Chapter 6, Gu Aotian with confused thinking (Part 2)
On the other side, Comrade Momonga, the Lich King, who had no expectations for the next group of visitors from another world, left the task of interrogating the prisoners to Demiurge, the demon gentleman with a lizard tail and wearing an orange suit. He continued to inspect the upper floors of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, confirming the normal operation of various facilities and the respectful obedience of the guild NPCs. Finally, he arrived at the entrance to the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick.
Facing the bright moonlight, standing on the broad temple wall, Momonga quietly looked at the night view of the grassland in front of him.
In the background setting of the game, the location of the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick was originally a cold world of eternal night. The whole environment is quite gloomy. The sky is often obscured by thick black clouds, and the ground is covered by poisonous swamps and twisted strange trees. It feels sinister when looking at it.
However, the scenery displayed in front of him now was completely different.
The first thing that comes into view is a brilliant night sky. He had never seen an incredibly clear night sky in his life.
Looking up, there are so many stars in the vast sky, it seems that you can easily take them all in by stretching out your hand. The entire field of vision is filled with scenery like a jewel box. There is no dirty air that could obstruct the view, and the scenery is so clear that it is touching.
Although it was a night sky, it felt very bright. The blue and white light of the moon and stars drove away the endless darkness that shrouded the earth.
There was a blue-white light in the sky, dyeing the grass into a vast white patch. Blow by the breeze, the swaying grassland in front of you seems like the whole world is shining brightly. Countless stars and the moon in the sky also shine brilliantly, complementing the scenery on the ground.
Although he didn't know whether this was the embodiment of the YGGDRASIL game world or whether he had come to some mysterious other world, the mere sight of the grassland night scene before him and the fragrance of vegetation in the air had already made Momonga deeply attracted to it. Intoxicated.
——I don’t know why, even though he has transformed into a lich with only a skeleton, he still maintains a very sensitive sense of smell.
"...It's so beautiful...No, the clichéd term "too beautiful" is not enough to describe this scene...If we were on a severely polluted earth, this beautiful scenery would be absolutely impossible to see in reality. It’s…”
Momonga looked at the starry night sky, sighed with emotion, and kept shaking his head, as if he couldn't believe the scene in front of him.
——In the world of 2138, the entire surface of the earth has been completely polluted. The sky is always shrouded in black haze, and the sun is rarely seen during the day. If you want to see the stars and the moon at night, it is even more unrealistic.
"...It's amazing... Such bright starlight and such fresh air should be proof that the atmosphere is basically not polluted! If you can live in this world where the air, soil and rivers are not polluted, you should not need gas masks It’s time to go out... Oh, if I could see this beautiful world with my own eyes, I don’t know how excited my friends would be!”
Thinking of those netizens in the 22nd century who were forced to huddle in filthy and crowded cities, breathing poisonous air, and who have longed to take another look at the beautiful nature since childhood, but it is almost impossible to get their wish, Momonga couldn't help but feel a little sad for a moment. heavy.
But on the other hand, being able to see such magnificent natural scenery with your own eyes makes this unexpected adventure a worthwhile trip.
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As if he was deeply shocked by the beautiful natural scenery in front of him, President Momonga stood quietly and alone on the surface for a long time.
It wasn't until the sky in the east turned white that the fish belly turned white. Because he was worried that the sunlight here would cause serious damage to undead creatures like the settings in some games, the Lich King Momonga turned around and left, returning to the underground world of Nazarick. The interior of the tomb.
(The actual damage is minimal. The sunlight in this world cannot even kill the vampires in the Great Tomb of Nazarick, let alone the lich.)
Then, when he returned to the arena on the sixth floor, he found that it had become a torture chamber filled with screams.
"...Uh...Demiurge, can you explain to me what is going on?"
——A huge bathtub filled with water was placed in the center of the arena. Each of the ten little catmen were tightly tied to the top of a spear. Lupuslay, the werewolf maid of the Pleiades Battle Maid Corps, Qina Beta was happily raising the spears one after another, and with all the malice that generations of dogs have directed at cats, she pushed the kittens tied to the top into the water. Provoking a heart-rending meow.
On the other side, two vampire brides were holding toy water guns filled with chili pepper water and strong salt water, and kept shooting at the slime mage who was suspended in mid-air by magic. Every time they hit a shot, you can hear "Puffy Puffy" The wailing sound - for molluscs with exposed skin and mucous membranes, salt is obviously a fatal nemesis, and capsaicin can also directly enter their bodies through the skin, causing severe pain like pouring pepper water on humans.
At the same time, Albedo, the female mistress of the devil, looked at the God's watch that was removed from the slime, and she didn't know what she saw.
