Chapter 65: The City of the Dead (Part 4, End)
It wasn't until there was no figure around, and it was the same in the distance, that Zhang Yefang showed up and took out the package given by Anlusis again.
Placed on the ground and opened it and looked through the gray firelight around it, there were two metal balls in it, in addition to two wooden boxes and a map.
It is the detailed map of the City of the Dead, but it is too old, so some areas have become blurry, but it can still show Zhang Ye the way.
He didn't choose to go to an area such as the treasure house, he used his index finger to point to the area where the artifact was located on the map, and then to his current location, and a gray misty light appeared, and then pointed out the fastest route for him with Zhang Ye's location as the starting point.
It's just that there are flashing red dots at intervals on the route, but Zhang Ye connects them with "obstacles" or "enemies", maybe because of the previous game experience, or maybe because people will subconsciously feel uneasy or bad about the flickering red light.
But how do you take away the artifact?
The questions in his heart naturally could not be answered, so Zhang Ye not only decided to be extra careful when approaching those areas with flashing red dots, but also decided to go where to go first and be very careful no matter how he took them.
After all, this is the birthplace of the Ominous Eye, and it can also be said to be a holy place, a city of the dead......
With vigilance and curiosity about the unknown, Zhang Ye had just taken a step when he heard Patu's voice in his head.
"They used nasty means to temporarily seal the two of us, don't worry, we can get out of trouble before they find you!"
Zhang Ye scolded when he heard this, and then accelerated all the way in the dim area where there was no ghost, and only gray torches lit up his front and surroundings on the road, but the light range did not dare to compliment, so Zhang Ye was shrouded in a treacherous atmosphere.
Not only do the familiar gray torches create a strange atmosphere, but there is also a more abstract mural on the left and right sides of the passage at intervals, the paint of the mural for some reason, exudes a refreshing fragrance, which is not pungent, but makes people very calm, and even want to quietly look at a work of art or something.
If you have time, you must explore carefully, you will definitely find a lot of treasures, thinking so, Zhang Ye passed by the second treasure vault, and he just glanced at the extremely complicated locks of the treasure vault, and dispelled the idea of going in to find out.
He wasn't far from the area where the artifact was located, and it wasn't too far away, along with the first flashing red dot on the road map.
He raised his vigilance and paid attention to every detail around him, refusing to let any changes in details escape perception, and seemed to know that it was impossible to hide his existence, so it appeared in front of Zhang Ye in the flickering red dot area.
It is a blue translucent energy body, and judging by its clothing and walking style, Zhang Ye knows that it should be the ancestor of the Ominous Eye clan who guards the City of the Dead.
Zhang Ye was suddenly a little glad that he had been wearing a thorn, because the other party not only did not guard against him, but instead made an incomprehensible salute to himself.
Zhang Ye also made a salute when he painted a gourd, and the other party was obviously more satisfied and appreciative when he saw it.
"How long has it been, how long has it been since no one has been here, welcome, my people." Its tone was as ethereal as that of Anlucis, but at the end it was joyful.
"Don't say polite words yet, you should know, those traitors have already come in, while they haven't penetrated into this place yet, hurry up and take me ......" Zhang Ye said that in the end, seeing it frown, he didn't say more, indeed, Zhang Ye's words were hard for even him to believe.
If there is no evidence......
"My people, of course we know about foreign invasions, that's why you're here, and you have a map with you, aren't you?" Its question made Zhang Ye feel shocked.
Map!?
Anlusis deliberately gave me that map is......
Thinking of this, Zhang Ye hurriedly took out the map and looked at it over and over again, and found that there was still only a route on it, and there was no way to take away the artifact.
At this point, it takes two steps forward and presses its hands on the map with five fingers spread out.
"It is my privilege to know that the Ominous Eye still has such powerful Assassins before they fade, please continue to prosper with them." As soon as it spoke, it turned into a blue mist of light and poured into the map.
The back of the map then lit up with blue light, and Zhang Ye turned the map over with a complicated mood, and found that there were several more unintelligible words on it.
But fortunately, the mobile phone can not only directly modify his own language, but also translate any ancient characters, so Zhang Ye scanned the text on the back of the map with his mobile phone, and then got the method of how to obtain and take away the artifact.
But Zhang Ye's mood was not happy for a while, because it was so easy, even as natural as breathing, he decided to sacrifice.
There is no impassionedness, no pride, no tragedy, no sadness, and some are just the last longing for the future before death.
