Chapter 178: New Cycle, Mother of Gargoyles

‘Could it be that the blood sacrifice event caused the player world to experience the extraordinary for a few days? Google search reading

So this set of coral cards changed because it felt the extraordinary? ’

On the night of August 31, the player world, the last day of the eighth cycle.

Li Feng sat at the desk, looking at the five red coral cards on the table in front of him in surprise.

This was what he had found in Huang Yanyan's house. At that time, these cards formed a barrier, causing Huang Yanyan to fall ill.

Later, when Li Feng was deciphering the text on the gargoyle's head, he found the answer on this deck of cards.

At this moment, under the bright light.

The red coral cards exuded a soft jewel-like light, dyeing the wooden tabletop with a light red.

Li Feng looked at each card carefully, comparing the extremely exquisite patterns with his original memory, to check if he had missed anything.

The vast ocean, the bright starry sky, the dense corals like forests, the towering underwater palace, and the back of a mermaid.

Because of the mermaid and the underwater city, Li Feng looked at the back of the mermaid twice more when he first got the card.

That was her back, with only a slight turn of the head revealing the back half of the fin-like ears and a little bit of the cheek at the base of the ears.

Li Feng had this impression, but now, he found that the mermaid seemed to have turned her head a little.

The fin-like ears were clearer, and the cheeks were exposed a little more.

Li Feng calculated it, about 5 to 10 degrees.

‘Is this thing really alive? ’

All kinds of horror stories that I had seen before came to my mind, such as what came out of a well, a TV, a mobile phone...

Inexplicably, the hair on Li Feng's arm stood up.

He picked up the card that he thought had changed, and knocked it hard on the edge of the table a few times.

Picking it up for a closer look, the mermaid on the card has not changed at all.

Moreover, looking at the light, this coral card has no trace of bumps.

‘This! ’

Feeling something was wrong, Li Feng tried to store it in the system backpack again.

He took the card in his hand and thought.

The card was still in his hand.

There was really no reaction.

‘The system can’t store it, what on earth is this? ’

Being curious, Li Feng took the card to the kitchen cutting board.

He looked at the mermaid on the card, who seemed to have turned back to nod, and then found a hammer and smashed it hard.

“Bang!”

“This thing is definitely not made of coral.”

Li Feng touched the hammer with bumps and traces, and felt complicated.

‘I don’t believe it…’

Li Feng, who didn’t want to cause trouble anymore, took the card back to the study.

Then he took out the extraordinary materials to set up the barrier, and this time he was going to try with flint.

However, just when the barrier was halfway set up, I suddenly caught a glimpse of the patterns of other cards on the table.

"Starry sky, underwater palace, mermaid, could it be..."

Call out the system task interface.

[Hunter promotion task: Find and obtain the Destiny Chart]

[Task prompt:]

[It is said that the previous owner of the Destiny Chart placed it in the deep sea, in a mermaid library forgotten by history.

It is rumored that the starlight will guide you to its location in the vast ocean. ]

[Task reward: Promote one level to the original hunter rank. ]

'Could the underwater palace be... the mermaid library in the task? And the starry sky...'

Li Feng picked up the card with the starry sky engraved on it. Under the vast night sky on the card, the stars were densely packed.

Under the exquisite carving, even the fake stars can be seen to be a bit dazzling.

'Could the starlight in the library be related to the stars on this card? '

Li Feng suddenly realized some problems and sat down with the help of the table.

He looked through the three system tasks he had:

The first task was to investigate the gargoyles and kill the mother of the gargoyles. The clue to this task was in Storm's End Castle.

When he accepted the task, he happened to live in Storm's End.

The second task was to replace the governor of Storm Island. Li Feng remembered that when the system gave him this task, he was dealing with Governor Fell.

The last and third task was to find and obtain the Destiny Chart. The task prompt mentioned starlight and the Mermaid Library.

And the deck of cards he had received also happened to have mermaids, underwater buildings, and starlight.

What's more, Li Feng took out a key from the system backpack.

[The key to the old library: it may open a forgotten library]

This was the fragment of the Demon's Book that he got when he was fishing for the first mate possessed by the demon.

And then he fished for the fragment of the Demon's Book again and got this key.

'So...'

The tasks issued by the system are all related to your previous or current experiences.

Although these tasks seem to be out of reach, and there are even very few clues.

However, it must be something you already have or can access.

After thinking this through, Li Feng silently removed the half-set barrier.

