I rely on sand sculptures to dissuade dead NPCs

Shimen finally opened a crack that was as wide as one person.

Yu Yi gestured and stepped in holding a candle.

As soon as he stepped in, the unpleasant fragrance spread more wantonly in the air.

There are a certain number of candles hanging on both sides of the wall inside the stone gate, sizzling and burning, and the rising temperature makes the aroma concentration in the air even stronger.

Yu Yi: "..."

Suffocating.

Li Mumu calculated the distance and direction they traveled.

He said suspiciously: "According to this route, aren't we back to the underground of the castle again?"

They fell down from the study, until just before the corner, they should have reached the entrance of Linhai, turned a corner, didn't they just go back?

Yue Ge frowned: "Forests and castles are not the focus. The focus of this round of games should be on 'Bethelden's Final Secret' and 'Crypt'."

Yu Yi suddenly stopped in his tracks and let out a "huh".

Yue Ge and Li Mumu looked over at the same time.

Yu Yi pointed straight ahead: "It seems that we have found a base."

·

At the end of the stone road, there is a row of iron railings, which look strange and creepy in the shadows reflected by the candlelight.

The three walked slowly, and the prisons on both sides were very long, as if there was no end in sight.

Li Mumu flinched back uncomfortably, muttering in a low voice, "These cells are all empty..."

Yu Yi didn't say a word, his eyes flicked across the dark cell on both sides.

"No," he said.

The first few rooms were empty until they reached the sixth room, from where the aroma began to emanate.

Lying on the cold and damp stone slab was a dead body, resembling a human being, but with strangely long limbs, eyes wide open and staring at the endless sky, no longer breathing.

The skin is tightly stretched on the bones, and the moisture that keeps it elastic has long been lost, but the corpse has not decayed and is well preserved, and the aroma should be the smell of preservatives.

With a cold face, Yu Yi thought, can the embalming agent of a corpse emit such a strong smell?

They continued to move forward, and the answer was soon revealed.

In each of the cells in the back there was a corpse, some completely metamorphosed into monsters, and more dying painfully at the midpoint of a transformation.

The strong aroma of embalming agents emanates from these corpses and seeps out along the stone cracks.

Walking along the way, everyone was shocked.

There are too many, there are at least a hundred half-human corpses here, and the monsters should all be transformed into humans, that is to say——

This

……

"Help……"

A weak female voice came intermittently from a deeper place.

"anyone there?"

"Who can help me……"

Everyone froze for a moment, and quickly realized——

It was Gu Nian's voice.

Yu Yi and Yue Ge looked at each other. They seemed to understand each other's thoughts, their expressions changed, and they ran towards the voice.

Gu Nian was locked in the back cell, black and green mold was all over the cold wall, she curled up in the corner.

Yu Yi held up the candle to reflect the light.

"Gu Nian?" he asked.

When Gu Nian heard the familiar voice, she gained strength instantly, and stood up from the ground with her arms propped up.

He staggered and almost fell back again, his face was bloodless, his lips were chapped and bleeding, but his eyes revealed joy.

Gu Nian excitedly grabbed the iron railing: "Grandma! Let me out, I'm going to be suffocated!"

He was a completely different person from the frailty of 'If you don't come and save me, I'll die' revealed just now.

Yu Yi: "..."

The two people behind: "..."

Yu Yi looked at the iron door. It was very strong. There was a palm-sized lock on the door. It looked like it couldn't be opened without a key.

Yu Yi tapped his temple clamorously: "How about..."

He got stuck, and sincerely wanted to have a discussion with her: "Can you stay a little longer?"

If you don't have a key, you have to wait if you stay, or you have to wait if you don't.

Gu Nian's strength suddenly collapsed, and he sat back on the ground dejectedly: "...It's too difficult for me."

Yu Yi asked, "When were you imprisoned?"

Gu Nian hesitated for a moment: "After 3 o'clock in the morning, I wanted to go to the cellar... for a stroll, and then bumped into the housekeeper..."

Then he was forced to change clothes and was locked in this dungeon.

go shopping?3 o'clock in the morning you say you go out for a walk?Or go to the cellar?

What about a liar?

Three ghosts: "..."

Gu Nian obviously didn't tell the truth, it probably has something to do with her mission.

Gu Nian pinched the ragged skirt on her body: "I... saw something."

With his eyes half-raised, in the darkness, his eyes fell on Yue Ge who was behind Yu Yi.

Yue Ge narrowed his eyes very quickly.

Yu Yi didn't notice the abnormality of the two of them, and continued to ask: "What's the matter?"

Gu Nian swallowed without a trace: "It's related to the Besiden virus. I broke into the housekeeper's room. He wasn't there at the time. I saw some research on his desk...it's not right."

She shook her head in confusion: "Actually, it's more like a religious ceremony, but some potions were used. In short, he used this ceremony on us." Gu Nian

She stopped, and her eyes fell on the three people outside, seeing that they continued without any doubts.

"He had a record book that looked like it had been written for years, and there were numbers on every page, none of them named. He called the people to whom those numbers corresponded to sacrifices, sacrifices to priests. Each number corresponded to With one sacrifice, almost every sacrifice can barely last a week, and then there is no record, and the steward refers to this situation as the priest accepting his unclean children."

"..."

