Chapter 84 Throne Sculpture Congratulations to player [000 Blind] for obtaining...
In the real world, a white MPV is parked outside the abandoned Ritian Industrial Park.
Wei Wei, He Lun, and Bai Jie appeared out of nowhere in the carriage at the same time. As soon as they regained consciousness, the three of them asked in unison:
"What about the blind man?"
"Where is Brother Mengtang?!"
"Where's the boss?"
The three of them looked at each other, got out of the car at the same time, and searched the surrounding area, but didn't see anyone.
"Yes, did it land somewhere else?" Bai Jie asked tremblingly. He dialed Gao Mengtang's number and the ringtone rang in the car.
Wei Wei's face turned pale. "Players will exit from the same place where they logged into the dungeon. They should not go to other places. Mr. Blind..."
——Dead player [000 Blind] [666 Devil]
The system's words echoed in my mind.
Gao Mengtang, dead?
"Impossible," Wei Wei calmed down from his panic and said to himself, "Even if he is dead, we will see his body. Nothing will happen to the blind man."
It was midnight. The black shadow of a crow passed in front of the moon. A cool night wind blew from the barren mountain. He Lun squatted on the ground and cried. Bai Jie leaned his forehead against the tree trunk. The moonlight illuminated the two lines of tears on his cheeks.
*
The darkness of nothingness.
Gao Mengtang felt that his eyes were open, but he could not see anything. He called Duan Song's name loudly, but got no response. He reached out to feel his chest, but could not see his hands or feel his skin.
He turned around and around in the same place. There was darkness everywhere, front, back, left, right, and in all directions.
I called for help and shouted, but I couldn't hear my own voice.
Gao Mengtang raised his hands and tried to touch his eyes, but he couldn't feel his arms or face. He tried to breathe hard but couldn't feel his chest rise and fall. He ran at full speed but couldn't feel his muscles move.
A dark world that isolates all senses and is a complete vacuum.
Sensory deprivation is a form of torture.
Gao Mengtang didn't know how much time had passed. He controlled his body only with his mind. He wanted to touch his face and his eyeballs, and even scratch himself with enough force to break his nails, but he didn't feel any pain.
There was only darkness, pure, endless, endless darkness.
Like a grain of sand floating in space, all he can do is float.
Until - twelve cold and dim balls of light appeared in the darkness.
This scene was mysterious and weird. The ghosts holding lanterns were clearly black and should blend into the empty black background, but Gao Mengtang could see them clearly.
The skinny and hunched backs looked like old trees. The black tower lanterns in their hands shook, and the twelve people turned around and faced Gao Mengtang.
Gao Mengtang opened his eyes wide, trying to see their faces clearly. At a certain moment, he saw a pair of dull black eyes, and a few strands of long black hair slipped out from the shadow of the hood.
In the blink of an eye, their faces sank into darkness and nothing could be seen clearly.
"Who are you!" Gao Mengtang shouted with all his might, but he couldn't hear his own voice.
The aperture of the full moon orb expanded, gradually enveloping Gao Mengtang. Only then did he see clearly that Duan Song was lying at his feet, suspended in the void.
Gao Mengtang hugged Duan Song, and the two of them huddled together: "Are you from the other world? Are you the Moon Clan? Why are you holding the black tower in your hands? Why did you find me?"
There are no answers to all the questions. In the endless nothingness, only the black quagmire under the ghost's feet opens up a real space.
The darkness was gradually torn apart, and light shone down from the heads of the twelve ghosts. Gao Mengtang first felt that he could breathe. He felt the slightly cool air sliding across his tongue and throat.
He touched Duan Song's feverish skin, heard his own breathing, and his heart was beating violently in his chest.
The void of space cracked like an eggshell above his head, and black fragments fell one after another. Gao Mengtang was still asking questions, and the faces of the twelve ghosts were hidden in the shadows of their hoods, hunched over, with their heads lowered, and gradually dissolved.
The black quagmire flowed into Gao Mengtang's body. Before the twelve ghosts completely disappeared, they actually spoke. They only left one sentence:
"This is the third time... You can't escape... Just like us..."
*
The 120-square-meter bedroom suite was luxuriously decorated. The light from the St. Louis crystal chandelier was brilliant and hazy, the gold-colored marble floor reflected a smooth and dazzling light, and clothes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars were thrown in a mess on the floor.
A Yorkshire Terrier came running over on its short legs, with a miumiu bow on its head. It glanced at its owner, then at the person who had fainted next to its owner, and decisively licked the stranger's face.
Gao Mengtang slowly opened his eyes and looked into Yoshka's round black eyes for a few seconds.
“Ouch~”
Where is this?
Gao Mengtang felt a little dizzy and sat up slowly. When he raised his eyes, he saw a black sculpture about half a meter high placed in the center of the cabinet opposite.
The main body of the sculpture is a broken throne with a man slumped under it. One of his arms is resting on the armrest of the throne, while the other arm hangs limply by his side. His head is drooping weakly on the throne, and his long black curly hair covers his face, making it impossible to see his facial features clearly.
Gao Mengtang was stunned for a few seconds, then stood up, walked closer to the sculpture and looked at it carefully.
It was a work he created during his college years and was later sold to an eccentric wealthy old man.
Gao Mengtang carefully observed the sculpture for a long time. When he came to his senses, he found Duan Song lying face down on the ground.
He has a pulse, he's breathing, he's still alive. Gao Mengtang heaved a sigh of relief, helped him to the bed, and waited for him to wake up. He continued to visit Duan Song's bedroom.
Gao Mengtang has been studying art since elementary school. When he entered university, he majored in mural painting. Not long after, he transferred to the sculpture department. Before the end of his freshman year, he impressed the department leaders and the principal with his amazing artistic talent and transferred to the calligraphy department.
