Chapter 13, Level 8 (13) For beta testers, the new vice...
"By the way, where is the drunkard?" Gao Mengtang asked.
The pharmacist's smile froze for a moment. Behind him, someone said, "I'm here," and the drunkard girl showed her face, her cheeks pale. Behind the two of them, the enemy rabbit jumped around.
Hearing her voice, Gao Mengtang smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I can't help much, and I ran off to do side quests, leaving the main quest to you two."
According to the sharp-tongued character of the drunkard girl, even if she didn't lose her temper, she would still say something sarcastic to them. But this time, she said nothing. The pharmacist smiled good-naturedly: "It doesn't matter. Your exploration of the branch will increase the performance points of the whole team. I also want to thank you for letting the knight gain faith..."
There was nothing unusual on the 6th floor, so they went up one more floor and arrived at the 7th floor.
"7th floor! 7th floor! I'm going out to eat hot pot!" He Lun was as happy as a child, running in the front, jumping and skipping. His cheers echoed in the stairwell, seeming particularly empty.
After laughing for a while, He Lun, who was a thick-skinned man, also realized that something was wrong. Looking back, he saw Gao Mengtang had a blank expression and his eyes were dull; the drunkard girl had a pale face and a slightly frowned brow; the pharmacist was walking at the back, he was smiling, but that smile was more creepy than the cold river in the coldest days of winter.
He Lun was stunned for a moment and stopped at the stairs: "7th floor, are you all unhappy?"
"Don't let your guard down," the pharmacist crossed his arms across his chest and looked up at He Lun, "There's still one floor left. We can't make any mistakes here. We've already returned to the 1st floor from the 7th floor once, haven't we?"
He Lun clenched his fist with one hand: "So you are worried about this, it's okay! I have faith now, and I am in a very good state. My mind is clear and I will definitely make the right judgment. The glory of the Knights, glory for me!"
The corridor on the 7th floor was quiet and looked no different. The body fell into his arms as usual, and resident No. 4 walked out of the room as usual, carrying a garbage bag, and passed by the player without even glancing at him.
For a moment, He Lun even thought that this was a dream. They had not met the Hundred-Eyed Wizard, nor had they defeated Resident No. 4. The world operated according to its own laws, and it was almost as if they had never been here.
Only then did He Lun feel terrified.
The cool breeze blew in from his collar, and quickly spread all over his body like an insect with arms and legs. Helen shuddered suddenly, gathered all his energy, and looked around.
It was the same corridor, piled with broken cardboard boxes.
He walked in the front, and the sound of his own footsteps frightened him, so much so that he dared not even breathe. The surroundings were terribly quiet, like a balloon that had been blown to its limit, and a gentle clap of the hands would make it burst with a bang.
Boom.
Suddenly, a crisp sound came from behind.
He Lun screamed "Ah", jumped high, put up his shield, raised his spear, and stared in the direction where the sound came from.
Dongdong, dongdongdong. Gao Mengtang knocked on the skull casually. His big eyes were like glass beads, beautiful but lifeless. He looked in the direction of He Lun with a distracted gaze: "What's wrong?"
He Lun: "..."
The pharmacist seemed to be frightened as well, and kept patting his chest: "Mr. Blind, please stop hitting my skull. It's very scary here."
"What's so scary?" Gao Mengtang was surprised and continued to knock on "Liang Liang" with his skull. "I've seen the same corridor dozens of times. There's no monster that would be awakened by the sound."
...That makes some sense.
But can we change to a festive song?
So Gao Mengtang started playing "Good Luck Comes" even louder.
After hearing what he said, He Lun felt relieved. He breathed a sigh of relief and walked forward boldly.
Turn a corner and look left and right, everything is normal.
Trash on door and entrance, normal.
Small advertisements on the wall, normal
There are also ceiling lights and ventilation ducts.
When He Lun looked up, he was so scared that his scalp exploded: in the ventilation duct, there was a pale dead face with bloody eyes, staring at the corridor!
