Chapter 6, Level 8 (6) The Butcher Hundred-Eyed Wizard Appears
The dwarf rabbit also smelled the blood, twisted its little butt, and nestled its whole body into Gao Mengtang's arms, like a mochi ball.
The smell of blood gradually became stronger, from a wisp to a mass and then a patch. Gao Mengtang hugged the little rabbit tightly and moved closer to the corpse.
"What are you doing!" He Lun pulled Gao Mengtang back, "Don't come near, it's too weird."
"There's something wrong with the body." Gao Mengtang said, "It originally had no smell, but now I smell blood. Eh? Is it moving?"
The twitching limbs lashed the ground like whips, making a "snapping" sound. The whole body was like a spring doll that was pressed down, and it was rebounding straight up.
Gao Mengtang still had one hand on the corpse's face. The skin, which was originally smooth, became bumpy for some reason. Gao Mengtang touched it and found that there were some small bumps on the skin. When he pressed it, it was smooth and elastic.
The others were so frightened that they lost their voices and couldn't even scream.
Eyes popped out one after another on the corpse's face!
Horizontal, vertical, slanted... eyes were densely packed all over the face, rolling in different directions. Even the muzzle on the corpse's forehead had grown a huge eye!
System: "The butcher [Hundred-Eyed Wizard] appears, run away as soon as possible!"
An eye popped out from between Gao Mengtang's fingers, turned twice, and stared straight into Gao Mengtang's eyes.
Then, dozens of eyes, as if sensing a signal, turned to Gao Mengtang and locked onto his eyes.
"Really, did you see it clearly, did you?" The voice of the Hundred-Eyed Wizard was mournful, as if he was crying, "Did you see it clearly, did you?"
“Ahhhhhhhh!!!”
Someone screamed, and everyone else came back to their senses from the shock. He Lun picked up Gao Mengtang and ran away, followed by the drunkard girl and the weird scholar.
The Hundred-Eyed Wizard stared at the same spot for a few seconds, and his eyes began to move again. This time, he locked onto the archivist closest to him.
The file record was almost completed, and when she was targeted, she had her eyes closed and sweat all over her forehead.
A blood-red eye appeared in her field of vision.
Every time an eye appeared, there was a "dong" sound, like the sound of stamping, but if you listened carefully, it sounded like knocking on the door. In just a few seconds, the field of vision was filled with densely packed red eyes.
Boom, boom, boom, bang.
That wasn't a knock on the door...it was a gunshot.
The archivist screamed, her eyes turned into black muzzles, and sparks flew from her eye sockets when she was shot. She waved her hands desperately and huddled up to avoid the dense hail of bullets.
There were rapid knocks on the door, deafening gunshots, crying, and the sharp screams of cats.
"No! No! No!" the archivist screamed, she covered her ears tightly and closed her eyes tightly, but those voices still drilled into her mind and her bloodshot eyes could not be shaken off.
She then tore off her ears, blood gushing down her face and neck. She dug out her eyes, crushing the vitreous body like jelly.
The pharmacist looked at her unrecognizable appearance, then looked at the Hundred-Eyed Wizard, took away the memory file, took a few steps back, turned around and ran.
A heart-wrenching scream came from behind.
2nd floor. Gao Mengtang's waist was held by He Lun. He struggled for a long time but couldn't break free: "Why are you running so fast? The people downstairs are still in danger! Hey, let me go!"
The pharmacist walked up the steps slowly, holding the memory file in his hand, blood dripping from between his fingers.
The players all understood.
System: "343 Archivist was attacked by the Hundred-Eyed Wizard and has died. Game failed."
"Remaining players, 5 people."
They waited anxiously for a long time, but the Hundred-Eyed Wizard did not catch up. When they opened the door, the body was still a body.
It seems that after the Hundred-Eyed Wizard appears, he will not chase them all the time. As long as they go up or down the stairs, the Hundred-Eyed Wizard will disappear. To appear again, they need to mutate the corpse on the new floor.
Why did the corpse turn into a hundred-eyed wizard?
The eccentric scholar raised the notebook in his hand, and was ecstatic as if he had found a treasure: "Knowledge! New knowledge!"
A new page appeared in his notebook.
On the right is the portrait of the Hundred-Eyed Wizard, and on the left is the basic information of the Hundred-Eyed Wizard.