His works are varied. In order to make money, he does a little bit of everything, but rarely does murals and sculptures.
This sculpture was his final assignment. Not long after the work was completed, he decided to leave the sculpture department, regardless of the teacher's retention or opposition, and resolutely switched to calligraphy. From then on, he never did sculpture again.
As for the reason, it can only be explained by the word "metaphysics": for a long time after completing this work, Gao Mengtang kept having nightmares. Whenever he picked up the carving knife, the shadow of the black throne would constantly flash before his eyes.
So he gave up sculpture and even fine arts and began to learn calligraphy.
"Uh... my head hurts." A groan came from the bed. Duan Song held up his head and sat up, his eyes going dark.
Gao Mengtang: "Are you okay? Where do you feel uncomfortable? Your wound..."
He lifted Duan Song's clothes. In the copy, Duan Song's abdomen was corroded by the zombies' blood, leaving a bowl-sized wound. Now, the wound was completely healed, but there was still a big hole in the burnt clothes.
Gao Mengtang frowned, reached out his hand and gently touched the healed skin.
It happened again... Twelve ghosts appeared, healed all the wounds, and pulled Gao Mengtang and the people around him back from the brink of death.
Before the ghost disappeared, it left a message: This is the third time... You can't escape...
The first time was during the side quest of the Princess Castle Rules Ghost Story dungeon, where he was pierced by the blood arrow of the Dead Born.
The second time, in the side quest of the previous copy, he turned into a villain, Lucky and the priest were about to be burned to death, Gao Mengtang used a spoiled strengthening potion to gain strength and save his teammates.
The third time was when he and Duan Song entered an unstable teleportation tunnel and were enveloped by nothingness.
Why do ghosts appear at these times?
"Senior, this isn't a good idea..." Duan Song held down Gao Mengtang's hand that was rubbing against his wound, "What kind of relationship do we have?"
Gao Mengtang came back to his senses and pulled his hand away: "Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere?"
"Dizzy, hallucinations and auditory hallucinations. Symptoms of low mental energy." Duan Song said as he bought a bottle of mental energy recovery agent and drank it in one gulp.
After a short break, he asked again: "Senior, when did you find out that I was the mastermind behind this? Or, how did you know that I was playing the role of Bu Xiaoting's lover?"
"After we cleared the side quest, Bu Xiaoting gave me a USB flash drive. After seeing the video in the USB flash drive, I came up with this guess..."
The video in the USB flash drive shows that the zombie virus is related to the dead born. Zombies have extremely strong vitality, and after being dismembered, the remaining limbs can still move, which is closely related to the dead born.
How could ordinary businessmen like Xu Wei and Qian Hao come into contact with the dead born in the other world? They could basically be ruled out as suspects.
Then, there is only one suspect left: the mysterious Epiphyllum Ridge.
Bu Xiaoting also joined Epiphyllum Ridge, but in that videotape, Bu Xiaoting was tortured by the blood of the dead, and she herself didn't know why she wanted to commit suicide.
This shows that Bu Xiaoting knew very little about the dead births, and she was also one of the victims. Moreover, she did not want her own son Xu Xiaoting to die.
The person who planned this tragedy should be another person in Epiphyllum Ridge who knows more about the inside world and the dead.
None of the NPCs in the park are related to Epiphyllum Ridge. Excluding the NPCs as suspects, the only people left are the players.
The dungeon will grant players certain "attributes". For example, in the side dungeon [Reincarnation], Gao Mengtang turns into an 18cm doll, and this doll, in reality, is the key to open the narrow door. Gao Mengtang can open the narrow door by cutting open his chest.
If one of the players is given the attribute of "the mastermind behind the scenes", then this person is most likely Duan Song with a luck value of -100.
Later discoveries also verified Gao Mengtang's conjecture. The second time he entered the Hanging Lake of the Past, Gao Mengtang saw Bu Xiaoting's lover, who was a little hunchbacked.
Kill the butcher [Gold Grabber [Chief]] to obtain two crystal eyeballs. The shadow of Duan Song reflected in the eyeballs is also hunchbacked.
Moreover, only his combat uniform would light up with the pattern of the giant-winged Epiphyllum at night, which was Bu Xiaoting's lover's favorite flower.
After listening to Gao Mengtang's analysis, Duan Song opened his beautiful but confused eyes and said, "You found out so early, why did you hide it from us? No wonder you were always worried during the last few days in the dungeon."
"If I tell my teammates about my discovery, guess what the other players will do, and what Wei Wei will do?" Gao Mengtang smiled devilishly.
Duan Song was stunned for a moment: "They must want to kill me."
"You are very self-aware." Gao Mengtang smiled and patted his shoulder.
Duan Song lowered his eyes for a long time before he whispered, "Mengtang, you saved my life. I have no way to repay you, I can only..."
Are gold coins going to explode? The second generation of rich people like to give out coins the most. Give houses or cars? Gao Mengtang's smile became even brighter.
"I can only promise you my body." Duan Song said eagerly.
Gao Mengtang: "...Don't repay kindness with enmity."
Duan Song: “…”
The message alerts on both of their phones rang at the same time, notifying them of the copy settlement.
:
: The copy [No people, only gold] has been completed.
Death toll: 0 (【000 Blind】 【666 Demon】 survived)
Number of survivors: 8
Best Performance: 000 Blind Man
Settlement rewards are being distributed.
: Congratulations to the player [000 Blind] for achieving the achievement [Savior] (in the Sequence 4 difficulty dungeon, after all members have cleared the level, the best performance can obtain this achievement)
: Achievement Reward [Inherited Weapon Wheel x1]
: Has been sent to the email address of [000 Blind Person], please check.
Note: There are abnormalities in this copy, and the specific reasons are being analyzed.
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