Chapter 257 Elevator (End) At this moment, love changed the world...
Duan Song took a deep breath and woke up. At this moment, Zhong Lixing's sharp nails were only 10 centimeters away from his chest. With his snake-like reaction speed, he twisted his body and dodged the attack.
Zhong Lixing dug his five fingers into the wall, leaving five deep fingerprints. His nails broke and cracks appeared on the skin on the back of his hand. His hand was still stuck in the wall. He turned his body, his shoulder snapped, and he bent backwards. His other hand grabbed Duan Song's neck.
With a crack, He Luo's tentacles pierced Zhong Lixing's chest and completely shattered his waist. Zhong Lixing's upper body fell on his legs, and he did not loosen his hand that was strangling Duan Song's throat.
Hundreds of playing cards cut Zhong Lixing into fist-sized pieces. His body was scattered all over the ground, but his hand was still tightly grasping Duan Song.
"What the hell is this thing?" Duan Song's face turned red due to suffocation. He pried open Zhong Lixing's hands little by little, and blood oozed from his nails.
"Attack the other four!" Wei Wei shouted.
The clowns were incredibly fast, moving through the dense attacks like lightning. Wei Wei and his men had gone through many difficult battles and were now exhausted, but the people of the Zhongli family were always in the best condition.
They picked up the fragments of Zhongli Star and put them together to form a hand, a leg, and half a head while dodging attacks...
After just 10 seconds, Zhongli Xing's body, which was split vertically into two halves, closed in front of the players. His eyes turned twice in different directions, and the corners of his red-painted mouth raised:
"I haven't seen you for ten seconds. I missed you so much."
Shang Yu was completely desperate. Her spirit value was only 20 points left. The chaotic chatter made her thoughts confused and she didn't even have the strength to lift a finger.
There is no way to deal with this thing. I accept my fate, just kill me. Shang Yu slowly closed his eyes.
Five clowns rushed over again, still targeting Duan Song. The smoke released by the prank box made Duan Song fall into confusion, and he was unable to dodge. Zhong Lixing jumped onto his shoulders, pressed his head with both hands, and twisted it with a click.
Boom! Duan Song’s head fell to the ground, his eyes still open, and the devil horns on his head were emitting black air.
Cold anger began to spread from his chest. Wei Wei used up all his physical and magical power to block in front of them. The tentacles behind him stretched out like spider legs.
Zhongli Xing and five others passed Wei Wei, squeezed through the gaps between the tentacles, and headed straight for Freesia.
The same trick, the Tricky Box released green smoke, causing Xiao Freesia to fall into a state of confusion. Xiao Freesia had a strong physique, but her intelligence was not very high, so she could not resist the confusion effect. She wanted to hide, but her body rushed towards Zhong Lixing.
With another thud, Freesia's head was twisted off.
"You're really a piece of shit." Wei Wei wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and rushed towards Zhong Li Xing. He was already at the end of his strength and had no physical strength or magic to use. He swung his fist with anger and smashed the back of Zhong Li Xing's head. Blood was also flowing from his fist joints.
The second punch smashed through Zhong Lixing's empty skull, and the fist came out from the middle of Zhong Lixing's face. The two glass-like eyes of the Clown King fell out.
When Wei Wei was about to throw the third punch, the clown next to him grabbed his throat, making him go dark before his eyes.
Without the back of his head and face, it did not affect Zhongli Xing's movements at all. He just looked like a human being, but he did not need to use his eyes to see like a human being. He had an oval hollow ring on his neck, and with one hand he pressed down on Xiao Canglan's headless body, punching her left chest one after another.
The bloodline of death took effect. Freesia was not so easy to kill. Flesh-red threads popped out from its neck, wrapped around its head and reattached it to its body.
The head was installed upside down, with the back of the head facing forward. Xiao Canglan bent her waist upwards, almost folding her body in half, and bit off Zhong Lixing's neck in one bite.
At the same time, with a "puff" sound, Zhong Lixing's hand pierced Xiao Canglan's left chest and grabbed her still beating heart.
The heart is the most vulnerable part of a player, because it is bound to the Black Tower identity card. Wei Wei's throat was locked, and his eyes were red with anger. He reached back to grab the man's eyes.
What kind of attack can be effective against something that has no sense of pain and no death?
