we follow the path through the black birch forest, the scenery in front of us gradually opens up.
In the circular area, a huge black stone statue of a demon stands quietly in the center, and behind it are eight unknown paths leading to darkness.
The demon has his eyes closed, holding a harvesting sickle. His inhuman body is so tall that the players under the stone statue look extremely small.
Three men and two women are waiting under the stone statue. They have different expressions and stand in distinct positions. They do not talk to each other.
Yitu saw the Night King Jin Zirui and the evil lady Shi Ning among these people.
"It's really surprising that the mysterious guest joining this game is actually an old acquaintance of mine."
Jin Zirui raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at Yi Tu with a half-smile and said:
"Why didn't Jiang Hanyu come?"
Before Yitu could speak, he made an expression of sudden enlightenment:
"It's a pity he didn't come, otherwise the person who died at the foot of the Death Cliff wouldn't be Xu Heng."
"What a shame, it takes away a lot of the fun."
The man still had a familiar sneer on his face, but Yitu didn't say a word from beginning to end, and there was no emotion on his face.
Just when Huasan was about to say something, the stone statue behind them suddenly moved.
Cracks suddenly spread across the demon's face and quickly shattered, revealing its true appearance.
The sickle flashed a cold white light in the darkness, and the demon's eyes turned scarlet.
It looked at the seven players who came here, with a hideous smile on its face.
"The clowns who are trying to find the secret of death, don't know that death is already approaching."
The devil's hoarse whisper immediately rang out:
"Kill as much as you want! Death is the only answer!"
"Run away! The Death Scythe will feast on the blood of the clowns!"
"This is a game that can never end unless you tell the Death Servant the true secret of death!"
As soon as the devil finished speaking, a red warning interface popped up in front of the seven players present.
[The Death Servant is about to start the killing game, countdown 30, 29, 28...]
The next second after the prompt sounded, the seven players took action almost simultaneously.
They quickly split into four groups, chose one of the eight roads, and soon disappeared into the dark birch forest.
Yitu and Huasan intuitively chose the path on the far right. They had no time to communicate with each other and almost ran the whole way, trying to get as far away from the starting position of the demon as possible.
The countdown on the game interface ended quickly, and after the cold prompt sound disappeared, they realized that the silence in the birch forest was particularly strange.
The environment was dim, and among the swaying shadows of the trees, Yitu could not see the scenery more than seven or eight meters away.
Here, apart from large clumps of slender birch trees, there is no other shelter.
There is nowhere to hide, nowhere to conceal.
"Is it strange?" Huasan and Yitu looked at each other and whispered.
Yitu nodded and suddenly said:
"Death is an unexpected accident."
Huasan was stunned for a moment before realizing that Xu Heng had said this after the first password point.
Just as he was about to say something, Yitu continued:
"Did you hear what the Death Servant said before the show started?"
Huasan nodded. Although the demon servant only said that sentence once, the hidden hint in it was not difficult to understand.
"This is a killing game." Yitu looked at Huasan. "I mean, it's player versus player."
"How lucky do you think we are to be the first to encounter the Night King?"
Huasan thought for a moment, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with almost certainty:
"He won't be the first."
Yitu didn't say anything after hearing this, but nodded silently.
Although this killing game started unexpectedly, everything was within reason.
The whispers that the demon servant said to all players before the game started were already a reminder.
It says to kill as much as you want, death will give the only answer. The killing here does not refer to the killing of players by demons.
Instead, players must fight and kill each other, because only death can give them the answers they want.
What do players want? What players want is the final death code to pass the level.
And this last death code is actually on the seven players themselves.
It's just that they can't see it unless death occurs.
Players killing each other is just one of the rules of the game.
The following sentence, "Run as hard as you can, the Scythe of Death will drink the blood of the clowns," tells players that this demon servant will become the killing NPC of the game.
There may not be a winner when players meet each other, but those caught by the demon servants will most likely die under the scythe.
If they want to end it all, they can only kill each other to find the last death code.
The devil's hint was not difficult to understand, and all seven players knew it very well.
