"I didn't do anything."

Chai Chai squinted his eyes, but his tone was still light and light, "I'm thinking about some world problems that have plagued me for many years,

For example, whether the oysters are cooked or not oysters;

If a person commits suicide, is there one more person who commits suicide in this world, or is there one less person who commits suicide;

When Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei were in Taoyuan, did they have to kowtow to the statue of Guan Erye;

I think that by deciphering these world problems, the Nobel Prize is not far from me. ”

At this moment, she replaced Li Ang's identity, inherited all of Li Ang's interpersonal relationships (although there were only a few contacts), and incidentally inherited Li Ang's speaking style and vocabulary habits.

According to the analysis of the brainworm think tank team, the similarity in a short period of time can reach more than 90%, which can fully cope with most situations.

“...”

Wang Congshan's voice on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment.

"What's wrong?"

Miss Chai's brows furrowed instantly, "Something you want to tell me?" ”

"No,"

Wang Congshan took a breath, her voice was a little low, "It's just that recently, I'm not in a good mood...

Can you come out and have a meal with me? ”

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Li Ang, who is far away in the script mission, does not know what is happening in the real world.

At the moment when the weightlessness caused by stepping into the aperture disappears,

He unleashed swamp powers and psychic abilities, sweeping out in all directions, surveying the terrain and detecting potential hostility.

No suspicious targets were found ...

Leon opened his eyes, and his body sensed a subtle shift in his center of gravity, reminding him that he should be standing on the ground at this moment.

Here it is...

At this moment, where he is should be in a metal container,

The container is narrow and cramped, and the interior is human-shaped.

The inner walls are inlaid with a large number of dense metal spikes, which are located just in the eyes, shoulders, arms, thighs, etc.

Iron Maiden?

Li Ang frowned slightly, the Iron Lady was a kind of torture instrument in medieval Europe, composed of hinges, nails and two door covers, which could hold a person, and looked like a mummy coffin.

When used, the executioner will lock the victim in the Iron Lady and close the two door covers, so that a large number of nails will pierce the victim's body, continuously injuring and intimidating the victim, in order to achieve the purpose of torture or torture.

The Iron Lady torture instrument where Li Ang is located is made of what kind of material it is, and the nails inside can actually pierce the dragon's head white coat and pierce into the mirage red mane's coat.

The absorption efficiency of the Mirage Red Mane Cloak for energy attribute attacks is very high, and it can also absorb kinetic energy impacts, but because it is hand-woven by Li Ang himself, there is a narrow gap between each wisp of Red Mane.

The spikes on the inner wall of this Iron Lady are slender and sharp, like a woolen needle penetrating a sweater, and some of them have pierced into the mirage red mane's coat.

If it weren't for the fact that Leon's skin and muscles could automatically change shape and actively shrink inward by an inch or two, he would have been pierced to a blur of flesh and blood at this moment.

These nails will actively extend forward?

Li Ang's brows furrowed, in order to enhance the torture effect, movable iron nails are installed on the inner part of the real Iron Lady, which can change the puncture position and strength and prolong the pain of the victim.

And at this moment, among the Iron Lady where he was, the nails on the inner wall were slowly extending towards the inner side at a slow and steady speed, and there was no intention of stopping at all.

Fully automatic torture equipment? Or is it being manipulated from the outside?

Possibilities intertwined in Leon's mind,

His low-hanging palm opened slightly, and the tips of his ten fingers released a huge amount of vine fibers,

First wrapped his body to prevent him from being pierced by nails,

Then it proliferates rapidly, weaving and staggering through the gaps between the nails and spikes, filling the entire torture apparatus.

Click-

A huge number of vines gather huge strength and support outward,

With the tooth-aching sound of the metal deadbolt turning, the two door covers of the metal torture instrument were forcibly pushed open a gap.

"Whew...."

Among the frenzied dancing vines, Li Ang slowly and methodically climbed out of the metal torture instrument, and slapped it on his body casually, and the hole on the outside of the dragon's head white coat instantly returned to its original state.

"The Red Mane is still a little lacking in terms of defensive performance against this kind of purely physical sharp stab damage..."

