MTL - Half Immortal-Chapter 34 Ankang Ancient Town (No. 13)

The rainstorm continued, and the sky was completely covered with a dark curtain. The dark clouds even obscured the bright stars, only the distant thunder light brought a faint brightness.

Candles were lit in the main hall of the mountain temple.

Yan Wei held an umbrella, whistled, took out a flashlight from his pocket, turned it on, and shone on Jiang Xiu's face without hesitation.

Jiang Xiu's gloomy face was suddenly shaken by the strong light, he subconsciously raised his hand to cover his face, and scolded: "Even you dare to slap your nose on your face?"

"Of course," Yan Wei got his wish, seeing the man's angry and remorseful expression, "You dare not kill me."

Jiang Xiu gritted his teeth.

Jiang Xiu certainly knew what Yan Wei meant. It was already dark, and according to the situation in the dungeon, nightfall was the time for ghosts to act. It is a fact that he has the lowest score, and now Yan Mingguang and Yan Wei are not the most important thing to him.

As a player who descended from the tenth floor to the seventh floor, Jiang Xiu could not have imagined that he would face the threat of death just over a day after the dungeon started.

He glared at Yan Wei fiercely: "After tonight, I won't let you live until the next day!"

Yan Wei raised her eyebrows: "Then you have to stay up until after tonight. By the way, the skin and bone umbrella may appear again, be careful... bones."

Jiang Xiu turned around and walked into the mountain temple. As soon as he turned around, in front of the steps of the mountain temple hall, Yan Mingguang stood there holding an umbrella and looked at him condescendingly.

Jiang Xiu walked up quickly and hurriedly bypassed Yan Mingguang - he has no time to deal with these now.

"Brother Jiang!" Zheng Mao was stunned, then raised his heels.

Yan Wei suddenly turned sideways, blocked the road ahead, and collided with Zheng Mao who was in a hurry.

The moment they collided, Yan Wei took out the things he had prepared from the black ring and stuffed them into Zheng Mao's pocket without a sound.

Zheng Mao glanced at him for unknown reasons, and said angrily: "Get out of the way!"

Yan Wei spreads his hands and does not let him.

Zheng Mao saw that Jiang Xiu had entered the temple, so he had to bypass Yan Wei and walked up the steps, followed Jiang Xiu, and quickly disappeared at the door of the temple.

"Boom—"

Yan Wei stood at the bottom of the steps and looked up at Yan Mingguang at the top of the steps, standing at the entrance of the main hall.

The goddess has been **** by them. Most of the candles in the hall are lit by the players, which are much brighter than last night. The candlelight behind the man flickered, slightly depicting the tough outline of this man, in this dark rainy night, it was dull and reliable.

It cools down at night, Yan Wei feels cool, but not too cold.

Why?

He thought about it.

It seems that Yan Mingguang is looking at him.

Thinking of this, Yan Wei held an umbrella, sneered, and walked up the steps step by step to Yan Mingguang's side.

"What are you thinking?" The other party asked him, paused, and added, "I turned off the projection when I first came out."

"I think it's amazing," Yan Wei copied his pocket with one hand, clenched the Yanzi coin in his pocket, and blinked quickly, "I've never been worried about handing over my plans to others before. Come and do it, but today... when I was waiting for Jiang Xiu to appear at the gate of the temple, I didn't seem to have thought of other possibilities at all."

He has made sure that Yan Mingguang will not miss.

Yan Wei knows his sexual orientation, but he also knows very well that his heart is full of indifference, and he will not have intense emotions.

The man glanced at him.

"It's getting dark, it's time to go in and rest."

"It's time to go in, but I'm not in a hurry to rest," Yan Wei walked under the eaves and put away her umbrella, "There's a good show tonight."

Yan Mingguang naturally understood that Yan Wei was talking about Jiang Xiu and Zheng Mao. He didn't say much, he also said good umbrella, and went back to their room with Yan Wei.

Yan Mingguang lit the candles around the room, Yan Wei wiped the table and chairs, then sat down in front of the old desk and said: "The reminder of the three-point answer just now, I listened to it carefully and it was exactly as I thought."

This copy of the ancient town of Ankang comes from the customs of a remote area.

The ancestors of the townspeople settled in this place surrounded by mountains and rivers, and also found a stone on the mountain wall. The shape of the stone is like a man holding an umbrella, so the ancestors of the townspeople directly surrounded the mountain wall halfway up the mountain and worshipped this human-shaped stone as a mountain god.

They began to believe that it was the mountain **** who brought them good weather. They regarded umbrellas as totems, worshipped rainy days, and gradually developed **** and ugly customs.

—If a girl in the town encountered a heavy rain on her eighteenth wedding day, it means that this girl was chosen by the mountain god. Her skin is to be peeled off alive as an umbrella cover, and her bones are drawn alive as an umbrella handle and rib.

In recent decades, during the period when the current goddess was in charge of the temple, a total of five eligible girls appeared.

They were sent to the altar by the townspeople together, and they were skinned and boned by the goddess at the bottom of the well.