Background story: ■■■■■■■Residential building ■■8th floor
■■■■Returning home■■■■■■■Accident■■■■■■
How it appears: If the player stays on the same floor for more than 15 minutes, the Hundred-Eyed Wizard will resurrect from his corpse. The higher the floor, the shorter the time required.
Attack method: Gaze (can attack up to 1 person at a time)
Attack distance: Far
Movement speed: Slow
Note: Can be exceeded
The black frame ■ part is the part that cannot be displayed temporarily because the skill level of the eccentric scholar is too low.
After 15 minutes, the Hundred-Eyed Wizard will appear. Seeing this, the players all breathed a sigh of relief. With the memory files, it won't take too much time to find the anomaly. But soon, they found that the situation was not optimistic.
First, the memory files were incomplete. When the archivist encountered the accident, the area near Gate 8 had not yet been recorded.
Secondly, due to the incompleteness of the file, the reading speed is very slow, and it takes more than 15 minutes to read all of it.
The memory file was passed from one person to another. On it were some incomprehensible runes. When one placed one's palm on it, the image of the first layer would slowly emerge, overlapping with the scene in front of the eyes like a phantom.
The process is slow, like the gradual addition of layers of a painting.
The pharmacist stroked his chin with one hand. "We read the memory files too slowly, so it's impossible to compare them from beginning to end. Let's do it in two steps. First, observe the situation in the corridor roughly, find out what's wrong, and then call up the memory files for comparison. This will be much faster."
"Where's the Hundred-Eyed Wizard?" He Lun was still terrified. "The higher the floor, the faster the Hundred-Eyed Wizard will revive. But they didn't say how many minutes faster it would be. We don't know when the Hundred-Eyed Wizard will appear."
The incandescent lights in the corridor hurt my eyes. The stairs were extended like a copy and paste. I couldn't see the sky above and the ground below. Waves of dizziness came from the void. Just thinking back to the appearance of the Hundred-Eyed Wizard made cold sweat soak through my clothes.
Gao Mengtang raised his hand: "Before the Hundred-Eyed Wizard is resurrected, he will emit a bloody smell. I can stand guard and send a signal in advance."
The pharmacist shook his head. "It's no use."
The Hundred-Eyed Wizard has a long attack range, and after he is resurrected, the player will have no time to run away.
"Unless..." The pharmacist's eyes fell on Gao Mengtang. He was already the leader of the team, and when he looked at Gao Mengtang, the others also looked at him.
Under the gaze of everyone, Gao Mengtang held the little rabbit with a confused and innocent look on his face.
Pharmacist: "The Hundred-Eyed Wizard can only attack one person at a time."
Gao Mengtang was totally unaware: "That's right."
"If someone can help us fend off the attack of the Hundred-Eyed Wizard, we can escape." The drunkard girl spat out tobacco leaves and said, "Pharmacist, you have been hesitating for so long, is this what you want to say?"
He Lun objected fiercely: "How can that be possible! Let the blind be a human shield? He is a butcher, a butcher!"
The Butcher is the player's deadly enemy. They have a strong hatred for the player and will do everything they can to bring pain to the player.
The pharmacist held Gao Mengtang's arm and asked with concern: "Mr. Blind, when the Hundred-Eyed Wizard was resurrected, you were closest to him and were the first to be stared at. How do you feel now?"
Gao Mengtang didn't feel anything. If He Lun hadn't grabbed him and ran away, he should have been able to look at the Hundred-Eyed Wizard affectionately for 5 minutes.
But now he is being pushed out to be a human shield. There is no reason in the world to die for others and then say "It's okay for me".
Even if nothing happens, he still has to play the victim so that others will remember his kindness.
Gao Mengtang lowered his head, his neck drooping like a sticky rice cake, and a thin layer of wet light appeared in his big eyes: "I have a headache, and it feels terrible. Although I can't see clearly, my mind went blank when he was staring at me."
After thinking about it, he felt that it was not enough, so he threw himself into the pharmacist's arms and hugged him tightly: "I was cold. I'm cold now."
The pharmacist couldn't do this, so he gently touched Gao Mengtang's curly hair and repeated, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."
Finally, Gao Mengtang got the pharmacist's coat and white coat. He wrapped himself up, and the little rabbit's fur head showed at the collar.
