I haven't contacted him yet, but he sent me a designated transaction first?
Li Zheng opened the trading hall, found the prop, and his eyes suddenly narrowed.
"This is... the component of the final seal of the mysterious declaration!"
There are three layers of seals in the mysterious declaration. Li Zheng has successfully unlocked two layers. There is still no clue for the third component, so he can only try his luck.
As a result, there is no place to go after wearing iron shoes, and it takes no effort at all?
【Candle that cannot be lit
Grade: Platinum
Type: Special props
Description: A half-burned candle can no longer be lit. It may have some other uses.
Function: The carrier will not encounter wandering creatures at night.
Big collector Lao Pu: Oh ho ho ho ho ho! It seems you have collected enough components?
Then open the last layer of seal!
Let us Kangkang, where will the long-awaited key lead to!】
"This attribute...can also be called platinum?"
Li Zheng was confused. He just avoided encountering wandering monsters, but he was actually rated as a platinum-level prop?
Which of the several characteristics of the Death Proclamation you obtained earlier is not as good as this one?
It’s nothing more than silver!
What a nonsense!
Li Zheng said: I can’t understand it, but I was shocked!
I casually took out the mysterious declaration and the candle and put them together. The two were attracted to each other and seemed to want to actively merge together.
At this time, a prompt popped up in front of Li Zheng:
[Is it a fusion of a mysterious declaration and an unlightable candle?
This fusion may cause unexpected results, please operate with caution.】
Looking at this prompt, Li Zheng paused subconsciously, and then selected OK.
Now that we have it all together, of course we choose to fuse it, otherwise why bother collecting it so much?
【Confirm fusion.】
[Successful fusion, triggering the hidden effect of the mysterious declaration, obtaining: Lamp Holder]
【Lamp Holder
Grade: unknown
Type: Props/Proof
Description: From the mysterious Lamp Bearer organization, get it and you will be the next Lamp Bearer. It is also the secret key to the Lamp Bearer headquarters.】
"..."
Li Zhengzai carefully looked at the properties of the lantern that had fallen into his hands and had no change in appearance, making sure that he had not missed a word.
"Nah! What a fuss?! Why are all the characteristics gone?"
A piece of heaven-defying equipment turned into an ordinary lantern after all the seals were unlocked?
How does one accept this?
"Do you have to enter the so-called Lantern Bearer Headquarters to regain those characteristics?"
Li Zheng followed the instructions and activated the lantern in his hand.
The next moment, the lantern lit up, and the scene in front of him changed instantly, and he came to a dark space.
Holding the lamp, Li Zheng looked around and found no trace of any building around except for the bluestone slab under his feet.
Whenever he walked a little further in one direction, the darkness would become a physical entity and bounce him back.
"What's going on? The Lamp Bearer headquarters is actually empty?" Li Zheng was a little puzzled.
Suddenly, something moved in his heart, and he raised his head and looked upward.
At this glance, all the eyes are filled with starlight.
"This is..." The starlight was too far away, and Li Zheng couldn't see the attribute information.
"This is the dark world. Every point of light above your head is a node."
Suddenly a familiar voice sounded from behind.
Li Zheng turned around suddenly and saw a handsome man wearing black dragon armor and without a hair on his face walking over.
"you……"
"!!!"
Li Zheng looked at him and was shocked. This man looked exactly like him!
This is so damn cool!
"Who are you?" Li Zheng subconsciously looked at the prompt interface of the Eye of Preles. There was silence there, and Lao Pu was offline again.
Gan!
These eyes are indeed unreliable and can fail at critical moments!
"Who am I? Using your concept to describe it, maybe my name should be: Xu. You can also call me: X!"
"Empty?" Li Zheng clenched his hand vigilantly, but it was empty!
He was panicked. He couldn't contact the capsule residence here?
Also, he came in with the capsule unfolded, so naturally he couldn't be contacted.
But it’s a bit too much to not be able to contact the Demon Sword, right?
That guy has a telepathic connection with me. Even if his residence expands, it should arrive at the same time.
Xu chuckled and said: "What you did just now, were you looking for the blood-thirsty demon knife? Give up, in the dark world, nothing from the outside can be brought in!"
"Dark World... You have said Dark World several times. What is Dark World? And what is the node you just mentioned?" Li Zheng Jianxu seemed to have no ill intentions and asked tentatively.
