Chapter 236 Scavenger (32) Lin Li lost half of his soul
The distance between the male dormitory and the female dormitory in the forest is far, beyond the range of spiritual connection. After turning on the emergency mode, the mobile phone signal is interfered, and it is difficult to make calls and send text messages.
Four people stood by the bed, looking into the distance with melancholy.
The walls of the mental health center were wrapped with special barbed wire that could conduct the black tower's energy flow of a specific frequency. When the Many-Faced Buddha approached, he screamed miserably. The surrounding watchtowers emitted sound waves of a special frequency at him, trying to calm him down.
This hideous monster, like a bat that accidentally broke into the classroom, scared others and itself.
"We should go save Linli." He Lun scratched at the iron door of the dormitory. "She's alone outside. She must be in danger!"
"And there is Tu Cheng." Bai Jie said.
Wei Wei: "Tu Cheng is safe for the time being."
He left a tentacle of He Luo on Tu Cheng last night. The tentacle went into Tu Cheng's brain and could receive all the sensory information of Tu Cheng. He Luo could also feel what Tu Cheng saw, heard, and touched.
At this time, Tu Cheng was lying in the locked ward, staring at the floor in a daze.
He Luo suddenly jumped out of Wei Wei's arms, crawled on the table, picked up a marker, and wrote a word on the table: stinky.
"What does this mean?" Wei Wei asked, "Is there a smell in Tu Cheng's ward?"
He Luo wrote two more words: Very. Festering. Human flesh.
It stinks very badly, like rotting human flesh.
"You mean He Luo's body stinks, like rotten human flesh?" Wei Wei asked.
: No. Air.
Where else could the stench of rotting human flesh come from if not from Tu Cheng?
After writing these words, He Luo struggled to climb up to the dormitory window and opened it a crack. At this time, the Many-Faced Buddha was trying to climb the outer wall of the dormitory building. The mucus flowing from his body was not enough to support his weight, and he slid down again and again.
"Ugh!" He Lun quickly covered his mouth and nose, and quickly closed the window again, almost pinching He Luo's tentacles.
Other people in the dormitory also smelled the disgusting smell. It was the stench emanating from the multi-faceted Buddha, like sour meat mixed with the bad breath of an indigestion patient, mixed with the smell produced by the sewer, it was extremely penetrating and lingered for a long time.
"Did the Many-Faced Buddha enter Tu Cheng's ward?" Gao Mengtang took out a bottle of sweet perfume and sprayed a little on each teammate's head. "No, I observed the Many-Faced Buddha up close. He is very big, more than 5 meters wide, and cannot enter the ward door."
Then there is only one possibility left: someone went to see the Many-Faced Buddha first, then went to Tu Cheng's ward, leaving the stench there.
The Many-Faced Buddha’s loss of control today is probably related to that person.
Bai Jie kept calling Lin Li, speaking in Esperanto mixed with the common language because of his anxiety: "What is he going to do? Kill Tu Cheng? According to the countdown in the sky, another person will die. He wants to kill Tu Cheng. No, Tu Cheng is alive and well. The most dangerous person now is Lin Li, she has lost contact with us..." He Lun kicked the door anxiously. But this is the special defensive door of Epiphyllum Ridge, and the player can do nothing about it.
Gao Mengtang rested his chin on the pillow: "It would be great if Song Zhong was here. His collapse rift can be used for teleportation."
Wei Wei pushed open the window and gestured to the width of the fence outside the window. It was only the width of a palm: "The gap between the fences is about 15 centimeters. You can get out."
After saying that, Wei Wei stepped on the window frame with one foot, and his slender body, like a spirit snake, slid out lightly. Green slime covered his palms, like a gecko's suction cup, firmly adhering to the wall. Wei Wei hung on the outer wall and stretched out a hand towards the window: "Come."
Others: ...Is this right?
"Come out." Wei Wei urged.
Bai Jie was shocked: "Um, Brother Wei, how much do you weigh?"
Wei Wei frowned: "About 95 pounds? Don't ask stupid questions, come out quickly."
The three people who weighed more than 100 pounds were silent for a few seconds and tried. Bai Jie was a little fatter, so they had to split him in half to get out. Gao Mengtang was also very thin, but his frame was a circle larger than Wei Wei's, so his shoulders were stuck and he couldn't get out or in.
