Du Ze stared at his hand. It looked perfectly normal.
"What's wrong with your hand?" Xiu's voice came from the side. "I've been looking at my hand since yesterday."
Du Ze stretched out his hand, stroked his fingers across Xiu's palm, and then bent them through the gaps between his fingers - he held Xiu's hand tightly, palms together, fingers interlocked.
There was no transparency or shadow, and the penetration I saw yesterday was like an illusion.
Du Ze sincerely hoped that it was an illusion, or that the instability of space caused that situation. After all, his hand was illusory only for a moment when he just returned to the round hall, and it returned to normal before anyone noticed. Du Ze found various reasons to reassure himself, but when he thought of the scene he saw in the time corridor, the blood in his body seemed to solidify.
——You will never find him!
Will he disappear...
Not being stolen, not being hidden, but truly disappearing from this world.
——So what if you become the Supreme God! You are the only God in the world!
Du Ze held Xiu's hand tightly and blurted out impulsively: "——" Don't climb the tower.
Unable to make a sound. Du Ze pursed his lips. He would be silent when he told the truth about this world, and would be silent when he told spoilers that would affect the subsequent events. The invisible existence silently showed him: You are not the protagonist, you cannot dominate the plot; you are not the author, you cannot edit the plot; you are just a reader, you can only watch the plot.
Seeing Xiu's concerned look, Du Ze opened his mouth, but the only thing he could say was: "...We will soon reach the fifth floor."
Xiu thought Du Ze was counting on his hands, so he smiled and nodded. "Well, let's go in and take a look."
Du Ze was led by Xiu into the light gate. At the moment when he was engulfed by the light, Du Ze was still thinking: Judging from the scenes seen in the time corridor, the God of Creation must be one of the people who knew about his disappearance.
He couldn't stop Xiucheng from becoming a god, so he had to find the reason for his disappearance immediately.
Before he opened his eyes, Du Ze heard the rustling of leaves in the wind, and he felt that he was stepping on a soft carpet like a sponge. Du Ze looked down and found that it was a thick, phosphorescent moss, which sank softly when he stepped on it, and it was very comfortable. Dots of fluorescent light danced in the night, and Du Ze looked up and saw the huge moon in the night sky. He subconsciously glanced at the battery level of his headphones. Judging from the battery level, it should be morning now, and the night should be the setting of this copy.
There was a magical mist all around. Although it was dark, everything was clearly visible. The tall fences formed a wall, spreading out to the left and right with no end in sight. The place where they were was like the entrance to a fence maze. On the opposite fence wall, there was a sign. Everyone came closer to take a look. Except for Du Ze and Ariel, the others had no idea what the complicated and fancy words said.
That's Elvish.
[Dear adventurer, this is the fairyland.
You only need to walk to the exit of the maze to reach the fairy kingdom, without doing anything else.
There are certain dangers in the maze, and the equipment in the treasure chest can help you.
Watch out for the vines.
Du Ze translated the sign to the others. Xiu heard the last part and suddenly asked, "Vine?"
Everyone was confused, even Ariel. The treasure chest written on the sign was just below the sign, and Enoch had opened it with his quick hands. Inside was a bow and a barrel of arrows. Enoch took out the bow and pulled it casually.
"This bow is not as useful as my dagger!" Enoch pulled out another arrow and was surprised to find that the arrow head was made of mercury iron. "Hey! This arrow is good."
Ariel was the only archer in the group, so the equipment was given to her. Du Ze read the sign again. It was easy to tell from the information on the sign that this was an elf dungeon. This time, the tower was very generous in showing the way to pass the level and even kindly provided equipment. A certain silly and cute kid who was almost tortured by the tower couldn't help but wonder - would this dungeon maze be difficult?
"Moir," Xiu said, "fly up and take a look at the whole picture."
Du Ze deeply understood what the gap was. While he was honestly thinking about the so-called first law of the maze, Mengzhu had already thought of a way to pass the level quickly (by cheating).
Are you stupid? Grandpa can fly~
Mor transformed into a dragon, spread his wings and flew. However, the moment Mor flew high, the tree fences that formed the maze wall suddenly grew as if sprinkled with golden pebbles - how high the black dragon flew, how high it grew. Mor's dragon flame hit the tree fence wall, but not even a spark was raised. There was no need to test it again, everyone knew that the tree fence wall here was invincible and immune to any attack.
If you can't cheat, then you can only pass the level honestly.
