【Quan Zhen】According to the script, we should kiss now?

【8】

With the update of the mission, a butterfly-shaped destination icon appeared on the mountain pass where black swarms gathered not far away.You Mu was about to set off, when he heard something fall behind him, he turned his head, and a scroll fell to the ground.During the few days with Sena, Yuki was quite familiar with the display in the cave, but he had never seen this scroll, the edges were yellowed and there were signs of damage, but it had been carefully repaired.

{Obtain the prop "Insect Guide". }

Yuki was concerned about the safety of Sena in his heart, he didn't care to open the illustration book, he just stuffed it around his waist and hurried towards the target mountain.

Except for being chased by monsters and beasts occasionally, the journey went smoothly.Yuki had the medicinal herb Sena gave him in his mouth, and almost no insects dared to approach him easily, so they could only linger beside him.When he got to the middle of the mountain, there was no way. He looked around, and there was only a dark cave with a width of one person. The entrance of the cave was dark and bottomless.

Just when he was hesitating, the mountain trembled violently again, and the torrent of black worms roared past his eyes, covering the sky and the sun, deafening.It was followed by the same huge silver-white python, which was so huge that it couldn't see the limit. It raised wind and sand all over the sky, and the ground under Youmu's feet almost collapsed. Trying to identify traces of Sena.

After an unknown amount of time, the insect swarm and the giant snake finally circled to the other side, and the mountain forest returned to a brief calm.Yuki no longer hesitated, and jumped into the black hole.

The dark cave was shallower than he had imagined, and the slide quickly reached the bottom.Countless colorful insects float and swim in mid-air, like flowers floating on the water.When Youmu fell to the ground, those insects backed away in fear, but they cut a path for him.

The passageway is low and narrow, getting narrower and narrower as you walk, Youmu had to bend forward, the worms who had stayed in the cave fled in all directions, he continued walking in the dark, but a huge stone slab blocked his way.The butterfly totem on the back of the hand glows with a faint blue light, illuminating the intricate patterns on the board.He tried to push the slate, but it didn't budge.

{Hint: Worms can be used. }

Yuki looked back at the insect hiding not far away, he couldn't feel the fusion outside in the mountain, but when he thought that Sena might be fighting that huge and weird creature, his body seemed to have infinite courage, let him throw it away. The blade of grass that protects him actively approaches the insect swarm.

The scroll was automatically pulled away from his waist, and spread out to the key parts intimately.On the axis, there are brush characters similar to You Mu's handwriting, but more elegant and timeless than his.With the light of the butterfly tattoo, he quickly browsed the illustration book, referring to the text description and graffiti, and tentatively stretched out his hand to a jellyfish-like worm.When he touched the tentacles, his fingertips felt tingling, Youmu gritted his teeth and endured it, and just as he walked back to the stone slab, the worm couldn't wait to flow into the veins, and the blue stone gave off a dim light.You Mu's vision flickered, and he came back to his senses, he was already in the stone slab, and those criss-cross lines turned out to be the partitions of the maze.

Youmu is actually not very good at this kind of immersive maze. He also relies on mobile phone maps to navigate the whole process when he meets his companions to go to other places on weekdays.But I don't know if it's the buff that came with the game, or the tension of Sena's deep crisis, or the EX bonus of novice luck. In short, after a while, Yuki reached the finish line smoothly.Hidden behind the exit slab was a palm-sized scale, the cold touch reminded him of Sena's silver snake form.

The moment he touched the scale of the snake, Yuki's vision became blurred again, and his surroundings became bright and a bit hazy.It was the cave where Sena lived, but the arrangement of the items was subtly different. The wooden cabinets were crowded with bottles and jars piled up with herbs, and there were all kinds of insects floating in the air.

"Are you awake?" He heard someone talking above his head, he lifted him up with one hand, and after turning his perspective around, what fell into his eyes was a face that was exactly the same as Yuki's—but it was more mature than his real self. edges and corners.

Before Yuki had time to be surprised, Sena's voice suddenly sounded in his head: Don't catch me like this, bastard.

He kind of understood that this might be the memory of Izumi Sena who was a silver snake before.As if to respond to his guess, the perspective switched to God's perspective. At this moment, Youmu seemed to be floating in the air like those worms, watching the young man who resembled him put a small white snake on his lap.

The older Yuki really seemed to have heard Sena's complaint, and smiled: "I'm sorry, because I want to avoid your wound, bear with me a little longer, and I'll give you a checkup."

Sena in the form of a white snake obviously refused, but just as he was about to struggle, a short snake tail swayed weakly and fell into the palm of the young man.

"Your wound is still healing, don't rush to move." The young man patiently explained, as if he had no doubt that the snake could understand human speech.

Obviously, Sena in memory also had the same question, and was still complaining in his heart: This nerd actually reasoned with a snake.

The young man who was carefully inspecting the wound suddenly looked straight into the snake's eyes, and the warm emerald was rippling with confidence: "Although you can't speak yet, I can read your thoughts. I haven't seen you in this mountain before. It's new. Is it coming soon?"

