After being frightened, he finally cast his gaze over, and then the Adam's apple on the skinny neck kept rolling up and down, as if he was seeing mouth-watering food. Only the slightly bulging eyes on the withered face reflected the light in the dim cave.
That light burst out after seeing the "Saint Girl".
Gu Mian saw the person in front of him rolling his protruding Adam's apple a few more times before opening his mouth to ask, and a line of words appeared at the bottom of the screen.
"Saint...why are you here?"
He didn't notice the dark kitchen knife in the saint's hand. This knife was originally prepared for tomorrow's breakfast.
Gu Mian stared at the screen, presumably the dialogue options would appear in the next second, but he did not intend to fool him like this. Gu Mian's idea was to defeat them one by one, and try to deal with all the single ones first before considering the remaining ones. No
By chance, there was a lonely person in front of me.
So the moment the line of subtitles below appeared, Gu Mian started frantically clicking the attack button in the lower right corner.
The bursting blood splashed on the gray mud wall next to him. The rolling Adam's apple was instantly covered by the blood. The greedy eyes on the thin face could no longer shine as they stared at the delicious food. The person in front of him covered his head tightly.
He held his neck and opened his mouth, but in the end he couldn't make a sound. He twitched and fell to the ground, dying with his eyes closed.
Perhaps he didn't believe that the quiet and elegant food man actually used a kitchen knife and became a butcher.
At this time, Gu Mian held the knife in her hand and looked at the curtain in front of her that covered the entrance of the cave but did not block the light. Orange light came out from behind, so there should be someone inside.
"This person is so young and he shouldn't be the village chief, so is the village chief still inside? Has the sound I made just now alerted the people inside?"
Gu Mian couldn't hear the sound of the game, so he couldn't judge how loud the action was.
Separated by a curtain, Gu Mian could not guess the movements of the people behind the curtain. Perhaps the people inside had heard the sound and were ambushing on both sides of the cave entrance. As long as he raised the curtain, he would be directly attacked and killed by the people next to him.
But he couldn't die, not even once.
A solemn atmosphere suddenly filled the quiet cave. Uneasiness and anxiety lingered in the air, which was extremely depressing.
The little bird who went out may come back at any time. When she finds that the saint is no longer in the room, she will immediately become alert. The worst result is to immediately notify everyone to gather here to capture the saint.
But there were several hungry people hiding behind the curtain in front of them. They were hiding behind the entrance of the cave, waiting for an opportunity.
Suddenly, Gu Mian felt that he had returned to a miserable afternoon. There were more than twenty loud noises on a wide elevated road. It was a series of rear-end collisions between twenty-eight cars. He was in the middle, and so was the one in front of him.
After death there is death.
Very similar to the current situation.
But Gu Mian knew that he could no longer hesitate. He took a step forward in the restless air, and then took out a lighter from the inventory.
Now he has two lighters in total, and one of them is already in his hand.
This is underground, and the earthen room is difficult to light. Although sweet potatoes are usually buried underground and roasted, Gu Mian didn't want to do anything to this earthen nest; he opened the lighter with a "pop" and quickly stretched his arms forward.
The flame as big as her index finger was approaching the shabby curtain, and Gu Mian saw options appear on the screen.
[Whether to use a lighter to burn the ‘shabby curtain’]
Gu Mian had seen this option before when he burned down a house, and of course he chose the same option as before.
"yes."
The thumb-sized flames immediately began to open their mouths to devour, and a round hole opened in the middle of the shabby curtain. The ring-like flames quickly devoured outwards until the entire curtain turned into a large curled-up piece of ashes.
Light shone from the unobstructed entrance of the hole, and Gu Mian, who had long withdrawn his hand, also saw the scene inside.
Two simple brass-colored candlesticks were nailed to the wall, with two candles of different colors standing on them; the ground was covered with a spread made of rag blankets, even though similar colors were chosen as much as possible,
But the visual effect is still not impressive; a rather expensive-looking desk is placed on the left hand side of the door, and looking back is an old tan closet about one person tall, with a bed made of sponge cushions next to it.
There was a small bulge in the carpet, as if something was hidden underneath.
This is a very solemnly decorated room - if there were not two pieces of dirty old clothes leaking out from behind the hole.
