Chapter 121: Cave of Sorrow (End) A race without a finish line...
"The salvation was successful. The butcher [Li Xing'er] has become the dependent of [000 Blind Man]."
Unfortunately, Gao Mengtang has the [Account Abnormal] debuff and cannot be summoned.
Gao Mengtang held one of Xing Zhe's arms. The body was gradually getting colder, even colder than the axe blades that his hands had turned into.
Wo Lanbei put down the gun, and a puff of white smoke came out of the muzzle. "Living Buddha, please don't cry. I don't know how to comfort people."
"I won't cry. I'm very strong." Gao Mengtang smiled, "Don't treat me like a child."
After leaving the secret realm and recalling the past, the "Monster Book" completed some information and clarified what happened after Xu Le massacred his entire family.
Xu Le didn't want to drag Jiang Heng down, so he didn't let him get involved, and used the 2 million to settle the villagers. In fact, Jiang Heng was also secretly trying to calm the matter down, and he even asked □□ to come to the door and threaten those who didn't keep their mouths shut.
After the storm subsided, Xu Le never returned to Zhongzhou. She had a mental problem and believed that the Ghost Doctor Li Mo really existed. That day, it was the Ghost Doctor who possessed her and killed her family.
Xu Le picked up two pebbles, one black and one white, and carved them into a yin-yang fish pendant, firmly believing that it was a token of love between her and Li Mo.
After a few years, the villagers also believed in Limo's existence.
In order to find Limo, Xu Le went deep into the mountains and dived into the bottom of the lake again and again. Finally one day, she accidentally entered a water tunnel and found an unfinished painting.
In the painting, there is a half-man with a corner of his flowing robe lifted up, but there are no legs under the robe.
She saw Fu Ling's handsome face like a god and said, "Li Mo, you are even more handsome now. Have you ascended to become an immortal again?"
Xu Le guarded "Li Mo" without eating or drinking, and starved to death. The Fuling in the scroll inherited the name "Li Mo" and transformed Xu Le into a monster.
He brought Xu Le into the painting, and the energy of the other world reshaped Xu Le's body, turning her into a female ghost. The unfinished half-length portrait also became a half-length portrait of Xu Le.
From then on, the story of the ghost doctor Li Mo spread in the village.
The funny thing is that after being refined into a monster, Xu Le's mental illness was cured without treatment. She finally realized that Li Mo did not exist, and she would always be a monster.
Xu Le's life was ruined, she felt hatred and left a curse.
Descendants of the Zhang family will die suddenly if they leave Changming Village.
She also asked the descendants of the Zhang family to offer sacrifices to her regularly. What she wanted was not blood or flesh, not skin or bones.
Xu Le only wants people who, like her, have beautiful visions for the future, but also, like her, will end up with nothing but pain for the rest of their lives.
How could there be any beautiful vision for a stagnant Changming Village? So, the descendants of the Zhang family called themselves Wu Xiang and fabricated the lie of "ghost doctor fairy".
When those who were full of joy and ready to ascend to heaven to become queens were sold to all parts of the world, Xu Le felt happy.
"So, the more NPCs die, the stronger Xu Le becomes?" Wo Lanbei flipped through the monster book. "Xing Zhe suddenly transformed just now, which means that Wei Wei and his team killed a lot of NPCs."
Gao Mengtang: "The main mission requires us to eliminate the evil spirit that is causing chaos in Changming Village. The evil spirit can only be Xu Le. Does salvation count as elimination?"
"Of course it counts." said Bo Yao.
The four of them followed the burial beetle. The rain hit Gao Mengtang, but he didn't feel anything. Perhaps he was used to the wet, cold and sticky touch.
Next monument:
[A: Randomly teleport one person to the maze exit]
【B: Everyone returns to the starting point】
Wo Lanbei smiled and shook his head: "Li Mo wants to force us to death! What maze, what choice, he just pushes people to a dead end."
"Does anyone want to choose Yi?" Bo Yao asked, "I don't want to."
The four of them chose "A", and a silver light appeared, moving among the players like a snake, sometimes wrapping around Gao Mengtang's waist, sometimes wrapping around Bo Yao's wrist.
