Chapter 59 - Burial Grounds (V)
Editor: Kitty
“Oh, how lucky am I; there’s two people lying here.”
After Luo Jian and Feng YuLan had fallen into comas in the long, dark tunnel, a man suddenly appeared.
That’s right, this man belonged to the enemy team. His clothing style was a little bizarre. His hair was very long, kept at waist length, and naturally curly. The makeup on his face looked strange—he had patted on pale powder as the base, and his lips were painted bright red. He also had a little red nose; he was dressed as a typical clown. His facial features were not Asian, so he may be of a mixed-race. He also wore a tall hat that was very tattered.
His clothes are also shabby. His coat was thick but had several holes on it. There were also holes in his black pants. His calves were wrapped with black bandages. Notably, he was barefoot and did not have shoes on.
For the time being, this uninvited guest shall be known as ‘Clown’ because of his very ludicrous clown makeup. Of course, he was not someone with a heart of gold. The way he gazed at the two people on the ground was akin to looking at two pieces of fatty meat.
As for how Clown showed up here? It could not be explained with merely a few words. Generally in team battles, when all players were arranged to enter the secret chamber, they were 100% divided. Everyone was separated. Each player would be a.s.signed to a different corner of the secret chamber and thrown in it randomly.
If one was lucky, there may be a team member within the vicinity. However, if one’s luck was extremely poor, they may be thrown into the enemy’s encirclement. Of course, this situation was rare. After all, the ‘secret chamber’s will’ was very kind. It would not throw someone into a place where they would definitely lose their life. At any time, it would leave a window open for them.
Clown may have been a little unlucky. Soon after he woke up, while he was confused and stumbling around the tomb, he accidentally entered a tomb vault. After opening the coffin inside, he found that there was a man lying in there, and he seemed to be a member of the enemy team. But at that time, Clown thought that he was very lucky because he found that the poor enemy had not woken up yet, and there was a note on the vault’s walls specially left for the enemy by the secret chamber. So Clown immediately picked up his weapon to kill the enemy……
But before the knife fell, the enemy suddenly opened his eyes. A tang sword flashed out of nowhere and suddenly arrived next to Clown’s neck, and if the sword had moved closer, it would have sent his head flying.
However, Clown was not a newbie to the secret chambers. Naturally, he would not be nervous because of such an issue. All he had to do was to calmly engage in a fight, kill the enemy, and get the rewards. But what he did not expect was that the other party was calmer than him.
Clown soon realized that he could not defeat the enemy in the coffin since the power threshold of the enemy was way above his. Thus, Clown quickly made the decision to escape. He was very good at escaping. Many players in the secret chamber were good at escaping. They all found out that in the secret chamber, escaping was the best choice.
Thereupon, Clown succeeded. He kept circling around in the complicated and disorderly pathways of the tomb and successfully got rid of the enemy. But the next thing he knew, he had inexplicably entered a small s.p.a.ce border, which seemed to be a mechanism from when the tomb was built. According to the ancient saying, this type of s.p.a.ce border was known as an ‘array’.
In order to crack the array, Clown quickly found its core beside a pool. However, the five pots had all been opened, and one of them was cracked. Only by killing the escaped monster could the core of the array be broken.
Therefore, while searching for the monster, Clown naturally found two newbies who had collapsed on the ground.
Clown was more alert this time. In order not to repeat the tragedy of being chased and almost killed, he first took out a long, thin bamboo stick from somewhere and stretched it out to poke Luo Jian, who was closer to him. Poor little Luo Jian was poisoned. Although the poison had been eaten up by his snake, he was unable to wake up for a while because of his paralyzed body and mind. Even if someone stabbed him with a bamboo stick, he would have no response.
Clown licked his red lips and felt that this time, he might have picked up a great bargain. He took out his knife and decided to slaughter these two fat sheep.
Clown used to be a surgeon. It must be said that although their occupation enabled them to heal the wounded and rescue the dying, doctors, especially surgeons, were the type of people who would be more cold-blooded relative to others. After all, they cut people up with knives all day long. They could kill people if they were not careful enough. Their awareness of death was much higher than that of ordinary people.
Consequently, the weapon given to Clown by the secret chamber was also a scalpel, which was extremely consistent with his nature.
But as mentioned prior, Clown was a relatively unlucky guy. When he squatted beside Luo Jian and was about to raise his scalpel to cut at an artery in Luo Jian’s neck, a voice came from behind him. The voice sounded so cold and piercing that it made his hairs stand up.
“Do you like blood?” Duan Li emerged silently behind Clown without making a sound. He appeared out of nowhere and, compared to ghosts and G.o.ds, he acted swifter and more purposefully. Duan Li’s outstretched hand rested on Clown’s shoulder, terrifying Clown so much that he shivered.
He was only surprised for a moment. More experienced players had shocking and adaptive qualities. All of them had a strong desire to survive. In the secret chamber, they were competing: Who was more determined to survive and could break the spirits of the others?
“I can’t seem to get rid of you.” Clown felt for his hat and pulled the brim down, shrouding half of his face in darkness. He turned around and smiled at Duan Li. His face was painted with extremely exaggerated clown makeup. When he smiled, his lips seemed to fracture, and the cracks extended over the rest of his face to the tips of his ears. The visual effect was absolutely horrifying!
