The Trial Game of Life

Soon, Buzz also entered the secret room and saw everything surprising in the secret room.He couldn't help but think of what the magician said about him being dead, his face turned pale and his legs trembled.

"Xi, Theodore, what is going on here?"

When Tang Cuo was in the Moon Hidden Kingdom, he read almost all the magic books in the school library, combined with what he had seen after coming to the Principality of Faran, and said, "Buzz, you have heard of the Necromancer of the Locke Kingdom. ?"

Baz shook his head subconsciously, then remembered something, and said, "I know! I heard from other bards and traveling merchants that they always deal with corpses, and they can also manipulate undead, and they don't see light all year round. It's scary."

As he spoke, he realized something, and took a step back, "Is this the laboratory of those necromancers?"

Tang Cuo shook his head.

This is not necessarily the case, the magic of the Rose Sect has its own style, but it does not break out of the conventional category.And there are factors of the Well of Time in it, this will not be pure necromancer magic.

Tang Cuo walked to the edge of an iron cage, drew his sword and cut a hole in the corpse's arm.This corpse was relatively well preserved, his face was not too pale, and it hadn't started to rot yet. More importantly, he was still bleeding.

The blood was warm, with the familiar smell of the Well of Time.

He then returned to the high platform and looked at Lisa's body carefully.Lisa was undoubtedly the most living of all the corpses, and there was even a hint of rosiness on her face.

Reaching out to touch it, the body is still warm.Tang Cuo did the same, and once again sensed the breath of the Well of Time from her.

What does this mean?

If Buzz was like them, then he was the only one who managed to come back to life and behave like ordinary people. As a successful example, it is easy to understand that the Rosary sect wants to catch him.

The immortal king bestows eternal life, which should be the belief of the Rose sect.

The rebel Aesop is not the purest believer, he rebelled halfway, and his beliefs should not be pure, but it was such a rebel who successfully resurrected Baz.

Then the group of red priests are the so-called most loyal and fanatical believers. They have differences with Aesop, and it is easy to understand.Tang Cuo carefully assumed the other party's role to figure out their psychology, and felt that maybe for them, the power of the immortal king in the world was held by whoever owned Baz.

Eternal life, that is the forbidden zone of the gods.

In the final analysis, necromantic magic is just manipulating the undead. From the lowest bones to rotting corpses to liches, none of them are truly alive.

Buzz is so successful by comparison that he doesn't even know he's dead.

"Kuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu like the half-human "zombies" who are not ghosts are still putting on the iron cage, and the rotten flesh on the face is falling down, even with saliva.

Lisa is still alive, but there is no sign of waking up.In the side mission, her painting was not completed, and Tang Cuo felt that she would not be able to wake up.

From that letter, it can be seen that Pastor Peter has relatively close contact with her, and he may have high hopes for Lisa.But Lisa said in the letter-maybe the rose can fulfill Peter's wish, but she doesn't have to.

She doesn't want to live.

What is Peter's wish?Is it to create a kingdom without death?

Tang Cuo was meditating, but Baz was already terrified, and tried his best not to run away, "Theodore, will I also become like them? I, I just got sick, I didn't die ,Is it right?"

He looked at Tang Cuo pleadingly, but Tang Cuo couldn't deceive him.The lie will be exposed sooner or later. Buzz has reached this fateful fork in the road, and he must go on.

In Tang Cuo's silence, Baz's mentality collapsed a little bit.Tang Cuo looked at him in despair and helplessness, squatting on the ground with his head in his arms, almost crying bitterly, and finally couldn't help but said: "Buzz, you are still my friend and Lancelot."

Buzz looked up sharply, "Really?"

Just as Tang Cuo was about to answer, he suddenly caught a glimpse of another passage on the wall of the secret room, just behind him.He became alert for a moment, and turned his head—to face to face with several people rushing out of the passage.

"Stand back." Tang Cuo told Baz in a cold voice, and hit him without saying a word.

The other party was also very surprised, as if he did not expect that there would be a stranger standing in the secret room.But soon they came to their senses, and then swept over Buzz who was crouching on the ground, and there was still something they didn't understand.

"This is the real Buzz!" one person shouted, while the others rushed forward.Some people wondered about the people who stayed here, but Tang Cuo's sword didn't give them much time to think, they could only curse while beating——

"That damned blasphemer!"

