"How to choose?" Wujiu also saw this task that suddenly appeared.

Twenty-five minutes, time passed second by second, and Bai Mist did not panic at all, and now they had one hundred and seventy coins in their hands.

"Let's get out of here first, according to what we said before, the merchant should be showing up."

Tan Lei couldn't understand the conversation between the two, and was about to leave with Bai Wu, but Bai Wu stopped:

"It's too dangerous for you to stay here, and we can't protect you if you go with you, it's safest to stay here. We'll save the others. ”

"Really? There are a lot of evil falls on the twentieth floor......" Tan Lei was suddenly a little surprised.

"Everything I say is true."

Although the game failed just now, the unfathomable character of the white fog did not collapse.

"Then I'm here to wait for your good news!"

"Don't run around, don't leave the sixteenth floor." White Mist finally admonished.

The mission to rescue Tan Lei, its end point is not clear where the white fog is, and after saving this woman, the mission does not end with a prompt.

Now Bai Wu guessed that he would either kill Jing Si and make the area no longer dangerous, or rescue the scientists and reunite them with Tan Lei.

So it seems that Tan Lei must survive until she completes one of the main quests.

White Mist and Wujiu came to the door of the sixteenth floor.

Sure enough, the merchant was already waiting for them:

"Yo ho This is the last time I'll provide you with items. ”

"Before trading, I have a question, where is Black Gold Island?" White Mist asked.

"That's not where your little body can go, and you should be in more trouble right now. Now tell me, what do you want? ”

"Let's get an equipment upgrade ticket first."

The merchant's goods have not changed, and there are still some strange items, but the white mist has now cleared his mind.

Since it was the final battle, and it was also a twenty-five-minute time-limited mission, this task suddenly popped up, which meant that he had found all the clues that he could clear the level.

What we need to do now is to find ways to strengthen ourselves.

At present, the strongest equipment of White Mist and Wujiu, except for the non-upgradeable original sin weapon, is the strongest evil fall in Wujiu's hands.

The white mist directly escalated the evil fall and must die.

[Elite Short Knife: Evil Fall Must Die. Attack +9, upgradeable, durability 20/20. Cannot be sold. 】

[The Evil Fall must die, a weapon that can break armor and corrode the weak and the Evil, oh, this weapon full of hatred for the Evil Fall, seems to have become a little sharper. 】

The note on the Eye of Prell indicates that strengthening weapons in the game can indeed enhance the true properties of weapons.

But all this did not come from the merchants, but from the creator of the region, Jing Si.

"One more."

"Looks like you're trying to build an artifact? But I'm sorry to tell you that the cargo is limited...... This is the last Equipment Enhancement Ticket. "The merchant spreads his hands.

"What about level enhancement?"

"Six left."

"That's just right."

After all, there are no unlimited gold coins, so the limited goods can also be accepted by White Mist.

The remaining gold coins were just enough for him to buy an equipment enhancement coupon and six experience-boosting scrolls.

And these things, the white mist is all used on Wujiu.

Now the level of fifty-nine has become thirteen. Self attack 14 and self health 34. But that's not the final attribute.

Evil Fall Must Die has increased its power once again, increasing its attack damage to 15 and durability to 40.

What amazed Bai Wu even more was that the knife in the dwarf brother's hand now had become a real artifact.

[The evil fall must die, let me reintroduce this weapon, this weapon that can make those weak and evil fall to break the defense and corrosive, now it has become extremely evil, it is like a vampire's teeth, it can bring some vitality to its owner! Yes, it has a certain life force absorption attribute. 】

As long as he keeps attacking, he can give up his defense and recover himself by sucking blood.

Of course, there is a premise for this, the bloodsteal ratio is high enough, and it is ...... Able to leave the area alive.

"It looks like you're running out of gold, so ~ goodbye!"

This time, the merchant didn't give Bai Mist anything good. He walked very neatly.

Wujiu still didn't understand too much, why didn't Bai Wu buy some strange things this time.

White Mist gave the "temporary archiver" to Fifty-Nine.

"Captain, this is for you."

"You don't take it?" Five-nine is weird.

