Chapter 17: Dying
The old man finally cleaned the operating table. He seemed to be annoyed by Xiang Liangyu's shouting. He said "Hush!" "Be quiet. I cleaned the operating table because you are so beautiful. I don't want my experiment to be stained by dirty blood."
Xiang Liangyu poked the roof of his mouth with the tip of his tongue: "Didn't you say you would give me the mermaid's tail outside? Why don't you go get it?"
The old man stopped rummaging and turned back: "Do you really want that tail?"
Xiang Liangyu: “Yeah.”
The old man thought for a moment, then stood up and walked out: "Okay, I'll satisfy you."
When he turned around, Xiang Liangyu seized the opportunity, stood on tiptoe and quickly pulled down the hook in the air. She calculated the distance and rushed forward, intending to wrap the leather rope around his neck.
But she underestimated the elasticity of the leather rope. After pulling it to the extreme, not only did it not break, but it pulled Xiang Liangyu back with an even stronger and irresistible force, and threw her heavily to the ground, with the back of her head hitting the wall with a buzzing sound.
I don’t know if the blood on my hands was the residual blood on the ground or the blood that seeped out due to the wear and tear.
[You have been attacked, your health is -500, and your remaining health is 48200. When your health is less than 5000, your life will be in danger.]
The old man's disdainful laugh was heard, and the door was opened. In a daze, Xiang Liangyu saw the worried faces of the players and the mermaid's gloating smile.
Xiang Liangyu shook his head and looked up at the leather rope above. Sure enough, there was a crack.
Xiang Liangyu: [Congratulations to the player for finding the key item "Damaged Photo" (1/4). Perhaps a miracle will happen if you collect all four photos? ]
[Main quest "Escape from Zero Island" (15/70): Progress of side quest "Crazy Wish" (15/20); Island exploration (20/50), players are encouraged to keep up the good work. ]
After Xiang Liangyu finished speaking, she got up from the ground. Her expression was cold and she was obviously extremely impatient.
Chu Li was holding a half-broken photo in his hand. After hearing Xiang Liangyu's weak voice, he handed it to Miao Zhen just before the old man arrived.
Unexpectedly, he walked straight past the five people and came to a culture tank.
Chu Li and others were so shocked that they took a few steps back. Only then did they realize that there was a mermaid here!
The old man knocked on the container: "I hope you'd better behave yourself."
The mermaid straightened up and moved away from the glass. The disdain and dissatisfaction in his eyes were extremely obvious. Of course, this did not escape the doctor's eyes.
He laughed angrily, walked to the other side of the culture tank and pressed the red button on it.
The liquid in the tank suddenly surged, and the proud and unyielding mermaid let out a cry of pain. He rolled and twisted in the small and confined space, and his handsome face was stained with a look of pain.
The doctor sneered, lifted the rollers under the culture tank, and pushed the huge culture tank towards the door. When he passed in front of the five people, he warned them: "Don't think I don't know what you are doing."
After he finished speaking, the door was closed, and the space of moderate size belonged to them for a short while.
There was a sound of splashing water, and water was overflowing from the cracks.
Seeing Chu Li staring at the door with a hint of worry in his eyes, Jiang Yu stepped forward to comfort him: "Don't worry, the NPC won't die so easily. We still have to thank her."
Her body rose and fell slightly as she spoke, and the butterfly brooch on her chest sparkled, looking vivid and lively.
Chu Li retracted his gaze: "I'm not worried about her, she'd better delay for a few more minutes. Miao Zhen, have you found the exit?"
"not yet."
All the water in the culture tank was drained out. Xiang Liangyu stared at the mermaid curled up in the tank with his eyes wide open.
His half-dried hair was slightly curled and scattered behind his head. Water droplets gathered on his skin, leaving transparent water marks. His scarred skin was red and white in color, and looked very pitiful. His platinum-colored fishtail was placed diagonally, and it was shiny and bright, making people want to touch it.
"The only purpose of a useless criminal is to devote himself to art. This fish tail should not appear on your body." As the doctor said this, he took the iron chain and put it around the mermaid curled up at the bottom of the jar. While he struggled, the chain tightened around his neck.
Like a fish on the chopping board, he was thrown onto the operating table. In an instant, his hands were bound to prevent him from struggling. The doctor locked his chest and the center of his tail tightly with locking rings.
The pain on the mermaid's face was growing deeper and deeper, and blood was dripping from the wound that had split open when she struggled and fell.
"What a beautiful fish tail, a treasure of the ocean!" The doctor took a big sip of the fish tail with obsession, and even buried his face in it and rubbed it, "What a perfect color, so perfect! How great it would be if it was mine."
The disgust and dissatisfaction in the mermaid's eyes almost overflowed, but the doctor was completely unaware of it and was still immersed in this perfect color.
Until he was slapped by the mermaid's tail.
The doctor's obsession was immediately shattered. He was so angry that he took out the electric baton and shocked him three times: "Beast! Who allowed you to move your tail without permission!"
The mermaid was electrocuted and paralyzed, shaking slightly.
Xiang Liangyu saw the right moment, pulled off the leather rope she had been holding in her hand, and rushed forward like a tiger. This time the distance was enough, and she used the taut leather rope to hook the doctor's neck.
