Chapter 246: My hobby is rock climbing. Xiao Tien lives upstairs.
Gao Mengtang and the others who were just there to watch the fun only found out what the birthday party was about yesterday. As for how to become a "glorious sacrifice", they knew nothing.
Families like He Suzhi's had already found out the rules of the competition (suicide) set by Xiao Tien.
The contestants are divided into groups of 12, and each group is divided into two parts, Group A with 5 people and Group B with 7 people. Groups A and B enter different competition venues.
The competition in Group A is simple and rough, with players fighting each other until the last group or the last person is left.
The rules of Group B are more complicated. They have to complete a series of tasks and earn points. All these points are distributed to the members of Group A, who can buy props in the arena.
In addition, members of Group B cannot fight each other, otherwise they will be expelled from the competition and their points will be reset to zero. However, members of Group B are not without life-threatening dangers. Xiao Tien will summon a series of monsters to gradually increase the difficulty of the points task.
In the A-group competition, the last group or individual who survived will be considered the winner. Xiao Tien will give them resurrection coins to revive all teammates. These 12 people are the sacrifices for this birthday party.
"That is to say, Xiao Tien has at least 11 resurrection coins?" Wei Wei seized the question that interested him most.
If only one person survives in the Group A match, and all of his teammates in Group B are killed, then the survivor must revive 11 teammates.
He Suzhi pleaded, "Don't call the clan leader by his name, please."
Wei Wei: “11?”
He Suzhi: "...We got the news that Chief Xiao has 11 resurrection coins."
Judging from Wei Wei's eyes, he showed great interest in the 11 resurrection coins in Xiao Tien's hand.
"You are not planning to take advantage of Chief Xiao, are you?" He Suozhi was sensitive for once, "That's Chief Xiao!"
Wei Wei stared at the empty steak plate in a daze. If there were 11 resurrection coins, who would care who he was?
"Are you willing to trade?" He Suozhi asked, "All members of Group A will die, and 5 resurrection coins will be used up. The remaining 15 resurrection coins will be your reward."
Gao Mengtang hesitated: "The ancient god believers hate me. Does your father want us to be your teammates? Moreover, during the fight between Group A members, we have 20 resurrection coins, but we don't use them. It seems like we are deliberately letting them win. We will be exposed."
"He will definitely not be willing to do that," He Suozhi said frankly, "but I will convince him. Anyway, I won't be a sacrifice. He will definitely be disappointed. It's just a matter of how disappointed he is."
"As for the second question, please rest assured that the entire competition is closed and outsiders cannot know what happened. Xiao Tien will only announce the order of death. My father is old and his level is... average. He will not participate in this competition."
Gao Geng crossed his arms across his chest and said coldly, "He lets his children commit suicide in all kinds of ways while he hides away?"
"Honorary sacrifice, sacrifice! How can the behavior of believers of the ancient gods be called suicide!" He Suzhi said, "Although we want to be sacrifices, we can't kill the whole family at once. At least leave a few people to spread out. Once my father leaves, this family will be broken up."
No understanding, no respect.
But they respect 20 resurrection coins.
With the strength of Gao Mengtang and others, it would not be difficult for them to survive until only two groups are left without using resurrection coins.
They happily reached a deal and signed the contract.
: In the birthday party's sacrifice competition, Yuefan members led He Suozhi to survive until only 3 groups or 2 groups were left (cannot win in the end), [120 Forensic Doctor] He Suozhi gave the following props... to [000 Blind Man] Gao Mengtang.
The word "props" in the contract turned into a vortex, and He Suzhi was about to throw the resurrection coin into it in front of everyone.
"Wait a moment," Wei Wei held his arm, "I'm not doubting you, but for the sake of procedural standardization, we hope you can allow us to check these 20 resurrection coins."
He Suzhi was not angry at all and pushed the resurrection coin in front of Wei Wei: "Of course, please."
Touch the silver coin, use the item recognition function, and a line of words will pop up in front of you.
[Resurrection Coin] can revive the player.
The resurrection coins were genuine. Wei Wei counted the number again, confirmed that the contract was normal, then nodded and pushed the resurrection coins back with great willpower: "No problem, thank you."
He Suzhi threw the resurrection coins in one by one, a total of 20 coins.
Before activating the contract, Gao Mengtang read it over twice again. After confirming that there were no problems, both parties dropped a drop of fingertip blood on the contract. The contract came into effect and was made in two copies for both parties to keep.
After finishing the business, they were almost done with the meal. He Lun ate up all the soup from the steak and the rice, and was so full that he kept burping. Seeing this, He Suozhi smiled and said, "It seems that you like this seal meat very much. I thought you wouldn't like it."
"Burp, delicious," He Lun patted his stomach and suddenly widened his eyes: "Seal meat?! Isn't this fried pork chop!"
He Suzhi: "Seal steak. There's also some meat here..."
Wei Wei was just about to pick up a meatball, but when he heard this, he paused with his chopsticks and started snatching the vegetarian dish from Gao Mengtang.
"... That is, human flesh, but I didn't order it. I don't think you would like it." He Suozhi said, "I guess the wine they drink here must have been made with snakes. I think you can accept that."
Judging from Wei Wei's expression, he couldn't accept it. He Lun wanted to induce vomiting.