Bai Wu smiled and did not respond positively, but asked rhetorically:

"We are now faced with the dilemma of choosing one of the two, in more than twenty minutes, either save people or kill the big boss, captain, what do you think should be chosen?"

"Save people."

"The current captain is very strong, don't you choose to kill monsters?"

"Human life is at stake, save people first."

"Sometimes I'm really curious, in such a living environment as the tower, why there are righteous people like you, the captain."

Wujiu didn't know how to reply to this sentence, and Bai Wu continued:

"I also think it's time to save people. So Captain, you go and save people, the scientists are trapped on the twentieth floor. There are quite a few high-level evil fallenies gathered there, but according to the information I have seen before, the total number of these evil falls will not be much higher than forty. Not even forty. ”

Wujiu became more and more confused, and Bai Wu sped up his speech:

"What I'm going to say next is very important, captain, you must remember it all."

"Although there are only two cases in the front, as long as it is about the task of saving people, once it fails, the whole game will fail, so what we have to do is either not to save it, or not to take this task at all, and to ensure that they survive."

"In terms of the durability of the captain's current weapons, even the monsters in the headquarters can be killed with one sword, the captain needs to calculate the route, when you kill the evil fall, make sure that you kill everything that must be killed, your attributes are much higher than mine, there will be no problem."

"If that fails, the temporary archiver will let us go back to the building, and then you can tell me the layout of the Evil Fall, and I'll give you the best solution for the captain."

Wujiu heard it and asked:

"Are you going to face Jing Si alone?"

Wujiu didn't know who Jing Si was, but he could guess that since it was a mission to kill, it was obviously not of the same level as the evil falls encountered on the way.

"That's right, I'm in charge of killing the boss, and you're in charge of saving people, captain."

"Why didn't I go and kill Jing Si?"

"Because scientists are more important, and the only one who can save scientists in so many evil falls is the captain."

"Then why don't we go and save people together?"

"Because of lack of time, and I don't accept this multiple-choice question, there are no bad guys in this game, whether it's Jing Si or a scientist, I have to save them all."

There are no bad guys in this game, and this sentence is still incomprehensible. It's just that Bai Mist's words are loud, and he obviously has an awareness in his heart.

With twenty-one minutes left, Wujiu said:

"It's all up to you to make it here, and it's up to you to decide."

Wujiu believed in Bai Mist's judgment, even if Jing Si seemed to be stronger than the evil fallen on the twentieth floor, but since Bai Wu had chosen so, he didn't question it.

It's a big deal.

The two of them soon came to the twentieth floor, and Bai Mist said:

"The monsters on the upper and lower floors should all be attracted to scientists, captain, as long as we save them, we can leave here. Twenty minutes, no more, no less, the captain doesn't need to rush at all. ”

Wujiu nodded:

"You too, be careful!"

The two went their separate ways.

Bai Wu was thinking that if there was no participation of the short brother and he challenged himself as a single player, then the game should be a different scene.

……

……

Denglin Technology Headquarters, 24th floor.

As Bai Wu judged, this headquarters building, from the sixteenth floor, basically did not encounter any monsters.

All the monsters are gathered on the twentieth floor, and at the higher levels, they can't go.

The structure of the 24th floor is slightly similar to that of the 16th floor, but it seems that the various facilities are more solid.

For example, doors.

The door on the sixteenth floor is thick enough, but the door on the twenty-fourth floor is at least four times as large as the door on the sixteenth floor.

There are also other props, and the master key can only be used once, but fortunately, White Mist doesn't need it this time.

The thickness of the door that can be seen is because of the door...... Broken by a powerful force.

Even after pixelation, the white mist could 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-four floors, and the white mist noticed that at the entrance of the twenty-fourth floor, these blood vessels and vines, in short, were like strips of black objects, which were still growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Even the feet of the white mist stepped on these strange black substances.

And at the end of the line of sight, Bai Mist saw a face.

Even in pixel art style, that face can be vaguely seen as a man's face.

Bai Mist looked at the man's face and remembered Mr. Tao's memoirs.

In 2115, Jing Liu was ten years old, and Jing four was twelve.

And now, thirteen years later, Jing Si has become twenty-five years old.

Originally, it was the most powerful age for a man, but the four wells ...... Turned into a complete monster.