Wei Wei gouged out both of the man's eyes, and the force of his throat lock did not diminish at all.
With a snap, Zhongli Xing crushed Xiao Canglan's heart. Blood splashed on Wei Wei's face. He forgot to struggle and stared at the scene with wide eyes...
System: "[666 Demon][726 Drowned Ghost] has died."
"Mission accomplished." Zhongli Xing picked up the fragments of the back of his head and face and put them together one by one. The man who had locked Wei Wei's throat immediately let him go.
After replacing his eyeballs, Zhong Lixing slowly blinked twice and said in a dreamlike voice, "Now I can commit suicide. Is this correct? Can an inanimate object commit suicide?"
Zhong Lixing looked at Wei Wei with lifeless eyes, but seemed not to be looking at him. He said to himself, "In fact, I envy you guys. Although you are fragile, you know that you are human beings..."
The skin of the five clowns cracked, and a faint white light shone through the cracks.
Wei Wei looked at the scene in confusion. He didn't have the strength to attack and forgot about it.
"Three years ago I began to think: What am I? A puppet or a servant? Have I lived for myself? Have I lived?"
“If only I could not think…”
The lingering sound spread like water waves. Zhong Lixing's head tilted and the paint on his face gradually faded. He had no expression and his tone was flat, but for some reason, Wei Wei could hear an irreconcilable sadness from this mechanical voice.
With a loud crash, Zhongli Xing and the other five people turned into fragments all over the ground.
What… ghost thing? Wei Wei frowned, but he quickly recovered from his confusion, arranged the bodies of Duan Song and Xiao Canglan, and checked the state of their souls.
Fortunately, Zhongli Xing and the others only used physical attacks, which did not harm their souls, and they could be resurrected with resurrection coins. After completing the transaction with He Suozhi, they could get 20 resurrection coins.
"Wei Xiangchen, keep an eye on their souls." Wei Wei ordered, and then fed the semi-conscious Shang Yu the only remaining bottle of low-level mental recovery agent.
Young Master He Suzhi was so frightened that he almost lost control of his bladder. When Wei Wei approached him, he also kept screaming.
Five minutes later, He Suzhi's emotions stabilized and Shang Yu woke up. Her first reaction was to hug her sister. Only the two of them survived.
"Kill me and let my sister go!" Shang Yu shouted angrily, "Zhongli Xing, you...are you dead?"
Wei Wei: “Yeah.”
"Nine Thousand Years Old, you killed them?! How did you do it?" Shang Yu was very surprised.
Wei Wei shook his head: "They committed suicide."
He recounted what had just happened, and Shang Yu repeated in disbelief: "You mean, they killed Duan Song and Xiao Canglan, and then ended their own lives? Oh, if that counts as life."
"That's right." Wei Wei frowned slightly. What was their purpose in doing this?
"There are only two of us left!" He Suzhi cheered, "We, we can leave now! Ancient God! It's over!"
"There are still 300 points left." Shang Yu reminded.
As soon as he finished speaking, the Gawu box on his chest vibrated twice gently. Wei Wei opened it and saw that all the petals of the lotus had bloomed.
"We can go out now." Wei Wei said, turning around and seeing that He Luo, who had just exhausted his energy and was half-dead, was now extremely excited. He had already crawled out from his collar and was crawling towards the fragments of Zhongli Xing.
Wei Wei grabbed it and said, "Stop making trouble."
He Luo stretched out a tentacle stubbornly and strongly, stretched it out like a noodle, wrapped it around a shining piece of mirror in the middle of the fragments, and gnawed it clean with a crunching sound.
"Don't eat dirty things." Wei Wei hit it on the head, "I'll buy you a wild yellow croaker when we get out."
The big yellow croaker could not tempt He Luo. It was so persistent that it seemed like a madman. It broke free from Wei Wei's hand and crawled towards the second mirror fragment.
"What is the origin of this octopus of yours?" Shang Yu asked in amazement, "Why can it devour the fragments of Mirror Lake?"
Wei Wei asked with his eyes: What are the Mirror Lake Fragments?
Shang Yu explained it again.
"To be honest, I know nothing about its origin. It's loyal, and I just keep it." At this time, He Luo ate 5 pieces of Mirror Lake fragments, stretched his head, squinted his eyes, and burped silently.
