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Chapter 198 Walking with Madness (four thousand chapters)

Zhou Ze secretly wrote down the edge of the fog, this information alone was worth the cigar he consumed.

Let Kress ask the second question: "Are the lunatics inside difficult?"

"It's difficult to deal with. After all, they are a group of lunatics who are not afraid of death and can't guess. You have no idea what they want to do. Those ghouls wandering in the wilderness can at least know that they attack people for eating meat. , but a madman, huh, has no reason to do anything, and is more of a monster than a monster."

The gangster's face showed a trace of displeasure and fear hidden deep in his eyes: "Fortunately, the physiques of those madmen and monsters are not comparable. At most, their behavior is more scary, and they can be killed with just a few bullets."

"Since these lunatics are so dangerous, why don't you kill them all, but send someone here to guard them?"

This group of gangsters are desperate people who kill without blinking an eye, so they don't dare to kill a group of lunatics. No matter how many people there are, under the suppression of firepower, it's just a few more sprints with their rifles.

"If you want to survive, don't ask nonsense, this is the order of the boss."

The gang didn't say much more about it.

last question.

"I'm going in to find something. How many cigarettes would it take to hire you as a thug?"

"You're going to the bank to look for things? Don't get my idea, I won't go in and find myself uncomfortable, and I won't smoke as many cigarettes as I want."

The gangster took a look at him: "If you want to go in and die, you are welcome, but remember not to lure those lunatics out, otherwise... I will let you know what life is better than death." Yang Yang held the rifle in his arms as a threat.

After saying this, the gangster also just finished smoking the cigar in his hand, and stopped greeting Kles.

Enter the dimly lit Bank of Azka.

Er Gouzi held the shotgun in his arms a little nervously, and a dialog popped up above his head: "Compared with a bank, this place feels more like a madhouse in a horror game. I used to be most afraid of playing escape games."

Oh well, this guy's metaphor is quite accurate. As a hardcore player, Zhou Ze can naturally get this point.

But their gameplay and escape are different.

There is only a camera for escape, and if you are caught, you will die. The sense of powerlessness creates the deepest fear.

The three Kresses not only have guns but also magic. If they actually meet and fight with those lunatics, they may not win. A horror game that can resist is not scary at all. It is called a survival game!
Walking along the dusty and dead corridor towards the depths of the bank, the sound echoed from time to time that hysterical laughter and sorrowful crying echoed somewhere in the bank... If you close your eyes, you may mistakenly think that you are in hell.

It wasn't long before I walked into the bank.

The three of Kress saw a figure standing quietly in front of them.

It was a man in a fashionable beige suit. He had blond hair and a big oily head. He looked surprisingly decent. He was out of place with this dim ruined bank. He didn't look like a lunatic at all from his appearance.

He stood behind the bank's cash counter like a business clerk, anxiously waiting for something, and started talking enthusiastically as soon as he saw Cress approaching.

"Hello, sir! Can I help? As you can see, business has been busy today. It looks like Azka is finally going to flourish... It's really satisfying to see the town's growing prosperity." People are happy, aren't they?"

Sure enough, no matter how normal he looked on the outside, he was actually a lunatic.

"I don't think it's so prosperous, it's already in ruins, isn't it?"

Cleese looked at the man warily.

"Oh, don't you agree? But we all have a right to our opinions, don't we? That's why our country is so, so..."

His words were suddenly interrupted, and he froze in place, not even blinking, looking like a living sculpture.

Just when Kress raised the rifle in his arms and pointed it at him, the insane lunatic suddenly grinned a strange smile: "Some people... are born with certain transferable rights given by the Creator!"

"Every one of us is playing this game, sir! This game of madness, misery, despair, distortion, shit and piss! Hey hey hey!"

After all, the lunatic in suit and leather shoes suddenly jumped up, so fast that even Kleis, who was wearing a night dress, didn't realize it. The lunatic snatched the most precious family aristocratic medal from his chest.

"Here are your papers, sir."

The lunatic grinned, threw down a piece of paper, and ran swiftly across the road.

At this time, Kress and others discovered that this madman was only wearing a decent and neat suit on his upper body, but he was wearing nothing on his lower body!His legs were even stained with dirty feces and urine, and the ridiculous contrast between his upper and lower clothes made him look even crazier and more twisted.

