Forces of Temptation

Nan Zhou was the first to find Xiong Nan, so he naturally had his reasons.

He stared at Xiong Nan's weird webbed hands below his knees, and asked curiously, "Where did this leg... this hand... this leg of yours come from?"

Xiong Nan screamed wildly, reaching out his hand to grab Nan Zhou.

But because he couldn't get used to the weird posture where his buttocks and face were in the same direction, he instinctively stretched his hands forward and waved them furiously, but almost hit He Yinchuan who was not far in front of him.

He Yinchuan's injured arm was already severely swollen, but he still refused to be a burden, and had to pick up the dagger that fell in the snowdrift.

Nan Zhou grabbed his collar, pulled him to his side, and shook his head in disapproval.

He Yinchuan looked at him: "..."

Nan Zhou said concisely: "The adjustment has been made."

Immediately, Nan Zhou grabbed him and threw He Yinchuan out with one hand.

He threw it in the direction of Zhou Ao.

Well missed.

The regrown bandages of Zhou Ao's hands quickly wrapped around his waist, holding He Yinchuan Lingkong in his arms, wrapping them so tightly that He Yinchuan's waist injury almost recurred on the spot.

The two faced each other, gasping for breath, they both saw doubts about the sudden turn of events in each other's eyes.

Nanzhou finally found a suitable pronoun.

With his hands behind his back, he walked around behind Xiong Nan's head, pointed to his legs and said, "Tell me how this thing came about."

Xiong Nan didn't care about it, he broke his neck, trying to straighten his head.

Nan Zhou clicked his tongue softly, carefully hid the hand wearing the finger chain behind his back, stretched out one hand, and walked a triangle, according to the arm joints of Xiong Nan, which was twice as thick as his own, it was two hand knives that were lifted horizontally and vertically .

click - click -

After two ear-piercing bone sounds, under the influence of gravity, Xiong Nan's arms hung down to both sides at two unimaginable angles.

Nan Zhou beat his bones to pieces.

He couldn't even support his own head.

At this time, Zheng Xinghe's head swallowed the flesh and blood of the enemy's shoulder, and held it deep in his leaking mouth. Then he opened his mouth full of sharp teeth, jumped up again with all his strength, and bit the bear man's nose fiercely. !

This is one of the most vulnerable parts of the human body.

Xiong Nan roared in pain, couldn't bear the pain anymore, fell down in the snowdrift, and rolled hard!

Nan Zhou shot out in a panic, stepped on Xiong Nan's rolling knee, took advantage of his unpreparedness, and pulled out the webbed hand that was integrated with his flesh and blood with one hand!

He grabbed the end of the webbed forearm in a tickling gesture and said politely to the vengeful head, "Busy."

Freed suddenly, the hard webbed hands immediately rolled and tried to escape.

After merging with this body for a long time, it naturally has independent activity.

But Nan Zhou squatted down, without hesitation at all, with a cold face, holding his half forearm, and violently beat a black rock covered with centuries-old frozen soil.

This hand is not original, it is imported.

Obviously it hurts.

After being smashed violently by Nanzhou, it couldn't move anymore, and its broken fingertips were twitching slightly, looking extremely miserable.

It probably only hated the loss of convenient joints, it couldn't even turn around and scratch Nan Zhou.

After tidying it up in a storm, Nan Zhou looked at it curiously for a while, then carried it upside down and walked towards the other two monsters who were being beaten.

Hammer Man Lu Dui was being kneeled and pressed against his throat with one pair of legs, while the other kicked wildly on the back of his head, turning his face into a blood gourd.

Gecko man Yuan Ge's eyes were choked into a frog shape, and the little blood left on his body was concentrated in his eyes, which was almost bleeding.

Zheng Xinghe managed to surround most of the opponent's team by himself.

The only one who was not besieged by Zheng Xinghe alone was the half-length woman who could only crawl and lie on the ground viciously in the face of a sudden change, and wanted to retreat, but did not dare to retreat, so she could only maintain an offensive posture and let out meaningless roars .

Until a pair of legs wrapped into carrots stood behind the upper body.

It knelt down on one knee behind its broken upper half sadly.

The half-length woman noticed something behind her, and looked maliciously at the thing behind her with her half broken eyeball.

