Chapter 292 Colosseum (VIII) "God, Satisfy Our Desires"

"I don't know what my desires are."

In the room where the black wolf mask hung, Chang Xu looked at the wolf head that had the texture of a statue and said calmly.

“I wanted a lot. When I was little, I wanted to have enough food so that I could eat every day without having to wait hungrily for the next meal.

"Later, I wanted to live, I wanted no more innocent people to die within my sight, and everyone lived in peace, as if the weird game had never happened.

"I want to become more powerful, powerful enough to eliminate all beings that can kill me. But I don't want others to be afraid of me and fear me, and I don't like them to treat me as a monster.

"I seem to be a greedy person. After one wish is satisfied for a little bit, I will have the next wish. But I don't know if those are my desires."

Chang Xu lowered his eyes and said with slight confusion: "I heard that desire is instinctive, focused, and very strong. It will not give up until it is achieved. I don't seem to have this feeling."

The Sphinx looked indifferent, staring at Chang Xu with half-moon-shaped eyes on its wolf head: "I can see that the bottom of your heart is filled with chaotic clouds and mist, with chaotic and changing shapes overlapping in it. You are attracted by an invisible force. Trapped, always just a stone's throw away from exploring your desires.

"But I penetrated those complicated obstacles and saw your desire at this moment. It is a person like you, and you want to kill him."

Like putting a stone into muddy water to absorb impurities, the vague thoughts suddenly took on substance.

Chang Xu realized that his miscellaneous desires seemed to be unrelated, but they seemed to converge at a certain node.

Kill the existence that can threaten his life and the lives of innocent people, so there is no need to worry about death; kill another monster, thus proving that he belongs to the category of human beings...

"Yes." Chang Xu nodded, "My desire in this dungeon is to kill Qis."

Just kill Zeiss and it will be over.

The Sphinx closed her eyes and said, "You need three thousand points to realize this desire. Wake me up after you have enough points."

…

"You only need 3,000 points? It feels much cheaper than the wish-fulfillment mechanism of a weird game. What you do like this just smells like a scam!"

On the other side, Dong Xiwen poked the leopard mask on the wall with his finger and couldn't help but complain.

When the Sphinx asked him what his desire was, he said without hesitation that he wanted to resurrect his brother. He thought that would be the end of it, but the Sphinx solemnly told him that he only needed three thousand points to achieve this. desire.

He clearly remembered that in the wish-fulfillment mechanism of the weird game, this wish requires one million points...

And what is the concept of three thousand points?

His initial points in this dungeon were 2,100. If he didn't lend them to Nian Fu and borrowed some from others, his bizarre desire to resurrect the dead could be realized directly.

When he leaves the dungeon, he can change his original wish to leave the weird game...

"What you said is so conclusive, can it really come true?" Dong Xiwen stared at the Sphinx suspiciously, "Quickly say, 'Longjun people don't lie to Longjun people'... No, you are not from Longjun, nor are you from Longjun. Not a human being…”

Sphinx: "..."

The eyes on the leopard's head turned to Lena'an who timidly poked his head behind Dong Xiwen: "What is your desire?"

Lena'an was suddenly clicked. He took a small step forward and shyly touched the freckles on his cheek: "Is anything okay? Then my wish is to close the weird game."

The Sphinx didn't seem to hear that and asked again: "What is your desire?"

"Then...can I leave the dungeon immediately?"

Sphinx: "What is your desire?"

Okay, the NPCs in the dungeon can't hear proper nouns like "weird game" and "dungeon".

Lenaan sneered: "Then I guess it's okay to live forever, right?"

The Sphinx closed her eyes and said, "You need three thousand points to realize this desire. Wake me up after you have enough points."

It turned out to be the same three thousand points...

Dong Xiwen took off the leopard mask from the wall, vaguely realizing that things were getting a little worse.

Lena'an thought about something with him and whispered: "Dong, your boss may be in trouble! I know that Chang Xu is a very stubborn and stubborn guy. Your boss has a feud with him. He is like this At this moment, I will definitely be thinking about killing our boss...