Tang Cuo didn't know who they were scolding, but he also knew that Jin Cheng should have cooperated with him, otherwise the obstacles he encountered would not be so small.

The two sides fought more and more fiercely.

The opponent had a large number of people, and Tang Cuo relied on the sword of judgment and the shield of the holy light, and he was a bit like a man in charge, but he had to protect Buzz, so there were a lot of constraints.

Just at this moment, there was a sudden tremor above the secret room.

"What's going on?!" Someone exclaimed.

Tang Cuo didn't care at all, while they were attracted by the strange shape above their heads, he rushed into the enemy's formation like lightning, and took away one person in an instant with a silver light from his sword.

"Boom!" The vibration intensified again, like an earthquake, causing everyone to stagger.Tang Cuo withdrew and retreated, looked up and glanced, deepening his guess again.

They must be right under the church, what happened in the church?

Could it be Jin Cheng?

"It's going to collapse!"

"Hide away!!!"

Amidst the exclamation, cracks suddenly appeared on the top of the secret room, and dust and sand and gravel fell down, fascinating everyone's sight.The fighting was forced to stop, and Tang Cuo immediately led Buzz back into the passage.

Before leaving, he looked back at the high platform again.Lisa's body was still lying there, calm and serene, and the light from the top of the broken secret room shone on her powdered face, which was surprisingly bright and moving.

In the next second, Tang Cuo turned and left, and the boundless rubble fell and submerged her, never to be seen again.

On the ground, the exchange of fire between the Ivy League and the Rose Sect has reached a fever pitch.

As soon as the angry Rose sect came, they opened a big one, directly destroying the entire wall that was splashed with red paint, and the church collapsed.But they didn't expect that Celtic had arranged so many magic circles and traps in the church. When the church collapsed, all these things were triggered, so not only the buildings on the ground also fell down, but the ground was directly blown out. hole.

Jin Cheng ran fast, and when the church collapsed, he had already reached the top of the opposite building, holding the little harp to have a panoramic view of everything.

Suddenly, he saw a figure standing alone at the corner of the street.Although the pure white priest's robe was hidden in the darkness, it was still like a lamp in the dark night, guiding Jin Cheng's direction.

Reverend Peter, finally appeared.

Jin Cheng originally thought that he would not be able to attract him, but he did not expect him to appear at the last moment, so he immediately chased after him.

Peter also spotted him, and stared deeply at the ruins of the church again, as if he wanted to see the deep underground through there.Before Jin Cheng approached, he turned around decisively and left quickly.

But Jin Cheng came extremely fast. Although the system limited his skills, it didn't limit his own speed.He also took the time to look at the system panel, and the main task was finally refreshed.

Current main quest: Talk to Peter.

"Peter, Buzz hasn't been found yet, why are you running?" Jin Cheng jumped off the roof of the building just in time, and stopped in front of Peter.He looked relaxed, but his fingers were still clinging to the strings, without any relaxation.

"You all seem to like to run after me." Peter stopped.

"You guys?" Jin Cheng thought about these two words, and said with a smile, "Don't worry about it, Peter, what exactly do you want to do, you hide your head and show your tail?"

Peter: "It's over, don't you understand?"

Jin Cheng: "Of course I don't understand, but I can see that you are not a faithful believer of the Rose sect either. Just now so many people wanted to kill me, but you didn't feel angry at all when you saw me. Maybe you can go talk to Talk to Aesop the Rebel, it will resonate a lot.”

Peter refused to comment, his expression slowly changed from the initial guardedness to calm, and when he met Jin Cheng's eyes again, he became compassionate and generous again.

"I know you. You are Buzz's friend. Shouldn't you be happy that he came back from the dead? Or, your friendship and the care he gave you are not enough for you to break the prejudice of the world and accept him sincerely." .”

Jin Cheng: "Are you preaching to me?"

Peter shook his head, "Aren't you happy for him? In this White Leaf District, people like Buzz die quietly every day. People struggle and despair, but there is no way to stop them. They can only watch their lives die There are always one or two important people in a person's life, isn't there?"

"So do you see the suffering of all beings, or do you see the suffering of a certain person?" Jin Cheng was keenly aware of something, and his eyes suddenly sharpened, "Who do you want to resurrect?"

