Between life and death [unlimited]

After a series of upheavals in the Blades family, it is still almost evening now.

Among the players, only Jiang Shui, who had a higher status, was tacitly followed by Blades' side.Therefore, Jacqueline Feng Kang vomited her hair outside just now and Fernan was actually killed in battle. Naturally, only Jiang Xun knew about it.

But it was a good thing that Jiang Lai was with Blades at that time, because he was the only one who had learned lip language and had very sensitive hearing.

Therefore, when Blades was deeply shocked by the situation in front of him, and whispered the three wishes he had made to the "New God", this scene happened to be seen by Jiang Lai.He immediately concentrated his energy and listened carefully to what Blades said, and then all the words of Blades emerged in his mind——

"...I hope the business can prosper, I hope that this batch of important arms will be delivered smoothly, and I hope that country M can always serve as a solid backing for the Blades family..."

Although the wishes read out by Blades did not provide any relevant connections such as background for Jiang Shang, Jiang Shang quickly recalled in his mind that when the servants were having dinner that day, a maid once said , I saw Master Blades muttering about business and young lady to the darkness of the second basement.

The weird things that just happened before their eyes can only be explained by "spiritual events".

Although Jiang Xun is still unable to fully connect the events of Jacques' kidnapping, Jacqueline's vomiting, and Fernand's death in battle with the "New God", Jiang Shang immediately realized: I am afraid that this time the players' task , is inseparable from the "New God" that moved into Blades Castle a few days ago!

So when Blades hurried towards the basement, obviously intending to do something, Jiang Lai followed closely behind Blades even at every step.

However, he didn't make a sound, and he didn't make any sound under his feet. He still followed the terrified Blades as usual—he didn't let Blades know that he was following him. In the future, in order to prevent any troubles, thanks to the fact that Blades was so focused on the basement at this time, he really didn't notice that someone was following him.

I saw that Blades had no elegant and gentlemanly demeanor in the past. At this moment, his face was pale, his eyes were full of fear, and even a large cold sweat began to ooze from his forehead.Even though the muscles in his legs seemed to be filled with lead because of the panic, Brades still struggled tenaciously to stumble and keep moving towards the second underground floor.

After going down countless damn steps, Blades finally staggered onto the empty concrete floor on the second basement floor.It also means that he is now completely in the darkness of extreme silence.

Because the rush down from the first floor was too hasty this time, Blades never thought of bringing some lighting equipment down.However, relying on his vague memory from before, he still slowly groped forward in the darkness where he could not see his fingers.

This underground space originally occupied a large area, but now without the lighting equipment such as wall lamps or lanterns, its area seems to be much larger than before.

If Blades rushed here from upstairs just now, his heart was full of anger, but once he entered this silent and lonely environment, it was as if someone had poured a bucket of cold water on his head. The originally dizzy mind immediately became sober.

His resentment, his full of anger, seemed to have been swallowed by the boundless darkness in front of him in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing left.

Instead, in the current silent environment, the fear and panic that had been buried in his heart crept coldly along his back into Blades' brain, directly hitting his central nervous system.

——At that time, when he planned to invite this "new god" back, didn't Xinli already consider the possible consequences?

Brades, who has been in the shopping malls and covered the sky with one hand for so many years, must have understood this potential principle of "bartering things".It's just that he didn't expect that the price he paid for those wishes would be the dear family members he cares about the most.

The eldest son died in battle, the younger son was killed, and even his wife was in danger... But fortunately, the eldest daughter in country M should be fine now.He must do his best to ensure that his only bloodline will not have any accidents again!

Blades had never felt such a long road, and when his hands finally touched the cold desk in the dark, he couldn't help feeling tears welling up in his eyes.

Great, his daughter still has a chance to save!

"...I beg you, dear God... I, Blades, beg you, please take back the wish I made before!" Blades directly returned to the table on the desk with a "plop". In front of him, because the environment was too dark, he still couldn't see the situation in front of him clearly.But he still clasped his hands together, praying with the most sincere and pious tone and the statue of "New God" in front of him.

"Even if you stop my business from booming, or let me do whatever you want... I beg you, as long as you don't take the lives of my family anymore, you can ask me to offer you as many sacrifices as you want... ..."

"I've already lost two beloved sons, and I really can't bear the pain of losing my last daughter..."

Blades didn't know if this "new god" had heard his prayer at the moment - because according to what he said when he invited this god, he must wear a black robe before praying every time.

But just now, Blades was so anxious that he didn't think about it at all. He didn't bother to find the black robe that the housekeeper didn't know where it was placed, so he wondered whether the "New God" had heard what he said now. Not at all.

And Jiang Lai has been silently following not far behind Blades.

He has always been used to hiding in the dark, and he has already practiced the ability to see things in the dark like daylight.So after Blades staggered and knelt down, he just happened to have a full view of the outline of the "new god" completely shrouded in darkness—if the strangely shaped figure in a black robe was placed on the desk, Things that can be called "God" words.

