Wu Xiangwang once believed that having a good face meant having everything. As long as he looked good, he could completely be a vase and a carefree immortal.
Until he fell into a terrifying w...
Wu Xiangwang and the others quickly entered the stone fortress built by the defensive psychic. After entering, Wu Xingyun immediately distributed the mushrooms he grew to everyone with a smile.
"You don't need energy coins or anything else, I'll just give it to you for free."
"You're welcome, we're all adventurers!"
"But please throw away this mushroom as soon as you get out of the fog. Although this mushroom is primarily for defense, it does have some negative side effects."
"Ah, you're asking about the negative effects?" Wu Xingyun coughed lightly. "Yeah, it might affect your luck a little. But don't worry, as long as you throw away the mushrooms after you get out of the fog, there shouldn't be any major problems."
The dozens of people inside the fortress listened to Wu Xingyun's words without much concern. How could something as insubstantial as luck really influence them? However, they had just observed that the invisible, strange beings within the mist genuinely disliked these mushrooms.
With these mushrooms placed outside the car, we won’t be trapped in this place and unable to move, right?
So everyone said that they didn't care about the negative effects of mushrooms, and even enthusiastically shared their hot soup with Wu Xingyun.
Wu Xingyun was flattered and decided to drink two more bowls.
At this time, Wu Xiangwang, Wang Xiao and Shang Chong were exchanging news about the two cities they had visited with Lu Zhihao.
"Well, before, the City of Secret Rooms randomly assigned people to different levels of secret rooms, which was quite dangerous. But now, the City of Secret Rooms has stopped randomly assigning people to secret rooms. You can enter the corresponding secret rooms according to your level. Although there are still risks, it shouldn't be a life-threatening situation."
"Personally, I think it's better to go through a few more secret rooms in the City of Secret Rooms, strengthen your own strength, and collect more treasures."
First, Wu Xiangwang and the others talked about the City of Secret Chambers, and then Wu Xiangwang turned the topic to the City of Fear.
"Just now you said that as long as you don't let your imagination run wild in the City of Fear, you can survive it. Does that mean that everything you think about in the City of Fear...will come true?"
Lu Zhihao curled his lips. "If anything you wish for in the City of Fear could come true, then the city wouldn't be called the City of Fear anymore; it would have to be called the City of Wishes. In the City of Fear, anything you wish for can come true, but only the 'fearful' things you wish for will come true."
"For example, some people are afraid of ghosts. As long as the image of a ghost flashes through their mind, the ghost in their mind is likely to come out and hunt them.
Or some people are afraid of getting sick or poisoned, and their bodies will quickly react to the illness or poisoning.
Lu Zhihao took a puff of his homemade tobacco as he spoke. "I personally witnessed an adventurer who inexplicably transformed from a human into a spooky being one night. Later, his companions told him they were constantly worried about the spooky toxins in their bodies. Because he was very sensitive to numbers and mutations, he ended up worrying himself into a spooky being."
Wu Xiangwang and the other two couldn't help but change their expressions when they heard this. Shang Chong muttered, "Is it really that scary? Wouldn't that be very difficult to deal with?!"
Lu Zhihao nodded and then shook his head. "It's certainly difficult. For those who are timid, overthinking, and imaginative, this city is truly difficult. Plus, the city quest specifically requires you to think about your greatest fear. Anyway, everyone has to go through this."
"However, for those who are simple-minded and don't think much, this city will be much easier. I know that a big guy is most afraid of those small, furry cats and dogs that will die if stepped on. So wherever he goes, he is surrounded by a group of cats and dogs. Although he screams a lot, he is basically unscathed in the City of Fear."
"So, the City of Fear is somewhat targeted. However, the human collaborators in the City of Fear and the Dragon Fang Legion's garrisons also offered some advice on how to overcome the City of Fear's characteristics.
If you really can't control your fear, then just let your mind go blank, stop thinking, or at worst, think of less scary things to cover up the scariest thoughts."
"In this way, we can still get through the 30 days."
"Anyway, the scariest things that threaten lives in that city don't come from spooky creatures. There aren't many spooky creatures in that city. After all, few living things like to stay in a place filled with fear, and the same goes for spooky creatures. The scariest things almost always come from ourselves."