Peter's smile became more and more sympathetic, he raised his hand to his heart, and said three words reverently as if praying to a god - "Myself."

Jin Cheng frowned, "You?"

"What about the suffering of all beings? I am a flesh and blood body, and I can't change anything in the end, just like he is a grand prince, but he is still constrained by many parties and cannot realize the ideal in his heart. But God can."

"You, become a god?"

Jin Cheng felt a huge sense of absurdity.

He didn't expect Peter's ambition to be so great, is he crazy?

But Peter didn't answer Jin Cheng's question anymore, he asked instead: "Lancelot, you are from the Kingdom of Moon Hidden, right?"

This time, Jin Cheng did not answer Peter's question.He began to re-examine this ordinary-looking pastor, and at the same time, a guess was born in his heart—Peter told him so much, perhaps because he came from the Kingdom of the Hidden Moon.

Peter turned to the Rose Sect, it must be because the Rose Sect can achieve his ambition.Then this so-called "resurrection from the dead" must not be as simple as resurrection. Which one is the key?

The answer may be the Well of Time.

Seeing that Jin Cheng was thinking, Peter stopped talking and took a few steps back slowly.At this time, several Rose Sect members came from behind and firmly guarded Peter.

The two sides confronted.

Peter nodded to Jin Cheng, then turned and left.

Jin Cheng didn't chase after him, because he found that his main task had been updated and changed to - go back to the office of the Ivy League and look for Buzz.

By the way, Buzz!

Jin Cheng was enlightened suddenly, Buzz is the same as Peter, they are both people who came back from the dead, if Peter's ambition is to become the god who dominates everything, then what about Buzz?

What did Aesop put in him?

Thinking of this, Jin Cheng immediately threw away the members of the Rose Sect and rushed to the office of the Ivy League.

On the other side, Tang Cuo finally led Baz out of the tunnel and returned to the office smoothly.The office looked much empty compared to last time, because even the ordinary members had been transferred by Celtic, leaving only a few left behind.

For Buzz's safety, Tang Cuo took him straight to the second floor, and the second he stepped on the second floor, his main task was also updated.

But before he could check the update, a dull pain hit his brain.

"Ding!"

"It is detected that the player's mission line has changed. According to the original plot, the knight Theodore was seriously injured after a series of fights, and the player immediately entered the 'coma' mode."

Tang Cuo fell down. He still retained his consciousness and could perceive everything around him, but his body just fell to the ground, his eyes were forced to close, and he couldn't move.

Buzz shook his shoulders in panic, and the others rushed over and carried him into the room.Theodore has his own temporary residence in the office.

After everything was arranged properly, Tang Cuo lay on the bed, still unable to move.

"Theodore, may the gods bless you, you must be fine." Buzz's eyes were fixed on Tang Cuo, guarding him every step of the way.

Tang Cuo could only listen and could do nothing.

Time passed by, Tang Cuo didn't know when Theodore would wake up, and felt a little anxious for no reason.He guessed that Theodore's body hadn't recovered after the battle with Aesop, and he had to escort Buzz all the way back to the office before he collapsed.

But the system didn't let Tang Cuo fall before, so what does it mean if he has to fall now?

Tang Cuo wanted to open the task panel to take a look, but he closed his eyes and couldn't see it at all.

After an unknown amount of time, the familiar sound of knocking on the window came.Tang Cuo frowned, the voice was so familiar to him, he had only heard it in Buzz's rental house this morning.

He wanted to tell Baz to ignore it, but he couldn't, and his consciousness, which was still a little clear just now, became blurred at this moment.

"Squeak." This is the sound of the window opening.

The sound of Buzz's footsteps changed from near to far, and from far to near, and Tang Cuo's consciousness gradually became blurred.After a while, he could feel Buzz sitting next to him again, pulling himself together and talking to him in a rambling manner.

"Theodore, I'm so happy that you can become my friend. You are like Lancelot, you are all rare and good people in this world. It is my luck to meet you."

"Theodore, this time was the happiest time for me. I never thought that I was dead and shouldn't exist in this world, but I don't regret it. You make me feel that I am the happiest in the world people."

"..."

