Chapter 459 Meeting an Old Friend
Corpse King Qi Yulan is one of the four ghost kings under the [Spiritual] Apostle. Although she is not at the peak, she is highly appreciated for her ability to control puppets. She is one of the most troublesome polluters in [Spiritual].
Generally speaking, to deal with such a summoner-like character, you have to bypass the puppets she controls and go straight to the fragile main body. But all those who tried to do so before were defeated by this corpse king.
Few people know that the upper limit of the single-round defense of this seemingly fragile old lady is likely to be the highest among the four ghost kings!
Because her puppet ability has a derivative skill, which is life sharing.
The vitality of the puppets controlled by her will be bound to her Gangqi to form a shield. The more puppets she controls, the stronger the vitality, and the higher the defense of her Gangqi. When attacked, she will first consume the vitality of the puppets to resist. In theory, as long as her puppets are not dead, the shield will not be broken!
However, this skill, which was originally used to save lives, has a new application in this world under the rule of deducting points for killing people.
Puppetry is essentially a technology that uses spirits to transform and control humans. It can be understood as a ghost. This process is theoretically reversible. As long as the possessed spirit is removed, the person can return to normal, but will become weaker. Therefore, if someone kills the puppet controlled by her, the final points deducted will be counted on the other party.
However, the nature of life sharing is different. After testing, the corpse king found that if someone attacks her shield and causes the death of the puppet, the deducted points will be shared equally by her and the attacker.
Therefore, when being caught by Luo Jun, the reason why the corpse king acted so tough was because he was confident in his defense. Moreover, the corpse king itself has a treasure that can resist the erasure program, so she even took the initiative to provoke, hoping that Ye would hit harder, and it would be best to deduct points directly, so that she could escape, and Ye would have to go through the erasure program of a life-and-death struggle.
But she never expected that Luo Jun's hammer would kill all the thousands of puppets she had bound to her. Her Qi collapsed, and she was hammered to death before she even had time to trigger the erasure program!
And Luo Jun, because of these thousands of lives, all his points were deducted, triggering the erasure program!
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Luo Jun didn't know the connection, but he didn't have time to think more. He was in the sky, and was stunned for a few seconds because of the sudden news. When he reacted, there were only five seconds left in the countdown!
The score was reset... Can it go back up? Luo Jun looked down at the community on the ground. Zhuge Lan just said that there were two polluters on the fifth floor of that building...
Relying on his strong eyesight, Luo Jun locked onto that building and swung the hammer in his hand.
Four seconds left!
When he reached a sufficient speed, he suddenly increased his weight, and the huge inertia took him to dive downwards!
Three seconds left!
Hundreds of meters away, in a flash, Luo Jun smashed through the floor directly, used the hammer to adjust the speed and direction in time, and landed accurately in the room!
Two seconds left!
There were two monsters standing in the room. Although they were generally human, under the loose clothes, horns, scales, claws and hair could be seen. They were obviously polluters from [Wild]!
How did [Wild] get involved with [Supernatural]?
No... Looking at their upright bodies and dull expressions, they should not be cooperating, but being controlled or brainwashed by the Corpse King in some way!
In any case, these two guys looked alive, and killing them should give points!
"Heavenly Secret Dice!"
"Escaped the Elimination Program!"
"Ding! This event is an inevitable event and cannot be determined!"
The moment this result appeared, Luo Jun was stunned...
An inevitable event would definitely not be an inevitable success, but an inevitable failure?
This means that even if he killed the two people in front of him, it would be useless...
Since the result is already determined, there is no need to take up two more heads. Luo Jun glanced at Ling Xin and Zhuge Lan on the rooftop in the distance through the broken wall, and found that the two women were also looking in his direction.
One second left...
In the last second, Luo Jun pointed at them, then pointed at the two stupidly standing [Wild] polluters behind him, and finally waved his hand.
Then, Luo Jun's figure gradually faded and disappeared completely...
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When he came back to his senses, Luo Jun was in a white room.
Is this the site of the erasure program?