He screamed "Ah", stepped back repeatedly, and knocked down the pharmacist. At this time, the drunk girl also saw the face lying on the ventilation duct. She didn't even have time to scream. Her eyes rolled back and she fainted.
The whole corridor was filled with howling and screaming. It was a long time before He Lun calmed down. His chest was heaving violently. He looked at Gao Mengtang first and found that he was safe and sound, but he just stopped knocking on "Good Luck Comes".
Look at the drunkard woman again.
She was unconscious. Or maybe worse than unconscious. She fell straight to the ground, her limbs stiff, and she was mumbling something incoherently.
After just a few seconds, she seemed to have a seizure. Her whole body twitched uncontrollably, she foamed at the mouth, and let out strange screams.
"Her mental value is only 35, and she was frightened, so she had a serious reaction." The pharmacist flipped her eyelids and saw a pure white. "Fortunately, we have reached the 7th floor. He Lun, quickly carry her downstairs. We need to leave this instance immediately. She can still survive."
He Lun immediately carried the drunk girl on his shoulders and walked out with big strides.
Gao Mengtang and the pharmacist fell behind.
They should have hurried to catch up with He Lun, but for some reason, the two of them walked slowly, like strolling in a garden. Gao Mengtang walked in front, leisurely and calmly, and the pharmacist followed behind him, walking even slower.
The moonlight poured into the stairwell, like a layer of floating gauze, and the dust in the air illuminated was like sequins on the gauze. The staircase door was not closed, and the dark corridor was behind them, so the moonlight could not shine in there.
Suddenly, Gao Mengtang spoke, his tone as calm as if he was saying good morning: "Pharmacist, am I the next person you want to kill?"
A sharp knife was pressed against Gao Mengtang's lower back, and under the moonlight, it reflected a metallic blue light.
The pharmacist was holding the knife in his hand. When he heard these words, his hand trembled and the blade moved forward a few centimeters.
Gao Mengtang tilted his head, thinking seriously, with no expression on his face. He looked like a beautiful but empty doll: "I have been thinking, what good will it do you if you kill us all and then pass the level?"
His voice was not loud, but it was loud enough for everyone in the stairwell to hear. He Lun, carrying the drunk girl on his shoulders and holding the enemy rabbit in his arms, turned his head with a confused expression.
"I don't know much about the game Black Tower, so I can't guess your motives," Gao Mengtang continued. "If you kill us and clear the level by yourself, will you be able to monopolize all the level rewards? But for the beta testers, the rewards for the novice dungeon are not very attractive."
After a long silence, the pharmacist chuckled and said, "Blind man, have you figured it out? Do you know that I'm a beta tester?"
"What?!" He Lun's eyes widened. "Pharmacist, are you a beta test player? But this is a newbie copy, how can you come in?"
The pharmacist ignored him completely. He moved the blade in his hand to Gao Mengtang's neck and pulled it back. Gao Mengtang was locked in his arms: "Don't move! Knight, put down your weapon and stand back!"
He Lun was afraid that Gao Mengtang would get into trouble, so he had to put down his gun and shield. He stiffened his neck and shouted: "If you still have dignity, challenge me. Why do you bully a person with limited vision, weak and helpless!"
Limited vision? Weak and helpless?
The blind man was a monster with a spiritual value of 999. But the pharmacist was too lazy to argue with Helun.
Behind the lens, the pharmacist curved his eyes and asked with interest: "Blind man, tell me, when did you become suspicious of me?" The blade sank a little deeper into the flesh, leaving a shallow blood mark.
Gao Mengtang lowered his eyes, his eyelashes were long and thick, gently covering his lifeless eyes: "From the moment you entered the game, I was suspicious of you."
"At 4:44 a.m., the world of Black Tower opened, and all players logged into the game at the same time and were matched at the same time. But we waited for 5 minutes before you were matched in."
"Black Tower is a popular game. It shouldn't be possible for all seven players to be online at the same time. At that time, I guessed that your identity was very special and you were probably not a pre-registered player for the public beta test."
