Corpse Retriever.

Chapter 199

Zhao Yi looked at the book in Li Zhuiyuan's hand and licked his cracked lips. The excitement and joy that the two "brothers" had previously felt when they made the same bet was instantly reduced a lot.

He could accept that the two brothers made the wrong choice and died together, but he found it hard to accept that after they both made the right choice, the young man actually got one more treasure than himself.

"Oh, what a loss!"

Li Zhuiyuan continued to go downstairs.

Now, the higher the floor, the greater the pressure from the tower. The sooner you go down, the more relaxed you will feel.

Zhao Yi continued to chatter as he walked downstairs:
"Why didn't you remind me so that I could get a treasure."

There are only three people on the eleventh floor, and the pressure from the tower is the strongest, so it is difficult to get what they have, but the pressure on the tenth floor is much weaker.

Zhao Yi himself is also proficient in formations. Relying on the deduction of the gap between life and death, he can also try to drill a small mouse hole in the high tower.

Even if he can't get the one on the tenth floor, he can go to the ninth or eighth floor. The value of a magic weapon sometimes depends on whether it is suitable for him.

Li Zhuiyuan: "I hope you call for help."

What I mean is that I hope you die.

Hearing this, Zhao Yi's expression relaxed a lot. It was simply because these words sounded heartwarming.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Are you spending most of your time on useless entanglements and trade-offs?"

Zhao Yi: "What is the effect of your book?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "There are only two results. When you get tangled up, the probability ratio is meaningless. It's like flipping a coin."

Zhao Yi: "The fact that the man on the eleventh floor was able to hold this book even after his death must be extraordinary."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Who would fast for three days, burn incense and bathe before tossing a coin?"

Zhao Yi: "Okay, shut up!!"

Li Zhuiyuan stopped talking, and the chattering of the person behind him finally stopped.

The two of them came to the first floor. Yu Miaomiao heard footsteps and turned around to look. The woman in the black dress next to her also made the same move.

Yu Miaomiao looked up, and when she found that there was no one following them, a hint of surprise appeared in her eyes.

Anyone with a little bit of brains would have strong doubts and concerns at this time, why didn't they call for help? And thus began to worry about their own choices.

But Yu Miaomiao is not just an ordinary smart person, she is extremely smart.

The girl laughed wantonly: "Hahahahahaha!"

This laughter made Li Zhuiyuan pause for a moment, and Zhao Yi's face darkened, and he almost started to reflect on himself again.

Yu Miaomiao laughed and said, "Haha, I am dying of laughter. Are you two trying to imitate me and call for help from the eleventh floor, but no one responded to you and you wasted all your time and didn't even have time to call for help?"

Her thinking has always been based on her own perspective.

She really never thought that she could stand out from the first round of competition for the Broken Jade. No matter what tricks she used, at least the three of them should be considered on the same passing line.

No, she might have really thought about it, and she has indeed always judged others by herself.

Her sense of disharmony came from the fact that she was a river wanderer from the Dragon King Yu family.

But if something really happened to the Yu family, then the current Yu family is just a nouveau riche among nouveau riche, and it is not surprising that they have cultivated such an heir.

Li Zhuiyuan ignored her, while Zhao Yi patted his forehead, forcing himself not to waste any more brainpower on this silly girl. The two of them walked to the door calmly and raised the signs in their hands.

After they entered the tower, the door closed and the dim light that was originally shining outside was projected into the inside.

The tokens in the hands of the three people all shone on Youguang, and the tower door opened again.

However, outside, it was all green and empty.

Yu Miaomiao shouted: "A Yuan!"

no respond.

The pressure on Li Zhuiyuan and Zhao Yi stopped growing at this moment.

On the contrary, the pressure on Yu Miaomiao is increasing, and her face is becoming distorted.

Even though she had injuries on her body, it was undeniable that her physical fitness was much better than that of Li Zhuiyuan who had not practiced martial arts, and Zhao Yi now. She should have been the one among the three who could best withstand the pressure of the high tower.

This means that the tower is exerting pressure on her alone, trying to force her to leave.

Yu Miaomiao couldn't hold on any longer, so she could only walk out. The woman in black robe followed her out of the tower.

