Chapter 539: Jumo Island (Forty-Five)

West of the Crystal Maze is Wanghai Reef.

There is a long and narrow beach here, and at the junction of the beach and the sea, there are many black reefs. The most conspicuous reef is more than five meters high, in the shape of a human skull, and "facing" the sea.

And this skull-shaped reef is the "Wanghai Reef", and this place is named after it.

Outside the Crystal Maze, you can see the "real sky". Therefore, people at Wanghai Reef at this time can just see a red sun setting in the west.

Squeaky---

The sound of the metal shaft turning started again, announcing that a small tricycle was approaching.

"Long time no see..." Billy quickly parked the car next to the big reef and said.

On Wanghai Reef, a lonely back was standing alone, admiring the afterglow of the sunset.

He didn't look back, but just replied calmly: "What a rare visitor... Are you here to rescue your brother?"

"He has been rescued." Billy said, and raised his little arm to point in the direction he came from, "Look, he's waiting for me over there."

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The man on the reef turned his head and glanced at Bill, who was a few hundred meters away. Bill was looking around with such an expression at the moment, bored...

"Heh... What's next to him? Zongzi wrapped in dwarf leaves?" The man asked with a chuckle.

"Yes, and the filling is silkworm meat." Billy replied.

"Whatever..." The man shrugged and responded in a nonchalant tone, then said, "Let's talk about your purpose."

"Alas... Clothes are better when they are new. People are better when they are old..." Billy said with a melancholy tone, "I just came to visit an old friend I haven't seen for a long time. Do I have to have any other reason?" He paused and continued, "Master Xing, after all, we have studied under the same teacher, so we can be considered as brothers... Why do you have to..."

"Don't give me that." Master Xing interrupted Billy angrily, turned around and glared at Billy.

"I get angry when I see you..." Master Xing said coldly, "I will always remember what 'the old guy' said before he drove me away... 'You are just a sadist. Billy is an artist. You can only give people pain. But he can save people'... Humph... This is really a great insult."

As he said, he raised his leg and jumped lightly, jumped off the Wanghai Reef and stood in front of the tricycle.

When viewed from a close distance, the appearance of this god of the Xing clan is almost the same as that of humans. His height is about 1.9 meters. He is of medium build. His skin is pale. He has long grey hair draped over his shoulders. He has a very serious face, with a broad forehead, cold brows, a bulbous nose, thick lips, a wide chin... and two curly beards with a strong Mexican flavor.

"How could that old guy have thought..." The criminal master continued what he had just said, "Several years later, I became one of the gods in the multiverse, the most capable assistant of the Lord of Time, and the chief designer of the Demon Island; and you... are just a scum who fell into chaos, a fugitive. Even before you became a fugitive, you were just a juror of the Court of Truth." He sneered, "Humph... This is really a great irony."

"I... really just came to visit you..." Billy continued, "Why do you have to say that..."

"Ha!" The criminal master interrupted, "Really... I really didn't realize that you and I have such a relationship that we can visit each other..." He stroked his big beard, looked down at Billy, and snorted, "Although we are 'from the same school', you and I have never been the same kind of people, right? This... even a fool like your brother can see it."

"Watch your words." Billy's tone suddenly turned cold.

"Ah... sorry." The criminal master leaned down and put his face in front of Billy, "Your brother is not a fool, he is a big fool..."

"I haven't seen you for more than a hundred years. You are good at annoying people..." Billy said in a deep voice, his eyes flashing with a strange light, as if he had the intention to kill.

However... he still held back.

"Hmph... forget it." Suddenly, Billy restrained his murderous intention and continued calmly, "You don't have much time anyway..."

"Huh?" The criminal master stood up again, looking suspicious, "What did you say?"

"Hehe..." Billy smiled, "It won't take too long, you will know..." As he said that, he turned the front of the car and pedaled the tricycle towards Bill.

"What's the point..." The criminal master said thoughtfully, and then shouted to Billy, "Did you come here just to say these nonsense to me? What does this mean? What do you mean?"

Billy still did not answer the other party's question. He just continued without turning his head: "Whether you appreciate it or not... out of friendship, I will give you two more pieces of advice... First, don't believe in superficial phenomena; second, don't underestimate the guy who is better at annoying people than you..."

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Let's talk about two things separately, or return to the players.

After leaving the resting place, Brother Jue and his team walked for another hour without rushing.

During this time, the light on the surrounding crystals really became dimmer and dimmer, and finally... it finally became completely non-luminous. And the sky above their heads showing the "reflection" of the Demon Island also turned dark.

Of course, this is nothing. In the eyes of Brother Jue, who always prepares for the worst, it is all expected.

But the problem is... after "darkness", something even weirder happened...

I don't know when... an eye actually appeared in the dark sky.

Yes, one, not a pair...

It was a giant white eye, with its eye sockets and whites floating faintly like burning white flames, and its pupil was an amber vertical line.

All creatures (including players) in the Crystal Puzzle will feel that this eye is staring at them no matter when, where, or at what angle they look at the sky...

When they first discovered this thing, the four players were on guard for a while, fearing that something like rays would be sprayed down from the sky... But after observing for a few minutes, they found that there was no abnormal movement in this eye. Maybe it's just a means used by the system to create pressure...

"I said...it's a little too quiet around here..." said Xiao Ma, who was walking in the middle of the team.

"Actually, it's so quiet during the day." Honghu, who was in charge of the post-interruption, continued, "It's just that when the light is sufficient, people rely more on vision, so you didn't notice."

