"How to choose?" Wujiu also saw this task that suddenly appeared.
Twenty-five minutes passed by second by second, and Bai Wu was not panicked at all. Now they had 170 coins in their hands.
"Let's leave here first. According to what we said before, the merchant should show up soon."
Tan Lei didn't understand the conversation between the two and was about to follow Bai Wu and the others to leave, but Bai Wu stopped her and said:
"You stay here. It's too dangerous up there. If you go with us, we won't be able to spare the time to protect you. It's safest to stay here. We will rescue the others."
"Really? There are a lot of evils on the twenty floors..." Tan Lei was suddenly a little surprised.
"Everything I say is the truth."
Although the game just failed, Bai Wu's mysterious personality did not collapse.
"Then I'll wait for your good news here!"
"Don't run around and don't leave the 16th floor." Bai Wu gave his final warning.
The mission to rescue Tan Lei had no clear destination in the white fog. After rescuing the woman, there was no message indicating the mission was over.
Now Bai Wu guessed that either they had to kill Jing Si to make the area no longer dangerous, or they had to rescue the scientists and reunite them with Tan Lei.
So it seems that Tan Lei must survive until she completes one of the main tasks.
Bai Wu and Wu Jiu arrived at the door of the sixteenth floor.
The merchant was waiting for them:
"Yo ho ho ho, little guys, have you saved up any gold coins? This is the last time I will provide you with items."
"Before the transaction, I have a question. Where is Black Gold Island?" Bai Wu asked.
"That's not a place you can go with your small body, and right now, you should be in bigger trouble. Now tell me, what do you want?"
"First, an equipment upgrade voucher."
The merchant's wares hadn't changed and there were still some odd items, but Bai Wu had now sorted out his thoughts.
Since this is the final decisive battle, and it is a 25-minute time-limited task, the fact that this task suddenly pops up means that he has found all the clues to pass the level.
What we need to do now is to find ways to strengthen ourselves.
Currently, the strongest equipment of Bai Wu and Wu Jiu, apart from the non-upgradeable imitation original sin weapon, is the Evil Must Die in Wu Jiu's hand.
The white mist directly upgraded the evil to death.
Elite Dagger: Evil must die. Attack +9, upgradeable, durability 20/20. Cannot be sold.
The evil must die. This weapon can break armor and corrode the weak evil. Oh, this weapon full of hatred for the evil seems to have become sharper.
The note on the Eye of Prell indicates that strengthening weapons in the game can indeed enhance the real properties of the weapons.
But all this did not come from the businessmen, but from Jing Si, the creator of the area.
"One more piece."
"It looks like you want to build a magic weapon? But I'm sorry to tell you that the goods are limited... This is the last equipment enhancement coupon." The merchant spread his hands.
"What about level enhancement?"
"There are six left."
"That's just right."
After all, there is no infinite gold coins, so Bai Wu can accept the limited goods.
The remaining gold coins were just enough for him to buy an equipment enhancement voucher and six experience-enhancing scrolls.
Bai Wu used all these things on Wujiu.
Now Wujiu's level has become level 13. His own attack power is 14 points, and his own health is 34 points. But this is not the final attribute.
The power of Evil Must Die has been increased again, with the attack power becoming 15 points and the durability becoming 40.
What surprised Bai Wu even more was that the knife in Brother Ai's hand had now become a real weapon.
The evil must die. Let me reintroduce this weapon. This weapon that can break the defense and corrode those weak evil has now become extremely evil. It is like a vampire's fang, and can bring some vitality to its owner! Yes, it has a certain vitality absorbing property.
As long as he keeps attacking, the short guy can give up on defense and rely on bloodsucking to recover.
Of course, this has a prerequisite, that the blood-sucking ratio is high enough, and... that you can leave this area alive.
"It seems you have no more gold coins, so~goodbye!"
This time the merchant didn't give Bai Wu any good things. He left very quickly.
Wujiu still didn’t quite understand why Baiwu didn’t buy some weird things this time.
Bai Wu gave the "temporary archiver" to Wu Jiu.
"Captain, this is for you."
"You don't want to take it?" Wujiu was very surprised.
