Skull Kingdom
Gu Lin crushed the skeleton dog with one foot. After retracting his little feet, his little fists were still there, and his expression remained fierce.
Everyone was shocked and speechless, as if they were hallucinating.
This little kid is so small, not even as big as a skeleton dog, but he actually crushed a ferocious skeleton dog with one foot!
The other players weighed the situation and felt that even if they took over, they might not be a match for this skeleton dog.
Players: “…”
They are not even as good as a child under two years old!
The boss in the double-layer hat was relatively calm. In the previous copy, he had seen Gu Lin kick the scarred man away and crush the skeleton dog with one foot. It didn't seem like a big deal.
Su Qiao and Song Ran were so shocked that they couldn't recover for a long time.
Seeing everyone's reactions, the aunt in the live broadcast room laughed and felt proud of the cub.
As expected of their favorite cub, the cub is the best!
Su Qiao squatted down in front of Gu Lin and looked down at his tiny feet that were less than ten centimeters long. It was unbelievable. How did he do that?
Su Qiao looked confused and asked: "Tuanzi, are you okay?"
Gu Lin loosened his fist, put away his fierce expression, patted his belly and said: "My son is born with supernatural powers!"
Su Qiao: "..."
Song Ran couldn't help but exclaim in admiration: "I didn't expect this lazy and greedy little piglet to be so powerful in combat."
Gu Lin spoke in a childish voice: "Zizi is not a piglet!"
He is the auspicious beast cub!
Song Ran used the hand that had not yet turned into a skeleton to touch the little ball's furry head: "Little piglet and little devil are both nicknames, understand?"
Gu Lin didn't want to be called a piglet, he was not a piglet: "If you call me a piglet, I will call you Uncle Piglet!"
Song Ran: “…”
Okay, I've never won an argument with this kid.
*
The sacrificial ceremony ended and the players left Skull Valley.
On the way back, Wu Jin came over and said: "Do you find it strange that the plants in other places are lush, but there are dead trees everywhere in Skull Valley?"
Wu Lan: "My brother and I just checked and found that those dead trees only looked withered, but they were not dead. They were still alive."
After hearing what they said, Su Qiao also said: "I also find it very strange. In other places, animals are skeletonized and plants are thriving. But in Skull Valley, it's the opposite. Plants are withered, but butterflies are very active and not skeletonized."
"Yes, that's right, that's the key."
Wu Jin snapped his fingers: "So, I think the curse is not as simple as skeletonization. The system task did not say that the curse is skeletonization, but an undead curse. It just asks us to break the 'undead curse' of these skeletons."
"This makes us ignore whether other species also have this curse of immortality."
"When this curse manifests itself on humans, it turns into skeletons. The same is true for that dog. But when it comes to creatures without bones, it's another state, like those dead trees that are rotten but still alive."
"So, this curse of undeath includes skeletonization, but it is not completely equivalent to skeletonization. It should be a state of 'surviving in the form of death', and it applies to all species."
“…”
Wu Jin's words made sense, and Song Ran and the others also noticed it.
Black Robe said that all animals on Skull Island will turn into skeletons, but plants will not.
But some animals don’t have skeletons, so how can they skeletonize? Butterflies have exoskeletons, but they don’t skeletonize.
At first glance, Skull Island is dominated by humans, so we have a preconceived notion that the curse is skeletonization.
The skeletons also thought so, which made it even more convincing.
But there is another main body on Skull Island, which is the plants.
Song Ran pondered and said, "Where the animals are skeletonized, the plants are full of vitality and vigor, and where the animals are full of vitality, the plants are withered and decayed."
At this time, the double-hatted boss slowly spoke and summed it up in four words: "One rises while the other falls."
“…”
As soon as these four words came out, several people fell into silence.
Indeed, it is a process of one thing gaining while the other loses.
The skeleton represents destruction, and those plants represent growth. Those dead trees are withering, and the butterflies are growing.
