Chapter 248 Elevator (1) White wide-rimmed rabbit glasses...
If the soul is scattered, it cannot be resurrected.
He Suzhi went upstairs as if in a dream. A group of people had already surrounded He Yan's room, whispering to each other.
He pushed away the crowd of onlookers with his shoulder and slammed the door. His father He Qiong was sitting on the bed, pulling his own white hair.
On the floor, He Yan's body was lying. There were scratches on his face and neck, and the blood on his fingertips had dried. His expression was peaceful, his eyes were slightly closed, and he was smiling quietly. A dagger was stuck in his left chest.
The room was in a mess, all the furnishings were destroyed, the chandelier smashed to the floor, and the curtains were pulled down and torn into rags.
There was a resurrection coin in the pool of blood. He Qiong tried to revive He Yan, but found that his soul had been scattered and the resurrection coin had no effect.
"Father, what's going on?" He Suzhi asked in a trembling voice.
He Qiong's voice was extremely hoarse: "He Yan didn't come downstairs to eat in the morning. The servants knocked on the door but he didn't open it. At about 10 o'clock, a foul smell came from the house. We broke in and saw He Yan...he...ah..."
Tears filled He Suzhi's eyes. In his blurred vision, he stretched out his hand and pressed his fingertips on He Yan's brow.
[120 Forensic Doctor] Identity Skill [Death Identification]
By touching the corpse, you can find out the cause of death.
Next to He Yan's head, two red words appeared that only He Suzhi could see: Suicide.
"Uncle Yan committed suicide..." What is this saying?
"How is it possible!" He Qiong raised his head and stared with red eyes, "He Yan is going to participate in the sacrificial competition, which will start the day after tomorrow. Why would he commit suicide now!"
"Also, why would one's soul be scattered after committing suicide? This is just an ordinary dagger, it can't hurt the soul!"
He Suzhi almost cried: "My ability will never go wrong."
"...Go out." He Qiong said, "I want to be alone for a while."
He Suzhi found Gao Mengtang and hugged him and cried for two hours. The Yuefan members were a little surprised that he, a believer in ancient gods, was not accustomed to death.
"There must be a conspiracy behind this." He Suzhi sobbed, "Uncle Yan was murdered!"
Wei Wei tried his best to comfort him for the sake of 27 million yuan: "Do you have any idea? Who did the He family have an enemy with?"
He Suzhi blew his nose and said, "The Li family. We shorted their futures."
"Then they are very suspicious..." Gao Mengtang said.
"There are also the Zhao family, the Xu family, the Liu family, the Zhongli family, the Sima family, the Ding family, the Xue family..." He Suzhi listed more than 20 surnames like a rhyme.
Wei Wei: "...Have you ever shorted them all?"
He Suzhi: “Yeah.”
What kind of Soros is this? It's a miracle that He Yan can survive until now!
When the murder happened, if the person had enemies everywhere, then he had no enemies at all. Gao Mengtang and others immediately gave up the idea of tracking down the real murderer and focused on coaxing the sensitive young master.
He Suzhi went back to his room and cried, and the others also breathed a sigh of relief.
"I still find it very strange," Gao Mengtang took off the white sweater that was wet with He Suozhi's tears, "If He Yan was killed by the enemy, why did he look so happy before he died?"
Moreover, He Yan had scratch marks on his body and blood on his fingertips. Before his death, he scratched his skin painfully, so why did his emotions return to calm when he was dying?
"Who cares about that?" Duan Song stretched lazily. "The fancy suicide ceremony will begin soon. Countless people will die. He Yan just left first."
Gao Mengtang was also helpless as he was completely ignorant of the grudges and love affairs among the ancient gods' believers.
He Yan's death did not cause much commotion. The believers of the ancient god believed that this was a sign of glorious sacrifice. Those who were preparing for the competition continued to prepare, and those who were watching the excitement continued to watch.
Although He Suozhi was very sad, Bai Jie was very happy. He couldn't let go of the "Ruyuan" and took it out and touched it many times. As he touched it, Ruyuan changed from an ordinary, slightly crooked wooden stick to a straight and slender one, and the color was also changing.
"Look, look!" Bai Jie was very happy, "It's worthy of being a heritage-level weapon, and it can even change its form!"
But soon, Bai Jie's smile disappeared.
The shape of the handle gradually turns into a thin ghost figure wearing a top hat. The carving is so delicate that you can even see the ribbon wrapped around the hat and the Windsor knot at the collar.
It tightens from the ghost's waist and extends downward, turning into a glossy black.
"What's the matter?" Helen asked.
