Chapter 74 Heart of Darkness

Shen Yi saw Lao Meng at a castle on the edge of the harbor.

He was startled when he saw Lao Meng.

Is this still the self-proclaimed suave, sword-wielding knight-errant, heroic Lao Meng he knew?

Lao Meng in front of him was wearing a black hood that almost covered his entire body. Even so, Shen Yi still clearly saw Lao Meng's sunken eye sockets, a pair of eyeballs were more white than black.

It's only been seven days since I saw him. He seemed to be more than ten years old all of a sudden. Wrinkles appeared on his face, and he lost a whole circle of weight. Sometimes there is even a wince expression.

"Old Meng, how did you make yourself like this?" Rourou exclaimed.

She grabbed Lao Meng's hand, and that once powerful hand was now as jagged as a chicken's claw.

"Hehehehe, I can't think of it..." Lao Meng let out a bitter laugh: "You are right, gentle, this kind of thing can't be learned... Making undead creatures makes my flesh and blood invaded by corpse energy, turning me into a dead body. What a ghost."

His voice was no longer rough, but rather ghostly, indescribably erratic.

"But it's only been seven days!" Rourou exclaimed.

"A hundred and sixty-eight hours, to be exact."

Rourou felt a chill in her heart: "You said you haven't slept in the past seven days?"

"Yes, I didn't take a minute's rest. I was desperately arresting people, making them, arresting them again, and making them again..." Lao Meng's body trembled a few times: "It's like I've been possessed by a demon for the past few days. In it, I heard my heart calling, and I was happy. When I heard the wailing and miserable cries of those people, I would feel happy with my whole body. I was completely intoxicated in the pleasure of killing and blood, as if The orgasm comes... it's addictive."

"My God...it's the bloody witch's curse!"

Wenrou never believed that Lao Meng's nature could be so cruel.

Lao Meng squeezed out an ugly smile on his skinny face: "Yes, until yesterday when I accidentally saw my own face, I was taken aback by my appearance. Then I realized that the curse was real, I I was cursed, and my heart was infected. Originally, this curse would not be triggered if there was no temptation, maybe it will be eliminated after we return to the city. But I am too greedy... I shouldn't learn it... ...the curse is induced..."

He looked tenderly and said seriously: "I have fallen!"

Looking at Lao Meng tenderly and surprised, she grabbed Lao Meng's shoulder: "No, Lao Meng, you still have a chance. You see, you are still sober now, as long as you give up that thing immediately, you can still recover!"

"It's impossible." Lao Meng shook his head: "I know exactly what I'm encountering. Undead creation scroll is a very powerful summoning technique. As long as you have enough materials and time, you can have an entire army. But its price is to be eroded by this corpse aura and resentment. It is not damage, it just changes your appearance, making you look more scary, more like a necromancer."

"You are a warrior, not a necromancer!"

"Isn't that better? A necromancer with melee ability."

"Damn." Gentle scolded: "Stop being obsessed with obsession, do you really want to turn yourself into a skeleton in the end?"

"Stop persuading him, it's useless, he can't turn back." Shen Yi held Wen Rou and shook his head at her: "Whether it's the cursed heart, or his longing for power, or his current In such a state, he can’t go back.”

Rou Rou sent her eyes to Shen Yi for help: "He saved my life, Shen Yi...help him."

Shen Yi smiled wryly: "The problem is that he doesn't need help himself, on the contrary, we need his help."

Gentle and speechless.

Lao Meng laughed dryly, with a hoarse and ugly voice: "That's right, you are the ones who need my help. As for me, isn't it just ugly? What is that compared to great power... I know this idea is wrong, But my heart tells me so... come with me,

I'll show you some new gadgets I've made. "

Everyone followed Lao Meng into his castle, Rourou did not see the scene of hell she thought. The room was very clean, only some utensils and medicines, and even freshly cooked hot soup, but it was hard to say what was in it.

"Don't worry." Lao Meng said: "This is not my production place. After all, this is the area of ​​the harbor. The sound of wailing will bring me unnecessary trouble. This is a showroom, mainly used to house my new research. Some of the undead creatures. Some of them work well, and some of them don't work so well."

A white bone skeleton with six arms walked over unsteadily and opened the small door leading to the stairs for them.

Lao Meng pointed to the skeleton: "Six-armed skeletons, a failed product. I once hoped that they could become my main attacking force in close combat, with powerful attack power. It is a pity that their vitality is too fragile. There is not enough life support , they are not qualified to be melee units at all, so I use them to do some chores for me."

Shen Yi said casually: "Maybe you can make them long-range units, one can be worth three."

"Great idea, but would require three times as much weaponry. I didn't have the time and energy to find weapons for them, so I finally realized it wasn't a realistic idea and turned my attention to elemental skeletons. Come on in and see This guy, one of my favorite works."

Lao Meng led them into a room, and there was a black skeleton in it.

"Look at its attributes." Lao Meng said to Shen Yi with a smile.

