Chapter 326 The Effect of Blood Rain
Chapter 326 The Effect of Blood Rain
Luo Xi mercilessly gave a sharp comment on the scene of "Sea of Trees Park".
If the "administrator" who designed the scene was here, he would be so angry that he would slam the table and yell at Luo Xi, "You know shit!"
"In the scene, the 'Grudge' is deliberately rendered as a fatal curse, a 'death door' mechanism that means a contamination, which is equivalent to failure. And for the scene designer, if the rules require that 'clues to pass the level' be placed in the scene, and the condition is that the players of the Memory Collector cannot find it easily, then guess what he will do?"
When Fatty Qian heard this, he already understood.
He quickly answered: "Luo Ju, I know, as the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place."
"That's right!" Luo Xi nodded. "Hiding the clues to clear the level in danger is in line with the rules. After knowing the terrible curse of 'The Grudge', normal players will try their best not to trigger the 'Grudge' out of their nature of seeking benefits and avoiding harm. However, if they do so, they will fall into the trap of the scene designer."
"In other words, next, we need to trigger the 'Cursed Shrine' as much as possible, which means we have to risk our lives in order to survive?" Lin Qiqi asked.
Now, among the four of them, only she and Fatty Qian were not contaminated by the curse.
Luo Xi and An Zhiyan have each been infected with two kinds of curses.
"It's us two, not you." Luo Xi explained: "The Grudge is ultimately a very dangerous curse. This curse will inevitably amplify and bring out the fear in your heart. And An Zhiyan and I have a little advantage in this regard."
What Luo Xi said was [absolutely rational].
"I'm very brave." Lin Qiqi was not convinced.
"I" Fatty Qian uttered only one word and then kept silent. He wanted to be tough for once, but Luo Xi said that we must seek truth from facts at all times. If it works, it works, and if it doesn't, it doesn't.
He can't.
Although he was reluctant to admit it, he was indeed not good at this aspect.
"There is one more thing. We must find Brother Mao and Ke Lan and tell them about the scene. They have died twice in this scene before. I guess that losing part of their 'soul' is an additional death penalty in this scene. But nothing can be one-sided. If there is such a severe death penalty, according to the principle of 'fairness and justice', there must be a reward for finding the 'soul'. So next, we need to act separately. Those who are not contaminated by the curse are only responsible for finding people and not opening any 'shrines'. Leave the clearance to me and An Zhiyan."
After agreeing on the meeting point, Lin Qiqi and Fatty Qian received their mission and left.
Don't trigger any shrines, just go looking for people. If you act separately, there is a high possibility of finding Mao Ge and Ke Lan.
Of course, the premise is that they don’t die for the third time in this scene.
On the side of the crooked tree, only An Zhiyan and Luo Xi were left.
"I have a question. In order to retrieve the lost soul, does one need to burn incense at the shrine and then be entangled by one's own curse? If so, you have already taken away one of Wu Rui's curses. How can she achieve the operation of being entangled by her own curse? In addition, you should have seen just now that when we are infected with the second curse, whether we touch the corpse or open the curse shrine, the two curses will fight, and in the end, the winner will devour the loser. Perhaps, the 'souls' of several of them have been devoured."
The problem that An Zhiyan mentioned does exist objectively.
Moreover, at this stage, Luo Xi does not have enough clues and evidence to explain and deduce.
He thought about it and asked a seemingly irrelevant question.
"How far has your curse been integrated?"
After being infected by the Grudge, the Grudge will slowly merge with the player, which means physical contact and penetration. It can be understood that the Grudge will slowly penetrate into the body.
Once it completely invades, it may trigger the suicide mechanism.
By then, it will be a dead end.
Moreover, a part of the soul will be separated and become a new curse.
"The arm has come in. It looks like it will only take about an hour to completely invade." An Zhiyan speculated.
"Mine has to be even faster, so don't waste time. You and I will act separately and open as many 'Cursed Shrines' as possible and touch the bodies killed by the Cursed. In half an hour, we will meet at the shrine by the lake and gather the information."
Obviously, Suicide Lake is a landmark here and is easy to find, so Luo Xi decided to meet there.
"I have no problem, but if I die and you find my body, I will record the information in the form of a note." An Zhiyan took out a pen and a piece of paper from her pocket.
"Me too." Luo Xi nodded.
One of them went left and the other went right.
Luo Xi quickly found the next shrine.
Before this, Fatty Qian had already talked about the locations and features of some of the shrines he knew about.
The shrines here have different styles and materials.
Some are made of wood, some are made of stone, and some are cast in bronze.
There is another type, the flesh and blood shrine.
Basically, there are four types.
Fatty Qian said that Ke Lan did not find out what the differences were between the four types of shrines, because it was not the case that there were fixed things in a certain type of shrine. In other words, a wooden shrine could produce "The Grudge" as well as other good things, and the same was true for shrines made of other materials.
But Luo Xi can be sure that shrines made of different materials must represent different meanings.
But Ke Lan didn't find the key.
