Xu Zhukong tried to struggle desperately, but his strength had no effect against Guan Yueyue, who had swallowed two people in succession.

Guan Yueyue just stood in front of him, crushing the back of his head into the mud, and then looked at Shi Yu standing beside him.

Shi Yu felt her gaze and said calmly, "It's up to you."

Guan Yueyue leaned over and grabbed the male ghost's neck.

Xu Zhukong trembled all over, and said in a broken voice: "The moon..."

"Don't call me that name." Guan Yueyue raised her eyelids, "I find it disgusting."

"The moon, I..."

"Crack——" There was a slight sound of broken bones.

Guan Yueyue directly crushed the opponent's neck.

The male ghost that was broken into two pieces was like a punctured balloon. His whole body suddenly sank in, his eyes wide open, and he was no longer alive.

Fang Chen trembled and stopped not far away, and looked over here: "Boss..."

Shi Yu did not respond.

Cheng Wuye took the longbow he handed over with his intact hand: "You are quite good at fighting."

Shi Yu wiped the blood from his knuckles with the back of his hand and put his hand in his pocket.

Fang Chen looked at Guan Yueyue and whispered, "Will she...should we pay attention to it?"

I'm really scared of seeing Lu Nan turning against us.

Cheng Wuye smiled and said, "Probably not."

Fang Chen: “Hmm?”

"If she wants to turn against us, even if we put all of us together we won't be enough for her to beat."

“…”

The metal flow turned into a gun. Cheng Wuye held the gun in one hand and threw it fiercely.

The sharp end pierced through the woods, hit Lu Nan's forehead and was nailed to the ground.

Cheng Wuye moved his hand slightly, dragged the man over with the lasso, and fell on his knees in front of him: "You have been hiding for so long, have you had enough?"

Lu Nan's legs were so weak that he couldn't even stand up, his face was pale: "I'm not..."

Cheng Wuye raised his eyebrows: "Not intentional?"

Lu Nan's shoulders trembled and all the words were stuck in his throat.

Fang Chen looked at Lu Nan kneeling on the ground with a complicated look in his eyes: "Have you colluded with Xu Zhukong a long time ago?"

"No! I didn't!" Lu Nan seemed to have finally found an opportunity, and explained hurriedly and panickily, "It was just now, he suddenly spoke in my ear, and he told me to do this!"

"Then before that," Fang Chen pointed at Cheng Wuye, "wasn't it you who held him back and Brother Zhao? And wasn't it you who caused Brother Zhao to be killed?"

"That Taoist priest did it!" Lu Nan shouted, "It was the Taoist priest who wanted to kill you!"

Fang Chen was stunned.

"That ghost said that because you have opened your spiritual orifices, your master brought you here just to be sacrificed to him! It was the Taoist priest's idea, and the owner of the house also knows it! The two of them reached an agreement that you should come and die! Just to successfully resurrect Xu Zhukong!" Lu Nan said in a rush, "He also said that the owner of the house found out that he had turned into a ghost, so he went to the Taoist priest, and the Taoist priest provided a way to resurrect him. It was them who brought you here!"

[Huh? ]

[I always thought that the Taoist priest was just a tool for the good guys? 】

Cheng Wuye seemed to be thinking: "Because of our special identities, can swallowing our hearts make him stronger?"

Fang Chen scratched his head: "Then we are equivalent to human-shaped tonic pills?"

"If Xu Zhukong increases his strength by devouring our hearts, then what about Guan Yueyue who restrains him?"

Cheng Wuye's eyes turned and said, "Since it's a battle between two parties, then Guan Yueyue's way of increasing her strength wouldn't be much different. Logically, it should be to devour the hearts of our enemies, that is, Lu Nan and his group of players. Why do you have to find Taoist Priest Lingshan?"

"Why are you so sure that Taoist Lingshan is the key to improving Guan Yueyue's strength?"

Shi Yu suddenly became the center of attention. He stared at the ground absentmindedly. After a long while, he finally spoke: "Guan Yueyue has killed someone from their group before."

Cheng Wuye was silent for a few seconds, then smiled: "I see."

Fang Chen looked confused: "What?"

"Since they are going to fight, the initial strength of both sides should not be too different. In the first three nights, three people died in their team, and only Bai Qiu died on our side. If killing a person really increases one heart and one strength, then Guan Yueyue cannot be weaker than Xu Zhukong. But when the two of them faced off at first, Guan Yueyue just couldn't beat Xu Zhukong. The conditions for Xu Zhukong to increase his strength have been determined, so it can only be that there is something wrong with the way Guan Yueyue increases his strength."

"As I said before, the two of them won't differ too much in their ways of improving their strength. There are only so many people on the scene, and after eliminating the players from both sides, only the NPCs are left. It just so happens that Taoist Priest Lingshan and the owner of the house are both on Xu Zhukong's side and have a grudge against Guan Yueyue, so it's reasonable for her to kill them and take their hearts."

Cheng Wuye looked at Shi Yu and asked, "What happened to the player who died when he first entered the game and whose face was scratched? Do you have any idea?"

“Let it rain.”

"What does rain have to do with backstory?"

Shi Yu lowered his eyes and said, "'The white deer is the deity of our village. It blesses us with good weather, good harvests, and no more worries about food and clothing, and no more drought disasters.'"

Cheng Wuye searched his memory for a few seconds and remembered that this was what Lu Nan had said when he relayed the story of the white deer to the woman: "...there is no more drought, because the white deer protects the village and brings good weather and good harvests; she died, so the village has continuous heavy rains, and being rained on is no longer a blessing, but a curse?"

Shi Yu's voice was flat: "There are two sets of death rules. One is to be killed by Guan Yueyue or Xu Zhukong. The other is probably to cater to the name of the game. It is a condition derived from the spirit Bailu. If it rains, it will trigger the line, but the time is random."

