Altar of Infinity

Hearing what Wu Kang said, everyone understood.

Wu Kang is the npc of this level, and he is here to give them tasks.

Those who have experience can think of another level, Wu Kang may be the level boss of this level.

Level bosses are not necessarily all monsters, sometimes they may be people. The focus of this type of level is to fulfill the boss' wish.

Amid everyone's expectations, Wu Kang spoke slowly.

"The young people have left the village to make a living in the city, and I am the only one who is willing to guard the tower, and I know that I won't live long, so I have been looking for a way to completely eliminate this murderer.

"I searched through the four floors of books, and one of them wrote that if you want to eliminate the murderer, you must imprison him in a tao wood cage, and then burn him with fire, so as to eliminate future troubles forever.

"When I learned of this method, I began to collect tao wood everywhere. Heaven pays off, and I finally got enough tao wood recently.

"But I am old and frail, but I can no longer be a cage."

Tao wood, cage, never future trouble.

It seems that this is their mission.

Everyone looked at each other.

Ran Yuanfei: "Grandpa Wu, you still have us! How about you guide us and we will do it?"

Wu Kang sighed again: "Oh, it may be the will of the heavens that you appear here. Anyway, I will tell you how to make a cage. The sixth floor of the tower is empty, so you can send your companions there first. The tao that I collected Mudu is in the grocery room on the fifth floor, just to pick up some."

With a clear direction, everyone started to get busy.

Those who moved the corpse moved the corpse, and those who looked for wood looked for wood. The twelve people moved quickly and settled the dead man in a short while, and each returned to the hall with a root tree.

Xie Ji traveled all over the world for many years, but this was the first time he heard of Taomu.

Each piece of tao wood was as thick as a thigh, reaching the height of his shoulders, with dry and hard skin, and the wood inside was as red as blood when viewed from a cut section.

When the twelve people were ready, Wu Kang put a heavy cloth bag among them.

"If you want to use tao wooden cages, you have to scrape off the skin first, and then cut them into sticks that are as tall as me and as thin as my wrist. It won’t work if you use it.” Wu Kang pointed to the cloth bag on the ground, “There are only so many knives in the tower, you can choose it yourself.”

After finishing speaking, he turned around and went upstairs, not caring about sending them back.

Ran Yuanfei opened the cloth bag, and inside was a pile of exactly twelve knives, large and small.

Considering that the size of the knife will affect the progress of skin scraping, Ran Yuanfei suggested: "How about we draw lots? That way, no matter what kind of knife you get, you won't have any complaints."

"I agree."

"I agree."

"Then let's draw lots."

"Okay, then I'll make a tag card, don't look at it, I can draw it last."

Jiang Jichu brought his own knife and did not participate in the lottery.

Xie Ji was very interested. After the label card was finished, he lined up to pinch one out of it.

"No. [-]." He showed Jiang Jichu the sign.

Although Jiang Jichu didn't participate in the lottery, he was keen on flopping cards and took the initiative to search in the cloth bag.

A few seconds later, Jiang Jichu looked back at Xie Ji with a delicate expression: "Good luck, I am not possessed by a chieftain."

Xie Ji: "What is it?"

Jiang Jichu held up an old scraper.

Judging from Xie Ji's years of experience in the kitchen, this scraper can at best scrape a cucumber.

The potatoes couldn't even be scraped.

He looked at the tao wood that was as thick as his thigh, and thinking about Wu Kang's wrist, he felt that it had been scratched forever.

"Why don't you draw one too," Xie Ji pretended to be stern, "Jiang Ouhuang, the victory or defeat of this level depends on you."

Jiang Ouhuang: "No smoking."

Xie Ji: "Go out and cook rock sugar pears for you."

Jiang Jichu immediately went to the end of the queue and got a tag with nine on it.

Then exchange it for a rusty eyebrow trimmer from the cloth bag.

"Thank you brother." Ran Yuanfei happily ran off with the remaining hatchet knife in his arms.

Jiang Jichu: "..."

Xie Ji: "Is this test aimed at us?"

Jiang Jichu: "My Rock Candy Sydney..."

Xie Ji: "Bing Tang Sydney is gone, you can buy a pear yourself and chew on it."

Jiang Jichu: "!"

