Chapter 217: Scavenger (13) Previous Life
Gao Mengtang's attitude was very clear, and no one tried to persuade him.
But Lin Li woke Gao Mengtang up in the middle of the night and said something very strange: "Prophet, if you forget something, someone will remember it for you."
"Well, I have to thank him." Gao Mengtang was so sleepy that he was not in his right mind. "You didn't mistake me for Wei Wei?"
Lin Li: “What?”
Gao Mengtang: "We swapped bodies."
Lin Li's expression was very blank. She didn't even remember that the "prophet" and Wei Wei had swapped bodies, but she could recognize Gao Mengtang. This person's way of observing the world was very different from that of normal people.
The next day, Gao Mengtang contacted Yin Mingwu and told him that he also wanted to go to the shipwreck.
: The snowy shipwreck is here [location] If you want to come, I'll find a way to take you down with me.
In the same team with Yin Mingwu was another policeman who also wanted to join the Atlantis special agent team. He was not very old and kept chattering with Yin Mingwu along the way.
"Your mission is to film the interior of the shipwreck and leave video footage of every room," the driver said. "Don't be stubborn. If something unexpected happens, signal us at any time and we will come to rescue you."
The submarine was hovering in the darkness. The lightless zone in the deep sea seemed like an abandoned place with nothing but darkness. Yin Mingwu turned on the headlight and vaguely saw a huge object at the bottom of the sea basin. It was the Fengxue shipwreck.
From a distance, I could see a small light flickering back and forth. When I looked at the light from the dark, I could see it very clearly.
"Brother Ming, what is that?" the teammate asked through the intercom, "Deep-sea fish?"
Yin Mingwu didn't say anything and dragged him downstream. When they were about to reach the bottom of the sea, his teammate shouted, "Ah!" That flickering light, where is the fish? It turned out to be a person holding a flashlight.
The man was not wearing a diving suit, only a cashmere jacket embroidered with green bamboo. He had silver hair, red eyes, and two emerald earrings on his ears.
This was a thousand meters deep underwater, and without a diving suit, I was not crushed into a paste!
"You've arrived." Yin Mingwu said. He forgot that he was wearing a helmet, so the sound could not be transmitted outside and only his teammates wearing headphones could hear it.
The teammates were startled: "Who? Who's here?"
Yin Mingwu smiled at him and touched his helmet lovingly.
Then, the helmet was crushed and the head exploded instantly. A cloud of blood mist spread in the water and quickly merged into the darkness, leaving no trace.
He dragged the corpse into the sunken ship, took off his helmet, and drank a bottle of [Gill Potion]. Soon, fish gills appeared on the sides of his ears, allowing him to breathe freely in the water.
"Why kill him?" Gao Mengtang muttered. The sound of water made his voice sound strange.
Yin Mingwu unfolded a skill scroll, and upon hearing this, he looked up and smiled: "Lao Kui, you've been with Gao Mengtang for so long, have you infected him with the Madonna disease? He's just getting in the way here, why keep him around?"
Gao Mengtang remained silent.
Suddenly, he felt so dizzy that he couldn't even stand, and his whole body seemed to be free from the constraints of gravity.
He was familiar with this feeling - being sucked into a narrow door.
However, the dizziness is accompanied by hallucinations.
A blurry figure was swaying in front of Gao Mengtang. Several people were gathered around a huge holographic projection table, discussing something.
"We built this model based on the predictions of the Marquis of Silence."
In front of him was a shaking briefcase, and someone was talking in Gao Mengtang's ear: "What do you think of this copy?"
One hand lightly pressed the holographic projection, turned it in a circle, zoomed in on a certain part, and observed the details.
Gao Mengtang took a closer look and his heart skipped a beat: the holographic projection in front of him, wasn't it the copy of [No. 13 Chaos Block]!
"What's the name of the copy?"
"The tentative name is Chaos Block No. 13. This block was once your core territory. After you invested in the government, you obtained the naming rights and named the street No. 13. We think it has a good meaning."
The man's voice was mixed with the sound of electricity, sometimes normal, sometimes sharp and piercing: "13... Yes, he should be 13... What is the probability of 12 dying in this copy?"
"99%. This instance is a dead end. After all players die, the timeline of the entire surface world will be pushed forward 10 years. Unless..."
The person possessed by Gao Mengtang asked, "Unless what?"
"Unless the player chosen by Him also enters this copy." The reporter carefully inserted the expensive Montblanc pen into his chest pocket, like a lush green branch inserted into his chest.
"We still don't know who He has chosen. We must not harm that player." The reporter leaned over and took a closer look at the holographic projections, "So we left a way out."
