"If it weren't for the fact that there was no other way, no normal man would choose to become a lich." - Zayx

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The two squatted at the mouth of the tunnel and waited quietly for ten minutes, and a cold air flow gradually spread, and the temperature became lower.

Mu Yan knew that this was a precursor to the release of his skills by His Excellency the Immortal, and he who was fortunate enough to participate in that battle could not be clearer.

"Martin, come on, I'm ready."

Mu Yan pursed his lips and held his head high as if he was heroic.

"Really...... Are you really coming? Although he also felt something strange around him, it was murder after all, and Martin's hands began to tremble.

"Don't worry, if I guess wrong, you tell them that I am a fugitive, and you will be corrected on the spot."

When he said this, Mu Yan always felt that something was strange, this was ...... Helping your murderer untie the knot?

At this moment, a howling sound like a ghost crying wolf came from the depths of the tunnel, and Mu Yan immediately made a decision, grabbed Martin's hand holding the dagger, and stabbed it into his chest.

It hurts...... His expression was distorted, and his voice was distorted.

"Suggestion...... You ...... too. Hurry up and ......"

After struggling to say this, Mu Yan's consciousness fell into darkness.

Before he "died", he seemed to see countless flashing system prompts.

"Warning: Character is mortally injured and goes into near-death protection."

"Warning: Character ......"

……

"Warning: Mia's shelter has 0/1 use times, and is currently uncharged."

Fuck you, I used it before......

After subconsciously pulling out the short sword, the thin blood splashed Martin's face, as if he had seen something terrifying, his lips were white, the muscles on his hands were bruised, and the blood vessels were clearly visible. He threw his short sword on the ground with a "clang", clutched his neck and fainted with a beastly "ho-ho" sound.

As the two of them fell to the ground one after the other, a translucent green ripple enveloped in bursts of screaming sounds came from the depths of the tunnel, sweeping through the entire White Rock Mine. Except for Martin and Mu Yan, everyone else's eyes widened at that moment, and their bodies fell down hard.

Nearly forty white clusters of light were added to the green ripples, and they returned to the depths.

Suddenly, a white light flashed, and a pale young man with a pale face and a black tuxedo appeared around the two.

"Interesting ......"

He muttered to himself and reached out to pour a shimmering bottle of liquid into Mu Yan's wound.

His slender fingers accidentally touched the liquid, and streaks of green smoke smoked as if they had been burned, revealing blackened tissue. The young man's brows furrowed slightly, and the crystal bottle instantly turned into powder.

In the blink of an eye, Mu Yan's injuries had healed, and the young man waved his hand again, and after a white light, the two disappeared.

About half an hour later, Martin woke up quietly.

He sat up blankly, feeling slimy on his body, and when he touched it, he realized that it was blood of unknown men, and hurriedly ran out with a rolling belt.

He ran so hard that he tripped over the corpse at the door, only to find that there was a crowd here.

"I remember! Mr. Shamu guessed right! ”

He stood at the entrance of the cave with his back to the light, his body and face covered in blood, and he was nervously screaming.

"I'm not dead!! I fainted and passed out, so it's fine! He must also—"

"That's not right." He stopped suddenly, looking horrified.

"That'...... What about him, others? ”

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When Mu Yan woke up again, his nose was filled with a familiar smell.

It was the smell of a highly concentrated disinfectant, and he had never smelled normal air except for this smell in the hospital for many years.

"Awake?"

"Hmm...... Well!!? ”

He looked up in surprise and noticed an unfamiliar face in front of him. Pale skin, as if you can see the blue blood vessels under the skin. On the handsome face is a pair of pale blue eyes...... Seems to have been seen somewhere.

"People from the Turing Empire?" He asked subconsciously.

The young man raised his eyebrows and looked at him with interest.

"You're not a grasshopper, who are you? How could it take over his body? ”

Shocked! This is seen through!?

For a while, Mu Yan didn't know how to answer him.

"If you don't say it, then I'll find the answer in my own way."

As he spoke, the young man held out his palm to him.

"Mind stealing? Are you Zayx!? ”

No way, this action is too classic, although I don't know why the skeletal frame in front of me is not a skeleton in a purple tattered cloak but a handsome little white face, but this scene is too unforgettable.