Jiang Jichu immediately drew his sword out of its sheath, and cut off half of his and Xie Ji's tao wood in two or three strokes, only a little thicker than Wu Kang's wrist.

Xie Ji: "You can add rock sugar."

The knives provided by Wu Kang were not sharp, and it took a lot of effort to cut the tao wood.

A man who was about the same age as Xie Ji came to the two of them holding his tao wood, and asked tentatively, "Little brother, can I borrow your knife?"

Jiang Jichu didn't want to lend the knife to outsiders, nor did he want to work for others in vain: "No."

The man didn't force it either, the knife could be seen as a high-level item at first glance, what kind of simple character could it be with the high-level item?

He can't afford it.

Jiang Ji looked around for the first time, and finally walked towards a woman who had drawn a fruit knife.

He waved the tao wood in his hand: "I can help you cut it like this, but you have to polish it for us."

The woman is overjoyed.

Her fruit knife is the best for polishing, but it is difficult to cut wood, so she said: "Yes! Leave it to me!"

Jiang Jichu handed over the wood sent by himself and Xie to the woman, and took the lead in cutting the woman's tao wood.

Seeing this, the man who borrowed the knife hurried forward: "Little brother, can I polish it for you tomorrow? According to Wu Kang, our twelve pieces of tao wood are not enough at all, and we may have to continue sharpening tomorrow."

Jiang Jichu: "It is enough for us to have her to help cut it."

The man who borrowed the knife: "But you two, she still has to polish her own. It's too inefficient for one person to make three."

Jiang Jichu took a look at Xie Ji, saw the latter nodding, agreed, and cut off the man's tao wood again.

Someone behind the man didn't catch up with the deal, and he said, "Little brother, are you not afraid of repudiating your debt?"

Jiang Jichu: "Whoever relies on me, I will cut them off."

The young man uttered harsh words, which made his beautiful facial features a little more angry, and the remaining greenness between the eyebrows and eyes was infinitely magnified, and when it fell into Xie Ji's eyes, he felt a little cute.

He wanted to rub Jiang Jichu's head, but felt too close, so he put his outstretched hand on Jiang Jichu's shoulder.

Xie Ji: "I'll add another pudding for you, what flavor do you want?"

Jiang Jichu's eyes lit up: "Watermelon."

Xie Ji: "Okay. After going out, it will be a civilian area. There should be an oven."

Jiang Jichu: "Yes."

"I'll get it for you after I go out," Xie Ji, "go up for a stroll?"

Someone took care of Taomu's affairs, Xie Ji and Jiang Jichu spared time to investigate the tower.

The tower has a total of seven floors, the first floor is the hall, the second and third floors are rooms.

They didn't stop at the lower three floors, and directly stepped onto the fourth floor.

The entire four floors are connected, and there are countless bookshelves on display inside, densely packed with books.

Xie Ji walked among the bookcases.

There are some old books outside, the latest publication date is less than 2000, and there are many manuscripts.

If you go further in, the book will be even older, to the extent that it can be sent to a museum as a cultural relic in the real world.

He roughly estimated that there are at least a few thousand books in the study room, and it would take a long time to read the names one by one, not to mention that many books don't even have spines, and you have to flip through them to know the contents.

Wu Kang said that he found a way to completely eliminate the murderer after searching through the four-storey collection of books. He had to find a chance to ask Wu Kang which book it was.

Xie Ji saw the same, and wanted to ask Jiang Jichu to leave together.

He changed direction under his feet, but he caught a glimpse of a black shadow out of the corner of his eye.

Xie Ji turned his head quickly, the black shadow was faster than him, and hid behind a certain bookshelf in a flash.

He ran to the bookshelf in two or three steps, but saw nothing.

There were only him and Jiang Jichu on the fourth floor, and Jiang Jichu was at the other end of the study.

He was so close to the shadow, but he didn't hear the footsteps of the shadow.

According to Wu Kang, there is a murderer in the tower.

It's not dead, it's just that it can't leave the tower, and once people enter the tower, they may be killed by it.

It is free to move.

Then why didn't it do anything, just peek at him?

Xie Ji didn't want to get entangled, he had to go and meet Jiang Jichu first, Jiang Jichu didn't know that the murderer was here.

Xie Ji hadn't done anything since he entered the tower, and Jiang Jichu's long knife was extremely sharp.