Bai Jie put down his cane in a trance: "The faceless gentleman in black with a top hat, the family emblem of the Bai family."
He continued to feel around and tap the wall with his cane, but the cane no longer changed shape.
"Why is it in this shape?" Bai Jie was upset. "A broken stick is better than this!"
He Lun: "Never mind, this cane can enhance your skills. With it, you can steal things more easily."
"But I don't like this shape, change it back! Change it back!" Bai Jie screamed in anger.
*
The guests in the hotel still had nightmares, but Gao Mengtang did not. However, he could always hear the tinkling sound from the ceiling, like glass beads falling on the floor, which continued in the middle of the night.
What a disgusting neighbor, Xiao Tien, who has no manners.
Before the game started, they selected 12 people and divided them into two groups, A and B.
Members of Group A: Wei Wei (captain), Duan Song, Xiao Canglan, Wei Xiangchen, and He Suzhi.
Group B members: Gao Mengtang (captain), Lin Li, Bai Jie, He Lun, Song Zhong, Gao Geng, and He Qi.
On the night when they signed the registration contract, Gao Mengtang looked out the window and saw the competition venue from their hotel.
The competition venue is divided into two parts. The competition venue for Group A is an ice hole, and the competition venue for Group B is also an ice hole.
"What should I do? What should I do?" Song Zhong was so anxious that he was spinning in circles. "There are only 10 hours left before the competition starts!"
"What are you worried about?" Wei Wei flipped through the Secret of the Moon leisurely. "You are in Group B, and players are forbidden to fight each other. Are you afraid of this?"
Song Zhongli was not righteous but was very confident: "I am a coward, you know that!"
At 11:30 in the morning, half an hour before the start of the game, Gao Mengtang followed a group of black cloaks, and a barrier blocked their way.
Gao Mengtang reached out his hand and touched it curiously, and exclaimed sincerely: "Xiao Tien is quite amazing. He can actually create such a good barrier."
When the people around heard him calling Xiao Tien's name, they all looked at him sideways.
A crow called, and the clock struck midnight. The barrier disappeared, and people squeezed past Gao Mengtang and jumped into the ice hole one after another.
Gao Mengtang was nearly knocked down by them. He muttered softly, "Are you in such a hurry to die?" and followed them slowly.
There was only a void of black in the depths of the ice hole. As Yue Fan and his men were gathering their emotions, the person behind him bumped into him, causing him to slip and fall directly down.
*
After the dizziness subsided, Wei Wei and the other five people squeezed into an elevator. It was an old-fashioned elevator with a retractable fence door in front. The number of floors was displayed as 13.
A familiar system voice sounded in my ears: "Welcome everyone to join the competition [Elevator]. [101 Nine Thousand Years Old] Wei Wei, you have entered the Group A competition, please read the competition rules in detail."
Three lines of words appeared before my eyes:
1. After leaving the museum, you will see two roads, you can choose either one.
2. Members of Group A can fight each other.
3. You'd better leave the museum as soon as possible.
That's it. No matter how carefully he read, there were only these three lines of words. He Suzhi was so scared that he huddled in the corner of the elevator and trembled. Wei Wei looked around and didn't see anything new.
Soon, he found that he had a necklace around his neck. It looked like a small flat round box made of gold, which was delicately carved. When he opened it, he saw a closed lotus with only one petal open.
"Gawu." Wei Wei said to himself. Gawu is a religious item, equivalent to a miniature shrine. When he was about to study the meaning of the lotus with one petal opened in the Gawu box, the elevator made a clanging sound and sank down.
Wei Wei's pupils shrank. He put down the Gawu pendant, and an octopus tentacle popped out from his sleeve. He pried open the retractable fence door and rushed out.
"What, what happened?" He Suozhi asked tremblingly.
"Come out!" Wei Weishen pulled him out with his arms, and He Luo's tentacles wrapped around the other three people. "What good place can this elevator lead to!"
He dragged the team members into the corridor, and only then did they have enough time to observe the museum.
After exiting the elevator, I first saw the guide board. There was only one exhibition hall on the 13th floor, named [Evil King I Exhibition Hall]
Evil King One, also known as Wise King Thirteen, is the "system" of the Black Tower game. Because Evil King One is a dead-born, unlike the previous Moon Clan kings, He prefers to call himself Evil King One.
He Suzhi let out a strange cry, dusted off his black cloak, knelt on the ground, put his hands together, and bowed deeply: "Praise be to Allah, who is supreme among all things..."
Others: …
"Get up." Wei Wei pulled him up, "Be careful, there can't be only five of us on this floor. I guess there are others who have left the elevator."
