Altar of Infinity

Xie Ji's legs were slightly separated by one knuckle, and his fingers were clasped together casually, showing a very relaxed posture. He didn't deliberately make any expressions, and the natural smile on his lips was easy-going enough.

It seemed that the atmosphere of chatting after dinner made Jiang Jichu feel as if he was facing a formidable enemy.

He tried his best to maintain his expression, but his Adam's apple rolled uncontrollably.

A certain name was like dense curses coming towards him from all directions. The not-so-complicated strokes were distorted and deformed, and finally turned into sly and mocking smiling faces.

His most disgusting voice sounded again from the bottom of his heart.

"Jiang Jichu, sooner or later, you will like it..."

The invisible pressure made him almost breathless, and he even weakly gave birth to an impulse.

Jiang Jichu raised his head.

Xie Ji even bends the end of his eyes just right, without words he can easily seduce people, make people relax and convince people, it seems that no matter how big Xie Ji's waves are, they will turn into the wind of spring.

But he knew it from the moment he made the decision.

Can not indulge.

Can't covet.

He can't forget why he persisted until now.

Jiang Jichu pinched himself through the fabric, allowing those smiling faces to pounce on him presumptuously, gnawing at every blood vessel and every organ in him with their slender fangs.

He said in a deep voice: "When I was at Niu Kuyin's house, I once helped you, thinking that you were going to make pot-packed meat and marinate the meat in advance, but you made shredded pork with Beijing sauce, which was very salty after frying. You didn't say anything."

Xie Ji: "Why didn't you say it at the time, and you finished eating?"

Jiang Jichu: "You obviously have no sense of taste, but you forcibly memorized many recipes and pretended to be good at cooking, which means you don't want others to know."

Xie Ji recalled that it was once when Jiang Jichu was making shredded pork with Beijing sauce.

He couldn't remember if the meat had been marinated that time.

The Shouren checkpoint has ended, and there is no monitoring to check, this matter has become an unfalsifiable deadlock.

He looked at Jiang Jichu, and Jiang Jichu looked back without hesitation, calm and sure.

Xie Ji felt that Jiang Jichu had made an inhumane choice during the long silence just now.

But he couldn't think of the reason why Jiang Jichu kept this matter from him.

They met by chance in Novice Pass. If it wasn't for Jiang Jichu's serious injury and weakness, he accidentally bumped into him, causing him to splash Niu Kuyin's eight-treasure porridge all over his body, and he accidentally smashed Jiang Jichu's watch. , they will not have a subsequent intersection at all.

Once they leave the novice pass, they are strangers who met by chance.

Jiang Jichu is a veteran who has gone through high-level levels. He has rich experience, strong strength, and doesn't like to make friends with others.

And he is just a newcomer to the altar, and he doesn't think he has anything worth the effort of someone like Jiang Jichu.

Unless it's outside the altar.

Jiang Jichu said that he is a student of Z University, and with Jiang Jichu's appearance, there must be an impression of the students of Z University. If the identity is false, it may be revealed someday.

Jiang Jichu's identity is real, and they have never met before. The only possible communication between the two is the "brother" Jiang Jichu called.

But even if he knew Jiang Jichu's brother, Jiang Jichu didn't need to hide it.

Could it be that he and brother Jiang Jichu are life-and-death enemies?

None of his enemies was surnamed Jiang.

There is still a long way to go, since I can't figure it out now, there is no need to stop for a while.

"Thank you for your thoughtfulness," Xie Ji put away his thoughts and smiled skillfully, "Since you know about this, as a teammate, I hope you can help me keep the secret, and when I encounter this kind of thing again can remind me."

He blinked: "It's good for us after all."

Jiang Jichu: "I know."

Xie Ji: "Okay, it's getting late, let's go to the cemetery to look for clues."

·

According to the currently known clues, Ann established a funeral home many years ago so that the deceased could find peace here.

But there was an accident a few days ago, I don't know why, I left suddenly, and I was in a hurry, I didn't even pack the dormitory.

