i have a museum of curiosities

"When - when - when -"

The dull and illusory bell seemed to come from the distant sky, and Zhang Ye slowly opened his eyes.

The sky is gray and white, and there seems to be a hazy white mist floating in the air, making it hard to see clearly.
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Where is this... again?
Zhang Ye subconsciously wanted to reach out and rub his eyes, but the back of his hand accidentally touched a cold and hard object, so Zhang Ye turned his gaze to the side.

The dark gray stone walls look old and have a rough texture.But what makes Zhang uneasy is that his body is surrounded by such stone walls, and he seems to be lying on it!

This is... a sarcophagus?
Zhang Ye suddenly had this idea in his heart, his mind regained consciousness in an instant, and he hurriedly straightened up from the lying place.

Suddenly, Zhang Ye felt a pain in his head, and many pictures flashed in his mind. Familiar faces gradually became clear, and the memories came like a tide——

Strange admission notification text messages, No. 13 night bus full of ghosts, rare museums built at the foot of the mountain, weird museum collections, and inexplicable time travel...
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Paper figurines, peach paintings, Zao Wou-ki, Li Yanzhen, Shen Qi, A Si, Tang Sanqi, Ying Xueting, Gu Zhenyi, Lia Li, Xiao Hei... and... Taozi, Ling Xiaotao...

As familiar names flashed in front of his eyes, Zhang Ye covered his head in pain, but his heart was extremely excited.

Yes, my own memory came back, the memory of Zhang Ye, the curator of the Qizhen Museum, came back!

At the same time, he recalled all the things he experienced when he came to Northland.
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Old man... Ivy... are you still alive...

Zhang Ye took a deep breath, then subconsciously touched the index finger of his left hand.
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Ah?Where's my... my ever-changing ring?I clearly remember wearing it when I entered the Hongguang community...

Zhang Ye frowned and concentrated his mind on his personal backpack space, but the expected cosmic scene of thousands of stars did not appear.There was nothingness in front of his eyes.

Zhang Ye was stunned for a moment, and then a burst of unspeakable fear surrounded him.

The personal backpack space is not only his identity proof, but also stores the biggest reliance for him to perform tasks with peace of mind and participate in various tests-various system rewards.Even his own "Hell Hammer" usually lies quietly inside!
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Calm down...Calm down, maybe...the system upgrade is complete, and the personal backpack space and the system space have been merged into one...

While talking like this in his heart, Zhang also tried to call the system space in his heart.However, the pure white room that made him feel a little disgusted also did not appear.
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What... what's going on? !
Zhang also panicked, and hurriedly called the name of the system customer service Li Qiuchan from the bottom of his heart.

This is his last hope.

However... still no response.

Zhang was also completely desperate.

No personal backpack space, no system space, no system customer service... I am a completely ordinary person!

Zhang Ye's mind was blank.

The purpose of my trip should be to pass the test specially set by "it", the big boss behind the scenes of Hongguang Community.But now that I have almost no support, do I still have a chance to pass this test?
Zhang Ye scratched his head in frustration, his heart full of fear and uneasiness.

On the one hand, it is due to the helplessness of losing confidence, and on the other hand, it is due to the bewilderment of the test and the unknown.

Obviously, this time the mysterious blood-letter test is directly sending him to another world.And this kind of ability to let people travel through different worlds at will, Zhang has only experienced it in the Qizhen Museum.He has every reason to suspect that the big boss hidden in the Hongguang community has the ability to rival the Museum of Rare Treasures!

Even if this possibility is very small, Zhang also has to be cautious.

If this conjecture is true, the ability of that "it" may not be more than S-level, right?
Do you have the ability to deal with "it"?

The answer is probably obvious - no!
It's completely useless!

I have already experienced two time travels arranged by the Museum of Rare Treasures, but the highest-level task I have encountered so far is not the second-level task of "The Lost Lover" to find out the truth about Xu Caikun's disappearance?
but……

Something seems wrong!

If the final boss of "The Vanishing Lover" is "It", how could it be possible that it only has the second difficulty?At least it must be at the same level of difficulty as the special task of helping Shen Qi whose level cannot be seen clearly!

