midnight ten

Countdown 1:16:00

Qing Yise ran wildly in the alley behind the temple, with his head raised all the way, staring at the traces of signal flares in the air, for fear of deviation in direction.

There are quite a few people in Lotus who made it to 2/10 this time, but the one who has the strongest relationship with him is Da Sixi.Although they don't know what the level will be, for safety reasons, before breaking through the level, they bought some miniature flares of different colors in the shopping area, so that they can communicate with each other when they are accidentally scattered in the level .

"Green flare" stands for safety, you go about your business.

"Yellow signal flare" means come here, let's meet.

"Red signal flare" represents danger, pay attention to safety.

"Colorful signal flare" means that if you don't fucking come here, wait for my body to be collected!

Da Sixi's stationery tree is [I am your lucky star], the effect is to help others enhance the effect of the stationery tree, which can be called a contemporary living Lei Feng.But conversely, if he is alone, then this stationery tree is "invincible buff multiplied by zero", no matter how invincible, it is also zero.

Even so, Qing Yishi never worried about him from the beginning to the end.Because this teammate is like a stationery tree, and he is basically a lucky star, belonging to the koi carp.The two had known each other since they were in the dungeon. They entered the lotus together, and they entered 1/10 together. They all witnessed with their own eyes how their partners relied on their own luck to turn dangers into blessings.

Therefore, he firmly believed that the people and things that could annoy Da Sixi did not exist in this world.

But now that Da Sixi had sent out a distress signal, how could he not be in a hurry.

Above the sky, the last trace of smoke from the colorful signal flares also dissipated with the wind.

Fortunately, Qing Yise finally found his teammates.

Beside a stone well, Da Sixi, who was wearing a bright yellow sweater, was standing up staggeringly while supporting the edge of the well, looking from a distance like a little yellow duck flopping there.

Looking up and seeing Qing Yise, Da Sixi's wrinkled face stretched a little, but she was still aggrieved: "I knew you would definitely come..."

Qing Yise ran over and checked the person from head to toe first. Except for a slight scratch on the face, there were no obvious wounds on other parts of the body, but the neck ring was gone: "Who did it?"

"I don't know." Da Sixi wiped the blood on his face, and touched the wound with his fingertips, causing him to gasp in pain, "But if I see you again, I will definitely recognize it."

"Where can we see you again if you don't catch up, you really think you are reincarnated!" Qing Yi was in a hurry, pulling Da Sixi and ran away.

Da Sixi was startled: "Hey? Where are you going?"

All in one color: "The temple, no matter who snatches your neck ring, he has to go there to deal with it. Stopping him in front of the temple is your only chance—"

If he loses his neck ring, he loses it. At worst, he enters the ultimate fear and fights his way out.But Da Sixi is like a soft bun, who can she kill?Going into the temple to meet Demos, at least face it with other passers-by who have passed through the [Fear of the Heart], and enter the ultimate fear. If they are separated again, Da Sixi will really be abused to the point where there is no scum left .

There is no real koi in this world. One time is good luck, two times is good luck, ten times is good luck, but luck will always run out one day.If Da Sixi is really an invincible lucky star, the neck ring will not be lost at all.

Seeing that Da Sixi also ran with him, Yishen let go, and then rushed towards the temple as fast as he could.

Rushing to the front of the temple, he found that Nange, Zheng Luozhu, Edogawa, and the skeleton bride had already merged with the onlookers.The first three sit under the Roman pillars of the temple, looking at the sky, blowing the wind, and by the way, "security checks" every passer-by who enters the temple, not letting go of any chance to catch their enemies. Spread under another pillar, the fat man who snatched his neck ring has already entered the temple, and he is now in a state of giving up his life.

No one expected that all of them would turn back.

"Why are you back?" Edogawa took the initiative to ask, as if he had forgotten that he had just unilaterally announced the dissolution of the partnership with the other party 10 minutes ago.

Qing Yishi raised his hand and pointed behind him: "The guy who helped him come back and snatch the neck ring."

Zhuzi, Nange, and Edogawa looked behind him together, their eyes gradually changed from doubt to subtlety.

Even the skeleton bride got up, looked at him quietly for a while, and said, "Little Red Shoes, there is no one behind you..."

She was stunned, and turned her head immediately.