He Lun suddenly had an idea: "I think I can give it a try!"
He spread out one of his dark purple wings and wrapped himself up. After a few seconds, he quickly became shorter and thinner, as petite as an underage girl, and looked 70% like his sister Hei.
When he saw that face, Wei Wei's eyes flashed for a moment. After calming down, he grabbed He Lun's arm and pulled him out.
"Let's go find Lin Li first. Take care, both of you."
Wei Wei jumped onto Helun's back. The Wingless Knight flapped his wings and flew away.
The abandoned Gao Mengtang was still stuck in the fence, watching the two men fly away. After a while, he kicked his legs and shouted, "Bai Jie, pull me back!"
*
Wei Wei and He Lun found Lin Li’s dormitory, looked inside through the window, and were disappointed.
There was a body with its head and body separated lying in the dormitory, blood splattered on the ceiling, and an NPC with his throat slit, his eyes still blinking.
Lin Li fell to the ground with his throat slit. A man wearing a bird-beak mask approached Lin Li with a lantern in his hand.
That lantern was extremely similar to the black tower lanterns in the hands of the twelve ghosts.
"Bastard!" He Lun smashed the window, crawled through the railing, raised his spear, and stabbed at the lantern in the bird-beak masked man's hand.
Bird-beak Mask didn't react fast enough. He didn't expect anyone to come. Like a frightened roe deer, he turned his head and stared at them blankly without dodging at all.
The tip of the spear pierced the lantern, and with a click, the round moon orb above the black tower shattered, and it seemed as if an invisible substance was flowing out of the lantern. The gaps between my fingers were cool, as if they were touching gentle stream water.
Even though he couldn't see it, Wei Wei could immediately tell it was a soul by the unique touch of the substance.
He Lun wanted to attack again, but the man in the bird-beak mask finally came to his senses. A fierce murderous intent burst out of his body and he stared directly at the spear that was stabbing at him.
This time, he still did not dodge. The long arrow pierced through his left chest and came out from his back.
The air was quiet for a few seconds.
Is it over?
The wound on his left chest was bleeding profusely, and the splattered blood brushed across Heren's cheek. He gasped for breath, and then, as if he had seen a murderous ghost, his eyes widened in fear.
Ten dark green octopus tentacles emerged from the wound, pushed the tip of the gun out, and mucus covered the wound. After just 2 seconds, the wound was completely healed.
He Lun glanced at Wei Wei subconsciously: "This, your He Luo..."
Bang--
The right hand of the bird-beaked masked man, which was covered with dazzling golden-red armor, punched He Lun's temple. He Lun felt as if his brain was broken into two halves through his skull, and he was unable to get up for a long time.
The dazzling armor with gold and red stripes was clearly Helun's personal skill.
"Copying other people's abilities, huh?" Wei Wei sneered, and He Luo crawled out from his sleeves. "Then you can only be considered a fake, worthless."
He Luo's tentacles split into hundreds and thousands, attacking as fast as lightning. With a whooshing sound like a machine gun, all of them stabbed towards the bird-beak masked man.
The attacks were so intense that they were enough to cut the bird-beak masked man into pulp.
However, the tentacles passed through the body of the bird-beak masked man and stabbed into the wall, leaving dense pits.
The man with the bird-beak mask actually turned his body into a soul and avoided the attack!
This is Wei Xiangchen's skill! Wei Wei attacked again, and the bird-beak masked man used Lin Li's prophecy skill again, dodging two attacks in succession. He raised his hand and a revolver appeared out of thin air.
Wolanbei's skills. Seeing the revolver that his old friend often used, Wei Wei's pupils shrank and he was stunned for a very short moment.
The gun went off and the bullet pierced Wei Wei's forehead.
The bird-beak masked man coughed twice, and had no desire to continue attacking Wei Wei and He Lun. He maintained his soul state, brought the broken black tower lantern closer to the forest, and absorbed her soul.
"Brother Octopus, the master let me come and take a look, Octopus, oh?" Pegana struggled on his four short legs and climbed up to the window. He looked at the three people lying on the ground, and then looked at the man with the bird-beak mask.
