Chapter 227: Scavenger (23) I am the twelfth wise king
laboratory.
The black mud seeping out from between his fingers was stirring to pick the lock. With a click, the door opened and Gao Mengtang tiptoed inside.
Suddenly someone poked his waist with a finger. Gao Mengtang was startled and turned around to see that it was the farmer.
The farmer's eyes were still red. He had just cried for the ghoul. His voice was hoarse. "Captain Gao, I have no one else to rely on. Please be kind and take me with you."
Gao Mengtang was quite speechless. If it were his previous personality, he would definitely comfort the farmer with kind words and make him feel safe first, but now, his emotions seemed to be frozen, and he could no longer show any sympathy.
"Please," the farmer kept bowing, "I'm willing to die for you!"
Gao Mengtang's habit of being a good person made him speak softly: "Find a place to hide first, okay? I'm following Chen Yuan, and too many people will make us too conspicuous."
"Okay, okay." The farmer agreed repeatedly and found an empty cabinet and hid inside.
The laboratory was empty, and many advertisements and pamphlets were stuffed in through the crack in the door, with words like "Look at the dim light, the vast lake" and "He has come" printed on them, as well as the watermark of the Folk Medical College.
After a look around, I found that the laboratory was full of incomprehensible instruments and messy tables.
"Captain Gao!" The farmer poked his head out from the cabinet. "My passive skill [Wolf is Coming] has activated. The hostile NPC is approaching. You better hide!"
Gao Mengtang also hid in the floor cabinet and squeezed in with the farmer.
"I don't understand what you mean." Chen Yuan's voice came, "I helped you, now you should help me."
Looking out through the crack in the cabinet door, Chen Yuan's feet stopped in front of them, and beside him, there was a black ghost floating in the air.
Xie Wuling: "You didn't help me, you killed me!"
"Don't you want to die?" Chen Yuan said, "I'll help you die, what's the problem?"
"When did I say I wanted to die!" The howl of the Impermanence Ghost was extremely harsh. Chen Yuan took out the bell of Wu Tong Tongue and shook it to calm him down.
Chen Yuan: "We live in the same dormitory, and you say 'I want to die' three times a week on average. You say 'I want to die' before going to class, you say 'I want to die' while doing homework, and you say 'I want to die' during finals week. Now you're denying it?"
Xie Wuling: "...I was just talking!"
Gao Mengtang was also speechless. Who among those who were oppressed during finals week had not said "I want to die" a few times? Could you take this seriously? Chen Yuan actually thought that Xie Wuling didn't want to live anymore. He was indeed a psychopath.
At this time, the emotional male voice of Monster Book narrated: [After Xie Wuling studied until the early morning for four consecutive months and used all his spare time to study his coursework, he successfully...achieved a mid-to-low-level grade. And his roommate Chen Yuan, who was in a daze every day, doing handicrafts, playing games, and fooling around with his homework, got a full scholarship.]
[Xie Wuling cannot accept it]
[So, in his junior year, Xie Wuling put a strong sleeping pill and a strong laxative in Chen Yuan's cup before he took his final exam]
…
[Until now, Xie Wuling still doesn’t know whether Chen Yuan discovered that he was drugged. What is certain is that Xie Wuling never knew that Chen Yuan was also drugging him. Xie Wuling said “I want to die” and “I don’t want to live anymore”]
[For a gloomy college student, the weight of the word "want to die" is at best equivalent to a comma. But Chen Yuan doesn't think so.]
[Chen Yuan, who was mentally ill, could only understand the literal meaning. When Xie Wuling said "I want to die", Chen Yuan thought that he really "wanted to die".]
[Chen Yuan died a spectacular and unique death to help his roommate. Of course, for his own experiments, he kept giving Xie Wuling drugs to kill him, but he existed as a ghost.]
[Xie Wuling died "as he wished". His story ends here.]
Gao Mengtang lit a candle for Xie Wuling in his heart.
Life is hard, and complaining a few words about "wanting to die" is not tragic enough. What is tragic is that his roommates took it to heart. What is even more tragic is that his roommates are very enthusiastic and actively help him die.
Soon, Gao Mengtang thought of the people who had been dissected for experiments.
Chen Yuan used his high school and college classmates as experimental subjects, transforming them into monsters who cut open their stomachs. Could there be a similar mystery behind this outrageous act?