"The dark world represents nothingness. It seems like there is something here, but it is actually nothingness." Xu waved his hand. Li Zheng looked down and saw that the original bluestone floor had disappeared, leaving only a void of 'black'.
"Opposite to the dark world is the world when you came, which represents existence! And the terminal you are usually familiar with, opposite to me, is called: reality. In other words, it is another X!" Xu continued
said.
Li Zheng was so confused by this set of falsehoods and realities that his head was almost spinning.
"But when I came in, I clearly called this place the headquarters of the Lamp Holder, not the so-called dark world." Li Zheng shook the mysterious declaration in his hand.
"Oh, are you talking about this lamp?" Xu pointed lightly and the lantern disappeared: "Look, it's gone."
Li Zheng: "(???????) What the hell are you..."
I finally gathered the components, opened the door here, and you took out the light with just a move of your fingers?
Do you know that you are easily beaten like this?
"It's not just that lamp." Without the illumination of the lantern, the place fell completely into nothingness, without light. Li Zheng found that there was no sound or air, and the empty voice seemed to ring directly in his head.
"You and I don't even exist in this world. If you don't believe me, just touch your own body." Xu continued.
At its reminder, Li Zheng raised his hand to touch the direction of his body, and actually passed through it.
No!
Not only was his body missing, he even felt that he only had a consciousness left.
This feeling is very wonderful and weird. He can clearly know that he has a body, but he can't feel the body, but he can still transmit the thought of moving his body.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! He tried to make a fist, but his fingers could not feel it, but he knew that he was clenching a fist at this moment, but that fist did not actually exist.
"What...what's going on?" Li Zheng was confused. This phenomenon was completely beyond his understanding.
"This is 'nothing'. I just let you experience it. Even consciousness does not exist here. Unfortunately, you don't remember that you have experienced it now. Because that feeling does not exist for you, it is nothingness."
The sound continued to come.
"So... can the concept of nothing be explained by death?" Li Zheng tried to understand this concept in his own way.
"You can also say that Wu contains 'death', but reality contains 'life'. Let me show you a fun one."
As Xu finished these words, the light suddenly reappeared. Li Zheng lowered his head, still holding the lantern in his hand.
It seemed as if everything that had just happened was an illusion.
"Look." Xu raised his hand and tapped lightly, and a ripple appeared between the two "people".
After a while, a figure jumped out of the ripples. He was nervous and frightened, and kept thinking casually.
"Don't shake, don't shake! If you don't run, you will die! Ah!!!"
The next moment, his figure dispersed and turned into another person.
"No! I'm not willing to give in! How could I die here, in the hands of this trash?!"
After that, he also disappeared and turned into another man who was somewhat similar to him.
"Haha, the winner is the king and the loser is the loser. If it weren't for that idiot Lin Fan, how could I have been defeated?"
He also disappears.
After that, figures appeared one after another, and Li Zheng looked at all this in shock.
Because he knows all these people!
The first one was the player "Chen Xiao" who was killed and devoured by the Desert Fire Scorpion. Li Zheng was sentimental about his death. It was also because of the discovery of his identity card that Li Zheng experienced a so-called "death".
"No matter how you feel.
The second one was Lin Fan. He seemed to be still at the moment of death and shouted a declaration of unwillingness.
The third one is Lin Feng...
Then came Okamon Zikawa, Gangsaka Hikawa, Umekawa Kuko, Kato Junkazu...
Some of these people died at the hands of Li Zheng, and some did not.
But the common characteristic after they appeared was that they did not realize that they had been dead for a long time, and their thoughts still existed at the moment of death.
"Are these...souls?" Li Zheng murmured. If this is the case, maybe there is a way to resurrect some people from the virtual to the real?
"It's not a soul." Xu smiled: "These are just a few marks left when they turned from reality to virtuality."
"If it weren't for your arrival, which added a little bit of "realness" to the dark world, I wouldn't be able to show you those marks just now."
Just a mark...
There is no way to resurrect.
Li Zheng was a little disappointed. He thought he could get some players back from here.
Now it seems that even if they take it back, they will only repeat what they did just now.
To describe it in easier-to-understand terms: their souls are no longer complete, leaving only the memory of the moment of death.
