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Chapter 107 Fear It, Embrace It

This penance bracelet has a total of nine bone-like pale thorn balls, about the size of a peanut. There is nothing unusual about it, at most, the spikes of the thorn balls make people feel a little painful to wear.

"Accelerate the recovery of mental power? The effect is good, but I don't know what the curse is."

Zhou Ze hesitated for a moment and decided to try wearing it first to see the effect. If he couldn't accept the curse, he would have to load the file and start over.

After putting the bracelet on his hand, he found a bleeding state in the upper right corner of the screen.

In the game, his right wrist, which was wearing the bracelet, was also constantly oozing blood, staining the white thorn ball bracelet red, and the bracelet was also emitting a faint blood in the blood, and his passive recovery of spirit was accelerated by nearly ten times.

Originally, 1% of the mental value could be recovered every [-] minute.

Now it can recover [-]% every six or seven seconds, which is visible to the naked eye at a fast speed.

But the price is...

"I am willing to offer my blood in exchange for your glory?"

Zhou Ze muttered to himself: "So the sentence in the note is to remind that the curse is bleeding."

Judging by the slow rate of wrist bleeding on the screen, it is estimated that wearing it for more than ten minutes will not be drained. Compared with the sorcerer's blood ring, which can release hundreds of thousands of milliliters of blood in one go, the price of this sacred weapon is quite high. Mild.

A ticking sound came from the earphones.

It's blood flowing.

Zhou Ze didn't take off the penance bracelet. Most of his mental power was consumed when he stared at the abyss before. It's just a good time to try to see how long it will take to wear this bracelet until he is drained into a state of excessive blood loss, and how much mental power he can recover before that .

Try what you can in the game, as long as you don't upload this save, he doesn't need to bleed in reality.

"Let me see this last manuscript... What kind of mess is this drawing?"

After interacting with the manuscript on the table.

A messy line like a child's graffiti jumped out on the screen.

Zhou Ze stared at the manuscript carefully for more than a minute.

At most, he could see some parts of this mess of lines, which seemed to be somewhat similar to the rune formation on the negative third floor, but when he looked carefully, he felt that it didn't look like it at all, and it had a weird sense of plausibility.

The only valuable clue to the manuscript is a string of words written in English on the back.

'If you fear death, embrace it.'

Zhou Ze's little knowledge of English was returned to the teacher as early as graduation, so naturally he couldn't understand the meaning of this string of English.

Fortunately, modern technology is advanced. Wouldn’t it be easy to translate a sentence of English?

Call up the translation software on your mobile phone and take a picture of the screen, and the translation results will be given immediately.

'If you fear death, embrace it. '

Well... what the hell?

Zhou Ze had a strange expression and scratched the back of his head: "Who wrote this note? What is the deep meaning behind this sentence?"

It is right to face what you are afraid of.

But can death be overcome with face-to-face therapy?Go up and embrace death, I'm afraid I'm really dead, okay?
If this sentence implies other deep meanings...he really can't understand it yet.

Forget it, write down this clue first, maybe it will be useful later.

Zhou Ze took out his mobile phone to take a photo of the messy manuscript on the screen, and secretly wrote down the words 'If you are afraid of death, embrace it' in his mind, constantly guessing various possible hints in his mind.

fear?Embrace?
If you want to say what he is most afraid of in this game, there is no doubt that the blood fog will come after his identity is exposed.

That means the game fails, the blood sacrifice succeeds, Cthulhu recovers, and he and the passengers on the entire cruise ship will die.

"Is this sentence implying that I embrace the blood sacrifice? Oh, it's too ridiculous."

This guess flashed through Zhou Ze's mind, and he showed a sneering smile.

The world game isn't really a game after all.

In the real world, there is no game planner who specially leaves clues for players to pass the level in a certain position. Maybe this note was just drawn by a cultist with a brain wattage?

Isn't that how many heretics think?

The more you fear, the more you worship.

In fact, this is also a kind of human nature.

Many people will involuntarily want to jump off when standing on a high place.

This phenomenon is called 'height phenomenon', 'forced intention' or 'call of the void'... Some philosophers believe that everyone has a self-destructive impulse in their hearts, and some psychologists believe that this is just a human being. Try to balance yourself.

The greatest fear is the fear of the unknown.

Expose the unknown, gain the known, counteract the fear.

"Is the cultist born in this process? If you touch something you shouldn't touch, you fall into a sinking that you can't extricate yourself from."

Zhou Ze fell silent.

In fact, he doesn't know much about the Cthulhu element, and the more he thinks about it, the more frightening he feels.

How to deal with these old rulers who are about to recover may become the first hurdle for human civilization after the recovery of spiritual energy. I don't know if a few hydrogen bombs will be able to destroy these indescribable strange existences.

Shaking his head, Zhou Ze stopped thinking wildly.

He read the file and went back to the first floor when he first sneaked into the negative floor. This time, he no longer wasted time on this floor, but went straight to the second floor.

The second floor covered in wriggling flesh and blood is terrifying even through the screen.

The mental value in the upper right corner of the interface has dropped visible to the naked eye.

This means that the time he can search on this layer is extremely limited, and only by repeatedly reading files can he explore a wider area.

I spent a lot of time exploring most of the area on the second floor.

There is still a small part of the area that cannot pass at all. Even if Zhou Ze flies over at the fastest speed, he cannot catch up with the speed of the drop of mental value. His remaining mental value is at most less than 40 seconds on the negative second floor support.

"There is nothing but flesh and blood."

This was Zhou Zegan's only comment on the negative second floor after two hours.

He had to stare at this disgusting scene for the whole noon, so that he lost his appetite to eat, so he took a few bites of a spiritual fruit from the storage bar and continued to read the liver game.

He was suddenly made angry by this game.

I just don't believe in evil, so I can't find a cult priest?

At worst, just read the entire ship and stare at the abyss to see how you hide!
When I find you, don't fucking think about it!
This is the only thought in Zhou Ze's mind at the moment. While frantically reading files, he stares at the cruise passengers in the abyss, and at the same time greets the eighteen generations of ancestors worshiped by the cult in his heart.

Before he could find the cult priest, the phone rang.

Li Xiaoming said happily: "I've finally finished the entry procedures here, and it's still the same place. I'll treat you to Hongbin Restaurant, and I'll introduce a few colleagues to you by the way."

"Okay, come right away."

Zhou Ze hung up the phone, glanced at the game screen that was once again covered in blood mist, and silently turned off the TV.

Wash yourself up, put on a clean set of clothes, and go out to accept the invitation.

With his current status as an unemployed vagrant, Li Xiaoming is willing to treat him to a meal and introduce him to his colleagues, which proves that this former delivery boy has a pretty good character. If he has the opportunity to communicate more, he may become a worthy friend. .

Of course, it still depends on the opportunity.

Judging from his current course of action that he does not plan to join the official organization, and even tries to avoid being noticed by the countermeasures bureau, it is likely that he will not have too much contact with Li Xiaoming in the future.

(End of this chapter)