Wu Xiangwang nodded silently, then he asked, "You said that you can think of some less terrifying things to cover up the most terrifying thoughts. So... if I'm afraid of becoming too beautiful to be fatal, does that count as fear?"
Lu Zhihao was drinking water and coughed up water when he heard Wu Xiangwang's words. The man and woman next to Lu Zhihao also looked at Wu Xiangwang with a surprised look.
However, when they realized that Wu Xiangwang's expression and eyes were very sincere, and that he was really afraid of becoming too beautiful to be fatal, and not just joking, the three of them fell silent.
After all, Lu Zhihao was an old adventurer who had traveled through four cities, but now he didn't know how to answer.
He thought for a long moment before carefully answering, "...This, really, no one has ever tried. But, as I said before, Fear City will only make your true fears come true, not your wishes come true. You have to be genuinely terrified of that thing, and have the 'emotion of fear', for it to be recognized."
"Uh, brother Wangwang, you can go to the City of Fear and try to see if your fear can come true."
Wu Xiangwang nodded and sighed, "However, if we really talk about inner fear, I would probably be more unacceptable to someone dying of ugliness than someone dying of beauty. Or, dying of ugliness and weirdness? Oh my God, what if I'm so ugly that anyone who sees me will die, then how am I supposed to live?!"
Lu Zhihao and the people listening nearby: "..."
Bro, you're so awesome! There are so many scary things in this world, and you're most afraid of ugliness?!
And whether you become beautiful or ugly, you have to drag others down with you. No one who sees you will have a good ending. Are you the male version of Medusa?!
Lu Zhihao was silent for a moment and sighed, "Brother Wangwang, I think the City of Fear should be nothing to be afraid of for you."
Wu Xiangwang raised his eyebrows: "How come there's nothing to be afraid of? I'm scared to death now!"
He thought his face would stay that way while he lived, but now that he'd entered the City of Fear, he was likely to undergo plastic surgery. How the hell could he accept that? He had to find a way to distract himself from the fear.
However, now that we know the characteristics of the City of Fear, we can always think of some way to deal with it.
At this time, they had entered this stone wall fortress for more than ten minutes, and Wu Xiangwang and Lu Zhihao had also exchanged a lot of information.
Lu Zhihao suggested that Wu Xiangwang and the others have a meal with them and then take a rest before leaving. Wu Xiangwang and the others had just agreed when suddenly a cracking sound was heard from the entire stone wall fortress that no one could ignore.
Lu Zhihao: "What's that sound?"
Don't forget each other. Shang Chong Wang Xiao: "..."
Liusha was drinking soup next to Wu Xingyun at this moment. Although his appearance surprised and frightened the human adventurers here, when he was able to clearly express his human rationality, the human adventurers instead had more admiration and sympathy for him.
However, Liusha's mind was still affected by the strangeness, and he was a little confused. So he raised his head and said directly: "It's going to collapse."
Everyone in the Stonewall Fortress: “???”
"Impossible! Brother Lei is a level 4 stone wall user. His stone wall can even withstand the attacks of level 4 weirdness. How could it be collapsed by those little weirdnesses outside?"
Wu Xingyun paused while drinking soup from the bowl and began to frantically chant "Good luck and fortune!" to himself. Shang Chong angrily slapped him in the face, "What the hell are you chanting for? Put down the soup and get out! Do you want to be buried in here?!"
Wu Xingyun drank the last mouthful of soup with some struggle: "It doesn't necessarily mean it was me, my mushrooms..."
As a result, everyone in the Stonewall Fortress finally felt firsthand what the kid had said about the "more or less side effects."
Damn, is this just a minor side effect? This is an immediate side effect!!
Snap!
As the cracks in the stone wall grew too large to ignore, Lu Zhihao, who had originally wanted to invite Wu Xiangwang and the others to dinner, wiped his face and said, "Everyone, get in the car! Quick! Put the mushrooms on both sides of the car windows! Let's set off now!"