"Speaking of vision..." Jibu in front continued, "Do you think...that eye in the sky is the 'Gaze Eye'?" (Feng Bujue had previously learned about all four guards from Fuling. name and have told it to my teammates)

"Not necessarily." Brother Jue, who was walking at the front, turned back half-jokingly, "Maybe that's Sauron, a fictional character in Tolkien's novels who has cataracts. What Brother Jue is naturally referring to here is Sauron. The spirit Sauron in the third era. He often appears as an eye). Or... it's just a set that looks like an eyeball."

"What are you doing... You've almost used the Journey to the West jokes, are you ready to do the Lord of the Rings jokes?" Atobe replied with vacant eyes, "Countless gay jokes about Frodo and Sam are already on your lips. right!"

"I just used jokes to lighten the atmosphere." Feng Bujue said, "We have been searching aimlessly for an hour. There is still no progress; coupled with this depressing atmosphere, it can easily lead to a loss of concentration. "

"Your rambling like this will cause our attention to decrease..." Atobe continued.

"Ha..." Feng Bujue sneered. He turned around and glanced at his teammates, "Aren't you talking about this before I spoke?" He paused. It seemed that he wanted to give them time to think, "Maybe you haven't realized yet... the environment has already begun to affect you. From the time when the surroundings completely darkened, the longest silence between you only lasted three minutes. Recall it carefully... every three minutes, you can't help but say a few non-nutritive nonsense to relieve the tension. This is because... if you remain silent, darkness and silence will arise. It starts to mess with your thoughts and make your fear gradually increase.”

"Listen to what you said...don't you feel anything about darkness and silence?" Atobe replied.

"Well...hehehehe..." Feng Bujue used the hehehehe method to avoid the question in a cowardly manner.

"Okay, I understand what you mean." Honghu interjected, "In short...it is easy to think randomly if you don't say a word, and talking too much will distract you. And proper conversation...you can maintain a good spirit. state."

"That's right." Feng Bujue nodded, "So we'd better do it every two minutes..."

Suddenly, his words stopped and his steps stopped.

"Hey." Brother Jue's tone suddenly changed. He undoubtedly saw something, "There seems to be something in front..."

Upon hearing this, the teammates took a few steps forward.

Everyone looked forward along the light of the [Composite Anti-Gravity Ejector], and actually saw... a black shadow swaying in the wind.

The shadow was floating in the air, with a rope around its neck. Due to the distance, players can only see the outline of a human figure, but they don't know what it will look like up close. However... they all know that according to the usual nature of this game, getting close will definitely trigger a frightening event...

"This shouldn't be someone who committed suicide by hanging..." Brother Ma lowered his voice and muttered softly.

"How do you know?" Atobe also asked in a low voice.

"There is no stool at your feet." Xiao Ma replied.

"It's normal to not have a stool." Feng Bujue touched his lower body and muttered, "His feet were two meters away from the ground. Did he hang himself while standing on the coast lifeguard's observation chair? And... ...Look at the rope around his neck. The other end of the rope is tied directly to the crystal at the top instead of hanging around the crystal and then tied...So, according to my guess, there are two Possibly. The first is suicide. The process is... He first climbed up the crystal pillar, put one end of the rope around his neck, tied the other end to the crystal pillar, and then jumped down from there... …There are many ways to do it…”

"You guys should stop it!" Honghu lowered his voice and cut off their nonsense, "Is now the time to play reasoning? What kind of suicide? The method and form have nothing to do with it! This is obviously some kind of horrible thing. Trigger the incident! Be more serious!"

"Well, that makes sense." Feng Bujue looked straight and nodded, "Let's do it... I'll go and clear the mines first and get a feel for it, and you guys wait for me here."

"Oh... I didn't expect you would actually come forward in such a shocking scene..." Atobe asked.

"Ha, what's this?" Feng Bujue smiled easily, "It's just a hanging corpse, how scary can it be?"

"Okay, you have guts!" Tianma Xingkong turned his face with thick eyebrows and big eyes and patted Brother Jue on the shoulder.

"Oh? You said 'you have guts'~ right?" Feng Bujue turned around and looked at Brother Xiaoma with a malicious look.

"Yeah, just pretend I didn't say anything..." Tianma Xingkong instinctively smelled the smell of conspiracy.

But how could Brother Jue let him go...

Feng Bujue put his hand on Tianma Xingkong's shoulder and pushed him forward a few steps: "Okay! As a hero with more guts than me, I guess you can't hold it back! Simply... you just pick up a random weapon and rush up to chop, and we will cover you from behind."

"Your line sounds familiar... By the way, why did it become me first... ah..." Brother Xiaoma was pushed out before he finished speaking.

He didn't know why, but after a few conversations that didn't feel out of place, he became a pathfinder...

Fufu...Fufu...

The corpse hanging in the air was still shaking and making some noises. It sounded like the sound of wind blowing through clothes, or it could be the sound of a tight rope...

The closer he got to the corpse, the more obvious the sound became.

After walking about twenty steps, Tianma Xingkong could no longer hear the breathing and whispering of his teammates. He could only hear the strange sounds coming from the corpse and his own breathing...

"Hu... It's okay, it's just a dead person." Tianma Xingkong's steps gradually slowed down, and he muttered to himself, "I've seen at least eighty dead people in Horror Park, and I've seen this kind of hanging corpse scene in movies at least eighty times... What's the big deal..." His words became more and more like self-consolation, "As a hero, how can I retreat here..."

After walking another twenty steps, Xiao Ma Ge had arrived less than five meters away from the target.

Although the face of the corpse was covered by hair and could not be seen clearly, Tianma Xingkong kept holding up the flashlight and shining the light on the head of the corpse during the approach. Because Xiao Ma had a strange intuition that as long as he moved the light away, the corpse would sneak a glance at him. (To be continued...)