"Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, leave now."
Lin Shu: "And what about you guys?"
Yu Qiongzhi didn't answer, but instead looked at the group's clothes and asked, "Is this how everyone dresses these days?"
"Hmm...more or less."
"I see." Yu Qiongzhi shook her sleeves and said to Ming Pei, "We've fallen behind."
Whether the latter heard or not, in any case, his posture has remained unchanged ever since Yu Qiongzhi appeared.
Fu Guan was informing Huang Yingzong that he could withdraw his skills. Ming Pei had attacked them to prevent them from entering Yu Qiongzhi's tomb, but now that she was here, he couldn't fight her anymore.
In fact, he felt that there was nothing left in the stone coffin long ago. Yu Qiongzhi used her own soul to make candles on Mingpei's offering table, so how could she possibly leave anything behind?
Based on his past experience, doing this would mean the soul would be scattered and destroyed when the candle burned out.
The chessboard disappeared, and so did the candlelight.
Shi Jinzhe blew out the candle before it burned out completely, as if he had taken something extraordinary. Everyone looked at the candle with regret and reluctance in their eyes.
"Please, light it. I want to see him more."
Yu Qiongzhi could only hear the voice, but could not see the person. Ming Pei stood there, his silver spear covered by black mist, and he turned back to the way he looked when they first saw him. His body turned left and right following Yu Qiongzhi's voice, constantly searching for people.
"Light it up," Yu Qiongzhi said again.
Helpless, Fu Guan walked over and asked Shi Jinzhe to relight it.
This time, Yu Qiongzhi and Ming Pei's bodies appeared even more ethereal in the candlelight. She looked up and stared at the sky above, saying, "You should leave now, leave this mountain, leave Banshan Town, and hurry."
Shi Jinzhe walked up to the two of them, put down the candlestick, and Shehe returned with him, not in a very good mood.
He grasped Shekh's hand. "What's wrong? You look like you've lost money. Are you unhappy?"
Sheh nodded emphatically, then glanced at Mingpei, and sighed after a moment.
[Let's go. Leaving Halfway Town safely should be enough to complete the game.]
Nine people walked out, leaving only two figures standing side by side in the faint glow of the fluorescent light.
Shekh walked last, taking one last look before the candlelight went out. Yu Qiongzhi looked back at her and said softly, "You are kinder than this fox."
Ming Pei, who was next to her, moved slightly, which was unusual. So Yu Qiongzhi asked with a helpless smile, "How is the world outside now?"
Shech thought for two seconds and used her most cultured word to describe it.
"A peaceful and prosperous era."
"Okay, go ahead."
The obsession she couldn't let go of finally found its best answer, and Yu Qiongzhi waved goodbye.
Shekh turned back and grabbed Shi Jin's folded sleeve. [She said I wasn't that fox.]
Shi Jinzhe hummed in agreement. "Perhaps the characters in the book also have their own consciousness. In places unseen, they will silently live out their lives, but no one records them."
Just like Yu Qiongzhi and Mingpei, did they love each other? Of course they did, otherwise why would they be willing to protect each other for a hundred years? It's just that for them in a chaotic world, some things were more important than personal feelings.
But these sacrifices will remain unknown to others. In this book's world, Mingpei is only a defeated and beheaded general, and Yu Qiongzhi is only a young lady who never married.
The candlelight behind them went out, and the two looked back together, only to find no one there, just emptiness.
The tomb chamber began to collapse, and the nine people quickened their pace, but the collapse was so fast that they had to run.
Shekh flung open the tomb door blocking their way with a flick of its tail, and green will-o'-the-wisps rushed in instantly. Only then did they realize that it was already dark outside.
The entire mountain was ablaze with green flames, and the heat was intense. Countless skeletons and rotting corpses were hidden within the will-o'-the-wisps. Shekh, impatient, simply pulled down the ribbon, instantly turning the utterly dead skeletons and rotting corpses to ashes.
With will-o'-the-wisps everywhere and nowhere to step, Shi Jinzhe took out a flying device and took Sheh directly into the air.
Fu Guan took several players to his side, leaving Lin Shu and Huang Yingzong to be managed by Shi Jinzhe.
Two paper airplanes slowly rose into the air, and a group of people looked down at Banshan Town from the air.
Corpses were scattered everywhere, their bodies overturned and scattered about. Not a single living person could be seen on the ground, which was terrifying.
Huang Yingzong patted his chest: "Luckily, we can walk through the air, otherwise how would we escape?"
Lin Shu: "With Ming Pei and Yu Qiongzhi gone, all these suppressed demons and monsters have come out. Without flying tools, we can't outrun these things even if we run ourselves to death to escape from Yu Qiongzhi's grave to outside Banshan Town."
Teaming up with high-level players is such a blessing; you can snag a valuable item and the dungeon difficulty drops dramatically.
Shi Jinzhe was absent-minded and kept looking at Shehe, always feeling that she had something on her mind.
She noticed this and, using what she had on hand, wrote directly on the paper airplane: "I originally thought Mingpei would be quite suitable as a prop for Jiang Ying."
But she didn't want to forcibly separate Mingpei and Yu Qiongzhi.
Upon seeing this, Shi Jinzhe relaxed. "You did a good job. Friends can think of each other when it's good for them, but they shouldn't sacrifice people who shouldn't be sacrificed. No one's happiness should be built on another person's suffering."
Rather than becoming a prop all alone, Mingpei would rather spend the last few minutes peacefully with Yu Qiongzhi.
“Yu Qiongzhi is right, you are better than that fox.”
Shi Jinzhe stroked her hair and kissed her on the side as a comforting gesture. The next second, the paper airplane plummeted, prompting Huang Yingzong and Lin Shu to rush over to control it.
Shekh brought out the scepter and let Shi Jinzhe replenish his energy: "Drive safely first..."
She didn't want to be thrown off.
Shi Jinzhe was speechless. The dungeon was about to end, how could a kiss result in such a huge drain on his life force? Was the way this character died really that absurd?
The raging wildfire was left behind. Two paper airplanes flew over the first temple they visited on the mountainside, and over the last mountain peak. A system notification sounded in their minds.
Congratulations to player Shi Jinzhe and player Shehe for successfully clearing the dungeon "Character's Self-Rescue"!
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