In the Colosseum where Chang Xu was, the time came to the third day.
The players all got up early, pushed open the stone door of the room, and gathered on the high platform of the Colosseum.
Except for Chu Xun, Green, Dong Xiwen and Lainaan, who looked radiant because they had enough food, the other players were in a very embarrassed state.
The bodies of Chang Xu, Liu Yuhan, Qin Mu, and Nian Fu were covered with large areas of lime. Their necks, arms, and ankles were covered with traces of petrification, and their skin was hard and cold with the texture of marble.
The lack of food will stimulate appetite, causing players to move closer to the stone statues. The curse treats all creatures in the Colosseum equally.
He knew his physical condition well, and it only took two times of starvation in total to turn a person completely into stone under the influence of the curse.
They have experienced it once, and if it happens again, it will be a dead end.
"Two people are missing." Liu Yuhan raised her eyelids and looked at the crowd for a while, then said, "Fan Zhanwei and Lin Ye are not here."
Dong Xiwen scratched his head: "Something must have happened. Yesterday. There are no rat men coming out at night. How can they be in such danger?"
"Let's go and take a look." Nian Fu shrugged nonchalantly and said in a sarcastic tone, "Those two guys are relatively weak. , maybe even starved to death.”
The animal fighting game has not yet started, and the animals have not arrived yet. The players are walking towards Fan Zhanwei and Lin Ye's room in a sparse manner.
The stone door was closed tightly. Green clasped the door leaf with both hands, pulled it to both sides, opened a gap, squeezed half of his shoulder in, and used his elbow to exert force to the side to open the door gap to the Width enough for one person to pass.
The players filed in and saw Lin Ye’s body lying next to the straw bed at first sight.
Half of his body has been turned into stone, and a blood hole penetrates his temple, with a congealed brown blood scab protruding from the edge, and yellow-white brain matter overflowing.
He opened his eyes in disbelief, obviously not expecting his own death, and the remaining resentment in his eyes showed his unwillingness.
Chu Xun squatted down, stretched out his index finger and touched the wound on his forehead, and made a judgment: "It's a gunshot wound, and it was the player who killed him."
Before the players entered the room, Shimen came from outside It is tightly closed. If other uninvited guests break in before the player, it is impossible not to leave any traces.
The only person who would kill Lin Ye would be his teammate who shared a room with him, namely Fan Zhanwei.
Lenaian looked around, but did not find the target at the first time. He couldn't help but ask: "Where is Fan Zhanwei going? Did he abscond out of fear of crime after killing his teammates?"
"He did not escape. "Chu Xun adjusted his glasses and said, "After Fan Zhanwei killed Lin Ye, he got all the points for his entire team and went to find the Sphinx to fulfill his wish."
He said, walking step by step towards the wall hanging the lion mask.
The players then noticed that an equally old and decaying stone statue stood in front of the gray and mottled wall. It was dim in color and almost blended in with the surrounding environment.
There are many strange rocks on the surface of the stone statue. The uneven stones are as high as an adult, and the outline is so rough that it is difficult to distinguish the human shape.
But combined with the cause and effect, the identity of the stone statue is ready to be revealed.
"Fan Zhanwei is dead." Chu Xun said, with a sigh in his voice, "It seems that in this copy, the price of finding the Sphinx to fulfill your wish is to be completely petrified.
"He paid the price and realized his wish."
But...what wish would rather be turned into a stone statue than come true?
The players have no answer.
The only person who knows the answer has been sealed in stone forever, silently.
It is undeniable that things have become troublesome. Originally, everyone only needed to let Chang Xu accumulate enough points and realize his wish to kill Qisi, and everyone would be able to pass the level.
But now they are told that fulfilling their wishes means sacrificing their own lives.
How could someone let themselves die just to kill someone?
Chang Xu looked at Fan Zhanwei's stone statue, also thinking and weighing.
He wanted to kill Qiss because Qiss had killed him and made him feel dangerous.
The survival instinct in his biological genes and his past experiences have made him accustomed to eliminating dangerous factors, and Zeiss is undoubtedly the largest and most difficult dangerous factor he has encountered since he can remember.
— would not only pose a threat to him, but also cause damage to the people and environment around him, causing him to lose everything he hoped to maintain.
But what if the situation came to a point where he had to trade his life for Zeiss' death?
Is he worthy of dying with Zeiss to prevent him from coming back from the dead and killing more people?
“Let’s just complete the original main mission and pass the level honestly.” Chu Xun said with a wry smile, “The Sphinx’s wish is like a temptation to drink poison to quench thirst, it will only bring bad consequences. Whether it can be truly realized is yet to be seen.
“We don’t have to think about it anymore. We can accumulate points according to the original process of the beast fighting game, decide the winner, meet the evil god, make a wish to become a god, and then come back to see him again. The other side, so that everyone can pass the level. ”
The players responded one after another and returned to the venue of the beast fighting game.
