Chapter 252 Elevator (5) Secret Mind Control...
"Hahahahahahahahaha..." A strange and crazy laugh came from the elevator hall. A pale man who looked mentally disturbed appeared in front of everyone.
Behind Zhong Lixing were his four brothers and sisters with exaggerated looks and dramatic expressions. They had yin-yang dyed hair and wore thick oil paint. There was no light in their eyes, but their eyeballs were exceptionally lively when they moved around.
“Nine thousand years old, hehe…” Zhongli Xing stretched his neck, and his cervical vertebrae made a crackling sound. “I have heard of your great name for a long time. I see you today. You look very refreshing after being cleansed…”
Wei Wei looked at him expressionlessly as He Luo's tentacles wrapped around his five fingers.
"Zhongli Xing, you are a smart person. Don't do anything that will hurt both sides," Shang Yu took a step forward. "At least 15 groups are still alive. If we want to win, we shouldn't fight now and let others reap the benefits."
Another merchant's kid also stood up and said, "Why don't we temporarily unite? Mr. Wei doesn't want to be sacrificed at all. It's OK for them to be eliminated as the third to last group."
"Yes, yes." He Suzhi said quickly.
“Then I will be eliminated as the second to last group.” Zhong Lixing tilted his head and picked his ears with his little finger, “Hehehe, that’s fine.”
He agreed so readily that Shang Yu became suspicious, and the poker cards between his fingers were ready to go.
"The second to last group was eliminated. What does that mean?" Shang Yu asked, "You don't want to be a sacrifice?"
Zhong Lixing chuckled for a while: "I don't want to win either. Clowns are not worthy of such a noble sacrifice as 'becoming a sacrifice'. We are just toys for fun."
Others are confused and don't want to be sacrifices. What are you doing here? Is there anyone who wants to trade with you for 20 resurrection coins?
As if he knew what they were thinking, Zhongli Xing flicked the plastic on his little finger: "I came here to have fun. Fun that is more interesting than the arrival of the ancient gods."
"We can accept the third-to-last group being eliminated! You are the second-to-last group." He Suzhi was eager to prove that they were not a threat. "Mr. Wei helped us for 20 resurrection coins. In fact, if we can make it to the last five groups, I can go back and report to my father."
Zhongli Xing smiled even more, the corners of his mouth pointed by the red paint almost curled up to his temples: "Resurrection coins, hehe, resurrection coins... Shang Yu, He Suzhi and the others have a lot of resurrection coins, you can't win. The one who becomes the sacrifice is the Nine Thousand Years Old."
What a mess. Wei Wei didn't want to win at all, so why would he become a sacrifice?
"Do you agree?" Shang Yu ignored this illogical and crazy talk and asked tentatively, "At least for now, don't fight each other."
"I told you it a long time ago, it's okay." Zhongli Xing held his neck and straightened his head. He brushed past Shang Yu's shoulder and walked straight towards Wei Wei. He made many movements with his hands and bowed to him.
Wei Wei just thought that this person was extremely weird. He stood there without moving, and his expression did not change at all, until Zhong Li Xing asked with a giggle, "According to the etiquette of ignorant people, you should shake hands with me when we meet for the first time."
A hand slowly reached out to Zhong Lixing...
"Don't shake hands with him!" Shang Yu shouted.
But before she could open her mouth, Zhongli Xing grabbed Wei Wei's wrist, pulled her into his arms, and with a sharp blade sticking out of his sleeve, he stabbed Wei Wei's jaw!
Snap. The hand holding the sleeve arrow was smashed by He Luo at the shoulder and fell to the ground. The wound was as big as a plate, but not a drop of blood flowed, and the torn part of Zhongli Xing's sleeve was not stained with a drop of red.
Wei Wei tilted his head, and the octopus's tentacles extended from the side of his collar.
"Your defense is a bit low," Wei Wei said calmly, wrapping his arms around Zhong Lixing's neck menacingly, "and your sneak attack speed isn't fast enough either."
Zhongli Xing's remaining hand was still strangling Wei Wei's wrist. He opened his eyes wide and looked at his broken arm.
"You promised us that you would cooperate temporarily and stop fighting!" Shang Yu popped out a poker card, and a barrier appeared out of thin air, separating Wei Wei and Zhong Li Xing.
The other people in Zhongli's family were accustomed to this scene and were silent. They picked up the broken arm in a well-trained manner and helped Zhongli Xing to install it.
