Chapter 220 Scavenger (16) Ghost Ship
A tentacle smashed the porthole glass, and Gao Mengtang grabbed Yin Mingwu's arm and ran out.
He Luo rolled them up and swam very far in one breath. Gao Mengtang looked back and saw that the facial features of the "Black Gull members" behind him had dissolved and their skin had turned black. In just a few seconds, they turned into black mud figures.
"Isn't this your black clay puppet?" Yin Mingwu was surprised. "Lao Wei, what are you doing? Are you teasing me?"
"Do I look like that kind of person?" Gao Mengtang shouted, turning around and continuing to swim forward. Half a minute later, there was no more strange noise behind him, and those black mud puppets did not catch up.
They stopped to catch their breath, and Yin Mingwu knocked his head in frustration: "It's my fault. I let my guard down when I saw my members."
Gao Mengtang was thinking about why the monster chasing them was exactly the same as Wei Wei's black clay puppet. He muttered unconsciously while thinking about this question.
"Don't think about it, Lao Wei." Yin Mingwu patted his shoulder, "Since you saved me twice, I will tell you a secret inside Tanhualing."
"What?"
Yin Mingwu's expression was very serious. "The entire Epiphyllum Ridge was built around the Eleventh Sage King. Your ID card is the soul of the Eleventh Sage King. Your abilities were granted by the Eleventh Sage King. It is normal that a certain skill of yours is highly similar to that of the monsters in the Epiphyllum Ridge."
"Epiphyllum Ridge and...Wise King Eleven?" Gao Mengtang was a little surprised. "And the Saprophytic Stone. What kind of stone is that?"
"That's right. The original purpose of establishing Epiphyllum Ridge was to find the soul of the Eleventh Sage King. The research on the Black Tower and the other world is just a byproduct of Epiphyllum Ridge. As for the Saprophytic Stone, it is a stone that can repair the soul." Yin Mingwu suppressed a few coughs, "I shouldn't tell you these things. These are secrets... Go back, the ship has not been searched yet."
Gao Mengtang: "...You have escaped from the scythe of death twice, and you are still thinking about that sunken ship."
"Of course, after all, I entered this instance just to find this sunken ship." Yin Mingwu said with a hint of sarcasm, "Why, are you scared, Xiao Wei?"
Gao Mengtang swam in front of Yin Mingwu and told him with practical actions: I am not afraid.
They didn't look at the direction when they fled, they just grabbed He Luo's tentacles and told him to swim faster. He Luo's speed was so fast that they didn't know where they were swimming to. It was pitch black all around, and the sunken ship had long disappeared.
Without any reference, it is not easy to find a shipwreck in the vast seabed.
Fortunately, He Luo led the way.
...But it wasn't particularly lucky, as He Luo didn't seem to know the way.
"Aren't you a fish? How did you get lost in the ocean?" After the third circle, Yin Mingwu finally couldn't help but speak.
"Guji, guji!" The ocean is much larger than the land, and you have lived in Middle-earth for almost 50 years. Can you guarantee that you won't get lost on land?
The retort was very good, but Yin Mingwu didn't understand.
After circling for another half an hour, they finally saw the shadow of a sunken ship. Yin Mingwu swam over first, looked around, and waited patiently for a while. When he found that there were no monsters following him, he relaxed, turned on the flashlight, and shone it into the cabin.
Facing the rooms on both sides of the corridor, the doors were tightly closed. They found Lei Gong's bedroom and searched it again.
After searching Lei Gong's bedroom and finding nothing valuable, they pushed open the next door and were stunned.
This room is exactly the same as Lei Gong's bedroom.
Yin Mingwu closed the door as if he didn't believe it, and then opened it again. The room was unchanged, and it was Lei Gong's bedroom.
He immediately opened the door, stepped back a few steps, stood in the corridor, looked left and right. The two rooms were exactly the same.
The dents on the wall and door, the acrylic keychains and small cards floating in the water, the tall four-poster bed. Gao Mengtang fished out a height-enhancing device from the depths of the drawer.
The two of them opened more than a dozen doors in a row. The rooms behind the doors were like copy and paste. They could not be said to be highly similar, but they were exactly the same.
Walking from the entrance to the exit, they pushed open the doors of dozens of rooms, and the rooms they saw were all Lei Gong's bedrooms.
"Is it a ghost wall?" Gao Mengtang couldn't help but ask.
At this time, the two of them walked out of the sunken ship and returned to the ocean. Yin Mingwu opened one palm and felt the water flowing through his fingers. He shook his head: "It doesn't look like it. This is the real ocean."