Xie Ji thought to himself, if the murderer wants to kill him, now is the best chance.

He was accumulating strength with both hands, guarding against the murderer who might pounce on him at any time, but his feet were still relaxed and steady, as natural as in a library in the real world.

But until he found Jiang Jichu, the murderer didn't come out again.

Jiang Jichu: "What's wrong?"

Just as Xie Ji was about to speak, he saw the bookshelf shaking a few meters behind Jiang Jichu.

"Boom-"

"Boom-"

He pulled Jiang Jichu behind him, and the two stared at the bookshelf at the same time.

This time I didn't even see a black shadow. The two adjacent bookshelves seemed to be drunk, and they swayed in place. The books on them fell to the ground, and the paper was dusty.

And the shaking of the two bookshelves still hasn't stopped, they are in an upright "eight" for a while, and an upside-down "eight" for a while.

If it was a bit weird at first, but after watching for a long time, there are only two bookshelves shaking back and forth, and the force is getting weaker and weaker, as if the battery is dead. The two of them are not afraid of these gods and ghosts. Also feel a little funny.

Xie Ji: "What the hell?"

The shaking of the bookshelves stopped immediately, and then shook more violently. The bookshelves outside collapsed suddenly, hitting them with one hit, two hits, and three hits!

Xie Ji and Jiang Jichu ran out without saying a word, and didn't stop until the door of the study.

Jiang Jichu: "You made the murderer angry."

Xie Ji: "Obviously it is swinging in the middle of the bookshelves."

Jiang Jichu: "Are you going back?"

Xie Ji: "I won't go, wait to ask Wu Kang which book it is, or bring him to find it."

Seeing that it was about the same time, they went back to their room and had lunch. After a short rest, they returned to the stairs and continued to walk up.

The fifth floor is the grocery room, and the sixth floor is empty. They have already seen it briefly when they were holding logs and putting the corpses away. They didn't stop at these two floors and went directly to the seventh floor.

There is only one open room on the seventh floor, and a big copper lock is hung on the door.

When Jiang Ji first drew his sword, he wanted to split the lock, but was held down by Xie Ji.

Xie Ji: "What is so rough?"

He took out an iron wire that he didn't know where to go from his pocket, and within a minute, the copper lock opened with a sound.

Chapter 39 Chasing and Killing, Xie Ji has never done anything out of the ordinary since he admitted that he entered the tower.

Unlike other floors, Xie Ji felt that the temperature was significantly lower as soon as he entered the room on the seventh floor.

It stands to reason that the higher the place, the colder it is, but the temperature difference between the seventh floor and the sixth floor is too large.

It's not simply cold, but a kind of shade that penetrates deep into the bones.

Xie Ji said to Jiang Jichu: "Can you bear it?"

Jiang Jichu gathered the collar of his coat: "No problem."

The higher the tower goes up, the smaller the space, and the seventh floor is only as big as the two guest rooms they live in.

There are only a few wooden cabinets against the wall in the room, which are better preserved than any piece of furniture they have ever seen, and there is no trace of wear and tear except dust.

There is a low table on the most central cabinet, and on top of the low table is a fist-sized statue.

Xie Ji didn't touch it lightly, but observed carefully with the light coming from the thick glass.

The outside of the statue has been painted with a layer of paint, and there is no visible material. It is shaped like an eagle with only its wings folded and its feet bound by chains.

After observing the statue, Xie Ji began to rummage through the boxes, trying to see if there were any other clues.

When it was halfway through, Ran Yuanfei and three others also came to the seventh floor.

Ran Yuanfei: "Brother Xie, and this handsome guy with a knife, you are also here."

On the way from the village to the tower, Xie Ji and several people knew each other, but Jiang Jichu was too lazy to talk to outsiders, and didn't even report their names.

Xie Ji: "Come up and have a look, are you done?"

Ran Yuanfei: "It's still early, don't you want to see what's in the tower first. I just heard a lot of commotion on the fourth floor. Is it you?"

Xie Ji: "The bookcase fell by itself."

Ran Yuanfei: "Hey, I'm afraid I ran into a murderer, Xie Gefu has a great life, and there must be a future blessing!"

Xie Ji glanced at Ran Yuanfei without a trace.

Ran Yuanfei and Jiang Jichu are about the same age, one is glib and the other is boring.