From this point of view, either the strength of "it" is far less terrifying than imagined, or the task of "vanishing lover" has little to do with "it"!On the whole, the possibility of the former is almost zero.After all, a strange story that can transport people to another world at will, no matter how I look at it, I cannot match it.

So there is only one truth - the task of "The Vanishing Lover" is definitely not what I imagined!At least it shouldn't be like what we found so far... It can be said that this task is very likely to have no need to overlap with "it" at all!

So... am I cheating myself?

Zhang couldn't help but smile bitterly in the sarcophagus.

Judging from the current situation, the task of "The Vanishing Lover" can only be put on hold temporarily, and it is important to complete the test in blood first!

and many more!

Zhang also suddenly thought of a few points.

The first is the words of the blonde loli Ivy.

He remembers Ivy saying at the time that "Administrators are demons who bring destruction".Although it is possible that the high priest of the Holy See of the Sun God deliberately smeared it, but as a five-good young man in the new century who likes suspenseful crime-solving reasoning movies, he can't rule out the spirit of "the administrator of this world is a villain". Shock setting.And I am just a helpless traveler...

In fact, from a certain point of view, the setting of "a certain force is all good people" is the most unreasonable.Even His Majesty the Emperor may rebel. An organization with influence all over the world has only a few youngsters, which is simply ridiculous!

The second and by far the biggest highlight of Ivy’s words is the setting of “only one administrator per generation”.

Although I don't know what administrators in other worlds other than this world are like, it's incredible that there is only one administrator in one world.Even if the administrator is powerful, don't he need his subordinates to do things?Or is it that the administrators of this world called Northland like to do everything by themselves?
Then he must be exhausted!
So from this point of view, Northland's administrator is likely to be the weird one.
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Hmm... Judging from the current situation, in order to survive in this world, this question must be solved.

The third point is about your own settings.

Whether it is the old man in silver armor or the blonde loli, they all seem to agree that they are "museum administrators".That's right, I am indeed!But I always feel that the "museum administrator" they talk about is not the same thing as the museum administrator I know...

But the problem is, I am already an official administrator of the Eight Classics, why did I become a seventeen or eighteen-year-old dumb when I first appeared in this world?

Is it like the world of longevity, it is soul wear? !

Although getting younger is a good thing, if you are in an inexplicable world... it will really make you dizzy...

And it is not a comfortable thing to become dumb for no reason!
Therefore, based on the above guesses, we can draw a reasonable and unexpected answer——

There is definitely something wrong with the curators at Northland!
Suddenly, a flash of lightning flashed in Zhang Ye's mind, and a strange, strange but bold guess slowly formed in his heart.
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The administrator of Northland, could it be... no, it's impossible...

Zhang Ye shook his head violently, forcing out that terrible thought in his mind.

Taking a deep breath, Zhang Ye poked his head out of the sarcophagus——

Everything he saw deepened the fear and confusion in his heart—large and small tombstones, sarcophagi, and twisted and dead trees lined up all over the hillside in front of him, occupying Zhang Ye's sight.

It was a garden—a cemetery.
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I... 艸...

Zhang couldn't help but cursed in his heart, and quietly withdrew his left leg from the sarcophagus.

It has nothing to do with faith, nor does it depend on being brave or timid. As long as you are a human being, you don't like graves, let alone a whole cemetery.

"Although the weird events I have experienced are not rare, but waking up in a sarcophagus... no matter what, it makes people's scalp tingle..."

Hiding in a sarcophagus is certainly very uncomfortable, but it is better than facing dozens of graves...

Zhang Ye shrank in the corner of the sarcophagus with a blank face.

Fortunately, there was nothing but himself in this sarcophagus, which calmed Zhang Ye's frightened heart a little.

After finally calming down, the environment he was in made Zhang Ye start to think wildly.Especially when he was shrunk in the sarcophagus, the cold touch on the stone wall seemed to remind him where he was at all times.

Zhang couldn't help but clapped his hands, and slowly began to think.