They entered through the exit again, walked through the entire ship again, opened all the doors, and saw hundreds of Lei Gong's bedrooms.
"Something is wrong," Yin Mingwu frowned, "Lao Kui, you go first, and get back to land quickly."
Gao Mengtang entered the sunken ship to find out what the [Hollow Man Project] was all about and whether he was a clone.
Although the purpose of the Hollow Man Project was still unclear, he was sure that he was not a clone, so the goal had been achieved and he could leave.
However, Gao Mengtang paused for only a second before replying, "I'm not leaving."
"What?" Yin Mingwu said with disgust, "Do you still want to live and die with me?"
Gao Mengtang: "You wish. If I, the deputy leader of Yuefan, escape at this time, wouldn't that make you a laughing stock?"
Having said that, the Black Tower game is a game of gambling. How can running away when the situation is not right be a joke? That is the wisdom that everyone praises. Yin Mingwu knew that "Kuai Wei" was unloading his psychological burden. He did not persuade him anymore, but just smiled: "Old Kui, you have changed too much, I dare not recognize you."
“…No.”
The two drifted side by side. Yin Mingwu touched his chin and said seriously: "You were possessed by Gao Mengtang, right? There is an item in the black tower [Skill Scroll·Soul Replacement]..."
Gao Mengtang's heart suddenly tightened and he pricked up his ears to listen to Yin Mingwu's next words.
"...No, the duration of soul replacement is only about 5 minutes. It has been 15 hours. As far as I know, soul replacement cannot last that long." Yin Mingwu shook his head, denying the correct conjecture, and continued:
"The relationship between the soul and the body is not as simple as a treasure box containing pearls. The soul and the body are organically combined and difficult to separate. The replacement time is a maximum of 10 minutes, no more."
That's because you don't have much experience, Gao Mengtang thought. The soul swap between him and Wei Wei can last for 48 hours.
Before they knew it, they saw a dark shadow in the pitch-black ocean. When they swam closer, they found that it was a shipwreck caused by the snowstorm!
"Didn't we just swim out in a straight line?" Yin Mingwu tapped his head. "Did I remember it wrong?"
Gao Mengtang frowned slightly and said softly: "I'm not mistaken, it's a straight line."
They entered the ship again. Gao Mengtang held the door handle and paused for a few seconds before pressing it. Then he suddenly pushed the door open with force.
——Thunder God’s bedroom.
When they saw this room, their hearts were colder than the Arctic Ocean. This time, they opened the doors of all the rooms and saw more than 30 identical bedrooms.
"Okay, I think this is a ghost trap." Yin Mingwu shrugged, floating in the air at the stern, with his legs crossed. "It's another metaphysical trap, designed purely to mess with people's mentality. Once the mentality collapses, the spirit value will drop quickly. I don't know how long I can hold on..."
The spirit value of the first-level copy drops faster. He inherited Wei Wei's attribute panel, and the upper limit of the spirit value is 900. Now there are more than 700 left. Yin Mingwu's spirit value upper limit is also 900, and their remaining spirit values should be similar.
Gao Mengtang floated quietly in the water, like a plastic bag, swaying gently, thinking about countermeasures.
"How many bottles of spirit value recovery potion do you have left?" Yin Mingwu suddenly asked.
Gao Mengtang: "32 bottles. What's wrong?"
"Give me a bottle, I'm out of mine." Yin Mingwu said in a flat tone.
"Run out?" Gao Mengtang stood up straight. "We have the same upper limit. I still have more than 700 left. Why are you..."
Yin Mingwu did not answer, as if he had not heard this, and quietly looked at the dark sea. Gao Mengtang looked at him suspiciously for a moment, and handed him a bottle of high-level spirit value recovery agent.
"Thank you." Yin Mingwu pulled out the cork from the bottle and drank it all in one breath. After finishing the drink, he threw the glass bottle away and wiped his mouth. Seeing Gao Mengtang still staring at him, he smiled and said, "I'm not lying to you. My energy level is only over 90. Let me show you my panel."
High-level spirit value recovery agent can restore 50 points of spirit value. Now, Yin Mingwu's remaining spirit value is 92 points.
Before drinking the recovery potion, his mental value was only 42 points. A mental value of 40 is a dangerous line. If it is lower than this number, he will become unconscious and confused...
The two looked at each other for a long time, and the flashlight stayed between them for a long time. Gao Mengtang sighed: "Old Yin, what exactly are you injured by?"
"I'll tell you if I get a chance." Yin Mingwu said, "Don't worry about me. You can't heal my injury anyway, so worrying is a waste of time."
