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Elolo's story was funny to hear Lloyd, this guy is telling a joke, right?

It seems that this is really the case, she is the most vegetable in this group, and the others are all fourth-order and fifth-order, and she has just completed [enlightenment], which seems a little out of place.

But after thinking about it, it seems that she is so timid and afraid, it seems to be human nature?

After Elolo's lively joke, it was Jenkins' turn.

As a fifth-order powerhouse and a well-known archaeologist in the industry, he naturally has a lot of stories here.

But after some thought and weighing, he chose a story from a few decades ago, when he was still very young:

"I was only 20 years old and hadn't divorced Millie yet...... Oh no, it's not married yet...... At that time, I was very interested in the history of the past, so I went through a lot of exams and became a master of archaeology at that time. ”

"I remember the name of the great man as ...... No, he doesn't have a name anymore, so I'll call him a mentor......"

"I was so well respected by my mentor that it wasn't long before I joined a large archaeological team as his assistant to excavate the remains of a pre-disaster civilization, which was located in a remote dense forest, but it was rare that there were not many monsters, and it was an excellent archaeological site."

As he said this, Jenkinston paused, and secretly observed the reaction of the Most High.

There was no reaction before he dared to continue:

"I think you should all know that before the flood of monsters, we humans had a glorious era, but that history was buried by time for various reasons, and it has not been unveiled in front of modern people."

"The site we went to excavate is presumed to be a mausoleum, probably belonging to a supernatural powerhouse of the pre-disaster era, a mage; It could also be a powerful man who dominates one side...... In short, the scale is huge, full of unknowns and mysteries. ”

"Although our excavation progress is very slow, we have also made a lot of gains, and we have found many old clay pots, statues, armor, and weapons, but we have also sacrificed a few lives due to various accidents......

"But no one flinched, and we all firmly believe that this site has a high historical value and can help us uncover that history."

"A year later, however, the sponsors behind us suddenly became impatient and asked us to dig up the core of the ruins within two months and find the owner of the mausoleum, preferably his coffin."

"Under financial pressure, we had to resort to some destructive excavation methods, even using explosives...... In the end, I found the coffin as I wished......"

"It looks...... No...... Sorry, I can't put it into concrete words to describe what it looks like, it's like ...... No...... Forget it......"

Jenkins shook his head vigorously as he said this, as if trying to dispel an impression in his mind.

"Anyway, we mustered up the courage and knocked open the coffin, and found a dried corpse that was no longer human, it may have had a human form, and there were still some human skeleton remains, but the overall appearance was ...... I'm sorry, but I still can't find the words to describe and describe Him. ”

"There was an astonishing treasure in the coffin, gold, jewels, delicate utensils, magnificent ornaments, and we took out the treasures according to the requirements of the sponsors, carefully arranged, and a day later, all that remained in the coffin was the dried corpse that I cannot describe......"

"Everyone was immersed in the joy of discovering the treasure, and they were in a hurry to return to the city to receive the generous reward promised by the sponsor, and no one cared that the coffin was still open and not closed."

"I forgot what I was thinking about at the time, and I went there alone, and it took a lot of effort to close the coffin again."

"And then ......"

"I heard someone say 'thank you' to me......"

"I thought it was an auditory hallucination due to fatigue, so I didn't pay much attention to it, and soon followed the others, packed my bags, and prepared to return, if nothing else, the long archaeological journey was over."

Jenkins said this, and the chess piece's body swayed from side to side, as if recalling a truly terrifying experience.

"But something happened on the way...... At first, it was just someone who was talking nonsense, couldn't tell the direction, got lost in the dense forest, and never came back. ”

"Then, without warning, an experienced archaeologist slit his partner's throat and, carrying his carcass, walked up to us and showed us the reindeer he had just caught......"

"We were forced to subdue him and tie him up, but he was not in the slightest, but smiled mildly and invited us to his house to taste the smoked deer leg that his wife had made."

