Chapter 189 - Valiant Battle (VII)
Editor: Kitty
“Oh, why did you come to my side?” Clown squatted on the ground as he dug a hole. He turned back to look at Abyss, who had suddenly appeared by his side. He knew that the other party must have used ‘teleport’ or other skills of his to appear so mysteriously.
Abyss’s entire face showed his depressed mood as he held the two pieces of jade pendant to play with and looked at Clown doubtfully. “What are you doing?”
“I’ve been ‘dead’ for too long,” Clown said, “My muscles are a little stiff, so I’m doing exercise.”
“Exercise? By digging a hole?” Abyss indicated that he did not understand. He speechlessly stated, “It’s better for you to find several people to fight with.”
Clown said, “But I can’t find anyone to fight. You absolutely wouldn’t allow it. I saw that you’ve been busy for quite a while jumping between two teams, seeming very merry.”
Abyss could not stand Clown’s idleness and began to a.s.sign him tasks. “You should guard the exit of this secret chamber first and remember to escape faster than anyone else so that our temporary team can win.”
“What if someone gets in the way?” Clown abandoned the pit that he had dug half-way.
“Just block them. There’s no need to kill them.”
Clown seemed to feel more suspicious, turned his head, and looked at the Abyss seriously, “You were not so soft-hearted before this.”
Abyss sighed, “I don’t want to be soft hearted, but this secret chamber is very important to me. I have to go to the punishment chamber. I have to.”
“How will you get there?” Clown was even more puzzled and said, “In fact, as long as we lose this time, we can enter the punishment chamber. Why make such a big fuss?”
“That’s right, but we don’t know what kind of punishment chamber the secret chamber will send us into. As far as I know, there is only one punishment chamber with ‘infinite doors.’” Abyss recalled what had happened in the train secret chamber. To him, the mere recollection of it caused him pain, but he had to take advantage of it.
“What are the infinite doors?” Until now, Clown did not understand what he was saying. Although he knew that Abyss was planning something, Abyss did not explain it to him in detail.
Abyss seemed to feel that the time had come, so he decided to explain to Clown, “It’s the literal meaning of infinite doors: endless doors. After opening one door, there will lead to another behind. Generally speaking, we may experience many doors in the secret chamber, but there is always one door which is the exit. But the chamber with infinite doors is different—there will always be a next door waiting for you. And this is basically what ‘infinite loop’ means.”
“There’s always a next door waiting for you.” Clown muttered and repeated this, and with his face covered with white powder, he turned to Abyss, “Doesn’t that mean that there is no exit in that secret chamber? Why do you want to go to such a secret chamber?”
Abyss seems to have also made ample considerations: “In order to find the secret chamber’s k2018;lock.’”
“Lock?” Clown was even more confused. He knew what ‘the secret chamber’s lock’ that Abyss spoke of was and of his determination to find the lock. But why did he want to look for it in a secret chamber that infinitely looped? Could he be sure that the lock was in this secret chamber?
“Have you forgotten? I told you before,” Abyss continued, “The story of me having a friend who the secret chamber was out to kill after he broke into the city of lawlessness.”
The secret chamber hid its lock in the rumored ‘city of lawlessness.’ Outsiders remained unable to enter the city using any methods and means. It was placed in another plane by the secret chamber that completely disrupted spatial coordinates, causing Abyss to be unable to find the location of the city.
Moreover, the secret chamber would also fill the city with all kinds of monsters to protect it. The city was also full of ordinary people who were trapped and controlled. Because the ‘lock’ had a security mechanism, the secret chamber would not be able to protect the ‘lock’ in a s.p.a.ce that the secret chamber had created by itself like it had its ‘cube,’ so the secret chamber could only put the ‘lock’ in a city in the real world.
And the city was sealed off, thus creating the rumored famous city—city of lawlessness.
When he was a teenager, Duan Li unintentionally opened a door in a secret chamber that was actually connected with a door in the city of lawlessness. Therefore, Duan Li muddleheadedly went into the ‘city of lawlessness,’ which was restricted, so unfortunately, the secret chamber was trying to kill him until he met Abyss.
Abyss realized this important problem after he met with the youthful Duan Li. The secret chamber not only cordoned off the entire city but also transferred the whole city to…… a s.p.a.ce crack different from the real world or any secret chamber s.p.a.ce, that was to say, the city was in a crevice of s.p.a.ce-time. As for how to get to that d.a.m.ned place, even if Abyss had smashed his head in, he could not think of any ideas on how to do so.
But after he recalled what happened to the teenage Duan Li, Abyss found the answer.
Although the secret chamber did not set entrances or exits in or out of the city of lawlessness, it did not mean that there were no other entrances and exits in this city.
Although the crevice in s.p.a.ce-time was a special s.p.a.ce, this kind of s.p.a.ce had a very typical characteristic. It was an ‘arbitrary gate’ that would randomly move and appear.
Arbitrary gates may appear in any s.p.a.ce-time, any place, any door.
You may open the toilet door of your home and, after walking through the door, enter the legendary ‘city of lawlessness.’ Of course, this was not only limited to the door of your toilet but also the door of a room, the gate of a shopping mall, or the old door of a dilapidated house…… many, many other doors.