The next conversation gave them the answer.
"I don't understand you guys," Chen Yuan fiddled with the lab equipment irritably. The beaker and measuring cylinder knocked against the lab table, and the sound of clanging was heard above his head. "If you don't want to die, why do you say you want to die every day? And my high school classmates kept saying they wanted to kill everyone. I helped them gain the power to kill everyone, and they cried and made a fuss in the lab, and my adoptive father said I was wrong..."
Gao Mengtang was speechless again.
How come this silly kid is the same as AI? AI is smarter than him.
Chen Yuan’s high school classmates might have just said a few words like “It’s so annoying, I want to kill everyone”, but Chen Yuan believed them and helped them become monsters that could kill everyone.
Therefore, people who perform cesarean section can only cause harm to humans. Gao Mengtang is 100% not a human being, which is the only thing that can restrain people who perform cesarean section.
"I want to change back," Xie Wuling's voice was almost sobbing, "I don't want to be a ghost, let me change back, I want to be resurrected!"
Chen Yuan slammed the scale on the operating table: "So do you want to die or not?"
"In no mood!!"
"But you said you wanted to die 76 times." Chen Yuan said seriously, "Did you regret it after you died?"
Gao Mengtang really wanted to speak up for the butcher and said "transfer to manual labor" on his behalf.
Xie Wuling also found that he could not communicate with this person and sobbed softly.
"Since I died for you..." Chen Yuan said.
"I don't want to die!" screamed the ghost of death.
"... Then you have to do me a favor too. This is called reciprocity." Chen Yuan said, "Kill the man who looks like Hei Yankai."
Gao Mengtang shrank himself into an even smaller ball.
"Why?" Xie Wuling asked.
There was another series of clanging and banging sounds above his head. Chen Yuan smashed the experimental props in anger. After a while, he said unhappily, "I can't tell you the reason. Just help me kill him. If you do this, I will hand the Soul Bell to you, and from now on, you will be free."
After a long time, the ghost of impermanence stopped sobbing and said "OK".
The next second, the door of the floor cabinet was opened, and Gao Mengtang and the butcher looked at each other.
"I forgot to tell you, Chen Yuan," the Impermanence Ghost grinned and exhaled a cold breath, "They have been hiding here all the time."
The dark ghostly aura enveloped Gao Mengtang, and the black aura turned into chains, tightly wrapping around him. The iron chains seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, pressing Gao Mengtang so hard that he couldn't breathe.
The farmer screamed and ran away, no longer remembering any promises like "die hard for the land".
The black swamp emerged from the gaps in the iron chain, transformed into hundreds of thousands of arms, and tore the Impermanence Ghost into pieces. Gao Mengtang ran away, and when he looked back, the Impermanence Ghost, which had been torn into pieces like cotton wool, slowly gathered together and returned to its original state.
Gao Mengtang suddenly felt a dull pain in his body, and a warm liquid slid across his skin. He looked down and saw that his clothes were soaked with blood. Large areas of his skin were torn, and black mud oozed from the wounds.
At this time, the voiceover of the Monster Book sounded: [Oh, I forgot to mention. [Wu Chang Ghost Xie Wu Ling]'s skill [Everyone Must Die] can lock onto several players or NPCs. When they are damaged, Wu Chang Ghost will take up to 10% of the damage, and the remaining 90% will be evenly distributed to each person he has locked onto.]
[Attacking him is tantamount to suicide]
Why didn’t you say the important thing earlier!
If the ghost with the lantern had not stopped Gao Mengtang from committing suicide, he would have torn Xie Wuling to pieces and all the damage would have rebounded onto himself, and he would have died.
Gao Mengtang then used the black quagmire to contain the Impermanence Ghost. Xie Wuling did slow down, but Gao Mengtang's footsteps seemed to be stuck by super glue and he couldn't take a step in 3 seconds.
After struggling for a while, he still couldn't run out of the laboratory.
Chen Yuan picked up a round-bellied bottle and smashed it on the edge of the table, approaching Gao Mengtang step by step, "I was just about to kill you, and you came to me on your own."
The power in the body disappeared quickly. Gao Mengtang had experienced this once before. On the day of the coming-of-age ceremony, he and Chen Yuan fought each other. The skill of Wuchang Ghost [Equality of All Beings] could make the strength of all players/NPCs around him equal.