Now he is possessed by Yao Shun again.

Now that Ann has the ability to possess the body, most likely she is no longer alive and has become a "ghost" or "spirit".

Zen, the only named person in the funeral home, has a close relationship with Ann, and Ann's wish is likely to be directly related to Zen.

And Ann possessed Yao Shun in order to fulfill her wish.

Xie Ji thought about what Yao Shuncong did from yesterday to today.

Once suspicious, there are many places worth noting.

For example, Yao Shun's night shift last night was a coincidence or Ann deliberately did it?

She has been looking at the storage compartment on the south wall at night. What is in the storage compartment?

What was there in the morgue that they hadn't found?

Xie Ji thought that they had to go to the morgue again.

Go during the day and go at night.

During the discussion along the way, the cemetery arrived.

The cemetery is a space surrounded by railings. It occupies the largest area in the funeral parlor. There is an electronic lock between the two iron doors. Every day, excellent employees will be given permission to enter the cemetery by the columbarium the next day.

There are countless headlights on the ceiling, shining like sunlight, and through the gaps in the gate and the fence, one can see rows of tombs inside.

Xie Ji looked around and made sure that there was no monitoring nearby, and there were no cleaning robots wandering around.

The entire funeral home is not equipped with surveillance cameras. Maybe Ann thinks that no one will come to the funeral home to make trouble.

He discussed with Jiang Jichu: "The railing is not high, just turn it in?"

Jiang Ji didn't say a word in the first two days, and fell firmly inside the cemetery while grabbing the railing three times, five times and two times.

Xie Ji: "..."

Anyway, give me a reply before going in.

If there is a team of five in the future, Jiang Jichu will undoubtedly be the vanguard.

Xie Ji reluctantly followed suit.

The space in the cemetery was larger than he had imagined, and the two of them walked among them, carefully observing each grave.

There is a small grave behind the tombstones with names, and there is flat land behind the unnamed tombstones, probably waiting for the burial urn to be dug again.

The cemetery was very quiet, only the sound of their unhurried footsteps.

When they came to the end of the walk, Xie Ji found a tomb with a name engraved on it but no grave bag.

Xie Ji: "Wang Wu, this is the name of Li Lan's relationship network. Wang Wu once defrauded Li Lan of 50 yuan through fraud."

Not only Wang Wu, he also saw many tombstones with names he had seen before, most of which were related to the hatred everyone carried.

His guess is confirmed, and the difficulty of the level may be lower than he thought.

As long as you have been to the cemetery, you will find directional tombstones. No wonder Zhang Ming was so happy with the panda eyes that were beaten in the morning. It turned out that he had found a way to get out.

Xie Ji: "Don't you think it's a bit simple?"

Jiang Jichu: "Our skills surpass most people. It was only the second day yesterday, and we found suitable props to avoid more than 50 corpses. But the aggressiveness of corpses is increasing, and it is still difficult for ordinary people."

Thank you for nodding.

"The evolution of the corpse group is not impossible to resolve. For example, when cremating the old corpses every day, the old corpses can be cremated first, and their overall level can be reduced.

“However, this creates new problems.

"For example, when the number of corpses in the mortuary decreases, will more corpses be transported in every day, thereby continuously increasing the amount of cremated corpses every day. The cremated corpses should be placed in the storage compartment on the wall of the morgue, if One day, what if there are not enough storage compartments in the morgue? It may lead to more serious consequences.

"Although there is no time limit for this level, the most important thing is to hurry up and leave.

"As long as the task can be completed before the storage compartment is full, the survival rate is quite high."

Jiang Jichu: "But this is only a superficial task, is that all your pursuit?"

The superficial task refers to finding the body to be cremated and buried according to the columbarium system.

The semi-hidden task of the boss' wish is even more difficult. Ann's whereabouts are a mystery, and Zen only shows up with a name. Although it is difficult, there is no danger.

"Of course not," Xie Ji denied, "We came in the afternoon of the day before yesterday, and it's only been two days since we've packed our bags. It's not enough time for some things to show their regularity."

