This is the ninth art

Chapter 168 The Skeleton Brothers
When I met the sheep mother again.

Although it is the first time for the second player.

But for the audience present, this is already an old friend.

She seems to have forgotten what the player did to her.

Forget about the crimes the player has committed.

It was like meeting her for the first time.

Leading the player with a listless expression, leading him to avoid countless traps.

Teach him to use a special set of benevolent fighting methods when encountering monsters in the underground kingdom.

Take him back to his home as a guest.

And made him a rich and delicious butterscotch cinnamon pie.

Her smile is more kind.

The audience became more and more uneasy.

Just like when playing the game for the first time.

Spent a wonderful and pleasant afternoon at the sheep's mother's house.

The sky is getting dark and the players need to leave.

Humanity needs to return to the ground after all.

Since the player did not choose to attack any monsters this time.

Yang Ma revealed some more details.

Why do the monsters under the ground always attack him?
Although it is possible to end the fight with monsters with 'mercy' every time.

But monsters will take the initiative to provoke the player, or directly block the player's way.

"As long as they have human souls, the monsters can break the barrier, leave the underground where they have been imprisoned for a long time, and return to the ground that originally belonged to them."

"So, in order to leave the ground and take revenge on humans, the king of this world will collect all the human souls that fell here."

"Stay here, I will protect you, no one can hurt you, child."

The mother of sheep told the player why she repeatedly blocked the player and didn't want her to leave the house.

See the player insists on leaving.

She sighed helplessly.

"Is that why you want to leave?"

"Come on, prove to me that you have the ability to survive alone in the underground kingdom."

Just like last time, she started a battle with the player.

This time, players who know how to choose.

Put away the weapon.

Conversation after conversation.

Forgiveness again and again.

until the end.

The sheep mother was unwilling to continue fighting.

"I understand that you will not be happy when you are trapped in a place like this."

"When you get used to it, you will find that the underground kingdom is very small."

"I shouldn't have let you grow up in a place like this"

"If you really want to leave, I won't stop you."

"But if you leave..."

"Please don't come back, I hope you understand"

The BGM suddenly became soft and gentle.

When she saw the picture, the sheep mother knelt down and hugged the player gently, and got out of the way.

The audience quietly let out a sigh of relief.

In the judges' seat, some people's eyes flickered.

It may be the best choice to bid farewell to Mother Yang in a peaceful way.

"It's great, she forgot everything we did before." Someone sighed softly.

And just after the player passed through a door in front of him and walked through the narrow and dark tunnel.

The little flower that was initially mistaken for a 'novice guide' popped up again.

It had a ferocious expression, but what it said sent chills down the spine of all the audience.

"You really think you're smart, don't you?

In this world, to kill is to be killed
Do you really think you forgave her?
I know what you did.

You killed her.

Then you go back because you regretted it.

Hahahahaha..."

Xiaohua on the screen smiled wildly.

"What's the situation???" Some viewers couldn't help but exclaimed.

"How does it know?"

"The setting of this game... is not as simple as the turn-based system shown on the display!"

"It's amazing! This is a game element that I have never seen before. This little flower seems to break the fourth wall. It's not even talking to the main character in the game."

"I feel like it's talking to me through the screen! Damn!"

"My God... What kind of novel design technique is this? Can the game still do this?"

Facing the shock of countless players on the scene.

On the screen, the game is still going on.

After the player reaches the second level, there is a small town covered with snow.

This place is called 'Snow Town' by underground monsters

Along the way, the player encounters the Skeleton Brothers, the guards of the Underworld Kingdom.

Shanth, the older brother in a blue coat, recognized the player as a human at the first sight.

But it's not like the sheep mother said, this lazy-looking skeleton doesn't seem to have any interest in arresting humans.

He's just asking the player to do him a small favor.

"Just pretend to be caught by my brother, okay? He's not bad, he just wants to prove that he has the ability to be a royal guard, that's his dream."

The player agreed hesitantly.

But I still remember what the mother of sheep said.

This underground world is very dangerous.

With some vigilance.

