Chapter 249 Elevator (2) The corpse sitting on the throne...
After laughing enough, Shang Yin coughed and returned to his serious tone: "Mr. Blind, you don't plan to be a sacrifice, right? How about we cooperate? My sister should have reached a cooperation agreement with the Ninth Thousand Years Old."
5 minutes later.
"Okay." Gao Mengtang agreed immediately.
Shang Yin: "The goal of Group B members is to earn points. We earn 30% to 70% of the points."
Gao Mengtang: "There are seven of us and three of you? You are very sincere, hahaha."
"There are seven of us and three of you." Shang Yin said.
Gao Mengtang couldn't laugh any more: "No."
"Four to six, we have six and you have four." Shang Yin said, "Our goal is to become the sacrifice. We want to be the final winner. It's useless for you to keep so many points."
Gao Mengtang: "No. 50-50. We don't know what the points are for yet. If we don't have enough points, what if something happens to Wei Wei and the others?"
After a brief argument, Shang Yin finally gave in and agreed to split the points equally: "I think if we join forces, we will definitely survive to the end, but you must not prevent me from becoming a sacrifice."
"Don't worry." Gao Mengtang pushed his glasses. They couldn't go through so much trouble just to die. Such a high-minded thing was beyond their reach.
Shang Yin stared at Gao Mengtang, was silent for a few seconds, and then laughed again.
Gao Mengtang: “…” What’s so funny? These glasses are so cute!
After reaching an agreement, they began to think seriously about the problem of "finding the rabbit".
Just now, Gao Mengtang was reading the description of the Evil King exhibit. After finishing, he heard a jingling sound. Then, they saw the rabbit painting on the wall.
There were definitely no bunny paintings on the walls until I read the exhibit description.
To find the rabbit, read the description of the exhibit.
Although they didn't understand it, this was an important clue, so they found the descriptions of other exhibits and read them carefully from beginning to end without missing a word, and nothing happened.
"I watched it very carefully," Shang Yin said, "but what about the rabbit?"
"But we didn't do anything just now. We were just reading the exhibit descriptions here." He Lun was puzzled. "And do I have to read them too? The descriptions are in Esperanto. I can't even understand the punctuation marks!"
Gao Mengtang suddenly realized: "I understand now. You can't just read silently in your mind, you have to read it out loud! I just translated for my teammates and read the exhibit description from beginning to end!"
After discovering this detail, Gao Mengtang found another exhibit and read aloud with great emotion:
"[Broken Crown]"
"After the twelfth wise king tore open the rift, the environment of the inner world was polluted and the supreme order collapsed."
"Not only the Supreme Order collapsed, but also the crown of the once wise king. When the evil king ascended the throne, only the crown was bound to be broken. He placed the crown on the head of the half-dead."
"According to the Half-Dead's wishes, after the Black Tower game is officially launched, the Fourteenth Wise King will be selected from among humans. The Half-Dead will personally crown the Fourteenth Wise King with this Broken Crown."
“Then the world will understand that when the half-dead man descended, love changed the world.”
Ding ding dong.
[000 Blind] Points +10
On the wall next to the exhibit, there was another rabbit painting. This time, Gao Mengtang didn't rush over to take a photo, because the camera would make him look ugly.
The shutter sounded and the photo was taken. I picked it up and saw that the place where the painted rabbit was was replaced by three gray-green arms. They seemed to be buried alive, stretching out their arms in despair, trying to be saved.
"Strange." Gao Mengtang said in a low voice. He wiped the lenses with his sleeve, as if hoping it was an illusion.
At the same time, Shang Yin finished reading an exhibit description and took a photo of the rabbit painting that had just appeared.
Just like what happened to Gao Mengtang, the painting disappeared. The difference was that in the photo taken by Shang Yin, a bloody person appeared. The person was stripped of all his skin, but he was still alive, crying with his mouth open.
There is clearly no sound in the photo, but it seems as if one can hear the man's screams.
Song Zhong shuddered: "Who is this person?"
Shang Yin looked at it doubtfully for a while, then shook his head: "I don't know. It's not important."
In the exhibition hall, the Shang Yin group of seven, plus Gao Mengtang, Bai Jie, and He Qi, three people who understood the common language, read the description of each exhibit from beginning to end.
