Chapter 53
When Yitu walked to Jiang Hanyu's side, the man was looking into the woods with a serious expression.
"You saw it too?"
"Yeah." Jiang Hanyu turned his head and looked at Song Jingchen who was walking towards them with a flower umbrella.
"There are things in the woods, so try to stay together."
They didn't know what had been following them all the way, and they had no idea how it would attack people. The best thing to do right now was not to be left alone.
All the players present had an intuition, and several of them stopped what they were doing.
The tall and strong man following Hai Ling also quickly found his companions, and the eight of them gradually gathered together.
Perhaps it was because among the eight of them, only Song Jingchen was standing there holding a fancy-looking paper umbrella, looking out of place.
Hai Ling narrowed her fox eyes, intending to tease him:
"Hey, isn't this Huasan's famous weapon?"
"Copied from a skill card?" Hai Ling chuckled.
"Brother, are you too nervous? Taking out the flower umbrella for such a small occasion is a bit of a waste of talent, isn't it?"
Song Jingchen's expression remained calm, and he had no desire to retort.
In fact, what the hyena said was right. The flower umbrella of the Queen of Spades does have greater uses.
Because it can block any damage from players or NPCs within a certain period of time.
As long as he stays under the umbrella obediently, not only can the ghost NPC not target him, but even the player's skill card cannot target him.
In order to enable Huasan Fu Hengyi to protect himself, he took him to countless low-level card games and even personally handled the intermediate games.
When JR's points reached a very optimistic number, he drew a skill card in the store that could copy other people's weapons.
Huasan felt that this card was barely usable, but Song Jingchen was already very satisfied.
Especially when this card is upgraded to level one, it can replicate 70% of the weapon's effectiveness, such as damage reduction and blocking.
Although the number of uses and time limit are limited, it can be copied regardless of the weapon level.
In other words, this card can copy god-level weapons.
And Huasan's umbrella is a divine weapon.
Song Jingchen let go of the umbrella handle, and the paper umbrella floated quietly above his head, as if someone was standing behind him, silently holding the umbrella for him.
The number of times he saw Fu Hengyi became less and less, and he was reluctant to use the paper umbrella he copied from the man.
Although his skill cards can be copied a second time, the prerequisite for copying is the consent of the weapon owner.
But he couldn't see the flower umbrella at all.
It was indeed a waste that such a powerful weapon was used so easily by him.
Song Jingchen didn't say anything, with a hint of worry hidden between his eyebrows.
Yitu glanced at Song Jingchen beside him, fearing that his sad past had come to him again.
The players who were whispering to each other around would occasionally mention the flower umbrella because of the interactive area of the card room owner.
Anonymous Player 212: It really is a replica of Huasan? But isn't Huasan and Sika Deer a couple? I heard he wants to help Sika Deer get a throne ID card...
Anonymous player 119: Ah... Is the Queen of Spades already so arrogant? If you want to get a throne card above level 10, you have to figure out if the deer is worthy enough. (speechless.jpg)
Anonymous Player 123: Now, except for the Queen of Hearts and a Jack of Hearts, all the other throne cards have been revealed. Whose is he trying to take? (crying and laughing)
Anonymous Player 231: The weakest one... The suit of hearts is generally weak, and the only one that came out, the jack of hearts, is quite weak.
Anonymous Player 167: Who cares what he wants to do? The flower umbrella can't get on us anyway. Of course, if anyone is unlucky enough to run into him, just treat it as a fart (spreading hands)
Anonymous player 199: Oh, am I the only one who thinks Huasan is a jerk... I saw him always with this kid before, and I thought he loved it. Copying other people's weapons should also require the owner's consent...
Anonymous Player 234: 11111! Sister, I'm the same as you! Huasan is such a jerk! But he's a really nice person, woohoo. Anyway, he's a famous flower protector, and he's really good at it!
Anonymous Player 297: Yeah, that's how he is. He does everything for anyone he likes, and then when he meets someone he likes more, he just walks away (speechless)
Anonymous Player 239: Probably just... some fun stuff for the big boss to kill time???
