Chapter 127 The Day of Doomsday (Thirty)
Kill the shadow?
Hearing Hamos' words, everyone couldn't help but be stunned.
They all knew that if the shadow wanted to replace the player, it could only kill the player, but they didn't expect that the same would be true in reverse, and they could not escape the situation of hurting each other in the end.
"Then how do we find Shadow?" Song Yanchi asked directly while blocking Hammos' gaze from looking at Qiao Yuan.
Hamos's gaze had been on Qiao Yuan since a while ago. He originally felt that his gaze had stayed on Qiao Yuan for too long. After noticing that there was a bit of interest in his gaze, Song Yanchi finally couldn't stand it anymore.
However, as he blocked Qiao Yuan's action, Hamos's gaze briefly lingered on him for a few seconds, and then quickly retracted.
Because he had fought close combat with shadows before, Song Yanchi knew that shadows could be killed, but the prerequisite was to find their shadows first.
The others also nodded, obviously agreeing with Song Yanchi's question.
But to their disappointment, Hamos said he could do nothing to help.
Although Song Yanchi and others were disappointed, knowing how to deal with the shadow was already a big breakthrough for them.
Qiao Yuan spoke again at this time. She first praised Hamos's erudition, and then looked up at him, pretending to be curious and asking how he knew that he could summon gods, but Hamos obviously didn't want to answer these, and just said that he wanted to rest.
The Saint was the first to understand Hamos's meaning and was the first to say that she wanted to leave. Qiao Yuan also knew that this was a signal that the other party did not want to continue the conversation, so she also immediately proposed to leave.
After exiting Hammos' room, the Saint walked in front, and Qiao Yuan quickened his pace and walked forward, trying to chat with her.
But the saint never looked away, only answered occasionally, and then pushed the door open and went into another room.
The heavy door slammed shut, blocking out all sound, so fast that one couldn't even see the scene in the room.
However, since everyone knew that the Saint's personality was like this, they didn't pay much attention to it. After walking a little further and making sure that there was no one around, they started discussing more things about the shadow.
Yu Guo breathed a sigh of relief: "Great, I can finally speak!"
"Now all we have to do is find our own shadow..."
Song Yanchi frowned, not showing much optimism: "The map of this world is so big, how easy is it to find it?"
The system also reminded: [Now you have found a way to deal with the shadow, you can teleport to the shadow now. ]
Qiao Yuan replied in his heart: "But I think this Hammers is a little strange."
Because the voice had no emotion, the system slowly typed a question mark to express its doubts.
Qiao Yuan: "When a normal person looks at another person, their gaze is not filled with appetite."
Ever since he spoke, Qiao Yuan felt Hamos's gaze on him, which gradually became filled with desire, very similar to the feeling Song Yanchi had when he faced the food made by Sheng Guiye——
I really want to eat it, but I have to hold it back and not show it.
So she felt that there was a big problem with Hamos, and naturally had to question the solution he proposed.
Of course, there is another problem. Killing Shadow is not easy. If you fail, you will hand the knife to the opponent, creating the best opportunity to kill her.
Qiao Yuan asked the system if it could teleport her behind a shadow for a surprise attack, and the system asked her how to distinguish the front and back of a shadow.
Qiao Yuan: “…”
Black is its protective color.
However, Qiao Yuan also knew that her evidence was too weak and she relied solely on her gaze. Even the system didn't seem to believe it and reminded her that she often fell into hallucinations and the gaze just now was most likely one of the hallucinations.
Qiao Yuan: "So I can only wait and see what the Saint will say to me later."
System: [The Saint said... When will the Saint tell you?]
It was sure that it was online the whole time and was not distracted at all, so it had no idea that Qiao Yuan acted as if she had an appointment with the Saint.
Qiao Yuan: "She deliberately revealed her flaws to remind me to find her."
The system felt as if it had become a ruthless repeating machine: [Flaw...]
Fortunately, the system was still useful, so Qiao Yuan was patient with it: "When she quickly closed the door just now, didn't she look impatient? However, according to others, the Saint cannot have other emotions."
"She had shown no emotions before, and no one else noticed. This shows that she is a very secretive person. Why did she reveal her true feelings at this moment? It was obvious that she did it on purpose, hoping that I would notice her suspicious points and look for her."
"But the more this happens, the more I can't take the initiative to fall into the trap. I'd better wait for her to come to me."
system:【……】
Although it felt as if something had suddenly dawned on it, it changed its mind and realized that this was actually Qiao Yuan's guess, as the other party's tone was too certain.
System: [What if this is a test from the Saint? Because she thought you didn’t find it, she went to find someone else...]
Qiao Yuan: “So this is also a two-way test.”
"My test is to see how much she needs me."
System: [What…]
At this moment, a puzzled voice suddenly sounded, interrupting the system.
Yu Guo's voice rang out: "Isn't this the Saint? Why are you walking towards us again?"
