Chapter 369 The days of living with the dead
As an independent semi-plane, there is no difference between day and night in the burial place.√∟
There is no sun rise or moon set here. Time seems to have completely lost its meaning here. There is only one magic timer brought in by the undead from the Dark Dynasty. After hundreds of repairs, it is still running extremely strongly. From this perspective, this timer that makes people feel respectable can be regarded as a product of conscience...
Dingling! Dinglingling! The twelfth time, the noise of the timer sounded again. Lin Taiping woke up slowly from the darkness, left the stone bed with soreness, touched the scarred wound on his back, and tried to make several more bent actions, and finally realized that the wound he suffered in the explosion of the portal had completely healed.
In fact, even without the reminder of the magic timer, he was awakened, because just outside this dark room, the dead creatures were concentrating on watching "The Lord of the Rings" and enthusiastically discussing the plot, and from time to time they had to express their own opinions-
"Do you know? The magic ring reminds me of the bracelet I made for His Majesty the Emperor during the Dark Dynasty. I remember that at that time, in order to create that bracelet, we plundered the wealth of seven seas. Ah, when it comes to this, do you still remember the elves that were robbed by us?"
"It's so stupid. Those orcs are so weak that they can't get the powerful ring even if they try their best. If it were me, I would directly kidnap the relatives and friends of the halflings, and then write a letter to tell them that if they don't hand over the ring, then their relatives and friends will all be dead!"
"Shut up all of them, don't bother me to watch the movie! Look, that fire-breathing dragon has appeared. This guy looks good. Actually, it's a long time ago. I used to have such a pet. At that time, I really wanted to turn it into a bone dragon, but that guy actually rejected my kindness because his appearance was too ugly. He really had no aesthetic view. Isn't it a kind of beauty to be covered in white bones?"
In this way, while recalling the past, continuing to enjoy the movie, and discussing the plot enthusiastically, these undead creatures who have spent a long time in the bone burial land finally found the second greatest pleasure besides academic research. Of course, this does not mean that they have completely given up academic research.
In fact, after watching the Lord of the Rings several times in a row, the evil Lich King coughed a few times and said seriously: "Okay, gentlemen, let's let go of the movie for the time being and discuss today's academic topic... Do you know? Recently, I have been thinking about why one plus one equals two instead of three, who stipulates this?"
Well. If they continue at this pace, they will soon reach the Goldbach conjecture. Lin Taiping couldn't help but roll his eyes, thinking that it would be better for him not to participate in this discussion. In fact, instead of having time to discuss why one plus one equals two, he might as well think about how to leave the burial place and find a way to meet Christine and the others.
However, judging from the current situation, it seems to be a very difficult thing to escape from the Bone Burial Land. In the past period, Lin Taiping has tried to communicate with the dead and learned some secrets of the Bone Burial Land, or it is not a secret at all.
According to the undead creatures, all this originated from the complete collapse of the Dark Dynasty. When the dark emperor died suddenly for some reason, the dark creatures that once ruled the entire Contans world were suddenly attacked by the coalition forces of humans and other biological forces. The Lich King, who was once the court mage of the Dark Dynasty, and the undead under his command, were also sealed into this bone-burying place because of the attack of a powerful force.
In fact, in the long years of the past, the Lich King and the Skeleton Masters have tried their best to escape from this burial place that imprisoned them, but any attempts of them ended in failure... So, from this perspective, since even the powerful undead creatures cannot escape from here, what can Lin Taiping, who is just a human, do?
"So give up, poor human, you can only stay here honestly." During the break when discussing mathematics, the Lich King patted Lin Taiping on the shoulder and comforted him with sympathy. "From the bright side, you only need to live for nearly a hundred years to get rid of this boring life forever, but we still have to stick to it."
"Is this considered comfort?" Lin Taiping couldn't help but sigh, but still asked again without giving up, "Is there really no way? Even if it's a dangerous method, I'm willing to try it, as long as I can leave this bone-burying place."
Obviously, this question was unnecessary. The Lich King was too lazy to answer, but just looked at him with that sympathetic look. However, at this moment, the fire skeleton master next to him suddenly coughed a few times and said thoughtfully: "Wait, sir, I seem to remember that there is a road here that leads to the outside world?"
True or false? Lin Taiping was overjoyed. But before he could ask, the Lich King frowned slightly and shook his head slowly, "Ahem, are you talking about that road? No, this is impossible. No human can survive in that danger, and has never been."
