Chapter 30: Moonstone
Wang Ming tossed and turned, but he couldn't fall asleep under the gaze of that sight, and he wanted to get up and give the sword cover something, but he couldn't see it. But by the time he lit the Holy Light Bullet and got up, the black sword in the corner was gone, replaced by a bone sword wrapped in a layer of broken flesh, and it moved in rhythm.
"I must not have ......woken up" Wang Ming rubbed his eyes, opened them again, the bone sword was gone, and in its place, it was a rune sword that shimmered with a miserable blue light, and countless points of light continued to revolve around the sword body, for some reason, Wang Ming learned that every point of light was a resentful spirit that was cut under the sword.
"It must be the wrong way to open your eyes!" Wang Ming reached out to cover his eyes, rubbed them fiercely, and opened them again, this time, a ghoul the size of a brown bear squatted in the corner, rattling a bloody corpse, the waist of the corpse had disappeared into the ghoul's mouth, and the spine was broken into two segments, revealing the gray medulla.
"It has nothing to do with opening my eyes, I must have been in a hurry when I just got up, I must be dreaming now......" Wang Ming crawled back into the quilt, curled up for a while, and then cautiously stretched out his head.
Sure enough, the ghoul was replaced by a figure dressed in black robes and carrying a giant scythe.
“...... Good evening. Wang Ming greeted cautiously.
"You have six days left in your life. The figure said this inexplicably.
“...... Domestic third-rate horror novels? Don't be kidding! If I catch any bastard who pears me, I'll send that guy to the underworld!"
"You have chosen to face death, please cherish what little life you have left. "That's it. The figure was gone.
Wang Ming was silent for a long time, and finally let out a terrible cry when the hour hand crossed 1:22.
"I don't want to die!
In order to comfort his panic, the innkeeper, who was woken up, threw him out into the street along with the other guests.
"That's fine, at least you don't have to be in the same room with that sword, although it's a bit inappropriate to leave the sword to Yuhuang and them......" Wang Ming suddenly felt a little heavy on his back, reached out and touched it, grabbed a hard thing, and dragged it hard in front of him - the night of death.
Before dawn, Wang Ming tried various methods to discard and destroy the sword. Throw away the sword. Ten seconds later, the sword no matter how far it was thrown. It will appear on his back, and even if he digs a pit and buries it in it, he will appear behind him when the soil is halfway through. The ferocious fighting qi poured into the black sword, only to make the sword tremble slightly. And whether it's bursting flames or falling thunder. None of them could do even the slightest damage to this sword.
Instead, the roar of magic attracted the guards.
"Miss. The town has a curfew policy, so if you're okay, don't linger on the streets after midnight. Also, it is forbidden to cast hurtful spells in public in this town. Please come with us!" said two guys who were clearly militiamen, one of them sleepy-eyed.
Another companion tugged at the hem of the militia armor, and then pointed to the black sword beside Wang Ming. Militia armor jumped away as if he had seen a plague god, smiling and running off into the distance.
Wang Ming saw that his black sword scared away the chengguan, and he became more and more afraid of this sword.
"Don't scare me, I'm a little timid......" Wang Ming's muttering dissolved in the night.
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The next morning, Yueying and his party found Wang Ming, who was on the verge of collapse, in the square, with two pitch-black panda eyes and bloodshot eyes.
Yu Huang said to Wang Ming: "Good morning!"
Xinglian said to Wang Ming: "Good morning!"
Yueying said to Wang Ming, "Good morning!"
Wang Ming said in a slurred voice: "I don't ...... well in the morning"
After listening to Wang Ming's account of last night's tragic experience, the expressions of the three of them became crying and laughing.
"Hey, hey, don't look at me with the look of a dead man!"
"You actually bought it?!" Yu Huang looked like he was smiling and struggling.
"Because it's really cheap, I didn't want to give it away like this!"
"Do you have anything you want to do, do it now, don't let people have regrets in life......" Tsukizakura said pityingly.
