Chapter 179

Shao Yao's voice was low, slightly trembling, and it reached his ears clearly.

Wen Jianyan was stunned.

Before Shao Yao left, the coffin was still closed?

In other words, while she was away, the cover of the sarcophagus was pushed away, by whom? dead body inside?

Various guesses emerged in my mind, leaning towards a gradually dangerous direction.

Wen Jianyan took a deep breath, her eyes fell on the open sarcophagus in the distance, and said in a low voice:

"I gonna go see."

"Wait... what?" Shaoyao was startled, and seemed to want to say something else, but Wen Jianyan shook her head and stopped her:

"Just wait here."

Wen Jianyan's mind is clear, he will not do stupid things that are tantamount to killing.

First of all, they have been in for a while, but there is no sign of being attacked. Secondly, Luce's team was able to do two tasks near the sarcophagus without incident. Moreover, if they want to complete the task, they have to get close to the sarcophagus no matter what. Yes, then, even if the things in the sarcophagus are dangerous, they will not be so dangerous that they will be instantly killed if they are seen.

However, just in case, he turned his head and told Su Cheng and Huang Mao a few words, and then he started to walk towards the coffin.

The entire catacomb was shrouded in a dark shadow, and the shadows swayed in the weak light, floating on the cold sarcophagus. In the dead silence, only the lonely footsteps of young people could be heard, step by step towards the sermon Taiwan to go.

Hurry up, Wen Jianyan is only a few steps away from the open sarcophagus, so close that he can see the stone texture and floating dust on it.

He took a deep breath, carefully, slowly walked up the steps, and then looked into the sarcophagus—

Behind them, Su Cheng's heart clenched and they lowered their voices and asked:

"How about it?"

"..." Wen Jianyan straightened up, turned around and shook his head at everyone: "It's empty."

He leaned over, reached out his hand to the lid of the sarcophagus, and picked up something: "Only one."

Several people were stunned and stepped forward one after another.

What Wen Jianyan held in his hand was a small black book the size of a palm, with gold letters printed on the cover.

【bible】

"Wait, could it be..." Shao Yao was stunned, her eyes slightly widened.

Wen Jianyan nodded: "It's an ordinary hidden item."

The moment his finger touched the prop, the familiar system sound sounded in his ear, confirming his guess.

At that time, in the dean's room, they found two ordinary hidden props, Lu Si and Wen Jianyan each took one, and the one in his hand was exactly the prop that Lu Si took away.

After getting an affirmative answer, Shao Yao's face turned even paler.

Generally speaking, after the anchor died, the hidden props on their bodies would fall off. After seeing the bible in Wen Jianyan's hand, she realized that her teammates might already be in danger.

The other two looked into the sarcophagus.

Sure enough, Wen Jianyan did not lie, except for the Bible that he had already taken away, there was nothing in the heavy sarcophagus, none of the horror scenes they imagined appeared, only a small piece of cold and empty space.

Both Su Cheng and Huang Mao, who were extremely nervous just now, could not help but relax for a while.

Looking at the props in his palm, Wen Jianyan's expression did not relax at all.

If something really attacked him just now, no matter if it was a rotting corpse or a living corpse, the threat would not be too great when all of them were in full formation.

But... an empty coffin is different.

Wen Jianyan raised his eyes and looked around in the huge catacomb.

Empty, cold and dead, every sarcophagus stayed in place quietly, without any place to hide.

He frowned slightly, and looked up at the task bar next to him.

After signing the subordinate contract with Shaoyao, the activated epic-level item missions and mission progress have all been shared with him logically. You can see on the floating mission panel that 2 missions have been completed. /3, only the last step is left, and you can get the final task reward.

That is to say, next, they must complete the last sacrament inside.

It is dangerous to complete the task, if something goes wrong in the middle...

Wen Jianyan narrowed his eyes with a solemn expression.

"Then how about we pick it up?" Su Cheng looked at Wen Jianyan and asked.

Wen Jianyan retracted his gaze and took a deep breath:

"Quick battle."

Although an empty coffin is an unresolved hidden danger, there is not much time left for them. Even if it is a risk, they have no choice but to take it seriously.

Among the seven sacraments, Luce's team had completed two of them. They chose to confess in the last one, but almost all of them fell into it.

Wen Jianyan turned her head to look at the confessional room next to her.

The confession room is not big, it is a dark wooden structure, it looks like it is old, exuding blood that has been settled for a long time, dark green thick curtains hang down, completely covering the windows on both sides, leaving no gaps, The door of the confessional room was half open, but the door of the priest's room was closed.

Shao Yao noticed Wen Jianyan's gaze, and she said, "That room can't be opened, we tried."

On the floating task bar, write the way to complete the project: The only thing the anchor needs to do is to enter the confession room and sincerely repent to the priest for the sins he has committed.

All eyes fell on the closed room.

