Chapter 24 Photos
After Chu Li finished speaking, Jiang Yu seemed to remember something, and stood up and took out a cloth bag from his pocket:
"I forgot to mention that this was given to me by an aboriginal cub during the personal pursuit battle. It was a late reward for the limited-time challenge. I should have taken it out that day, but I forgot."
Xiang Liangyu's voice sounded at the right time:
[Congratulations to the team for receiving the gift from the indigenous people - "Mermaid seeds". The shiny seeds look like gems. I wonder if a mermaid will grow out of them~]
[Since the native has died, the favorability has returned to zero, and this side quest has failed. ]
[Regretfully inform you that you have violated the maximum number of rules in the Waiter Hall, and have intentionally damaged the internal structure of the Waiter Hall and have a bad attitude. I solemnly announce that you have been blacklisted by the Waiter Hall. If you encounter the natives head-on in the future, you will be forced to start a personal chase battle if you are alone, and a team will be forced to start a team chaos battle. ]
[Always stay alert during the escape~]
Qu Liuyun held his forehead and said, "I don't know why. I know she is a traitor, but when I hear her voice, I still..."
Jiang Yu listened to Xiang Liangyu's cheerful and relaxed voice and sighed, "I hope I don't meet her in the next world."
She really didn't want to become a rival of Xiang Liangyu.
"What?" Duan Sen sat up straight instantly. "There's another world? Isn't the internal beta qualification to try out this dungeon?"
When Duan Sen saw the increasingly solemn expressions of his friends in front of him, and the pity they revealed, he was stunned on the spot, and an ominous premonition filled his heart.
Chu Li supported himself on the ground with both hands and moved closer to Duan Sen. His short pink hair seemed to have grown a lot longer. “Do you still think this is just a beta test game? No, let me ask it another way. Do you still think this is a game?”
The only remaining fantasy in Duan Sen's heart was completely shattered. She was right. If this was a game, why would the entire team be wiped out? Why would there be such realistic monsters? And why would the pain from being injured be no less than the real pain?
He gave up and stopped thinking about those illusory things. At the moment, nothing was more important than being alive.
Chu Li held out his hands, smiled with his eyes bent, and said, "Help me heal it. Don't worry, your health bar is so thick, and with Qu Liuyun and I fighting in the front, you won't die so easily."
"After all, the reason why we are all here should be because of the sentence on the invitation letter: 'If all members of the team survive and win, you can realize your most absurd dream.'"
After Xiang Liangyu finished reporting the task, the headset on his ear disappeared.
What she didn't expect was that the game was still monitoring her. Knowing that her identity had been discovered by the players, it gave her a headset to announce tasks. When the player triggered a task or item, the headset would automatically appear and disappear after the words were spoken.
Xiang Liangyu felt like a psychopath, as he was still connected to the players even though they had broken up with each other.
She turned around and tried to leave this uncomfortable place, but her feet seemed to be rooted in the ground. The vine entrance seemed to have a huge attraction that made her unable to move. When she was finally able to move, she lifted her legs and walked towards the vine entrance.
Xiang Liangyu: “…”
If dead things can be reborn when they enter, then will living things die immediately when they enter?
Xiang Liangyu thought again, what would happen if that half-dead person or thing went in?
But she immediately put this thought behind her. She gathered all her strength and finally controlled her body just before she stepped into the vine cave. She took a few steps back, staring at the dark green plants in front of her, sneering.
Xiang Liangyu seemed to be talking to himself, but also seemed to be threatening: "I will burn this sooner or later."
The blood on the clothes had dried, and Xiang Liangyu no longer had the disgust and dissatisfaction she had before when she wore the dirty and torn dress.
Xiang Liangyu had come to terms with it at this point. No matter how many clothes she changed, they would never stay clean for a long time on this shabby island, so she might as well just let them get dirty.
[Your health has been reduced, please pay attention. ]
Xiang Liangyu: “?”
[Warm reminder, if you are more than a certain distance away from the player, your health bar will decrease at a rate of one drop of blood every three hours.]
Xiang Liangyu was just about to curse this unscrupulous setting when an anxious call suddenly came out.
"Island Master, Island Master! Island Master, I'm glad you're okay!"
Before seeing the person, he heard the voice first. Xiang Liangyu looked around but didn't see a single figure.
"Island Master! I'm on top."
Xiang Liangyu raised her head and saw an aboriginal holding a ghost lantern on a tree not far from her.
"Island Master, I can't hold on any longer. I can't step into this area. Can you come out?"
The aboriginal indeed looked . Not only was he hugging the tree, he was also holding a lamp in his hand.
Xiang Liangyu very considerately came to the tree. The native fell to the ground with a thud. He held up the ghost lantern to prevent it from falling. He shook his head in pain and got up quickly: "Island Master, the group of outsiders disappeared!"
