Infinite Throne

   Chapter 1057 In the Darkness…

After a few minutes.

  Irin and Oda Mai are done.

  The insidious treasure chest turned into a tentacle monster, was chopped into pieces, stretched and wriggled like a bug on the slippery ground covered with mucus, and was no longer the mighty when it just "jumped back".

"Walk!"

   Needless to say, Oda Mai knew from the moment when the treasure chest "perverted" that Irin's appearance was not to **** the "ancient amulet", she nodded, put her swords in the sheath, and followed Irin away from the place.

  The ancient ruins are very large, comparable to a small city.

   After throwing away the monsters who heard the sound, Irin and Oda Mai hid in a ruined room with a large hole in the ceiling.

   The two sat in the center of the room, back to back, and sat on the ground.

   This posture is very particular, not just to rely on each other for comfort. The mere walls could not provide enough "safety" at all. The two of them handed over their backs to each other, and while resting and returning to their psionic energy or recovering their physical energy, no matter what kind of dangers appeared, both of them could respond immediately. .

  The atmosphere is slightly awkward.

   This Oda Mai is not the Oda Mai Irin knew, so many topics could not be discussed.

   After being silent for a full hour, Yi Rin found a topic: "I'll teach you how to distinguish between a real treasure chest and a 'mimic devil' pretending to be a treasure chest..."

it's actually really easy.

  There are certain traces on the real treasure chest, such as scratches, moss, the remains of poisonous jellyfish and so on.

   The treasure chest turned into a mimetic monster is very new. After encountering it a few times, many undead can see the difference when they get closer. It is not a very mysterious method. Of course, Yi Rin planned to sell a favor, and brush up on the favorability of this Oda Mai.

   "No." Oda Mai shook her head, interrupting Irin's next words, explaining why she didn't use it: "I will cut the box first."

   "...As expected of you. How many ancient talismans are you missing now?"

   "Three."

   "Okay, as long as I can keep myself safe, I will help you find it."

  Oda Mai turned her back to Irin, and her breathing rhythm changed slightly.

"Don't be in a hurry to refuse, I've already said it, under the premise of 'guaranteeing my own safety', 'by the way' to help you find it. Besides..." Yi Rin's tone paused for a while, and there was a touch of helplessness in her voice. : "If I guessed correctly, more than 90% of the next 'treasure chests' are treasure chest monsters."

  Oda Mai thought about it... Still couldn't figure out the reason, so he asked, "Why?"

Yi Rin pinched his forehead: "It's just a reasonable conjecture based on the change curve of his own amulet-finding efficiency, plus a little rational 'empathy', the obvious conclusion. It's really too obvious, Obviously to the point where I find it boring."

   "click."

  Oda Mai pursed her lips, she subconsciously shook the knife around her waist, and made a crisp metal collision.

   I don't see anything "obvious".

I don't know why, she should have thought that this nasty way of speaking should be chopped up with a knife, but listening to this man's words, she always felt a strange feeling, as if there was an area in her heart that she didn't understand, been touched.

Yi Rin did not dare to continue playing the riddles, and explained concisely: "In the first 6 hours, I easily found 10 treasure chests, and 4 of the 10 treasure chests were amulets; in the next 24 hours, I found 20 treasure chests. , out of the 20 treasure chests, there are only 4 amulets; then it was until the previous treasure chest that I met with you, I opened the ninth ancient amulet after opening 34 treasure chests... By the way, tell me bluntly, From what I know about you, you probably don't have the patience to touch the treasure chests one by one, how did your seven ancient talismans come from?"

  Oda Mai lowered her head and fell silent for a while, and answered honestly: "Find someone, hack to death, **** it; find someone again, hack to death, continue to snatch; keep killing, keep hacking to death, then snatch."

   To sum up, it's just three words: find, kill, grab... no-brainer repeat.

In the darkness, Yi Rin showed an expression of "not what I expected", and suddenly said: "Sure enough, people like you, instead of working hard to **** treasure chests, is it better to kill people and grab the amulet directly? According to my reasoning, the talismans in the ruins are likely to be almost touched."