Then, she suddenly froze.

Even though she hadn't seen the appearance of the legs when they were separated from her, the half-length woman still recognized who the legs once belonged to.

Jiang Fang walked to the place where her legs were parallel, knelt down on one knee, and whispered something into her tattered ear.

The half-length woman suddenly turned her head, and her damaged face was aimed at Lu Dui, the hammer man who was closest to her.

She flung her shattered jaw in vain, asking silently:

You, eat me? !

Didn't you say you want to heal my legs?

What exactly was the "venison" you gave me before I died?

She asked silently.

Her tongue was also cut out.

I don't know if it was to secretly eat an extra bite of meat, or to make her incapable of asking Zheng Xinghe, who also lived in the snow-capped mountains, the truth of the year.

The Hammer Man, who had been stabbed in the scandal, was pinned down by his legs and couldn't move, "Ahhh" screamed twice, as if trying to explain something.

But the half-length woman had already read something from his slightly dodging eyes.

She moved her mutilated limbs and rushed forward!

In the blink of an eye, she was already biting the hammer man like a crazy female beast.

The sound of flesh and blood flying, the sound of screams, the sound of teeth chewing and attacking each other, can be heard endlessly.

On the snow slope, a piece of snow was dyed red and black, and gradually spread outward.

Over there, Zheng Xinghe's head bit the bear man, Brother Li's throat, and bit down hard——

Click.

The bear-like man who avenged his kindness finally died in Xue Ye after a cry of grief.

After the chaotic war, Manyuan was left with corpses.

The only one who is still alive is Brother Yuan, the gecko man.

When he had only a sliver of breath left, he vaguely saw a figure walking in front of him, slapping the hands tightly strangling his neck.

The next moment, a surge of oxygen rushed into his lungs.

Nan Zhou patted the gecko man's face with his frightened hand, then raised his hand in front of him, and asked softly, "What is this?"

The gecko man was so frightened that he lay down on the ground in humility, panting violently like a dog.

Nanzhou: "One."

Gecko Man: "..."

He didn't dare to delay any longer, and hurriedly said: "The other climbers will stay!"

Nanzhou: "Other climbers, how many times have you been here?"

"No... I don't know..." the gecko man said, "Twenties, thirty..."

Nan Zhou glanced at the hands, which obviously did not belong to normal humans: "What did you do to them?"

The gecko man continued intermittently: "It's just that they are not allowed to go up the mountain... Also, Brother Li, they don't have legs, so we use their legs as legs..."

Nan Zhou: "Why are you not allowed to go up the mountain?"

When it comes to going up the mountain, the gecko man's eyes become blurred: "There is———"

Nan Zhou: "I know, you have said that there is a moon god."

Nanzhou: "What is 'Luna'?"

The gecko man gaped.

There was unconcealable fear in his eyes, and his legs were swaying faintly: "Man-eating, Luna—"

"There is no Luna."

Nanzhou's cold voice was cut into fragments by the cold wind, but it was still clearly audible.

"There was never a moon god."

"In this mountain, there is no legend of the moon god at all."

"You have always been the only ones who eat people. The moon god is just a monster you invented."

"What you can't face, and what you want to prevent others from climbing up the mountain to explore, is never the moon god, but the footsteps of others discovering the truth."

"What you are afraid of has always been what you have done."

Because of this, their behavior is contradictory in every possible way.

They guarded the mountaineering boundary line that made them make a big mistake, while scaring those who wanted to climb the mountain with the legend of the Luna Food Festival, they chased, slaughtered, and ate those who tried to climb the mountain along the way.

They believed in the "Moon God", but refused to send sacrifices for the "Moon God".

They were afraid of the camp where Zheng Xinghe was, but they didn't dare to approach it easily.

Therefore, according to their state of mind, the system set up a mountaineering race for them.

They tried every means to keep a close eye on them, forcing the climbers to choose an uphill path that was easier to avoid and hide, so that they could avoid Zheng Xinghe's camp built in Pingshun.

Even if the opponent wins, it's only because of pure physical strength.

People with overdrawn physical strength have no time to dig out the truth.

The most ridiculous thing is that over time, they themselves believed the lies they spun.

