Chapter 116: Cave of Sorrow (25) Mysterious Pill
To say that it is a ghost wall is not entirely accurate.
Instead of circling in place, players walk to any random location.
They walked in one direction, turned left, left, and left again, and they should have returned to the starting point. But they saw a small forest, a mountain, a lake, and a cliff.
Even if you follow the map and choose various forks in the road, you won't encounter the stone tablet, let alone find the exit.
Half an hour later, Qin Xishuang sat down on the ground, yelling like a child: "I'm tired! I'm tired!"
The players' faces became worse and worse. The rain was too heavy. Xin Tong was soaked even with an umbrella. She simply gave up the umbrella and looked at the road ahead with a numb face. Wu Feng squatted on the side of the road and started crying.
Mood affects spirit value. In just half an hour, the players' spirit values dropped by 10-30.
Gao Mengtang was in the best condition. He couldn't see clearly and felt that everything was the same.
"Let's try to find the stone tablet first." Gao Mengtang suggested, "The stone tablet is mentioned repeatedly in the rules, so it must be special."
The problem was that they couldn't find the stone tablet at all. When they looked down from the top of the mountain, the stone tablet stood in the yard of every village, but they walked randomly to countless locations and still couldn't find a village.
Feeling discouraged, they circled back to the lake outside Wu Xiang's house.
Butcher Li Xing will appear in the water. The lakeside is particularly dangerous. The players quicken their pace and leave quickly. Suddenly, they hear Wu Feng cry out in grief behind them:
"It's right here! The ghost girl dragged me into the lake right here!"
Xin Tong held an umbrella for him and said, "Don't cry. You said it was a female ghost. Maybe it was possessed by some evil spirit. Find a master to perform a ritual. Maybe it will return to its original appearance."
"Bullshit! You're talking without any pain in your waist. It's not you who is disfigured!"
"Wu Feng, how can you talk like that?! I am just trying to comfort you!"
After a few words, the two started arguing. Wolanbei looked impatient, muttered "I hate dog couples the most", and walked away.
The other players didn't care about the two NPCs and left together.
Only Gao Mengtang was still standing there.
"Mr. Blind," Wei Wei pulled his hand, "Let's go quickly. We are busy with our own affairs, so why worry about what they do..."
Before he could finish his sentence, the two of them started to fight. Gao Mengtang was worried that Xin Tong might get into trouble: "Go and save her quickly. Wu Feng has an extreme personality, don't do anything bad!"
His guess was correct. Wu Feng grabbed Xin Tong's hair and tried to push her into the water, cursing:
"You money-worshiping bastard, since you despise me, I will disfigure you too!"
Splash—the sound of falling into water.
Wu Feng let out a scream.
"Oh, I'm so sorry," Wei Wei said insincerely, "I wanted to separate the two of you, but I was careless and used too much force."
The lake surface was pockmarked by the rain and became turbid. A foul odor filled the water and a dirty green color spread.
The arm that had grown into a giant stretched out, pressed Wu Feng's head, and pushed him into the water.
"Help, ah, save me!" Wu Feng struggled hard and brought his mouth and nose out of the water.
Xin Tong looked bewildered after being frightened, while the five players watched the fire from the other side with great interest. Only Gao Mengtang gently tugged at Wei Wei's sleeve:
"That's not good, let's save him..."
As an excellent subordinate, Wei Wei will try his best to follow the leader's orders, but he will also slack off, such as this time, when he controlled He Luo and slowly extended his tentacles, as leisurely as if he was drinking coffee.
With a snap, Wu Feng's head was crushed, and only a headless body was fished out.
Wei Wei: "I'm really sorry, I...well, didn't try my best."
Gao Mengtang: "...Forget it."
He plucked a small yellow flower and placed it next to Wu Feng's body, as if it were a funeral for him.
"Brother Bodhisattva, is the salvation over? Why don't you move your lotus steps lightly and come this way?" Wo Lanbei crossed his arms over his chest, "You don't want to give him a complete funeral, do you?"
Before the player could turn around, the soil began to bulge out in small lumps, and black beetles with orange patterns emerged. They were the size of coins and densely packed, with hundreds of them.
They gnawed at Wu Feng's body and dug out his still beating heart.
