Chapter 98: The Cave of Sorrow (7) Under the Black Tower, you betrayed me, and I took the blame...
Wei Wei handed 60 handfuls of yellow earth to the left protector. The left protector was busy listening to the music, waved his hand, said "Don't take off your wedding dress, come to me tomorrow at noon", and ignored them.
Update of the branch quest [Fate]
Task 1: Collect a handful of loess from the doorsteps of 60 villagers
Progress: 60/60 completed
Task 2: Participate in the disease-removal ceremony.
The three returned to Wu Feng's home. Wu Feng and his girlfriend Xin Tong seemed to have had an argument, and they sat in the yard sulking. After a brief greeting, Wu Feng took them to their sleeping place.
Gao Mengtang and others played the role of directing students who came to the countryside to collect materials and stayed in the village for a while. The room had been cleaned up a long time ago. It was not comfortable, but it was clean.
The voltage in the countryside was unstable, and the lights flickered. There were no entertainment facilities. At around nine o'clock, Gao Mengtang and the other two fell asleep on the kang.
Xiao Canglan fell asleep as soon as she touched the pillow, had a bad sleeping posture, and kicked Gao Mengtang several times, forcing Gao Mengtang to stay up late.
"Wei Wei, are you asleep?" He began to torment her. "What a pungent smell of Chinese medicine. Do you smell it?"
No one responded.
"In the evening, Qin Xishuang told me that he would come to see me tonight," Gao Mengtang's eyes were hazy, "He definitely has bad intentions. My life and property are in your hands."
Wei Wei still didn't answer. Gao Mengtang thought he was asleep, so he didn't think much about it and closed his eyes peacefully.
If he could see clearly now, he would not be so calm.
Wei Wei did not sleep. He squatted on the ground with his dull eyes open, curled up into a ball, holding an incense burner in his hands, and tears kept flowing.
Late at night, Gao Mengtang fell asleep in a daze. He first had a strange dream, being trapped in a circle and unable to get out. It was pitch black all around, and someone was praising something loudly.
He was tired from walking and sat on the ground to rest. At this time, he heard the rattling of iron chains.
Did someone tie him up with chains?
The fragrance of flowers was refreshing. Gao Mengtang thought, how could there be flowers in this dark place?
Suddenly, Gao Mengtang's body trembled, and he secretly said, "Oh no!" It seemed that Qin Xishuang had come.
"Wei Wei! Wei Wei!" he shouted with all his might.
In his dream, he shouted loudly, but in reality, he only hummed softly. After hearing this, Wei Wei blinked his eyes that were constantly filled with tears and frowned slightly, as if he wanted to break away from the dream.
A translucent blue butterfly landed on Wei Wei's brow. He struggled for a moment, then sank into the illusion again. He tightly grasped the incense burner in his hand and cried silently.
The second butterfly flew in, dragging a transparent fluorescent chain behind it, and melted into Gao Mengtang's brow.
Gao Mengtang immediately stopped all movements, his limbs went limp, and his eyes slightly closed.
System: "Player [000 Blind] is about to enter the illusion [Past Events·Proverbs] created by player [207 Butterfly Fairy]. Please be prepared."
Description of the illusion [Past Events·Proverbs]: Extract a real memory and use the heritage-level weapon [Proverbs Lock] to create the illusion [Past Events·Proverbs].
: [207 Butterfly Fairy] can remove the environment at any time. Use healing skills or scrolls to purify the illusion, or defeat the illusion weaver [207 Butterfly Fairy] to leave the illusion.
Note: If you die in the illusion, you will also die in reality.
Things are not going well. Gao Mengtang has no healing skills, and he cannot defeat Qin Xishuang.
There was no time for him to react. When Gao Mengtang came to his senses, he found himself in a spacious and bright room.
He regained his vision, calmed down quickly, and walked around to look around.
Not sure if it was an illusion, Gao Mengtang felt that this room was very familiar, as if he had been here before. He stroked the spotless ebony desk and wanted to pick up the black opal on the desk to take a look, but because he was in a ghost state, he could not touch anything.