"Only the players chosen by the Eleventh Sage King can break through."
The chaotic images suddenly ended, and Gao Mengtang sat up suddenly with a splitting headache. Yin Mingwu also lay on the floor, his eyes rolled back and his limbs twitching from time to time.
After a while, Yin Mingwu returned to normal. His reaction was much greater than Gao Mengtang's. His eyes rolled down and he raised his crutch and hit Gao Mengtang.
"Hey!" Gao Mengtang dodged sideways.
Yin Mingwu panted, calmed down, and said sorry.
"Lao Wei, what did you see just now?" Yin Mingwu asked.
Should I tell him? Gao Mengtang seemed to have read someone's memory just now. Who was that person?
What they discussed surprised Gao Mengtang even more.
In the copy of [Chaos Block No. 13], one of the purposes is to kill Gao Mengtang.
If Wei Wei did not have the identity card that was transformed from the soul of the Eleventh Wise King, that copy would be a dead end and they would surely die.
Another purpose of that copy is to skip the 10 years after 366 and go directly to 376.
Gao Mengtang already knew the specific reason. The Marquis of Silence predicted: During these ten years, a low-probability event would occur, causing Gao Mengtang to survive and live to 10 years later.
In short, it was all to kill Gao Mengtang.
No matter who this memory belongs to, it is very unusual. Gao Mengtang thought about it briefly for half a second and decided not to share it: "I saw a group of people discussing how to kill me."
This is not a lie, it is only a partial truth, Gao Mengtang consoled himself.
Yin Mingwu rubbed his stiff brows and said, "I was almost there. I was tied to a hospital bed. A man and a woman inserted various needles into my body. They opened my mouth and force-fed me medicine despite my objections."
"Hmm...I see." Gao Mengtang was thinking, is Yin Mingwu telling the truth?
"There was also a young nurse who looked like an intern," Yin Mingwu continued, "She looked at me and exclaimed: Is this the hollow man made by Lei Gong? I didn't expect it to work. He is so beautiful."
Hollow Man?! Gao Mengtang's eyes widened suddenly. Yin Mingwu could read the memory of a hollow man? According to Gao Mengtang's guess, he was the "hollow man" mentioned by Lei Gong. Could it be that Yin Mingwu read his memory?
Gao Mengtang suddenly remembered Lin Li’s words: Prophet, what you forget, someone will remember it for you.
Could it be that what she meant was that the time and space on this ship were disordered, and they would randomly obtain a memory of their teammates, and some things that Gao Mengtang had forgotten would be remembered by Yin Mingwu?
If this is the case, what Gao Mengtang read was Yin Mingwu’s memory?
Not really. Although Gao Mengtang couldn't see clearly, he could see from a blurry shadow that the man's hands were slender and white, with delicate and shiny skin. It was obvious that they had been well cared for. Yin Mingwu's hands were rough, with large joints and frostbite.
Headache. Gao Mengtang rubbed his temples. As long as he was associated with the "hollow man", Gao Mengtang was not very happy. He didn't want to be a copy of someone.
But now is not a good time to think about life or feel sad.
"For you." Gao Mengtang took out the three resurrection coins and relayed the three zombies' request.
Yin Mingwu looked at the resurrection coins, then at Gao Mengtang, his jaw dropping in shock: "Lao Wei, am I in a science fiction novel? You didn't take these three resurrection coins for yourself?"
"...How can I be so bad?" Gao Mengtang said. Although, Wei Wei was strongly opposed to handing the resurrection coin to Yin Mingwu.
But Gao Mengtang had a little selfish motive. In 10 years, he would most likely die. If he could take advantage of the opportunity of body swapping to change Yin Mingwu's opinion of Wei Wei, after Gao Mengtang's death, Wei Wei would have more friends, and someone would help Yue Fan... maybe?
"Let's go and get to work." Yin Mingwu pinched Gao Mengtang's shoulder.
The police station's task was not difficult, after all, it was just an assessment task, and they just had to take the camera and film each room. They first scanned the cabin and then opened the nearest door.
The lightless seabed looked like a grave. However, the grave was filled with soil, while the seabed was filled with water. Gao Mengtang and Yin Mingwu in the sunken ship looked like victims of the burial.
Based on the integrity of the hull and the degree of corrosion of the items inside, it can be judged that the ship sank not long ago, probably no more than a month. Gao Mengtang knocked here and looked there, hoping to find some valuable clues.
The room was empty, with nothing inside, but there were scratches on the floor from dragging heavy objects. Before the ship sank, the crew had moved all the items inside the ship away.
When filming the third room, Yin Mingwu pointed to the sign on the door and said, "It's quite interesting."
