Chapter 146:
"Just now...now..."
Angie wiped her face, her lips and tongue were a little numb.
Tang Xiao lit a hand lamp, illuminating the surrounding environment.
"Don't worry, I can pull you back, which means you're safe."
Time rewinds to two minutes ago, Tang Xiao opened her eyes amid the screams of the male villagers, and saw the dark environment and the woods all around, she knew that the circulation mechanism was triggered again, and she returned Before the sacrificial ceremony begins.
Every time I come back here, a few people in the team are missing. The first time was Ushi, Rusa, and Barlow. And this time... it was everyone except Tang Xiao.
There was no one around, including An Ji and others, all disappeared.
In fact, Tang Xiao's heart is not disturbed by the current situation of continuous retrospection. As early as the end of the first world zombie apocalypse, she had seen a similar routine in the final copy. It's just that it's a killer move there, and here it's probably just a way to dissolve their mental defenses.
Time, space, matter, energy are not important in the control of memes. Only by finding the most critical way out can it be solved.
However, at this moment, Luo Er in the sea of consciousness had an abnormal situation.
Tang Xiao was thinking about it when he sensed Luo Er's data flow surging rapidly, as if he was cracking something. And the small system that had been anxiously Bibi nagging also fell into silence at this time, and the light ball stopped in the sea of consciousness without saying a word.
"What happened?"
At the same time, an inadvertently stable message appeared in Tang Xiao's mind:
[The player has detected that the Hidden E-Class Challenge Instance has been triggered: Destroy the Little Rock Village meme. 】
[Task introduction: Before being completely polluted, players need to unite with the original divinity of Xiaoshi Village to destroy Xiaoshi Village and prevent the further spread of pollution sources. 】
[Quest Success Reward: Unlimited Resurrection Chance*1Random Permission*1]
[System prompt: The survival rate of previous challengers of this instance is 0, please challenge with caution! Forced transmission can be taken if necessary...Beep—]
After the task prompt disappeared, Luo Er finally came back online and said breathlessly: "Host, we have triggered the residual data of the original system in this world. This is the newly transmitted task inside, but the sign It's red - it's super dangerous!"
Super dangerous level, only advanced players can challenge. If the original system was not attacked and collapsed, this copy world would be out of control. Tang Xiao would not be able to contact Xiaoshi Village at all, but would be directly isolated from this "high-risk copy".
Tang Xiao has a clear understanding: "It seems that the original system has long known the existence of memes in this world, and has included it in the player's mission goal... The mortality rate is 100%, no wonder."
No wonder Meng Li directly recognized that she was not from this world, and specially mentioned the "foreigners" who had been here in the past.
It turns out that most of the so-called foreigners are senior players who came here before!
Perhaps it was because her interaction with the meme became deeper and deeper over time, which triggered the original system's mission determination. When I suddenly heard the news, I didn't know if it was good or bad.
"Looking for the good... At least if we succeed, we can get the highest level of rewards. Come on, host!"
Luo Erzhong cheered Tang Xiao up and comforted himself superficially: "We can win, we can win, we can win..."
Tang Xiao: "What if you speak your mind?"
Luo Er burst into tears: "Wow! We are dead!"
“…”
Only the system understands how stingy the main system is with the distribution of rewards, and because of this, it understands what the rewards of this task represent.
An unlimited chance to resurrect.
A permission from the master system.
Any one of them is a temptation that can make advanced players risk their lives and covet!
Being able to set such a reward shows that the difficulty of this dungeon has been judged to be the highest level, I am afraid it will only appear in the **** mode dungeon!
After listening to Luo Er's explanation, Tang Xiao smiled: "So, I have now been forced to do tasks synchronously with advanced players?"
Luo Er shook his head: "No, other advanced players will still have the support of the main system and emergency logout measures, and the host has nothing."
Tang Xiao: "…"
Ok, she's used to it.