The hand holding the map unconsciously became harder, and Zhang Ye, who was used to seeing death, still inevitably had waves in his heart, but he knew that now was not the time to be sentimental.
He toasted the map and moved on, only this time he was as fast as a bullet, as he made sure the flashing red dots weren't what he had thought they were.
Along the way, Zhang Ye also met others, the heroic spirits of the ancestors of the Ominous Eye clan, they seemed to have known that someone was sacrificed, so when Zhang Ye passed by, they were sad and helpless to salute Zhang Ye, it seemed that they would do the action when remembering the deceased, and Zhang Ye naturally drew the same salute of the gourd.
But there was no more conversation, Zhang Ye was a little puzzled at the beginning of the period, but he quickly knew through observation that they were preparing for battle, and obviously they planned to buy time for Zhang Ye whenever necessary.
Seeing this, Zhang Ye rushed to the area where the artifact was located even more anxiously and quickly, so he felt the area where the artifact was stored in half the estimated consumption time.
It was a forest of stone pillars, bottomless and pitch-black, and Zhang Ye couldn't see anything related to the artifact from the edge, but the gray line on the map ended here.
Zhang Ye injected a wisp of fire into the original sword, causing it to ignite the red-veined flames that illuminated the surroundings, and the details on the stone pillars were clearly visible.
He found that the surface of the nearest stone pillar was written in the same ancient script as before, while the surface of the other stone pillars was blank.
After scanning it with his mobile phone again, Zhang Ye clearly knew the meaning of those ancient words.
But Zhang Ye's brows became tighter and tighter, because the ancient words on the stone pillar were not singing or describing anything, but one by one they stated the conditions that only the Master Assassin could achieve.
And if Zhang Ye can't achieve those conditions perfectly within the specified time, the artifact will destroy the entire city of the undead, not only that, but the artifact itself will also go to another world, or another plane, and then trying to find it is equivalent to finding a palm-sized stone in the galaxy.
This is still the case with the space-time locator.
But no matter how difficult it is, he has to succeed the first time, but there is no chance to do it again.
So he forced himself to calm down, think carefully about the conditions one by one, and think in advance what methods would be used to achieve them one by one.
The first condition requires Zhang Ye to quickly and silently follow the established line from side to side in one minute with his eyes closed, relying only on the flow of the wind, etc., and if he falls or tries to fly along the way, it will be fatal, and the attempt to open his eyes to look at or remove the blindfolding equipment will also cause all the stone pillars to be shattered at the same time.
This is not difficult for Zhang Ye, his telepathic perception and the other modifications made by the T virus make him almost no longer need his eyes, and the reason why he didn't do that is because he is still used to seeing everything with his eyes.
The second condition is a bit more difficult, if the second condition is to be achieved, Zhang Ye must dodge sneak attacks from all sides in the process of achieving the first condition, which not only includes all kinds of traps, but also the ancestors' personal "tests".
The ancestors who participated in the "test" could not leave here, so Zhang Ye must not have seen them, and they had no interest in anything other than the "test", they were real, "cold machines".
Those mechanisms are also deadly and silent, and are not limited to the physical plane, but also the spiritual level and the form of energy sneak attacks, naturally do not come one by one.
It is very difficult to achieve these two conditions, but what really gives Zhang Ye a headache is the third and last condition.
"Finally, break the ......"
This is the original sentence on the stone pillar, and the reason why there is no second half is because the extremely vague text has been destroyed, and it is impossible to see whether it is man-made or natural.
Failure to state what the requirement is means that it could be any unexpected.
He began to use various methods to try to recover those words in the shortest possible time, but whether it was telekinesis, Jin Yuanqi, or intuition, or "Source Eye", he couldn't recover those words.
There was already a shout of killing behind him, which also made Zhang Ye have no time to ask the ancestors, he had to make an immediate decision, whether to start directly or deliberately fail, and then let everyone not get the artifact.
He turned his head to glance at the faintly lit passage of fire, then turned his head and took a deep breath before leaping forward! Stepped on the nearest stone pillar!
With his eyes closed and he felt the air currents around him, feeling the subtle changes as they brushed the surface of the stone pillars, and the powerful abilities of the T-virus, he began to jump silently and quickly in succession, the route drawn on the stone pillars.
Two five-meter-long black spikes flew silently, and the target was Zhang Ye! But he had just jumped and had not yet landed on the next stone pillar!