"That wasn't a fight just now, it was a courtesy exchange when we first met." Zhong Lixing shook his arm 720 degrees, "The result of the exchange is - Jiu Qian Sui won!"
Zhong Lixing rubbed his shoulders and put his face close to Shang Yu's nose: "See, you can't beat Wei Wei and Gao Mengtang, you can't be a sacrifice."
...I've said it so many times, Wei Wei and the others don't want to win at all. Shang Yu shrugged and ignored this madman.
*
Group B competition venue.
The rule of "finding the rabbit" was widely publicized by Zhongli Chen, and the competition in the arena was even more intense than that in Group A. Players tried their best to control others. If they were not careful and used too much force, they might kill someone and be eliminated.
The Iron Lady, the Impermanence Ghost, the Xinglin Poison Hand, the Twelve Lantern Ghosts, Pegana... All of Gao Mengtang's summons went out in full force to open up an uninhabited area for them. Gao Geng sent out all the drones. Shang Yin and his teammates used cards to build barriers, but they were still no match for the desperate breakout of more than 200 players.
"We found four rabbits," Shang Yin panted as he sat in a secluded corner of the 8th floor. "Gao Mengtang, what about you guys?"
"6." said Gao Mengtang.
One rabbit is worth 10 points, plus these 100 points, the total points in Wei Wei’s account is 200 points, which is only enough for them to reach the 9th floor.
If they stay in the museum for too long, abnormalities will occur in Group A's arena, and the mental value will be consumed at an accelerated rate. The floors of Group B's arena will gradually collapse, and they will be wiped out if they touch the barrier. They must leave the museum as soon as possible.
The exit is only possible on the 1st floor, and they require another 800 points.
"80 rabbits," Shang Yin supported himself against the wall and stood up with great effort. "Floors 13 to 9 were cleared out. For the remaining 8 floors, we need to find at least 10 rabbits on each floor. This is simply impossible!"
The number of trigger points on each floor is only about 15 at most, and none at least. For floors 10 and below, the total number of trigger points is maintained at 7-10.
The number of trigger points generally decreases as the floors go down. According to the current situation, even if they find all the rabbits on the remaining floors, there are still not enough for the members of Group A to use.
Gao Mengtang pinched Qingmingxue: "There must be more than one way to find the rabbit. Let's think about it..."
Another worse news is that Gao Mengtang's abilities were suppressed in this copy, and the effect of the eye-protecting blueberries became weaker. It had been an hour and a half since he entered the copy, and he had eaten three eye-protecting blueberries in a row.
Now, he is almost completely blind, with a field of vision only the size of a fist, and 1000-degree myopia glasses are of no use. In an hour, he will become completely blind.
At the other end of the corridor, a cheerful and pleasant nursery rhyme was heard: "Little bunny, open the door. Take off your head, I want to come in~"
Zhongli Chen was sitting cross-legged on a helium balloon, and a child was leading him towards him.
"Get out!" Shang Yin popped the balloon with a playing card.
Zhong Lichen floated for a while like a plastic bag, then fell to the ground and grinned: "Ah, are you angry?"
No one paid any attention to him, and Zhong Lichen continued to sing: "Dear little rabbit, come down with me, come down quickly..." He pressed the elevator button, turned his head 135 degrees, and looked at Gao Mengtang and laughed.
"Come down with me, little Tang rabbit." Zhong Lichen said.
Gao Mengtang stood up and was about to walk towards him.
"Don't go." Shang Yin pulled him, "These crazy clowns never do anything good."
"You're right!" Zhong Lichen snapped his fingers, "I may be a bad guy, but I'm not useless."
The macaw cried out, "I am the only one left! I am the only one left!" The parrot has half of Lin's soul in its body. It always talks nonsense, and the players don't know if the parrot can predict. In the current situation, they don't have the energy to figure out the deep meaning of this sentence.
Zhongli Chen, on the other hand, showed great interest in the parrot, and he combed its feathers gently.
"Medicines for treating arrhythmias can cause arrhythmias themselves." Zhong Lichen said meaningfully, his eyeballs rolled, and his black pupils pressed against the corners of his eyes, as if they were trying to break free from their sockets. "Medicines have two sides, let alone people."
His vision went dark for a while, and Gao Mengtang ate another blueberry, but this only allowed him to maintain the blurriest of vision.
"Get up, let's go with Zhongli Chen." Gao Mengtang said.
