"hiss……"
Larmore took a slight breath and took a step back subconsciously.
He couldn't understand what Mullen was doing, nor why this guy was having an awkward conversation with a person in a [death] state.
He just felt that the atmosphere was too weird and scary, very much like the scenes in the horror movies he had watched.
As the name suggests.
A player in the [Dead] state is a player judged to be dead by the system.
Their H has been reset to zero and there is no way to perform any operations.
This includes moving the body, releasing skills, and performing any other game operations.
And players in the [dead] state will not last long.
Most [death] states only last a few minutes at most.
If in these short few minutes.
If the player does not use [Resurrection Coins], or does not receive resurrection and healing from [Priest] or other sources.
Then they will truly die, end the [death] state, and go to [Netherworld Purgatory].
So in other words.
The [death] state can be roughly understood as the time a player can struggle at the last moment.
And [Ancient Prison Breath] has been able to maintain its [Death] state since 1.0 until now. This in itself is quite incredible.
If placed in the previous life, this would be like a person whose body has not rotted away after more than ten years of death...
This kind of thing is quite scary just thinking about it.
But if you put it in the Holy Spirit Realm, it barely feels reasonable.
Coupled with the [Forbidden Magic] studied by Ancient Prison Breath, it itself has considerable power.
so.
In this world, everything is possible.
But having said that.
After Mullen greeted him cordially, the other party did not respond to his greeting.
Players in the [dead] state are very much like vegetative beings.
Therefore, they have almost no perception of the existence of various sounds, lights and other things in the outside world.
However, Mullen himself knew this very well, so he didn't pay attention to Gu Yuxi's reaction, and just talked to himself.
"Governor Mullen."
"Can I take the liberty of asking you a question?"
Larmore on the side asked cautiously in a low voice:
"I'm curious."
"How do you know that Gu Yuxi is not dead yet?"
Mullen did not answer the other party's words immediately.
He just opened his [Inventory] and slowly took out something.
[Item: Frozen Heart]
[Type: Special Item]
[Details: A heart sealed inside by hard ice! If you listen carefully, you will see that it is beating with all its strength even in the extreme cold of zero degrees...]
[Note: This prop cannot be discarded or destroyed. ]
Frozen... heart?
And it’s a [Special Item]?
Larmore was slightly startled.
In the Holy Spirit Realm, things that can be defined as [special items] are actually extremely rare in quantity.
Because they generally possess quite rare attributes, or their hidden functions.
Let’s not talk about anything else for now.
This [Frozen Heart], with its simple remarks, is already worthy of its positioning as a [Special Item].
“Do not throw away or destroy” – that’s what it means in a nutshell.
Under the rules of the system, there is absolutely no way for this thing to disappear out of thin air.
First of all, being unable to drop means that it can only be taken from one's [Backpack Slot]
, transfer it to another [backpack column].
And cannot be destroyed means that this item cannot be destroyed.
Even if you take it out of the [backpack column], throw it off the cliff, soak it in aqua regia, throw it into the crater of a volcano...
It will also not disappear from your [Backpack Slot].
There is only one way to make it disappear from the [Backpack Column].
That is to find a way to trigger the hidden effect of this item and use it reasonably.
"Do you know what this is?"
Mullen looked at Larmore and asked calmly.
"have no idea……"
Larmore shook his head and expressed doubts about this: "It can't be a [drop] from the wild area of [Wannian Snow Mountain]..."
"But it feels unlikely."
"After all, the [Ten Thousand Years Snow Mountain] is in the north, and there is still a long way to go from the Marton Empire."
"And the Principality of Orenst is located in the southernmost part of Malton."
"Most people who live in Orenst don't even see snow all year round."
"So..."
"I really can't think of it."
It was probably as expected. Mullen didn't show much surprise or other expressions.
He just said in a somewhat calm tone: "This is the heart of [Ancient Prison Breath]."
"???"
Lamour was stunned.
The heart of Ancient Prison Breath?
No way?
This answer obviously surprised Larmore.
But if you concentrate your attention and look at the thing in Mullen's hand seriously.
You will find out.
The frozen heart seemed to be flickering, emitting a blue light.
Just like a breathing lamp, it has a stable frequency and rhythm.
that moment.
Larmore seemed to have a wonderful illusion.
just like……
That [Frozen Heart] is really like a living thing.
Soon, however, Larmore discovered.
This matter does not seem to be that simple.
Because of that [frozen heart]——
It seems that it really has some kind of vitality.
When Mullen held it and gradually approached the ancient prison breath in the tomb.
It was as if a certain connection was suddenly established between it and the Ancient Prison Breath.
The first is the flashing frequency of [Frozen Heart], which suddenly became much faster.