There was nothing behind him, only the cold wind coming from nowhere.

"call out--"

Another flare pierced the sky, in the same direction, but this time it was changed to "yellow".

Yellow, indicating confluence.

Qing Yise originally thought that he was running too fast and Da Sixi didn't keep up, but looking at the position of the signal flare, Da Sixi didn't move at all.

But the problem is that Da Sixi obviously ran over with him, and when he was about to reach the temple, he looked back, and the other party was still following, how could it be possible to return to the same place now?

At a loss, Qing Yishi was completely dazed, and the only answer he could give him now was: "Da Sixi..."

Whispering the names of his teammates, he gritted his teeth, turned around, and ran to the back of the temple again.

The yellow smog in the sky is still there, but all of them have disappeared.

Nan Ge, Zheng Luozhu, Edogawa, Skeleton Bride: "..."

Signal flares, big four celebrations, running to the back of the temple - how do you feel that you are all caught in a certain cycle of life.

A few minutes later, Qing Yise returned to the stone well.

But this time there was no one.

The disappearance of his teammates made him anxious, and the huge doubts aggravated his anxiety. He yelled directly to his surroundings: "Da Sixi—"

It's more like a catharsis than a call.

Unexpectedly, there was a response——

"Well...in..."

The faint but absolutely familiar voice shocked Qing Yise, and immediately leaned over to look down while holding onto the edge of the well.

The well is very deep, and only a black hole can be seen.

"Da Sixi—" he called down again.

"In..." came a faint voice from below.

Qing Yise reached out to touch the inner wall of the well, it was wet and slippery, he couldn't climb up by himself, and he went down to give away his head.

"You wait, I'll go find the rope—"

Another run back and forth, all did not find the rope, but found the "iron rod".

"Have you touched it—" Zheng Luozhu stood by the well, manipulated the [iron plate] into a square stick with a cross-section of about 3cm, stretched it into the well, and asked as he probed down.

Inoshita: "Not...not..."

Bamboo: "Now—"

Inoshita: "No... yes... ah, I touched it..."

Bamboo: "Okay, you caught it, we'll pull you up—"

Qing Yise, Nan Ge, and Zheng Luozhu grabbed the iron rod together and pulled it up forcefully.

The iron rods are getting longer and thinner.

Doubts came floating down the well: "Did you pull it... I didn't move..."

All in one: "..."

Nan Ge: "..."

Zheng Luozhu: "Uh, metal is malleable."

Qing Yise: "Then you should strengthen it, how can you save people if you keep drawing wires!"

Zheng Luozhu: "I'm already reinforcing it, but it's too thin, and the reinforcement effect is not up to standard!"

The people in the mine seemed to have regained some energy, and their voices became clearer: "Stop arguing, let me try..."

Just as Zheng Luozhu was about to ask "what to try", he felt a force passing along the stick-shaped [iron plate] to his palm, warm and powerful, like some kind of energy injection.

"You continue to reinforce—" Shizuka reminded.

Zheng Luozhu immediately concentrated his mind, brought the stability of [Monolithic] to the maximum value he could control, and then joined forces with Nan Ge and Qing Yise to pull back again.

Strangely, the same manipulation before, the "iron square stick" was getting thinner and longer under their pull, but this time it didn't. They could clearly feel the weight of a person, and it was going up little by little as they dragged it. carry!

After 2 long minutes, Da Sixi finally emerged from the mouth of the well.

The three of them worked together and pulled him out of the stone well.

Zhuzi and Nange finally met this "legendary" Lotus member.

Da Sixi's bright yellow sweater had turned a muddy yellow color, and her head and face were covered in mud from the well.

Zheng Luozhu is extremely curious about the reason for the "iron rod reinforcement". He can be sure that his control over [Iron Monolith] has been strengthened at that time, but he doesn't know whether it is the other party's auxiliary reinforced disposable stationery, or the other party's own stationery. Trees fall into this category.But it's not easy for him to get to the bottom of things when others have just escaped from danger.

As soon as Da Sixi came up, he looked for Qing Yishi, so that he could have a real sense of security: "Fortunately, the well water is almost dry," he breathed unsteadily, "otherwise you wouldn't be able to see me."

Seeing it now, Qing Yise is still worried: "Why did you run into the well?"