"Did you even give up on me?"
Xinglian touched Wang Ming's messy hair: "Let's help you look at it for a while, you go to bed first, and we'll discuss it when you wake up, okay?"
Wang Ming nodded in a daze, and fell asleep on the table.
Yu Huang took out a large pile of parts and assembled them on the table next to the square, and as the abstract parts were assembled, a radio-like machine appeared in front of everyone.
Yu Huang explained: "This is the first generation of the magic energy communication system, the size is a little bigger, but the advantage is that it is cheap to build and easy to assemble. Wait for me to enter the number of the Scarlet Moon and ...... first."
As the feather twists the knob and enters a wave of magic, several small lights at the top light light are either red or green. Then a voice rang out from the machine.
"Hey, this is the Temple of Michael on Heavenly Mountain, who are you looking for?"
Yu Huang looked at the blue bar that he was falling wildly: "I'm sorry, I made a mistake ......"
The second time the phone was connected, Scarlet Moon's neutral and feminine voice sounded from that end: "Is there something wrong with me?"
"Of course there's something, your apprentice has messed with something that shouldn't be messed with. ”
"Did he go to the Heavenly Realm to kick the gym or go to hell to set up a stall without paying taxes?"
"He bought the Black Sword from Stonepile. ”
As soon as the words fell, the three of them heard the sound of tea being squirted out from the opposite side.
"Poof-ahem!ahem!ahem!You're talking about the night of death?"
"That's right. ”
"I asked him if he wanted something to eat, and I helped him buy it. ”
“......”
"Where is he now?"
"Tossed all night and was sleeping. ”
Scarlet Moon thought for a while: "That's it, let Tsukizakura take it." ”
Yu Huang handed the microphone to Tsukizakura.
"You use the moonlight technique to suppress the black sword for the time being, and wait until you have a clue before thinking about it in the long run. ”
"Okay. Is there anything else you need to explain?"
"Ask him if he prefers water burial or earth burial, and what color and variety of wreath he wants to use. ”
“......”
By the time Wang Ming woke up, it was already evening. Yu Huang used the magic energy communicator to browse the archives of the Dragon Library, looking for a way to crack the black sword, Xing Lian used his spiritual energy to probe the structure of the black sword, and Yue Sakura controlled the moonlight and wrapped the black sword around.
"Are you awake, do you want to eat something first?" Sensing that Wang Ming opened his eyes, Xing Lian interrupted the spell casting.
"Yes, I'm starving!"
"What would you like to eat?"
"I want two baguettes and three steaks. One serving medium rare. Two medium-rare, a plate of bacon, a bowl of lettuce salad, and ten apple pies......"
"Waiter. Bring him a glass of boiled water. ”
"What should I do if I can't eat enough?" Wang Ming asked worriedly.
"It doesn't matter. No amount of food you eat now is a waste...... I'll keep you fed. Tsukizakura smiled mysteriously.
Boiled water was served. Yue Ying sprinkled some unknown objects inside, and then handed it to Wang Ming.
Wang Ming, who took the water cup, did not drink it immediately, but asked, "Have you found out the origin of this sword?"
Yu Huang helped the glasses that he didn't know where to touch: "No." Although there are many rumors about this sword in history, there is little mention of its provenance. ”
Wang Ming took a sip of water: "Then, have you found out the principle of the curse?"
Yu Huang: "No, all the sword-wielders died strangely, and they didn't know what the curse was, and these deaths were obviously not the effect of the curse. ”
Wang Ming poured half a glass of water: "I saw a person who looked a bit like the Grim Reaper last night, and said inexplicable things to me. ”
Then Wang Ming told the three of them what he had encountered last night.
Xinglian: "And then? Is it the man with the sword who died tragically on the street?"
Wang Ming: "I'm the one with the sword!"
Xinglian: "Aren't you telling a story?"
"No!
"But when I got up in the middle of the night to drink water, I saw you rubbing your eyes against the sword, and then when you were thrown out by the boss, you were still desperately clutching the sword......
