Tower Defense Game: My Eternal Kingdom

Chapter 156 Blank Portrait
The laceration on the wrist, which is fatal to ordinary people, has healed quickly in a burst of itching.

Although Zhang Yao's dark knight profession is not as convenient as the spirit warrior, it is still a rare profession.Especially with the increase in physique and defense, his recovery ability is even more abnormal than that of the bright red form.

"What the hell happened last night..."

Zhang Yao thought hard.

No matter how dull he was, he could feel that the castle had changed a lot at this moment, and he couldn't help but feel distressed by his lack of experience.

But he didn't struggle for too long.

Watching the figure of the group of soldiers sinking into the darkness, he gave up the idea of ​​chasing after him to find out.

The Resurrection Ankh took longer than he expected, and he almost fell into a deep sleep for a day and a night.

It's going to be dark again soon.

He wanted to take advantage of this time to confirm the portrait as soon as possible.

Not only is the castle dangerous at night, but also weird and inexplicable changes will occur outside the castle.

In comparison, the castle suppressed by mysterious forces is relatively safe.

Bypass the flower beds.

Zhang Yao walked straight towards the high black wall surrounding the castle.

Pass through the cold iron gate carved with strange patterns.

He couldn't help but glanced at the motionless castle guards standing around the high walls like statues.

They were dressed in pitch-black armor covering every inch of their skin, heavy and oppressive, without any heartbeat or breathing, just like corpses.

They only come to life when monsters attack the castle.

Zhang Yao clearly understood the strength of these guards. Even now, he might not have the slightest chance of winning against a castle guard alone.

And look.

Those soldiers who suddenly recovered seemed to be far stronger than them!
"I don't know if they are part of the castle..."

Zhang Yao was eager to try.

After he completes an exploration mission unlocked when he was promoted to a full lord, he will be able to gain control of a part of the castle guards.

It is expected that the follow-up tasks must also be related to unlocking the control authority of the castle.

If those soldiers are also one of the guards of the castle,

He can control it sooner or later!
only……

If you can't participate in faction battles, and you can't accept chaotic duels, what's the point of controlling as many castle guards as you can...

Zhang Yao then became distressed.

"Ugh."

He sighed and stopped thinking about these wasteful brain cells.

out the door.

He soon came to the pale ancient tree that grew twisted and twisted.

The curved trunk is more than ten meters high, like a hunched giant, and the slender branches spread out at the top, forming a lush and grand crown, casting a mottled and strange shadow.

"...Goo."

Zhang Yao couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva.

There is both the fear of the weird and the nervousness to verify the facts.

He held up the oil lamp, at eye level, and tried his best to let the dim but not warm light cover his whole body.

As he approached, the dead tree changed immediately. The dry old bark on the trunk fell off, revealing a pile of rotten corpses. The slender branches hung down from the top of the head, which were clearly stitched together by human hands!

It has grown taller again!
Zhang Yao suddenly realized something, his face turned pale.

When he first borrowed this weird corpse tree to help him clean up the monsters, it was only five or six meters high at most.

Then Zhang Yao discovered that the corpse tree would grow by devouring the corpses of monsters. Later, he learned about the fact that the strangeness would continue to grow from Cheng Shen, and he was afraid, so he never used it again.

But this time.

Zhang Yao found that its height had jumped a lot!

"By the way, there was a wave of monsters attacking the city while I was asleep! Since no body was found outside the castle, it must have been dealt with by it..."

suddenly.

Zhang Yao felt a softness under his feet.

Looking down, the terrifying sight in front of him almost made him throw the oil lamp out.

Those were human heads growing out of the soil. The soil and hair were mixed together, covering their faces, like moldy and hairy black potatoes, but they were densely packed in front of them!

He was stepping on top of a head!

Zhang Yao suddenly felt that the head he was stepping on turned, and suddenly his feet slipped, almost falling into the pile of heads.

He stood up quickly.

Just thinking about the scene that happened in Haoxuan made his scalp tingle!

"It's become even scarier... Sure enough, it's just like the leg brother said, Weird will gain more and more difficult powers as it grows!"

Zhang Yao wanted to retreat.

But looking at the tree hole that was only seven or eight meters away from him, he seemed to be able to faintly see the silhouette in the shadow, so he simply gave up.

Savage stomp!

boom!
He stomped his foot, and a powerful force erupted, and the skulls under his feet exploded like a watermelon. The thick shock wave then spread to the surroundings like a wave of air, and the skulls enveloped in it were blown to pieces one by one!

