Chapter 30: Strange Stories about the Princess Castle Rules (10) The Revelers Arrive...
"elder brother!"
“Boss!”
He Lun and Bai Jie rushed over together. He Lun transformed into a knight and raised his shield to help Gao Mengtang block the damage. Bai Jie had no defensive skills, but his instinct as a follower made him rush to the front at the first opportunity.
"You guys, what are you doing?" Gao Mengtang was a little speechless. He retreated and said, "You should protect the princess first. If they die, you will have no targets to capture, and the main mission will fail."
He Lun and Bai Jie looked at each other. That makes sense.
In the end, it was Wei Wei who saved the princess of the three of them. He rolled his eyes in annoyance: "I just want to ensure that the blind man gets out alive, and now I have to help the knight and the thief clean up the mess!"
Ten minutes later, the explosions gradually stopped. A large number of NPCs died, and the paradise was covered in blood. It turned from a fairy tale world into a disaster hell. Fortunately, no players were injured, and only one princess died.
Before I could recover from the shock, many small crabs crawled out from the exploded garbage truck.
Crackling. Clicking. Upon hearing this sound, Gao Mengtang immediately thought of what happened to him in the Mysterious Sea Cave: hundreds of small crabs climbed onto his boat, followed closely by a blind snake.
In the night, several twisting light strips lit up.
"Close your eyes!" Gao Mengtang shouted.
The players were confused and didn't understand why they had to close their eyes. At this time, more and more light strips appeared in the air, colorful and gorgeous.
[365 Eater] sighed: "The explosion just now scared me to death. What's going on with the light strips now? Is it a regular part of the float parade?"
The next second, the "light strip" jumped to his side, and two milky white eyes emerged in the darkness.
“Snake! It’s a snake!” [015Gardener] screamed, pointing tremblingly at the air. “The snake is swimming in the air!”
During the three days in the park, most players were busy conquering the princess and had no time to play the projects. They also had not entered the [Mysterious Sea Cave]. Naturally, they did not unlock rules 13 to 18.
The blind snake suddenly appeared, but the players didn't get any information and they had no idea how to deal with it.
Most of the players stared at the strange creatures that suddenly appeared with vigilance.
There were hundreds of blind snakes, their flashing lights connected together like a rotating galaxy. One of the blind snakes stared at the player for a moment, then twisted its head to reveal a cylindrical mouth.
The blind snake's oral funnel is highly similar to that of a lamprey, and it looks like a terrifying worm that emerged from ancient sand and mud.
The player who was staring at the blind snake screamed in fear. The next second, the blind snake's cylindrical mouth bit the player's forehead tightly. The more than 3-meter-long snake twisted and drilled into the player's body and disappeared.
A golden mark appeared between the player's eyebrows. He was terrified. He touched his forehead and then his body: "Where's the snake?! Where's the snake? It got into my body?!"
At this time, Gao Mengtang and others had already hidden in the castle. The interior of the building was relatively safe, at least there were no crabs or blind snakes. They tentatively opened their eyes.
"The mark on his forehead!" Bai Jie exclaimed in a low voice, "That is..."
Before Bai Jie could finish his words, the player attacked by the blind snake suddenly began to scream, struggle, and roll on the ground like crazy. A few seconds later, he died in extreme fear.
System: "Nine players remaining."
“Aaaaaaah!”
The players who came to their senses screamed and ran around in all directions, and the situation became chaotic again. Heren was extremely anxious. He rushed out of the castle and shouted, "Close your eyes! Close your eyes quickly! Don't go against the will of the blind man!"
Gao Mengtang: "Decree, decree?"
Wei Wei also walked out and shouted: "Did you hear that? This is the blind man's will. He wants you to close your eyes!"
"Hey, I'm talking to you..." Gao Mengtang hesitated to speak.
Wei Wei said as if it was a matter of course: "The will refers to the main idea or intention. I didn't use the wrong word."
The players fell silent, closed their eyes, and stumbled back into the castle. The blind snake did not attack them again.
The players who had managed to escape thanked Gao Mengtang repeatedly. The princesses were escorted back to their bedrooms by the guards. The panic gradually dissipated, and the blind snake gradually disappeared.