Then he put the coral cards back into the safe and locked them.

After thinking about it, he felt that it was not appropriate, so Li Feng took them out again.

Then he used his mobile phone to take pictures of the front and back of each card in turn, so that he could keep them for comparison later.

Still feeling that it was not right, Li Feng printed out the photos again and put them into the system backpack.

In this way, no matter what the mermaid in the card is, she can't affect the content of these photos.

Outside the window, the gorgeous neon disturbed the bright moon hanging in the sky, and it was approaching midnight.

Li Feng dimmed the lights in the bedroom, lay on the bed, and recalled what happened in the last game cycle.

First, the Sad Theater, as a lost land, appeared in the Wind City.

Then a new island appeared on the sea.

The owner of the new island is suspected to be a troll holding a voodoo doll in one hand and a white candle in the other. Li Feng has seen this troll.

At midnight on the last day of the last cycle, the troll in the soul state appeared in his bedroom.

Moreover, the troll claimed that he was loyal to the Black Dragon Queen and to Xia.

However, the chief of the Violet Eye once learned through divination that this troll was the new owner of the Sea City-"Tyrant".

It seems that he will be a very influential person.

And this influential troll came to tell Li Feng that night that the monster in the Sad Theater was about to come out.

His thoughts turned back to another line.

As a lost place, the Sad Theater has the power of the black dragon ancestors, but it seems that some rituals are needed to obtain these powers.

So Xia's mother, the previous black dragon queen, collected many gargoyle heads.

But coincidentally, Li Feng once found the lost cargo of Storm's End Castle on the new island that appeared on the sea, which contained a box of gargoyle heads.

Recalling the task of investigating gargoyles and killing the mother of gargoyles, the clue of the task prompt happened to be Storm's End Castle.

Storm's End Castle is also collecting gargoyle heads, perhaps...

Li Feng suddenly thought of a possibility, whether the dragon-slaying governor Pangloss Fell learned the secret of the black dragon clan's power after slaying the dragon.

So, like the former black dragon queen, he collected gargoyle heads and prepared a ritual to obtain the power of the black dragon ancestors.

However, does the ritual arranged with the gargoyle head have anything to do with the monster that is about to come out of the Sad Theater?

Could it be that the ritual is used to restrain the monster and completely seize the power of the Sad Theater?

From the perspective of the former Black Dragon Queen and the current Governor.

They are all for the power of the Lost Land, so it is not impossible.

As for the real power contained in the Sad Theater, Li Feng has always had a hunch.

Because even if the theater was destroyed from the first to the seventh floor by Xia, it still stands.

Does this mean that there is actually a greater power hidden in the Sad Theater?

This is the thought.

Li Feng is more certain that the seven floors that allowed him and Xia to be promoted to seven levels and destroyed by Xia were just a small fight.

The real power of the Sad Theater is still behind.

But who will get this power in the end.

Is it Xia, the black dragon, or the Governor who prepared the gargoyle head ritual, or the monster in the tower?

‘Monster… stepdaughter princess…’

Because of combining the ritual of the gargoyle head with the monster in the tower, Li Feng had some guesses for no apparent reason.

Just as he was thinking of doing a divination, he suddenly felt the mattress under him become hard.

The wide double bed turned into a narrow single bed.

The heavy blackout curtains turned into light white gauze.

The long floor-to-ceiling windows turned into retro oriel windows.

The scene in front of him spun, and he felt a little dizzy. After calming down, Li Feng realized that midnight had arrived.

He returned to the world of the Endless Sea, to his personal room in the Wind’s End Castle.

At the same time, the system announcement prompted:

[The eighth game cycle ends, and the ninth cycle begins. ]

Quickly adapting to his current body, Li Feng turned over and got out of bed, turned on the gas lamp, took a piece of letter paper and wrote:

“Is the monster in the Sad Theater the mother of the gargoyles?”

He sealed the letter, designated himself as the recipient, then printed the wax, and finally took out the fortune teller’s letter opener.

With a drop of blood as the price, Li Feng opened the letter.

The words on the letter had already changed, and it said--

"Under the moonlight, on the bell tower, the blood of the python frightened her, and the skull of her offspring imprisoned her..."

The letter opener still maintained its original style and did not speak human language, but Li Feng, who had enough clues, had almost understood.

At the same time, the system prompt appeared in front of him.