Jiang Jichu: "We haven't been to the incineration chamber yet."

Xie Ji: "You are not here today. My job is still in the information room. We should be assigned to the incineration room tomorrow. The incineration room and the morgue are closely connected. If there is a problem, it must be in these two places."

Jiang Jichu: "There is also a morgue at night."

Just as Xie Ji was about to answer, he suddenly saw two graves side by side at the end of the cemetery.

These two tombs are obviously different from the others. Their tombstones are very close together, and one has a tomb and the other does not.

If another grave bag is also piled up, the two will still be squeezed together.

Xie Ji walked over quickly, and his eyes lit up after seeing the words on the tombstone.

Ann/Zhao An

Zen

It is the grave of Ann and Zen.

Ann is dead and buried in her own grave.

In this way, Zen is also dead, but the body has not yet been cremated.

Ann is waiting for Zen.

Xie Ji: "Perhaps Ann's wish is that someone can also bury Zen here. They had a good relationship during their lifetime, and they will stay together after death."

Jiang Jichu: "But we don't know where Zen is."

Xie Ji looked at the name on the tombstone, and a smile appeared on his lips: "If it was before, we might have to work hard to find clues, but now there are ready-made ones, so don't ask for nothing."

Jiang Jichu: "You mean, Yao Shun."

Xie Ji: "That's right. You have seen Yao Shun, or Ann's personality, and she can communicate. More importantly, she is in need now. I hope we can bury Zen with her. In this case, she provides The more we do, the faster we can get done.”

It's not impossible to find clues bit by bit, but since there is a more convenient way, why not use it?

Jiang Jichu accidentally discovered that Ann was possessed by Yao Shun, and they could directly hang up and solve the problem from the root cause.

For them, this level will not take long at all.

Chapter 30 Sudden change, I don't know if it was Xie Ji's illusion, he felt that eyeball was looking at him.

The two walked around the cemetery, and there were about three names on the relationship between each person's file that appeared on the tombstones in the cemetery.

Even if it is not found that the target person is an object of hatred, there is still a one-third probability of being able to choose the right person.

Near dinner, they left the cemetery and went to the mess hall.

The funeral parlor only has this cafeteria. Xie Ji plans to find an excuse to invite Yao Shun to his dormitory to chat when he meets Yao Shun later, so that he can take the opportunity to have a showdown and ask where Zen is, so that his wish can be fulfilled as soon as possible, and they can leave as soon as possible.

The employees got off work one after another, and everyone looked a little tired. After staying in the funeral home for so long, no one tried to cremate the body and bury it in the cemetery.

Xie Ji's dinner is more health-preserving. If you can't taste the taste anyway, choose healthy ones.

Xie Ji: "What are you going to do after this level is over?"

Jiang Jichu: "Go to the next level."

Xie Ji: "I see that the injury on your back is still not healed. The points we should get this time can stay in the main city for a while. Do you want to heal the injury first?"

Jiang Jichu shook his head: "It won't heal well in a short time, it's not an ordinary injury."

Xie Ji guessed: "The damage caused by advanced levels is different?"

"Anyway, it's not what you think," Jiang Jichu said, "it won't affect the action, let's go through the second level first and leave the slums."

Among the three areas of the altar, you can enter the civilian area after passing the second pass, and you can enter the selection area after passing the fourth pass.

Xie Ji: "What's in the civilian area?"

Jiang Jichu: "When you enter the civilian area, you will be able to understand the basic operating mechanism of the altar."

Xie Ji had thought about this problem a long time ago. The maintenance of the main city alone requires manpower for such a huge altar. However, after coming out of the novice gate, the two people's life and death books are bound together. When they first enter the main city, they need to receive a lot of information and time. And too little, he didn't have time to ask carefully.

After going out this time, I have to get to know him well.

Just as he was thinking, he found their long-awaited figure.

Wearing the overalls of the funeral parlor, Yao Shun walked through the glass window of the cafeteria alone, and walked step by step towards the main entrance of the cafeteria.

Xie Ji: "Here we come."

