Chapter 4, Level 8 (4) I am the only poor student in my family
Players have figured out the rules of the dungeon, and their anxiety has been reduced. Running up and down consumes a lot of physical energy, and during the rest time, while slowly recovering their physical energy, they gather together to chat.
To be precise, the pharmacist, the drunkard, the archivist, the eccentric scholar and the knight Heren gathered together to talk about Gao Mengtang, who was sitting alone outside the crowd.
They had a heated discussion on the issue of "Gao Mengtang's mystery".
The strange scholar's eyes sparkled. "Mystery is unknowable and beyond common sense. His spiritual value is 999, and his identity number is 000. What special numbers! The Forgotten Grimoire says that these two numbers point to some kind of mystery!"
The brick-thick book was flipping through with a rustling sound, and the players surrounding the city were amazed.
Gao Mengtang's soft voice was almost drowned out by the noise: "Well, my hearing is pretty good, so why don't you guys keep your voice down a bit when you're arranging for me?"
The eccentric scholar became even more excited: "Excellent hearing, beyond the ordinary existence! Mysterious!"
Gao Mengtang: "The compensatory effect of senses. The blind have insufficient visual function, so they promote the improvement of hearing or tactile sensitivity to make up for the lack of vision."
Weird Scholar: "You are extremely sensitive to blood!"
Gao Mengtang: "I was born a vegetarian, so my taste is light. You can eat it if you want."
"Different living habits from ordinary people, this is the mystery!"
"All the monks in the temple are like this," Gao Mengtang held his forehead weakly, "I am a pure ordinary person. I have all three certificates: birth certificate, degree certificate and identity certificate."
The pharmacist tapped the dial of his watch with one hand. "Let's not talk about the 999 spirit value for now. Just assume that you are lucky and got a perfect start. It's not surprising that your initial identity is 000 Blind. It's just a special number randomly drawn. But, Mr. Blind, you have been in the game for 40 minutes, and your spirit value has not decreased at all."
Just like people gradually feel hungry as time goes by, once you enter the game world of Black Tower, your spirit value will continue to decrease. This is the most basic setting.
There are only two ways to restore spirit value: medicine or skills.
When visiting the blind man's homepage, the pharmacist took a look and found that the blind man had no initial skills. The item bar was empty and he could not take medicine.
Gao Mengtang: "I can't see clearly, and I don't feel scared. This is a novice copy, so my spirit value decreases very slowly, right?"
"Impossible," the pharmacist shook his head. "The erosion of the black tower is an all-pervasive mental damage. No matter if you can see clearly or feel fear, as long as you are a rational creature, your mental value will be reduced. It's just a matter of speed. It's been 40 minutes, and your mental value hasn't decreased. It's definitely not normal."
Gao Mengtang felt that he was right, but he didn't know anything, so he had to emphasize: "But I am really an ordinary person born in an ordinary family."
"Family!" The weird scholar suddenly shouted, "I should have thought of family earlier, wizard families and urban legends!!"
Other players suddenly understood: "Oh~~~"
Gao Mengtang: "What are you saying 'oh' to... Stop looking at me like I'm looking at something weird!"
In order to improve the authenticity of the game, the official will compile some anecdotes and interesting stories. "Black Tower" is no exception.
During the pre-order period, there were many interesting stories about the "Black Tower" on the official website. One of the most popular stories was "The Wizard's Family".
The story tells about some mysterious families who look like ordinary people on the surface, but their true identities are the inheritors of magic.
The plot is mediocre and the writing is lackluster. The cause and effect are not clearly explained. If you read it alone, it lacks readability.
The reason why "The Wizarding Family" has attracted widespread attention is that the events in the story can correspond to real things that happened!
For example, in the chapter "Ugly Child", the protagonist is a high school student with ugly and horrible scars on his face. He comes from a family that studies insect witchcraft, and the scars on his face are actually caused by insect bites.
Because of his ugliness, the child of the insect wizard was bullied by his classmates, so he released a poisonous mosquito, which bit the bully's left arm wrist artery and poisoned him to death.
In reality, there was indeed a bizarre poisoning case: In the summer, a high school boy went back to the dormitory to take a nap after lunch and died suddenly. The forensic doctor diagnosed the death as poisoning.
As for what kind of poison it was and who poisoned it, after five years of investigation, we still know nothing.
The case was dropped.
But after investigation, it was confirmed that the deceased had participated in school bullying, and the person he bullied was a boy with ugly scars on his face.
The amazing coincidence made "Ugly Child" widely spread and attracted great attention. When the case was reported to the person in charge, he checked the files and photos and found that there was indeed a mosquito bite on the left wrist of the deceased.
There are many mosquitoes in the summer, so no one cares about such a small bag.
When the story "Ugly Child" was published, the files and photos of the poisoning death case were still confidential. How could the storyteller accurately say that the deceased had a mosquito bite on his left wrist?
Could it be that this is not a story but a fact? Was the bully really killed by a poisonous mosquito?
The stories in "Wizards of the West" are highly similar to real cases. In these stories, there is often a detail that is overlooked by everyone. These details are the creepy key points that can solve the mystery of the case and point to the truth.
There are more than 10 similar stories.
Conspiracy theorists can't help but speculate that wizard families really exist and that they are really involved in strange cases. Wizards may be among us...
"You are a wizard!" The strange scholar concluded. He was too excited and spoke incoherently. "Wizards have superhuman abilities. Your spiritual value will not decrease. Your parents are also wizards. They are all wizards!"