He wanted to use his telekinesis to knock those two spikes away, but found that his telekinesis couldn't leave his body!
didn't have time to think about why, Zhang Ye forcibly twisted his body in mid-air, making his body almost folded! The two spikes thus clinging to his thorn and the customer silently swept by!
Then it returned to its original state and landed firmly on the stone pillar almost at the same time.
Is any ability that can make people fly disabled?
Zhang Ye frowned and thought as he continued to jump between the stone pillars, but he hadn't come up with an answer yet.
Black spikes struck from the pitch black distance again, and this time there were ten!
Zhang Ye blocked the original sword horizontally in front of his chest the moment his feet landed! The dazzling golden light suddenly exploded!
Ten crisp clashes sounded in succession, and the golden light on the sword body actually cracked densely! Zhang Ye's body was even knocked backwards due to the extremely strong force!
However, those ten spikes were not just the initial impact force, they seemed to have infinite power, continuously pushing Zhang Ye and bringing him closer to the edge of the top of the stone pillar little by little!
At this moment, the rebel priests had already killed all the ancestors of the Ominous Eye Clan, and they rushed to the edge of Zhang Ye's previous stay with a shout, and one by one, they jumped onto the stone pillars without fear of death, and then rushed straight towards Zhang Ye's eye-catching target!
"Soul light! You're going to kill everybody! Zhang Ye, who was angry and anxious, shouted!
God knows if there are too many people who challenge, whether those conditions and rules will change, so Zhang Ye can be said to have been blown up!
However, those rebel priests who have entered a state of frenzy, regardless of whether they will kill everyone or not, they even ignore the fallen companions, and desperately want to kill Zhang Ye! Take the artifact!
Zhang Ye wanted to deal with them, but the ten spikes suddenly increased their strength, causing his left foot to be empty in an instant!
At the moment when his body was out of balance, Zhang Ye immediately opened the "Source Eye" and modified the space around the priests one second before he fell!
Although the effect was drastically reduced due to the restrictions, many priests were moved directly out of the stone pillars, and then all fell into the bottomless abyss!
Zhang Ye didn't have time to see what happened to them, he smashed his hands on the surface of the stone pillar one after another, and flew upside down to the slightly shorter stone pillar not far away with the help of the reaction force!
But he couldn't step on the top of the pillar, so he just forcibly twisted his body and stomped on the edge of the pillar with both feet, causing himself to fly upside down again and finally land on the top of the pillar just now!
All this process only took less than five seconds, but for Zhang Ye, his heart was raised to his throat, because as long as there was a slight mistake in the process just now, he would have been buried in the abyss at this time.
"Whew~." Zhang Ye breathed a sigh of relief and continued to follow the route, but this time he encountered a new problem.
It was not an almost irresistible sneak attack, but Zhang Ye jumped back and forth between the two stone pillars all the time, without any substantial progress, but there were less than twenty seconds left in time!
Zhang Ye forced himself to think calmly, but no matter what he thought, he couldn't understand why this was happening, and he couldn't stop, because whenever he stopped for a short time, he would feel a very small sound, similar to the sound of a gear turning.
And the stone pillar also dropped a little at the same time......
Time passed second by second, and although Zhang Ye had a guess about whether it was related to the request that was only half of the request, he had no way to confirm it.
But he had an extremely risky idea.
After landing on the top of the stone pillar again, he actually jumped forward with all his strength, and then skipped the second stone pillar directly!
There was endless darkness in front of him, and he jumped like a desperate man, but when he began to fall, a stone pillar suddenly and inexplicably appeared under his feet, and he forcibly stopped at the same time as his feet hit the ground!
Through perception, Zhang Ye knew that he was still on the prescribed route, and he didn't have time to think about why this was happening, so he immediately continued to move forward according to the route.
However, far from the end of his "test", it ushered in even greater difficulties!
A green energy form of an assassin emerges from the darkness, and instead of attacking Zhang Ye, they create chains with thorns and control them to attack Zhang Ye's limbs and neck.
Zhang Ye, who was facing hundreds of chains almost instantly, jumped forward with all his strength as before, and this time Zhang Ye skipped two stone pillars one after another.
And in front of him, there was no longer a stone pillar as before, and he gradually accelerated his fall towards a dark abyss......
Fear welled up in Zhang Ye's heart, but he forced it and stared at the darkness in front of him with all his attention.
Until a ray of light appeared in the darkness, Zhang Ye smiled with satisfaction and joy......