Taking this information in my heart, Tang Xiao suddenly realized something: "Luo Er, the programs you stored there... should not only come from the original system, right?"
What is said, almost at the same time, a piece of data with a completely different style appeared in Tang Xiao's sea of consciousness:
[Ding Ding Ding, how can the female supporting face slap plan lack the original heroine? Is this a lack of morality, or a loss of humanity? 】
"Speak human."
[Okay, it is detected that the important target character "the original heroine Anji" has left the space of the raider due to some undetectable, undetectable, unanalyzable unknown reason. A yellow hazard alert is issued! Do I need to fix it now? 】
Needless to say, this is legacy data from the 7887 system.
According to the procedural thinking of the "Cannon Fodder Female Supporting Counterattack System", the original heroine is an extremely important tool person, so a correction prompt was issued as soon as the suspected Space Collapse character was demolded.
If you can bring back an extra teammate, the advantage of reducing the meme is of course better. Tang Xiao also wanted to see if the program from the "Great Thousand World" could intervene, so he chose to correct it immediately.
[Fixing data... Correction is successful, the task continues. 】
The space on the right side of Tang Xiao seemed to have been violently stirred into a ball of paste by an unknown person, twisting and cracking a small gap in the middle, and on the other side of the gap was panic and was about to turn around Angie.
The next second, she was stabbed out by Tang Xiao.
This is the cause and effect. Time returned to the present, and after calming down, Angie accepted the reality of his life after the catastrophe and began to feel fortunate.
No matter how cheeky she was, she couldn't help thanking the cheap sister, trembling and asking: "What are we going to do next? hand!"
Accidentally caught a glimpse of Tang Xiao's wrist, An Ji subconsciously took a breath, and exclaimed briefly—
From her line of sight, Tang Xiao's right hand, from the forearm to the fingertips, has all turned pure black...not like a human arm, but like black cement in the shape of an arm !
Tang Xiao's ears hurt from the screams, and he silently sealed the position of An Ji's head where high-decibel noise was constantly made.
Wow, the world is finally quiet.
Of course, Tang Xiao immediately realized what happened on her arm: it was because she forcibly crossed a barrier of some unknown substance and brought Anji back, causing all the bodies that passed through the barrier to be brought back to Anji. They were all seriously polluted—under the dual suppression of spiritual power and karmic fire, they did not become monsters like the villagers, but only completely scrapped half of their arms, turned them into pitch-black cement, and lost their ability to move.
It was also a lesson that made her more aware of the dangers of memes and never act on her own accord.
An Ji also realized that Tang Xiao scrapped an arm because he saved her. Although he was silenced, his mood was very complicated, and he couldn't help sighing:
Although the cheap sister is violent, unreasonable, wicked and mysterious, at least she doesn't have to worry about personal safety and treatment. To a certain extent, it is even more reliable than the stingy and intriguing gods of Mount Olympus.
Angie has no doubt that if it was the previous life at this time, the group of immortal old men would definitely let her die in vain in the name of faith. Faced with such a laborious and dangerous matter in Xiaoshi Village, they will not reach out to take care of it until the critical moment when it is not possible... Most of her death in vain in her previous life was precisely this reason.
Between 7887's legacy gifts, although Anji sealed his mouth, the emotion that gushed out of his heart still swiped wildly in Tang Xiao's mind.
Tang Xiao sighed: "Don't thank me, if I knew the consequences in advance, I wouldn't necessarily save you."
Angie: “…”
This will be the third time they enter the scene of the sacrificial ceremony. The first time they entered, the old villagers died in front of them; the second time they entered, all the male villagers died... If they entered according to the previous two rules, this time they would not see the old people and men. There should only be women and children left at the sacrifice site.
"Does it feel a little familiar?"
Tang Xiao suddenly said, "The scene and plot development we see now are similar to the history we learned in Xiaoshi Village."
As soon as she reminded Anji, she remembered that, according to the stories of the women in the villages, the tragedy of Xiaoshi Village started from the old man.
