Survival in the game world starts with Resident Evil 2

Chapter 645: Three Fingers of Madness

After a while.

The clone of Monger roared unwillingly, and his body collapsed and dispersed, leaving behind only a prayer scroll containing the power of blood flame. The last trace of the Blood King in this world was destroyed.

"'Blood Claws'... that move he just used?" Kara picked up the scroll and took a look. "It doesn't seem that strong either."

"Keep it. There's no such thing as too much." Li You put away the spiral sword and walked towards the small altar in front. There was an ancient treasure chest, which contained a talisman blessed by Marika. After opening the treasure chest, the mechanism under the small altar also opened automatically, revealing a path leading deeper underground.

"Is it finally coming, Crazy Fire Jumping Music?"

When walking down the passage, Li You's first thought was this: this famous attraction, even if he was in the game, there was no guarantee that he could jump successfully every time.

But now there is no need to be afraid, just fly down.

However, Aiji noticed the sound of a harp coming from the front of the passage. The familiar music made her stunned: "What is this sound..."

The others also noticed the faint sound, and Kara immediately responded: "It seems to be... the sound of a nomadic tribe's piano?"

"No need to seem, it is." Li You said, "But the homeless people here are not as easy to talk to as Kale...be careful."

Going deeper, we came to a ventilation shaft, and the surrounding passage spiraled downward. In the passage, there were a lot of mummies, and they all looked extremely painful to die. Occasionally, there were wandering tribes, and the sound of the piano came from these rare survivors.

Everyone was shocked: "So many mummies? Are they all wandering tribes?"

"Yes." Li You nodded. "The wandering tribe once attracted insanity, so the entire tribe was buried underground. Most of them have died, and the remaining ones are living a life worse than death because they are possessed by the insanity fire."

"Not only them, but even some of the wandering ethnic merchants who are now wandering and living in seclusion in the border areas are also possessed by epilepsy, but generally they don't have attacks."

Kara immediately thought of something: "Kare told me in the past that he was looking for the whereabouts of a large caravan of nomadic peoples. It seems that these are the people. Wait, could it be that..."

Li You guessed what she wanted to ask and shook his head: "I can't say. When I was in contact with Kale before, I didn't detect the power of crazy fire in his body, but... forget it, anyway, as long as he doesn't know what happened here, he should be fine."

There was a moment's pause because Li You remembered the deleted side quest of Kale in the game. He was originally the character who guided the players step by step to get in touch with the Seal of Mad Fire.

But it was not out of malicious intent. Just as Kara said, Kale was originally just looking for a large caravan of his own people, but as he walked step by step, he finally found that his entire tribe had become victims buried alive underground. So he became insane and wanted to touch the insane fire himself... The ending can be imagined.

This deleted quest is actually much more complete than the Haida and Xia Bolili quests in the official version of the game, but it was deleted inexplicably in the end, which is a pity. Of course, even so, Li You would not favor the Crazy Fire quest.

He and Melina share the same opinion on one point: the fire of insanity will burn everything in the world. How can there be a king in a world without life?
However, with the power of the devil fire, he was not polite.

"Let's go, the Crazy Fire Seal is at the bottom."

Li You spread his illusory dragon wings and flew down, but he did not rush straight to the bottom floor. Instead, he stopped halfway and took out a piece of equipment - a fingerprint stone shield - from a certain passage.

This big shield, which looks like a huge stone slab and has fingerprints all over its surface, is the strongest shield in the game. The fingerprints on it are said to be traces of words left by unprotected fingers. Some even say that this may be the beginning of madness.

Li You didn't care whether it was true or not. He took the shield just as an appetizer for the spiral sword.

After that, he rushed straight to the bottom of the ventilation shaft, smashing the brick and stone floor below, and the Mad Fire Seal was right in front of him.

Kara and the others also landed shortly after and looked towards Li You, only to see him standing in front of a huge stone door with black and red burn marks, watching.

The faint aura emanating from the gate made everyone understand that this was the gate sealed by the Mad Fire.

Melina, who had not been seen for a long time, showed up at this time. She walked up to Li You and asked, "Are you sure you want to do this?"

Li You turned to look at her: "I thought you weren't going to show up."

Melina just said: "You know, if you try to touch the crazy fire and fail, you will be doomed. I don't know why you would rather face this danger yourself than let me ignite the fire, but if you really become the king of the crazy fire, then I can only try my best to kill you."

Kara, Yuzu, Edge, and V also looked towards Li You at this time. Although they all had confidence in Li You, after seeing the power of the Dianhuo, even Kara couldn't help but feel a little worried.

Li You looked at Melina, then at his companions, and said, "If I say I am absolutely sure, that is definitely impossible, but there is still a 70% success rate. If I succeed, not only can I strengthen my own strength, but I can also eliminate the influence of the Ecstasy Fire to the greatest extent, and I can also keep Meimei alive. Compared with the gains, this risk is completely worth it."

