Chapter 285 Colosseum (I) "I Will Kill You"
[Copy Name: "Colosseum"]
[Copy Type: Multiplayer Survival]
[Pre-tip: Humans are also beasts. We are not born to be beasts. 】
The basic information of the copy was refreshed on the system interface, and a few lines of text conveyed a bad warning.
The words "Colosseum" are reminiscent of ancient Rome, which advocated force. The expression "multiple people" indicates that there is an obvious hostile relationship. Survival dungeons have higher requirements for force and physical fitness, and the pre-prompts are self-contained. contradiction……
Even though he had been strengthened by the cursed pendulum, Qiss still knew clearly that he was a puzzle-solving player.
Although Dong Xiwen's force value is not weak, as a player who came out of the puzzle copy "Grand Performance", his ability is obviously focused on solving puzzles.
The prerequisites for this copy are very unfavorable for both of them.
The darkness around me slowly dissipated, and noisy sounds came from all directions. They were not human voices, but the sounds of various animals.
The "moo" sounds are from cows, the "moo" sounds are from wolves, and there are many other inaudible sounds that are blurred out.
Qisi opened his eyes and saw a closed iron gate.
The air was filled with hot moisture and a faint smell of blood. Brown condensation hung on the iron railings and walls. A pile of flocculent flesh-colored objects could also be seen in the corner, which seemed to be rotten flesh.
He was in a small room with no furnishings except straw spread in the corner. He was currently sitting on a pile of straw with his knees in his arms, looking through the lattice of the iron gate at the high platform in the distance.
It seemed to be an auditorium, built from a single piece of marble, and the seats were built to be two people high and one person wide. There are a few NPCs sitting here and there.
I only say NPC because Qiss doesn’t know how to define those things.
They bear the heads of tigers, elephants and other animals, but their bodies are much larger than the normal size of these animals in nature. They sit leisurely in the audience with human postures, as if some civilizations worship animals as animals. Archetypal deity.
The mixed roars of various animals in my ears never stopped, many of them coming from above the head. It is conceivable that the top of the room is probably also the same audience stand.
Qisi listened for a while and found that he could actually understand a few of the sentences.
"There are several new faces in this beast-fighting game. I don't know who will survive to the end."
"I hope they can live a few more rounds. It's no fun to die all at once."
"Yeah, but that No. 1 is too cruel... Who are you going to bet on this time? Or the wolf?"
"Besides, the wolf's odds are too low, and if one of them dies, they have to recruit new people. Number 1 alone may not be able to win."
"Which team is immortal? Each of the six teams has one dead person. I suspect it was intentional by the organizer, just to add new faces."
Qisi stood up and walked to the iron gate, listening clearly to the discussion above his head.
He almost understood that he was a newcomer participating in the beast fighting game in this dungeon, and he would most likely join a team next.
Those tall animals are the spectators, and they will place bets on each team and their winning or losing.
It sounds like a small gambling game among the gods...
Zeiss looked at the huge circular field outside the fence and fell into deep thought.
The game venue was designed based on the regulations of the Colosseum, but the positions of people and animals were swapped. Combined with the pre-prompt prompts, it always felt like there was an ulterior motive...
The narration sounded in a serious voice, explaining the background of the world view.
[This is a world where humans and gods coexist. A hundred years ago, the evil god who loved strife and carnival came here and became the master of the gods and humans.]
[To celebrate His coming, the gods built a magnificent Colosseum and invited human heroes to come here to start a battle of life and death]
[Courage and wisdom, fear and madness, the evil god is pleased by human performances and is willing to meet the best heroes and fulfill his wishes]
[You are a careerist who wants to become a god. You use conspiracy and trickery to obtain the qualifications for the game, just to get the method of becoming a god from the evil god]
[The main mission has been refreshed]
[Main mission: meeting the evil god]
Task-related text was refreshed in the upper left corner of his sight, and Qisi raised his eyebrows slightly.
The background of this copy is obviously a mixture of ancient Rome and ancient Greece. The Colosseum is almost a one-to-one copy of the ancient Roman Colosseum, and the trick of using games to please the gods belongs to the Olympia Games in ancient Greece.
Although on the surface it is said that humans and gods coexist, there is no doubt that gods are in a dominant position and can easily use puny humans as entertainment.
