Chapter 184: Sara's Song (IX)

The atmosphere was a little lighter because of Qi Ning's words.

Xiao Lan and Luo also went into the vicinity of the cocoon, examining the surrounding area.

Suddenly Xiao Lan frowned, "Something is wrong, this skeleton is like this, but there is no dust on the knife, this knife should not have fallen here for a long time."

Xiao Lan bends down and picks up the knife called "Bloodbath" and wipes the surface with his fingers.

The fingertips are barely dusted and it is clear that the knife could not have been there all along.

He looked at the blade again and saw a little remnant of fibre in the area of the tip.

Xiao Lan frowned, "Is this ......?"

Luo points to the surface of the cocoon: "It's almost the same material as the outer skin of the cocoon, so it should have been cut."

Xiao Lan handed the [Bloodbath] to Wang Taidi.

Wang Taidi also calmed down: "That means that only a short time ago my brother had cut open a cocoon with a knife and emerged from it ......"

Wang Ke has been locked in a cocoon for who knows how long, but it's amazing that he still has the strength to fight back.

I'm sure there are a number of reasons why Wang Taidi has been using his skills to keep him alive.

"But where are the others when [Chattering] falls here?" Wang Taidi said.

He looked around, there were a number of other cocoons that had opened up around him, including above, and wasn't sure where the knife had fallen from.

And what made his brother even drop his own weapon?

Xiao Lan says: "Something must have happened between the time he opened the cocoon and the time we came over, perhaps Wang Ke himself changed or he was attacked by accident, I prefer the latter."

He looked not far away at Lan Qi who had regained a little strength: "Have you heard any movement in a day or so, apart from us?"

After all, Lan Qi is an elite level senior player and by this time can sit up straight.

She recalled, "I'm not sure exactly when, but not long ago I did hear a little movement, like something dragging on the ground, but I couldn't place the sound."

"Dragging ......" Wang Taidi frowned, "meaning he could have been taken?"

Betrayed by a teammate on the front foot and then attacked on the back when they are so easily free from the shackles ......

What kind of shit luck was this? He really wanted to wholesale a ton of grapefruit leaves to soak his brother and remove the bad luck for his own brother.

Several people rushed around looking up.

If it happened so recently and there is little traffic here, the probability that traces of what happened before still remain is very high.

Soon they found several traces.

A few of the trees bear fresh knife marks, which are shallow and show that the person who used them was not very strong.

There are still some drag marks on the thick fallen leaves on the ground, the marks are a little wide and it would make sense if they were left by a person.

These traces spread all the way forward to greater depths.

Unfortunately, there was no blood on the ground and Wang Ke must not have been injured.

But the situation was critical and the sooner they got there, the better.

Wang Taidi clenched his fist: "It's over there."

Xiao Lan turned his head to look at Lan Qi who was sitting on the floor, "Sorry, we have to go now. The prop to get out of Sara's song is in the basement of the church, it's called the [Stone of Pardon], there are some living dead inside, please be careful."

Lan Qi nodded at them, "Thanks, I'll go and get it myself, good luck."

She did not beg piteously for a few people to be sure to take her with them.

She is not a doddering flower, although she is a bit weak, she can still fight after a while when she regains her strength, as long as she doesn't die and fight someone head on, but only until she leaves the field, she can still easily survive.

Before it was too late, the four men followed the trail that may have been left when Wang Ke was taken away.

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The drag marks keep going forward.

These traces often pass through odd locations, leaving little to the imagination as to what the thing leaving the trace actually looks like.

More and more bodies appeared in the woods on the way.

Some were suicides in various positions, some looked like they killed themselves, and others looked like they died from someone else's pursuit.

All sorts of dead and decaying half-decayed bodies and white bones appear from time to time, and it is not clear whether they are townspeople or players.

Finally, a red wall appeared ahead.

And the tracks on the ground point to this, but the tracks disappear when they reach the front of the wall, and no trace of them can be seen around, as if Wang Ke had been dragged straight into the wall.