The players closed their eyes. At this moment of deciding whether to stay or go, they were surprisingly calm.
Gao Mengtang held Xiao Canglan's hand, and suddenly, he felt his palm was empty.
“Ouch!”
The moment Freesia disappeared, Pegana followed her and plunged into the ball of silver light.
The light flashed violently, and after a moment, the system determined that Pegana was not one of the players and could be teleported, and the two disappeared together.
*
On a stone tablet, the word "Export" is written.
"Gege? Ge?" Freesia was stunned when she saw the colorful ball of plush.
Pegana flattened it like a carpet, "I thought after teleporting out, the soul would come back... No, what on earth is that broken bubble."
A child, a ball of fur, and more than twenty eyes staring at each other, and no one spoke.
"Let's go and find Gao Mengtang." Pei Jiana puffed himself up like a ball of hair. "I have a great reputation in my life, but now I am treated like a dog after being forced to flee. I have to beg him to release my soul."
They walked towards the village, but could only see the shadows of the players. When they rushed over to catch them, the shadows disappeared in an instant.
*
"Where's my dog?" Gao Mengtang felt around.
Bo Yao: "I left, and followed Xiao Canglan."
Gao Mengtang paused and withdrew his hand.
Pegana was being held by him by force, so if he had the chance to escape, he would certainly slip away without looking back.
"I thought you would be teleported to the exit," Wolanbei opened his eyes, "Your luck value is 50, Xiao Canglan got a big bargain."
Gao Mengtang: "I thought you would get angry and curse."
"Being angry also requires energy, and I can't be angry right now." Wolanbei sorted out his guns, "Sacrifice another NPC to lead the way for us... To be honest, I don't want to kill anyone anymore."
In front of them was the village clinic. When the players opened the door, they heard someone crying inside.
“It’s retribution.”
“It’s retribution.”
"Doctor Xing?" Gao Mengtang said.
There is also a statue of the Ghost Doctor in the clinic, and Dr. Xing is kneeling in front of the statue and crying.
Hearing the call, Dr. Xing turned around. He had begun to change. He was bald, but his facial features were feminine and his skin was as delicate as white porcelain. His body was still that of a middle-aged man with a beer belly. The combination of the two was particularly strange.
Doctor Xing put his hands together, and his five fingers had melted together into a ball of flesh.
"I helped the tyrant and killed too many people. I am trapped in this village. This is retribution." Doctor Xing said, "I am a surgeon. I should save lives and heal the wounded. How did I become a murderer?"
Gao Mengtang frowned and said nothing. Xu Le had a fantastic future, so how could he become a ghost that crushed other people's dreams?
Life has been swallowed up by suffering. Only by witnessing suffering over and over again can we find ourselves.
"My hands, my hands." Dr. Xing looked at his hands blankly.
His arms became axe handles and his hands became axe blades, but he said, "Hands like these cannot hold a scalpel."
"I'm not a doctor anymore!" he cried, raising his right hand which had turned into an axe.
Wolanbei raised his gun reflexively, but before his index finger touched the trigger, the axe blade had already fallen -
Stabbed into Dr. Xing's own chest.
System: "All NPCs are dead."
"The butcher [Xu Le] is about to awaken, please be prepared."
"Note: Butcher Xu Le can be saved. And there is no pre-requisite task for saving him."
"Butcher's music to [000 Blind] Respect value: 0"
Crazy laughter, the light and shadow of sharp blades. At the same time, all the Ghost Doctor Immortal sculptures in Changming Village exploded with a bang.
The shock wave destroyed the infirmary. Amid the flying debris, the figure of Xi Le appeared, holding two axes, her ten fingers already integrated with the axe handles.
She grinned, the red light of the explosion reflected on her face, just like two hundred years ago on New Year's Day, when she sat in front of the computer, the red light of the firecrackers shining through the window onto her hair.
"They're all dead," Xu Le chuckled, "How wonderful! They're all dead."
"I will kill everyone! I can even kill my own parents!"
A Gatling gun appeared in Wolanbei's hand and he bombarded Xu Le wildly. Xu Le waved his hands and all the bullets were bounced off by the axe blade.
