ca-book Chapter 185 Secret
Chapter 185 Secret
People like Shao Chuan have always been shrouded in mystery to Bai Zhou.
This is determined from his first impression on Bai Zhou——
Back then, Bai Zhou, who was less than 17 years old, was at a loss with the diagnosis sheet.That was the darkest moment of his life.At that time, Shao Chuan walked up to him and asked him if he wanted to participate in an experiment.
He had a mysterious origin and a mysterious purpose, but he did bring Bai Zhou a slim hope.
Shao Chuan usually looks very approachable, and gets along with others like the most ordinary and temperless teacher.
However, he has always thought a lot, his skills are quite iron-blooded, and his arrangements for his subordinates have always been comprehensive.
He has a very strict personnel management system.Even Bai Zhou didn't know the people he arranged for, such as this Shan Sheng.
Bai Zhou didn't know how old Shan Sheng was, when he started following Shao Chuan, whether he had undergone the "experiment" like himself, and when he joined the Peach Red Army.
But there is one thing that Bai Zhou can see.
——Shao Chuan should be a very important person to Shan Sheng.
At this moment, after hearing what Shan Sheng said, he opened his bag and checked, and confirmed that he had received the treasure box. Bai Zhou asked him again: "Why didn't you just hand it over to him? Although he blocked the communication channels for everyone, you There should be a way-"
Before Bai Zhou finished speaking, he was interrupted by Shan Sheng. "Because I'm not necessarily going to die. If I don't die and this thing falls into his hands again... then it's not suitable."
Shan Sheng's logic in saying this seems to be a bit convoluted.
Bai Zhou didn't understand at first.
But after thinking about all the things he got along with Zhou Qian seven years ago, he seemed to have realized something.
"Just in case. But I think I'm fine. We're all going to get out alive."
Smiling needlessly, Shan Sheng beckoned to Bai Zhou, then nodded to Zhou Qian, turned and left.
Bai Zhou and Zhou Qian looked at each other, and they didn't say any more unnecessary words, they just kept going.
The miasma in front of me gathered and then dispersed, like a fairyland.
In the center is a door made of crystal, which is very beautiful.
The balance inside is looming, and it itself is a symbol linked to mystery. At this moment, it is flashing in the thick fog, as if it hides countless secrets.
Along the way, the exhausted players experienced cannibalism, countless games, searched for various evidences, and "singled out" all kinds of inhuman killers in history... and finally came here.
This crystal door is so beautiful that it almost gave them an illusion——
This is the door for the immortals to ask the Buddha. They have gone through ninety-nine and 81 tribulations, and now they finally want to open this door and get the scriptures.
When he came here, Zhou Qian didn't hear what the spirit of the world took the initiative to say.
So he stepped forward and approached the crystal door again.
His eyes were almost stuck to the door, and he was able to see clearly what was going on inside.
Compared with when he left before, the balance has tilted too much again.
And now a very interesting thing is that the stone plate on the side where the balance is tilted down did not fall completely——
A piece of the most simple and common stone, which can be seen everywhere, just appeared under the tray of the balance, preventing the tray at this end from sinking completely.
At this time, Zhou Qian naturally remembered a sentence that the spirit of the world once said: "The movement of the balance, of course, requires the sacrifice of life. To continue, a sacrifice is needed; to end, a new sacrifice is still needed."
Putting all the information together, one obvious answer is at hand—
The balance used to be balanced, and the slaughter, the sacrifice of the corpse, the blood, opened the balance.
From then on the balance began to tilt.
Tonight at 12 o'clock midnight is the moment when the balance is completely tilted and one end sinks completely.
At that time, the world of shadows will replace the world of sunshine.
But the current situation is that the killer has not been able to select suitable players, and the real collapse of the shadow world has not yet come.So the spirit of the world here used a stone to temporarily stop the sinking speed of the pallet on one side of the balance.
The spirit of the world is waiting for the opening of the next round of the game.