Like this, even if you get it back, what's the point?
Li Zheng shook his head to get rid of distracting thoughts and asked: "You still haven't told me why this place is called the headquarters of the Lamp Holder?"
"Is that important?" Xu asked puzzledly: "As long as you know that this is the dark world, it is also called the headquarters of the lamp bearer by some creatures, isn't it enough?"
"Not enough, I want to know more!" Li Zheng said: "I want to know how the creatures before me entered here, and... what's going on with this lamp!"
Li Zheng looked a little stubborn at this time.
"Wow, you really... broke the casserole and asked the truth." Xu smiled helplessly: "It seems that you won't give up unless I explain it to you clearly."
"Before you, there were indeed some creatures that accidentally broke into this place. They have a common characteristic, that is, they have no entity themselves, and they are a unique life form between reality and reality."
"Between reality and fiction...I seem to have met..." Li Zheng frowned: "Walking in the abyss?"
"Well...it seems that a guy of such a race did break into this place." A look of displeasure appeared on Xu's face, "That was a rude guy who was imprisoned here for a long time by me, and was later given away by me.
Another guy who looks pleasing to the eye..."
"Speaking of which, the lamp you are holding in your hand was built by that guy later. Using walking in the abyss as a guide, using the stable virtual and real characteristics of this race itself, it shuttles between the dark world and the real world."
Xu's words solved one of Li Zheng's previous doubts.
That is, when walking into an abyss, he took out his lantern and sucked the person clean.
It turns out that Abyss walking with a lantern is actually equivalent to a special kind of lamp oil, which is a completely restrained state.
"So is the so-called lamp holder an organization founded by the person who built this lamp?" Li Zheng continued to ask. He wanted to use this method to fundamentally understand the reasons for the disappearance of several characteristics of the mysterious declaration.
"It's not really an organization. Rather, the lantern holder is actually an identity. As long as you hold this lamp, it represents the lantern holder." Xu explained a little. It should have seen Li Zheng's purpose and said straightforwardly:
"If you want to know the reason why the characteristics disappeared, you don't have to beat around the bush."
"When this lamp was created, it was originally used as a secret key to enter this place. Those features are just a means to lure you to collect all the components and arrange them."
"It's like when fishing, you have to give the fish some bait before the fish takes the bait."
"When the fish takes the bait, will you still feed the fish?"
"Of course, this is just an analogy in a way that you can understand. It does not mean that you are a fish."
The meaning of this passage is, if you were not told how incredible and useful this item is, would you be eager to collect it?
Li Zheng also came back to his senses at this time. Before, he felt that several characteristics of the mysterious declaration were specially prepared to find other components.
Whether it’s ten more night explorations, a 90% chance of encountering the player, or getting more items from the player’s residence.
Even the last half candle is to ensure safety during night operations.
In comparison, the "like plus one" characteristic is the bait in the "trap".
Tempting players to keep looking for other people, when necessary...
Start killing people!
Everything seems to be arranged very reasonably, ensuring to the greatest extent that this prop will eventually be assembled.
When the "trap" catches the "prey", there is no need for the trap to exist.
Because this is a one-time trap, only catching the "prey" once is enough.
"So each generation of players will have a lantern holder?" Li Zheng said thoughtfully: "When all the players of that generation graduate from the Matrix or die, the lanterns will be separated again and spread to every corner of the Matrix, waiting for the next
A generation of players going to rob and fight?"
How is this setting similar to Dragon Ball?
"Although it didn't hit, it's not far off." Xu smiled mysteriously: "The original intention of making this lamp was not to require you to fight each other. It's just that there was an accident during the making, and some strange things were mixed in.
thing."
"The first lamp holder originally wanted to let you successors use peaceful means of trade to collect components, but the materials and time were not enough to build another lamp, so he reluctantly spread this, which was temporarily regarded as a defective product.
.”
"Since then, I have never seen that guy again..."
"However, from time to time, various creatures will appear here with lanterns, and you are the most special one among them."
The most special one?
Li Zheng's heart moved, and he had already guessed what Xu wanted to say.
"Although I don't know the process of how you obtained all the components of this lamp, you are the only player who came here with a lamp but no blood on his body." Xu showed a satisfied look and praised, "You are very good! You have it.
Qualified to know some secrets and benefits of the dark world."