【Stone Carved Lotus】
Gao Mengtang: "The Evil King likes lotus very much. Firstly, his body is covered with arms, like a layered flesh lotus. Secondly, the Half-Dead like lotus."
This time, after reading the exhibit description, the rabbit did not appear.
"After reading some instructions, rabbits will appear, but not others." He Qi's young face was calm and composed, which was inconsistent with his age. "We need to think about which type of instructions will make rabbits appear."
There were not many exhibits, and they finished reading them all in just 15 minutes. They found a total of 8 rabbits and earned 80 points, which were divided equally between the two groups. Together with the 60 points Gao Mengtang had previously earned, he now had 100 points.
When I opened the leaderboard, I saw that all the players' scores were 0.
Gao Mengtang: "Why haven't they discovered the pattern yet? They are so slow to react."
Shang Yin and the others looked at Gao Mengtang with complicated expressions, thinking: In this dangerous situation, you are the only one who wears rabbit glasses and leisurely reads the description of the exhibits like you are traveling! !
If Shang Yin hadn't found Gao Mengtang, they would definitely be like everyone else, unable to find a single rabbit.
Gao Mengtang arranged the photos he had taken in order, and there were more and more gray-green ghost hands in the photos. At first there was only one arm, but in the last photo, there were more than 10 arms.
"What do these photos mean?" Gao Mengtang frowned and thought, "Arms, bloody people...Bai Jie, He Qi, Shang Yin, show me your photos."
Shang Yin threw the photo on the ground and said nonchalantly: "I think we should go to the next floor as soon as possible. The number of rabbits should be limited. We have to get there before others..."
Gao Mengtang ignored him and arranged all the photos taken by everyone in a row.
In the photo taken by He Qi, there is a dissected corpse; in the photo taken by Shang Yin, there are three bloody skinned people; Bai Jie only took one photo, but his photo was the strangest, which was a basement full of action figures.
"Do you have any idea?" Gao Mengtang asked.
"The photo shows my bedroom at the Bai family," Bai Jie said. "The Bai family hates me and only allows me to live in the basement."
He Qi shrugged, "I have no idea. I've seen a lot of corpses. My ID card says [120 Dissector], and I started dissecting corpses when I was 6 years old."
"Are you sure you're dissecting a corpse?" Bai Jie sneered, "Based on my understanding of wizard families, the full name of dissecting a corpse should be 'dissecting a living person and turning it into a corpse'!"
He Qi still looked indifferent: "It's almost the same."
"Shang Yin, what about you?" Gao Mengtang asked, "Do you remember the bloody man who was skinned?"
"I don't remember," Shang Yin glanced at his watch, "Let's go to the next floor."
Gao Mengtang transferred his 100 points to the accounts of the Group A members, walked into the bloody elevator again and went to the 12th floor.
*
"[101 Nine Thousand Years Old] received 100 points from [000 Blind Man]."
"[054 Card King] received 40 points from [054 Magician]."
A prompt sound appeared in Wei Wei and Shang Yu's ears.
"Could he have climbed through the window to the next floor?" Shang Yu walked around the exhibition hall on the 13th floor. She threw a playing card at the glass. The playing card that could cut a neck hit the glass but did not leave even a scratch.
They were unable to destroy any part of the building's facade, and they couldn't use the elevator.
There were only two groups of people, Wei Wei and Shang Yu, left on the 13th floor. No matter how many times they pressed the elevator button, there was no response.
In the list, 1/3 of the players' avatars were black, 50 people were dead, and 100 people were still alive. Shang Yu stomped the floor with his leather heels: "I suspect that except for us, the other players are on the 12th floor. Listen, the sound of their fighting has not stopped yet."
The noise coming from downstairs never stopped, accompanied by the screams of the players.
After hearing the notification sound of 100 points being deducted, Wei Wei opened the system panel again. Group A members have a mall for spending points, but there is only one item: [Oracle], which costs 10 points.
[Oracle] Item Description: After use, send a message to the group B members of the same team.
"Mr. Forensic, didn't you say that after Group B earns points, Group A can use the points to buy props?" Wei Wei asked.
He Suozhi looked tired: "That's exactly what I heard. But it's just gossip, it may not be accurate."
"This is also the news I received." Shang Yu said.
The system prompted them to "leave the museum as soon as possible", but there was no exit on the 13th floor and the walls could not be broken down, so they had no way to leave.