"Don't eat random things from now on." Wei Wei hit it on the head.
Shang Yu couldn't believe it: "Will He Luo die? Can it be resurrected infinitely?"
Wei Wei frowned even more tightly. He remembered two things. The first was that the day after he adopted He Luo, he learned the art of resurrection.
The second thing is that, as Shang Yu said, no matter how serious the injury He Luo suffered, even if he was chopped into jelly mud, he could recover quickly.
Wei Wei has always believed that the fusion of jelly mud into He Luo is a manifestation of He Luo's strong self-healing ability. In other words, isn't it infinite resurrection?
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Still 300 points short, sacrifice six people.
"Drawing lots, or voluntary?" Shang Yin asked.
"Why, why draw lots!" Song Zhong shouted, "Shang Yin, you were all going to die anyway, you are the sacrifice!"
Shang Yin agreed immediately: "Okay, including me, there are still five people alive. If we all sacrifice ourselves, you still need to provide two more people."
"No," Shang Yin corrected himself, "I want to stay alive. If you change your mind at the last minute, I can at least help my sister."
"Who's going to go back on your word?" Song Zhong roared, "The winner will be the sacrifice. You guys live too abstractly, but we are normal people!"
Shang Yin said calmly, "I don't want to argue right now. If five people in our group survive, I will provide four. Chief Gao, if seven people in your group survive, you can provide two. That's not too much, right?"
It's not too much. Gao Mengtang raised his hand: "I can offer sacrifice, any volunteers? Brother, the two of us offer sacrifice?"
Gao Geng obviously disagreed.
"Boss, you and Gao Geng can't go!" Bai Jie held his hand down, "What should we do if something unexpected happens and you're not here!"
"No, Brother Mengtang can't be sacrificed!" He Lun shouted, "I will sacrifice! There is still one person missing, who is willing!"
Song Zhong said timidly: "He Lun Bai Jie, you two are stopping Gao Mengtang from offering sacrifice, why don't you just..."
"Okay, I'll go!" Bai Jie stood up with his hands on his hips, "I'm not a coward who is afraid of death. It's just a sacrifice, right? At the critical moment, of course I have to stand up. I don't want to be a burden."
Song Zhong was just timid, but he was smart and realized immediately that Bai Jie was scolding him.
"Bai Jie, who do you think you are? In terms of strength, I am much stronger than you. You call me a coward and a burden, but how much better are you?"
"Show me," Bai Jie made a "please" gesture, "where is your strength demonstrated? When you encounter danger, you can tear open a rift and escape by yourself in the first place?"
"You!" Song Zhong was so angry that he was shaking, his jaw was about to drop. He wanted to say that when he encountered danger the first two times, he clearly threw Gao Mengtang into the crevice first, but his anger made his whole body numb and he couldn't say a word.
Gao Mengtang hurriedly separated them: "Don't quarrel first, we have to figure out one thing, can we be resurrected after sacrificing our lives?" Gao Mengtang said, "Once the soul is polluted, the resurrection coin will be powerless to save it."
"You can be resurrected, that's for sure." Shang Yin said, "In this copy, there is no attack that can harm the soul."
After the winner is chosen, all the dead in that team will be resurrected by Xiao Tien using the resurrection coins. In this way, together with Xiao Tien, there will be 13 people to summon the ancient god.
Therefore, Xiao Tien will not hurt the players' souls in the dungeon.
To verify this, Shang Yin first let one of his relatives sacrifice himself. After that person jumped into the Ascension Path, his whole body was ablaze with flames, and he crawled out of the garbage port, shouting fanatically:
"God is coming. Come with me to welcome Him."
Then the man turned into a dead rabbit.
"Just watch." Shang Yin took out a card that could test the integrity of the soul and placed it on the dead rabbit. A number appeared on the card: 100%
As long as the soul integrity is above 50%, you can use resurrection coins to resurrect.
With this guarantee, the players felt much more relieved. Shang Yin hugged and said goodbye to his family. They agreed to meet again at the ancient god summoning ceremony to welcome the historic moment together.
"Have you made up your mind?" Gao Mengtang asked.
"Goodbye! Goodbye!" said the Parrot in the forest.