"Besides, I'm not unprepared. I have a trump card if something goes wrong, so don't worry. Ah, speaking of this..."

Li You suddenly looked at Kara and said, "Give me the Night Amulet again, and I will return it to you later."

Kara: "?"

Although puzzled, she handed over the amulet without hesitation.

"Okay." Li You took the amulet, pulled out the spiral sword, and stabbed it into the ground with his backhand. He said, "In fact, I have thought about whether I should wait for the spiral sword to be upgraded to a higher level before looking for trouble with Three Fingers, but now, even a legendary weapon can't make it overcome the bottleneck."

From Li You's perspective, the progress bar of the Spiral Sword appears:
[Fire Sword (Add Fire +8)]

[Fire progress: 99%.]

99% familiar, but this time it really doesn't help to burn anything.

Li You could feel that the upper limit of the Spiral Sword's enhancement should be +10, and the +8 flame could easily suppress Monger's blood flame, Millicent's scarlet corruption, and the leaked mad fire.

But even so, according to the judgment of Li You and Melina, the Spiral Sword in this state is still unable to raise the Ash-Extinguishing Flame - this is not only due to the characteristics of the Ash-Extinguishing Flame itself, but also due to the influence of the power of destiny that is unique to the border area.

At this point, if Li You didn't try to absorb the power of the three fingers, he didn't know what other methods he could use to strengthen the spiral sword to +9.

What? Can you suck ashes to put out the flames? Theoretically, yes, but if you suck ashes to put out the flames, what can you use to burn the trees?
So the Three Fingers of Ecstasy Fire cannot be avoided after all.

Li You took out the fingerprint stone shield he had just obtained and threw it into the fire of the spiral sword. Everyone watched the shield being gradually burned to ashes. During this process, a wisp of crazy fire burst out and tried to escape, but the flame was wrapped by the campfire and then swallowed up.

After that, an inconspicuous spark appeared on the spiral sword after a long absence, but the progress bar in Li You's field of vision remained motionless.

Burning weapons for the current spiral sword can only increase the number of special abilities it possesses, but cannot improve the quality of the flame. Li You pulled out the spiral sword, extinguished the flame, and looked at the door sealed by the fire. This door requires "unloading everything" before entering, in other words, all equipment must be taken off... This is indeed the plot setting. Some people suspect that Vic was burned crazy because he entered the door without taking off his armor.

However, it was impossible for Li You to really take off all his clothes from outer robe to inner lining. He just put away the weapons hanging on his body, took off the collector's suit and top and put them away. He was shirtless with only a pair of loose trousers.

This operation confused everyone, only Melina knew what he was doing.

Li You didn't explain much. He hung the Amulet of Night and the Dark Moon Sword Badge around his waist, put down the Spiral Sword temporarily, and came to the gate. He tried it once, and then pushed the heavy stone door open with his bare hands.

As the door opened, an orange-red light lit up on the gate!

It was deep and dark inside the door and nothing could be seen, but Li You and his companions outside the door all felt a chaotic and crazy aura rushing out the moment the door opened!

Li You was not panicked at all. With a wave of his hand, a set of melted knight armor emerged from thin air and was quickly put on him. He then took out a ball of flaming embers that vaguely looked like a human from the system backpack and crushed it in his hands with a "bang".

At this moment, the molten armor on his body was lit up by flames!
Melina and Kara outside the door were stunned when they saw it, but V and the others had seen Li You try on this armor before, and they recognized the fire embers he crushed.

The Cinderlord Avatar armor and ember from the Dark Souls world.

[Fire Armor: The incarnation of the Fire Lords, the Melting Knight Armor. When wearing it, using the embers can greatly improve the user's vitality, energy, endurance and other attributes, and gain high fire resistance, and also add fire power when attacking. However, it will continue to consume the power of the embers, and when the embers are burned out, the benefit will be lifted. ]

To be honest, this set of armor is a bit useless to Li You. If he doesn't pinch the embers, the effect is very poor. If he pinches the embers, there won't be so many to burn, so he never thought of using it before - until this time when he had close contact with the three fingers.

Li You waved his hand again, and the spiral sword that had been left by the door flew over by itself, floating behind him together with the Supreme Distant Staff that he had just taken out of his backpack.

And when he walked into the darkness inside the door, the distorted existence hidden inside finally revealed its figure.

It was half a palm lying on the ground, with three slender fingers showing bright yellow burn marks. It seemed to be struggling in pain, and its fingers left scorch marks on the ground.

Seeing Li You approaching, it also straightened its body, stretched out three fingers, and then slowly crawled towards Li You. Everyone outside the door was nervous, but Li You just walked towards the three fingers openly.

Seeing that Three Fingers was about to close his body, Li You finally reacted. He instantly grasped the spiral sword and fiercely stabbed it into Three Fingers' palm!

"—!!"