"Overnight, all the old people died. Then the women's husbands, they started to leave the village in droves at night, and slowly mutated...and then disappeared in the village due to certain circumstances Inside. Does it look like what we just saw?"
"Maybe what we are seeing is a repeat of what happened in the village. And this open space is where they buried the blood sacrifice altar after they destroyed it."
If this logic is followed, the male villagers who disappeared strangely at night are likely to leave the village and follow this path to the place where the altar was thrown.
"Sounds like a good idea...but what's the use of these messages?"
I don't know if it's because of the use of divine power to close the consciousness, Anji can't feel the existence of his own brain.
"Useful? Unimaginable."
Tang Xiao smiled.
People who have been completely polluted, people who still have a trace of consciousness... Their projections are all gathered by the altar, which can only prove one point:
The altar of this open space is the birthplace of memes. The closer you get to it, the closer you get to the meme itself!
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The deep forest glade where the sacrifice was held was still very lively, but the liveliness was much sparser than before.
Through the obstruction of trees, you can clearly see women of different shapes taking care of children, and children are running around in the open space. Others were in charge of prayer sacrifices, and whispers lingered above the clearing.
There are no aging villagers, and no male villagers.
Everything confirms the previous speculation.
The intrusion of the two girls was inconspicuous to this clearing. But the female villagers quickly discovered the outsider, and they scolded Tang Xiao fiercely, trying to drive the two away as before.
However, for Tang Xiao, the speed of their actions is no faster than that of a snail. Before the villagers could react, Tang Xiao instantly moved to the front of the altar, and saw the appearance of this huge stone platform at a glance.
In the groove in the center of the stone platform, the scarlet blood radiating red light has increased significantly, and it has gathered half of the groove.
"Tang Xiao! They started to shed blood and tears! They fell! They are gone! I am gone too!"
Anji behind him panicked and reminded. As soon as these villagers start showing signs of injury, it means that they will start to die in groups, and then they will go back to the open space to start again, and lose their teammates...
Damn, now there is only one teammate left, whoever leaves will die!
Between the electric light and flint, Tang Xiao touched the altar.
More clearly than the icy touch, is the gloom and coldness of the shares, wrapped in countless twisted and chaotic wills, screaming and spewing out.
Perhaps because of the sudden distance, the lines of ants crawling slowly on the altar became extremely clear. These huge ants slowly raised their heads and exposed their heads.
It's a personal head!
The heads of the villagers who have "disappeared", including the old man and the man, all grow on these ants with human heads, with distorted smiles that crack to the roots of their ears, and stare at Tang Xiao invariably.
The moment he looked at these human-headed ants, Tang Xiao frowned slightly and was in a trance for a moment.
In the momentary blurred vision, these ants seem to be swallowing each other one by one, and finally expand rapidly and become the largest ant... This ant's head looks like her own .
"May the gods bless me and save me from the disaster—"
"May the gods bless me and take me into the temple—"
"May the gods bless me and help me live forever in bliss—"
In the singing, Tang Xiao's pupils gradually dilated.
The big ants climbed along her arms, and the twisted human head and face gradually merged into her body—
“…Skill, the truth of the moment.”
[The truth of the moment: this skill can destroy all falsehoods, that is, within one second after using this skill on a single thing, the user can see through all the disguise in all dimensions, time and space, namely See things as they really are. 】
The skills obtained by lottery after defeating the tree demon have been sealed in the sea of knowledge for a long time. However, at this moment, after almost forgettable days, Tang Xiao finally used it.
"I'm curious, what does a meme really look like?"
Everything changes wherever you look.
"—or, for a thing that was originally only a [conceptual] level, when you pretend to be reality, everything no longer works..."
Tang Xiao raised his right hand, his forearm, which had been eroded and scrapped, was smooth and white, restored to its original state.
"Then you cease to exist to me who can only see all that is real at this moment."