If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

"Do you remember what Mandy Gonzalez said before we left? About the eighth level." Su Xiaoqiang suddenly asked.

Lu Mingfei immediately searched his memory. It was strange that he knew that the last time he saw Mandy Gonzalez was more than a year ago after entering that dream world, but when he looked through this memory now, it was as vivid as if he had just seen her before turning his head. It was a very awkward experience.

"'The qualified ones pass, and the unqualified ones sink.' That's what she said, if I remember correctly." Lu Mingfei repeated the riddle of the golden hair.

That nightmare was the "eighth level", and he and Su Xiaoqiang were undoubtedly "qualified" people who had not yet "sunk" in that seemingly true world.

Then, as it should be, they woke up from the dream, and the train arrived at the terminal station -

"Is this the ninth level?" Lu Mingfei asked in a low voice.

He seemed to be asking himself, or questioning the dark and wide cave in front of him, but no one answered him. The coal slag on the ground in the cave lay there coldly and silently, like a cemetery that no one cared about.

The end of the level of "Nine-Layered Ghost Domain", the last level.

Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang walked cautiously in the last level of "Nine-Layered Ghost Domain", the ninth level, which was marked in the game introduction as the final lair of the evil dragon that guarded the gold, silver, and the princess.

But they did not see the evil dragon or the princess here, nor did they see the mountains full of gold and silver. There was only a piece of coal slag and a large cave with an open space where church hymns could be sung.

As if unable to bear the silence and weirdness of the Great Void, Su Xiaoqiang asked Lu Mingfei in a low voice, "You were in the eighth level of that nightmare. What did you see in the eighth level?"

"It's hard to describe." Lu Mingfei said as he gradually explored whether there were any traps hidden in the Great Void, "You can think of it as me returning to the time when I first entered school, and then re-experiencing everything from school to now, but in this process, there was no Lin Nian to help, and I had to do it all by myself."

"Including the Dragon King's attack?" Su Xiaoqiang asked in amazement.

"Almost burned a few layers of my skin. Well, not almost, it did burn a few layers of my skin, but I still succeeded in killing those troublesome guys. You can understand it as the difficulty has been lowered, otherwise I really have to die in the eighth level." Lu Mingfei said whatever he wanted to say, which could be regarded as exchanging information, "What about you? What did you encounter?"

"I" Su Xiaoqiang was silent for a moment to organize her words, as if thinking about how to use concise words to tell what she saw, but before she could speak, she found that Lu Mingfei in front of her suddenly stopped and stretched out his hand to signal her to stop.

The two of them had walked to the center of the big hole. The closer they got to the center, the stronger Lu Mingfei's vigilance became, but in the end he still didn't see the dangerous figure, which made him feel relieved. But the thing that replaced the figure in the center of the big hole, after Lu Mingfei discovered and saw it clearly, the heart in his chest was hanging in his throat again.

The dark figure in the center of the big hole is indeed gone. What is lying there now is a long black object, one end is big and the other end is small, one end is high and the other end is low. It is more like a parallelogram than a rectangle, but the top and both sides have rounded curves.

Lu Mingfei didn't recognize what it was at first. After being extremely vigilant and approaching to see clearly, he shuddered from the bottom of his heart.

It was a coffin, a black bronze coffin.

There were no lines on the surface of the coffin, only the most traditional coffin shape. The two sides and the coffin lid were curved in the middle. The shape fits the human body contour, the front end is larger, the back end is smaller, and the overall shape is a three-dimensional trapezoid. The coffin lid moves from the wide end to the narrow end, which will form a downward trend, making it difficult to open the coffin lid once it is closed.

There is a coffin in the center of the big hole. The final level of "Nine-Layered Ghost Domain" presents such a weird scene. Anyone who sees it will notice that something is wrong inside.

Naturally, when Su Xiaoqiang and Lu Mingfei saw the coffin, some terrible conjectures also emerged in their minds.

"Lu Mingfei." Su Xiaoqiang called Lu Mingfei's name in a low voice, calling him back from his distraction with an ugly expression, "Do you think the one inside is..."

"." Lu Mingfei suddenly strode forward.

What Su Xiaoqiang wanted to ask was whether it was possible that the "King of the Earth and the Mountain" was lying in the coffin. As long as the things in the coffin were angered, the big void would become the battlefield of the final battle. If so, they need to think about the next plan in the long run, and it is better to wait for the reinforcements to arrive before starting this BOSS battle.

But it was obvious that Lu Mingfei misunderstood her meaning. When Su Xiaoqiang saw this guy walking towards the coffin angrily and urgently, he understood what the other party had misunderstood.

"Wait! Lu Mingfei!" Su Xiaoqiang wanted to stop Lu Mingfei's behavior, but before he ran over, Lu Mingfei had already done what he should do.