Bai Wu smiled and did not respond directly, but asked back:
"We are now faced with a difficult choice. In the twenty minutes or so, we can either save people or kill the big boss. Captain, which choice do you think we should make?"
"Save people."
"The captain is very powerful now, why don't you choose to kill the monster?"
"Human life is at stake. Save people first."
"Sometimes I am really curious. In a living environment like the tower, why would there be a righteous person like you, Captain?"
Wujiu didn't know how to respond to this, so Bai Wu continued:
"I also think we should rescue them. So Captain, go and rescue them. The scientists are trapped on the 20th floor. There are many high-level fallen creatures gathered there, but according to the information I saw before, the total number of these fallen creatures will not be much higher than forty. Even less than forty."
Wujiu became more and more confused, and Baiwu spoke faster:
"What I am about to say is very important. Captain, you must remember it all."
"Although there are only two cases for reference, if the mission is about saving people, once it fails, the whole game will fail. So what we have to do is either not to save them or simply not accept the mission. If we accept it, we have to make sure they survive."
"With the durability of the captain's current weapon, even the monsters in the headquarters can be killed with one blow. Captain, you need to calculate the route well. When killing the evil, make sure you kill those that must be killed. Your attributes are much higher than mine, so there will be no problem."
"If we fail, the temporary archiver will allow us to return to the time before we entered the building. Then you can tell me the layout of the evil, and I will give you the best solution, Captain."
Wujiu heard it and asked:
"Are you planning to face Jing Si alone?"
Wujiu still didn't know who Jing Si was, but he could guess that since he was required to be killed in the mission, he was obviously not on the same level as the evil ones he met on the road.
"That's right. I'm responsible for killing the boss, and you, Captain, are responsible for rescuing people."
"Why don't I go and kill Jing Si?"
"Because scientists are more important, and the only one who can save scientists from so much evil is the captain."
"Then why don't we go rescue people together?"
"Because time is running out, and I don't accept this choice. There are no bad guys in this game. Whether it's Jing Si or the scientist, I want to save them all."
There are no bad guys in this game. Wujiu still couldn't understand this sentence. But Bai Wu's words were very powerful, and it was obvious that he had realized it in his heart.
There were still twenty-one minutes left. Wujiu said:
"It all depends on your judgment to get here. You decide."
Wujiu believed in Baiwu's judgment. Even though Jingsi seemed to be stronger than the evil ones on the twentieth floor, since Baiwu had made such a choice, he would not question it.
At worst, I can start over again.
The two of them soon arrived at the 20th floor, and Bai Wu said:
"The monsters on the upper and lower floors should all be attracted by the scientists. Captain, as long as we rescue them, we can leave here. It will take 20 minutes, no more, no less. Captain, there is no need to rush."
Wujiu nodded:
"You too, be careful!"
The two went their separate ways.
Bai Wu was thinking that if there was no short brother participating and he challenged as a single player, the game would be a completely different scene.
…
…
Denglin Technology Headquarters, 24th floor.
Just as Bai Wu judged, there were basically no monsters in this headquarters building after the sixteenth floor.
All the monsters gathered on the twentieth floor, and they could not go to higher levels.
The structure of the twenty-fourth floor is slightly similar to that of the sixteenth floor, but the facilities appear to be more solid.
For example, the door.
The door on the sixteenth floor was already thick enough, but the door on the twenty-fourth floor was at least four times as thick as the door on the sixteenth floor.
Like other props, the master key can only be used once. Fortunately, Bai Wu doesn't need it this time.
The thickness of the door that can be seen is because this door... was broken open by a powerful force.
Even after being pixelated, Bai Wu could still feel that there were many "blood vessels" growing on the walls of the entire twenty-fourth floor.
Black blood vessels, or black vines, meridians.
They densely covered the entire twenty-fourth floor. Bai Wu noticed that at the entrance of the twenty-fourth floor, these blood vessels, vines, and black strips were still growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Even Bai Wu's feet were stepping on these strange black substances.
And at the end of his sight, Bai Wu saw a face.
Even with the pixelated style, you can vaguely tell that the face is a man's.
Bai Wu looked at the man's face and thought of Mr. Tao's memoirs.
In 2115, Jing Liu was ten years old and Jing Si was twelve years old.
