Gunfire, Punk & Necromancers

In half an hour, everyone in the world was basically dead; and in a dozen days, the only "person" left in the world was the Lich Master. Zhuang Xuteng tried to imagine that state, the so-called vast world, being alone, and the feeling of eternal loneliness, and he immediately shuddered.

He said: "If it were me, I would go crazy first. After I go crazy, I won't know anything."

"Compared to myself, I am crazy now." The Lich Master pointed to the skull and said: "This is not alarmism or posturing, but a very certain fact. If I did not become a lich, I would not It is possible to withstand such an impact. Therefore, becoming a lich changed my mind, soul, and attitude towards the world. I lost a lot of things without knowing it, and I still survive in a crazy state called a lich... …”

Zhuang Xuteng sighed: "Oh! It's too scary. Master Lich, I will accompany you when I am alive..."

The Lich Master stopped flying and looked at Zhuang Xuteng motionless, the darkness and light in his eye sockets trembling slightly. After a while, he said: "Thank you for your kindness, but accepting your kindness means that I will be sad when you die, leaving an eternal negative emotional memory point. Overall, I am at a loss. .”

"It makes sense." Zhuang Xuteng nodded, and then immediately began to quibble: "It is indeed a loss, but a loss does not necessarily mean a bad thing. You just need to change your mind and regard every eternal memory point, whether it is joy or sadness, as a good thing. That’s a good thing. Which one is better, a bookshelf of tragic novels or an empty bookshelf? I remember you said that boredom is the scariest thing, right?”

Master Lich nodded, rarely praising Zhuang Xuteng: "A little philosophy has begun to appear in your thoughts."

"Haha!" Zhuang Xuteng made a victory gesture. At this time, the rising sun disperses the haze, and the vast yellow salt lake reveals its true appearance. At the end of the endless flat land is a series of mountains. The undulating peaks are the ripples of the earth, but the time span of their ups and downs is measured in ten thousand years.

The world is empty, with no birds or reptiles to be seen. There is only the whine of the wind in my ears, the last breath of the silent world. Zhuang Xuteng used Kaho's Eye and magnified the telescope to the extreme, but still couldn't find the animal. The world is occupied by surviving vegetation, and their fruits are still hanging on the branches according to inertia, but this time there is no life to visit them.

Zhuang Xuteng thought of something: the mold on the dead bodies, they might also be full of life.

"It's very vast and spectacular... but when I think about not having a living person, I feel uncomfortable." Zhuang Xuteng rubbed his chest and pointed to his stomach and explained to the Lich Master: "It feels like a twist."

"This feeling is normal, but there is not a living person in this world: the pioneering team and the excavation team of the four major companies. Zhuang Xuteng, come on, put this on."

Master Lich stretched out his hand and grabbed it in the air, and there was a thick ring held on his fingertips. The body of the ring should look bony, with changes that mimic the shape of the finger joints. There is a blood-red gemstone on the ring holder, carved with a skull pattern. In the eye sockets of that gem skull, two masses of black ink are always slowly rotating.

"Thank you. What is this?" Zhuang Xuteng took the ring with both hands and looked at it in his palms. The ring gave him a warm feeling and felt comfortable to the touch, as if it was part of his body. He shook his head to get rid of this obvious illusion, and then noticed that the ink droplets in the skull's eye sockets were always looking at him like eyes.

"Invisibility Ring." Master Lich grabbed it in the air, and another identical ring appeared in his hand. He put on the ring and suddenly disappeared from Zhuang Xuteng's eyes. "If you put it on, you can see me."

Zhuang Xuteng blinked, all functions of Kahuo's Eye were activated, but the Lich Master was still not visible. However, Wraith Jelly can touch a "form" and confirm that it is the Lich Master. But that "form" is not an "entity". It feels like a sick lady or a shadow: you can feel the outline, but as long as you apply a little force, the force will penetrate through and the outline will disappear at the same time.

He immediately put the ring on, and the world around him dimmed a little, as if one of the candles in a room illuminated by a thousand candles was missing - only those who are extremely sensitive to the environment can detect it. And the Lich Master was beside him, his body exuding a gleaming white light. Zhuang Xuteng lowered his head and looked at himself. The soft white light was also on him.

