Baomu held back the tears in his eyes and nodded desperately.
Ah Zhen hesitated for a moment, then reached into his pocket and took out something that looked like a compass. He put the thing into Bao Mu's hand, "Here's this for you."
Bao Mu looked down, his other hand still holding A Zhen's body tightly, "This is..."
"I won't hide it from you. I killed people when I wasn't around you and Xiaolan." Ah Zhen stared directly into Baomu's eyes. "I already knew the rules of the Ten-Day Banquet. Before entering the game, I
Just know...I killed a catfish and got this from him."
Baomu did not expect these words.
"Using this thing, I should be able to find the desert, but I haven't figured out how to use it yet."
"desert?"
Xiaolan.
"Yes, the desert, that is the core area of the Ten-Day Banquet." A Zhen retreated a little further into the tree hole, "I want to ask you to find..." in the desert.
"Xiaolan?"
"Xiao Lan? No, it's not..." Ah Zhen shook his head apologetically, and then said word by word, "That person, you should have seen, is our fifth watch person, our fifth watch person."
The sky is brighter, the sky is brighter and the leaves are white."
Baomu was so shocked that he couldn't say a word.
"How could he..."
"Let's wait until the game is over to explain the matter." Ah Zhen held Bao Mu's right hand tightly, "I know this is difficult. In fact, we are not very sure, but... this is our last hope.
As long as you can see him, ask him what the truth is..."
Ye Bai is also in the game?
Why did Ye Bai...
"Promise me, okay?" Ah Zhen interrupted Baomu's train of thought.
Bao Mu looked at A Zhen's appearance and nodded, "I promise, I will try my best to find Ye Bai."
Ah Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time let go of Bao Mu's hand, and said slowly, "Second request... is the pen Xiaolan gave you still with you?"
"Pen?"
This time it was Baomu's turn to fumble around in his pocket. The pen was still lying at the bottom of the pocket, making a crisp sound when it hit the bone plate and the mirror.
"Can this save you?" Baomu ignited a glimmer of hope.
He still doesn't know what this prop can do.
"It..." Ah Zhen's eyes were red and he hesitated.
Should I tell Baomu?
should be told.
In any case, this is Baomu's prop, and I shouldn't...
"This prop," Ah Zhen swallowed the sobs in his throat, "can send a player out of the game."
Baomu clutched the pen and reacted for three full seconds. His black and white pupils suddenly widened, "What do you mean?! You want me to..."
"Do you want me to turn into a tree man?" Ah Zhen's voice suddenly deepened, "I know, I wasted your props, I'm sorry..."
"What nonsense are you talking about?! This is impossible!" Baomu shouted desperately, "You want me to kill you! This is not...I can't possibly..."
Ah Zhen didn't say anything, just looked at him quietly, waiting for Bao Mu to calm down.
Ah Zhen's body from the waist down has been submerged into the tree hole.
That's it.
Baomu gasped, and the soreness in his chest almost overwhelmed him.
When the tree hole swallowed up A Zhen's chest, the sky finally became brighter.
Baomu's pupils flickered in the swirling morning mist.
Ah Zhen read his eyes.
"Baomu, do you know my name?"
Baomu paused, then nodded stiffly.
"Your name is Zheng Zhen."
Ah Zhen smiled, and he grabbed Bao Mu's wrist with his backhand, "Just write my name on my arm."
Baomu lowered his head wordlessly, trying hard to restrain the trembling of his fingers.
No, it’s true.
The black pen tip carved blood-red words, and when the last stroke was settled, Ah Zhen's pale skin glowed with a transparent glow.
Bao Mu felt the last bit of strength coming from A Zhen's hand.
"Baomu, goodbye."
After a while, the glow dimmed into a fragmented black-gray color, and A-Zhen's body seemed to turn into a withered black flower, with ashes peeling off his skin. A gust of morning wind blew, and with a roar, A-Zhen turned into a flower.
It turned into a cloud of gray smoke, melted into the gradually spreading sunlight on the horizon, and disappeared into Bao Mu's eyes.
Baomu had no tears, he only felt tired.
He knelt there and looked at the big tree.
The Son of Light felt the master's mood, and stood at Baomu's feet, crying loudly.
All this...
Baomu lowered his head and looked at his hands that were still shaking desperately.
It's like the fragment that I have entered into my dreams countless times, the fragment that I don't want to recall...
It happened to be an episode that I absolutely cannot forget.
Once again, it happened again.
Baomu hugged his head, feeling that his hands were almost sinking into his skull.
Fate has never given up on torturing itself.
again and again...
The Son of Light's cries gradually faded, and it discovered something was wrong with its master. The little guy circled anxiously around Baomu's trembling body.
Baomu didn't know how long he had been kneeling here, nor how long the Sons of Light had been howling around it.
A familiar mechanical female voice brought him back to the game from his memories.
Baomu raised his face in a daze, looking at everything in front of him, feeling as if he was in another world.
"Attention internal players, attentive internal players..." The cold female voice actually came from the compass-shaped thing that A Zhen left behind before leaving, "The core area is opened for the second time, and there are players invading the core area... The core
The area was opened for the second time, and players invaded the core area..."
The voice was weak but clear. Baomu put the compass close to his ear and heard every word clearly.
The same words were repeated five times.
The desert is open again.
A player invaded...
Baomu wiped away the fatigue on his face and stood up decisively.
The Son of Light screamed happily and jumped onto Baomu's feet.
Whether it's his own goal or A-Zhen's goal, they all point to the same place.
desert.
core area.
After the message from the compass was transmitted, the pointer on the disk suddenly started to rotate rapidly, and not long after, it pointed in one direction.
The direction of the desert.
Baomu picked up the Son of Light and set off without saying a word.
Ye Bai, and Xiaolan.
Must find them.
***
Xiaolan walked in the dark for a long time, but this cliff seemed to have no end. No matter how he walked, he could not get around it.
Moreover, that female voice kept lingering in her ears.
"Here...here..."
It's so annoying.
"Stop screaming," Xiaolan kicked a stone angrily, "No one will come to save you even if you scream until your throat is broken."
It's really weird.
Why can't I get out?
Before Xiaolan's nagging words of complaint came out of her mouth, a rumbling tremor suddenly came from the top of her head.