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Chapter 202 Intermittent Curse

There are many international news worthy of attention, most of which are related to elements such as the old days, cults, awakened people, and supernatural phenomena.

Zhou Ze took a quick look and found that there wasn't much content related to his actual interests.

He can be said to be truly living alone in the world now, except for playing games and practicing, he does not move at all, no matter how chaotic the world is, it is unlikely to mess with him, unless someone can find the humble Sumeru Stone...

With the increasing number of supernatural disasters, many trolls on the Internet who cannot see the reality have questioned why the "Wheel of Fortune" organization has not been around to rescue people in distress during this period. Except for the mysterious knight appearing more frequently, this organization has not been seen at all. other traces of.

Even the mysterious knight disappeared after the incident on the cruise ship, and there was no further news.

There are even prayers and appeals for the "Wheel of Fortune" organization and mysterious knights to take more action on various online platforms, and the so-called "with great power comes great responsibility"...

Link ability and responsibility?
Zhou Ze naturally also has a sense of responsibility in his heart, otherwise he would not demand perfection in every game and try to achieve zero casualties. This is not just for the sake of scoring.

However, it would be wrong to use responsibility to kidnap him morally.

He believes that the responsibility is limited to what is visible and within his capabilities... For example, he will try his best to save people who can be saved in the game, and he will try his best to save people he happens to meet in reality.

However, they will not rush around to save people like the superheroes in comics.

He is not a saint.

The world is so big that people die in invisible corners every day. He can't save everyone, and he never thought of saving everyone.

The place that cannot be touched by hand is far away.

To put it simply... Zhou Ze's philosophy is to be out of sight, out of mind, and save people if they can. If they really can't, forget about it. As long as you can live up to your conscience, you won't get paid for being a saint.

If World Games set up an achievement system for him, giving him a merit for every life he saves, he would definitely put on his underwear immediately and run around to become a superhero to save the world.

Saving lives is only the most superficial and superficial contribution.

In fact, little is known about his covert efforts.

Formally, he seems to just stay at home and play games.

In fact...he did stay at home and play games.

But only clearing this big world game called "Old Exile" is the only way to solve the old ruler and the cults influenced by his spirit, and eliminate the problem from the root cause, the real merit is immeasurable!Isn't it better than running around to save people?

You can't lose watermelon just because you pick up sesame seeds when doing things.

Moved the Sumeru Stone, Zhou Ze went home to continue the liver game.

"Go to the poisonous fog street mentioned in the note to restore the mirror fragments. Anyway, the first save is used to explore the way. It is beyond expectation to be able to play here in one go."

No more wasting brainpower trying to analyze the deep meaning of these words on the note.

Temporarily understanding the shallow meaning is enough, and the rest is left to the protagonist to try and make mistakes.

After taking the note and the fragments of the mirror, Kress sneaked back to the two temporary teammates and shared the information on the note with the two companions to see if they knew anything about the poisonous fog street and the mirror. clue.

Ergouzi didn't respond and knew nothing about it.

A series of ellipses popped up above Aka's head.

Let Kress interact with it.

[Option ①: Do you know where the poisonous fog street is? 】

[Option ②: What is the special history of the old house on Poisonous Mist Street?And this mirror. 】

【Option ③: Is this lost city real or unreal?Is all this really just a simple nightmare?A nightmare that lasted five years?Hundreds of people living this same nightmare?So, where did the dead people go?Are you awake or completely dead? 】

[Option ④: Needless to say, I want to be quiet for a while, let's go. 】

From the first three options, it is easy to see that Kress’ mind is already filled with a mountain of questions.

As the protagonist who has personally experienced all these weird puzzles, his curiosity and desire for the answers are far more urgent than Zhou Ze who is outside the screen and manipulates the whole situation from the perspective of God. After all, it is a matter of life and death.

Ask in order.

After Aka finished reading the note, he did not answer Cleese's question immediately. His expression obviously changed slightly, even if it was hidden under the bandage, it was not difficult to detect. His eyes were slightly dull for a short while.

Aka said: "Where did you find this note? Are there any other clues?"

"Found in a hidden safe in an office."

