Chapter 37 Princess Castle Rules Strange Stories (17) 15 years ago...
In the afternoon, Wei Wei finally woke up. He took off his bloodstained coat and wore only a shirt with a lotus leaf collar. Usually, he would comb his hair back to expose his forehead. But now, his short silver-white hair covered his forehead in a messy manner, and his age suddenly faded, like a young man.
However, appearances are deceiving. After Wei Wei·Male Big Edition woke up, his first words were: "I want to kill Yu Le."
Others: …
"The athletes and the scoundrels were killed together."
“…”
"There's only one gardener left, so kill him. None of them will get out alive."
In the bedroom, there was a gorgeous high-back chair. Gao Mengtang leaned back in the chair, crossed his legs, and propped up his chin: "The guest is dead."
Bai Jie was using a wet towel to wipe the fur of his enemy rabbit: "The master's guess should be correct. The gardener and the diners were all bewitched by Qin Xishuang and worked for him."
Gao Mengtang propped up his chin and shook his head: "It's more than that." He pointed at Bai Jie and said, "Maybe, except for you, everyone else has become Qin Xishuang's suitor."
"Fish, athletes, and idiots too?"
"Yeah." Gao Mengtang nodded. "During that farce this morning, they coordinated really well."
"First, the athletes raised the conflict, then the gangsters joined in, exacerbating the conflict, throwing dirty water on us, and trying to force us to take action." Gao Mengtang narrated while thinking.
"Kuai Wei was very calm and did not take the initiative. Then, the gardener stood up. She spoke for us on the surface, but she slapped the gangster, causing the conflict to erupt completely. Yu Le made a feint to the east and attacked me in the west."
"I have said it before, Qin Xishuang is a shameless villain who flirts with people everywhere and sows discord. His methods are hard to guard against." Wei Wei angrily applied medicine to his wound, "Mr. Blind, Qin Xishuang must want to harm you. You must be extremely careful."
Gao Mengtang lowered his eyes and said "hmm" softly.
After a few minutes of silence, the system prompt sounded a cold alarm: "Player [015 Gardener] has died"
"Remaining players, 8 people."
The gardener? Why did she die too?
Gao Mengtang and others looked at each other in shock, some even thought they had heard it wrong.
Wei Wei was the first to come to his senses: "The gardener will drop food, let's go grab it!"
When they arrived at the castle hall, they saw the athlete standing next to the gardener's body with a torn belt in his hand.
【Rule 8】: You must dress neatly, appropriately, and elegantly in the park. In particular, you need to wear a waist ornament, which is a symbol of one's identity and status. Those who do not wear waist ornaments must pay attention to safety.
The belt was pinned with a few small flowers and carefully decorated with olive branches. It was not difficult to see that its former owner was a bit of a beauty-conscious person and very delicate.
"You, you broke the gardener's belt?" He Lun pointed at the athlete angrily.
The athlete's expression was indifferent: "I was just trying it out, she's really dead."
The gardener's body was also very strange, her eyes were bulging, her skin was swollen, her mouth and nose were filled with a lot of light pink foam, and her hands were tightly grasping her neck, as if she couldn't breathe.
Unexpectedly, the athlete rushed over, as if buying discounted items in a supermarket, and went straight to the gardener's body, picked it up and ran away.
He didn't pick up any of the props that exploded.
Wei Wei sneered: "After living for a long time, I still see people snatching corpses. It's interesting."
In this instance, corpses are indeed more useful than the low-level items dropped by the gardener, because the princesses need to eat human flesh to slow down their deformation.
Kill first and eat first, it’s very fresh.
There were fruits and vegetables all over the ground, so they had to accept them reluctantly.
"Finally I don't have to starve anymore," Helen said. Perhaps because so many people died, he became numb. He wasn't particularly sad. "I never thought that one day, I would see healthy food and my eyes would light up."
Gao Mengtang broke the precious carrot into two halves, ate one half himself and fed the other half to his enemy rabbit.
After crunching half a carrot, He Lun stuffed an ugly orange into his hand.
"Ugly oranges are delicious, brother, you eat them."
Gao Mengtang stared at something in the air, thinking, and slowly peeled the ugly orange: "This won't work. Today, the princesses are distorted, and two players can still feed them. Tomorrow, the servants in the castle and hundreds of NPCs will be distorted. Even if we all die, there won't be enough food for them."
There must be other ways to obtain human flesh.
"It's strange. The gardener seemed to have drowned," Bai Jie said. "There was a lot of light red foam in front of her mouth and nose. The small blood vessels in the bronchi or alveoli ruptured and mixed with the foam produced when the drowning fluid entered the respiratory tract, which would produce light red foam. This is an important feature of people who died of drowning."
Heron: "How do you know?"
Bai Jie: "My family often conducts human experiments. I've seen a lot. And my undergraduate major is forensic medicine."
There was not a drop of water in the castle hall. How could the gardener have drowned?
Several people stood quietly, chewing vegetable leaves.
"Belts. The rules emphasize belts, and the gardener's belt was torn off by the athlete." Gao Mengtang said, putting a slice of orange into his mouth, "There are a lot of metaphors in the copy of the Black Tower game. NPCs are metaphors for polluted marine life, and the shark roller coaster is a metaphor for sharks escaping from pollution."
"Then the belt could also be a metaphor. It's hung around the waist and must be worn, otherwise you'll be in danger. Doesn't it easily remind people of a lifebuoy?"
The three of them were stunned for a moment, then nodded slowly: "That makes sense."
Gao Mengtang: "So, we are not actually in the air, but in the sea water. People will die if they leave the lifebuoy. The belt broke, and the gardener drowned."
