What’s Wrong With Seeking Death?

It took Jiang Lin a while to barely digest Jiang Lin's words.

Even so, she still has a strong sense of unreality. My brain buzzed.

After thinking for a moment, she picked up her phone again and placed three takeaway orders in one go, only then did she feel calmer.

"...Jiang Lin." She finally found her voice, "You should know that the four of us are going to be together in the end, right?"

Jiang Lin: "...um."

"Then you should also know that the chaotic tendency is a tendency that we must upgrade. And only when we upgrade to the top level can we gain real power, right?" Jiang Lin continued to ask.

Jiang Lin: "...um."

"Then what are you going to do now?" Jiang Lin leaned back, "Are you hiding here?"

"No, am I actively looking for a solution?" Jiang Lin hurriedly said, "Anyway, I tried it alone, and I really can't push it away. How about we try it together?"

Coming: "..."

She couldn't help but rolled her eyes, and raised her hand to plow her hair back. She didn't respond, but picked up a pair of well-packed disposable chopsticks from the side, and began to tear the packaging.

"No, are you still in the mood to eat now?" Jiang Lin blinked, "Oh no, your takeaway hasn't arrived yet, what chopsticks are you removing?"

"Take it apart for fun. Don't worry about me." Jiang Lin snapped a pair of bamboo chopsticks apart, and began to pull out the burrs on them, "I just thought about it carefully, and this matter is not completely unsolvable."

Jiang Lin: "?"

"What?" He suddenly widened his eyes.

"There are four of us in total, and each holds the power of four tendencies. In addition, we can also obtain the right to upgrade other tendencies through possession." Looking at the smooth tip of the chopsticks, his eyes are indifferent, "Although now I and you None of them are prone to chaos, but among the other two, at least one of them has."

"As long as the companions with chaotic tendencies are already in the Chen-level area before the stars close the gate, then the impact of this matter will not be great."

She glanced coldly at the eyeball on her hand: "But you'd better pray that it won't change its body before it knows about it."

Their respective initial tendencies and initial levels are unified as Hui level. And once the body is changed, the level will return to the initial state, which is equivalent to restarting from Hui step by step.

Once they choose to be possessed, they can no longer move freely in the four upgrade spaces. They can only move in the corresponding upgrade spaces like ordinary humans, and they can only move step by step. They can only move forward and cannot retreat.

And even in the state of "freely running through the door", they cannot directly land in the Chen-level area. Their initial landing location defaults to the entrance of the Hui-level area. If they want to go to the Chen-level area, they can only drive along the road. The only difference is that they can move faster and can influence and control the four The tendency to upgrade space, make operations such as locking and opening the door...

But suppose that door is locked by an outsider. Then they have nothing to do except to break through.

So now, the only ideal situation is that there is already a chaotic Chen-level among them—no, it doesn’t have to be a Chen-level, as long as it has already crossed the door before and is in the Chen-level area.

What's more, it must not change its body before this matter is resolved. Once it is changed, then this matter is really big.

"Oh, I've also considered what you said." Jiang Lin blinked earnestly, "So I've already tried to leave a message for them."

Coming: "..."

"Leave a message?" She looked at Jiang Lin suspiciously, "Now you don't know where the other two are, so why are you staying?"

"I stayed on that door." Jiang Lin plausibly said, "It's just the big ice lump that was frozen out of the stars. I found some tools and wrote on its surface."

Coming: "..."

She glanced at the big eyeballs on the back of her hand in disbelief, hesitated to speak, picked up the phone again after thinking about it, and added a cup of milk tea to herself.

After adding, Fang adjusted his breathing and said seriously: "Seriously, don't attach to the abominable thing next time."

Jiang Lin: "?"

Adjacent: "Losing IQ."

Carpenter Lin: "???"

"Also, didn't you just talk about the other two companions?" Jiang Lin threw the phone aside, and said neatly, "I just planned to tell you another thing."

"I sensed them before."

The so-called "before" was the time when the inexplicable great pain hit—now Jiang Lin figured it out, the source of that pain should be the original Chen-level gate that was destroyed by violence.

After all, the chaotic tendency to upgrade space is closely related to the four of them, and strictly speaking, it is also a part of them. The so-called ten fingers connected to the heart, although she does not take this upgrade route now, the essential connection is still there.

The same goes for the others—and at the same time she was struck by the pain, she was pretty sure she heard screams coming from somewhere else, at the same frequency.

"One of them must be a female voice, with a high-pitched voice." Jiang Lin recalled carefully, "There is another one that doesn't sound like a human being. It seems that his throat is blocked, and the sound he makes is muffled."