But the probability of an arbitrary door appearing could be said to be one in a billion. This probability was low, too low. For Duan Li to find this door and return safely through it was simply miraculous.
However, through this incident, Abyss realized that the probability of encountering an ‘arbitrary door’ in the secret chamber was likely to be slightly higher than to finding a door in reality that could spread its legs and run about. The probability would be slightly higher.
After all, the city of lawlessness was thrown into the crevice of s.p.a.ce-time by the secret chamber’s very hands.
In that case, Abyss had to make a bold decision.
If, among the thousands of secret chambers created by the secret chamber’s will, I look for a chamber with many doors or even infinite doors and open these doors one by one, do I have a chance to encounter the ‘arbitrary door’ of the city of lawlessness?
After all, this was actually a matter of probability. If you would not meet with such a probability, you could create a probability. Since you could open so many doors, there was always a chance that the ‘arbitrary door’ would mischievously run to become one of these doors.
After you opened the door, you could successfully enter that magical city.
Chances were very slim, but if you did not do it, there would never be hope. That was why Abyss decided to go to the punishment chamber once. In fact, he had not seen so many or even infinitely looping doors in any secret chamber. Abyss did not know what the punishment chambers of others were like. Maybe there would be infinite doors in other punishment chambers, but he did not dare to make such a gamble using his luck. He preferred to choose the things that had been put in front of him and were easy to get.
His plan had already begun long ago.
Abyss told Clown to return to his temporary team. As soon as he returned, he found that his temporary team members seemed to be talking about something. However, Abyss was too lazy to investigate thoroughly. He told the female strategist that the ‘G.o.d’s jade pendant’ had been obtained and asked her to take out the ‘Ghost’s jade pendant,’ which had temporarily been left in her care.
The female strategist took the jade pendant out of her pocket.
Abyss was absent-minded. In fact, the jade pendant he gave to the female strategist was also fake, similar to the one given to Luo Jian. All the real goods were in his hands. His kingly way of handling the important things was for him to keep everything to himself.
“The enemies seem to be catching up with us.” The vampire team captain seemed to have sensed several lurking breaths nearby. It was very easy for them, who somewhat possessed some detection ability, to sense whether there were enemies nearby.
“Then deal with them,” The female strategist said, “Drag them behind for some time; I have something to tell Abyss.”
The vampire team captain nodded and naturally walked away from the team to fight with several enemies who had caught up with them. Those who had caught up were Duan Li, who was the fastest; Luo Jian and the stalker; and Feng YuLan, who started to remain silent.
For the vampire team captain to deal with four people all together was obviously very difficult for him, but fortunately, at the beginning, only Duan Li came out to fight, and the two fought alone for a while.
After all, the female strategist never trusted Abyss. Hearing that he had gotten the G.o.d’s jade pendant, she opened her mouth and naturally asked Abyss to hand it over. In fact, Abyss could not be bothered with her. He minded his own business as he turned his head to spectate the fight between Duan Li and the vampire team captain.
Time was running out.
Abyss no longer paid attention to the female strategist’s chatter and floated to the vampire team captain’s side with his umbrella in his hand. He pushed aside the vampire team captain to replace him on the battlefield. The vampire team captain did not stop him. He deliberately exposed where Abyss was standing and exposed a thin, pale, poor little boy in front of a line of tall men like Duan Li.
There were no opening remarks. Since it was a team battle, the default rule for everyone was to start fighting when they met.
Neither Luo Jian nor Ah Lan took part in the battle. Duan Li cooperated with the stalker to fight side by side. Although it was two to one, there was no fairness or unfairness in a battle. Such a principle was adhered to in all battles.
Not to mention, Duan Li and the stalker were really capable. At least compared to the players Abyss encountered before, they were more skilled. So in front of them, even Abyss did not dare to act rashly.
Abyss intended to reveal his face not far away from them in the midst of the battle. He especially did not want to let the present Luo Jian see what he looked like. So he used his red umbrella to cover his face, but in doing so, he would have little means of attack.
However, since it was a battle, there were always chances that something unexpected would happen. Abyss and the stalker had almost never exchanged moves. The two of them unconsciously stared at one another. Xing Yan looked at Abyss with a strange look in his eyes. The stalker’s eyes were pure blood-red. In fact, Abyss should be familiar with his eyes, but now he felt a little foreign towards them.
He would recall the gaze Black cat used to gaze at him in that punishment chamber.
Abyss’s heart trembled, so he quickly separated himself from the enemy. Xing Yan standing over there did not know why he did so, but he withdrew his hands and stopped attacking Abyss. He actually withdrew from the battlefield naturally although he still put his eyes on Abyss.
So the only one who fought with Abyss was Duan Li.
This boy had grown up a lot since Abyss last saw him. Abyss noticed that Duan Li was still wearing various types of exotic masks, and he could take out masks from his carry-on s.p.a.ce to change masks anytime, anywhere. After he remembered that Duan Li seemed to have been disfigured now, he thought that he did not know how the other became disfigured.
He should not have been disfigured in any of the secret chamber s.p.a.ces because after exiting the secret chamber s.p.a.ce, all damage would be repaired. It was not possible for the secret chamber to not recover a disfigured face, so…… Duan Li must have gotten hurt in reality.