The main point of view of the "Will of the Dead" expansion trailer is an experiment that strays into the Immortal's Courtyard, showing the player various restricted-level images through his eyes along the way, and the final shot is seen as the Great Lich's jade-white bones are pointed at him. This shot was even made into a viral meme.

That line is also very classic.

"Your mind is so confused, let me help you sort it out."

"Heh, anyone else knows my name?"

Zaix's hand stopped.

"You only have five seconds to answer my question."

However, Mu Yan, who knew him well, was not flustered, and he pretended to have a confused expression.

"I didn't know, I was just a child of an ordinary fisherman's family in Manarola, and my consciousness was attached to this corpse after a tsunami......"

Manarola is a remote fishing village in the Turing Empire, where Zaix was born sixty years ago, and his magic was awakened by a tsunami. No matter how much insight the necromancer had, he would never have imagined that the young man in front of him knew everything about his past and future.

Sure enough, Zaix fell into memory after hearing this.

Whether it was Manarola, the tsunami, or the ordinary fishermen, it all warmed his heart that had been cold for a long time. He is still a little nostalgic for being a lich yet, which is human nature.

Taking advantage of this gap, Mu Yan quickly looked at the surrounding furnishings.

Maybe the current mage is still human and sensible, and this laboratory is still just a prototype, and it is cleaned cleanly, and it is not as disgusting as it was three years later. When this expansion was first introduced into China, it went through a whole month of "optimization". Maggots and severed limbs were turned into firewood piles and bandage people, and the various organs soaked in bottles and jars were replaced with herbs.

The four doors on the wall correspond to the storage area, the living quarters, the prison cell, and the courtyard, and he can tell them at a glance after several visits.

"No, you're lying."

Mu Yan's behavior of looking around was interrupted by this sentence.

"How can an ordinary fisherman's child know who I am and still ......"

"Aren't you also a child of an ordinary fisherman's family?" Mu Yan had long known that he would ask such a question, so he replied with a stiff neck.

At this moment, he was possessed by the actor, fully deducing the image of a teenager who doesn't know the height of the sky when he has a little stock in his belly.

Because he knew that was the case with young Zayx.

"I found a buried box under the old house, and it contained several codexes and diaries, so of course I know who you are!" Speaking of this, Mu Yan gritted his teeth and mustered up the courage to grab Zaix's hand.

Tsk, it's really cold little hands......

His eyes seemed to be shining with tears, full of the shyness and enthusiasm of a teenager, as well as the fantasy of a better future.

"Mr. Zayx, please help me become a great mage like you!"

Zaix was speechless by Mu Yan's series of actions, he never thought that sixty years later, he would meet a child from his hometown who was exactly like himself back then.

What made him cry and laugh even more was that all the nonsense he left behind when he was in the second year of his blood was actually seen by him......

Thinking about what it says, "My descendants, I will chase the shining tower of omniscience in the sea of truth," is blushing in retrospect.

"You...... Let go of your hand first, since you have found what I left behind, and Goddess Miya has sent your soul here again, it means that we are destined......"

"Then you agreed!?" Mu Yan immediately made an ecstatic look.

There was a rare flush on Zaix's pale face.

"I'm sorry, but I checked this kid when he strayed here, and he doesn't have what it takes to be a mage. And the path of the mage is not as simple as you think, it is ......"

"The dark and long path is full of traps and thorns! But there is also sweet fruit at the end of the road! Mu Yan didn't even think about it, so he memorized the lich's past works.

"Even so, we must persevere with devotion to the truth!"

Zaix's raised hand froze in the air, unable to say a word for a long time. Why is this kid so familiar with it!?

"Well, since you're here, you can stay here for a few days. You go and get some food for the guys in the cell, and be careful not to get hurt by them. ”

Mu Yan hurriedly jumped off the bed and bowed his head respectfully.

"Yes, Mr. Zayx."

Looking at his distant back, Zaix sighed.

At any time, there is no shortage of teenagers in mankind who dare to sacrifice everything for their dreams.

Suddenly, the future mad lich realizes that something is wrong.

