Chapter 264 The Last Death (1) Boarding the Train
Gao Mengtang ate an eye-protecting blueberry and stared at the Hibiscus Hermitage in a trance. The courtyard was deserted, with lush grass. A sika deer curiously poked its head out, staring with a pair of bright eyes. A weasel chased a mouse and ran past Gao Mengtang.
Gao Mengtang couldn't move when he saw the fluffy little animal. He wanted to touch the sika deer...
Suddenly, he heard a "whoosh" sound behind him. He turned around quickly and saw Xian Wang Eleven rushing towards him. The black tentacles of the shredder were as sharp as knives.
The black swamp rose up to block the attack of Xian Wang Eleven. Gao Mengtang quickly distanced himself from the attack. He saw Xian Wang Eleven's eyes were red and he sneered:
"Twelve, you are really capable. How did you come up with the idea of changing the speed of time?"
Gao Mengtang said innocently and sincerely: "Thank you for making me excellent. You don't want to kill me, do you? Be careful not to get entangled by the Supreme Order."
The Eleventh Wise King lowered his arms, turned his head, and smiled at him: "In the past, I would gouge out the eyes of anyone who was an eyesore. I kind of miss the feeling of being supreme."
Gao Mengtang said helplessly: "This is not necessary. For a common loss of an eyeball, a bottle of healing potion can be used... Hey!"
The puppet made of Mirror Lake fragments appeared behind the Eleventh Wise King and approached Gao Mengtang in unison.
Gao Mengtang had experienced the power of this thing in the [Elevator] copy. Duan Song, Wei Weijia and Shang Yu fought for several hours but could not kill them.
As soon as the quagmire tore them apart, the other puppets immediately pieced them together, endlessly. As Gao Mengtang struggled, he heard the Eleventh Sage King coldly say, "Gouge out his other eye."
A black blade popped out and approached Gao Mengtang's eyeball.
However, Gao Mengtang didn't care about his eyeballs at this time, because he saw He Luo being grabbed by the Eleventh King, and the black tentacles of the shredder were approaching the dark green octopus aggressively.
"He Luo!" Gao Mengtang suddenly broke free from the puppet fragments and pounced towards He Luo.
There were too many puppets surrounding him, and a sharp blade enlarged before his eyes.
The sharp blade pierced into Gao Mengtang's eyeball, and he was completely blind. The severe pain made his body go limp, and his head was buzzing. When he regained consciousness, his body was still held down by the fragment puppet, and he could hear the cold sarcasm of the Eleventh King.
"He Luo was eaten by the shredder. I'm informing you, Your Majesty."
The sharp blade was pulled out of the eye socket. There was a sound of the eyeball being crushed. The leather shoes of the eleventh wise king rolled on the gravel road: "Isn't your eyeball blood very useful? I'll leave it to you."
The nose was filled with the aroma of well-maintained leather. The sole of the shoe stepped on Gao Mengtang's face. The Eleventh King of Xian stepped down hard on Gao Mengtang's head, and the sharp edges of the gravel sank into Gao Mengtang's cheek.
"Lick the soles of my shoes, Wise King Twelve."
Gao Mengtang was overwhelmed with emotions. If another player had done this to him, he would have been sad, resented that person, and attacked him.
It happened to be Xian Wang Eleven, Xian Wang Eleven who was using Wei Wei's body. Gao Mengtang wanted to crush the leg that was stepping on him, but he couldn't do it.
The soles of the shoes moved away, followed by the sound of footsteps on the gravel road. Gao Mengtang lay on the ground for a long time, digesting the complicated emotions in his heart, until his teammates' voices brought him back to his senses.
"Senior! What's wrong with you!" Duan Song helped Gao Mengtang up, and when he saw his dark eyes, his heart trembled, and he quickly used the healing potion.
Gao Mengtang covered his face for a long time, then took his hands away. His eyeballs had recovered and he said calmly, "I'm fine, let's go."
"Who attacked you!" Duan Song asked angrily, "Wise King Eleven, right?"
Gao Mengtang ate another eye-protecting blueberry without saying anything.
Pegana was so angry that he cried. During the fight, two of his eyeballs were broken. At this time, a rabbit passed by. Pegana thought it was a hare and bit it in anger. The enemy rabbit screamed.
"Let's go." Gao Mengtang picked up the rabbit and the dog. "What is the dungeon mission?"