Xiang Liangyu said without any surprise: "They are hiding somewhere."
The native said hurriedly: "Island Master, in order to drive away outsiders, we need the heart of a mermaid. You, you must know how to find a mermaid, right?"
Xiang Liangyu glanced it up and down. The expression on its face didn't look like it was anxious to drive away the outsiders, but rather a kind of fear?
What is it afraid of?
The native's hand holding the ghost lantern couldn't stop shaking. Xiang Liangyu didn't know if it was an illusion, but a lot of scales on the native's body seemed to have fallen off, revealing the brown skin under the scales. The lines were clear and looked familiar.
Xiang Liangyu was ambiguous: "Let's talk about it later."
The aboriginal rushed to Xiang Liangyu like crazy and held his arm with his free hand: "Island Master! No more talking. The sea is about to rise in tide, and after the high tide there will be a dramatic low tide. By then, the secrets of Zero Island will be discovered by outsiders. We can't let them be discovered!"
Xiang Liangyu looked at the dry palm on his arm and stared at the natives with cold eyes.
The native then realized that he had crossed the line, and withdrew his hand awkwardly, rubbing his clothes while mumbling an apology.
Xiang Liangyu pondered for a moment, looked away, and used the system privileges to accurately locate the player's position.
The entire island of Zero Island appeared in my mind, presented clearly like a 3D map, and the players' positions were finally located on the coast on the other side of the island.
The map shows that the land on the island has been eroded by the rising sea level, with huge rocks half exposed and a tall tower standing.
The sea breeze was roaring. Chu Li pushed open the iron door of the lighthouse and saw a spiral stone staircase. It was narrow and cramped, so small that only one person could climb up.
Next to this stone staircase without any guardrails, the walls are covered with paintings and photos.
Bright light shone through the broken part of the tower column, enough to illuminate the entire tower.
If the photos in the storage room were pieced together and pasted back together, then the walls of this lighthouse were covered with countless fragments of photos.
Miao Zhen dug out a corner of the photo he found in the basement. The triangular fragment was gray-brown, the same color as the fragments on the wall inside the tower.
The angle of the fragment is very strange, and only a pointed building can be seen from it. However, because the photo is not well preserved, many white creases have appeared on the small fragment, not to mention that the triangle has begun to turn white.
Miao Zhen handed the photo to everyone and asked: "Have you seen this building?"
Chu Li stared at the photo for a long time and shook his head: "I haven't seen it."
Jiang Yu had already walked up the steps and glanced at the photos on the wall. She said, "The photos here seem to be different from those in the guest house."
She turned around and said, "Chu Li, did you take the note with the words on it? Maybe Miao Zhen knows that language."
Chu Li nodded, found the saved note and handed it to Miao Zhen.
Qu Liuyun took a quick look and said, "Dream? Dream."
Chu Li glanced at him: "Are you sure?"
Miao Zhen: "Qu Liuyun is right, this is the meaning of dream. If I remember correctly, this should be the language of Shuidao."
"When I was a kid, I traveled to Mizushima for a while. Although the language there is obscure and difficult to understand, some of the words are similar to English. Draumur is one of them."
He pulled another photo out of his pocket. "This is also a photo from the storage room. This is the only color photo in there."
Chu Li was surprised and said, "Wait a minute, look at the mermaid behind him, his tail is platinum!"
Everyone instantly recalled the mermaid that was trapped in the culture tank in the basement.
Miao Zhen: "Based on the damage to the photo and the buildings inside, the scene in the photo should have been taken thirty years ago. I guess."
He took a deep breath and put away the photo under Chu Li's gaze: "Let's not look at this for now. This lighthouse should have some clues."
Jiang Yu's regretful voice came from upstairs: "The photos here are too messy, there is no way to piece them together."
Qu Liuyun looked at the photos on the wall: "Hmm, black and white, instruments, buildings, numbers, the contents of the photos are similar to what I saw in the guest house before, it seems that they are all experiments related to mermaids."
Not knowing what he saw, he took a deep breath and said, "All the photos of this area are heads. How strange. Miao Zhen, come and take a look."
The photos that Qu Liuyun mentioned were located next to the iron gate, in the area where the tower wall was damaged. The portraits were densely packed together, and the closer you looked, the larger they became, around the broken tower wall, with foreheads and hairlines on top, chins and a small part of the neck below, and an ear on the left and right.
There was a big hole where the facial features were originally. Yellow sand and dark green woods could be seen. It seemed that there was a red and white figure moving slowly not far away.
"Bang--!"
Duan Sen, who was standing guard at the door, pushed the door open suddenly, his face turned green, he pointed behind him and couldn't say a word .
Everyone turned their heads and saw a familiar figure appear beside Duan Sen.
Xiang Liangyu waved to the four people in the tower and smiled happily: "Hi."
