Navigator: I have a double six-story house

Chapter 133 Kill Me

The clock tower was right in front of me, its leaning structure covered with dark green algae, and the bricks at the base were cracked, making the whole building look like it could collapse at any moment.

Su Qing stopped and thought for a moment.

"You all wait here."

Wang Yao's leg, which had just stepped out, stopped in mid-air.

Why?

"I'll go up alone."

"No way." Wang Yao held his shield in front of him. "I'm your shield. Wherever you go, I go. That's the rule."

Su Qing turned her head to look at him.

"Ten revolutions".

Wang Yao opened his mouth.

"Even if you can withstand a lot, can you withstand an attack from a level ten cultivator?"

Wang Yao fell silent, his fingers gripping the shield unconsciously tightening.

He knew exactly what the tenth level of advancement meant; in the face of that level, his shield was no different from paper.

Su Qing patted him on the shoulder.

Then he reached into his collar and pulled out a chain.

[Grade A Equipment: The Blood and Tears of the Weeping Angel]

Su Qing waved the pendant in front of Wang Yao.

"See? With this here, you won't die."

Wang Yao stared at the pendant, and after a moment, the anger in his chest subsided, and he stopped trying to stop her.

Be careful.

"Um."

Su Qing tucked the chain back into her collar and glanced at Selena.

Selena stood there, her fingers twisted together.

Her lips moved, but she didn't say anything like "be careful," she just nodded.

Su Qing withdrew her gaze and strode towards the entrance of the clock tower.

The iron door at the bottom floor was rusted through, and when it was pushed open, it made a piercing metallic scraping sound.

Inside was a spiral staircase, the steps covered in a thick layer of dust, with no footprints.

Su Qing climbed upwards step by step.

The stairs were narrow, and the bricks wobbled slightly with each step.

He counted the steps, and after one hundred and twenty-three, light appeared above his head.

A pale blue light.

Su Qing stopped, took a deep breath, and then climbed the last few steps.

The top floor of the clock tower has no walls on any side, only a few stone pillars supporting the dome.

A huge bronze bell hangs in the center, its surface covered with incomprehensible characters.

The person sitting on the windowsill of the stone window was the one who had attracted Su Qing's attention from the very beginning of the instance.

Its skeleton is well preserved, with each bone gleaming with a dark yellow luster, and its hand bones supporting its chin as it overlooks the entire abandoned city.

Blue flames burned quietly in their eye sockets.

Su Qing walked to a spot about three meters in front of the skull and stopped.

This level 10 master didn't turn his head, but his jaw moved.

"You've arrived."

The sound didn't pass through the throat and vocal cords; the skeleton didn't have those things. It appeared directly in Su Qing's mind.

"I'm here," Su Qing replied.

"You shouldn't have come."

Su Qing raised an eyebrow and put her hands in her pockets.

"Can't you be a little more reasonable?"

The skull turned its head to a different angle, and the two balls of blue flame were facing Su Qing, looking him up and down.

There was silence for several seconds.

Su Qing was the first to break the silence.

"Didn't you send me?"

"That's right."

"Then what do you mean by saying I shouldn't have come?"

The skeleton remained silent for a moment, then the color of the two flames dimmed for a split second.

"Because you are the only one who can help me."

Su Qing raised an eyebrow.

"Oh?"

"How do you want me to help?"

The skull's jaw opened and closed again, and this time, the words that came out made Su Qing freeze.

"Kill me."

Su Qing thought she had misheard.

"—What?"

"Kill me," the skeleton repeated.

Su Qing stared at the skeleton in front of her, her mind racing, before finally confirming that she wasn't hallucinating.

How could a level 10 being allow a newbie with no level 1 experience to kill him?

"Are you kidding me?" Su Qing's voice rose half an octave. "You're a tenth-level cultivator, and I'm not even a first-level one. Even if you stood still and let me chop you, I don't know if I could even kill you."

The skeleton shook its head.

"That certainly won't kill me."

"and you----"

"You need to use the power of gluttony from the Seven Deadly Sins."

Su Qing's words stuck in her throat.

He didn't ask pointless questions like, "How did you know I have binge eating?"

The people here even know this is a dungeon, so what's so strange about them knowing about his talent?

But the problem is...

Binge eating?

The only things that thing gave him were a doubled experience point bonus from food, the ability to eat indefinitely, and a perpetual feeling of hunger.

Since awakening his gluttonous talent, he has been battling that endless hunger every day.

What do these two effects have to do with "murder"?

"Are you mistaken?" Su Qing asked bluntly. "Gluttony grants us abilities that do not include any combat skills and have absolutely nothing to do with killing people."

The two flames in the skull's eye sockets flickered.

Just because it's not there now doesn't mean it won't be in the future.

"The essence of gluttony is devouring."

"Double experience is the initial form of gluttony, and hunger is a side effect, but when your gluttony grows to a certain stage—"

The skeleton paused.

"It can devour everything, including life and soul."

Su Qing clenched her fists.

"Even so..." He raised his head, staring directly at the two eerie blue flames, "Why should I help you?"

"Who are you? What's our relationship? You think I'll kill you just because you tell me to?"

The skeleton did not answer the question.

"I am paying the price for my mistakes."

"What's wrong?"

"A choice lacking courage."

Su Qing took a deep breath and then exhaled.

"I really hate riddle tellers, you know?"

He lowered his voice, clearly impatient.

"Everyone has spoken to me like this since we entered this instance."

"You think it's sophisticated to only say half the story and never make things clear?"

The skull's jaw closed. The two flames burned quietly.

Su Qing waited for more than ten seconds, but the other party showed no intention of responding.

Row.

Another one who won't listen to reason.

Su Qing turned around, intending to go downstairs. Since she couldn't get anything out of him, there was no need to waste time here.

"remember."

The skull's voice came from behind.

Su Qing stopped in her tracks.

"Never stop moving forward."

Su Qing turned around and frowned as she looked at the skeleton.

"What?"

Before he could finish speaking, the skeleton moved.

The skeleton that had been sitting motionless on the windowsill the whole time suddenly reached out a hand. It was so fast that Su Qing didn't even have time to react.

The withered, bony fingers, glowing with a ghostly blue light, arrived in front of Su Qing in an instant.

Her fingertip touched his brow.

Su Qing's mind went completely blank for a moment.

That feeling is indescribable.

It felt like something was being forced into his head, or like something was being pulled out of his body.

The icy sensation spread from my brow to every part of my body, as if I had been thrown into the deep sea.

His vision began to distort.

The clock tower has disappeared.

The skeleton disappeared, replaced by an endless expanse of darkness.

Then, the screen appeared.