A man pushed the door open and walked in. He was wearing a black silk shirt and his face was covered with a layer of mist, so his facial features could not be seen clearly.
"What's the matter?" the man in the silk shirt asked. His voice was deep and elegant, like a cello solo in the middle of the night.
Gao Mengtang felt that the voice was very familiar. He looked at the man's bony hands, but could not remember where he had heard a similar voice.
"You should go back to attend the funeral." Another voice sounded. Gao Mengtang then realized that there was another person sitting in the office. Again, he couldn't see the face clearly, but Gao Mengtang could tell his voice was Wo Lanbei.
Wolanbei sat on the sofa with his arms resting on his thighs. At his feet was a collapsed suitcase.
The man in black walked through Gao Mengtang's body, walked to the desk, and took out a white bag: "I am sorry for the loss. This little gift is just a token of my appreciation."
"My condolences?!" Wolanbei was furious. He suddenly stood up from the sofa and threw the teacup in his hand to the ground.
The sound of broken porcelain was terrifying. There was a heartbreaking tremor in Wolanbei's roar: "How can I mourn for you? Gu Kang went through life and death for us so many times. Now he is dead, and you can only say these four words - mourn for me?!"
This is a memory related to Gu Kang’s death. So, this man in the black silk shirt... is he Wei Wei?
Gao Mengtang crossed out this conjecture. After entering the illusion, Wolanbei's voice did not change, so Wei Wei's voice should not change either. He was too familiar with Wei Wei's voice, which was sharp and soft, and far from being so low.
The white bag in his hand fell to the ground with a snap. The man placed his hands on the table, lowered his head, and remained silent, as if enduring pain.
The white mist that was entangled in front of the two gradually dissipated, and it could be seen that the man's forehead was covered with cold sweat. He seemed to be injured, and seriously injured.
Wo Lanbei kicked the coffee table over, rushed over and grabbed the man by the collar: "You should take revenge, revenge on that bastard. He is the murderer who killed Gu Kang. I believe you can do it, right?"
Is "that bastard" referring to Wei Wei? Gao Mengtang watched quietly.
The man tried to push Wolanbei's hand away, but he didn't have much strength. He pushed twice but failed. He whispered, "I can't do it."
"Don't you have a heart?" Wolanbei cried.
At the same time, Gao Mengtang's heart tightened. Grief, anger, sadness... all kinds of complicated emotions surged into his heart. His whole body was shaking, anger rushed to his head, and his scalp was numb.
The memory of weaving the illusion was extracted from Wolanbei's mind. At this moment, Gao Mengtang and Wolanbei had a telepathic connection, and what he felt was Wolanbei's emotions at the moment.
"Please don't delay my work," the man sighed softly, "I feel guilty for not being able to attend Mr. Gu Kang's funeral."
Pah. Wolanbei slapped him.
The man turned his face away and did not respond for a long while.
"Guilt?" Wo Lanbei laughed crazily, "I know you will feel guilty, so I brought Gu Kang to see you."
He opened the suitcase with a bang, and a foul odor filled the air. Gao Mengtang subconsciously glanced into the suitcase. At the first glance, his stomach suddenly churned.
In the box is Gu Kang’s body!
His whole body shrank to only half a meter long, his skin was blue and black, his legs were festered, and white maggots were wriggling in the wounds.
With all his hair gone and his body naked, Gu Kang looked like an extremely ugly baby, curled up like a baby.
The death was so tragic that even an outsider like Gao Mengtang would be moved after seeing it.
The man in black didn't react at all. He slowly wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, poured some coconut-scented essential oil on the diffuser stone, and said lightly, "It stinks. Close the box."
"You, you!" Wolanbei was so angry that he choked. His heartache was passed on to Gao Mengtang, and anger burned in his chest.
From listening to their conversation, it seems that this man in black had also received help from Gu Kang. Now that Gu Kang has died tragically and his body is placed in front of him, he actually casually dislikes it by saying it’s “too smelly”?
