Chapter 267: Dungeon Clearance
The person who attracts the monster has the responsibility to pull it away. If he must die, he must die far away. Otherwise, he will be considered as pulling the monster and harming others, and will be collectively criticized by other players. This rule applies to PC online games and also to the game "Alien World".
Miaobishenghua dragged the evil spirit BOSS away, while the others did not waste any time and climbed up the outer wall of the building. Some of them climbed to the second floor, and some of them went into the small window of the attic.
The attic window is very small, and it is difficult for adults to pass through, but it is not difficult for players... Some people have too big a frame to get their shoulders through, so they can temporarily remove one of their arms and get in.
Entropy does not increase. I remember that when Miaobishenghua was frightened by the evil spirit BOSS and climbed down, he stopped to look at the second floor. I knew that Huahua must have discovered something and verified it by observing the second floor, so I abruptly proposed the idea that "the evil spirit BOSS might be Kent Bennett's brother". I didn't rush to climb the attic, but jumped to the second floor to search first.
She jumped out of the window to the second floor, and the player who broke into the room in front of her suddenly made a banging and clanging noise.
Just as En Bu Zeng was about to speak, Tang Jia's loud voice roared in her ear: "Keep your voice down! What if we attract the monsters downstairs!!"
Yang Ying, Jia Luo and the others bared their teeth and made a "hush" gesture to Tang Jia...
"There's a monster in this room!" A wizard player holding a thick wooden staff poked his head out of the door, "A level 3 monster!"
There are two rooms on the second floor. The door of the room on the left is open. There are single beds, wardrobes, tables, chairs and other furniture inside. The walls are covered with stickers of advertising girls cut out of magazines. There is a pile of books on the small desk, as well as some paper, pens and ink bottles. There are also a few shirts and pullovers casually draped over the back of the chair. It looks like a teenage male's room.
The player who broke in simply searched the closet full of clothes and the bottom of the bed filled with shoes and other miscellaneous items and then retreated, apparently finding nothing.
The door of the room on the right was tightly closed. The first group of knight players who climbed in had to hit the door lock several times with their shields before they could break it open - fortunately, the first ones to enter were knight players, otherwise the player side would have suffered casualties again.
Entropy does not increase. He squeezed past the players rummaging through the drawers in the living room and walked to the door of the room on the right. He looked inside and his heartbeat quickened a little...
In a room of about fourteen or fifteen square meters, two knights, a warrior, and two walker players were besieging... a humanoid monster with half of its body stuck to the bed.
This monster had no part below its torso, or rather, the part below its thighs had "melted" into some kind of extremely sticky liquid substance, blending into the large double bed and the bedding, giving the entire bed a particularly weird and disgusting greasy luster.
The part above the torso of this monster was also quite abnormal - its head had expanded at least five times and was covered with dense tumors. Its facial features could no longer be seen, and it was connected to a neck that was at least two meters long and as thick as a bucket. As the thick neck swung wildly, the huge, uneven head, like a whirlwind hammer swung by someone, fiercely attacked the undead.
The head and neck grew abnormally larger and thicker, but the torso from the neck down to the bed was strangely shrunk, the arms were shorter than a baby's, and the torso shrunk to the shape of a lower grade elementary school student.
"——This monster is so disgusting!"
Entropy is also a frequent visitor to the monster battlefield. He has seen all kinds of twisted monsters, but he was still disgusted by this deformed monster in the room and his tactics retreated...
Disgusting as it may be, it does not prevent Entropy from increasing its IQ: "Melee fighters, retreat. Ranged fighters, come to the door of the room. Don't crowd into the living room. Make room!"
"Don't hit the monster's head and neck, it won't hurt. Focus on the torso!"
"Get a few people to watch the stairs. If any monsters come up from downstairs, warn them immediately!"
"Don't all crowd here. One team will stay here, the ranged ones will stay here to kill monsters, and the rest of you will go out and guard downstairs first!"
After calling out the players who were so crowded in the living room, En Bu Zeng kept an eye on the ranged players killing monsters while searching for clues in the living room.