After the sacrifice, the skinless corpse of the girl will be thrown into the well by the goddess. The skin of the skin is made into a skin-bones umbrella.

Over time, in the past ten years, Ankang Town, which was still normal, has changed.

"I felt something was wrong in the morning," Yan Wei frowned, "The goddess said that their 10-year mountain **** festival is coming, and the town will start to worship the mountain god, and the cook also said that During this time, the townspeople will express their reverence for the mountain **** with white umbrellas at the entrance. But we... from here to now, apart from the children who come to the mountain temple to study every day, have we met any believers?"

Normal fanatical beliefs, mountain temples should be prosperous.

But there is no one here.

"They are no longer in awe of the mountain temple, but fear far more than respect. Combined with the goddess's move to put an umbrella at our door to attract skinless ghosts, I am bold Guess - after these girls turned into ghosts, they began to kill people in the town. Combined with the pictures we saw at the bottom of the well, the girls killed people by sacrificial methods, and put the bones of the dead at the bottom of the well, and the goddess naturally found out Despite all this, she did not dare to defy these ghosts, so she had to continue to make umbrellas from the bones of the dead.

"And later, she found that if these skin umbrellas were placed at the door, the girls would kill those people first. So the scared goddess kept attracting travelers from other places and put the umbrellas at the door. , hide in the room, and replace the lives of the townspeople with the lives of travelers."

"This is the secret of Ankang Ancient Town, so we can get this point without going down the mountain."

Then that's what they do.

He guessed at the beginning that the goddess had three points to answer. So Yan Wei was holding on to those clues along the way, holding back all these rush points.

When the goddess was caught, Yan Wei forced Lin Zhen to cooperate with Yu Feizhou, and with the help of Yan Mingguang, he waited for Jiang Xiu at the door, while Yan Mingguang and the three were optimistic about the goddess At the same time, find other players except the Moonlight Organization.

Lin Zhen's neuropathy was already solved by Yan Wei.

The goddess is not a powerful boss, just an important NPC in a dungeon, and naturally said everything under threat.

When Yan Wei saw Jiang Xiu, the players gathered in the temple hall of the mountain temple had already heard the goddess tell the customs and secrets of these ancient towns of Ankang, and also knew why the goddess used skin and bones Umbrella kills.

Yan Wei caught a bug in the rush answer system - all players heard the clues explained by the goddess at the same time, and at the same time got three points for the answer, plus Yan Wei's three points, The two points that Ning Yi found by himself, Jiang Xiu and Zheng Mao should have been tied for the lowest score.

Although some people may wonder where the first two points about the theme of the skin-bones umbrella and the water well went, but everyone has the possibility, Yan Wei has not been paid attention to at all, and he is not afraid of others guessing onto him.

Yan Wei took out the Yanzi coin in his pocket and tossed it casually in his hand.

"It's night," he smiled, "how do you think the ghosts will attack the lowest score?"

Yan Mingguang: "What did you put in Zheng Mao's pocket? Phalanx?"

"Do you remember the rules? These goblins will only attack the lowest score 'without the player triggering the death condition'."

"No player triggering death."

"There will be. But Jiang Xiu...will also die."

It was still raining outside, and the crackling sound of the rain stirred people's nerves little by little.

Jiang Xiu looked at the pile of clues sorted out in front of him, and only felt that the more he thought about it, the more irritable he became.

Ning Yi was the same as last night, just leaned there with her eyes closed, bowed her head slightly, and bangs blocked her eyebrows. She was unusually quiet and did not respond to the two players from the same organization.

When Jiang Xiu first came in, he tried to seek Ning Yi's help, but Ning Yi ignored him at all, and he didn't dare to offend Ning Yi to make himself more trouble, so he could only sort out the clues here and think Can you find a new rush score immediately?

"Brother Jiang," Zheng Mao even walked around the room, "We have the lowest score right now, and we need at least three points to get the score, what should we do?"

Even if it reaches two points, it is tied with Ning Yi at the end. Only those who score three points will not be targeted by ghosts tonight.

Jiang Xiu abolished the most useful ghost exorcism tool in his hand on the first night. He is not a player who has lifted the building three times in a row. There are not many life-saving tools.

Who knows what the so-called ghost attack will be?

And Zheng Mao is an ordinary player who climbs the building. He is a player who descends the building. The ghost will definitely attack him first and then attack Zheng Mao. He is the first target of the ghost.

"What else can we do, if there is no one who triggers the death condition, we can only get points for the answer—"

Jiang Xiu's voice suddenly stopped.

He turned off the projection of his casino building and said, "No, I thought of a clue, but we are going to the main hall... I may use secret props later, you turn off the projection already."

Zheng Mao hurriedly nodded, turned off the casino projection, and said, "Okay! Okay, I'll go with you."

Jiang Xiu walked quickly to the main hall with Zheng Mao.

The main hall was still lit with faint candles, and the heavy rain outside brought strong winds, and the candles flickered. The stone statue of the mountain **** stood there quietly, dragging out a treacherous shadow under the candlelight.