"You seemed to have something to say just now." Wei Wei pointed at Bai Jie in the air with his pipe.
Bai Jie put his hands together, and the necklace pendant on his neck was pressed into his palms. He closed his eyes and said in a trembling voice: "The mark on the forehead of the deceased is very similar to the [Yellow Mark] of the Feaster."
"Look at the faint light, the lake is vast." Bai Jie's expression was solemn, and he held the pendant tightly in both hands. "Near the Bai family's old house, there is a black lake that never ripples all year round. According to legend, if you see the faint light in the black lake when you are frightened, it means that you have made contact with the Feaster. Those who dare to look directly at the faint light will receive the Feaster's [Yellow Seal] and can cross the lake and reach the Feaster's Black Tower."
Wei Wei sneered: "Crossing the lake? Another way of saying suicide by jumping into the lake?"
"You must fear the gods," Bai Jie said seriously.
Wei Wei sneered. There are gods in this world, and Wei Wei does not deny it. But in his eyes, "god" is just a powerful creature, a more difficult boss to deal with. He will not worship a god, and as for respect...
"Of course I worship the gods," Wei Wei slumped on the chaise longue and took a puff of cigarette, "I worship the God of Wealth."
Bai Jie:......
"Look, those crabs!" Heren pointed out the window. Loud noises were not allowed in the castle, so he kept his voice low in exclamation.
Outside the castle, crabs were densely packed, layer upon layer, covering the garden like a tide. Their legs were gradually becoming soft and wrinkled, with several legs stuck together.
Eventually, all the crabs turned into hands.
Thousands of severed hands gathered into a ball of flesh, twisting their fingers and crawling around.
Wei Wei teased the dark green tentacles in his pipe: "He Luo, look, there are tens of thousands of hands outside, and you only have 10 hands. You are weak."
He Luo was so angry that he stretched out all 10 tentacles and knocked on the glass.
There were also many severed hands crawling into the castle. They looked weird, but were not very aggressive.
Wei Wei caught them all, muttering, "Save them to feed He Luo. He eats too much and is going to make me broke."
Bai Jie carefully dodged the severed hand, his voice trembling: "The severed hand is the symbol of the reveler."
He spread out his hands that had been tightly clenched in front of his chest. In his palms was a 3cm long palm pendant. It had a jade luster and seemed to be Hetian jade. It was also like a semi-solid colloid, more sticky and softer.
The Reveler is one of the few ancient gods with humanoid form. While other ancient gods extend various octopus tentacles, the Reveler extends many "hands" of similar nature.
Gao Mengtang: "This copy is really related to the Feaster."
Bai Jie nodded: "【Yellow Seal】and 【Severed Hand】, this must be the Reveler. But these hands... are so ugly."
Outside the castle, the hands formed by the deformation of crabs have wrinkled skin and bent yellow nails. But the jade hands with the white pendant are slender and delicate, with both exquisite beauty and strength. These are the hands of the feasters.
Bai Jie: "These severed hands are not the tentacles of the Revelers. The marks left by the blind snake are similar to the [Yellow Mark] of the Revelers, but not exactly the same. They are more like deformed creatures that have been contaminated."
If it were the tentacles of the Reveler himself, or the Reveler's genuine [Yellow Seal] that appeared, the player would not be able to withstand the mental pollution and would have gone mad and died long ago.
"What does 'polluted' mean?" Gao Mengtang asked.
"In order to get closer to the gods, wizard families will conduct many experiments that are against human nature..." When Bai Jie mentioned this, his face was filled with anger, and he recounted many things that happened in the Bai family.
In order to gain the power of gods, wizards would prepare strange potions, cultivate terrible bacteria, and create stone statues that could connect to ancient gods...
These crazy wizards have no idea how to properly handle experimental pollutants, nor do they have any intention of doing so. They often discard garbage at will.
Bai Jie had seen with his own eyes that after the human experiment, they threw the tortured and half-dead subjects into the stinking ditch. Bai Jie wanted to save him, but he was under house arrest by his parents and could not leave the bedroom.
He saw from the bedroom window that the man struggled for three days and three nights, and finally turned into a zombie, hurting many nearby villagers.
