When the warmth of the sun filled the earth, Lu Ning walked out of the cave first. She took off the bandage on her hand. The wound had begun to scab under the influence of the herbs. Just as she was observing carefully, a hand was handed to her. Here comes a pair of black leather gloves.
Turning his head, he could see Ning Yeyi's somewhat concerned expression.
"The inside is made of pure cotton and has been breathable, which can protect the wound and make it easier for you to move."
"How many pairs of gloves did you bring?" Lu Ning took it with a smile and put on the gloves. They were obviously made of leather but had very good elasticity, and the softness inside would not touch the wound. It was obviously a high-end product.
"Decipher the habit of hobbies. I will bring several spare pairs." Ning Yeyi patted his bulging pockets. There was obviously a lot in it.
"Did we faint? Did we go back to daylight?"
Tu Men and a few others walked out shoulder to shoulder, obviously in good spirits. After the red light appeared last night, everyone lost consciousness, just like what Lu Ning had experienced. And it turns out that the Fishman Cave can indeed prevent time from resetting.
"Now can we go back to the village to do something?" Deng Wei was gearing up and couldn't help but take advantage of the huge advantage brought by time reset. However, at this time, Zhao Chenshuang walked up to them and said, "I think we should discuss action issues."
"yes."
Chen Fangyu was more steady, and he immediately understood what Zhao Chenshuang meant.
"We've been taken care of, now you have to decide whether to take us with you, right?"
"The decision is up to you - but what I must tell you in advance is that once you decide to stay, you must obey our orders completely, and you must not violate it in the slightest until the end of this test."
Chen Fangyu's eyes moved around everyone, and finally fell back on Zhao Chenshuang.
"There are so many of you?"
"We will first reach consensus within our team."
"That's it..." The man thought for a moment and smiled helplessly, "Sorry, I still have teammates. I have to find them. I will remember your kindness, but I will definitely give priority to my teammates."
Zhao Chenshuang nodded and moved her body aside to get out of the way.
"You are the captain and have made such a decision. I respect your wishes, so please leave now."
After Chen Fangyu thanked Lu Ning and others one by one, he hurriedly left with his three companions.
The remaining ones are Deng Wei, the three of them, and the young man who was locked up with Tumen.
"There are only three of us. I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to pass this unlucky promotion test. Maybe I can get to the second level by hanging with you? Haha, it just depends on whether you can accept people like me, Old Deng." Deng Wei But he was very open-minded, and his two brothers also meant the same thing.
The young man finally spoke tremblingly: "I'm going with you! I want to live! I want to rise to the second level! I definitely don't want to go back!"
There seems to be some story behind such a violent reaction. Lu Ning and her companions looked at each other, but did not ask. Zhao Chenshuang then asked about their names and strengths.
Deng Wei's two brothers are named Xu Hu and Luo Zhibin. The three of them are wilderness survival enthusiasts. Their skills are actually quite useful to people who want to live in the mountains. The young man's name was Yu Yi. He claimed to be a fast runner and had practiced gymnastics. In addition, he had some fighting skills that people in the distribution center would train.
After a formal acquaintance, Zhao Chenshuang was just about to speak when there was movement in the woods not far away.
Cheng Wuling slowly walked over from the downstream direction. Her clothes were still straight. Although they were a little dirty, they did not affect the overall situation. Seeing her, several people breathed a sigh of relief.
"How did you find us?" Su Zhilan waved and asked a little doubtfully.
"Water channel - we will talk about this later." Cheng Wuling reached out and scratched her hair. This action made her cold feeling disappear immediately.
"Is there anything to eat? I'm a little hungry."
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After eating some dried meat and drinking some water, Cheng Wuling took the initiative to speak without waiting for others to ask questions.
"We first sort out the issues of time and space."
She broke off a branch and began to draw neat, long and thin characters on the moist soil beside the stream.
[At half past six in the evening - half past seven (escape from prison) - around eight o'clock (hunting) - ten o'clock (time freeze) - twelve o'clock (correct time) rebound occurs - morning]
"This is where all the key moments happened so far in our last week. Then comes the rules."
Cheng Wuling left a blank line and continued writing.
[1. Reset applies to all creatures and items. Although rebound occurs in the red moon, underground cells that are not exposed to red moonlight will still be reset. In other words, being unable to receive moonlight is not a condition.