Bang bang bang!
Blood mist suddenly filled the air.

After being attacked, the strange corpse tree immediately became violent.

Countless slender pale arms hung down densely, but they all stayed one meter away from Zhang Yao's head, as if blocked by an invisible force.

At this time.

The flame in the oil lamp suddenly jumped up, making a crackling burning sound, and the blood used as fuel decreased at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Zhang Yao smelled a strong burnt smell!
"be quick!"

He wakes up immediately.

The horror level of this corpse tree has grown to a rather terrifying level.

Even, he was about to get close to the weird woman in the portrait!

If he had used the same candle as before, he would have been extinguished by its power in an instant.

And the resistance of the oil lamp can barely compete with it!

rub!
Zhang Yao, who figured out the key, rushed out instantly, stepped on the ground made of minced meat and hairy mud, and crossed the distance from the tree hole in a blink of an eye.

He glanced quickly.

The portrait is still there!

wrong,

The picture is blank!
Zhang Yao was taken aback.

This situation is undoubtedly very different from the picture he imagined.

In his opinion, the portrait and the cheongsam woman should be a whole.

His verification will only get two results.

One.

The portrait is still there.

The old sister will also look at him peacefully in the portrait.

two.

Even if the old sister was killed by Brother Zhu and never came back, the portrait should also disappear!
But the unsteady scene in front of him made his head a mess.

"Wait! Is this actually a secondary cursed object? Maybe it's a cursed object that got out of control, and the weirdness inside ran out..."

Zhang Yao thought of a possibility.

Subsequently.

He was in a tangle.

Take it or not? !

In case the old sister just left temporarily, went out for a walk, and would come back later, he would undoubtedly commit suicide by taking this portrait.

But if the old sister can't come back...

This blank portrait can just replace the oil lamp in his hand that is about to get out of control!

Brother Zhu's meat cleaver will definitely be returned.

And once the oil lamp gets out of control, even if he can deal with it in advance, throw it in a place where the weirdness in it can't escape.

For example, a clock tower that appears at regular intervals.

After that, without the cursed object, he will also be unable to move an inch in the castle!
Give it a try!
The bold Zhang Yao immediately made a decision.

If you don't fight, you will die.

He can't just run to Brother Pig whenever he encounters something weird in the future.

Furthermore.

When he encounters strange things, it is basically at night.

He can no longer face the out-of-control Brother Pig, there is no second Resurrection Ankh!

Zhang Yao immediately made a decision, put the meat cleaver in his backpack, freed his right hand, leaped forward, and grabbed the portrait in the tree hole in his hand.

The moment he came into contact with the portrait, he immediately felt an extremely cold aura coming from the portrait.

Zhang Yao subconsciously looked down at the portrait.

All I saw was that his appearance appeared strangely on the blank drawing paper!

His face was expressionless, his eyes were empty, cold and dead, like a portrait!
suddenly.

His eyes darkened.

Opening his eyes again, Zhang Yao found that he was inexplicably trapped in a gray space.

There is impenetrable darkness in all directions, only a little light in front of the eyes, which is a charred wick burning in the blood, like it is made of twisted strands of long hair, soaked into dark red by the blood.

A pale scene was reflected in the firelight.

Zhang Yao focused his eyes and immediately saw that it was a desolate wilderness. A majestic black wall stood in the distance. The sky was filled with oppressive swirling clouds, and pale lightning exploded from time to time...

And near.

It is countless slender arms that are entangled together.

They shrink into a circle like a curtain, gradually enveloping the picture, and the visible field of vision becomes narrower and narrower...

not good!

This is clearly a scene unfolded from the perspective of a portrait!
I was sucked into the portrait? !
Zhang Yao was startled.

Immediately, he stretched out his hand to grab the dim light, like a person caught in a swamp, desperately grabbing the only straw to save his life.

call!
The moment of grasping the dark red oozing wick.

His consciousness suddenly shook.

immediately.

The screen in front of me returned to normal.

He was still standing in front of the tree hole, holding an oil lamp in one hand and a blank portrait in the other.

It seemed that the scene just now was just his hallucination.

Zhang Yao was already in a cold sweat, how could he not be able to tell whether the scene just now was real or not.

He was almost sucked in by this weird blank portrait!

fortunately.

There is an oil lamp to restrain the weird effect and let him break free from it!

Zhang Yao didn't know what he would look like if he was sucked into the portrait, and whether he could escape.

