Chapter 127 The Infinite Player's Ghost Wife
In the second to last guest room on the second floor of the manor, Lin Zhi looked at the wardrobe that had been opened due to the players' search, and her eyes fell on the piece of clothing at the top.
A neatly folded piece of laundry wouldn't be much different from the clothes beneath it, if it weren't breathing.
The fabric undulated slightly at a frequency that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, and it was a little creepy when you looked closely.
While the players were searching for the missing Li Ru, Lin Zhi was also wondering how she disappeared in the dungeon.
It is impossible for a player to disappear out of thin air in the game, unless she is eaten without leaving any residue. However, this situation should not occur in this copy, so Li Ru can only hide.
The gray-white mist quickly searched the house for Lin Zhi, but found no answer. This made Lin Zhi even more curious, and he searched every place himself, and finally stopped here.
To ghosts, there is a clear distinction between living things and dead things.
Interesting, is this Li Ru’s talent, similar to the chameleon’s hiding ability, allowing her to transform herself and blend into the environment?
This is a great evasive feature, but it also has its drawbacks, at least it's useless against ghosts.
Lin Zhipiao was in mid-air, staring at the dress to see how long she could keep it on. Even talent had its limits.
01: [Host, aren’t we following the mission target anymore? 】
Lin Zhi: [His tail is a little high, let it hang out to dry. 】
Lin Zhi is definitely not the type who is willing to be controlled by others. He is just a little more indulgent towards his lover. This time, his personality fragment is the type that takes advantage of the situation. It can be said that he will have fun if you give Xie Qing a little water, so let him have fun by himself.
The neatly folded clothes lay quietly in the closet, and looked no different from other clothes to the naked eye.
Suddenly there was a muffled sound from downstairs, as if something had fallen to the ground.
At the same time, the clothes in the closet fell to the ground and turned into human shapes.
Li Ru's face turned pale as she pressed her aching brain.
She could no longer use her talent. Her consciousness was gradually becoming blurred. She had a premonition that if she continued to hide, she would completely turn into a piece of clothing and sleep here forever.
On the first floor, people who heard the noise gathered at the door.
The discussion just ended in vain, and Qian San suggested that everyone stay together. However, Lao Pi left angrily because he was suspected. Uncle Liu knew that the three of them knew each other, and because he was also suspected, he left too.
Xie Qing took a nap on the sofa. Qian San was wary of Xie Qing and didn't want to just sit there and wait for death, so he went to the third floor to continue looking for clues, and Hongyu followed him.
Therefore, when the sound appeared on the first floor, Xie Qing, who was closest to the source of the sound, entered the servant's room.
Qian Sanzheng was lying on the ground with a sharp fruit knife stuck in his abdomen.
Hongyu ran to the first floor first. When she saw the injured Qian San, she immediately walked over and found that Qian San was still breathing, but was unconscious.
"Hold on a little longer, you'll be fine as long as it's over."
Hongyu's eyes wandered over the people who arrived one after another, and she encouraged Qian San in his ear.
According to the rules of the copy, nothing from the previous copy will be brought into the next world, including wounds. As long as there is still a breath left, it will heal after passing the level.
Uncle Liu looked at Xie Qing, already in an attacking posture: "Is it you?"
Hongyu looked at Xie Qing and said, "I know you used this knife to peel an apple last night."
Xie Qing did not deny that he held the apple peel in one hand and the apple core in the other last night and forgot to take the knife with him.
Hongyu stood up and held out her hand.
Almost at the same moment, a dazzling light exploded in front of everyone's eyes.
The drama of fratricide began in an instant. Uncle Liu was a beat slow and saw Lao Pi being lifted into the air.
Hongyu collapsed: "Why don't you stab him! If you hit him in a fatal spot, I'll lift him up and throw him to death!"
Xie Qing, who had just grabbed Lao Pi's neck and watched him being dragged away, took a deep breath and said, "My knife is stuck in Qian San's stomach, and I can't turn my fighting spirit into a horse. I thought you would press him down to the ground, but you lifted him up."
Hongyu: "You only brought a knife? Didn't you put that knife there on purpose for fishing?"
Xie Qing spread his hands: "No, I simply forgot."
Hongyu was depressed and pulled Laopi downwards with great force.
At the moment when Lao Pi was knocked down, Xie Qing picked up a chair and threw it at him, but Lao Pi showed extremely flexible posture, so that the chair that was originally hitting his head hit his legs instead.
Lao Pi endured the pain and said, "What do you mean? It wasn't me who did it! That was Xie Qing's knife!"
Uncle Liu also looked confused. He looked at Hongyu and Xie Qing, then at Lao Pi.
"I was searching the third floor with him. He must have been attacked and that's why he's here. Xie Qing couldn't possibly be the murderer. You were the only one running downstairs at the time."