The red walls snake around, and it is impossible to see exactly how long they are.

At the same time, it is also very high, stretching all the way into the dark canopy, making the top invisible.

Unlike the normal wall, it is covered with the roots of plants, but I don't know if it is the original colour or if it has sucked up the blood of others, but every root is blood red.

These rhizomes wriggle as if they were creatures with autonomous consciousness.

The entire wall also emits a seemingly black aura.

The black gas seems to blend in with the walls and seems to envelop only the surface.

Wang Taidi asks, "Is this the Wall of Sacrifice?"

Xiao Lan looked at the wall and felt something familiar and puzzled: "This seems a little different from the wall of sacrifice I saw in the frescoes, in which many human bodies appeared on the wall."

But the wall that blocked their way showed no signs of anything resembling human limbs.

Wang Taidi speculates: "Is there another wall? Or maybe it looks different in different places?"

"Maybe it's finished eating?" Qi Ning pointed to the empty wall, "Perhaps, they're showing they're hungry right now, and we just happened to offer to serve them up."

It has to be said that this is a very reasonable speculation.

Now, as several people looked at the red wall, it felt like it was a large open mouth.

They walked along the wall for a while but found no sign of anything resembling an entrance.

The Wall of Sacrifice is like a fortress that has closed its doors to these intruding outsiders.

Several people returned to the same spot where Wang Ke's trail had disappeared.

Qi Ning asked, "What are you going to do?"

Xiao Lan clenched his fist, "If there's no entrance, just open one."

Wang Taidi tugged at the corner of his mouth, "I'll do it this time."

With that he stood forward and looked at the Wall of Sacrifice and said, "I need an entrance into the Wall of Sacrifice."

As his words fell, a one-man high opening suddenly appeared in front of several people.

The opening was just big enough for one person to pass through, and it was so dark inside that it was impossible to see anything, as if a cash, was waiting for them to enter, and then it could swallow them up.

Qi Ning clapped lightly, "What an amazing skill."

Wang Taidi says: "It's all about the ability to pay, and it's still all about spending your own money."

Each reduced wealth value, which he had saved up by beating his family ...... oh no, by hard work, was still painful to spend.

Several people briefly discussed the situation for a while, anticipating how they would respond to various scenarios.

Then each gripped his weapon, on guard, and entered the Wall of Sacrifice in turn.

Wang Taidi was the first to enter.

After he had entered, the others heard nothing.

Xiao Lan tried to call out, but received no response from Wang Taidi.

It was one of those situations where they expected to be.

Xiao Lan took out his props and tried to contact Wang Taidi but found that he was unable to do so.

Xiao Lan frowned slightly and said to Qi Ning, who was about to go in, "We may not be able to make contact in there, so be careful."

Qi Ning nodded, "Each take care."

Having said that, he too stepped into the wall of sacrifice and, again, no sound came from within.

Xiao Lan said to Luo before entering, "I guess we'll be separated again for a while."

Luo smiles and says, "Wherever I am, I will find you eventually."

He meant what he said, and each time they parted, he found Xiao Lan just as he said he would.

Xiao Lan waved at him, "So, see you first."

Luo also raised his hand, "Goodbye."

Xiao Lan turns around and steps into the wall of sacrifice.

After passing through the door, he felt as red as he could see.

The walls and the ground were covered with these blood-red roots, and the air was filled with a lingering smell of blood.

The feeling was like breaking into hell.

Xiao Lan looked back and sure enough, the entrance he had entered through was no longer visible.

Qi Ning and Wang Taidi, who entered shortly before him, are nowhere to be seen.

Xiao Lan gripped his weapon tightly and stepped forward.

Shortly afterwards, he heard a squirming sound coming from beside him.

Xiao Lan turned his head to see a skinless hand sticking out of the wall.

Then a humanoid monster also slowly crawled out of the wall.

Its limbs still have the appearance of a human being, but its five senses have been completely alienated.

The whole face is just a large, fanged mouth that is opening and closing, as if ready to feast on the flesh and blood of the intruder.