He and Chen Yuan were evenly matched in the duel. With the addition of a ghost that could rebound 90% of the damage done, he had no chance of winning if they went head-on.
At the critical moment, Gao Mengtang suddenly shouted: "Kill me, and you will die too."
The spike of the broken glass bottle in Chen Yuan's hand was less than 1 cm away from Gao Mengtang's eyeballs. He stopped and asked, "Why?"
Because you are an AI with a dull mind, you believe everything others say.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Gao Mengtang aimed at the soul bell in his hand and kicked it. With a crisp sound, Chen Yuan's arm broke, and he immediately snatched the soul bell away.
The ghost of impermanence let out a howl and rushed over to try to snatch the soul bell. Gao Mengtang wanted to imitate Chen Yuan and shake the soul bell to control the ghost of impermanence, but the soul bell in his hand was like a piece of hot charcoal, so hot that he couldn't hold it.
Enduring the burning pain, he shook the bell, but the ghost of death was not controlled.
Gao Mengtang gritted his teeth and threw the soul bell out through the window.
Xie Wuling immediately left them behind and flew through the wall to chase the soul bell. Chen Yuan's head hadn't even turned around yet. He covered his broken arm with a grin and asked breathlessly: "Why?! What does killing you have to do with my life or death?"
"... To be honest, you are only suitable for experiments." Gao Mengtang said seriously, then turned and ran.
Butcher Xie Wuling had already awakened, but he had not shown any desire to attack the players until now, probably because the soul bell that controlled him was in Chen Yuan's hands. Now that Xie Wuling had obtained the soul bell, they were afraid that they were in great danger.
Gao Mengtang jumped downstairs holding on to the railing. The black mud formed a platform to help him slowly descend. As soon as he landed, a gust of air knocked him over.
System: "The butcher [Impermanence Ghost] is very angry, be careful."
In just a few seconds, dark clouds covered the sky, and the windows and doors of the teaching building seemed to have turned into monsters with their mouths wide open. Weird howls and laughter came from all directions, like needles piercing the eardrums.
Gao Mengtang's spirit value dropped by more than 50. He was no longer in the mood to care about these things and looked for teammates everywhere.
Ghosts as dense as raindrops fell from the sky, laughing strangely and moving towards Gao Mengtang.
"Hurry up and take out the corpse oil candle." Li Mo leaned half of his body out of the scroll, "The light of the candle can connect to another world. Ghosts can't see you in the place covered by the candlelight."
Gao Mengtang took out the corpse oil candle from the bubble, and the light came on. The ghost really stopped chasing him and just circled around in a daze.
"Save me! Save me!" It was the farmer, his eyes filled with tears. "Captain Gao, I, I didn't bring the candle."
As he said this, he reached out to grab the candle from Gao Mengtang's hand, but the ghost holding the lantern held him down.
There are 12 corpse oil candles in total, and each player is given one.
Although the candle burned very slowly, it would eventually burn out. Gao Mengtang held the candle, looked at the farmer in the dark, and then glanced at the ghost chasing him in the distance.
"You ran very fast just now." Gao Mengtang said.
The farmer was stunned: "Chief Gao..."
"You promised to die for me," Gao Mengtang took a step back, "Now, your chance has come."
The ghost pushed the farmer into the darkness, and the ghosts surrounded him silently. The farmer watched Gao Mengtang holding the warm fire and walking away slowly. Li Mo turned his head and raised the corner of his mouth in mockery.
"Gao Mengtang!" The farmer roared with his last bit of strength, "You are not a human being——!"
The farmer's screams came from behind. Gao Mengtang blinked her eyelashes slightly when she heard his last curse, stirring up the faint flames.
"Of course, I'm not a human..." The quagmire wrapped around Gao Mengtang's right hand. He slowly pinched off the candle wick, and the flame suddenly became brighter.
The light licked Gao Mengtang's pupils and hair. In just a moment, the color was burned out. The icy white hair tips floated in the cold wind, and the light gray eyes reflected the flickering candlelight and the ghostly shadows in the distance.
"I am the twelfth wise king." The vague murmurs, like the talk in a dream, were blown away by the wind and drowned out by the giggling of ghosts in an instant.
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