"Qi Hua threw me in." Da Sixi wiped the mud off her face, but she didn't wipe off much, but wiped herself like a little cat, "I fainted from the fall, and I just woke up, so I'll give you another Signal flare."

"Qi Hua?" Qing Yi frowned, "The team leader of Homecoming Mission Water World?"

Zheng Luozhu and Nan Ge looked at each other.Cong Yue was worried that they should be careful of Qi Hua, but he didn't meet this team leader all the way [Deep Sea Fear] [People's Fear], he didn't expect to have an indirect intersection here.

"Why did he do that?" Qing Yise still didn't understand.

Da Sixi took a breath, and then said: "I am his target, he beat me dizzy, took the opportunity to snatch my neck ring, and then pushed me into the well, he must be trying to kill me .”

"Wait, you are his target?" Qing Yishi became more and more strange as he heard it, "Didn't you say that you don't know who snatched your neck ring?"

Da Sixi looked at him blankly: "I've been stuck in the well, when did I talk to you?"

"What are you talking about?" Qing Yishi also began to feel panicked, "You sent out colorful signal flares, and then I came over, and you told me that your neck ring was robbed, so I will take you to the temple to block people ..."

"Okay, I see." Da Sixi interrupted him with a sigh, "I sent the flare, but Qi Hua pushed me down the well not long after I finished sending it."

"Pushed down the well by Qi Hua?" Qing Yishi felt like a repeater, and couldn't help asking every fact, "But it was you I ran over to see!"

"That's why Qi Hua killed me to keep my mouth shut." Da Sixi's mood was calmer than Qing Yise's when he escaped from death, "He doesn't want people to know that his stationery tree is [Painted Skin]."

All in one: "..."

Nan Ge and Zheng Luozhu: "..."

Why does it feel like after meeting the Skeleton Bride and his [Bone Warrior], the painting style in the level starts to become weird.

Da Sixi: "Actually, it's transformation. I can change anyone's appearance, even the voice."

Qing Yise: "Then you just say that it's not enough to transform, what kind of scary atmosphere is created!"

Chapter 77 Qi Hua's Purpose┃"Do you still remember what Cong Yue reminded us before entering the checkpoint?"

"His stationery tree is called [Painted Skin], he said it himself." Da Sixi didn't take the blame for creating a scary atmosphere, "He was able to get close to me because he became like you, but I found out later .”

Nan Ge hurriedly asked, "How did you figure it out?"

Da Sixi explained: "Although he can change into another person from his appearance to his voice, his personality and speaking habits can't deceive people, no matter how much he pretends to be. I just thought it was a bit weird at first, but I couldn't tell what was wrong. Something was wrong, and later I talked to him about things that only one person knew, and he kept prevaricating, so I knew there was a problem."

"What's the use of seeing through it?" Qing Yishi hated iron and steel, "you were thrown into a well anyway."

Da Sixi puffed up her cheeks and stopped talking.

Qing Yishi didn't add salt to his wounds anymore, and went through the whole process by himself: "So...you sent the signal flare, and you entangled with him for a while, and then I ran over. At that time, he might have just pushed you down, and it was too late to run away. , just pretend to be you and lie to me, and then sneak away while I'm running ahead?"

Senior Xi doesn't know the exact process of how Qi Hua deceived Qing Yishi, but it seems that he didn't run away just like that.

Zheng Luozhu and Nan Ge did not interrupt Lotus' internal conversation.

My heart fluctuated with the content of the conversation.

What does it mean that Qi Hua can tell Da Sixi the name of her stationery tree at the last moment?It means that he is no longer afraid that this person will reveal his stationery tree, because he is sure that the other person will not survive.

He really killed Da Sixi.

Da Sixi didn't die, it can only be said that he was lucky.If the well is deep, or if there is no silt at the bottom to cushion him, he will drown or fall to his death, he must choose one of the two.

Grab the neck ring, but still want to kill, because you want to keep your stationery tree secret?

Compared with such a person, [Warrior of the Bones] really looks frank.

But then again...

"Qing Yise," Zheng Luozhu asked cautiously, "Are you sure that the one in front of us is the real Da Sixi?"

"Of course," Qing Yise had already screened it out, "Just now you helped you improve your stationery tree ability, and only Da Sixi can do this."