According to Wei Wei's experience, there is an exit only on the first floor.
He pressed each elevator button again, but still no response.
Suddenly, Wei Wei thought of something, picked up the Gawu box in front of his chest, opened it and took a look.
"The lotus has changed." said Wei Wei.
The first time he opened the Gawu box, only one petal of the lotus had opened, but now, the petal that was originally in full bloom had withered and dried, and one petal was slowly unfolding.
Hearing this, Shang Yu also opened his Gawu: "Mine has changed too."
In her Ga'u box, the lotus also had a withered petal, but the difference was that her lotus did not open any more petals.
"How many points do you have?" Wei Wei asked.
"40 points." Shang Yu replied, "What's wrong?"
Wei Wei thought for a moment: "If I'm not mistaken, 100 points will make one petal of the lotus bloom. It's very likely..."
He brought the Gawu box close to the elevator button. The blooming petals slowly withered, and the button for the 12th floor in the elevator slowly lit up.
Wei Wei frowned and quickly pressed the Gawu box back to his chest. The button went out again, and the petals that had begun to wither gradually came back to life. He breathed a sigh of relief and continued:
"100 points activate the elevator once. Also, 100 points can only go down one floor."
Shang Yu held the Gawu box between his fingers, fiddling with it. "You can guess this, too?"
Wei Wei didn't reply. He spent 10 points in the system mall to buy the item [Oracle].
As expected, after spending 10 points, the petals that were originally in full bloom closed again.
"Why buy this useless item?" Shang Yu said, "We should save up the points to start the elevator."
The feather pen was controlled by the mind, writing on the parchment scroll. Wei Wei lit his pipe and said, "100 points can only take you to the next floor. The 12th floor is full of players fighting each other. I presume that you are not willing to confront them head-on."
Shang Yu thought for a few seconds and nodded: "If you want to save more points, go down two or three floors and avoid the fighting crowd. I didn't expect that the 9,000-year-old man is afraid of fighting."
"Why work so hard when you can just sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labor?" Wei Wei said, "If Your Excellency the King of Cards likes to fight, I will give you the points. You can go to the Colosseum on the 12th floor and show off your heroic spirit."
Shang Yu: "That's actually not necessary."
Now that I understand the rules of the game, the 13th floor is still safe, and there is nothing to worry about. Shang Yu crossed his arms and walked around the door of the neat and tidy Evil King Exhibition Hall.
"Let's go in and take a look?" Shang Yu said, "There are many exhibits in the exhibition hall."
Wei Wei leaned against the wall and smoked: "What a boring suggestion. Who has the leisure to read those things?"
*
Bored and leisurely Gao Mengtang operated the elevator to the 12th floor. As the elevator descended, he jumped for joy like a child entering an amusement park for the first time.
The exhibition hall of the twelfth wise king! The exhibition hall of his previous life! Gao Mengtang really wanted to know what he had experienced in the past.
Seeing Gao Mengtang's excited smile, Shang Yin was shocked and asked Bai Jie in a low voice: "Is your leader always like this?"
Bai Jie: "What do you mean?"
"Why can a dark, scary, bloody museum make him so happy?" Shang Yin said, pointing to his head, "Your leader wouldn't..."
"Hey! At least tell me behind my back!" Gao Mengtang protested, "This elevator is less than two square meters, I can hear it clearly!"
He wanted to express his dissatisfaction and anger, but the effect was greatly reduced because he was wearing rabbit glasses.
The elevator door opened. Gao Mengtang ignored them and left the elevator first. He came to the entrance of the Twelve Exhibition Halls of the Wise Kings with joy that could hardly be contained.
The entrance door was like a torn crack. There were no solemn and sacred sculptures, nor were there the words "The Twelve Exhibition Halls of the Wise Kings". Gao Mengtang was a little disappointed, but it didn't matter. The threshold was very high, he held up a flashlight and stepped in to take a look -
"Thank God!" Song Zhong exclaimed, "This floor is much more normal. At least there is no blood or organ specimens."
To be precise, the exhibition hall of the Twelve Wise Kings was empty.
Gao Mengtang's disappointment was clearly written on his face. He swept the flashlight around as if he didn't believe it, but he only saw four white walls.