After eating the last slice of orange, Gao Mengtang threw away the ugly orange peel and ate a Hundred-Eyed Wizard Eye-Protecting Blueberry.
"Look again, this is the first sentence in the magic letter." Gao Mengtang pointed and read it word by word.
【Welcome to the Ocean Heart Princess Castle! 】
[Look, the sky is as blue as the sea, how beautiful! ]
"The sky is as blue as the sea." Gao Mengtang looked out the window. "Above our heads, it's not the sky, but the sea. We are all at the bottom of the sea."
He Lun scratched his head: "I am confused. What does this have to do with human flesh?"
Wei Wei picked up a broccoli and said, "If the Shark Car can transport garbage to land, then it can also transport players to land."
The underwater pollution area is located near Clear Sky Harbor, which was once a popular tourist destination.
The most famous landscape at a tourist attraction is the huge crowds of people.
He Lun pounded his fist: "We rush to the shore and hunt tourists, right!"
Gao Mengtang nodded.
[Speedy Shark] The project is very likely to be dangerous. After much thought, the most suitable person to be the experimental subject is that person...
Gao Geng sat in the roller coaster, fastened his seat belt, and nodded to Gao Mengtang.
The roller coaster started, the track broke, and the shark car flew into the sky.
After a long minute, Gao Mengtang looked up at the sky, and finally saw a black dot flying back.
The Shark Car landed safely and steadily on track. Gao Geng said, "There is another world above the sea."
Gao Mengtang: "Are you okay?"
"As long as you're safe, that's fine with me."
Wei Wei interrupted his lyric: "There are so many people in the upper echelons."
Gao Geng: “A lot.”
"That's right!" He Lun cheered, "Let's go, let's take the NPC to eat buffet!"
The three of them coaxed and tricked the target into the roller coaster, and then they brought several chefs, servants, and butlers into the car. They started the project and rushed into the sky.
"What's going on?" The gangster craned his neck to look.
Yu Le thought silently for a moment: "Let's follow them."
"Why! They look like they are committing suicide!" the gangster was shocked.
Yu Le sneered. He recalled the garbage sorting ceremony the night before, and how he gained strength from the "ritual" and drove away the eye monster that was chasing him: "They are sacrificing the revelers. Just follow them."
For some unknown reason, the three of them also coaxed the NPC to ride the roller coaster.
There was air all around, but he couldn't feel the wind. However, he could hear the sound of water flowing under the current. Gao Mengtang closed his eyes and held the railing tightly with both hands.
The Shark Car rushed faster and faster, and another kind of warmer, more real sunlight shone on the body. The air became viscous, like liquid. With a splash, the car "floated".
I opened my eyes and the golden sand reflected the sunlight, making my eyes tear up.
"It's really Clear Sky Harbor..." He Lun's eyes widened, "The Clear Sky Harbor 15 years ago..."
A roller coaster floated out of the sea. This spectacular sight attracted many tourists to stop and stare in amazement.
The tourists were relaxed and happy, as if they were on vacation. On the beach, there were sand castles, cold drinks filled with ice, and colorful parasols. Some people were holding cameras and shooting videos.
The roller coaster that Yu Le and the others were riding soon emerged from the sea. Before the tourists on vacation could react, several people dragged their surfboards past Gao Mengtang.
"Where are they from? A new project in the scenic area?"
"What a handsome boy, he must be an internet celebrity or a star. He's wearing a Western-style suit, so he must be cosplaying."
"Which one?"
“I can’t tell.”
"Handsome guy, handsome guy, you are an internet celebrity, right? Can we take a photo together?" A boy came running over, skipping and jumping with a surfboard in his arms, his white teeth reflecting the sun.
Gao Mengtang stared at him blankly without any reaction.
This is an NPC in a dungeon, but it's as vivid as a real person.
Laughter and joy echoed in his ears, and the sound of the waves was steady and rhythmic. The surfer stepped barefoot on the sand, came up to Gao Mengtang, and made a "yeah" gesture with two fingers.
On the screen, the boy's smile was bright and sunny, but Gao Mengtang just looked at the screen as if he was sleepwalking.
"Three, two, one, eggplant!"
Before his thumb pressed the record button, there was a "puff" sound, and half of Gao Mengtang's face was splattered with blood.
The princess bit off the surfer boy's neck.
Screams, screams, and busy tones of the police were heard almost at the same time. The NPCs in the castle pounced on the living people like mosquitoes seeing blood.
The killing begins.
Several players stood there, dazed and somewhat confused as they watched the carnage before them.
He Lun: "Brother Weiwei, you have been through a lot of dungeons, so this kind of scene must be very common. It looks very real, but it's actually fake, hahahaha."
After a few dry laughs, I suddenly realized that there was no smile in Wei Wei's eyes.
"Not common. This is the first time I've encountered this."
In the beta version, even though the NPC is exactly like a real person, players will not treat him as a real person because they know clearly that this is just a copy.
But at this moment, the sea breeze, sunshine, and buildings were exactly like the past of Clear Sky Harbor. For a moment, they couldn't tell whether this was a game or reality.
Wei Wei took a long puff of his cigarette and said, "I came here 15 years ago. At that time, I was an undergraduate student at Zhongzhou University. I received a scholarship and came here to travel."
He Lun said to himself, "I've been here before. My parents' hotel business was booming at the time, and my family lived here."
Blood dyed the beach red, and blood seeped to Gao Mengtang's feet. The sun was still shining, but the beach had become a miserable hell. A wave came over and swept the body into the ocean.
"Brother, look quickly." He Lun pointed in a direction, "Isn't that you? You were so cute when you were a little kid!"
Gao Mengtang looked in the direction He Lun pointed and saw four familiar faces: his father, his mother, 15-year-old Gao Geng, and himself, who was 8 years old.
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