In a trance, Xia Qi heard the voice in his dream again.
However, in just a moment, he regained consciousness.
Now, he was already on the Mermaid Island and had not been hypnotized into a dream.
Xia Qi came to the top of the hill and looked up at the sky above the island.
This mermaid ghost island is steeper than imagined, with bare cliffs everywhere. On the cliffs in different locations of the island, there are 12 black pillars standing.
These 12 stone pillars are arranged in two rows, with 6 pillars in each row. Looking from a distance, the distribution of these 12 pillars makes people feel inexplicably uncomfortable.
Why are there... 12 pillars
Xia Qi narrowed his eyes and suddenly remembered that the total number of players was 12.
At this time, the octopus was no longer visible on the island, and Xia Qi had no way to follow him, so he planned to climb up the cliff first to see the appearance of the pillars and then make a decision on the next step.
Because carrying the small barrel containing the pearl fish was too cumbersome, Xia Qixian poured the pearl fish in the barrel into the rum bottle little by little, then wrapped the rum bottle with a cloth and hung it on the backpack on his back.
As for the remaining small wine barrel containing the pearl fish, he hid it in a bush.
Xia Qi chose to come to the foot of the shortest cliff, then took out a rope and a silver knife from his backpack and began to climb up slowly.
It rains all year round on this island, making the stone walls very slippery. Moss grows in many corners. Xia Qi needs to step very carefully on every rock sticking out from the cliff to ensure that he does not slip.
After climbing for nearly 30 minutes, Xia Qi finally reached the cliff where the first pillar stood.
This pillar was taller than when he saw it from below. It was completely black and covered with a layer of greasy paint that gave off a stench like that of a rotting corpse. Xia Qi suppressed his nausea and walked closer, only to discover that there were pictures carved on the pillar.
In the carving on the pillar, a mermaid is separated from her head. His hollowed-out head is hung high in the air, and his body is gone. In the very corner of the painting is the remaining fish tail of a mermaid. On the bloody fish tail, only the tail feathers at the end are still intact and placed aside.
Although the carved pattern was not too lifelike, Xia Qi still felt nauseous when looking at this horrific scene.
After the nausea, he felt deep sympathy.
Why did the mermaid become like this
Xia Qi stood quietly in front of the pillar, thinking. At this time, the sound of other players discussing came from the bottom of the hill.
Unexpectedly, other people arrived one after another. In order to crack the copy faster, Xia Qi had to speed up.
He pulled a box out of his backpack.
These 12 pillars represent 12 players. Each player owns 1 box. Except for the player who died on the first day, the remaining 11 boxes are in the hands of the players.
The remaining box was either in the hands of the captain or the female mate.
Xia Qi now has a total of 6 boxes in his hand, which contain different parts of the mermaid. The box in his hand now contains the first fish tail he got.
Xia Qi took the fish tail out of the box and touched the pillar in front of him with it.
"No response?"
Unexpectedly, after he used his fishtail to move the pillar, there was no change in the pillar.
Xia Qi frowned, retracted his fish tail, and murmured, "Impossible..."
Judging from all the clues, the fish tail is the activation key of this pillar.
He must have used the wrong method.
Xia Qi fell into deep thought again. He walked around the pillar three times and looked carefully at the pattern above. When his eyes fell on the fish tail on the pillar again, he suddenly had an idea.
"Try again." Xia Qi took the fish tail again and placed it on the fish tail pattern on the pillar.
Sure enough, when the fish tail was attached to the fish tail pattern on the pillar, the originally colorless fish tail pillar pattern suddenly absorbed the fish tail that Xia Qi put there.
The absorbed fish tail combines with the pattern to become the only colored pattern on the column, and it is as lifelike as a real fish tail.
After the pillar absorbed the fish tail, it began to rotate slowly. After it turned clockwise once, a beam of blue light suddenly emerged from the top of the pillar and rushed directly towards the dark clouds above, breaking a hole in the thick clouds.
A faint ray of sunlight leaked out from the gap in the dark clouds and shone on the pillar in front of Xia Qi. He saw that the originally pitch-black pillar had changed. The greasy black paint-like substance slowly melted from the top, revealing the snow-white interior of the pillar. Finally, under the sunlight, the pillar lost all the black color and turned into a snow-white reef pillar!
Xia Qi touched the familiar material on the pillar and was immediately surprised: "It's Pearl Reef!"
As Xia Qi activated the first pillar, the players below exclaimed, as if Tony was screaming: "Someone has cracked the island's mechanism!"
