Chapter 123
Chapter 123
The town has never even seen a bird, and the townspeople don't even know how to keep pets.
Where did this little black cat come from?
The guide searched his mind, but couldn't find any memory about the cat.
Is it what Mingshu and the others brought in?His intuition was not right, and he stopped talking, staring at the little black cat and frowning, not knowing what he was thinking.
At this moment, Sang Yin relaxed, protecting Ming Shu and whispering to him: "Don't worry."
Mingshu grabbed his sleeve nervously: "The evil god... what is it?"
He heard this word for the first time, but now he can confirm that the players were assimilated and disappeared in the town one by one. It was indeed the guide who did it, not because of their Halloween costumes.
And the dungeon plot in the system has come to an end, there are only three characters, the boy and the two ghosts, and no evil god is mentioned.
Looking at the lifeless players at the intersection, Ming Shu felt more and more uneasy.
Only Sang Yin guessed a little bit, his eyes twinkled slightly, and said euphemistically: "Maybe, we have seen it before."
seen?Mingshu's first reaction was the black shadow.
The leader said in what he said just now that they are all sacrifices, and after offering them all to the "evil god", the other party should be satisfied.
The shadows will devour the townspeople who change at night and treat them as food. Leaving aside the relationship and origin between the shadows and the townspeople, the townspeople are afraid and subject to the shadows, so they offer sacrifices to it to seek help or Protection seems to make sense.
Thinking of this, Ming Shu's expression became a little dazed.
He had indeed seen that shadow before, and more than once, the other party had never hurt him, and was even very "friendly" to him.
Xia Zhu didn't know about these things, and said worriedly at the side: "What should we do now, the task has to be completed before dawn..."
It was getting late, and he was very wary of this system, worried that if no one could clear the level within the time limit, the instance exit would not be opened.
Just like the second copy at the beginning, they will be trapped again, and the subsequent difficulty will only be higher.
Sang Yin raised his eyes keenly: "What is it?"
Xia Zhu hesitated to speak, and looked at Mingshu.
Ming Shu pursed her lips, and told him the truth: "Kill a ghost."
They went through four dungeons, and the final ending of the third dungeon was barely simple, but it was too sudden when they left, and the others either wanted him to die or Sang Yin to die.
Although he knew that this was not a real death, and that they would meet again after leaving this dungeon, Ming Shu was still hesitating.
In contrast, Sang Yin was much calmer, and asked softly, "When is it before five o'clock in the morning?"
As before, the task needs to be completed on Halloween night, Ming Shu nodded silently, looking at Sang Yin with a bit of grievance and reluctance.
Mission accomplished, he had to go.
Sang Yin moved his lips and wanted to say something more, but the guide said again: "You still have a chance to escape now, wizards are not qualified as sacrifices."
This was said to Sang Yin, his target was Ming Shu and Xia Zhu.
Before, Mingshu was too cautious, and with Sang Yin's protection, the guide had no way of doing anything, and it has been delayed until now.
He was finally able to go out at night, summon the devouring god hiding in the dark, and offer well-prepared gifts in exchange for stability for a period of time to come.
They have long been fed up with the shackles of having to go home before dark. Obviously they are also nocturnal creatures, and the night is the source of power, but they have been deprived of this right.
Sang Yin said impatiently: "Stop talking nonsense, when will your evil spirit come?"
The guide forcibly suppressed his anger and sneered when he saw that he was so unafraid of death.
The surroundings are full of people, players and townspeople stand together in a dense mass, and several people are blocked in a yard, unable to go anywhere.
Only Sang Yin was able to escape, how could he save the two people around him at the same time.
The guide stopped talking and carefully took out a piece of yellowed paper from his pocket.
He unfolded the paper and read some obscure words according to it.
With this sound, all the players and townspeople beside the leader chanted along with his tone, the voice was low and slow, echoing in the dark night.
Listening to the utterances of these people, Ming Shu inexplicably felt that it was somewhat similar to the spell in the previous dungeon.
Is it a spell?Summoning spell?
The spell was still being repeated, and the little black cat yelled impatiently: "Meow..."
It turned its head to look at Ming Shu and Sang Yin beside him, with some hesitation in his eyes.
Sang Yin said that Ming Shu should not be frightened, or... why don't you wait?Maybe these people will retreat after a while.
After chanting the spell for the third time, nothing happened, the street lights were still bright, and there was not even a breath of wind.
The guide squeezed the yellowed paper tightly in his hand and looked around, sweat dripping from his forehead.
What's going on, why is there no movement?Called by the spell, it should have sensed it, and it must come.
Over the years, the townspeople have kept themselves safe, never going out at night, tonight is Halloween again, they will not mutate, it is in a state of hunger.
The guide reached into his arms and touched another piece of paper.
This is the second spell. He planned to summon it here, and then use the spell to turn these players and Mingshu into "food".
But now it doesn't show up, and the plan is disrupted.
The guide withdrew his hand, pointed at Mingshu, and interrupted the voices of the others chanting: "Catch them first, they will live!"
As soon as the words fell, the players looked at the three of them like unconscious puppets.
The little black cat sensed the danger, and its golden vertical pupils revealed a coldness.
The street lights flickered a few times, and the surrounding vision instantly became much darker.
The guide was overjoyed, showing a complex expression of fear and expectation.
finally come!
He took out the second piece of paper with the spell written on it, and shouted loudly: "This is the human sacrifice we prepared for you, please accept it!"
When he chanted the spell, a huge circle of light appeared on the ground, with densely packed patterns and symbols printed inside, enclosing everyone in it.