[Well Four, Attack Power: 9999, Defense Power: 9999, Life Force 9999.] 】

What kind of ability do you have to defeat Jing Si?

When he saw the remarks pop up this data, Bai Wu knew that the so-called time-limited task was a test.

"Have you made the wrong choice, are you ready to die? Maybe I can make you a part of the city. ”

Jing Si's voice sounded very unreal, like a mixture of many voices.

In this case, Bai Wu also encountered it when he saw the body of Hong Yin.

And the note given by the Eye of Prell about Well Four -

[He once believed in a prophecy, but he never waited, and in the end, he recalled that the happiest day in his life was the day in Denglin City. In order to remember that time, before he was eroded, he dug out his heart and went to another place. 】

A Heart......

Isn't this the essence of Jing Si?

White Mist quickly came back to his senses from surprise, and when he thought about it, too. If Jing 4 and Jing 6 have all been in contact with the existence of Jing, the two brothers and sisters may be the most powerful monsters they have ever seen.

This kind of monster, even if it is just a heart, is enough to severely distort a place.

Naturally, this place is not Denglin City.

As mentioned by the eye, the real Denglin Technology headquarters building has become a black area.

Becoming more and more sure of the guess in his mind, Bai Mist said:

"If you're saying that the choice is to save the scientists trapped in the vault, I've sent my teammates over, and I'm not wrong."

Jing Si didn't speak, and the face that was connected to countless black meridians looked at the white mist with a terrifying gaze.

"Hehehe...... Megalomaniacal human, your greed disgusts me, you think you can save people and kill me? Do you want to complete two tasks? Jing Si's tone was mocking.

White Mist was unmoved, and said:

"I'm sure there are people who make this choice, and their mental journey is probably like this, they are averse to choices, they speculate about the mind of the person who asked the question, they speculate about whether they can get more rewards, they trigger the hidden option, and then they do both 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 get out of the branch building. To be able to make me and my friend look like this is a sign that you have enough power to bend reality. You're the one I've ever seen...... The strongest being. ”

Even if all this is not the body of Jing Si, Bai Wu doesn't know where the body went. But Jing Si's heart was indeed the most powerful source of distortion that Bai Mist had ever seen.

Even stronger than Hongyin.

At least in Hongyin's fantasy world...... It is not possible to convert the captain's companion power into game attributes, and it is impossible to convert various spiritual items into other uses.

It is impossible to turn those real living humans into NPCs in the game, and it is impossible to control all the evil in the entire region.

"I'm not greedy, I've given my best gear, all my resources to my teammates, and I'm sure this game is ...... I did the right thing, and I collected a lot of resources, so in terms of resources, my teammates were able to save them. He's stronger than me. ”

The white mist slowly walked towards the face, and the black meridians wrapped around the walls, the ground, and the ceiling made a gurgling sound, as if warning the white mist.

白fog says:

"You are such a powerful existence, I have never thought of killing you, even if I have countless resurrection coins, which will be consumed with you for eternity, I can't find a way to kill you in the existing resources of this game. Someone must have tried this, but the outcome can be imagined. ”

Jing Si looked at the white mist.

Bai Wu said very calmly:

"Scientists can be rescued, but what about after they are rescued? As long as you're in the crux of the matter, they'll come back to the game as we leave. Mo Cheng was still trapped on the nineteenth floor, waiting for someone to rescue him. Tan Lei will still set off in the night, and then be trapped by the evil fall. ”

"The scientists will be stuck on the twentieth floor with no end in sight, until someone enters the sixteenth floor and starts the game. The next cycle will begin again. ”

The white mist actually walked into the depths of the black meridians, only three steps away from the pitch-black face.

There was a sudden hint of compassion in his tone:

"For 700 years, you have been trapped in the crux of the problem, there are greedy people who do not measure their own strength, thinking that they can challenge you again and again by constantly stacking up their combat power, and there are also good and righteous people who have rescued scientists again and again. But who will save you...... Well four? ”

This question made the anger of the entire twenty-four floors dissipate a lot in an instant.

All the details are strung together with white mist.

Why did you choose to save someone, once the character dies, even the entire mission will fail?