Then, under the birdcage where the two goblins were imprisoned, a mountain of smelly salted fish and rotten cheese was placed at some point. The two delicate little animals with a keen sense of smell were so miserable that they fainted and returned. I woke up from the stench and ended up foaming at the mouth and going crazy.
Next, the Iron Golem player's limbs were simply removed and turned into a ball. In the hands of the dark elf siblings Aura and Mare, he was thrown out with force and rolled away into the distance. of nine wine bottles, apparently playing a game of bowling...
Finally, Demon Gentleman Demiurge himself took a knife and lay on the Khajiit female warrior who was tied up and had a ball gag in her mouth, and carefully... shaved her? What kind of divine unfolding is this? Is the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick a torture convention?
At this time, President Momonga, who was still very moral, couldn't help but feel that his mind was spinning, and he felt that he didn't dare to watch anymore!
"...Well, I have seen Momonga-sama. His subordinates are following your instructions and are interrogating the prisoners as politely as possible!"
Demon Gentleman Demiurge hurriedly climbed down from the Khajiit female warrior who had been almost shaved into a bald pig. He bowed respectfully and replied, "...because the other party is the supreme leader of other organizations and their status is relatively noble, so this subordinate Only punishments that will not cause permanent harm..."
——Okay, waterboarding cats who are afraid of water, spraying slimes with salt water and pepper water, smoking goblins with the pungent smell of smelly salted fish, rolling iron golems around as bowling balls, and... I shaved the tiger man's hair... Although it felt very immodest, it was indeed a relatively "gentle" torture.
At least it is much more civilized than the traditional entertainment program of the lower class people in Western Europe, the "roast cat" program in which cats are stuffed into bags and then burned on fire.
"...I thought you would use spiritual magic to control their minds and make them confess truthfully..."
Facing the stern-looking demon gentleman Demiurge, Momonga muttered helplessly, "...Did you ask anything?"
Unexpectedly, Demiurge got stuck at this moment, "...uh...this...torture has just entered the warm-up stage..."
Sure enough, you guy didn't do the interrogation seriously at all, but just regarded it as entertainment! You jerking sadist!
——If it weren’t for the fact that he had become a lich and lost his eyelids, Momonga would have wanted to make a “rolling his eyes” expression at this moment, “…Forget it, I’ll do it myself! Bring all the prisoners here! Well, it’s this spell—[Charm of All Races]”
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Then, during the subsequent personal interrogation, Lich King Fei Shu felt that his mind seemed to be even more confused.
Although under the control of the spiritual magic of the 100-level Lich King, all the player captives knew everything, and they were more honest than when facing their own parents. But the confession they revealed made Momonga feel even more incredible, even messy in the wind!
——These fifteen captives who claimed to be college students were not YGGDRASIL game players from Japan in the 22nd century like himself, as he had imagined before, but Chinese college students from the 21st century, that is, a Foreign ancients from many centuries ago!
According to the confessions from the interrogation, these ancients from the last century were indeed gamers, and they belonged to a game guild whose full name is "Virus-ridden, you need to isolate yourself within 100 yards to seek blessings", or "Virus-ridden" for short. guild". Of course they are not playing YGGDRASIL, a 22nd century immersive virtual reality game, but an antique online game that still uses a two-dimensional screen, keyboard, and mouse.
Then, when these unlucky ancients accidentally clicked on a dialog box while playing games, they actually crossed a hundred years of time and space and entered the YGGDRASIL game that Momonga was playing. They became the lowest-level rookie game characters, and they were far away from the game. There is only half an hour left in the server... Next, there are five powerful gamers, calling themselves "veterans", coercing them to launch an attack on the Great Tomb of Nazarick!
Next, the Great Tomb of Nazarick traveled to this grassland - according to the information the captives learned from the "veteran", the Great Tomb of Nazarick at this time should have been transferred to a different world. . But the problem is, just when Shalltear, the guardian of the first to third floors of the Great Tomb, the true ancestor of the vampires, was triggered by the warning and went to meet the invading enemy, the five powerful "seniors" Suddenly disappeared!
As a result, the fifteen novice players who had no ability to resist were caught by Shalltear, and then escorted to the Lich King Momonga... After enduring the torture of the Demon Gentleman, they were pushed to the Lich King and tied up. Standing in a row, they were interrogated under mind control.
——So, under the impact of such a huge and complex amount of information, the Lich King Momonga, who only had a primary school education, was suddenly at a loss. Once again, he felt that the brain that no longer existed in his skull seemed to be violently cramping again and again. .