After she walked out, all the pressure on her body disappeared instantly. She took a deep breath, became active again, and turned to look at the two people who were still in the tower.

It seemed as if she was waiting for the two to come out so that she could deal with them properly. She was a little angry and had been holding it in all the way. It was time to settle the score.

However, Li Zhuiyuan and Zhao Yi did not walk out of the gate and remained inside.

"you……"

Yu Miaomiao really sensed something was wrong this time. She couldn’t understand. Wasn’t the person shouting a helper? Why did he put herself and the helper in a separate area? Then who was the opponent?
Li Zhuiyuan stretched out his hand and pointed upwards.

Yu Miaomiao raised her head and looked upwards. She asked in astonishment, "Why are you guys up there?"

Yu Miaomiao was outside the tower, and what she could see was invisible to Li Zhuiyuan and Zhao Yi.

But from her reaction, we can guess that the girl's A Yuan and Li Zhuiyuan's friends should be up there at the moment.

The green outside was the jadeite luster that was very common on the way in. So they were probably inside the jade now.

This tower has twelve floors, but there are only twelve floors above ground. Who knows how many floors are underground?
When I came in, this was the first floor, and when I went out, it became the underground floor.

The tower door began to close slowly.

Yu Miaomiao looked up at A Yuan who was lying on the ground and banging the ground frantically, then looked at the woman in the black dress and holding a sword beside her. Finally, her eyes fell on Li Zhuiyuan and Zhao Yi inside the tower gate.

The girl's eyes were bloodshot, her face showed madness, and she rushed over here screaming:
"no, do not want!"

However, even Li Zhuiyuan could not do anything about the pressure from this tall tower, let alone her.

As soon as she tried to rush in, she was swept away by the strong air pressure and fell heavily far away.

She immediately got up and continued to scream hysterically, ignoring the blood flowing from the corner of her mouth.

Zhao Yi: "It seems that she finally understood."

Li Zhuiyuan: "When a real survival crisis comes, she will suddenly become very smart."

"Crack!"

The tower gate is closed.

The pressure that had been suspended previously began to intensify again.

Li Zhuiyuan and Zhao Yi picked up their tokens again and placed them under the dim light.

The tower door opened again.

Outside, it was still green. Yu Miaomiao and the woman in the black dress were gone.

The pressure from Li Zhuiyuan stopped increasing, and Zhao Yi was driven even harder. His health was already very poor, but he still used his last bit of strength to hold on, wanting to ask Li Zhuiyuan a question at this time:
"How could you bet so decisively?"

Although he was mocked by the boy for wasting time before, Zhao Yi did not think he was wrong. At that critical moment, who could have the heart to make a life or death decision?
He felt that he had gambled a lot by daring to choose the probability of less than 10%, but he didn't expect that the boy didn't hesitate at all. After placing the bet at the first opportunity, he turned around and did other things.

Li Zhuiyuan said calmly: "Because I don't believe in immortality, let alone becoming an immortal."

All the arrangements and plans here are aimed at achieving immortality.

When you can deny it from the source, that is, the highest point, then all the means and mechanisms below will be stripped of their filters in front of you.

Zhao Yi: “I don’t believe it either.”

Li Zhuiyuan: "You actually believe it a little bit."

Zhao Yi hesitated for a moment, unable to refute, and finally climbed out of the tower gate.

After he got out, he felt relieved. He turned sideways, sat on the ground, and faced Li Zhuiyuan:
"We'll have a good chat after we get out."

The tower door began to close again.

Li Zhuiyuan: "It's too early to tell anyone now."

The face that appeared on the top floor should be the person who entered A'li's dream. He talked about the whole clan ascending to heaven, but now he has only seen the preparation stage of "ascension". He has not seen the "whole clan" yet, and he has not seen the real ascension either.

The tower gate is closed.

The pressure increased again. Li Zhuiyuan raised the token, the tower door opened again, and he walked out.

"call……"

The feeling of stress disappearing makes people feel comfortable.

There was nothing around him except for some dazzling green light.

Li Zhuiyuan raised his head and saw a layer of green translucent rock wall above him.

Zhao Yi was lying face down on the ground with his face pressed to the ground until it was deformed. He was waving his hands and making faces.

