Chapter 22
Zhan Mu landed smoothly on the ground and looked at Lu Chao. He had just taken a step when he was struck by an inexplicable electric shock and his health dropped rapidly.
Thunder, Zhen means thunder.
Zhan Mu said urgently, "Are you shocked? 'Zhen' means thunder. You've been electrocuted. Find another stone slab!"
"The other stone slabs are too far away, there's nothing we can do!" Lu Chao said. He still had the demon-subduing pestle on him, so he pulled it out to try its function, but found that it was useless.
"Hey! Bros! Two brothers!" A familiar voice came, it sounded like the guy with glasses. He was jumping excitedly on the stone slab not far away, shouting: "You guys came in too, what a coincidence, haha, let's talk so we can go out together!"
Zhan Mu looked in the direction of the sound and saw that it was indeed him. The man with glasses was also on a stone slab. He was also safe and sound, with no health loss. Noticing the puzzled glances between Zhan Mu and Lu Chao, he said, "Don't panic. I know how to break out of this place. It's actually very simple, but it does rely on a bit of luck. Did you notice the hexagram on the stone slab beneath your feet?"
Zhan Mu nodded, while Lu Chao's health continued to decrease. The man with glasses replied, "The slate I'm on is Kun. Kun represents earth and has no elemental properties, so I'm fine."
"These floating stone slabs will move, but we can only move at the moment when they interact. If we touch one, that is, the Sixth Company, we can get out." The man with glasses answered.
Zhan Mu frowned, not quite understanding.
Lu Chao laughed strangely and sighed, "This game is really amazing. It forces players to be broad-minded and profound."
"How do I interact with the slate?" Zhan Mu expressed his doubts. He was working in the Third Company, so why was he still here...
"It's the Sixth Company." Lu Chao reminded him.
The man with glasses looked tired, rubbing his face wearily, and said, "The problem is that there are a lot of stone slabs here, at least a dozen, and some are repeated. You have to do six in a row, or two three-in-a-row, to get out. That's why I say it depends on luck."
"Let me try it first." When Lu Chao heard this, a stone slab happened to come over. After seeing it clearly, he immediately gathered his strength and jumped over. It was a Kun hexagram. As soon as he landed on the ground, Lei Diyu's hexagram was completed.
Similarly, Zhan Mu saw an image emerging in the space where he was, with Zhen Yang Yu on the top and Kun Liuduan on the bottom. It had also appeared just now, but he didn't notice it.
The electric shock on Lu Chao's body disappeared and he landed safely on the ground.
"Does that mean we have to turn that elephant into a six-man team so we can get out?" Zhan Mu asked. "Doesn't that mean we can only work together and go out in pairs? But there are only three of us now, so we can't make an even number."
There are six lines in a hexagram, and six lines in a row are six horizontal lines.
"There should be 16 stone slabs here in total," Lu Chao said, "after all, there are 64 images in the Eight Trigrams of the Later Heaven."
The man with glasses replied, "When I first came in, before I even left, all I knew was how to turn that elephant into a six-man team."
"Then we can only wait and try our luck." Zhan Mu was a little angry. "Is there no pattern to the setting of this game?"
"Yeah." Lu Chao looked around, glanced at him not far away and said, "At least Zhan Mu has taken up the third company now. As for the other one, we can only wait? Killing time."
The game interface timer has reached 32 minutes.
The man with glasses seemed quite calm. He said, "Don't worry, don't worry. We haven't been eliminated yet, which means the other teams haven't broken through either. Maybe we're not far from the truth."
Zhan Mu held his chin in his hand, half-knelt, and looked around. He said, "So the four sacred beasts flying in the sky here are just decorations?"
The guy with glasses suddenly had a sharp eye: "Hey, hey, brother 24 Pure Gold, look, there's someone floating over there... opening the door, hahaha, win, win, if you jump to the open door quickly, we'll pass! How come my luck becomes so lucky when you come here?"
"Oh, opening the door is a term in the Eight Gates. Opening the door represents the six palaces. Combined with the three palaces under your feet, if you step on it, it should form the six palaces." Lu Chao said.
Lu Chao narrowed his eyes, as if deep in thought, thinking that Zhan Mu's luck was really good, as if he had triggered a game mechanic or something...
Zhan Mu nodded, took aim and jumped over. Sure enough, a new image emerged in the space and it turned into the Sixth Company. The three of them saw a flash in front of their eyes, and after the light dimmed, it turned into a scene that looked like an ancestral hall.
"Thank you, thank you, you're such a great teammate." The man with glasses smiled and patted Zhan Mu's shoulder. "It's just a timely help. Love you."
Lu Chao raised his eyebrows and saw Zhan Mu nodding with an awkward smile. At the same time, he pulled away his arm that was about to give him a hug.
