There was no window in the room, and it was so dark that he could not see his fingers. Xie Xinglan could barely see the room with the help of a faint red light from the Gorefiend Sword.
The furnishings in this room are no different from the rooms where other actors live, except that the furniture is more old, the eaves are full of fine spider webs, and the ground is also covered with a thick layer of ash. He stepped on it and easily He left clear footprints.
There are open luggage in the corner of the house, but the contents inside are all moldy. On the hangers were clothes that had been dried like bacon, and there was some half-eaten rotten food on the bedside.
Some people have lived here for a short time.
In addition, there is a gray lamp above the wardrobe in the room. The lamp looks a bit like a telephone booth. It is slender and long, and the whole body is dark blue, and there is no wick in it.
The voices of Jiang Shuo and Gu Yu were clearly audible outside, as if they were just outside the door, Xie Xinglan looked tense: "Are you sure this place is absolutely safe?"
"You can rest assured that they will never get in."
Suddenly, Xie Xinglan heard the human voice.
The crow's pocket shrunk a little, and at the same time, the only light lit up with a warm beige light.
The light gradually brightened, illuminating a corner for Xie Xinglan, and the surroundings became darker and darker against its backdrop.
A shadow suddenly appeared at his feet, Xie Xinglan raised his head, and under the flickering light, the crow turned into an old man in a gray robe.
The old man was a little weird. His teeth were white and neat, but his face was wrinkled like dark yellow toilet paper, his body was thin and withered, and he seemed to be dying soon.
Judging from the age of the teeth, the old man should be very young, but externally, he is a fake old man.
"I'm a hermit," the situation was urgent, and the old man immediately explained, afraid of delays, "this place is absolutely safe for six hours. This is the game rule for the players, that is, you, the reward for finding the hermit card. You can absolutely be here. Take a break to recover."
Just as Xie Chi was about to breathe a sigh of relief, his brows wrinkled again.
"You don't have to worry at all that it only means that people outside can't get in?"
The hermit was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting him to ask such a question, and nodded in Xie Chi's eagerly questioning eyes.
Xie Chi's expression condensed: "What about the props?"
The hermit was at a loss: "I... don't know."
After getting the hermit's uncertain answer, Xie Chi felt stuffy for some reason.
Since he has the talent of a painter, he has greatly increased the importance of his sixth sense.
Xie Chi counted it. Jiang Shuo used the skin on his face, the armor he wore, and the crossbow. Indeed, he used all three items. Finally, chasing him into his body was another method. Should be a talent.
It seems that Jiang Shuo has exhausted all his trump cards, but Jiang Shuo's crossbow is at least a red item. Is the effect really just endless power-enhancing arrows
Xie Chi clearly remembered that before Shen Yi died, there was a huge blood hole in his abdomen. The wound was small and deep, and it ran through the front and back. It was clearly an arrow wound, but during the battle with Jiang Shuo just now, Jiang Shuo's crossbow, Obviously, it can only shoot endless arrows. Although this arrow is powerful, it is not enough to kill him. It will only interfere with him and cause him a certain degree of injury. Even he cannot be killed, let alone severely injured. escape.
Jiang Shuo still has his back.
Xie Chi frowned deeply, clenched his hands secretly, and immediately said: "I'll ask you, can you? It's faster this way."
Knowing the seriousness of the situation, the hermit nodded happily.
Xie Chi: "Are you a player of the last Tarot game?"
Shock flashed in the hermit's eyes, apparently not expecting Xie Chi to have come this far, knowing so much information, he secretly rejoiced and nodded: "Yes."
Xie Chi: "What about the witch? What the hell is going on in this game?"
"wait for me a while!"
The hermit rummaged in the robe, and finally carefully took out a dirty parchment and handed it to Xie Chi.
Xie Chi glanced at it, and on the top of the parchment was written - Tarot Reincarnation.
There are dense small print below.
In the next two or three minutes, Xie Chi looked at the parchment while the hermit explained what he knew.
The difference with Xie Chi's guess is not too big.