Due to the pressure he had previously endured in the tower, the bandage on his chest had fallen off, and his broken and damaged black heart was now mostly exposed, still bulging stubbornly.

Through Zhao Yi's layer and looking upwards, Li Zhuiyuan could see the layer where Yu Miaomiao and the woman in black dress were.

This place really looks like a multi-story glass house that is not so perfectly light-transmissive.

At this time, Yu Miaomiao deliberately kept a sufficient distance from the woman in the black dress, staring at her with a vigilant look. The girl had taken great pains to use her family's reputation to call in helpers, who were about to become her most terrifying enemy.

Li Zhuiyuan also saw the top layer. Although he could only see blurry figures, he could still tell their identities from their shapes.

The tall figure who separated from the group, stood alone above Yu Miaomiao's head and waved his arms constantly should be A Yuan.

As a loyal servant, he was worried about his young lady and wanted to break through the wall to protect her.

Another group gathered above Zhao Yi and himself, namely Runsheng, Tan Wenbin, Yin Meng and Lin Shuyou.

They were waiting anxiously outside the tower, but as they waited, green liquid began to seep out from the ground beneath their feet.

Fortunately, the green liquid was not dangerous and only soaked the ground into emerald green.

Next, they saw Yu Miaomiao and the woman in the black dress walking out from the lower floor, followed by Zhao Yi on the next floor, and finally their own brother Xiaoyuan.

Runsheng took out the Yellow River shovel and prepared to start digging. Lin Shuyou took out the trident and wanted to follow suit.

Even Yin Meng took out a few poison cans to see if he could help them corrode the ground first.

But these actions were stopped by Tan Wenbin.

"You take a look at him first."

As Tan Wenbin spoke, he pointed at A Yuan in the distance.

A Yuan was already seriously injured. At this moment, he kept hitting the wall. The yellow hair on his body became longer and longer, and his face gradually became more beastly.

It looks more and more like an ape.

As he continued to smash his body with all his might, what splashed was not only blood, but also pieces of flesh and bones.

Lin Shuyou: "Even though we have different positions, this kind of loyalty is really moving."

"Snapped!"

Tan Wenbin slapped Lin Shuyou on the back of his head and said unhappily:
"I mean, we've been shooting for so long and there's not even a dent on the wall. Let's not waste our energy."

"Buzz!"

The bell on the top of the tower rang again.

That face popped out again.

His gaze first fell on the surface.

After the first experience, everyone tried very hard not to look him in the eye, but they could still feel his eyes sweeping over them like the touch of a broom.

Yin Meng was swept a few more times.

Finally, that person's gaze fell on Yuan.

Yuan stopped hammering, raised his head with some confusion, and looked towards the top floor of the tower.

The white ape with its skull opened was looking at him.

With a "thump", A Yuan knelt down and kowtowed towards the white ape, as if he wanted to pray to it in this way.

Unfortunately, the "white ape" was not looking at him, but the person in his body.

The white ape's gaze dropped down and swept over the woman in the black dress. After the bell rang, the woman in the black dress drew her sword.

Yu Miaomiao felt something in her heart and wanted to look up to meet that gaze.

But that gaze didn't even look at her!

The white ape turned into Old Man Tian.

Zhao Yi noticed the gaze from Old Man Tian. He stood up, covered his chest, and kept coughing, looking like a sickly young man.

He is a young master and a sickly person, so there is no need for him to pretend.

This is a kind of obedience, a kind of submission, and also a kind of struggle for oneself.

After his gaze stayed on Zhao Yi for a moment, it finally fell to the bottom layer.

Li Zhuiyuan sat on the ground with a wordless book on his knees. He had nothing to do anyway, so he might as well take a look at the new book he had just acquired.

This book is really nice-looking. The paper is white and feels like silk. It has a subtle fragrance. Even the sound of turning pages is pleasant to hear.

After sensing that gaze, he was not interested in looking back. Instead of looking at that blank face, he would rather look at the blank book in his hand.

But that gaze lingered on Li Zhuiyuan the longest.

It seemed as if this method was deliberately used to tell the boy that he was the one who appeared in his dream that day.

The descendant of his former enemy and rival has arrived, so he should look after him for a while longer.

The woman in the black dress took action. She still didn't open her eyes, but just danced with her sword.

