Deadly Game: Almighty Boss’s Guide to Making Money

Chapter 1322. Echoes from the Abyss (12)

“These sound fibers seem to be afraid of discordant sounds!” Lin Xi said. “We can create discordant sounds to temporarily disable them!”

As she spoke, she picked up two pebbles from the ground and struck them together forcefully. With a loud "clang," a piercing sound rang out, and the surrounding sound threads instantly stiffened, no longer contracting.

Wang Yiyi's eyes lit up, and she immediately followed Lin Xi's example, picking up pebbles and striking them.

“Everyone is making noise, and discordant sounds can suppress the sound fibers!” Huang Jingjing said immediately.

Everyone immediately took action, summoning the items placed in the dungeon and starting to bang on the walls or hit each other with their weapons.

Xin didn't participate in making any noise; her gaze was fixed on the black platform suspended in mid-air.

The disordered notes on the platform are slowly rotating, forming an eerie vortex, with a faint light emanating from its center.

“That platform is key!” she said. “The power of the Sound Remnant comes from the vortex of disordered notes on the platform, and we must destroy it.”

Upon hearing this, Guo Yuelang immediately teleported to the area below the platform. However, the moment he touched the platform, it suddenly trembled violently, and countless disordered musical notes flew out from the vortex, transforming into sharp sonic blades that shot towards Guo Yuelang.

"not good!"

Guo Yuelang instantly teleported away, and the sonic blade struck the ground, leaving behind long, thin cracks.

Ouyang Yu flew to the side of the platform and stabbed the vortex with his dagger.

The moment the dagger pierced the vortex, its rotation slowed noticeably, and the light of the disordered notes dimmed slightly.

But in just one second, the vortex unleashed even greater power, blasting Ouyang Yu away.

“A single attack won’t work.” Xin thought quickly, recalling the resonance principle of the pipe organ. “Perhaps we need to attack all three nodes of the vortex simultaneously with a ‘counter-rhythm’!”

She pointed to three locations on the platform.

"The note on the left is a 'weak point' and needs to be hit lightly; the note on the right is a 'strong point' and needs to be hit heavily; the note in the middle is a 'broken point' and needs to be paused before attacking!"

"I'll attack the weak node!" Wang Yiyi picked up a piece of gravel and aimed at the node on the left.

"Leave the strong nodes to me!" Feng Xi gripped his short knife, leaped, and jumped onto the edge of the platform.

"I'll handle the break point!" Zhao Chen focused his mind and used his telekinetic power to lock onto the middle node.

Xin stood on the ground, his eyes fixed on the three nodes.

"Listen to my command! Three, two, one—light tap!"

Wang Yi gently tossed the gravel, accurately hitting the weak point, which emitted a soft "ding" sound.

"Hit hard!"

Feng Xi swung his knife forcefully, striking the strong node with a loud clang, and the node flashed with light.

"Pause—Attack!"

After a half-second pause, Zhao Chen used the force of telekinesis to slam the broken joint hard with a dull thud.

The three attacks perfectly matched the counter-rhythm, instantly stopping the vortex on the platform and causing the light of the disordered notes to fade rapidly.

The surrounding corpses screamed in agony, their bodies rapidly dissipating, and the humanoid silhouettes on the walls gradually became transparent.

—Success!

—I'm going to become a fan of Meng Ye, he's amazing.

—Finally, I can get rid of these bastards!

—Don't get too excited, this dungeon is full of pitfalls.

Just when everyone thought the crisis was over, the platform suddenly shook violently, and the faint light at the center of the vortex instantly expanded, transforming into a huge door. The door was composed of countless distorted musical notes, without a door frame or a doorknob, only a chaotic light and shadow, from which surged an even colder aura than before, carrying a sense of oppressive "absolute silence".

Even the air seemed to stop flowing in this atmosphere.

The noise everyone was making vanished instantly, leaving only the sound of one's own heartbeat in one's ears.

—Oh my god, why is there suddenly no sound?
—123 They were still knocking.

—That's too weird.

—I knew it, there are so many pitfalls in this broken dungeon.

"It's the Silent Door!" Guo Yuelang's expression turned grave. "The parchment says that behind the Silent Door lies the center of the Ultimate Sound Domain, but there is no sound inside. Once you step inside, all skills and items will lose their effect, and you can only rely on your own movement. One wrong step and you will be swallowed by silence, trapped inside forever!"

"Skills and items are both ineffective?" Feng Xi's eyes widened.

——Holy shit!
—Now that we've gotten this far, we're starting to disable skills and items.

So, not giving out props has its advantages, as it prevents everyone from relying on them.

—This is not the first instance where skills and items are banned.

—This game is becoming increasingly inhumane.

When has this broken game ever been human?

Bai Yueming walked to the silent door and reached out to touch it, but as soon as his hand approached the door, it was repelled by an invisible force.

The moment Bai Yueming's hand was flung away, he abruptly covered his ears, his face turning deathly pale.

Before anyone could ask any more questions, they saw his lips trembling, but he couldn't make a sound and could only wave his hands frantically.

"What's wrong with him?" Xin asked.

Lin Xi strode forward and patted Bai Yueming's ear hard, but the other party did not react.

She reached out to touch Bai Yueming's cheek again, only to find that his eyes were becoming unfocused, his once lively gaze had become empty, as if he had lost all awareness of his surroundings.

“He can’t hear.” Lin Xi’s voice deepened. “Not only can he not hear, but it seems like he can barely feel his own existence anymore.”

Before he could finish speaking, Bai Yueming suddenly collapsed to the ground, his body curled up in a strange posture, his hands futilely grasping at the air, as if resisting some invisible force that was swallowing him up.

——Fuck!
—What kind of cursed gate is this? It's ruined if you touch it.

—The vegetables were so carefree just now, but now they're like puppets?

—To not even feel yourself anymore is worse than death.

—All skills and items are ineffective; we can't even touch them now. How are we supposed to clear this dungeon?
—We can't use items or skills, and there's no way to heal the vegetables!

Ouyang Yu squatted down, his fingertips gently tracing Bai Yueming's wrist, his brows furrowed.

“His consciousness is fading. If this continues, he will become a soulless shell, forever trapped in silence.”

"What should we do?" Wang Yiyi's eyes reddened with anxiety. "We can't leave him here!"

Guo Yuelang looked around, his gaze falling on the silent door made of distorted musical notes, his voice heavy.

"To save him, we must pass through the Silent Gate, reach the center of the Ultimate Sound Domain, and find his voice. Only then can we pull back his consciousness that has been swallowed by silence."

“But once inside, skills and items are useless; one wrong step and it’s all over.” Feng Xi’s voice was full of hesitation. “We don’t even know what’s inside the door.”

"Otherwise, we can just..." Huang Jingjing stopped mid-sentence.

They can't use items anymore; they can't even use items to pass the level now.