What they are really afraid of is the ugly and dirty reality that is close to the moon and related to them.

The reason why Nanzhou figured it out was because Zheng Xinghe looked at the sky on the way here and said something with emotion.

"The moon is always this big."

"As big as the day I was eaten."

Even when the golden sun is transpiring, the moon still leaves a faint shadow hanging in the sky.

Like an eye that sees the truth, it looks straight and mercilessly at the world.

……

The gecko man opened his eyes wide.

He denied sharply and flusteredly: "No! No!"

"It's Luna who eats people! There really is one on the mountain! Really—you believe us—"

Nan Zhou asked what he wanted to ask, so he didn't say much, got up quietly, and made way for Zheng Xinghe's arms.

Jiang Fang even made a gentle "please" gesture.

Seeing that the situation was not right, the gecko man screamed and begged: "You can't kill me! I've said everything I need to say! I helped you! I'm leaving, I'm leaving now!!"

Zheng Xinghe is the same monster as them!

He really will kill him!

Nan Zhou turned around.

The sharp wind with fine snow particles blows his slightly curly black mid-length hair forward.

Nan Zhou rolled his beautiful eyes, thinking about how to respond to the gecko man's mournful plea.

Finally, he solemnly said: "...Thank you?"

Gecko Man: "..."

After being polite, Nan Zhou patted Zheng Xinghe's hands that were ready to go, and his muscles were stretched.

Zheng Xinghe's arm was like an arrow from the string, and he suddenly rushed forward——

……

Lu Bifang supported Liang Shu to stand up.

He was still in jedi just now, but in the blink of an eye he was already alive.

Lu Bifang was still a little confused for a while: "Sister, are we... saved?"

Liang Shu wiped the snow from the corners of his mouth, stared at Nan Zhou, smiled thoughtfully and said, "Yes, we were saved by the person who was to protect us. We are not very competent."

All of Zheng Xinghe's organs gathered together bouncingly again, forming a basic tissue.

Nan Zhou pulled him over and introduced him earnestly: "Zheng Xinghe, a student from the Agricultural University."

Seeing so many people at once, he almost shyly opened his mouth stained with black and red blood, and whispered: "Hello."

He Yinchuan: "..."

He Yinchuan: "Ah, cough, good, hello."

When the others were speechless, Nan Zhou talked to Zheng Xinghe with a normal expression: "What are your plans?"

Zheng Xinghe: "I... let's go back."

Nanzhou turned his head and asked Jiang Fang: "How long will we have until the end of the dungeon mission?"

Jiang Fang looked at his watch: "Two hours."

Nan Zhou: "Yes."

Nanzhou turned to Zheng Xinghe again: "Let's go up the mountain together."

Zheng Xinghe was stunned.

He opened his stiff blue mouth, and uttered a puzzled monosyllable: "... huh?"

Nan Zhou: "Yes. Let's go up the mountain together."

The half-length female sister Peng did not go with them.

She was quietly carried by those legs and disappeared into the boundless wind and snow.

The other people who were still in shock exchanged glances and agreed to Nanzhou's proposal.

So, Nanzhou led a zombie and slowly walked up to the land of high sun.

The ray of light caught by his fingertips turned into dazzling golden threads under the sunlight.

Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang took Zheng Xinghe to the front.

"Bronze" followed behind with Li Yinhang.

He Yinchuan regained his strength and began to tease Zhou Ao: "Hey."

Zhou Ao looked back at him.

He Yinchuan: "Usually He Dui He He Dui suddenly called Yin Chuan, which sounds nice."

Zhou Ao: "..."

He Yinchuan: "Call again."

Zhou Ao turned his head back, and said calmly, "Childish."

He Yinchuan: "..."

It was rare for Zhou Ao to choke He Yinchuan.

But he also knew that He Yinchuan changed the topic to avoid talking about something.

The almost inhuman combat strength that Nanzhou showed just now is completely different from his weak performance at the beginning.

This, on the contrary, confirmed Lin Zhisong's seemingly absurd intuitive judgment before.

——He's really... quite suspicious.

But Nanzhou saved their lives.

Therefore, they who had just been rescued lost their position of questioning.

