Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

The situation has become more and more critical, Wu Ren only had time to say a word to Zhou Qian: "In "Flowers of Evil", you haven't seen me make a real move. Don't tell me, you are trying to test my ability. That's why I'm here to stand on the sidelines!"

Hearing this, the corners of Zhou Qian's mouth twitched even more. "You've made a fool of me."

Wu Ren: "..."

There was a loud bang, the sound made by the god standing on the edge of the crucible.

Zhou Qian glanced at him and found that, as Wu Ren said, this god looked rather strange.

Under the influence of various ghost legends, people subconsciously think that gods should be quite huge.Especially a god with the power to destroy the world must be a giant.

But now this so-called god is different, he is very small, probably only reaching Zhou Qian's waist.He has sharp-nosed monkey cheeks, which is indeed very weird, but also very similar to humans.

It seemed that he was still essentially a human being, only more deformed.

Of course, despite his small stature, his strength should not be underestimated.

A scepter that was as long as the diameter of a huge crucible was under his control, and after flying 50 soldiers' corpses, it came straight to the inside of the crucible!

A blood-red beam of light suddenly shot out from the tip of the scepter. As expected, Wu Ren had already experienced it, and opened a huge protective umbrella in time.

[Props: Powerful Umbrella]

[Function: An ambitious umbrella, from the moment it is made, it swears that it is stronger than the golden bell cover, no matter what moves the target makes, it can resist 50% of the damage]

[Grade: S Grade; Rare]

The moment the light beam collided with the protective umbrella, there was a huge friction sound.This protective umbrella doesn't look thick, but its power should not be underestimated. It is quite difficult for the light beam to penetrate it and hit people.

While using the protective umbrella to block the light beam, Wu Ren concentrated his hands, and the sky above the crucible suddenly became dark clouds.

After a short period of gaining momentum, a flash of lightning slid past, followed by a thunderclap, and what fell was not rain, but thousands of silver needles shining with silver light.

Under Wu Ren's control, the silver needle would turn around, point the tip at the god, and immediately stab him.

The god of heaven was furious, and before the hidden weapon struck, he seized the opportunity to use the scepter to release several beams of light, and then dodged it with his small and dexterous body.

With a flash of red figure, he disappeared temporarily.

Only a dark red sky remained at the mouth of the crucible.

Seeing this, Wu Ren yelled to Zhou Qian in time: "Hide, the first beam of his is the most ruthless, even if he dodges, he can lose 8000 points of blood, but the latter beams can be dodged! As long as you move fast enough! "

At this point, Wu Ren really suffered the aftermath of the inevitable first scepter beam. After his blood volume dropped by 8000 points, his body issued a red warning of extremely low vitality.

Opening his mouth, he spat out a mouthful of bright red blood.

At this moment, the crisis came again, and a new beam of light hit his head!

According to Wu Ren's usual movement speed, he can easily avoid it instinctively.But now that he was seriously injured, his footsteps became extremely heavy after he vomited blood, his movement speed dropped sharply, and the situation suddenly became extremely critical.His heart couldn't help but sink heavily——

If Wu Ren remembered correctly, when he saw Zhou Qian for the last time, he was leaning against the inner wall of the crucible with his legs bent, looking very relaxed, like walking in a forest for sightseeing.

And Wu Ren still remembered that Zhou Qian held up the flashlight and looked at the sculptures for a moment, and even became a little lost in thought.

He probably hadn't heard his own words at all, hadn't noticed the beams at all.

He didn't know the attack pattern of these beams, let alone how long it would take for them to land on the bottom of the crucible!

Wu Ren felt that he was going to be finished.

If Zhou Qian really didn't have blue, he would die too.

They can't escape!

Wu Ren wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and tried his best to dodge forward, but he was too late, the scorching light beam had almost exploded on top of his head, no matter how hard he tried, he could only keep his head from being hit. , but he couldn't hide behind his back!His whole back will be burned by this beam, and he will die!

At the moment when there was no time, Wu Ren suddenly caught a glimpse of an abnormal distortion on the edge of the crucible in front of him.Knowing clearly that this was not a trick of the gods, he suddenly realized that time had been slowed down!