And now, thirteen years have passed, and Jing Si is now twenty-five years old.
This was the age when a man was full of vitality, but Jing Si... turned into a complete monster.
Well Four, Attack Power: 9999, Defense Power: 9999, Vitality 9999.
What kind of ability is needed to defeat Jing Si
When Bai Wu saw this data pop up in the notes, he knew that the so-called limited-time task was a test.
"You made the wrong choice. Are you ready to die? Perhaps I can make you a part of this city."
Jing Si's voice sounded very unreal, like a mixture of many voices.
Bai Wu also encountered this situation when he saw Hong Yin's true form.
And the note given by the Eye of Prell about Well Four -
He once believed in a prophecy, but he never waited for it. Finally, he recalled that the happiest days of his life were the days in Denglin City. In order to commemorate those days, before he was eroded, he dug out his heart and went to another place.
a heart…
Isn’t this Jing Si’s true form
Bai Wu quickly recovered from his surprise and thought about it carefully. If Jing Si and Jing Liu had both come into contact with the existence of a well, then the two siblings might be the most powerful monsters he had ever seen.
This kind of monster, even if it only leaves behind a heart, is enough to severely distort a place.
This place is naturally not Denglin City.
Just as Yan Yan mentioned, the real Denglin Technology headquarters building has turned into a black area.
Bai Wu became more and more certain of his guess, and said:
"If the choice you're talking about is to rescue the scientists trapped in the shelter, I've already sent my teammates over, and I didn't make the wrong choice."
Jing Si didn't say anything. His face, which was connected to countless black meridians, looked at the white fog with a frightening look.
"Hehehe... Arrogant human, your greed disgusts me. Do you think you can save people and kill me? You want to complete two tasks?" Jing Si's tone was mocking.
Bai Wu was unmoved and said:
"I believe there are people who make this choice. Their psychological process is probably like this: they hate making choices, guess the mind of the question setter, guess whether they can get more rewards, trigger the hidden option, and then perform two tasks at the same time."
Jing Si was a little confused.
"Aren't you?"
"No, because I knew from the beginning that if you didn't want us to win, we wouldn't even be able to leave the branch building. The fact that you can turn me and my friends into such a strange state shows that you have the power to distort reality. You are the strongest being I have ever seen."
Even though all of this was not Jing Si's true body, Bai Wu didn't know where his true body had gone. But Jing Si's heart was indeed the most powerful source of distortion Bai Wu had ever seen.
Even stronger than Hong Yin.
At least in Hong Yin's illusion... the captain's companion power cannot be converted into game attributes, and various spirit-sustaining items cannot be used for other purposes.
It is impossible to turn real living humans into NPCs in the game, and it is also impossible to control all the evil in the entire area.
"I'm not greedy. I gave my best equipment and all the resources to my teammates. I believe that my approach to this game so far... is correct. The resources I collected are not few, so in terms of resources, my teammates can save them. He is stronger than me."
The white mist slowly moved towards the face. The black meridians wrapped around the walls, the ground, and the ceiling made gurgling sounds, as if warning the white mist.
Bai Wu said:
"You are such a powerful being, I have never thought of killing you. Even if I have countless resurrection coins and spend eternity with you, I can't find a way to kill you with the existing resources in this game. Someone must have tried this, but the outcome is predictable."
Jing Si looked at the white mist.
Bai Wu said calmly:
"The scientists can be rescued, but what happens after they are rescued? As long as you are still in the 'crux', they will return to the game again as we leave. Mo Cheng is still trapped on the 19th floor, waiting for someone to rescue him. Tan Lei will still set off in the night and be trapped by the evil."
"The scientists will also be trapped on the 20th floor, with no end in sight, until someone enters the 16th floor and starts the game. The next cycle will begin again."
The white mist actually reached the depths of the black meridians and was only three steps away from the dark face.
His tone suddenly showed a hint of compassion:
"For seven hundred years, you have been trapped in the crux. There are greedy people who think they can challenge you again and again by constantly stacking up their combat power. There are also kind and righteous people who rescue scientists again and again. But who will save you... Jing Si?"
This question instantly dissipated a lot of the hostility on the 24th floor.
All the details were strung together by the white mist.