As soon as it hit the ground, the humanoid monster lunged in Xiao Lan's direction.

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Wang Taidi entered the Wall of Sacrifice and waited in place for a while.

But he never waited for his teammates to come to the rendezvous, and after trying unsuccessfully to contact them with props, he understood what was going on inside the wall.

It seems that the Wall of Sacrifice blocks contact between the players, which prevents them from clumping together, and they are then more likely to be attacked individually and then become Sara's sacrifice.

Wang Taidi collects his contact props and walks forward.

In any case, finding Wang Ke is his most important task, even if he is without help for the time being, even if he is facing unknown opponents and difficulties.

The interior of the Wall of Sacrifice is as convoluted as a maze.

Without guidance, Wang Taidi has to rely on luck and memory.

Sometimes you can see some undigested corpses on the walls, sometimes nothing at all.

He carefully identified every body along the way, but did not see Wang Ke's among them.

Wang Taidi withdrew his hand from examining the body and glanced again at the pendant in his hand, "Brother, wait for me, I'm almost here, wait a little longer ......"

Suddenly, the pendant's already faint light flickered, as if the faint glow of a flickering flame of a candle in the wind was about to go out in the next moment.

Wang Taidi was horrified.

He hurriedly gripped the pendant in his hand, his skills running at full power: " Wang Ke, you are not allowed to die!"

Affected by the skill, the pendant lights up violently, seemingly more effective than any of the previous ones, but this is only temporary and the pendant's brightness will still slowly fall back afterwards.

But this has lifted Wang Taidi's spirits.

The more obvious the effect, the closer he is to his own brother.

What just happened? How did Wang Ke's life force drop so drastically?

"No, it has to be faster than that." Wang Taidi murmured and ran straight on.

He dared not gamble on the consequences of being even a minute too late.

It was the only family he had, the brother who had protected him and brought him up as a child.

After a short run through the maze of sacrificial walls, Wang Taidi's footsteps come to a halt.

Perhaps it was a case of injustice that the person he had failed to catch up with before had now reappeared in front of him.

The man held a long knife and blocked his path.

" Liang Sian ." Wang Taidi's tone was cold, with a murderous intent that could not be hidden.

The man named Liang Sian was Wang Ke's teammate and one of the two men who betrayed him in Sara's song, a man who contributed to the crisis Wang Ke is now in.

Liang Sian is armed with a long sword and is dressed in a smart combat suit, his hair cut short like Wang Ke's.

He resembles Wang Ke in both his cool demeanour and his fighting style.

It was the reason they became teammates and perhaps the motivation for him to try to kill Wang Ke and take the knife.

Wang Taidi always felt that this man was like a poor imitation of his brother, with a sense of incongruity all over his body, so he never liked him.

Among Wang Ke's teammates, Wang Taidi and Brother Tao had the best relationship, while Liang Sian and Zhang Yiqin were both mediocre.

It was the latter two who later chose to take action against Wang Ke.

"Little Taidi ." Liang Sian's tone was a little mocking, "You're getting a little annoying, I didn't want to tangle with you before, you should have known better, it was hard to survive, you shouldn't have come here."

Wang Taidi, not wanting to exchange trash talk, simply asked, "What are you doing here?"

Liang Sian said, "Me? Of course I'm here to see Wang Ke, we're good teammates, we're supposed to stick together, right?"

Wang Taidi: "Stop this bullshit, I know you're here to find [Bloodbath], but how did you determine my brother's location? What did you put on him?"

"Well, little Taidi has grown up quite a bit in the past year, he's got a brain. Yes, I put something on him, after all, Wang Ke is a tough guy, what if he doesn't die?" Liang Sian laughed, "See, this is where it comes in handy, isn't it?"

Wang Taidi suppressed his anger: "So, the entry into Sara's song was a trick you set up against my brother to begin with?"

So well prepared, how could it have been done if it hadn't been premeditated.

Liang Sian said, "Oh, I'm not really interested in the contract, but Wang Ke is seriously considering it for you, and I should thank you for giving me such a good opportunity."