The pharmacist agreed: "Mr. Blind, you are really special"
Gao Mengtang held his forehead weakly, "The only special thing about me is that I look good."
Everyone: “…”
Gao Mengtang touched his face and said, "Doesn't it look good?"
nice.
You have a clear awareness of your beauty.
He Lun's big eyes were filled with deep doubts. He didn't have any ulterior motives and asked directly, "Brother, they say you come from a wizard family. What do your parents do?"
Gao Mengtang also answered frankly: "My mother is a doctor and my father is a lawyer. I also have an older brother who is a doctor of brain science. I am the only poor student in my family. I only scored 550 points in the cultural subjects of the college entrance examination and majored in fine arts. The only knowledge I have about witchcraft comes from Harry Potter."
The pharmacist chose his words carefully: "What about your family...?"
There was an eerie silence for a moment. Gao Mengtang lowered his eyes, not moving an inch. The amiable smile that was usually on his face froze in an instant.
"You shouldn't ask." Gao Mengtang sighed.
His appearance was too beautiful, and there was a huge distance between him and the common people. When his face was expressionless, the sense of distance was even stronger. He stood before them like a cold gate.
It was as if another thin and winding blue cold current was crawling up along their calves, freezing them in the blink of an eye. The pharmacist opened his mouth and said, "We are just..."
"They are all dead." Gao Mengtang spread his hands. "Car accident. An ordinary car accident, a series of rear-end collisions at high speed."
The pharmacist looked numb: "Oh, I see."
Everyone shut up tactfully. After their strength recovered, they continued their exploration.
At this time, everyone in the copy heard the sound of a bell ringing, and the system prompted:
[The game time has reached 1 hour. The game live has been edited and uploaded to the platform. You can check the number of views, likes, coins and fans in the system]
At the same time, a new section has been added to the game's official website: Player Highlights
: I got over 80 points in all three public beta tests. I didn't make the reservation, but at least I could watch the live broadcast and have fun.
: The picture is so real, Black Tower Beer!
: Those who don’t have the qualifications for the public beta, come and make a move, the official will release the spots quickly!
If they knew that this game required their life to play, they probably wouldn't be very excited about it.
On the first day of the public beta, there were not only new players, but also old players in the internal beta. Their live broadcasts of passing the dungeon were even more dramatic, attracting the vast majority of the audience.
Yan Tao, a beta test player, did not enter the dungeon today.
He hid in the bedroom, locked the door, opened the Black Tower app, and found the video section with ease. He wanted to see how other beta players were doing, but when he swiped his finger, he first saw a striking face.
What a nice view.
The long black curly hair is pinned behind the ears and piled on the shoulders, like a dark cloud filled with water vapor. It is casually scattered, giving a sense of lazy and leisurely nobility.
A pair of big, beautiful but empty eyes, quite fragile, easily aroused the desire to protect. When Yan Tao came to his senses, he had already clicked in.
The video was edited to keep only the highlights. The first thing that appeared on the screen was Gao Mengtang comforting the corpse. He touched the skull that he had crushed and said, "I'm sorry, little cutie."
Yan Tao choked on a mouthful of water and started coughing violently.
Then, he saw that when others were panicking, Gao Mengtang was coaxing Rabbit to sleep. When his teammate was frightened by the owner of Room 4 with syringes stuck in his head, Gao Mengtang greeted him and said "good morning".
The lumberjack was kicked to death by his teammates, and Gao Mengtang was trying to calm him down.
While his teammates were still in shock, Gao Mengtang analyzed calmly and was the first to discover the pattern of going up and down the stairs.
Also, a spirit value of 999.
Speculations about the wizard family...
and the pharmacist’s question: “What about your family?”
Gao Mengtang's long and thick eyelashes drooped lazily, and her long black hair was as thick as seaweed, with two curly strands hanging on both sides of her plump cheekbones.
He sat on the steps, leaning against the step behind him, with one leg raised and his arm resting on his knee. His lazy and relaxed posture looked very much like Adam in Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam".
"You shouldn't ask." He raised his eyes, his eyes were like burning coals, dark and shining.
The chill spread across the screen to Yan Tao, and he subconsciously pressed the pause button. When he came to his senses, he found that the hairs on his arms stood up.
The phrase "you shouldn't ask" seems to imply that his parents are very scary and mysterious beings.
Could it be that the blind man really comes from a wizard family? !
He quickly clicked play.
The next few minutes were actually cut out. It jumped directly to the part where the six people entered the fourth floor to explore. The blind man's teammates had different expressions, occasionally looking at him sideways, carefully observing him, as if they were afraid that the blind man would be angry.
The 10-minute video ends here.
Yan Tao stared at the black screen for a long time without coming back to his senses.
The system judged some conversations as boring and cut them all out. Therefore, Yan Tao did not know that Gao Mengtang's "should not ask" meant that his parents were dead, and he did not know that his teammates' strange expressions were because they blamed themselves for rashly mentioning Gao Mengtang's thoughts of his deceased family.
Yan Tao had already imagined in his mind a thrilling and bloody history of a wizard family. Suddenly, he thought of a detail, and the back of his clothes was instantly soaked with cold sweat.
The blind man entered the game without making an appointment.
After calming down for a while, Yan Tao shared the video link to a chat group called "Black Tower Mutual Aid Team".
：I found a new person, his identity is very special.
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