"It doesn't look like a human?" Jiang Lin blinked in confusion, "No, are you sure you didn't hear it wrong? Don't you just listen to the voice of the gatekeeper monster on the upgrade road."

On the Path of Chaos, there will be monsters guarding the door behind each door, which will maliciously obstruct the upgraders who pass through the door. These monsters are the embodiment of the power of the upgrade space, and they are also connected to their power to a certain extent.

Jiang Lin snorted: "Am I stupid? You can't tell the difference between the voices of your companions and the gatekeeper monster?"

Thought I was you?

"That's not right." Jiang Lin didn't know that Jiang Lin had already stepped on himself in his heart, and only tried to roll his big eyes, "The voice doesn't sound like a human, so there are only two possibilities. Either it is compatible with the beast's tendency after being possessed , the body has undergone a qualitative change. Or it has become an abomination."

"These two situations, no matter which side effect is particularly serious. If there is no serious illness in the brain, who can make themselves like this?"

"...Indeed." Jiang Lin took a deep look at him, and nodded in agreement.

"However, I just heard a little sound. I can't be sure where they are now or what the specific situation is." Jiang Lin thought for a moment, then continued, "I have saved their emotions at that time. If you go along Perception, maybe you can get more clues..."

As she spoke, she noticed that the eyeballs on the back of her hand began to move restlessly, and her heart skipped a beat: "What are you thinking again?"

"I just suddenly thought of a good idea!" Jiang Lin said immediately, "I just realized that Xing Xing is not the master of the Path of Chaos, and she doesn't have a Chen rank at all, she just passed through that door! So she locked the door forcibly, and she will definitely suffer backlash!"

Advent:...

Jianglin: "So?"

"I know her current address! I'll take you there, and take advantage of her illness to kill her!" Jiang Lin's tone was filled with enthusiasm.

Advent:...

Why am I asking that stupid question?

She self-examined in her heart, turned on the phone and looked at it, and flatly refused: "No."

Jiang Lin: "?! Why? What a great opportunity!"

"Because my crispy chicken rice will be delivered in two minutes. Don't delay my meal." Jiang Lin didn't look up, "And, I'll give you a suggestion. Before you continue to trouble the stars, find a serious Wait for your body."

Anyhow, nourish the brain.

"Oh no, listen to me. This opportunity is really good, once in a lifetime, and you can make a profit without losing it! And let me tell you, you won't make this trip in vain this time, she has..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly saw the disposable chopsticks in Jiang Lin's hand suddenly raised, stabbing himself down like lightning.

...only a scream was heard, and the world finally returned to cleanliness.

"I've said it all, don't delay my meal." Jiang Lin shook his head, shook the back of his hand that recovered quickly, looked at the phone again, and got up from the chair neatly, ready to go to the door to meet his takeaway.

the other end.

Xu Tuoran, who was lying on the living room floor, twitched his fingertips and struggled to open his eyes.

Her head still hurts. The sound that sounded when the door was frozen remained in my mind. The death value of 2,000 is amazing.

Coupled with the five hundred death points she gained when she passed through the Chen-level gate, and the several hundred points she gained from repeatedly logging in to the Path of Chaos, the total harvest this time was more than 3,000. The total value of the death value returned to nearly 29,000.

The harvest is undeniably insignificant. However, Xu Tuoran always had a bad premonition.

It's not that I'm afraid because I get too much death value. She has always been able to get the death value in exchange for her ability. The main reason is that when she finally froze the door, she was already in an abnormal state of reason—and according to her past experience, the decision made in this state, no matter how good it felt at the time, was to slowly wake up. debt repaid.

As it turned out, she was right.

As soon as he opened his eyes, Xu Tuoran went numb.

When she fell, her face was facing the stairs. And when she woke up, she didn't see any stairs, only a long ramp under the moonlight. A woman with long hair was standing on the ramp, tilting her head and smiling at herself, her chin almost dropped to her chest.

Xu Tuoran: "..."

She blinked blankly, and temporarily ignored it, but forced herself to get up from the ground. Her head was bulging and hurting, and there was a lot of crushed ice where she was lying for no reason. She picked up a piece and held it in her hand. Looking around, her head was full of question marks.

She should be in the living room. The fact is, every time her eyes glanced in a new direction, she was able to see a new and inexplicable scene.

Not to mention the moonlight Changpo and the long-haired woman, in front of her is a bleak cemetery, every tombstone is shaking, as if something is about to crawl out in the next second; to her left is a patch of light In a bright, bathroom-like area, a dead body of a strange man lay on the clean floor.

Under her feet, what she saw just now was the floor and crushed ice, but in a blink of an eye, it turned into a pool of blood, and the water level was rising along her ankles; Xu Tuoran looked back again, Only then did I realize that I was standing on the edge of the abyss, and if I took another step back, I would fall into the deep canyon behind me.

