Chapter 89: The Chained Book Enters the Black Tower
"Brother, brother. Uh. Brother."
"mom!"
"Brother!" Gao Mengtang held Xiao Canglan's hand very patiently, "A man, brother."
"No, it's a boy." Xiao Canglan grabbed Gao Mengtang's long hair, "Mom, mom!"
Gao Mengtang: "...If you don't call me brother, then I don't like you anymore."
Threats are more effective than reasoning. Xiao Canglan seemed to understand this. She pouted and repeated awkwardly, "Brother, Gege."
Xiao Canglan has language problems. She can understand most of what is said, but she can't speak it very well. Gao Mengtang spent an entire afternoon teaching her to pronounce the word "brother", but to no avail.
Okay, Gege is always better than mom.
"Where's your mother, Bu Xiaoting?" Gao Mengtang took her two little hands, "Where is she? Why are you wandering alone?"
Freesia smiled brightly: "Die. Mom. Die."
Bu Xiaoting is clearly still alive. The "death" that Xiao Canglan mentioned should mean that Bu Xiaoting was contaminated by the blood of the dead, and was determined to die, and could not take care of the child.
Gao Mengtang asked again: "Where's Dad?"
Freesia still said, "Die! Bang. Die."
She waved her hands and made a gesture like fireworks exploding.
"Died in an explosion?" Gao Mengtang asked.
Freesia nodded vigorously.
A father who died tragically, a mother who wanted to die, a divided family and a broken girl. Gao Mengtang touched Xiao Canglan's head with pity: "Brother will be your family from now on."
"Gege, okay!" Xiao Canglan hugged him tightly.
Gao Geng seemed to have a problem with Xiao Canglan, especially the fact that she called Gao Mengtang brother. How could his younger brother be someone else's brother?
After enduring for a long time, Gao Geng pulled Xiao Canglan away and stepped between the two of them: "It's time to comb your hair."
While he was making his hair into a princess bun, Gao Mengtang checked the list of settlement rewards for the copy.
Instance rewards:
Obtained the achievement [Savior], Heritage-level weapon turntable x1
Rewards for clearing the main story: 5,000 Broken Bones, 1 System Mall Voucher worth 10,000, [Ancestral Remains (Level 5)] x5
Side Quest [Reincarnation Path] Reward: [Ancestor Remains (Level 6)] x10
Hint: You have gained enough influence to open the Black Tower.
There were also item drops within the dungeon, video playback rewards, tip rewards, and the props and coins sent by Xu Xingchen these days... For a time, Gao Mengtang became a small rich man.
The coins in the Black Tower instance have strong purchasing power in reality. Wei Wei used the money to buy a piece of land to build the Moon Banner Base Camp.
The site was near Gao Mengtang's country cottage, and Wei Wei made a report on the land deed and construction costs and sent it over.
"I think it's great." said Gao Mengtang.
Wei Wei: “You didn’t see it.”
Gao Mengtang flipped open the bill and stared at each page for five seconds: "Yeah. Very good."
Wei Wei said indifferently: "You still didn't read it carefully."
Gao Mengtang: “…”
Sometimes, it is not a good thing if subordinates are too smart.
As he spoke, Gao Mengtang finished combing his hair and took out the Black Tower Key from the system warehouse.
He can open the black tower and enter the other world, so of course he has to go in and take a look.
Before closing the system page, Gao Mengtang unconsciously glanced at his status bar and was stunned.
Below [000 Blind Man], there is a line of small red words.
: The system has detected abnormal behavior of the player and the specific cause is under investigation.
It's just opening a portal to forcefully log out of the dungeon, what's the big deal? Gao Mengtang muttered to himself.
The Black Tower game was poorly designed, allowing players to exploit loopholes, but the bigger problem is the system.
Gao Mengtang didn't take it seriously. He held the key tightly and opened the portal to the black tower.
System: "Using the Black Tower Key to open the Black Tower."
"The black tower bound to player [000 Blind] is! @~#￥"
A series of sharp and piercing noises.
"System error."
"Rebinding in progress."
“@*￥……&@()”
"System () * ... System & ... is wrong"
A series of noises made my ears buzz, and after a series of errors, the sound of electricity crackled. At a certain moment, the noises disappeared at the same time, and there was absolute silence in my ears.
There was no system, no notification sound like "binding successful". Gao Mengtang came back to his senses from the dizziness and found himself standing in a ruined temple.
The sculpture in the hall first caught Gao Mengtang's attention. It was listless, hunched over, holding a lantern, wearing a black robe, and with its head lowered.
Exactly the same as the 12 Lantern Ghosts.
However, there are only 7 ghosts in this temple.
*
The Other World. Tallinn.
There are hundreds of black towers standing here, with round moon orbs shining brightly on the top of the towers. The space shrouded in blood mist is illuminated only by these tiny dots of light.
The black towers were crooked and irregular in shape, like twisted vines that had grown out of the soil and then turned into stone. Countless black towers guarded the largest and tallest tower in the middle.
The black tower in the center was in ruins, and sticky blood-red liquid was seeping out from the cracks in the wall, flowing in the air like mist.
Inside the black tower, lanterns were floating in the air, emitting an eerie red light. From the shadows, a huge black hand with five extremely long fingers stretched out, and its noodle-like arm made several turns and grabbed one of the lanterns that was emitting a bright white light.
The pictures were played one after another like a flash. The content of the pictures was Gao Mengtang's clearance video.
An unstable portal appeared, and he and Duan Song plunged into it.
"It's just that the barrier of the portal needs to be strengthened."
The lantern was put back in place, and with a flick of the finger, the white light turned into red.