He sighed, and under the white coat, the skin that had automatically evolved porous depressions (in order to prevent being punctured by nails) gradually returned to normal.

It is no longer a strawberry-like form capable of causing a person with a dense phobia to scream.

"What about the others..."

Leon stood there and looked around,

It was roughly a large, dimly lit square room, with a large number of identical Iron Maidens on the floor.

All the torture instruments are arranged in a neat arrangement like chess pieces on a chessboard,

Some close tightly,

Others are left open, revealing a hollow interior.

With the help of the night vision buff spell and the transformed eyeballs of the creatures, Leon could clearly see that many of the open torture instruments had black blood stains that had long since dried up.

The tip of the nail remains wilted and shriveled meat scrap,

The floor of the hall also has traces of the blood of the big pool.

What is this, a special place for torture instruments?

Li Ang frowned slightly, after he stepped into the aperture, he was directly teleported into the torture instrument,

The large-scale detection of the psychic ability did not realize that there were intelligent creatures like him in this room.

In other words, it was the aperture teleportation array, which dispersed and teleported everyone to different locations.

"Strange, is the purpose of the aperture teleportation to kill the player? Or is this just part of the trial? However, with so many coffins and torture instruments placed here, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't meet the definition of a 'holy mountain'..."

Leon muttered to himself, and suddenly, a noisy and chaotic voice sounded in his ears, indistinguishable between men and women, but revealing a solemn and sacred aura.

【Looking for... Climb upwards... The road, complete... Your... Trials】

The sound seemed to be a little ill-contacted, intermittent, but it was certainly not a movement created by psionic energy or some other system of power.

The way up?

Leon looked around the room, there was no obvious trapdoor on the ceiling, but there was a door at the end of the room, which looked like it could be opened.

Leon didn't rush to leave, but picked up the Lightning Eleven walkie-talkie given by Hohenheim and pressed the button, "Hey? Feed? This is Li Risheng, can you hear me? ”

There was a stinging sound of electricity on the intercom, and in a moment, Ding Shinji's voice sounded in the channel, "Yes." ”

If you can hear it, it proves that the distance between the two sides is less than ten kilometers in a straight line.

Li Ang was sure in his heart and asked, "Did you hear the prompt sound just now?" Where are you now? ”

"I heard the chime just now, let's find our way up. It wasn't supposed to be a system prompt, but some sort of mechanism that was automatically triggered in the area.

Now, ahem, I should be in a closed room with a large number of humanoid stone statues, probably to commemorate the brave man who came to the Holy Mountain before..."

"Some of them have been destroyed, and the total number of these left is 477.

Wait, the statue of the brave team on the mural we saw in the dungeon before is also here, placed at the front of all the statues,

In the middle of all the statue phalanxes, there are also their statues..."

"Wait a minute, I've got someone here."

Leon's ears moved, he pressed the off button on the walkie-talkie, and silently flashed into a half-open torture instrument, shrunk back, and hid.

Tread, step, step.

There was an orange glow at the end of the room,

There was a rather strange sound of footsteps,

It's like someone wearing a pair of unusually large boots, soaked in water, and stepping on the marble floor, giving people a viscous, dragging sense of déjà vu.

The room was still dim, and with the buff effect of the crowd's night vision spell, Leon could clearly see,

A pair of sturdy and thick legs slowly stepped from the end of the room, flashing out of the blind spot of the torture instrument and appearing in Li Ang's eyes.

This visitor is very... Uncanny.

Underneath him grew two legs comparable to muscular hunks,

The legs were not wearing pants or shoes, but were inlaid with a large number of sharp metal flakes, which pierced deeply into the skin muscles, forming brownish yellow pus and blood crusts at the wounds.

Some of the scabs have fallen off and are sliding down with pus and blood, which is uncomfortable to look at.

He, or rather, the soles of its feet, were covered with octopus-like suckers, and between the suckers secreted a viscous transparent liquid that constantly emitted a pungent odor.

When you step on the ground, it makes a "zi" sound.

And the upper part of its body is even more curious,

is basically a spherical aggregate of a large human arm, nearly two meters in diameter,

Arms come from a variety of sources, with different skin tones and shapes, and a green arm is as robust as an industrial crane arm.

