Chapter 219: Scavenger (15) Disfigurement
The music of returning to zero made Gao Mengtang's mind wander. When he came to his senses, Yin Mingwu was already awake. He leaned against the wall, punching his solar plexus with one fist.
"What did you see just now?" Yin Mingwu asked.
Gao Mengtang told part of the truth: "I saw Xiao Tien."
"Oh, him." Yin Mingwu didn't care much. "He and I are friends. But I can't stand his humble and stupid look in front of the half-dead."
The Xiao family believed in the half-dead. It was not accurate to say that they had a devout belief in them. The word should be "fanaticism". He wanted to kill Gao Mengtang just because the statue of the half-dead was toppled.
Yin Mingwu didn't ask any more questions and seemed uninterested in these things. He stretched his cervical spine and walked to the next room.
"What did you see?" Gao Mengtang asked.
"A man and a woman were arguing, and it was a very fierce argument. The man pointed at me and said, 'He is mine!' The woman also said, 'He is mine!'" Yin Mingwu didn't care much, and didn't know how much of what he said was true or false.
Gao Mengtang felt that what he said was true.
Because Yin Mingwu's attitude doesn't seem like he is hiding the facts, but rather like... he doesn't care much about these things.
He should have more important things to do and bigger troubles bothering him. Apart from this matter, he didn't care about the other chaotic voices at all. He had a feeling of giving up everything: since it has come to this, just tell the truth.
"Do you know those two people?" Gao Mengtang asked.
Yin Mingwu shook his head and said, "I've never seen them before. Based on the content of their quarrel, I can tell that they are brother and sister. Other than that, I don't know."
In the chaos of time and space in the sunken ship, they can read each other's memories. What Yin Mingwu saw was the past that Gao Mengtang had forgotten. He mentioned "brothers and sisters"... Gao Mengtang quickly recalled which brothers and sisters he had seen.
He Lun and He Yi? Wei Wei and Wei Kuo? Impossible. If it was them, Yin Mingwu would not say he didn't know them. Then which other pair were brother and sister...
Gao Mengtang was lost in thought when Yin Mingwu's violent cough interrupted his train of thought. He coughed as if his lungs would be shattered. He covered his mouth with his hands and a stream of blood-red liquid oozed out from between his fingers.
After being stunned for a moment, Gao Mengtang asked in surprise: "Are you coughing up blood?"
It was not uncommon for Black Tower players to cough up blood, as they were often beaten to pieces by monsters. But Yin Mingwu had never been injured after his resurrection, and had not even experienced a battle, so how could he cough up blood?
Resurrection coins can revive players to full health, and any previous injuries will be healed.
"Oh, you're concerned about me?" Yin Mingwu said with a smile. A trace of dark red blood oozed out of the corner of his mouth. He wiped it away carelessly. "Don't worry about it for now. Let's go to the next room."
After saying that, he swam to the front to lead the way. Gao Mengtang looked at his back and felt more and more strange.
After avoiding Gao Mengtang's sight, the smile on Yin Mingwu's face disappeared instantly.
Almost all players will return to their best condition after being resurrected using resurrection coins, but Yin Mingwu is the exception: his identity card is broken.
After resurrection, he opened his personal system panel and saw that the ID card was more seriously damaged. The fragments were connected by weak gravity and could fall apart at any time.
Then came the burning pain in his internal organs. Before entering the game, Yin Mingwu was suffering from terminal cancer. The pain at this moment was comparable to that of terminal cancer. If it weren't for Yin Mingwu's amazing willpower, he would have wailed and screamed.
The gills filtered the water, and every time he breathed, his entire head felt like it was being washed in magma. Yin Mingwu clenched his teeth, mobilized his stiff muscles, and swam forward as if nothing had happened.
Suddenly, a crystal-clear green jade-like pill was handed to Yin Mingwu's mouth. "Wei Wei" looked at him with concern: "This is a pill for treating internal injuries, and it has no side effects. Would you like to try it?"
Yin Mingwu's eyes moved from Wei Wei's face to the pill, and he gently pinched it: "Old Wei, are you really not possessed? No, this is poison, right?"
“…Hey, you!”
"Hmph, you can't poison me to death." Yin Mingwu threw the pill into his mouth and crushed it with a crunch.
Gao Mengtang: "Are you feeling better?"
"Much better." Yin Mingwu said immediately. This was a lie. The hard pill scratched his throat, causing him more pain. His throat seemed to be cut into tassels.
He glanced at "Kuai Wei" with an unreadable expression: "Your face."
"What's going on..." Gao Mengtang raised his hand and touched his face. The uneven skin under his palm was a little hard. The skin had touched the blood of the dead and was severely corroded.
Gao Mengtang's heart skipped a beat: "Oh, what should I do? Can I recover?"
"It's hard to say what the wounds left by the dead are." Yin Mingwu suddenly laughed, "Lao Kui, you are disfigured!"
Gao Mengtang used the reflection of the glass to look at the face. Wei Wei's skin was particularly delicate because he had cleansed himself, but now his left cheek, then to the jaw, and then to the cheekbone, was covered with dark red and black scars, hideous and protruding, like a cluster of evil thorns.
"He Luo, please treat me quickly." Gao Mengtang urged.
The dark green octopus curled up into a small ball, lying on Gao Mengtang's shoulder, and made a few muffled "gurgling" sounds.
: I can’t heal the wounds left by the Dead Born.
"Oh no..." Gao Mengtang covered half of his face, feeling extremely uncomfortable. He had disfigured Wei Wei...
Yin Mingwu laughed loudly: "Lao Kui, even though you are gone, you are still a man. You don't have to care so much about what you look like. At most, you can commit suicide once, and then use the resurrection coin to revive, and you will be back to your original state."