Shen Yi uses spiritual exploration:

"Dark Skull: HP 600, Defense 20, Attack 30. Possesses skills 1 Dark Concealment 2 Dark Arrow 3 Death Enslavement."

Old Meng Youyou said: "There are still some things you don't know about your spiritual exploration. For example, the Dark Skull has extremely strong mobility. Its speed is equivalent to an adventurer with 30 points of agility. Its Dark Arrow is an elemental attack. Power 60 points, although not too high, but has a strong stability. Finally, the dark enslavement allows it to directly convert a killed life into a dark skeleton. However, the dark enslavement can only be used once, and is The transformed dark skeletons also do not have the ability to enslave darkness."

Everyone was shocked, Shen Yi blurted out: "This is not a low-level undead creature."

"intermediate."

Gentle and puzzled: "Then how did you break through this limitation?"

Old Meng Youyou replied: "The Heart of Darkness made me bloodthirsty and crazy, and it also gave me the ability to strengthen undead creatures. If you pay, you will always get something."

Gentlely cried: "You have paid too much. It's only been seven days. Look at what you have become. If you continue like this, you will be walking dead in a short time. While you are still awake , Hurry up and stop!"

Lao Meng turned a deaf ear: "Originally I still have some good things, such as blood zombies, such as dark banshees, but it seems that you may not be too interested. Now tell me what you can do with me."

"Originally, I just needed your help for some small tasks. Now it seems that you may give me more help. Let's find a place to talk."

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In the reception room on the third floor of the castle, Lao Meng was listening to Shen Yi's words.

Shen Yi got straight to the point: "I want to kill Diablo."

Lao Meng's white eyes almost protruded from their sockets.

Even with his current crazy and blood-thirsty heart of darkness, after hearing Shen Yi's words, he couldn't hold back the palpitations in his heart and he jumped wildly.

"Are you kidding me? Diablo is the final boss of the fourth difficulty, and you may not even be able to clear the third difficulty!"

"I know, so we need enough manpower."

"That's useless." Lao Meng shook his head: "I've seen Beria transformed into Diablo, and that guy's strength is really too strong. Beria only showed part of his strength, and everyone is not on the same level at all. At the level, it is no longer a problem that can be solved by numbers! It has a large-area group attack skill, and the range of hundreds of meters between waving hands is its attack area. Compared with its group attack ability, the largest group attack around you The range of adventurers, the area is less than one-tenth of its area, and the damage is less than one-third! To deal with us, it only needs to use two group attack skills in a row, and we will all die! Who survived last time? It's luck!"

"It's not just luck." Shen Yi replied: "We must thank Beria, it let us know Diablo's strength, and also pointed me to a direction to kill it."

"What direction?"

"The four demon kings join forces." Shen Yi said, taking out Andariel's blood, Duriel's blood, and Belial's blood: "We all know that in the background of the dark world, the three major demon gods were expelled by the four demon kings." Out of hell. Although it was done by the four demon kings with the assistance of tens of thousands of hell legions, it is undeniable that when the four hell demon kings are combined, they have the ability to fight at least one of the demon gods the power of."

Gentle interface: "We now have three bottles of the blood of the devil king of hell, and the blood of Azmodan, the king of evil, is also the strongest blood of the devil king of hell. As long as we can gather four bottles of blood of the devil king of hell, then we will If the four of you use it, you will have the power to temporarily fight the demon god."

"Are you crazy?" Lao Meng yelled: "Exchanging four bottles of the blood of the demon king of hell in exchange for killing the demon god Diablo, not to mention whether it will succeed or not, even if it succeeds, this is a loss-making business!"

"At least you can change the bottle of the blood of the demon god. Maybe the price is not suitable, but you know that blood is a thing that focuses on quality rather than quantity." Shen Yi smiled.

Lao Meng shook his head: "This is impossible! Even if you use four bottles of the blood of the hell devil king, you only have part of the strength of the hell devil king. This is completely different from the real four hell devil kings and war gods! Your vitality alone is far from enough. In addition, you only have three minutes to fight, and you can't kill it in three minutes. That guy's vitality is at least 10,000 points, maybe 20,000 or so More. Even if it stands there for you to kill, you will have to chop it for a long time!"

Shen Yi took out another thing from the coat of arms: "Scroll of Holy Refuge: Create a holy refuge within a 10*10 range after use. All attacks in the refuge will be invalid. The priority is 200, and the effective time is 30 minutes."

"This is the harvest of Lu Gaoyin's mission, how did it get into your hands?"

"It cost 10,000 points and a D-grade ruby ​​to buy from the brothers of the Chang family."

The original mission of the mysterious refuge was snatched by the Chang family brothers. These two brothers are the strongest among the scattered crowd, so it is not surprising that they can win it. After talking with the girl in white, the first thing Shen Yi did was to ask King Kong to buy this scroll from the brothers of the Chang family at a high price.

Lao Meng couldn't stop talking about this - buying a consumption scroll with 10,000 points is definitely not a small sum, which also shows Shen Yi's determination to take this task.