Before he could finish his sentence, he heard the sound of fighting in the distance. They followed the sound and saw a group of people fighting at the entrance of the exhibition hall, with blood splattering and screams ringing out.
Sure enough, they were not the only group that rushed out when the elevator started.
He Suzhi hid in the corner, with his entire back pressed against the wall: "What should I do now?"
"Sit back and reap the benefits." Wei Wei lit a cigarette and smoked slowly.
In the player list of Group A, the avatars turned black and white one after another. Five minutes into the game, more than 10 people had died.
When the two groups of people were both defeated and only two survivors were left, Wei Wei finished his cigarette, crushed the flame of the cigarette butt with the tip of his leather shoe, and a ball of black air condensed into a silk ribbon in his hand...
The black ribbon flew out, and was about to wrap around the two men's necks, and then break their cervical vertebrae...
With a whoosh, two playing cards flew over, cut through Wei Wei's ribbon, and chopped into the throats of the two men, directly cutting off their necks.
Wei Wei paused, turned his head and stared in the direction where the playing cards were flying.
"Nine Thousand Years Old, don't attack me yet. I have no hostility." A woman's voice was heard from the originally empty corridor. Distorted ripples appeared in the air, and believers in black robes appeared behind the ripples.
The ripples condensed into a playing card, which was held between the young man's index and middle fingers.
The poker cards with camouflage function made it look like there was no one in the corridor, but in fact the woman had been watching the fight in the corridor. Moreover, her poker cards also had attack power and could directly cut off the neck.
It has both offensive and auxiliary capabilities. This person is not easy to deal with. Wei Wei looked directly into the woman's eyes, and the octopus tentacles were entangled with his five fingers.
He Suzhi took a breath when he saw her: "Shang Yu."
"Your family's enemy?" Duan Song asked.
"No." He Suzhi said.
Duan Song: "That's good."
"Because her 054 series identity card is very powerful, we can't afford to offend her." He Suozhi added the second half of the sentence.
Duan Song: “…”
Shang Yu had thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a high nose bridge. Even when she smiled, she looked unapproachable. She flicked her finger, and the playing cards flew back into her sleeve. She grabbed his hand and shook it regardless of Wei Wei's wishes.
"Let's cooperate." Shang Yu said straight to the point.
Wei Wei kept his expressionless face: "What do you mean?"
"He Suzhi doesn't want to be a sacrifice, so he chose you as his teammates." Shang Yu said, "Because you are not believers, you have no awareness of dying for your faith."
"I..." He Suzhi wanted to quibble, but was interrupted by Shang Yu who raised his hand.
"Don't get me wrong. Other people's affairs have nothing to do with me." Shang Yu said, "I must become a sacrifice for the half-dead. Nine Thousand Year Old, you cooperate with us and slaughter the others. When there are only two groups left, you withdraw and we win. What do you think?"
There was no competition between them. Wei Wei's goal was to hold on until the second to last group, and then leave with 20 resurrection coins. Shang Yu's plan to commit suicide with great effort had nothing to do with Wei Wei and the others.
Out of instinctive caution, Wei Wei still questioned: "From what I have learned, the followers of the ancient gods hate you, the blind man, and I'm afraid they don't have a good impression of me."
"It's really not good," Shang Yu said bluntly, "If it weren't for the special circumstances, I would wash my hands twenty times with babies' blood every time I shake hands with you."
Xiao Canglan was so angry that she wanted to hit her, but was held down by Wei Wei.
"But I want to be a sacrifice now," Shang Yu's clear but unfathomable eyes ignited with fanatical light, "Even if I have cooperated with people like you, after I sacrifice myself as a sacrifice, the humility and unbearableness in my soul will be washed away by the ancient god."
Wei Wei: "Then it's a pleasure to work with you."
He wanted to shake hands out of habit, but Shang Yu dodged it without leaving a trace.
*
"Welcome everyone to join the competition [Ladder]. [000 Blind] Gao Mengtang, you have entered Group B. Please read the competition rules in detail."
1. Find the rabbit
2. Group B members are prohibited from fighting each other, otherwise they will face punishment
3. You'd better leave the museum as soon as possible.
Found the rabbit? What does that mean? Gao Mengtang was confused, but he didn't have the energy to think about it. It was too dark around him, without a single ray of light.
"I've become blind again and can't see anything!" Gao Mengtang said loudly.
He Lun fumbled around: "I can't see either! There is no light here, I feel like I'm in a box, what is that, it's so soft."
Gao Mengtang: "My face."
"Flashlight, flashlight!" Song Zhong shouted.
He turned on the flashlight and shone it forward. He saw a retractable fence door that was dyed reddish-brown by blood plasma. In the gaps of the fence, there were clumps of black hair.