"Who is it?"
"I think it should be the one with the surname Xia!"
Xia Qi frowned. Even though he was still short of a box, he didn't want others to come so quickly.
Without paying attention to the other players, Xia Qi quickly packed his backpack, drank a few sips of water, and started his rock climbing journey again.
Fortunately, he was agile enough and it wasn't too difficult for him to climb up. When he reached the second pillar, he heard a heart-wrenching scream from someone nearby.
"My leg is broken!" The person who broke the leg seemed to be Tony.
Xia Qi frowned. In an escape game, breaking a leg is not a good thing, and not everyone can afford the regeneration fluid.
Of course, even if he had drunk the regeneration fluid, there would still be a constant stream of sequelae in the future, this was what the old man had told him.
The second pillar is the same as the first one. The carving on the second pillar depicts the tragic scene of a mermaid being stripped of her scales.
After Xia Qi placed a tail fin on the pillar, the dark clouds in the sky seemed to dissipate a little. He didn't know if it was his illusion, but he felt that the souls of the mermaids floating in the air had become much sparser.
The two green ghost lights in the center also looked less ferocious.
Xia Qi came to the third pillar and put the anal fin given to him by the strong man on it.
The familiar sunlight set once again, but this time, the ground of the entire island suddenly shook, and a strange roar came from the distance.
“Ouch!!!”
A huge tentacle appeared on the top of a distant mountain, and then the tentacle slapped downwards, instantly smashing a large rock. Countless large and small pieces of gravel exploded from the top of the mountain, bringing up a cloud of smoke and gravel.
Even Xia Qi, who was standing next to the third pillar, was hit by a lot of flying gravel.
Looking at the tentacle that had grown as big as a pillar in the distance, Xia Qi was horrified and thought, when did the octopus grow so big? !
“Boom boom boom!”
After one tentacle smashed the stone, several more tentacles came down. Xia Qi had to grab the pillar to keep himself steady.
However, even so, he found that the force of the earthquake was getting stronger and stronger. He held the pillar and waited in place for a while, but found that the tentacles were getting closer and closer to him. Half of the octopus's dark forehead appeared behind the hillside. Xia Qi suddenly realized that the octopus was coming towards him!
He has to escape quickly!
Xia Qi put the rope around the pillar and tied it tightly, then grabbed the rope and slid directly down the cliff.
"Why did the octopus come here?"
As Xia Qi skated, he wondered, didn't he want the players to crack the secret of the pillar? Was the octopus trying to stop him
Amidst the rain of rocks, Xia Qi finally landed on flat ground. Seeing the octopus getting closer and closer to the second pillar, Xia Qi's guess was further confirmed.
In order to avoid the octopus that suddenly transformed into a huge monster, Xia Qi deliberately chose to take a detour instead of going directly to the fourth pillar.
According to the order just now, he always felt that the method to crack the fourth pillar would not be the remaining nails, eyes and hair on his hands.
Then, the thing on the fourth pillar must still be in the hands of other players.
In order to confirm his guess, Xia Qi planned to go to the fifth pillar first. Unexpectedly, as soon as he reached a corner, he heard Tony's scream again.
Why is he still screaming
If Xia Qi remembered correctly, Tony had broken his leg in more than an hour. How could he scream for so long
Xia Qi frowned and was about to go over to take a look. When he parted the grass, he was suddenly startled.
I saw Tony's lower body was pressed under a huge rock not far away, with only his upper body exposed.
Half of Tony's face had been torn apart yesterday, and a layer of blood scab had formed on it. However, as he screamed with his mouth open, the scab-covered wound broke open, and a lot of pus and blood flowed out, making his entire face look particularly hideous.
"Damn it... Lin Qing, you will not die well..." Tony laughed while crying, blood kept flowing from the corners of his mouth, "You will definitely die at the hands of that Xia!"
Xia Qi: “…”
What does this have to do with him
Xia Qi walked out helplessly.
Tony was crying at first, but when he saw Xia Qi coming, he suddenly showed a look of surprise: "My prayers finally worked, you're here!"
"How are you?" Xia Qi took two steps forward, squatted in front of Tony, and looked at him with a frown.
"I'm dying." Tony scratched the ground with his nails. He struggled to prop up his upper body, like a dying dog, breathing out with his mouth open. "No more nonsense... Lin Qing, he just snatched my box from me and put me under this rock."
Xia Qi was stunned.