Pegana shook off his hair and took deep breath: "Ouch!"
The aurora of the fear magnetic field wrapped the bird-beak mask tightly. The man screamed in extreme pain, used his body to protect the black tower lantern, and climbed out with his hands and feet. His body turned into a soul and passed through the wall to leave.
The bullet fell out of the wound. Wei Wei covered his forehead, which was aching. He first checked He Lun's pulse and then checked Lin Li's breath.
"Neither of them is dead." Wei Wei exhaled, pried open their jaws, and poured healing potions into their mouths. "But Lin Li's condition is not good. It seems that part of her soul has been sucked away. Further examination is needed."
Pegana shook his tail and said, "Squidward, that birdman is very strong. Is he a butcher?"
"Not like it. If it was a butcher, the system would have given a prompt." Wei Wei wrapped a bandage around Lin Li's cut neck.
The most powerful NPC in the dungeon is the Butcher. If the birdman is not the Butcher, then who is it? The otherworldly creatures that invaded the dungeon? Like Pegana, Limo and Hydra in the past. Or someone else?
He Lun: "He can not only copy our skills, but also strengthen them. That punch just now really hurt. Hiss - I don't have that much strength."
Wei Wei also discovered this.
What made Wei Wei more concerned was that he could copy other people's skills, and copy the skills of multiple people at the same time. The strength did not decrease but increased, which was enough to show that the bird-beak mask was very strong. If he fought alone, Wei Wei had no confidence in winning against him.
People with strong strength usually have high mental value and mental resistance. Pegana's fear magnetic field is a mental attack. If Wei Wei tries his best, he can resist it about 2-3 times.
The bird-beak mask couldn't resist even once. As soon as Pegana started barking, he ran away in a panic? This didn't match his strength.
In addition, the man with the bird-beak mask was slow to react, and his movements were slow and stiff. He did not have the sharpness of a sword unsheathed, but instead seemed like a spent bow.
"There's one more thing I'm curious about," He Lun rubbed his temples with a grin, lowered his head and looked around at the corpses on the ground, "How did that birdman get into the dormitory in the forest? The door was locked, and the window fences were so tight that only people weighing less than 100 pounds could get in..."
Wei Wei: "...He can transform his body into a soul. Were you sleeping just now?"
"Yes!" He Lun suddenly realized, "That is to say, he first transformed his body into a soul, entered the ward where the Many-Faced Buddha was imprisoned, and tampered with the ward. Then, with a foul smell, he came to Tu Cheng's ward. After the Many-Faced Buddha ran out, he came to kill Thorinli again?"
Wei Wei didn't say anything. He vaguely felt that something was wrong. He took Lin Li back to their dormitory and told Gao Mengtang and others about what had just happened.
Gao Mengtang made his bed fluffy and soft, sprayed some perfume on it, let Lin Li rest on his bed, and found a stuffed toy for Lin Li to hug.
After listening to Wei Wei's story, Gao Mengtang asked in surprise: "Black Tower Lantern?"
"That should be the soul-guiding lamp." Li Mo popped up, "The other world advocates the separation of body and soul. After death, the body is placed in the coffin, and the soul enters the soul-guiding lamp."
Heron: "So, that birdman is holding... a mass funeral???"
Li Mo: "Not necessarily. In some special cases, the Soul Lamp is only used to absorb souls, for example, to make dark potions that use souls as raw materials."
"That is to say, Wo Lanbei, the divine doctor, the ghoul, and the farmer are not dead, but their souls have been put into the soul-guiding lamp." Gao Mengtang said without any expression on his face, "Look, the numbers in the sky have changed."
Originally, the blood-red number was 1, but now it has become 1/2.
The Bird-Beak Mask requires the collection of 5 souls. The previous four people, plus half of the souls in the forest, were taken away by him, so now he needs to collect another half soul.
"Souls are pizza, and they can be cut into pieces," He Lun muttered, "I'm hungry. Let's eat pizza after we leave this instance."
Gao Mengtang: "The soul-guiding lamp can only absorb the souls of dying people, right?"
Li Mo: “That’s right.”
Gao Mengtang didn't say anything else. He huddled in a corner, looking unhappy. He was recalling Wo Lanbei's death...