But he definitely didn't want to experience that horrible feeling again.

He dared not look at the portrait again.

Turn it over and throw it in your backpack.

"It's so dangerous! The cursed thing that has gone out of control is so terrifying, hasn't the old sister recovered from it?!"

Zhang Yao couldn't figure it out.

In his opinion, the reason why the secondary weird thing is terrifying is because it seals a weird monster that may get out of control at any time.

And its strength should also come from this.

But now it seems.

The secondary strange thing itself is an extremely dangerous thing!

"This matter has to be told to Brother Leg..."

Zhang Yao thought about it.

Quickly ran out from the slender arms that were about to break through the protection of the oil lamp.

He didn't turn his head back, and ran nearly a hundred meters away, and the slender arms that swept over like a white wave gradually retracted.

"fine……

This creep doesn't move like the others..."

Zhang Yao rejoiced, and immediately covered his mouth as if he was constipated. His crow's mouth can't talk nonsense anymore!
Think so.

Subconsciously, the image of the pale corpse tree growing a bunch of human legs and chasing him rumblingly appeared in his mind...

hiss……

Zhang Yao's scalp felt a little numb, so he hurried back to the wall.

"What to do next?"

He gradually calmed down his flustered emotions and began to think about follow-up actions.

"It's going to be dark soon... Well, this is actually good news. It happens to be able to keep the meat cleaver for one night. When Brother Zhu wakes up, he will have an excuse..."

"Which place should I explore first?"

Zhang Yao hesitated for a while.

"Ask brother leg!"

He quickly and happily decided to throw this question to Cheng Shen.

……

"Out-of-control secondary cursed object? Blank portrait?"

Cheng Shen was taken aback when he saw the news.

He thought of Aoki's coffin board.

After the two terrifying old men left, the coffin board did not disappear directly, but seemed to complete the exchange, suppressing the blood-stained cross and the newly fused saint in Aoki's body again.

That is to say, the secondary cursed object itself has extremely powerful abilities, rather than endowed by the strangeness of its restrictions.

Then.

In what form does its own power exist?
Only then did Cheng Shen suddenly realize that although he already had three cursed objects in his hands, none of them were secondary cursed objects.

Even a parchment.

It is also a man-made cursed object with a high risk of loss of control due to rough craftsmanship.

There is no way to do research.

Cheng Shen couldn't tell whether he was lucky or unlucky...

"It's possible."

While he was answering, he was already thinking about how to get a secondary cursed item from Zhang Yao.

Quite the opposite of his case.

Counting Brother Pig's meat cleaver,

The three cursed objects obtained by Zhang Yao were all secondary cursed objects!
I thought about it.

Cheng Shen still didn't say this when he needed it most.

Think back to the question at hand.

Cheng Shen said: "The number of times you can use a meat cleaver is limited, so you have to use it where it can generate higher profits.

I can give you a few suggestions.

One,

It is to explore the room on the second floor.

I'm not sure about the other rooms, but if the little girl hasn't returned yet, it's definitely the room with the lowest risk for you to check her.

Maybe there will be gains.

Second, it is the study room.

The study is the place where you are most likely to obtain the information left by the previous owner of the castle. If you gain something, it will be of great help to you in managing the castle.

Furthermore, you can also find a lot of records about ancient times from the study room, which may allow us to understand what happened in the old times.

The third location is the clock tower you mentioned.

I have suspected for a long time that the castle you are in is different from the normal time and space, and according to your description, the biggest suspect is the clock tower! "

Speaking of it.

Inexplicably, Cheng Shen thought that the oil painting of the clock was the only thing he didn't find when he was exploring the Soul Soil ruins.

A painting that changes time.

I don't know what it has to do with the clock tower in the castle that only appears at a fixed time...

"That's right! Why did I forget to explore the room on the second floor!"

Zhang Yao slapped his head.

"and many more."

Cheng Shen stopped him, traded the Spirit Elimination Blade that was temporarily unusable, and told him the things to pay attention to when using it.

Although the Blade of Eliminating Spirits is not as good as a meat cleaver, relatively speaking, the backlash damage is also lower.

Zhang Yao himself is a profession that is good at physical defense, even if he can't use it for free like him, at least he can resist it for a while.

Cheng Shen suddenly realized.

Perhaps, the only purpose of the job change is to allow them to have more power to resist the backlash of cursed objects.

As for other enemies.

It's not worth mentioning in front of the weird threat...

(End of this chapter)