Lu Nan had said before that he and the old player who died at the beginning of the game were refreshed outside the kitchen.

The old player was probably drenched at that time, and after returning to the kitchen to cook for a while, he ran out and tore his skin; and Bai Qiu ran out of the mourning hall in a panic the day before without a hat to shelter from the rain, and he also ran out and tore his face at night.

"One last question." Cheng Wuye asked, "Why did Xu Zhukong and Guan Yueyue become enemies?"

They clearly loved each other so much, why did they suddenly have to kill each other?

Shi Yu tilted his head to look at the ghost squatting on the ground, and suddenly remembered that he had asked the other party the same question when he was climbing the mountain just now.

Guan Yueyue had just transformed into a human a few years ago. He was afraid of life and people and did not dare to leave the mountains where he was born and raised alone. So he made up a lie that he was from another place and hid it from the villagers and settled down in the village.

The transformed creature is also beautiful. Unlike other women in the village who work hard in the fields, she always wears an embroidered white dress, has long hair that falls gently, and a pair of clear and lively deer eyes. She always smells of forest dew and mangosteen, and deep dimples appear on her cheeks when she purses her lips.

Like sake mixed with honey.

The group of passionate and honest young men in the village had never seen a girl like her. Anyone who saw her would call her "Sister Moon". The ripe vegetables at home, the fresh bamboo shoots dug from the hillside, the wild fruits just grown on the branches, the bracelets woven from wild flowers by the river, the portraits and love letters could be found piled up at her doorstep and windowsill all day long.

Guan Yueyue had never been exposed to human love, and was unwilling to put herself in a completely unfamiliar relationship. She politely rejected others' overly intimate contact one by one, until she spent a night with someone else.

It was an accident. She went up the mountain with a few young people. When they passed the crowded path, she was bumped by someone. Suddenly, her feet felt empty and she fell into a pit that was two people deep along with the sand and stones.

That is a pit where hunters catch animals.

Several people on the ground ran over in panic. Guan Yueyue sat at the bottom of the pit, looked up and said to them: "Don't worry about me, go back and get the tools first, I'll wait for you here."

The young people discussed it for a while and finally adopted her suggestion.

Guan Yueyue watched the people around him leave. Just as he stood up, a shadow suddenly fell on his head and fell to the ground with a "bang".

It’s Xu Zhukong.

Guan Yueyue helped him up: "Why did you fall down too?"

Xu Zhukong grimaced in pain from the fall: "I jumped down by myself."

Guan Yueyue was stunned.

Xu Zhukong pointed to the top of his head and said, "It's going to get dark soon. How can you stay here alone as a girl? I'll accompany you."

Guan Yueyue opened her mouth.

In fact, she wanted to say that she was irrelevant, she was not a real person, and she grew up in the forest, so she was definitely better than you.

She wanted to say that she didn't dare to behave too unusually at first because she was concerned about the presence of humans. She originally wanted to wait until everyone left and then climb up by herself. You coming down would only get in the way.

She also wanted to say that even if she wanted to accompany him, she could just sit on it. But if she insisted on jumping down, she must be crazy.

But she didn't say anything in the end.

The forest was humid at night, and their clothes were damp. Xu Zhukong didn't know when he started to shrink into the corner, not saying a word.

Guan Yueyue felt uneasy: "What's wrong with you?"

After a while, Xu Zhukong's muffled voice came: "I'm afraid of the dark."

“…”

"I might act scary later, so you'd better not look at me."

A few minutes later, Guan Yueyue realized that "scary" was an understatement.

She had never seen a person who, because of being in the dark, would convulse like a dehydrated fish, grabbing his chest frantically and breathing with his mouth wide open in pain.

Guan Yueyue tried to touch him and felt his hands full of cold sweat: "Brother Xu..."

Xu Zhukong shook him off violently and shrank back into the corner, his hands almost tearing his neck apart, his voice trembling and broken: "Don't look at me... Don't look at me..."

"I won't look at you." Guan Yueyue grabbed his sleeve, "Brother Xu, calm down."

Xu Zhukong just shook his head desperately, his body shaking like a sieve, and he couldn't utter a word.

It was no longer clear how he was rescued in the chaos. Afterwards, Guan Yueyue remembered how miserable he was in the cave and could not help but go to his home to visit him. Only then did she learn that Xu Zhukong had once fallen into a hunting cave when he was a child when he went up the mountain with his mother.

But they were unlucky. The bottom of the cave was covered with sharpened bamboo thorns buried in the ground by hunters. The moment Xu's mother fell, she subconsciously hugged her son. She was pierced by the bamboo thorns like a sieve, bleeding profusely, and died with her eyes open.

His mother's arms were tightly around him. Xu Zhukong, who was only seven or eight years old, didn't know whether he realized something from the smell of blood in his nose, but he never dared to open his eyes and let himself be immersed in the darkness. It was not until the night when his father found that they had not returned that Xu Zhukong was rescued by the villagers who went up the mountain to look for him. However, he has been afraid of the dark ever since then.

The people in the village were not well educated and didn't know that he actually suffered from claustrophobia, but they did know that when the disease struck he would have convulsions all over his body, difficulty breathing, foaming at the mouth, and he might even die.

Even though he was so afraid of the dark, he still jumped into the source of his fear without hesitation when she fell.

It's so stupid.

Guan Yueyue sat beside his bed. Before she could ask him a question, the person on the bed covered his head with the quilt first: "Was I ugly to you that day?"

She laughed angrily: "I didn't know you, a man, cared so much about whether you look good or not."

Xu Zhukong was silent for a long time before he whispered, "You are different."

"It's okay if others see it, but you can't."