Gao Mengtang continued, "I am not a pre-registered player for the public beta test. I don't know why I was pulled into this game. But I also entered the game at 4:44 and was matched successfully at the first time. So, your identity is different from mine."
"Then there is only one possibility. You are a beta test player. You entered the rookie dungeon through special means. The five minutes of matching are the time you use your 'means'."
"Up to this point, I was just suspicious, but your many small actions since then have confirmed my suspicion."
The blade was getting closer and closer. Gao Mengtang tilted his head back. There was a thin bloodstain on his neck, and blood drops dripped into his collarbone like a delicate ruby.
Gao Mengtang continued, "First of all, everyone's death is related to you. You used a potion to make the drunkard girl's skills go out of control, and she beat the woodcutter to death. You also abandoned the archivist and let her be killed by the Hundred-Eyed Wizard. Then you used the same trick again, using a potion to make the strange scholar's skill [Strong Curiosity] go out of control, causing him to become extremely interested in me, surrounding me, and being attacked by the Hundred-Eyed Wizard and dying."
"Secondly, you are stalling for time. The last time we entered the 7th floor, the Knight and the Drunkard both discovered something unusual about the advertisement, but you insisted that everything was normal. Let's go back to the 1st floor. You want to have more time to find a chance to attack us."
"A new player who entered the game for the first time has no reason to kill his teammates unless he is a psychopath. So I further determined that you are a beta test player. There are complicated reasons for you to kill people."
Gao Mengtang frowned and thought: "But I can't guess your motives."
After listening to this, the pharmacist smiled approvingly as if he had just watched a wonderful performance. "Great! Then guess how I entered the novice instance."
"You killed a public beta player, right?" Gao Mengtang said.
He guessed so quickly and so accurately that the pharmacist showed a hint of surprise on his face.
"After entering the dungeon, you gave me a knife for self-defense. This means that you had a knife with you when you traveled through time. You also gave me your white coat. I can't see it, but I am very sensitive to the smell of blood."
Gao Mengtang lifted the hem of his clothes and saw a faint splatter of blood on the inside of the clothes.
"In those five minutes, you used this knife to stab the public beta player, obtained his identity, and entered the rookie dungeon. Being able to kill a person so easily in five minutes shows that you had planned it for a long time, and you had easy access to the victim. The person you killed must be someone you know, right?"
It was the pharmacist's girlfriend, and they were doing experiments together that night. His girlfriend was completely defenseless against him, and he killed her without any resistance.
Thinking of the person who had been with him for many years, from the smile when they first met to the face lying in a pool of blood, the pharmacist suddenly laughed so hard that he couldn't even straighten his back.
"What good will it do you if all your teammates die?" Gao Mengtang asked curiously.
"The benefits..."
The pharmacist still had a smile on his face. He held Gao Mengtang's shoulder with one hand, and the silver-blue butterfly knife spun a flower at his fingertips: "I apply to join the Black Gull faction. The assessment task is to obtain the achievement "Only One"."
Achievement "Only One" Description:
Then, only one person survived...Besides him, who else knew the whole truth?
This achievement is obtained by surviving and completing a dungeon with 5 or more players alone.
"I chose a normal-difficulty dungeon, which would harm the beta testers. My teammates are all very smart. I chose a high-risk dungeon and tried to survive alone, but I could easily die. After much thought, I decided to go to a novice dungeon and kill you youngsters. This would be the least risky."
Gao Mengtang sighed: "The way you achieved success is really despicable."
"Meanness is the passport of meanness," the pharmacist sneered, "My viciousness is my weapon, it makes me invincible. Black Gull likes people like me."
"Okay, enough nonsense, I'll send you on your way. My little beauty, if there is a hell, go and become a ghost." The pharmacist raised the corner of his mouth and waved the knife, and a blue light flashed -
"Even if you kill me, you won't live long!" Gao Mengtang shouted.
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