Chapter 27 Illusion
“Da Da—Da”
The footsteps were getting closer. Chu Li pulled Jiang Yu and whispered, "Hide first."
The sound of the waves could be clearly heard inside the lighthouse, like a landslide.
Xiang Liangyu didn't look away, even when Jiang Yu was pulled away, her eyes were still pointed at her. With her back against the wall, she turned her head as Jiang Yu left, her eyes full of innocence and teasing were not concealed at all.
In Jiang Yu's eyes, it was a naked provocation.
Qu Liuyun frowned and quickened his pace as he walked downstairs.
Xiang Liangyu was walking at the back of the queue, wondering how long it would take for Duan Sen's health to return to zero, but he found that the people in front of him didn't seem to have any intention of dodging, but rushed down all at once.
The iron gate they passed straight through was not locked.
Xiang Liangyu looked back as he walked. The footsteps that had been following them had never stopped. He didn't seem to be in a hurry to get rid of these outsiders. Instead, he felt calm and relaxed.
She was tired of the cat-and-mouse game, and she had to stop this group of people from going downstairs.
Thinking of this, Xiang Liangyu calmly raised her hand and tapped the wall, and the photo she touched instantly distorted, the picture changed unpredictably, and after a moment, a twisted and struggling hand stretched out.
In the center of the lighthouse, five figures were running on the spiral stone staircase. As they ran, the structure inside the lighthouse was constantly changing. Miao Zhen obviously noticed it, and he frowned, stopped immediately, and stopped the three people behind him.
Qu Liuyun wanted to rush over, but was stopped. He couldn't help but said anxiously: "Duan Sen is going to die soon!"
Miao Zhen forcefully pushed him to the back, tore off the photo on the wall and threw it forward. The photo, which was originally light and fluttering, became like a sharp blade and pierced directly into the wall under the stairs the moment it was thrown out.
What was shocking was that the moment the photo was stabbed in, it was swallowed by the twisted wall, and finally a human figure as thin as a bamboo pole was spit out from the wall and fell on the flat floor.
Miao Zhen pointed at the stairs and said, "If we take one step out, we will be the ones to die."
Everyone looked down and found that the originally flat steps were gradually twisted, as if they were being kneaded by a pair of hands and had no shape anymore.
Miao Zhen tore off another photo and threw it down. When the photo touched the twisted steps, it was instantly swallowed up, but this time nothing strange appeared.
The footsteps from behind were getting closer again, and the thin man in front also started to move, staggering and raising his head that was hidden by his sparse hair.
Chu Li's pupils shrank and he subconsciously took a step back.
This is Xiang Hou’s face!
This face is wrinkled and loose, obviously as if it was pasted on, but Xiang Hou's face had long been dissolved in the culture tank, so how could it appear here!
Shocked, Xiang Liangyu touched the wall again behind them. As he glanced at the photos, he quickly tore off a few and threw them into the vertical hole on the side.
When Xiang Liangyu heard that Duan Sen's health points had decreased by one bar again, he retracted his gaze and looked forward.
I saw the thin man in front of me shaking his head and walking forward a few steps. When he stepped on the twisting and changing stairs, the expected scene of being sucked into and swallowed by the stairs did not appear. Instead, the thin man stood on it directly and walked up as if nothing happened.
Xiang Liangyu looked back, and her intuition told her that now was not the time to meet the unknown person behind her. The thin-pole man had already mastered the skill of walking, and his speed was getting faster and faster. He only had two more steps to reach the level ground.
She looked down at the edge. The round hole was neither big nor small, but it was big enough for her to jump to the next step.
Without communicating with the players, when the unknown person landed on the upper level, Xiang Liangyu jumped down without saying a word.
After his feet landed on the ground, Xiang Liangyu stood up and looked back. He was immediately startled by the four people in the air and then dodged to the side.
As if realizing something, Xiang Liangyu ignored the players beside him and immediately looked up at the upper stairs opposite. The moment he looked up, his eyes met a pair of eyes as black as ink.
The man stood at the edge of the flat, his head slightly tilted, looking at Xiang Liangyu without obstruction. The wall behind him continued to merge and twist, and countless thin-pole men emerged from the wall. Soon, the entire flat was filled.
Their appearances are different, but you can tell that their faces are "pasted" on, and there are even curled edges at the edges of their faces that are not glued firmly.
Xiang Liangyu couldn't think of a word to describe this man, but she could use a word to describe the player.
The wolf runs away and the rabbit escapes.
Chu Li took a breath and said, "Although he is handsome, I think we still have to run away."
Jiang Yu grabbed Chu Li's wrist and said, "Let's go!"
The steps on this level were not blurred, and the men ran faster and faster. The moment they turned around and ran, the men with thin poles on the opposite level jumped over one after another. Their speed was not fast, but it only took them a moment to catch up with the five men.
Xiang Liangyu felt that she was not running, but flying. She followed Chu Li, her legs were completely driven by her body instincts, and she couldn't control it at all. The wall next to her was flying by at a high speed. Xiang Liangyu said in a slightly collapsed tone: "Let me go!"
Chu Li pulled Xiang Liangyu down again without looking back: "No, you are running too slowly."