When he finished, he looked at Wang Taidi in a meaningful way: "How did you get here again? Did you find any clues? Like ...... [Bloodbath]? How about you give it to me and I'll tell you where Wang Ke is?"

Wang Taidi's eyes were unmoving: "Am I stupid?"

If this man had gotten the blood, he would have backhanded himself straight away and then gone on to finish Wang Ke off with it.

Only a fool would leave two guys who have a deep hatred for him alive in this world.

Liang Sian narrowed his eyes, "So, you really do have [Bloodbath]?"

"Wanna see?" Wang Taidi's hand reached forward in a gesture of readiness to remove the prop from its storage space.

Liang Sian's wolf-like eyes were instantly fixed on his hand.

The next thing he knew, Wang Taidi had disappeared right before his eyes.

A sense of crisis loomed over Liang Sian.

He was also an advanced player who had been in combat for many years, and his reflexes were not slow in the slightest, and he instantly dodged out of his place, while turning back to sweep a blade around himself.

He was originally a speedy player and was extremely quick with his hands.

The slash was so fast that it was almost impossible to see, and if anyone had been hiding, they would have been struck instantly.

But the knife fell short and Wang Taidi was not ambushed.

"I've always felt that your skills and combat prowess are very ill-suited to each other." Wang Taidi's voice rang out at his side.

Liang Sian didn't look back either, and without hesitation, he slashed to his side.

But, still, it fell short.

Liang Sian frowned, this guy, where the hell is he hiding?

He looked around but found nothing out of the ordinary, even his murderous aura was cleanly collected.

"If your skills are speedy, why do you want to learn my brother's melee swordplay? His way of fighting people hard is not suitable for you at all." The voice rang out from above Liang Sian's head, "Whether it's physical strength or the strength of your attacks, you are far inferior to my brother."

Liang Sian ignored it, but he found himself underestimating Wang Taidi.

It's amazing how tricky this guy who was once the captain's drag queen has become.

He quietly used his skills and prepared to leave the area first.

Unexpectedly, in the next instant, he appeared just a metre away from where he was before.

It was clear that he had been struck, without realising it.

Liang Sian instantly understood that Wang Taidi was simply stalling for time when he spoke to him, he was doing it on purpose!

Taking advantage of his own disdain and contempt for him, he easily tricked him into a trap.

When did this guy, who has always been a goofball, learn this way.

Wang Taidi's voice reappeared, "You're running too fast, I'll have to lock you up before I can do that."

Liang Sian forced himself to calm down and not listen to what Wang Taidi had to say.

He crossed his sword in a defensive stance in front of him, not daring to move easily, which would expose him to more vulnerability in the eyes of his opponent.

Having lost his greatest speed advantage, he was unable to catch Wang Taidi.

Everything went up against him.

"If I were you, I wouldn't bullshit with a man seeking revenge when faced with him, it's too easy for the other side to do their job these days." Wang Taidi was the voice still beside him.

Liang Sian swings his blade, the flower of the blade waving a streak around him as if it were a knot of blades.

If he had gone head to head, such a swift and sharp blade would have been a tough opponent, but unfortunately he stepped into a trap at the beginning and lost the advantage of speed that he was most proud of.

Liang Sian has some regrets.

Maybe he shouldn't have thought of taking the opportunity to eliminate Wang Taidi when he saw her, he should have gone straight to Wang Ke ......

His knife didn't hit anything.

Liang Sian's heart sank, it seemed that he would not be able to get the [Bloodbath] on this trip.

Liang Sian changed tack in an instant.

He took out a teleportation prop from his storage space, ready to activate it directly and leave the Wall of Sacrifice first.

As someone who had entered Sara's Song once before, he was well aware of the dangers here, so how could he not prepare a way back in advance?

However as soon as he took out his props, he heard a voice around him, " Liang Sian cannot use any props for three minutes."

Sure enough, when Liang Sian used the prop, he was surprised to find that he couldn't activate it anyway.