Before Kles could chase after the lunatic who had robbed him of his family heirloom, six unkempt lunatics rushed out from under the counters and surrounded the three of them, blocking Kles' pursuit.

"This group of lunatics really... unexpectedly still ambushes?"

Seeing that the game is forced to enter a turn-based battle, Zhou Ze is not at all worried that Kles and others will be in danger.

These unarmed lunatics can only pick up stones and iron railings in the ruins as weapons, while the three of Krys not only have firearms but also magic. With such a large difference in force, is there a fart to be afraid of?

He was more concerned about what the madman meant by 'game'.

Is it crazy talk, or is it pointing?
As soon as the battle started, Krys, who was wearing the night dress, reacted first.

Zhou Ze asked him to point the gun at the nearest lunatic and pull the trigger. The tongue of the rifle spewed out flames, and the sound of the gunshot echoed throughout the empty ruins of the bank, deafening.

Just as the lunatic was smashed into a sieve by five or six bullets and fell to the ground, several lunatics next to him made strange and piercing screams.

The sound was so loud that it even suppressed the gunfire, and it echoed in the ruins, making people uneasy.

Kress's mental value dropped visibly to the naked eye, while Ergouzi's mental value dropped by nearly half. Only Aka, who seemed to have seen a lot of strong winds, was not affected at all.

At the critical moment of the battle, Er Gouzi held the gun but froze on the spot without the first reaction to pull the trigger, as if he had been frightened silly by the screams of the lunatics.

It was Akka's turn to attack.

Zhou Ze found that he had no way to control the actions of these temporary teammates. He could only watch them play on their own. All he could do was manipulate the protagonist to give orders in advance on the battlefield, whether to retreat, defend or attack with all his strength...

A-Ka chanted unintelligible cumbersome spells, waved his hands, and spit out a ball of green pus from his mouth to shoot at the lunatic closest to him.

The lunatic who was hit by the green pus fell to the ground with a howl, and half of his body was melted.

"Why is this trick so similar to Amishus's trick of melting me back then?"

Seeing this scene, the corners of Zhou Ze's mouth twitched. Although it cannot be said to be exactly the same, the form and effect are very similar.

"Rite of Cthulhu" On the cruise ship, he was forcibly immobilized because he had several conversations with Amishus, and in the end every time he died, he was corroded into a pool of blood by the other party with a green liquid. That scene is still fresh in my memory .

But the power of the pus released by Amishus is obviously greater than that of Aka, and there is no need to chant any spells or rituals.

Zhou Ze suspects that the two may be the same kind of sorcery, and it is also possible that Aka is the same type of existence as Amishus... After all, they both have immortality and many similar abilities, and even their names are subtly similar .

The round of attack of the protagonist group ends.

It was the turn of the remaining four lunatics.

One of the madmen threw a random stone and hit Er Gouzi on the head accurately, causing his head to break and bleed, and the blood bar dropped by less than half. The other madmen seemed to be looking for soft persimmons, and they all moved to Er Gouzi. Gouzi attacked.

Just when Zhou Ze thought Er Gouzi was going to die in the first battle.

A lunatic smashed the fragments of the mirror at his companion, who was facing away from him, and shouted hysterically, "I'm trying to free you! Die! Ahaha! Hee hee..."

The other lunatic did not dare to show weakness and fought back.

The two lunatics fought together in such a mindless and inexplicable manner that they stopped attacking Er Gouzi.

When the other madman saw this scene, he just held his head and cried on the spot, motionless and showing no tendency to attack.

"I'm a good boy, it's crazy."

Zhou Ze in front of the screen was dumbfounded, what kind of battle is this?It's almost like a farce.

Taking advantage of the infighting between these lunatics, Er Gouzi recovered from his stupor, clutching his bleeding head and subconsciously wanted to escape, not to mention using his awakening ability, even holding the I forgot to open the shotgun.

Really, he has no fighting ability at all.

However, being a shield to attract the enemy's firepower is still worthwhile. If the stone didn't hit him, it might hit Kleis or Aka's head, which can be regarded as blocking a wave of damage in disguise.

In the second round, since these lunatics were not threatening to kill each other, Zhou Ze chose to let Kleis save bullets, drew a machete from his waist, rushed forward and hacked one of the lunatics to death in the scuffle.