He Lun and Bai Jie nodded solemnly. They did not have the character of the ancient god believers who were ready to die. At the last moment, they felt reluctant to leave, hugged Gao Mengtang, and talked a lot.
After hesitating for more than half an hour, Shang Yin was showing some impatience, and they finally jumped down.
Gao Mengtang suddenly felt fortunate that he was now completely blind and could not see the tragic scene of He Lun and Bai Jie after their sacrifice. Gao Geng pressed his hand on Gao Mengtang's shoulder with a little more force, as he felt heartbroken for the two men.
"Praise be to Allah, the Supreme Being." This was the voice of Hellen.
Everything was dark before his eyes. He would become a dead rabbit.
"At the moment when the half-dead came, love changed the world." This is Bai Jie's voice.
Being blind is good. Gao Mengtang didn't like seeing Bai Jie's whole body burnt.
Gao Mengtang's world was filled with infinite emptiness. He even had an inappropriate smile on his face. Perhaps, the darkness of nothingness brought him comfort.
"300 points." Shang Yin sighed softly, "Let's go. Take the elevator downstairs."
Clang. The retractable fence door closed. Gao Mengtang suddenly said, "I hate stairs. I also hate elevators."
The first dungeon he participated in was [8th Floor], where he walked up the stairs infinitely until he pushed open the door to the top floor. In that dungeon, he met Helun.
In the current copy [Elevator], they went up and down the stairs again and again to collect points. In this copy, Helun encountered death for the first time.
"Well, elevators and stairs are annoying." Gao Geng hugged his brother's head tightly.
The elevator stopped at the first floor. Shang Yin was so excited that he walked out first. Song Zhong walked almost as fast as him.
"You have also ended this torture, right!" Shang Yin was in a good mood.
Song Zhong: "I really regret coming here, 20 resurrection coins."
"I just remembered that it's a good thing that we didn't let Gao Mengtang sacrifice himself." Shang Yin said, "Gao Mengtang is a life in the inner world. The souls of the inner and outer worlds are different. We can use the resurrection coins, but he can't."
"Who cares?" Song Zhong ran away as if there was a monster chasing him.
The exit of the first floor was lit with a warm yellow light. Everyone walked out and saw two roads in front of them. The sign at the fork read "Leave Here" and "Sacrifice Here".
"Mr. Blind! How are you?" The first floor overlaps with the outdoor playing field of the museum. Wei Wei caught up from behind. He saw the two dead rabbits in Gao Mengtang's arms and paused.
"This is?"
"He Lun and Bai Jie." Gao Mengtang hugged them tightly.
Wei Wei's expression was a little complicated: "This is Duan Song and Xiao Canglan."
"They also..."
"Um."
Gao Mengtang hung his head, looking very unhappy.
"Okay, Chief Gao, let's end the contract now. You take the 20 resurrection coins and revive your teammates." He Suzhi said.
Gao Mengtang still couldn't see, but he fumbled to take out the contract and felt the hem of his clothes being pulled twice. He Luo's tentacles reached into Gao Mengtang's pocket and stole the Mirror Lake fragment.
"He Luo, if you don't listen, I will throw you away." Wei Wei threatened in pretended anger.
The octopus hesitated, staring at the fragment of Mirror Lake firmly for a moment, then wrapped its tentacles around it and quickly swallowed it. Then it rubbed Wei Wei's neck and acted like a spoiled child.
He Suzhi smiled with relief: "The contract is completed. Your 20 resurrection coins. Thank you for taking care of my sister."
The first thing he did was to place the four resurrection coins on the chests of Duan Song, Xiao Canglan, He Lun, and Bai Jie respectively.
They waited in silence for half a minute.
Waited another half minute.
"He Lun, are you okay?" Gao Mengtang asked.
No response.
"Heron?"
"Sir Blind, Helun has not been resurrected," Wei Wei's voice trembled, "There is a problem with the resurrection coin."
Everyone was shocked. How could this be possible? When signing the contract, they checked it many times. The contract was fine, and the resurrection coin was fine. How could the resurrection coin not work?
The shock was like a landslide, and Gao Mengtang and the others' minds went blank. Wei Wei came to his senses first, and the tentacles that popped out from his sleeves rolled He Suzhi back when he was about to leave the copy.
