Chapter 172 Chongming Rune



[It hurts so much, it hurts so much, it hurts so much, it hurts so much, oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo]

[The beauty is so cruel, it makes me tremble with fear]

[If I am guilty, please let the law of the underworld punish me instead of letting me watch this scene]

[As long as the ending is good, that's all]

The long night on the horizon began to fade away.

The bamboo fence burned by the fire collapsed into ruins. Jiang Jiaying came over and opened the black umbrella. The umbrella handle was stuck in the gap between the bamboo and the stone. Then he took out a bundle of tape from his hand.

The kind of transparent tape that is wider than the tip of a sticky tape and doesn't even have the ends of the paper tape torn off.

Shi Yu didn't understand the logic behind using points to buy tape, and suspected that the other party had also opened this thing from a treasure chest.

Because he had never used it before, Jiang Jiaying easily tore off the tape and applied it directly to his left wrist.

Shi Yu's fingertips trembled.

Jiang Jiaying moved more gently, not seeking to look good, and wrapped it in a mess: "You can't handle this kind of wound gauze. Anyway, the game is probably about to end. In order to avoid you leaving earlier than the system announces, just make do with it."

The tape was tied too tightly and was very sticky, so the part of his arm that was taped turned white, while the ends turned purple due to lack of oxygen.

Fortunately, the effect of stopping bleeding - or blocking bleeding is very good.

He Weiyou was a step slower because he was carrying someone on his back. When he ran over with the half-paralyzed player on his back, he almost made the player vomit.

He crawled into the ruins and was stunned for several seconds when he saw the people inside.

Shi Yu looked up at him.

He Weiyou withdrew his gaze from his hair. He wanted to ask about the direction of the incident, but the first thing he said was: "Your new look is quite nice."

“…”

He Weiyou swore to heaven that he meant what he said absolutely sincerely.

Although he didn't see what she did after she left, and didn't know how she changed from a long-haired beauty to a scum with short hair over her shoulders in just half an hour, don't say that the only part missing is the part below the shoulders and above the waist. As long as the other person is not disfigured, his appearance is enough to raise the average level of the world's people.

But in order to avoid making things worse, he changed the subject in time: "That Chongming," he pointed to the divine bird on the hillside, "isn't it the one you just hatched?"

Shi Yu: "Strictly speaking, you hatched it."

His throat was choked by the smoke and he had lost a lot of blood, so his voice was very hoarse.

Jiang Jiaying was putting tape on the tape, but she reacted faster: "Because there are still six players left?"

Shi Yu hummed, "Six people surrounding Chongming in the cage, the meaning is actually open to interpretation. After six players died, it makes sense that Chongming with only one pupil would go on a killing spree. It also makes sense that Chongming with two pupils would appear if six players survived."

Jiang Jiaying listened to his words: "Are your pupils still clear?"

"Didn't you see it?"

Jiang Jiaying could indeed see clearly, Chongming's iconic double pupils. But what he wanted to say was: "I thought you would say fake and genuine."

Shi Yu didn't understand why the two pronouns were worth considering: "It's OK as long as you can understand it."

Jiang Jiaying picked up a piece of bamboo and scratched it, then stuck the end in place: "Okay, try it, can you stand up?"

Shi Yu held onto something at hand and walked out of the ruins. As soon as his hands let go of the support, his body fell uncontrollably.

Jiang Jiaying quickly grabbed him and pushed him back to where he was: "You should wait here until the game is over."

The rain above his head was getting lighter. He put his hand out but didn't feel any water dripping down. He put away his long-handled umbrella and said, "But if you want to find Chongming, why do you have to come here? There are twelve players in this game and twelve chicken pens. Unless you are lucky enough, there is no way anyone can be sure of winning. I don't believe that there will be so many Chongming eggs here that everyone can get one. How do you know there will be Chongming eggs here?"

"I have no idea."

"and you……"

"Just give it a try." Shi Yu sat with his back against the ruins. "When I ran over here, that Chongming was also flying over here. It even preferred to give up attacking the enemy in order to destroy the fence and start a fire. It can't be because it was bored."