The scene of the giant sickle splitting the carriage was still vivid in his memory, and Zhang didn't understand why he was in a cemetery now.

Could it be... this is the world after death?
Zhang also looked up at the gloomy sky.

Recalling everything before, Zhang also inevitably thought of Ivy who was killed by a giant scythe, the blond loli who had just become "friends" with him, and Yin Jia who "flyed" into the sky and disappeared. old man.

A nameless anger churned in Zhang Ye's heart.

Zhang also now knows a little bit about the administrator of this world and the Sun God Sect, and almost nothing else.He even has no idea what he is going to do or where he will go in the future!
But no matter what, as a person of flesh and blood, seeing a young life dissipate in front of his eyes is extremely uncomfortable...even if the other party is not a living person.

What's more, Ivy still died for herself...

Guilt, anger, and powerlessness made Zhang Ye feel as if he was pressing down on a mountain.

Zhang Ye gritted his teeth and grabbed his hair in frustration.

At this time, Zhang also suddenly realized something.

The wound on my head is gone!
Zhang felt it carefully in disbelief—there was no gauze, no wound, and no pimple!
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How is this going?

Could it be that everything that happened in the carriage before was a dream of his own?Is the scene in the cemetery now real?Or... is this really the afterlife?
Or... is what I'm experiencing now a dream?

Thinking of this, Zhang couldn't help trying to twist himself.

"hiss--"

very painful!
Zhang also let out a strange cry, thinking to himself: It seems that this is not a dream... Oh no, who said that you can't feel pain in a dream?That's just the lines spoken in the film and television drama, there is no scientific basis at all...

Zhang Ye once again clutched his hair helplessly, his mouth tightly pursed.

Whether I am in a dream... It's really hard to say.

Is it possible... Really want to die once?

As soon as this idea came up, Zhang Ye immediately shook his head and vetoed it.

joke!There is only one life, if it is not a dream, I will kneel down?
After a while, Zhang Ye suddenly slapped his forehead.

I'm so stupid!Regardless of whether this is a dream or the world after death, what's the use of shrinking in the sarcophagus?Zhang Ye patted his head in frustration, cursing himself for being slow to respond.

Now that he had made up his mind, Zhang Ye climbed out of the sarcophagus.

After getting down on the ground, Zhang Yegulu swallowed his saliva, and then he suppressed the discomfort and carefully looked at the cemetery in front of him.

This cemetery occupies a rather vast area. At a glance, there are dozens of tombstones!It's just that although these tombstones are relatively neatly arranged, many tombstones are already incomplete.

What makes Zhang Ye even more uneasy is that many sarcophagi are open, and they are all empty!
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what's the situation?The corpse... why is it missing?
and many more!

Zhang Ye frowned and carefully looked at everything around him, feeling an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
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This... isn't this the "Graveyard of Ashes" in "Dark Souls 3"? !

The Dark Soul series used to be Zhang Ye's favorite video game, not one of them.Although he hasn't played this game for two years, but as an old player with 10 weeks+, the scenes in the game are almost vivid in his memory!

The only question now is...why am I in the world of Dark Souls? !

Zhang Ye wailed in pain, walked back to the sarcophagus silently, and lay down quietly.
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Don't spread it, I won't spread it!

Traveling to any world, the resistance in Zhang Ye's heart will not be so great, just because this is the world of "suffering souls"!

In fact, for a player who is almost familiar with various routines, it is not difficult to pass the game of Black Soul 3 as long as he is careful enough.But for Mengxin, every wild monster and every mechanism is almost a nightmare!
And Zhang Ye, who has nothing now, is equivalent to a newcomer to the game for the first time!
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wrong!Mengxin enters the game and has equipment... What else do I have besides a suit of clothes?It's more like having nothing than "no owner"!At least they still have wooden sticks + wooden shields...

Maggill... this is what makes me fight with my bare hands...

Zhang Ye had tried to run the "Innate Stellar Qi" before, and there was no doubt that there was no real energy in his body.

Zhang Ye licked his lips helplessly, then straightened up from the sarcophagus again, and looked at the dead tree closest to him.
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Hmm... Although the tree is dead, it seems to be quite strong...