"It only takes three thousand points to realize his wish. He can get it just by looking for it. Our boss is in trouble!"

Yes, Chang Xu will most likely make a wish to "kill Qisi" to the Sphinx.

If the Sphinx does have the ability to fulfill players' desires, and all desires are priced at 3,000 points, then Chang Xu can crowdfund from other players.

After all, letting Qisi die will allow everyone to clear the level, which is simply a good thing that benefits the country and the people...

Under such a mechanism, Qisi will definitely die!

"Dong, I don't know if I should say something. I always feel that the relationship between you and your boss is not very close. You see, your boss was on stage at the time, and you didn't bid immediately, but Nianfu still made the bid later. ”

Lena'an whispered in a voice as light as a gnat: "If your boss hadn't agreed with you in advance, just based on this incident, he would have suspected that you had second thoughts... Why don't we go to Chang Xu? Borrow some points from him to offset the merit..."

"That's not right!" After hearing the words "Lend him some points," Dong Xiwen felt a flash of lightning flash in his mind.

He shook his head: "No matter what, Qiss can't die too early. It's hard to find a dungeon that can fulfill your wish with only three thousand points. It feels a bit unwilling to leave without giving it a try..."

…

Chiss had a dream.

In the dream, he stood on a high platform, but could not move. He could only lower his head slightly and look down at the crowds of people below.

The crowd of heads was as dense as ants on a rotting insect. The sea of ​​people undulated. Sometimes some people raised their heads and looked around blankly, but their eyes passed through Qiss, as if they were completely unaware of his existence.

"They can't see you," a voice said to Chiss, using Chiss's own timbre. "You have no desires. A person without desires cannot stay in this world for long."

The speaker appeared before Zeiss.

He wore a red robe embroidered with gold, and had a face that was exactly the same as Qiss's. He stretched out his index finger to smear colorful mud on Qiss's body without any explanation.

The mud quickly solidified and lost its bright color, becoming as cold, hard and white as marble.

Zeiss asked, "What is this?"

The man said, "This is desire."

"Whose desire?"

"Theirs." The man suddenly turned around, lowered his finger, and pointed at the crowd surging under the high platform.

Old people, children, men, women... some were dressed neatly, while others were in rags, but they all looked the same in a hurry and looked disgusting.

"So what are you doing putting them on me? They look pretty dirty," Zeiss asked.

The monster holding Qisi’s face turned back, its scarlet eyes not reflecting Qisi’s reflection: “When you are clothed with desire, the world can see you.

“You will be food to the hungry, medicine to the sick, a shield to the fearful, and redemption to the dying.

"You will have a form from now on and will no longer be an untouchable nothingness."

The monster's face is expressionless, like the angels spreading the gospel in medieval religious paintings, indifferent and having nothing to do with it.

Ziss asked: "Why should I be seen and touched? Why should I have a body?"

The monster said: "Because people without desires should not exist."

The gleaming mud gushes out from his wide sleeves, and he meticulously picks it up with his fingers and smears it on Qiss's face.

In his eyes, Ziss saw the outline of the parts of himself covered by mud. It seemed that because he was covered in desire, he had established a connection with the world and had a reality that could be seen and touched.

"Maybe I'm not human," said Zeiss.

The monster did not respond and continued to smear mud on every corner of his body seriously, saying in a declarative tone: "You are a failed attempt. After discovering that you did not grow desire, I once thought about killing you. "

"Then why didn't you do it?" Qiss raised the corner of his lips, "Is it because of the sunk cost?"

"You are just one of countless attempts. I want to see the true ending of this attempt."

"Collection of failed data, right?" Qisi sighed and said, "Can I ask what is the method to judge whether a person has desire? Let me see if I can work hard and try to develop desire as soon as possible."

"It's pain." The monster raised his eyes, a scarlet light suddenly shining in his eyes, "Do you feel pain?"

Mud had covered most of Zis's body, including his hair, neck and cheeks.

The cold suffocation feeling surged up one after another, and Qisi felt a little uncomfortable, but his emotions seemed to be locked by a valve, unable to rise up and transform into a thicker feeling.