I wonder if it is because the rat people were lifted from the curse by Zeiss and became a factor of instability, which gave the players who were hostile to Zeiss a united front value, and the goat's attitude towards everyone became much better.
He first announced with a smile that because of the deaths of Fan Zhanwei and Lin Ye, every player can get two pieces of food today.
Subsequently, he distributed six game coins to each team and informed the players that today's game rules have not changed compared to yesterday.
Players entered the Liuli Tower like yesterday to exchange for points.
Although many players were slow in their movements because their bodies were partially petrified, they still completed the levels in the tower and received rewards.
By the end of the day's game, basically everyone has accumulated enough 3,000 points to meet the requirements to realize their wish.
But most players have made it clear that they are never willing to risk petrification to find the Sphinx to fulfill their wishes.
At the end of the day, no one chooses food as a reward, and naturally there is no food distribution.
Although Chu Xun and Green were still ahead in points, thanks to the deaths of Fan Zhanwei and Lin Ye, everyone got enough food to survive the day.
The third day passed smoothly, the points ranking did not change much, and nothing special happened during the night.
On the fourth day, Chu Xun disappeared to everyone’s surprise.
Green held a notebook filled with plans and pointed at the extra stone statues in the room.
No one thought that Chu Xun, like Fan Zhanwei, also had a wish that he would rather turn into a stone statue to come true.
“He succeeded.” Green said, “He and I kept in touch through the props for a period of time, and his wish really came true.”
Chu Xun's wish is to save a person, that person is very important to him, and he enters the weird game just for that person.
He made up his mind from the beginning to realize this wish, and after making sure that the subsequent situation would not change much and that his analysis was no longer needed, he died with peace of mind.
Because of Chu Xun's death, each player received a piece of food, but one piece is still missing and needs to be obtained by completing the tower level.
Everyone knows that the food obtained through the tower must be distributed to the person with the highest points. If anyone else gives up the point reward and chooses food, it will be a pure loss.
But the points rankings of the remaining teams are very tight. Even the team with the first points will fall to second place as long as there is a link where they choose food and do not choose points as a reward.
Based on this, if all players want not to harm their own interests, they can only collect points crazily.
With no one to provide food, it will inevitably lead to a lose-lose situation. After all, people can really die when their appetite is aroused.
Unless...kill one person in advance so that everyone can get another piece of food.
Green, who ranked first in total points, and Qin Mu, who ranked second, reached an alliance and called on the players to put aside their grudges and set aside one game coin each to exchange for food, while the other game coins were distributed freely.
They have repeatedly promised that no matter who is responsible for the distribution in the end, it will be fair and just. The players looked at Green's body covered with tendon meat, and after all, they did not make any decisions on their own, but obediently chose a food reward each.
Green also distributed the food equally to everyone as agreed.
The fourth day passed smoothly, and the audience became dissatisfied.
They want to see bloody and violent fighting and killing, rather than lifeless negotiations and peacemaking.
Goat had to make a promise, saying that the game format would be modified to a certain extent the next day.
On the fifth day, the goat tells the player that a dead person must appear before others can get food.
As compensation, as long as one person dies, the others will no longer receive one portion of food, but two portions.
The food rewards in the Liuli Tower were cancelled. Green chose action points as rewards and wanted to eat Nian Fu on the board.
Fortunately, Nian Fu also got a lot of action points and managed to avoid Green's pursuit.
The distance between the two on the chessboard was already very close. Green pulled out a big knife from the item list and slashed at Nian Fu's neck.
Nian Fu reacted very quickly and leaned back to dodge. A long whip appeared in his hand and he swung it towards Green, wrapping around his blade.
During the stalemate, Lenaian quietly approached Green, preparing for a sneak attack.
With a flash of black light, Chang Xu stood in front of him with a broken blade and knocked away his dagger.
The melee was about to break out, but it was also fleeting. The players were unsure of each other's trump cards, and they returned to their respective positions after the sneak attack failed.
At the end of the day's beast fighting game, no one died, and naturally no one got food.
Liu Yuhan used [Guardian Notes] to deduce the ending of this copy, and the results that emerged made her pale.
The notes said that if this continues, only two people will survive to the end.
Of course these two people are not one of her and Chang Xu.
After all, Green, Dong Xiwen and Lenaan have never experienced food shortages and still have a chance.
And she, Chang Xu, Qin Mu, and Nian Fu are all in a semi-petrified state. They will only wait until the second half of the night before their appetite caused by hunger may be completely petrified.
The players returned to their respective rooms in a somber atmosphere.
In the room with the fox mask hanging, Nianfu held the pendant on his chest and said silently: "Sister, I will commit suicide later, this will be enough food."