Duan Song took a deep breath and calmed down: "I found a train ticket and a map in my pocket. Senior, please check if you have any on you."
He touched his pocket and found a train ticket. The paper was of good quality with gold lace, and their carriage, bed and departure time were written on it.
The ticket read: Edwardian Royal Train
Passenger: Gao Mengtang
Seat: Car 6, Box 2
Departure time: December 31, 142 Allah, 9:00 am
This is a sightseeing train with the same departure and destination stations. The journey lasts for seven days and six nights. Please board the train at the Mugunghwa Heritage Station.
In the year 142 BC, a religious revolution broke out, abolishing the belief in God and switching the world to the new era.
Calculating the time, it was almost five hundred years ago.
Turning to the back of the ticket, there is a line of blood-red words. This is a warning from the Black Tower system to players: Be sure to board the train on time.
"The focus of the dungeon seems to be not the Hibiscus Hermitage, but the royal train." Duan Song said, glancing at his watch. After entering the dungeon, all their watches were calibrated to the dungeon time.
It's 6:30 in the morning.
Duan Song: "We still have plenty of time. When I came to find you, I saw the antique car that was used for ferrying. I asked the NPC and he said that you can take the ferry for free with your ticket. It will take about 20 minutes. Let's go find other teammates first."
Entering the Hibiscus Monastery, Gao Mengtang saw a figure from a distance, the Eleventh Wise King.
He was holding the shredder and looking at the inscriptions in the monastery. Gao Mengtang heard his conversation with the shredder.
"Half-dead? How would I know? Xiao Tien insisted on calling me that. It's inexplicable."
"I never said my name was Half-Dead. At that time, I had no blood vessels connected to my body and could not move. How could I give myself a name? Xiao Tien had to call me that. It was really unpleasant."
"The half-dead are names in history. History is written. Do the people on the battlefield know that they are participating in the eight-year war of resistance?"
He took two steps to the side, and his eyes caught sight of Gao Mengtang. His expression changed immediately. He then saw Duan Song, who looked murderous, standing beside Gao Mengtang, and he immediately walked away.
"Don't chase him." Gao Mengtang grabbed Duan Song, "Find your teammates first."
They found Shang Yu and a strange man in the Hibiscus Monastery. Shang Yu was reading the words on the stone tablet and was very absorbed in it. Gao Mengtang called her, but she didn't hear it.
The stone tablet reads: Great God, please grant the believers courage when they experience failure, please grant them humility when they are covered in glory, and please allow them to remain merciful when they pass by the bodies of the losers... We will devote ourselves to hard practice and serve God for the rest of our lives.
It was mostly some prayers, which Gao Mengtang read quickly. After the oath, the names of the baptized believers were engraved. After a quick glance, Gao Mengtang quickly locked onto a name: Carmela de Chautien Gramont.
Shortyen?
"I forgot to mention it," the strange man said, "Xiao Tien is lazy and doesn't like to work. After middle age, he went to the Hibiscus Monastery and was baptized into Christianity."
Duan Song looked at the man and felt that he looked familiar, until the stranger showed his ID card [444 Buried Sacrifice]
"Wei Xiangchen?" Duan Song was surprised. "How did you change from a ghost to a human?"
"The energy field of Hibiscus Monastery is special. The dead will become exactly the same as the living." Wei Xiangchen stamped his feet. He was still wearing the noble clothing from 500 years ago. The maroon robe was gorgeous and dazzling. "I haven't walked for too long. I fell three times."
Shang Yu came back to his senses: "Let's go, there's nothing to see...Gao Mengtang?"
Gao Mengtang had lifeless eyes and stared straight ahead. He did not react even when Duan Song tapped him lightly.
Because when Gao Mengtang read this inscription, a memory flashed into his mind.
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"!*&~@!()@#)?" a child's voice.
The twelfth wise king covered his eyes with a white cloth, groped his way forward, and bumped into someone.
"*&!#￥?" The strange language was incomprehensible to the twelfth wise king. He squatted down, touched the man's head, and said in the language of the Underworld: "Be good, don't be afraid."
“*）&（）*@￥” said the child.
Looking back now, what the child said was: "I'm hungry, give me some money."
As he spoke, the child pulled the pocket of the 12th Wise King, and the robe jingled. Although He spent the last three years of His life in the other world in a shabby little thatched cottage, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and the 12th Wise King still had a lot of good things.
