Shen Yi saw Lao Meng at a castle on the edge of the harbor.

He was startled when he saw Lao Meng.

Is this still the pretentious, sword-fighting, and heroic old Meng he knows?

Lao Meng in front of him was wearing a black canopy, which almost covered the whole person. Even so, Shen Yi still clearly saw Lao Meng's deep sunken eye sockets, and a pair of eyes were more white and less black.

It's just that he hasn't seen him for seven days, he seems to be more than ten years old all of a sudden, wrinkles appear on his face, and his whole person has lost a whole circle, at first glance he looks like a prisoner who has just come out of the torture prison, and he even has a cowering expression when facing the sun.

"Old Meng, why did you make yourself like this?" exclaimed Gentle.

She grabbed Lao Meng's hand, which was now as strong as a chicken claw.

"Hehehehe, I can't think of it......" Lao Meng let out a bitter laugh: "You're right, gentle, you can't learn this kind of thing...... Making the undead caused my flesh to be attacked by corpse qi turned me into this ghost. ”

His voice was no longer rough, but with a ghostly aura that could not be explained.

"But it's only been seven days!" cried softly.

"One hundred and sixty-eight hours, to be exact. ”

Gentle heart chilled: "You said you haven't slept in the past seven days?"

"Yes, without a minute's rest, desperately grabbing people, producing, catching people again, and making again......" Lao Meng's body trembled a few times: "In the past few days, I have been like a demon, completely immersed in it, I hear my heart calling, rejoicing, when I hear the wailing and miserable cries of those people, I will feel happy with all my heart." I was completely intoxicated by the thrill of killing and gore, as if the climax had arrived...... It's addictive. ”

"Oh my God...... It's the curse of the Blood Witch!"

Gentle never believed that Lao Meng's nature could be so cruel.

Lao Meng's thin face squeezed out a trace of an ugly smile: "Yes, until yesterday I accidentally saw my own face, I was startled by my appearance." Then I realized that the curse was real, that I had fallen under the curse, that my heart was infected. Originally, this curse would not have been triggered without temptation, and perhaps it would have been removed when we returned to the city. But I'm too greedy...... I shouldn't have learned it...... The curse was induced......"

He looked gentle and said earnestly, "I have fallen!"

Looking at Lao Meng in surprise gently, she grabbed Lao Meng's shoulder: "No, Lao Meng, you still have a chance." You see you're still awake, and if you give up that thing right away, you'll be able to recover!"

"No way. Lao Meng shook his head: "I know very well what I am going through. The Undead Crafting Scrolls is a very powerful summoning spell that you can have with enough materials and time to have an entire army. But it comes at the cost of being eroded by this corpse and resentment. It's not a harm, it just changes your appearance and makes you look scary, more like a necromancer. ”

"You're a warrior, not a necromancer!"

"Wouldn't that be better? a necromancer with melee abilities. ”

"Hell. Gently scolded: "Don't be obsessed anymore, do you really want to turn yourself into a skeleton in the end?"

"Stop persuading him, it's useless, he can't turn back. Shen Yi grabbed the gentleness and shook his head at her: "Whether it is the cursed heart, or his yearning for strength, or his current state, he can't go back." ”

Gentleness sent her eyes for help to Shen Yi: "He saved my life, Shen Yi...... Help him. ”

Shen Yi smiled bitterly: "The problem is that he doesn't need help himself, on the contrary, we need his help." ”

Gentle and wordless.

Lao Meng laughed dryly, his voice hoarse and ugly: "That's right, it's you who need my help, as for me, aren't you just ugly? What is it compared to strong power...... I know it's wrong, but my heart tells me so...... Come in with me, and I'll show you some of my new gadgets. ”

Everyone followed Lao Meng into his castle, but Gentle did not see the hellish scene she thought she had. The room was very clean, only some utensils and medicines, and even a freshly cooked hot soup, but it was hard to say what was put in it.

"Don't worry. Lao Meng said: "This is not my place of production, after all, this is the area of the harbor, and the sound of sorrow will bring me unnecessary trouble." This is the showroom, which is mainly used to house some of the undead creatures that I have newly researched. Some of them work well, some of them don't. ”

A white skeleton with six arms staggered over to open the small door to the staircase.

Lao Meng pointed to the skeleton: "Six-armed skeleton, a failed product." I used to hope that they would be my main melee attack force, with great attack power. It's a pity that their vitality is too fragile. They don't have enough health support to qualify as a melee class, so I use it to do some chores for me. ”

Shen Yi said casually: "Maybe you can make them long-range troops, one can top three." ”

"Good idea, but it requires three times as many weapons. I didn't have that much time and energy to find weapons for them, so I eventually realized it was an unrealistic idea and shifted my focus to elemental skeletons. Come in and check out this guy, one of my proudest works. ”

Lao Meng led them into a room, and there was a black skeleton inside.

"Look at its properties. Lao Meng said to Shen Yi with a smile.