What Zies cares about more is the personal part.
Taking the initiative to join a life-and-death game where you don't have an advantage, and performing on someone else's home court, is already abstract enough; the purpose is actually to learn the method of becoming a god from the evil god...
He wants to jump up the ranks and become a ruler just by playing a game. Is the character he plays so naive?
"The time is up, you can come on stage."
The iron gate was opened from the outside, and a giant with a goat's head stood outside. His long pupils drooped and stared at Qiss, looking cold and arrogant.
Qiss walked out of the door and was led by the goat to stand on the round platform in the center of the field.
He was wearing a red suit and trousers, which was a pre-set outfit before entering the dungeon. No matter how he looked at it, he was not suitable for fighting.
On the auditorium outside the venue, the NPCs holding the heads of various animals acted enthusiastically and cheered like wildfires and tsunamis.
These strange-shaped things are the "gods" in this dungeon. I don't know what the evil god that the main mission requires to meet looks like, whether it is a lion head or a tiger head...
"Let everyone welcome our No. 7!" Goat stood next to Qisi, changed from his previous indifference, and introduced Qisi to the audience enthusiastically, "He is the representative we selected from this new generation, and it seems that he will One punch will kill you, how long can you survive in this game?”
His words were laced with clear malice, whether directed at one person individually or with equal contempt for all human beings.
He paused, and then added as if he felt guilty: "Ah, you can't say that, No. 7 is the only one among this batch of newcomers who has qualified based on his intelligence."
The monsters in the audience laughed so hard that the word "wisdom" seemed like a ridiculous joke to them. The already warm atmosphere suddenly became even more lively.
The goat continued to announce: "Next, we will select one of our old friends to come on stage and talk to this poor newcomer. I wonder what advice the old man will give to the newcomer?"
A stone door sank open, and milky white light fell into the sky. White powder floated spontaneously, setting up a long staircase that led directly to the round platform.
This kind of treatment is obviously not comparable to that of Qis, who is locked behind the iron gate. It is probably a special treatment for veteran players.
The halo dissipated, revealing a figure in black clothes and black hair, stepping steadily on the steps and onto the round platform.
That person was Chang Xu.
Players who enter this dungeon through random matching are assigned different identities and receive different initial treatment, which is really unfair in a sense.
Qisi was not surprised that Chang Xu appeared in this dungeon. Although he happened to be drawn as a new and old player respectively, it was quite destined.
Seeing Chang Xu standing still, he smiled and raised his left hand, revealing the white ring on his little finger: "Brother Chang, what a coincidence. I guessed that one of the two people sent by Kyushu was you."
Chang Xu did not respond.
He looked directly into Qisi's eyes, with a lack of emotion on his face: "You are a massacre player. You are the 'Cheng An' who leads the team's destruction in "Frog Hospital". The person who hides behind Lin Chen in the copy of "The Ghost" is You, the person who wants to kill me in the copy of "Hopeless Sea" are also you."
Chiss stopped smiling and narrowed his eyes.
Chang Xu continued: "The person who impersonated me in the copy of "Carnivore" was also you. You permanently closed the copy of "Ghost" after thirty-five days in order to push the suspicion onto Lin Chen."
He didn't say any more, as if he was waiting for Qiss to respond. Judging by his tone and expression, he clearly had already decided on the answer.
Qisi looked at him in silence for a while, then put a smile on his face again: "So you are not an ignorant idiot.
"That's right, the skill is unique, and you know that my skill is soul contract, so it's not too difficult to guess something through it."
The atmosphere was visibly tense, and the goat quickly shouted loudly: "Please note, you two, the game has not officially started yet. Injuring each other outside of the game is not allowed!"
Chang Xu seemed not to have heard, and looked at Qisi and said calmly: "You should be a dead person in the Frog Hospital. You should have been taken into custody after degenerating into a ghost, but for some reason, the higher-ups refused to do anything to you.
"Then it's up to me to send you where you need to go."
"Oh?" Upon hearing this, Qiss took a step back generously and looked left and right at the auditorium surrounding the circular platform in an exaggerated manner, "I was inexplicably thrown into this cage by a weird game, and allowed to be treated as a circus by a group of wild beasts. Animals watching——
"Are you really planning to show these NPCs a show of cannibalism under the rules of the dungeon?
