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Chapter 1321. Echoes from the Abyss (11)

Before she finished speaking, Xin suddenly walked to the left side of the steps and gently touched a crystal with a moderate vibration.

"Ding--"

Crystal emitted a clear sound, and at the same time, a stone step beneath her feet lit up slightly, perfectly in sync with the pitch.

"It's not that there's no pattern, it's that it's 'against the pattern.' The normal rhythm is 'strong-weak-strong-weak,' but the safe beat here is 'weak-strong-weak-break.' The pitch of the crystal corresponds to the weight of the footsteps, and you must pause where the note breaks, without placing your foot down."

She spoke as she walked forward on the stone slabs.

Step lightly on the first stone slab (soft sound), stomp hard on the second stone slab (loud sound), lightly step on the third stone slab (soft sound), and pause in front of the fourth stone slab (break the sound).

Sure enough, every step perfectly matched the chaotic rhythm of the crystal, and the stone slab did not develop any cracks.

Meng is amazing!

—First time entering a dungeon, really impressive.

—Who did Meng Ye go with when he first entered the dungeon?
——Xiao Qin, right!

— Xiao Qin, Ouyang, and Vegetables seemed to have appeared together.

Did they know each other in their daily lives?

--should be.

—It's estimated that three people were coming to rescue someone, and Meng, being bored, followed along.

—That's terrible. We'll have to come in later. What are we going to do?
—Didn't you see? Meng can also enter the instance on his own.

—The ones that come in later are all fine.

—It's all displayed in the live stream, even though the text is as small as a grain of rice.

Everyone followed Xin Ye's footsteps and stepped onto the stairs one by one.

"What if these crystals suddenly change their rhythm?"

As soon as Bai Yueming finished speaking, the musical note crystals on the wall suddenly changed their tune, and the already chaotic melody became even more jarring.

The stone slab beneath Xin Ye's feet instantly lit up with a red light. She paused instinctively, and the red light immediately faded.

"The key will change!" Xin said softly. "Everyone stay calm and follow my new steps!"

She adjusted her pace, her steps sometimes light and quick, sometimes heavy, and occasionally she would pause suddenly, each time precisely avoiding the trigger point of the collapsing stone slab.

Lin Xi followed behind her and could clearly feel the steps vibrating more and more intensely.

The musical note crystals on the wall began to fall off, and the fragments fell down the steps, making a "crackling" sound.

Just as everyone reached the middle of the steps, a loud "crack" suddenly came from above, and a huge rock fell from the top of the steps, hitting the stone slab behind Feng Xi.

"careful!"

Guo Yuelang immediately took out his small shield and blocked the flying pebbles.

The stone slab struck by the rock shattered instantly, revealing a dark abyss below. A chilling wind surged from the abyss, carrying countless tiny "rustling" sounds, as if countless things were crawling in the darkness.

"What is it?" Zhao Chen asked.

“It should be the Sound Remains,” Ouyang replied. “It’s on the parchment scroll. The Sound Remains of the Final Sound Domain are formed from the resentment of countless players who failed to clear the game. They have no physical form, but they can attack people’s nerves through sound!”

As soon as he finished speaking, countless chaotic shouts suddenly came from the abyss. There were men and women, old and young. The voices intertwined and formed a piercing noise that hurtled the eardrums.

Zhao Chen covered his ears, his face turning pale.

"This sound is so unpleasant!"

He stumbled, lost his footing, and the stone slab beneath his feet instantly lit up with a red light and began to crack rapidly.

"Stay calm!" Xin said.

Although she was also affected by the noise and her head was buzzing, she still forced herself to maintain the rhythm.

"Follow my footsteps, don't be distracted by the noise, step on the stone slabs I just stepped on!"

—I'm starting to like Meng Ye.

—Me too. —I feel like this Meng Ye is quite similar to the NPC Meng Ye we've seen!
—It doesn't look like it! How does it look like it?

—I'm not talking about appearance, but the way they talk; they're a little bit alike.

Lin Xi immediately took out a throwing knife and hurled it into the abyss.

The throwing knife whistled through the cold wind, and the chaotic shouts instantly subsided.

"The throwing knife can temporarily dispel the sound fragments!" she said. "Zhao Chen, use telekinesis to throw the rubble down!"

Zhao Chen steadied himself and immediately did as instructed.

An invisible force whipped up the rubble from the ground and hurled it into the abyss.

The sound of falling gravel collided with Yin Hai's shouts, creating a brief vacuum, and the noise vanished instantly.

"I'll go ahead," Guo Yuelang said.

Guo Yuelang led the way with a small shield, blocking the falling rocks and crystal shards for everyone.

—Holy crap, my ears!!!

—Noise attacks are disgusting; I can feel the pain in my eardrums even through the screen!
—Can Lin Xi's throwing knife also dispel the Sound Relic?

—It must have been a throwing knife given away by the game, not her own.

—I guess this counts as using a prop!

—It should be, but not by number. I guess throwing knives count as a prop.

Everyone finally reached the bottom of the stairs.

The bottom is a huge circular space.

There were no buildings in the center of the space, only a black platform suspended in mid-air, covered with disordered musical notes.

Countless translucent "sound threads" floated in the air around the platform, interwoven like a spider web and shimmering with a faint silver light.

The walls of the space are inlaid with countless human-shaped outlines, which are composed of countless tiny musical notes, and should all be sound fragments.

They remained motionless, as if asleep.

But the moment everyone stepped into the space, all the Sound Bone's eyes suddenly lit up red, and countless chaotic shouts rang out again, even more piercing than before.

“These sound fragments have been activated!” Ouyang Yu held a silver dagger, and a purifying silver light flowed across the dagger.

Lin Xi looked around.

"There are musical note outlines on the wall. Let's see if we can dispel them by looking at the attack outlines!"

Huang Jingjing immediately reached out her hand to Ouyang Yu.

The two teleported to a wall, and Ouyang Yu's dagger stabbed fiercely at the silhouette of a corpse.

Suddenly I realize that Teacher Huang and Ouyang are quite a couple.

—That's exactly what I was thinking.

—While Xin Xin, the handsome young man, was teleporting everyone, Teacher Huang was waiting for Ouyang.

—What a pity, Teacher Huang already has Zhang Yutong.

—Whatever, I'll eat my food, she can talk about hers.

The sound body let out a shrill scream, and its body began to dissipate rapidly, turning into countless tiny musical notes that merged into the surrounding sound threads.

But more sonic fragments broke free from the walls. They had no physical form, only vague humanoid outlines, and rushed towards the crowd. Wherever they passed, the sonic threads in the air became even denser.

"Watch out for the sound threads!" Xin shouted, noticing that the sound threads tightened as the sound fragments moved. "Getting entangled in the sound threads will forcibly pull you into a chaotic rhythm, and then you'll lose control!"

Feng Xi brandished his short sword, severing the approaching sound threads.

The moment the sound thread is severed, it makes a crisp "ding" sound, like a broken string.

"These sound threads are too tough!" he gritted his teeth, swinging his short sword faster and faster, sweat streaming down his face. "I can't possibly cut them all down!"