There were no monsters in the maze, and the road was wide enough for ten people to walk side by side. Du Ze stepped on the sponge-like phosphorus moss and walked in the maze surrounded by tree fences. Everything in front of him was covered with a hazy halo. If this was not the dangerous tower, this would be a very enjoyable thing. All dungeons were relatively easy at the beginning. After walking for a while, they encountered the first fork in the road.
Now was the time to test one's luck. Just as Du Ze was about to ask for help to repair his hero's halo, he saw Ariel suddenly walk to the fork in the road and squat down, as if observing something carefully. Before anyone else came closer, Ariel stood up excitedly, pointed at a knotted grass at her feet, and gestured to Du Ze in Elf language.
"She said, go to the right." Du Ze translated Ariel's words word by word: "There is a sign here."
According to Ariel, this knotted grass is a common sign used by the elves in the forest to tell the elves what is ahead. Du Ze couldn't help but want to call Ariel a little angel - with a little angel, mom doesn't have to worry about me getting lost in the forest anymore.
Under the care of the Elf Princess, they were just strolling in the Elf Maze like in the back garden. Every time Du Ze was happy, the tower would always give a stupid cute boy a stick to let him know what the cruel reality was. When the group passed the third fork in the road, Xiu suddenly stopped and looked back vigilantly.
Even though his feet were covered in thick moss, Du Ze could still feel a rumbling vibration coming from afar, like a ferocious beast that had just awakened, rushing towards them with great momentum. Soon, Du Ze saw what it meant to... "Watch out for the vines."
Du Ze and his friends were stunned to see the vines covering the sky and the ground rushing towards them like a flood. Xiu reacted the fastest and decisively used fire magic: "Fire Wall!"
Five three-meter-high fire walls suddenly appeared. Facing the blazing fire walls, the vines showed no fear and passed through the first fire wall in an instant. The jumping fire element not only did not cause any damage to the vines, but made them grow even more violently - the vines could actually absorb magic! Xiu noticed this with his sharp eyes, and he immediately removed the four fire walls at the back and stopped the Fire Phoenix from casting spells: "Don't use magic!"
The vine that rushed in front of everyone was like a long tentacle, and the fire phoenix cried out, and its wings grew bigger. The falling feathers were like sharp blades that cut the attacking vine into pieces. Under the astonished gaze of the crowd, the severed vines grew new tips in an instant and recovered almost without any gaps.
More and more vines surged up. Due to the venue, Mor could not transform into a dragon, and could only stretch out his right claw to tear the twisting plants. Under the joint attack of more and more vines were cut and fell to the ground, almost forming a small mountain. However, the vines' attack did not slow down at all - everything they did was like using a cup to transfer water from the sea to another place in vain.
Du Ze was being repaired behind him. He thought of the hint on the sign at the entrance to the maze. Did he really need to use the equipment provided by the divine tower? However, Du Ze saw that although the arrow shot by Ariel could break through the vines and penetrate deep into them, just like when they used swords to cut, the vines quickly reassembled after being broken. He couldn't use magic attacks, and physical attacks were almost ineffective. The vines in front of him were incredibly strong. Du Ze even suspected that this was a must-escape level set by the divine tower. It felt very cruel to have a chase battle in the maze.
Ariel was not careful and stepped on the juice flowing from the vines on the ground and almost slipped. Enoch held Ariel who was about to fall and used teleportation to avoid the attack of the vines. Seeing that they had no way to deal with the vines on the opposite side and would enter a vicious cycle if they continued to waste time, Xiu issued an evacuation order. He and Rachel stayed behind and let the others escape first. Du Ze was about to turn around when a vine about the thickness of his wrist came over with the cover of dead plants, wrapped around the ankle of a silly and cute person and lifted it up.
"Du——"
Du Ze only heard half of Xiu's shouting when a vine hooked onto his earphone cord and pulled it, taking away his private money and trying to escape. Du Ze, who couldn't live without his earphones, quickly grabbed the vine that was about to retract, and was pulled into the embrace of the vines. Countless vines surrounded him from all directions, they tightly wrapped around Du Ze, and the slightly rough surface rubbed against his skin, causing a stinging sensation. Du Ze was dragged deeper by the vines. He wanted to struggle, but his whole body was tightly wrapped by the vines, leaving him no room to struggle or escape.
A beam of light split the vines above Du Ze. Du Ze looked up and found that Xiu had also rushed into the vines. Xiu ignored the vines that surrounded him and cut off all the vines on Du Ze with a cold look. He reached out and grabbed Du Ze's hand to pull Du Ze out. However, the juice flowing from the vines stained Du Ze all over his body. The slippery juice made Du Ze's hand slipperier than a fish. Xiu let Du Ze's hand slip out without paying attention.