"Oh no, my spirit value is not enough, only 60 is left, I can't hold on for much longer." Bo Yao said in an almost chatty tone.
Wolanbei was changing the magazine, his movements were purely based on muscle memory. There was no killing intent or alertness on his face, his expression was very calm, not like a player in combat at all, and his tone was just as calm: "I'm better than you, my spirit value is 66."
If the spirit value drops below 40, the player will lose combat effectiveness.
Gao Mengtang: "You guys don't seem to be in good shape. Cheer up."
Xu Le is not fierce, but she can produce stronger mental pollution. After just a few rounds of attacks, the mental values of Wolan Bei and Bo Yao dropped to more than 40, and the frequency of attacks dropped significantly.
Bo Yao led them into a stream of water and dived underground, avoiding a violent attack from Xu Le. When they returned to the surface again, Bo Yao suddenly sat down on the ground.
"Spirit value 38, I can't hold on any longer, you guys come on." After saying that, Bo Yao actually lay flat and closed his eyes peacefully.
Generally, when a player's spirit value is less than 40, they will panic and twitch, as if they are fighting against an invisible ghost.
The struggle was terrifying, but it was a reflection of the player's strong desire to survive. The stronger the reaction, the higher the chance of survival.
But Bo Yao just lay there quietly, without any reaction.
Gao Mengtang grabbed his collar and said, "Get up! You get up first! You will die if you do this!"
"Just die." Bo Yao didn't open his eyes.
The hand that was clutching his collar suddenly loosened, and Gao Mengtang understood the effect of Wei Wei's pill.
It can eliminate all desires. You will lose your appetite, sleep, power, wealth, and beauty, and even your own life.
Even if the disease is incurable, there is still medicine to cure it. But if the heart is like a dead tree, then the person is just an object that can be moved.
On the other side, the pill in Wolanbei's body took effect, and his eyes gradually dimmed. Anyone who saw him would be frightened by this moment of vitality slipping away.
"I'm tired too," Wo Lanbei put down his sniper rifle, "What a pity, why did Wei Wei betray Gu Kang?"
He fell face down on the ground, motionless.
Only Gao Mengtang and the butcher were left facing each other.
Xu Le was seriously injured, but he was still short of a fatal blow.
"Haha, hehe." Xu Le sang slowly, "Pick up the axe and chop daddy, one bloody flower after another..."
Every time a note was sung, the axe would fall. Gao Mengtang judged the direction based on the sound and dodged with difficulty.
There is no other way. Now, only by praying for the salvation of Xu Le can there be hope of saving Bo Yao and Wolan Bei.
He didn't have time to increase his favorability, so he could only try to force the reincarnation when the favorability was 0.
Gao Mengtang took out a box of cheese rolls from the bubble.
He doesn't like desserts, but Wei Wei likes colorful ornamental foods, so he stocked up some.
"Xu Le, I brought you some cheese rolls." Gao Mengtang held up the box of desserts. "I heard you like cheese rolls."
The axe blade was raised and stopped in mid-air. Xu Le blinked: "Jiang Heng..."
Gao Mengtang placed one hand on Xu Le's forehead, and an overlapping cross magic circle appeared behind the butcher's head.
If the salvation fails, the butcher will take revenge on you.
But this is the only way.
Gao Mengtang took a deep breath and closed his eyes.
The butcher screamed and tried to dodge, but was sucked tightly into the salvation magic circle.
Some chaotic images flooded into Gao Mengtang's mind. His childhood memories, when he learned the sad news of his parents' death, he was in the art studio... Finally, Gao Mengtang thought of the early morning before entering the Black Tower game.
Would things have been better if he hadn't grabbed the little rabbit by its long ears and lifted it up?
It was as if magma was pouring into his arms, and flesh grew between his five fingers that were pressing on the butcher's forehead. His nails turned into metal and formed into an axe blade.
"...Xu Le." Gao Mengtang called out with a sigh.
“Aaaaaaaa——!”
System: "You forcibly saved the butcher, Yule."
"Unknown situation is being analyzed..."
"Xu Le is not willing to continue her miserable life, as a ghost, or as a human. She wishes to be annihilated."