A few minutes later, the Saint took everyone to an empty room in an underground base. Except for Qiao Yuan, everyone else looked at each other in bewilderment.
Just now, the saint suddenly walked forward and asked them to follow her in a flat voice, but she did not mention the reason.
At first, many people either did not react or looked over vigilantly, until Qiao Yuan took the lead and followed, and then the others followed closely.
But after entering the room, the saint still had an expressionless look on her face. She looked at them slowly and leisurely, and it seemed that she had no intention of speaking.
At this moment, Yu Guo's voice suddenly sounded: " Hey, why is there one person missing?"
The others looked in the direction of her voice and found that the female player sent by Sun Ji had disappeared. Only the male player was left standing there. He explained calmly, "She still has some questions that she hasn't figured out, so she went back to ask Mr. Hammers."
Of course, anyone could tell that this was just an excuse. It was obvious that they were trying to get more information, and they were doing it behind their backs.
Although they knew that the two players didn't seem to trust them, they didn't expect them to suddenly do this.
But it’s not their fault that they didn’t notice it at the first time. After all, after walking out of the room, the two of them automatically walked to the back of the team, and their presence was infinitely reduced.
The attention of the others was focused on finding the shadow and the saint who appeared later, so they naturally didn't pay attention to the movements in this area.
In other words, they never thought that the other party would dare to leave the team in the copy.
Song Yanchi was naturally dissatisfied when he saw the male player trying to fool them as if they were fools. However, because Qiao Yuan was present, he subconsciously looked at him, wanting to ask for his opinion.
The male player also realized where Song Yanchi was looking at, and said first: "Although you are the vice-captain, we also have the freedom to leave the team. This is what the captain said before."
As he was talking, the male player breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that bringing out Sun Ji would definitely work. He and his companions had been following Sun Ji for quite some time, and he was considered a deputy in the team before, but they didn't expect Qiao Yuan to suddenly join and directly climb over their heads.
Looking at Sun Ji's expression again, he seemed to think highly of Qiao Yuan, which made the two of them worry about their future positions, not to mention that Qiao Yuan and others successfully obtained intelligence this time.
Fortunately, just now, the female player suddenly pulled him to the back and said that she felt that Hamos had been looking at her, which made the male player tempted.
What's the point of a man looking at another woman for a long time?
The female player was a little hesitant at first, but she made up her mind after being persuaded by the male player. It was not uncommon to seduce NPCs in dungeons, and this time it seemed that Hammers was interested. This kind of occasion was not suitable for him to be present, not to mention that he had to stay to deal with Qiao Yuan and his group and tell Sun Ji the news, so the female player was the only one who went, and she sneaked out while everyone was discussing Shadow.
However, the male players were not worried about their companions. Not to mention that the female players were not inexperienced newcomers, Hamos's performance, judging from everyone's rumors, did seem like a person who was cold on the outside but warm on the inside. Although everyone said that he had been serving God, he was still a human being after all, with normal human desires, which just happened to be convenient for them.
After hearing what the male player said, Qiao Yuan knew that judging from the other party's distrust of her, she knew that at this moment, even if she pointed out Hamos' abnormality, the male player would only think that she was scaring him.
After all, since they entered the base, the other party had been intentionally or unintentionally instilled by the people around them that Hamos was a good person, and after they met Hamos, the other party's performance was almost the same.
Not to mention that Hammos has now summoned a god. Perhaps the male player will not admit it, but Qiao Yuan can feel that whether it is Sun Ji or other players, there is actually a bit of admiration in their words, which also invisibly affects their judgment.
Sure enough, as soon as she said that there was something wrong with Hamos, the male player looked at her with an expression of "Are you crazy?", and then looked nervously at the saint standing beside her.
He had not forgotten that the person Hammers had raised was still here.
However, when he met the saint's expression, he couldn't help but stand there in a daze.
After hearing Qiao Yuan's words, the saint girl, who had originally had no expression, actually changed her expression. However, it was not anger, but an expression of "I was right about you."
Perhaps because they were used to seeing the Saint's expressionless face, her sudden change in mood made them particularly uncomfortable. At least the male player's first reaction was that he had seen it wrong.
But soon the saint's words completely shattered his guess.
The other party looked at Qiao Yuan and said slowly: "You saw it too."
Qiao Yuan nodded slightly in response: "Of course, but this does not affect you telling me about Hammers."
This time, the Saint finally showed surprise on her face: "I didn't expect you to know what I wanted to say."
Not to mention the male players, Song Yanchi and his group also looked at Qiao Yuan with surprise.
However, Song Yanchi had experienced too many shocks, so he quickly came to his senses. He looked at Qiao Yuan with shining eyes and an expression full of admiration.
Yu Guo's words were more direct. Her eyes moved back and forth between the Saint and Qiao Yuan: "Do you two have a private channel without telling us?"
