Chapter 28: Weirdos
Jiang Yu stood on the stairs, the dimness of the lighthouse was dispelled by the sunlight that seeped in. The girl stood at the junction of light and darkness, the outline of her figure was outlined by light and shadow, and the most unignorable thing was her pair of peach blossom eyes without a smile.
Seeing that the woman on the stairs did not move, Xiang Liangyu tilted his head: "Don't you want to come and save him?"
Jiang Yu bit her tongue and rolled her eyes, then walked down the stairs. When her feet landed in the sea, she said, "Duan Sen, you pushed me down."
Not a question, but a firm affirmation.
Xiang Liangyu lowered his head and chuckled, holding his waist with one hand, pretending to be regretful: "Yes, if Miao Zhen hadn't left him there, they would be the two on the ground now."
"He must be very lonely, why don't you go and keep him company?"
Jiang Yu's expression was solemn, and he watched Xiang Liangyu's every move warily: "You have been lying to us."
"You don't really believe what I said, do you?" Xiang Liangyu pretended to be surprised. She put away her smile. The sound of water splashed everywhere. The two people who were originally separated by a distance now had their legs and hands touching each other.
Jiang Yu stopped the hand in front of his neck with one hand and pushed it away. With the other hand, he grabbed her fist that was about to hit him. His eyes were burning: "Who are you?"
Xiang Liangyu crossed his legs and tried to trip Jiang Yu, but she pushed him hard, and the two of them were separated by a distance again.
Xiang Liangyu shook her wrist, which had been pinched red by Jiang Yu, and said in a teasing and questioning tone: "I am a human."
Listening to the system's broadcast in his mind, Xiang Liangyu shifted his gaze to Jiang Yu's hands, only to see that her originally empty hands were now filled with a rotten knife and stick.
"I admire you very much. You played dumb beside us and watched us escape death." Jiang Yu took a few steps back, pulled out the knife and stick on his finger, and fought back and forth with Xiang Liangyu with a long knife in one hand and a short stick in the other. "I once thought about what your identity was, and even suspected that you were actually a player."
Xiang Liangyu lowered her head and laughed a few times. When she raised her head again, the expression on her face was crazier and more outrageous than Jiang Yu had ever seen before: "My dear, not only did you escape death, but I did too. And it was you who forced me to escape death."
Jiang Yu's brows sank, and she immediately turned around and ran up the stairs. However, just as her right foot stepped on the step, the flat steps suddenly became distorted and illusory. She missed a step and was heavily pressed into the water.
Xiang Liangyu was very fast. By the time Jiang Yu could stand firm, she had already arrived behind her. A faint smell of blood filled the air.
Jiang Yu's grip on the stick suddenly tightened. In a flash, she turned around and chopped the stick horizontally with her right hand. She turned the long knife to her palm with her left hand, and used her waist to drive her upper body. As she turned around, she stabbed Xiang Liangyu's neck with the long knife.
"I really don't like being drowned in water," Xiang Liangyu grabbed the wooden stick she was swinging, squatted down, went around her armpit and behind her, avoiding the rusty blade over there.
The hand holding the stick instantly slid up, pinched her wrist and twisted her arm backwards. With a "crack", the stick fell into the water, covering up Jiang Yu's muffled groan: "Okay, enough of your clever tricks."
Xiang Liangyu held the back of her neck and pushed her upper body into the water. Bubbles kept rising. In the sparkling water, Xiang Liangyu saw a flash of white light. When he caught a glimpse of the long knife stabbing across the water, he immediately raised his foot and jumped onto the stairs beside him.
The long knife cut through the water, Jiang Yu stood up from the water, took a deep breath, and ran towards Xiang Liangyu with her intact left hand.
She knew she couldn't go upstairs, so after aiming at the woman on the stairs, she loosened her hand and the sharp knife immediately flew towards Xiang Liangyu.