  Oda Mai nodded: "Understood."

   She really understands now.

  The next step is the mutual killing session.

   As for the ‘transpositional thinking’ mentioned by Irin, there is no need to say more. This kind of sneaky "treasure hunt" mode obviously does not meet the evil taste of "above". Suppose there are 100 elite undead thrown into the ancient ruins, and each undead needs 10 amulets to complete the task. So to make this mission "interesting" and "gambling" enough, the number of ancient talismans must be far less than 1,000.

Obvious.

  Irin and Oda Mai are hiding here now, in order to rest and recover as much as possible before the other surviving undead react.

  The missions above the 80th floor are not as good as before. Without the resurrection coins, the action mode of the undead will change from "crazy" to "insidious, cunning, cautious and suspicious", and this change is not achieved overnight.

Some undead will still search tirelessly in the ruins, trying to avoid conflict with other undead as much as possible, and they react "the original amulet is gone", until the outbreak of a large-scale chaotic killing situation due to the undead fighting for the amulet, this point Rest time is precious.

  The two were silent in the dark.

   Stop talking.

  Only the mutual breathing and heartbeat constitute each other at the moment.

   "Call..."

   At this moment, Oda Mai breathed a sigh of relief: "Actually, I hate dark places."

When   Irin heard this, he became interested: "Oh? It's weird, I really don't know. Why?"

   The former Oda dancers didn't talk much, and would never take the initiative to bring up their past.

Oda Mai lowered her voice and said in a distressingly calm tone, "My father, Oda Hanyu, is a shady 'underground occupation', he is in charge of an underworld called 'Oda Association' Organization. I remember that one night, on the orders of my father, the nanny took me out to a place to play, and we played late until I was very sleepy, very sleepy, and didn't take me home."

   "I clearly remember that that night, the lights were not turned on at home, and there was no sound at all... Not only my father, but my mother as well."

  Oda Mai said here, and stopped abruptly without continuing.

   But Irin had already guessed the ending of the story.

   He felt deeply ashamed of his "interest" just now, and he said seriously: "Sorry, I shouldn't have asked."

Oda Mai shook his head: "Already, it doesn't matter, everything has passed. Later, the master took me in. My master was Kenichi Miyamoto. In my mind, the master is the strongest swordsman. He later taught me I practice knives."

"Every night, I don't dare to sleep or even turn off the lights. I turn on all the lights in the house, very bright, very bright. Maybe only in this way, I will not think of them. After the master found out, he taught How do I overcome my fear."

"He said, I can sleep with a knife in my arms at night. If I feel scared in the dark, I will go to the place where I feel scared and cut out what I think is the sharpest knife. He said that people wield in desperate situations. The sword that comes out is enough to conquer all darkness, fear, hesitation, and confusion."

   "Afterwards, I was no longer afraid of the dark. I just felt, simply hate it."

After Oda Mai finished telling her story, the corners of her mouth raised a subtle arc from the angle that Irin could not see: "You know, once, I had a strange dream. In the dream, I killed a lot of red stars. The 'ghost' of the eyes, I was badly wounded, and in a dark room, I applied medicine for myself."

  Irin was taken aback for a moment, he didn't know what Oda Mai meant by this strange dream.

   He didn't feel interesting anyway.

Oda Mai continued: "I remember that in that dream, there was a strange man who killed ghosts with me. I remember that it was him who turned off the lights in the house for me. When I woke up, that dream The details have become blurred, but only the eyes of the man, I have always remembered it very clearly. His eyes were very quiet. It was like the eyes that my master smiled back at me when he put the knife in the scabbard ."

   "Sorry, I rarely talk that much. I don't know why, but you remind me of the man in my dream."

and many more…

  Irin was stunned.

   The dream Oda Mai had was clearly...

  Oda Mai finished speaking, stood up, and put her right hand on the handle of the knife at will. She frowned slightly and looked outside the house in a certain direction.

"someone is coming."

   (end of this chapter)