After saying this, Lu Zhihao looked at Wu Xiangwang and the others who had already gotten back into the car as quickly as possible, and waved to them with mixed emotions: "Brothers, see you on Earth again if we're lucky!"
Although the conversation was only a short ten minutes, Lu Zhihao felt that the people in this group must be different and could take a different path.
With a resounding bang, Wu Xiangwang's car and Lu Zhihao's convoy drove off in different directions through the fog. Wu Xingyun leaned against the car window and sighed, "I think the stone wall isn't strong enough."
Wang Xiao pushed his glasses up speechlessly. Shang Chong rolled his eyes. "Mercy, I've noticed that you've been making excuses for your bad luck lately."
Wu Xingyun held his mushroom stubbornly in his hand. "I'm already starting to become a lucky mushroom! Didn't you see the edges of my mushroom have turned a lucky red?"
"And I found Lin Yuan and the car! I also found two bronze keys in the City of Secrets!"
Wu Xiangwang, who was sitting in the passenger seat, twitched his lips as he listened. Shang Chong looked at the mushroom with bright red edges held by Wu Xingyun, and the first thing that came to his mind was the cheerful nursery rhyme "Red umbrella, white stem, lie down after eating it". Finally, he couldn't bear it anymore and stuffed the mushroom into Wu Xingyun's mouth.
"Shut up! Good luck!"
Seven days later, the luxurious ghost car finally broke through the fog and arrived at the gate of the City of Fear.
In fact, starting from the sixth day, the fog that obscured people's vision and made people feel panic had begun to thin.
During these six days, they encountered three other groups escaping from the City of Fear and heading for it. Wu Xiangwang had Lin Yuan race to catch up with the first two groups and give them Wu's Mushrooms as a gift. The group that had been heading to the City of Fear before them now followed behind them and arrived at the entrance of this massive city with them.
The City of Fear before us is neither the weird and crazy style of the City of Carnival, nor the beautiful and peaceful appearance of the City of Comfort, nor the cold metallic type of the City of Secret Chambers. From the outside, it looks like an ordinary, huge city surrounded by walls, nothing special about it.
But the adventurers outside the city can "hear" its specialness——
Even though he was nearly a hundred meters outside the city gate, Wu Xiangwang could still hear the terrified, heart-wrenching screams and roars coming from the city.
Although the sounds were not clear due to the distance, no one who heard them would doubt the genuine fear and panic of the person making them.
It can be seen that they really felt immense fear during this process.
Wu Xingyun leaned towards Shang Chong with a bit of worry, while Shang Chong leaned towards Wang Xiao and Liu Sha with disgust.
Liusha looked at them and simply squeezed in between Wu Xingyun and Shang Chong again.
Wu Xiangwang looked at the four people huddled behind him and sighed, "Alright, don't be afraid. The more you act like this, the more opportunities this city will have to exploit. Besides, didn't we already discuss how to deal with this?"
"Liu Sha, your willpower is actually the strongest. The people most important to you are all in your space now, so you have nothing to fear. Once you go in, just think of some weird thing you've fought. If that doesn't work, just memorize the multiplication table. Didn't we experiment with that in the car before?"
"And Xingyun, you're already so unlucky yourself, what are you afraid of? You shouldn't be afraid of others, but they should be afraid of you. Don't worry about your bad luck bringing us down. Haven't we all gotten used to it after all this time? You can think about whatever you want. When you can't help yourself, just think of the recipe for the food you hate the most and the food you like the most."
Then Wu Xiangwang looked at Shang Chong and Wang Xiao and said, "I don't need to tell you two anymore, do I?"
Wang Xiao nodded, Shang Chong hesitated for a moment, and then nodded.
Finally, Wu Xiangwang looked at Lin Yuan. His expression was quite solemn and serious. "I'll ask you again. Ahem, you won't have any random thoughts after entering the city, right? Can you control them?"
He was confident that no matter what terrible things any of the four of them, Shang Chong, Wu Xingyun, Wang Xiao or even Liusha, came up with, he would be able to help control and solve them. After all, no matter how big the imaginations of these four guys were or how terrifying the things they came up with were, there was a limit to the human beings on Earth.