Why is it that after choosing to save someone, if the character dies, the entire mission will fail
Why were the scientists trapped in this place? How did they live as mission targets for seven hundred years? Why did they find Mr. Tao's memoirs in the archives? Why was it a mistake not to save people
Tan Lei, Mo Cheng, and Mr. Tao's memoirs all mentioned one thing: Jing Si became irritable. And now Bai Wu also felt the pain that this being baptized by "well water" was living in.
"I'm not here to kill you, I'm here to save you."
"help me?"
Countless voices of "Save me" echoed in this room, overlapping each other, but with completely different tones.
"Yes, I'm here to save you. The fifty-first floor of the God's Tower can be opened."
"you… "
Bai Wu's words made Jing Si's eyes suddenly widen.
"But that will take some time. The four people blocking the fifty-first floor should be your brothers and sisters, just like Jing Liu. You all have the surname Jing, so maybe you all come from that well."
"Impossible... How do you know this?"
Whenever the other party said the word "impossible", Bai Wu knew that it was his turn.
But Bai Wu did not feel very happy. He could not feel sad, so the calmness at this moment was the closest he was to sadness.
Just like when he learned about Liu Mu’s sacrifice, Bai Wu’s expression was extremely solemn.
"I just pieced together a story from some clues. I originally thought that the owner of this area was Mr. Tao, and his unwillingness turned him into an evil person."
"But if you read the memoir carefully, you will know that for a great man like him, unwillingness to give up will only give him greater motivation. There are some great men in human history who all have one thing in common, that is, they will stubbornly solve a problem and fight to the death."
"All the clues mentioned one thing. You became more and more irritable. I think this was not your intention. It's just that you were baptized by the well water and your consciousness became manic."
"Jingliu's talent tells you what the future will look like. In the future, humans will walk out of the tower and return to this world. Mr. Tao's efforts will not be in vain. All the twisted rules will collapse one day."
Pain and struggle appeared on Jing Si's face.
"These words were once the pillar of your faith and the anchor that kept you true to your heart. In 2115, you and Jing Liu came to the Lantern Forest and volunteered to be studied. This showed that you had the best in your hearts and wanted to save the world."
"Those words are all lies! All lies!" Jing Si's roar made those black meridians instantly bulge like snakes.
Bai Wu had no doubt that this guy with a combat power of 9999 could easily kill him.
"Yes, in your opinion, these words are all false, because Xie Yingjie's departure has made you realize that Mr. Tao's ideas have not been realized. You are skeptical about Jing Liu's predictions, and you think it is just a lie to stabilize you. In 2127, the tower will be closed. In your opinion, once the tower is completely closed, everything will end."
"There is no future, no savior. The efforts of Mr. Tao and the scientists are in vain. It is impossible for humans to return to this world from the tower. In this frenzy, you have lost more and more of your nature. In this process, you have made some mistakes, and because of these mistakes, you are getting deeper and deeper... The prophecy from Jing Liu makes you feel even more false."
"But you're wrong."
When saying these four words, Bai Wu took a deep breath.
There were already black meridians wrapped around his neck. At this moment, Bai Wu finally knew what these black substances were, and also knew why Jing Si could easily mutate the people in the entire city into evil.
In an instant, Bai Wu saw many illusions, and he seemed to have returned to his childhood, when his father was holding a silver needle and doing all kinds of cruel things to him in a kind manner.
resentment…
The materialization of resentment that can cause people to have negative emotions was too huge and overflowed from Jing Si's heart. Finally, like a wall grown with ivy, the black resentment tightly entangled the entire twenty-fourth floor.
Even when facing Hong Yin, Bai Wu had never seen the memories that once made him suffer, but this time, he saw many memories that he didn't want to see.
But these memories now... have lost their edge to Bai Wu, whose emotions are incomplete.
At this moment, Bai Wu and Jing Si were like two peerless masters fighting with their strongest moves.
Unimaginably strong negative emotions poured into Bai Wu's mind from all directions, and the image of his father even became distorted, like a demon.
But he was not afraid, but took another step forward!
His face seemed about to hit Jing Si's face.
Forehead to forehead! Eye to eye!