"What's wrong with your resurrection coin? Why doesn't it work!" Wei Wei pinched He Suozhi's jaw with one hand. His scarlet pupils were torn into a vertical line. The murderous intent instantly made He Suozhi's face pale.
"Speak!" Wei Wei shouted.
The four resurrection coins had been placed on the four dead teammates for two minutes. Under the moonlight, they shone with a sacred silver glow.
"I, I, I, I don't know!" He Suzhi cried, "That is indeed the resurrection coin, you have seen it, give it to me, give it to me, I won't dare to lie to you even if I have 20 guts, please forgive me!"
Wei Wei put him down and picked up the resurrection coin again, activating the item recognition function in the system.
[Item name: Resurrection Coin]
[Purpose: Resurrecting the dead]
Yes, this is the Resurrection Coin. But why doesn't it work?
"I understand," Gao Mengtang supported himself on his knees and stood up with difficulty. "The souls in the inner and outer worlds are different, so the tools that act on the souls are not universal. This is indeed a resurrection coin, but it is a resurrection coin from the inner world. It can only revive lives in the inner world."
As soon as these words came out, Wei Wei's face turned pale. He slowly loosened his hand, and He Suozhi fell to the ground with his butt, crying non-stop: "I didn't know! I really didn't know there were resurrection coins in the other world!"
When they bought two heritage weapons in the store, the shop owner mentioned this. But how could the players have thought that there were resurrection coins in the other world?
The Moonborn "die and give birth again", and it is harder for the dead to die than to ascend to heaven. Shadow creatures also have tenacious lives. Their lifespans are almost infinite, and they don't need to be resurrected at all.
"Where did these 20 resurrection coins come from?" Wei Wei asked with his last bit of composure. Just like there was no need for diving equipment in the desert, there was no need for resurrection coins in the other world.
The only explanation is that someone deliberately created these otherworldly resurrection coins to deceive them.
"Uncle He Yan bought it." He Suozhi stepped back tremblingly, "Uncle He Yan, he... is dead."
Wei Wei gave a twisted smile, his eyes cold and cold: "Silence him."
Before He Yan died, he experienced a painful struggle, but when he died, his face showed a smile of relief, detachment, and happiness. He was just like the sacrificer in the copy.
"No wonder, after Zhongli Xing killed Duan Song and Xiao Canglan, he immediately chose to end his life. They forced us to take this path..." Wei Wei used a calm voice to cover up the hatred surging in his heart, "Sir Blind, let's go."
Gao Mengtang stood up with his help: "Let's go."
"You, where are you going?" He Suzhi asked courageously.
"Become a sacrifice." Wei Wei said calmly, "Before the ceremony of summoning the ancient god begins, Xiao Tien will resurrect all of us."
He Suzhi's expression became uglier than before: "But, but I, you promised me..."
"Four of our teammates died, Duan Song, Xiao Canglan, He Lun, and Bai Jie." Wei Wei half turned around and looked at him indifferently, "I'm very sorry, I'm not in the mood to consider your feelings."
Shang Yin supported Shang Yu, and the two of them ran towards the exit of the sacrificial road eagerly and excitedly.
Suddenly, the tentacles wrapped around the two men and the corpses they were carrying, and threw them to the ground, causing them to see stars.
"Wei Wei, why are you crazy!" Shang Yu yelled angrily.
"Yes, I'm crazy," Wei Wei said quickly and quietly, "We are going to be sacrificed. You, go back."
This sudden change came too suddenly. Shang Yu was dumbfounded. She stared at their backs and jumped up to attack. The huge He Luo, as big as a mountain, rose in front of her.
"At least give us an explanation!" Shang Yu shouted.
He Luo's tentacles smashed down at her, crushing Shang Yu's protective shield as easily as crumpling a piece of paper. They barely managed to dodge an attack, and at this time, the backs of Gao Mengtang, Wei Wei and others were already swallowed by the faint light at the exit of the Sacrifice Road.
System: "Congratulations on clearing the dungeon [Elevator]"
"Congratulations to players [000 Blind Man] [101 Nine Thousand Years Old] [666 Demon]... [099 Broken Wing Knight] for becoming the winners. They will become sacrifices and witness the coming of the Half-Dead."
"At this moment, love changes the world."
Gao Mengtang blinked, and his vision gradually became clear.
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