Lin Zhisong, who had been expressing his doubts fiercely, remained absolutely silent at this time.

No one knew what he was thinking.

Nan Zhou tilted his head and talked to Zheng Xinghe: "In the end, none of you were able to get out of the snow mountain."

Zheng Xinghe: "Yes."

He could see it.

Even after eating their flesh and blood, none of them waited to be rescued.

At the same time, Liang Shu was also at the back of the team, explaining softly to the others: "It's probably because of prions."

"Cannibalism, will spread such a virus."

"The ultimate manifestation is a functional brain disorder, and the brain tissue will become spongy with holes."

"Each of them ate human flesh. ...Probably because of this, they turned into the same monster."

As for the legs, since they are separated from the upper body, their shape and "personality" are somewhat different from other monsters, and they are always in a state of no muscles when being eaten.

Nanzhou continued to ask Zheng Xinghe: "They don't want climbers to go up, they have a chance to find you. But there are always other climbers, right?"

"Yes." Zheng Xinghe nodded as expected, "But when they see me, they will either attack me or flee."

He said: "As long as it doesn't hurt me, I won't chase. Anyway, I can't chase very far."

Nan Zhou raised his frog-shaped webbed hands and shook them at Zheng Xinghe.

Zheng Xinghe nodded: "Yes. Some are human, and some are not quite human."

Nan Zhou asked again: "How long has this dungeon been in your knowledge?"

This question is not difficult for Zheng Xinghe.

"Every time the moon rises, I'll draw a line." He murmured, "There are... 1000 or [-] times."

Three years.

Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang exchanged glances.

This copy is sustainable.

But as far as they know, so far, among the more than [-] players of "Gravity", none of them have played two copies of the same game.

This player's arm, which was taken as their own by the dungeon monster, opened a door for them to a new way of thinking.

Behind the door, there seems to be an increasingly bizarre world that grows beyond human imagination.

When the question came to this point, Zheng Xinghe stopped talking.

He kept silent and climbed all the way up.

They all thought that the top of the mountain was still far away from them.

However, their estimates were wrong.

With a compass and an hour and a half of climbing, they soon came to the top of the snow-capped mountain that seemed like the end of the world.

Amidst the ten thousand feet of gold, several people stood still on the winding peak.

Speechless for a while.

He Yinchuan sighed: "The top of the mountain is so close?"

Lin Zhisong, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "Perhaps we can reach the real mountain top with the real dungeon characters."

Even when the sun rises, there is still the afterimage of the full moon in the sky like a giant eye, which refuses to die.

Nan Zhou raised his head and looked at the paper-thin moon shadow.

Jiang Fang gently grabbed his hand, and asked with a smile, "What do you think is in the moon?"

Nan Zhou was pulled by him: "I don't know. I just know that I don't like the moon."

Jiang Fang said softly: "When I was young, my mother told me that there is a creature called Chang'e in the moon."

"I asked her, why does Chang'e want to be up there alone, won't she be lonely?"

Jiang Fang can still recall the soft sigh of his mother who always put love first in life: "... who knows if she will regret it?"

The so-called full moon not only represents the frightening one-eyed peeping into secrets, but also represents regret and remorse that are always difficult to understand.

Chang'e should regret stealing the elixir, the blue sky and the blue sky and the heart of every night.

The so-called "full moon fear", the so-called things you don't want to face in life, are nothing more than the two emotions of fear and regret.

……

Facing the surging sea of ​​clouds and the endless golden light, Zheng Xinghe was stunned.

"Fuck." He took a breath of the fresh snow wind and said softly, "It's so beautiful."

The snow that fell on his head turned into water and snaked down his face.

Like crystal teardrops.

His figure swayed, and suddenly, his whole body turned into a human-shaped ice and snow, shaking and collapsing down, merging with this vast snow mountain.

Nan Zhou wanted to grab his hand, but it was in vain.

Those who devoured him, with endless fear and remorse, cowered in the corner of the mountain, suffering slowly, and living slowly.

And Zheng Xinghe's wish might just be to go up the mountain.

Look at what he has never had time to take a look at, the life situation.

The author has something to say:

System: Grass, they lost the core npc again!

system:……

System: Hey, why did you say again.