In front of the stone statue of the Mountain God, there are also some foods such as cured meat, plus some ornaments that are obviously sacrifices-that is what is sacrificed to the Mountain God at the Mountain God Festival.

Jiang Xiu's eyes sank, but his expression didn't show anything. He just pulled Zheng Mao and said, "There are clues about the objects sacrificed to the mountain gods. Let's go up and have a look."

Zheng Mao nodded again, and followed Jiang Xiu to the sacrificial objects. Unconsciously, Jiang Xiu slowed down as he approached the sacrifice, and Zheng Mao reached the sacrifice first.

As soon as Zheng Mao approached, Jiang Xiu who was behind him suddenly raised his hand from an angle he could not see.

"Brother Jiang—" Zheng Mao paused.

Jiang Xiu suddenly pushed Zheng Mao hard!

Zheng Mao, who was eager to find clues to get a quick answer, was not prepared at all. Unprepared, he was pushed by Jiang Xiu to a stagger and hit the altar directly.

The sacrifices placed were pushed to the ground by him subconsciously, and the cured meat rolled a few times on the ground of the stolen goods.

"Boom—"

The surroundings were filled with the sound of thunderstorms, but Zheng Mao felt terribly quiet. At the moment when he pushed down the sacrifice, he suddenly felt that something was watching him in the dark, causing a chill down his spine.

Jiang Xiu, who had just pushed Zheng Mao, stood aside with a grim smile on his face, and finally heaved a sigh of relief.

On the first day they came, they asked the goddess if she could walk around, and the goddess replied that it would not affect the sacrifice.

Like all dungeon guide NPCs, what they said when assigning rooms at the beginning was the most basic dungeon rules. In other words, if it affects the sacrifice, it will trigger the death condition, and it will definitely become the first attack target of the ghost.

If no one triggers the death condition, the goblin will attack the lowest score. There was no way for Jiang Xiu to get three points in one go before the ghost appeared, but that didn't mean he had no way to go.

—Zheng Mao collided with the sacrifice, triggering the death condition.

He'll be fine tonight. Anyway, if he doesn't do this, Zheng Mao is going to die tonight, so it might be better to let him live. Before they came out, their casino projections were also closed, and other players and members of the Yuemang organization would not know that he exchanged his own life for it.

He just needs to close the gap tomorrow and during the day.

The goal was achieved, Jiang Xiu raised his foot, and was about to turn around and go back to the room.

The moment Zheng Mao fell to the ground, he knew that he was being used.

His eyes were splitting, he got up in a hurry and grabbed Jiang Xiu, roaring: "Jiang Xiu, you—you use me!? Do you still have a conscience!"

Jiang Xiu threw him away: "Anyway, you are going to die tonight, why don't you give me a chance to live. I will let Yan Mingguang and Yan Wei die to help you get revenge. ."

As an ordinary player, Zheng Mao couldn't compare to Jiang Xiu's body index at all, and was pushed away by Jiang Xiu in an instant.

He tumbled and hit the corner of the table, and something suddenly rolled out of his pocket.

Zheng Mao could clearly see what this thing looked like under the faint candlelight—it was an ordinary phalanx.

He hurriedly panicked and regretted, and suddenly the words Yan Wei said at the gate of the mountain temple suddenly appeared in his mind...

—"Be careful... bones."

Zheng Mao's expression changed, and his panic was instantly replaced by despair and ruthlessness.

He hurriedly grabbed the phalanx without a trace, saw Jiang Xiu who was already walking back, immediately got up and ran forward and hugged Jiang Xiu: "Brother Jiang! Brother Jiang, you can't Treat me like this, when I entered this dungeon, you promised that you would definitely bring me out alive... Jiang—"

Jiang Xiu pushed him away again.

The moment he was pushed away, Zheng Mao stuffed his phalanx into Jiang Xiu's clothes pocket.

Since Jiang Xiu wants to put him on the back, then he... won't let Jiang Xiu live!

In the guest room.

Having sorted out all the clues, Yan Wei slowly got up and chuckled.

"I'll be back when I go."

The man is smoking a cigarette by the window. The gust of wind brought by the rainstorm instantly blew the smoke away, and Yan Mingguang's dull eyes were even colder under the lens.

The man looked up at him and asked, "Where?"

"Go and take back the common deceased phalanx I got from dismantling the umbrella. I have always wanted to confirm that the 'unknown' common deceased phalanx has the same effect as I guessed - attracting ghosts ."

Yan Mingguang was stunned for a moment: "I thought you gave a girl's phalanx."

The girl's finger bone, that is a prop that can resist the attack of ghosts.

Yan Wei sneered: "You think I want to save Zheng Mao? Not everyone is as kind as you, Mr. Ice Cube. Zheng Mao and Jiang Xiu were on the wrong side. But he wanted to kill us too—and he deserved it. Well, if I'm right, the phalanx should be on Jiang Xiu by now."

"I'm leaving. Confirm the function of the common deceased's phalanx, and by the way... enjoy death."