But Lin Yuan really couldn't guarantee what this guy would think. If Lin Yuan couldn't control himself and imagined the thing he was extremely afraid of in his mind, Wu Xiangwang felt that the monster that came out might be at the level of destroying the world.
By then, let alone solving the problem, it will be a question whether you can escape or not.
Lin Yuan looked at Wu Xiangwang and smiled softly. His smile was filled with a hint of sarcasm: "Xiangxiang, don't worry. No matter what I think, this city will not react."
Wu Xiangwang raised his eyebrows in disbelief: "You mean you're fearless?"
Lin Yuan laughed: "Although I am fearless most of the time, but... I also have fears that are suppressed in my heart."
"However, my fear...is not something this city can bear."
"So don't worry, no matter what I think, it will be fine."
Wu Xiangwang and Lin Yuan looked at each other for a moment, and finally decided to believe what he said.
But he also felt a little curious. What did it mean that his fear was beyond the city's ability to withstand? If this city also had a limit to its fear, then, could something be done?
"Brother Wangwang? Why aren't you leaving yet? Let's go. It's already past four in the afternoon. We need to hurry into the city and find a room to rest!"
At this time, the adventure team in the car following them drove over, honking their horns and reminding them.
Wu Xiangwang nodded at them through the window and said, "Let's go. Let's go now."
Since they had their snail-shell hut, they didn't need to rush into the city to find a house. However, they had already been traveling with Ouyang Nan and Ouyang Bei's team for three days and had already developed a tacit understanding of traveling together.
So the team of siblings Ouyang Nan and Ouyang Bei took the lead and drove into the City of Fear in an energy four-wheeled vehicle with a pass. After they passed, the car of Wu Xiangwang and six others also followed.
This time, Wu Xiangwang discovered that the strange guards guarding the city gate were not real entities, but ghost-like beings.
When Wu Xingyun saw through the car window that these pale monsters had no feet, he felt so uncomfortable that he hugged the mushroom in his arms.
"Ahhh Brother Shang! Brother Wang! Brother Wangwang! Liusha, ahhh, did you see that? These weird guards have no feet! No feet! ahhh!"
Wu Xingyun screamed softly in the car. Even someone as calm as Wang Xiao couldn't help but push up his glasses with trembling hands. He pursed his lips and said, "There are all kinds of weird things in this world. What's so surprising about a few energy bodies? Stay calm and recite all the financial arithmetic formulas you've learned."
Wu Xingyun's fear was frozen in an instant. As a math idiot, he blinked, and his brain was blank for at least five seconds.
This shows the horror of arithmetic formulas.
Those weird creatures obviously knew that they looked gloomy and scary, so they deliberately delayed the time when checking the passes and deliberately exaggerated their bloody, hideous and terrifying appearance.
Relying on their appearance, they have made many adventurers who entered the City of Fear nervous from the very beginning, and their fear values have been rising. These strange guards believe that today will definitely be a day that will terrify mankind!
Everything went smoothly today until the strange guard captain, who was pale, covered in blood and had no feet, took the passes from Shang Chong, Wang Xiao and Wu Xingyun.
"Hey, you three humans are quite interesting. You're all D-level wanted criminals? What shameful deeds have you done? Hehehe, no matter what you did in the previous city, you will not be allowed to act recklessly in the City of Fear. Hehehe, you'd better stay in your place, otherwise..."
This strange guard captain whooshed directly through the bodies of Shang Chong and the other two!
"Fear will follow you everywhere and kill you!"
Shang Chong tried to keep a straight face and withdrew his hand.
Then there are Liusha and Wuxiangwangwang.
The captain of the Weird Guards: "Liu Sha? A Class A wanted criminal from the City of Peace? You... humph, you ungrateful fellow! You're a Weird, yet you still want to be human! Don't mess around in the City of Fear, or else, Fear will chase you!"
Liusha retracted his pass with a grievance. He was a human being, so what was wrong with wanting to be one? Besides, when it came to making trouble, he wasn't the one making it.