The butcher's hands turned back into human form. She knelt on the ground, picked up the box of cheese rolls covered with dirt, and looked at it in her palms.
Then he gobbled it up.
The overlapping crosses form a bridge connecting the two people, and waves of energy flow between them.
The salvation is not over yet.
Xu Le swallowed the cheese roll that was soaked by rain and stained by mud: "There is no Limo in the world, and there is no me. I have been dead for two hundred years, and today is the day to bury me."
"Thank you for the cheese roll," Xu Le ate the last piece and wiped the dirt off his mouth. "If there is an afterlife, I... I hope to be a good person."
The overlapping cross connecting the two people trembled violently, and terrifyingly powerful energy poured into Gao Mengtang's body, causing him to vomit blood.
The butcher is going to self-destruct.
If the energy backfires, then he will also -
With a loud bang, the mountains and rivers shook.
Gao Mengtang's body fell to the ground like a piece of light paper. He was almost numb from the pain, and before he lost consciousness, he thought to himself: I'm going to die again.
Is this suicide or homicide?
*
"Golden Cicada Gu, take it." Qin Xishuang placed the cicada wing in Wei Wei's palm and closed his five fingers.
He was not good at fighting. Facing the siege of the axe monsters, he was injured twice and his face looked a little pale.
"Let's continue walking outside." Qin Xishuang said.
The Golden Cicada Gu looked only a thin layer, but it was invulnerable to swords and spears. Wei Wei wiped the dirt off the cicada's wings, and a little blood stained his fingertips.
"You are injured." said Wei Wei.
Qin Xishuang was walking forward with him, smiling, but stopped when she heard the words. He didn't expect Wei Wei to take the initiative to care about him, and for a moment, he didn't know how to react and just stared at him blankly.
They followed the burial beetle to the next location.
This is actually the Ghost Doctor Temple.
Strangely, there was no stele. The burial beetle buried the heart at the threshold of the ancient temple and disappeared.
"What's going on?" Qin Xishuang dug the soil with his feet and dug out a loach.
Wei Wei: "Let's go into the temple first."
The two of them took shelter in the temple, where the statue of the Ghost Doctor Immortal stood tall and the prayer flags were blown by the strong wind. Wei Wei asked Qin Xishuang to enter the temple first and closed the door himself.
"I'll apply medicine for you." Wei Wei sat cross-legged beside Qin Xishuang and unveiled the wet red sleeves of his wedding gown.
Qin Xishuang suddenly covered her arm and stared at him blankly. Her light blue eyes could be described as "clear and stupid" at this moment.
"What's wrong with you?" Wei Wei asked expressionlessly.
Qin Xishuang: "Should I be the one asking you what's wrong? I'm not used to your cold and stern attitude towards me."
Wei Wei coughed twice, his voice was shrill, "Let's put things in perspective. You got hurt while helping me get the Golden Cicada Gu back. How can I just sit there and watch?"
He wanted to tear open Qin Xishuang's sleeves, but Qin Xishuang raised her hand to stop him: "Don't tear it, this is a wedding dress. A sacred wedding dress."
Qin Xishuang rolled up his sleeves, revealing his injured arm. He looked handsome and pretty like a young girl, but his figure was not thin at all. His skin was as white as jade, his bones were masculine, and a thin layer of muscle made his figure look more stylish.
A wound deep enough to see the bone ran across this beautiful arm. If Qin Xishuang used a little more force, her arm would have been broken.
Wei Wei dug out a piece of ointment and prepared to apply it, but Qin Xishuang suddenly exerted force to make his muscles more obvious and even made a move to show off his biceps.
"...Relax, the wound has broken open." Wei Wei said.
"My muscles are pretty good, right? I go to the gym three times a week," Qin Xishuang raised her chin proudly, "As far as I know, Yin Mingwu, Gao Mengtang, and Gu Kang don't have any muscles."
As if he didn't care about the peacock spreading its tail, Wei Wei didn't say a word. The ointment was very effective. Soon after it was applied, the wound was more than half healed. Wei Wei helped him wrap the bandage again.
After treating their wounds, they both raised their eyes and looked at each other.