The pattern was a disk with an irregular gap, and the gap was made up of arcs. Gao Mengtang swam back and observed the two doors in front.
The pattern on the first door is a complete disc, while the pattern on the second door is a disc with a gap, but the gap is smaller.
"Dark clouds covered the moon." Gao Mengtang said suddenly.
These patterns resemble a full moon, which is gradually obscured by dark clouds. In the game Black Tower, the answer to what the "moon" symbolizes is obvious: moon creatures. The meaning of dark clouds is even more obvious: the Dark Cloud Organization.
Following this line of thought, the project being carried out on this ship is led by Lei Gong, the leader of the dark clouds, and is closely related to the moon creatures.
"Lao Wei, come here and take a look," Yin Mingwu illuminated a corner with a flashlight.
Gao Mengtang swam over and took a look, and almost screamed out loud. There was actually a person squatting in the corner!
The man was skinny and naked, with pale pink skin so thin that one could see his blood vessels and muscles. His skinny spine, like a chicken skeleton, supported the thin and inelastic skin, as if it could pierce through it directly.
He seemed to be able to ignore buoyancy, squatting on the ground, holding his legs with both hands, head down, motionless, and no one knew whether he was dead or alive. Yin Mingwu shone a flashlight on him, the light cone swaying back and forth, but the man did not react.
"Is he dead?" Yin Mingwu said, and he raised the flashlight upwards to illuminate the wall.
There were two lines of words carved on the wall. The first line was in Esperanto, which Gao Mengtang did not recognize.
But the second line has a translation of the common language: What virtue does the night light have, that it can give birth again after death.
Gao Mengtang stared at the words in a trance, while Yin Mingwu took the flashlight and shone it elsewhere. After a while, Yin Mingwu suddenly said:
"Lao Kui, turn off the flashlight quickly, we don't need extra light."
Gao Mengtang: "What are you talking about?"
"There is a statue of the Virgin Mary here," Yin Mingwu laughed, "The glory of the Virgin Mary will shine on us."
In the corner, there is a plaster bust, slightly corroded by sea water, but it can be seen that it is Gao Mengtang's face, or rather, Hei Yankai's face.
He lowered his eyebrows, but his beauty did not dim in the slightest even though it was attached to the plaster.
But Gao Mengtang was in a gloomy mood. It was this face again. In the [Scavenger] dungeon, every time this face appeared, it seemed to remind Gao Mengtang: You are a clone!
"Come and pay your respects," Yin Mingwu put the plaster statue on the table, but the buoyancy made the plaster statue float in the air. He laughed mockingly, "This is your dear leader, pray to him for blessings."
Yin Mingwu was halfway through laughing when he suddenly stopped being serious and looked seriously at the base of the bust.
There is a line of inscription on the base: Statue of Hei Yankai. For use only in the Hollow Man Project.
"Another hollow man," Yin Mingwu frowned, "What the hell is this."
"Probably to create a clone," Gao Mengtang said sullenly. He pointed at the bust, "It looks exactly like this person. This bust is not Gao Mengtang, but Hei Yankai."
"You also know about the Black Banquet." Yin Mingwu was a little surprised, "You know a little too much."
"Yes. Recently... my leader has been in a bad mood recently, because he might be a clone, or maybe Hei Yankai is going to die, and they need someone who looks exactly like Hei Yankai..." Gao Mengtang told Yin Mingwu the news he had received in the past two days about Inari, Hei Yankai and Lei Gong's hollow man plan.
As he spoke, Gao Mengtang turned away, unwilling to look at the bust again. How could he be a substitute for another person?
After listening to this, Yin Mingwu said, "Your leader is a clone, how is this possible?"
"Huh?"
"He is the twelfth Wise King," Yin Mingwu said, as if he was telling a simple truth like "the sun rises in the east." "The difficulty of replicating the soul of the twelfth Wise King is equivalent to that of creating an artificial Earth. No, it is equivalent to creating an artificial Milky Way. Until now, Epiphyllum Ridge has not been able to replicate the soul of an ordinary person, let alone the soul of the twelfth Wise King."
After saying that, Yin Mingwu sneered: "Your guess is really outrageous."
Gao Mengtang still couldn't be happy: "Then why does my leader look exactly like Hei Yankai?"
The flashlight's cone of light moved to the opposite wall and illuminated the line of words: What virtue does the night light have? It will give birth again after death.
"Your leader is smart and clever, couldn't he guess it? Moon creatures will be resurrected after death," Yin Mingwu said, "In my opinion, the answer is too simple, you can figure it out with a cane: Hei Yankai is Gao Mengtang's previous life."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