Xiang Liangyu had a blank expression on her face. She turned sideways and let the long knife pass by her body. But in an instant, she raised her hand to catch the rotten handle, turning the other person's weapon into her own sharp blade.
Jiang Yu knew he couldn't beat her, so when she took his long knife, he quickly came to Duan Sen's side, carried Duan Sen's body and walked to the door. As soon as her fingers touched the door lock, several sharp bird beaks suddenly squeezed in from the gaps in the iron bars, and the opening and closing of the bird beaks allowed her to clearly see the dense and tiny teeth inside.
There was a sharp breeze beside my ears, and my own long sword stabbed into the wall, leaving a trembling sound.
A hand wrapped around the back of his head. Jiang Yu's pupils widened. He subconsciously reached into his pocket. Before he could take out the things in his pocket, a brisk voice came from behind his ear: "I originally planned to keep you and Chu Li when we wiped out the team, but you are too smart. It would be better if you used this smartness on the mission."
[The health of each player is less than 15%, and the shared health is invalid. 】
[Player Jiang Yu's health has returned to zero, and he has died. ]
After Xiang Liangyu's relaxed voice appeared, the three people trapped among the thin pole men paused for a moment.
Chu Li stared at the dark bottom of the cave, feeling a sour feeling spreading in his chest.
The hand that was clenching the shovel trembled slightly. She turned her grief and anger into motivation , and used her last bit of strength to clear a path with Qu Liuyun.
The three of them ran wildly again.
The long-haired man disappeared when Xiang Liangyu left. He showed no obvious hostility, which was enough to make the three of them feel relieved. The wall kept twisting and the staircase had no end in sight.
Chu Li looked at the thin-pole men who were everywhere, her mind was in a mess, and suddenly a white light flashed, and she seemed to understand something. She stopped and pulled the two back the way they had come, and hurriedly said, "Go upstairs!"
Qu Liuyun was surprised and asked, "Go upstairs?"
Chu Li: "No matter how far you run down, there is no end. The exit is in the dark tower!"
Qu Liuyun and Miao Zhen exchanged a look, and the hesitant look turned into determination. After Chu Li and Miao Zhen exchanged items in the mall, they took the lowest-level weapons and returned to the siege again, but this time they had a clear goal.
Xiang Liangyu looked at the brooch that fell into the water, his palms loosened, and Jiang Yu slid softly into the water, completely dead.
[Congratulations to the island owner for killing the outsider (2/5). The player Jiang Yu's health has been deprived, and your health has increased. ]
[Congratulations to the island owner for unlocking "Breathing". Seawater will no longer be your weakness. You can dive into the seabed and breathe freely. ]
So, her skills can only be unlocked by killing players? Xiang Liangyu was silent for a moment, a little angry, why didn't you say it earlier!
She said that she was the owner of an island and not only was she poor, but her attack power was also very weak and she relied on her thick health bar to survive.
No wonder the old man can only recognize people through tokens.
Thinking of this, Xiang Liangyu's eyebrows moved, and he looked down at the brooch that sank to the bottom of the water.
The ice-blue brooch remained in the water, and the shimmering water made it come alive. Looking at Jiang Yu, who was sinking in the water with the brooch, Xiang Liangyu sighed.
The tide was still rising, and at this moment the sea water had spread above the knees. Through the iron gate, Xiang Liangyu could see the coast ten meters ahead, and the waves were tirelessly coming one after another.
She watched quietly for five seconds, then turned and walked towards the wall.
The startled birds in the tide landed again, and the duck's feet kept them afloat. Their sharp beaks could easily break through human skin and taste the delicious flesh and blood.
She pressed her palms on the wall, and ripples spread out from her palms, penetrating deep into the wall without any resistance. Xiang Liangyu entered the dark tower again.
"Excuse me, can you take me out?"
As I stepped into the darkness, a dull voice sounded from not far away.
A beam of flame rose up, illuminating a small area.
The long-haired man held a low white porcelain lamp holder in his hand. A small but bright flame burned in the round, flat base, with no sign of going out.