Sena's chattering complaints continued to echo in Yuki's mind: Arrogant brat, you weren't even born when I came to this mountain!

"I guess so. Although you are not old enough, you look a little old. If you have to say it, you are indeed older than me," the young man said to himself with a good temper. The voice of the heart continued, "I also lived here not long ago..."

Hmph, it really is a little devil.Sena's flamboyant voice is very visual.

"The examination is over, congratulations, you are recovering very well," the young man smiled brightly, as if it was not the white snake in his arms that recovered but himself, "it will be cured after a few more doses of medicine."

Sena Xin said: "You are young, but your medical skills are pretty good."

The young man said happily: "Thanks for the compliment."

I didn't praise you.Sena, who was seen through her thoughts, was a little annoyed, twisted her body, trying to break free from the young man's arms, but was hugged nervously by the other party.

"It will be bad if you fall again, you should rest on the bed first."

After the young man settled the white snake, he walked to the wooden cabinet, picked up a pen and concentrated on writing and drawing.You Mu zoomed in and looked at it curiously. It was indeed the illustrated scroll book he had obtained before. What the young man wrote at this moment happened to be the worm he had just used.

No wonder this cave is full of floating worms, some even wandering around the tip of the youth's pen.But although they were close to this young man, they would not touch him, let alone penetrate into his skin and hurt him.

Perhaps this person has a deeper understanding of insects, and knows herbs that Sena doesn't?You Mu couldn't figure it out, the young man's writing had come to an end, and he sat back on the bed.He seemed to like the white snake very much, although the latter didn't appreciate it very much.The young man seemed to think that the snake was asleep, so he carefully stroked the snake's head with his fingers and said to himself:

"The creatures here are afraid of me, except for the worms, but they can't talk to me. I haven't chatted with anyone for a long time.

"Thank you for willing to speak with me."

After a brief silence, Sena muttered in her heart: ... Strange guy.

From Yuki's perspective, it can be seen that the white snake, which was supposed to be sound asleep, quietly raised its tail and clung to the young man's wrist.

The memories stored in the scales ended here. After the dazzling white light passed, Youmu returned to the narrow corridor with a snake scale in his hand.

The stone slab in front of him disappeared, and he continued walking.Losing the protection of medicinal herbs, some vicious worms approached boldly. Enduring the pain, Yuki held the jellyfish-like worm tightly. His rich game experience told him that there were still memory fragments to collect, and The place needs this bug.

The difficulty of the subsequent labyrinth levels increased, but Youmu also gradually figured out his experience, and he became more and more familiar with walking.He picked up the new scales and couldn't wait to open the memories of the snake demon Sera.

It was still the familiar cave, but this time the atmosphere between the young man and the white snake was much more harmonious.The snake was obviously twice the size of the previous memory, but it was coiled on the young man's shoulder, watching him grind the medicinal herbs in a serious manner.The young man spoke plausibly, as if he was explaining the meaning of the process to the snake.

"After applying it externally and bathing in the moonlight for five consecutive days, the worms will leave the human body and the person can recover their sanity," said the young man.

Sena was a little dissatisfied: Those bastards fear you and regard you as a monster, why are you still developing an antidote to help humans?

"Before I was 'chosen', I was just an ordinary orphan. I was raised by the villagers together." The young man put the ground medicine powder into a paper bag and stroked the snake's head soothingly.

"Besides, it's absurd for a person to be chosen as the mountain lord. If I were a bystander, I'm afraid I would think that the chosen one is actually a monster."

You kind-hearted idiot don't think so.Sena denied.

"Hey, thank you."

I didn't praise you again.The white snake spat out the letter in protest, and climbed off the young man.

"Speaking of which, I don't know Mr. Snake's name—do you have a name?"

Sena glanced back at him disdainfully: nonsense.In terms of seniority, you still have to call me Quan Sang.

The young man nodded obediently, hesitated for a moment before saying, "Quan Sang just called me... Really."

When passing through the third maze of stone slabs, the cave passage has come to an end, and there are scattered wooden blocks scattered on the almost vertical cliffs, and the able-bodied people can probably easily climb up.Although Youmu has done some extreme physical training thanks to the blessing of the great god, it is the first time he has tried such a steep rock wall.But...he looked up, and there were silver and white scales floating on the top of the stone wall, gleaming, and he had already reached this point, so he couldn't back down.

He took a deep breath, as if he had forgotten that this was just a virtual game, but that didn't matter anymore.

Falling will not kill you, but damage will increase with height.I don't know how many times of blood red and restarting, Youmu finally climbed out of the cave, and once again clenched the icy snake scale that he missed so much.

The young man named Zhen stood on the top of the mountains and stared into the distance. The mountains and forests he loved and was familiar with were no longer lush and green. Under the withered and fallen trees was the bare scorched earth. There was no sound of birds and insects. The ubiquitous insects floating in the air were nowhere to be seen.The village at the foot of the mountain was in ruins, as dark as a dead city.