Three minutes is the limit of time Wang Taidi can limit the use of his props.

But, can Liang Sian last more than three minutes?

"Oh, a mere imitation, and you want to replace my brother?" Wang Taidi's voice was close to his ears this time.

To be fair, Wang Taidi's voice is clear and clean, with a big-boy feel.

But if the owner of the voice wants to kill you, that doesn't make you feel any clearer.

A cold sweat broke out on Liang Sian's forehead and he had a very bad feeling.

There were times when it was a matter of life and death, but he had his teammates and Wang Ke, as captain, was there to help him.

But now he was alone and there were no more pairs of friends to lend him a helping hand.

He is confronted by Wang Ke's brother, who is out for revenge.

Liang Sian's state of mind was no longer calm and his protection was breaking down.

"Do you know the best way for you to attack?" Wang Taidi's voice was like a demon, "If I were you, I would choose the sneak attack route-"

In the next instant, a magnificent dagger stabbed Liang Sian in the back, all the way through the heart.

"It's like this." Wang Taidi emerges from behind Liang Sian's figure.

Liang Sian's eyes widened in disbelief, how could this be, where he had just attacked, how could he be hiding there?

Wang Taidi wore a smile while the dagger in his hand gave another vicious twist.

The dagger cut the wound wider, shredding the heart, and blood rushed out without care as it lost the barrier of skin and flesh.

"No ...... don't kill me ......" Liang Sian understood that his life was at stake and he decisively took out a grey butterfly from his storage space. "This is ...... a prop to find Wang Ke, I have harmed him once ...... but ...... this will make it even ...... from now on ...... I won't mess with you guys anymore ......"

He was clear and unambiguous, without the slightest hint of excusing himself.

He understood that when dealing with a victim, any defence would add to the other person's anger and that being honest was the safest thing to do.

In this respect, he is much more knowledgeable than Zhang Yiqin.

If Wang Taidi lets him go, he will be able to use the prop to heal his wounds in three minutes.

And, the hope of living.

Wang Taidi reached out and picked up the butterfly.

The butterfly was grey and unimpressive looking, but it was his best clue to finding his brother.

"Thanks." He looked at Liang Sian with a smile that didn't reach his eyes, "Si Brother An, would you like to meet [Bloodbath]?"

Liang Sian's heart felt bad: "No ......"

But all that responded to him was a blood-red slash of light.

Liang Sian felt the world before him suddenly spin, as if he was flying through the air, and then his vision reversed and he saw Wang Taidi, with her unchanging smile, and ...... his own body.

"Haters, or dead ones are safest." This was the last voice Liang Sian heard.

After finishing off Liang Sian, Wang Taidi put away the Bloodbath and reached up to snap a small transparent cube off the wall.

It was a prop he used to restrict Liang Sian's movements, fixing a space that would then allow him to hide and teleport within it, which is why he dared to use his words to irritate his opponent with impunity and not get hit.

However, the ...... thing is a black-hearted prop that burns 500 million wealth value once used and makes the heart bleed when used.

It's still a bound prop.

I wonder if some poor fellow will lament his bad luck when he hears this news.

Wang Taidi withdrew his smile, took one expressionless look at the body on the ground and turned to walk away.

He followed the butterfly all the way.

Suddenly, the pendant he had been watching dimmed again, this time the light had almost gone out.

Wang Taidi's hand was bruised as he squeezed the pendant, almost snarling.

" Wang Ke, you are not allowed to die!"

" Wang Ke, you are not allowed to die!!!"

The use of two skills in quick succession, regardless of the cost, has overwhelmed Wang Taidi's body.

Almost with every word, more blood spilled from the corners of his mouth, but he couldn't be bothered with his condition and just stared dead at the pendant.

Finally, the dull pendant lights up once more.

But only a little, more faintly than on any previous occasion.

Wang Taidi spat out the blood from his mouth and casually wiped a handful of blood from the corner of his mouth.

He didn't have time to rest and ran at a faster pace in the direction of Wang Ke.

"Wait for me, brother ......"