Zheng Luozhu understands it well, it seems that "assisting to strengthen other people's stationery tree" is Da Sixi's stationery tree.

What a little angel.

"If you're still worried..." Seeing that Zheng Luozhu didn't speak, Qingyi thought he didn't believe him, and immediately started the second set of screening exercises, "Big Four!"

Suddenly being named by the rough, Da Sixi was startled: "Ah? What?"

Qing Yise: "Why are you called Da Sixi? Don't hesitate! Don't think!"

Da Sixi: "Because I like Sixi meatballs!"

Qing Yise: "Because you like Sixi meatballs!"

In addition to the subject, uniform.

All of them gave Zheng Luozhu a proud little look: "You see, 100% fidelity."

Zheng Luozhu: "..."

Do you need to fight like this.

"Forget it, as long as people are fine," Qing Yishi also thought about it, delaying this time, guessing that Qi Hua had already disguised himself as a passerby and entered the temple for business, so he could only comfort his teammates, "It just so happens that I also entered the ultimate fear. You two can be companions."

Only then did Da Sixi see her partner's empty neck: "You lost your neck ring too?"

Qing Yishi narrowed his eyes, and slowly looked at the culprit who snatched his neck ring.

Zheng Luozhu looked at the sky in his pocket.

Nan Ge lowered his head and picked up a lock of his hair to see if the ends were dry and split.

In the end, the four returned to the temple together.

The grievances and grievances in the past are just clouds and smoke in the past. Anyway, the four of them have lost their neck rings now. In the near future, it is estimated that they will join hands to overcome the ultimate horror.

In front of the temple gate, the two flower-armed team members who are rising step by step-Edogawa and the skeleton bride, sit back to back like kappa, wasting time bored.

Seeing that the three of them returned, followed by a fourth person, they knew that the rescue was successful. The addition of this big yellow duck that looked like it had rolled in the mud must be the "mysterious" big four.

"What's going on?" They looked at Da Sixi curiously, and asked the three people who had returned, "Didn't you just run away, why did you fall into the well again?"

"Don't worry about this," Qing Yishi didn't have time to explain, and asked anxiously, "After we left, how many people entered the temple, what did they look like?"

He ran all the way back to the temple with "Qi Hua disguised as Da Sixi", turned his head, but the person disappeared, and then he saw the second signal flare, and turned back to Shijing.

So the time when Qi Hua had the opportunity to sneak into the temple must be after he saw the yellow flare.

But on the way back, he asked Nan Ge and Zheng Luozhu, from the second time he saw the signal flare and ran back to the stone well, to the time when he returned to the temple to bring rescuers down the well to rescue people, no one entered the temple to communicate with each other, so Qi The time when Hua sneaked into the temple had to be pushed back, that is, after he ran back to Shijing with Zhuzi and Nange to save people.

Only Xiao Jiang and the skeleton bride who stayed at the entrance of the temple knew who had entered the temple during this period.

Qing Yishi wanted to try to identify Qi Hua among the people who entered the temple. Although he knew that the other party was still wandering outside and the chances were slim, what if...

"No one." The skeleton bride's answer interrupted his thoughts.

Qing Yi looked up in surprise: "What did you say?"

The skeleton bride didn't know the purpose of all the questions, but he could vouch for Edogawa's head: "No one enters the temple. If you don't believe me, you can ask Xiaojiang."

Edogawa: "..."

Ever since the skeleton bride learned that he had a new nickname of "Xiaojiang", Edogawa knew that there was no way out.He changed from detective Edogawa to a local reasoning player, Xiao Jiang.

Having said that, I completely believe it, after all, there is no need for the skeleton bride to lie to him... Wait, is this really the skeleton bride who is talking to him now?

The skeleton bride only felt that her eyes were dark, and when she saw it clearly, her face was all in front of her: "How is the injury on my head?"

Who can react to this mindless person, the skeleton bride let out a bewildered voice: "Ah?"

"Qi Hua!" Qing Yise pushed Edogawa away, crossed his arms, strangled the skeleton bride's neck, and was about to use an iron arm to choke her throat.

Although the Skeleton Bride is strong, she can't stand such a sudden attack. She wants to survive instantly: "They, they gave you the 'Quick Healing'—"

Pushing the person back to Edogawa all the way: "It's him."