The player finally meets the younger brother Shanth described.

Papyrus, who looks fierce and tall, is wearing a heavy armor.

The first time he saw a human being, he yelled, "Absolutely capture the human being and dedicate it to King Asgore".

But under actual contact.

The audience found out.

This seemingly fierce skeleton guard showed great joy.

There is no problem even with Erha attributes.

It shouts to catch humans and prove itself to be the greatest royal guard under the earth.

But in fact, the wooden piles of the bridge trap built have very large gaps and openings, which cannot block the player's way at all.

Even if the player is really delivered to it, it only needs to stretch out the arm to catch the player.

It took two steps back hesitantly.

Then show that he is a principled skeleton knight.

Fight if you don't want to meet.

"I, the great Papyrus, will prevent you from leaving the ground with my own hands!"

"I'm going to beat you down with my clever puzzles and catch you!!!"

"I'm going to set the trap now, just wait, you will be captured by the great Papyrus!"

Just when all the audience thought that a fierce battle was about to usher in.

Accidents happen frequently.

It lays out an electrified field, and it is covered with white snow, no traces can be seen.

It tells the player that there is only one way to pass through this snow field unscathed, and all other ways will be paralyzed by the powerful electric current.

But because of some minor circumstances, it walked through the snow and left footprints.

When the player passes through its footprints without incident, it will express its surprise.

"Sure enough, a human with a powerful soul!"

Or a very difficult maze is arranged under the player's only path, and the rules of the game are too cumbersome to remember.

In the end, due to a machine failure, the maze turned into a straight line.

Many seemingly well-arranged traps can always allow players to pass through easily due to some accidents.

It is also worried about the player's lack of energy, so it cooks its specialty 'frozen pasta' for the player to eat.

In addition to interacting, the Skeleton Brothers always tell some very cold jokes.

Even though the elder brother Sans' jokes were not funny, the younger brother laughed.

The rhythm of the game seems to be relaxed and relaxed.

In Snow Town, players encounter more and more monsters.

But they found that they had no intention of attacking the player at all.

In small towns, players can go to bars to drink, or to stay in hotels.

Even when archiving.

The dialog boxes that pop up all remind this piece of beauty.

【This town looks so friendly, it fills you with determination! 】

With such a pair of living treasure brothers, friendly native monster residents.

The corners of the mouths of countless viewers watching the live broadcast continued to rise.

"I can feel the happiness brought by peace all the time. If the mother sheep had been killed just now, I'm afraid everything will be different now." Some audience members exchanged opinions in low voices.

When the process of the second level comes to an end.

Papyrus came in a hurry and blocked the player's way.

As the bottom boss of the second level.

But because the player chose a completely peaceful route.

Therefore, Papyrus does not fight the player.

Instead, it launched an alternative way of interaction.

flirt.

A human of unknown gender, and a skeleton of unknown gender.

But started a date.

It feels very weird and funny.

Under the special flirting mechanism, Papyrus seems to be a person who can easily conduct self-strategy.

No matter what the player chooses, it will automatically imagine that the protagonist manipulated by the player has a crush on him-the great Papyrus!

After breaking through this hurdle.

The player will come to a land of waterfalls.

The bottom boss here is a fish monster named Andine.

She is the captain of the Royal Guard of the Underworld.

She is also full of determination.

On behalf of King Asgore, every human being who might pass by was searched closely, and their souls were handed over.

After a series of twists and turns, the player finally confronts her head-on.

Her strength is indeed very strong, the barrage attack is like a gust of wind and rain, and the feeling of oppression is so strong that it is almost breathless.

Also, the player's kindness doesn't seem to have any effect on her.

No matter how benevolent she was, she kept a cold and heartless face and attacked the players time and time again.

"Damn, does this monster have to be killed to survive?"

"I feel like she is the king's loyal puppet, why don't you try to kill her?"

Just when the audience was whispering about the countermeasures.

suddenly.

The escape button, which had been dimmed all the time, became brighter, shining with a bright golden luster.

You know, all the BOSS battles before this.

Either Mother Goat, or Papyrus.