That is to say... in a small space where there is no sound, there is indeed a priest who does not know who is a man or a ghost, listening to a sinner?

This imagining makes everyone shudder.

To put it bluntly, since Wen Jianyan inherited the task progress of Lu Si and the others, his task bar is only used as an "operation" requirement for a project.

However, the seven sacraments are not imitations and reproductions of reality, and each project has its own "operational" requirements. To understand, directly complete another task.

Moreover, according to Shao "Yao", their task was received in front of the sarcophagus. Now that the sarcophagus lid is opened, the "existence" inside has disappeared, even if Wen Jianyan wants to give up the progress and start over , it may not be possible - giving up the current progress may be tantamount to directly abolishing the only way to obtain epic items.

The only way before him is to complete "repentance".

Wen Jianyan turned to look at Shaoyao: "Tell me everything that happened after your teammates entered the confession room, and don't miss any details."

Shao Yao nodded, and began to tell the story from the beginning carefully.

After choosing the item "Confession", the way to complete the task appeared on the task bar. Since there was no reminder, the first person among them could only walk into it with blind eyes. .

What follows is a long and torturous wait.

A few minutes later, the tightly closed door of the confession room suddenly seemed to lose its confinement, and slowly slid open again, revealing a narrow gap.

Luce found something was wrong, and immediately activated the props to try to pull the person out, but the props failed, and the door of the confession room was dead silent.

The confessional is empty.

The first person fails. Luce couldn't contact his teammates, and he didn't know the reason for the failure of the other party. Outside the confession room, the clues he could catch were poor, but he still made relevant inferences as much as possible, and activated the general possibility The life-saving props that can be used can almost be said to be fully prepared.

But, minutes later, the confessional door slid open.

It was empty inside.

The narrow wooden space was closed in darkness, but it seemed to hide an invisible mouth, swallowing the figures of two people one after another, and then slowly opened again, waiting for a victim to enter.

Peony was scared.

She knew that there was a certain kind of terrifying power hidden in this confessional, and if she entered it, there was no possibility of survival, so... she fled without a chance.

Speaking of this, the expression on Shao Yao's face darkened, she clenched her lips subconsciously, her expression was ashamed and sad.

However, no one has the right to reprimand her for being cowardly.

But the confessional room that can only swallow two senior anchors one after another, especially Lu Si who entered it for the second time, before entering, he has already done what he can to prepare, even Wen Jianyan himself may not be able to do it It got better, but it still disappeared into it without a sound.

Rushing in this situation is tantamount to death.

And Shao Yao actually came back bravely, it was already a breakup.

According to the clues provided by Shao Yao, Wen Jianyan fell into deep thought.

There isn't much information in the quest bar about how the Sacrament of "Confession" should be done.

The only thing he can do now is to contact reality.

In the sacrament of confession in the real world, believers have to confess their sins to the clergy, express their remorse and determination to change, and finally be pardoned by the clergy.

That is, there are three points of repentance, confession, and forgiveness of sins.

The failure of the first few people may be because they were not pardoned in the end.

If Wen Jianyan himself were to design the level, he would let the sinner relive his sins in the confessional room, and be tested to see if he concealed the crime, whether he confessed sincerely, or... let the other party confess his crime Redemption?

"..."

Wen Jianyan lowered her eyes in silence, her long eyelashes blocking the expression in her eyes.

The entire catacomb was shrouded in deathly silence.

The rest of the people stared at him with bated breath, waiting for the other party to finish thinking.

After a long time, Wen Jianyan raised his eyes, as if he had finally made a decision.

"I'll go in later." He said slowly.

Although he had already guessed Wen Jianyan's answer, Su Cheng couldn't help but feel breathless. He suggested uneasily, "Then, do I need to use some props..."

"No." Wen Jianyan shook her head and said, "You don't need to do anything."

Luce had made enough preparations, but it still didn't change the result.

In a sense, it is also a reminder - it is not feasible to use the props to take shortcuts and leave the back road. If you want to leave the confession room alive, you must return to the task itself. ".

"According to the information provided by Shao'yao, we will probably see the outcome in minutes."

Wen Jianyan said calmly, "If I didn't come out, there's no need for you to go in."

"We take it as our goal to complete the task and accumulate points. Try to accumulate enough points to complete the task before the second bell, and leave the instance."

"..."

Su Cheng opened his mouth dumbly, but finally swallowed the remaining words.

After a few seconds of silence, he nodded: "I understand."

After explaining everything, Wen Jianyan took a step forward and walked towards the dark wooden confession room in front of him. The dark wood seemed to glow red under the dim light, exuding a strong, blood-like breath, dark green. The curtains hung down, covering the windows on both sides, making it impossible to see what was inside.

He raised his hand and opened the wooden door.

The wooden door creaked, and it easily opened in front of him, revealing the narrow and closed space inside.

