Volume 19, Chapter 158: Complete Chaos

Volume 19, Chapter 158: Complete chaos

Because Ditans said he was in a hurry to find me, I had no choice but to suspend my mission to run the World Tree and return to Essinger. From Essinger, transfer to Tianyu City and then to the Dark Temple. Ditans had already greeted the people in the temple. As soon as he saw me, two divine guards took me directly inside. The guards inside took over and sent me directly to a room to wait, and Ditans also walked in with a group of people a few minutes later.

"What happened to you calling me back in such a hurry?"

Ditans first signaled his entourage to close the door, then sat on the seat next to me and asked cautiously: "What exactly did you ask me to find?"

"Didn't I tell you it was a book?"

"What book can have such power?"

I was very confused about Ditans' question, so I turned to look at him and asked, "Excuse me, what is such a great power?"

Ditans probably also found that his question was too abrupt. When he heard my question, he quickly turned around and called several guys in black cloaks from his entourage over. There were quite a few of these guys in cloaks, fourteen in total, and all of them wore huge hoods that covered their entire faces, making it impossible to see their appearance clearly. Although this kind of dress is relatively common in the Dark Temple, it is a bit unreasonable to still look like this in the secret room. However, these people didn't let my curiosity wait long. As soon as they came to us, they immediately lifted their cloaks.

What is hidden under the cloak is not a shocking face. On the contrary, the appearance of these people is basically relatively normal. Although they generally look eye-catching, there are no super handsome guys or peerless beauties. If we compare normal People's faces are graded according to a 100-point scale. These people should be considered between 80 and 90 points, and they belong to the type that is relatively beautiful, but definitely not exaggerated.

Ordinarily, there should be nothing special about such a group of people, so I focused on observing their professions and equipment, and found that in addition to undead knights, these people also have professions such as vampire swordsmen or dark mages. Basically, they all It is a relatively common career type in the Dark Temple. To say it is special, it may mean that the level is higher, but there is nothing special about the rest.

Generally speaking, these people are a relatively ordinary group of Dark Temple combatants, at most they are relatively elite. I really can't see anything special about them, but Ditans' eyes and behavior clearly tell me that there is something wrong with these people. .

Ditans didn't interrupt me, so I continued to stare at these people. It wasn't until more than a minute passed that I suddenly realized what was special about these people.

"Eh? Where did you find such a group of multiples, Ditans?" Yes, the special thing about this group of people is that except for one guy who is a normal person, all of them are multiples.

Ditans immediately waved to those people after I discovered the problem, and then the group of people immediately formed five columns in front of us. The first five are five different people, but except for the one on the far left, there are people who are exactly like them standing behind the other four, who should be their twin brothers or twin sisters.

Standing in the row to my far left is a petite female vampire, wearing a red evening dress. She looks quite sexy and coquettish. She is the only single member of the team. To her left was a tall undead knight, and behind him stood his twin brother. On the left side of the Undead Knight is a male black mage wearing typical dark mage equipment, and behind him are his two triplets brothers. To the left of the black mage is a very beautiful female necromancer. Her race seems to be a complete lich, that is, a complete ghost form. Of course, this guy is also a multiple, and a quadruplet. There are three people behind him. They all look exactly like him. To the left of this row of lichs is a row of relatively rare shadow assassins. There are also four of them, but because the faces of the shadow assassins are wrapped like mummies, it is impossible to tell whether they are quadruplets, but before Judging from the interviews, most of these four guys are quadruplets.

After I asked him where he found so many twins, Ditans immediately clicked on the team of lichs and said, "Tell him who you are."

After receiving Ditans' order, the four Lich sisters immediately stepped forward and stood in a row and said in a neat voice: "I am the Arch Lich Olivia Ig. Walkerma."

When I heard four people announcing their names in a unified voice, I didn't react at first, but I soon realized something was wrong. "Wait, what did you say? Are you Olivia? The daughter that Ditans often showed off before?"