When there are enough players, he will let the scale continue to sink.
At that time, the world of the dark side will completely collapse, and the yin and yang will be reversed, leading to the end of Linegang City.
In this way, the spirit of the world delayed the moment of Yin and Yang reversal, just because there was still a link in his conspiracy.
If the players leave now, the conspiracy of this world will continue, they have not brought substantial changes here.Therefore, they just survived the dungeon in a normal way, and they didn't have access to the real secrets of the plot, and they couldn't get the hidden achievements.
Unless they restore the balance to the balance, or turn to the other end to symbolize the tilt of the sun, and truly bring about positive changes to Linekong City, so as not to perish, they can get the ultimate reward.
It's just that the balance begins with the sacrifice and ends with the sacrifice.
Is it necessary to sacrifice one or even several players in order to pass the level?
Does the balance symbolize that the dark side has absorbed life, and now it will return to balance if the sunny side absorbs the same amount of life?
If there is a sacrifice, of course Zhou Qian has already thought about the object of the sacrifice - Ke Yuxiao and Xu Yang.
But what he is still not sure about is how to make the specific sacrifice.
The situation faced by players now is obviously quite special.
Clues were scattered everywhere on the big map of Blueport City after the collapse, and they didn't even have time to find them all.
Now they seem to have plenty of time, but apart from a door that cannot be opened and a balance that cannot be touched for the time being, there is nothing to explore here.
If you want to find clues, maybe you can only use the words from the mouth of the spirit of the world.
To Zhou Qian's surprise, before he could open his mouth, he heard the voice of the spirit of the world first.
The voice still came from the door, but this time it was full of coldness and evil, which was very different from the tone Zhou Qian heard when he first came.
He said: "If you can come here, you must have already guessed the secret I hid?
"Then I might as well tell you bluntly, the tray on the left side of the balance represents another normal world; the tray on the right side represents the second world.
"Now the right side is sinking. When it sinks to the bottom, the second world will replace the first world. I actually heard all your conversations. According to the words you guessed...that is, the yin side replaces the yang side .Well, you're smart enough to guess right."
After a short pause, the Spirit of the World continued: "I know what you are here for, and you want to stop me. But you must not know... how to break the situation, right?
"Actually, the rules are very simple. I have killed people and sacrificed their lives to the shadow world, making the balance unbalanced.
"Then, if you continue to kill people and dedicate your lives to the world of the sun, you can restore balance to the balance.
"Of course...if you kill enough and sacrifice enough, you can also sink the left tray. In that way, the sunny world will completely replace the dark world, and I will disappear completely from now on."
Hearing this, Zhou Qian raised his eyebrows slightly.
Not far away, He Xiaowei's mental journey is——
This boss is so refreshing and unpretentious, did he actually tell us the answer directly?
Wait, no!It is pitting us!
Qian'er said before that sacrificing life can open the balance, which should be his purpose for bringing Ke Yuxiao here.Then he would secretly poke Ke Yuxiao to death in exchange for everyone to pass the level peacefully.
But what's the situation now?
Now the boss has directly told Ke Yuxiao the answer, his fundamental purpose is to let everyone kill each other!
"Now, let's start the killing. I will promise you that you will sacrifice your lost lives to the balance in the right way.
"In order to open the balance, I have killed 3 people. In order to restore the balance, you have to kill at least 3 people. The optimal solution is actually at least 4 people.
"You guys have 30 minutes to do this. I don't have much patience."
At this point, the crystal door let out a few evil laughs.
Immediately afterwards, the voice of the spirit of the world came again: "The way to leave the dungeon through the normal way has disappeared. You can only stay here... to fight.
"The bullet is still an effective weapon, but its determination is no longer the strongest, and now it is no different from ordinary bullets. In addition, since my agreement with the system has been terminated, your skills have also been restored.
"Then, please do your best and start fighting. I am looking forward to what kind of surprises you will bring me next."
