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Chapter 444 Chapter 440 · "You will definitely see the sea." (Kasiert Leader Gagen 23)

"This is the soul stone, which can protect us from the black mist at night."

In the silent forest, Siber took out a transparent stone.

"Crack." There was a soft sound.The stone lit with a transparent flame.

After being illuminated by this light, the weirdness and coldness around him suddenly disappeared.The pervasive black particles and mist gradually bypassed them.

"When traveling at night in the dome, this kind of stone must be ignited. Its light can dispel the black mist. Otherwise, once you stay in the black mist for a long time, you will be cursed." Siber said: "The soul stone is very precious , I only have this small one, and it can still burn for about ten hours. That is, it can only protect you for about two nights."

"How to get the soul stone?" Su Mingan asked.

"The way to get it is very troublesome, you don't need to know. After this stone is used up, you can just rest honestly at night."

She raised her hand and walked in the silent forest, as if holding a transparent torch.

The place where Su Mingan just woke up was the cabin where Siber lived. Because of her status as a heretic, she was exiled by the tribe, so she lived near the dangerous forest where wild beasts appeared.If you pass through this remote forest, you can see plains and fields.The field of vision there is very wide, and you may meet other players.

"Siber, are you familiar with this place?" he asked.

"Well." Siber said: "I grew up here. Each of our guides is a native of the vault."

Su Mingan didn't ask about her family's situation. Judging from her ostracized pagan status, maybe she was exiled by her family.

This kind of belief in gods, feudal and ignorant world, and killing children with one's own hands are all possible things.That's why she lives alone at the edge of the forest isolated from the world.

Even though she was still a child who hadn't grown up, her vigilance was already so strong that she didn't even dare to hold the helping hand extended.

Su Mingan remembered that there were sweet potatoes and various seeds in her house, but she probably didn't grow them.The surrounding environment of the wooden house was extremely harsh.So Siber should make a living by hunting.

In this way, she actually has some combat power, at least she can set traps and subdue small prey.

"Why do you believe in Nine Gods?" Su Mingan asked.

He discovered that all of Siber's misfortunes were due to her belief in this "God of Nine" and her identity as a pagan.

—Because of believing in evil gods,

She will be abandoned, she will be exiled,
will be rejected, driven away, looked down upon by others,

They are forced to live in such a harsh environment, and they have to hunt for a living by themselves when they are young.

Only then did he fall to the point where... there was not even a single person around him who could talk to him, and he had to doubt repeatedly when he met him.

Sibel's footsteps paused.

"...Because when I was a child." She said, "God Jiu saved me."

As she spoke, there was a sudden rustling sound in the grass next to her.

She turned her head abruptly, and saw that Su Mingan's back had left the range of the light source and was exposed to the black mist.

"Come here!" Frightened eyes appeared in her eyes, and she stretched out her hand suddenly, trying to grab him.

At this moment, a distorted, black mud-like shadow suddenly rushed up from the grass!

Su Mingan took a step forward and quickly entered the area where the halo was.

"Zizzi-"

The black shadow immediately melted when it encountered the light, and there was a sound like melting oil.It wriggled and fell to the ground.

"Tell you not to leave the range of light, didn't you hear me!"

Seeing Su Mingan who was still observing, Siber frowned.If this guy who claims to be the strongest adventurer continues to die, her little trust will be wiped out.

...Does he think he is very powerful?Still want to resist the curse?

"What's that?" Su Mingan asked seeing the strange black mud melt into the light.

"This is a creature that haunts the forest. If you are bitten by this kind of ghost, you will also be infected with the curse." Siber said: "At night, there will be a black mist containing the curse. Once there is no soul stone Dispel, if you stay too long in the black mist, you will be infected with the curse."

She didn't know why this traveler liked to break the casserole so much to ask the end, but his apparent death behavior just now had worn down her patience.

If he had just been bitten and cursed, she wouldn't have kept a ticking time bomb by her side.

"Why are there curses in your world?" Su Mingan was thinking.

Indeed, his behavior of leaving the range of the halo just now was intentional.

Firstly, he wanted to test the degree of Sibel's trust in him, and secondly, he wanted to get more information from her.

If she wanted him to survive, she would definitely stop his killing and explain to him the danger of this "curse".