Oil lamps were lit in the temple, and the shadows of the swaying prayer flags floated above their heads. The wind blew in, and the remaining ashes in the incense burner flew onto their faces.
After a long time, Qin Xishuang said "thank you".
He wanted to take this opportunity to say something nicer. When he was teasing people, he spoke more beautifully than singing. But when it came time to express his feelings, Qin Xishuang was speechless.
After all, it's rare for others to help Qin Xishuang sincerely and with real feelings.
Only those who have been bewitched by him will reach out to him with empty enthusiasm.
The warmth that is deceived has a cold undertone.
"We, we...what should we do next?" People will be very busy when they are nervous. Qin Xishuang looked around, as if there were other things in this empty temple besides them.
"We need to find an NPC to offer sacrifices to the heavens." Qin Xishuang said, "It's strange that the burial beetle didn't take us to the next stone tablet."
"Don't worry," Wei Wei said, "Wait a little longer, maybe someone will pass by."
Qin Xishuang leaned against the statue of the Ghost Doctor. Wei Wei sat cross-legged facing him, took out the Golden Cicada Gu and placed it in his palm.
Wei Wei said: "I put Yin Gu on Yin Mingwu, but Gu Kang, who was holding Yang Gu, died first, and Yin Gu did not survive. We failed to kill Yin Mingwu."
We. When Qin Xishuang heard these two words, her heart beat faster: "There is still a chance. You still have a pair of golden cicada Gu in your hand."
"That day, the three of us were in the stilt house. It was the last time I saw Gu Kang in my life." Wei Wei said dejectedly.
Qin Xishuang didn't know what to say. He saw incense ash on Wei Wei's face and wanted to help him wipe it off. However, the ash was smeared into a black stain instead.
"I'm sorry, I..." Qin Xishuang wiped it with her sleeve again, and ended up rubbing the rain onto Wei Wei's face, making his face covered with blemishes.
With one hand gently pressing Qin Xishuang's arm, Wei Wei said softly, "It's okay."
They fell silent again, looking at each other in silence.
"Gu Kang's last wish was to kill Yin Mingwu. When it was late at night and everyone was asleep, I thought about this and couldn't sleep all night..." Wei Wei clenched the golden cicada Gu and lowered his hands.
Suddenly, Qin Xishuang slowly smiled.
"why are you laughing?"
Qin Xishuang was still smiling: "When I heard your voice just now, I felt that it was somewhat similar to the past, like the Saints' period, when you were not yet... "
Wei Wei quickly lowered his eyes and pursed his lips.
"We should find a way out."
"Don't go," Qin Xishuang held him back, "Sit for a while."
He didn't know what to expect by sitting here, but the current atmosphere was really rare.
The system prompt sounded suddenly: "All NPCs are dead."
"The butcher [Xu Le] is about to awaken, please be prepared."
Without any warning, the Ghost Doctor Immortal sculpture exploded. A cold light flashed in Wei Wei's eyes. With an astonishingly fast reaction speed, he rushed over to hug Qin Xishuang, turned around, and blocked the flying debris.
Qin Xishuang stared at Wei Wei in disbelief: "You, you are protecting me?"
"You help me once, and I help you once, and we're even." Wei Wei turned his head and looked behind him.
The statue was blown to pieces, but the platform on which it was placed remained. Rain swept obliquely into the temple, and the splashing water was blocked by the platform.
Wei Wei breathed a sigh of relief.
All NPCs are dead, which means that in order to summon the burial beetle, only one player can die...
They looked at each other again, and before Qin Xishuang could say anything, she heard a system notification like a bolt from the blue:
"Player [000 Blind] has died, the game has failed."
At that moment, Wei Wei even suspected that he could not understand Zhongzhou dialect. His heartbeat and breathing stopped, and everything in front of him collapsed. The surrounding environment seemed to have turned into a blank sheet of paper. He could not recognize or distinguish anything.
Death? Blind?
How is that possible.
impossible.
Wei Wei stood up suddenly, his body moving before his mind. He didn't know where to go or why he stood up.
I walked around the temple, staring at the platform without the statue, and I was stunned for a long time.