The birch forest was very large, and Yitu and Huasan soon lost their way in it after walking for a while.
It was extremely quiet all around. For a moment, no sound could be heard except for the other person's breathing.
No one knows how the killing demon will appear and what will happen next.
The two did not communicate much, and without knowing the rules of the game, the sound of talking could very likely become one of the conditions for death.
Even if their voices are soft.
Yitu and Huasan didn't dare to stay where they were, so they could only choose a direction and keep walking.
They didn't encounter any other players along the way, nor did they catch a glimpse of the demon servants, but they always felt a creepy and cold illusion behind them.
Yitu frowned and stopped to look back several times. There was nothing behind him except those slender trees.
Huasan also felt strange, "Is someone following us?"
Yitu shook his head and said affirmatively:
"impossible."
Huasan was stunned for a moment and realized something.
At this time, Yitu raised his hand and pointed behind him, and Huasan immediately felt a chill on his back.
He quickly turned around, but there was nothing behind him except the trees.
"Don't stay where you are." Yitu whispered as he passed by him.
The two continued to move forward without stopping for a moment. The huge forest and the endless darkness were gradually eating away at the players' patience.
Here, they have no concept of time, and panic and anxiety are spreading rapidly.
No one knows how the demon minions hunt players, because so far, no one has made any mistakes.
As long as any one of the seven of them triggers the death condition, the remaining six will inevitably know the rules of the game.
Yitu would never put himself in danger. He always remembered the purpose of his coming here.
After walking for a while, the birch forest was still dull and dark, making it hard to breathe.
However, Yitu saw a hint of red under a birch tree not far away.
The red is so dazzling that a glimpse of it in the darkness gives people a thrilling impact.
Yitu and Huasan looked at each other and slowly moved closer, only to find that it was a red lacquered wooden box, only about thirty centimeters long.
The box is not locked. As long as the player pushes it open gently, he can get a glimpse of the secrets inside.
Huasan looked at Yitu and asked silently.
The red box may not be a trap set by the player, it may also be an unknown tool that appears in the killing game.
Yitu had no intention of opening the box, even though it was extremely tempting to him.
Not opening the box means continuing the boring walk, which is acceptable for Yitu.
Just as he stood up and was about to leave, a shrill crow cry suddenly came from ten meters away.
The sound was not loud, but it was enough to disturb the silent woods.
A thin figure was approaching at a fast speed and soon became clear in front of Yitu and Huasan.
The man in the dark green coat and with a small mustache also saw them. His expression was gloomy and unclear, but he was shouting in Japanese that neither of them could understand.
Yitu and Huasan didn't care what he was going to say at all. They turned around and walked back without thinking.
As soon as the two of them left, the huge figure of the Death Servant loomed over them.
The long curved sickle cut the running man in half at incredible speed.
The blood blossomed into red flowers in the air, and then fell into the soil, wetting it.
The man's dismembered body twitched briefly and then became completely motionless.
The demon servant stood there for a moment, not noticing anything else unusual, and then walked away with the machete.
Yitu and Huasan, who were hiding on the side, watched all this calmly, and no one tried to step forward to see.
After a while, the man's body suddenly began to twitch, his head lifted up, and his hands crawled and quickly pieced together.
He stood up from the ground, wiped the blood off his face as if nothing had happened, laughed strangely, and muttered something.
The man looked around and saw no trace of the demon's servants, but he caught a glimpse of the red box under the tree.
Without any hesitation, he walked over and opened the red box.
He took out something from it, a very ordinary-looking dagger.
Yitu frowned slightly. Although he didn't know the specific function of the dagger, it was obvious that this was not the first time the man opened the red box.
The man put away the dagger and said in Chinese with a satisfied look, "Not bad."
A hint of surprise flashed in Huasan's eyes, and he subconsciously looked at Yitu, but saw that there was no surprise on that person's face.
However, the guy who took the dagger from a distance did not leave. Instead, he suddenly looked up at the place where the two of them were hiding.
"隠すな, Red Deer."
(Stop hiding, idiot)
Matsumoto Jun showed an ambiguous smile on his face, "Have you two seen enough?"
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