"You're talking nonsense. Resurrection coins are so precious..." Gao Mengtang used disguise to cover up the scar, and his whole body was visibly wilted.
They filmed several more rooms, and encountered "no face to see people" many times, carefully avoiding their faces. Gao Mengtang did not miss any details, searching the sunken ship for everything related to the "Hollow Man Project".
In the last memory I read, someone mentioned: "The Hollow Man Project has completely failed."
In other words, there is no clone who looks exactly like Gao Mengtang. But Gao Mengtang is still very concerned about why Lei Gong wants to implement this plan? What benefits will it bring to him by creating a clone of Hei Yankai?
There is another sentence in my memory: "It was a scam. Chen Yuan ruined the entire plan and also killed Hei Yankai."
Is the Hollow Man Project a scam? Who are they trying to deceive? What did Chen Yuan do?
"Look." Yin Mingwu threw a small thing over, which floated in the water. Gao Mengtang grabbed it and saw that it was a customized cartoon keychain made of acrylic.
The pattern in the middle is undoubtedly a Q version of Hei Yankai, with black shoulder-length curly hair, a pair of big, blank eyes, and a little white rabbit in his arms.
This room should be a bedroom. All other furniture has been moved away, leaving only a bed and a few floating closets.
In the bedroom, there are dozens of Hei Yankai's peripherals, including key chains, standees, cotton dolls... and homemade small cards, covered with card film and placed in card holders.
"...A fan of Hei Yankai?" Gao Mengtang picked up a small card. In the photo, Hei Yankai looked a little lost. He didn't know how to find the angle for a selfie, but he relied on his strong facial features to take a good-looking photo. The background was the Tanhualing Sanatorium.
He could imagine that the medical staff in the sanatorium were chattering and urging Hei Yankai to take a selfie. Hei Yankai didn't understand, but obeyed. After taking the first photo, the medical staff applauded and cheered, as if Hei Yankai had done something extraordinary.
The photo is then printed out and made into a small card.
Whose bedroom is this? He is so fascinated by Hei Yankai. Gao Mengtang searched every corner but couldn't find any information about the owner of the bedroom.
But did he stop being a fan? Why did he leave the peripherals of Black Feast in the sunken ship?
"There are signs of a fight." Yin Mingwu used a flashlight to illuminate a wall. There were a lot of small holes on the wall. He reached out and touched them. "It should have been caused by throwing something."
Gao Mengtang also found some dents and some deep or shallow scratches on the floor. He hesitated: "Could they be left behind when we moved?"
"No," Yin Mingwu said decisively, "Look at these small holes on the wall. They are irregularly distributed and generally in an arc shape. The highest one is about 1.9 meters above the ground, and the lowest one is only a little over 1 meter high..."
"It looks like someone is throwing something at this person, and this person is bending over to avoid it, and finally squatting on the ground."
"Look here again." The wall opposite Yin Mingwu, which faces the corridor, has a door. The glass of the door is smashed, and there are some dents on the door panel.
Yin Mingwu stood in the middle of the room and pointed left and right: "One stood by the window, and the other stood by the door. The two quarreled and threw things at each other. The pit on the door is lower, about 1.6 meters above the ground..."
The two people who were arguing were one 1.9 meters tall and the other 1.6 meters tall.
These two were of ordinary height, but when they appeared in this instance, Gao Mengtang naturally thought of them: "Chen Yuan and Lei Gong?"
Chen Yuan is 1.9 meters tall, while Lei Gong is as short as a monkey, about 1.6 meters tall.
These two people don't get along, so it's normal for them to have a big fight.
"This should be the bedroom of Chen Yuan or Lei Gong." Yin Mingwu said, "Look again to see if there is anything else."
After searching around, Gao Mengtang found a small object in the deepest part of the closet drawer. It was wedge-shaped, with one end round and the other pointed, and seemed to be made of silicone.
Gao Mengtang: "What is this?"
The two studied it seriously for a while, not daring to touch it easily, for fear that it was the switch of some kind of world-destroying magic array, until - Yin Mingwu took off his shoes and gestured on the thing twice with one foot.
The curvature of the round toe coincides with the heel.
"Internal height increase." Yin Mingwu said.
Gao Mengtang: “…Oh.”
The one who needs to wear underwear to increase height must be Lei Gong. This is Lei Gong's bedroom.
Thinking of the insoles that had been touched by the soles of Lei Gong's feet, Yin Mingwu threw them aside in disdain: "Lei Gong is really a fanatical fan of Hei Yankai, collecting so many pieces of junk plastic."
"Old Yin!" A group of people squeezed in from outside the door, "We are late, how are you?"
It turned out to be the ghoul, the miracle doctor, and the farmer. Behind them, there were He Lun and Bai Jie. Gao Mengtang was shocked: "Why are you here!"
"Brother, I'm worried about you!" He Lun swam over excitedly, "Are you hurt?"
Gao Mengtang felt something was wrong and dodged He Lun's arm without leaving a trace. On the other side, Yin Mingwu had already hugged the three members of Heiou and scolded them for following him.
"Are you okay?" Bai Jie asked in a low voice, "Did Yin Mingwu bully you?"
He Lun hugged Gao Mengtang's arm tightly: "Brother, I'm worried to death!"
Suddenly, as if a bolt of lightning struck his brain, Gao Mengtang realized something was wrong: He Lun called Gao Mengtang "brother", but when addressing Wei Wei, he either used his full name or "Brother Wei". But Gao Mengtang was now using Wei Wei's body, and all the members of Yuefan knew about it. In order not to reveal the truth, they should not address Gao Mengtang like this in front of outsiders.
"No! Yin Mingwu, run!" Gao Mengtang shouted.
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