“......”
Yu Huang: "Yes? I remember the black sword floating out after him!"
Tsukizakura interjected, "Didn't you teleport out?"
Wang Ming drank all the water at the bottom of the cup: "I wouldn't have bought that sword if I had known......
Tsukizakura: "Are you still hungry?"
"I'm not hungry, what did you just put it on?"
"Elf biscuits. ”
At this time, the tongue, which was paralyzed by lack of sleep, sensed the nightmare smell and knelt on the ground and vomited wildly.
"There's no humanity yet! I'm dying of people, and I don't forget to fix me!"
"Who said you were dying? I've found a way to save you. ”
Wang Ming, who was kneeling on the ground, hugged Yueying's thighs and leaned his face over to rub: "Eldest sister, you are my reborn parents!"
"Don't say that, although I am indeed great, I don't need you to do this great gift, haha. ”
"Please save the villain!"
"It must be certain, it's rare to see a hard-working little brother like you these years. ”
“......”
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"O fire elemental wandering between heaven and earth, please obey my call......!
"Xiaohuang, hand me the KC456 reagent. ”
"Instrument 745 starts, first test run begins!"
"Circle 5 starts to overload......"
Wang Ming sat next to the busy trio wrapped in a blanket, watching them fiddle with countless bottles and cans, and from time to time they caused explosions of various colors because of misplaced things, and occasionally strange otherworldly creatures were blown out.
Two hours later.
Xinglian wiped the sweat from his head: "Great, it's done!"
"Is it finally done? What are you doing?"
"Master Kong's braised beef noodles. ”
“...... Aren't you trying to find a way to lift the curse?"
Tsukizakura: "Do you still need me to take so much effort to lift that curse?" ”
"Sister, can you be serious, my little life is in your hands!"
"If you're not satisfied, go to someone else! As long as it's a Light Pope-level magician, this curse can be lifted. ”
“...... I was wrong, please forgive me. ”
"I forgive you. ”
Yue Ying handed a stone to Wang Ming: "Take this stone close to you." Don't lose it. ”
“...... This stone is the size of a coconut, how do you wear it closely?"
Tsukizakura: "It's to make it so big to prevent you from getting lost." ”
"Even if it's small, I can keep it well!"
Tsukizakura: "You can't help it. ”
She reached out and broke it on the stone, and an unidentified stone comparable to marble was directly pinched off. When Yueying reached out and broke it again, the piece that had been broken off had been pinched into dust.
Wang Ming: "Are you laughing at every warrior on this continent......
Tsukizakura peeled off a layer of stone like she peeled an orange and turned it into an apple-sized one: "Is it too big?"
"If possible, please make a smaller ......"
Hearing this, Tsukizakura peeled off the outer layer like an onion, revealing the white core inside.
"What should I be, it turned out to be a moonstone!"
"This is a moonstone with a high concentration of moonshine placed on it, and it will automatically activate when you are in danger, and it should be able to break the curse...... There's no curse in this world that I can't break!"
"What if the stone is useless?"
"If this moonstone can't save you. Then even if the God of Light comes to you, you will not be saved. ”
"Don't say it so ruthlessly. I can also open the protagonist aura ......"
"Don't think about it, that thing has been banned in this version. ”
Time flies, and it won't be long before it's night.
Wang Ming sat in the square holding the moonstone because he had just woken up. Therefore, there is no sleepiness. Nothing to do. He was in the glow of the moonstone. Swing the black sword. After cultivating the Fighting Qi for so many days, he finally found a serious way to use it, so the sword was under the effect of the Fighting Qi. Cracked through the air, making a whining sound.
Wang Ming closed his eyes and concentrated on sensing the power around him, and there seemed to be a strange power field five meters in front of him to the left, so he couldn't help but poke a sword past.
Originally, it was an open space, but Wang Ming's sword body faithfully reciprocated the sense of obstruction inserted into the flesh.