The canyon is so deep that you can't see the bottom at a glance, like the mouth of a big monster. When approaching, you can also feel the cold wind blowing up from below. Xu Tuoran was silent for a while, walked to the edge of the canyon, squatted down, carefully stretched out his hand and pressed it down——

Her hand hovered over the abyss.

What came from the palm was a solid touch.

Xu Turan patted down again in disbelief, making her guess even more certain—her palm touched something solid. Smooth, cold, and fluffy.

Like the marble floor in the living room.

That's it, case solved.

Xu Tuoran stretched out his hand towards the pool of blood below. At this moment, the blood has risen to the position of her calf, and both the touch and the smell are quite real. Xu Tuoran sank his hand into the bottom of the water recklessly, and the same tactile sensation soon came from under his palm.

Smooth and cold, and dry.

She tried to move her fingers, and unexpectedly touched a few pieces of crushed ice. When he picked it up, what appeared in his eyes were blood-stained teeth.

Xu vainly sighed. Suppressing his headache, he once again encloses the entire house as his own territory.

"I declare that in my territory, no hallucinations are allowed to exist... hiss."

Before he finished speaking, the pain in his head became more severe, and it became even more difficult to breathe. Xu Tuoran is very familiar with this feeling now, knowing that this is not something that he can restrict, so he can only cancel it hastily, and has no choice but to change his words: "I declare that within my territory, any...anyone with malicious intentions towards me things, the illusions they create will fail."

After speaking, wait a few seconds.

Nothing happened.

In other words, these hallucinations were not caused by abominable objects or Jianglin... Then what kind of situation is this?

Xu Tuoran pursed his lips, raised his arm and slapped himself without thinking. The first time it was soft and weak, the light and light force even shocked her, but in desperation, she stepped up again - this time the pain was very real, but what she saw before her eyes did not change in any way.

The water in the pool of blood was still rising, and there was still a corpse lying not far away. The long-haired woman standing on the ramp got closer to herself.

Xu Tueran felt even worse, closed his eyes and adjusted his breathing, and gave two more rules:

"I declare that in my land illusion cannot completely overshadow reality."

"I declare that in my country, all things that I come into contact with will be... temporarily freed from the cover of illusion."

As soon as these words came out, what she saw before her eyes became better—the strange scenes around her began to flicker, and the original living room furnishings and stairs were looming. Xu Tuoran looked sideways, the strange man was still lying on the ground, she tried to walk over, and touched it lightly, the moment the palm touched, the man's touched skin disappeared, replaced by a piece of mud.

Xu Tuoran: "..."

She frowned in disgust, and immediately withdrew her hand. She tentatively threw the crushed ice in her hand towards it. There was no reaction from the slime, and there was no hint of danger.

…died.

Xu Tuoran inexplicably realized this. She could feel that this mud that was once controlled by Jiang Lin no longer had any vitality. This surprised her a little.

Abominations, can they also "die"?

This fact clearly contradicted her previously acquired knowledge. But now is not the time to think about that. She stretched out her hand to touch her body, belatedly remembering that the phone was left upstairs, so she could only turn around and cautiously reach forward with her hand. In the constant switching of scenes, she finally touched the handrail of the stairs smoothly.

The stairs in reality coincide with the ramps in the illusion. Xu Tuoran held the handrail tightly and walked up step by step. The long-haired woman on the ramp stood quietly in place, but her neck turned a little bit. Her eyes were fixed on Xu Tuoran all the time. Xu Tuoran tried to touch his body. He touched it, and found that what he touched was only air, so he ignored her and went upstairs on his own.

She is very tired now. Not to mention the pure illusion that can't bring death value, it is something that can bring death value, and she doesn't bother to pay attention to those whose points are less than 500.

Finally, I finally made it to the second floor. The corridors in reality are replaced by long passages filled with cool white lights. Countless human faces floated on the walls on both sides, screaming silently at Xu Tueran.

Xu Tuoran: "..."

Help.

Resisting the urge to roll her eyes, she leaned towards one side of the wall, took a few steps along, took advantage of the alternation between reality and hallucinations, locked the position of one of the door handles, reached out to hold it, and pressed it hard. Down.

After entering the house, the scene I saw was also weird. Bone stumps fell to the ground. Xu Tueran couldn't be sure whether this was his room for a while, so he could only bear the nausea and touched each piece. After a lot of effort, he finally found a familiar touch on a beating heart, and that heart At the moment when she was holding it completely, it returned to the appearance of a mobile phone.

Xu Tuoran let out a long sigh of relief, lay down in the pile of flaming zombies behind him, and swipe on the phone screen.