The monster scooped up the last handful of mud and covered it with Qisi's eyes. The world fell into darkness that made it impossible to see in an instant, but then lit up with hazy light in the next second.

Qisi floated above the head of the stone statue made of his own body, and saw that the crowd below suddenly had a direction and gathered under the high platform from all directions.

They crawled twistedly and stretched out their hands towards the stone statue, as if they wanted to grab something, but they did not dare to actually touch it.

They said, “O God, grant our desires.”

…

"God, satisfy our desires..."

Qisi woke up from his dream, his consciousness gradually returned, and he heard a buzzing voice talking nearby.

The pronunciation is very weird, like a race with low language talent struggling to learn an extremely difficult language.

The sense of touch returned soon after, and Zis felt something grabbed his ankle.

The sticky and slippery touch reminded him of leeches in the paddy fields in the countryside, which in turn aroused physical nausea and revulsion.

He lay on the wet straw bed, closed his eyes tightly, kept his breathing steady, and remained motionless, as if he was still asleep.

The cursed pendulum wrapped around his wrist flew up silently, flew quickly and quietly towards the heel, and struck hard.

"squeak!"

A piercing scream exploded in his ears, and the wetness wrapped around his ankle was pulled away, leaving behind cold mucus.

Qisi opened his eyes and saw a pair of green eyes shining in the darkness.

Two seconds later, the silver prompt text refreshed.

[Name: Underground Dwellers]

[Type: NPC]

[Description: A monster that lives underground and only appears in the dark. It is said to be carrying contagious germs and curses. It is discriminated against by animals and feared by humans. 】

[Note: Although most animals were promoted to gods, some unlucky animals were left behind. After all, a group cannot be without a tail wolf. All they can do is to pray for the mercy of the gods and try to escape from the sea of ​​suffering. ]

This is the first time that Qis has seen a description of NPCs.

After realizing that the uninvited guests usually act in the dark, he immediately stood up, took out the flashlight from his backpack, and turned on the switch.

He held the flashlight high and shone the light from the top of his head, illuminating the entire room.

Under the cold white light circle, red venomous snakes were crawling densely on the ground. They all came out of the ground. At first glance, they looked like they grew on the ground.

The hard and seamless marble floor was like mud in front of them, and they were squeezed out of the hole softly, allowing them to break out of the ground.

They opened their bloody mouths and danced like crazy, but they were not all monsters.

Human bodies grew out of their tails, with a pointed rat head with red cheeks on the neck, a small white snake beard around the nose, and a gray snake hair behind the round ears.

The monster made of rats and snakes surrounded Qi Si and Nian Fu in the middle, and the tentacles made of red snakes probed the front, as if trying to touch the humans in the encirclement.

The one that was stabbed by the cursed spirit pendulum just now was a red snake, and now it was lying at Qi Si's feet, twitching for a while and then stopped moving.

Nian Fu had woken up a long time ago, and stood back to back with Qi Si, looking at the strange combination of snakes and rats in the room, muttering to himself: "What are these?"

"I guess it's the 'rat' in the beast chess." Qi Si controlled the cursed spirit pendulum to surround him, and made an inappropriate joke, "Well, maybe it can be called 'a nest of snakes and rats'?"

"Whatever they are called, our top priority is to drive them away." Nian Fu's left hand showed a black iron whip.

She held a bottle of alcohol in her right hand and passed it to her mouth.

She bit off the lid and poured the alcohol on the whip.

The colorless liquid seeped into the cracks in the whip, not a drop leaked out, as if the whip had drunk it all.

Nian Fu raised her left hand high and threw a deafening whip flower in the air.

In an instant, sparks crawled along the tip of the whip all over the whip, drawing a string of fluttering flames in front of her.

The nearest group of snakes was scorched and scattered on the ground. The rat-headed man howled in pain, and his snake-like hair danced wildly.

Qi Si held down the fate pocket watch, ready to activate the effect at any time.

The imagined stress counterattack did not come. The snake group seemed to be aware of the player's disgust and consciously retreated like a tide.

All the rat-headed people crawled to the two people in the encirclement and kowtowed heavily.

"God, satisfy our desires..."