The recovered vines were about to wrap around Xiu, and Xiu had to remove the surrounding vines again. Du Ze tried to get rid of the vines and rubbed against Xiu, but another vine wrapped around his waist and pulled him back. Du Ze waved his hands subconsciously, but accidentally grabbed a green fruit and squeezed it hard almost reflexively.
Pop.
The wildly dancing vines suddenly began to tremble as if they felt great pain, and finally drooped softly and began to wither. The people outside looked at the suddenly dead vines in astonishment. They had no time to think about it, and quickly pulled Du Ze and Xiu out from the deep vines.
Enoch asked curiously, "What happened?"
"There is a fruit inside, which should be their weakness." Xiu only explained and went to check on Du Ze's condition.
At this time, Du Ze was extremely ferocious, with vine juice all over his body. Although it didn't smell bad and even had a sweet smell, it was slippery and felt very strange. The Fire Phoenix tried to land on Du Ze's shoulder, but slipped and fell directly. Du Ze glanced at the cute pet in silence, then found a hidden place and couldn't help but pull open his clothes to take a look. Xiu, who came over, saw the marks on Du Ze's back caused by the vines. The bright red stripes were printed on the white skin in a messy manner, looking like it had been abused, revealing a strange color and fragrance.
Xiu couldn't help but stretch out his hand and wanted to touch Du Ze's back, but at this moment, the motionless vines suddenly made a strange sound.
Du Ze pressed the red marks on his stomach. Some places were rubbed and the skin was broken. It was itchy and painful when he pressed it. His earphones were soaked with water and he went on strike. It was not until Xiu patted his shoulder that Du Ze realized that something had happened around him. A group of porcelain people crawled out from the withered vines. If it weren't for their lifelike expressions, Du Ze would have thought they were a bunch of handicrafts instead of a group of creatures. Each porcelain person was about half a meter tall. When they saw the people outside, they started to cry loudly, saying something while crying.
Seeing that Du Ze didn't wear headphones, Xiu knew that Du Ze couldn't hear, so he wrote in Du Ze's hand: [They said they were porcelain people caught by vines, and asked us to send them home.]
It looks like a side story arranged by the Tower of God. According to the Porcelain Man, their home is just ahead, so it doesn't look like it would be very difficult.
After everyone simply tidied up their clothes, they set out with the porcelain people. However, once they were on the road, they realized how troublesome the porcelain people were. The porcelain people were only half a meter tall and walked at a terrible speed. They couldn't run, and as the porcelain people were fragile, they would break into pieces if they bumped into anything while running. Xiu summoned the cute pets, originally thinking that the pets would carry a group of them, and each of them would carry two more. But once they picked up the porcelain people, they realized how heavy the seemingly fragile porcelain people were.
Due to the above reasons, the group's speed of travel was seriously slowed down, and it took them half a day to reach the next fork in the road. At this time, the problem came again. The mark made by the elves told Ariel that she should go to the right, but the porcelain man said that their home was on the left.
Du Ze looked at the group of pitiful porcelain people. They had already come this far, so it wouldn't hurt to escort them a little further. And maybe this was a side quest. Sending these porcelain people home might give him some items and information to deal with the dungeon boss.
So Du Ze and his group walked to the left, and after a day of rest, they finally arrived at the home that the porcelain people mentioned. The group of porcelain people thanked them happily, and then disappeared without a trace along with their home.
That's it...?!
Where's the promised reward? They didn't receive anything except a nice guy card! After all this time, at least give them a drink, bastards! =皿=
The empty grassland in front of them seemed to be mocking them. No matter how much resentment they had, it was useless. The group of people could only return the same way. Du Ze and others spent half a day returning to the fork in the road. Just after taking a few steps, the ground shook with a familiar vibration, and the vines appeared again.
"Destroy its fruit."
Compared to the wolf last time, the group of people who knew the weakness of the vines were much calmer this time. The fruit grew deep in the vines, so they had to use long-range weapons to attack. The bows and arrows provided by the divine tower showed their value at this moment. Ariel aimed at the green fruit deep in the vines, and the vines pulled back their branches as if they sensed the danger, protecting the fruit layer by layer.
The elf princess released the bowstring, and the arrow pierced through dozens of layers of vines and pierced the fruit accurately, causing it to explode.
All the vines became stiff as if they had been paused, and then they fell limp and withered. Just as Du Ze and the others were about to move forward, a group of porcelain people crawled out from the fallen vines again. History began to repeat itself, and those half-meter-tall little things cried and begged Xiu to send them home.