…
Raindrops splashed on Wei Wei's face. He suddenly came to his senses, opened the system panel, and entered the Moon Banner Camp interface.
The leader's portrait has turned gray.
A blind man... How is this possible?
He stared at the system interface for a moment, tears rolling down his eyes. He closed his eyes tightly, unwilling to believe it.
After a moment, open it again.
Gao Mengtang's profile picture has become colorful again.
Wei Wei: ...System failure?
Not likely.
He entered the interface again and again, then exited and entered again. Gao Mengtang's avatar was always in color.
However, the system reported the blind man's death.
His mental state was low, and he saw double vision before his eyes. He turned off the system panel and closed his eyes to rest.
The blind man's life or death is uncertain, and he has another problem to deal with here, so he must stay calm.
He moved his lips and silently said two words: "He Luo."
…
Qin Xishuang was also surprised for a long time. He made a unilateral bet. In this copy, if Gao Mengtang died, Wei Wei would sign a skill scroll with him [Never Leave, Never Abandon].
When the system really announced the news of Gao Mengtang's death and Qin Xishuang saw Wei Wei's distraught look, she couldn't feel happy.
Wei Wei squatted on the ground, covered his face and cried for a while, then wiped away his tears: "Chief Qin, are you still willing to sign a contract with me?"
Qin Xishuang: "What contract?"
"Skill Scroll [Never Leave, Never Abandon]"
Qin Xishuang was stunned for a few seconds. After she realized what was going on, she was overjoyed: "Avi, are you serious? Are you really willing to sign?"
He gripped Wei Wei's hand tightly, with such force that a circle of red marks was left.
"As long as Yin Mingwu is not dead, I will not be able to sleep peacefully for the next day," Wei Wei lowered his eyelashes, "I have been wandering for too long. At this moment, I just want to find a comrade-in-arms who can accompany me for life."
"I do, of course I do!" Qin Xishuang quickly took out the skill scroll and wrote down her name stroke by stroke:
207 Butterfly Fairy Qin Xishuang
Wei Wei took the pen and paused for a moment before writing.
101 Purification Master Wei Wei
*
For the first time, Gao Mengtang knew what would happen after death in the Black Tower game.
Well, probably the only time.
He first heard the system's notification tone of his death, and then heard the system say:
"I'm sorry you can't protect the throne."
"You fell on the long steps leading to the throne, but you were defeated with honor."
"The gods will come again, and the world will be renewed."
"Your remains are buried in a tomb called the throne, admired by all eternity."
"Wise King General! @#￥%..."
The second half of the sentence turned into a sharp and piercing noise, and Gao Mengtang sat up abruptly as if awakened from a nightmare.
He felt a sticky, slippery liquid, and in his blurry vision, there were several balls of white light.
"Resurrection Armor?" Gao Mengtang asked, the rain hitting his face, "Is it you?"
The ghost nodded without saying a word, the lantern swaying in the night.
"Your methods of suicide are becoming more and more novel." The ghost's voice echoed layer by layer.
"Don't try to confuse our sight."
"There is no escape. Until the next destined person defeats you."
The mud melted into his body, and Gao Mengtang held a ball of wet and sticky soil.
What is the destined person?
Forget it, don’t think about it for now.
He carried the unconscious Wolanbei and Bo Yao on his back, distinguished the rustling sounds of the burial beetles moving, and followed them.
The voice disappeared, and Gao Mengtang guessed that he should have arrived in front of the stone tablet.
But he couldn't see clearly and didn't know what options were on the stone tablet.
"A, we choose A." Gao Mengtang shouted towards the night sky.
In fact, there was no stone tablet in front of him.
He shouted three times and continued to move forward. Carrying two people, every step was in the mud. He didn't know the direction and couldn't see the objects clearly.
Gao Mengtang was tripped by something and covered in mud, but he stood up and kept walking forward.
The torrential rain hit his face and the cold penetrated into his bones. Gao Mengtang pulled his legs out of the mud and continued walking.
Maybe, he will meet Wei Wei. Maybe, he will meet no one, and he will keep spinning in the maze until he can no longer climb up.