Why are scientists trapped in this place? Seven hundred years of living as a mission goal? And why can I find Mr. Tao's memoirs in the archives? Why is it a mistake not to choose to save people?

Tan Lei, Mo Cheng, and Mr. Tao's memoirs all mention one thing, Jing Si became irritable. And now Bai Wu also feels what kind of pain this existence that has been baptized by "well water" is living in.

"I'm not here to kill you, I'm here to save you."

"Help me?"

Countless "help me" resounded in this room, overlapping and overlapping, and the tone was completely different.

"Yes, I'm here to save you, the fifty-first floor of the Divine Tower can be opened."

"You ......"

Bai Mist's words made Jing Si's eyes widen suddenly.

"But that will take some time, the four people standing in the way of the fifty-first layer should be your brothers and sisters, just like Jing Liu, right? You have taken the name of the well, and perhaps you all came from that well. ”

"Impossible...... How do you know this? ”

As soon as the other party said the word "impossible", Bai Wu knew that this was his turn.

It's just that Bai Mist didn't feel happy, he couldn't feel sad, so the calm at this time was the closest he got to sadness.

Just like when he learned that Liu Duan had sacrificed, Bai Mist's expression was extremely solemn.

"I just pieced together a story from a few clues. I originally thought that the owner of this area was Mr. Tao, and his unwillingness made him a villain. ”

But if you carefully understand that memoir, you will know that he is such a great person, and he is not reconciled, which will only bring him more motivation. There are some great people in human history, all of whom have one thing in common, that is, they will stubbornly solve a certain problem and never die. ”

"There's one thing in all the clues, and you're getting more and more irritable. I don't think that's what you intended, it's just that you've been baptized by the water of the well and your consciousness has become manic. ”

"Jing Liu's talent tells you what the future will look like, in the future, human beings will come out of the tower and return to this world, Mr. Tao's efforts will not be fruitless, and all the twisted rules will collapse one day."

Jing Si's face showed pain and struggle.

"These words were once the pillar of your faith, the anchor point for you to keep your heart, and in 2115, you and Jing Roku were able to come to the Lamp Forest and voluntarily be studied, which means that you are the best in your hearts and want to save this world."

"Those words are false! It's all fake! Jing Si's roar made those black meridians instantly agitate like snakes.

Bai Wu had no doubt that this guy with a combat strength of all kinds of 9999 could easily kill himself.

"Yes, in your opinion, these words are false, because Xie Yingjie's departure makes you see that Mr. Tao's idea has not been realized for a long time. You are skeptical of Inoroku's prophecy, and you think it's just a lie to hold you steady. In 2127, the tower is about to be closed, and it seems to you that once the tower is completely closed, everything will be closed. ”

"There is no future, there is no savior, the efforts of Mr. Tao and the scientists are in vain, it is impossible for human beings to return to this world from the tower, you have lost more and more of your nature in such a mania. In the process, you make some mistakes, and because of these mistakes, you fall deeper and deeper...... The prophecy in the six mouths of the well makes you feel even more false. ”

"But you're wrong."

When these four words were spoken, Bai Mist took a deep breath.

There were already black meridians wrapped around his neck, and at this moment, Bai Mist finally knew what these black substances were, and also knew why Jing Si could easily make the people of the entire city mutate into evil falls.

In an instant, Bai Wu saw a lot of visions, and he seemed to have returned to his childhood, when Bai Father held a silver needle and did all kinds of cruel things to him amiably.

Grievances......

The materialization of the resentment that can make people have negative emotions, these resentments are too huge, overflowing from Jing Si's heart, and in the end, it is like a creeper wall, and the black resentment tightly entangles the entire twenty-four layers.

Even in the face of Hong Yin, Bai Wu had not seen those memories that had made him miserable, but this time, he saw many memories that he did not want to see.

It's just that these memories are now ...... For the emotionally crippled white fog, there is no edge anymore.

At this moment, Bai Mist and Jing Si are like two peerless masters clash with their strongest moves.

Negative emotions that were unimaginably strong poured into Bai Mist's mind from all directions, and the image of his father even became distorted, like a demon.

But instead of fear, he took another step forward in the same way!

It was as if his face was about to hit Jing Si's face.