"Strong!" Zhuang Xuteng gave a thumbs up and said: "This is the strongest invisibility I have ever seen, and only the Wraith Jelly can notice it at all. Master Lich, can you give me this invisibility ring from now on?"

"This ring is very rare. There are only three of them in the world, and they are all with me..."

Zhuang Xuteng was afraid that the Lich Master would not agree, so he quickly said: "There is no one else in the world. The two of us can only leave one for the world."

Master Lich shook his head and said: "The ring is for you, you can use it however you want. You misunderstood me: the concept of preciousness comes from a society where certain resources are relatively scarce. When there are no people in the world, Preciousness should die along with society, and it will not be the deciding factor in giving it to you or not. I just want to say: This ring is only useful here. After you go back, it will just be a solid piece of jewelry."

Zhuang Xuteng huffed at the ring, wiped it with his hand, and said: "The first physical gift you gave me, even if it is just a stone, I will cherish it. Huh? The ring can only be used here, so Is it for defense companies?”

The Lich Master nodded and said: "Outside the Wall of Sighs, the company continues to explore. They cannot pass the Wall of Sighs, and the climate and environment here are just obstacles for them. There are always ways to overcome them. I am sighing I’ve seen them outside the wall several times, and they use drones for reconnaissance, and that thing can see very far.”

Seeing far away is not a problem. The problem is that all living creatures with brains in this world are dead, and the entire food chain has collapsed. As long as plants that sway in the wind are excluded, those that are still moving are considered suspicious targets.

This is so conspicuous! It's like a black coal mountain growing out of the vast snow, with 800,000 lumens of neon lights projecting "I'm here" advertisements in all directions. Zhuang Xuteng is very aware of the power of the Kaho's Eye in his eye socket. He believes that the unmanned reconnaissance drone of the company's development team must be more powerful. It can divide the picture into more, more precise and clearer small pieces for analysis, and every pixel Nothing will be missed.

The light is very fast - Zhuang Xuteng has already returned the details to the teacher as to how fast it is - it must be faster than his seven or eight flashes. He absolutely believed that he might still have a chance to discover each other with the drone, but it was absolutely impossible to discover and hide in advance. With an invisibility ring, this danger can be avoided.

Being able to remain undetected must be the best option. Even if the Lich Master's teleportation skills are very strong and he will not be caught, the strange figure will definitely arouse curiosity and make the company invest more efforts in tracking. The trouble will only increase rather than decrease. "Eh? Master, there's something I don't understand: you can teleport away with a swipe at any time," Zhuang Xuteng asked, "How were you caught?"

"If I explain it now, you will think I am stupid. Wait until I show you something and you will understand." The Lich Master then stretched out his hand to Zhuang Xuteng and ordered: "Grab it!"

The moment the palms touched, the teleportation occurred and then ended. Because super-computing martial arts enhanced Zhuang Xuteng's cognitive sensory abilities, he experienced the "process" of teleportation more clearly than ordinary people: a feeling of weightlessness of about four milliseconds, and a brief, tiny horizontal translation toward the Lich Master. His whole body trembled, and the resentful spirit in his body trembled for a moment.

He shivered, "reset" his senses, and adapted to the surrounding environment. At this moment, he was no longer in the salt lake, but in a dark valley. The surrounding lush trees stretched straight to the heights, trying to spread their branches and leaves to snatch the sunlight from above; while the roots of the trees under their feet were entangled with each other, trying to break the root systems of other trees. But these crazy competing trees are not the reason for the darkness, it is the lack of sunlight here.

"How far have we teleported?" Zhuang Xuteng asked.

"A quarter of the planet." Master Lich pointed forward and said, "The thing I want you to see is over there."

The teleportation only brought Zhuang Xuteng over, and his resentful spirit jelly was cut off and left on the salt lake. Therefore, Zhuang Xuteng summoned the resentful spirit jelly again while walking forward with the Lich Master. Under a dead tree that was full of gaps and had no crown at all, Wraith Jelly touched a corpse. This should be what the Lich Master asked him to see.

To be precise, it was once a corpse, and now only the outer clothes and implants are left, and the other parts have all turned into dust, so it can also be described as a body bag. Wrapping the wreckage is an orange-yellow fully enclosed biochemical suit, with a high-strength glass hood, backpack breathing filter and internal circulation system, auxiliary jet power, omnidirectional radar and battlefield environment incident processing shadow slave...

