femme fatale [unlimited]

With the refreshing of the last line of system prompts, the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

Fluffy looked at the game panel blankly, and said in disbelief: "One hour, ten years? This is too much!"

Although I don't know what the activation conditions of these clocks are, it will take three or four hours to activate a hundred clocks.If they go well and spend three hours to achieve the goal, then everyone's age will be added 30 years old.

She is only this year, plus thirty, it becomes... 48 years old?

Although it is said that her physical condition will recover after the dungeon is released, if she really grows 30 years old out of thin air, her physical condition will definitely not be as good as it is now, and she is afraid of twisting her waist and spraining her feet in a fight.At that time, can she pass the customs smoothly?

And this is only the first hurdle, and the next two will only be more difficult.She gradually realized the cruelty and horror of Guixu, and gradually understood why no one could walk out of Guixu alive before.

Lin Cen's eyes darkened slightly: "Spread out and speed up."

After all, she touched the clock in front of her first, and ripples immediately appeared where her fingertips touched the clock face.

The clock face seemed to become a melting mirror, and a vortex appeared in the center at an extremely fast speed.In the center of the vortex, a black shadow slowly crawled out.

The system prompt pops up:

【warn!You have alarmed the guardian spirit of the time cage! 】

[The guardian spirit doesn't like intruders and is about to attack you! 】

With the tip of Lin Cen's knife, he neatly cut the ferocious guardian spirit into two pieces.

However, the guardian spirits seem to be social creatures, one by one, one after another, crawling out of the clock face.

Seeing this, Ning Mianmian habitually wanted to go over to help, but thinking of the tight time limit, she stopped abruptly.

She touched another clock face and wrestled with the monster inside.

Lin Cen cleaned up the crowds of guardian spirits with three strokes, then turned around and walked quickly to another clock.

The game panel pops up:

[The guardian spirit has been cleared, and the clock has been successfully activated. 】

[Currently active clock (1/100). 】

Lin Cen breathed a sigh of relief.If it's just for killing monsters, it's not difficult to activate a hundred clocks.But she thinks it won't be that simple.

The second clock looked weather-beaten and rusty, and the hands clicked and clicked, like an old man who couldn't move for a long time.

When touching the second clock, the system prompt pops up again:

[This is an ancient clock, it wants fresh blood. 】

Lin Cen waited quietly for two seconds, but no new notification popped up.

The transparent glass dial is like a still water surface, reflecting the depth of her eyes.

She didn't hesitate anymore, the blade slashed across her forearm, and the bright red blood dripped down on the clock face.

The moment the blood touched the face of the clock, the clock seemed to be alive, absorbing the blood without a trace in an instant, hungry and thirsty.

[It doesn't seem to be enough. 】

【It needs more blood. 】

【more and more……】

Lin Cen repeated the action just now, this time she intensified the force, and the blood almost covered the entire dial.The clock is changing at a speed visible to the naked eye. The rust gradually fades away, the shell becomes clean and new, and the hands start turning briskly again.

[Under the nourishment of blood, the clock regained its vitality. 】

[Successfully activated the clock. 】

[Currently active clock (5/100). 】

Lin Cen lowered his eyes and quickly healed the wound on his forearm.She only activated two clocks, the others should have been activated by her teammates.

It seems that the conditions for activating each clock are different, it may be to kill a monster, or it may be to meet a certain requirement.

After Ning Mianmian quickly killed the last two ghosts that emerged from the clock, the prompt on the game panel sounded.

Below the line where the clock is activated, there is an additional line of prompts.

【Congratulations on getting the item [Retrospective Capsule]. 】

Ning Mianmian stared at the name of the item for a moment, then hurriedly looked at the description of the item in the backpack.

[Backtracking Capsule]: Have you ever regretted something?Now is your chance to go back in time!Taking this capsule can bring back the state of the body to five years ago.

Note: [Retrospective Capsule] can only be used in the Time Cage, once the player leaves the Time Cage, it will be invalid immediately.

Ning Mianmian was overjoyed. Ever since she saw the rules of the Time Cage, she had been secretly worried that the speed of time would be too fast, and the lengthening of the front would affect her combat effectiveness.A [Backtracking Capsule] is equivalent to buying half an hour for one of them.