Zhou Qian didn't have enough mana, so he had to try his best to use it sparingly.

Therefore, after the time was slowed down, he only bought Wu Renduo a second of time.

But that's enough.

One end of the divine bone appeared in front of Wu Ren, and Wu Ren immediately reached out to hold it.

Zhou Qian pulled the divine bone and pulled it hard in the direction where he was. Due to the excessive force, he fell down with Wu Renqi.

In the next moment, the blood-red beam hit the bottom of the crucible, but it did not cause any damage to the bottom of the crucible.It silently disappeared at the bottom of the crucible, as if absorbed by the special material of the crucible.

Falling to the ground, Wu Ren spat out a mouthful of blood: "Thank you."

In the end, he saw the acceleration shoes on Zhou Qian's feet, and part of his confusion was answered: "No wonder you came so fast. After all, you didn't make a few dungeons. Why are you so rich? Who did you get it from? "

Zhou Qian got up and said with a smile, "My master."

"Your master?" Wu Ren shook his head and muttered, "I don't know who was taken advantage of."

Zhou Qian: "Hey, at least I saved your life."

"Okay. Let me say one more, thank you——"

Wu Ren added a sentence awkwardly, and then quickly reminded Zhou Qian, "Beam, it's not over yet!"

"Got it, hold on tight."

Zhou Qian raised his head and glanced upwards. He didn't let go of any beam of light, and quickly judged the speed of the beam's attack—fortunately, it was much slower than the devil boy, and he didn't even need to summon the little dragon.

Relying on the acceleration shoes, Zhou Qian dragged Wu Ren with a divine bone, and the two began to fly over the walls in a huge cauldron that could hold 50 people.

Even though he only went through one copy of the experience, Zhou Qian could feel that his agility was much faster, and under the effect of the acceleration shoes, his movements were even more fluid.

There are still seven beams following.

Both Zhou Qian and Wu Ren avoided it.

The seven beams of light almost slid back and forth against Wu Ren's back, and then silently sank into the crucible itself.

But luckily there was no danger.

Wu Ren did not dare to take it lightly for a moment. After seeing Zhou Qian stop, he quickly reminded: "The god will be back soon! There is another wave of his offensive! I have to use another wave of silver needles to force him to leave .In this case, he can only release 8 beams, otherwise it will be even harder for us to escape!"

As soon as the words fell, Wu Ren gained momentum again.

The dark clouds came again, and the silver needles condensed from the void again accompanied by lightning and thunder.

After the gods sprinkled eight beams, in order to avoid the silver needles, they still chose to leave the field.

This time the light beam fell faster, and it was even more difficult for Zhou Qian to avoid Wu Ren with his speed shoes.

But in the end, except for Wu Ren's clothes being scorched by the beam, the two were barely safe.

After 1 minute, the red light at the mouth of the crucible dissipated.

The gods returned to his world.

An hour later, that is, a day in this world, he will come again.

Wu Ren took a few breaths, rested for a while with his back against the inner wall of the crucible, and slowly relaxed physically and mentally.Then he glanced up at the top of the cauldron, and slowly climbed out.

Suddenly, he heard Zhou Qian's laughter.

Wu Ren immediately looked down at him in surprise. "why are you laughing?!"

Zhou Qian held up a mirror to him. "Look at your back."

Wu Ren didn't look foolishly, but couldn't hold back his body and involuntarily turned to take a look - the mirror reflected his ragged clothes with more than a dozen holes in his back.

His skin was exposed from the dozen or so holes in his clothes, some were red, some were black, and some were even pink because of the loss of a piece of burnt skin, which looked really ridiculous.

Wu Ren took out a cloak from his luggage and put it on to cover his back. He turned around angrily and continued to climb up.

"You'd better find a way. Otherwise, we'll die here together. My blue is enough to play a trick!"

Zhou Qian only said: "Angkor, climb slowly, and be careful not to fall!"

Originally, Wu Ren crawled well by himself, and he didn't know if Zhou Qian was poisonous. After hearing this sentence, his hands and feet slipped, and he actually fell to the bottom of the crucible with a "crack".

This fall was really hard, and Wu Ren immediately lost another 3% of his blood.

