Chapter 31: Moral Issues
Did I kill someone? Chu Ge looked at the corpse on the ground and was a little dazed for a while.
Although I opened up a whole copy and half a copy before, and killed many kobolds, spiders, skeletons, and even a few bosses, the images of these monsters have not touched Chu Ge much because they overlap with the monster images in the game, at most I just feel cool.
He felt that in addition to the harsh cost of death, he felt as if he was playing a holographic virtual online game.
And is there any need for a reason to kill these monsters in the game? Is there any psychological burden that still needs to be paid?
It wasn't until he had personally slashed down the first human monster, Greymouth, a tomb robber, and watched him fall to the ground covered in blood, that he suddenly realized that he had killed someone.
This made him feel uneasy.
However, what made him feel uneasy was not the fact that he killed someone himself, in fact, he was not at all uneasy about it, and even faintly refreshed - Lao Tzu killed someone!
What really disturbed him was precisely this, after killing the tomb robber, he didn't have a trace of uneasiness or nausea or the like.
Are you a natural murderer? Cold-blooded? The legendary decisive web novel hero?
Of course it's impossible, no, it should just be because this is a copy, and in the copy, even if it's a human, it's just a monster that looks like itself, and it's essentially no different from kobolds and skeletons.
Chu Ge finally came up with such an explanation, but what made him a little skeptical was whether this was really the case? Are these copies created by this multiverse dungeon system really happening, or are they false illusions?
The entanglement of personal morality and the suspicion of the unknown made Chu Ge hesitate for a while.
But soon, Chu Ge smiled, what's the use of settling these things up, could it be that the other party is really a human being and he has to stop the copy? This is of course impossible.
Although Chu Ge doesn't think that he is a cold-blooded killer, he doesn't think he is a saint either, he is just an ordinary person, an ordinary person with strong ambitions, if he needs to kill people to gain power, then as long as this person has a reason to die, then what if he kills himself.
Anyway, it won't be punished by the law.,Besides, in the background setting of the dungeon.,Aren't those who can be sent into the dungeon to be monsters generally bad guys?
At least from the moral point of view of human beings, this is the case with the previous kobolds, those scary skeletons are like this, and the tomb robber in front of him is obviously the same, even from the perspective of human moral standards, it is not a bad thing to kill him by himself, and it is even a good thing to eliminate violence and peace, maybe it can be regarded as a heroic pacesetter five good young people or something.
Thinking of this, the only trace of uneasiness in my heart was also eliminated, yes, I am a hero who punishes rape and eliminates evil, and there is no need to have any psychological burden to kill bad people, and maybe the other party is an NPC with a human appearance, and there is no IQ at all.
Thinking of this, Chu Ge's thoughts were completely smoothed out, and he began to touch the corpse again without any psychological burden.
The touch of the corpse was immediately delighted, and the tomb robber Greymouth had only dropped a treasure, but it was an amulet tied to a leather rope, a bronze plaque with a dragon's eye carved on it.
【Dragon's Eye Talisman (Accessory/Talisman)
Equip Skill: Treasure Tracking. Allows you to discover hidden treasures nearby.
Item description: Greedy dragons are always able to find treasures hidden deep underground, so legend has it that dragons' eyes can see the invisible light emitted by those treasures, even if they are buried deep underground, they can't stop the dragons from seeing them. 】
Good thing, Chu Ge thought to himself, after having this thing, he was not afraid of not being able to find the treasure.
Hanging the dragon's eye talisman around his neck, Chu Ge immediately found that the world in his eyes seemed to have changed a little, the world was still the original world, but in his realization, something like a golden halo appeared, and the location of the halo was from behind the closed stone door on the right side of the hall, this feeling was as if he had a clairvoyant eye, and he could even vaguely feel the amount of treasure through the intensity of that halo.
However, he couldn't really see what was behind the wall, he could only feel that there must be some treasure hidden behind the door.
This made him a little excited, and when he walked to the door, the five runes on the stone door still made him clueless, Chu Ge first checked around, it didn't matter, just above his head, there was a row of small black holes.
Damn, there must be some mechanism here, if you go to turn that rune yourself, but if you don't turn it right, it will probably trigger the mechanism or something.
Chu Ge thought, took out the spear from his bag, and slammed it at the stone disc in the center of the stone gate far away, only to hear two clicks, and more than a dozen sharp spears fell from the top of his head, and the landing point was exactly the position in front of the stone gate, if he stood at the door and pressed the disc, he would definitely die.
Fortunately, Lao Tzu has played a lot of games, and such an obvious trap can't trap me.
But it seems that the door can't be opened for the time being, but it doesn't matter, it stands to reason that there can't be a door that can't be opened in a copy, and the password on the door of this copy will definitely appear in the next copy process, but I don't know if I can find it.
Chu Ge thought about it and decided to move on.
Although the treasure behind the door is very eye-catching, what he is really looking forward to is the drop of the final boss of this dungeon, the necromancer apprentice Augustus, what he wants is magic, compared to gold and silver jewelry, the power of magic is what he wants most.
Passing through the hall where the skeleton knight was stationed, Chu Ge went down the stairs all the way down and entered the lower passage of the tomb, and the little monsters blocking the way also changed from skeletons to zombies, only to see that on the dark passage, under the light of the torches, seven or eight wooden figures could be seen blocking Chu Ge's way forward.
The zombies were apparently resurrected, dressed in different attire, some dressed in rudimentary cloth clothes that looked like nearby villagers, and some were well-dressed and looked like dead people who had been resurrected from the tomb.
However, without exception, they have all turned into zombies.
These zombies are very slow to react, and the alert range seems to be lower than that of kobolds, only less than ten meters, and they don't react if they are a little farther away.
Chu Ge used a bow and arrow to lure one out first, and the zombie's attack method was also very simple, as soon as he was attacked, he stretched out his hands, and let out a strange cry from his mouth, and rushed towards Chu Ge.
As for Chu Ge, it is naturally impossible to wait to be pounced, these guys are not cute girls, they directly slashed over, zombies are obviously more fleshy than skeletons, and they are as non-critical as skeletons, and there is no response when they are hit by an arrow or a knife on their bodies, until Chu Ge cut off the zombie's head with a knife, and then he fell to the ground with a pop.
After cutting down two zombies, Chu Ge found that the combat effectiveness of this thing is really weak, as long as you find the key point, there is no threat at all.
And Chu Ge still adheres to the principle of being careful and not making a big mistake, every time before opening a monster, he always has to set up a beast trap formation before starting, in case he can't fight, he can also lead the monster to the clip, but because the combat power of these zombies is too weak, Chu Ge didn't use these beast traps at all.