Zhang Ye pondered for a while, and finally climbed out of the sarcophagus, then walked to the dead tree, and stretched out his hand to grab a branch as thick as a mopstick.

Almost without much effort, the branch was snapped off by Zhang Ye.Looking at the two-foot-long branch in his hand, Zhang couldn't help curling his lips, and then rubbed the thin end on the side of the sarcophagus where he was lying.

After two or three minutes of grinding, a sharp point about 3 cm long was formed. Zhang also tried to stab the air twice, and nodded with satisfaction.
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I have to make my own weapons to enter the game... I am afraid that I am the "Master Ashes" who started the worst in the history of Soul 3 games...

Holding the sharpened branch tightly, Zhang Ye tiptoed around the bend in front, and then poked his head out quietly.

Sure enough, at the location in memory, a ragged living corpse was standing there, waiting for the adventurer.
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I guess... It's one thing to feel it, but another thing to prove it... This really is the world of Soul 3!

Zhang also pouted helplessly.

What can happen now?

Do it!

Silently cheering himself up in the bottom of his heart, Zhang Ye suddenly jumped out from behind the rock where he was hiding, and stabbed the tip of the branch to the chest of the living corpse with his right hand!
Although the living corpse looks a bit disgusting, it is just a novice wild monster for players to practice. The spikes of the branches successfully pierced the chest of the living corpse without any accident.

"Roar--"

The living corpse let out a scream, and finally collapsed powerlessly.

A strange energy poured into Zhang Ye's body. He seemed to feel his body became lighter and his spirit improved.
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Could it be... This is the operation of undead people absorbing souls?

Zhang also pulled out the branch, only to find a white light ball suddenly appeared on the corpse of the living corpse! -
I don't know!The first wild monster will drop it. Am I possessed by the Emperor of Europe? !

The white light ball seemed to have some kind of magical power, which deeply attracted Zhang Ye's attention.
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The phototaxis of the undead... oh, this damn instinct!
Zhang also complained secretly in his heart, but his body squatted down very honestly.

The moment his hand touched the white light cluster, the light disappeared instantly, and a rusty sword hilt appeared in Zhang Ye's hand.
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Cottage!I thought it was a good thing, but it turned out to be the most useless weapon in the entire Soul series - the broken straight sword!
Master Ashes, who had the worst start, has really beaten it!
Although the name of this weapon is "Broken Straight Sword", in fact, there is only a hilt and a blade of about 10 centimeters left.

Silently weighing the weight of the hilt in his hand, Zhang Ye curled his lips in disgust, but he was not willing to throw it away.
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After all, it was the first piece of equipment I exploded in this world, what a pity to throw it away...

So Zhang Ye continued on the road with a branch in his right hand and a broken sword in his left.

Along the way, he encountered a lot of living corpses, even more than in the game, and the positions were slightly different, but thanks to the advantage of "dual wielding", Zhang finally managed to kill Teacher Guda all the way without injury the door.

Stretching out his head to take a look, Mr. Guda, the "Judger of Ashes" who was originally sealed by the spiral sword and became its "scabbard" is now missing, and the bonfire there has also been lit.
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what's the situation?Teacher Gu Da...was killed by others?
This world...is there any other ashes? !

With deep doubts, Zhang also ran all the way to the place where the expert teacher was, but there was no one there either! -
wipe!The expert teacher was also killed?I still want to change the terrain to use a "knife" as a weapon...

When passing by just now, he found that the wooden shield he had picked up from the tree had also been picked up in advance.

Abominable crumbs and ashes... leave me a mouthful of soup even if you eat meat...

He walked into the Huo Chuanhuo Sacrificial Site with some depression, but Zhang Ye suddenly thought of something, and ran to the passage leading to the tower outside the second floor with a happy face.

The familiar crooked neck tree, the familiar one only reaches the roof of the thigh.
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Hey, Ashes of Cinders cannot jump when playing games, and can only jump to the roof through this crooked neck.Now... I am Master Ashes with knees hahaha...