Conversely, if you want the skeleton to be in a "growing" state, the plants must be in a "disappearing" state.
Su Qiao: "Does it mean that if we want to break the curse, we have to destroy all the plants on the island?"
Song Ran shook his head: "That's not right. This is a trap set by Lu Quanming and his team. Their method of breaking the curse of immortality is - if they don't die, then let them die. But obviously they failed and couldn't do it at all."
"Also, since animals and plants are in an opposing state of one growing while the other declines, why is it that only butterflies are 'growing' while humans and dogs are 'declining'?"
So, the key still lies in the butterfly.
The clue is stuck here again.
Gu Lin was holding the glass bottle that Skeleton Lady had given him in his arms. Inside the bottle were bright red roses and two dancing butterflies.
Everyone looked at the butterfly, thinking.
After that, no one said anything else and everyone was digesting the current information.
Returning to the Skeleton House, everyone saw from afar a skeleton with a hunched back standing in front of the Skeleton House, pacing back and forth in front of the Skeleton House.
A few people recognized him as the Skeleton Elder, and after a moment of surprise, they immediately walked forward.
The Skeleton Elder had already partially turned to sand, leaving only two-thirds of the skeleton, and a small half of his head had turned to sand. Both legs and arms were also torn, but it did not hinder walking.
Seeing that the Skeleton Elder had become like this in such a short time, several people couldn't help but sigh.
The Skeleton Elder's body turned into sand like this, but he still found this place. Could it be that he remembered the source of the curse?
When Gu Lin saw the Skeleton Elder, he obediently called him, "Grandpa Elder."
The Skeleton Elder looked at Gu Lin. He had a bad memory, but he remembered the little baby very clearly. He looked at Gu Lin lovingly and said, "I remembered something about the curse, so I came here to tell you."
Upon hearing what the Skeleton Elder said, everyone held their breath.
If we know the source of the curse, there is hope of breaking it.
The Skeleton Elder looked at Gu Lin, confused: "I remember you went to the Skeleton Tomb with several friends to look for me, why don't you see your friends?"
Others: “”
Aren't we all here?
Song Ran pointed at them one by one, looking confused: "We are all here."
The Skeleton Elder looked at them carefully, his eyes becoming even more confused: "Ah, is it you? You are old, and your memory is not good. I can't recognize you."
Several people: "..."
We've only seen each other for a few hours.
I didn't expect the Skeleton Elder's memory to be so bad. How could he really remember the source of the curse?
Everyone couldn't help but express doubt.
Half of the Skeleton Elder's body is hollowed out, and the missing small part of his head is the back half, while his face is still intact.
The Skeleton Elder said slowly: "I remember..."
Everyone watched it with bated breath.
"I remember." After a pause of several seconds, the Skeleton Elder slowly continued: "The Undead Curse follows a law."
Listening to it talking, several people almost suffocated.
The Skeleton Elder doesn't speak slowly, but he thinks slowly. It seems like he has a hard time thinking of the next sentence after saying the previous one.
I didn’t know how to do this before, I don’t know if it has something to do with desertification.
The Skeleton Elder paused for several seconds and said, "Everything is conserved."
Conservation of All Things
Everyone was stunned.
Then the Skeleton Elder stopped talking again, looking thoughtful.
Song Ran said after careful consideration: "Then..."
The Skeleton Elder spoke slowly again: "One gains while the other loses."
Song Ran: “…”
This time, no one dared to speak easily. They waited for another ten seconds and saw that the Skeleton Elder really stopped talking. He probably had finished speaking.
Therefore, the law of the curse of immortality is that all things are conserved, and some things increase while others decrease.
Their speculation just now was correct.
But what is the source of the curse?
While they were talking, one of the Skeleton Elder's ribs turned into sand again, and the bone that had turned into sand fell to the ground like a handful of dust.
The Skeleton Elder said: "I now remember the source of the curse."
Upon hearing this, several people immediately looked at it with full energy.