"We will meet the Bird-beak Mask again, and we will have a chance to find back half of the soul in the forest." Wei Wei comforted, "Your Excellency the Blind Man, don't be too sad."
Li Mo added: "It doesn't matter if you can't find it. The soul is not like the organs of people in the surface world. You can't live without any of them. It's like fat and muscle. If it's above the minimum standard, a little more or a little less, people can survive. It's just that their personality will change a little."
There was no response at first, but after a few seconds, Gao Mengtang smiled brightly: "Who said I was sad about this? No matter what kind of bird it is, it is definitely not as powerful as me."
Wei Wei: “Yeah.”
"I'm sad because," Gao Mengtang frowned in grievance, "Am I too fat? I can't even get through the 15-centimeter iron fence!"
Wei Wei: “…”
*
In the evening, Lin Li woke up, and her status bar had an entry: "Soul Incomplete"
As soon as she opened her eyes, Gao Mengtang quickly asked, "How are you?"
Lin Li was not wearing glasses. He looked at Gao Mengtang with lifeless eyes, and it seemed as if he was looking at the ceiling lamp through Gao Mengtang's head.
"Dad." Lin Li said suddenly.
Gao Mengtang: “Eh?!”
Lin Li: “Dad.”
"Oh no, Wei Wei, am I fat and old?" Gao Mengtang looked like he was about to cry. Wei Wei held his forehead and sighed, while He Lun and Bai Jie exaggeratedly imitated: I am fat and old.
"Dad, Dad, Dad..." Lin Li repeated nervously, took out a carving knife, and repeatedly carved a symbol on the wall: ∞
The infinity symbol. It looks like the number 8 turned sideways. As she carved it, she kept repeating, "Eight, eight, eight..." This scene made her teammates shudder.
"I remembered some wonderful things," He Lun smiled brightly, "The first instance I participated in was the 8th floor, where I met Brother Meng Tang for the first time. At that time, Brother Meng Tang was a little blind man, and he relied on me everywhere, and even needed my support to go down the stairs."
Everyone: ...
Fortunately, Lin Li's seizures were intermittent. After she carved a hundred ∞ on the wall, her whole body trembled and her eyes became clearer. Wei Wei coaxed her to continue to put the puzzle together.
They have put together three documents. The first document is a numerical diagram of the cylindrical building. The second document has the signatures of Gao Yaxuan and Gao Huan.
The third document revealed an important piece of information: the shredder needs to be regularly fed with humans or life from the other world (at least 150 kilograms per week), otherwise it will go crazy. After going crazy, it will overeat.
It seems that the shredder is not a machine, but a life. The documents also show that the final destination of patients in mental health centers who have no cure is to enter the shredder.
Lin Li and others were putting together the fourth document. After waking up again, she seemed to have aphasia and spoke word by word.
"We need the password for the shredder," Bai Jie kept whispering in her ear, "Take a look and see which document might have the password for the shredder."
"Yes. Yes." Lin Li repeated.
That night, people from Epiphyllum Ridge arrived, captured the Many-Faced Buddha, and sent it to the management area.
In the dead of night, a radio voice sounded: "Notice, the crisis has been initially resolved and the management level has been lowered. Mobile phone signals have been restored. Medical staff, please do not leave the dormitory. If you need to go out, please apply to the nursing department..."
"Notification...cell phone signal has been restored."
Along with the notification, the five players' cell phone message alerts also rang. The sound of ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong lasted for three minutes before it stopped. When they picked up their cell phones, they saw that each of them had received more than 500 messages.
Lei Gong’s missed calls, text messages from Lei Gong, and Lei Gong contacting them through social software.
Wei Wei pressed the mute button in annoyance: "Short-lived ghost, you sent so many messages without replying in 6 hours, can you not live to 6 hours and one minute?!"
Just as he finished speaking, Gao Mengtang received another call on his cell phone. It was from Lei Gong. As soon as he answered the call, high-decibel angry curses echoed throughout the dormitory.
Lei Gong had been cursing for three minutes and had no intention of stopping. Gao Mengtang said helplessly, "So, what's the matter?"
"Why did the Many-Faced Buddha lose control?!!"
Gao Mengtang: “We don’t know.”