Anonymous Player 254: Uh, a truly awesome person wouldn't do that, like my idol, King of Spades! (Proud chest.jpg)
Anonymous player 265: !!!!!! Not only does the big devil not mess around with women, he's also a dead straight man!! It's hilarious, just having hands is enough hahahahaha
Anonymous Player 321: Speaking of the Big Devil, I remembered there was someone in this poker room who looked just like him. He even had the ability to tear space apart, just like the Big Devil...
Anonymous Player 342: ??? Brother, don't say that. I'm scared.
Anonymous player 321: Hahahaha, I'm just guessing, but the big devil doesn't have a spouse, so it shouldn't be him.
Yitu looked at it for a while, then quietly closed the interactive area for card room owners.
The sky gradually darkened, and the conversations of the surrounding players became quieter and quieter until there was no movement at all.
A strange ghost seemed to flash across the woods in front of me, as if looking for an opportunity to attack.
They had to stare at their surroundings intently, not daring to breathe even a little.
Yi Tu and Jiang Hanyu stood back to back, with Song Jingchen holding an umbrella on their right, and no one standing on their left.
After waiting for a while with no movement, someone quietly asked:
"Why don't we disperse, bury the body quickly, and go back quickly."
"Wait a little longer." Hai Ling frowned. "This is the time to test your patience with that thing. Are you so eager to die?"
The man was so angry that he stopped talking. But after a while, he couldn't help but speak again:
"It suddenly got really cold in the mountains."
No one had noticed until he said it, but once he said it, everyone realized that the temperature on the mountain had indeed dropped a lot.
"Waiting like this is not a solution. That thing is not trying to scare us." A Tai, the tall and strong man standing next to Hai Ling, said.
"That's a possibility." Hai Ling hesitated.
"With so many of us together, it wouldn't dare to come over." The person who had been talking followed up with another sentence.
Yitu couldn't help but turn his head to look at him. He was a short and thin man with a small beard. He was standing next to A Tai, looking around, and there was no fear on his face.
Yitu felt strange and something was wrong.
It was not until he turned his head and lowered it that he caught a glimpse of a pair of furry animal feet.
Like the paws of a large cat, it put its hind paws on the ground, stood upright, and wore human clothes, standing next to Artest.
Yitu's heart trembled violently. It turned out that this thing had sneaked into their group a long time ago!
"If I don't go back now, will I miss dinner?" the man was still talking to himself.
No one paid any attention to him, thinking he was talking nonsense.
Yi Tu was about to speak out a reminder when another identical voice sounded immediately afterwards.
"Who is imitating my voice?" someone asked in horror.
The players were confused and finally realized something was wrong. When they turned around to check on each other, their faces changed.
Out of eight players, it became nine at some point!
And the extra person had the same face as another player.
Just when they had no time to distinguish the truth from the false and were busy distance themselves, the familiar voice asked again:
"Do you think a person can live without a heart?"
How can a person live without a heart? Everyone knows the answer, but no one can answer it.
So it could only sigh and mutter:
"Idiot! You can live without a heart!"
After saying that, this thing stretched out its hand and grabbed a pounding heart in its furry claws.
The person whose heart it took out was Artest, who had no chance to react at all.
This thing was so fast that in just a blink of an eye, Artest's heart was pulled out of his chest.
Hot blood gurgled out, and Atai covered his chest where his heart had been lost, with an expression of extreme shock on his face.
Only when he fell to the ground did Hai Ling come to her senses.
At this time, there was no trace of that thing on the back mountain. It had already run away without a trace.
"Atai!"
Hai Ling ran forward in disbelief and turned over A Tai's body. His face was buried in a pool of blood, and there was a hole the size of a bowl in his chest.
My heart was taken away.
"How is it possible..." Hai Ling's face turned very ugly.
Artest was an old man whom he often brought into the card room. His weapons and skill cards were definitely not weak. It was impossible that he had his heart taken away without even a chance to struggle.
Unless the rules of this card game are death conditions that cannot be violated.
