Chapter 427: You'll Regret It!
In eight short words, the upper couplet expounds the importance of pursuing advantages and avoiding disadvantages, and clarifies the great program of 'living is victory'; the lower couplet fully explains the divine authority of the Skeleton King Leoric, emphasizing the legitimacy of his rule and pointing out the continuity of his rule; the horizontal criticism is the finishing touch, using the image of 'one second' to tell the importance of gathering sand into a tower, profoundly expounding the significance of details determining success or failure, and making people realize the spirit of never giving up and never giving up in the heart of the couplet.
This couplet is magnificent, and at first glance, you will be impressed by the far-reaching artistic conception contained in it, and your heart will fall into an ethereal state. In just sixteen words, the static scene was turned into a moving scene, vividly depicting a dynamic life-continuation picture of the elder Skeleton King sitting upright on the throne of the gods, with the words '+1s' and '+1s' constantly emerging from his head.
This is not an exaggerated depiction, except for Ling Mo, the few people present, except for Ling Mo, really have such an illusory picture in their eyes! Especially the '+1' and '+1' that keep popping up, it attracts all their attention, making them involuntarily stop and look up in place, like a goose!
Seeing this, Ling Mo sighed helplessly in his heart, he sensed the energy reserves in his body, and after silently calculating, his mouth opened and let out a clear snort:
"Duh โโ!"
A sound wave containing Ling Mo's firm will instantly swept through the audience, and in the form of echo shocks, it repeatedly exploded in the ears of the Zero people! Rushed by this sound wave, the Zero people were as if someone had pulled the collar of their autumn clothes and poured a bucket of ice water into it in the thirty-ninth day, and they shivered with excitement and shivered with cold! Especially the fire-type demonic beast like Kubaji, there were several uncontrollable sneezes, and the large mass of snot sprayed several meters away, and then they suddenly woke up!
I'll rub it, big guy, I know you're kind enough to wake us up, but you don't have to push so hard, do you?
Kubaji complained a little in her heart, and at the same time clamped her slender legs imperceptibly, and finally suppressed the frightened urge to urinate. You must know that although she is very powerful in the form of a turtle and a very wild in the form of a royal sister, this is just a disguise, and she is still a timid and fearful turtle by nature. Here's the most obvious example:
Kubaji has a large territory in her hometown, and it stands to reason that she should live a happy life like a wicked feudal landlord, but the gangster-like Mario brothers often visit her, shouting, scolding, breaking, beating, smashing, and robbing in her house. The timid Kubaji did not dare to fight at all, but dared to hide in the depths of the trap-ridden, labyrinthine castle and shiver......
Later, the Mario brothers become more and more excessive, and they do not hesitate to cross the sea of magma in the castle to catch her! Kubaji, who was almost done one kind of thing or another, resisted, escaped, fled in a hurry, walked alone, lost his soul, and was on the verge of death. Pitied her suffering, coupled with her good ability to grow mushrooms, the mushroom saintess took her under her command, and Kubaji became a member of the obedient sect.
Sobering up from the unpleasant memories that flashed through her mind, Kubaji peeked around and saw that no one noticed her embarrassment in her legs, so she gently patted her towering chest and exhaled to relax. However, she immediately raised her head again and looked at the others again with an extremely surprised expression, because in her field of vision, except for Ling Mo, lines of bright red words '-1s' and '-1s' were constantly popping up on the heads of each of them!
Soon Kubaji noticed that others were also looking at her with the same surprised expressions! Suddenly panicked, Kubaji looked up, and sure enough, there was a '-1s' on her own head!
W-What the hell is this?!
Although Kubaji didn't know what this thing was, he always felt that something was constantly being sucked away, and his heart was empty, as if he had lost something very important! As soon as he entered the Skull Constellation, that is, the lair of the eighth-level boss, did such a strange and incomprehensible thing happen?
Just as she was in a big mess, Ling Mo's calm voice rang out:
"I know you're all surprised right now, but don't panic. As long as you enter the Skeleton Throne, you will be affected by the miscellaneous auras on Skeletron's body, of which there are three core auras:
The Radiant Aura deals damage every 10 milliseconds;
The Vampiric Aura converts damage dealt into energy to replenish Skeletron's health;
The most special thing is this 'Longevity Aura' on your head, every time the target is damaged, the Longevity Aura will steal the target's life, subtract the target by one second, and add one second to Skeletron!