As soon as the words of the spirit of the world fell, Zhou Qian raised his left wrist and entered the system panel for a try.
Sure enough, many functions have been reopened.
Previously players could not send any messages to each other through the system.
At this moment, they still can't get in touch with people outside the copy, but for this part of the people who are still in this copy, they can already communicate with each other unimpeded.
Zhou Qian quickly sent a few words: "The words of the spirit of the world are very problematic. First, he said that he once killed three people, and his power is indeed incredible. Then why doesn't he just kill us now, but Is it still designed to make us kill each other?
"Second, if we want to deal with him in the future, it is not a wise thing to consume too much mana now. But——
"For Ke Yuxiao, I have no room for cooperation here. I have to kill him."
Since it is a game, there must be a way to clear the level.
This rule has never been broken.
Now the player has no other clues to check, and the only information left is the words of the World Spirit.
If every word he says is a lie, there is no way to break this level.
So what he said should be half-truth, half-false, mixed with some traps.
For the player, the difficulty lies in seeing through the truth, lies and traps in his words.
Now the purpose of the spirit of the world is to continue to lead players to kill each other and lead them to consume mana. There should be other plans behind this.
However, in his series of words, there is a sentence that is 90% likely to be true-the number of players who need to be sacrificed.
The balance needs to be sacrificed, whether it is two people, three people, or four people. In fact, there is no need for the spirit of the world to lie about the number.
The confrontation between players is now very obvious.Even if only one person needs to be sacrificed, it will cause both sides to fight.
Therefore, whether the number is more or less does not affect the achievement of the goal of the World Spirit wanting everyone to kill each other.
Then, if the sacrifice is true, at least three people will die, and the number "three" is probably accurate.
After sending those two words to remind his teammates, Zhou Qian looked at Ke Yuxiao expressionlessly.
At this time, the three apprentices of Yindao were pointing guns at him, Xu Yang, and Xu Yang's cronies.
Of course, the three of them also raised their guns and faced the three apprentices.
If the three of them fired and the three of them couldn't escape, the three disciples of Yin Dao would be the first to suffer.
Zhou Qian walked not far in front of Ke Yuxiao, and said, "The hidden mission is much simpler than we imagined. It can be solved by killing three people. Just in time, the three of you are the sacrifice objects we chose."
Hearing this, Renyi waited for the peach red army to step forward.
At this time, Renyi still didn't think about really going to kill Ke Yuxiao.
In his opinion, even if he leaves Taohong in the future, he doesn't need to kill anyone.He never wanted to kill.
The guns of Renyi and others have been handed over before, and everyone's skills can be used normally, but god-level players will be subject to many restrictions.
At this time, Renyi took out a whip in his hand, with many sharp thorns pierced on it, as if it was poisonous.He went directly to Ke Yuxiao's side, of course he still wanted to protect the captain.
Seeing this, Zhou Qian smiled and said, "This kind of domineering and sinister weapon is not something someone like you would use."
The characteristics of the weapon are related to the direction of Renyi's evolution after becoming a god-level player, but he didn't explain too much, he just said: "You can't trust the words of the spirit of the world. He wants us to kill each other from the beginning to the end!"
"Maybe. But Ke Yuxiao, I must kill him."
Zhou Qian looked at Ke Yuxiao again, raised the bone in his hand and said, "I don't care whether you will continue to use the bullets in the dungeon props to deal with us, or you will choose to use your own weapons and skills. No matter what method you use, no matter how fast you are, you can't beat time.
"And I can control the time, so you're always one step behind me.
"What's more, I have the most powerful Bai Zhou here, as well as Yin Dao and Shan Sheng who are also god-level players?"
A scornful smile appeared on Zhou Qian's face.
"If you have the ability to keep everyone in the Pink Legion, make sure they are all on your side, at the end of the game, of course there will be a situation where the system, the spirit of the world, or the game designer expects both sides. They have been committed to This is the reason for splitting players.