It was a sculpture with a very high size including the countertop. Jiang Yu didn't see the specific material of the countertop under it. After walking a few steps to see it more clearly, he only felt a faint breath in his nose. Yes, a complex smell that smells like fragrance and smell comes.

However, he was able to see this "new god" very clearly from the position he was in now.On the table about three inches high, facing him and Blades, there was a rectangular wooden coffin that should be half the height of a person, or it could be a shrine.

And the shrine contained not a statue of an ordinary god with a golden body and a copper body, but a corpse of a real person who seemed to have been decomposed for a long time-and this corpse did not have a lower body, only the upper body was left Most of the torso and a complete head.

Jiang Shuang had seen a naturally decomposed corpse at close range before—similar to the one in front of him in a shrine. The soft tissues such as the eyes and nose had been devoured by microorganisms, but there were still some carrion left on the face that could not be decomposed in the future. , and the teeth inside can be vaguely seen through the remaining half of the lip...

Jiang Xun could even tell from the middle of its neck, the Adam's apple that hadn't completely decayed, that the corpse was a man, and looking at his hair - obviously, he was still a man with red hair before he was alive .

But from the rotten flesh on the face and body of the corpse, it can be clearly seen that the corpse is highly corrupt at this time.Jiang Xun deduced that this was at least a man who had been dead for more than a month.

Jiang Lai continued to look down, and saw that the body of the corpse was still bound by a thick red rope of the same color as his hair. The knotting method seemed to be some kind of special knot, like a knot used for sacrifice. rope way.This kind of bundling method reminded Jiang Shang of the "ghost babies" in certain countries in Southeast Asia.

I don't know what method the Blades family adopted to embalm and deodorize. There are no disgusting maggots on the corpse, but the smell that Jiang Xiang smelled just now to cover up the corpse should be the source. since here.

It seems that the servants' previous imaginations were not wrong—the Blades family invited back a "new god" full of evil aura.

That is, a real "evil god".

Now the series of great changes that happened to the Blades family just now can be explained clearly.It's no wonder that Blades ran here in such a hurry just now, trying to prevent the subsequent tragedy from happening.

But amidst Blades' begging just now, this "evil god" did not give Blades a reply as quickly as before.He thought, it should be the reason why he didn't wear that black robe.

So Blades hurriedly got up from the ground again, his eyes were still pitch black and he couldn't see anything, but he could only move slowly towards the outside while groping.

Jiang Lai did not follow Blades' footsteps out this time. He watched Blades' crooked figure drifting away in the dark, and walked slowly towards the strange-looking building in silence. "Cthulhu".

The moment he saw this "evil god" clearly just now, Jiang Lai immediately thought of the real content of this mission——

The vague and unclear "he" in the task content should obviously be the "evil god" in front of Jiang Xun, who has been hiding behind everyone and manipulating everything.

And looking back now, if only one of the five players who entered the game this time had a strong curiosity and wondered about the weird "new god" mentioned by the servants long ago, they might have been able to understand the content of the mission long ago. The first half of the sentence is the same, "he" has been found.

If this is the case, then Jiang Shang's fourth hard task is not too difficult.It's just that he still can't figure out one thing - that is what the system calls "rescue 'him'", what exactly should the players do to save "him"?

Could it be that finding the missing lower body of the corpse and making it whole, as the protagonists of most ghost stories seek to rescue them?Then, find a place with good geomantic omen to bury it?

Regardless of whether or not the lower body of this corpse can be found now, just judging from the little mission time left by the players, it is already too late for Jiang Lai and the others to find the lost lower body of this "evil god".

After all, even Blades may not know where the corpse came from.Now is an era of continuous war and turmoil, and different people die every day in every corner of the world.

Jiang Xun thought to himself: Now that the real content of the task has been deduced, but how to complete it next?

"Dangdang..."

A strange noise suddenly came from the darkness that caught Jiang Lai's attention.He immediately pulled away from his own thoughts, remembering that the servants also mentioned that they had heard strange noises like joints tapping on stone slabs, so he began to listen carefully to all the movements nearby.

Sure enough, the intermittent strange sound continued to come, "Dangdang..."

"Dangdangdangdang..."

Although the strange sound came and went, Jiang Li still relied on his sensitive hearing to distinguish, and the frequency of each strange sound happened to be four times very regularly.

Does four times have any special meaning for "him"...

Jiang Lai has always been standing not far from the terrifying-looking "evil god", but he has never felt the slightest danger from the beginning to the end-you must know that Jiang Lai has been in the middle of life and death all year round, and the crisis is very difficult. The premonition is also much sharper than ordinary people - since Jiang Xun has never felt hostility, it seems that this "evil god" should not have any malice towards the players.

In other words, what this "evil god" did may only be aimed at the Blades family.