"...It's incredible! Who are those 'seniors'? What does they have to do with the Great Tomb of Nazarick traveling to another world? Have they really disappeared, or are they hiding and planning some conspiracy? Yes Are you not preparing how to deal with me? ”
Lich King Flying Squirrel sat on a temporary armchair, stretched out his skeletal fingers in distress, and nervously tapped his skull again and again, sending out a hollow echo in his head - after all, in this short period of time, A few hours ago, he was just an ordinary office worker, neither an adventurer nor a big shot. Just suddenly finding that he had turned into a skeleton and traveled to another different world was enough to make him feel mentally broken. The reason why he hasn't gone crazy or committed suicide is probably because Lich, as an undead, has a racial talent of "invalidating mental attacks" that forcibly suppresses any too drastic psychological changes, allowing Momonga to remain calm and collected.
However, after experiencing the shocking changes of transforming into a skeleton and traveling to another world, he discovered that there seemed to be an even more terrifying shady story behind it all. Layers of mysterious veils were piled on top of each other in a mess, and finally the witch finally let go. Demon King Momonga's thinking circuit is about to overload and crash!
"...Those 'seniors' actually know that my name is Suzuki Satoru? Are they people who know me? Or have they done some research beforehand? And what's going on with these Chinese college students from a hundred years ago? Did someone really make their souls travel through time? Or did someone instill false memories into them? Hey, there is too little information to judge! What should I do? "< br>
Just when Lich King Fei Squirrel felt that the mental pressure he was under was increasing, and he was about to lose control completely, and even rolled around in public with his head in his hands without any image, a strange voice suddenly appeared next to him, which made him I can no longer wallow in my own collapse.
"...Uh...that skeleton uncle over there...could you please turn around? We've been waiting here for a long time!"
Um? Who is there?
Lich King Fei Squirrel looked around in surprise, but only saw a piece of air. When he lowered his head again, he was shocked!
——On the ground ten steps away from him, there was a group of cat people standing neatly at some point!
The leader, a tabby cat with a melancholy expression, was raising a paw in an awkward manner, seemingly saying hello to himself?
But this is the sixth underground floor of the Great Tomb of Nazarick! How did these kitty people get in without triggering the alarm?
Before Momonga could figure out how to deal with this group of uninvited guests who had suddenly arrived, Albedo, the demon stewardess standing next to him, screamed and pulled out a sharp battle ax with a cold light from somewhere, "... …What? It’s an intruder! Come and protect the master!”
The expressions of the guardians gathered in the arena also changed drastically. They immediately drew their weapons and surrounded this group of seemingly harmless kittens. But the strange thing is that facing these powerful men with murderous intent and facing each other with swords, the group of kitty people standing in the arena appear extremely calm, or indifferent, and actually remain motionless in front of the surging murderous intent. The leading tabby cat spread its front paws and continued:
"...This beautiful devil lady, and your Excellencies who are very powerful at first glance. We are here for peace and friendship, and we really don’t have any ill will towards you. However, we can put the fifteen people over there Will our compatriots be put down? They seem to be very uncomfortable.”
Looking at the talkative kitten, Momonga, who had recovered from the shock, secretly sent a string of [message] magic (which can probably be compared to a magic phone) to signal his subordinates to be calm, and then Then he replied to the leading tabby cat: "...Although you are uninvited guests, as the master of this place, I am still willing to accept your kindness. No. However, as you may already know, I and the entire Great Tomb of Nazarick are in a strange state. We were moved to a strange place for unknown reasons, which really made us a little nervous. Mr. Cat, you seem to know some relevant information, right? Can you satisfy my curiosity first? ”
"...A very reasonable request, dear Mr. Lich, this is also what I want to tell you next."
The tabby cat nodded seemingly intelligently, "...But this is a very long story... Let's put it this way, you are now in a game. It is unknown who created this game. Maybe It's gods, maybe demons, more likely aliens or future humans. In short, you are a member of this game, or you have been forced to become a member of this game.
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In general, the system of this game will randomly select some lucky people or victims and put them into a strange world full of dangers, allowing the audience who don't know where they are to watch them struggle and struggle on the edge of life and death. Have fun doing it, like the gladiators in ancient Rome. My companions and I have been victims of this game and almost died from it.
Fortunately, due to our efforts, the game's system has been broken. But unfortunately, not all of the victims who were abducted to another world by this game system were rescued, just like the fifteen Chinese compatriots who fell into your hands. Moreover, when the system of this game was on the verge of collapse, it also caused many mutations. For example, you and your guild base also traveled to another world..." - According to one of the negotiation plans prepared by the experts in advance, Tiger Spot Mao Wangqiu started to deceive Lich King Flying Squirrel about nine points true and one point false...