Shen Yi uses spirit probe:

"Dark Skull: 600 HP, 20 Defense, 30 Attack. Has Skill 1: Dark Concealment, 2 Dark Arrow, 3 Death Servitude. ”

Old Meng said leisurely: "There are still parts of your spiritual exploration that you don't know, such as the Dark Skeleton has extremely strong action ability, and its speed is equivalent to that of an adventurer with 30 agility attributes. Its Dark Arrow is an elemental attack with 60 damage, which is not too high, but has a lot of stability. Finally, Dark Enslavement allows it to transform a slain lifeform directly into a Dark Skeleton. However, Dark Enslavement can only be used once, and transformed Dark Skeletons do not possess the ability of Dark Enslavement. ”

Everyone was shocked, and Shen Yi blurted out, "This is not a low-level undead creature. ”

"Intermediate. ”

Gentle puzzled: "Then how did you break through this limit?"

Old Meng Youyou replied, "The Heart of Darkness has made me bloodthirsty and crazy, and it has also given me the ability to strengthen the undead. If you pay, you must always gain. ”

Gentle exclaimed, "You've given too much. It's only been seven days, and you see what you've become? If you continue like this, it won't be long before you're going to be a corpse. While you're still sober, stop it!"

Lao Meng turned a deaf ear: "Originally, I still had some good things, such as blood zombies, such as the dark banshee, but it seems that you may not be too interested." Now tell me what you're looking for. ”

"I was just a little favor and I needed your help, but now it seems that you might be able to give me more help. Let's find a place to talk. ”

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In the reception room on the third floor of the castle, Lao Meng was listening to Shen Yi's words.

Shen Yi got straight to the point: "I'm going to kill Diablo." ”

Old Meng's pair of white eyes almost protruded from their sockets.

Even with his current crazy and blood-devouring dark heart, after hearing Shen Yi's words, he couldn't hold back the horror in his heart and jumped wildly.

"Are you kidding? Diablo is the final boss of the fourth difficulty, and you may not be able to beat even the third difficulty!"

"I know, so we need enough people. ”

"It didn't work. Lao Meng shook his head: "I've seen Beria's transformed Diablo, and that guy's strength is too strong." Beria has only exerted part of its strength, and everyone is not on the same order of magnitude at all, so it is no longer a problem that can be solved by quantity! It has a large area of group attack skills, and a radius of several hundred meters between the waves of its hand is all its attack area. Compared to its group attack ability, the adventurer with the largest group attack range around you has less than one-tenth of its area and less than one-third of its damage! Against us, as long as it puts two group attack skills in a row, we will all die! It was lucky to survive last time!"

"It's not just luck. Shen Yi replied: "I must thank Beria, it let us know the strength of Diablo, and at the same time pointed me in a direction to kill it." ”

"In what direction?"

"The Four Demon Kings have joined forces. Shen Yi said and took out Andariel's blood, Duriel's blood and Belial's blood: "We all know that in the background of the dark world, the three major demon gods were expelled from hell by the four demon kings. Although that was something that the four demon lords did with the assistance of thousands of Hell legions, it was undeniable that when the four Hell Demon Kings were combined, they had the power to fight at least one of the demon gods. ”

Gentle Voice: "We now have three vials of the blood of the Hell Demon King, and we are short of the blood of the Sin King Azmodan, and the blood of the strongest Hell Demon King. As long as we can gather four vials of Hell Demon King's blood and use it by four of us, we can have the power to fight the Demon God for a while. ”

"Are you crazy?" Lao Meng shouted: "Use four bottles of Hell Demon King's blood in exchange for killing the Demon God Diablo, not to mention whether it can succeed or not, even if it succeeds, this is also a loss-making business!"

"At least you can change the bottle of Demon God bloodline, maybe it's not suitable in terms of price, but you know that bloodline is a thing, quality is not quantity. Shen Yi smiled.

Old Meng shook his head: "This is simply impossible! Even if you use four bottles of Hell Demon King's blood, you only have part of the strength of the Hell Demon King, which is two completely different things from the real four Hell Demon Kings and Demon Gods! You are far from enough vitality alone." Besides, you only have three minutes to fight, and you can't kill it in three minutes. That guy's life force is at least 10,000 or more, maybe 20,000 or more. Even if it stands there and lets you kill it, you'll have to cut it down for a long time!"

Shen Yi took out another thing from the coat of arms: "Holy Refuge Scroll: After use, create a holy refuge within a range of 10*10, all attacks in the refuge are invalid, the priority is 200, and the effective time is thirty minutes." ”

"This is the harvest of Lu Gaoin's mission, how did it get to you?"

"I spent 10,000 points and a D-grade ruby to buy from the Chang brothers. ”

The original mission of the mysterious shelter was grabbed by the Chang brothers, and it was not unusual for the brothers to be the strongest among the scattered people. After Shen Yi talked to the girl in white, the first thing he did was to ask King Kong to buy this scroll from the Chang family brothers at a large price.

Lao Meng was stunned about this - buying a consumption scroll with 10,000 points is definitely not a small stroke, and it can also be seen that Shen Yi is determined to win this task.