Therefore, Jiang Xun tried to string together all his findings just now: only the upper body of the body remained, the red hair of the same color as the thick rope, and the regular four times of knocking...

A chill instantly climbed along the spinal cord to Jiang Shang's cerebral cortex, and fear exploded in his brain like fireworks.Jiang Xun suddenly recalled the nightmare that the chef Melinda told about that night - the horrible corpse in front of him was exactly the same as what Melinda said!

Jiang Lai immediately looked at the rotting corpse that had already changed beyond recognition.Unexpectedly, it turned out to be Mrs. Melinda's war son, Charles.

After thinking through all this, Jiang Lie immediately ran towards the upper floor.

It is unlikely that the players will be able to have a direct dialogue with the corpse, but at present, it seems that the key to solving the game should be his mother, Mrs. Melinda!

Although the Blades family has undergone a series of earth-shaking changes just now, most of the servants of the Blades family are still kept in the dark - but it will only be a matter of time before they know these things about you.

So Melinda was very surprised when she saw Jiang Shuang running towards her panting.Because she didn't remember any interaction between her and the bodyguard Claude, except for the fact that they would eat at the same dinner table at night.

"Claude, what's the matter with you? Did something happen upstairs just now? How did we hear the master... Well, it seems that the upstairs is very chaotic?"

Jiang Lai didn't intend to talk nonsense to Melinda now, and went straight to the topic, "Your son, Charles... what wishes does he have?"

"Charles' wish?"

Melinda didn't understand for a moment why Jiang Xun asked such a question, but seeing the anxious look on Jiang Xun's face, she still tried to answer: "If you want to say that Charles has any wishes...it should be that he is going to Before the battlefield, I mentioned it to me, I hope there will be no more wars in this world..."

"He hopes that the world can always be peaceful..." Melinda recalled her kind-hearted child who always thought of others, and she couldn't help but choked up for a moment: "In this way, there will be no more soldiers like him who have left their homes. "

The woman's lacrimal glands seemed to be very developed, and immediately big tears burst out of Melinda's eyes. Those salty tears fell down her slightly fat cheeks onto the apron tied around her waist, like It was a cluster of exploding fireworks, which instantly disappeared on the pure white color.

Seeing the dejected and disappointed expression on Melinda's face, Jiang Xun recalled the "Charles" he saw just now, and he thought to himself:

I'm afraid Melinda would never have imagined in her life that her son Charles, whom she was thinking of so much, was in the space under her feet at this moment.

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Blades finally found the black prayer robe in a drawer in his study.He hastily slipped himself in.

Just as he was about to rush to the second basement floor, a corner of his robe knocked off a photo in a drawer somehow.Blades happened to catch a glimpse of the dropped photo out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly realized that it was a photo of his three children taken a long time ago.

For some unknown reason, Blades, who just lost his two beloved sons, seemed to be possessed at this moment, and his body suddenly stopped feeling flustered.Then, he reached out and picked up the group photo of his children.

In that photo, his three children look very young, and the location seems to be in the garden in front of his house.Blades' fingers slowly stroked the children's sunny, immature faces like unbloomed flowers, and he began to miss the period when the children were not grown up.

He thought: It would be great if the children could live carefree all the time like they did back then.

It's not like now... He actually only has one daughter left.

Just when Blades was suppressing the grief in his heart and was about to put down the photo in his hand and go back underground to continue to ask the "new god", a little boy with red hair above the photo caught his attention again.

He had never looked at this photo carefully before, so he didn't remember that there were people other than his three children in this photo.

—Looking at the child in the photo, it seems to be Mrs. Melinda's son in the kitchen?

That child should be quite old now, and, it is very likely that he will also go to the front line, right?

But this kind of flame-like bright red hair color is not common in country Q, so Blades quickly thought of the corpse they made into an underground "new god"... And, if he remembers correctly If so, this corpse seems to be the remains of a soldier he paid to bring back from the front line.

A chill climbed up Blades' back in an instant, and even the palm of the palm holding the photo broke out a lot of cold sweat.

original……

It turns out that the truth is actually like this...

If everything had been arranged by the "New God"—or that maid's son Charles—a long time ago, this is a sacrifice that may have already been predestined, a sacrifice set up to appease the dead's overwhelming grievances.

So the Blades family, is it equivalent to playing the role of "sacrifice" in this?

Bradston felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar. The painful experience of the past few hours made him look as if he had aged decades in an instant. Dark and despondent.

If things were really as he thought, what should he do now to change the doomed ending, eliminate the resentment of the undead, and save his only surviving daughter?

Countless half-finished ideas whizzed through Blades' mind, but he never thought of a feasible solution that could perfectly solve the current situation.

However, before Blades thought about it or did something else, he heard an extremely shocking sound not far away, as if it could shake the sky and the earth!

He knew very well that it was the sound of explosives exploding!