However, the probability of an inviolable death condition appearing in an intermediate field is less than three percent, which is too small.
Hai Ling still hasn't figured out the reason, while the others have already buried the servants' bodies, including A Tai's.
After a while, a light rain began to fall from the dark sky, and the drops fell on Yitu's face, feeling slightly cool.
He was still thinking about the process of Atai's death and the strange words that thing said.
Missed mealtime... Is someone raising this thing?
Who did it give the heart it took away to?
Yitu stood quietly for a while and felt that he had grasped a clue.
At this moment, Song Jingchen beside him suddenly threw the flower umbrella in his hand into the pit.
"What are you doing?" Yitu felt strange.
Song Jingchen replied: "The wet paper umbrella is broken, I don't want it anymore."
It was a disposable item that didn't belong to him, so why should he keep it as a souvenir?
After hearing this, Yitu raised the corner of his lips slightly, "Then forget it, let's go, we should go back."
When they returned to Dong's house, it was time for dinner.
When Yi Tu and Jiang Hanyu passed by the lobby, Madam Hui had just finished her meal and was about to come over to thank them.
"I heard from the housekeeper that you encountered a heart-stealing thief when you went to the back mountain?" Madam Hui's pretty face was full of worry.
But I don’t know if it was Yi Tu’s illusion, but Madam Hui looked much better than in the morning.
Not only that, even the wrinkles at the corners of the eyes are gone.
She was wearing a white cheongsam embroidered with pink peonies. Although the color was a bit pink, it didn't look too bright or eye-catching.
It seems like she dresses like this just to add a bit of life to the depressing and dull Dong residence.
"My friend died there." Hai Ling was in a bad mood and answered in a heavy tone.
Madam Hui's face was full of apology. "I should have known earlier. Alas, this is my fault. When you left, I actually forgot to give you the talisman paper to ward off evil spirits."
After she said that, she called the housekeeper and told him to go to Taoist Wang to buy some talisman paper.
"Although this thing may not be effective, it is always good to carry it with you for peace of mind." Madam Hui said kindly:
"Originally, we should have put up talismans a long time ago, but the master was afraid that Xiaoyue's soul would be unable to return home, so he never allowed the servants to put them up."
"Now that this has happened, even if Xiaoyue resents and hates me, for the sake of everyone's safety, I have to put up this talisman."
She always thinks about the Dong family, even though she is not even twenty years old.
"Thank you for your concern, Madam." Yitu suddenly said:
"You look much more energetic in the clothes you changed into this afternoon."
Madam Hui was startled and said with a forced smile:
"I'll take that as a compliment."
"I shouldn't be wearing such beautiful clothes, but things keep happening at home, and the master is bedridden because of Xiaoyue's situation. How can I dare to say anything else?"
"I'm wearing this so that he can feel better after seeing it."
"Mr. Dong and Mrs. Dong are actually more loving than most people think."
Hai Ling suddenly interrupted, "It's a pity that Miss Dong is Mr. Dong's only child. It's a pity that Mrs. Dong hasn't been able to have children after being married into the Dong family for two years."
Upon hearing this, Madam Hui's face froze, and Yi Tu's heart moved.
Hai Ling's words must have touched upon the secret that Madam Hui was trying to hide, otherwise her reaction would not have been so strong.
"I've been in poor health since I was young, and I've been taking Chinese medicine for conditioning."
"I have always been sad that I couldn't give birth to children for you."
"It's getting late now. The distinguished guests should return to their rooms and have dinner." Madam Hui urged:
"The butler will deliver the talismans to your rooms in a moment. Please be sure to stick them on the door frame."
After Madam Hui finished speaking, she turned and left, and the players had no choice but to go back to their rooms.
After Yi Tu and Jiang Hanyu finished their meal, the housekeeper promptly brought them three pieces of the same talisman paper that they bought on the street to ward off evil spirits.
However, as soon as Jiang Hanyu got the three talisman papers, the man crumpled them into a ball and threw them into the flowers outside the corridor.