Zhang Ye smiled and easily climbed up to the roof of Chuanhuo Sacrificial Ground, feeling like he owned the whole world in an instant!
Detouring behind the Fire Passing Sacrifice along the familiar road, the Porsche sperm (gem crystal bug) has not yet realized the seriousness of the problem, and still shakes its head leisurely.

Zhang also grinned, accelerated and rushed up, jumped, and hit hard.

"Snapped--"

The Porsche sperm was knocked over, and its legs kicked in a panic.

But Zhang Ye didn't give it a chance to escape, and the straight sword broken in his left hand output like crazy, which was no less than the "Fake Salary King Wulian" of the living corpse sword master!
Holding the brilliant wedge-shaped stone in his hand has a strange magic power, which makes Zhang Ye's mouth squirm slowly.
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Although the baby is good, how to put it away?

Zhang couldn't help but feel worried.

I can't open my personal backpack space or system space, so I can't hold this palm-sized brilliant wedge in my hand all the time, can I?And after obtaining equipment and items, there must be something that can be stored!
Zhang also sighed helplessly, and subconsciously lowered his hands.As a result, when the right hand holding the brilliance wedge-shaped stone lightly slid over an inconspicuous small leather bag at the waist, the brilliance wedge-shaped stone suddenly disappeared!
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I'm sorry!Where is my stone? !

Zhang couldn't help but look around, and then his eyes were attracted by the small leather bag on his waist.

Touching it with the right hand, the brilliant wedge-shaped stone suddenly appeared again.
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Flower wipe!Storage bags!

Zhang couldn't help being overjoyed, and put the brilliant wedge-shaped stone on the small leather bag again.The brilliant wedge-shaped stone disappeared again.

Earned earned!

Zhang Ye immediately beamed with joy, and happily walked towards the interior of the top floor of Chuanhuo Sacrificial Site.In addition to a piece of elemental fragments, there is also an early artifact known as "The Mercy of the Miyazaki Old Thief" - the Greedy Silver Snake Ring!
That's a treasure that increases soul loss!
"Suck it-"

Zhang Ye took a sharp breath and quickened his pace.

Soon, he entered the interior of the top floor. Looking at the stone beam that was only one person wide, Zhang couldn't help swallowing silently.
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Maggil... I have been in the game so many times, but I still have to be careful every time I come...

Zhang Ye carefully walked to the intersection of stone beams, and he heard a familiar voice——

"Quack-quack-give me beep...give me thump!"

Like, the bird's nest!
Zhang Ye felt tears welling up in his eyes. After all, it is a luxury to hear that familiar and lovely voice in a different world full of crises...

However, Zhang also has nothing to exchange for the time being.

Carefully walking to the side beam to take the elemental fragments, Zhang Ye could no longer restrain his inner excitement, and quickly rushed to the other side of the stone beam.

Standing in front of the stone wall, Zhang Ye skillfully poked forward with the branch of his right hand.

"call--"

The phantom wall disappeared, and the corners of Zhang Ye's mouth reached to the base of his ears.

The excitement was uncontrollable, and Zhang Ye quickly walked to the end of the stone beam and jumped down decisively.

"Bam—"

The sound of landing was exaggerated, and Zhang Ye let out a cry of pain, almost falling to his knees.
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Maggil... Isn't the undead only a little bit of blood, why do I feel like my legs are about to break...

Zhang Ye complained wildly in his heart, but he still couldn't match his desire for treasures.

An ordinary-looking wooden box was lying there quietly in front of it, but Zhang Ye couldn't help but rushed forward as if he saw a beautiful woman.

With a solemn and excited mood, I opened the wooden box, and there was indeed a bright light cluster inside.

Zhang couldn't bear it anymore, and stretched out his hand.

A ring in the shape of a silver snake hovering quietly lay on Zhang Ye's palm, and he couldn't wait to put it on his left index finger—it was just right, as if it was tailor-made for Zhang Ye!
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It's amazing...

and many more!

Ashes can only equip up to 4 rings in the game, but I'm not in the game, isn't it...

Hey, hey, hey...

The smile on the corner of Zhang Ye's mouth became more and more lewd...