He walked to the heavy bronze coffin, grabbed both sides of the coffin lid with both hands, and the black and red dragon scales covered his arms to his chest and neck. He burst out with great strength and lifted the coffin lid abruptly!

When Su Xiaoqiang walked over, he just saw Lu Mingfei lifting the coffin lid, and he couldn't help but look inside. Then he was stunned.

There was no body in the coffin, but only one. A bronze saber?

Lu Mingfei removed the heavy coffin lid to one side, grasped the edge of the coffin with both hands and leaned inside. When he looked closely and found the saber, he was also stunned.

He recognized the weapon.

Seven Deadly Sins·Rage.

One of his lost weapons actually appeared here.

In addition, there was no King of the Earth and the Mountain in the coffin, nor the person he wanted to find. The dark inner wall was as smooth as jade, and there was no clue left.

"Nothing. Nothing?" Lu Mingfei whispered, and then fell into a strange silence.

Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang stood by the coffin and fell into a long dead silence, and then they checked the coffin at the same time, until they did not find any valuable clues in the end.

Except for the Seven Deadly Sins·Rage, this coffin was just an empty coffin, and the big hole was just a big hole, without anything they wanted to find.

The big hole was silent and desolate.

"What's going on?" Lu Mingfei whispered.

Su Xiaoqiang didn't say anything. She could feel Lu Mingfei's irritability almost igniting the slag on the ground with anger. It was not an illusion. The air really heated up because of Lu Mingfei's emotions. She was shocked to find that Lu Mingfei's golden eyes were actually a bit fiery red, like a liquid flame that kept rolling in his pupils, and it could burn the pupils and flow out at any time.

"Calm down." Su Xiaoqiang had to remind Lu Mingfei, "Not finding the person we want to find is not necessarily a bad thing. Do you want to find her in this coffin more?"

Lu Mingfei's breathing was heavy. This feeling of going through life and death but finding that everything was like a mirage in the end was really unacceptable.

His anger was justified. He felt betrayed and played with. But when he thought about it carefully, who had promised him that he would definitely find Chen Wenwen in the deepest part of "Nine-Layered Ghost Domain"?

That was just his wishful thinking. No one would be responsible for his rage and dissatisfaction.

The torture and pain endured in the first eight levels suddenly seemed like a joke. The entire "Nine-Layered Ghost Realm" seemed like a bad joke. The person who created this farce hid in the dark, staring at Lu Mingfei's back and making sarcastic sounds.

Lu Mingfei held down the emptiness brought by the sense of gap in his mind, closed his eyes and adjusted for a long time, then opened his eyes and reached out to pull out the "Rage" from the coffin.

You can't lose your mind, you can't be controlled by emotions.

The experience of more than a year in the dream, the people and things he met, and the unforgettable words he said, passed through his mind again and again.

He endured it. If it was him "a year ago", he would probably have lost his mind now, but now he can endure it, swallow all the anger that bit his heart and lungs into his stomach and continue to nurture it until he meets the right person and then spit out a raging fire to burn it to ashes.

"At least, it's not nothing, right?" Lu Mingfei whispered while holding the saber, "What should we do now?"

He asked Su Xiaoqiang, more like asking for help than asking questions, as if he needed Su Xiaoqiang to give him a goal.

Su Xiaoqiang also glanced at the empty big hole, and she didn't find what she wanted here. Don't forget that she was obsessed with coming here because of a very clear goal.

"We have to return." Su Xiaoqiang made a seemingly absurd decision, but it was the only solution.

Compared to his own goal, Lu Mingfei's problem is more serious now. He came to find Chen Wenwen, but now Chen Wenwen is not at the so-called bottom of the level, so they must have missed each other on the way before!

The only way to save time now is to return immediately and look for people one by one along the way they came!

The longer the delay, the more dangerous Chen Wenwen's situation will be.

"Well, we don't have time to delay here." After Lu Mingfei calmed down, he listened to Su Xiaoqiang's ideas and thought that this was the only way.

"From the way we came here, the easiest places to miss people should be the maze in the third level and the sewer in the sixth level. We should start looking again in these two places to see if we can find any clues." Su Xiaoqiang directly ignored the possibility that Chen Wenwen died in Nibelungen. She didn't want to provoke Lu Mingfei.

"Let's go back to the sixth level first. Maybe we can have a chance to negotiate with Zhao Xusheng." Lu Mingfei made a decision.

"Do you want to negotiate with that guy?" Su Xiaoqiang's heart sank. After all, from their last meeting, the other party was not a good person to talk to.

"I will let her talk nicely." Lu Mingfei said.

After planning the next course of action, Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang did not delay for a moment and turned around and walked towards the abandoned train that was still parked in front of the tunnel at the edge of the big hole.

But before leaving, Lu Mingfei looked back at the center of the big hole again, the coffin lying there quietly. For some reason, he had a very bad premonition, but he didn't know where this feeling came from.

ps: These two chapters are considered a transition, and the real climax is finally approaching.