Forehead to forehead! Eye to eye!

In the endless resentment, Bai Mist's unconscious voice also became high-pitched:

"The prophecy is true, Jing Liu didn't lie to you, the savior is real, he may have appeared, maybe he is still waiting for the opportunity, the future that Jing Liu sees, the future that Mr. Tao is looking forward to, will inevitably come!"

It was like a ray of heavenly light that broke through the endless darkness in an instant, and Bai Mist's original body had been entangled by overlapping black substances, but at this moment, part of his body was exposed.

There was horror in Jing Si's eyes.

The crux of his life is the desperate future he has seen for himself.

At the top of that tower, it was not a path to the light at all, but a more desperate and distorted world.

The whole tower is a metaphor for his prophecy.

The whole game process is also the crux of his problem!

Rescued scientists will be trapped again. Humans who thought they had the power to resist would see a demon king who was far more powerful than them when they entered the top of the tower.

The Evil Fall will never be expelled, and humanity will never be able to emerge from the Tower again.

Under such a crux, the nature of Jing Si ...... Start getting lost a little bit.

Jingliu 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 fell into darkness completely.

Although this heart fell off from Jing Si's body, it also has part of Jing Si's memory.

It feels the same crux as Jing Si, the same pain and despair, but at the same time, it also has all kinds of beautiful qualities when Jing Si was in the headquarters of Denglin Technology, and in the depths of this heart, there are also good thoughts and hopes that Jing Si tries to keep.

Therefore, there is still a lot of hope in this desperate game.

It's just that for 700 years, this heart has ...... I never waited for the world that the owner originally wanted to see.

On the contrary, the reality is getting closer and closer to the prophesied world, which makes people desperate and distorted.

The hope that lies in this heart...... It's getting bleaker and darker.

It gives a lot of hints in this game...... Although these hints are like hope and despair, one can only be hidden and faltering, and the other is spreading more and more unscrupulously, endlessly.

But it still wanted to hear it, and someone told it that Jing Liu's prophecy was true.

It wasn't until a second ago that the white mist's hoarse cry made the black face stunned.

"Haven't you bathed in the water of a well? Isn't it possible to turn humanity into evil in an instant? Then come and infect me! ”

"The savior exists, Mr. Tao's efforts are not in vain, and human beings 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, and for 700 years, we have been trying to find a way out! We've been getting stronger, and we've found a way to deal with it! And I am the best proof of this! ”

"If you can turn me into a wicked person, then try it! Come! ”

"One day, we will come back from the tower, and these evil depravities that occupy our territory will be expelled from us alone!"

It was obviously a hoarse shout, but for Jing Si, the whole world seemed to stand still in an instant.

The pixelated world around it began to peel off little by little. The faces of the white mist and the four wells became real and clear.

Jing Si could even see a stunned reflection of himself from the angry pupils of the white mist.

In the end, the stunned face that was always angry and painful slowly disappeared.

It doesn't have the ability of its master, so it can't verify the truth of what Bai Mist said.

But for seven hundred years...... The crux of the heart has been waiting for someone to tell it - the prophecy is true, and the savior is there.

Now it's finally here.

[Main quest - go to the Denglin Technology Headquarters Building and rescue scientists, do you want to pick it up?] 】

All the resentment began to dissipate.

The white mist, wrapped like black vines, was swept away by the wind like flying ash.

Not much...... Along with Inoji's face, it turned into dust.

The surrounding scene also emerges - this is indeed a technology building.

But it is not the headquarters of Denglin Technology, the real headquarters of Denglin Technology is a black area, and this is the city where Mr. Tao stayed in Xuanhui City. This is where Mr. Tao and Xie Yingjie went to work together in 2115.

Jing Si had been here with some scientists from Denglin City, and after making a certain mistake, he wanted to compensate Mr. Tao.

So before the good thoughts were completely extinguished, he left that heart.

And this heart has protected the human beings in this area for seven hundred years, although these human beings ...... It's to live like an NPC.

Finally, instead of seeing a hint that the quest is complete, White Mist sees a new one.

Looking at the mottled walls, he said to the heart of the well, which had dissipated into smoke and dust:

"I've taken the task."