Due to the serious injury, Wu Ren really couldn't get up for a while.

Lying flat on the bottom of the crucible, he stared at the blood-red sky through the mouth of the crucible. After a long time, he said in a deep voice: "Zhou Qian, in fact, my luck has always been pretty good. Why is it in "The Flower of Evil"?" As soon as I met you, I got the least number of life points cards? Zhou Qian, you can definitely beat me."

"That must be because you didn't agree to be my king." Zhou Qian said seriously.

Wu Ren couldn't help rolling his eyes.

Zhou Qian said again: "Did I tell you that your eyes are too small, so rolling your eyes has no deterrent effect?"

Wu Ren felt that he couldn't cry: "Zhou Qian, I really regret calling you."

"Don't." Zhou Qian said, "You lie here for a while, and we will act together later."

"How do we act?" Wu Ren asked him.

Zhou Qian said: "This is the end of the human race. The gods were furious, so they destroyed the world. These are actually your guesses, right? I'm just foolish to confirm."

"Yes. But I got a clear message - the crucible was made by the most powerful wizard of mankind. He made the crucible to protect the last remaining emperor in the human world.

"Okay, then, after I entered the instance, red rain fell from the sky and the earth was devastated. There was a cauldron by my side, and 50 soldiers came out to protect me. Then..."

Wu Rendao: "There is no other living person in this world except me. I naturally feel that this is the end of the world.

"There is only one emperor in the world, and the wizard said he needs protection. Then, when I see that there is only me in this world, and there are 50 people who are really protecting me, of course I think... I am the emperor of this world, and those 50 people Individuals are my soldiers.

"Is there something wrong with this?

"But if this isn't the end of the world, and I'm not an emperor... how can I explain all this?"

Zhou Qian suddenly asked: "Besides these 50 soldiers, have you seen the corpses of other people? For example, ordinary people, or other animals and plants?"

Wu Ren shook his head, sat up all of a sudden, and asked seriously: "So... what is your guess?"

"Remember what I said to you? The twin spirits on this sculpture have the power of a shaman and can travel through different worlds." Zhou Qian asked Wu Ren.

"Remember." Wu Ren said, "You also said that the gods are likely to be from another world. The red rain is the medium that communicates the two worlds, and it is also the channel to open up the world. It takes 3 minutes for the red rain to fall before the channel between the two worlds can be opened. .So the god will appear 3 minutes after the red rain comes."

Zhou Qian asked Wu Ren again: "You never heard your soldiers speak, did you?"

Wu Ren nodded.

Zhou Qian: "Including the time you just entered the dungeon?"

Wu Ren always thought that when he first entered this world, neither he nor his soldiers died.

They were all alive at that time. Fifty soldiers protected him with flesh and blood, and they died before his eyes after the first red rain.

According to the information prompted by the system at the beginning, Wu Ren put them into the crucible and witnessed their rebirth under the power of the crucible.

After that, what he experienced was a repeat of the story round after round.

Zhou Qian looked at Wu Ren and said, "There is a book called "Mabinogion", which tells stories about medieval Wales, and there are many myths and legends in it.

"This book mentions the content related to the crucible, which is the information that the system gave us at the beginning. However, the system deliberately missed a sentence.

"'The real thing in the book about this story is that you throw the body of your man who died that day into the cauldron, and tomorrow he will come back to life unscathed, except for one thing—he can no longer Talk again.'"

"The resurrected soldiers will no longer be able to speak." Wu Ren frowned. "The system didn't give me this sentence... But it doesn't seem like the system is deliberately concealing information. After all, we can observe this."

"Yeah. But it's really more helpful to know the original words in advance." Zhou Qian said to Wu Ren, "When you first came here, the soldiers didn't speak to you.

"So have you ever been fooled, maybe by that time, they were already dead? You and the soldiers, together, kept repeating this story over and over again."

Wu Ren's scalp couldn't help but feel a little numb. "This, what the hell..."

Zhou Qian looked at him and said, "Actually, maybe even you can't talk. You fought here alone before, thinking that you were the only living person, so you don't have to talk anyway. You don't realize it.