A silent mental shock spread out instantly, hitting Li You so hard that his eyes went dark, and all his companions outside the door were dizzy and almost fell down.

At this time, it was Melina who stood in front of everyone, raised her hands and released a light golden light, withstanding the impact of the three fingers.

But this mental shock was only the aftermath. The three fingers that were stabbed by the spiral sword roared angrily and madly, and at the same time, its body suddenly grabbed Li You's body!
For Li You, his vision went dark and he immediately felt like someone grabbed him in someone's hand. A flame filled with madness climbed up his body, trying to corrode his flesh and soul from the outside in.

This stimulation actually made Li You wake up faster. He immediately grasped the spiral sword and changed its shape instantly. At the same time, he stimulated the full power of the fire armor, and his own flame also burst out!

The restraint of three fingers was suddenly stretched a little. In the gap between the fingers, Li You, wearing the armor of the Fire King, held the Fire Sword and stabbed the sword deeper. The two flames of different colors were fighting against each other with all their strength, and even devoured each other!

In the fierce confrontation, the power of the remaining fire on the Fire Transmission Armor was quickly consumed, but then a second remaining fire flew out from the system backpack and integrated into the armor to provide assistance to Li You.

As for the Three Fingers of Mad Fire, they were pouring out flames madly, trying to corrode Li You completely.

Li You also felt a lot of pressure. The moment he came into contact with Three Fingers, he found that Three Fingers' power was very strong. Even with the amplification of the Fire Transmission Armor, he could only barely suppress Three Fingers. It was very difficult to absorb the opponent's power, and he couldn't do it in a short time.

But this was not Li You's worst plan. Before the crazy fire eroded him, he could completely escape through the additional functions of the world fragments, so Li You gritted his teeth and made a decision.

Keep going! Let’s see who can outlast the other!

The progress of the spiral sword's fire replenishment has reached 99%. As long as it is not always missing the last one like it always does with each strike, it should be able to break through the bottleneck soon. By then, the +9 spiral sword will definitely be able to completely suppress and absorb the insane fire. The only uncertainty is when this breakthrough will come.

Li You generally doesn't like to do things that he is not sure of, but he can't be cowardly at critical moments, so he has to take this gamble!

Anyway, if he really can't outlast it, Li You can get away. When it comes to gangsters, what matters is having more trump cards!
One after another, residual fire flew out from the backpack, ignited and extinguished on the fire-transmitting armor. Li You controlled the spiral sword and used all his strength to absorb the power of the three fingers. Although the progress was very slow, Li You did feel the power of the sword fluctuating, proving that his idea was correct.

But the amount of remaining fire could not hold up. Although this thing was peculiar, it also had great limitations. Li You did not have too much reserve before and could not withstand such consumption.

Li You gritted his teeth, not wanting to give up, and then activated the power of the Supreme Distant Staff. The impact from the Mother of Fingers hit the consciousness of Three Fingers!

Although it can only be confirmed at present that the mother of Two Fingers and Fingerworm is Mother of Fingers, and the relationship between Three Fingers and Her cannot be defined, but judging from their appearance alone, the two are inseparable - and Three Fingers is most likely inferior to Mother of Fingers.

If this is the case, then the Supreme Far-Distance Staff should be able to interfere with the Three Fingers.

In fact, it was just as Li You thought. Under the radiation of the power of the Supreme Far-away Staff, the movements and reactions of the Three Fingers of Mad Fire became much slower. This gave Li You an opportunity, so he further urged the flames of the spiral sword to absorb the power of the three fingers.

But even the influence of the Supreme Far-away Staff had limited effect on Three Fingers. It quickly recovered to normal and began to compete with Li You for consumption again.

After being sealed underground for such a long time, Three Fingers' power reserves are naturally far greater than Li You's. If it continues to consume power like this, it will be difficult for Li You to defeat it.

The progress bar for the Spiral Sword's fire was still stuck at 99%. Although the fluctuations became more and more violent, it still failed to break through. Li You also felt that the Three Fingers' fire was becoming more and more unbearable.

When the last ember in the backpack flew out and ignited his armor, Li You finally decided to give up for the time being.

The spiral sword has absorbed a lot of the power of the crazy fire, and the bottleneck seems to have loosened, but it has not been broken through. If it continues like this, he will really be in danger of being eroded by the crazy fire, and that will not be fun.

Li You was ready to use the world fragments in his backpack to escape. But at this moment, the Dark Moon Sword Badge and the Night Amulet hanging on his waist both lit up, and then a familiar vast will fell from the sky and enveloped Li You!
"clang."

Before he could come to his senses, he heard a slight sound, and the Spiral Sword's fire-enhancing level just broke through to +9. Apart from a small amount of sparks bursting out from the sword, there were no special effects.

Li You was also stunned, but then he felt his consciousness lighten, his vision became slightly blurred, and he had arrived in a void space.

Li You: “……!”

(End of this chapter)