Then Bai Jie called the police.
Because it is experimental garbage produced by studying gods, garbage often carries some of the gods' abilities. If it is contaminated by them, it will cause distortion related to the gods.
The symbols of the revelers are [Broken Hand] and [Yellow Seal]. Then, the crab will be deformed into a broken hand, and the blind snake can leave a mark similar to the reveler's yellow seal.
[Rule 3]: The princesses and servants in the castle like a clean and tidy environment and they will not litter. Guests should also not litter.
Gao Mengtang seemed to be thinking: "The experimental garbage in the castle was left by the followers of the Feasters. The garbage will cause pollution..."
“No! They don’t deserve to be called followers of the Reveler!” Bai Jie’s eyes burned with anger. “The Reveler is a benevolent god who loves all living beings. His followers will never…”
Wei Wei interrupted Bai Jie, his face very serious: "Has your government ever thrown laboratory waste into the ocean?"
Bai Jie looked confused: "I don't know. They dislike me and won't tell me about family matters."
After a pause, Bai Jie added: "But I think it is very likely that they dumped garbage into the ocean. Isn't that what all humans do?"
Wei Wei didn't reply for a long time. He tapped his palm with his pipe and said, "It's going to be a big problem."
Each copy is a "metaphor" corresponding to reality. Someone has released laboratory waste generated by the research on revelers, destroying the living environment of marine animals.
Corresponding to this in the dungeon, there are laboratory waste, exploding garbage trucks, and contaminated and distorted crabs and sea snakes that appear in food.
Gao Mengtang sighed: "The NPCs in the kitchen are marine animals. The princesses who are also NPCs are probably marine animals as well."
Tonight, it was the crabs and sea snakes that were contaminated and distorted. What about the other NPCs in the castle, and the princesses?
Just at this moment, a loud "bang" was heard in the workroom next to the castle hall. When they ran over to take a look, they saw two guards lying on the ground, twitching constantly.
Their hands quickly swelled and turned purple, their nails turned black, and they crawled around everywhere, dragging their heavy bodies.
Suddenly, the ghost hand locked onto He Lun and grabbed his neck.
"I'm sorry for offending you, distinguished guest." The servants held down the aberrants and killed them expressionlessly. They chopped off two dark purple hands and threw them into the soup pot.
"It seems to be an epidemic." The chef shrugged, "Many of my companions have contracted this strange disease."
"How long has the epidemic been going on?" Gao Mengtang asked.
A confused look appeared on the chef's face. "Ten years? Fifteen years? It's been a long time. Sorry. I have a poor sense of time."
After leaving the kitchen, Gao Mengtang and the other four returned to the bedroom with Gao Geng. The clock struck eight in the evening.
Wei Wei's expression was very ugly: "It's only the third day and the NPCs are already deforming. If we don't deal with the garbage outside, the princesses won't survive until the seventh day. What should we do?"
"Moreover, the deformed NPCs are very hostile to players. The guard just now wanted to attack He Lun." Gao Mengtang added.
When he was teaching the chef how to distinguish garbage, the system prompted him that he had saved the "hostile" NPC and obtained the [Great Good Man] achievement.
At that time, Gao Mengtang didn't understand why the chef was a hostile NPC since he didn't show any hostility towards him.
Now that I think about it, all NPCs can be distorted, and after distortion they become hostile to the player, so aren't they hostile NPCs?
Gao Mengtang recounted his thoughts: "So, the deformed princess will not become the player's dance partner."
"You're overthinking it, haha." He Lun scratched his head, "Princesses are special NPCs. Maybe they are not marine animals and won't be deformed."
Wei Wei pointed to a line of words on the magic letter: "Rule 12, the princesses' bedrooms are on the basement floor. Be careful not to make loud noises. Princesses don't like light."
Heron: "What's wrong with this rule?"
"The diving depth is over 1,000 meters, and there is almost no sunlight." Gao Mengtang propped up his head, "The creatures here live in darkness all year round. They don't like light either. Princesses, they should be deep-sea fish."
The other players had already returned to their bedrooms one after another, leaving only Gao Mengtang and the other three in the castle hall. The air was quiet and solemn.
