I rely on copies to build infrastructure

Although the question was nonsensical, Xi Ren still understood what he meant. With a blank expression on his face, he pointed at the blue flame that was still entangled with the tentacles.

"It's not my fire."

"what?"

"My flame is golden red. It looks better than this one. Who would use such a dim color? It's ugly and weak."

"Well……"

Qin Lu wanted to say that according to the laws of the earth's universe, the temperature of a golden-red flame could not compare with this blue one, but the existence of the system originally spanned thousands of planes, so it cannot be measured simply by the common sense of earthlings.

"Where did the flame come from?"

Qin Lu stared at the tentacles for a while, and found that this thing was very fierce, even if it was burned into a fiery squid, it would not flinch, and was still struggling to attack its prey.

It's just that the flame still hindered its range of action. The strength and range of the swing were far less fierce than before. I tried a few more times to no avail, and the tentacles didn't like to fight.

"It seems to be a protection mechanism for copies."

Xi Ren touched his chin.

"After all, it's a C+ copy. If it's just a test of the humanity of the players on board, it's a bit too simple. There should be other content."

"What we are encountering now is a modified copy, using some of the lost ship's mechanisms to integrate itself into it, and adding its own private settings on the Aurora, that is, the crew and the glass jar. It uses these people to integrate the player A large amount of it is converted into its nourishment, allowing players to die 'legally'. In order to achieve this goal, it needs to shield the real game rules and prevent players from dying from reasons other than it. This wind lantern array should be a shielding item."

"The wind lamp array covers the trail of the Goddess of Dawn, so that the monsters in the sea cannot capture the player's existence, but once there is a gap in the lamp array, the monsters lurking under the ship can board the ship and fulfill the original rules of the dungeon..."

Having said that, he paused.

"I guess the original rule of the dungeon is that the monsters that climb up the boat are different every day. For example, the first day is a giant frog, and today it is a water monkey, and the difficulty increases in order."

"However, these ghosts have been transformed into containers for collecting and transforming supplies by it. It seems that it was really hurt last time, even this little residue..."

He said it very straightforwardly, so Qin Lu quickly captured the essential information.

"You mean," he pointed to the stabilized light array below.

"This thing is not given by the system, but made by the mastermind behind the scenes, in order to keep players on the ship in captivity?!"

"Captivity..." Xi Ren nodded.

"You use the word very well, it is indeed captive."

"It put its own tool man on the boat, and the monsters under the boat were transformed into nutrient collectors by it. It's the idea of ​​not letting go of any of them."

"Even, it didn't hesitate to go into battle with its own body, and disguised itself as a member of the monster in the dungeon, but because of its large size, it should be the ultimate test on the last day in the rules, even if it only stretched out a tentacle. It is judged by the dungeon as a violation of the rules, and the blue flame is the punishment of the dungeon."

This paragraph contains too much information, even though Qin Lu was quick-witted, it took him a while to digest it before he came back to his senses.

"You mean to say..."

He swallowed.

"Is that tentacle just now the man behind the scenes?!"

It tastes a bit like a squid when it burns, and it has suckers and tentacles. Is it possible that the body is a sea monster like an octopus?

"Yes, that's it."

Xi Ren nodded.

"This dungeon is where it puts its real body. It's cunning to mix it up as a dungeon NPC. But this reveals that it was seriously created before, and its main body is already weak. Otherwise, it wouldn't be just a C+ field boss."

Oh, it turned out to be so.

Qin Lu let out a long sigh of relief.

Although he was chased and beaten by the big octopus, he was still a little excited.

We found the body of the mastermind behind the scenes, as long as we eliminate it, we can never suffer from future troubles, and the system copy will never have problems again, right? !

Xi Ren saw his thoughts and shook his head slightly.

"It's not that simple."

"Since you dare to put the main body in the dungeon, it should be ready to separate from the main body. Gou Ba's dungeon is connected to all worlds. Even if there is no main body, you can always find some planes that can survive. At most, the power will be greatly reduced. , It is difficult to advance, but it will be more troublesome to catch it."

"In any case, the main body cannot be kept. Repairing the main body can quickly restore its strength. Once it exceeds the threshold that the system can accommodate, it can use the rules to exclude it and leave, continuing to harm the next world."

Hearing what he said, Qin Lu's expression became more serious.

He still remembered the scene he saw in Wasteland City, where an innocent elder sister was dragged into the dungeon to die instead, and she lost her life in less than a minute, before she even had time to call for help.

This kind of thing can't happen again!

"Then how do we kill him? Wait until No.15?"

Xi Ren shook his head.

"Of course not."

"You have also seen that the monsters under the ship have been transformed into containers for transforming nutrients by it. If it is given more time to continue, it may recover in less than fifteen days. Once it leaves this instance, we want to find it again The body is difficult."

"Of course you have to do it early, because the monsters under the boat are not high-level, and the players on the boat can also handle it."