"Why! Why is there nothing in my exhibition hall!" Gao Mengtang's shoulders drooped and his enthusiasm was instantly extinguished.
Because this floor was too clean and empty, the other players couldn't find the rabbit and had already left. Only Gao Mengtang, Shang Yin and others were left on the entire floor.
"Go downstairs?" Shang Yin suggested.
Gao Mengtang refused. There was no light in the dilapidated museum, so he used a flashlight to illuminate every corner. There was nothing else except mud from the soles of shoes left by players who had been here before.
After walking around, Gao Mengtang found the guide column. On the huge poster, there were only three lines of words written sparingly.
: When peace comes, disaster will come, and the world will never be bright again.
: The twelve wise kings caused the collapse of the supreme order and brought about the end of the underworld.
: But at the moment when the half-dead came, love changed the world.
"Okay, okay, at this moment when the half-dead descended, love changed the world!" Gao Mengtang grumbled angrily, "You built the museum without me, even though I also changed the world."
Shang Yin: "Yes, you 'changed' the world. But I think the word 'destroyed' is more accurate."
Gao Mengtang seemed not to have heard Shang Yin's words. Behind his scratched thick lenses, his eyes widened. Then he turned his head and looked at the wall behind him.
Just now, he heard a familiar "ding-dong" sound...
A painting of a rabbit slowly seeped out.
This is not the exhibit description, why does the rabbit appear? Soon, Shang Yin discovered the pattern: "The key is not the exhibit description, but this sentence."
His index finger pointed at the guide bar: "At this moment when the half-dead descended, love changed the world! Only by saying this sentence can the rabbit appear. But a location can only be triggered once."
"Yes, that's right." Gao Mengtang touched the wall painting in a trance.
After knowing this rule, he became more worried. The system asked the player to repeat "Love changes the world", the jingling sound, the rabbit painting, and the changes in the photo...
Putting them together, it's inexplicably chilling.
"The rabbit has changed," He Qi said. "The rabbit we saw on the 13th floor looked like the rabbit in the cartoon. This rabbit is different."
Gao Mengtang also noticed this detail. The rabbit painting on the 13th floor is cartoon-like in style, with long ears, small eyes, and a three-petal mouth, using the simplest strokes to depict the rabbit. On the 12th floor, the rabbit painting is more realistic, with hair, whiskers, and highlights on the eyes.
"Let's take a photo first." Gao Mengtang collected his thoughts, "Shang Yin, you try taking a photo."
"Why?"
"I want to find the pattern of changes in photos," said Gao Mengtang.
After the photo was taken, everyone came closer to take a look. It was still a bloody corpse with skin peeled off. Last time, there were only 3 bloody corpses in the photo, but this time, there were 5 more.
Eight people stood in a row facing the camera with painful expressions, and it seemed as if one could hear their cries through the photo.
"You really don't know what these bloody people are?" Gao Mengtang said seriously, "Just to remind you, we are allies now. If we know important information and hide it from you, it will be bad for both you and me."
Shang Yin: "I really don't remember! What did I skin people for? To make handbags?"
Gao Mengtang stared at him silently, and the look in his eyes meant to say, think about it carefully.
Shang Yin felt uneasy when he looked at her: "Don't waste time, I'll think about the photo later..."
"Uncle," a teenager from Shang Yin's team interrupted him, "When we were young, we all practiced card tricks. The head of the family asked us to use playing cards to scrape off the skin of people bit by bit, and these people must not die during this time."
After his reminder, Shang Yin's long-lost memories came back to him. He opened his mouth and recalled for a while: "You are right. 20 years ago, I practiced these every day. But that was 20 years ago. I have forgotten it a long time ago. I really didn't hide it on purpose."
"So, the people in the photos are all those we killed?" He Qi touched his chin and said to himself, "I have dissected living people, and you have peeled human skin. Handsome brother, what does the arm in your photo mean? Who have you buried alive?"
Gao Mengtang immediately said: "I don't have any illegal hobbies."
As soon as he said this, he suddenly felt something and read the words on the guide board again.
: When peace comes, disaster will come, and the world will never be bright again.
: The twelve wise kings caused the collapse of the supreme order and brought about the end of the underworld.
He had killed people, a whole world of people. And the gray-green arm in the photo looked like a moon creature that had turned into a mineral state before dying.