"It's a pity, the strength gap between you and me is too great now.
"The strength on my side crushes you unilaterally. If the three of you save a little trouble and commit suicide directly, you can save a lot of time."
After listening to Zhou Qian's words, Ke Yuxiao put the gun back into his bag.
But immediately after, he took out a flute.
Seeing this, Zhou Qian frowned slightly.
He subconsciously glanced aside at Qi Liuxing, and sure enough, a moment of trance appeared in Qi Liuxing's eyes, but that was only for a moment.
Qi Liuxing in the old days was putting on airs.
It was completely different now. He stood there, exuding an icy aura all over his body. He really stood like a sword, surrounded by sword energy, not angry and majestic, not allowing anyone to approach easily.
As for Ke Yuxiao, the flute in his hand quickly shed its shell and turned into a weapon that looked like a short thorn and a dagger.
Not long ago, he used this weapon to pierce Qi Liuxing's heart.
At the moment, I don't know if Ke Yuxiao directly controlled the dagger to let it rise into the air out of the mentality that he was going to die anyway and could take away as many as possible before he died.
The dagger suddenly split into three, and stabbed towards the three disciples of Yin Dao who were closest to him.
Next to him, Xu Yang met his cronies and quickly took action.
I saw Xu Yang stretched out his hands to grab the void, and immediately there were two more sledgehammers in his hand.
His confidant immediately raised a huge gong and drum, and when it hit "Dang", the earth actually trembled.
In this weird ground tremor, Xu Yang just swung two hammers and hit each other, and the thunderous force followed the ground and directly smashed towards Zhou Qian!
The ground under Zhou Qian's feet suddenly cracked inch by inch. Not only that, one after another hill-like mounds grew out from under his feet, and dark green plants with countless spikes grew intricately on them.
A dark green liquid continuously flowed down from the plant's thorns, and then spread rapidly. After being stained with the juice, the surrounding soil and grass on the ground turned into scorched earth!
It is conceivable that once entangled by such a plant, the juice will climb directly from the calf to the human body, turning every inch of skin and even flesh and blood into scorched earth!
At the critical moment, Zhou Qian used the divine bone to delay the time, and summoned the little dragon in time, soaring into the air, while avoiding those plants far away, it also gave the rest of the teammates behind him a chance to recognize the status quo and return to normal in time Finally, they can dodge in the right direction, so as not to bump into those poisonous plant juices when running blindly.
At the same time, Zhou Qian took Xiaolong to the side of the three apprentices of Yindao in time, "Dangdangdang" three times, and quickly knocked down the three daggers one after another with the power of the god bone.
After the danger was resolved, in order to save mana, Zhou Qian immediately resumed his time.
His voice soon came from Yindao's voice: "Zhou Qian, thank you."
Zhou Qian didn't look back, just waved to him.
Behind him, Yin Dao looked at Bai Zhou again, the tacit understanding of brushing dungeons together for many years allowed the two of them to quickly divide the work.
In the next moment, the control-type skills of Hidden Knife's secondary skill were finally used for the first time in front of so many players——
With a slash of the arc-shaped long knife, countless skeletons flew out of the knife. They were divided into two groups. The first group mainly dealt with Xu Yang and his cronies, entangled their limbs inch by inch; the other part quickly flew towards The plants that are still growing, and the poisonous sap that is still spreading.
The skeletons opened their mouths one by one, and each of them hit the sharp part of the plant where the liquid was erupting, and the venom was sucked away by the skeleton.
In the end, the skeletons took one bite after another, biting off all the venomous spikes on the plants!
These skeletons of Hidden Blade look creepy, but they can actually clear all negative buffs directly.
This is really a very useful skill.
On the other side, Bai Zhou summoned the Breaking Dawn Knife.
This knife has not been cut out, the domineering knife has been condensed.