There are people hiding behind the cave entrance, one on each side.
As if realizing that the curtain covering them had been burned, the two people behind the cave entrance couldn't help but shrink back. Unfortunately, due to the design of the cave, there was no room to hide behind the cave entrance.
"Maybe these two people wanted to kill me when I was close to the entrance of the cave, but I didn't expect that I actually burned the curtain with a lighter. I didn't have time to hide elsewhere, so I could only shrink back desperately and pray to them.
The trick was not discovered by me."
Of course Gu Mian saw it, but he still pretended to be unaware and took a step forward, slowly walking towards the entrance of the cave.
At this moment, a shovel suddenly appeared on the screen. This was a fatal blow that the person behind the door had been planning for a long time.
Gu Mian, who was well prepared, quickly retreated and naturally dodged the shovel that was coming towards his head. The man who was flying the shovel also appeared in Gu Mian's sight because of his large movements. He took this opportunity.
, Gu Mian immediately picked up the kitchen knife and took a step forward, controlling the task and slashing forward bravely.
The result was what he had expected.
A third corpse has appeared in the dark underground. He doesn't look very old.
At this moment, Gu Mian saw another person hiding behind the cave entrance suddenly rush out. Just when he was ready to meet the person who rushed out, he saw the person suddenly slip away from his eyes against the wall.
In the past, I was like a rat scurrying madly against the wall in the dark.
I saw the short young man running away quickly along the wall towards the wellhead, opening his mouth to an exaggerated degree. Even if he couldn't hear Gu Mian, he knew how loud his voice was——
"He killed someone! Someone come and save me!"
Such a loud sound, and it was in the underground passage, I am afraid that the group of people at the wellhead must have heard it.
Gu Mian took two steps forward and wanted to catch up, but the guy who was running away like crazy struck first and used all his strength. If he chased him, he would probably be caught by the people coming over there before he could catch up; go.
If you chase someone, you will definitely be caught. If you don’t chase someone, you will be caught if you wait here... What should you do next?
Gu Mian frowned and stood there thinking for half a second, then turned to look into the room that was no longer covered by curtains.
He quickly walked in and lifted up the rug beside the bed that seemed to be hiding something.
A trap door installed on the ground appeared in front of him, with a large old brass-colored lock on the door.
Looking at the lock, Gu Mian immediately took out the key found on the butcher's body.
"Click"
The fat man opened the metal shell lighter in his hand.
The weak flames were swaying under the ravages of the night wind, as if they were about to go out.
"If all of us burn the save point left by the doctor, then after the character controlled by the doctor dies, we will have to start all over again."
Fatty understands very well the meaning of "starting over".
"This means that the doctor will restart the game...Brother Chu, that exile world you just mentioned..."
"Excerpts from characters in the world of exile." Chu Changge's gentle voice came from the microphone.
"Yes, that's it," the fat man kept nodding at the microphone, "Can you tell me the characteristics of that goddess again?"
There was no gap, and Chu Changge’s voice immediately came from the microphone, as if he had already memorized this paragraph:
“The goddess never truly dies;
New souls are born from burning black books;
The flesh and blood of living people will give the goddess a new body..."
While listening, the fat man looked at the three books stacked on the table: "The black book is the archive given to us by the doctor, so the archive is a scam. As long as the character controlled by the doctor is resurrected through a certain archive point, then this archive
Anyone inside will definitely be devoured...
The doctor has saved three files with me, and if the character dies, he will be resurrected from the last save. If the doctor's last two saves were saved with me, and the character he controls unfortunately dies, the goddess will be resurrected in my place and eat me.
, and then there is no living person at my save point; then if the doctor dies for the second time and resurrects here, what will the goddess eat?"
"Two possibilities," Chu Changge's voice came from the microphone, "The first possibility is that she will eat you in multiple times, but this is unlikely because it is difficult to guarantee that she will still be able to eat a third of you.
Keep you alive”
"The second possibility is that she eats you directly. After your resurrection for the second time, she will exist in the form of a soul. She will not have a body again until you are resurrected at another save point."
The fat man was a little confused: "Can the soul still die?"
"You should have seen Gu Mian kill ghosts."
"...Well, if that's the case," Fatty said hesitantly, "the character the doctor controls will have a body once he enters this game. Is that also a body obtained by devouring a living person?"