It's not news that this guy Ditans has a daughter, and it can be said that everyone in the Protoss knows it, because this daughter of Ditans is a genius necromancer, the kind that anyone can show off. He is the kind of genius child, so Ditans cannot help but often brag about how talented his daughter is, so that almost everyone who has dealt with him, whether it is an enemy or a friend, knows that he has such a daughter. .

Precisely because Ditans' daughter is so famous, it is naturally impossible for me as his partner not to know about the existence of this eldest lady. However, the eldest lady I know is only one, but the one in front of me is...

"Why did your daughter become four? Could it be that she was originally a quadruplet?" Although I thought it was unlikely, I still asked this question that was destined to not receive a positive answer.

Sure enough, Ditans shook his head and said: "I did only have one daughter, Olivia, but now..."

"Don't tell me they are all Olivia?"

Ditans nodded again and said: "The first five are the people I found for you to help you find the book. In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, I even sent my own daughter out. As a result, there was no one left in the team. They all came back, but Olivia became four people.”

"Wait a minute, I'm a bit 'messed up'." I first stopped Ditans's complaint, and then thought for a moment and said, "You mean, you sent a group of people including your daughter Olivia. Five people went to Antarctica to help me find books, but when the team came back, there were more people, right?"

"Yes, there were originally five people when we were sent out, but when we came back, it became fourteen, almost three times the number. How do you think you are going to compensate me? This time, because of you, I even lost my daughter. We all went in with you!"

"Stop it. Let me make it clear first that you have not lost anything. Not only are you not missing, but you have three more daughters. Ordinarily you have gained something."

"What are you talking about?" Ditans became angry when he heard what I said. "Okay, you think this can be considered as making money, right? Well, okay, you call your wife, and I'll have her take her to the Antarctic and get ten or eight of them back for you. How do you make money? "

"No, no, no, it's just a joke. I haven't figured out the situation yet! You suddenly copied ten or eight wives for me and it's okay for a while. But if you really do it, will my backyard be turned upside down?"

"Hmph, it's good that you know." Ditans said: "Although it's not a big trouble for me to have four daughters, it is still annoying enough. Tell me, what kind of book is that of yours? Why do you still bring it? You just changed into a human for no reason?"

"Please, I haven't seen that book before. It's a mission item. I just looked for it according to the mission. I don't know what the ability of that thing is. Except that I know that the book should be one of the three World Trees. Apart from this, I don’t know as much as you do! Can you let me talk to them first to find out how this person came to be?”

Ditans called me here just to figure out the situation, so he didn't stop me and asked Olivia to explain it to me. As a gifted child, Olivia's logical thinking is still very clear. It only took her more than ten minutes to tell me the general situation of the entire incident.

According to Olivia, after receiving the order from Ditans, the five of them used the Dark Temple's large shadow projection device to transfer them all to the Antarctic at once. After that, the process of finding the book was relatively simple. , it basically didn’t take long to find the underground ice cave where the book was located. However, the problem arose after they descended into the ice cave.

After entering the ice cave, they first discovered traces of battles everywhere on the walls and on the ground. There were also many messy corpses of frozen monsters nearby, but the living things were Not a single one was seen.

Although they were very confused about this battlefield, they continued to go deep into the cave, but soon they found that they were lost. Below the ice cave is basically a super maze. This maze is completely carved out of the ice, and unlike ordinary surface mazes, this ice cave is actually a three-dimensional maze. There are many up and down passages in the palace, and even a person with a good sense of direction will get lost after walking around for a few times. Moreover, since this maze is completely carved out of ice, it is surrounded by nothing but ice. Although these crystal ice layers make the maze look quite beautiful, it seriously affects everyone's memory, so that the more you go around it, the less north you can find.

Originally, if they had just been trapped and died in the maze, nothing would have happened, but then everyone inexplicably walked back to the place where the corpse and traces of the battle were first found. The reason why I still remember this location is because it happens to be the first fork in the maze, and this intersection is like a human hand. The passage into the cave is the widest, equivalent to a human wrist, while the other five branches are thinner, similar to five human fingers leading to different directions. This obvious feature makes this place particularly easy to recognize, but when the five people arrived here, they did not dare to confirm that this was the passage they entered through.