"The reason why you can communicate with me is probably the function of the summoning item. This belongs to the logic outside the story. In other words, this rare cheating item that helps you pass the level gives you the ability to communicate with your teammates. But in In the story, your original identity may not be able to speak, just like those soldiers."

Wu Ren's back was sweating, and the sweat was poured on the wound, and when he put on the cloak behind him, he suddenly felt his entire spine was icy cold.

"Don't you mean..." Wu Ren swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "You mean I'm dead?"

Zhou Qian raised his finger and pointed to the inside of the crucible.

A line of soldiers with their eyes closed stood around the inside of the cauldron.

The same is true for the row of cavalry above, but they have their eyes open, and they walk in the opposite direction from the soldiers with closed eyes.

"Have you counted the number of these soldiers carefully?" Zhou Qian asked Wu Ren.

Wu Ren suddenly understood what was going on.

Zhou Qian said, "There are 51 soldiers. There are also 51 cavalry."

"Soldiers with closed eyes symbolize death. They are guided by the twin spirits with horns and snakes to hell, or another world. After that, they become cavalry and return to the world with their eyes open. This is the true meaning of the carvings in the crucible. .”

Zhou Qian said, "When they were alive, they died as infantry. Their expectation is... When they return to the world, they should become stronger so that they can protect their emperor. So they became cavalry. And you—— "

Looking at Wu Ren's eyes, Zhou Qian's dark pupils seemed to glow with some kind of brilliance.

He said, "You are one of them. Maybe you are the general leading these soldiers. Look carefully. Among the 51 soldiers on this carving, you can find one dressed slightly differently from the rest."

"You mean, this is not the end of the world, but a world of undead?" Wu Ren said, "In the story, I have died long ago. I am an undead..."

"Yes. Look at Angkor, you have been tricked by the system. The word 'the last emperor of mankind' does not mean that there is only one living human left."

Zhou Qian smiled and said, "The real story is now very clear.

There is a war in the world.

The two sides of the war, one is the "last emperor of mankind", and the other is the "God" who holds a scepter and will rain red.

In order to protect the emperor, a wizard made him a cauldron that could bring his warriors back to life.

It should be that in a certain battle, 51 soldiers died for the emperor.Among them is a very powerful general, who is Wu Ren's true identity in this story.

The emperor put the corpses of the general and 50 soldiers into the cauldron, hoping that they would come back to life and help him fight.

His enemy "God" didn't want the powerful general to be resurrected, so he tried again and again to enter the "Crucible World" and kill the general's undead.

Wu Ren swallowed again. "I understand what you mean. In fact, the entire dark red world is the inside of the crucible. The so-called crucible we see now is just an image or a concrete symbol.

"After death, the undead should go to hell. But because of the existence of the crucible...we were not able to go to hell, but were trapped in this place, whether we will live or die..."

"Let's put it this way. The 'Crucible World' is a world between life and death. You are trapped here."

Zhou Qian said, "Also, why do you think "Mabino Gion" specifically mentions that the resurrected soldiers cannot speak? In fact, there is a meaning behind this."

Wu Ren shook his head.

Zhou Qian said: "This means that the so-called 'resurrection' is not actually a resurrection in the true sense.

"'The last emperor of mankind' tried to use the 'crucible' to bring you back to life, but in fact he couldn't really do it. What he brought back to the world with the crucible was not real living people, but zombies. He just wanted to use Your undead power. You are his undead army.

"I guess, when the war is over, you will leave the 'Crucible World', a different world, and then go to the real hell. Of course, this does not affect the clearance. In fact, what is really important is the meaning of these carvings—"

Raising his finger to the knight closest to him, Zhou Qian said: "As these statues imply, after you die, you will go to another world under the guidance of the twin spirits, and then get a certain sense of 'rebirth' under the action of the crucible. Become a knight and return to the world.

"But so far, you and those 50 soldiers have not been able to truly become 'knights'."

"So... Actually, the real way to clear the level is not to defeat that 'god', but... a foolish way to go back, leave this crucible world, and return to the real world?!"

Wu Ren stood up straight at once, "It is impossible to use a crucible with your hands, you need to use utensils! This crucible is not complete, and there are matching things for it!"