"It's over, it's over. The princess is also a fish, and she will also be deformed." A layer of cold sweat broke out on He Lun's forehead. "If they turn into monsters, they will not be able to complete the main task. What should I do..."
Gao Mengtang smiled meaningfully: "Who said that only marine life can be deformed? We are going to spend seven days in the paradise."
He Lun jumped up in fear: "Brother, you mean, we will also be deformed!"
Wei Wei used a severed hand to feed He Luo, the dark green tentacles hanging listlessly, obviously not enjoying the food: "The garbage left behind by the float explosion must be dealt with as soon as possible. If it is left there for one more night, the princess will have a greater chance of deformity."
He Lun looked miserable: "But how do we deal with the garbage?"
Throw it out? The instance is closed, and players can only move around inside the park. They can't throw it out.
Buried in the soil? That's the same as not treating it.
The three of them looked worried.
"Shark." Gao Mengtang suddenly spoke.
Heron: "What's wrong, brother?"
Gao Mengtang: "Fifteen years ago, sharks frequently attacked tourists in the shallow bay near the park. And the chef said that the epidemic began to appear more than a decade ago. The two events almost coincided in time."
"In reality, sharks appear abnormally and frequently in shallow waters and show strong aggression. They are probably fleeing. They should be the few surviving fish that have escaped from marine pollution."
Gao Mengtang pointed out the window again. The roller coaster track was illuminated by the moonlight. "On the first day we entered the park, Wei Wei and I did a test. When we activated the [Rapid Shark] project, the shark roller coaster would fly off the track and disappear."
"You mean, put the garbage into the shark roller coaster and let it fly away together?" Wei Wei asked.
Gao Mengtang nodded: "Yes. If sharks in real life can escape from polluted areas, then from a metaphorical point of view, the shark roller coaster in the game should also be able to escape from the park."
"That makes sense. I agree with the blind man's point of view." Wei Wei said.
He Lun was so happy that he jumped up and down: "Since you two smart people said so, then this method must be feasible. Let's try it first!"
"Don't be too happy yet," Gao Mengtang said, "Who will take care of the garbage is also a problem."
【Rule 4】: If you see a garbage dump, please stay away from it.
Garbage is likely to cause pollution to players.
Gao Mengtang tilted his head and looked in the direction of his brother.
NPCs that are half human and half mechanical should not be easily contaminated by garbage!
Gao Geng was repairing the wound on his back by himself. When he noticed Gao Mengtang's gaze, he slowly raised his head. The electricity and faulty parts in his body kept crackling.
"Brother?" Gao Mengtang called.
Gao Geng: “I’m here.”
Gao Mengtang: "You don't look well."
"I'm fine, and I'm happy to serve you." Gao Geng stood up and bowed politely. Two of the gears he had just installed broke, and a section of the wire was exposed, crackling and sparking.
…It doesn’t look good no matter how you look at it. Gao Mengtang silently swallowed his request back into his stomach.
He Lun and Bai Jie also couldn't bear it and couldn't catch an NPC and gang up on him.
"The black mud puppet I sewed can complete simple tasks. Let the black mud puppet carry the garbage." Wei Wei pulled the dark green tentacle to make it more energetic.
He Luo was working overtime late at night and seemed to be in a bad mood. He sewed the black clay puppet as quickly and sloppily as Nuwa did when she was sewing the clay dots.
"It can't be just the four of us working hard to clear the level!" He Lun said indignantly, "Isn't that Mermaid King also an expert in sewing? His fish-man puppet even assassinated Brother Meng Tang. Let him get up and work too!"
This is true, but [741 Mermaid King] has already made enemies with Gao Mengtang and others, so how could he follow the orders and act obediently?
Moreover, Yu Le's primary purpose in entering the dungeon was to kill Gao Mengtang and obtain his ID card. Yu Le was afraid that the world would not be in chaos, and he wished that more princesses and more players would die.
Anyway, Yu Le's level is second only to Wei Wei. As long as he doesn't do anything stupid, he has the ability to survive to the end.
If the truth about the garbage pollution was told to Yu Le, he would not help but watch the fire from the other side and seize the opportunity to plot against Gao Mengtang.