After listening to Ling Mo's explanation, Ku Baji made a simple calculation in her heart, her face couldn't help but turn pale, and she said in panic: "This ...... Doesn't this mean that spending one second in the Skeleton Constitution is equivalent to consuming a hundred seconds of life, and that staying here for one day will steal half a year's life?!"
"Theoretically...... That's right. Ling Mo nodded first, then shook his head again, and added: "But in this way, you only calculate the damage frequency of Radiance, when it comes to fighting in the Temple of Light in the clouds, Skeletron and his men attack very quickly, in fact, the rate of theft is far greater than 100, and the impression will reach at least 300 or more, right? Haha, this is the real 'one day in the sky, one year on the earth'!"
Oh, what is there to be happy about if one day is equal to one year less?
Mom, I really want to go home, even if I am bullied by the Mario brothers, it is better than being tortured here!
Kubaji scolded angrily in her heart, but she didn't have the courage to say it in front of Ling Mo, she just quickened her pace, took the lead and walked forward, and said as she went, "Since it is such a loss to delay time, then what are we waiting for? Lord Warden entered the temple early, and a few of us entered the Narauszi Energy Room early, wouldn't it be good to fight quickly?"
Ling Mo frowned: "As a tortoise clan, why are you so nervous about reducing your lifespan? Isn't it just a year or two of life? It's less than one percent for you, do you need to care so much?"
"I care, the longer the race, the more I care about every day," Kubaji obviously disagreed with Ling Mo's opinion, she pointed to her head and said, "You see, Skeletron can live for thousands of years, isn't he still trying to collect every second?"
Ling Mo: "......"
Seeing that his own point of view left Ling Mo speechless, Ku Baji was obviously a little happy and excited, and her pace couldn't help but become brisk. In addition, she was born in the turtle clan and had extremely high defense, and when she obeyed the sect, she had long been accustomed to her teammates pushing her to the front as a meat shield, and within a few minutes, she was at the front of the team, even higher than Ling Mo.
Seeing this situation, Ling Mo couldn't help but warn:
"Entering the Constellation of Skulls, the scenery and monsters look no different from the Skeleton Mountain outside, but in fact they are fundamentally different. Here, a little monster that looks like a skeleton soldier may have extremely strong combat effectiveness, and it must not be taken lightly! When encountering an opportunity, we must judge whether it is a risk or not, and whether it can bear the consequences of being counterattacked! After all, hesitation will only lead to defeat, and life will be safe; and impulsiveness will be given in vain, and the soul will be scattered on the spot!"
"Got it, don't worry, Watcher-sama!"
Kubaji responded, but judging by her expression, she shouldn't have taken it too seriously. In her heart, except for Sylvanas in the Divine Radiance Energy Room, other creatures can't break her defenses at all, the only thing she needs to care about is this '-1s' on her head, and getting this done early is better than anything else!
Under the guidance of this mentality, soon, Kubaji was attracted by the noise coming from the foot of the mountain, and he rushed over!
Isn't it extremely strange that you can hear the noise of blowing and singing in the Skull Throne? How did she get to this point? Zero wanted to stop her, and felt that she needed to teach Kubaji a lesson to prevent him from following the instructions, so he acquiesced in her behavior.
Kubaji turned the gentle slope and looked closely, and the scene almost made her think she was in a dream: at the foot of the mountain were not the strange-looking, ferocious and disgusting monsters of the imagination, but the undead creatures dressed in fine clothes and painted with grease, and they gathered together enthusiastically, performing their own stunts, and the atmosphere was extremely cheerful!