But if there was a compet.i.tion as to who was more frightening, Duan Li would never lose to anyone. Duan Li was used to wearing masks when fighting. Because of his disfigurement, he wore all kinds of masks, such as the green ghost mask with ferocious fangs, the cunning and treacherous-looking fox mask, the eagle mask with a sharp beak, or…… a pure white mask with no facial features.
After turning around and seeing a face without features, Clown was given quite a fright. Subconsciously, the scalpel in his hands wavered. His scalpel could also be used as a throwing knife, and he had a skill of automatic recovery. That was to say that his scalpel could be thrown endlessly, especially since…… he had a lot of scalpels.
However, Duan Li did not pay attention to his attack at all. With a mere wave of his tang sword, the thrown scalpels were all blocked. Clown also realized that he definitely could not beat the other party. After numerous twists and turns in his thoughts, he developed a plan. With a grin, he suddenly fished the poor little Luo Jian up as a shield with his arm.
“Is this your companion?” Clown grabbed Luo Jian by his neck, and he lay a scalpel across his neck. He grinned as he stared at Duan Li. “Let’s have a fair trade: you let me go, and I let him go, alright?”
Duan Li hummed and sneered as he moved towards Clown. From under the mask, the voice coldly said, “In fact, you can also choose to kill him.”
Clown felt his heart was in knots, and he suddenly was a little afraid. He could not help but step back to steady his spirit and said, “Isn’t he your companion?”
“Did you know?” Duan Li did not answer but replied instead, “In the secret chamber, I used to have a famous nickname. I was called the ‘Faceless Man’. Because I always wear a mask, no one knows what I look like. Of course, the main reason is that I like to sneak into teams, gain the trust of the team members, and stab them in the back. No one was able to catch a glimpse of my face. That is why they call me the ‘Faceless Man’.”
Duan Li spread out his arms and looked at Clown: “Do you think I care about the life of a so-called team member?”
After Duan Li finished speaking, he pulled his tang sword out of its sheath. After such a threat, Clown felt even more unsure. Even worse, Clown felt that he had heard the nickname of the ‘Faceless Man’ before and that name had even been mentioned by his team captain. Thus, he gnashed his teeth and hesitated even more. Luo Jian, who was in his arms, was in a coma, so he needed to use the strength of his whole body to hold him. He feared that even if Luo Jian was used as a shield, the other would be nothing but a burden.
As he was hesitating and still unsure, Duan Li had already unsheathed his sword and stabbed forward, and he completely did not care about Luo Jian, who was in front of him. He directly thrust his sword towards Clown. After taking a look at the way he acted, Clown knew that this terrible pervert would stab him along with his teammate! He planned to stab them into a two-man kebab!
Clown was so scared that he threw away Luo Jian who was in his arms, turned around, and started his frenzied escape. He jumped a few meters away and quickly disappeared into the darkness. Duan Li was too lazy to chase him. He gazed down at Luo Jian, who had fallen on him. His stab was just to scare Clown. Naturally, he would not really stab Luo Jian.
Duan Li curled his lips and picked up Luo Jian to allow him to lie on the ground. Then, he jumped to Feng YuLan’s side. The treatment between the two people was totally different. He picked up Princess Ah Lan and sat down on the ground. He still felt uneasy, so he began to check his body. Cough, more accurately speaking, he just placed his hand under Ah Lan’s clothes.
After feeling around, he concluded that there should not be any problems. He felt that they should not stay in this dark place any longer. Then, he looked at Luo Jian, who was lying by his side. He carried Feng YuLan on his shoulder, used a hand to carry Luo Jian by his waist, and swaggered around in the tunnel. He carried two men who were over 1.7 meters tall and weighed sixty or seventy kilograms as if it was an extremely easy feat.
What was more shocking was that Duan Li easily left the array that Luo Jian and Feng YuLan clearly could not walk out from. He merely circled back and forth strangely in the tunnel, and then he appeared in an unknown pathway of the tomb.
In fact, he was completely ignorant of the structure of the tomb, but he clearly knew things like the array. His weapon was an ancient tang sword, which meant that the secret chamber had conferred upon him the role and skills of a chivalrous swordsman from ancient times. Therefore, every time he entered the secret chamber, the rewards he got reflected the quintessence of ancient Chinese culture, such as Daoist magic and the eight trigrams.
Therefore, he had learnt how to set arrays, swordsmanship, circling qi, and levitation, and he was good at using poison. His hobbies were raising some kinds of peculiar poisonous plants and playing Gobang. Of course, his favorite hobby was to chop people up…… This was totally inconsistent with the role of a chivalrous swordsman that the secret chamber had a.s.signed him.
However, Duan Li was a rational person. When necessary, he could rationally control his horniness.
For example, Feng YuLan was now lying in front of him defenseless. He was not barbaric enough to tear up the clothes of this poor little thing and trample him over and over again for over hundred times. Although Duan Li really wanted to do it very much……
T/N: We learn more about Duan Li in this chapter. Duan Li…I really can’t imagine him being chivalrous. What was the secret chamber’s will thinking when they a.s.signed him such a role?
Kitty: Honestly same? Chivalrous is the last thing I think of when I think about Duan Li..