After seeing three D-level and one A-level wanted criminals, the strange guard captain felt a little dissatisfied with this team of human adventurers. He floated up and down on the spot, and finally opened the pass that Wu Xiangwang handed to him with a sincere smile.
The captain of Apia's weird guard felt that this human looked fair and clean and didn't look very powerful, so he shouldn't be a wanted criminal.
As a result, when he turned to the first page of photos and names, he was immediately dazzled by the three blood-red big A's under the names of the photos.
A-level wanted warrants. These are fucking bloody A-level wanted warrants! Three of them!!!
The captain of Apia's guard team was shaking so much that he almost couldn't hold the pass. He raised his head and looked at Wu Xiangwang sinisterly. His two eyes, which were already empty and without eyeballs, began to bleed.
He quickly turned to the second page in disbelief, and a big blood-red A pierced him.
Page 3! In the City of Peace, another blood-red A pierced Him.
Page 4! The City of Secret Chambers, or a blood-red A jumping and stinging His eyes
Even though He no longer has eyeballs.
Damn it.
This weak human being in front of me with a harmless smile on his face is really the most wanted criminal in three cities!
And he only visited three cities!
At this time, the captain of Apia's guards was bleeding all over his body.
He had been doing weird things to intimidate humans for so many years, but for the first time, he was silently intimidated by humans.
"Um, Captain, have you finished reading this? Can you give me the pass now?"
Wu Xiangwang still had a harmless smile on his face, but the captain of Apia's guards only felt a stomachache.
But the captain of the guard soon cheered up again. It didn't matter. Even if this human had caused huge troubles and done deadly evil things in the previous three cities, he firmly believed that no human could make any waves in the City of Fear!
No human being can completely overcome his or her fear, and sometimes the more powerful a human being is, the more things he or she fears and the more difficult it is to resolve the fear.
In the city of fear, the weak may still escape.
But the strong ones have the highest mortality rate here.
"Hmph. Go in! You...don't be complacent! Fear will follow you like a shadow..."
"I know, I know. I'm already scared, okay? Stop talking. I'm going to go in and face my fear."
Wu Xiangwang snatched back his pass, and Lin Yuan stepped on the energy accelerator and rushed directly into the city.
The car then drove to the mission panel near the city gate and stopped. Wu Xiangwang looked at the four people in the back seat, then at Lin Yuan, "Are you ready?"
Shang Chong nodded to the four of them.
Fearless at the edge of the abyss.
"Then get off!"
The moment Wu Xiangwang got off the car, he heard screams coming from the side. It was probably the adventurer who failed to control his fear and attracted terrifying things as soon as he entered the city.
Wu Xiangwang glanced at him with a twitching expression.
He saw at least a dozen of the famous Japanese-style female ghosts lying on the ground, wearing white clothes and with their hair hanging down in front of them.
Obviously that movie is a classic.
Then he heard Wu Xingyun screaming, "Ah ...
Wu Xiangwang: "..." I promised to memorize the recipe! !
Wang Xiao suddenly exhaled: "Sorry, the atmosphere was a bit strong, I couldn't control it."
Wu Xiangwang turned his head and saw the twins holding hands flashing vertically around them little by little in front of them.
Wu Xiangwang looked at Shang Chong without any hope: "What about you? What did you come up with?"
Shang Chong's forehead was covered with sweat, and he looked around: "Well, let's run quickly? I, I thought too much."
Wu Xiangwang: "...How old?"
"It's as big as Dead Rising."
Don’t forget each other: “…”
He now wishes he could knock these unreliable guys out one by one on the spot!
Before Wu Xiangwang could recover, he suddenly heard Lin Yuan's somewhat strange voice: "...Xiangxiang."
Wu Xiangwang: "What's wrong with you? Didn't you say it doesn't matter what you think?!"
Lin Yuan's eyes wandered for the first time, and he didn't look directly at Wu Xiangwang.
"Well, it's really not a big deal. It's just a small inconvenience."
Wu Xiangwang was almost going crazy: "What little trouble! Ah! What little trouble?!"
Lin Yuan: "Just a little bit, an unspeakable evil thought."
Don’t forget each other: “…”
He shouldn't have gone into town with these unreliable guys! They should all shut up!