Chapter Twenty-Six: Death and Resurrection
"What...... Miscellaneous...... Miscellaneous...... What the?!!! Marlin looked at the two big words above Lin Ao's head almost blankly, and almost collapsed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
If you lose a duel that is evenly matched, you may be able to sigh at the strength of the other party and admire the other party from the bottom of your heart. But at this moment, Marlin doesn't even know why he lost, and the inexplicable defeat completely destroys his self-esteem. His mood suddenly became hysterical: "Did you cheat?!" You must have cheated! Otherwise, how could your thin body win over such strong muscles as mine! β
"I'm not cheating." Lin Ao was a few hundred meters away, and roared back calmly. "If you think I'm cheating, then ask God to sentence me to failure. The problem is, I'm not cheating at all, and you can't find out where I'm cheating, so even asking God directly won't help. β
Lin Ao's voice echoed in this enclosed space, but there was no sound at all on the side of the marlin......
Suddenly, the lake was set off by huge waves, and the marlin quickly swam back to Lin Ao's side from the other end. He looked at Lin Ao, a little annoyed and a little puzzled, and stretched out his fist to beat Lin Ao and felt rude. After a few seconds, he suppressed his anger and said, "I can't think of where you cheated, but you must have done something!" Otherwise, if you are motionless here, how can you win against me! β
"Yes, I did. But before I explain, can you take me out of the water......"
Lin Ao's face was already blue with cold, and his whole body was trembling. Marlin is not the kind of person who is ruthless, and he lifted Lin Ao over his shoulders and put it on top of his head. Lin Ao hugged the "javelin", but he didn't expect to accidentally become a pillar man.
Marlins are flattened and not easy to sit. But it's better than soaking in cold water, Lin Ao pinched the water on his clothes, and began to explain: "Give you time to think, don't you know how I won you?" β
"I don't know! But it's definitely not an open and honest approach! "The marlin was so angry that he didn't show any mercy at all." You're a scumbag! β
"Despicable? I'm just following the rules and fighting you normally. β
"Rules?"
"Rule 2: Here and the opposite wall are the 'start' and 'end', and we participants must touch the wall with a part of our body to 'start' and 'finish the race'."
"Yes, that's right. So what part of your body did you touch the other side with?! No! You're still standing here! β
"Yes, it's blood."
"Blood?"
"Didn't the horns on your head pierce my hands? So, I smeared my blood on it, especially at the top. β
"Blood...... Blood?! β
"From the moment I came down, I said that I wanted to learn your muscles, and I lied to you. All I want is to get close to you, and then smear your horns with blood that belongs to a part of my body, which is a trap I have deliberately planted. β
"Liar! How do you know I'm going to touch the wall over there with my horns?! We've just met! β
"How could you not know? Aren't the rules you set clear? You have to touch a part of your body to complete the duel. β
"So what!"
"How? You're sprinting at that perverted speed, and you think you can touch the wall anywhere else? By hand? With feet? If you don't slow down, you'll definitely break bones! So all you can use is the hardest part of your body, the horns on your head. Lin Ao tapped the horn of the marlin with his hand and continued, "You originally wanted to gain an advantage with this, right? Because according to the rules, you can rush to the other side without slowing down, but most races cannot. That's why you think about what is good for you, and you make the rules at the same time, and you end up with such a glaring loophole. β
"You're all right......" Marlin's eyes became confused, "but even if you smeared blood on my horns, when I was swimming in the water." The water here has already washed away the blood, right? β
"No, you're naΓ―ve. Red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, etc., these terms you may not recognize, are all components of blood. Water can only wash most of it away, but as long as there is only one cell! Just one cell sticks to the very front of your horn, and that's my victory! β
"If you really didn't stick to any of them...... What about cells? β
When Lin Ao heard this, he couldn't help but laugh: "Then do you think I have any other way to win you?" β
Indeed, compared to the 0% win rate of a head-to-head duel, Lin Ao bet his hopes on such a method, even if it is only a 1% win rate, it is an method that is countless times higher than a head-to-head duel.
Seeing that the marlin had stopped talking at all, Lin Ao patted his head lightly and said, "Didn't I say that?" I respect your idea of building muscle, but I'm human and I'm not your kind. In humans, it's not just swimming speed, it's not just muscles that determine everything about a person. What we have, and our 'brains'. β
Thump......
Lin Ao didn't expect Marlin to be so excited when he heard his words, and as soon as he turned over, he threw Lin Ao into the water.