The black mist that appeared inexplicably, the distorted black creatures, and the curse that looked like living creatures outside the sky... Obviously, these are not things that should appear in the normal world.

"Just like why there is air, there is such a thing as a curse in the vault." Siber said indifferently: "'Curse' is something unique to our vault. We vault people have been burdened with it for generations. Curse, the environment we live in often has black mist with cursed energy spreading.

No one knows what its source is, and no one can completely undo it.Once the curse strikes, no one can escape death.

And this kind of biochemical weapon... Once it is released, the outside world will also suffer disaster.

Therefore, our ancestors..."

Sibel's voice paused.

"Our ancestors built the 'black wall' to separate the vault from the outside world. The 'black wall' separated the vault from the outside world to prevent the curse from leaking out." She said with quiet eyes:
"...So, for hundreds of years, none of us has been able to leave here. From birth to death, we have lived in this polluted land all our lives. Each of us——has something that cannot be erased. curse."

Su Mingan was a little shocked when he heard this.

He didn't expect that the people living in this dome actually shouldered such a mission.

The people here actually chose to take the initiative to build an enchantment, guarding against the dangerous curse, preventing it from polluting the outside world.

The price is that all of them, generations, their parents, their children, their children's children... must live in this cursed world.

All their lives, they could never see the beautiful and pure world outside.

Maybe it was because his complexion was not very good, Xi Boer approached him.

"Actually, the curse is not a bad thing at all." She said: "Because of its existence, many of us have obtained powerful powers that outsiders cannot possess, such as the ability to control flames, the ability to control ice elements, etc. Abilities... those guides are the ones with outstanding abilities among us. Of course, if we need to use these powers, it will affect the curse on our bodies, which is why we are reluctant to take action."

"Is there a curse on you too?" Su Mingan asked.

Sibel was silent for a while.

The night wind blew up her bright red hood, exposing a few strands of her white hair.

After a while, she gave a soft "hmm".

"We local people... are born with a curse, and the curse will always be latent in us. When the curse occurs, people will definitely die." She said: "However, before the curse occurs, our local people will also use There are some ways to delay the final time of the curse. The curse on most people may never occur in their lifetime. They will only enjoy the power brought by the curse before it occurs. Of course, you outsiders have no resistance , will die quickly after being infected with the curse, so I hope you will pay attention to my words."

Su Mingan frowned slightly.

For a moment, he didn't know how to speak.

People in this world, since they were born, have a curse like a time bomb on their bodies. It doesn't know when it will strike, and it will suddenly take their lives...

They couldn't even hold their lives in their own hands, so they could only do their best to delay the onset of the curse.

The bomb hanging on them may harvest their lives at any time.

This kind of world... would indeed be extremely tormenting.

As he was thinking like this, he suddenly saw her approaching him suddenly, staring into his eyes.

"So." She said: "—don't underestimate those black mist and cursed creatures, you will die, understand? Don't think that you can ignore the curse because you are the strongest adventurer—even the strongest among us The guide, if the curse occurs, he will die. Death is fair to everyone."

"Then... you said that in this battle, the last surviving guide can go to the outside world, is that true?" Su Mingan said.

"Yeah." Xi Boer nodded: "Actually, this hundred-man war is not the first time. Before that, the vault would hold such a hundred-man war every 20 years, and the winner who survived in the end , really passed through that black wall and went to the outside world."

After hearing her words, Su Mingan realized that the worldview of this world is not as simple as he imagined.

Originally, he thought that this was just a small world for a hundred of them to fight.Those "guides" are all added to make this dungeon more fun.

But now he realized that this was not the case at all.

... This is clearly an extremely independent world with a complete worldview.

And those leaders are also living people, they all have their own thoughts and wishes, they participate in this battle, and they also have their own beliefs and goals.

They have a cooperative relationship with the player, not a vassal relationship.

And this kind of battle has happened not only once, but more than ten times, twenty times...

As for Xiboer's class, it was the most special one, because they suddenly had a group of players who were summoned to help them.The contestants in the past were all fighting each other alone, and there was no such thing as a leader.

"Every 20 years, Baishen will issue an oracle to select [-] contestants from each tribe. The last survivor will be able to lift the curse on his body, pass through the black wall, and go to the place where there is no curse. The outside world." Siber said, "As for Baishen's death... that happened five years ago."