The reason why they still dare not confirm the location in an area with such obvious features is because all the corpses and battle traces they saw here before are gone. The corpse on the ground could be considered to have been removed, but it was a bit unusual that the scratches on the wall had also disappeared. Even if someone takes away the body, is he still responsible for repairing the wall?

In order to confirm whether this was the hall they came in from, they chose the thickest passage, because if this was really the passage they came in from, then this road should lead to the ice field outside.

The last five people climbed up along this road, and they finally arrived outside the maze, and actually found the magic mark they left at the entrance. This mark is actually an emergency teleportation point, corresponding to the emergency teleportation scrolls on the five people. If they encounter danger in the cave, they can use this scroll to teleport directly to the magic mark location at the exit. Therefore, it is impossible to forge this thing. After all, the magic mark and the teleportation scroll are in one-to-one correspondence. If they are wrong, The scroll cannot resonate with the mark.

However, just when the five people confirmed that this was the entrance they entered and began to think about the disappearing corpses and traces of the battle, a strange thing happened. The magic mark that was originally used as the teleportation coordinates suddenly flashed, and everyone saw two figures falling out of it. One of them was Olivia, and the other was the ghost who had also become quadruplets. Shadow Assassin.

The two people who were suddenly teleported were obviously teleported in a hurry during the battle, because they were still rolling back when they emerged from the teleportation array. It seemed that they had used teleportation skills while being smashed away, and that person The shadow assassin fainted as soon as he came out of the teleportation array, while Olivia was seriously injured and looked like she was about to die.

The five people noticed that two identical companions suddenly appeared and immediately surrounded them. If it weren't for the fact that the two impostors they thought were almost dead from injuries, they might have had to fight with these two guys at that time. However, because the other party was obviously seriously injured, the few of them had no chance to act impulsively. In the end, during the treatment process, the two sides communicated and used past events to verify each other, and discovered that the other party was one of them.

After confirming that the other party knew a lot of things that only they knew, the two guys suddenly found someone who was exactly the same as themselves and began to conduct some secret verifications with the other self. Finally, they came to the conclusion that the other party was themselves, and because of the mysterious The great lich Livia is here, so the possibility of spiritual reading and soul engraving is ruled out.

During the subsequent inquiry process, the five-person group learned about completely different events from the two people who suddenly appeared. The memories of these two people were exactly the same as those of the five of them before entering the cave, but according to their According to the theory, the five of them did not encounter the pile of corpses after entering the cave, and the fork they entered for the first time was different from the five of them. After that, they had many battles in the cave, and their opponents were some ice It was a monster, but according to their descriptions, the location and type of monsters killed by the so-called five-man team did not match the corpses seen by the other five.

The two said that after fighting many times in a row, they encountered a super powerful ice dragon. Then the two sides fought near a huge ice pool. In the end, the ice dragon could not defeat the five of them, so they called A bunch of ice monsters came to help, but the five of them were outnumbered. The undead knight took the initiative to take the rear. As a result, the ice cave collapsed during the battle and was smashed into the ice. The remaining four of them later fell into a trap while escaping. Hidden in the secret door, and then disappeared, and finally the female vampire was attacked and injured by an ice monster that suddenly rushed out. Later, they were surrounded by a large number of monsters, and they had no choice but to activate the scroll to escape, but I don't know why there were only the two of them. After teleporting out, the injured female vampire did not come out with him.

The experiences these two people talked about were completely different from the situations encountered by the five people, but they still decided to go back to the ice cave to investigate again, and this time they made a lot of marks to avoid being 'lost' again. road. However, this time the situation is worse than before. When they returned to the hall again, they miraculously saw a group of people running out of a side road in confusion, and these three people turned out to be Olivia, the Shadow Assassin and the black man in their team. mage.

Just like last time, the three people immediately became alert when they saw the seven people outside. However, because there was a manager there, the group with more people did not take the initiative to attack but tried to communicate with each other. Finally, after they talked, I found that just like before, these three were also their team members. Then they continued walking down after absorbing the three people, but as expected they got lost again. Of course, they finally came out, but when they came out, they found four of their team members standing at the entrance outside, planning to enter the cave. At that time, the two groups were dumbfounded, and then they exchanged words. .