I hit a tree and fell into a bubble. The body on my back was getting colder and colder.
Who is going to collapse? Gao Mengtang thought, but he did not stop. At this moment, he was actually glad that he was blind.
A blind man cannot see his teammates’ faces losing color bit by bit, nor can he see their embarrassment at the moment.
I don't know how many times I fell, but my knee hurt so much that something pierced the wound. My finger also hurt, maybe it was broken.
A blind person cannot see his own wounds.
He fell into a thorn bush, stepped on a pebble and fell into a stream, and hit his head against a stone wall and bled.
Gao Mengtang is still moving forward, like Wu Gang chopping trees on the moon, with the wounds healing as they come back; like Sisyphus pushing a huge rock up the mountain, over and over again.
When he missed a step and rolled down the hillside, Gao Mengtang was actually in a mood to tease: It doesn't matter, he is blind anyway, and wherever he goes, whether up, forward, or turning in circles, he will see the same thing.
So, just think of it as walking towards the end.
Gao Mengtang got up, searched around for a long time, picked up a cold body and a warm body, put them on his back again, and continued walking forward.
He heard the system prompt: [726 Water Ghost] has died, the game failed.
But he didn't know which body was Bo Yao, and he didn't want to leave his body behind.
Well, let's just pretend that both of them are alive.
Gao Mengtang's hair was covered with spider webs, his clothes were covered with dead branches and leaves, blood and mud were mixed together, and three fingers were broken. Carrying heavy loads, he crossed the ridge and stepped into the mud of the rice field.
There were relatively few obstacles on this section of the road, but my skin was stinging all over, probably because the blood-sucking worms had burrowed into my flesh.
Dark clouds pressed overhead, and the land spread beneath his feet. In the boundless sky and earth, Gao Mengtang carried two people on his back, his thin body bent. He had no direction, but he kept moving forward.
In fact, before he fell for the first time, he had already walked past the exit of the maze. The last time the burial beetle led the player was to bring him to the exit.
But Gao Mengtang didn't know that he couldn't see the word "exit" on the stone tablet.
This is a race without a finish line.
*
"Let me try to summon He Luo." Qin Xishuang hugged Wei Wei tightly, as if she wanted to get back the hug that she had been missing for all these years all at once.
He opened his hands and closed his eyes with a smile: "Hmm...why can't I summon He Luo?"
The two people who signed the "Never Leave, Never Abandon" agreement share skills and items. Even if one of them dies, he or she will become a puppet and accompany the lover.
Wei Wei: "For the first stone tablet, I chose the skill of [101 Saints] and gave up the skill of the Purifier. After I get out, I can summon it."
"Didn't you choose to keep the skills of a cleansing master?" Qin Xishuang leaned against him tightly.
Negative effects on Qin Xishuang: Lost a part of his memory, he forgot that he had died once, and his memory was easily confused.
"No, I chose the saint's skills." Wei Wei said, looking at the heavy rain outside the temple with melancholy.
"Look at my memory," Qin Xishuang's memory was confused, and he knocked his head, "Honey, my memory is not good, you have to say you love me every day."
Wei Wei: “Yeah.”
Qin Xishuang smiled sweetly: "I haven't said it today."
Wei Wei: “I love you.”
There was no expression on his face, nor any emotion in his eyes. Qin Xishuang was very happy, because he knew that the two people who signed the scroll would love each other for the rest of their lives. Qin Xishuang could already feel the surging love in his heart.
The two of them walked hand in hand to the gate. The heavy rain blurred the scenery outside.
Without NPCs, how can we move forward? Just as Wei Wei was about to speak, Qin Xishuang's gentle and moving voice reached his ears.
"My dear, I said I would give my heart to you." Qin Xishuang tightly grasped Wei Wei's cold hand.
Wei Wei was silent for a few seconds: "Let's go out and take a look first, maybe..."
"I will be resurrected, dear," Qin Xishuang said, "We share skills, and you will be resurrected too. Let me do it this time, okay?"
A butterfly knife popped out from her sleeve and she swung it in a few different ways between her fingers. Qin Xishuang smiled like a child who got a birthday present: "My dear, even if this is my last life, I will sacrifice myself for you."