Also, because the twelfth wise king had fair skin and his noble bearing could be seen even with his eyes blindfolded, beggars were willing to ask him for money.
Seeing that He remained silent, the child reached directly into the pocket of the Wise King Twelve and grabbed a gem.
At this point, the twelfth wise king understood that the person standing in front of him was a beggar. He had been in the human world for some time and had met many beggars.
I thought the child would leave after taking a few gems, but this child was even more greedy. He didn't leave and kept pestering the Twelve Wise Kings for more things. He kept grabbing his hands and trying to put things in them.
Trade? Wise King Twelve thought. He touched the thing the child stuffed into his hand. It was cool, smooth, and spherical. Wise King Twelve knew that it was a glass bead.
After coming to the outer world, some kind-hearted children often gave him glass beads.
The child wanted to exchange the worthless glass beads for more gems.
The 12th Wise King knew it was a lie but still gave the child two gems and patted his head: "I like your glass beads very much. This time we are exchanging."
The child ran away with the gem, and he shouted to the other children: "*@￥!—￥..."
Today, Gao Mengtang knew what that sentence meant: Look at this fool, I used glass beads to trick him into giving away his rubies, and he was fooled.
The Twelve Wise Kings were not stupid, they knew that they were glass beads, but the Twelve Wise Kings were not a judge, they did not want to distinguish between good and evil, they just wanted to be equally good to everyone.
After wandering for more than 20 years, the Wise King Twelve healed his eyes. Fortunately, the power of the Stone of the End did not work in the surface world for the time being, and he also learned the language of the surface world.
He would not grow old, so he kept changing his name, living and working in different regions, and researching ways to suppress the End Stone. Because the Wise King Twelve knew that the End Stone's ability to transcend time and space would be revived sooner or later, and the End Stone only needed a period of time to record the data of the surface world.
Memories came back intermittently, and Gao Mengtang recalled that when he was a newspaper deliveryman, he passed by a shabby alley and met a group of untidy young men gathered together smoking.
One of the young men, seeing the twelfth wise king, stared at him for several seconds, then turned to his companion and said, "When I was a child, I met a little beauty as beautiful as him. Unfortunately, her brain was not very good, she was a foreigner, she couldn't understand what was said, and she was blind. I used glass beads to trick her into giving me two rubies!"
The audience burst into laughter, and the Twelve Wise Kings could not help but stop. He still remembered the boy. Twenty years had passed, and he wanted to see the current situation of the person he had helped.
"Wow!" Xiao Ti'en whistled at the twelfth Xian Wang, "Little beauty, what are you looking at? I'm not interested in men, but for someone as pretty as you, I can open a back door for you."
After that, they burst into laughter.
The twelfth wise king had heard similar words many times before, so he did not feel anything special. He withdrew his gaze and continued to deliver newspapers. The laughter of the group of people could be heard from behind.
After a while, He returned to the dirty, dark alley with a cornflower sapphire in his hand... and a few glass beads.
"I really like the glass bead you gave me," the twelfth wise king looked into Xiao Tien's eyes, "This is my last gem. I'll give it to you. It's fate that we can meet again after 20 years."
Xiao Tien still had a cigarette in his mouth, and his expression suddenly changed. He looked at the Twelve Wise King as if he was a lunatic, and did not speak for a long time.
The Twelfth Wise King put the gem into his pocket, the glass bead into his own pocket, and continued to deliver newspapers.
The third time I met Xiao Tien was 30 years later.
At that time, the 12th Wise King had a fake identity and found a job in a theater. One night, when he came out of the theater, a white-haired old beggar crawled to his feet, weighing an empty bowl:
"Please be merciful, please be merciful." The old beggar said, raising his hairy head. The moment he saw the Wise King Twelve, his expression was as if he had seen a ghost.
Seeing this expression, Wise King Twelve immediately knew that he had been recognized again.
The beggar Xiao Tien said tremblingly: "How come you haven't changed at all in 50 years?! How is this possible?"
The twelfth wise king squatted down and patted his head like he did fifty years ago: "Be good, don't be afraid."
Then put all the money you have into his empty bowl.
When leaving, Xiao Tien grabbed His trouser leg tightly and shouted: "Fifty years ago, you knew I used glass beads to trick you, didn't you!"
The twelfth wise king stopped, turned around, and smiled at him: "That's not cheating, it's a deal."