Wei Wei squinted his eyes and took a look: "Coleoptera, burial beetle family. Burial beetle."
In nature, burial beetles usually do not dig up a corpse, but dig a pit under the soil of the corpse and bury it. They are the undertakers of the insect world.
The behavior of these burial beetles was strange, and the players saw that the bugs posed no threat, so they just followed the burial beetles.
Go straight. Turn left, and turn left again.
They had walked the same road dozens of times, and this time, when they looked up, they actually found a village, which was Wu Feng's hometown.
Wu Ma was still sitting in the yard, just like when she first entered the dungeon and met her. She didn't show any surprise when the huge stone tablet blocked her eyes.
The burial beetle carried Wu Feng's heart and buried it in the soil under the tombstone, and the beetle also disappeared into the soil.
"Oh, my son is back." Wu Ma said, "Have you been to pay your respects?"
A chill ran down my spine. Wu Ma had also said these two sentences when we first met.
"If you want to worship, go and worship the Ghost Doctor Immortal."
"Otherwise you can't enter the house. It's not clean."
Exactly the same lines as when we first met.
The players felt scared and didn't dare to pay attention. Wu Ma talked to herself in the air.
"Look, there are words on the stone tablet!" Bo Yao exclaimed.
[Congratulations to all the outsiders for finding the first stone tablet]
[Please ask six outsiders to make their own choices]
After two lines of words appeared, there were two clicks and the stone tablet split into six neat pieces. Each piece was a rectangle and was placed exactly in front of the player.
Gao Mengtang couldn't see clearly, so Pei Jiana read for him:
[Please select: Survive or die]
[A: Survival]
【B: Death】
"Do I even need to choose?" Pegana muttered.
Gao Mengtang chose A.
Other players made different choices. Between [Physical Strengthening] and [Spirit Recovery], Xiao Canglan chose the latter, and Bo Yao obtained 10 bottles of spirit recovery agents.
Gao Mengtang was a little dissatisfied. After they made their choices, they all gained bonus effects. How could he have asked such a useless philosophical question?
Qin Xishuang’s choice is quite interesting.
[A: Meet the parents]
[B: Meet your future lover]
Qin Xishuang was dumb and stupid. When she saw option A, she shouted loudly, "I want to see my parents."
"This is terrible, this is terrible," Pegana whispered, "There are two choices on the stone tablet of Wolanbei. A: Meet Gu Kang. B——"
"——Sacrifice Wei Wei."
The raindrops falling on his body were as cold as ice. Gao Mengtang's heart suddenly tightened: "How can there be such an option? What is Wei Wei's choice?"
[A: Keep the skills of the body cleanser]
[B: Give up the skills of the Purifier and gain the skills of the Saint]
[C: Keep the skills of the Purifier and gain the skills of the Saint]
It was clearly a choice that offered free benefits, but Wei Wei stood in front of the tombstone in a daze, as if his soul had been taken away. No matter how people called him, he did not respond.
The wet emerald green Tang suit stuck to his body, making him look even thinner, with the protruding bones on his shoulders and shoulder blades clearly visible.
"A." Wei Wei said, his voice was not loud but firm, "I choose A."
What madness! Gao Mengtang didn't have time to think about it, he only thought about the option of "sacrificing Wei Wei".
Wolanbei's deep voice was also clear in the rain: "A."
"What should I do? The octopus breeder is not going to die!" Pegana was so anxious that he was spinning around in circles. "Wait, wait, he chose A?"
A: Meet Gu Kang.
Wo Lanbei sat on the ground while looking at the stone tablet. He shouted angrily, "Traitor, look carefully! I could have killed you, but I wanted to kill you with my own hands, so I spared your life!"
No response.
"Hey, I'm talking to you. How can you treat the person who gave you a life like this?" Wolanbei was so angry that his face turned red and his neck became thick. He turned his head to look at Wei Wei's stone tablet.
A red circle surrounds the character "甲".
He suspected that his eyes were damaged by the rain, and rubbed them for a long time: "Wei Wei, what's wrong with you? The Saint's [Natural Chasm] skill can rebound 100% of the damage, even if it is temporary and will disappear after leaving the maze. You shouldn't have chosen armor."