It's still early at this time, if you want to rush to the comic exhibition, it's still too late. However, Xu Turan didn't think she was suitable to go out in this state. After struggling for a few seconds, she still sent Zhu Tang a message, saying that there was an urgent matter at home, and she was very sorry that she couldn't make it.

After sending the message, he switched to the chat interface with Yang Buqi, and was about to send a message to report his safety and add an off-site consultation. After a closer look, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

In the chat history, the last sentence I said was to thank Yang Buqi for preparing breakfast. Yang Buqi's reply was half an hour later. He first responded with thanks, then asked about his physical condition, and then said that he was going to the storage room for the abominable props now—but this sentence seemed to be unfinished. .

Xu Tuoran is very familiar with Yang Buqi's chat style. According to his personality, after he finished talking about himself, he would definitely turn the topic back to her again, at least saying something like "Have fun at the comic exhibition".

Xu Turan felt strange in his heart. Having said that, what is Yang Buqi doing in the storage room?

She recalled it carefully for a while and remembered. Yang Buqi mentioned it when he was blowing her hair last night. He has been investigating the use records of the abominable props for the past few days. He has not found any suspicious persons so far, but some of the reports made him feel that something is wrong. I submitted an application to the above, and I want to go in today to see the real thing.

Going to the storage room...will it delay using the phone?

Xu Turan thought uncertainly, and after pondering for a while, he still called Yang Buqi.

The phone rang for a few seconds before being hung up and refused to answer. Xu Tuoran frowned, didn't call again, and instead sent a message to Pu Han, informing Yang Buqi that something might happen. Immediately afterwards, another message was sent over, deliberately using a tone that did not match the usual: [Did something happen to you? Why didn't you answer my phone? I'm so worried about you like this, if you don't pick me up, I'll call someone to find you immediately. 】

After sending it, he paused for a few seconds, and seeing that the other party replied "It's okay", he frowned even more, and called Yang Buqi again.

This time, the call was quickly connected.

On the other end of the call, it was not Yang Buqi's voice that sounded.

"Hello?" A gentle and sweet female voice came from the other end of the phone, Xu Tuoran's pupils shrank slightly, and for some reason, he instinctively felt disgusted.

A natural disgust and contempt welled up from his chest, which only increased and never diminished compared to when he met Jiang Lin face to face.

She paused for a moment, and quickly covered up her emotions, and instead felt a burst of rejoicing—it's a good thing that someone is willing to answer the phone. I'm afraid I won't be able to get in.

She thought about it, and said deliberately: "Who are you? I want to find Yang Yuan!"

"Yang Yuan...?" The other party's voice slowed down, and after a second, he said, "He's not free right now, so just tell me if you have anything to do. I'll pass it on."

Tell me, sir...Xu Turan was afraid that she would hang up the phone, so he turned his thoughts slightly, and suddenly raised the volume: "What to tell? You let him tell me! He has the guts to provoke me, so don't he have the guts to tell me in person? Is it? I will leave it here, he must give me an account today! You let him come and talk to me!"

"But it's really inconvenient for him now. You might as well next time—"

"No, I have to make it clear now!" Xu Tueran insisted, "Is he in the Tzu Chi Institute now? My location has been shown here. If you don't want to talk on the phone, then talk face-to-face; if you don't want to talk privately, then call Talk to the leader. Anyway, it’s not that I don’t know where his leader’s office is. If you dare to hang up the phone, I’ll go to the office and call someone immediately.”

"..." The person on the other side seemed to be silent for a while, and then said "Got it, wait", the tone became much colder.

Xu Tuoran held his breath when he heard the sound of movement coming from the other end. After a while, Yang Buqi's voice finally rang on the other side of the phone.

He coughed violently for a while, as if swallowing something raw. After a while, I heard him whisper:

"Why are you calling again?"

"Didn't I tell you a long time ago? I don't like you anymore."

"I...I know." Xu Tuoran wanted to ask him what's going on right away, but he was afraid that the other party would turn on the speakerphone, so he could only follow along, "I just want you to explain it to me immediately!"

"It's clear... When I was in 'school' before, didn't I say it very clearly?" Yang Buqi said, paused for a while, and coughed again, "I showed you every word at that time. Everything written above is true.”

School. words.

Xu Tuoran's thoughts turned, and when he connected with the natural disgust just now, he suddenly had an astonishing guess in his heart.

"...In other words, do you really like someone else?" She let go of herself and opened her mouth, "Is the person who answered the phone just now the person written on your 'paper'?"

As soon as these words came out, Yang Buqi fell into silence again.

After two seconds, he heard a low, unquestionable "hmm".