"When normal people encounter this situation, their first reaction is to join forces to destroy or escape from here. Would you rather point your knife at fellow players than stay in a dog cage with rules?"
Every sentence of his moral kidnapping contains words such as "weird game", "copy" and "player", which cannot be heard by the NPC.
Chang Xu still stared at him, his voice cold: "You have long been transformed into a massacre player, degenerated into a ghost, and killed countless people along the way. We are not the same kind."
Qisi sighed: "Has anyone ever told you not to always speak so bluntly? If you want to kill someone, but you still have to declare it in front of others, don't you know how to hide yourself?"
Chang Xu shook his head: "It's not necessary, you will always know."
"It seems that you think you've got me." Qisi's smile turned weird, "I guess you didn't start the live broadcast this time, so you were probably ready to destroy the cooperation, right?
"I wonder if you have ever considered how the Weird Investigation Bureau and the Kyushu Guild will end if you openly attack me, the vice-president of the unnamed guild?"
"That's not important." Chang Xu condensed a black identity card in his hand, and the gilt lines on it reflected the faint light, "Killing and massacring players is in line with the purpose of the convention."
Qisi glanced at the identity card and asked with a half-smile: "Without substantial evidence, without a legal trial, and based on vague suspicions, you are convicted and executed - is this the justice that belongs to you?"
"You want to kill me, so I will kill you. It's fair." Chang Xu crushed the card in his hand.
Black debris flew in all directions and spread into a huge shadow of the card in the air, even covering the entire sky for a moment.
The judge in black clothes and golden eyes stood solemnly between heaven and earth, turning the pages of the black-covered book in his hand quickly, and the golden characters flashed out like a ribbon, almost blurring Qi Si's vision.
[ID Card: Dark Judge]
At the moment of attention, Qi Si learned its name, accompanied by a cold and unquestionable verdict.
[Chang Xu, the holder of the "Dark Judge" ID Card, advocates to initiate a trial against you]
[After testing, you are deeply sinful... The trial is in effect, and the skills have been banned]
The heavy black book stopped at one of the pages, and the [Soul Contract] skill icon in the upper left corner of the system interface suddenly turned gray. After staring for two seconds, the words [Cannot be activated in this copy] popped up.
The golden vines that grew wantonly in the consciousness space quickly faded, and the leaves and fruits hanging on it fell down, and lost their induction and connection in just a few seconds.
Only a blood-red branch was left lurking in the depths of darkness, and the scarlet leaf belonging to Lin Chen hung alone on the tip, which was a relic temporarily preserved by the [Scarlet Priest] card using the "faith" system.
The shadow of the priest in red clothes and red eyes condensed behind him, and the cross held by his hands was erected in front of Qis, and it scattered into light spots at the same time after touching the golden characters.
The golden temple built with huge stones appeared in a higher space. Under the closed-eyed marble statue, the red shadow raised his hand and placed a piece on the chessboard.
The black-clothed figure sitting opposite stared indifferently, slowly raised his right hand holding the cross pendant, and loosened his five fingers.
The black cross fell from the sky and hung above Qis' head in the form of a shadow.
It was a sign of "sin" that all players could see.
[The judgment will take effect in all copies until the judge dies or the identity card is unbound]
[During the trial, you will be able to continue to know the location and status of the judge]
All the visions have dissipated at this point, and two lines of silver-white prompt text appear on the system interface. Qi Si's consciousness is desolate, and he has no way of sensing the existence of Dong Xiwen and others.
[Scarlet Priest] is at the same level as [Dark Judge] and cannot release its control.
The soul contract is disabled, and this ban will run through all copies, forever...
Unless the judge is killed and the trial process is terminated.
Qis raised his eyelids and looked at Chang Xu.
A scarlet king chess piece condensed above the latter's head, seemingly able to penetrate time and space and appear eternally in another dimension.
[Dark Judge] card seems to be born for disputes. The judge issued a hunting order for the sinner, and the sinner will also regard the judge as a thorn in his eyes.
Fighting and tearing, endless, until one side dies.
Qi Si tilted his head and grinned at Chang Xu: "I will kill you."
At the same time, all players in the dungeon heard the system announcement.
[The main quest has been updated, and a new replaceable quest has been added]
[Main quest (optional): Kill the sinner Qi Si] (End of this chapter)