Chapter 19: The Hypocritical Good and the Ignorant Evil
After killing Ernest, the three players did not immediately leave the boss's room to look for the next map, but coincidentally but almost instinctively began to explore and search in Ernest's room, this map is already very wide, and there are of course many things that can be pondered and explored......
The frescoes, the stone statues, the sky, and even Ernest's corpse, it seems that the Mirror Society has secrets and stories buried in them, rather than meaningless backgrounds. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"This corpse is on ...... There's nothing, we can't take off all his shameful shorts......" Han Lingsha muttered dissatisfiedly, she and Zui Yunyou Tian first checked the sickle standing next to Ernest's corpse, and they all looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and then squatted in front of Ernest's corpse and rummaged for a long time, with a disappointed face, their bloodiness was not too high, most of the details of the corpse in front of them were automatically coded by the system, and when they touched the corpse, they were also blurred by the system because of their sense of touch, It doesn't feel much different from touching a plastic man, so there won't be any discomfort.
"That's what you said.,The boss's underwear.,Maybe it's different from our ordinary players.,Maybe the attributes will be stronger!" Drunken and undisciplined, he began to try to pick up the few clothes on Ernest's body, this boss seemed to have been wearing a rather ornate silk robe, but after a long period of weathering, he was also unclothed, and at first glance he was no different from a primitive man.
However, the system seems to determine that the player is "illegally harassing" Ernest's corpse, and the hand that Drunken Cloud Youtian just stretched out to the boss's lower body was bounced away with a warning, and a burst of electric sparks came out, and Drunken Cloud Youtian was forcibly deducted 1% of his health, and was also reprimanded by Han Lingsha's "This person is a pervert" look.
"Isn't this scythe useful?" Yun Mo curiously picked up the scythe next to Ernest's corpse that had always impressed them, this scythe was now thrown by the other two teammates like garbage, and probably checked the scythe's attributes:
"The Singing Scythe of Ernest, the agent of the deceased, as the chief judge of the withered church, Ernest held this weapon scythe to judge his enemies in the distant past, Ernest himself loved poetry, and every time he defeated his powerful enemy, he would habitually compose a poem in remembrance. It is said that when you die under the sickle, you will hear the singing of the deceased.
It is a treacherous weapon specially forged by the Ritual Factory for the Withered Church, which can be disassembled into a scimitar and a short stick for quick action when faced with humans, and its large, bizarre scythe form is clearly not aimed at humans, proving that the Wither Church has faced formidable enemies far larger than them in the past.
Durability: 89/150Physical Attack: 93 to 165 Knife and Stick forms have a high chance of triggering Stun Imbalance and Scythe form has a high chance of triggering Slash, Decapitation, Execution, and Cripple
Requires Strength25Agility18Faith15Restricted Faith【Belial, Faceless Daughter】【Innocent of Eternal Song】
Comes with the skill [Mourning Knife Technique]: A unique attack pattern that Agent Ernest mastered in the face of ancient enemies, known for his unpredictable and unpredictable knife speed and unpredictable dodge steps.
Death should be an elegant and tender poem - Ernest the agent of the deceased"
The singing sickle is a very compelling and poetic name, but Yunmo has died under this knife so many times, and he hasn't heard any elegant singing?
"I'll go, artifact! Is it really good that the game lets us get this weapon so early? Yunmo was taken aback by such an awesome weapon, no wonder Ernest killed them in the first stage before like chopping melons and vegetables, with this artifact, killing them a few novice rookies couldn't be easier!
"This weapon is powerful, isn't it?" Han Lingsha, who was still digging on Ernest's corpse without blinking his eyes and trying to find out something, suddenly turned his head and said to Yunmo with a smile, as if the solemn dispute between Yunmo and her just now did not exist at all.
"You'd better read it down, you'll vomit blood in frustration." At the first glance when he entered the door, he rushed to check this rather stylish drunk Yun Youtian and said to Yun Mo angrily.
Yunmo finished reading the last column of the scythe that explained that it was long and wanted to die, and sure enough, he felt the feeling of wanting to vomit blood:
"This weapon is an illusory thing that Ernest re-embodied in this dream through his great obsession during his lifetime, and once it is taken out of this room, it will be automatically destroyed." The game developers threw this weapon in front of them so badly, and let the boss use it to kill themselves so many times to show their power, and after the boss died, he also put the weapon here in the open waiting for you to pick it up, but in the end he said to you in this pretended pity tone: "Ah, although this weapon is so good, you can't take it at all, what a pity......
"Wait, the description of this weapon says, we're ...... now In a dream? Yunmo suddenly noticed a key word in the description of this item that was said in such an understated tone.
"We're already in a dream, and now in reality, aren't we all close to dreaming, but now, we're entering this dream that the game developer made up for us at the same time, what's wrong with that?" Drunk Yunyoutian didn't know what Yunmo was suspicious of.
"What he means is that even if we are in the game now, we are still dreaming, and we are now in the second dream of the game world!" Han Lingsha didn't need to explain before he understood what Yunmo meant, just like a roundworm in Yunmo's stomach: "I also noticed it before, and a very powerful evidence that we are dreaming now is the blue sky above our heads. ”
"What's wrong with Blue Sky?" Yunmo and Drunken Cloud Youtian were in the mood to pay attention to the clean and pure blue sky above their heads when they were suffering and fighting Ernest again and again in this area before, and this map seemed to be inside a giant tower, and the top of this giant tower collapsed for some reason, so that the player could look at the sky through here.
