Chapter 343 Monster Hospital (Part 42)
The room was filled with a crowd of featureless black shadows. After the Assassin's Guild President was recognized first, all the black shadows showed resentment. It was not known whether it was because of Bei Xi's behavior just now, or because they still retained some memories of their previous lives. In short, they did not act rashly and swarmed over, but stood where they were to weigh the pros and cons. However, the aura revealed from their bodies was as if they wanted to eat Nan Huan and the others' flesh and drink their blood.
Nan Huan rubbed the chill on the back of his neck from being stared at, and glanced at him tentatively but indifferently, "It seems that even after you die, you still can't forget to seek revenge on me, so why don't you do it? What are you waiting for?"
Her tone was deliberately flamboyant, as if adding fuel to the fire, and the dark shadows rushed up in a moment.
In fact, what Nan Huan said was not true at all. She had never hurt anyone on her own initiative, except for a few times when she was provoked. But in those cases, the other party first hurt her, Bei Xi, and other players from the same guild. But in most cases, Nan Huan just followed the settings of the game. These people just happened to be looking for death, and she couldn't stop them. What could she do?
But no matter whether it was intentional or unintentional, the account was put on her and it was impossible to sort it out. Besides, the players in front of her were already dead, so what was there to argue about?
The monsters referred to in the game were these defeated opponents. Nan Huan always felt that there should be more than that, so the words just now were deliberately to provoke them, wanting them to take action and reveal their flaws.
The black shadow flashed in front of him, and Nan Huan didn't even move. He saw the close black shadow with black threads wrapped around his hands. To be precise, it should be spider silk, but now there is no spider silk, only black air. The strong wind blowing in his face showed the anger of the owner of the spider silk.
However, these "spider silks" did not hit Nan Huan and Bei Xi. They were blocked tightly by the transparent tentacles thrown out by Bei Xi. Those "spider silks" hooked the transparent tentacles of the jellyfish, trying to control them, but they were quickly broken free.
It was the deceased Miao Jiang president. Her attack weapon was easy to recognize, but because of her death, she could not fire out real spider silk and could only use black gas instead. Although the weapons looked different in appearance, the effect of the attack should be exactly the same, except that the spider silk made of black gas dissipated into the black shadow after being blocked.
"Their memories are still there, even their personal skills are still there, and their damage has not changed," Nan Huan quickly concluded, and then he became a little confused, "Are they really dead?"
Bei Xi hugged Nan Huan and retreated to a screen. He reached into his sleeves and took out the dragon bone knife. With one stroke, he cut off a "leaf" that was flying from the black gas. The leaf was cut off by the sharp dragon bone knife, fell to the ground, and returned to the black gas.
"They are dead in the physical sense," Bei Xi took a break to respond to Nan Huan, and then looked to the empty left side, "But in the theological sense, or in the sense of infection, that's not necessarily the case. After all, they have all been uniformly turned into 'monsters' by the system."
Nan Huan frowned as he looked at the dragon bone knife in Bei Xi's hand, not sure whether the dragon bone knife's power was restricted in this copy, or because Bei Xi's ability had not been completely integrated with He'er and the full power of the dragon bone knife could not be used. After all, during the Bai Lanyu Festival, the dragon bone knife was able to completely prevent the existence of the black air.
But now the power of the dragon bone knife doesn't seem to be that great. When Bei Xi faces those people transformed from black shadows, the dragon bone knife can only kill them directly, but it cannot directly eliminate the black air.
As for the extra group of black shadows on the left, Nan Huan knew without thinking that Bei Xi must have killed quite a few players in the dungeon in the past three years. How could the game or the evil god miss such an opportunity? They must have attracted all of them at once. This phenomenon also fully demonstrated that the origin of this game must be closely related to the evil god.
After all, the evil god had already started planning before he even entered the game, otherwise how could the dead players appear here with resentment towards Beixi.
Nan Huan had always thought that the fusion between Bei Xi and He Er was not very good. After all, the Dragon God and the Anti-God that she saw were much smaller. But now seeing Bei Xi skillfully switching between various weapons and skills without any effort, and making all the black shadows dare not move forward rashly by his own strength, Nan Huan wondered if she was overthinking it.
The former defeated opponent is still a defeated opponent today. Even if so many players gathered together, they are still no match for Bei Xi. Nan Huan also took out his dragon tooth knife, and the two of them cooperated well.