The dim candlelight can make people feel dazed, not to mention that there are no modern lights . Xiang Liangyu even thought he had traveled back to ancient times.
Xiang Liangyu glanced at him. She had been so busy looking at his face that she ignored his clothes.
A round-neck black robe, the simplest kind of clothing.
A man in ancient robes suddenly appeared on a modern isolated island. What's more, his face was pale and bloodless. At first glance, he looked like the ghost of an innocent person who had died a violent death.
Xiang Liangyu looked away calmly and asked, "If I remember correctly, you went out fifteen minutes ago."
The strange man did not move. The flame in the tray was steady and did not jump, which made his face outlined sharply in the light and shadow. Two beams of fire ignited in his inky eyes, floating slowly: "I want to get out of this tower."
"If possible, I can grant you one wish after we get out."
Xiang Liangyu: “…”
Stingy, the genie still has three wishes.
She narrowed her eyes and said, "Why should I help you? I don't have any wishes to fulfill."
The man raised the corners of his mouth slightly, but it was just a raise. Other than that, the other facial muscles did not change. His eyes were as dark as the night.
Xiang Liangyu suddenly remembered a saying: when the darkness is deep enough, weak light is not enough to dispel it. On the contrary, the light is imprisoned by the darkness.
Xiang Liangyu took a few steps back, but when he stretched his legs back, his heels hit the hard wall.
Well, there is no turning back.
The man looked straight ahead and said with a sly look in his eyes: "I can help you unlock the secrets of this island."
Xiang Liangyu's eyes curved: "But I don't want to know..."
"I can also help you kill the people outside." He interrupted calmly, and then smiled apologetically, "Sorry to interrupt you."
There was absolutely no apology in this statement.
Xiang Liangyu stared at the man, and his personal information slowly appeared beside him.
【Name:*（Unlocked）
Identity: A poor man trapped in a dark tower
Health: * (Not unlocked)]
Xiang Liangyu: “…”
Where do these three-no products come from?
Xiang Liangyu sighed. The person in front of him seemed to be nailed to the spot. His chest would only rise and fall slightly when he spoke. Only at this time did he look like a human being.
She was almost certain that if she said "no", he would just stand there motionless, stopping her and wasting her time.
After weighing the pros and cons, Xiang Liangyu nodded coldly: "Okay."
As if he had expected it, the man stepped aside to make way. He followed Xiang Liangyu, holding up the oil lamp to illuminate the way ahead.
The dark tower is even more cramped and depressing than the outer tower. The walls compress the space so that only one person can walk through it. There is an ascending right-angle staircase in front.
The scenes outside can be clearly seen through the walls on both sides. The right side is the scene inside the outer tower, and the left side is the sea outside the tower, which is blue and sparkling.
She could see three players running frantically on the stairs. They changed from their original downward direction to a difficult upward direction. Among them, Miao Zhen looked like he could not hold on for much longer.
A man's voice came from behind: "The humanoid monsters don't have much offensive power, but they have the advantage of numbers. If we let them successfully enter the dark tower, they will find a way out."
Xiang Liangyu paused and looked back at him: "From what you said, it seems that you know how to get out of the tower."
The man nodded. "The locked tower door will open when the tide recedes. Wait for ten minutes, and the birds in the tide will disperse if they don't find any food."
Xiang Liangyu leaned against the wall with his arms folded, his eyes scrutinizing: "Since you knew, why did you ask me to take you out?"
Man: "I can only leave the tower with someone from outside leading the way. Sorry for the trouble."
After he finished speaking the last word, Xiang Liangyu said in a cold voice: "What's your name?"
The flame flickered for a moment. She didn't know if it was her illusion, but the man's empty eyes seemed to gradually focus. The corners of his mouth raised a little, and he looked into Xiang Liangyu's eyes.
A steady, gentle and low voice echoed in the narrow staircase: "My name is Quan Shengyan."