He kicked the water hard and leapt into the lightless ocean.
Next, they encountered snowstorms and shipwrecks twice more. Each time, after opening the door, they would see Lei Gong's bedroom. All the rooms were like this, with no changes.
In just 20 minutes, Yin Mingwu drank two more bottles of spirit value recovery potion. If he didn't find a way out, he might die here.
In order to prove that he was not coveting "Wei Wei's" recovery agent, Yin Mingwu shared the basic information panel.
Gao Mengtang watched helplessly as Yin Mingwu's spirit value dropped at an alarming rate of 5 points per minute. Before he knew it, his spirit value dropped to 37, and his piercing eyes dimmed visibly.
"Fuck his father, I'm so unlucky in my life." Yin Mingwu suddenly started cursing, and Gao Mengtang knew that he was no longer in his right mind.
Gao Mengtang quickly found a bottle of recovery agent, pressed Yin Mingwu, and tried to force it down his throat: "Come on, open your mouth, ah——"
Yin Mingwu turned his face away, avoiding his hand, his whites of his eyes full of bloodshot: "Let it be, whether it's a good life or a bad life, it's all a life. Damn God..."
"Drink it, shut your mouth!" Gao Mengtang took great effort to force him to drink it. They were already under the water, and the medicine was particularly easy to spill into the sea water. Half of the bottle was spilled, but at least Yin Mingwu's mental value was rescued to above 60.
Although he was unconscious, his memory was still there. After his mental state was restored and his IQ returned to normal, Yin Mingwu stopped cursing and looked at Gao Mengtang with an unfathomable expression.
"Thanks."
"Look at what you bit me." Gao Mengtang grumbled in dissatisfaction, applying ointment to the bite wound on the base of his thumb. He had already disfigured Wei Wei, and he couldn't give him any new wounds.
Once again, without any hope, the two swam towards the deep sea. Yin Mingwu was silent for half a minute, and when he spoke, he showed his ability to bring up the topic: "Lao Kui, your parents died when you were 14."
Gao Mengtang: "I just saved you!"
"The only difference between us is the number 1," Yin Mingwu laughed, "My parents died when I was four."
...Is that how it’s calculated?
"I've lived for several decades... let's not talk about it." Yin Mingwu suddenly waved his hand impatiently, "I finally tasted a little success after entering the Black Tower game. I don't know if I can leave this copy alive."
Gao Mengtang: "Don't say discouraging words."
Yin Mingwu chuckled twice and said, "When I die, go to Yinjiakou Village in Luyi Town, my ancestral city, and bury me there. Every year on my anniversary, you should burn three incense sticks for me. I have no father, no mother, no relatives, and no children. Those Black Owls, when I die, they will be eager to open 10 champagne towers to celebrate, but you can't expect them to burn incense for me."
"Don't say unlucky words!" Gao Mengtang raised his voice.
"This is a big deal!" Yin Mingwu said seriously, "Otherwise, when I die, other people's graves will be full of people, but I will only have a small mound of earth. How embarrassing. If you come to pay tribute to me, I will also be proud. Don't worry about the money, bring me some fruit..."
He kept talking on and on, and Gao Mengtang felt a little uncomfortable and turned his face away without looking at him.
They swam to the Snowstorm shipwreck for who knows how many times, but this time, neither of them went in.
In the distance, there was an ancient howl, as if it came from ancient time and space, with an epic solemnity and heaviness. Yin Mingwu stopped swimming and listened carefully: "It's the cry of a whale, like a ghost, it scared me so much that I thought I was dead."
"Shh," Gao Mengtang motioned for him to be quiet, "Stop talking nonsense."
He listened to the whale's roar and looked up at the sea.
"No, no," Gao Mengtang said, "We should go downstream!"
The Fengxue shipwreck is 1,000 meters below sea level. There are few life forms at that depth and few whales dive in. They are more concentrated in the sea above 800 meters.
More importantly, 1000 meters underwater is an absolute lightless zone, sunlight cannot penetrate the water layer, and the sea water is absolutely dark. But now, although weak, Gao Mengtang can still distinguish a faint blue light.
"Look, the color of the sea water is wrong. It's not black. We should be about 800 meters below sea level," said Gao Mengtang.
Yin Mingwu looked at it again and again: "This is black."
"There are several kinds of black, mine is called..." He almost said the words "absolute color sense". Wei Wei couldn't draw, so he would be exposed if he said this word.
Fortunately, Yin Mingwu didn't listen carefully. He followed Gao Mengtang and dived down.