Don't get me wrong, this stunt isn't a destructive move, it's a variety of bizarre and hilarious performances:
A large skeleton captain is leading his group of skeleton henchmen to dance the skeleton dance, and by the way, he fights with a group of zombies dancing on the opposite side to determine who is the real king of the Bone Mountain dance;
The succubi who are breathing all over the body are also dancing, the movements are neat and graceful and smooth, if the background music is not 'the vast world is my love, the flowers are blooming at the foot of the green hills', it must be quite charming and enchanting;
The carrion is performing a magic trick, putting itself in a box with only its head exposed, allowing others to stab it with their swords. If it weren't for the clear sound of 'poof' entering the flesh every time, and the large strands of blood rushing outward, the magic would have been a success;
The Death Knight was performing a sword swallow, and when he casually inserted it into his mouth, the entire two-handed sword was completely swallowed, and then stabbed out of the back;
The Stitching Monster is challenging the Big Stomach King, except that every time it eats something, it comes out of the hole in its stomach;
The ghost is performing wall-piercing and escape rooms, and due to the wrong timing of the materialization, she is stuck like Sadako;
There are all kinds of other necromantic creatures, all of them are performing all kinds of failed or failed performances, but every guy has a happy smile on his face, and the faceless body also exudes a joyful breath, blowing and blowing and beating!
However, these guys are all responsible for guarding the Skeletron King and guarding his royal power until eternity, even if they have practiced these 'stunts', who can they show them to?
"After watching such a wonderful circus performance, do you want to leave without paying? The quality of this audience is really poor!"
"Who?!"
Suddenly startled, Kubaji turned his head as fast as he could, and looked towards the source of the sound, where a clown with long pointed shoes, a striped costume, and a black and white mask was standing on the high platform.
For a while, he couldn't figure out the strength of this clown, and the others had no intention of showing up, so Kubaji had no choice but to take the other party's words and ask: "Give money? What kind of money do you give in the Bone Mountain?
"Why are you so ignorant? When it comes to the currency used in the Mountain of Bones, of course, it is time and life!" said the clown in an exaggerated tone as he stepped on a huge ball of balls, tossing seventeen or eighteen balls back and forth in his hand:
"Because Lord Skeletron never discriminates against the enemy, those of us who are his subordinates are also quite short of time! As a last resort, we have no choice but to form a 'Nightmare Circus' and collect tickets from the guests! A high-quality performance like ours only costs forty yuan to watch it - that is, to pay forty years of life, this is not only cheap, it is simply the conscience of the industry!"
Hearing the exaggerated figure of forty years, the smile on Kubaji's face narrowed a little, and she said in a deep voice: "Forty years of life? Why don't you go out and grab it?"
"How can you rob me quickly?" the clown still refused to give up, and continued to persuade: "Guest, do you really stop thinking about it? As long as you pay forty years of life, you can pass me safely and unharmed, and you don't have to fight with me! Don't look at me like this, in fact, I am really strong and can fight, so strong that you will regret it......"
"As for the broken performances of your subordinates, one by one they played the circus and Cai Xukun played the ball, and they were embarrassed to charge forty years of life as a ticket?" Before the clown finished speaking, Ku Baji interrupted and choked: "I won't give you anything, because it's not worth the price at all!
With that, Kubaji simply turned around neatly and never looked at the clown again. But what she didn't notice was that as soon as the words 'broken performance' came out, the clown lowered his head, and his face was covered by shadows:
"I don't want to, I don't want to! I've tried so hard to train them, but that's all these stupid dead ghosts can do, what can I do?
Do you know how hard I work?
I've endured everything else, and I'm even comparing me to a horse monkey, you're asking for your own death!"
"Eat me with a move - Ace Throwing Knife!!"
Speaking of sadness and anger, the clown threw the ball in his hand, pulled out a flying knife from the prop box behind him, and threw it directly at Kubaji without looking! Kubaji's reaction speed was also extremely fast, and she couldn't determine the landing point of the flying knife at the first time, she simply retracted her head, tail, and limbs into the turtle shell, and the whole person entered an absolute defensive state!
Hey! Is this clown funny? He wants to sneak up on a turtle from behind! Watch me use my spiky hard shell to bounce his throwing knife back and teach him a profound lesson! Where to bounce the throwing knife off? Do you stick it in the clown's face and pierce that ridiculous mask, or let it stick it in the ......
Poofโโ!
The sound of flesh being pierced sounded, and Kubaji's body suddenly stiffened! The ace throwing knife completely ignored her heavy turtle shell, and easily pierced it like a piece of paper, stabbing through the back of Kubaji's heart and then through the front of his chest!