"I'll go and put out all the wind lights on the deck later. If you stay on the ship, it doesn't matter if you want to go to the deck to practice or find the crew to practice your hands. Be careful. I'll finish that thing."

Qin Lu nodded.

Although he wanted to help, he also knew that now was not the time to be brave.Xiao Ren's arrangement shows that he can handle it completely, and he should not hold him back.

So the two began to split up.

Qin Lu was going to find the crew.

Since he knew that they were all the living dead, he had no psychological barriers. There were as many normal players as there were crew members. They were the fruits of evil and should not have existed.

But the trouble is that these crew members will be eaten by other people after they die, and become nourishment to increase their strength. Qin Lu doesn't want to work hard to make wedding dresses for others.

After thinking for a while, he took out the "sack" card that Fatty Salted Fish gave him from his pocket.

The advantage of the sack card is that the stored items will be stored in the card, which is equivalent to a portable space. No matter what is put in, the card will always maintain the same shape, which is convenient to carry and concealed.

Use the sack card to collect the crew's corpses, and then submit them to the system uniformly. The system should be able to find the tricks in it.

After making up his mind, he didn't delay any longer, and immediately went out to find the target.

Before the free time started tonight, most of the players were waiting on the deck to spawn monsters, and very few stayed in the cabin.Qin Lu got out of the wall destroyed by the tentacle monster, and found that the door of 701 was blocked with steel bars, which was obviously a good thing done by the crew.

Block the door and wait for the big boss to board the ship. Are the living dead trying to take advantage of it? !

Qin Lu activated the stealth card, and quietly went underground to the seventh floor.

Probably everyone knows that the prey on the seventh floor is a special offering, and no crew members are waiting on the upper floor, and everyone is concentrated on the lower floor.

The captain and first mate are on the sixth floor, the second and third mates are on the fifth floor, and the players on the fourth and third floors are in the middle, and they all go to work overtime to kill monsters, so ordinary crew members are wandering around on the second floor.

The players on the second floor are the weakest and lack courage, but there are quite a few people staying in the room.However, seeing the attitude of the crew, they dare not go out, and the atmosphere is very tense.

Qin Lu took advantage of the stealth card to kill the crew guarding the third-floor cabin door, and then opened the door to the deck.

As soon as the door opened, the players cheered instantly on the deck.They were trapped on the deck with no shelter around them, and they were beaten very passively by the monsters under the ship.From time to time, some players were dragged off the ship, but there were companions in the cabin who refused to come out to help, and everyone's hearts fell into the bottom of the valley.

Now that the hatch is open, everyone is not in a hurry to get in.

Fatty Stonefish directed the players to tighten their formation and retreat into the cabin in batches in an orderly manner. He walked behind the tail of the team and killed several water monkeys by taking advantage of Stonefish's concealment characteristics and venom.

He vaguely felt that after this campaign, his cards would be upgraded again.

At this moment, the third deck suddenly shook, the light array that could have been maintained suddenly went out, and the cabin was instantly plunged into darkness.

The players screamed and hurriedly retreated into the inner cabin.The fat man and the others closed the hatch, but they didn't dare to leave, watching the movement outside nervously through the porthole.

"That's... what is that?!"

A player exclaimed.

The hull shook more and more violently, but there was no longer darkness outside the window.On the fourth day of entering the dungeon, the players saw the moon for the first time. It was a huge and bright moon. The moonlight shone into the porthole and illuminated the world outside the Aurora!

Where is the endless sea, this boat is clearly trapped in the tentacles by a huge octopus.This monster vaguely has the outline of a human head, but there are countless tentacles growing on its face. There is a big hole in its eye, and one eyeball is gone, leaving only strands of nerve filaments entangled together, as if being entangled. Something corroded, constantly scorched and festering, very terrifying.

"K...Cthulhu!"

Fatty exclaimed.

Qin Lu took a look at him and confirmed that he was a fellow of Blue Star.

However, this thing is not exactly the same as the Blue Star virtual evil god Cthulhu. It has no wings or sharp claws. Below the head is a snake body, and the sides of the body are covered with sharp bone spurs.

Its tentacles wrapped tightly around the Aurora Goddess, and the huge gap under the tentacles was facing the bow of the ship, and the ship was heading towards its mouth.

It is conceivable that after fifteen days, if there are any surviving players on board, what awaits them is not the passage to clear the dungeon, but the abyss of complete destruction.

"This this……"

Seeing this scene, the expression of the fishy first mate changed drastically, pointing his pale fingers out of the window, stuttering and unable to speak for the first time in his life.

He suddenly turned his head to look at the captain, but saw that the other party was also shocked and terrified. He knew what the captain was thinking, because this terrible speculation almost completely destroyed his spirit.

They, as well as those reincarnated who tried their best to leave the ship, did they really leave?

Are they... are they still alive now?