Suddenly, there was a loud "splash" behind them, and a strong stream of water hit their backs. Looking back, they saw that the "snowstorm shipwreck" had collapsed and turned into a pile of black mud men!
That shipwreck in the snow and wind was actually a fake ship made by putting together black mud men!
The light from the flashlight can only illuminate about 100 meters. This group of black mud people will wait until they swim far away and then rush in front of them, re-forming a sunken ship and creating the illusion of a ghost wall.
Yin Mingwu laughed angrily: "You can lie to your father, but you can't lie to your grandfather. Die."
His swollen right hand was 5 meters long, but it was as light as a feather when he swung it. The giant black hand clenched hard, and countless fine needles exploded in the water, piercing the black mud man like a sieve.
The black mud man has strong imitation ability, but poor attack and defense capabilities. With one attack, he is defeated and turned into mud that pollutes the water source.
They rode He Luo, dived, searched everywhere, and finally found the real Fengxue shipwreck. Inside the shipwreck, each room was different. They both breathed a sigh of relief.
"What on earth are you looking for?" Gao Mengtang said dissatisfiedly, "You asked me to burn incense and send you a fruit basket, but you didn't tell me anything."
Yin Mingwu: "Look for candles."
"Huh?"
"Seriously, I'm not kidding you," Yin Mingwu shone the flashlight here and there, "Xiao Tien told me that in this instance, the Snowstorm Shipwreck will spawn a Ghost Ship branch quest. To trigger the branch quest, you need to find a set of Corpse Oil Candles. Light the candles, and you can enter the Ghost Ship."
There were enough spirit value recovery potions, Gao Mengtang and Yin Mingwu began to search patiently. The ship was not big, and the rooms were empty, so they quickly searched two-thirds of the rooms.
Gao Mengtang kicked lightly with his foot, and a chest of drawers floated up slowly: "What is the connection between the ghost ship and the snowy shipwreck? Why are the corpse oil candles in this ship?"
"Next year when you commemorate me, you must pour two glasses of good wine," said Yin Mingwu.
"Okay, okay, okay."
"The captain of the ghost ship, codenamed [Black Merchant], was also a member of the [Dark Cloud] organization. He was the first mate and entered the Snowstorm as Lei Gong's assistant to promote the [Hollow Man Project]. Then, he was killed by Chen Yuan. In the next two months, an elusive ghost ship often appeared in the ocean." Yin Mingwu finished speaking and shrugged, "The whole article is over."
Gao Mengtang was about to get into the role when it ended: "That's it?"
“No more.”
"Why did Chen Yuan kill him?"
"I don't know. Xiao Tien didn't tell me, and I didn't ask," Yin Mingwu pried open a piece of floorboards and shone a flashlight inside, "I don't care."
Chen Yuan is such a weird person. Why does he make enemies everywhere? He stepped on Hei Yankai's birthday present, rushed into Lei Gong's bedroom to quarrel with him, and even killed one of Lei Gong's assistants.
They searched for another five minutes and finally found a pack of yellowed candles in a row of iron cabinets nailed to the ground.
The yellow color of the candle made me feel inexplicably uncomfortable, like fat, black in color, sticky and slippery to the touch, and I didn't dare to hold it hard.
"Great, we can go now!" Gao Mengtang raised his head excitedly, but in just a moment, the smile on his face faded and his whole face turned pale.
The flashlight on the ground shone on Yin Mingwu. Behind him, there was a pair of black legs like thin bamboo poles. Following the faint light, Gao Mengtang looked at the monster's head.
The flat head is upright and saw-shaped, and the black neck is thin and long.
It's a cesarean section!
The saw wheel's head turned silently, its neck stretched like noodles, and then - its head slammed down.
Gao Mengtang didn't have time to think about it and pushed Yin Mingwu away. "Ding——" There was a crisp sound, like the sound of gold and jade colliding, and no one knew where the sound came from. They didn't think about it and climbed out through the window.
I raised the flashlight and shone it outside the window, and saw densely packed black shadows of people undergoing cesarean section!
"Go back!" Yin Mingwu saw that the caesarean man was about to attack for the second time, and instinctively picked up a piece of broken wood at hand and raised his hand to block it. At this time, He Luo's tentacles also stretched out.
A surprising thing happened. The saw wheel head easily cut off He Luo's thick tentacles with a diameter of half a meter like cutting tofu, but it rolled on the thin wooden board for a long time without leaving a scratch.
"Is this the unkillable cesarean cutter you mentioned?" Yin Mingwu dodged the attack twice in a row. "So lame?"
Gao Mengtang grabbed his collar and said, "Run!"
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