"Because I know you will make the same choice. You love me, just like I love you."
There was a flash of silver light, and the next second, the tip of the knife pierced into Qin Xishuang's chest.
He grasped the knife handle, tears streaming down his face from the pain: "Wait for me, we'll go out together."
The sharp blade cut through the ribs one by one, half of the chest was dug open, the flesh and blood were scraped off, revealing the heart that was still beating in the chest cavity.
Qin Xishuang threw down the dagger, grabbed his still beating heart, and tore off the connecting muscles. His body twitched. He tore off the veins, and the dirty black blood flowed to his elbows. He tore off the arteries, and bright red blood spurted out of his chest!
"Ah, I forgot to take off my wedding dress, and it was stained with blood," Qin Xishuang frowned regretfully, "But you wear dark green and I wear bright red. They are the colors for a wedding. We are in the temple, and the gods are witnessing our love."
Wei Wei stared at him with a blank expression.
"No, it doesn't hurt." Qin Xishuang raised his hand and stroked Wei Wei's cheek. His arm was heavy and he had exhausted all his strength. "Don't worry."
Wei Wei must be very heartbroken because they love each other. If it is Wei Wei who is being torn apart now... Qin Xishuang suddenly felt an unbearable pain, more painful than having her ribs cut.
How heartbroken his lover must be. Qin Xishuang tried his best to smile, tears glistening in his light blue eyes. He didn't want to make Wei Wei sad: "Really, it doesn't hurt."
"I will hug you again in 30 minutes."
Qin Xishuang spat out a mouthful of blood, knelt on the ground, and lowered her head. Her left hand tightly grasped Wei Wei's hand, and her right hand held his heart, which was still beating.
After closing his eyes, Qin Xishuang felt that he was wrapped in a warm current of happiness. This must be the warmth of true love.
System: "【207 Butterfly Fairy】 has died, game failed."
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"Come back, He Luo."
Another Wei Wei stood up from behind the statue stand.
The hand that Qin Xishuang was holding tightly turned into an octopus tentacle. He Luo crawled on the ground with a gurgling sound, jumped up, and quickly got into Wei Wei's pipe.
There was no rain in the temple, and Wei Wei was finally able to light his pipe. He blew out a spit and glanced at Qin Xishuang's body.
After finishing a cigarette, Wei Wei picked up the stopped heart, walked out of the Ghost Doctor Temple, and wanted to throw it on the ground. When he raised his hand, he paused for a moment and suddenly sighed.
He squatted down and gently placed the heart on a piece of newly emerging grass.
The burial beetle did not appear.
Wei Wei looked around, his mind was completely blank. He took two steps forward.
He turned back and carried Qin Xishuang's body on his back.
"He was a clean person, and his body shouldn't be left in this dirty place."
He Luo twisted his ten tentacles, his movements so fast that it seemed like he was making hand seals. That was the sign language of octopus, meaning: Why does he care about cleanliness? His bedroom is as messy as a doghouse.
Wei Wei felt that he should smile. Just as he was about to raise the corners of his mouth, his face froze and he couldn't smile.
After walking about ten meters and going around the big banyan tree, I suddenly saw a stone tablet with two words written on it: Exit.
It turned out that the exit was less than 20 meters away from the Ghost Doctor Temple. There was no need for a burial beetle to lead the way.
There is no need for Qin Xishuang to dig out her heart.
Wei Wei stepped through the exit and saw endless rice fields before him.
The clouds cleared and the rain stopped, and the light was brilliant. It lasted for several days, and this doomsday-like rainstorm disappeared like a dream.
Wei Wei raised one hand to block the light, and through the gaps between his fingers, he saw the sun in the sky. He was secretly amazed that no matter how turbulent the world was, the sun would still rise as if nothing had happened.
System: "The main mission [Eliminate the evil spirit behind Changming Village] has been completed."
"All surviving players have left the [Stele Forest Maze]"
"The dungeon [Cave of Sorrow] is about to close."
Wei Wei put his hand down, heard a few dogs barking, and saw a small black dot walking alone among the rice fields.
"Blind Lord, Freesia!"
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