Escape the Infinite Chambers Chapter 99 - Escaping from Burial Grounds (XXIX)

Chapter 99 - Escaping from Burial Grounds (XXIX)

Editor: Kitty
“Why did you kill him? We haven’t gotten an answer from him on where the exit is yet.” Luo Jian knelt on the ground and started to gasp. He felt as if something was blocked in his chest, making it hard for him to breathe.
The stalker did not speak. He tugged away his knife, found something on the god’s body, and handed it to Luo Jian. Luo Jian fixed his eyes on it and saw that it was half of a jade pendant, which looked familiar. Luo Jian stared at the jade pendant for a long time before taking out the other half of it from his bosom. He had found one of the halves in the coffin at the ghost’s tomb. He tried to put the two jade pendants together, but strangely, the halves did not fit completely, leaving gaps between, and the patterns on them were not the same.
“Shouldn’t it be the same piece?” Luo Jian did not consider the fact that his jade pendant might have been replaced. He thought it was still the same piece as before. Since the stalker could not explain it to him, Luo Jian did not pay attention to it despite knowing that it might be a key prop or something similar to it, and he decided to keep them both.
Now that the god was dead, Luo Jian thought that next thing they should do was to report the current situation to his teammates. He reached for the stalker squatting beside him and wanted to stand up with the aid of his strength, but just when he was getting up, he felt dizzy and could see specks of white snow blooming in his sight. In addition, he felt it was getting harder and harder to breathe.
“What’s the matter with me… I…… ” Luo Jian could hardly speak and felt very suffocated. The stalker sensed his abnormality and hugged his waist to allow him to rest on the stalker’s body. However, the stalker also felt powerless. In fact, he understood the predicament Luo Jian was in, but he could not open his mouth to tell Luo Jian that even his team members could not help him. Luo Jian must understand this.
But Luo Jian being Luo Jian, although his brain was dizzy due to lack of oxygen from the suffocating feeling and he did not know where such strange feelings of poor health surged from, he soon came to comprehend the reason. He whispered, “Was it because of the ‘god’s’ death? Because I’m the ghost.”
There were two NPCs in this secret chamber. One was the god. His identity could not be replaced. The other was the ghost. Since the ghost was dead since the very beginning, one could obtain his identity by obtaining the props from his corpse. Similarly, if one did not want his identity, one could throw away the props to get rid of this identity.
“However, the ancient garbs that have been put on me have been thrown away, and jade pendants and the other key props can’t represent his identity…” Luo Jian began to analyze his situation, but he could not figure out the reason. He raised his head to look at the stalker and said, “You are… Why did you give this identity to me…? ”
The stalker began to shake his head, and following that, Luo Jian’s eyes widened as he gazed at the stalker: “Or could it be that you didn’t give the identity to me? Was my identity set as the ‘ghost’ by the secret chamber from the beginning?”
Sometimes the secret chamber would also impose an identity on the player, and once the identity was imposed, it could not be changed. This was something the secret chamber mandated—that the player hold the identity. A mandated identity could not be removed. Until one escaped from the secret chamber, that identity would always be imposed upon the player.
“As soon as the god dies, the ghost will start to go berserk?” Luo Jian felt even more suffocated as time went by. His entire body was leaning against the stalker while the stalker held him tightly.
“It’s not very logical. It’s clear that the ghost is dead, so why would his feelings be reflected onto me?” Luo Jian tightly grasped the stalker’s clothes, finding that he had started to cry unknowingly. The tears came forth abnormally. Obviously, there was nothing that was making Luo Jian feel sad, but he strangely still felt sad, causing his tears to flow down unceasingly.
Xing Yan found that his family’s little Luo Jian was crying, so he brought Luo Jian’s entire body into his embrace and rubbed Luo Jian’s cheek against his to comfort him. However, the result of Xing Yan doing this was not very successful. Tears were still gushing down Luo Jian’s face, and he still felt his heart twitching. He felt very uncomfortable. His emotion was subtly transmitted to the stalker, and that made Xing Yan feel very distressed.
Clearly Luo Jian belonged to Xing Yan, so why was he sadly crying over what happened to others?
Xing Yan was very upset. He bowed his head and bit Luo Jian’s lips.
At another corner.
The vampire team captain’s ability had fallen short of his expectations in the face of the two oracles’ attack. He felt that the two enemies were ferocious to a terrible extent, which was reflected by not only their strength but also their cooperation. He was now in a dangerous situation. Two experienced and extremely powerful guys were cooperating against him, rendering the vampire team captain powerless. He felt that his life might have to end here.
“Captain!” At this time, Brawny, who was standing behind the vampire team captain, shouted something that made everyone feel confused: “Time is up!”
But this sentence seemed to restore the confidence of the vampire team captain. He smiled and blocked a collective attack from Duan Li and Specter. Then, he backed away quickly from the battlefield and rapidly returned to his team member’s side. At this time, the female strategist in their team had woken up. Although her not being able to conveniently move was quite burdensome, the vampire team captain almost jumped for joy.