"It's not your place to tell me what to do." Wei Wei collected his thoughts and slowly wiped his pipe.
Wolanbei: "Fuck you, you are really an ungrateful person. I should have chosen B! You should die first--"
"Thank you." Wei Wei said suddenly.
"Only after death - what did you say, thank you?" Wo Lanbei scratched his ears, "You still know how to say these two words?"
Wei Wei acted as if he didn't hear it. He stood in front of the stone tablet, looking at the words that were gradually being worn away, his thoughts seeming to fly to a faraway place.
【Selection End】
[All outsiders' points +100]
Three bodies appeared in front of the players: Qin Xishuang's parents, and Gu Kang.
Seeing the black, rotten, maggot-infested body that had shrunk into a small ball, Wei Wei immediately turned his face away. His drooping eyelashes were wet in clumps, and he didn't know whether they were wet by the rain or by his tears.
Wo Lanbei was stunned for a few seconds, then laughed out loud: "Hahaha, meeting Gu Kang, isn't this meeting Gu Kang? He's dead!"
"Wei Wei, you watch carefully," he held Wei Wei's neck and dragged him to Gu Kang's body, "Our benefactor died in such a miserable way! Don't you feel ashamed at all for surviving?"
Players are prohibited from harming each other in the maze. In terms of fighting power, Wolanbei is not as good as Wei Wei. Gao Mengtang just sighed as he listened to their quarrel.
On the other side, Qin Xishuang stared at the bodies of his parents. After a long while, he called out, "Dad, Mom?"
They also died in the Black Tower. From their appearance, they were exhausted to death due to low mental strength. Their eyes were wide open, their expressions were terrified, and their bodies were tense. They looked like they had been sucked dry, and were skinny.
Qin Xishuang laughed for a while, then lay down between her parents, covered in mud. "Let's go to sleep. Dad, Mom, look at me wearing my wedding dress. I'm going to have a family, and I'm going to get married... I'm going to be as happy as you."
The sky was dark, and at the moment the purple lightning struck, people and land, sky and distant mountains were all illuminated in an enchanting purple color.
There was noise and laughter. The rest of the players stood quietly until the three bodies disappeared, and then the scene gradually quieted down.
"Excuse me, everyone," Gao Mengtang said, "Should we go now?"
Go? Where to go?
After the previous few quarrels, everyone's mood was not very good.
Gao Mengtang: "Just now, it was the burial beetle that led us to the stone tablet. The burial beetle appeared after Wu Feng died, and the beetle dug out his heart..."
The eulogy suddenly popped into his mind. His heart was broken and buried in the soil.
They dug up the soil where the burial beetles disappeared, and found no beetles, not even a single earthworm.
Only by sacrificing a heart can you summon the burial beetle again and find a way out.
However, players are prohibited from harming each other in the Stele Forest Maze. If you want the heart, there is only one possibility: kill the NPC.
All the players turned their eyes to the two NPCs present, Xin Tong and Wu Ma.
"You, what are you going to do?" Xin Tong took a half step back and screamed.
In this situation, the players did not have the patience to argue with the NPC. Wolanbei picked up the gun, cocked the string, aimed, and did it all in one smooth move with his index finger on the trigger.
“Ahhhhhh!”
Bang.
Gunshots and screams rang out simultaneously. Xin Tong was so frightened that she fell to the ground, desperately covering her ears. Behind her, Wu Ma fell down.
There was a coin-sized gun muzzle between the eyebrows, and the crazy laughter of a female ghost appeared inside the decayed body.
In just a few seconds, the body turned into a pile of bones and a dry skin. Black gas came out of the mouth and dissipated into the rain curtain, leaving no trace.
"What the hell is that?" Wolanbei cursed softly, not bothering to care about the female ghost's screams and the black air.
The burial beetle appeared for the second time, carrying Wu Ma's heart, and led the players. Xin Tong did not dare to follow them, but was forcibly taken away by Wo Lanbei and Bo Yao.
On the way, Wolanbei was still mumbling: "The broken bug is quite useful. If I had known earlier, I should have sacrificed a player to obtain the permanent burial beetle."
Soon, they arrived at the second stone tablet.
[A: Closer to the exit]
[B: Find more stone tablets]
The Stele Forest maze is too weird, so players unanimously choose option "A".