Luo Jun looked around, and suddenly, a few lines of words appeared on the wall.
"Since you violated the relevant rules in the mission and were eliminated, the erasure procedure is about to begin."
"The specific content of the erasure procedure will be randomly drawn by the contestant to challenge the death. After successfully completing the challenge, you can return to the main world and receive an unqualified evaluation for this chaos mission, and all rewards already obtained in the chaos mission will be cleared."
"During the death challenge, all treasures are disabled."
"Next, please draw your death challenge."
"If you do not draw a challenge within five minutes, you will be locked in the challenge with the lowest pass rate."
Below this text, a screen appeared with a lever next to it.
If you don't draw a challenge yourself, you will be given the highest difficulty, right?
Although Luo Jun was a little curious about what the challenge with the lowest pass rate was, he didn't want to pursue any difficulty for a challenge that would kill you if you lost and didn't have any rewards if you won...
Heavenly dice!
"Draw a challenge that you can pass."
The result shows that the conditions are not clear. After all, whether you can pass depends on Luo Jun's performance, and it cannot be determined by just one dice roll.
After thinking for a while, I changed the wording.
"Draw a challenge that suits me."
Whether you can pass is a conclusion, which is determined by many factors and is full of variables. But whether it is suitable depends only on Luo Jun's own objective conditions, which can still be determined.
Sure enough, the dice began to roll.
Two pairs of dice, one pair is three points, and the other pair is two zeros, with a full score of 100 points!
(ノ⊙ω⊙)ノ嚯! What a polarized result...
Luo Jun raised his hand and selected 100 points, and the prompt sound rang in his mind.
"Ding, the event difficulty is 37 points, the final score is 100 points, and the event is a great success!"
It turned out to be a great success? This is a surprise...But looking at the difficulty of only 37 points, it seems that with Luo Jun's current ability, most of the challenges are more suitable. It seems that if he draws normally, he will probably pass it.
Now that he has achieved great success, it seems that he should be able to pass it smoothly... He should be able to return to the main world alive, but it's a pity that this large-scale recruitment mission, such a good start, and a lot of rewards, have all gone to waste.
Luo Jun walked forward with regret and pulled the lever. The content on the screen quickly rotated up and down. After about a minute, it gradually slowed down and finally stabilized into four words:
"Escape from the Doomsday!"
Then, the screen changed and became an animated short film, which began to introduce the content of the challenge in combination with the picture.
"After the challenge begins, the contestants will enter a doomsday world. This world is on the verge of continuous collapse. The contestants can only keep running forward and avoiding various disasters. Finally, they can reach the portal at the end to leave this terrible world."
Various disasters are constantly erupting in the picture, including earthquakes, lightning, meteor showers, hurricanes, etc. In the picture, you can see an animated little man, running fast while avoiding disasters from all directions. Behind the villain, Luo Jun saw a black void that swallowed everything like annihilation. If the villain was a little slower, he would be swallowed and killed...
Oh my god, it's a doomsday obstacle race... But with Luo Jun's mobility and strong energy, it shouldn't be a problem to withstand these disasters. It is indeed a challenge that suits him.
At the same time, the prompt sound of the Tianji dice sounded in Luo Jun's mind.
"The event was a great success, the basic experience value is 37 points, the event severity coefficient is 12 times, and the final experience value is 888 points!"
Twelve times?
This severity coefficient really scared Luo Jun. Doesn't it mean that if the event fails, he will die?
It can't be that serious... At his current level, Luo Jun boasted that if he didn't rely on the treasure, his master should not be his opponent. The old man, the master, claimed that he had gone through many erasure procedures. There is no reason for him to have a one-third chance of death?
Moreover, this erasure procedure is prepared for Class A players. Although his current level is not as good as Yuhua, he is also first-class among the peaks. He can completely afford to be placed in the special class. How could he die so easily in the challenge of Class A?
Besides, he judged that the challenge was suitable for him. Even if it was not suitable, he would not die, right? Did he even omit the process of the challenge?