"I don't seem to tell him where these four doors lead, do I? And that codex only says that I am a mage, and does not mention necromancy at all, how did he know to use fake death to prevent being affected by the "soul harvest"? ”

The corners of his mouth curled.

"Funny little one, what else are you hiding from me?"

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As a scholar, Mu Yan used to have portals in the past, a special bodyguard group waiting, and there were priests waiting for the war behind him, and the contacts were all high-level intellectuals (scholar circles) with heads and faces, how could there be so much caution? So after getting the instructions, he sneaked into the living quarters, completely oblivious to what he was inadvertently exposing himself.

He walked down the stairs with the food, lamenting how clean the dungeon was at this point in time, and opening the system log to check it.

In a row of bright red warnings, the rechargeable prompt behind "Mia's Blessing" made him care.

Could it be that this thing can still be charged? So what exactly does it want? Leaves of the Eternal Tree? Divine Essence? Or is it the crystallization of legendary faith?

Then there is the hint that Zayx heals his injuries and completes the mission with a "small dose of holy water".

"Complete the quest 'Escape', complete 85%, and reward 850 experience."

The tasks of "Twilight Era" can be divided into visible and triggered according to the presence or absence of prompts, of which the former has clear guidelines, including signs such as accepting tasks, task instructions, and completing tasks, that is, classic exclamation marks and question marks. The latter, on the other hand, is similar to, but not identical, - hidden quests only jump rewards when they are fully completed, while trigger quests give rewards in stages.

Mu Yan's "survival" is a trigger mission, from the time he was abducted into the miners' team to the end of the rescue mission by Zaix, gaining Martin's trust during the period is an intermediate link.

As for completion, he guesses that the remaining 15% is to save innocent humans from Zayx, and that each mission that is perfectly completed has a reward of at least 200%, which is very much in line with its super difficulty.

As he walked down the stairs to distribute food to the cage-bound monsters, he was stunned by the sight......

What are you kidding, Zayx in the Age of Faith turned out to be imprisoned to play?

The cage is full of all kinds of humans, not the strangely shaped stitched corpses seen in the expansion at all......

The sound of his footsteps made the grim-faced humans raise their heads.

A bald man saw the face and banged excitedly on the bars.

"Little brother, little brother, let me out, please, I will definitely have a heavy thank you after I go out!"

Wind Sword Hao Rhodes, isn't that notorious gold-level mercenary (level 40), active in the Misty Forest to collect protection fees in the year of the sparkling flower, taking advantage of the inconvenient local transportation and the scarcity of NPCs to buy the saber-toothed tiger fangs in the hands of players at a very low price, and then teamed up with his dwarf companions to make tiger tooth arrows and sell them at a high price, and also insulted the shy shooter players in the bag, and was later humiliated to death by a ranger (thief profession) big guy named "Lemon Soda" with a novice village's cedar bow and bamboo arrows kite for a day.

So, the dwarf named Thorin should be around, right?

Sure enough, Mu Yan glanced into the iron cage next to him and saw a red-bearded dwarf who was sleeping soundly.

It's no wonder that these two new leaves haven't moved much in the year, but fortunately they were locked up, if they were released in advance, they wouldn't have become the Demon King of the Mixed World?

"Big brother, big brother! Say something! ”

"Don't howl, you'll be out in a while." Mu Yan impatiently threw a loaf of bread to him and gave him spoilers at the same time.

Rod subconsciously stretched out his hand to catch it, but when he touched the enchantment on the iron railing, his body of more than 200 catties was bounced away with a bang.

Mu Yan stuck out his tongue, secretly apologized, and then walked to the next one.

What he didn't see was that Rhodes picked up the bread and looked at him deeply, as if to imprint his appearance in his mind.

The rest were not as excited as he was, quietly accepting their fate.

When Mu Yan walked to the last cell, the magic lamp on the wall happened to be extinguished, he hesitated for a second, patted both sides of the lamp stand in the dark, and then took out the spare spar from the dark compartment on the right and put it on.

The soft light came back on, and when he looked up, he saw a pair of purple eyes like water.

(Something went wrong with the keyboard...... Soft keyboard typing... Convincing = . =）