[You will be closer to the exit next time you move]
Another problem arises, this village is empty and there are no NPCs.
Xin Tong felt that disaster was imminent and threw herself into Gao Mengtang's arms: "Xiao Meng, Xiao Meng, you must save me!"
Bang.
The gunshots rang out mercilessly, blood splattered all over Gao Mengtang's face. The body in his arms quickly cooled down.
"Why are you staring at me with your eyes wide open?" Wolanbei said unhappily while cleaning his gun, "You're not going to get angry with me for killing an NPC, are you?"
Unlike Wu Ma's death, Xin Tong's body decayed naturally.
Gao Mengtang helped her close her eyes and covered her face with a handkerchief.
This time, the players came to the edge of the cliff, and there was still no one in the house. When everyone saw the words on the stone tablet, their faces changed again.
[A: At least one player jumps off the cliff, and the rest of the players are immediately teleported to the next stone tablet]
[B: All members are teleported to the starting point]
Our current location is on high ground, and we can see a circle of golden light at the exit. It is not far away, and we can reach it after passing two or three stone tablets.
Below the cliff is Changming Village, but the road is winding and zigzagging.
More importantly, the road under the cliff is next to a long river, making it more likely to encounter butchers.
More importantly, the villages on both sides of the road were dilapidated and looked like they had been uninhabited for a long time.
If they can't meet any NPCs, they can only kill each other and sacrifice their hearts to find a way out.
Pegana shook his tail and said, "No wonder players are forbidden to persecute each other. He just wants to kill people. Let me tell you, moon creatures are like this, sanctimonious and glamorous on the surface... Little blind man, if you die, will I be free?"
Gao Mengtang ignored him and thought for a moment: "Why don't we go back to the starting point, I..."
He wanted to say, I have a way, it should work.
That is: to cut out his own heart.
The twelve ghosts would judge that he committed suicide and resurrect him over and over again. However, in this case, I don't know if the heart taken out can summon the burial beetle.
However, the Twelve Ghost Shadows should be a secret, and Gao Mengtang didn't want to tell someone he didn't trust.
The six players were all silent, their spirit points were being consumed bit by bit. In the rain, Li Xing'er's hand would be stretched out from time to time. The damage was not high, but it was very annoying. She kept harassing them, and the players had to distract themselves to fight her off.
"Mr. Blind, you should take this pill." Wei Wei took out a wide-mouthed bottle, "I still have four pills, please don't be reluctant to eat them."
What pill? Wei Wei's remarks made it seem as if Gao Mengtang knew that he had the medicine and was saving it for the critical moment.
He immediately asked through the telepathic link: "What does this mean?"
Wei Wei: "It's harmless to you. This pill is in line with my personal skills. It can...! @#￥￥%"
Good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes alone. The 5 minutes of spiritual communication time every day has been used up, and the second half of Wei Wei’s words turned into a string of noise.
Gao Mengtang picked up the pill and swallowed it. After biting the thin and crispy shell, the contents of the pill were springy and tender. He swallowed it whole and immediately felt a little uncomfortable in his stomach.
"After swallowing this pill, you can block a fatal attack once within six hours." Wei Wei rubbed a pill and turned it between his fingers. "I only made four pills. I will take one for myself and give one to the blind man."
"Freesia is a hybrid of a human and a dead-born. I have never tried drugs on this kind of people and I dare not abuse them. Who dares to try the remaining two pills?"
Several pairs of eyes stared at him, but no one answered. Qin Xishuang got a stone from somewhere, held it in her arms, and rocked it back and forth like she was coaxing a baby.
Bo Yao seemed to be excited: "Senior, can you also make medicine?"
"Of course he would," Wolanbei sneered, "He originally majored in healing, and he can make medicine and poison."
Wei Wei wiped the rain off his face and said slowly, "At this time when life and death are uncertain, I have no choice but to cooperate with you. If you have any doubts, you can refuse. I will not force you."
After saying that, he picked up the pill and was about to put it into his mouth.
"Wait, wait a minute!" Bo Yao said, "I want to eat."
Wei Wei glanced at him and poured him a pill.
"Senior, the thing in your hand..." Bo Yao spoke hesitantly.
Bo Yao was cautious.