He fell directly into the ray of light, and the feeling of being immersed in warm water made him close his eyes again comfortably and relaxedly.
It didn't take long for him to open his eyes as he felt his feet on the soft lawn.
In front of him is the cloudless sky, under his feet is the boundless grassland, and in front of him is a pure white machine on the grassland.
The oval-shaped machine is surrounded by white pillars, which emit white light mist to connect itself to the elliptical machine, and with the arrival of Zhang Ye, it has also changed greatly with them.
The oval-shaped machine cracked through it, and white mist poured out, finally causing a woman covered in bandages to appear in front of Zhang Ye.
Zhang Ye subconsciously stepped forward, he carefully observed the woman, and found that in addition to her perfect figure, her hair and face could not be seen clearly, as if she was always shrouded in a fog.
He wasn't in a hurry, just watched her until she raised her left hand and put it on the edge of the machine.
Zhang Ye took two steps back, allowing her to sit up smoothly, and she first looked around blankly, and finally locked her eyes on Zhang Ye, who was dressed in a stabbing body and holding the original sword.
"You, are you here to kill me?" She asked in a soft, yet sad tone.
Zhang Ye asked curiously: "Why do you ask that?" ”
"He's going to kill me, he's going to kill me, everyone wants to get my power, what's the difference between you?" She looked at Zhang Ye and asked, her tone as gentle and sad as before.
"I'm going to take you away." Zhang Ye replied firmly, he knew that the so-called artifact should be the woman in front of him, but she was not a tool, but a life.
"Take me, go?" She seemed a little surprised, Zhang Ye's response was very different from what she thought.
"That's right, and the sooner the better." Zhang Ye said that he was going to pick her up, but she leaned back to dodge, which made him a little puzzled.
"You're going to take me there?" She asked curiously, in a tone that was both gentle and interested.
"No one can find your place." Zhang Ye didn't know what was wrong with him, but at this time, he was like talking to his lover, gentle and firm.
She didn't say anything more, she didn't ask anything more, she opened her arms.
Zhang Ye leaned down and hugged her cold body, and carried her out of the machine that had imprisoned her for an unknown amount of time, and the pipes connected to the syringes were also torn off.
She also hugged Zhang Ye as she got out of the machine, and just like that, the two of them hugged each other and walked towards the end of the grassland.
Neither of them spoke along the way, feeling each other's body temperature like lovers, she was no longer cold, because she felt and accepted the warmth from Zhang Ye.
Zhang Ye knew that she had used some means, but for some reason, he didn't want to demolish her, nor did he want to hurt her, not only because of her gentleness and beauty, but also because he didn't perceive the slightest hostility.
It wasn't until Anlusis suddenly appeared that Zhang Ye was sure that none of this was so simple.
"Hand her over to me." Anlusis gave no explanation.
She didn't respond, and she didn't beg Zhang Ye for anything, because no matter what Zhang Ye decided, it wouldn't surprise her again.
She also felt very satisfied, as if no matter what the outcome was, as long as she was hugged by him and walked with him this way, it was worth everything.
Maybe it's because she's never felt cared for......
"You don't have to think about it." Zhang Ye, who was already angry because of the worst prediction, was even more unlikely to listen to An Lucis's orders at this time.
She looked up at Zhang Ye suddenly, she didn't know, she didn't know why Zhang Ye was like this, didn't he care at all about handing over the many benefits he could get?
"Such a good girl, of course I'll keep it for myself, I'll take her away now, you can try to fight me to stop me." As soon as Zhang Ye's voice fell, he continued to move forward, walking past An Lucis, who was full of helplessness.
Anlucis's didn't do anything, and after he came into contact with Zhang Ye for a while, he knew that he was very likely to make this decision.
Zhang Ye and her disappeared on the grassland, and after they disappeared, Anlusis suddenly smiled and whispered to himself: "It turns out that the prophecy is true, I actually doubted the prophecy, it's really sad......"
And Zhang Ye and her, who had left that space, appeared in the endless sea of sand with a flash of white light.
"Why?" She asked abruptly.
Zhang Ye still wanted to continue to hold her, so he hugged her and asked, "What why?" ”
"Do you know that if you hand me over, you will not only get a good reward, but also the possibility of being the head of the clan?" She said softly as she rested her head on Zhang Ye's chest.
"You don't know me well yet." Zhang Ye said with a smile, and put her down and found the hooded windbreaker from the space ring.
She wore it straight on.
"Your name?" (To be continued.) )