He smiled: "Did you find anything?"

Ran Yuanfei: "Not yet, this tower is too big, I want to start looking from the top, and I happened to meet brother Xie."

Ran Yuanfei's words were laced with water.

On the surface, the goal of a dozen of them is to pass the level, but after the level and the main city, everyone needs more points.

The degree of exploration of the plot of the level directly affects the number of points. Jiang Jichu just showed his skills in cutting wood on the first floor, and the long knife is an advanced prop. These people may want to follow them to earn points because of their strength.

Xie Ji didn't reveal it, he didn't care about it, and he couldn't block the door to keep people from entering.

Jiang Jichu was the most lazy to listen to these scenes, and was about to leave the sixth floor with a knife.

Xie Ji: "Where are you going?"

"I'm thirsty, drink water," Jiang Jichu paused, and added, "Do you want it?"

Xie Ji: "No, there's not much left. I'll finish it later."

Ran Yuanfei walked two steps in the room, and then sent a message to Xie: "Brother Xie, did you find anything?"

He has reached the fourth floor at the highest level, and he has a rough understanding of the level of participants in the middle and low level levels, and he also has some skills in identifying people and objects.

The quiet young man is a powerful and ruthless character, but the man named Xie Ji in front of him is the one who dominates the world.

He has never seen Xie Ji do it before, but he is not flustered in the altar level, and he can also make fun of the young people naturally. Youth is poor.

Xie Ji: "I haven't thought about it, and it hasn't been a day since I came in. There are too few clues. Let's take a look."

Ran Yuanfei: "It's true, it's true."

The people who came up with Ran Yuanfei were also discussing.

"This statue is placed on top, and it must have its function."

"Didn't it say that there is a murderer in the tower? Maybe the statue is a treasure to suppress the murderer."

"No, if it's a treasure that suppresses the murderer, why are there chains on the feet, and the expression is so fierce, no matter how you look at it, it's uncomfortable." Taomu, it’s just right to put it on it, and look, there are two axes hidden under the wings of the statue. Since it’s an evil spirit, it needs evil spirits to suppress it. This thing is more like the body of a murderer.”

"Xiao Sun! Put it back!"

"It's so infiltrating... Grass! Who hit me!"

Xie Ji felt that the statue was too evil. He didn't touch the statue just now. Hearing that there were two axes hidden under the statue's wings, he wanted to turn around and take a closer look.

As a result, when he turned his head, he saw the person holding the statue staggered. The statue hit the ground with a bang, and then rolled under the cabinet with a "gululu".

"Fuck! This is a murderer! I don't want to kill you!"

"Take it out and put it back!"

The statue rolled too deep, and Xiao Sun couldn't reach it even if he lay down on the ground. Several people tried to help move the cabinet away, but the cabinet and the floor were nailed together.

"Find a stick and poke it out."

"I remember there was a stick downstairs."

"I'll go down and get it."

Xie Ji finally looked through the contents of each cabinet.

Most of them are props for practice, which he has seen in the storage compartment of the funeral parlor.

There is also a village chronicle of Wujia Village.

There are only a few pages in the village chronicle. Just like what Wu Kang said, Wujia Village was attacked by murderers in 19, and nearly half of them were killed or injured.

In 19xx...

It's a thing of the last century.

The food in their backpacks is all modern products, which means that they are modern people, and it has been a long time since the establishment of the Tower of Evil.

Xie Ji thought of the lifeless village outside. The world has changed. The villagers left Wujia Village for various reasons to make a living. Now Wu Kang is the only one left.

He put the village chronicle back in place, and just stood up when he heard screams from downstairs.

"what--!"

"Murderer! It's a murderer!"

"Help!!"

"Run!!!"

Xie Ji hurried to the stairs and looked down, and saw several people running around pushing each other.

Ran Yuanfei also poked his head to see: "What happened!"

In front of Xie Ji's perspective, the person ran away in the next second, revealing a pair of hatchets twice the size of a human head.

No one was holding the broad axe, but it just kept floating in the air, chasing and slashing at the people, leaving everyone powerless to fight back.

Xie Ji made a quick decision and ran down the stairs after saying "take out the statue quickly".

He ran all the way to the third floor, and the ax was chasing Xiao Sun who went downstairs to take the wooden stick, but Xiao Sun fell in a panic and fell to the ground, his legs were weak and he couldn't stand up, so he could only use the wooden stick as a pointless resistance.