A chill spread from the bottom of his heart. Gao Mengtang put the photo into his pocket without saying a word: "Let's go to the next floor."
Bai Jie, who was outside the crowd, held a photo of himself in the Bai family's bedroom, and didn't come back to his senses for a long time. Gao Mengtang called him and he woke up from his dream, and at this time, cold sweat soaked his shirt.
As the elevator went down, a hazy white light enveloped the players. A roll of parchment appeared out of thin air and fell into Gao Mengtang's hands. This was the text message from Wei Wei to them.
"Mr. Blind, in the Group A arena, 100 points can only lead to one floor. In addition, the system prompts Group A members to 'leave the museum as soon as possible'. I guess the exit is only on the first floor. Just a reminder. Wei Wei."
"I have reached a cooperation with [054 Card King], and we are currently on the 13th floor."
After being read, the scroll burned itself to ashes, leaving not even a speck of dust.
The system will not give useless prompts. It asks players to "leave the museum as soon as possible", indicating that terrible things will happen if they waste time in the museum.
Wei Wei and his friends cannot operate the elevator independently. It takes 100 points to go down one floor, and they need 1,200 points to leave the museum.
"We need to speed up," Gao Mengtang said. The elevator had already reached the 11th floor.
There are not many players on this floor. Most of the players think that the rabbit is hiding in hidden or dangerous places. If they can't find it on this floor, they can look for it on other floors.
While Gao Mengtang was admiring the collection, other players had already scanned the entire floor, leaving only a few groups of players who were unwilling to give up, pacing anxiously around the 11th floor.
When they saw Gao Mengtang, they rolled their eyes as usual, but Gao Mengtang ignored them.
"Be more discreet in your movements," Gao Mengtang whispered to his teammates, "Don't let other players discover the pattern."
The teammates signaled with their eyes that they understood.
The exhibition hall of Wise King Eleven is solemn and magnificent. The first thing you see when you enter the door is the sculpture of Wise King Eleven. He is holding a full moon orb in his left hand and a scepter in his right hand.
Gao Mengtang unwittingly used his instinct as an art student and looked at the sculpture of Xian Wang Eleven for a long time.
Although the other players disliked Gao Mengtang, he was the first player to "find the rabbit". They closely observed Gao Mengtang's every move. Seeing Gao Mengtang observing the sculpture, they also pretended to follow him, as if they could find a little rabbit from the jewel-studded clothes and the dim pearl crown.
"What's wrong?" Shang Yin asked.
Gao Mengtang supported his cheek with one hand: "Strange."
Shang Yin glanced at the people around him and asked with his eyes: Are there any new rules?
"The posture of the Eleventh Wise King is very strange." Gao Mengtang didn't even look at Shang Yin, and walked around the sculpture. "The crown, the robe, the orb, the scepter, and the throne. These elements should have made the Eleventh Wise King into a noble, majestic, and unattainable ruler of the world."
He Lun and Shang Yin listened attentively, even though they did not find the connection between the Lord of the World and finding the rabbit.
"But the overall feeling of this sculpture is that it is tired, dry, and lifeless." Gao Mengtang walked around to the front of the sculpture, "The posture of the Eleventh Wise King is also very strange."
His body was a little crooked, and he was barely able to maintain his sitting position with the support of his left arm. His whole body was shaky, as if he would fall off the throne with just a slight push. His head drooped weakly, and the hood blocked his face.
Shang Yin listened more carefully, staring at the sculpture of the Eleventh Wise King.
"I understand where the weird feeling comes from!" Gao Mengtang pounded his fist.
"Where?" Shang Yin asked hurriedly.
Gao Mengtang gestured and said, "The one sitting on the throne is not the Eleventh Wise King, but the corpse of the Eleventh Wise King! Look at his weak and stiff body, he is obviously dead!"
Shang Yin's understanding of the human body only stayed at the surface of the skin cut with a playing card, and his artistic appreciation level was also limited. But he still followed Gao Mengtang's movements, hit the palm of his left hand with his right fist, and was surprised as if he had discovered a secret:
"And what did you find? How can it help us?"
Gao Mengtang blinked: "It has nothing to do with the copy."
"Um?"
"I just want to appreciate this sculpture." Gao Mengtang said sincerely, "I have studied sculpture."
Shang Yin: “…Then you are great.”
Gao Mengtang: "Thank you!"
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