But he still shook his head: "That's still not enough."

"So we still need other preparations, including asking other adventurers to help us fight together... Even if they can consume a little more of Diablo's life, it is good to share one more attack."

"They won't agree."

"We don't need their consent." Shen Yi said with certainty: "We only need to summon the Demon God Diablo when they help us kill the Sin King and get his blood."

He took out the mask of the demon god, and Lao Meng understood a little bit: "Hurry up to put ducks on the shelves?"

"yes."

"Then what do you want me to do for you?"

Shen Yi lowered his head and thought for a while, then replied: "In the battle of Kurast, we lost three people. Before going to kill the Lord of Sin, we have to go through the battle of Cui Fanke again. Because I need to get the skill scroll there, That can further enhance our strength. However, due to the huge trade-off between strengths, the Trevank mission is likely to cost us more manpower. According to my estimation, at least seven or eight people will die in order to complete this mission Personally... probably more."

Lao Meng understood a little bit: "After they complete Cui Fanke's mission, considering the further widening of the gap in strength, the rest of the people will definitely not go with you to break into the cage of hatred mission. If you want to kill evil It is impossible to kill the king, let alone kill Diablo."

"Yes." Shen Yi nodded and admitted: "This is a continuous plan, just like walking up the stairs, you have to go up step by step, and you can't miss a link in the middle."

"What does that have to do with me?"

"You should know that we started with the third task, and we didn't complete the first and second tasks."

"yes."

"I did it on purpose. The reason why I did this at the time was mainly to take advantage of the chance that some adventurers did not get off the death list, and force everyone to solve difficult tasks early. take advantage of."

"Hehe, it's indeed your style. While gaining the maximum benefit, you also make others have nothing to say."

"But it won't work this time. If you want them to go to the prison of hatred with me, you must have a reason for them to go. Skill upgrade scrolls are a good thing. As long as we take down Cui Fanke, someone will definitely fight for it." They don’t have any capital to compete with us. But if we let go and give up some scrolls, they will definitely fight for them, and they will even be willing to bear certain debts if necessary..."

Shen Yi didn't go on talking, but Lao Meng suddenly realized: "The reason why they dare to go into debt is because there are still two easiest tasks to solve. For them, that is the best way for them to repay their debts. But if they After taking on the debt, someone suddenly snatched all the first and second missions before them..."

King Kong interface: "Then they will be in a dangerous situation immediately. They will find that they have nowhere to go except to storm the hate cage. Even if they only owe a little blood point, they will be forced to only pass the third difficulty."

Lao Meng said coldly: "And I'm the best person to grab the first and second missions and drive them to a dead end, right? After all, they will never believe that I can single out two missions... Do you know that by doing this, you are making me the public enemy of all adventurers?"

Hong Lang sneered: "You are almost becoming the public enemy of mankind, how many adventurers are you afraid of?"

Shen Yi said leisurely: "After this mission, there are probably not many who can go back alive. Whether the rest of the people are afraid of you or hate you, they can't be your opponent. You have worked hard to kill With so many people and so many undead creatures, isn’t the ultimate goal to complete the task? We will give you the two simplest tasks, which are exactly what you need and you will definitely do them. The only thing I have What is required is to cooperate with us in terms of time. You must complete these two tasks after the auction of Trevank's task. It is not difficult for you, is it?"

"Of course it's not difficult." Lao Meng sneered: "Shen Yi, I thought I had a heart of darkness, and I was already the craziest and bloodthirsty person in the bloody city, but I didn't expect you to be more vicious than me. Everyone is pushing towards death!"

"Forget it, my compassion is only for friends." Shen Yi said indifferently: "Oh, yes, after completing the first and second missions, if you are interested, you can also come to hate the cage, don't worry about those adventurers, They need your strength, and they absolutely dare not do anything to you, let alone we support you. In addition, I plan to buy constitution potions from you, and of course, I will give you an absolutely good price."

"I'm not going to fight Diablo to death."

"Since I have told you the plan, it is impossible to harm you. I just need you to help us get through the cage of hatred. You can leave there before we kill the Sin King. Before we get the Sin King's blood, I It’s impossible to summon Diablo. Of course, if you want, you can save some dark skulls for me, and I can pay for them, but they can’t be brought back anyway, so wouldn’t it be best to sell them?”

Lao Meng bowed his head and thought for a while.

Finally, he nodded and said: "Well, since we were friends once, I can help you with this. But you have to give me a person, so that we can contact each other conveniently, and you can also help me fight. Take some pressure off."

Shen Yi nodded and stood up: "Luo Hao will follow you from now on. His leadership halo just happens to be useful to you, and you don't have to grab points, you can almost enjoy all the benefits."

"With one person missing, how do you explain to others?"

Shen Yi released the liquid metal terminator, and under Shen Yi's instructions, it transformed into a fat man.

Shen Yi smiled and said: "With it, there will be no problem."

"Then... happy cooperation." Lao Meng stretched out his skinny claws.

"Happy cooperation!"