Jiang Jiaying watched him retract the thread and asked, "Then why is there a Chongming egg here?"

When He Weiyou heard this, he suspected that the other party had lost his memory and couldn't help but interrupt: "Brother, did you just ask this question?"

Jiang Jiaying looked at him as if he were a rare animal: "The emperor has been seeking a true double-eyed re-sighted person for many years. Not to mention that its eggs have never appeared before, but at least they have never been successfully hatched. Why did it succeed this time?"

He Wei had a dazed look on his face.

Jiang Jiaying gave the other party enough time to understand, and then continued: "What's more, the system issued Burning as the main quest for us. If we can raise a Double-Pupil Chongming, we can complete the quest. I don't believe that the Chongming egg existed before the player was teleported here, just waiting to hatch when the time comes. But if it was laid after the player came here, why did it come out of this chicken coop?"

He Weiyou paused suddenly.

The other party didn't know that the chicken coop located at the midnight position on the sundial was originally managed by Shi Yu.

The only difference he knew about this place from other chicken pens was this: Shi Yu had fed the birds in this chicken coop twice at the beginning of the game.

When the player first came, he was running around and didn't have enough time to find clues. Therefore, when he passed by the outside of the chicken coop managed by everyone else, he never saw another player wasting time feeding poultry.

But if that double-pupiled egg was really laid after the player came over, then wouldn't the possibility of it regaining vision after being well fed and well drunk be much greater than when it was hungry?

【Grass? 】

[Just because of a bowl of chicken feed? ? ]

[This is the most reasonable explanation at present. Otherwise, I really can't understand why Shi Meiren, who is not a hero, can become the only lucky person in the chicken coop to lay eggs with double pupils and double vision.]

[Why is that not the point? The point is why did Shi Meiren spend time feeding chickens? I thought he liked small animals before, but now? ? ]

【Suddenly I think about it and it's terrifying. 】

Shi Yu didn't have the strength to do anything, so he waited until they were quiet before speaking: "Can you help me?"

"What?"

"I dropped a pen when I came here."

Someone nearby said cautiously: "Your pen..."

The female player who was once called to be the bait raised her hand, holding a brush with a white tip. "I picked it up when I came here just now. Did you drop it?"

Shi Yu thanked her, took the brush and started painting above his left wrist.

Jiang Jiaying looked at it and asked, "Is this a souvenir given to you by the Dream Choosing God?"

"Borrowed." Shi Yu lowered his eyes, "I have to pay it back later."

Jiang Jiaying seemed to be thinking: "I thought I gave it to you directly. After all, you are my superior."

"It was before." Shi Yu said, "And this is his magic weapon, it has recognized its master. Unless the master dies, it will not be given away."

"Magic weapon?"

Shi Yu drew a pattern with a few strokes, and then printed the rune on his left wrist with the tip of the pen: "Don't you have one too?"

"What?"

"The player's life weapon."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present was stunned. Even the half-paralyzed person who was being carried couldn't help but move his body and stretch his head over.

Jiang Jiaying suddenly thought of the system's introduction to the natal weapon: it cannot be robbed, it cannot be given as a gift, and temporary borrowing requires the owner's consent.

"And you should be able to see that the natal weapons are alive."

Jiang Jiaying didn't dare to conclude whether the weapon was alive, but the fact that his black umbrella could still fly around under his command after it left his hand meant that it was unlikely to be dead.

The rune emitted a soft light, and the cuts slowly healed.

This time, Shi Yu stood up without any support. When he reached the other side of the forest, the sky was already turning light.

Shu Nian had just ordered the vines to break the ropes on her body, and before she could move, a golden light suddenly covered her eyes.

One golden thread after another entangled her limbs, dragging her back to the ground and making her kneel at the feet of the person who came.

"Clear date."

Shu Nian gritted her teeth.

When the gods could not see his true face for many years, what they wanted to know most was his voice. Even if they had not seen him for many years, they could still feel their hearts tremble at the moment they heard his voice.

But earlier, he would still call her "Shu Shu".