Black flowers dropped from the ceiling and landed in the room. Black shadows crisscrossed the room. In the originally quiet room, there was only the sound of weapons fighting.
After about five minutes, Nan Huan withdrew his knife with some disgust, "Why didn't the evil god let them speak when he did this? This silent fight, everyone is like a mute person, it's meaningless even if we win."
Bei Xi didn't think this idea was ridiculous, and even suggested to Nan Huan, "Next time you see her, you can give her a suggestion, maybe they will both be able to talk."
After saying that, he casually threw out several air arrows and jumped back to the place where the door was opened with Nan Huan. The two of them took the time to take a look at the situation on the wall and finally confirmed the facts.
The golden light inside the door was still flickering, but since the patients left, the gap opened by the door remained in a small area, neither expanding nor shrinking. The black gas connecting the shadows outside and the black flowers continued to overflow from the door.
"After being attacked, those shadows will dissipate and fall back to the ground, and then emerge from the black air again, continuously." Nan Huan was not surprised by this result. "If the door cannot be closed, we will be exhausted to death."
She thought about it for a moment and felt that what she said was not perfect, so she added, "Of course, if we fail to complete the task of temporarily opening the door, I guess after we are exhausted to death, these shadows will leave here and go to the ward outside."
"Although we still don't understand what the point of delaying the opening of the door is," Bei Xi understood Nan Huan's meaning, "but this is a compromise provided by the system for us. There must be a reason for it, so we still have to give it a try."
On the surface, the two seemed to be discussing a matter of life and death, but their expressions were calmer than the other, but this calmness was soon broken.
The explosion sounded, and after the dust settled, a layer of black gas like a paper-cut flew over and pounced on the two of them. Bei Xi embraced Nan Huan, tiptoed lightly, passed the row of paper-cut figures, and saw Nan Huan's face. Who is this person? Why can't I remember?
Bei Xi knew that she had never paid attention to the information of so many players, so she kindly explained to the other party, "It was the paper cutter from the third guild. I met him in the game lobby when I was designing many players to enter the dreamland in Man Wugui, and then I killed him."
Although Nan Huan's memory was not as good as Bei Xi's, she remembered it after being reminded by Bei Xi. She said "oh" and then looked at the group of short shadows with a slight scrutiny.
Just when the filmmaker thought she was going to make a long speech, Nan Huan just responded thoughtfully, "Red paper-cuts are better looking. Black ones are too ugly."
puff--
Bei Xi couldn't help laughing out loud, but she still touched Nan Huan's cute cheek to express her approval of his speech.
The black shadow in front of him became even more angry. At this moment, Bei Xi felt that Nan Huan’s suggestion just now made sense. After all, it would definitely be more fun if the black shadow of the flower lady had a sound.
However, this stimulation caused more black paper-cuts to fly out, and the sky was full of little figures, like angry little beasts, who wanted to pounce on Nanhuan and bite him.
Nan Huan's wings grew out as he wished, and he flew directly in the room with Bei Xi. At the moment of dodging the attacks of the villains and black shadows, Nan Huan thought of something and whispered something in Bei Xi's ear.
Bei Xi didn't pause, but spread his hands towards Nan Huan and generously let her try it. He looked at Nan Huan's expression as if he was looking at a naughty child who was about to do something big.
【bite--
The player was detected using the gift skill - Bloody Plague.
Bloody Plague: It spreads from one person to ten, and then from ten to a hundred. It kills people silently and invisibly.
Tip: This skill is extremely effective, please use it with caution. 】
As the system prompted, a red blood mist was born with Nanhuan and Beixi as the center, spreading outward layer by layer like a blooming red flower. The moment it came into contact with the black shadows and black flowers, those black shadows and black flowers were instantly dissolved.
It was as if a layer of red blood mist covered the pure black snow.
Those dark shadows came silently and left without any sound. However, Nan Huan noticed that the black air on the ceiling and the ground did not disappear with the arrival of the blood mist.
To be precise, the moment the black gas was dissipated, more black gas was intermittently transported from the other side of the gate.
"I knew it was useless," Nan Huan flapped his wings and brought Bei Xi to a high place, scanning the entire space, "but it's good to be able to get a moment of peace."
After she said this, she seemed very satisfied with the scene in front of her. She smiled at Bei Xi and spread her hands, "Please watch a unique red rain."