Shang Yin grabbed him even harder: "Gao Mengtang, don't be stupid!"
Zhongli Chen was laughing, and Gao Mengtang said in a soothing tone: "I'm not being stupid. Zhongli Chen has made it very clear, he is just bad, not useless."
The others looked at Gao Mengtang in confusion.
"Think about it, if you knew the rules of the game, what would you do?" Gao Mengtang asked himself, "Of course, I would hide the rules from others to ensure my own advantage."
But Zhongli Chen's choice was to use the prank box to loop the playback pattern and tell all players.
Those who can become the head of a family are all smart people and will not do stupid things on a whim. Zhong Lichen must have other purposes for doing this.
Gao Mengtang couldn't guess what this "purpose" was, but it was definitely not to become a sacrifice. Because even if Zhong Lichen told everyone the rules, he wouldn't be able to gain any advantage.
"If I'm not mistaken, you don't want to win either." Gao Mengtang said, "Want to cooperate with us?"
Zhong Lichen was a little surprised, one of his eyebrows was about to reach his hairline: "Glady, you have grown a brain. Little pretty boy, you have grown a brain."
Gao Mengtang: "...Then what is your purpose in coming to the birthday party?"
"Looking for some fun, hehe." Zhong Lichen pushed the elevator door open, "Come down with me. Or are you waiting to die here?"
The group took the elevator to the 7th floor. Zhong Lichen walked in front, and the rest of the people kept a distance of about 2 meters from him. Shang Yin whispered to Gao Mengtang:
"What on earth is he going to do?"
"I don't know." Gao Mengtang said frankly.
"Then you dare to follow him?"
Gao Mengtang: "Just like Zhong Lichen said, the medicine for treating arrhythmia can cause arrhythmia itself. He has messed up the situation, and he seems to know a little more than us. Now there is no other way except to take advantage of him."
"Dangdang!" Zhongli Chen led them to the end of the corridor, spread out his ten fingers, and waved them towards the wall, "I found something interesting."
There is a garbage pipe port on the wall, and the other end is connected to the garbage bin. When using it, open the sliding door and throw the garbage directly in without going downstairs. It is more common in old houses.
In the player's eyes, the system's explanation automatically appeared, a thin line pointed to the garbage pipe opening, and next to it was a text note:
Instrument: [Road to Ascension]
Function: To be explored.
"Haha, have you found a home for yourself?" Bai Jie muttered softly.
Zhongli Chen didn't know if he heard this clearly, and even if he did, he wouldn't be angry. He opened the pipe door, and the smell of fireworks exploding, mixed with a strong, sweet, and greasy smell of blood, filled the air.
"Throw a teammate in and you'll get 50 points." Zhong Lichen said, "This is a glorious sacrifice! Are you ready?"
Gao Mengtang was shocked: "What will happen after throwing it in?"
"It's a bit, um... unexpected." Zhong Lichen said, "I won't tell you, you have to see it with your own eyes."
"How do you know?" Shang Yin's throat tightened.
Zhong Lichen spread his hands with an innocent expression: "Didn't you notice that from the beginning to the end, I was the only one standing here to make you happy."
"——Because I threw all my teammates in!"
It took everyone a few seconds to realize what Zhong Lichen was talking about, and they stared at him in shock.
"I'm a little disappointed by this reaction. I thought you would scream." Zhong Lichen supported himself against the wall with one hand, smiling brightly, "Why are you looking at me like an idiot? Check the leaderboard. I won't lie."
The last time I opened the scoreboard was before entering the exhibition hall of the Eleventh Sage King. Since then, the situation has become tense and the players have no time to pay attention to the scoreboard. When I opened it again, the first place on the scoreboard was clearly marked with the three big characters "Zhongli Chen". He had obtained 300 points. Gao Mengtang was in second place with 230 points.
"Throw in one teammate, 50 points. Throw in six teammates, 300 points." Zhong Lichen said, "I discovered this before I met you guys. You guys should give it a try too."
Although this game was a fancy suicide, Zhong Lichen sacrificed all his teammates in one breath and looked nonchalant, which made Gao Mengtang, Shang Yin and others feel chilled in their hearts.
This is a complete lunatic.
When entering the dungeon, most people are determined to die, but when the moment of sacrifice really comes, they can't help but hesitate and feel filled with emotion.
Song Zhong dragged his teammates back while shouting at the top of his lungs: "We are not risking our lives! None of the seven of us will jump down!"