Su Mingan listened quietly.

He knew that this was the key world information he won after gaining Siber's trust, and Siber would only tell him once.

Once he lost her trust, she wouldn't talk.

"Five years ago, a large-scale curse like a living creature suddenly appeared in the sky, and the dome was in danger." Siber said: "At that time, Baishen, who originally only existed in legends, really appeared in the tribal people's eyes. In front of his eyes, his whole body was covered in strong white light. In the prayers of the tribesmen, he turned into the sky that blocked the curse, sacrificed himself, and saved all the tribes..."

Her narration was very slow, and her face looked too pale, like a weak person who had been ill for a long time. When she was narrating, she put away her defense and wildness, and she looked like a little girl.

"Even if Baishen dies, according to the oracle before his death, the [-] guides who were originally selected will still participate in this war." She stretched out her hand and pulled the hood that had come off slightly to cover her dry skin. Fa: "...and I am one of them."

Shortly after she was born, Siber was selected as a contestant for this year.

Even if Baishen died a few years ago, she still had to participate in this war according to the previous list of participants.

Participants have no right to refuse.

A weak person like Siber who can't fight, once selected by the oracle, even if she is destined to become cannon fodder in the crush of the strong, she must still participate.

Once the competition starts, only one of the hundred contestants can survive to the end, and the other 99 people must die.

Only when the other 99 people die, can the only victor gain the powerful power to leave the vault, lift the curse, and pass through the black wall.

……so.

So at the beginning of the game, when Su Mingan woke up and opened the door, did he see her lonely back?
She was obviously working so hard to live.

But from the moment she was born and was chosen by the oracle, she had already doomed her fate.

【... She will die in this war. 】

At the moment the war started, she had already stepped into the dividing line of death, and the scythe of death was already on her neck.

Her life has entered the countdown.

"..."

Su Mingan looked at Siber's quiet face.

She was still standing in front of his eyes, wearing a bright red robe that could almost cover her whole body.And the wrist she showed holding the soul stone was also full of scars from hunting.

When he pushed the door and saw her for the first time when he just woke up, standing under the night sky, she was closer to death than to him.

So, she would be on the verge of collapse, she would appear mad, she would be like a frightened animal, a lone and alert wolf.

... It was his words inviting her to go with her, and his hug behind his back, that made her temporarily let go of her self-defeating thoughts.

Su Mingan figured out what the other party was thinking.

He changed his tone and held out his hand.

"Trust me, you'll make it to the end," he said.

he thinks.

...if the world is real.

...if Siber's existence is real.

Well, in fact, they have already carried so much misfortune.

In comparison, all the misfortunes he experienced before the start of the world game seemed a bit insignificant.

Forgotten homework, failed exams... In the eyes of people like Siber, they can even be regarded as sweet pain, a small loss in a peaceful world.

After all, she has been struggling with life and death all her life.

From birth to death.

She has little power to choose other modes of existence.

Looking at Su Mingan's outstretched hand, Siber's eyes fluctuated slightly.

"If I can live to the end." She said: "...to the outside world, I want to see the sea."

The vault has no sea.

In this dark, oppressive world full of curses and beasts, there are only dangerous forests and crazy tribes.

According to some outsiders who accidentally strayed into the vault from beyond the black wall, there is a sea in the outside world.

The vault people inside the black wall cannot go out, but the people outside the black wall can come in.

However, generally no one will take the initiative to come in, because there is no exit.

These outsiders who strayed into the vault and couldn't leave generally have vague memories.But they say that there is a sea in the outside world.

Blue, beautiful, endless.

Sibel wanted to see the sea.

...she wants to live.

"You will definitely see the sea." Su Mingan said, "I promise you, I will let you see the sea."

Sibel didn't speak, just stretched out his hand.

The extremely rough hand full of hunting scars took his hand.

After that, she pulled her lips slightly and grinned.

……

...she laughed.

……

[In the forest that day, she suddenly smiled. 】

【The smile was extremely pure, like the smile she had shown to her parents before she was accused of being a heretic. 】

[This is his first and last time,]

【... Seeing her such a simple smile. 】

【she says. 】

[She wants to see the sea. 】

【——"Jiu Shen Reincarnation Notes"】

……

(End of this chapter)