About three or four hundred years ago, there was a Tarot wizard who had done bad things and was sealed here by other wizards. He was isolated from the world and could never go out again.
She wanted revenge, but she could only watch herself grow old, to no avail. She was unwilling to disappear like this, so she devoted herself to studying witchcraft works, and the emperor paid off. She finally participated in the ancient and long-lost Tarot sorcery - the Tarot reincarnation method.
The tarot reincarnation method, which is the game they are joining now, as the name suggests, can help people reincarnate through tarot, prolong their lives, and thus gain immortality.
The Tarot reincarnation method requires people with eight personality characteristics, a total of nine people, corresponding to the Fool, Magician, Pope, Queen, Emperor, Pope, Couple, and Suspended in the Tarot Major Arcana.
The effective time of the Tarot reincarnation method is seven nights, which is 42 hours. During this period, the Tarot wizard will, with the help of other cards, kill them one by one and sacrifice them to heaven and earth in this order, so as to obtain the power of reincarnation. .
But there is no free lunch in the world, and the Tarot Reincarnation Law has many restrictions on witches.
First, the tarot wizard must be on the verge of death, and during the game, the witch's magic power will be limited by the game and fall to the bottom. This made it less easy for her to kill these sacrifices, and she had to rely on tarot cards to win and truly join this desperate game.
Second, Tarot wizards must follow the records of the Tarot Reincarnation Law and tell the sacrifices some of the rules they should know, so that they can really join the game and have a chance to turn defeat into victory.
If you want to go against the sky and live forever, it is bound to be difficult. Take as much risk as you can to gain; you must lose before you can gain.
Give it a go, there is hope, and there is an opportunity for reincarnation.
This is the true meaning of Tarot reincarnation.
Witches have to fight weakness and risk being killed by sacrifices to fight for the next life.
The Tarot reincarnation method is essentially a game, a game. There is a high probability that the witch will be reincarnated successfully, but the sacrifices are not without a chance.
Tarot games are the way of reincarnation of witches and the way of self-salvation of sacrifices.
Tarot reincarnation method, there are endless ways to make sacrifices, sacrifices can escape from the game by ingenuity, and can also make witch reincarnation fail, and even can seize the witch's reincarnation power and become the next Tarot wizard with magic power.
These are all clearly recorded in the Tarot Reincarnation Law and are real possibilities.
But because it is a sorcery, it is of course partial to witches, so it is difficult for the sacrifice to survive.
The witch side, it is best not to mess up the order of killing the sacrifices. If you can kill each sacrifice in a perfect order, the witch will have a higher level of magic power in the reincarnation.
And if the order is reversed wrong or all the sacrifices are not killed within the game time, the probability of the witch's reincarnation failure will be greatly increased, and after reincarnation, her witch power will be greatly weakened.
Xie Chi had seen the beautiful maid wipe the golden photo frame before. The various women in the photo frame were actually Tarot wizards themselves.
That was the first seven or eight lives in which she was successfully reincarnated.
Meiruotianxian is still ugly, reflecting that reincarnation, her performance in the game.
The more beautiful her face is after reincarnation, which proves that in the reincarnation game, she sacrificed more sacrifices to heaven and earth in a more correct order.
And in their last session, the witch had an extraordinary appearance. The hermit said that it was the only time she successfully killed all the sacrifices in the order of death within the specified time.
So the witch they encountered now is the most powerful witch since the reincarnation of the witch. She could even kill the sacrifice by herself when she was extremely vulnerable without relying on the power of the tarot cards.
Most of the time, good and bad depend on each other, but in the reincarnation of tarot wizards, this is obviously not the case.
She was strong in the last game and will make her stronger in the next game.
Therefore, the reincarnation of a witch is also the way for her witch power to grow and her appearance to become beautiful.
She is getting more and more beautiful and stronger, until she has developed to where she is today.
The hermit explained that the real sacrifice is nine people, that is, eight cards. The blank cards are not included in the sacrifice. The witch can use the blank cards to confuse the audio and visual of the sacrifice, so that they will not touch the real game rules so early.