Xiao Tien, as if he had been humiliated, grabbed all the money that the 12th King had given him and stuffed it into the 12th King's hands: "Take it back, I can't take your money!"
"Then let's make another deal." The twelfth wise king said, "Do you have any glass beads?"
Xiao Tien tremblingly took out a glass bead from his dirty clothes.
"I'll use this money to buy your glass bead." The white jade-like fingers of the Wise King Twelve brushed across the weather-beaten back of Xiao Tien's hand, took away the glass bead and placed it in his own palm.
In his palm, there were still the glass beads that Xiao Tien had given him 50 years ago.
Suddenly, Xiao Tien burst into tears: "Who are you? Please tell me your name, please, this is the only wish I have before I die."
This request made the twelfth wise king smile bitterly. Name? He didn't have one.
The wise kings only have numbers, twelve, eleven, seven, and eight. A pseudonym for wandering? It can't really be considered a name.
"I am just a half-dead man." said the Twelfth Wise King.
"Are you Allah?" Xiao Tien shouted desperately. The street lights illuminated his decadent figure, and passers-by looked back frequently.
"I know, you must be! If there is a god in the world, that god can only be you!"
At this point, Xiao Tien was already sobbing. He tightly grasped the coin given to him by the Wise King Twelve and said, "My master, I will serve you for the rest of my life, until I die."
…
Shang Yu clapped his hands after hearing this: "Gao Mengtang, you are such a good man. You used your kindness to influence an old rascal. Unfortunately, you influenced the other side."
Gao Mengtang: "Well...it's true."
"Why does Xiao Tien have your eyeball in her hand?" Duan Song asked.
Gao Mengtang: "In my previous life, when I last met Xiao Tien, Xiao Tien had already discovered the secrets of the other world. He mistakenly thought that the half-dead Xian Wang Eleven was me. We are all half-dead people."
"In order to revive Eleven, Xiao Tien tortured herself to the point where she was unrecognizable and could not even recognize me."
At that time, Gao Mengtang had found a way to seal the power of the Stone of the End. He sealed most of the power contained in the two eyeballs and gave them to Xiao Tien.
"I've been wandering for too long, and I don't have much good stuff around me. I only have two eyeballs left that are somewhat valuable. I wanted to help Xiao Tien one last time." Gao Mengtang said a little embarrassedly, "Now it seems that Xiao Tien used one eyeball to merge with himself, and the other eyeball was made into a 777 series identity card."
Shang Yu clapped even louder: "Great! Your Highness the Wise King! If you had put more things in your pocket when you came to the outer world, we would have nothing to do with you today. The enemy will rise to the top and ascend to the throne."
Gao Mengtang muttered quietly: "I help him, not expecting him to be useful to me, I just want to do this."
Shang Yu could not say anything else except the three words "great philanthropist".
After that, they found He Lun, Bai Jie, Xiao Cang Lan, and Gao Geng one after another. Every time they found someone, Shang Yu would repeat the glorious story of "Gao Mengtang influenced Xiao Tien three times and successfully redeemed a strong enemy."
Those who logged into the dungeon this time are Gao Mengtang, He Lun, Bai Jie, Duan Song, Xiao Canglan, Shang Yu, Lin Li, Wei Xiangchen and Gao Geng. At the moment, only Lin Li has not returned to the team.
It took them another hour to find Lin Li near Black Tower 8, where he was writing "The blind say goodbye here" on the floor tiles over and over again.
"Let's go." Shang Yu pulled her up, "Hurry up and get on the train, it's already 8 o'clock."
Lin Li suddenly raised her head and stared at Shang Yu with burning eyes: "The blind man says goodbye here." She pointed at Heitaba with one hand, "Give up hope, Gao Mengtang will leave us."
Shang Yu: “Hmmmm.”
They were busy getting on the train and had no time to think about the riddle in the forest. They unfolded the map and found that the platform of the departure station was connected to Black Tower 8, so they didn't need to take the shuttle bus.
The system reminds them: Be sure to check your tickets and wait for the bus in time.
This is definitely not to advise them to be punctual. Instead, it means that if they don't get on the bus in time, terrible things are likely to happen.
On the way to check the ticket, I don't know what kind of accident I will encounter. In Gao Mengtang's status bar, there is a negative status [Only Death]
Effect description: You seem to be suppressed by some force, and your overall ability is reduced to 80%
Compared to the reduction to 30% in the [Elevator] copy, this time it was reduced to 80%, which is not bad.