Registration will start the day after tomorrow, and they first found a hotel to stay in. He Suzhi hosted them and invited them to stay in the best room in Apuren.
The hotel is the tallest building in Apurun, and its appearance is very similar to a black tower, with its spire soaring into the sky. On one side of the building is the densely packed town of Apurun, and on the other side is a huge cracked ice layer.
This hotel is like a sharp blade that opened up the world, piercing into the frozen soil that has been frozen for tens of thousands of years. The buildings are arranged along the cracks, and the ice sea is split apart.
Almost all the people who checked in here wanted to be sacrificed. Many people rolled their eyes at Gao Mengtang along the way.
Gao Mengtang was not willing to be outdone. If anyone rolled their eyes at him, he would glare back.
To their relief, the room was nice, very spacious and decorated in an antique style. It would have been better if it hadn't had skull ornaments and bloody wall paintings.
Although the competition had not officially started, this was not a safe place after all. They did not want to act alone, so two people shared a bedroom, and Gao Mengtang shared a room with Wei Wei as usual.
While packing his luggage, he heard a banging noise outside the door. Gao Mengtang, who was the type who would go wherever there was a commotion, immediately opened the door, stuck half of his head out and looked into the corridor.
A group of people in black robes were carrying a black stone statue upstairs.
When booking the room, He Suzhi told them that the top floor of the hotel was a large suite that had been reserved by Patriarch Xiao. No one else could reserve it no matter how much money they paid.
Gao Mengtang lived on the second top floor, and these people walking upstairs must be Xiao Tien's servants.
The servants saw Gao Mengtang sticking his head out to watch the fun, glanced at him, and continued to walk up without any expression. They carefully protected the stone statue, fearing that it would be bumped or scratched.
The main body of the stone statue is a half-opened lotus. A person is lying face down on the lotus throne, with one arm stretched out and hanging down weakly.
"Good afternoon," Gao Mengtang walked over and said, "What is this?"
A servant bowed and said, "The statue of the half-dead, sir."
In the Xiao family's old house, Gao Mengtang had seen a half-dead statue, but it was not in this form.
"It's different from what I've seen before," said Gao Mengtang.
The servant looked at Gao Mengtang expressionlessly, weighed Gao Mengtang's tone, and thought that he had no intention of offending him, so he replied cautiously: "The statues of the half-dead have many forms, and this is one of them."
"Well, can I pay my respects?" Gao Mengtang asked tentatively.
Servant: "No, sir."
"……oh."
Gao Mengtang returned to his room embarrassedly. Not long after, the ceiling shook with a bang. It seemed that those people had put the stone statue away.
"Xiao Tien is a devout believer in religion. He flew across the ocean and brought a statue of God with him." Gao Mengtang muttered.
Wei Wei leaned on the bed and smoked without answering.
"Avi, you ignore me!" Gao Mengtang said, "Others hate me, but you ignore me!"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Blind," Wei Wei's voice was weaker than usual, "I may not be able to digest the snake wine, and my heart hurts a little."
Gao Mengtang stopped being angry and ran over to rub his chest: "He Suzhi is a forensic doctor. He is very good at healing. Let him take a look at you."
After a while, Wei Wei replied: "It's okay, I feel better now."
Beizhou is at a high latitude, and it was already dark at 3:00 p.m. Wei Wei was reading "The Secret of the Moon" by the oil lamp, and his expression was still gloomy. Gao Mengtang observed him and felt something was wrong the more he thought about it.
Wei Wei could drink ordinary poison like sparkling wine. The snake wine in the restaurant was for the guests to drink, after all, so how could it be stronger than poison?
How could Wei Wei feel unwell because of two glasses of snake wine?
He recalled that when he first checked into the hotel, Wei Wei was very normal and packed his luggage very quickly. When his state changed, Xiao's servants were carrying the half-dead statue upstairs...
After thinking it over, Gao Mengtang found an excuse to go out for a walk, then put on an invisible cloak and tiptoed upstairs.
When they reached the stairs, two servants of the Xiao family stood guarding the stairs like robots with their hands behind their backs. As soon as Gao Mengtang stepped onto the first step, one of them stretched out his hand to block it.
"Mr. Gao, are you going the wrong direction?" The servant said in a steady tone, "There are no other rooms upstairs. You probably want to go downstairs."
“……”It’s a bit embarrassing.
He took off the invisibility cloak and smiled shyly: "I have heard that the Xiao family servants are very capable. I want to test whether you can see through the disguise of the invisibility cloak."
I can't think of a more far-fetched excuse than this...
The servants still didn't react. One of them nodded slightly and said, "Thank you."
If the stairs are not accessible, then climb the wall. Gao Mengtang made a circle, put on the invisible cloak again, and climbed out of the window. The whole building was 30 stories high. Gao Mengtang climbed on the edge of the bed on the top floor window with both hands, exerted force, and poked his head out from the window sill.
The light illuminated the window glass, and Gao Mengtang saw darkness.
He raised his head and met the eyes of the Xiao family servants standing by the window. The two men stood with their hands behind their backs, like guards, with their backs straight. Their eyes penetrated the invisibility cloak and locked onto Gao Mengtang's eyes.
The black color that Gao Mengtang saw was the black robe worn by Xiao’s servants.
The three of them stared at each other for a few seconds, and Gao Mengtang silently retracted his head. Would anyone believe him if he said his hobby was rock climbing?
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