Online Game: Crazy Skeleton-Chapter 1230 - 1143: The Mechanism is Almost Played Out

"Could it be... that someone has already beaten us to it?"

Su Ran was somewhat doubtful, but it wasn’t hard to tell from that scream that there should be a battle ahead.

"Or is it because the plot requires it, deliberately making noise to lure me over? That shouldn’t be possible, the system isn’t that sinister yet."

"Why bother with so many guesses, just go and see and you’ll know!"

To be on the safe side, Su Ran slowed down Wang Cai’s pace, waiting for the skeleton troops to catch up before confidently moving forward.

As Su Ran carefully walked through the long corridor, he discovered that the interior space of the pyramid was quite large, far beyond what it seemed from the outside. However, it was brightly lit here, dispelling all darkness and death, which was convenient for the vision, allowing him to see great distances at a glance.

What surprised Su Ran was that he had walked such a long distance without encountering a single monster, and the screams had also disappeared. It was just the scattered coffins all around that proved there had been a fierce battle here not long ago.

As for the significance of this battle, he had no way of knowing.

At that moment, Su Ran’s occupational disease kicked in. Accustomed to dealing with tombs all day, he couldn’t resist stopping whenever he saw a coffin, excitedly walking up to one. It was two meters tall, resembling a pencil box, which piqued his curiosity. When he opened it, he found a human-shaped groove inside with a piece of white bandage. It was easy to guess that a mummy must have been confined here.

"This is indeed a pyramid setting; even mummies have appeared. Can the Sphinx be far behind? However, if this mummy were turned into a pet, the turning heads rate would be quite something."

Su Ran chuckled. No one in God-Demon Continent was seen walking a mummy, and if he brought one out, it would definitely be a showstopper!

"Eh? What’s this... a painting?"

He first bumped the coffin with his hip, finding it impossible to fit it in. Then, with a look of disdain, he threw it on the ground. As he lifted his head, he unexpectedly found a square protrusion on the wall. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a painting hanging there.

It had to be said that the color tone of the painting almost matched the wall, and if he hadn’t looked closely, he would have missed it. Driven by curiosity, Su Ran walked over and wiped the portrait in the painting. The craftsmanship was mediocre; it depicted a character with a crown on the head and a scepter in hand, clearly a king who once ruled here. After a careful inspection, he concluded he didn’t recognize this person.

Even the handwriting in the lower right corner looked like alien script, so scribbled that it was impossible to make out what it said.

"Interesting, this painting must be a special artifact, or else it wouldn’t be placed so covertly."

At this, Su Ran’s spirit was immediately lifted. Not willing to miss any suspicious artifacts, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t pry the painting off the wall.

"I just refuse to believe that a mere painting can stump me!"

Su Ran wasn’t willing to give up on this mysterious work of art and stubbornly persisted. He floated into the air, leveling his hip with the painting, and with a forceful thrust of his lumbar spine, his hip directly hit the portrait.

"Crack."

Instead of being absorbed by the bladder, the painting was knocked askew. Suddenly, an arrow shot out from the wall, whizzing by his hip and disappearing without a trace.

Feeling the searing pain in his hip bone, Su Ran was utterly petrified.

"Ah~~~"

Another scream rang out once more, echoing from the depths, pitiful enough to make one’s scalp tingle.

"That was close, it was actually a trap!"

Su Ran felt a chill down his spine, feeling as if he had just dodged a brush with death. During his meddling with the painting, his head was right in front of the arrow’s launching point—if the trap had been triggered, the consequences would have been unimaginable!

Luckily this character doesn’t have a little JJ. That arrow just now would’ve surely chopped it off without a doubt! At the thought, Su Ran’s face turned even paler, and he involuntarily made a swallowing motion.

He wondered if there was a ’eunuch’ title in the game; even if such a title existed, with many added attributes, no one would probably wish for it, right?

"The system is really shameless, exploiting the curiosity of players, directly pushing them to their deaths, despicable, utterly shameless!"

Su Ran was so frustrated that his teeth itched. If he weren’t afraid of triggering another mechanism, he would have torn up this lousy painting a long time ago.

"Eh? Something’s not right. As soon as the secret arrows were released, that voice appeared again. Could it be an illusion?"

After pondering for a moment, Su Ran decided to test it out again to determine the exact location of the voice.

This time, Su Ran learned from his past experience. He rose a bit and pushed the painting in the opposite direction with his feet.

"Click."

The familiar sound of the mechanism activated once more, and the arrows were launched again, transforming into a streak of light and vanishing from Su Ran’s sight.

"Aaah~!"

The scream came once again, so miserable that it made one’s teeth sour. As the one who had triggered it, Su Ran felt a bit embarrassed, but he also came to a conclusion: the one screaming definitely wasn’t a player!

Why?

Does this even need an explanation?!

What kind of player would stand still and take arrow shots continuously? That would be idiotic. Unless someone had a tendency for self-harm and wished to be used as a target, which would be a different story altogether.

"Hey, if it’s a BOSS, then I’m in luck. Using the secret arrows to kill it, and then going to collect the spoils of war—saving both trouble and effort. What a good deal!"

Su Ran grinned, feeling like he had discovered a shortcut to killing the BOSS. This must be a system bug, and he wanted to shoot the BOSS dead before this loophole was fixed!

With that thought in mind, Su Ran began to happily stomp on the painting. The click sounds kept ringing out, and the secret arrows were launched frequently. Playing this way was extremely satisfying and made him feel great!

"Swoosh!"

"Aaah~~~"

"Swoosh!"

"Aaah~~~~"

...

Ten minutes had passed.

"Damn, does this BOSS have too much HP, or what? How come it still hasn’t died?"

Su Ran stared dumbfounded at the depths of the corridor. The pitiful ’aaah’ sound had become somewhat hoarse, yet it was still clearly discernible, indicating that the BOSS was far from being close to death.

In response, Su Ran increased his output. The painting suffered as a consequence. It was frequently toyed with by his feet, and the figures in the painting were smoked to the point of distortion.

"Swoosh swoosh swoosh!"

With three arrows shot in quick succession, a series of ’aaah’ sounds followed. The more Su Ran listened, the more he felt something was off—the voice no longer sounded like screams but had a tone of enjoyment to it.

Could it be...

This BOSS is actually a masochist? That’s just ridiculous, isn’t it?

Su Ran promptly abandoned the idea of continuing to exploit the mechanism and mounted Wang Cai, heading towards the direction from which the voice came. To avoid direct contact with the BOSS and to play it safe, he immediately activated Wang Cai’s Luck Concealment ability. In the invisible state, he rushed forward quickly.