On the right side of the body, a figure that Zhuang Xuteng had never seen before lay quietly in the gun ring. Unlike the rest of the body, it did not rest on the network of tree roots, but was embedded in it. With the consent of Master Lich, Zhuang Xuteng broke the roots of the tree and picked up the shadow from the gun ring. The inner side of the gun ring is engraved with the Sanliu Charity Foundation's item code, item name and owner information: This is a Trail Blazers 33rd Generation Shadow Gun Ring, belonging to "XOV"

The logo on the biochemical protective suit also proves that this person belongs to the Sanliu Charity Foundation, but there is no other identifying information. There are many product and equipment numbers, but I only told Zhuang Xuteng the name and could not provide any more useful information. Zhuang Xuteng covered it with the resentful spirit jelly and found that there was a two-centimeter tear on the lower back of the protective suit, but the rest of the suit was intact. Since there was no body, Zhuang Xuteng could not analyze the cause of death, so he speculated that it might be related to the damage.

"I heard that the pioneer team all acted alone. They are either dead, or their bodies should be recovered...Looking at him lying here so peacefully, with a shadow gun at hand, but there are no traces of damage around him, so he is facing I didn’t see the enemy before he died. Let me guess: he was teleported here by you, and most likely after death, so he was not collected.”

The Lich Master nodded. "That's right. I used the invisibility ring to track this exploration team and tried to understand their language, and then this guy became abnormal. His behavior was very similar to the people I protected behind the Wall of Sighs, so I judged him He will die soon. A corpse is just right for a necromancer. So as soon as he dies, I will teleport him here to study it alone."

"What did you study?" Zhuang Xuteng asked.

"There was no research at all. I teleported the body over, and he became like this. I didn't understand implants at the time, so when I saw these things inside that seemed to be organs, but seemed too twisted and weird, I immediately concluded The people in your world are just human skins and are actually some kind of weird parasites."

Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head - he missed the point and could only listen quietly.

"Since then, I haven't touched it, and I haven't understood it. It wasn't until I went to your world and learned the knowledge of shadow slaves and other systems from you that I came to a conclusion." Master Lich said: " People in your world cannot survive in this world for a long time; I cannot survive in your world."

"After I passed through the Shadow Realm Passage, my body exploded. My consciousness was still there at the time, so I knew that most of my body fragments were entangled with the Shadow Realm Passage and disappeared at the same time. They must have retracted into this world and scattered around All over the world. I tried to control the remaining fragments to recreate a temporary body, but found that my spell was completely ineffective. Fortunately, my essential consciousness as a lich still had some effect, and the fragments gathered themselves together and could still be used as a hiding place. I hid my consciousness inside, and then I was treated as a living shadow, and finally met you."

"Once your people come into direct contact with the environment here, their lives will begin to count down. Some will die quickly, and some will die slowly, but as long as you don't return quickly, you will definitely die. This unlucky guy died because of the gap in his clothes. Part of his body turned to ash, but the Shadow Implant essentially still used the rules of this world, so it can survive."

Zhuang Xuteng quickly touched his face and asked, "How much time do I have?"

"You're fine, you're fine in both worlds. My necromancy and the resentment you store are exactly the same as the people in this world. You don't need to be completely isolated. You can stay as long as you want." Lich The master said: "I died once, so you can stand here safely now."

"Phew...that's good. Thank you." Zhuang Xuteng pointed at the corpse and said, "His death is not entirely the result of this world. Master, you must have contributed, right?"

"Yes, I did use some magic - a small means, nothing to mention. The main purpose of showing you this corpse is to tell you a truth: unfamiliar things can defeat anyone, whether it is the Lich Master, or An enhanced member of the company's development team. But as long as they are not killed, the survivors will definitely start to learn and eventually find a solution. The summary is: Don't give up until you achieve your goal."

I understand, but why are you telling me this? Zhuang Xuteng could only pretend to be asking for advice humbly, and changed the topic to the chatty Lich Master: "This person was a dead body when he came over! How come the Shadow Clan Gun Ring is embedded in the root of the tree?"

"It's nothing strange: I pressed it in without any effort." Master Lich straightened his chest, as if this was something to be proud of.