The wooden stick is only as thick as a finger, not enough to fit an ax between the teeth!

Xie Ji's position was close to the toilet, and seeing that the ax was about to hit Xiao Sun's head, he picked up the iron dustpan in his hand and threw it at the axe.

The broad ax was hit hard, and the blow hit the corner of the wall.

Xie Ji pulled Xiao Sun up and ran away, the sharp ax reacted, volleyed to catch up with the two and struck again.

He and Xiao Sun jumped away in opposite directions, before they could stand still, the broad ax came head-on.

Xie Ji jumped back onto the railing, and the ax cut the railing directly under his feet. Without stopping, he jumped down the third floor with a light leap. When he fell to the second floor, he grabbed the handrail and turned back to the second floor. level corridor.

The broad ax also followed, as if vowing to fight him forever!

Xie Ji didn't do anything out of the ordinary since he admitted that he entered the tower, it was as if he had dug the grave of a murderer.

He didn't have a weapon in his hand, if the murderer had a real body, he could still hit a dozen, but there were two broad axes floating in mid-air, so he couldn't fight hand-to-hand with the axes.

At this moment, Xie Ji wanted to grab the weapon like Jiang Jichu again.

The sound of breaking through the air came from behind, and Xie Ji ducked down on the spot, perfectly avoiding the attack of the axe.

The ax rushed three inches into the wall by inertia, and if he didn't dodge this time, he might be able to split him through the top of his head.

You can't hide like this all the time.

Xie Ji shouted towards the top of the tower: "Put the statue back quickly!"

Ran Yuanfei: "Brother Xie, hold on!"

The broad ax came out from the wall again, and continued to pursue Xie Ji, Xu felt that he didn't have much time, and the attack became more and more fierce.

Everyone was afraid of the power of the hatchet, and Xiao Sun, who had just been rescued, had already disappeared without a trace.

But Xie Ji heard a rush of familiar footsteps.

The broad ax struck at Xie Ji's face again, and the cold-glowing long knife slashed from the stairs with a force that seemed like a mighty force, smashing the blade of the broad ax downward, piercing through the corridor floor!

Jiang Jichu maintained the posture of holding the knife and faced the long knife vigilantly, quickly looked up and down Xie Ji: "How are you?"

Xie Ji finally had a chance to catch his breath, and said with a smile, "Fortunately, you came in time."

Jiang Jichu: "What's going on?"

Xie Ji: "An unlucky man dropped the statue under the cabinet. The murderer is probably angry."

Jiang Jichu: "I'm carrying it, you go and put it back."

Xie Ji was not polite to Jiang Jichu. Anyway, Jiang Jichu had a sword in his hand, which was better than his bare hands.

Xie Ji: "Hold on."

He turned around and wanted to run upstairs, when the ax came out from the floor.

Originally, with Jiang Jichu carrying him on his back, he could have found a solution, but the two axes that were parallel all the way suddenly split up and moved, one slashing at Jiang Jichu, and the other slashing at him.

In order to avoid the attack, Xie Ji had no choice but to adjust his direction and turned over to the lobby on the first floor.

Why did you change your strategy halfway!

The people in the hall had already run away cleanly. Xie Ji caught a glimpse of tao wood scattered all over the floor, propped himself on the ground with his left hand, turned over to avoid another attack, and picked up one with his right hand.

Tao wood can restrain the murderer, the ax is the property of the murderer, you can try it.

But wood is wood after all, Xie Ji did not straighten the edge of the axe, but hit the ax with his backhand when it struck.

The menacing ax was banged by him, and it was suspended in the air for a moment, not daring to confront him rashly.

Xie Ji made a hook with his foot, and the second round tao wood was hooked into his hand. He said to Jiang Jichu, "It's afraid of tao wood!"

As he said that, he threw Taomu to the second floor where Jiang Jichu was.

Jiang Jichu caught it steadily, holding a knife in one hand and a wooden stick in the other, kicked on the railing, jumped down from the second floor and stood back to back with him.

Xie Ji was chased all the way by the axe, and finally found him a chance to fight back. In order to cooperate with Jiang Jichu, after muttering "one, two, three" in his mouth, the two rushed out at the same time!