That tiny groan seemed to wake everyone up.
The eyeballs of Ivy standing in the center of the house moved slightly, her face was pale and colorless, quietly suspended in the darkness, and a pair of dark pupils showed strange colors under the weak light of the flashlight.
Yu Ran's heart skipped a beat, her slender fingers tightened instantly, and four crescent-shaped finger marks were imprinted on her cold, sweaty palm. The slight tingling pain pulled her nerves, and the feeling of weightlessness like falling spread instantly. come up.
At this moment, there was a louder noise under Yu Ran's feet again, and those players who were fainted by the spider finally woke up belatedly, struggling to sit up, making quite a loud noise, which attracted everyone for a while. All eyes.
Looking at Ai Wei's dark and menacing eyes, Yu Ran felt anxious, and strode forward, giving each of the three players a knife on the back of the neck.
They passed out again, and fell down in the dust again with a plop.
Yu Ran pulled up the corners of her lips stiffly, showing an awkward yet polite smile.
Ivy moved her eyes back, and stared at Mo Yi lifelessly again.
This time, she finally spoke, "Yes."
The hoarse and rough sound sounded as if it had been scorched by a raging fire, and it sounded like fingernails scratching glass, which was particularly ear-piercing in the silence.
Yu Ran couldn't help being taken aback by her answer, and then reacted belatedly:
It turned out that Ivy was answering the question Mo Yi asked her just now—"Did you know?"
Mo Yi's face was neither happy nor angry, his dark eyes seemed to be a little darker, he stared closely at Ivy in front of him, his light-colored lips were pursed into a straight line.
He said, "What are those monsters?"
Ivy's pale face blurred for a moment, her thin lips twisted into an arc similar to a smile, and said:
"You have already guessed it, so why are you asking me?"
Mo Yi raised his eyelids, his dark pupils were like arrows, tightly locked on Ivy's face in the darkness.
Ivy didn't seem to be surprised by his reaction, she looked away, smiled dryly, and said:
"...they were all people I killed."
There was no change on Mo Yi's face, but Yu Ran's breathing was obviously messed up. Regardless of her instinctive fear of Ivy, she asked:
"Since they have been sacrificed once, why can they be sacrificed again?"
Ivy moved her cold and dark eyes, and said coldly and sarcastically:
"Only one organ is needed for daily sacrifice, and there is not only one organ in a person."
Yu Ran frowned, subconsciously took a step forward, and continued to ask:
"Since only one organ is needed, why did you..." kill so many people
Yu Ran swallowed the remaining half of the sentence under Ivy's sneering gaze—now she remembered that every sacrifice requires fresh organs, and most of them are fatal parts, once lost, they will die , where is waiting for the next day.
Her face couldn't help but be stained with a tinge of embarrassing thin red.
Ai Wei turned her eyes, looked at Mo Yi, who was still complexioned, and said in a hoarse voice:
"This is a deformed hunting ground. Every dead sacrifice will come back to life. If they don't plunder new sacrifices to replace them, then their own organs will be sacrificed."
Her terrifying and piercing voice was eerie in the empty, dark room.
Mo Yi pursed his lips and asked, "Is there any difference in the results of the sacrifices?"
Ivy laughed hoarsely: "Of course it's different, the plague you get from sacrificing the old sacrifices belongs to the old era, and the plague you get from sacrificing the sacrifices of the new era...is your new era. "
When she said the last sentence, Ivy spoke very slowly, and the horrible and unpleasant voice seemed to be elongated and amplified, and the infinite deep meaning contained in it made Mo Yi's heart shocked.
He didn't show it on his face, but he was not at peace in his heart.
The implication in her words made people feel chills.
He knew before that the plot in the dungeon is connected with the reality, but now Ivy means that if all the players become sacrifices and complete the sacrifice, the real world will also be affected by the dungeon, and an explosion will erupt. A new plague
Mo Yi's fingers subconsciously tightened a little bit, the cold fingertips touched the palm, and the thin needle-like pain was transmitted to the brain along the peripheral nerves, which made him tremble in the bottom of his heart.
Ivy let out a horrible laugh, but there was no smile in her dark and cold eyes.
She repeated the fateful words:
"That's why I said, you must die."
Yu Ran, who knew the inside story, and Zhou Yunchen, who was still confused, felt the same chill for a moment, as if they were being targeted by a predator, primitive fear and trembling arose in their hearts.
Yu Ran only felt as if she was soaked in ice water, without any warmth from head to toe.
If Ivy didn't deceive them, the sacrifice would be completed no matter whether they died or not, and the only difference was what kind of plague they would release. Instead of dying in the hands of the copy, it would be better to be killed by Ivy.
Yu Ran was a little desperate.
To everyone's surprise, Mo Yi, who was standing directly opposite Ivy, showed a faint smile. He shook his head slowly, with the same firm tone:
"No, we won't."