Aka cooperated tacitly and spit out a mouthful of dark green pus again to deal with the other lunatic.

There was only one lunatic picking up rocks and another crying lunatic crouching in defense.

Seeing that the number of enemies and friends on the field was superior, Er Gouzi also recovered some reason from the fear. He picked up the shotgun and angrily shot at the lunatic who had just thrown a stone at him, pulled the trigger, and blasted the opponent into a hornet's nest.

The remaining weeping maniac jumped up and ran away without waiting for Kleis and others to make a move.

Only five miserable corpses were left at the scene.

"Almost thought I was going to die."

At the end of the battle, Er Gouzi muttered to himself in shock, took out a bandage and hemostatic medicine from his backpack and used it for himself, and his sanity value dropped slightly because he saw the corpses all over the ground.

Even if this guy has fought with others in reality, he has never really seen blood in all likelihood, let alone a life-and-death fight. As an awakened person without any combat experience, Zhou Ze doesn't intend to demand more from him. It's not bad if you can come back to your senses and shoot the enemy in the end.

A-Ka looked calm, showing no emotional fluctuations towards the corpse on the ground.

Manipulate Krys to walk in front of five corpses to interact.

Touching the corpse is a necessary action after the battle is won.

Most rpg games omit this step, and directly distribute rewards to the players after victory, but the big world game obviously does not do this kind of cut and cut, each step requires players to explore by themselves.

These five lunatics didn't have many valuable things on them. Apart from a dozen cigarettes, there were only some sundries and three broken keys of different shapes.

These three keys can be sold to the old man in the antique shop, but judging from their quality, they probably won't fetch much.

Fighting monsters in "Old Exile" is really thankless, and there is almost no profit. The things you scavenge can't even make up for the ten wasted bullets, and the protagonist and others have no experience gain from fighting monsters.

"As expected, we still have to avoid fighting as much as possible."

If there is only Kress alone, Zhou Ze can give him the illusory mask again, allowing him to sneak into the depths of the bank to find the vault.

But the problem is that there are two other people in the team who can't hide, so we can't let Kleis leave the two of them to explore alone. If there is some kind of forced battle inside that he can't sneak through, wouldn't Krys die alone? up.

It doesn't matter how difficult it is, the key is not to damage the archive.

The archive of the big world game is more precious than time.

"This is... the document that the lunatic threw down just now?"

Kress picked up this piece of paper on the ground. The font on the paper was so distorted that it looked like it was drawn by a chicken paw.

There are only a few lines on the paper.

'The curse of madness, the future of fog. '

'The dream of all living beings sinks and creates a lost city. '

'The interweaving of dreams and dreams has turned into countless towns that exist between reality and fantasy. '

'If you want to get rid of madness, you must be with it. '

"Swinging a sharp-edged bullet, slaughtering the infinite self, you can leave the illusion and return to reality..."

Five lines of characters, connected together, is like a poem.

The first sentence is easy to understand.

The curse of madness should refer to the curse of the Krys family. The foggy future may mean that under the control of the world game, Krys' future is uncertain, full of unknowns like a fog.

Zhou Ze suspected that if he came here with a different game character, the first sentence of the document given to him by the maniac in the suit would change.

The second and third sentences seem to contain important information.

"Sentient beings, perdition, dreams, creation, lost city..."

Zhou Ze repeatedly chanted the five key points he extracted.

Does this mean that the lost city is a dream?Or is it some kind of metaphor, implying that the residents have a deep connection with the city, and even the residents gave birth to the Lost City?
Try to figure out the deep meaning of this sentence.

Zhou Ze thought more and more, and felt that this document was not simple.

It would be great if we could catch the lunatic in the suit just now and extract information from him.

The fourth and fifth sentences also seem to need to be read together.

The words are simple but not easy to understand.

If it is understood literally, it is nothing more than letting him go crazy to carry out the massacre... But the strange thing is, the target of the massacre is himself?

　Yesterday, there was feedback from readers that I hope the content of one chapter can be longer, but now there are too few subscribers. I mainly focus on full-time attendance, and I can stably write more than 4000 words a day... So, try to combine the two chapters into one chapter?
　　If there are more subscriptions, I will add more.

　　
　
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