Gao Mengtang clenched his fists, his nails digging into his flesh.
No, that's not right. Calm down. Don't be affected by Wolanbei's emotions. He took a few deep breaths, calmed down, diverted his attention, and observed the office.
There was a large room with two floor-to-ceiling windows, an ebony desk, and black opal gems on the desk... Gao Mengtang tried hard to recall when he had seen this room before.
"I don't believe you are such a cold-hearted person. Help us," Wo Lanbei's voice was almost pleading, "Even if it's for Gu Kang's sake. Kill that bastard Yin Mingwu, okay?"
The young man smiled helplessly: "Under the Black Tower, you betrayed me and I betrayed you. You shouldn't have illusions about anyone."
"Gu Kang has done me a favor, so what?"
Everything around them blurred, the memories were about to end, and the white mist that blocked the two of them also faded to only a layer. Gao Mengtang's heart was pounding as he stared at the face of the man in black.
"I will betray anyone. In the past, present and future." The man's smile was cold to the bone, and his gray-green eyes were like a ball of moss lurking under the shade of a tree or in a corner, which would never warm up.
This face... is Wei Wei, it's really Wei Wei. However, it's more masculine and fiercer than the Wei Wei he knew.
The sunlight coming through the floor-to-ceiling windows fell on the desk and at Wei Wei's feet. He stood in a corner not illuminated by the sunlight.
Gao Mengtang finally remembered where he had seen this room before. This was Wei Wei's office in Heiou, and Black Opal was Heiou's keepsake. However, the decoration was not yet completed, and the office did not have the simplicity and elegance that he had when he went there.
"You can leave now," Wei Wei stretched out an arm towards the office door, "I have joined Black Owl and have nothing to do with Ghost Bamboo anymore."
Wolanbei stared at him in shock, speechless for a long time.
"Do you have anything else to say?" Wei Wei asked politely, "Oh, by the way, this is my gift money."
He threw the white bag full of banknotes into the suitcase and on Gu Kang's body.
Wei Wei kept throwing the white bag. The half of his face that was slapped was swollen and red. After a pause, Wei Wei raised his hand.
Pa. Pa. He slapped Wo Lanbei twice.
"I'm returning your favor." Wei Wei smiled, "If you dare to attack me again, I will return it tenfold."
Wo Lanbei's lips trembled. Rather than anger, he felt more sorrow and pain in his heart: "Wei Wei, you can't possibly betray Gu Kang. There must be something hidden!"
"The secret is..." Wei Wei pressed the bell on the table and called the security guard to ask them to leave. "Gu Kang was severely injured by Yin Mingwu and cannot recover to his previous level. A wise bird chooses a tree to roost in. Instead of guarding a sick tree, it is better to find another big tree to enjoy the shade."
There was a sound of footsteps outside the office. Wo Lanbei was still stunned: "Wei Wei, is this true? Am I dreaming? Gu Kang's body is in front of you!"
Wei Wei raised an eyebrow: "Are you dreaming? Do you want me to slap you twice to wake you up?"
"You are not that kind of person." Wolanbei finally burst into tears.
"I am," Wei Wei said, "Today, Yin Mingwu is the leader I chose. Tomorrow, if someone stronger than him appears, I will betray Yin Mingwu and join him."
Gao Mengtang suddenly felt cold all over.
"The day after tomorrow, if someone more powerful than that person appears, I will still betray that person," Wei Wei said, took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a deep puff.
"I don't like the word betrayal. It's just a trade-off and choice of interests." He narrowed his eyes in the white mist, cunning like a fox. "I pay so much attention to interests. You don't think I will sacrifice my life for the so-called 'loyalty', do you?"
The security guards rushed in, fully armed. They saw a black mass in the suitcase and instinctively raised their guns and shot.
Gu Kang's body was beaten into a sieve.
Gao Mengtang felt dizzy and when he opened his eyes, he found himself in a valley in a dense forest.
It’s not over yet, the second illusion begins.
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