"Later, strange things became more and more, and some people cut open their stomachs, saying that they had a little rabbit hidden in their stomachs and wanted to release it;

Some people thought that the bottom of the cliff was his home, and jumped straight down;

Some people thought they were bears and tried to pick honey from the trees, but they were stung alive......"

"More and more people are starting to forget who they are, even forgetting that they are human, and then doing all kinds of unbelievable things."

"Only a few people, including me and my mentor, could still remain rational, and we were so frightened that we had to leave them behind and flee to the city alone."

"But then, even my mentor couldn't support it...... He began to whisper incessantly, always hugging his head and crying without warning, and then his limbs began to alienate and lengthen, and his facial features began to blur more and more. ”

"Others are showing the same symptoms as him, and they're becoming more and more like...... The person who kneaded out the dough? ”

"In the end, I was the only one left, and I ran madly through the dense forest, leaving everything behind, unable to think in my head, and not even knowing that I was still human."

"Finally, after running wildly for an unknown amount of time, I came to the exit of the dense forest, and in front of me was an inhabited village."

"I hurried over and ......"

"That ancient ruins appeared before me......"

Jenkins finally breathed a sigh of relief when he said this, and drew an ending to this story:

"I was unconscious on the spot, and by the time I woke up again, I was lying in the hospital, found by a hunting team, who rescued me."

"To this day, I still thank them for saving their lives, but I still don't understand why these hunters, who usually only operate on the edge, stumbled into the depths of the dense forest and found that ancient ruin?"

"Forget it...... Anyway, I survived, and the forest was soon overrun by monsters, and no one dared to approach the ruins again. ”

"I've told a lot of people this story, but no one wants to believe it. I also visited the sponsors behind it, as well as other scholars who knew about these archaeological activities, and found that all of them were admitted to psychiatric hospitals. ”

"Including relatives of members of the archaeological team......"

"I tried to find documents and newspapers that recorded this archaeological activity, but I found nothing, and there was no written record of such a huge operation, as if someone had deliberately erased it."

"It's like the whole world, only I remember this......"

"Later, when my mood gradually calmed down, I chose to inherit the mantle of my mentor and continue to conduct archaeological research until today."

"Later, I got married, and under the guidance of my wife, I began to dabble in the mystical and transcendent realms, but I didn't have the dazzling talent of theirs in this area, and finally barely reached the fifth order before I was too old to walk, and I could live a little longer."

"As for my stepping on the transcendent path, there is nothing worth mentioning, the only thing that can be called special is probably that I entered the [Salvation] system directly without going through the [Enlightenment] ceremony, right?"

"And all of you here, like me, have all entered the corresponding system and become transcendent without passing through [Enlightenment]...... Later, I learned that on the side of the Shining City, people like us are called 'qualified'? ”

After Jenkins finished speaking, he glanced at Valdés next to him, who explained:

"Yes, thank you to the gentlemen over there in the Shining City for giving us a title that is quite capable of bluffing."

With that, the four people on the chessboard stole another glance at the 'audience' next to him, wanting to see if he would react.

As a result, he still didn't say a word, motionless, like a true gentleman who watched chess and didn't say anything.

In fact, Lloyd was busy savoring this story of Jenkins.

Although there is no clear evidence, Lloyd has a vague sense that young Jenkins and the archaeological team have encountered some kind of [distortion]

The subsequent series of encounters by the archaeological team is a sign of distorted perceptions and cognitions, similar to those of the other seven players in the previous game.

But Lloyd can only speculate that way, because other systems can achieve similar effects, and in Jenkins's description, the distortions suffered by the archaeological team are significantly stronger and more terrifying.

Anyway, Lloyd felt like he shouldn't be able to do that.

In particular, the distortion they suffered, there was a sense of gradual and easy retraction, and it happened to bypass Jenkins, the only living mouth.

If it weren't for Jenkins' last mention of his mentor's gradual alienation into that kind of noodle man, Lloyd probably wouldn't have thought of it in the direction of [twisting].

Because he had seen such a noodle man before, and on the two occasions when he had inexplicably completed [enlightenment], he saw those creatures singing, dancing, and singing carols, which were such noodle people.

(End of chapter)