Layer after floor, it used to take less than ten minutes to reach the top floor, but now it takes more than half an hour to go downstairs.
This chase, which no one knew when it would end, had begun.
The thin-pole men behind him were no longer confined to the stairs. They jumped up and down. Some of them disappeared into the black hole, and some of them jumped to the lower level of the opposite stairs to intercept the players who were still on the upper level.
Qu Liuyun's points had already reached the bottom when he exchanged for the cannon. Now his points could only be used to purchase the lowest-level weapon in the weapon market - a corpse shovel.
Without thinking twice, he spent all his points to redeem it.
When the system voice of "Payment successful" sounded, a shovel still covered with dirt appeared out of thin air in his palm.
Without further hesitation, Qu Liuyun shouted to Chu Li in front of him: "Chu Li! Turn back!"
He threw the shovel in his hand forward. Chu Ligang turned her head and saw the shovel falling rapidly on her head. She let go of Xiang Liangyu's hand, adjusted the distance and caught the shovel.
The force pulling her forward suddenly disappeared, and Xiang Liangyu's mind went blank for a moment. After seeing the figure running towards her, she instantly foresaw what would happen three seconds later.
Xiang Liangyu's eyes flashed, and finally, when the "ding" sound rang in her mind, she couldn't suppress her smile:
[Player Duan Sen's health value has returned to zero. Player Duan Sen has died. ]
The system voice in my mind sounded at the right time: [Congratulations to the island owner for killing the outsider (1/5), the player Duan Sen's health has been deprived, and your health has been increased. ]
[Congratulations to the island owner for unlocking the skill "Great Strength". The lifespan of the island is the same as yours. As the owner of an island, your power is endless. ]
After he finished speaking, Xiang Liangyu put his right leg on the ground and fell towards the wall with his whole body.
There was no pain in her head. Half of her body had already sunk into the wall. Then, in front of Chu Li's shocked gaze, she successfully escaped into the wall and fell into the dark tower.
The dark tower was pitch black, but she could see the outer tower clearly. She could see the four people fighting desperately among the thin-pole men, and she could also see Duan Sen's body at the bottom of the tower, being eaten by a tide bird with broken wings.
Xiang Liangyu found that she also had a personal information interface, she clicked it and saw:
【Name: Xiang Liangyu
Identity: Owner of Zero Island/Team Mission NPC
Health: 60000%
Unlocked skills: *Great Strength (splitting rocks with bare hands is no problem)]
The alarm sounded loudly, Xiang Liangyu looked up from his personal interface and found a person standing in the outer tower.
He stood in the chaos, looking at Xiang Liangyu through countless obstacles. Although she had long hair, she didn't look feminine at all. In a trance, she thought the person in front of her was Quan Shengyan.
But it was only for a moment.
Xiang Liangyu looked away. She was not a fool and knew that this man was definitely not someone to be trifled with.
She looked at the four people in the chaos. Although she called these players invincible cockroaches, they would still be injured to varying degrees. The health of the four people continued to decrease. Jiang Yu's health was not high to begin with, and it had already dropped to 21% during the fight.
But the sharing of health points between players shows its usefulness. If you can't kill one person alone, you can only kill the whole team.
Xiang Liangyu clenched her fists and looked at the figure that was retreating. She seemed to have been entrusted with an important task. After a moment of hesitation, she jumped down, rolled a few times on the ground, and then ran to the lower floor under Chu Li's anxious call.
Jiang Yu ran very fast, four steps up a flight of stairs. Xiang Liangyu pulled the corner of his mouth, and immediately rushed out of the wall to chase him.
When she passed by the group of players, she winked at Chu Li through the thin pole and said silently, "Goodbye."
Chu Li froze suddenly, looking at Xiang Liangyu's back in disbelief. All the tangled thoughts about Xiang Liangyu in his mind were now clear.
It was she who informed them of the whereabouts, it was she who tripped them up in secret, and even, it was she who killed Duan Sen!
Chu Li gritted his teeth and yelled, "Jiang Yu!"
Xiang Liangyu was too lazy to run anymore. Jiang Yu was afraid that she had already heard Chu Li's reminder and might be lying in ambush on the road to play a trick on her. She stopped and jumped into the black hole.
Landed safely, with the sea water reaching his ankles.
The broken wall was repaired inexplicably, and the only light was the sunlight coming from outside the iron gate. Several tide birds were already standing outside the iron gate, and through the iron bars one could also see tide birds flying all over the sky.
They were all staring at the corpse on the ground with eager eyes.
Xiang Liangyu looked at the sea water that had reached his ankles and guessed that the tide had already risen a lot.
Duan Sen was lying in the middle, his entire body submerged in the sea water, with only the tip of his nose exposed. Beside him lay the Tide Bird, tearing at the flesh and internal organs on his chest.
Blood spread, Xiang Liangyu stretched out his legs and swung in the water, mixing the thick blood with the sea water.
Two seconds later, Xiang Liangyu raised her head expressionlessly, as if she had known it for a long time, and cast her eyes straight at the steps in front of her. She raised the corners of her mouth and showed her usual smile, but the smile did not reach her eyes, which were filled with piercing coldness:
"He seems to be dead."