"What is it!" Wang Ming opened his eyes and saw that a small half of his sword was inserted into the body of a ghoul.
Generally speaking, there are occasionally low-level undead creatures on the continent who run out and wander in the wilderness or cemeteries, but there are very few undead in settlements.
"Do you want to call the city manager, I haven't fought the ghoul yet!" Before Wang Ming finished weighing, the black sword in his hand gave birth to a mysterious power, automatically guiding his wrist to pick and wipe, and the ghoul's ugly head flew out with a puddle of black blood and fell into the pool in the distance.
"Auto-monster fighting? Could it be that this sword is actually an artifact?"
At this moment, a sharp cry came from behind Wang Ming, and he didn't have time to look back to see what it was, and he split that thing in half with a backhand sword, it was a zombie. The sword dragged Wang Ming to move constantly, dodging the monsters hidden in the darkness, and guiding him to counterattack at the right time, each sword could kill an undead.
Ten minutes later, Wang Ming was almost exhausted, such a high-intensity battle was by no means something that an ordinary human could hold on to for a long time. It's true to be a berserker yourself, but the last thing a berserker is good at is persistence.
Wang Ming, who was panting like a cow two minutes ago, doesn't even have the strength to pant now, and if he continues like this, he may really die of exhaustion.
"No way, this is my limit, use the hole cards. ”
Wang Ming stuck his sword on the ground and pulled out the "artifact" staff from his back.
With a burst of magic power, a dazzling light erupted from the tip of the staff, and the undead who were illuminated by the light all screamed and retreated.
"You know the power of the [Undead Dispelling Technique]! Go die, you dare to disturb my sword practice!"
The word "Soul Blast!" came from the window of the hotel in the distance, and before Wang Ming could mobilize his spiritual power to defend himself, his consciousness was blank for a while.
The sleepy Wang Ming was woken up by Yueying: "Okay, the curse is lifted." ”
"The curse has been lifted, what's going on?"
Feather Phoenix explained, "The principle of that black sword is to make people hallucinate and think that nearby creatures are monsters. After killing nearby creatures, the Black Sword will transform the sword-wielder into the undead, and those killed will be sacrificed to the Grim Reaper. I don't know who is so lacking in virtue and created such a murderous soldier. ”
"But the moonstone you gave didn't come in handy?"
Xinglian: "That piece of moonstone was used for my positioning, and we had evacuated the nearby residents beforehand, so there were no unnecessary casualties this time." ”
Wang Ming looked around, those undead corpses that had originally overlapped each other had disappeared, and only the extremely deep ravines swept by his sword qi on the ground.
"When did my fighting spirit become so strong?
"It's just that the black sword has exploded all your potential, and your body consumption in the previous ten minutes is equivalent to just running three or four marathons. ”
As soon as the words fell, Wang Ming felt dizzy and almost fell to the ground.
"Has the curse been broken?" asked Wang Ming weakly before fainting.
Xinglian grabbed Wang Ming's hand, "Don't worry, I have seen through the flaws of that curse, and the mental explosion just now completely extinguished the curse." You can go in peace......"
Wang Ming went with peace of mind.
It was a dog, well, that looked like a power armor, and even the gorgeous full-body knight armor couldn't hide its dog-like temperament.
A few days ago, because Wang Ming was drained of his magic power, even his spiritual power was sucked into seven or eight or eighty, and he became a wasted person. Although Yuhuang woke up Wang Ming in time, the three of them had to support Wang Ming, who had lost most of his mobility. The captured captive was thrown on the back of the power armor and returned with all the other luggage.
Because the power armor had suffered unknown damage again in that battle, it moved at the same speed as a turtle, and the people who were in a hurry simply tied Jester to the power armor and let it slowly walk back, and the large army rushed first.
If the power armor rushes back, then everyone will naturally be happy, if they can't come back...... Anyway, the luggage is not worth much, and as for Jester strapped to the armor, it seems that it is not in everyone's consideration. (To be continued......)