The rules say that players who persecute each other will be punished, but they don't say what the punishment is. It's still possible for Wei Wei to take the risk of poisoning.
Wei Wei also understood his thoughts. He smiled brightly, put the pills in his hand back into the wide-mouthed bottle, shook it to mix the remaining three pills, and then handed it to Bo Yao.
"Please choose first."
Bo Yao poured out two pills, compared them carefully as if he was appraising a treasure, gave one to Wei Wei, and waited for him to eat it before he ate his own.
One pill left.
While listening to them talking, Gao Mengtang felt his stomach churning. The pill he had just swallowed kept returning to his throat. He suppressed his nausea and pretended nothing had happened.
Wo Lanbei was eager to try. Qin Xishuang paused briefly to coax the stone child, then continued to shake him, singing: "In the blue sky and the Milky Way, there is a little white boat..."
"Chief Qin, do you want to eat?" Wolanbei asked.
"I can't see the oars, and there's no sail on the boat. It's drifting, drifting to the west..."
Wolanbei: "..."
"I'll try."
He took the last pill from Wei Wei and swallowed it. There was no change on his face. He smacked his lips and said, "Wei Wei, next time you make medicine, add some sugar or something. This isn't sweet at all."
The feeling of nausea became even stronger. Gao Mengtang's breathing was trembling. Every cell from head to toe was screaming in resistance, wanting to vomit out what he had just eaten.
He felt unwell and dizzy. In his daze, he heard someone say in his ear: "Gao Mengtang."
What?
"I said, if I can't get someone, I will destroy him."
It was Qin Xishuang's voice! Clear, rational, calm, not even a hint of dementia. Gao Mengtang wanted to call Wei Wei, but when he opened his mouth, he almost vomited and didn't make any sound.
The next second, Qin Xishuang pushed hard and Gao Mengtang fell off the cliff.
"Princess!" Freesia pounced down regardless of anything.
Bo Yao suddenly panicked. Xiao Canglan was gone, so how could he get his ID card back? He lay down on the edge of the cliff, trying to catch her, but missed.
When she shouted, Wei Wei, who had his back to the cliff, turned around suddenly and saw that there were two missing figures on the cliff.
A bolt of lightning struck Qin Xishuang right behind him. He stood with his back to the light and wiped the mud off his face. "I haven't returned everything I learned from the Opera Academy. My acting skills are pretty good, right? I fooled you all."
"You," Wei Wei's fox eyes widened, "Are you playing dumb?"
"I'm pretending to be stupid, but some people are really stupid." Qin Xishuang tilted her head and looked at the two people who took the pills with disgust. She raised her foot and kicked Bo Yao, who was lying on the edge of the cliff, down.
Bo Yao's screams were heard from the empty valley.
"If Wei Wei tells you to eat, you really eat. Wo Lanbei, you are not still thinking about your former best friend, are you?" Qin Xishuang sneered, "Are you addicted to being cheated? Do you want to be cheated by him again?"
A circle of light appeared under the feet of the three people, and was about to teleport them to the next stone tablet.
Wei Wei immediately summoned He Luo, entangled the two of them, and wanted to jump down with Gao Mengtang.
Qin Xishuang was prepared. As soon as He Luo's tentacles touched him, he turned into a sky full of colorful butterflies and broke free. Seeing Wei Wei and Wo Lanbei falling off the cliff, a group of butterflies fluttered over, dragged Wei Wei's body, and pulled him back.
"Keep a spare heart." Qin Xishuang put one arm around Wei Wei, and her five fingers moved like spiders, crawling towards Wei Wei's left chest. "This heart once beat passionately for me."
The aperture narrowed, and the figures of Wei Wei and Qin Xishuang disappeared, leaving only their laughter echoing in the air.
*
Gao Mengtang fell so hard that he saw stars. He no longer had to endure the nausea and immediately vomited out the thing stuck in his throat.
"Ouch, a little octopus tentacle." said Pegana.
No wonder, he couldn't eat meat, every time he swallowed it, he had to spit it out. Gao Mengtang quickly stuffed the octopus tentacle into Pegana's mouth.
"Help us sell the stolen goods. Don't be afraid. You are an ancient god. You will be fine if you eat it."
"Ah, ah!"
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