But he still shook his head: "That's still not enough." ”

"So we need to prepare in other ways, including having other adventurers fight with us...... Even if they can consume a little more life from Diablo, it would be good to share one more attack. ”

"They won't agree. ”

"We don't need their consent. Shen Yi said with certainty: "We only need to summon the demon god Diablo when they help us kill the King of Sin and obtain the blood of the King of Sin King." ”

He took out the mask of the demon god, and Lao Meng understood a little: "Catch the ducks on the shelves?"

"Yes. ”

"And what do you want me to do for you?"

Shen Yi lowered his head and thought for a while, and replied, "In the battle of Kurast, we lost three people. Before we can kill the Lord of Evil, we must go through the battle of Trivank again. Because I need to get the skill scrolls there, which can further improve our strength. However, due to the huge trade-off between strengths, the Trivank mission is likely to cause us to lose more manpower. According to my estimates, at least seven or eight people will die to complete this task...... Probably more. ”

Lao Meng somewhat understood: "When they complete the Cui Fanke mission, considering the further widening of the gap in strength, the rest of the people will definitely not go to the Hate Cage with you again, and it is impossible for you to kill the King of Sin alone, let alone kill Diablo." ”

"Yes. Shen Yi nodded and admitted: "This is a continuous plan, just like taking stairs, you have to go up step by step, and you can't miss a link in the middle." ”

"What does that have to do with me?"

"You should know that we started from the third task, the first and second tasks, we didn't finish. ”

"Yes. ”

"I did it on purpose. At that time, the main reason for doing this was to take advantage of the fact that some adventurers did not have the opportunity to get off the death list, and force everyone to solve difficult tasks early, of course, there were other reasons...... Thankfully, I was able to take advantage of it. ”

"Hehe, it's really your style, while getting the most benefits, you also leave others with nothing to say. ”

"But not this time, if they want to go with me to the cage of hatred, there must be a reason for them to have to go. The skill upgrade scroll is a good thing, and as long as we take down Trivank, there will definitely be people vying to buy it. Originally, they didn't have any capital to compete with us. But if we let go of a few scrolls, they will surely scramble for it, and if necessary, they will even be willing to take on a certain amount of debt......"

Shen Yi didn't say any more, but Lao Meng suddenly realized: "The reason why they dare to go into debt is because there are still two easiest tasks that have not been solved. For them, that's the best way for them to pay off their debts. But if after they are in debt, someone suddenly snatches all the first and second tasks before them......"

Vajra: "Then they'll be in danger right away." They will find that they have no way out but to storm the cage of hatred. Even if they only owe a little bit of blood, they can only get through the third difficulty. ”

Lao Meng said coldly: "And I am the best person to snatch the first and second tasks and force them to their death, right? After all, they will never believe that I can take on two tasks alone...... Do you know that by doing so, you are making me the enemy of all adventurers?"

Hong Lang sneered: "You are about to become a public enemy of mankind, how many adventurers are you afraid of?"

Shen Yi said leisurely: "After this mission, I'm afraid there are not many people who can go back alive." The rest of the people, whether they are afraid of you or hate you, cannot be your opponent. You have worked so hard to kill so many people and make so many undead creatures, but don't you still have to complete the task? We give you the two easiest tasks, which are exactly what you need and will definitely do. The only thing I ask is to cooperate with us in terms of time. You'll have to complete both of these missions after the auction of the Trivank quest. That's not that hard for you, is it?"

"Of course it's not difficult. Lao Meng sneered: "Shen Yi, I thought I had a heart of darkness, and I was already the craziest and bloodthirstiest person in the bloody city, but I didn't expect you to be even more vicious than me, you are pushing everyone to death!"

"Sort of, my mercy is only for my friends. Shen Yi said indifferently: "Oh, by the way, after completing the first and second tasks, if you are interested, you can also come to hate the cage, don't worry about those adventurers, they need your strength, and they will never dare to do anything to you, not to mention that we support you." In addition, I am also going to buy a Constitution Potion from you, and of course, I will give you an absolutely good price. ”

"I'm not going to fight Diablo. ”

"Since I told you the plan, I can't harm you. All I need is for you to help us get through the cage of hatred, and you can get out of there before we kill the Lord of Sin. I can't summon Diablo until I have the blood of the Lord of Sin. Of course, if you want, you can leave some dark skeletons or something for me, I can pay for them, and I can't bring them back anyway, wouldn't it be better if I could sell them?"

Lao Meng lowered his head and thought for a while.

Finally, he nodded, "Well, for the sake of us being friends, I can do you a favor." But you'll have to give me someone so we can get in touch with each other, and by the way, you can help me fight and relieve some of the pressure. ”

Shen Yi nodded and stood up: "Luo Hao will follow you from now on." His leadership aura is just right for you, and you don't have to grab points too much, and you can enjoy almost all the benefits to yourself. ”

"How do you explain to someone else if you're missing someone?"

Shen Yi released the liquid metal terminator, and under Shen Yi's instructions, it transformed into a fat man.

Shen Yi smiled: "With it, there will be no problem." ”

"So...... Happy to work with. Old Meng stretched out his withered claws.

"Happy working together!"