Appears to be from a different host.

More than a dozen arms stretched out on either side of the spherical aggregate, holding different things,

This includes, but is not limited to, a kerosene lamp that looks very old and broken, a slightly rusty sword, a flintlock pistol, and a set of props for prisoners (handcuffs, leg irons, etc.)...

Most notably, in that green muscular arm, holding a swarthy keychain,

There are dozens of keys hanging under the keychain,

As the strange-looking creature walked, it made a tinkling wind chime-like sound.

This is running out of the Silent Hill set, right?

Li Ang hid in the Iron Lady torture tool, and the vines extending from his fingertips held him firmly and did not touch the nails inside the torture tool.

The nails on the inside of these open torture instruments will not actively extend like the previous one.

But one thing is the same.

The tips of all the nails, smeared with some kind of mineral powder ...

Li Ang silently raised his arm, and lightly touched the nail through the mirage red manea coat,

The powdery object at the tip of the nail begins to absorb energy slowly and efficiently after it touches the skin of the fingertip.

I see.

Li Ang's heart moved, if an ordinary brave person teleported in and was pierced by a nail, the energy in his body would be slowly absorbed by these mineral powders.

If the strength is weaker, he may not even be able to break free from the torture equipment, and he will be trapped directly alive in the Iron Lady - the open blood-stained torture instruments in the room silently prove this.

But why is that?

The meaning of aperture teleportation is to trap the brave? Or is the whole Holy Mountain trial a lie...

Leon's eyes narrowed slightly, staring at the deformed creature.

I saw it holding a kerosene lamp, walking aimlessly in the room,

After walking a distance, as if he suddenly thought of something, he took off the tattered mop from one of his arms.

Got a little bit of the viscous liquid from the soles of its feet, dragging up the dried blood to the ground.

The blood stains on the ground are no longer left behind by I don't know what age, firmly attached to the surface, and the tattered mop can't be cleaned up at all, but the more it is dragged, the dirtier it gets.

The deformed creature, however, silently dragged the ground as if it were unaware.

After about three minutes, the deformed creature slowly put away the mop, and as if unresponsive, it put the mop on its shoulder (that is, above the spherical aggregate of the arm), and walked towards the Iron Maiden torture device that Leon had escaped from before.

It stood still before the instrument of torture and stretched out its arms,

Gently touched the torture instrument that opened a gap, but there was no blood stain in it,

In the spherical aggregate, there was a grunt that might be considered "doubt".

After a few seconds of pause, he slowly turned around and walked towards the end of the room.

In another Iron Lady torture instrument, Li Ang, who had watched the deformed creature's action pattern, narrowed his eyes,

The monster, though not very intelligent and looking particularly clumsy and sluggish, was supposed to be a servant of the area, or a servant,

He is responsible for cleaning up the area, imprisoning the prisoners who appear among the Iron Maidens, and using the handcuffs and shackles they carry to another location.

Interesting.

Li Ang quietly flashed out of the torture tools, his figure hidden in the darkness, stepping on the invisible staircase formed by the ladder clouds, suspended above all the Iron Lady torture instruments,

Approaching the wall,

At a distance, he hung behind the deformed creatures, tracking them.

He wanted to see what kind of behavior the creature would have.

Unaware of the extra stalker behind him, the deformed creature silently walked out of the room, through a long dark corridor and into another large room.

The whole building where Leon is located, at present, is a bit similar to a large-scale ancient castle.

The new room where the aberrant creature had arrived was supposed to be the castle's dining room, with a long wooden dining table in the middle.

The aberrant creature took a pile of fruits similar to potatoes from the cabinet next to the restaurant, and cleaned the fruits casually on the dripping water pipe on the walls of the restaurant.

He returned to the table, cut the fruit with his rusty sword, and began to eat.

When it was done eating, it even cleaned its sword and used plate, staggered to its feet, and continued to the next room covered with dirt and some kind of crop, and began to water and cultivate.

“...”

Li Ang stared at the slow-moving distorted monster, his brows furrowed slightly, and finally stopped hiding,

Loosening the vine that was clinging to the ceiling, it fell from the sky and landed in front of the distorted monster that was watering the farmland