Jiang Jichu stopped his chopsticks and looked towards the door together with Xie Ji.

Xie Ji raised his hand to greet Yao Shun: "Yao Shun!"

Yao Shun also saw him, and smiled and waved in response: "Brother Xie!"

Xie Ji wanted to ask Yao Shun to sit down, but suddenly a white figure appeared on the other side of the door, standing right behind Yao Shun.

It was a body in the morgue.

Because of the cover, the corpse only showed half of the face through Yao Shun's shoulders, and the weed-like black hair covered most of the forehead, and a swollen eyeball was particularly eye-catching.

I don't know if it was Xie Ji's illusion, but he felt that eyeball was looking at him.

Even the face under the eyeballs is smiling.

Xie Ji suddenly stood up from his seat: "Run!"

Yao Shun didn't understand what Xie Ji meant, subconsciously turned his body backwards following Xie Ji's gaze.

The corpse grabbed Yao Shun's shoulder, opened his mouth and bit his neck.

There were piercing screams in the cafeteria.

Xie Ji rushed to the door quickly, kicked Yao Shun's body that was still biting his flesh and blood, and rescued Yao Shun.

The corpse wanted to attack as if it didn't feel the pain, Jiang Jichu arrived in time, grabbed the corpse by the collar and slammed it to the ground aside.

Blood fell continuously from Yao Shun's wound, forming several magnificent blood pools on the ground.

And Yao Shun was hugged between Xie Ji's legs, holding his neck in a daze and coughing non-stop.

Xie Ji: "Yao Shun! Yao Shun!"

Xie Ji has seen countless wounded, and he can tell the severity of Yao Shun's injury at a glance, even if they are at the hospital gate now, it is too late.

His thoughts turned, and countless thoughts popped up in his mind.

why?

Why was Yao Shun suddenly attacked by a corpse?

Isn't the corpse in the morgue? When the daily work tasks are over, the doors of the workplace will be closed. Why do the corpses run out?

Besides, the one possessing Yao Shun's body is not Ann, the boss of the funeral parlor. Why did the corpse directly choose Ann to kill?

His first reaction was to get the golden cicada out of its shell.

Ann doesn't want to use Yao Shun's shell anymore, and wants to change her body and identity.

But there was no surveillance in the funeral parlor. When he and Jiang Jichu deduced that Yao Shun was Ann, there was no one around. Ann's identity was well concealed. Why did he suddenly change his body?

Still in such an unreasonable way.

Could it be Zen?

The relationship between Zen and Ann is actually not good, Zen even hated Ann, it was Zen who shot and killed Ann.

No, not right.

Ann's diary contains no hint of a bad relationship, and their graves are together.

He didn't think Zen killed Ann.

The blankness on Ann's face is too real, if Zen hates Ann, Ann doesn't write it in her diary, but she knows it in her heart, it shouldn't be this expression at this moment.

If Ann didn't know about Zen's hatred, Zen wouldn't need to attack Ann blatantly at the entrance of the cafeteria at such an ordinary hour.

And for a level boss who has become a ghost, can killing the body she is attached to really kill her?

Xie Ji gritted his teeth and decided to take a gamble.

Xie Ji: "Yao Shun! Yao Shun! Hold on! Ann! Zhao An!"

Ann's pupils trembled, and she looked at Xie Ji in disbelief.

Xie Ji: "What happened? What happened?"

The aorta of Ann's body attached to it was bitten off, and the vitality left along with the blood, and the light in her eyes dimmed little by little.

But when Ann heard Xie Ji call out her real name, it was like a flash of light, and her free other hand firmly grasped Xie Ji's wrist.

Jiang Jichu took half a step forward, trying to tear Ann away, but was stopped by Xie Ji.

Xie Ji: "Do you know who did it?"

Ann's voice was broken and muffled.

"I... I don't know.

"I...have never had bad luck. This funeral parlor...sends...all of them are not good people.

"The funeral home is already out of my control... It's not that I want to kill you...