Skeleton Elder: "I don't know either."
Everyone: “…”
Skeleton Elder: "I only know that the curse is related to Skeleton King."
Skeleton King
Everyone's eyes widened slightly.
Skeleton King actually exists, not just a false belief.
Gu Lin has long been curious about the "Gourd King". What is the Gourd King?
"What is Calabash King?" Gu Lin tilted his head and said in a baby voice, "Is it the king of Calabash Brothers?"
And then he sang, "Gourd King, Gourd King..."
Everyone: “…”
No, his name is Skeleton King!
You little kid, stop interrupting me.
[Gourd King, hahahaha, congratulations to Skeleton King for winning the title of Gourd King]
[Zizizi's two sentences are not out of tune, Zizizi's singing is getting better and better!]
[There is absolutely no room for these two sentences to go off-tune! [狗头]]
The Skeleton Elder was amused by the little kid, then he sighed and said, "I can only help you up to this point."
The Skeleton Elder looked at the sky which was as dark as the mouth of an abyss, raised his feet and walked towards the direction of the Skeleton Forest.
That was the desertified land it chose for itself.
As the Skeleton Elder walked, sand and dust kept falling from his body. Those were his sandified bones.
Gu Lin waved his hand: "Goodbye, Grandpa Elder!"
The Skeleton Elder paused, turned around, and waved to Gu Lin: "Goodbye, little kid."
*
After watching the Skeleton Elder leave, several people walked into the Skeleton House.
Wu Jin and Wu Lan also followed in, wanting to discuss the clues with them.
Several people found a seat and sat down. Gu Lin sat on the bed with his short legs crossed, playing with the toy kitten, quiet and well-behaved.
The skulls on the wall chirped again: "Fat baby, fat baby."
Gu Lin pinched his chubby legs and said, "Baby, you're not fat."
When the others heard this, they couldn't help but laugh.
Gu Lin doesn't look fat, but he has a lot of flesh on him. There is a circle on both of his wrists that looks like it was made by a rubber band.
Several people were about to discuss the clues when a skull suddenly rolled in from outside.
The skull rolled with stars in its eyes, and rolled directly under the bed like a ball.
"Oh, oh, my head is so dizzy!"
Everyone: “…”
Could this be the same skull that led them before?
After a while, the skull rolled out from under the bed, stood on the ground like a tumbler, and said: "Skull Lady wants to invite the little cutie to participate in the beauty pageant, let me pick up the little cutie."
Several people looked at each other.
Song Ran: "What kind of beauty pageant is this? Didn't we just hold a sacrificial ceremony? Why is there another beauty pageant?"
Skull: "We have festivals every day on Skull Island. We value beauty and hold beauty pageants every month."
The skull on the wall started chirping again: "This is Fat Baby, Fat Baby!"
The skull on the ground looked at them and said: "It's a little cutie!"
"Fat baby, fat baby!"
"Little cutie, little cutie!"
"Fat baby, if you say that again we will bite you to death!"
“…”
Players: “…”
My goodness, can't it be both a fat baby and a cute little one?
This bunch of skeletons can really start a quarrel over anything.
The skull on the ground was alone after all, so I didn't argue with them and changed my words: "I'm picking up Fatty to participate in the beauty pageant."
After thinking for a moment, everyone felt that it would be better to go out instead of staying in the Skeleton House. Maybe they could find other clues.
Su Qiao asked Gu Lin for his opinion: "Linlin, do you want to watch the beauty pageant?"
Gu Lin had already put on his Ultraman backpack and nodded: "Go!"
When the skull saw that the other players were about to follow, he immediately changed his expression and said, "We will only let the little...fat baby go. If you want to go, go by yourselves. I won't lead you."
As it spoke, the skull reassembled and regenerated, transforming into a complete skeleton in its place.
It grabbed the fat baby, carried it in its arms and ran away, leaving the skeleton house so quickly that no one could catch up with it.
The remaining players: “…”
Grass.
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