In the middle of the battle, it is absolutely not allowed to escape.

But when faced with such a ruthless king's loyal guard.

The escape button is highlighted?

Try clicking a bit.

I can really escape!

But just two steps away, the player was caught again on the spot by Sister Yu who quickly caught up.

Get into a tough fight again.

Due to the choice of the peace line, the player cannot attack, but can only be beaten, beaten, and beaten.

Wait until after a dozen rounds.

The escape button is highlighted again.

After repeating back and forth three times.

Finally, the player came to a hot area like a magma world.

Andyne, who was a fish monster, naturally couldn't stand the high temperature here.

Her fine armor became a hindrance instead.

She fell to the ground due to the high temperature and lack of water.

"Throw it away, the old thief Chu deliberately put a water dispenser next to it." The sharp-eyed audience saw a water dispenser that didn't fit the occasion in the upper right corner of the screen.

"This cliff is intentional! If you don't take the peaceful line, but kill monsters all the way to get here, the player's heart may have to endure another torment."

"I don't think there's anything to suffer about. Before, Mama Yang did it because she couldn't bear to hurt us, but this Goba Yujing has been chasing us and beating us. It doesn't hurt to kill her."

"How about a different way of thinking? Why can't other BOSS stations escape, but you can escape over and over again when you come to her?"

"You mean, she is putting water on purpose? Wipe!"

"Speaking of which, none of the monsters encountered in the underground world seem to be sorry for the protagonist." Some viewers responded.

Whether it is the sheep mother I met at the beginning.

Or the skeleton brother I met later.

And now to Andyne.

They all release water to varying degrees.

Obviously, all you need to do is defeat humans and take away their souls, and then you can go out from the underground world.

But why...

Right now, there is not much time left for the audience to think.

As the protagonist enters the hot zone.

It also means that the last level of the game is coming.

The protagonist is getting closer and closer to the exit to return to the ground.

In Heatland lives a monster scientist, Ephesus.

She is the only scientist in the entire underground world, and possesses a powerful scientific and technological power comparable to that of humans.

She even developed an intelligent humanoid robot MTT.

It's just that this machine seems to be a little disobedient.

It will not obey the orders of its own developer, Ephesus.

It wants to kill the player.

But the way of killing is also very special.

It chooses riddles to test the protagonist.

If you can't answer, you will be judged by death.

In this process.

Scientist Ephesus has been hiding by the side and telling the player the answer with hand gestures.

Between the correct answers she gave every time, the player answered all the questions perfectly.

And escaped from the capture of MTT.

But by mistake, he broke into a dark room called [Real Laboratory].

In this game plot line that is almost full of warmth throughout the story, only this laboratory makes the audience feel uncomfortable.

The dark tones, the slightly weird background music, and the ghosts and ghosts that appear from time to time are all interpreted to the players without exception.

This is a different place.

By surveying the entire laboratory.

The player learns part of the truth of the matter.

King Asgar once commissioned Ephesus to conduct research on the soul.

Research has found that the human soul continues to survive after death.

Because there is a substance called 'determination' in the human soul.

Determination is the power that can reverse death.

But monsters have no determination in their souls, so their souls disappear after death.

Ephesus has done a lot of research on soul and determination in the laboratory.

She extracted the souls of many monsters and infused them and some objects with determination.

But her experiment was not successful.

She even made the souls of some monsters weird and terrifying, and some monsters even went berserk, attacking the monster's own family and friends.

These hell-like monsters are obviously the failed products of the experiment.

Ephesus has no face to face the family and friends of the monster conducting the experiment.

She chose to escape and locked all the research results in this [real laboratory].

And didn't tell anyone.

Almost the entire underground kingdom including the king.

No one understands what happened in this laboratory.

Except for one monster.

Sans, the older brother of the Skeleton Brothers.

Before that, he was also a member of the laboratory.

same.

He also represents the judge of the underground kingdom.

When the protagonist passes through the hot zone and is about to arrive at King Asgore's palace.

He stopped in front of the protagonist again.

(End of this chapter)