[Hunter promotion task: Investigate the gargoyle and kill the mother of the gargoyle. ]

[Task reward: Promote one more level on the original hunter rank. ]

[Task progress: +50%]

[Current total progress of the task: 72%]

‘Sure enough! ’

The endless sea without neon lights, the starry sky is as bright as diamonds.

Li Feng, who had already obtained clear clues and goals, relaxed his brows. He lifted the curtains and looked at the night sky, and began to plan the next plan.

…

"I gave you power, but you didn't give me anything in return."

In the dock area of ​​Fengxi City, the lights on the seventh floor of the Sad Theater were all on.

The warm yellow light illuminated the dark sea water under the night sky, and the embankment where two figures, one tall and one short, stood.

"My reward is the information of a person. This person will be the enemy who prevents you from gaining power."

Wearing a thick hood and with bloodshot eyes, 0776 said to the mother of the gargoyles with white skin and bloodshot lips.

0776's system task is to complete the "Undead Believer" achievement, and the reward is the blood sacrifice event coming to the player world.

And through the blood sacrifice, the Gargoyle Mother can come to the player world.

The paper crane once promised the Gargoyle Mother that she would obtain the immortal power from the Gargoyle Mother in exchange for countless lives.

But by mistake, the paper crane was killed by Li Feng.

0776, who had formed an alliance with the paper crane, inherited the will of the paper crane and completed this task.

But it was still unfortunate that Li Feng completed the player's cycle task and prevented the blood sacrifice event from coming.

Now, 0776, who has obtained the immortal power of the Gargoyle Mother, is a little bit unable to explain.

"Didn't you say that when midnight comes, I can get endless lives?

But now midnight has passed, and I haven't seen anything."

The Gargoyle Mother asked, her appearance is exactly the same as the princess in the story performed in the Sad Theater.

Under the moonlight, the atmosphere was quiet for a moment.

0776 just came back from the player world, and he failed, but now he has to deal with the mother of the gargoyles.

"Someone has stopped you from establishing contact with those creatures."

0776 began to explain:

"This person's name is Rhine, and he is in Windbreak City."

0776 knew that he had to transfer his hatred now.

In fact, his first choice must be to kill the paper crane and stop him. Player 67.

But he didn't know who No. 67 was and where he was.

So 0776 could only make a plan and put all the blame on Rhine, who used the prescription to cure the people of Windbreak City and the people of the player world.

Indeed, apart from Player 67, 0776 hated Rhine the most.

So he felt very happy to kill someone with a borrowed knife.

"Rhine?"

The mother of the gargoyles read the name.

In fact, the mother of the gargoyles had never been very interested in the paper crane and the countless creatures promised by 0776.

Because in her opinion, this is too much, as for giving them power, it is just raising two dogs to run errands.

But this Rhine...

"Yes."

0776 saw that the Mother of Gargoyles had no intention of punishing him and really turned her attention to Rhine, and immediately replied:

"He is a scholar of Storm's End Castle and a second-level hunter."

The Mother of Gargoyles remembered something and turned her eyes to the Sad Theater, which had seven lights on.

She seemed to have heard of this name when she was in the tower.

"Got it."

Under the warm yellow light and the moonlight, the Mother of Gargoyles smiled.

Whether it is Rhine or anyone else, they can't stop her from getting the real power in the Sad Theater.

And the things under Storm Island.

...

At midnight, in the basement of Storm's End Castle, where the moonlight never shines.

In front of hundreds of flickering candles.

The Soul Eater Marsas, who was involved in forbidden spells, stood up and saluted the Governor of Storm Island, Pangloss Fell, who had just arrived.

"Under the moonlight, on the bell tower, the blood of the python frightened her, and the skull of her offspring imprisoned her..."

Seeing Marsas, Governor Fell recited a ballad of the human ancestors, and then asked:

"Marsas, how are you preparing?"

Hearing the governor's question, Marsas reported:

"Governor, my apprentice has placed the heads of the gargoyles in various corners of Wind's Rest City.

As long as the mother of the gargoyles takes action, the barrier formed by the heads of her offspring will imprison her.

And soon, the ritual contained in the barrier will help you get the real power in the Theater of Sorrow."

Governor Fell nodded with satisfaction.

Ponros Fell, the fourth-level ninth-level Holy Judge, picked up the flame on the candlestick casually, and his eyes were full of excitement.

What Marsas said was right, and soon he would get the real power of the Theater of Sorrow.

But what Marsas didn't know was that in addition to the Theater of Sorrow, he must also get the things under Storm Island.