In the last Tarot game, there were nine offerings and two blank cards, and the number of players was eleven.
The number of players is not so limited, it can be nine sacrifices plus any number of blank cards.
These are all means of concealment, but the core has always been the nine sacrifices.
As for the hermit, he was the last dead player in the last Tarot game, and he was the hanger.
In each game, in addition to the players who escaped successfully, the last one to die among the dead players will become a hermit and guide the next game.
And the position he went to before he died would determine the starting point of the game for the next player who found him.
How far he has come before, the next player will follow his progress.
This is also a process of inheritance. After generations of games, if players successfully find the hermit, their progress will become more and more advanced, and the threat to witches will become greater and greater, so witches are actually walking a tightrope. After all, stronger witch power means that greater danger.
There is always a price to pay for it.
The smartest thing about human beings is that they can cooperate.
They are not fighting alone.
The hermit said that this piece of parchment, which recorded the inside story of the Tarot reincarnation method, was taken from the witch by the last hermit with all his hard work and solemnly handed over to him.
He hoped that he escaped smoothly, but he still died in the game.
He looked old, but his actual age stayed at 29 years old. He failed. In the reincarnation of a witch, he was robbed of his vitality. From a young boy, he became an old man with a short life in the blink of an eye.
After saying all this, the hermit looked at the parchment in Xie Chi's hand and said solemnly, "I gave the parchment to you, you must keep it safe."
Xie Chi glanced at him, pursed his lips, took out the lighter from his pocket expressionlessly, ignited the flame, and burned a corner of the parchment.
"What are you doing?!" The hermit was horrified and furious. He rushed up to stop Xie Chi, but Xie Chi hid the parchment behind him and backed away a little bit. After it was burnt clean and turned into a pile of meaningless ashes, he put the parchment paper behind him. The empty, ashes, hands spread out to the hermit in front of him.
"How can you do this?!" The hermit's eyes were red, looking at the ashes, he asked almost desperately, "That is all the hope of future players! It was obtained by the last hermit who worked hard to get it! Did you know that it has How important is it?"
Xie Chi calmly said: "I only know that I can't keep it, so that Jiang Shuo has a chance to know the inside story of the Tarot Reincarnation Law."
"How can you be so selfish?! You want to destroy future generations for yourself?!" The hermit rushed forward and grabbed him by the collar, but he was old and had no strength.
Xie Chi was touched by the wound, groaned, grabbed his wrist, raised his head and asked, "Why keep it?"
"Do you think that when I become a hermit, I can pass these things over to the next one? Let them believe and help them move forward? Because your mission is completed, it will soon dissipate."
"You know you're still doing this!!" The hermit gritted his teeth, his eyes full of hatred.
"Yes, I know," Xie Chi sneered and said coldly, "but I know even more that I will not die or become a hermit."
The hermit was stunned, unable to speak for a moment. He was undoubtedly the best player in the previous session, otherwise he would not have been the last sacrifice to die, but facing the hermit who guided him back then, he couldn't say such a sure thing.
As for the person in front of him, he was facing a Tarot wizard who was stronger than the one he had met.
He was chased and killed and fled in embarrassment. He was seriously injured and had a dark future, but he vowed that he would not die.
The hermit was in a complicated mood.
"If I can end the Tarot wizard, what's the use of keeping this parchment? Will it hurt me?"
The hermit is silent, what does he believe in him? But besides trusting him, does he have any other choice
The parchment was ruined, and it seemed that there was only one way left.
Moreover, he always felt that the miracle should belong to the young man in front of him, who was calm and courageous, thoughtful, and had high execution ability.
He fell countless times, but never really fell.
No one seemed to be able to beat him except himself.
And he could know that he existed on the third day and found himself in such a difficult situation, why is it impossible
Why doesn't he believe it
The hermit was silent for a long time, and finally sighed softly: "You won. I hope you can do it, otherwise you will be a sinner forever."