"Ahhhhhh!" Song Zhong screamed, opened a space crack, and rushed in as if escaping for his life.
Why is this guy running around? What if he encounters danger? He Lun grabbed Song Zhong's leg with one hand, hugged Gao Mengtang's waist with the other, and shouted, "Follow me."
So, the seven people followed Song Zhong in a daze, crossed the space rift, and came to the museum corridor.
There was still no light in the corridor. A group of people fell and were dizzy. He Lun stood up with the help of something, picked up a flashlight, and shone it around. He almost screamed.
Next to him was a statue of a monster with arms all over its body. It used its long arms to form a doorway 7 meters wide and 5 meters high. He Lun was holding onto one of the monster's arms that looked like a dry branch.
Above the doorway, there were a few words written in Esperanto.
"What's all that chatter?" Heron asked.
"The Evil King I Exhibition Hall." Bai Jie said, holding Ruyuan in his hand with a black cloth wrapped around the handle.
"Hey, help me up," Gao Mengtang shouted, "Is there any light? I still can't see anything!"
Gao Mengtang was helped to stand up by them, and then he skillfully took out the eye-protecting blueberries and bit into the sour flesh...
"Brother?" He Lun asked with concern.
Gao Mengtang stared straight ahead with his large, lifeless eyes. His vision had recovered a little, from being completely blind to having 1000-degree myopia, unable to distinguish between humans and animals more than half a meter away.
What was going on? After he had done business with the black businessman, his eyesight had been restored. He could see clearly without the blueberries, and even more clearly than ordinary people.
Why can't I see clearly in this copy even after using eye-protecting blueberries?
Gao Mengtang used his mind to open the system panel.
ID card: [000 Blind] (Negative effect: only death)
Negative effect description: You seem to be suppressed by some force. The overall ability (the player's own and summoned creatures' attack power, defense power, movement speed, etc.) is reduced to 30% of the original
The Hundred-Eyed Wizard is Gao Mengtang's summoned creature, and its abilities have been weakened to only 30%. Therefore, Gao Mengtang is still severely myopic after eating the eye-protecting blueberries.
"Take a look at your system panel. Are there any negative buffs?" Gao Mengtang asked.
Others have looked and said no.
What a shameful system! It didn't dare to let Gao Mengtang exert his full strength, and deliberately made things difficult for him!
Gao Mengtang became angrier and angrier as he thought about it. He searched in the bubble for a long time and found a pair of high-power myopia glasses. After binding the blind identity card, Gao Mengtang became interested in glasses and bought this antique pair of glasses that was over 100 years old in a second-hand shop.
Humph, he has plenty of ways!
The glasses are a little blurry and the degree is not accurate, but after putting them on, I can see much more clearly than before.
He Lun couldn't help but burst out laughing. Gao Mengtang's glasses had a large white frame with a rabbit ear on the upper left and right corners.
"Chief, what are you doing?" Song Zhong couldn't help laughing and even forgot his fear.
Gao Mengtang was a little at a loss: "Is it funny?"
"Not funny," Gao Geng said, "cute."
Gao Mengtang told them about the "only death". After hearing it, his teammates were also clueless. However, it was normal for strange things to happen to Gao Mengtang.
"Don't worry about that for now," Gao Mengtang adjusted the white-rimmed rabbit-ear mirror, "The system asked us to 'find the rabbit', but I don't know what that means, so let's look around first."
After regaining his sight, Gao Mengtang found a camera hanging around his neck. He fiddled with it for a while, but didn't find anything special, so he put the camera aside.
The exhibition hall of Evil King One was dilapidated and dim, with glass cabinets covered with a thick layer of dust. The exhibition area was filled with wriggling pieces of flesh, crawling parasites, and unknown organs soaked in potions.
"I would rather be blind," said Song Zhong.
Group B members can see a scoreboard. After 5 minutes, everyone's score is 0.
"Good little rabbit, come out quickly~" Gao Mengtang strolled while humming a song.
Song Zhong: "Stop, stop singing, Chief. What if we alarm the monster?"
Gao Mengtang continued to sing: "Drive the monsters away, drive them all away~"
Song Zhong: “…”
While singing, Gao Mengtang stopped in front of a display cabinet.
The exhibit was a broken insect cocoon, the size of a suitcase, in which a person could curl up. What attracted Gao Mengtang was the explanation of the exhibit.
: Peaceful times bring disaster, and the world will never be bright again. The twelfth virtuous king is the disaster star of the inner world. He tore apart the barrier connecting the inner and outer worlds, and the powerful energy released by the rift destroyed the supreme order. The inner world fell into complete chaos, and they fought for the position of the thirteenth virtuous king for hundreds of years.