Yi Tu saw it but didn't ask any questions. They both knew in their hearts that there must be something wrong with the talisman paper sent by Madam Hui.
It’s not a big deal whether it can ward off evil spirits or not, but I’m afraid it will attract dirty things.
He and Jiang Hanyu, one sitting by the bed and the other sitting on a chair, were silent.
After a while, Yitu said:
"Madam Hui kept that creature to extract its heart for beauty. All the servants in the mansion are dead, so there are no hearts to extract."
So this is why that thing found them accurately not long after they arrived at the back mountain this afternoon.
If no one told it, how could it have just happened to run into Yong'an Street, which is so big, and the back mountain is so wide?
But that thing unwisely revealed its information. It knew when the Dong family had dinner.
But within a day, Madam Hui in the morning and Madam Hui in the evening were completely different people.
Yi Tu couldn't help but suspect that Madam Hui was the owner of the heart-eating monster.
"How did that thing take A Tai's heart today?" Yi Tu looked at Jiang Hanyu who was leaning on a chair with his eyes closed.
The man didn't open his eyes; he felt sleepy again.
Just when Yi Tu thought he would not get an answer, Jiang Hanyu spoke.
"When it asks a question, you must answer it."
The man opened his brown eyes and the two looked at each other for a moment.
"The difference between low-level and mid-level arenas is that those things can kill players as easily as killing a chicken."
"Sometimes there isn't even a loophole to avoid death. Why bother speculating? Just use force to solve the problem."
When Jiang Hanyu said this, there was not much expression on his face, and he looked indifferent like a god who saw through everything.
Yitu did not avoid his gaze, but responded with the greatest courage possible in silence.
The reason why a man can say such words is because he is strong enough, even to the point of ignoring the rules.
This is also the reason why Yi Tu was trapped in an illusion and was clearly doomed to die, but was rescued by Jiang Hanyu.
So he didn't need to think too much. Some things in front of him were clearer than clear water.
But Yi Tu is not like that. As long as a person's thinking is there, he will not stop thinking every minute and every second.
Perhaps because the man hadn't spoken for too long, Jiang Hanyu suddenly stood up.
He walked up to Yitu and looked down at him, a hint of interest flashing in his brown eyes.
"Why, you don't accept it?"
Yitu shook his head slightly, "No, you're right."
"It's just that I have my own ideas."
After hearing this, Jiang Hanyu curled his thin lips.
"In that case, tell me about it."
Yitu smiled and said, "No, we have different ideals and cannot work together."
He was a smart man. He knew that his abilities were not strong. In fact, compared to the man in front of him, he was very weak.
But so what? As long as the destination is the same, there is nothing to be afraid of no matter how difficult the process is.
It’s just that they are standing in different positions and at different heights, so the things they understand are naturally different.
But this does not mean that Yi Tu is no match for Jiang Hanyu. They are two completely different types of people.
In the former, reason prevails, while in the latter, reason is not needed at all.
"Okay, then prove it to me."
The man laughed. He clearly disdained the man's last bit of arrogance, but for some reason he couldn't bring himself to express his sarcasm.
That's not his style.
However, Jiang Hanyu did not take this little change in himself to heart. After all, he was the kind of person who did what he thought.
"Okay, you wait."
After the two men exchanged harsh words, the bitter drama that was supposed to happen between the enemies did not happen.
Because no matter how good you are at talking, you still have to sleep together at night.
Yi Tu looked at the narrow bed worriedly, and got on it with gritted teeth. When Jiang Hanyu got on, he found it so crowded that he couldn't move.
The lights in the room went out and silence fell.
Yitu's back was pressed against the man's hot chest, and he was so hot that he couldn't fall asleep at all.
His mind was filled with a mess of seemingly unrelated plots. Du Jinyu wouldn't come to see him again tonight, right?
Why did Du Jinyu come to him again and again? Is there such a thing as love at first sight?
Yitu couldn't figure it out, until late at night when the rain kept falling. He listened to the sound and fell into a dream in a daze.
At this moment, there was a noise outside.
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