As Gao Mengtang was thinking, he subconsciously tugged at the blueberry leaf of the Hundred-Eyed Wizard: "We can't tell him about the garbage pollution. He will muddy the waters, and then it will not only be me who will be persecuted, but also other players."
The blueberry tree had lost several leaves and fruits. Its branches and leaves were trembling, but it still wanted to get close to Gao Mengtang.
Wei Wei looked at the Hundred-Eyed Wizard, then at Gao Geng, and then at He Luo who was gnawing his hand off. His eyes suddenly lit up:
"If you don't play tricks now, when will you? He Lun, Bai Jie, take these severed hands and knock on the door of the dead fish, and tell him that the reveler..."
After hearing this, the two were delighted. They each hid several severed hands in the cloaks of their dresses and adjusted their expressions.
Then, the two of them put on a look of deep hatred and solemnly knocked on Yu Le's bedroom door.
"Who?" Yu Le's voice came from the room, "You two? Why are you here so late at night instead of hanging around the blind man?"
"Don't you dare open the door?" Bai Jie stared at the cat's eye with a gloomy expression.
Yu Le was furious: "I'm afraid of you?!"
He Lun also had a gloomy face: "You are retreating. Because the cruelest punishment will befall you."
Bai Jie slowly raised the corners of his mouth, with cold hatred burning in his eyes. It was not difficult for him to show hatred, because he had been living in humiliation for more than ten years.
The resentful gaze, through the cat's eye, also carried a shocking chill.
"I will return all my pain to you. Why, are you afraid of me?" Bai Jie asked with a sneer.
He Lun also sneered: "You only dare to hide behind the door, just like an ant before the storm."
Yu Le: "...No, you two are crazy!"
He was furious and confused, and looked into the corridor, but saw no danger.
He Lun and Bai Jie, two new players, were not taken seriously by Yu Le at all. Wei Wei, whom he feared, was nowhere to be seen.
After thinking it over again, Yu Le gritted his teeth and opened the door.
The video of him passing the level will be edited and uploaded. If the audience saw that he was blocked by two novice rookies, he would lose face.
Yu Le suddenly opened the door and said, "You have disturbed my sweet dream. You'd better have a reasonable explanation, otherwise you won't see the sun tomorrow."
The lights in the corridor flickered violently at this moment.
With a snap, the lights went out.
In the darkness, the crazy yet suppressed laughter of Bai Jie and He Lun could be heard: "The Reveler will come tonight, and He will execute every sinner who disrespects Him!"
There was another "click" sound, and the lights came on, illuminating the faces of He Lun and Bai Jie who were laughing wildly: "The joy and singing are endless, and the world is heaven!"
"Use your blood and brain to paint for the revelers!"
Yule: "…What are you crazy about?"
He Lun and Bai Jie opened their cloaks together, and dozens of severed hands fell down with a crackling sound.
The broken hands were deformed crabs. They smelled the scent of marine life on Yu Le and felt very familiar with him, so they jumped towards him enthusiastically.
Yu Le was shocked and was about to curse, but he held back because he remembered to use polite language. He hurriedly slapped the severed hand down, and when he looked up, He Lun and Bai Jie had already left side by side.
The two walked slowly and solemnly, as if they were participating in a mysterious ceremony. Behind them followed two neat rows of black clay puppets.
At the corner of the corridor, Wei Wei suddenly appeared. He was in a very bad state, with lifeless eyes, staring straight ahead, like a puppet being manipulated.
Yu Le was completely confused and had no idea what they were doing. He was stunned for a few seconds, then he realized: Wei Wei, He Bai and the other two had left, so Gao Mengtang would be left alone!
The three of them protected Gao Mengtang like a treasure. Why did they abandon him now, behave strangely, and even say that the revelers have arrived...
Wait, revelers.
Yu Le lowered his head stiffly, staring at the severed hand at his feet.
He almost forgot that the symbol of the reveler was a severed hand.
The two men's declaration echoed in their ears amidst their wild laughter: "The revelers will come tonight."
Yu Le broke out in a cold sweat. He looked around, made up his mind, and followed them downstairs.
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