Chapter 53

The three of them turned their gaze to Liu Lei.

"What...what's wrong?" The poor middle-aged man felt scared when he was stared at by them.

"Where did you play the Pen Fairy game?"

Liu Lei thought for a moment and said, "Fourth floor, room 414."

"Huh." These guys really know how to pick a place.

This dormitory was no ordinary place. Besides its intriguing address, it also marked the first time in the material that students successfully summoned a strange and bizarre scene. These two factors combined created a poisonous situation.

The three of them exchanged glances. Seeing their expressions, Liu Lei panicked. "Are you guys planning to go up there?"

After receiving the affirmative response from the three, Liu Lei's eyes were filled with resistance. He quickly took a few steps back to make his position clear: "That monster is a ruthless eater. I don't want to go up there."

"Don't worry, we won't put anyone in danger." Zhu Chang'an said quickly, "Based on past experience, as long as you don't participate in the game, the... monsters won't come looking for you."

"Really?" Liu Lei was still hesitant: "Then can I stay here? I think the location here is pretty good. If anything happens, I can jump out the window and run away immediately."

"Okay." Mo Xuanji thought about it and took out some defensive talismans from the storage bag.

If it were a normal case, they could just find the person and send them away. However, since this was a paranormal case, they had to escort the victim to a safe place to complete the handover. They couldn't just walk them out the door and leave them alone.

Following the same procedure as last time, Mo Xuanji pasted a piece of talisman paper in every corner of the room, striving for all-round protection.

"Will this work?" Liu Lei watched his movements, half believing and half doubting.

"Don't worry, it works. After you stick the talisman on, monsters won't be able to enter this room." Zhu Changan explained to him with a smile.

"Okay, next time, no matter what noise you hear, don't open the door. As long as you have these talismans, you will be fine." Mo Xuanji said as he patted the dust off his hands.

After explaining what happened here, the three-person team went straight to dormitory 414.

The door to dormitory 414 was sealed, having been slashed open with a knife. It was ajar, its hinges rusted, and it made a nauseating sound as it was pushed open. Perhaps it was a psychological effect, but upon entering the room, the three of them felt a chilling chill sweep over them.

Zhu Changan couldn't help but shudder. "This place is perfect for filming a campus horror movie...Are we really going to play the Pen Fairy game here next?"

"Yeah. How can we lure it out if we don't play?" Mo Xuanji said as he walked into the room. He looked around. The bed in the dormitory was knocked all over the place. In the center of the room stood a table, with papers and pens scattered on it, as well as a half-burned candle that had been extinguished.

The desk was positioned directly opposite the window. Something shattered the glass, and the curtains fluttered violently in the cold wind, as if a monster was hiding behind them. A flash of lightning, accompanied by a deafening roar of thunder, briefly illuminated the dormitory.

"I will never watch horror movies again..." Zhu Changan's face was pale.

Shen Liuxue used a detector to scan 414 inside and out, and found that only the marker had some residual strange energy.

“This marker should be brought in by them, but can an ordinary pen actually summon the weirdness?” Shen Liuxue asked in surprise.

"Wow, no wonder the Pen Fairy game was banned later. Doesn't this mean that any pen can bring about something weird?" Zhu Changan took the marker and took a look at it. Unfortunately, he didn't find anything unusual in it.

Mo Xuanji picked up the paper on the table. It had already been marked on, so it was probably unusable. So he took out a new piece of paper and copied the same pattern again. It had the alphabet and Arabic numerals written on it, and the basic answer tendencies could be expressed through circles.

"Okay, let's get started."

The three of them sat down around the table and, following the rules, each reached out and grabbed the marker. After turning off the flashlight, Shen Liuxue lit the candle.

The flames lit up, and the flickering candlelight illuminated the faces of the three people.

"Pen Fairy, Pen Fairy, you are my past life, and I am your present life. If you want to continue your relationship with me, please draw a circle on the paper..."

After repeating this several times, the pen began to move gently.

Is it here? Pen Fairy. Mo Xuanji thought silently in her heart.

The candlelight flickered slightly. The three people's nerves were stretched to the limit.

"Hey~ What are you calling me for?" The system suddenly made a sound in the sea of ​​consciousness.

Mo Xuanji was caught off guard and trembled with fear. After she came to her senses, she angrily poked the system in her sea of ​​consciousness: "System! Stop teasing me now!"