2. If the deceased is not reset, the body will remain in the position where it died, but for unknown reasons, the rate of decay will accelerate.
3. The cave with Moon Lake can avoid reset, but you will still faint when the reset occurs.
4. For people who use the above methods to avoid reset, the items on their body will not be reset. 】
Lu Ning and others looked at these articles and fell into thinking.
No one asked how these were verified, because they could guess that the process was definitely not a good one.
"Then there is the issue of space. First of all, there should be an empty mountain in this mountain range. I made waterway maps and contour simulations based on nearby waterways, and then reanalyzed the locations of several known Moon Lake caves. Based on the water vein conditions, the conclusion is that these caves should be located at the same altitude."
"Wait...wait! The same altitude, doesn't that mean..." Lu Ning naturally understood what this meant.
"They are most likely the same piece of water - not connected by streams and rivers above ground, but connected by water veins through the ground. It's like a row of test tubes connected underneath, and the water level is always the same."
"How did you deduce the hollow mountain?" Zhao Chenshuang asked.
"If you can listen to the fish-man songs to the end, their last sentence is 'When you are reborn and return to your mother's arms, the eternal and illusory golden moon will always protect the descendants who pray under the fluorescent light.'" Cheng. Wu Ling said, "The so-called 'returning to the mother's arms' means returning to their place of origin. Combining this information, I speculate that they must have a lair that cannot be entered by ordinary means. The most likely one is that it can only be entered through underground water veins. An underground lake in a hollow in the mountains.”
"If you can finish listening to it...you are great." Lu Ning was really convinced. At least her self-control was not strong enough to finish listening to the fishman singing.
"The mountain village, the hunter's cabin, and the location where you met the pig-faced man. We need to confirm the latter two now. Well... In the end, it is my personal speculation."
Cheng Wuling stretched out his hands slightly and sat down on a big rock. The branches quickly drew an arc in the air.
"First of all, the one who cast the curse here, let's call it 'god'. This god threw a curse on this mountain for some unknown reason, and then another god of the same level appeared. Their strength is equal, so This god could not lift the curse, but could only teach the villagers how to transfer the curse - this is the mountain village. However, on the other side, another god gave birth to his descendants here. This god saw his two companions. Some crazy practices, worried that their descendants would be treated the same way, so they hid the secrets of their descendants..."
"Flocculant?"
"Yes, just like the name of this mission, the root of all logic and cause and effect here lies in blood, cursed blood, foreign blood, and god's blood." The branch in Cheng Wuling's hand suddenly pierced ground.
"The foreign blood is called in different ways, which actually corresponds to the binary opposition given by the gods. The villagers were cursed and the 'rotten blood' seems to us to be the 'clean blood'; the fish people are the descendants of the gods. But because of unknown reasons, we lost the blessing of the gods and called ourselves the 'abandoned blood', but to the gods, we are still the 'wandering blood' without gods. So now there is another problem."
A very cartoon pig shape appeared in the soil under Cheng Wuling's hand, and a meaningful smile appeared on her face at some point.
"Pig-faced people—what do they call themselves? And what do they think of us?"
"Is this... important?"
Chu Jianting had never seen such a battle before, and for a moment he didn't understand why Cheng Wulin was so concerned about this issue.
"Very important."
Lu Ning, Zhao Chenshuang, and Ning Yeyi spoke out at the same time.
Chu Jianting looked at them.
"As Cheng Wuling said, we don't know how many gods are the source of all this..." Lu Ning is accustomed to estimating according to the maximum number.
"There is a certain degree of correspondence between God and the people here, and they have been managing it behind the scenes." Zhao Chenshuang raised the corner of her mouth.
"This involves the number of final bosses we need to prepare to deal with when we want to eradicate the blood disaster, as well as our strategy on how to lure them out individually." Ning Yeyi rolled her hair around her ears with her fingers and said directly to her The greatest ambition.
"Hey... that's... God..." After listening to their words, Deng Wei began to wonder if following these people was the right decision.
"Gods are just names for convenience. Yes, they cast curses, set up restricted areas, manipulate time, and hide their whereabouts. However, don't forget that the fishmen's gods are dead or have disappeared. In short, they may be more A transcendent life, but definitely not an invincible creature, otherwise the last mission would be meaningless."
Cheng Wuling had stopped laughing and returned to his indifferent expression.
"And as long as there is life, there will be an equal death."