The force that suppressed Gao Mengtang was, of course, the Saprophytic Stone. This was a formal instance, the map area was several times larger, and the suppression effect was also weaker.
"The Saprophytic Stone is in Wei Wei's body. Why can it suppress you? This situation has never happened before when you and Wei Wei entered the dungeon together." Duan Song was looking for the ticket gate in a hurry.
Gao Mengtang: "My idea is that the two copies, [Elevator] and [The Last Dead Person], were designed by the Half-Dead. The Eleventh Sage King has been in contact with the Saproling Stone for a long time, and when he designed the copy, his power seeped into the copy."
In the elevator copy, the points were so few that Gao Mengtang and others had to sacrifice their teammates to pass the level. After the sacrifice, they found that the resurrection coin was the other world version.
In order to revive their teammates, they could only participate in the summoning ceremony, and the Wise King Eleven was successfully resurrected.
In the [Last Dead] copy, the system will definitely not be kind enough to randomly select them and let them compete fairly.
"The Eleventh Wise King knows this dungeon very well." He Lun thought thoughtfully, "Just now I saw the Eleventh Wise King boarded the train early. We have to hurry too."
The structure of the train station is very strange. After checking your ticket and entering the station, you have to climb the stairs to the top floor to reach the platform.
Duan Song: "I bet five photos of my senior's daily life that there must be an accident while climbing the stairs."
Gao Mengtang: “Eh?”
"What is this?" Shang Yu fiddled with the golden roulette wheel on the door lock. The numbers on the roulette wheel were 1-9. They turned the numbers around, but didn't find anything strange, so they left it alone.
The lock was useless and they could open the door even without turning the numbers.
The players climbed the stairs with their heads down, and after 20 minutes, they felt something was not right.
"How many floors does this broken building have?" Duan Song said, "We climb one floor every 20 seconds, so we should be at the 60th floor now. Their platform is built above the clouds. Is it a flying train?"
Duan Song felt that something was wrong, so he pushed open the door and saw that what appeared in front of them was the room where they had just checked in to enter the station.
They tried it twice more, but they were stuck in the same room over and over again.
The black businessman once said that the system spliced the first copy designed by Xian Wangba next to the Hibiscus Monastery. Now it seems that this is the place.
Gao Mengtang held his forehead and sighed: "Find the differences, let's start."
With the skill, it is easy for players to find the differences. Gao Geng flew a drone to record the detailed data of the room. After comparing the data for the second time, he said: "There are 6 differences from the initial room."
He Lun dialed the roulette number to 6, went upstairs again, and compared the number of anomalies again. Each floor had 1-9 places that were different from the initial floor.
After many repetitions, they finally opened the door and felt the cool breeze on the platform. With 20 minutes left before the train left, they were in no mood to complain about climbing the stairs and eagerly checked their tickets and boarded the train.
After all members got on the bus, Gao Mengtang breathed a sigh of relief: "I can't see it. How many times have we verified the anomaly in succession just now?"
"Seven times." Gao Geng said.
Gao Mengtang: "Well, there are eight floors in total. What is the system doing by moving the first copy of Xian Wangba's design here, sentiment?"
The train whistle interrupted Gao Mengtang's thoughts, the doors closed, and steam billowed out. In an area where the thick fog persisted all day, even the train was moving as if it was standing still.
"Dear passengers, the Edward Royal you are on has set sail. Please check your luggage. The journey will take seven days and six nights. The dining car is...on the way...I wish you a pleasant journey..."
The players were not paying attention to what was being said on the radio; their attention was drawn to the scene outside the car window.
Not everyone reacts as quickly as Gao Mengtang and his team.
Several players hurried onto the platform after nine o'clock. They pounded on the doors, either angrily or begging, hoping that the train would open its doors.
The spreading fog enveloped them. The players' skin melted, their muscles burned, and their screams were heard through the glass, but they were still terrified.
Bai Jie patted his chest and said, "Fortunately, we acted quickly. I know the man who died. His name is very interesting. His name is Shen Buming. Every time he sees me, he calls me a jinx."
System: "Reminder: The official dungeon is balanced in strength, and some of your skills and items may be disabled. Please check the system page for details."
"Players logging into the dungeon - 101 people. Players boarding the vehicle - 92 people. Black Tower Games wishes you a pleasant journey."
This blessing sounds malicious no matter how you listen to it.
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