Sinking into the icy water again, Lin Ao picked it up and returned to the surface of the water, a little annoyed: "Hey, do you need to be so angry?" β
"No!" What Lin Ao didn't expect was that Marlin bowed directly to him: "You're right, I've been stubbornly exercising my muscles, and I missed it!" I also forgot that my head is also one of the 'muscles' to be exercised! Master! Please take me as an apprentice and teach me how to exercise my brain! β
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"Uh......" Lin Ao scratched his head, he knew he shouldn't waste more time here. However, with such an enthusiastic guy and a pair of small eyes full of respect and expectation, it was still difficult for Lin Ao to refuse in person.
Roundabout strategic ......
As the king of the strategic zone, Lin Ao naturally came up with a way to deal with it in an instant: "No, I'm not qualified enough now, so I'll be your teacher for the time being." I'm going to go down this cave step by step, and I'm going to challenge the Blue Whale King you worship. I'll wait until I've defeated it once and for all before I'm back here for you. β
"What a great goal! Defeat the Blue Whale King! Marlin immediately stood in awe, "But may I ask the master, why do you want to challenge the king?" As far as I know, the Blue Whale King has never been on land, so he probably hasn't had any trouble with you humans......"
"I've only been commissioned to ask the king to give us something that is on him." Lin Ao said, pointing to the stone wall on the other side. "Now, take me to the next space, right? I won you, and it should be the right to move on to the next challenge. β
"Of course! I'll take you now, master! Marlin said, bowed deeply, and threw Lin Ao on his head again.
Riding the wind and waves, the marlin deliberately slowed down a little so that Lin Ao's body could withstand it. In less than half a minute, they came to the stone wall on the other side. The stone walls reached to the top, and the walls were as smooth as ever, and there was not a single passage in sight.
"Where is the passage......" Lin Ao was at a loss.
"Down there!" As soon as the marlin sank to the bottom of the water, Lin Ao stayed directly on the water.
Lin Ao looked down and saw that at the bottom of the crystal clear lake, there were two black holes nearly two meters wide, which were continuously sucking water into it.
Forks in the road, which is also quite common in RPGs. Choosing different paths will naturally lead to different places, perhaps a long detour, or a dead end. In any case, it takes luck, and if you go all the way to the end, there will naturally be a lot less duel and a lot of risk.
"Master, which one do you choose?" Marlin couldn't wait to grab Lin Ao's collar, "Lao Tzu is waiting to take you down!" Wait to see you defeat the Blue Whale King and become a miracle! β
"Hmm......" Lin Ao knew that it was useless to think about it, and pointed to one of the holes according to his sixth sense and said. So, it's the one on the left, right?! β
"Okay! Let's go! β
"Hey! Feed! Wait a minute! Lin Ao watched the marlin grab his feet and pull him down, he couldn't shout, his body had been pulled to the bottom of the water.
β%β¦β¦ οΏ₯####οΌ Lin Ao drank several sips of lake water, but he couldn't say anything to protest. The guy with the tendon of the marlin threw him directly into the black hole on the left.
Instantly, a strong current sucked him into the black hole. Reaching out in the cave and not seeing five fingers, this waterway is tortuous, dozens of meters! Fortunately, the water was extremely fast, and before Lin Ao could suffocate, he was rushed out of the dark passage.
"Ahem...... Ahem, ahem! Lin Ao kept spitting out the water in his stomach and lungs. Turning his head to look at the cave that he had spit out of, the water was sealed inside the wall like jelly, and the surrounding walls slowly "healed" again, sealing the hole completely.
Just as Lin Ao was in a daze, a voice invaded his mind......
"Lin Ao? Lin Ao?! Lin Ao, do you hear? β
It was the voice of the spirit, and he looked around, but he never found the spirit.
"Spirit? Where are you? β
"As master, as soon as you enter, I will enter through the newly appearing seventh gate into another waiting room, where I am magically watching your duel! Now that you've won and have a five-minute break, I can contact you from here. At the moment, you are alone in victory, and Alice and the knight are in a bitter battle. It doesn't look easy to break through here, and I don't know how many levels are in front of us and the Blue Whale King! You have to come on! β
"Hmm." Lin Ao slowed down and began to look around the situation in front of him, this time the space was not large, the cave geology, those stone stalactites were half-hanging down in the sky, as if it was an upside-down forest.
In the center of this room, there is a small pool. The pool leads to the veins of water underground, and in the middle of the pool a platform stands just above the water. On the platform, an old man was sitting on a chair made of ice crystals, looking directly at Lin Ao.
Is it a puffer fish this time...... Lin Ao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that the long white beard had fallen to the ground.
This time, it shouldn't be a duel for the body, right?