"Yao Shun, Yao Shun suffered a heart attack...he died...I didn't expect to harm anyone.

"So please...please...Brother Xie...

"Find Zen...buried with me, I died of overwork, Zen died of starvation because of me...not eating or drinking...

"Brother Xie... Please... even after death, I can't keep Zen myself..."

Xie Ji: "Where is Zen?"

Ann: "We, ahem, we didn't count in the file, Zen...has been cremated, right here, in the morgue...ahem...the storage compartment in the morgue...ahem!"

Jiang Jichu: "Thank you for posting!"

Xie Ji looked away from Yao Shun, and found a large number of corpses swarming from the other end of the corridor.

Their speed was more than double that of last night, and they rushed in front of them in the blink of an eye.

Jiang Jichu punched the first corpse open, but there were too many corpses and the corridor was too narrow, Xie Ji had to put Ann down, and together with Jiang Jichu pushed back the rushing corpse.

Jiang Jichu: "Go back to the cafeteria first!"

They didn't have time to make too many movements, the impact of dozens of corpses piled up alone was beyond the body's ability to resist, so they had to retreat quickly into the cafeteria.

Xie Ji wanted to pull Ann in together, but a corpse happened to step on Ann's body.

Several corpses had already broken into the cafeteria, and everyone screamed in panic.

"it hurts!"

"Help!"

"Everyone, drive these corpses out first!"

Xie Ji had no choice but to step back first, and together with the others, beat the corpses that broke into the cafeteria to the door one by one.

Ann couldn't hold it anymore, even if her back was stepped on, she tried her best to hug a corpse's calf for them. Her eyes were full of longing, and she lay on the ground facing Xie Ji and shouted hoarsely: "Thank you!" Brother...Zen!"

The door was closed from the inside, sealing off Ann and all the corpses.

Jiang Jichu made a decisive decision and pulled the nearest table to the door. Others followed suit and blocked the door with all their hands and feet.

Taking advantage of other people blocking the door, Jiang Jichu pulled Xie Ji back a few steps.

Xie Ji's body was covered with Ann's blood, and his wrist was even reddened under a layer of blood.

Jiang Jichu took a box of tissues from the table and handed it over.

Xie Ji: "Thank you."

He took a deep breath, almost no need to adjust his state, the whole person remained rational, and calmly looked at the door that was constantly being hit, and the glass windows on the right side of the cafeteria door.

The corpse you squeeze me, I squeeze you, the body is tightly pressed against the window, especially the face,

Xie Ji: "I have noticed before that the glass is explosion-proof glass, as long as the door is blocked, they will not be able to enter temporarily."

"what happened!"

"Shouldn't the corpse be in the morgue! Why are they all running out!"

"Who's working in the morgue today?"

"It's me, it's me and my teammates, but the door was closed when we left! I'm sure it was closed! I have OCD, so I checked it!"

"That's right, the door to the morgue is indeed closed!"

"How did the corpse come out? What should we do now?"

Xie Ji found a seat and sat down, thinking while wiping the blood off his body.

Ann died suddenly, and a group of corpses crushed and hurt people. Everything happened too suddenly, and it didn't conform to the usual style of this level.

Xie Ji said to Jiang Jichu: "Has the level collapsed before?"

Jiang Jichu: "There have been times, for example, the level was severely damaged, or the speed of clearing the level was too fast, which caused a stress response in the level and disordered order."

Xie Ji thought to himself.

Calculated in terms of time, it has been less than three days since they entered the checkpoint. Could it be that they found that Ann was possessed by Yao Shun, and Ann was someone they could communicate with. In order to prevent them from leaving early, the checkpoint itself activated self-regulation mechanism?

He shook his head, always feeling that this idea was unreliable.

The most important thing right now is not to think about why, but to find a way to get out.

Staying in the cafeteria is not a long-term solution. Corpses may rush in at any time, and the cafeteria door is closed, so the source of food cannot be guaranteed. In addition, several corpses rushed into the cafeteria just now, and some people were injured.

Staying in the cafeteria is tantamount to waiting for death.