: After the rift was torn, the environment of the inner world suffered great damage. The Moonborn could not adapt to the new environment and gradually became extinct within a hundred years. Only the Shadowborn, who had a strong reproductive ability, survived.
: The ignorant ruler accidentally broke the cocoon and found a dying moon creature. He might be the last moon creature in the inner world. The ignorant ruler called him the half-dead.
: As dead born, it is their instinct to be obsessed with moon creatures. The ignorant ruler uses his own dead born blood to maintain the remaining consciousness of the half dead. From the day they met, the ignorant ruler used all his arms to protect the half dead, and built the stairs to the throne in the end of the world.
: The ignorant ruler becomes the thirteenth king to ascend the throne of the other world and calls himself the Evil King.
: The evil king is not satisfied with this. His lifelong goal is to fulfill the wish of the half-dead - to build a new world full of tolerance, equality and love.
: The environment of the inner world has been completely destroyed. In order to fulfill the wishes of the half-dead, he launched the Black Tower game in the outer world.
: Anyone is allowed to join, and everyone starts from the same point. The game is fairer than any society. Moreover, the half-dead love everyone, no matter if he is mean or noble, beautiful or ugly...
: The end of the old world and the advent of the new world. At the turn of the world, the love of the half-dead changed the world.
The commentary was written in Esperanto, and Gao Mengtang read it and translated it for his teammates. When Song Zhong heard the last sentence, his expression was as if he had swallowed a fly alive.
"Bah, bah, bah, if that old man really loves me, don't let me stay in this damn place and send me home!" said Song Zhong.
He Qi: "Don't speak ill of the half-dead!"
She is He Suzhi's younger sister. She is only 7 or 8 years old, but she is very brave and doesn't seem to be afraid at all.
"Hey, you little brat!" Song Zhong raised his fist, deliberately trying to scare her. But He Qi glared at him fiercely, and that look did not shame the evil and terrifying ancient god believer at all, but frightened Song Zhong.
At this moment, a very slight, tinkling sound was heard.
The sound had no specific direction, and everyone looked around but couldn't find the source of the sound.
"It seems to be the sound of the system," Gao Mengtang said, "that ding-dong sound is ringing in our heads."
In the cone of light from the flashlight, seven people stared at each other, they all heard the clear clinking sound.
Moreover, when staying in the hotel, Xiao Tien's room was on the floor above Gao Mengtang's, and similar sounds often came from the ceiling, like glass beads falling to the ground.
"Strange..." Gao Mengtang said thoughtfully.
"Brother, look quickly," He Qi pulled Gao Mengtang's arm and pointed at the wall next to the booth, "rabbit."
Next to the display case, there was a wall painting of a rabbit. But the players had walked right past that place, and they were 100% sure that there was no rabbit on the wall just now.
He Lun touched the painting: "We found the rabbit, now what?"
"What a cute little rabbit! Come here, Rabbit, let's take a photo with it." Gao Mengtang said as he picked up Rabbit, squeezed in front of the rabbit painting, picked up the camera, and made a "yeah" gesture to the lens.
He Qi also felt that this was not very serious: "...Brother?"
After entering the game, Gao Mengtang had this camera on him. It looked like a digital camera, but it could take pictures instantly. After the photo was taken, a piece of photo paper was spit out from the top.
When they picked up the photo and looked at it, everyone was shocked. In the photo, the rabbit wall painting turned into a gray-green arm extending from the wall.
Gao Mengtang had a bright smile when taking the photo, but in the photo he looked disheveled, had a grayish face, and was extremely thin.
"Ah!" Gao Mengtang was so scared that he threw the photo away, "Am I, am I ugly?"
Everyone: ...Is this the point?
System: "Player [000 Blind] is the first to find the rabbit, and gets basic points - 10 points, and bonus points - 50 points."
On the leaderboard, Gao Mengtang's name jumped to first place. Except for him, everyone else's points were zero.
Behind him, the wall painting of the little rabbit gradually disappeared.
Gao Mengtang reacted for a few seconds: "After finding the rabbit, you can just take a photo. But why did you take such an ugly photo of me?"
Suddenly, in the distance, there was a sound of clapping. A man in a black robe came over, followed by six teammates.
"Let me introduce myself, my name is Shang Yin. I have heard of your name for a long time, I wonder if you are willing to cooperate..." The man bowed to Gao Mengtang, and when he stood up, he saw the white wide-rimmed rabbit glasses on Gao Mengtang's face.
Shang Yin paused for a few seconds and accidentally laughed out loud.
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