"What will happen after we jump in?" asked one of Shang's children, his voice trembling slightly.
Zhong Lichen said impatiently, "I told you I won't tell you. Jump down one by one and see for yourself."
"Is there anyone willing?" Shang Yin asked in a deep voice, "If not, I'll go first."
The scene was quiet for 2 seconds. Shang Yin took a step towards the garbage outlet, and a little boy grabbed his sleeve.
"Uncle, I'll go." The child was about to cry, "You will be more useful if you stay in the team."
There is also an order for sacrifice, and the less important ones should be sacrificed first. The Shang family members tacitly agreed to this arrangement, and they watched the little boy walk slowly but firmly towards the garbage outlet.
The pipe was dark, and the cool breeze blew out with the smell of burning and blood. The little boy sobbed with trembling shoulders, and lay at the garbage outlet, looking inside for a full two minutes. Then he made up his mind, leaned forward, and fell in.
A scream of "Ah" came from the port, and then a strong wind blew out from the garbage pipe, making the glass shake and the players couldn't even stand.
Jingle bells. Jingle bells.
The familiar knocking sound rang out, like glass beads falling on the floor. For a moment, the players even forgot their sadness and looked ahead with blurred eyes.
"At the moment when the half-dead came, love changed the world." A long chanting voice came from the pipe.
A face beyond recognition poked out of the garbage port. The one who fell in was a handsome little boy, and the one who crawled out was a monster. His skin was burnt, he had no eyelids or lips, and his round eyeballs seemed to be about to fall out of his eye sockets.
Zhong Lichen stood next to the garbage outlet, watching the little boy crawl out, without dodging or defending. He already knew there was no danger.
The man, whose body was burnt black, crawled out in a twisted posture, leaving a bloody footprint with every step he took. There was still white flame on his body that had not yet been extinguished.
"I saw the only King." The boy stretched out his hand to Shang Yin, "Come, go with me to see Him."
His scorched skin peeled off piece by piece and hit the floor, making a clanging, clanging, clanging sound.
Song Zhong was so frightened that he trembled with fear. He screamed, tore two pieces of cloth and blocked his ears with them.
"Are you miserable? Are you also living in sin? Come with me to Him, and He will save us."
Shang Yin seemed to be bewitched by something and stretched out his hand in confusion.
“Ho ho, ho ho.” The charred boy suddenly covered his throat, as if he could not breathe. He fell to the ground with a thud, struggling violently.
What is terrifying is that although the boy looked so painful when he was struggling, he always kept smiling, as if he was immersed in ultimate happiness, and his eyes were shining brighter than ever.
Not long after, while the other players were still in shock, he died. His charred body gradually dissolved, leaving only a dead rabbit lying on the floor.
"We found the rabbit!" Zhongli Chen clapped his hands.
The description of the instrument [Path to Ascension] has been updated.
Function: Sacrifice a teammate and get 50 points. How about you? When will you wake up?
…
The players sat dejectedly in the corridor. Shang Yin held the photo he had just taken. His neck and cheeks turned red little by little, and then he sobbed softly.
"What on earth is going on!" Shang Yin threw the photo to the ground.
In the photo, there is no dead rabbit, only the sacrificed boy, standing upright in the corridor. The overhead light makes his eye sockets sink into darkness, and the corners of his mouth are raised, smiling happily.
A pair of translucent hands were placed on the boy's shoulders, and behind him was a pale golden shadow. It was as if someone was standing behind him in a cloak, but his face could not be seen clearly.
Song Zhong kept stuffing cotton into his ears. He couldn't hear clearly and spoke loudly: "Gao Mengtang, do we really have to have these 20 resurrection coins? Can we quit the game early?"
The 10 drones flew back to Gao Geng, where they were disassembled, compressed, and turned into individual parts, which were then inserted into Gao Geng's mechanical left arm. He said calmly, "I can't quit."
He just sent a drone to investigate, and found that there was no exit from the 13th floor to the 2nd floor. The exit was only on the 1st floor.
Moreover, when the drone tries to leave from the exit, the system prompts: [You can leave only after the team members of Group A leave the instance]
"There are still 750 points left." Gao Geng said.
Gao Mengtang wore 1000-degree myopic glasses and used a handheld magnifying glass to barely see the details in the photo. He held the photo of the sacrificial little boy and looked at it for a long time.
"He Qi, I heard that your uncle He Yan had a smile on his face when he encountered misfortune, is that right?" Gao Mengtang asked.