Ivy retracted her pale cheeks distorted by her smile, and stared at Mo Yi rightly.
Mo Yi smiled, the expression on his face looked relaxed and at ease:
"When we were in the kitchen just now, the pendant hurt your feelings the most, but it was definitely not enough to stop you from attacking us, but you still let us go."
He lowered his eyes, staring at his pale fingers that had lost their color, and continued:
"If it is really impossible to win as you said, and this copy is just a dead end, then why did you hesitate just now?"
If Mo Yi didn't know that the players would complete the sacrifice even if they didn't die, then he might think that Ivy let them go because she was willing to give them a chance to fight against this evil ritual.
But the current situation is that if the player does not die at a certain time, then the old sacrifice will take his place and become the new sacrifice, so no matter how they struggle, it doesn't matter.
Since Ivy knew from the beginning, why did she choose to let him go
Mo Yi raised a pair of bright eyes, looked straight at Ivy, and continued:
"You know there's another option."
A way to break the game.
Ivy looked at him coldly, noncommittal.
Mo Yi smiled and changed the subject:
"Each copy can be challenged more than once by different players, so I think you have seen more than one wave of players, right?"
As he spoke, he looked at Ivy's face carefully, as if he wanted to see something from that stiff and pale face.
After hearing what Mo Yi said, Ivy narrowed her eyes slightly, but did not answer.
Seeing her expression, Mo Yi knew that he was probably right.
He actually doesn't know whether the dungeon can be challenged repeatedly by different players. After all, each dungeon is extremely closely connected with reality, and the possibility of being reset is too small—especially Mo Yi also witnessed the first dungeon with his own eyes. Remnants of the real world: that charred picture frame.
So... what happens to those dungeons that are not successfully cleared by the players
This question has been lingering in Mo Yi's mind without an answer. After all, no matter whether the side mission is enabled or not, no player has ever entered the same instance twice.
Mo Yi couldn't help being startled by Ivy's familiarity with their era just now.
This side confirms Mo Yi's conjecture - an unfinished dungeon will be reset and wait for the next batch of players, and what is being reset is likely to be only the progress of the dungeon, not the NPC memory.
And according to the pissing nature of this game, Ivy would not let Ivy tell this matter so easily.
Her silence at the moment is a reassurance.
Mo Yi narrowed his eyes slightly, and continued:
"If the Black Death, which has disappeared for nearly a thousand years, really appeared in the real world, it would definitely cause an uproar. It is impossible for me not to know, but it has not happened now, which means that neither the old nor the new sacrifices have been truly completed. "
He paused, raised his eyes and stared closely at Ivy in the darkness:
"It is easy to understand that the new Black Death did not appear. As long as you kill all the players before the time ends, and the old ones have not appeared, it means that even if you use monster sacrifices, you have never succeeded , so you must have a way to stop the sacrifice."
Yu Ran's heart was pounding, and she couldn't help but tense when she heard Mo Yi's gradually accelerating speech.
Just listen to Mo Yi continue to say:
"If we spread our minds and make some bold guesses..."
Mo Yi's eyes slowly fixed on Ivy's scorched, limping legs, and said pointedly:
"What if you were actually one of the seven sacrificed people?"
Yu Ran was so startled by his conclusion that she almost cried out, and stood there dumbfounded, looking a little silly.
Mo Yi continued to say as if no one was there:
"You don't have a helper. It was already extremely difficult to kill so many people. In addition, the entire city was under martial law. You were eager to use a part of your body to complete the final sacrifice in order to resurrect the child, but perhaps it was because You are the leader of the entire sacrifice, perhaps because your physical body was not completely destroyed when you died, so you were not controlled by the house, but retained your own consciousness and had great freedom."
Ivy stared at him with a flicker of eyes, and her facial expression seemed a little dazed.
Mo Yi took a step forward with no expression on his face, and said:
"And this house can't control you, so naturally it can't force you to donate your organs to complete the final sacrifice, so you just need to ensure that the house can't get enough new players to complete your mission.
And, if I recall correctly, on the note I found, the last organ to be sacrificed was the kneecap. "
Ai Wei met Mo Yi's open eyes and stared fixedly for a long time, then she suddenly laughed:
"I underestimated you."
Yu Ran was still immersed in the shock of Ivy being one of the seven sacrifices. At this moment, her feet were wrapped in spider silk, and the three of them who had been knocked out finally moved and struggled to sit again. get up.
Ivy seemed startled by the sound, her pale face slowly dissipating into the darkness.
Mo Yi was taken aback, and subconsciously stretched out his hand to stop him, but the palm he raised froze in the air the next second.
A familiar mechanical female voice came to his ears, the voice was not loud, but the content was deafening:
"Dear candidate member Mo Yi, congratulations on taking another step towards becoming a member of the senior club, please continue to work hard."