It's their own fault.Sena's indifferent voice sounded above the young man, and Yuki who was watching had to look up hard to see the cold blue eyes of the giant snake.

The young man's voice was soft and decisive: "Although that's the case, as the owner of the mountain, I can't watch the mountain die."

Sena stared at him vigilantly, it was the first time Yuki saw such a vigilant white snake, the scales on its neck stood on end, its murderous aura was suffocating.He asked word by word: What do you want to do?

The young man did not answer directly, but changed his tone lightly: "Actually, Quansang is not an ordinary snake, is it? The first time I saw you was a small one, crawling in the grass, translucent white, with blue eyes Amazingly bright."

Sena was still staring at him, her soft body showing sharp lines.

"It is said that there is a kind of insect that can eat the mountain owner and replace it, becoming the new mountain owner, bringing peace and new life," the young man continued unhurriedly, "Quan Sang is this kind of 'dead snake', right? Being elected as the mountain lord means turmoil, that's why Quan Sang appeared."

Sena categorically denies: No, I never thought of replacing Shin, I just wanted to—

The young man smiled: "Thank you Quansang, I believe in you. But this is my last request. Although I am not qualified as a mountain master, if death can revive the mountain forest, that is my duty."

In front of the resolute young man, the proud giant snake seemed small and helpless. He kept dissuading and even pleading that he could really change his mind, but nothing could shake the young man's determination, just like the aging of the mountain, no one can stop it.

"If I have to die, at least... I hope Quansang is the one who devours me."

Suddenly, the sand and dust filled the air, drowning the young man with a firm smile, and the white snake disappeared.A painful sound blown to pieces by the storm entered Youmu's ear.

——My mission as the mountain lord is finally coming to an end.In the end, I couldn't tell you personally... I just want to be with you, really.

Youmu spent a lot of effort not to fall back into the cave amidst the continuous shaking of the ground.He is holding three snake scales in his hand now, the last one is stained with bright red cold blood.According to the system prompt, he can continue his journey to find Sena after collecting all the scales.Although Yuki couldn't see each other, judging from the extent of the collapse of the forest, the situation was not optimistic.

Countless black worms piled on top of each other, covering the sun, and the sky was as dark as the end of the world.You Mu staggered towards the top of the mountain, and birds, beasts and floating insects kept escaping from the mountain and passed him.The sharp scales cut through his palm, and the warm blood flowed onto the snake scales and was completely absorbed, without him noticing it.The system didn't tell him what to do next, and he had no clue. The only thought in his mind was to rush forward, faster, faster.

At some point, his pace became faster and faster, and his body became more and more comfortable. Even Yuki himself didn't realize that he changed back to the appearance of a 17-year-old boy.

When he reached the top of the mountain, he just saw the spears of the swarm piercing the snake's body.The white snake twisted its body in pain, and the insects surrounded it densely, trying to devour the elephant's ants.The white snake transformed into a human form in time, broke through the encirclement, and fell to the ground.

"Izumi-san!" Yumu didn't care about the evil insects he was attacking together, he rushed forward and hugged Sena in his arms.The snake scales pinched by him stuck to Sena's body, emitting a warm yellow light.

The unconscious snake demon struggled to open his eyes, and froze when he saw Yu Mu's face clearly.

"real?"

Knowing that Sena confused him with the young man in his memory, Yuki felt sour for no reason.

"Cheer up, let's escape from here first."

Sena broke away from Yuki's hand, the dark blue tattoo on his face was already red, and there was still blood on his forehead, although there was a huge and menacing swarm of insects behind him, Sena was still calm and relieved.

"No, I promised to protect this mountain."

Saying that, Sena wrapped her hands around Yuki's arms and pushed him away forcefully.

"You can't die here."

These were Sena's last words before being swallowed by the swarm.

You Mu fell down and sat in the middle of the square again, the buzzing of the swarm of insects still lingered in his ears.He stared blankly at the gradually clear projection of the snake demon on the light curtain. What did the other party mean by that unclear last sentence?

While he was still immersed in the aftertaste of the last game level, the light curtains surrounding him suddenly disappeared one by one, leaving only the last locked door.

The familiar system prompt sounded: {The rest of the world lines need a key to unlock. }

Yuki was at a loss, the game suddenly said that a key was needed after playing the game, did he have to pay extra to play the full version?The ABO before that also... He shook his head vigorously, thinking too far.

The system description continues: {The key can be obtained in this world line. }

{Is it on? }

Of course Yuki nodded.

The electronic lock on the gate made a crisp sound: {"Real World" has been unlocked. }

real world?Yuki was vigilant, but this time he didn't wait for him to step in, a long-lost gravitational force emerged from the open door, bringing him into the so-called real world again like the first time he was sucked into the TV.

After a while of dizziness, Yumu got up from the smooth floor.The waxed mahogany floor looks like new. Looking up, the tidy and obsessive-compulsive layout in the room looks familiar, just like Quan Sang's home.

Wait, Yuki, who was dizzy from the fall, suddenly woke up. This is Sena Izumi's room in the real world.

-TBC-