I just don’t know the drop probability of [Backtracking Capsule], is there a way to get a little more…

Ning Mianmian thought about it, and hurriedly reported the good news loudly to her teammates, then she carefully put the props into her backpack and hurried to the next clock.

After activating five clocks in succession, a sense of fatigue surfaced.

Luo Fu stood Jiang Wan's black long sword in front of her body, held the hilt of the sword and let out a sigh of relief, taking a short rest.

There was Jiang Wan's familiar aura on this sword, holding it in her hand as if Jiang Wan was still by her side, it gave her a sense of security, and she couldn't bear to let go.

At this time, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a clock behind a rock by the lake.

The body of the clock is dark brown, with its back against the stone wall.The green branches of the weeping willows by the lake fell on the clock face, faintly and faintly, as if blending into one.

And this clock has a distinctive feature, the pointer on the clock face is going backwards.Love has seen many clocks, but this is the first time she has encountered such a sight.

Thinking of the [Backtracking Capsule] that Ning Mianmian just brushed, Love's eyes moved slightly.

Does the clock that goes backwards also mean that time goes back and aging is reversed?

Love didn't have time to think about it, and immediately put her palm on it.

Several ferocious-looking guardian spirits appeared around the clock. Before Love could make a move, the black sword energy of the long sword had already enveloped the ghosts and tore them to pieces in an instant.

Love looked at the game panel expectantly, but did not see the expected item drop prompt.

[Successfully activated the clock. 】

[Currently active clock (15/100). 】

[The Bell of Reversal is activated, producing additional effects, randomly killing a skill of the activator. 】

Love's heart sank heavily. She clicked on the skill bar on the game panel and found that the total number of skills was one less.

The main skill [Healing] and several other key skills have not changed, it is estimated that a small skill has disappeared.But because of the large number of skills, she couldn't be sure which one she lost.

Team voice props haven't worked well since entering this dungeon.So Love temporarily put aside the matter of activating the clock, found his teammates one by one, told them what happened just now, and told them not to choose the clock that went backwards.

Fortunately, the number of clocks in the time cage is very large. Even if the clocks that fall away are not touched, the number of remaining clocks to choose from is far greater than 100.In addition, the efficiency of their team has always been very high, and it only took more than two hours to complete the task requirements.

Converted to the time in the real world, about ten years have passed.However, in the process of fighting the guardian spirit just now, everyone more or less brushed the [Retrospect Capsule], which can maintain the balance of income and expenditure. Not only did they not increase their age, but they also had one or two extra [Retrospective Capsules] left in their hands.

But no one dares to take it lightly, after all, the last boss in this level has not yet appeared.

As the number of activated clocks jumped to one hundred, there was a sudden violent tremor in the ground.

The sky was suddenly darkened, dark clouds covered, and thunder rumbled.The lake, which was as calm as a mirror just now, suddenly surged, and huge waves swept across, hitting the rocks on the shore.

The violent wind blew up, and the green trees by the lake were bent, and the crowns of the trees were crumbling.Amid the chaos, a huge ancient clock slowly rose from the center of the lake.

The clock stood silently on the lake, despite the storm and wind, it remained motionless, like an eternal monument.

[The Eternal Clock has appeared, please activate it before the time on the clock reaches twelve o'clock, otherwise the mission will be considered a failure. 】

The time displayed on the clock face is exactly eleven o'clock, and the huge bronze pointer is still moving slowly, and the flow rate is synchronized with the time on the game panel.In other words, they still have an hour left.

Lin Cen's figure flew past like a bird, and landed firmly on the top of the bell in a flash.The others followed, standing firm on the top of the bell.

[Many years ago, the Eternal Bell lost its guardian spirit. 】

【It wants a new guardian spirit. 】

The wind and rain are noisy all around, and the huge waves beat the bell body, making a dull sound.

Ning Mianmian looked at the two new lines of system prompts, and felt a chill creeping up her back, spreading all the way to her limbs.

[The condition for activating the Eternal Bell is: select a player to become the guardian spirit of the Eternal Bell. 】

【Smear the blood on the clock body of the Eternal Clock, and you can conclude a guardianship contract with it. 】

[Players who become guardian spirits cannot leave the time cage before clearing the level. 】

【If the final clearance fails, the guardian spirit will be trapped in the cage of time forever. 】

Fluffy's face turned pale, "Stuck in this ghost place forever, trapped to death?"