One after another, fine blue threads overflowed from the [Frozen Heart].
Then he slowly reached out and finally connected to the body of Ancient Prison Breath.
It was as if a few temporarily constructed blood vessels began to continuously deliver blood and nutrients to a mummy in a refrigerated state.
And then there is.
The ancient prison breath in the [death] state slowly opened his eyes and regained consciousness.
"..."
This scene almost made Larmore's eyes explode.
Damn it!
This is so damn scary!
This [Ancient Prison Breath] has been dead since version 1.0 and has been buried in the cemetery.
Not only is he not dead, he is actually a corpse!
It can be said that Larmore has a hundred regrets in his heart now.
A batch he now regrets.
I regretted myself, why on earth did I come to such a ghost place with Mullen.
It would be better to just die in the office with Lu Zhi...
Maybe the scenes in [Netherworld Purgatory] are not as scary as they are now.
but.
Although I was scared to death.
But Larmore can still probably guess it.
This should be the special effect of [Frozen Heart].
"haven't seen you for a long time……"
After waking up slightly.
Gu Yuxi looked at Mulun in front of him and let out a hoarse whisper:
"What I want..."
"You brought..."
Mullen nodded, smiled slightly and said:
"right."
"Your heart is in my hands now."
Yes, that's right.
This [Frozen Heart] is the heart of Ancient Prison Breath.
Just before Gu Yuxi was killed by the Kingdom's expedition team.
The forbidden technique that Gu Yuxi spent many years studying has finally come to fruition.
This forbidden technique can make his H return to zero, and when he enters the [death] state, the [Special Item] [Frozen Heart] will drop from his body.
Immediately afterwards.
This [Special Item] will directly enter the killer's [Backpack Slot].
——That is, the great magician Xia Mingzhe who once killed him.
And [Frozen Heart] has only one function.
That is the breath of the ancient prison in the state of resurrection [death].
After that, its owner, Ancient Prison Breath, will always be alive in a state of [death].
——Dead, but not quite dead.
This is the horror of the forbidden spell of Ancient Prison Breath.
And that’s the most unreasonable thing about this [special item].
It is an item that cannot be made to disappear.
Even if Xia Mingzhe is killed, [Frozen Heart] will be exploded from the [Backpack Column].
It will also automatically enter the [backpack] of the next killer.
In other words.
As long as this thing continues to exist, the ancient prison breath is equivalent to never truly dying.
It's just a pair of heavy shackles placed on its body.
As long as someone can find this key and find him willingly, he can unlock this shackles for him.
Then he is truly resurrected.
I have been waiting for the rest of the ancient prison for many years.
Then finally came Mullen.
"very good……"
"very good……"
Gu Yuxi's withered face and narrow mouth slowly opened to both sides.
A burst of particularly horrifying laughter came from the deep throat of the ancient prison breath.
"You did a great job, Mullen..."
"hurry up……"
"give it to me……"
Gu Yuxi laughed greedily.
He stretched out his hand towards Mullen, like a child rushing to eat candy, with a look of infinite desire visible to the naked eye.
However.
Just when the hand of Ancient Prison Breath was about to touch [Frozen Heart].
Mullen's hand, as if teasing, took the ice blue [Special Item] back a few centimeters.
He didn't give up after grabbing the empty Ancient Prison Breath, and stretched out his withered fingers a few centimeters forward.
Mullen moved back a few centimeters.
that's all.
Under Mullen's techniques and operations, the distance between the ancient prison breath and [the frozen heart] has always been just a tiny bit, and it is difficult to move even an inch.
"What do you mean, Mullen..."
Gu Yuxi's face twisted, revealing a somewhat unreadable expression.
But Larmore could roughly feel that this was probably an expression of anger with a hint of incompetence.
"Means nothing."
Mullen smiled slightly and said: "Things, I
Of course I can give it to you. "
"But there are prerequisites."
"I'm not stupid enough to work for free."
Gu Yuxi said coldly: "What do you want?"
"strength."
Mullen said bluntly.
He grinned slowly, revealing a ferocious smile.
And looked directly into Gu Yuxi's eyes, and sneered quietly:
"I want--"
"Your power."
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A sunny Monday.
The first ray of warm sunshine in the morning slowly fell on the earth.
The bedside alarm clock rang.
Lu Qingge slowly opened her eyes and sat up on the bed on time.
He opened the curtains, walked to the wall with squinted eyes, and opened a new page of the calendar.
"finally."
"This day is still coming."
Lu Qingge murmured.
On top of the latest page of the calendar.
A line of large characters left by an ink pen suddenly floated on it——
"Job Transfer Ceremony".