The shrine that Luo Xi found this time was the one described by Fatty, and it was also the one that had been "explored".
A stone-carved shrine is more ancient, but because of the material, it looks a bit crude. There are animal heads carved on it, and there are some lines on it. Fatty Qian said that this is a "doomsday shrine."
Being infected with bad luck is obviously not as dangerous as the "Cursed Shrine". According to the description given to Fatty Qian by Ke Lan and the others, bad luck only makes people unlucky. For example, it is easier to slip, accidentally prick your fingers on branches, or have your clothes cut by sharp objects.
Luo Xi did not burn incense at this shrine.
He just carefully observed this 'Shrine of Doom' and then left immediately to look for the next shrine.
A few minutes later, Luo Xi found the third shrine.
This time the location is in a run-down pavilion.
Although the pavilion is shabby, it can shelter us from wind and rain.
The shrine in the pavilion is made of bronze.
More than half a person's height.
It is the largest and heaviest among these shrines.
There are inscriptions in the pavilion, but they are blurred and difficult to discern.
Fortunately, I can still see clearly what it says: Listening to the wind and singing in the rain, resting in the secluded pavilion, the green leaves are dripping with pearls, filling the room with melodious sounds.
"The pavilion, the bronze shrine. Fatty Qian said that this is a 'protective shrine'. There is no need to burn incense. Instead, you can get protective incense from it. After it is ignited, even if you are infected with the curse, you will not die before the incense burns out. In other words, with the incense here, even if the curse is about to completely invade the body in the next second, as long as the incense is lit, it can delay the time of one stick of incense. However, because everyone knows that protective incense is a good thing, as soon as it appears, it will be taken away by people in the first time, and not a single stick will be left."
Luo Xi looked at the tray in front of the bronze shrine.
Empty.
Obviously a wasted trip.
Moreover, the other discovered "shrines of protection" in the Sea of Trees Park are no longer a secret. As long as there is incense, it will be taken away immediately.
Luo Xi would not wait here foolishly for the refresh of 'Shelter Fragrance'.
He was about to leave, but after taking a step, he suddenly remembered something and looked back at the long plaques with inscriptions on both sides of the pavilion.
"Listening to the wind and singing in the rain, resting in a secluded pavilion, the green leaves are filled with music of pearls." Luo Xi muttered to himself, then looked around and found that the trees here were emerald green, with many large leaves, on which a lot of blood-colored rainwater had accumulated.
Luo Xi walked outside the pavilion, then carefully broke off a leaf stem, carried the leaf and the blood on it back to the pavilion, and poured it on the bronze shrine.
Blood dripping.
When it touched the shrine, it immediately made a hissing sound, just like sulfuric acid, and then puffs of smoke came out. Under the cover of the smoke, the appearance of the bronze shrine seemed to be undergoing visible changes.
The smoke did not weaken, but became thicker and thicker, filling the pavilion. However, the smoke sank and floated more than a foot above the ground, not leaving the pavilion. It was hazy and misty, like a fairyland. Then, Luo Xi saw that the shrine over there with smoke had changed drastically.
It was a bronze shrine before, but now it has become a shrine of flesh and blood.
The dry bones were used as pillars and beams, the flesh and skin were used as the walls, and both hands held the incense altar. Next to it were big red candles burning, and several bundles of new incense.
The fragrance is slightly coarse, dark red, and has a fishy smell.
A completely different shrine, where one can burn incense.
Luo Xi obviously unlocked a new way to play with the shrine. Because the pavilion was sheltered from the wind and rain, the rain outside could not touch the original shrine. And because of the inscription in the pavilion, Luo Xi used leaves to hold the blood rain and sprinkled it on the bronze shrine, which was considered an attempt.
It's good to have gains, but it's no loss if there are no gains.
Now it seems that there are definitely gains, but I don’t know whether they are good or bad.
If it were someone else, they might still hesitate whether to burn incense.
When he came to Luo Xi, he did not hesitate to light a stick of incense with a blood-red candle and burn incense.
Then a strange sound was heard from the flesh-and-blood shrine, and a human face slowly emerged from the black hair that looked like a door curtain on the shrine.
There was no color on the man's face. Suddenly, his tightly closed eyes opened and looked at Luo Xi.
He said: "I am the land of this place. I can help you eliminate your karma or point you in the right direction."
"Eliminate karma? Does it mean that the curse on you can be eliminated? Pointing out the way out of a maze can be understood as scene guidance. Sure enough, it fits the style of this level scene very well, with danger and opportunity coexisting, and good and bad going hand in hand."
Luo Xi immediately understood the purpose of this shrine.
In other words, choose one of the two.
If you want to remove the curse on your body, you won’t get the scene guidance; if you want to get key information, you can’t remove the curse.
Moreover, Luo Xi was certain that it was because he had been tainted by the curse that the shrine gave him this choice. If not, it would most likely trigger another shrine effect.
Luo Xi made his choice almost immediately.
"Please give me some pointers, land!"
(End of this chapter)