"Theodore, the new jam pies from Beibei House are really delicious." In the end, his voice full of expectation sounded, and there seemed to be some choking in it, but Tang Cuo couldn't hear it.

He fell into a complete coma.

Time flies.

"Tang Cuo? Tang Cuo!" When Tang Cuo was conscious again, what he heard was his own name.His thoughts came back at that moment, he sat up suddenly, looked around, but he didn't see Buzz.

Jin Cheng was the only one beside the bed.

"Where's Buzz?" he asked.

"He's gone." Jin Cheng said, and handed him a note.On the note was the same handwriting as the suicide note. The crooked handwriting was not very pretty, but it exuded a tenacious vitality and simplicity.

[To my dear friends Theodore and Lancelot:

I am leaving.

Please forgive me for leaving without saying goodbye, forgive my selfishness and cowardice, because I have no way to face everything that will follow.May you all be well.

Don't look for me.

- Buzz]

Tang Cuo silently squeezed the letter paper tightly. The letter paper was crumpled and wet with countless tears.He was silent for a moment, and said, "It's Aesop, Aesop took Buzz away."

Jin Cheng was not surprised by the answer, he glanced at the door and said, "Roger Reed is back too."

Roger Reed followed Aesop's whereabouts all the way, from the city to the outside of the city, and from the manor outside the city back to the city, but in the end it was still one step too late.

Half an hour later, Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng found him on the roof of the office.

Roger Reed leaned on his cane and stood facing the wind. As far as he could see, he could see the wide and tidy avenues in the St. Paul district.But his gaze passed through these avenues and the milky white church buildings, and he looked into the distance, as far as the White Leaf District, and even the entire continent.

Hearing the footsteps of the two, he didn't look back and said, "The storm is coming soon."

The two looked at each other. Jin Cheng had already exchanged all the information with Tang Cuo, raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked, "Your Excellency Roger Reed, may I ask, who is the Immortal King?"

Roger Reed just turned his head, glanced at them coldly, and said for a long time: "This is a secret that should have been kept dusty, but since you have already come into contact with it, I will tell you. But you must remember that no matter what Don’t forget your original belief when you set foot on this continent.”

Hearing this, the two nodded in unison.

Roger Reid turned his head to look at the storm that seemed to be hidden deep in the clouds and did not know when it would come, and said: "The Rose Sect originated from the Tucha Dynasty in the dark ages. At that time, roses were the royal family's Totem. The last king of the Tucha dynasty is called Louis XIV, which is what the rose sect calls it—the immortal king, the immortal rose."

Jin Cheng: "What does this have to do with the Well of Time?"

"You have already imagined that the Kingdom of the Moon Hidden was the former capital of the Tucha Dynasty." Roger Reid held his cane tightly, "The Well of Time is related to the secret of eternal life, and it is a forbidden area for the gods. Louis XIV was surly, conceited and cruel. They were unkind, and tried to spy on the restricted area, resulting in the collapse of the entire dynasty, and the hidden moon city was permanently isolated in the yellow sand. And the rose, the totem of the royal family, has since disappeared in the Sicilian continent.”

After a pause, Roger Reid said again: "But there has been a saying in the mainland that after a thousand years, time will turn around, and the immortal rose will bloom again—he is coming back."

Wow.

Jin Cheng didn't expect that this direction would get bigger and bigger, this is the second ring, wouldn't the next ring be more difficult.He couldn't help asking: "How to come back? How to come back?"

This time, Roger Reed did not answer immediately.He turned around, turned his back to the increasingly obvious storm in the sky, and stared deeply at Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng with one eye, with a solemn expression.

After a long time, he said, "According to the news from the headquarters just now, the magic circle of the Rose Sect is engraved with a soul sacrifice ceremony. In other words, your friend Buzz, or Pastor Peter, may be the carrier of the rose."

"Are you mentally prepared for this? When you meet him next time, how should you face him?"

"Boom—"

After the words fell, the storm finally revealed its true face.Terrifying black clouds gradually spread across the entire sky, and lightning and thunderstorms were also brewing with great fanfare. Under such momentum, people in both the St. Paul District and the White Leaf District raised their heads in unison, worried.

Hurrah, the torrential rain is coming down soon.

Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng didn't stay on the roof for long, and Roger Reed didn't say anything more.Regarding the series of turmoil in Baiye District, he unexpectedly did not blame Jin Cheng, only glanced at him meaningfully, and then hurriedly dealt with other matters.

All the mess was piled on Celtic again.

Celtic complained about this.

But Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng are the hands-off shopkeepers with no conscience, and they will not share the slightest share for him, and their main tasks are finally unified again.

Current main task: Play a song "Song of the Wind".

The music score was sent to Jin Cheng by the system along with the task. It was handwritten and signed with Lancelot's name.Looking at the somewhat hasty handwriting on the score that was constantly smeared with water, Jin Cheng could probably imagine the mood Lancelot was in when he wrote this piece.

"Let's go, we have to pick a good place to play." Jin Cheng said.

At this time, the storm just stopped.

The two walked side by side, and unknowingly came to Baiye District again.The wind and rain washed here, years of dirt and mess were washed into the exposed tunnel, everything looked messy, but it seemed to be much cleaner.

Someone wailed before the collapsed ruins.

Someone was tiptoeing curiously into the tunnel.

Everyone is like a weed, living in its own way.

Surprisingly, Babe's, which sells jam tarts, is still open.

There is also a string of wind chimes hanging on the door of Beibei’s house. When Tang Cuo pushed the door to enter, the wind chimes rang, and the cute girl with a round face raised her head from her busyness and said, “Welcome!”

The two jam pies emptied all the remaining money on Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng.When handing over the pies, the girl recognized them, and her smile was more genuine.

"It's you, Lancelot, and there's one called Theo, isn't it? Buzz has mentioned you to me many times. He always said he would bring you to eat the latest flavor of jam tart, but I’ve said many times and I still don’t see you coming, but today I can be counted as seeing you.”

After a pause, she blushed again and looked at the door, "Where's Buzz? Why didn't you see him?"

Tang Cuo was suddenly at a loss for words and didn't want to say anything.

Jin Cheng took the pie and said, "He has something to do and he's gone away."

"That's it." The girl's smile froze for a moment, then she quickly brushed the hair around her ear, and lowered her head pretending to be busy.

When she looked up again, there was no one in the store.

Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng took the pies and continued to walk through the streets, passing by the East Street, and went around to look at the collapsed church, and finally came to the wharf that was temporarily suspended due to the storm.

The pier at this time was very different from usual. Countless workers were squatting in the corner, like gray mushrooms growing out of mold in the corner, forming a row.

"Just here." Jin Cheng took out the small harp, sat on the short post used by the boatman to tie the cables, and threw the last bite of pie into his mouth.

The proprietor of the brown bread and potato soup breakfast place poked his head out to see him and muttered how the strange bard had come again, but this time he didn't bother.

It suddenly occurred to him that at such a peaceful moment, some music would be a good idea.

The melodious music soon spread over the pier, carrying the taste of free wind and wrapped in an unknowing sadness, bringing a touch of coolness when the spring is coming to an end.

On the wide lake, in the faint wind, the tall sails can be seen faintly raised, and another boat embarks on a journey.

【As for the news of my death, I hope that only the wind will know. 】

Tang Cuo remembered the sentence in Baz's suicide note, "Song of the Wind", and the name of this dungeon became extremely appropriate at this time.He thought with a blank expression, took a bite of the almost cold jam tart—actually, this taste was a bit too sweet.

"Ding!"

"Congratulations to the player for successfully completing the second ring of the chain mission "Moon Hidden Kingdom": Song of the Wind. Difficulty: Difficult. Side mission completion: 95%. Rating: A. Character points obtained: 30."

"Please check the system panel for personal rewards."

"Welcome back to Eternal Night City!"

The author has something to say:

The framework of the serial copy is finally basically completed, and all the lines are basically connected, and the next step is very simple——

Ivy League VS Rose Sect.

Roger Reid is currently a key figure in the Ivy League, and Celtic is a coolie.The Rose Cult has internal strife and is divided into two factions, so it is a little more complicated, but everyone only needs to remember the three key characters and the general plot of [Rebel Aesop, Buzz, Pastor Peter].

As for the cannon fodder of the red priest, he didn't even have a name.

The next few links will select some key nodes in this big story, and the rhythm will be appropriately accelerated.Strive for all plot stream copies to be no more than twelve chapters.