Could it be the player who entered this dungeon in the last game that was swallowed?
Chu Changge also fell silent.
At this moment, the fat man suddenly said: "By the way, the doctor can't hear our voices, you know."
"Um."
"Didn't I tell you that the doctor left with a woman before disappearing? When the doctor and the woman passed by me, I called him, but he still couldn't hear me... but the woman seemed to hear me."
Chu Changge's slightly undulating voice sounded: "Are you sure she can hear it?"
"Well, that woman brought a group of people past me after taking away the doctor. Just when I jumped off the table, they passed by me carrying several corpses. I saw that they seemed to have heard me jump.
The sound of people getting off the table."
"Theoretically," Chu Changge said, "if other NPCs can hear our voices, Gu Mian should also be able to hear them."
But all the phenomena showed that Gu Mian really couldn't hear their voices.
At this time, Chu Changge's steady voice came from the microphone again: "If what you said is true, then the problem lies with Gu Mian. He can't hear the sound maybe because if there is any sound that he hears -
—The secret will be revealed."
What secret could that be? Fatty couldn't figure it out.
"Anyway..." Chu Changge frowned slightly and looked out the dark door, "Don't burn the archive."
Three black books are neatly stacked together on the table.
007 was sitting on the table, and the chandelier on the ceiling was always swinging. She noticed it the first time she woke up. The swinging chandelier seemed to say "I have a secret."
At this time, 007 finally took out the secret on the chandelier, a lighter.
"Click"
This poor lighter, even the flame is only the size of a bean.
"What's going on?" A skinny curly-haired man asked as he walked in the front, and next to him was the short man who ran away like a mouse under Gu Mian's eyes.
Behind the two were nearly twenty skinny people, mostly young or middle-aged men.
"The saint killed someone! The village chief went out from the secret passage and asked us to look at the door. Then we heard the saint coming," the short man gestured with joy, "She...she took a knife and killed two people."
personal!"
The curly-haired man twisted his neck: "This is impossible. The Saint has been alerted several times before, but she only hit people randomly with a wooden stick or a kerosene lamp, and she never killed anyone. The most lethal one was just
She broke someone's skin, where did she get the knife?"
But when they passed the Saint's room just now, they looked inside and saw that there was indeed no one in the dark room.
"Come with me and have a look, then you will believe me!" The short and thin man was quite anxious. He hid in the crowd in fear, "Hurry and arrest her!"
When they arrived, they only saw two bodies lying at the door.
A strange atmosphere suddenly filled the air, and everyone looked at each other in confusion.
The leader of the curly-haired man opened his eyes wide. He quickly took a few steps forward and passed the corpse on the ground and looked into the room that was no longer covered.
I saw that a large area of the carpet in the room had been lifted, and a hinged door was opened wide, revealing the dark passage below.
That's the tunnel leading outside.
A short and thin man emerged from the crowd: "Look, he's running away!"
The curly-haired man stared at the wide open trap door with disbelief. After a few seconds, he came back to his senses and said to the woman next to him: "Go and call Aman. Just say that the person ran away and ask him to arrest him."
.”
"Okay, okay." The woman took steps and ran towards the door.
At this time, whispers came from the crowd.
"Is it really the saint who did it? Saints were not so powerful before..."
"It's impossible for a saint to kill two people at the same time. She doesn't have the ability."
"She can't even kill anyone like that, right?"
"..."
And just when everyone was whispering, the woman came back.
She fell to the ground with an expression of panic, raised her head and looked at the others with a panicked expression: "He's dead! He's dead!"
The buzzing whispers immediately escalated into incredible questions.
"What?" "What did you say!" "Who died?"
Everyone turned their faces to the woman who fell to the ground, and those eyes widened in shock reflected a strange light.
"Aman, Aman is dead! His knife..." When she said this, the woman's voice became smaller due to fear, "His knife was also taken away."
"Yes, it was taken away by the saint!" The short and thin man almost jumped up, "I saw she killed someone with a knife!"
An almost explosive sense of fear surged into everyone's hearts. They turned their necks to look at the others, and sure enough they saw fear and astonishment in each other's eyes.
The saint killed Aman?
In other words, the helpless woman... killed the butcher?