"Hey, I couldn't help it because the serious Jizi is so cute. Okay, I was wrong, Jizi, don't be angry, okay?"

You can’t coax it! Mo Xuanji blocked the system’s voice and refused to communicate with it.

Because the three of them were holding hands very close to each other, Shen Liuxue immediately noticed that something was wrong with Mo Xuanji and became alert.

But the strange detector didn't sound.

"Xuanji, what's wrong?" Out of trust in his little friend, Shen Liuxue still asked.

Mo Xuanji hesitated to speak. He couldn't possibly tell his friend that there was a wicked guy in his mind who was deliberately scaring him at the critical moment, right?

"Sorry, it's my fault."

Seeing his friend's embarrassed expression, the lightbulb in Zhu Changan's head lit up, and he revealed a look of discovery: "Could it be... Xuan Ji is afraid of this too?"

Mo Xuanji looked at him silently: "How do you know I'm scared?"

Zhu Changan showed an expression of seeing through everything, and said sincerely: "Okay, you are not afraid."

“…”Damn black-hearted sesame dumplings.

"Pfft... Sorry hahahaha..." Shen Liuxue couldn't hold it in and laughed.

The first summoning ended in failure.

With the experience from the first time, the three of them quickly got into position and started the second summoning.

I don't know why, but I didn't get a response for a long time. I called the summons over and over again, but the marker didn't move.

"Huh? Why is there no response?" Zhu Changan scratched his head. "Did we guess wrong? Isn't the strange thing summoned by the Pen Fairy game? Uh... or is it busy now and has no time to pay attention to us?"

"Try a few more times, and if it doesn't work, find another way."

Perhaps the weird also understood the principle of repeating the summoning word several times for the third time, and the weird detector finally made a slight sound.

The markers moved the three people's hands gently, drawing a neat circle on the paper.

"Here it comes." Mo Xuanji whispered.

Next, just ask it three random questions and don't send it away, or find a way to irritate it.

According to the order, Shen Liuxue was the first. She asked: "Are all the people who broke in here before still alive?"

In the Pen Fairy game, the Pen Fairy cannot lie; it can only choose to answer or be "offended" and then attack. I just don't know if the weird version of the Pen Fairy needs to follow this rule.

Use a marker to draw a circle around the word "yes".

"Pen Fairy, Pen Fairy, how long have you existed?" It was Mo Xuanji's turn next.

The marker turned to "2" and "0" - twenty years.

Zhu Changan scratched his hair, thought for a moment, and asked a question that would definitely trigger the Pen Fairy's anger mechanism.

"Pen Fairy, Pen Fairy, how did you die?"

The Pen Fairy did not answer.

The table seemed to have been violently kicked, and the candle suddenly went out. A strong wind suddenly blew in the room, and the curtains, which had faded to white, fluttered wildly, as if something was about to rush in from behind at any moment.

The three of them stood up, back to back, and vigilantly observed everything around them.

"There seems to be a sound of water."

Suddenly, I heard a "tick-tick" sound, as if a faucet somewhere was not closed tightly, or as if the house was in disrepair and rainwater was seeping through the cracks in the wall and dripping on the floor.

But this is the fourth floor, and the roof is separated from the fifth and sixth floors, so the leaking rain cannot reach here.

"No way... Liuxue is really pretending to be a prophet." Zhu Changan's heart sank. The scene before him was exactly the same as the story Shen Liuxue had told him in the car. A rainy night, three people, and the inexplicable sound of dripping water... Was the next step going to be a random hand tapping someone on the shoulder?

Shen Liuxue's mood was also a little subtle at this time. The prophecy that came true was indeed a big challenge for her heart.

On the table, the marker was floating in the air, tip pointing downward. Shining the flashlight over there, the three of them finally found the source of the dripping sound.

I saw a sticky black liquid dripping out from the tip of the pen continuously. It seemed to have its own consciousness and slowly flowed down the table, gathering into a stream and extending towards the three people.

Shen Liuxue summoned his spirit sword, and a cold light flashed, causing the temperature in the room to plummet. The black liquid seemed to be hindered by something, and its forward speed gradually slowed down until it was completely frozen.

Chilling air crept upwards along the black water, and the marker trembled, bulging with the contents within. It was, after all, an ordinary pen, unable to withstand such torture, and after a brief moment of glory, it exploded into pieces.