This picture is actually a bit weird, because black air, black shadows, black flowers, and red blood mist are constantly appearing in the air. The process of the black air being constantly dissipated is like a red and black flower that slowly blooms from the pistil until it is fully open. It looks strangely beautiful.
In addition, the two of them are floating in the air at the moment, and they can see the entire process of the petals blooming from mid-air, which can be considered as taking a little shortcut in this task.
"Have you thought of a solution?" Nan Huan shook her toes. She was now very proficient in using her wings. She could stay in the air just by relying on her wings, while her hands and feet could do other things.
She glanced at Bei Xi, then rested her head on Bei Xi's shoulder, as if taking advantage of the quiet moment to communicate with Bei Xi about the solution to this task. "Our task is to postpone closing the door, but only by closing the door first can we completely solve the problem of those monsters. Otherwise, they will continue to come out. These two points seem to be somewhat contradictory."
"I haven't thought of it yet," Bei Xi was honest and did not hide anything, although most of the time, she would not hide everything about herself from Nan Huan, "but I always feel that this side quest system seems to help us balance the progress between us and the evil god."
"According to the current progress, and since Patient 151 has entered the activity room first, he had the opportunity to come into contact with the source of infection, but he just found a few people, quietly opened the door, and left. I always feel that there is a lot of noise but little action. Why do you think the system suddenly jumped out at this time, as if it was a speeding train that stepped on the brakes?"
"I thought of a possibility," Nan Huan followed Bei Xi's thoughts for a while, and then immediately understood what Bei Xi wanted to express. However, she did not express her guess immediately, but looked at Bei Xi jokingly, with another curious expression.
"Before I entered the game, were you always patiently guiding other kids in the guild?"
Of course she heard it. Bei Xi had thought of this a long time ago, but did not say it directly. Instead, he used this method to make her guess it, so she thought of this jokingly.
Bei Xi was stunned for a moment, then a clear smile appeared on her face. She tightened her arms around Nan Huan, pulled him back into her arms, and rubbed Nan Huan's nose with her hand. "Besides you, who else are there?"
Now it was Nan Huan's turn to be stunned. Her face turned red and her heart didn't beat fast when she said this flirtatious remark. However, Nan Huan, who hadn't had any private time with her boyfriend for a long time, felt embarrassed.
She coughed unconsciously twice, trying to get the topic back on track, "Let's talk about serious matters. It's too early for you to praise me. What if you are not satisfied with my answer? Or what if I guessed wrong and didn't guess what you were thinking?"
Bei Xi had an expression that said, "You know what you're talking about," and continued to act along with her, "Tell me about it."
"The system pressed the pause button at this time because if it didn't, whether we completed the task or failed to complete the task, it would mean that the train would derail, causing irreversible consequences, so it had to step in and make this adjustment."
Nan Huan followed Bei Xi's train of thought and quickly figured out the reason. "The system deliberately revealed such an obvious flaw to us. I think it wanted us to know about it. So it means that the current contradictory situation was also deliberately created by it. It should be some kind of hint, as well as the hint in the task description..."
The effect of two people organizing their thoughts together was obviously very good. When Nan Huan said this, the two of them remembered something at the same time. After looking at each other, Nan Huan was a little amused, "No wonder, it turns out that it gave us a hint. This task is like a balance. No matter which choice we make, it will not end well. This is forcing us to take one step at a time. It's impossible to reach the top in one step."
Nan Huan showed an expression of disgust on her face. They had finally found the source of the infection, but were suddenly stopped. This feeling was indeed a bit uncomfortable. Bei Xi rubbed her head helplessly.
"So those black flowers are easy to explain. They are not made by the system to look good on purpose, but to deal with us later."
Bei Xi also thought of the solution to this task, and he understood it after connecting the dots.
Today's mission was indeed a bit heavy. Bei Xi saw that Nan Huan's face was already a little worried, so she shook his hand and said, "Since you already know the solution, let's get out of here first and don't waste time."
Before the limited-time effect of the Bloody Plague ended, Nan Huan took advantage of Bei Xi's command and took back the gifted skill.
Without the blood mist to dissipate, those black shadows reappeared from the ground like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. Even the black flowers falling from the ceiling returned to their original appearance.
At the same time, the moment Nan Huan retracted his skills, Bei Xi drew out the dragon bone knife and slashed towards the golden light on the two people.
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