The residence of this NPC is by no means a wealthy family, but it is not poor either. There are electric lights in the house, and the furniture in both the rooms and the living room is quite complete. There is a sewing machine that looks quite new in the master bedroom where the host and hostess live, and there is an old-fashioned (from the player's perspective) radio on the wardrobe in the living room.
In the cabinet where the radio was placed, En Bu Zeng took out several thick photo albums.
There are many photos of Kent Bennett in the album, one of which is a black and white photo of him facing the camera with a confident smile. It is the one that appears in the mission text (red book).
Entropy does not increase. He threw away the newer photo albums, found the old albums with faded covers and continued to flip through them. He kept flipping through them until he was almost finished, when he finally found evidence to support his brilliant "brother inference" - a photo of a family of four.
The Bennetts in the photo look very young. The man is wearing a formal suit with a bow tie, and the woman is wearing a long floral dress.
When En Bu Zeng's eyes fell on the male owner, the corner of his mouth twitched, and he couldn't help but glance in the direction of the master bedroom...
The man in the photo is of course a normal person, with a square face and a well-proportioned body, except that he has a relatively large head and a relatively long neck.
"The male owner has turned into a monster with half of his body stuck to the bed... Then the boss downstairs who 'dies in the light' is the female owner?"
Entropy does not increase his gaze and falls on the hostess in the photo.
The hostess did not have the strange features like the host. She looked quite ordinary, except that her face looked rather mean, with a big mouth and thin lips.
Looking at the Bennett brothers in the photo, I couldn’t help but feel a little uneasy that entropy is not increasing.
The Bennett brothers were about five or six years old when this photo was taken. Kent Bennett, wearing a small suit, stood proudly in front of his parents. His little face, which combined the essence of his parents' looks, faced the camera confidently.
The other little boy standing next to him, holding his mother's hand, was rather uglier... He was only as tall as Kent Bennett's shoulders, with a slightly larger head. Although his facial features were very similar to Kent Bennett's and were inherited from his parents, their placement was not right - they were too concentrated and compact, making his already slightly larger head look even larger.
To make matters worse , there was something wrong with the little boy's facial expression...his eyesight was distorted, the corners of his mouth were drooping, and he didn't stand as straight as his brother.
This symptom, entropy does not increase, has been seen on the Internet.
"——Congenital cerebral palsy?"
En Bu Zeng realized something, took out the photo, and quickly flipped through the old photo album.
Apart from that photo of four people, there is no other photo in which the big-headed boy appears.
He took the album with a newer cover and flipped through it from beginning to end.
The new album contains photos of Kent Bennett from childhood to adulthood, but his brother is not seen.
En Bu Zeng closed the photo album and looked silently at the two bedrooms side by side.
There is only one single bed in the room where the children live.
There was no trace of his brother in Kent Bennett's growth trajectory.
"Abandoned..." En Bu Zeng sighed slightly.
She could roughly guess the plot of this copy.
Congenital cerebral palsy does not mean that the patient is completely unable to take care of himself. If he receives careful treatment and guidance and education, he can also complete some relatively simple tasks. If he is lucky, his intelligence can be restored to a level close to that of his peers.
But with a brother who is excellent in all aspects as a backdrop, it is difficult for parents not to compare, weigh, or even... make choices between the two sons.
"The pullover hidden under the straw mat in the wooden hut at No. 38 laundry yard belonged to this 'brother'... Apparently, this 'brother' was abandoned and survived, and ended up in Laundry Lane."
"No, the clothes themselves are nothing special. The seal is the copper button. In other words, it should be the copper button that allows the 'brother' to remember his family and his original relatives."
"After he was abandoned, all he had was that brass button."
"By some coincidence, he grew up in Laundry Lane and saw his brother, Kent Bennett, who grew up happily, without any disease or deformity, handsome, tall, with a wide range of friends, and could be forgiven by everyone even if he made some small mistakes."
"They are obviously brothers, but he only has one brass button, while Kent Bennett has everything."