A simple wooden chair, although it can completely cover the faces of both sides, it allows the sound to penetrate the small wooden window.

It's almost the same as the real world.

Wen Jianyan took a deep breath.

He went in and sat on a chair.

The door of the confession room moved and closed behind, blocking all the light from the room, and finally made a soft "bang" sound, and locked it firmly without leaving a single gap.

In the dim situation where he could hardly see anything clearly, Wen Jianyan slowly rested his forehead on his crossed fingers, in a standard, believer's posture, leaning over in front of the baffle in the dark.

"Father, I am guilty."

The young man's voice was calm and clear.

There was dead silence inside the partition.

"God says the devil is the father of lies, and I must have turned my back on God,"

Even the talent derived from the quality of the soul is the vicious fruit of a lie.

He closed his eyes, his silver eyelashes drooped in the darkness, his thin eyelids were trembling eyeballs, he calmly said almost arrogant conclusion:

"However, I am not prepared to repent."

【Six things the LORD hates, seven things that are an abomination to his heart. They are proud eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood. A heart that plots evil, feet that are quick to run to evil, a false witness who utters lies, a man who sows division among brethren] 1

Arrogance, lies, killing.

Wen Jian said that there is no pardonable crime.

"What I regret to you is not the crime of lying, but the crime of murder."

The young man bowed in the darkness, speaking in a calm, rational voice that almost abandoned all emotions.

"It's the only crime I confess."

"..."

There was a dead silence.

Wen Jianyan maintained an almost pious posture, quietly waiting for what might happen next—will he be judged to fail, and be thrown into that **** space like the other two? Or will he be tested and let him relive his sins, or will he dig out the long-buried memory and make him pay the price for his actions?

Or…

The gods will speak and forgive his crimes?

The last "possibility" made Wen Jianyan feel a little ridiculous without even realizing it.

He never believed in God.

Even if, it will be an evil **** who is indifferent to human beings and even takes pleasure in suffering. He is even more willing to get along with evil false gods like witch candles, and he is unwilling to believe in the savior who is repeatedly praised in every religion and saves suffering.

Not in the real world, let alone in the dungeon world full of killing and madness.

Suddenly, without warning, a familiar system sound rang in my ears.

【Ding! The existence of key props has been detected]

"...?" Wen Jianyan was startled.

key props?

Before he could think about it, he just listened to the system tone and continued:

[Congratulations to the host for triggering a special scene: role-playing game]

【Progress: 0】

Seconds later, he saw two health bars above his head, health and sanity.

[If the life value is zero, the anchor dies, and the live broadcast ends; if the sanity value returns to zero, the anchor will become part of the copy, and the live broadcast ends]

Wait... pretend play?

What mode is it? He has also experienced chasing battles and hide-and-seek before, and the scene that was triggered for the first time was something he had never experienced before...

Moreover, the 'special' scene, that is to say, the other two probably have never experienced it?

Wen Jianyan froze for a moment, then raised her head involuntarily.

He was still sitting in the narrow confessional room, and the surroundings were tightly sealed, preventing any light from entering, but the strange thing was... it seemed that something had changed.

Wen Jianyan seemed to realize something suddenly, and looked down at himself.

"!"

Although he was mentally prepared, he was still involuntarily shocked.

The clothes he was wearing turned into the clothes of a priest. The black cloth tightly wrapped every inch of skin on his body without revealing anything. He wore a white priest around his neck. The stiff collar looks neat and ascetic, full of holy meaning.

The gleaming word frame on his chest swayed slightly with his movements.

yes…? !

Wen Jianyan seemed to suddenly realize something.

He raised his hand to touch his pocket.

Fingertips touched the hard and thick little book.

It was that Bible.

Could it be that [the existence of key props has been detected], does it refer to two props?

A Bible and a word shelf, that is to say, only when the host has two props at the same time, will he be pulled into a special scene?

If so, then it’s no wonder that the other two didn’t trigger it. After all, the two items were kept separately in the dean’s room by the two teams. It fell and was picked up by Wen Jianyan, and he couldn't collect the two props.

This condition is so harsh, no wonder it is called a "special scene".

Wen Jianyan knew clearly that according to the current situation, he might have entered a completely different path from the other two, and the test that awaited him would also be completely changed, and it would even completely exceed his previous expectations.

While Wen Jianyan was contemplating, suddenly, there was a knock on the door of the confession room.

"Aggression."

"...!"

Wen Jianyan was terribly startled, she raised her head suddenly, her body tensed slightly, looked in the direction of the sound, and waited vigilantly.

A muffled, dry voice sounded from outside the door:

"Father, are you there? The dean needs you."

"An exorcism ceremony is about to begin."

"..." Wen Jianyan regained his composure, and tentatively said, "I understand, I'm here."

The moment his voice fell, the [0] progress bar above his head jumped to [5].

Wen Jianyan narrowed his eyes.

What was it like to play...

understood.

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