This name was not chosen by him, nor by her, but by the monster who treated her as a commodity. He said that such a name sounded cute and lively, and would be most popular with rich people.

Then the cage that held her collapsed, the monster died, the rich people were left to await their fate, the other goods were taken home, and in the end only two people were left with him.

She is one of them.

The other girl had been there for a long time and had already developed the ability to speak nonsense. When she first met a stranger, she would call him "Sir" sweetly, and later she changed the address to "Brother".

But she didn't. The prison couldn't wear down her edges. She was noble, proud, and stubborn to the extreme. The first time she was sold out by the monster, she wanted to perish along with him. But he appeared when she was halfway to the end of her road.

She sat on the cold ground, and he handed her a piece of beautifully wrapped bread: "Are you hungry?"

“Pah—”

She suddenly slapped the other person's hand, and the bread covered in dust rolled into the corner, but her nails scratched a long cut on the back of the other person's hand, and blood instantly oozed out.

She yelled at him hoarsely, "Get lost!"

The other party paused, turned and walked out the door.

Her heart was beating and shrinking, and after the embarrassment above, there was an empty loneliness. But at this moment, the door was pushed open again.

It was him again, and this time he just put the things in his hands on the cabinet beside him and left.

The trembling in her shoulders subsided, and she raised her head and saw what the other person had left behind.

A set of clean clothes, a pure white plush towel, a bottle of ointment for bruises and sprains, and a bag of sweet-smelling roasted chestnuts.

The scene buried in the memory was very blurry, but the other party's voice was clear, word by word, smashing into the mud, falling on the ears, and knocking into the heart: "Did you kill Chu Mu?"

Shu Nian relaxed her tightly pursed lips: "So what?"

She raised her head and smiled, biting her words: "Why, you were nosy back then, but now that you're a human, do you still want to interfere in the internal conflicts of the temple? You're no longer the main god now!"

The opponent's malice was not concealed at all. He Weiyou almost couldn't help but hit the half-paralyzed person on his back on the head. The female player who didn't even know what was going on also found it inexplicably irritating.

Shi Yu didn't ask any more questions, brushed past her, and stopped beside Zhuo Su's body.

Shu Nian didn't hear his response for a long time. Finally, she spoke first, breaking the stagnant air: "I lose. You can kill me or chop me up as you wish."

No one responded.

After a long while, she finally turned around and said with emotion: "Why don't you do it? You won't have a chance after the game is over."

Shi Yu pulled off the vine that was wrapped around Zhuo Su's neck: "Why would I do that?"

"Don't you want to kill me?!" The other party suddenly raised his voice, scaring everyone present.

Shi Yu straightened up: "I didn't mean to kill you."

"That Lord God is really good-tempered. He was able to swallow his anger even when he was killed. He deserved to be stripped of his godhood and nailed to death in the Heavenly Prison!"

The air suddenly became quiet.

Compared to the amount of information revealed in this sentence of the Qing Dynasty God, everyone was inexplicably more nervous.

Jiang Jiaying looked up at the sky, He Weiyu's shoulders were sore from carrying the load but he didn't dare to move, and the half-paralyzed player was still standing upside down.

Only the newcomer knew nothing and pretended to be an ostrich.

Shi Yu looked at her, then turned his gaze away without any reaction and looked behind her: "Your Majesty."

The eunuch just came over with the emperor, shouting at the top of his voice: "Someone come——"

Immediately, the imperial guards came and knelt before the emperor.

"Kill this assassin."

Assassinating the emperor is a capital crime, and the emperor has kept them until now entirely because Shi Yu had instructed him in advance that if the assassins are caught, they cannot be killed for the time being, at least not before Chongming is born, because the number of players cannot be less than six.

Now that the long night is over, the conditions no longer need to be followed.

The chilling light flashed out of the sheath, and the imperial guard didn't even look at the other party's eyes that widened instantly, and simply raised his sword and swung it down.

Before Shu Nian could say anything, her vision flashed and then she saw her own toes.

The head fell to the ground and rolled half a circle.

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