"But I am willing to hold back the Hundred-Eyed Wizard for you. After all, my eyesight is poor and I have not been able to help much." Gao Mengtang said rather pitifully.
Everyone was deeply moved.
"Your spirit value is high, so your life will not be in danger if you are stared at by the Hundred-Eyed Wizard for a while," the pharmacist said. "This is for you. Use it to protect yourself in case of an unexpected situation."
He handed Gao Mengtang a sharpened knife.
Gao Mengtang took it with both hands, holding the dagger in front of her chest like a bouquet of flowers, looking pretty and harmless: "Where did you get the weapon? Game props?"
Pharmacist: "We are new here, where did we get the game props? I brought them with me when I traveled through time."
Gao Mengtang: "When you traveled through time, you should have been sleeping. There is a knife hidden under your pillow."
"Before I traveled through time, I worked on experiments all night. In the dead of night, I was alone in the laboratory, feeling unsure, so I prepared some weapons. How is your IOU now?" The pharmacist changed the subject.
The white bar refers to the spirit value.
After being "stared at" by the Hundred-Eyed Wizard, Gao Mengtang's mental value dropped by more than 30 points. However, his mental value can be automatically restored, slowly rising at a rate of +1 per second.
Gao Mengtang: "It's recovering, but the speed is a bit slow."
It doesn't seem strange that a person with an initial 999 spiritual value can automatically restore his spiritual value. The pharmacist accepted it well: "What is the recovery speed? How much can be restored in one minute?"
"It's a bit slow," Gao Mengtang said, "one second at a time."
A little slow.
The pharmacist, He Lun, the drunkard woman and the eccentric scholar were all silent.
They really want to explain: a small spirit fountain can only restore 40 points in one minute.
But they don't want to talk, probably because they hate the rich.
Everything is arranged and enter the corridor.
The novice copy did not embarrass them, as most of the abnormalities were obvious. They encountered a door frame oozing blood and a vent with a broken limb hidden in it.
There was also a half-open door, behind which was a pale ghost face.
Once, the resident of Room 4 did not come out to take out the garbage. He Lun leaned over the door mirror and saw a bloodshot eye staring at the corridor, which frightened him so much that he screamed.
Soon, they arrived at the 6th floor.
There was no obvious abnormality on this floor. Several people observed it for a while, then read the memory files and compared them carefully.
The task of reading the files was given to the pharmacist, while He Lun and the drunk girl stood there in a daze.
"Brother, the dungeon should have a background story, right?" He Lun began his big thinking, "Why do the floors keep looping, why did the resident of Room 4 come out... and who is the body, why did he fall in front of Room 8, and why did he become a Hundred-Eyed Wizard?"
Gao Mengtang thought about what the Hundred-Eyed Wizard said to him when he was being stared at:
"Really, did you see it clearly?"
What to see clearly?
The pharmacist's voice interrupted their conversation: "We may have to stay on the 6th floor for a while, and we may encounter the Hundred-Eyed Wizard. Come and get a potion to restore your physical strength. It can help us escape quickly."
Everyone was given a bottle of red stamina recovery potion.
"It stinks, ugh!" The drunk girl took off her shirt and jacket and wrung it out. "It smells like sticky butter, and this attribute enhancement potion also has an oily smell."
While she was fighting the lumberjack, the pharmacist threw a bottle of strengthening potion at her, causing her personal skills to go out of control, causing her to accidentally kill the lumberjack.
The strengthening potion soaked through the clothes, and no matter how hard she tried to wring them out, they wouldn't dry out. The drunk girl put on her coat despite her nausea, and her whole body felt like it was covered in butter.
Gao Mengtang didn't like the taste very much, so he moved away from the drunken girl and sat side by side with the weird scholar.
The eccentric scholar uncorked the potion bottle.
"Wait a minute," Gao Mengtang held his hand, "What are you drinking?"
He drank too fast and the potion bottle was empty.
Both the physical recovery potion and the skill enhancement potion are red in color and have a stench similar to butter. Other people may not be able to smell it, but Gao Mengtang is a strange person who can distinguish the smell of freshwater fish and saltwater fish.
What the weird scholar drank should be a skill-enhancing potion.
Did the pharmacist accidentally give the wrong medicine, or... did he do it on purpose?
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