She has had the consciousness to sacrifice herself since she joined Tianping, knowing that no matter how many lives there are, it is not as important as the safety of "that person".
She was a chess piece in the hands of "that person", and at the critical moment, she was willing to die for "that person"...
Nian Fu thought of her encounter with "that person" again, It wasn't her that "that person" was looking for. She just appeared by chance and was taken back by that person.
Just like feeding a kitten or puppy, a random act of kindness may not leave a trace in the heart of the benefactor, but in the eyes of the benefactor, it is the whole world.
Nian Fu thought for no reason: "If I really died for her, would the weight in her heart be slightly different? Will she remember me?"
Maybe not, Because too many people died; maybe, because death is too heavy - who knows?
As time passed by, Nian Fu raised her eyes to look at the mural on the ceiling, feeling the light dimming inch by inch until the specific strokes were blurred, making it impossible for her to see the details of the mural clearly.
She dilated her pupils and murmured softly: "I am suddenly so scared. What does death feel like? Sister, do you think it will hurt..."
"Nian Fu, don't die." The voice in the pendant was as gentle as when we first met, "If you live, nothing will happen to you or me."
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Black Wolf Mask Next, Chang Xu opened his eyes in the darkness, having already forgotten what he had dreamed about.
The feeling of hunger overwhelmed him like a tide, and his stomach twitched and tightened, causing severe pain.
Chang Xu could feel that his body was becoming stiffer inch by inch, and the lime was spreading all over his body, ready to swallow him completely at any time.
There was a rustling sound beside her. Liu Yuhan sat up from the bed and lit a lamp. Her face was paler than white paper.
The traces of petrification crawled up to her chin. She put her [Ghost Story Notes] on the floor with her stiff hands and said very quickly: "I have written all the possible subsequent situations and various plans on it. You must live. As long as you are alive, [Dark Judge] will continue to take effect. Even if Qiss survives this copy, it will not help..."
This is completely the tone of his last words, Chang Xu frowned slightly: "What do you want to do?"
What do you want to do? What to do?
Countless voices asked questions in Liu Yuhan's mind, coming from the companions she had met in the past and followed her.
As a well-known theoretical and intellectual player in the forum, she often publishes dungeon strategies and makes certain conclusions, which are pursued and believed by other players as life-saving straws.
In reality and in the copy, those who follow her are willing to believe in her decision and execute it with full hope.
But after all, she is not a god, or even just a mediocre person who works hard. She will make mistakes and be negligent. Every decision-making mistake means the price of blood, which weighs heavily on her.
The familiar faces gradually faded away, and she ended up alone.
This time, she didn’t want to see her companions die in front of her.
"Only one person needs to die, and everyone will have food." Liu Yuhan opened her lips and showed a smile.
She formed a dagger in her hand and stabbed it into her heart, just like using wooden wedges to nail the limbs to a cross-shaped execution platform during the trial of heretics.
In an instant, blood splashed on the chest, and the extremely gorgeous blood flowers bloomed quietly, with petals falling and falling, and slowly flowing down like red tears.
Chisi's words asking about her desires were still in her ears. It was only at this moment that she finally understood that she was not living to kill people.
She wants to save people and let those who deserve to live have a better life...
Liu Yuhan's smile was relieved and bright: "I should have died long ago. Even if I don't die now, he will kill me when I leave the dungeon."
No one knew what Qisi's plan was, so he We can only prepare for the worst that he will eventually be resurrected.
Once he is resurrected, all early efforts will be in vain, and the outcome waiting for the rebel will be either death or deeper control.
"I have died in the copy of "Hopeless Sea" a long time ago. I have been a walking zombie with a manipulated soul, collaborating with others and surviving. I shouldn't be like this..."
Liu Yuhan thought of her childhood. , her father put the pen into her hand and said to her awkwardly: "Yuhan, you have to study, understand the truth, and be an upright and kind person."
She thought that she had also had thoughts of depravity in hardships, but she could always restrain herself with morality and keep her true heart amidst temptations.
At that time, she thought, she wanted to stand in the sun. She should be as bright as a flower, how could she be as humble as a gnat?
She does not want to die easily, but it is not that she is afraid of death, but that she is unwilling to annihilate silence silently.
What about students? Everyone she loved and loved her had left her, and she had no nostalgia for this world.
It’s just that I finally climbed into the light. Even if I die, I still have to light a bonfire...
At least at this moment, she still has the freedom to choose who she will die for.
The blood was slowly draining, but death was still early. Liu Yuhan saw Chang Xu's pupils dilating and shrinking, as if he had made some decision or had some enlightenment.
Then, she saw Chang Xu squatting down in front of her and saying word by word: "Liu Yuhan, don't die, live on. I know how to clear the level." (End of Chapter)