Xiu pondered for a while, then took the porcelain man again, as if he wanted to confirm the result again.
As a result, they received another nice guy card.
Everyone watched in silence as the porcelain people and their homes disappeared. In order to send these porcelain people home, they once again lost the right path. Before Enoch could complain, the vines appeared again. I don't know if it was an illusion, but Du Ze always felt that the vines this time were much larger than when he first saw them. Each vine was two feet wide. Ariel immediately drew her bow, found the fruit and shot the arrow.
"call out--"
The arrow penetrated the vines protecting the fruit, and lost its strength just before it pierced the fruit. Ariel widened her eyes in surprise. She had used all her strength in the previous shot, but it couldn't penetrate the vines - the green plant seemed to be more than twice as hard as last time.
"Give me the arrow!"
Xiu caught the quiver thrown by Ariel, and the Thousand Changes turned into the Bow of Life in his hand. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened them again, his sky-blue eyes were replaced by emerald green. The elf with long silver hair pulled the bow, and released his fingers almost at the moment of aiming.
"Bang——"
The vines shuddered and fell, withering and shrunken. After seeing what had happened before, everyone understood what this meant: the vines were getting stronger.
Enoch glanced at the vines, then focused his attention on Xiu. He circled around the silver-haired elf with great excitement: "Hey, you're back again! Is this an illusion or a martial art? Teach me."
“…”
Xiu had a cold look on his face. Du Ze looked at the cute master with fear. The elf cultivators were not as easy to talk to as the human cultivators. A certain stupid cute one was afraid that Xiu would raise his bow and shoot the swaying fool through. I don't know if it's because stupid people have good luck. Before Xiu could kill the idiot, another group of porcelain people appeared in front of everyone and instantly took away the hatred value of the cute master.
Facing the porcelain man crying loudly, Xiu just glanced at him and turned away indifferently.
"The vines are scary, don't abandon us—"
"Please help us and send us home--"
…
The cries of the porcelain people gradually faded away, and Du Ze even heard a few crisp sounds, as if the panicked group of porcelain people tried hard to run towards them, but accidentally fell and broke. These sounds mixed together, heavy and making people extremely uncomfortable.
"Don't think too much." Xiu seemed to sense Du Ze's depressed mood and said, "It's a trap."
Du Ze knew that all this was arranged by the Divine Tower, so he just felt depressed and did not object to Xiu's choice.
At the entrance of the maze, a sign hung on the tower reads: You only need to walk to the exit of the maze to reach the elf kingdom, without doing anything else.
At this time, Du Ze finally understood what "superfluous things" meant. From the previous situation, the porcelain man could not bring benefits to the tower climbers, and sending the porcelain man back home was a very time-consuming and thankless task. If the porcelain man was still sent back under such conditions, it would only be a kind of enthusiasm for helping others.
According to Du Ze's usual practice, he would definitely be willing to send the group of little guys back, but this is not a place where you will be praised for doing good things. The divine tower will catalyze the climbers into the state it wants. If you do the opposite, you may even die. The rules are nakedly suggesting that the climbers should ignore the porcelain people. If the climbers spend their time on "redundant things", the increasingly strong vines and fewer arrows will make the climbers sleep here forever.
It's worthy of the rules, worthy of... the Elf copy - that beautiful race paid with passion and took away the sharpshooter.
When they returned to the previous fork in the road, Xiu lost consciousness due to the transformation. Mor carried Xiu on his back, and they set foot on the right road again according to Ariel's instructions. It was always dark in the fairyland, and although the scene in front of him was still as dreamy as before, Du Ze now just wanted to pass this maze as soon as possible so that he would not feel so depressed.
A day later, before Xiu woke up, they were attacked by vines again. From the first two days to one and a half days to the current day, the intervals between vines appearing became shorter and shorter. Compared to the first time they saw the vines, the vines at this time not only became thicker, but also began to grow sparse thorns. Ariel was at a loss with the bow and arrow. Although she could aim at the fruit, her strength was not enough to break the current vines. Moore, Old John and others were just the opposite. Although they had strength, it was really difficult for them to shoot at the fruit that was constantly changing its position.
So the group chose a more adventurous method. Moore took the initiative to rush into the vines. The moment he was surrounded by the vines, he instantly turned into a dragon and pushed away the surrounding vines. Rachel and Old John took the opportunity to clear a gap, allowing Ariel's arrow to pierce the fruit deep inside.