No matter how he thought about it, Luo Jun felt that this serious coefficient was not right, but the death challenge would not wait for him to analyze it carefully. The surrounding environment has begun to change. Soon, the white wall began to become transparent, the sky appeared burning red, the ground under his feet began to shake, the surrounding scenery was upside down and chaotic, the mountain collapsed, the building collapsed, and the meteorite fell from the sky, just like a doomsday scene.
The most terrifying thing is that behind him, a huge black shadow can be seen dozens of meters away... It is pure black, not even a trace of light can be projected, and it is constantly expanding and swallowing everything around it!
That is the void. Once you enter it, there is no possibility of survival!
Luo Jun's task is to stay away from it as much as possible! As for the destination... a beam of light has appeared in his vision, located beyond the distant horizon. That is where the portal is!
He must reach there through the many disasters of the doomsday before being swallowed by the void!
It's easy to do if the goal is clear. Luo Jun watched the color of the wall become lighter and lighter, and the construction of the challenge world was constantly improving. At the same time, the midnight mask on his face began to become transparent and was about to be forcibly sealed...
Luo Jun slowly bent down and prepared to start. When everything was ready, he would rush out at the fastest speed and leave the terrible void far behind.
But at this moment, the world around him suddenly stopped...
Luo Jun was very sure that the process of his teleportation to this doomsday world was complicated to say, but in fact it was only a few seconds. The surrounding scenery was changing rapidly every moment, but just now, when the world was about to be built and the challenge was about to begin, everything around him stopped, as if time had stopped!
What happened?
Luo Jun subconsciously stood up, and he found that he could still move normally, as if he was in a different time and space from everything solidified around him.
What on earth is going on?
Luo Jun walked to the almost transparent wall with some curiosity and raised his hand to touch it, but at the moment of contact, the wall suddenly flickered...
That feeling was somewhat similar to the screen flickering and strobing of a computer, but it was not mosaic-like spots that made up all of this, but countless strange and chaotic patterns. Although Luo Jun didn't recognize them, he instinctively felt a strong breath, as if these patterns represented an ancient and mysterious existence.
This was definitely not a normal phenomenon. Something was interfering with his death challenge!
Luo Jun was shocked and instinctively took a few steps back, but then he felt a strange feeling on his face. He reached out and found that the midnight mask, which had not completely disappeared, was constantly changing its form. He immediately took it off and found that the mask was also like the wall, constantly flickering, faintly revealing those ancient patterns...
What on earth...
Just when Luo Jun was shocked, a chuckle suddenly came from behind him.
"Haha, we finally meet again..."
Luo Jun immediately turned around and found a woman standing behind him.
The woman was tall, wearing a pair of clogs, almost as tall as Luo Jun, or even a little taller; she was wearing a purple robe, and she didn't seem to be wearing any other clothes underneath. The hem of the robe was casually draped, and a pair of long legs were faintly visible; on her slender neck was a perfect face without any flaws, and her long hair was casually scattered, helping the crooked robe to cover part of her body, and she looked naturally lazy...
"Who are you...?"
Luo Jun's body was filled with condensed energy, He was extremely alert and asked about the other party's identity, even though the midnight mask in his hand had already made him vaguely guess...
"Did you forget so quickly?"
The woman tilted her head slightly and chuckled: "According to your calendar, it has only been more than half a year since we last parted?"
As she said that, she hooked her finger at Luo Jun, and Luo Jun immediately felt that the midnight mask in his hand began to struggle violently, and then suddenly his hand was empty, and the mask actually became ethereal, flew through his fingers, and landed all the way in the woman's hand.
"Have you been wearing it? It seems that you like the souvenir I gave you..."
"It's you..." Luo Jun took a deep breath: "Midnight..."
How could Luo Jun not remember that it was the first time he set foot in the extraordinary world and encountered a strange existence!
At that time, he just felt that the weirdness of the underground of the Midnight Hotel was terrifying, but he didn't have a clear concept, but now it's different...
Regardless of the oppression brought to him by the woman in front of him, the information about the midnight mask alone is enough to explain the problem.
What is before your eyes is a "mysterious" and powerful being!