"Hmm... it's almost like this boy's smile." He Qi said sullenly, "Uncle seemed to have glimpsed into the realm of God and was liberated."
He Yan committed suicide. He struggled before committing suicide, scratching his face and neck, leaving bloody marks. Then, he stabbed the knife into his chest and died with a happy smile, relieved from pain.
"Has your Uncle He Yan ever done anything... um, anything that is not in line with public morality?" Gao Mengtang asked.
The ancient god believers were speechless. He Qi pouted and said unhappily: "Murder, fire prevention, usury, violent debt collection, torture, cannibalism... handsome brother, you also know that we are not good people."
"Did he ever feel regret and pain for his crime?" Gao Mengtang asked.
As soon as this question was asked, a young man from the Shang clan burst out laughing: "Bodhisattva Mengtang, you think that is a crime, but we think it is a practice. We are not from the same world and do not use the same value system."
Shang Yin interrupted this discussion about guilt and repentance: "Quick, let's find more rabbits."
"You guys go ahead. I'm almost blind and can't help you much. I'll wait for you here on the 7th floor." Gao Mengtang said, "I'll analyze these photos."
He collected all the photos taken by everyone.
Skinned bloody people, corpses, blue-gray arms...these are the people the photographer has killed.
Bai Jie took three photos in total. The first one was of his bedroom in the basement of the Bai family, the second one was a panoramic view of the Bai family's old house, and the third one was a family portrait of the Bai family.
In the family photo, Bai Jie is about 8 years old, wearing a black robe, with a confused expression, and Bai Shu holding one hand. Except for him, everyone else keeps a faint smile.
"Boss, stop looking." Bai Jie took the photo from Gao Mengtang's hand. He wanted to die, but this damn photo paper, he didn't know what it was made of, and it wouldn't tear no matter how hard he tried.
Gao Mengtang's hand was still holding the photo. He looked at his fingers for a few seconds and slowly clenched his fists.
"Xiaobai, do you feel guilty?" Gao Mengtang suddenly asked.
“What?!” Bai Jie spoke in a strange voice, like a cat whose tail was stepped on. “How could this happen? Boss, you know me. In my eyes, justice is above everything else!”
In the past, Bai Jie would have believed that justice was above all else. On the night when all the Bai family members except him died, Gao Mengtang was still worried that Bai Jie would not be able to accept it, so he secretly observed Bai Jie's condition.
Bai Jie and Duan Song were playing games. Duan Song was pressed to the ground and rubbed by Bai Jie. Bai Jie pounded the table and laughed wildly.
In Bai Jie's heart, he had already severed ties with the Bai family. Bai Jie didn't care whether these people with blood on their hands were dead or alive.
But that was in the past.
Now, judging by Bai Jie’s reaction, he clearly cares about this matter.
"Guilt...redemption." Gao Mengtang whispered.
Bai Jie didn't hear clearly, he paced back and forth in annoyance, tapping the floor with his cane wrapped in black cloth. After circling more than 20 times, Bai Jie screamed in pain, fell to his knees, and tightly grasped Gao Mengtang's hand:
"Boss, I feel something is wrong," Bai Jie said with fear and despair, "I shouldn't have hidden it from you! But, but... Ever since I checked into the hotel in Apurun Town, I always think of my father and my brother..."
Gao Mengtang's eyesight deteriorated again. The bright white corridor gradually darkened before his eyes, and Bai Jie's face was a blurry light.
"This is definitely not my problem. I am sure that I only have hatred and disgust for them!" Bai Jie was so anxious that he began to speak in the language of the other world. "Someone has tampered with my mind. I am sure that someone has tampered with my mind. That person wants to make me feel guilty!"
——At the moment when the half-dead descended, love changed the world.
The lotus sculpture appeared in Gao Mengtang's mind again. The last moment before he went blind, Gao Mengtang saw the Xiao family servants moving the sculpture upstairs.
——This is not a simple competition to select sacrifices!
Since they entered the town of Apurun, they have been subjected to secret brainwashing, or in other words, mental control. The clanging sound is the switch of the mental control.
The only ones who can control the spirit are the gods of the other world.
Why does Xiao Tien have such ability?
Gao Mengtang's hand turned red from being clenched by Bai Jie. He came back to his senses from his thoughts, hugged Bai Jie's trembling shoulders, and closed his eyes that had lost their sight: "Don't worry, don't be anxious, I will save you."
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