“Yan Hua… How are you doing?” The vampire team captain asked carefully.
“There are changes in our action plan.” The woman wanted to save her breath, so she issued a short command: “Let’s retreat. Do not continue fighting with them. With our strength, we cannot beat the enemies.”
“But…” The vampire team captain looked at the two oracles, who were advancing towards them. Duan Li and Specter would not stop attacking just because the vampire team captain had temporarily ceased attacking them. Since the enemy wanted to run, the best thing they should do was to continue with their triumphant pursuit.
“I know someone will naturally come and hold them back.” The woman did not seem to worry about it and showed a soft smile. Since she was very beautiful, she almost dazzled the vampire team captain, who was suffering from an unrequited love towards her.
Just as the female strategist said, when Duan Li and Specter were about to continue with their pursuit, two figures suddenly appeared. They had no choice but to stop pursuing them since there were two unexpected guests on the battlefield. Also, it was obvious that they came for the two oracles.
Yes, the ones who appeared were the remaining two stalkers. There would be four stalkers because of the participation of the oracles in the team battle. Apart from Xing Yan and the one who had been killed by Duan Li, there were only two left. They had not appeared so far, but they appeared at this critical juncture now.
These two stalkers seemed to be the rare ones that would act together. After all, almost all of the stalkers were unique, so it was rare for them to act together. Moreover, they were similar in appearance. They may have been relatives before they became stalkers, and even their weapons were similar. Both of the stalkers had boxing gloves as their weapons.
“It’s such a coincidence that these stalkers are here, isn’t it?” The vampire team captain seemed to be surprised by this, but when he thought of the woman’s ability, he felt a little relieved and urged, “What are we going to do next?”
The woman merely smiled: “Let’s walk towards that huge tree and head towards the exit. Someone will help us to get the key later.”
“Do you know where the exit is?”
“Of course I know.”
So the vampire team captain carried the woman and led her to the huge tree trunk while Duan Li and Specter were held back by the two stalkers that had popped out of nowhere. Such a situation made Specter and company feel that something was not right. Specter opened his mouth and said, “Duan Li, chop down these two stalkers quickly. No matter where the enemies are heading, we must stop them!”
“Will these stalkers heed my wishes and let me chop them?!” Duan Li yelled indignantly. These two stalkers were different from those they had met before. They worked together very well when attacking and were able to cooperate seamlessly. It could be seen that when they were players before, the two of them could be counted as the very best players. Moreover, the black boxing gloves on their hands carried freezing properties, which could reduce the sensory and movement speeds of their enemies. This was Duan Li’s natural enemy! When he wielded the sword, he felt that even his hand was covered with a layer of frost, and that rendered him unable to move.
Specter was doing slightly better than him, but he also almost lost some combat effectiveness. Because of the frost, it was hard for him to even control where he aimed his gun!
“F*ck, at this time, it’d be good if there was some fire—”
“Summoning spell—spark that sets the prairie ablaze.” While the two were at a loss, Feng YuLan suddenly appeared, began to summon large areas of flames, and used the corpses of the monsters on the ground as fuel to allow the fire to rapidly spread. Seeing this, Specter seemed to think of a good idea. He began to bombard large areas of the monster corpses around them. Soon, raging fires broke out on large patches of land around them. The high temperature reduced certain levels of the threat posed by the icy frost from the two stalkers standing opposite them.
“It’s nice to have a magician in the team.” As Specter carried his guns, he seemed to be very satisfied with Feng YuLan.
“I need to find Luo Jian.” However, they were caught unprepared when Feng YuLan inexplicably blurted that out. His sudden request caused Duan Li and Specter to feel strange.
“What are you going to do with him?” Specter questioned: “We have to deal with these two stalkers now before catching up with the enemies. Although we don’t know what they want to accomplish, if we let them find the exit first, we will lose this team battle.”
Perhaps he knew that they would not allow his request, but Feng YuLan did not say much to rebuke. He replied to Specter with “I know.” After that, he retreated and continued to watch the battle. The two stalkers may not win this battle, but they were more than enough to hold them back.
“You have to find Luo Jian.” At a place nobody could see, the little devil holding the red umbrella remained standing next to Feng YuLan. After he separated from his team, he returned to Ah Lan’s side and decided to make use of him to get the other half of the jade pendant.
“I have to find Luo Jian…” Feng YuLan had a gloomy expression. His grimoire floated nearby him, and the pages stopped flipping at a certain page, which made Ah Lan take a glance at his grimoire. After a moment’s hesitation, he started to recite a spell in a low voice:
“Summoning spell—mirror reflection.”
So when no one had noticed, Ah Lan replaced himself with his mirror reflection in the spot where he once stood while the little boy next to him waved his red umbrella to expand the area of effect of the spell to erase their sense of existence so that he and Ah Lan could be in a state where they clearly existed but could not be seen by others.
“Follow me.” The boy floated ahead and was followed by a dazed Feng YuLan.
The wheels of fate started to turn.
T/N: Do you guys have some guesses as to who the boy is?