System: [You even knew that she was talking about Hammers]
Qiao Yuan: "She said 'also', so the topic must be related to Hammers."
system:【……】
It turned out that Qiao Yuan only found out about it at that time.
After the system fell silent, Qiao Yuan's attention immediately fell back on the saint in front of him.
Qiao Yuan: "Now can you tell me what is going on with Hamos?"
“Of course.” After removing her expressionless disguise, the Saint’s expression became lively, revealing a mixture of fear and resentment on her face: “But it is not Hammos, nor is it my father.”
"Before that day, my father was normal..."
Although the Saint and the Son of God both have silver-white hair and are of similar age, they are not actually related by blood. They were just abandoned by their parents as aliens because of their hair and eye colors, and were eventually picked up by Hammos.
As long as he could remember, the Saint and the Son had been by Hammos' side, calling each other "Father".
They were abandoned people, but in Hamos's eyes, this silver hair was proof that they were chosen by God and were destined to be with God. God's servants should only have God in their hearts, so he was trying to train them in that direction. But at the same time, whether it was because he had no children or out of sympathy for the two children, Hamos treated them like his own children and gave them the fatherly love they deserved.
Anthony was her father's subordinate, but he was strict and treated them with a distant attitude, not like a living person, so it was difficult for the saint to develop a close relationship with him.
For the Son of God, God comes first, so the Holy Woman and her family are only nominal family members to him.
But for the saint, Hammos comes first, but because she doesn't want to disappoint Hammos, she tries hard to pretend to be like the Son of God, as if she is not moved by external things and is wholeheartedly devoted to God, so as to satisfy her respected father.
They followed Hamos everywhere, and when the end of the world came, they took root in District 9 and watched the base grow day by day with the efforts of Hamos and Anthony.
As rumored by the outside world, Hammers has always wanted to summon a god to end the doomsday. After entering District 9, this idea became even stronger, so he often locked himself in the underground base to study how to summon a god and not let others get close. Because he failed several times before, every time he came out, he looked very upset, saying that although there was a breakthrough compared to before, there was still a long way to go before he could successfully summon a god.
The saint wanted to comfort, but she knew that Hamos did not need her to understand the concept of comfort. She could only pretend to be expecting God as usual, and pulled the Son of God to find Hamos.
However, the Son of God was not there that time, so the Saint had to go to see Hamos alone. This time she used the excuse of delivering food, and met Anthony on the way. After learning that she was going there, he asked her to help get a document from Hamos.
At that time, Hamos was still in the underground base, seemingly finishing up something. The Saint came with the meal and knocked on the door. It was opened soon. After finding out it was the Saint, Hamos stepped aside and told the Saint to just put the meal on the table. He was not hungry yet and would eat later.
The saint's first reaction was naturally that Hamos had no appetite for food because the summoning failed, but she soon discovered that this time Hamos's mood did not seem as low as usual.
Out of doubt, the saint hesitated for a moment, and finally couldn't help asking another question. Fortunately, Hammos was in a good mood, not only did he not doubt, but he also explained with a smile that he felt he was about to succeed, so he would be so happy even if he failed.
The saint naturally felt happy for Hamos. No matter what, it was a fact that Hamos's mentality had improved a lot, and she couldn't help but feel happy for him.
She finally put her mind at ease and then brought up the matter of Anthony wanting a document.
The documents were in another room, so Hammers got up and went to look for them.
The room was filled with a strange aroma, like the scent of new incense.
The saint sat there, listening to the rustling sound of flipping documents for a while. Just as she was about to stand up to help Hamos look for it, she found that something seemed to have fallen into the other's water cup that had been placed on the table.
She blinked and her first reaction was that she had seen it wrong, but when she looked closer, she found that there was something red in the cup spreading in the water.
It's kind of like blood.
As if to verify her guess, another drop of blood fell in front of her and fell into the cup.
The saint subconsciously raised her head and looked in the direction where the blood had just dripped, and then her pupils suddenly shrank.
She saw the body stuck in the rafters.
The corpse looked as if it had been torn apart by some wild beast. Most of the body was gone. The abdominal cavity was empty, as if it had been hollowed out, but there were still traces of blood flowing down.
He lowered his head and looked at her, his grey eyes clearly lifeless.
The other party is already dead.
She recognized the face; it was Hamos, with whom she had been living for many years.
He is also her nominal father.
But if the body on the beam was Hammers, who was shuffling documents and making the noise?
The Saint had just arrived at the base when the Doomsday came, and she had not seen many infected people. Although she had seen people who were hurt by the infected, they were not this horrible.
The saint's heart was beating rapidly. She still held on to the last glimmer of hope. She raised her feet with difficulty and moved silently in that direction.
When she got closer, she found that the other party had closed the door but not locked it tightly, so she could still hear the sounds coming from inside.
Through the crack in the door, the saint saw the most unforgettable scene of her life.