The few members of the Peach Red Legion around Ke Yuxiao, except Renyi, all immediately became scattered.
So the benevolence and righteousness that still stood by Ke Yuxiao's side became his shield.
When the thunderbolt's force of the sword came down, a rope prop that Ke Yuxiao took out at some point had already restrained Renyi's feet in advance. At this moment, he raised his hand and dragged Renyi, and Renyi fell hard in front of him.
The knife continued to press forward, but at a much slower speed.
This was obviously because Bai Zhou didn't want to hurt the innocent, so he stopped his move in time.
At this time, behind him, Qi Liuxing's voice suddenly sounded.
Accompanied by the sound of the long sword whistling, Qi Liuxing said: "Let me do it. I will kill him with my own hands!"
This time, the retreat of the knife in Bai Zhou's hand became more obvious.
It's just that he has always been domineering with his sword, and he has almost never died under a single sword.Therefore, even though he had retracted the knife in time, Ke Yuxiao and Renyi both fell to the ground, blood spurting out of their mouths one after another, as if they were seriously injured.
Zhou Qian got off the little dragon, turned it into scales and put it in his luggage, then walked up to Ke Yuxiao, looking down at him.
At this moment, Qi Liuxing held his sword and came to Zhou Qian's side.
When he looked at Ke Yuxiao, his expression was very indifferent. After a while, he raised his long sword, and was about to draw a complete end to this short but profound encounter and betrayal.
Zhou Qian narrowed his eyes, and said to Ke Yuxiao contemptuously, "I really don't know where you got the confidence to dare to fight me."
After he finished speaking, Ke Yuxiao vomited another mouthful of blood, and he felt as if he had fallen apart.
Although he was not injured, the force of the knife almost destroyed his internal organs.
However, at this moment, Zhou Qian suddenly felt a pain in his chest.
Lifting his right hand, he subconsciously covered his chest, Zhou Qian's throat felt sweet, and when he opened his mouth, he also spat out a mouthful of blood.
At this time, he felt a strong burning sensation in his chest and heart, which made his whole body very uncomfortable.
Qi Liuxing's worried voice sounded from beside him: "Brother Qian...you have a black word on your forehead—'yan'. What's going on?"
Word.
Speech box.
[Props: Speech Spirit Box]
[Function: For two people to make promises to each other, once someone breaks the contract, the Word Spirit Box will ask for his soul]
[Hint: Please use it with caution; such things as oaths should not be taken lightly]
Zhou Qian resisted the strong discomfort in his heart, barely raised his fingers, and gently stroked his forehead.
Then he heard Ke Yuxiao, who was half lying on the ground vomiting blood and laughing wildly, laughed.
He looked at Zhou Qian for a moment, as if the conspiracy that had been brewing for a long time finally couldn't hold back, his eyes were red with excitement.
Ke Yuxiao said loudly: "How about Zhou Qian, how do you want to kill me? You promised my brother that you will protect me. If I get hurt, if you don't protect me, you will die too .
"Or...hahaha, you want to die with me?!"
He Xiaowei rushed over immediately, surprised and angry: "What did you say? Wu Ren is your brother? My own brother?"
--How is this going? !This is really unbelievable and unbelievable!
Beside, Qi Liuxing quickly put away his long sword.
The fact that he almost killed Zhou Qian made his palms sweat layer after layer, and he could hardly hold the hilt of his sword.
He quickly looked at Zhou Qian and supported him. "How are you doing?"
"Pity."
Ke Yuxiao's sick and crazy voice came again, "It's a pity, Xiao Qi, I have a secret, I will rot in my stomach. You can live your life with the feeling of being betrayed. You don't know anything. I know. Hahahaha..."
Hearing this, Yindao hurriedly said in a worried voice: "No, just be on guard against him, even if we don't kill him, he might—"
But it's too late.
There was only a "bang", and a burst of blood mist flew up and down. It was Ke Yuxiao who exploded and died unexpectedly.