How could the young master do such a thing
However, after thinking for a moment, Xia Qi felt that it was not surprising. Cha Gong was that kind of person, so how could the young master be any better
"Then what are you going to do? Where are your teammates?" Xia Qi asked again.
"He died a long time ago." Tony was talking about the male player who possessed a cooking artifact. When he first arrived on the island, his teammate was bitten to death by a group of mermaid ghosts.
The reason why Tony didn't die was because he was carrying the pearl fish that Xia Qi had given to the male player with the cooking artifact.
After finishing speaking, Tony took two more breaths, raised his head with a grin, and looked at Xia Qi with shining eyes: "But what Lin Qing doesn't know is that my teammate's box is here."
He originally had two boxes on him, one belonged to his teammate, and the other belonged to himself. Lin Qing only took away the box that belonged to him.
Xia Qi gradually understood what he meant and asked doubtfully, "You want to give me the box?"
"Yes, I want to give it to you." Tony, with veins popping out on his forehead, stretched out his right hand and tightly grasped Xia Qi's hand, "Do me a favor and I'll give you the box."
Xia Qi looked at Tony who was about to collapse, and couldn't help but patted the back of his hand: "You tell me first, if I can help you, I won't break my promise."
"Okay." Tony agreed, then his face suddenly darkened, tears streaming from his bloodshot eyes, "Please help me send a message to Wang Dazhuang. Tell him that I stole the child. I... I saw that he had a very good foundation, so I wanted him to be the successor of our craft... Who would have thought that the child was so weak that I beat him to death... I am sorry for him, and for the child."
After hearing Tony's last words, Xia Qi fell into a struggle and could only agree: "Is this the help you asked me to do? I promise you, I will tell him."
"I regret it very much." Tony sobbed twice. If he had not come to the sin game, he would not regret what he had done, and he would not know what retribution was.
However, it was too late. Tony grabbed Xia Qi's hand and pointed to the bush where he had just walked out. "The box is there..."
After saying this, Tony's eyes lost focus and he fell down weakly.
Xia Qi was silent for a moment, put down Tony's gradually cooling hand, and then came to the place Tony pointed.
Sure enough, Xia Qi searched for a while and found a familiar box, and Xia Qi opened the box.
In this box, there are pelvic fins.
Xia Qi felt that this was the key to breaking open the fourth pillar. Unfortunately, the octopus was now swimming between the third and fourth pillars, and he had no way to get through for the time being.
He had to rest for a while nearby, then he found some branches and leaves, buried Tony's body, and prepared to go around the other pillars to see if he could snatch the box from the female deputy.
After wandering around the island for a long time, Xia Qi did not see the shadow of his female assistant. At this time, a strange light appeared near the eighth pillar, and the octopus immediately rushed towards the eighth pillar.
Seeing that the octopus had temporarily left, Xia Qi hurried to the fourth pillar. When he was taking out his ventral fin and sticking it to the pillar, a vortex suddenly appeared above the fourth pillar, and then two people fell into the vortex.
The young master held the magic wand in his hand and looked at Xia Qi with a faint smile: "Sure enough, the first three pillars were opened by you."
The macho man stood beside the young master and winked at Xia Qi, signaling him to run away quickly.
Xia Qi did not answer the young master's words, and then took out his true love magic wand and said to the young master: "Are you planning to rob me?"
The young master walked towards him step by step, seemingly not taking Xia Qi seriously: "Give me the box, or I will kill you. You should know that my magic wand is higher level than yours."
Xia Qi took a step back and looked at the rope hanging on the edge of the cliff.
Because the cliff where the fourth pillar was located was already very high, if he was attacked by the young master when he slipped down from the rope, he would most likely break his leg.
Therefore, Xia Qi actually had no choice but to face the young master.
As soon as Xia Qi finished speaking, the young master gritted his teeth and raised his magic wand without hesitation. At this time, Xia Qi didn't think much about it and raised his magic wand towards him.
“The pain is so beautiful. No matter how humble I am, I still want to feel the pain of being torn into pieces… My princess, I want to monopolize your beauty! [1]”
-True love is worth 1000.
True Love Spell: Shattered
Effect: Send out ten consecutive air punches to the enemy, causing bone fractures.
Time: 00:00:10
After Xia Qi finished shouting, ten familiar fist shadows flew out from the magic wand of true love, all hitting the young master. At this time, the young master's magic wand was also activated at the same time.
