0178 Chapter 4: The End of the Ordinary (Section 49)
As Zhen Cheng spoke, she stood in the middle of the mural depicting the castle and herself.
She set her phone to concentrated light mode, shining it on the huge, dazzling golden mask on the mural, and then slowly shook her arms.
Suddenly, a golden light reflected from the mask's eyebrows and flashed through the eyes of the three people.
Zhen Cheng showed a satisfied smile and stepped forward. After careful observation, you can find that between the eyebrows of the mural gold mask, you can see the reflection effect of metal on the surface of the mural mask that should not have any strong reflection.
It was a real gold mask, and it happened to be inlaid into the texture of the mural mask. It was so perfect that even Zhen Cheng and Navis would be hard-pressed to detect it without the guidance of footprints.
Zhen Cheng had seen something similar in a game held by the Scarry family, but she was certain that it was not the same mask.
Upon closer inspection, unlike the rather old and dilapidated murals around it, the surface of the mask was very clean, with clear fingerprint marks left on it.
By assuming the shape of the fingerprint and the posture in which the fingerprint was left not long ago, Zhen Cheng can conclude that this thing was just placed here.
In other words, it should be a "key".
Obviously, it is the Golden Mask that opens the mysterious path to the next level of secret room. This design is completely expected.
After all, according to Zhen Cheng's original speculation, the deepest layers of this ruins hide some kind of secret that could destroy the world.
If you want to bury, store, or imprison such things, it is obviously impossible to just use a deep enough underground palace to do it.
And since the way to open the door is "key" rather than "bloodline" (the latter's seals usually do not require keys and are contradictory to each other), it means that they can also use this mask to open the entrance to the next level.
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With this in mind, Zhen Cheng asked Navis to confirm again that there was no physical mechanism hidden on the wall, and then he boldly reached out and tried to pull off the golden mask.
She dared to do this because she saw through her opponent's tricks.
In the mural, she was just shaken by the golden mask until she retreated in pain. She didn't appear to be melted or seriously injured, right?
And if it is true that just by attracting her here, you can kill her with the golden mask, then the mysterious "destiny" does not need to spend so much time arranging a full set of services to assassinate a dragon for the identity of a savior.
Zhen Cheng was sure that there would be no problem wearing the golden mask, so she did it.
But as soon as it touched the surface of the mask, before it could find an angle to exert force, a sudden change occurred.
The golden mask embedded in the mural shot out thousands of meters of golden light, illuminating the stone chamber hundreds of meters underground and which had not been exposed to light for thousands of years, making it as pure white and bright as the surface of the sun.
Immediately afterwards, with a loud "boom", the entire underground monument shook violently, making Zhen Cheng once doubt that he would be crushed to death by hundreds of meters of earth's crust above his head.
The too strong light burned the eyes of the three of them, and even Ai Luogensi could not challenge the speed of light. They all instinctively made the same posture as themselves on the mural, covering their eyes with their arms, showing pained expressions
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Of course it was impossible for Zhen Cheng to deliberately imitate the movements on the mural. Everything was a natural and instinctive reaction.
Rather than saying it was a coincidence or something that influenced Zhen Cheng's will, it is better to say that there was some kind of existence that took a look at the current scene for thousands of years across the river of time, and then fixed the scene at this moment and showed it to Mr. Scarry.
People watched.
Therefore, this mural was created.
Of course, the pure gold holy light erupted from the golden mask was not the real surface of the sun, and the burning at the moment of closing the eyes would not seriously damage the eyesight of the three people.
However, the violent shaking was not able to collapse this wonder of civilization that was at least thousands of years old. It quickly subsided.
The golden light came and went. After a brief flash, Zhen Cheng, whose eyes were in severe pain, vaguely saw that there seemed to be an irregular-shaped portal in front of the mask with golden light emitting from the edge.
A black shadow fell out from inside and hit the wall of the stone room as if it had been hit by a train. Generally speaking... it was a person?
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"Who...are you?"
At the same time, enduring the severe pain that gradually awakened his whole body, Qin Shao murmured in a hazy state.
He felt like he was moving forward quickly, like someone was carrying him on his back.
"You're awake," a greasy, breathless voice came from his ear:
"First of all, I want to remind you of your situation. We have installed quite large bombs on your neck and limbs, the kind aimed at extraordinary people. So don't try to escape or resist, understand?"
Gradually waking up, Master Qin endured the pain in the back of his head and turned around to look. He saw the fat Inspector Shengbian who had just spoken, running panting beside him.
Of course Young Master Qin recognized this guy, after all he had been secretly spying on Zhen Cheng and his party in the ruins of the Western Wall for a long time.
But he was puzzled to find that the person beside the fat man Shengbian was not Zhen Cheng, but three tall men. One was a yellow man, one was a white man, and the one carrying him was a black man.
"Where are we? What are we doing?" Qin Shao asked weakly.
He silently felt his limbs and neck, and found that they were indeed bound by some kind of ring-shaped restraint that could not be easily broken away. He could not confirm whether these were really powerful explosives as Sheng Bian said, but he did not want to gamble.
However, in order to save his life, if these guys are determined to prevent him from completing the task of Lamarck's game, he can only gamble on whether he can kill them all before they detonate their harness.
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The fat man Shengbian seemed to have read through Mr. Qin's thoughts, smiled, and breathed heavily: "We are on our way to the depths of Scarry Castle. In fact, we should not be far from our destination.
Your mission is to kill the savior, right? If you go well, you'll have a chance to meet her there.
Make a deal with us and we will let you go freely. Of course, we can't help you deal with them."
It was obvious that even though she ate and drank with him all the way, Sheng Bian never considered himself to be part of Zhen Cheng's group. Of course, Zhen Cheng was also very clear about this.
But even so, after seeing Zhen Cheng's adaptable and unconstrained layout ability and Erogensi's desperate fighting power, Fatty Shengbian would never choose to confront them head-on as long as there was a chance to avoid them.
Qin Shao silently checked his Lamarck game badge, and then he was stunned.
Unknowingly, his game rules have been activated. This means that he has indeed been taken to the deep underground of Scarry Castle at this moment, which is the target location for unlocking the rules shown in the previous link in the game badge.
What surprised him even more was that the dead punk girl didn't lie to him. The goal he unlocked to pass the game was actually to kill the "savior" within the specified time limit.
Finally, he fell into deep despair.
There is only one hour left before the game target fails...