The third round of vines was solved without any trouble. Before the porcelain man came out to ask for help, Du Ze and his group left immediately. Judging from the previous situation, the next vine might appear in half a day. On the way, Xiu finally woke up. He quickly figured out the situation and took Ariel's quiver and put it on his back.
With the Lord of Moe in charge, Du Ze felt much more at ease. When he saw the ferocious Lord of Moe solve the fourth round of vines with just one encounter, at that moment, a certain silly and cute finally realized what kind of nemesis Xiu in elf form was to the vines with long-range weaknesses.
The cute Lord completed a double kill; the cute Lord is on a killing spree.
Even though the frequency of the vines' appearance has been shortened from half a day to hours, and even though the vines have been strengthened to the point where they are covered with thorns and their juices contain strong acid, they can only be trapped in a tragedy where they die as soon as they appear, and they cannot even lick the land ten meters ahead.
The vine said that it used to be a mighty and strong man, until it fell to its knees... oh no, until it was hit by an arrow.
When the Lord of Moe had already reached a state of transcendence, they finally walked out of the maze. The scene before them was exactly the Elf Kingdom that Du Ze had seen. Across from them, a huge lake surrounded the Tree of Life. The wind blew through the leaves, making a rustling sound, as if inviting them - obviously, that was the end of the Elf dungeon.
Enoch and the demon sisters had never seen such a beautiful place before, and they were stunned for a moment. The tower completely simulated the elf kingdom, and Ariel felt like she was back home. She quickly led to find the elf's wooden house on the tree. The wooden house had everything except living people. It seemed that the tower was just a scene.
After running around in the maze for so long, everyone was tired and found a wooden house as a resting place. Du Ze was naturally assigned to a room with Xiu. He also felt very tired. Every time he killed vines, there would always be porcelain people asking for help. The first time he refused, he couldn't bear it.
All kinds of information filled Du Ze's mind, about the divine tower, the rules, the God of Creation... Even though he felt tired, Du Ze didn't want to lie down on the bed to rest. He was in a daze for a while, and then walked out of the wooden house.
The huge moon almost filled the entire night sky. After staying in the eternal night for a long time, time became a little confusing. Du Ze just sat down on the tree branch when he heard someone walking up to him. Even without turning around, Du Ze knew it was Xiu.
The tree branches trembled slightly, and Xiu sat down beside him. Du Ze suddenly felt that this scene was familiar, whether it was the glowing lake or the flying light spots, even the person sitting next to him, they were exactly the same as that night.
At this time, Xiu stretched out his hand and gently touched the back of Du Ze's neck. When Du Ze turned his head to look at him, he raised his lips slightly and smiled.
"Do you want to hear me sing?"
The wind blew up the elf's silver hair, disrupting time and space. Du Ze stared at Xiu in a daze, as if he had returned to that night in the elves. At that time, a silly reader heard his favorite protagonist confess to him, and was so scared that his soul almost jumped out.
Thinking of the scene at that time, Du Ze turned his head and couldn't help but smile. Xiu looked at Du Ze's profile, lowered his head, and came over to kiss the upturned corner of Du Ze's mouth.
"I like you, Duze."
Xiu murmured, his voice was very soft, and he read each word one by one, pouring out unfathomable emotions.
"I like it very much. I like it so much that I am a little...overwhelmed..."
The voice of the elf is like a mellow wine, which makes you drunk if you listen to it for a long time. Du Ze was held in Xiu's arms, and he sighed with satisfaction, as if he had received a supreme gift.
"One month's time, and I own you."
Thinking about the one-month appointment, Du Ze suddenly realized that it seemed that Xiu had always been the active one, while he was always in a passive state.
He likes to repair, why can't he take more initiative?
Du Ze reached out and hugged Xiu.
For example, right now, he really wants the two of them to be closer together, preferably without any gaps. If so, it should be able to dispel some of the uneasiness, right?
Du Ze pushed Xiu away. The silly boy who just wanted to take the initiative stared at the person he decided to pursue. He wanted to speak but had no idea what to say, because he cared too much and became extremely nervous.
How should I express this? Let's have sex, honey? Something seems wrong...Emma, isn't it just a date? I've seen a lot of this online, and this kind of situation is definitely, that's it——
Under Xiu's gaze, Du Ze had a cold face and reflexively said the first line that came to his mind.
"Face me head on."
…
…Fuck!!!
The author has something to say: Reader: Facing me...wait——
Protagonist (decisive): Okay.
Reader: —Ah, there is a serious misunderstanding here!
Protagonist (dragging the reader away): You don't have to be shy, I understand.
Author: Internet language can cause great harm to people.
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