The rebounding leather rope pulled Xiang Liangyu and the doctor together and threw them against the wall.
"Bang--"
The leather rope broke as she expected. Xiang Liangyu quickly wrapped the broken leather rope around his neck and kept tightening it.
The doctor kept struggling, Xiang Liangyu rode on his back, grabbed both ends of the leather rope and pulled it up: "I already said I'm the island owner, are you looking for death?"
The doctor was dressed neatly. When his movements softened, Xiang Liangyu relaxed and stood up from him.
When he looked up, he made eye contact with the mermaid on the operating table.
Xiang Liangyu naturally did not forget about him. He took a long step and walked to the operating table. He lowered his head slightly and looked down at him: "Who can't escape?"
The mermaid grinned. "You."
Xiang Liangyu clenched her fists, as if she had known this for a long time, and punched the doctor who had gotten up with . She used 90% of her strength, and the doctor's head was hit against the wall, leaving countless cracks.
She was already angry, and was further angered by the mermaid, so she clenched her fist and punched him on the waist. The mermaid instantly arched his body and hissed in unbearable pain.
Xiang Liangyu didn't use any ruthless force. After punching him, he didn't embarrass him. He turned around and came to the doctor. He kicked him in a cold voice: "I said, I am the owner of the island."
She took off her collar and threw it on the ground, the coldness in her eyes growing deeper and deeper.
The doctor coughed a few times, pulled his head out of the wall, and laughed a few times.
Only then did Xiang Liangyu discover that the wall had actually cracked, and water was rushing in frantically from the cracks like a dam bursting. Soon a layer of sea water had accumulated on the ground.
She frowned and was about to turn around and leave when the doctor suddenly stood up, shook his body, and somehow found the strength to push her away and rushed out the door first.
Before leaving, he glared at Xiang Liangyu fiercely and said, "Just wait for me."
The door was closed.
Xiang Liangyu tried to push the door, but it didn't open.
The sea water has reached the waist, and for the island owner who is afraid of sea water, fear is spreading.
The mermaid on the operating table dived into the water, swam to Xiang Liangyu's side, and gloated: "I can't get out, what should I do?"
"What should we do?" Xiang Liangyu repeated his words, then took a step back and kicked the wooden door hard.
She kicked a hole in the door, and Xiang Liangyu pried open the wooden door with his bare hands. Before leaving, he seemed to remember something and turned back: "I found a way."
Mermaid: “…”
The players have successfully found the exit, which is hidden behind a piece of wallpaper on the roof. The players piled up all the treadable objects in the laboratory from short to high, and the last one to leave is Jiang Yu.
Xiang Liangyu called her: "Jiang Yu!"
Jiang Yu, who had already left the basement, turned around when he heard the words. The butterfly brooch was flashing with a faint light, which dazzled Xiang Liangyu subconsciously.
"Who is calling you? Which NPC? I'd better go down and pull her out." Chu Li's voice came softly.
Jiang Yu looked down at Xiang Liangyu who was struggling to climb up, stopped Chu Li, raised her hand to hold the square door of the exit, and smiled at Xiang Liangyu below: "It's not her. Chu Li, the NPC will not die."
The next second, Xiang Liangyu’s eyes went dark and the exit was closed.
Xiang Liangyu: “…”
The exit was a hard wooden door that she couldn't kick open.
Xiang Liangyu sat at the top of the pile of items, covering his wound and shaking his legs. He thought for a long time but could not figure out why he was not welcomed.
There is only one possibility, her identity as a lackey has been discovered by Jiang Yu.
The sea water had already reached her shoulders and breathing became difficult again.
The mermaid floated up to his level, and whispered seductively in Xiang Liangyu's ears: "Do you want me to save you? Do you want to survive?"
Xiang Liangyu was so impatient that she closed her eyes. Thinking that out of sight, out of mind, she buried herself in the water and let gravity drop her.
The mermaid was a little annoyed. She turned over and jumped down. Her platinum-colored tail floated out briefly and then sank again.
The basement has become a building under the sea.
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[Health -200]
[Health -500]
[Health -1000]
…
Xiang Liangyu's consciousness was blurred, and his thoughts returned to the scene of himself being alone and throwing the bottle filled with his thoughts into the bottom of the sea.
In order to prevent the bottle from floating up or being pushed to the other side of the sea by the waves and being discovered, she would fill the bottle with stones, so that her thoughts and secrets would sink to the bottom of the sea and not be discovered.
But on this island, she found the bottle she had thrown into the seabed.
In fact, she had thought that this was not a game at all, but a fight between two camps of opponents. As for what they were fighting for, Xiang Liangyu didn't know, maybe it was simply to survive.
Just like now, her mission is about to fail.
[Warning, your health is below 100, seriously exceeding the minimum value! If your health is reduced to zero, you will be imprisoned in the seabed forever! ]
Xiang Liangyu's breathing became weaker and weaker. In a trance, she thought of a lot of things, mountains, rivers, and tall buildings.
Until the tip of my nose was hit by something heavy, and the shape I felt for a moment was like a round stone, or a gem?
Xiang Liang felt a chill on her lips, and all the oxygen flowed in.
A beep sounded in my mind:
[Dear island owner, your health has been restored, and the remaining health is: 50000. ]