"Jealousy ate away at his heart... That's how it all started."
The remote players killed the monster in the master bedroom, and the players who searched the attic also found the "mission item": a skeleton curled up in a heavy wooden box.
En Bu Zeng went up to the attic from the second floor stairs, took the skeleton out of the wooden box and pieced it together, and found that... the skeleton was less than 1.6 meters tall, and the skull was slightly larger than that of a normal person.
Knowing that this was just a plot set in the game, En Bu Zeng couldn't help but sigh: "'He' dumped Kent Bennett's body in Laundry Alley and moved his own body back... He wanted to go home, but he only dared to put his own bones in the attic."
"Qingyue, what are you mumbling about?" Yang Ying didn't understand.
"It's nothing, just a copy of the plot." Enbuteng shook his head.
At this time, Miaobishenghua, who had already fled to the laundry alley, screamed in the team channel: "Are you done, Qingyue? I'm almost caught up! I'm dying!"
"It's almost done ." En Buzeng replied, bending down to pick up the skeleton, "Come and help me put this skeleton into the room below."
"Why?" Yang Ying obeyed orders out of habit, but was still confused.
"Help a disabled person who has done bad things realize his dream." Entropy said.
Yang Ying: “???”
The players carried the skeleton of the evil spirit boss to the second bedroom on the second floor. The evil spirit, which had been chasing Miaobishenghua all the way to the laundry alley, suddenly let out a shrill wail and ran back like crazy.
The brilliant penman who was almost blocked: "What the hell?!"
Miaobishenghua quickly notified his friends in the team channel: "Be careful! The BOSS is coming back!"
"Ah? Isn't it enough to just carry the skeleton down?" En Bu Zeng was confused. "Why is this happening? Isn't this how the puzzle is solved? Shouldn't you pass the level by fulfilling your wish? Strange, is there some key item missing?"
"If it doesn't work, just fight. At worst, we'll be wiped out and go back to find a solution." After hesitating for a long time to solve the riddle, Qin Guan was already a little impatient.
Not long after, Miaobishenghua, who was running back behind the BOSS, shouted in the team channel again: "The BOSS level has dropped! I just used the appraisal spell to see that the BOSS has dropped to level 4!"
"Really?!" Qin Guan was overjoyed, "Come on, brothers, let's go and kill that BOSS!"
I almost thought that my efforts were in vain and was doubting the entropy of life. I let out a long breath and regained my confidence: "I told you, it can't be useless! Returning the skeleton will reduce you to a lower level, and defeating the small BOSS in the master bedroom will reduce you to another level. This BOSS can only be defeated after being weakened. This is the correct way to attack!"
Then, the girl happily shared with Huahua the strategy they had worked on together to solve the problem...
In the distant Innadeli, a otaku squatting in the city lord's mansion smiled slightly.
It is of course impossible for players to deal with the great evil spirit that can upgrade the possession to the level of a sealed object, which even the diocesan bishop would have a headache with, just relying on themselves.
The mirror space created by the evil spirits can isolate the personal investigation of the Bishop of the Moses Port Diocese, but the players in the branding matrix enter this mirror space that repels external interference, which is equivalent to opening a door for Yang Qiu, allowing Yang Qiu to interfere with the interior of the mirror space through the matrix connection.
It was impossible for the evil spirit to cooperate with the players in playing the "copy strategy" game. Originally, Yang Qiu planned to wait for this group of players to be wiped out and then forcibly leave an anchor point in the mirror space, drag this thing to his own matrix home and slowly clean it up. Unexpectedly, this group of players seriously treated the mirror space as a puzzle copy and actually found the evil spirit's whereabouts.
The sealed objects created by resentment cannot be used immediately after being obtained. The "traces of the holder" attached to the sealed objects must be eliminated. The players' "puzzle-solving and level-clearing" behavior is equivalent to helping Yang Qiu save a step.
Since the players are so capable, Yang Qiu simply goes with the flow and allows the players to complete this "copy clearance" activity from beginning to end.