Hongyu maintained the pulling posture and controlled Lao Pi in place.
She knew that Qian San must have been attacked and therefore used his talent to teleport to the safe zone he had set up, so he went from the third floor to the first floor. When she looked at Xie Qing, she knew that Xie Qing also understood. When they fought together, she thought she and Xie Qing had a tacit understanding, but it turned out that they didn't have one at all.
She looked at Uncle Liu and said, "We saw his wounds. There is absolutely no way he could have faked them."
Upon hearing this, Uncle Liu immediately took up his position and walked to Hongyu's side.
Lao Pi had a ferocious expression on his face: "Obviously there is another person!"
Xie Qing played with a coin and said nonchalantly, "Mr. Moriya has such a strong desire to perform, how could he be willing to hide and commit crimes?"
"Isn't that right, wife?"
Xie Qing looked down at his coin and tossed it.
The flower side was facing upwards, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly: "Look, my wife agrees too."
Everyone: ...
Lao Pi asked unwillingly: "Don't you think he is more sick and more suspicious?"
Xie Qing picked up a chair again and walked towards Lao Pi.
Time is running out, and Qian San doesn’t know how long he can hold on.
Lao Pi broke free from Hongyu's pull and avoided Xie Qing's attack.
"You're right, this game is not interesting at all."
Lao Pi, or rather Moriya, looked extremely cold. He threw the camera that was in the way around his neck at Xie Qing and went upstairs.
Everyone followed his footsteps upstairs. Li Ru was about to hide, but the man was too fast and passed him in an instant.
Xie Qing and the others saw Li Ru on the second floor, and also saw Lao Pi holding a gun.
"You are all going to die."
Moriya looked at these people who had ruined the fun of his game, his eyes filled with contempt as if he were looking at ants.
He had never played such a frustrating game before. This time, three people he knew came in. This was definitely intentional by that thing. If they were familiar people, how could they be suspicious of each other? The fun of this killing game was greatly reduced.
Moria liked to see these lambs stepping into the trap without knowing it, then madly suspecting their teammates and fighting among themselves. He also enjoyed the excitement of the situation constantly reversing as they could be discovered at any time.
In the past, he would take three days, killing two people a day, controlling the tempo of the game and then giving them a surprise when they could breathe a sigh of relief.
So he had already written down the death numbers for these people, intending to put the psychopath named Coin's 'wife' last, but it turned out that the others were also extremely weird.
I don’t know how Uncle Liu’s brain was so tough that he didn’t die from his fatal blow. The woman named Li Ru was even stranger. She disappeared without a trace and he couldn’t find her at all.
The plan went wrong again and again, so he went straight for Qian San, but this guy could actually teleport, putting him in this passive situation.
He didn't want to kill people violently at all, he just wanted to experience the fun of role-playing hunting.
Now he has lost his patience. His teammates in this game are terrible. All of them should go to hell. He is going to start the next one.
Xie Qing looked at the familiar weapon in the boss's hand with a subtle expression.
Lin Zhi stood by with his arms folded and raised his eyebrows. The gun had been there all the time, but he didn't know that the boss had hidden it.
The faces of the others changed drastically. Uncle Liu stared at the dark muzzle of the gun and said calmly, "There are at most six bullets in it. Once they are used up, there will be no more. Just like Xie Qing analyzed before, everyone must abide by the rules, even him, so we still have a chance of winning."
At this time, he didn't stutter when he spoke.
Xie Qing stepped forward towards the muzzle of the gun. To avoid being stimulated by the strong light, Lao Pi closed his eyes and pulled the trigger.
Click, empty gun.
Lao Pi opened his eyes in disbelief, but saw Xie Qing's face. The next moment, his neck was broken.
There was a corpse on the ground, and the news of passing the level appeared in front of the players.
Li Ru was still a little dazed. She had hidden herself because of fear, and just when she couldn't hold on anymore and showed up, the game was over?
Uncle Liu was also a little confused. They were clearly playing games together, so why did it seem like others knew things that he didn't?
Hongyu: "Thank you. I was taken to lie down again."
"This victory is all thanks to my wife. You have to thank her."
Xie Qing searched his pockets and bullets fell out with a clang.
He flipped the coin in his hand, and the smile in his eyes faded a little when he held it.
He didn't feel Lin Zhi's response, not last time.
What does it mean, Lin Zhi is unwilling to respond to him anymore, or can’t respond to him?
Just as Hongyu was considering whether to say thank you to the coin, she saw Xie Qing suddenly enter the room and close the door.
"Wife, there's no one else here, can you pay attention to me? I'm a little worried."
Xie Qing stared at the coin in his hand and tossed it again.