Ming Shu wanted to back away from the range of the aperture, when he heard the little black cat barking fiercely, which was clearer than the voice of the guide chanting a spell.
At the same time, it aimed its paw at the aperture on the ground, and the aperture was immediately shattered, turning into specks of light and dissipating in the air.
The guide couldn't believe it: "Why..."
Ming Shu slowly opened his eyes wide: "...a kitten?"
He saw the shape of the little black cat change, its furry torso and tail merged into a shadow, and quickly spread outward, enveloping the player and the townspeople together.
The guide was also among them, and a group of people seemed to be submerged and washed away by a mass of black waves, crying out in pain for a moment.
Sang Yin led Ming Shu back a few steps, Ming Shu was startled by this scene, and murmured: "It's a little black cat?"
It was the shadow, always following him in another form...
No wonder... the last time the shadow appeared, the little black cat was there, and Sang Yin was driven away by the shadow, but he didn't attack the little black cat.
They were the same creature, the one that came to his door every night to eat the clay pumpkin, and the one that devoured the mutant townspeople.
Ming Shu finds it unbelievable, but now that he has seen it with his own eyes, and the little black cat is close to him, the shadow has never hurt him.
He has always regarded the little black cat as a little special animal, and never thought that the little black cat would be the "evil god" in the mouth of the guide.
Ming Shu looked at Sang Yin subconsciously: "Did you guess it a long time ago?"
Sang Yin replied: "There are some guesses."
Xia Zhu was so shocked that he couldn't speak. Many townspeople fled from the shadows in a hurry, and some who had no time to escape were strangled by the shadows and resurrected again.
The smell of blood began to spread, and only then did the shadow really look like a ferocious evil god.
The assimilated players have no chance of being resurrected. They lost consciousness the moment they were enveloped by shadows, and they were all judged to have failed to clear the level, and were sent out dungeons one by one to accept punishment.
Seeing that it was almost done, Sang Yin said to stop: "Enough."
The tumbling black waves paused for a few seconds, then retreated gradually and gently, until they retreated to Mingshu's feet, and turned back into a little black cat in front of him.
The little black cat opened its golden pupils and let out a slightly nervous "meow".
It stretched out a front paw, and touched Mingshu's trouser leg carefully, as if worried that he was afraid of him.
Ming Shu's mood was very complicated, he couldn't accept the fact that the little black cat was the shadow for a while, and he couldn't bear to refuse its approach.
He slowly bent down and squatted down, touched the top of the little black cat's head, and whispered: "Thank you for helping me."
Sang Yin walked towards the middle of the road at this time, and the nearby townspeople fled in a hurry after being revived, and only the guide was left to bend down and get up on the ground alone.
He had just been revived once, and his injured and twisted arm began to heal. Sang Yin walked up to him and took away the paper he was holding.
The guide was fearless at first, he didn't know why the shadow chose to help Mingshu, but he would not die on the night of Halloween, and when the day came, neither the shadow nor Sang Yin could show up.
However, when he heard Sang Yin recite the spell on the paper accurately, he showed a frightened expression: "Why are you..."
This kind of spell has long been lost, and it is not the same as the source of the wizard's power. Why would he recite...
Sang Yin didn't answer, the light circle covered the body of the passerby, his limbs began to twist and curl up, and the skin wrinkled and wrinkled together.
The little black cat who was with Mingshu turned its head, twitched the tip of its nose and sniffed, then ran over to change back to its original form, and quickly devoured the mutated leader.
This scene was blocked by Sang Yin, so Ming Shu couldn't see it. The little black cat ran back with its tail upright after eating and drinking, and jumped into Ming Shu's arms.
At this moment, both Ming Shu and Xia Zhu received two system messages.
[Congratulations to the player for clearing the hidden branch!Obtain the permission to read the hidden plot! 】
[A new plot update has been detected, do you want to check it immediately? 】
Xia Zhu let out a "huh" and clicked to view.
【Plot reminder】:
[Fengang town is a ghost town.There is no day here, only night. The residents inside include some non-human beings who were exiled here, and there are many ghosts who did evil things in their lifetime and came here after unnatural death.They are ghosts, but they are cursed. They can only stay in their own houses and never go out, otherwise they will turn into strange "fruits" and be picked off and devoured by the god who dominates darkness. 】
[They were imprisoned in the house day after day until a turning point came one day.Among the ghosts is a magician who used to come from another world. He used a spell to divide the time of the town into day and night, and to avoid the interference of the curse on Halloween.At other times, the ghosts still can't go out at night, but they can appear in the daytime, they steal half a day's freedom, incarnate as false townspeople, and the cage expands from the house to the town. 】
[But gradually, they were not satisfied, and began to open the town to outsiders, luring passers-by...]
This hidden plot is completely different from that of the dungeon mission, and even has nothing to do with it. It is more like the background of the dungeon story, and then merged with the main plot of the mission.
Mingshu had just finished reading it, when a new system message popped up again.
[Reminder: There are only 10 minutes left before the completion of the main task [-], players are requested to make persistent efforts! 】
They asked the townspeople for candy tonight, and the vampire was injured halfway. In addition to the unexpected incident just now, it has reached 04:30 in the morning.
Sang Yin seemed to be aware of it, and stood quietly in front of Ming Shu.
Ming Shu lowered his head, pinched his clenched fingertips into the palm of his hand, feeling sad and reluctant.
With a calm expression, Sang Yin pulled out a short knife from his sleeve and pulled Mingshu up.
He put the knife in Ming Shu's hand, and asked in a low voice: "The time is almost up."
Volume [-] copy [-]: Disguising angels
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