"You smell of her perfume, it's my nose that's guilty... I'll wipe it off and sleep with you! [2]"
The difference between the young master and Xia Qi was that the young master did not shout out the spell like Xia Qi did, but sang it directly to the tune of the song.
After the song was finished, countless purple mists with an extremely strong fragrance suddenly burst out from the young master's purple magic wand in the direction of Xia Qi.
Ding Dong! The enemy casts a betrayal spell on you: Temptation of a Third Party, please be careful to avoid it!
Xia Qi: “…”
Xia Qi had seen this thick purple fog before. When they were fighting the skeletons on the skeleton ship, the young master used this trick to make the skeletons dizzy.
Xia Qi covered his nose and stepped back repeatedly, then shouted in a low voice to blow away the thick fog with flying sand and rocks. However, when the time effect of the flying sand and rocks passed, the purple fog rushed towards him again.
"Ahem..."
Xia Qicai accidentally inhaled a breath of mist and felt his eyes blurred. As expected, the level of the young master's magic wand was too high, and the power and time it produced were completely different from his.
Seeing that only three of the ten punches that could have smashed the person to pieces were left, Xia Qi felt a little panicked.
At this moment, Xia Qi suddenly had an idea and took out the prop Rose Love Perfume, intending to try to fight poison with poison.
“Puff, puff, puff.”
Xia Qi pointed the nozzle of the Love Rose perfume at himself and sprayed it on himself several times. After spraying, a red mist with the scent of roses instantly rose around him.
The purple mist that was originally rushing towards him quickly dispersed before it touched the red mist beside him.
When the purple mist dissipated, Xia Qi suddenly felt a gust of wind nearby. He looked up at the sky and saw that the souls of the mermaids in the sky were gathering in the middle, gradually condensing into the shadow of a mermaid holding a trident!
No... No way...
This suddenly reminded him of the other instructions for the Rose of Love perfume...
Other notes: This bottle of perfume with rose top notes and sandalwood amber base notes can make you have a fatal attraction to him/her!
Seeing the strange changes in the air, Xia Qi prepared to slip away from the rope without hesitation, but he didn't expect the young master to suddenly get up, spit out the two broken teeth in his mouth, and shouted at Xia Qi: "Xia Qi, I must kill you today!"
The young master's shield was shattered and he was punched hard in the face. He originally thought that he would see Xia Qi fainted, but unexpectedly, Xia Qi was still standing there, with an unknown fragrance coming from his body.
The young master had never seen anyone who could break his perfume formation, and a mouthful of blood was stuck in his throat and couldn't come out.
The young master who originally only wanted to steal the box now really wanted to kill Xia Qi. If Xia Qi was left behind, it would be a hidden disaster for him and the entire Lin Group. For the sake of his family and himself, he had to kill the immature Xia Qi in this copy today.
The young master raised his magic wand again and sang viciously to Xia Qi:
"You betrayed my love and left me behind. When I found out the truth, I burst into tears! [3]"
Strong man: “…”
Xia Qi: “…”
Ding Dong! The enemy casts the betrayal spell on you: Tears of Loser. This spell automatically locks on the target, so please protect your eyes!
Xia Qi: “…”
As soon as the young master finished speaking, Xia Qi felt as if a ball of sand was forced into his eyes, and his tears flowed madly like a river bursting its dam, unable to stop.
Xia Qi suddenly turned into Meng Jiangnu and felt that he had never shed so many tears before. The scene in front of his eyes was covered with a layer of mist.
However, Xia Qi still stood up by supporting himself on the pillar, sobbing while holding up the magic wand, and shouting to the young master in his distorted voice: "… You are electricity, you are light, you are the only myth! [4]"
-True love is worth 1000.
True Love Spell: Struck by Thunder
Effect: After the enemy is locked, he will suffer a punishment from the first level of thunder.
Time: 00:00:10
Description: Thunder strikes, retribution is inevitable! The effect of 100,000 volts, you deserve it!
When Xia Qi finished shouting this, the young master, who was more familiar with the spell system than him, froze on the spot and even forgot how to sing the next killer move.
The dark clouds in the sky suddenly rolled wildly, and it seemed that a blue electric dragon was soaring in the rolling clouds.
"Rumble..."
A dazzling lightning dragon fell down, and Xia Qi suddenly closed his eyes.
"boom!"
A loud thunder exploded in Xia Qi's ears, making his head buzz.
When Xia Qi opened his eyes again, he saw that the young master opposite him had fallen to the ground. His whole body was burnt and it was unknown whether he was dead or alive.