Lei Gong cursed for another minute, then asked, "Have you found the password to the shredder?"
Gao Mengtang: “No.”
Another minute of swearing.
"Useless! I'm going to visit Chen Yuan tomorrow afternoon. Before that, find the password to the shredder, or you'll all die. If you dare not answer my call, I! @#￥!!@!"
Before he could finish his scolding, Gao Mengtang decisively pressed the hang-up button and sighed, "Is this what it feels like to have a stupid boss?"
"Password." Lin Li said, putting the last piece of paper away, "Found it."
I just finished putting together a two-finger-wide piece of paper with a line of words on it: The password for Gao Yaxuan's shredder is 3620607.
Gao Mengtang's expression changed: "My birthday is June 6th, and on June 7th, 362 New Year, my parents died in a car accident."
"It was also in 362 that the Black Tower game began its internal testing," said Wei Wei.
Gao Mengtang responded softly, sat on his bed, crossed his legs, hugged a pillow with his arms, and stared at the wallpaper in a daze.
Every year on Gao Mengtang's birthday, his parents would celebrate it grandly, except for his 362nd birthday, when his parents were away on a business trip. On June 7, his mother Gao Yaxuan called him, sounding a little tired.
"My dear, Mom will go home today. I'll take you on a cruise and celebrate your birthday for you."
Gao Mengtang agreed happily.
The father's voice was also very tired: "What kind of cruise ship is this? Does Mengtang like cruise travel? What if the ship sinks?"
"Shut up." Gao Yaxuan shouted.
At the time, Gao Mengtang thought his parents sounded tired because they had been on a business trip for three months, and his father's words, "What if the ship sinks?", were just a joke. Now, when he thinks back on it, he doesn't know why he feels that this conversation is a little weird.
He never thought that his parents would get into a car accident on their way back.
"Don't be sad, Boss." Bai Jie comforted him in a low voice, "Your parents had a good relationship, and they died on the same day, so it can be considered a happy ending."
Gao Mengtang: “……?”
"Cultist, is this your first day joining normal human society?" He Lun punched Bai Jie, "Brother Meng Tang, don't listen to his nonsense."
Gao Mengtang rested his chin on the pillow and shook his head slowly, his hair rubbing against the pillowcase: "It's been four years, I have accepted the reality. Besides, my parents' relationship..."
"Emotional discord?" Bai Jie asked, "My biological parents are the same. When they fight..." Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by He Lun's punch.
Gao Mengtang continued, "It can't be said that they are emotionally incompatible, but I feel that they are...acting as a loving couple."
In front of Gao Mengtang, they always snuggle up to each other and say sweet words. But if Gao Mengtang comes home early from school and his parents are at home, he always sees his father and mother sitting at different ends of the sofa, 1.5 meters apart, browsing their phones without talking to each other, as if there is an air wall between them.
When they saw Gao Mengtang, they smiled and said, "Xiaobao is back," and then stuck together, inseparable.
In very rare moments, Gao Mengtang also saw that after his parents "performed" a sweet hug, his mother rolled her eyes slightly and his father frowned impatiently.
Before his parents died, Gao Mengtang often heard them quarreling in the bedroom. Gao Yaxuan shouted, "Do you want to betray it?", and Gao Huan asked in a crying voice, "Don't you have any feelings at all?"
Gao Mengtang appeared, and the smoke of war between the two of them immediately dissipated, and they became a model couple again. However, at this time, there was a sadness in the eyes of his parents looking at him that Gao Mengtang could not understand.
After listening to Gao Mengtang's story, Bai Jie wanted to say a few words of comfort, but was afraid of saying the wrong thing. After a long pause, he managed to say, "Boss, both your parents have the surname Gao. What a fate. Hahahaha. Don't think too much."
"No, this is not fate." Wei Wei suddenly spoke. He stood beside the table, one hand on the table, leaning over to watch He Luo put the puzzle together. "Mr. Blind, please read this line of words."
He Luo just finished writing: Gao Huan and Gao Yaxuan, brother and sister, have been serving the half-dead since childhood, diligent and loyal, outstanding in talent and learning, and deeply trusted by Xiao Tien. In the 341st year of the new era, Xiao Tien appointed the two as the managers of the shredder project.
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