The long arms and thin fingers retracted into the shadows again, leaving only the low, hoarse, gloomy voice echoing in the black tower, like an echo that had been weakened countless times and was already very vague.
The system immediately issued a prompt: "After inspection, the abnormal status of [000 Blind] [666 Demon] has been lifted."
The red lanterns were lit, and the light merged into a semi-liquid, semi-gas-like substance that penetrated the wall and spread outward. There were strange creaking sounds in the shadows, and occasionally, at the edge where the light could find a twisted limb stretched out.
There is someone, weaving lanterns in the shadows.
Crunch, crunch. Twist the bamboo strips. Tear, tear, cut the lantern paper.
Suddenly, all the noise disappeared, and the strange arms that were weaving lanterns stopped moving at the same time. In the darkness, countless red dots lit up. Those were the monster's eyes.
"Black Tower, Seven. Open."
"Why?"
"Seven, deposed. Is He back?"
*
Gao Mengtang walked around the seven ghost sculptures, but could not see their faces clearly. There was always a layer of mist tightly wrapped around them above the chest.
Seven ghost shadows surrounded the city in a fan shape. Under their feet, there was an empty space. But there was a large area of the floor that was lighter in color. It seemed that some heavy objects had been placed there before, but now they had been removed.
Now, in the center of the open space, there is a severely damaged book.
The entire book was entangled in chains, no name could be seen on the cover, the ink on the inside pages was very faint, and the text was completely unfamiliar and impossible to understand.
It should be the language of the other world. Take it back and show it to the enemy rabbit.
Apart from the sculpture and the chain book, other items in the black tower were severely damaged. Moreover, Gao Mengtang could smell a strange smell of burning incense mixed with blood.
It is the smell of the dead.
The walls, floors, pillars... all bore traces of corrosion from the blood of the Unborn.
"It seems that this black tower was destroyed by the Dead Born." Gao Mengtang said softly.
Gao Mengtang put the book away and was about to browse for a while, when he suddenly felt chest tightness and shortness of breath, and his eyes went dark. He opened the system panel and saw that his mental state was rapidly decreasing.
980, 930, 866...it decreases at a rate of 50-100 points per second, and the rate of decrease is getting faster and faster.
In the few seconds of checking the system panel, the mental value dropped from over 800 to over 200. Gao Mengtang had never seen such horrible mental pollution.
His mind was blank, he saw bizarre hallucinations, and heard an ancient and deep call in his ears. For a moment, Gao Mengtang froze in place, not knowing how to react.
In the second he was stunned, the number of his spirit value jumped from 212 to 28.
Run! Get out of here!
When his mental value dropped below 40, he could hardly think calmly. Gao Mengtang didn't know where his potential came from, but in those few seconds, he was able to analyze the current situation.
In the first three minutes after entering the black tower, his mental value was depleted, decreasing by about 1.5 per second. For him, this was not terrible.
The sudden drop in mental strength occurred within just half a minute.
This was not a normal situation, trouble was upon him.
Gao Mengtang clenched the key and summoned the portal, but did not escape immediately. Instead, he turned his head and looked at the collapsed gate of the black tower.
What is approaching him?
The whole world was shattered. The blood seemed to have substance, flooding the sky and earth. Thin arms stretched out like noodles, with five fingers grabbing at his body.
The smell of incense mixed with blood became stronger and more pungent, and a scarlet eye opened from the darkness.
Gao Mengtang looked into each other's eyes for a very brief moment, then jumped into the portal and disappeared.
There is only 1 point of spirit left.
"Eyes... no, He."
"He, is convicted. He will not come back."
"It's just, lost, kid."
*
"Ahhh!" Gao Mengtang fell to the ground, screaming in pain after surviving a disaster. A small amount of black mud stained his skin.
He only had 1 point of spirit left, not enough to pass through the narrow door. It seemed that the twelve ghosts had judged that he was committing suicide again and saved his life.
Everyone gathered around and asked questions, but Gao Mengtang's ears were buzzing and he couldn't hear anything.
It took him a long time to come back to his senses. He raised his head and looked at the faces of each of his teammates.
"What happened?" Duan Song asked.
Gao Mengtang said weakly: "My spirit value dropped sharply."
"How fast is it falling?" Wei Wei asked.
After describing the situation, Wei Wei frowned. He used to be a priest in [Ghost Bamboo], responsible for the affairs related to the Black Pagoda, and he knew the Black Pagoda quite well.
The black towers that players can enter all have a protective layer. Although they are in the other world, the speed at which the spirit value decreases will not be too fast, about 1 point per second.
There is also a spring in the black tower, which can quickly restore spirit points through prayer.
According to Gao Mengtang's description, the black tower he entered was in ruins and had no protective layer. Even his incredibly strong mental resistance could not withstand the pollution there.
"Oh, by the way," Gao Mengtang continued, "I also saw seven statues inside the black tower. They were exactly the same as the ghosts with my charm halo."
Wei Wei obviously had no idea what the lantern ghost was, and several people sat facing each other with confusion on their faces.
"It's okay!" Gao Mengtang was the first to laugh. "It's normal to feel a little weird when it happens to me."
There is a lot of truth in this.
After chatting with his teammates for a while, it was time to go to bed. Gao Mengtang finished washing up, turned on the small desk lamp, and placed the chain book on the desk.
This black tower key was snatched from the revelers in the side quest of [Princess Castle Rules and Tales].
The revelers are the children of the enemy rabbit.
In short, Gao Mengtang has nothing to do with the Black Tower key. The one who has a close relationship with the Black Tower is actually Su Ji Meng.
Then, the long-armed monster that was charging towards him aggressively was probably not targeting Gao Mengtang. The person he really wanted to deal with was Su Ji Meng.
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