Yu Miaomiao screamed, "That's not true. You have to help me kill them, not kill me. No, no!"

Even though the facts were right in front of her, she still didn't want to believe it.

Thinking back to what she said to those two people in the tower, it was like a slap in the face. She couldn't accept that she was a fool in the eyes of those two people.

Unfortunately, although vision can be seen here, sound is blocked, otherwise Zhao Yi would not mind comforting her and telling her that before entering the tower, she was just a big silly girl in their eyes.

The figure of the woman in the black dress disappeared from the spot, and Yu Miaomiao's figure disappeared with her.

Zhao Yi was amazed watching from below. Although the silly girl was not smart, her skills were really good and her reactions were so quick.

The woman in the black dress appeared where Yu Miaomiao was previously, while Yu Miaomiao landed in the distance.

But the woman's sword is dripping with blood.

Yu Miaomiao looked down at her chest and saw a terrible sword wound.

The woman is very strong, she chose it herself.

The woman in the black dress danced with swords again.

Yu Miaomiao let out a sharp roar. This time, she was not going to dodge, but to fight back.

Sharp claws grew out of the ten fingers of her hands, and her body was as fast as lightning. She pounced out, and her claws drew a murderous light and a piercing sound of breaking through the air.

"Shh!"

The two sides crossed their bodies and fell to the ground.

A claw mark appeared on the face of the woman in the black dress, and then half of the skin on the left side of her face was cut off, but there was no bright red blood flowing out, but dirty pus.

Even if the people in the tower are preserved the same as they were when they were alive, they are still dead after all.

Yu Miaomiao smiled, she saw hope. "You are very strong, but you are not as strong as I imagined. I was definitely not your opponent when you were alive, but now, do you still retain some of your strength from before you died?"
However, just as I encouraged myself and mustered up the courage, the next moment, I felt a lightness on my wrist.

She raised her hands, but they fell off at that moment, leaving only two bare wrists.

The heart that had just become active was smashed into the abyss in an instant!

The woman in the black dress swung her sword again. It seemed that she only knew this move, or perhaps this move was enough.

Zhao Yi was watching the game in the spectator seats below and was enjoying it very much. He thought to himself, if he could have a woman like this under his command, how easy would it be to cross the river?
Of course, this is just a thought. Once I make such a request to such a person, I am afraid that he will stab me with the first sword.

Yu Miaomiao started to run away, making miserable cries, with faint sounds of cats' meows.

However, the woman's sword-drawing speed did not slow down at all.

Yu Miaomiao, who was as tall as the wind, fell to the ground, and her feet were separated from her ankles.

She was like a silkworm cocoon, curled up on the ground, surrounded by a pool of her own blood.

The woman in the black dress did not step forward to check the situation, but continued to swing her sword coldly.

Yu Miaomiao was in despair. She opened her mouth and a ball of gold, silver and white hair flew out of her mouth. This was something her grandmother had given her specially before she lit a lamp and walked across the river, to be used in the most critical moment to save her life.

She knew whose hair it was, but she was never willing to admit it.

At this moment, when the hair was spit out, it turned into flames and burned forward.

Originally, this move was intended to be used against the woman in the black dress when she came to check his injuries, but the woman in the black dress did not come over.

The fact is, when this terrible demonic fire spewed out, the woman in black dress appeared on the other side of Yu Miaomiao, completely opposite to the direction of the fire.

There is no unnecessary joking or playing with the mind, not even the thrill of battle, only the simple goal of killing the opponent, so one naturally would not fall into such a crude and ridiculous trap.

"Wow..."

Yu Miaomiao's head was cut off by the sword.

Above, A Yuan was extremely angry, tears and blood flowed from his eyes, and he roared and roared.

The woman in the black dress lifted Yu Miaomiao's head with her sword and placed it in front of herself.

The woman opened her mouth, and wisps of essence were sucked out of Yu Miaomiao's head and entered the woman's mouth.

The gap between life and death on Zhao Yi's forehead felt a strong stimulation, because what was being absorbed was not only the essence, but also Yu Miaomiao's fate and fortune.

Li Zhuiyuan closed the book, raised his head and looked upwards.

"Is this your way to becoming an immortal?"

(End of this chapter)