Everyone knows very well that the acceptance of priests is just some nonsense. These people are dead.

"The number of rituals is increasing every year. The latest record was 2 days ago, and the number of sacrifices was—"

Gu Nian blinked with difficulty, and said tremblingly, "——7 people."

The moment everyone stepped into the castle, this sinister and terrifying religious sacrifice ceremony had already kicked off.

Yu Yi frowned: "There was no abnormality in the ceremony?"

Gu Nian shook his head, his eyes suddenly widened: "No!"

She called out: "Yes, Sacrifice No. 1 is very special. She has lived for a long time, and she also has the most pages recorded in the butler's cowhide book, but she stopped in 1677 for about two years."

Li Mumu said '1677' again and again, and jumped up: "Is 1677 the year the baroness died?"

Yue Ge said in a deep voice: "As the No. 1 sacrificial victim, the Baroness lived the longest, but think about it, why do you need to record the sacrifice?"

Isn't this just—

Yu Yi looked at him calmly: "—this is an experiment."

"Huh?" Li Mumu didn't understand why the religious ceremony was involved in the experiment.

Yu Yi said: "If we use our initial starting point, the housekeeper as the behind-the-scenes messenger wants to obtain eternal life, with his ability, I think it takes so long and involves such a wide range of things, it is not something he can plan alone. .”

That is, behind the butler.

Many people they couldn't see stood there, devoid of humanity, supporting this heinous sacrifice for decades.

Yu Yi: "The appearance of the Bethelden virus is nothing more than a good boost, but we have all seen that the sequelae of Bethelden are very serious, even to the extent that they are contrary to the eternal life they want to achieve. .”

Li Mumu continued: "So... he spent a lot of time conducting experiments on so many living people, just to find a

Li Mumu couldn't figure it out: "Why do you want to live forever?"

Yu Yi wanted to say, 'Maybe it's an idiot', but he suddenly thought of a possibility: "Would they want to create a reincarnated god?"

Yue Ge fixed his deep eyes on him and said, "For this world, kingship is higher than divine power."

Yu Yi squeezed his chin: "It's very possible that they want to create a living god through immortality to strengthen the existence of theocracy and religion."

In the name of reborn gods and religions, power control is carried out, corrupting people's souls and beliefs.

After all, what could control and dominate people's thoughts and emotions more than a living example of eternal life, immortality, and immortality.

Yue Ge: "He shouldn't be the only one."

He looked down into the depths: "The Baron, the Pope... should all be aware of this matter."

Without the baron's consent, the butler could conduct experiments on the baroness.

Without such a huge influence of the Pope, how could it be possible for such a long period of time to forcibly plunder a large number of ordinary people for experiments without being noticed by the outside world.

Everyone thought of the previous three oil paintings at the same time, and remained silent.

Irony?

Loved ones use themselves in sinful experiments for their own selfish desires, turning living people into brutal monsters.

Yu Yi pressed the center of his eyebrows: "There is a bit of a contradiction here."

Everyone turned their heads and looked over.

Yu Yi: "If the baron is also involved, the third painting won't give us any clues."

Yue Ge: "What if the third painting wasn't painted by the Baron?"

Yu Yi glanced at him: "...It seems that you still have something to share."

Yue Ge's face became tense and tense: "..."

Accidentally, the stuffing was exposed.

·

Gu Nian panicked, remembering the last record he saw.

Grabbing the iron bars in a hurry: "We have to leave the game as soon as possible."

Everyone frowned at her.

"The onset of the virus is very fast, only one night, Zhang Heng on the first day, and——" Gu Nian's eyes were full of worry.

She looked at Yu Yi: "—it's you, the butler's record says 'doctor' the next day."

Yu Yi gave a 'huh' and said with a smile: "And I was also memorized by the housekeeper."

It seemed that after 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, he wasn't the one who was going to turn into a monster.

"..."

No one could take his teasing at this moment, and everyone looked at him worriedly.

Yu Yi put away his smile: "This

"Do you remember our first round of games?" He looked at Li Mumu.

Li Mumu nodded blankly.

Yu Yi gave Yue Ge a cold look.

Yue Ge looked at him innocently: "..."

Yu Yi: "When we went out at the end of the first round, it didn't inspire the retrospect stone and the retrograde tablet—"

Li Mumu patted his leg: "It's a system crash!"

Yu Yi nodded, looking at Yue Ge with piercing eyes: "Yue——"

He coughed unnaturally: "—A friend who didn't want to be named, killed an NPC in the first round of the game, causing the system to crash."

Everyone: "..."

God damn doesn't want to be named.

Gu Nian asked in a low voice: "Maybe we just find that NPC that can crash the system?"

Yu Yi said, "Theoretically, it is."

As for the actual operation... it may be a little more troublesome.

Not only do you have to find the NPC that can crash the system in a short time, but you also need to be stuck at the moment when the system crashes and the retrospective tablet opens.

Once the system crashes, they can rush out of the retrospective monument in the first second of the crash and escape from the world of this death game.

Li Mumu: "But the housekeeper is dead, and the system hasn't crashed."

Yu Yi said lightly: "Then kill them all."

Yue Ge: "..."

Gu Nian: "...?"

Li Mumu: "...??!!!"

What kind of devil is this? ? ?