"Have you forgotten the opening scene that everyone saw when you entered the game? In this game...... "Han Lingsha also looked up at the blue sky as deep as the sea, the white clouds flowed and the sun was dim: "Even the sun has been destroyed, since the sun doesn't exist, where did we get such a clean blue sky?" The Mirror Club will never give us a mistake in this basic background, right? ”
"Indeed, I don't think it's right for you to say that, the sky, in this area is an obvious clue, and the bell that represents the boss switching state also rings from the depths of the sky, there may be a connection. The game was originally a dream that we could share, and now we continue to have another dream in the dream, which is also quite interesting. Yunmo smiled, and he felt a little good in his heart for this smart and mysterious girl. Although she is sometimes cold and cruel and scary, but chatting and talking with her normally, it really feels very smooth and comfortable, unlike other people, who say a word by themselves, and have to work hard to explain to them what I mean after this sentence, but Han Lingsha is drawing inferences, Yunmo said a word Han Lingsha immediately understood Yunmo's intentions, and based on this, he pushed the performance at a very fast speed.
"The sky represents both that this is a dream, or maybe it also means that this is a past when the sun has not yet set, and this Ernest came here in a past era in this game timeline, and then fell into 'madness'......" Han Lingsha's eyes lit up and shared speculation with Yunmo.
"These are still to be verified by our future discoveries in the game." Yunmo nodded approvingly, but he couldn't make more conjectures out of thin air.
The speculation about the sky and time, due to the lack of information obtained so far, can only stay at the level of conjecture, and the discussion between the two about the sky can only end temporarily, and there is no need to study too deeply.
"Hey, I've made a new discovery here at Ernest, Yunmo, do you remember the red hair of unknown origin in the first open coffin I told you about at the beginning?" While Yunmo and Han Lingsha were discussing something that he couldn't intervene at all, Drunken Yunyoutian, who had been crouching near Ernest's corpse and hoping to scavenge something from his thin and pitiful clothes and skinny corpse, seemed to have made some new discoveries.
Drunken Wandering Sky is also an "archaeology enthusiast" who is avid in the game to dig for information and clues, if they were just ordinary players, they should immediately go to find the next mission, or find out how to use the soul they have now to use cleanly, but now, these three strange guys are in high spirits in this huge tower-shaped space like archaeologists to dig up clues and hints left by the producer here.
Because these three players know that the Mirror Club is different from ordinary game developers, the Mirror Club encourages players to think more and dig more according to normal logic in the game, if in this game, blindly only know how to fight monsters and upgrade, it will be too disappointing to the painstaking work of the game designer. And the Mirror Club has never been stingy with rewards for players who carefully observe and obtain information in the game, such as "Phantom World", many clues related to key equipment and items in the later stage, in fact, all of them have various subtle clues to prompt in the early stage of the game, if players only know how to fight monsters and upgrade to do tasks, in the later stages of the game, they will only be completely beaten by more and more powerful enemies because of the serious lack of intelligence.
"Red hair? Did you find further clues here? Yunmo leaned over curiously and asked.
"Red hair? What's that? Han Lingsha didn't let go of any information, and followed to ask.
"It's the hanging coffin area where we woke up at the beginning, where there is a very conspicuous and open coffin, and the coffin is full of red hairs that resemble those shed by wild beasts, and I have found similar red hairs here." Drunken Yunyoutian said lightly, from Ernest's corpse also twisted a slender red hair, the hair was shiny and delicate, as if it belonged to some kind of beast, covering Ernest's thin and well-proportioned body, so that the rest of Ernest's lower body was a bit like a half-sized monkey, Ernest's own clothes were only barely enough to cover his body, and these strange long hairs that came out of his body after entering the second stage made him look more like a beast, and with the black worms that came out of his body, his whole image looked even more nondescript.
"It's this red hair, it's the hair that grew on Ernest's body after the second phase of transformation, and it's exactly the same hair I saw in that coffin before." Drunk Yunyoutian said seriously.
"What does this mean?" Yunmo muttered to himself, and then immediately reacted:
"Ernest, like us, woke up from that hanging coffin area? That's why so much hair fell out in the hanging coffin? ”
"Wake up in this chaotic dream, then jump out of the coffin, somehow bypass the spider, enter here, and finally go crazy in front of this strange mural, and that disgusting giant snake grows in his body, and the system also calls him the 'abyss incarnation', this Ernest, I'm afraid it won't just be the boss who let us meet at the beginning, I feel like he will have more scenes in the future......" Han Lingsha laughed with interest, all kinds of clues provided to them here, It has allowed them to reconstruct some of the things that happened here in the past, but the restored facts make players even more curious about what happened here.
Why does that bell make Ernest wake up and go into madness? Why does the snake in Ernest's belly think that the cold spirit sand resembling Belial is its "mother"? What does this space itself, which may be a dream, represent? Ernest wakes up from the coffin like the player, and finally walks here again and never leaves, what was his original purpose? And what does the painting of the man who was placed right in front of Ernest as soon as he entered the room represent? After all, it's a portrait of a man holding such a striking sword like starlight, and that man can't be unknown in the game.
The first boss battle of Eternal Doom has come to an end, and although the boss seems impossible to defeat with a "special play", there are still a lot of holes and unsolved mysteries for players to investigate and prove in the future.