He reached out to catch it. It didn't matter which side it was. What mattered was whether the coin would move or whether he could feel anything.
No, no reaction at all.
It was as if Lin Zhi suddenly disappeared from his side, as if she had never appeared.
"I apologize to you. Next time I will definitely not make unreasonable requests like turning on the hot water. Please pay attention to me."
Xie Qing's face was full of self-reflection, but he still didn't get any response.
His wife had long been dead, an invisible and intangible ghost.
It is an existence that he has no way of knowing whether it exists or disappears.
Xie Qing lowered his eyes, hiding the darkness in his eyes.
Lin Zhi was not by Xie Qing's side. When Lao Pi fell, an undead appeared in the space that the players did not notice.
His flesh was rotting all over and he looked at all the players sinisterly. Then he noticed Lin Zhi's presence and looked stunned.
"Who are you and why are you in my realm?"
In the eyes of the undead, the strange "Oriental woman" in a bright red wedding dress did not speak a word, and a gray-white mist emanated from her body, almost covering the sky and the earth.
The foreign undead spirits don’t know that the evil spirits in the Eastern lands will devour their own kind for cultivation.
He still suffered the loss because of his nationality. This thought flashed through Lin Zhi’s mind after he devoured the undead.
Lin Zhi usually doesn't have such dry and humorous thoughts, and it's obvious that she was infected by Xie Qing.
Lin Zhi smiled inexplicably. Because of the blood contract, after Xie Qing left the copy and entered the rest space, he also appeared in the pure white rest space.
He didn't pay attention to what Xie Qing was doing, and concentrated on digesting the undead he had just devoured.
From the moment he entered the villa copy, Lin Zhi felt that this boss was different from the original owner. Lin Zhi needed to know more information from him and figure out the nature of the infinite game. Even if the undead didn't find him, he would still devour him.
He also has to thank his old lover Pei Duo, the chief of the Demon Suppression Bureau. When he was a fox demon, he read a lot of books from the Demon Suppression Bureau to expand his knowledge. There were many things recorded in them, including the methods of ghost cultivation, which Lin Zhi naturally used.
After refining, Lin Zhi obtained the memories of an undead named Moria and had some guesses about the nature of this game.
Moria knew clearly that he was playing a game. He didn't know what force isolated him in this space, nor did he care. As long as there were a constant stream of players to satisfy his hunting desire, it was enough for him.
However, Lin Zhi discovered that in the process of continuous gaming, Moria's power became weaker and weaker, but Moria himself did not realize it.
He first started playing hunting games, and he won nine out of ten games. At that time, his role-playing rules were more stringent and the players' clearance rate was very low. He could even simulate an ability to blend in with the players.
But as his strength weakened, he could no longer simulate his abilities and had to use weapons, but he himself did not notice this change and seemed to think that he should use weapons.
Every time he was killed, his power would weaken, and even if he won, his power seemed to be consumed a little.
From the perspective of the game or the player, he is equivalent to falling from a boss in an advanced field to a mid-level field or even a primary field.
Lin Zhi finally understood why he was not stopped from changing the rules for passing his own copy, because the infinite game did not impose any restrictions on these dead and dazed ghosts, and the endless stream of players would consume them until they had no strength left.
He was not stopped from devouring other dungeon bosses, because Infinite Game wanted them to disappear.
This is easy to handle. If this is true, it will be convenient for him to act together with Xie Qing later.
Lin Zhi was in a good mood after discovering the important information. He looked at Xie Qing with a smile and was silent for a moment.
There are a lot of things piled around Xie Qing, including talismans and bells, as well as crystal balls and mirrors. The style is very mixed, a combination of Chinese and Western styles.
Lin Zhi knew exactly what Xie Qing wanted to do without 01's explanation.
Pei Duo is an expert in summoning ghosts and spirits, but unfortunately they are alone and Xie Qing cannot ask for advice.
Xie Qing pushed the pile of things aside. Perhaps it was because he was not capable enough, or perhaps Lin Zhi was blocked outside by the rest space.
He felt his heartbeat and complained, "You should feel some pain."
Xie Qing turned over and lay down, murmuring: "If you are not in pain, how can I know if he is by my side?"
Unfortunately, he couldn't run or jump to stimulate his heart, so as to avoid errors in judgment.
Xie Qing suddenly thought of a possibility and immediately sat up.
Qian San... Qian San was injured and bleeding. Lin Zhi could drink human blood. Could it be that he was with Qian San?
"Impossible... My blood tastes better."
He is a virgin, but Qian San is not, so Lin Zhi chose him the first time.
"Wife, you can't abandon me after having sex with me. Kiss me on the lips, don't go and kiss someone else."
Xie Qing's eyes drooped slightly, his tone sounded particularly aggrieved, but his expression was a little cold.
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