Kles took out the diary paper he picked up from under the statue from his pocket: "Apart from the note and the fragments of the mirror, there are only a few pieces of diary paper, oh yes, there is also a holy artifact called the Coin of Truth , These things seem to come from the hands of a mysterious person."

"The Coin of Truth?"

A-Ka took the diary paper, quickly browsed through the content on it, and stretched out a bandaged hand to Kles: "Can you lend me a look at the sacred artifact you found?"

[Give him], [No way]

Two options pop up.

"Could it be that Aka has seen this holy artifact?"

Through Aka's series of abnormal actions, Zhou Ze subconsciously guessed.

Ask Clais to hand the Coin of Truth to Akka.

The other party held the coin of truth and tossed it hard.

In the next moment, a dark green halo gushed out from directly above its forehead, quickly covering the gold coin, abruptly stopping the spinning gold coin in mid-air, as if time and space had stopped.

The dark green halo and the coin of truth clicked, as if the halo was exerting pressure to destroy the gold coin, but the gold coin was unbreakable.

boom!
Suddenly, the dark green halo burst, and the gold coin fell to the ground naturally again under the gravitational force.

The fallen gold coin shows the facade of the engraved Azka Bank.

"Sure enough..." Aka looked solemn: "This is a sacred artifact made by Amitheus, and it contains its power."

"Amitheus!?"

Kress was also startled when he heard this name.

Although the protagonist of the game does not have a God's perspective like Zhou Ze off-screen, and does not know much information, he has dealt with Amicius two or three times and knows that this person is a mysterious person. A powerful presence.

Seeing Kress's reaction, Aka asked doubtfully: "Do you know Ametheus?"

"Let's get acquainted."

Kles pondered: "It said something to me five years ago before the catastrophe came, and it appeared in my dream the night before, guiding me to find the key to open the safe, and yesterday, I heard him on the radio saying that the world... hiss!?"

Just halfway through speaking, Kress covered his head and suddenly curled up, wailing in pain.

His movements became stiff and depressed, as if he was suppressing some impulse.

The mental value at the top of the screen also declined rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, until it disappeared for nearly half of it before stopping, and there was also a negative state of intermittent curse attacks.

"Did Cleese have a headache just now because he said something he shouldn't have said? Just like Aka did yesterday, he was punished by some kind of restrictive force."

Zhou Ze wasn't surprised by Kleis's headache, this kind of plot development was within his expectation.

However, it was the negative state of the indirect curse that made him quite troubled.

Don't forget that Cress's character is a declining aristocrat whose family has been cursed. The curse he carries will cause him to fall into a paranoid and violent state of madness little by little when he is emotionally excited or in a bad mental state.

The headache punishment just now seems to have triggered a family curse.

[Cress becomes suspicious, Cress falls into paranoia, Cress goes crazy and loses control...]

A series of blood-red prompt boxes popped up on the screen, faded in and out, and quickly dissipated.

Kress, who fell into madness due to the mysterious curse, had red eyes. He pulled out the machete from his waist and slashed at Ergouzi beside him. The unsuspecting Ergouzi was caught off guard and his abdomen was slashed. There was a bloody cut, fortunately there was a down jacket blocking the distance, the depth of the wound was not very deep, the bloody down splashed...

"Ah! Big, big brother, what are you doing?"

Er Gouzi clutched his stomach in pain and took a few steps back, then sat down on the ground, looking at the maddened Kleiss in astonishment and horror.

"Blood Curse?"

Aka took the initiative to stay away from Cleese when he huddled up with a headache.

This mysterious creature seemed to have sensed the source of his madness through the mysterious power overflowing from Krys, and without hesitation took a handful of white powder from the small cloth bag on his waist and swayed towards him.

Fine white powder is flying all over the sky.

When the powder was about to touch Kles, it landed on an invisible mass first.

The position of this group of tentacles is right above Kles' head, almost covering the top of his head, and it is invisible to the naked eye. Only under the cover of powder can one vaguely see its outline... The tentacles are as thick as a finger. of creeping tentacles?
His madness was probably caused by these invisible tentacles of mysterious origin.

A-Ka's bandaged hand condensed a purple-red halo, and before Kles made the next move due to madness, the purple light ball hit the tentacles on top of his head.

laugh! !

The purple-red light group came into contact with the invisible tentacles, making a fierce sound like a soldering iron meeting water.