But she thought about it again, the time flow here is so fast, it won't take long to be trapped to death.If you are unlucky enough and don't collect enough [Retrospective Capsules], you may have turned into bones before your teammates cleared the level.

The only chance of survival is to try to survive and take people out after the teammate clears the level.

[Note, after the Eternal Clock is activated, the time cage will fall into chaos. 】

[All sleeping clocks can attack, but only one clock can attack at the same time. 】

[No matter which clock is attacked, the activation conditions must be completed within the specified time, otherwise the time flow will double. 】

In other words, the person left behind as the guardian spirit must deal with the attacks of different clocks while trying to meet the conditions for activating the clock until the end of the instance or death.

If you are attacked by a backward clock, you will lose your skills for nothing, and with such a large number of clocks, there may be other more stringent conditions.

Ning Mianmian read those few lines, and already had the answer in her heart.

She felt that she was the best candidate to stay. Needless to say, Lin Cen, Love and Yu Chuqing were much more capable than her, so they couldn't just stumble here at the first level.And Rongrong's strength as a nightmare is also gradually awakening, and can save other people's lives at critical moments.

And in case she couldn't hold on and died early, she also believed that other teammates could go out successfully.

She has been taken care of by her teammates, and she will be very happy if she can help others.

So Ning Mianmian took the initiative and said, "I'll stay, you guys continue to move forward."

As she spoke, she picked up the dagger and was about to cut at her arm.

However, in the next second, two hands reached out at the same time. Lin Cen reached out and grabbed her wrist holding the dagger, preventing the blade from moving forward, while Love's hand covered the skin facing the blade.

Ning Mianmian's heart tightened, and just as she was about to struggle, Love spoke.

"I stayed."

She looked at the other people with complicated expressions and smiled, her tone was very calm, "I am the most suitable candidate because I can withstand consumption. I have many skills, and even if the activation condition behind is an arm or a leg, I can Find a way to slowly regenerate, can you guys do it?"

"I just roughly calculated the drop rate of the [Retrospective Capsule] and the number of rewinding clocks. They are still within an acceptable range. Give me all the remaining [Retrospective Capsules]. I am confident that I can persist for a while."

Ning Mianmian stared at her blankly, her nose sore, and tears flowed down unconsciously.

She opened her eyes round, trying not to let the tears fall, "But..."

At this time, she found that she couldn't say a word of rebuttal.No one could do better than Love, but she just couldn't bear it.The beautiful and squeamish Love, who was reluctant to part with her, waited alone in the hellish world.

What's more, she clearly promised Jiang Wan to protect Love.

She doesn't want to miss the appointment.

Love seemed to have guessed her thoughts, and said softly: "I think when making a choice, the first premise is to ensure the survival of everyone to the greatest extent, rather than treating anyone as a bargaining chip for sacrifice."

Fluffy was already crying, and the teardrops rolled down in strings.

She tried hard to control her emotions, and said with tears in her eyes: "Is there no other way? Let's think of a way again?"

Love smiled lightly, and raised his hand to help her wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes.

She said, "Don't cry, you've grown up."

"But I still worry about you."

Love touched Fluffy's face as usual, and took out something from the backpack and handed it to her, "I'm always worried that you will be cheated. If you are confused, it may be able to help you."

Fluffy took it, and before she could take a closer look, Love's hand had already brushed across the blade of the dagger, and blood gurgled down, mixed with rain, and dripped onto the clock under her feet.

[The contract is being concluded. 】

[The contract is established. 】

[The Eternal Clock has been activated, please leave the time cage immediately except for the guardian spirit. 】

Looking at those few lines, Lin Cen felt as if a hole had been stabbed in his heart, and the cold wind was pouring in from all directions.All kinds of memories from the past flew by in front of my eyes, and turned into powder in the next moment, and even Love's smile was also shattered.

She closed her eyes and said in a low voice, "You have to be careful."

Love nodded and pointed to a certain direction on the lake.When the contract was established, a door painted with soft light suddenly appeared out of thin air.

"Let's go, I'll wait for you here."

She looked down at the long sword in her hand with a gentle expression, as if she was looking at her lover.

"With Jiang Wan."