Unlike the previous three groups, the last four people in this group claimed that they had seen the same group as them in the cave, and there were two of them.

Hearing this, I couldn't help but interrupt Olivia and ask: "Do you mean there are at least twenty-eight of your brothers and sisters in that cave?"

One of the three Olivias who had been standing behind suddenly stood up and said: "The team we saw was not that many people, but ten people. And although we saw them at the time, they were separated by an ice wall. We can't go over to meet up. We can see each other, but we can't get through. That ice wall must be protected by some kind of special power. It's so hard that even our magic can't penetrate it. It can't even penetrate the wall of the shadow. It also failed, so we and the person on the other side just looked at each other for a while and had to separate."

After listening to Olivia's explanation, I thought for a while and said, "According to your statement, you didn't actually crack the book at all, it was just copied many times inexplicably, right?"

The first Olivia nodded and said: "Yes, we basically didn't encounter anything, but inexplicably, there were so many of us who were exactly the same."

Olivia, who joined last, added: "My team is in a different situation than them. Our five-person team had the same manager as them before entering the cave, but we encountered monsters in the entrance hall, according to their descriptions. , The corpses and battle traces they saw when they first entered the cave should actually have been left by us, but I don’t know why they couldn’t find those corpses and traces when they came out later.”

"Then did you see it later?"

"Neither did I." This Olivia said: "When I met them later, I went back to see the hall and confirmed with them the original battle traces and the location of the corpse. In this way, we confirmed the corpse they saw. It was the monster we killed, but when we went back to verify it, the body and traces were strangely missing."

After listening to their description, I first fell into a state of thinking. Ditans also knew that I was thinking about something, so he didn't disturb me. After waiting for more than ten minutes, my eyes suddenly lit up, and I raised my head and said to them, "Excuse me." Can you first disperse according to different batches of teams? That is, separate into several teams according to the moment your team joins."

Upon hearing this, the fourteen people immediately took action and divided into a five-person team, a four-person team, a three-person team, and a two-person team. After the four teams separated, I turned to Ditans and asked, "When did you send out the team?"

"After you leave."

I thought about it and then turned to the five-person team and said, "How long did it take you from the moment you stood at the South Pole to the moment you returned to the Dark Temple?"

"Eighteen days." Olivia replied calmly.

"What?" Ditans jumped up from his seat almost instantly. "You said you stayed there for eighteen days?"

Olivia looked at Ditans in surprise and said, "That's right. We got lost in the ice cave and took many detours before we got out."

"How is that possible?" Ditans staggered back as if he had suffered a major blow and said, "But you just set out the night before yesterday!"

"What?" Olivia was surprised this time, and the other four people in her group were also dumbfounded.

In fact, Ditans' initial calmness and current excitement are both normal reactions. The reason why Ditans was so calm before was because based on their description, things seemed very clear. In Ditans' mind, this five-person group should be the five people he sent out, and there are two possibilities for the three teams with uneven personnel. First, they are highly skilled impostors, and even the person being imposted cannot confirm the authenticity. Another possibility is that they are all clones who were copied at an unknown time. Anyway, it is absolutely true that his daughter Olivia is in that five-person group.

However, based on the question I just asked, all of Ditans' previous speculations are obviously invalid. Regardless of whether the following teams were copied or fake, the team in front was definitely not the ones sent out by Ditans. In other words, Ditans' real daughter Olivia may not be among these four Olivias at all.

"You **** bastard, give me back my daughter!" Ditans, who seemed to have been stunned for a while, suddenly recovered and then quickly rushed over and strangled my neck. Shaking violently, I didn’t know but thought he was planning to kill me for revenge.

"Ahem...cough...quickly...let go...you don't want to find your daughter?"

These words that seemed to have great magic power made Ditans stop in an instant, but he still did not let me go. Instead, he squeezed my shoulders and asked: "Tell me, how can I find my daughter?"