Amidst the endless resentment, Bai Wu's voice unconsciously became higher and higher:
"The prophecy is true, Jing Liu did not lie to you. The savior really exists. He may have appeared, or he may still be waiting for the right time. The future that Jing Liu saw and the future that Mr. Tao expected will definitely come!"
It was like a ray of light from the sky that instantly broke through the endless darkness. The white mist's original body had been entangled by layers of black matter, but at this moment, part of its body was revealed.
There was horror in Jing Si's eyes.
The crux of his life was the hopeless future he had seen with his own eyes.
The top of the tower is not a path to light at all, but a more desperate and twisted world.
The entire divine tower is a metaphor for the prophecy.
The entire game process is also his problem!
The rescued scientists will be trapped again, and the humans who think they have the power to resist will see a demon king who is much more powerful than them when they reach the top of the tower.
The evil will never be driven out, and humans will never be able to walk out of the tower again.
Under such circumstances, Jing Si's true nature...began to be lost little by little.
Jing Liu became the one who deceived him, and the efforts of these scientists became a laughing stock. In despair, he threw away his heart and finally returned to darkness completely.
Although this heart fell off from Jing Si's body, it still contains some of Jing Si's memories.
It feels the same problems, the same pain and despair as Jing Si, but at the same time, it still has all the good qualities that Jing Si had when he was at the Denglin Technology Headquarters. Deep in this heart, there are still good thoughts and hopes that Jing Si is trying hard to keep.
Therefore, in this desperate game, there are still many places that give people hope.
But in the past seven hundred years, this heart... never waited for the world that its owner originally wanted to see.
The reality is getting closer and closer to the desperate and distorted world predicted.
The hope contained in this heart... is getting dimmer and dimmer.
It gave many hints in this game... Although these hints were like hope and despair, one could only be hidden obscurely and was shaky, while the other was spreading more and more unscrupulously and endlessly.
But it still wanted to hear someone tell it that Jing Liu's prediction was true.
Until a second ago, Bai Wu's hoarse shout made the black face look stunned.
"Haven't you bathed in the well water? Can't it instantly turn humans into evil? Then come and infect me!"
"The savior does exist. Mr. Tao's efforts have not been in vain. Humanity will not be trapped in the tower forever! Hiding in the tower may be a betrayal to you, but we will not succumb to that tower. For seven hundred years, we have been trying to find a way out! We have also been getting stronger. We have found a way to deal with the evil! And I am the best proof!"
"If you can turn me into a degenerate, then go ahead and try! Come on!"
"One day, we will return from the tower, and we will drive out all the evildoers who occupy our territory!"
It was clearly a shout at the top of his lungs, but to Jing Si, the whole world seemed to have stopped in an instant.
The pixelated world around him began to peel off bit by bit. The faces of Bai Wu and Jing Si became real and clear.
Jing Si could even see his own stunned reflection in the angry hole in the white mist.
Finally, the astonishment on that face that was always filled with anger and pain slowly disappeared.
It does not have the abilities of its master, so it cannot verify the truthfulness of what Bai Wu said.
But for seven hundred years... the knot in my heart has been waiting for someone to tell it—the prophecy is true and the savior exists.
Now, it has finally waited for all this.
Main quest: Go to the Denglin Technology Headquarters Building and rescue the scientists. Do you want to accept it
All the resentment began to dissipate.
Those substances that were entangled in the white mist like black vines were blown away by the wind like flying ashes.
Soon... along with Jing Si's face, it turned into dust.
The surrounding scene also emerged—this was indeed a technology building.
But it is not the Denglin Technology Headquarters. The real Denglin Technology Headquarters is the black area, and this is where Mr. Tao once stayed in Xuanhui City. This is where Mr. Tao and Xie Yingjie worked together in 2115.
Jing Si once came here with some scientists from Denglin City. After making a mistake, he wanted to compensate Mr. Tao.
So before completely destroying his good intentions, he left behind that heart.
And this heart has protected the humans in this area for seven hundred years, although these humans... live as NPCs.
In the end, Bai Wu did not see the prompt that the task was completed, but saw a new task.
Looking at the mottled wall, he said to Jing Si Zhi Xin, who had already dissipated into smoke and dust:
"I'll take this mission."