The skeleton bride leaned against Edogawa's arms, looking around in a daze, who is he, where is he, and what happened just now.

If there is no problem with the identity and the confession, then there is a problem with the result——Qi Hua, who has already snatched the collar of the target, why doesn't she come to the temple for business?

It's not just one color that can't figure it out.

Zheng Luozhu glanced at the countdown on his arm, there was exactly one hour left, and guessed: "Do you think there is still time, so you went to help other people in the returning home team?"

Qing Yishi doesn't quite believe it: "Let's not talk about whether that guy has this brotherhood, even if he does, isn't he afraid of having long nights and dreams? What if the neck ring he got flies away again within this hour."

"He can transform," Nan Ge reminded. "No matter what the situation is, as long as the people around don't know about his stationery tree and want to escape, they can easily find a way. It's even easier if they want to enter the temple."

"That's right," Zheng Luozhu suddenly became a little envious, "Becoming a passerby, becoming an acquaintance, maybe even changing into flowers and trees. It's too easy to sneak around."

All speechless: "He is [Painted Skin] and not [Mimicry]. Have you ever seen a female ghost become a big tree..."

"Bamboo." Nan Ge, who had been quiet all this time, suddenly spoke out.

"Huh?" Zheng Luozhu turned his head and found her serious face, "What's wrong?"

Nan Ge asked: "Do you still remember what Cong Yue reminded us before entering the checkpoint?"

Of course Zheng Luozhu remembered.

The fatter man told them that Qi Hua led the returning team this time, and the group leader Qi was a particularly vengeful and unscrupulous person. One-on-one they made the returning team lose face. them……

Zheng Luozhu was shocked: "Could it be that he didn't come to the temple because of..."

To deal with VIP?

He swallowed the second half of the sentence. Firstly, he did not want to expose too much personal enmity between his family and the Home Returning Group, and secondly, he was afraid that there would be the eyes and ears of the Home Returning Group around him.

"I'm not sure," Nan Ge said, "but I think it's possible."

Qi Hua's conceit towards [Painted Skin] kept him from coming to the temple in a hurry, he wasn't afraid of having a neck ring clutched in his hand, and he wanted to avenge one-on-one revenge. The melee situation is the best opportunity.

Zheng Luozhu's heart sank: "The captain and the boss are in danger."

He said and looked at Nan Ge.

Eyes met, needless to say.

"Hey, where are you going—"

Qing Yise, Da Sixi, Edogawa, and Skeleton Bride, none of them understood their ambiguous conversation. They wanted to wait for the two of them to finish their chat before asking questions. It's like a room.

The four looked at each other in blank dismay.

Zheng Luozhu and Nan Ge headed towards the direction where Tang Lin was following He Lv.

They left the team there, I hope Tang Lin and Fan Peiyang are still in that area.

Countdown 00:58:06, a collapsed stone house on the edge of the ring city far from the temple.

Tang Lin hid on the second floor of the stone house diagonally opposite. From behind the window, he witnessed the whole process of He Lu No. 20 fighting for the members of the Iron Blood Battalion.

Yes, before that, He Lu had done this nineteen times.

He followed He Lu for an hour, two and 10 minutes, almost covering most of the Ring City.From when Zhuzi and Nange left the team at the beginning, to 10 minutes ago, Fan Peiyang caught Leon's trace and left reluctantly. Tang Lin followed him and he was the only one left, but he still didn't shoot He Lv.

In addition to the fact that He Lu has always been surrounded by members of the Iron Blood Battalion, it is also because He Lu did not find his own goal at all, and was completely helping his team members to complete the task.It doesn't matter if the team members are small, but the key is that the Iron Blood Camp has a large number of people. Seeing He Lu's sincerity and no regrets, Tang Lin couldn't bear to sneak attack.

Fortunately, the Iron Blood Battalion did not rely entirely on its own captain. Some of them broke away from the main force early and acted alone. The No. 20 team member who helped He Lu to grab the neck ring in front of him was the last one who followed him After being urged to go to the temple by him, He Lu was finally alone.

Tang Lin took the small stone that he had held in his hand for a long time, and threw it towards the ruins diagonally opposite.

"Clap!"

The stone just hit the broken wall beside He Lu.

He Lu looked up.

Tang Lin lay on the window and greeted him: "Header He."