As if there was a portal, a steady stream of black water emerged from it. The water ball continued to grow larger, slowly growing hands, feet and limbs, and finally turned into a dark human figure.

The figure opened his mouth, making gurgling sounds, and attacked the three people with an unparalleled sense of oppression.

"careful!"

"Squeak—"

"Crack." Something quickly froze.

It turns out that high-end ingredients... no, weird ones, often require the most unpretentious treatment.

Before Mo Xuanji could even use his powers, Guiyi was frozen by Shen Liuxue. A pitch-black block of ice tumbled from the table with a crackling sound, nearly shattering. Mo Xuanji raised his hand and released a wind prison, trapping Guiyi inside. When the timer expired, the freezing effect wore off, and the ice returned to liquid form.

Guiyi originally wanted to struggle, but under the violence of the three men, he finally faced the reality and huddled in the wind prison, crying silently.

Although freezing it can only hold it for a few minutes, it is already a strong deterrent to this monster.

"Well...that's all?" Zhu Changan had an expression that said, "Are you kidding me?"

It was such a big show just now, and this is the result? You're really wasting those special effects!

"So Weiyi also knows how to bluff?"

An expression of humiliation appeared on the strange face that was pretending to be arrogant.

Shen Liuxue held up the sword and threatened: "Tell me, where did those missing people go? Otherwise, I will let you taste the feeling of being frozen forever."

Weird, incompetent, furious: "You just rely on your special abilities to bully others. Do you have any sense of public morality?"

"Public morality? You are not a human being, there is no need to have such a thing on you." Shen Liuxue said dimly.

"How am I not a human being? Please stop slandering me!"

Mo Xuanji was originally watching from the side, but after hearing these words, he suddenly realized that something was not right.

At the time, Liu Lei said that a black mist had engulfed the anchor, but now all they saw was black water. Furthermore, the energy level displayed on the strange detector was only C.

The information given in the task is B-level.

"Could it be that there are actually two weird things here?" There is another possibility, that the guy in front of him is hiding his abilities.

Shen Liuxue was still arguing with Guiyi. She took out a mirror and placed it in front of Guiyi: "You said you were a human, but look at yourself now. How do you look like a human?"

"I'm clearly!" Guiyi saw himself in the mirror and stretched out his hands in disbelief: "I'm clearly... my hands, my body! Impossible! I'm clearly a human! This is not me!"

"I am human, I am human!" A shrill scream erupted from the strange place.

Zhu Changan quickly covered his ears and looked at his companions: "Could it be that this weird thing is also a human?"

After a while, Guiyi finally managed to calm down. It seemed to be more sober and no longer had the desire to attack.

"Please save me, you are so powerful, there must be a way to change me back!"

"We can help you, but first you need to answer our questions."

"Do you still remember your human identity?" Mo Xuanji asked.

"I remember." He said with a strange, dazed look, "My name is Sun Cheng, I'm twenty years old... I'm a live streamer..."

Anchor?

"It's actually a weird thing that humans have transformed into."

The three of them looked at each other and realized the seriousness of the matter.

"Do you know Liu Lei?"

"Liu Lei?" Guiyi thought for a moment and said, "I know him. He's the cameraman for our team."

"I remember that we were playing the Pen Fairy game here and accidentally angered the Pen Fairy." The weird emotions became excited again: "The Pen Fairy made me its tent ghost and asked me to help it catch people... I remembered that my two friends were also caught by it!"

"Are they still alive?"

"I only know that they were imprisoned by the Pen Fairy." Guiyi anxiously turned around twice in the wind prison: "Could they also become like me?"

Zhu Changan pulled the two of them over and formed a small circle.

"Is our mission target really only B-rank? It can force its subordinates to do its work and evade system detection. I'd believe it if you said it was an SS."

"The lower the level of weirdness, the lower the intelligence, but isn't this one in front of me a little too smart?" Shen Liuxue always felt that something was wrong.

"Because it was transformed from a human?"

This was their second encounter with a human-turned-being. The first was when they swallowed a strange crystal, and the second was when they were assimilated by the strange. There were too many variables and too few observable samples, so they were unsure of the current situation.

"Be careful of this guy." Mo Xuanji said as he crossed his arms.