When the invisible tentacles were melted by the light ball, Kress also raised his head and let out an uncontrollable howl and scream, as if he had endured great pain. Cold sweat left his head and wet his face, and he collapsed to the ground gasping for air.

"I-what did I do...damn...damn curse!"

After regaining consciousness, Kress looked at the bloody machete in his hand, clenched his fists, and hit his head hard.

"You have a blood curse from a certain old family of gods. The other party's hidden personality is too high. I can't completely eradicate the curse left behind. I can only help you recover when it happens."

Seeing that Kles regained consciousness, Aka took a few steps forward, but still kept a proper distance from him.

"The family of the old gods?"

Kress frowned, but didn't bother to continue asking.

He hesitated for a moment, put the bloody machete back into its sheath, and went to check Ergouzi's injuries.

"Are you okay? Sorry, I was cursed by some unknown force just now, and I was out of control."

"Brother didn't take you to play like this, suddenly stabbing a knife in the back... I feel like I'm going to die, it hurts like hell, hiss."

Er Gouzi, who was paralyzed on the ground, didn't dare to move, for fear of tearing the wound, he lay flat on the ground like a dead dog and grinned: "Please give me a painkiller, it's too terrible, I feel like I'm going to be killed if this continues." Passionate."

【Did you consume a dose of morphine injection to relieve the pain of your temporary teammate Xun Zi? 】

[Would you like to consume a first aid kit to treat temporary teammate Xunzi? 】

"Good guy, can you still choose not to save?"

I thought it would go through the cg directly here, but I didn't expect that the option popped up.

It is indeed a game with a twisted and dark style... showing the deepest gloom of human nature and reality.

If I choose not to save him, will Ergouzi die here?

Apart from other things, there are really many benefits to giving up saving teammates.

Not only does it mean that a few precious medicines and medical tools can be saved, but it also means that the position of Kleiss' temporary teammate is vacant. Without this scumbag teammate, he can find a new powerful teammate.

The mobile phone was sold, and my belongings were almost emptied.

It can be said that Ergouzi's value as a tool man has been squeezed out.

"Isn't this a typical killing of a donkey? It always feels a bit inhumane, and this time it was Kress who accidentally injured him. If we let him die at this time, it would be too disdainful of the protagonist's character."

If it were a real game, maybe stripping off weak teammates and letting them die would be the option to maximize profits. Many hardcore players would choose to do this.

But reality is not a game.

In addition to interests, there are many other factors to consider.

Not to mention whether Kleis, whose personality tends to be humanistic, is willing to do so, and Aka, who is also a temporary teammate, may feel grudges and stop cooperating with him after seeing the protagonist abandon his teammates.

One more thing, Zhou Ze doesn't want to train Kress to be a cold-blooded villain who betrays his teammates and is purely self-interested. In the near future, this protagonist will become his first subordinate. Naturally, the more reliable the character, the better!

He chose rescue without hesitation.

I hope that Er Gouzi will perform better in the future, and don't waste his morphine injection and first aid kit.

The screen turns.

Kles performed a simple suture, disinfection and bandage on Er Gouzi who was injected with morphine, and took the initiative to help him leave Azka Bank and return to the bar.

Zhou Ze also did not forget to give Ergouzi these three holy weapons that can speed up the recovery of injuries, prevent bleeding, and speed up the recovery of spirit, so that he can recover from the double damage to his mind and body as soon as possible.

Let Er Gouzi recuperate in the attic of the bar.

Claes and Aka continued the unfinished conversation at the bank.

"Amytheus told me on the radio, I'm afraid I can't repeat it to you..."

As soon as this matter was mentioned, Kles covered his forehead with lingering fear, and dared not talk further: "What's your relationship with Amishus? That mysterious existence seems to have been trying to lead me to escape from here."

"It led you to escape from the Lost City? Ha, I don't really believe it."

The corners of Aka's mouth twitched under the bandage, and he sneered:
"The connection between the Lost City and Amysius is inseparable. It can even be said that every soul in the Lost City is the source of its power... How could it actively bleed to weaken itself? What good does this do to it? "

　From tomorrow onwards, the update frequency of two chapters and 2K chapters per day will be resumed.

　　
　
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