This is true. Several skeleton masters looked at each other in a glance. They must admit that this is true. But the problem is that Lin Taiping can no longer listen and couldn't help but raise his hand and said, "Gentlemen, don't keep it in a silence, okay? At least you tell me first, what is that road?"
"That's a road, a very ordinary road." The Lich King raised his hand gently and pointed to the darkness in the distance in the light of the phosphorus fire. In that direction, it seemed that a towering giant tower could be vaguely seen. Black fog covered most of the tower body, and it seemed that the sound of sobs and crying could be vaguely heard.
"So, that's it?" Lin Taiping tried his best to open his eyes and looked at the giant tower shrouded in fog.
"Tower of the Undead!" The Lich King replied calmly, as if he was talking about something completely unrelated to himself. "That is the connection between the burial land and the human world. As long as you can enter the Tower of the Undead, you can return to the human world through the portal there, and you don't have to worry about the teleportation going wrong or explosion."
"But?" Lin Taiping asked tentatively, thinking about it with his heels, he knew that there must be a hidden one behind it, and it is very terrible. Just like all normal plots...
It turned out that his guess was completely correct, because the Lich King sighed helplessly, and even the soul fire in his eyes weakened a little: "But only humans can enter that tower of the dead, otherwise we would have escaped here long ago."
Who said no? Several skeleton masters sighed together. This is the law of the bone burial place, and no one can violate it. But Lin Taiping couldn't help but raise his hand and pointed at himself seriously: "Wait, gentlemen, don't I look like a human?"
"I know you are a human, but because you are a human, you can't leave here at all." The Lich King said a contradictory conclusion, and before Lin Taiping was about to go crazy, he finally came to the final conclusion, "That's right. As long as you enter the Tower of the Undead, you can leave the land of burial, and only humans can enter the Tower of the Undead... However, the biggest problem now is, do you know what is in the Tower of the Undead?"
What? Before Lin Taiping asked, the skeleton masters next to him had already given the answer: "Listen, the undead energy of the entire bone burial land is gathered near the tower of the dead. Any human being as long as it is touched by that undead energy will be corroded in an instant, and there will be no bones left."
Well, the amount of information in this passage is really a bit large. Lin Taiping always felt that he was very smart, but at this moment, it took him ten minutes to finally infer the contradiction in this passage - first, only humans can enter the Tower of Undead, and secondly, the Tower of Undead is full of undead energy, so before humans enter the Tower of Undead, they will be completely killed by the Undead energy near the Tower of Undead, and they cannot leave the land of burial...
"That's it, you finally understand!" The Lich King and the Skeleton Masters sighed together, but added again, "In fact, hundreds of years ago, a human once accidentally entered the bone burial land. We encouraged the guy to enter the Tower of the Undead and imposed a lot of defensive magic on him. But the result... ahem, you should already know."
"Okay, that guy is really unlucky." Lin Taiping touched his chin speechlessly. After only a moment, he seemed to suddenly think of something, and was stunned for a moment, his face full of strangeness fell into silence.
"Don't think about it, we've thought about the way we can think of a long time ago." The Lich King patted his shoulder and sighed helplessly, "In fact, we have considered how to temporarily turn ourselves back to humans, but this research is really difficult, maybe we'll give us thousands of years..."
"No, it doesn't take thousands of years, it only takes one minute." Before he finished speaking, Lin Taiping suddenly raised his head and looked at the Lich King with a smile, "Do you know? I just thought that although you can't temporarily become humans, I can temporarily turn myself into a dead soul."
Well, because of his words, the scene suddenly fell into a strange silence. Several skeleton masters looked at each other with strange faces. The Lich King suddenly took a few steps back and said in disbelief: "This, this is impossible. Academic problems that we have studied for thousands of years have not been studied. How could you do it in just a moment..."
Before he finished speaking, the Lich King and the Skeleton Mages suddenly stood up in shock—
Yes, just in their sight, black mist suddenly surged from Lin Taiping's body. Under the cover of this black mist, his body began to change drastically. Large pieces of flesh and blood peeled off from his body, revealing the blood-stained white bones until they were completely transformed into...
"The God of Darkness is here! What did we see?" At this moment, even the knowledgeable Lich King was breathing incredibly. How could this be? How could this be? Just in front of everyone, this human was transformed into...
"I think I should be a skeleton soldier now, although my strength is still a little weak." Facing the astonished expressions of the Lich King and the Skeleton Masters, Lin Taiping touched the thick white bones on his body, and then smiled happily, laughing until his chin bones were clattering-
Chapter completed!