Chapter 51 X-level copy 4
In the process, they completed the minimum greetings to each other.
Before leaving the festival, we sought additional help from the villagers there:
"Do you know where the other strangers who came here a few days ago went?"
The natives of the village answered the question of whether they knew where the team of superpowers had gone as follows:
"Other guests did come here, and they went to the hill we told them about, and then they disappeared."
They acknowledged the existence of the psychic, and then could not provide any further information.
Whether it is for the purpose of clearing a dungeon or rescuing the missing advance team, one must eventually meet the old man named Doji.
While sorting out his thoughts, he heard the voices of his companions talking behind him. In the conversation just now, they briefly introduced themselves. Ye Xiaoxuan successfully became the leader of the team and introduced herself as a B-level psychic.
Even in an X-level copy, high-level participants can still gain the trust of others more easily, not to mention that they were able to break the situation with the help of Ye Xiaoxuan.
The originally dull atmosphere suddenly became lively.
However, the analyst in the team who was familiar with X-level copies had a solemn expression the whole time. This type of copy usually had no level restrictions. He even witnessed the villagers' magic power soaring to an unmeasurable level when they revealed their true forms.
Although it may sound a bit politically incorrect, sacrificing a B-level person in a copy may be a greater loss to the organization than sacrificing all of them.
The worst case scenario might be total annihilation.
Ye Xiaoxuan was unaware of his thoughts. She remained silent and continued to move forward. As she walked, a strange nursery rhyme began to sound among the white mountains:
"The Karakoram Mountains are high and high,
There are treasures hidden in the blue ice cave.
The greedy man reaches out to take it,
The eyes turned blue and the teeth grew longer. ”
…
"Hungry, hungry, always hungry,
There lives a big devil in his belly.
Eat up the rice, eat up the sheep,
Finally, he ate his own hand. "
It was called a nursery rhyme, but the style of the song and the singing voice were old and distorted, making everyone present shiver.
The wind and snow gradually dissipated, and what came into view was an old man with white hair. He should be the Doji mentioned by the villagers.
"Old man, how are you?"
The old man had a serious expression on his face, and Ye Xiaoxuan didn't know what to say for a moment. Fortunately, she started to greet him dryly.
The moment they saw the old man for the first time, the survivors who had been tortured to death by the villagers were frightened, but fortunately, what they worried about did not happen.
“Squeak—”
Following Ye Xiaoxuan's greeting, the elderly man opened the door of his dilapidated thatched hut.
"Come in, everyone."
The old man said this as if he had known about their visit for a long time.
Including the old man, a total of five people walked into the house one after another, making the small thatched house a little crowded for a while.
After entering the house, everyone just sat down, and before Ye Xiaoxuan could wait, she asked the old man as usual whether he had seen the advance team that had been tracking the area before.
The old man just glanced at them calmly and said: "I know why you are here, but if you want my help, you must solve my puzzle first."
From here, the characteristics of the X-level copy are reflected.
Ye Xiaoxuan was there, waiting for the opportunity, but the puzzle she heard was extremely simple:
In the small thatched hut, an old man with white hair slowly opened his mouth, like a rotten wooden stake.
"I am silent, yet I make the mountains bow their heads; I am colorless and tasteless, yet I can cover everything; I am a barrier for travelers and a key to wisdom. Speak my name, and the door will open for you."
When the old man asked this, everyone present looked at each other in bewilderment, because the puzzle itself was too simple, so simple that they were unwilling to believe that what they thought was the answer.
In the end, it was Ye Xiaoxuan who said in an uncertain tone: "The answer is snow."
"Yes." The old man nodded, acknowledging their answer, and then said to them: "Follow me."
Sometimes things going too smoothly can make people feel uneasy. As the old man named Doji led them on the road to the cave, Ye Xiaoxuan asked the question that she had been concerned about for a long time.
Before we came here, have you seen any strangers like us? If it is convenient, could you tell us where they are now? We would be very grateful. "Ye Xiaoxuan asked.
"No." said the old man.
"Is... is that so?" Then he didn't ask any more questions.
This is strange, Ye Xiaoxuan thought, the group of villagers in the village clearly said that those people came here, who is lying?
Or did something unexpected happen among that group of people? Ye Xiaoxuan wondered.
Thinking of this, Ye Xiaoxuan looked back behind her again, and a slow, gloomy tune sounded again.
"Grandpa Shaman warned us early,
Don't touch the sapphires in the cave.
Ignoring advice, I stole it.
Start eating raw meat at midnight."
…
"Hungry, hungry, always hungry,
The belly is ripped open with blood,
Swallow friends, swallow guides,
Become a snow mountain monster."
…
"The moon turns red and runs away,
Wear the bone pendant necklace properly.
If anyone hears the song in the cave,
Tomorrow it will be me..."
As the last sentence gradually became softer and with a strange echo, the song ended, and Ye Xiaoxuan and the others finally arrived at where they were going.
"I can only take you here," the old man said, "and you have to walk the rest of the way on your own."
Ye Xiaoxuan quietly memorized this ballad and nodded to the old man: "Well, thank you for your trouble."
One of the team members immediately got angry: "What?! You only brought us here? Then how are we going to get up..."
Before he could finish his words, the old man glanced at him indifferently, and the survivor shut up instantly.
"Just follow this road and keep going!"
The old man just pointed upwards, and a silver-white road instantly appeared in front of everyone.
At this moment, Ye Xiaoxuan looked up at the sky. Fortunately, the moon in the sky was still white.
It was already late at night and the blizzard had miraculously stopped. However, without the blizzard, the snow-capped mountain not only did not show its gentle side, but became even more terrifyingly quiet.
The moonlight leaked through the gaps in the clouds, cutting out uneven silver spots on the snow slope, like pieces of unhealed frostbite. The wind occasionally blew by, picking up fine snow dust and crawling along the rock ridges.
In the distance, there was the dull sound of snow avalanches, which stumbled a few times in the canyon before disappearing. The starry sky was very low, and under the blue-black sky, the silhouettes of the mountain ridges were like saw teeth, gnawing at the thin night air.
In this dead silence of white, it seems as if infinite secrets are buried here.
"let's go!"
Looking at the snow-capped mountains in front of him, Ye Xiaoxuan said at last.
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