The three of them formed a brief alliance and looked around the ancestral hall. Zhan Mu was just staring at the blurred tablets in the hall when he heard the man with glasses shouting in the corner: "Grass ghost!!"
Zhan Muluchao walked over quickly and saw that the ghost he was talking about was actually a corpse kneeling on the ground, but without a head. The body was shriveled on the ground in an extremely humble posture, and even the bloodstains from the separated head looked dim.
The guy with glasses looked frightened, with a horrified expression.
"Can't move." Zhan Mu was calm and not frightened at all. He had a strong inner quality.
Lu Chao squatted down to look and said, "Wait a minute, the posture of this corpse looks like it is holding something in its arms so that no one can snatch it away?"
They also noticed that there was a basin in front of the corpse, which was filled with some debris and ashes, which looked like burnt paper money, and some talismans with red characters on yellow paper.
"Could it be the evil Taoist priest from the Song Mansion?" Zhan Mu asked.
Lu Chao: "But he's not wearing Taoist clothes."
"Hey, you, I just realized you have the master's snake?" The man with glasses suddenly saw it and said, "You can use it. Why don't you use it to find the master's room? It is said that there is a method for Concubine Hua to curse the paper villagers."
"Who is Aunt Hua? Are they the paper villagers she cursed?" Zhan Mu raised his hand and looked at the little white snake on his wrist. He poked it, but it seemed lazy and didn't respond.
Brother with glasses: "We need to feed the snake. I heard from other players that every time we feed it, it will point us to a certain path. Until we find the master's secret, it will complete its mission and stay in the master's room."
"What are you talking about?" Lu Chao frowned and said, "If you say half of something, it's the same as if you didn't say anything at all."
"Let me think..." The man with glasses seemed to have truly forgotten and was very thoughtful. Suddenly, as if he suddenly realized something, he said, "It's human blood. Yes, that's it. It would be best if one of you is injured. If you feed it to this snake, a text reminder will appear."
Lu Chao frowned and looked at the bespectacled man's low health. He also noticed the wound on his shoulder. He smiled apologetically and explained, "Do you want me to donate blood? Haha, that's fine, but if this snake wants to suck too much of my blood, I will refuse."
"Do you want to try it?" Lu Chao asked Zhan Mu.
Zhan Mu nodded, mainly because he had no other choice, so he raised his wrist and brought the little white snake close to the glasses brother's wound. It worked, and a line popped up next to it: Feeding...
Zhan Mu was concentrating on his work, but Lu Chao saw the glasses man's eyes flash, and he quickly pulled off the little white snake and turned around to run!
Lu Chao was faster and kicked the guy with glasses just in time to trip him. He was nervous or something, but he obviously didn't react in time and fell to the ground, and the little white snake also slipped out of his hand and hit the ground.
With a snap, the snake's health instantly dropped to zero.
The words appeared: Oh no~ The owner’s snake is dead.
And the interjection "ouch", forcing the game! Zhan Mu felt very depressed.
"The snake is dead!" Zhan Mu was about to smash his glasses when he heard hurried footsteps coming from the dark corridor in front of him, bursts of breathing, and a low, shrill laugh from a woman.
"Aunt Hua is here. Oh no, I've alarmed Aunt Hua." The man with glasses muttered to himself, becoming nervous and frightened. He immediately struggled to run away. Lu Chao glared at him and smiled evilly.
He knew that the man with glasses had no good intentions.
Lu Chao moved even faster, without hesitation or hesitation, as if he was dealing with a competitor. He picked him up and pushed him towards the corridor where the sound came from.
There really is a boss. The next second, the huge head of the glasses brother was blown into a small red flying butterfly by the mysterious force——
Words appeared: Players who fail to get into Peking University or Tsinghua University will be eliminated if they do not change their names.
Zhan Mu watched intently. Although he knew it was a game, he was also a little shocked by Lu Chao's cruelty. Lu Chao didn't notice his little emotion. Without turning his head, he didn't think anything of it. He subconsciously grabbed Zhan Mu's palm and ran away.
Zhan Mu also followed, but still wanted to look back. The figure in the darkness of the corridor gradually became clearer. She was wearing a black and white Qing-style dress and a pearl and jade headband. She had no eyes, and scarlet liquid flowed from the empty holes.
The gorgeous clothes he was wearing were no longer beautiful, they were covered in blood, his skin was as white as paper, and in his hand he was holding a pair of scissors, made of iron, with vivid and disgusting flesh scraps on them.
"The snake is gone, what should we do?" Zhan Mu said, "How can we find the master's room?"
The two of them fled randomly, fingers intertwined. The Song Mansion was incredibly large, and it was an old, repetitive and complicated ancient building that was so dazzling that it was worthy of being called a maze.
Lu Chao was also frantic, with Concubine Hua hot on his heels. Luckily, she wasn't very fast, and couldn't keep up with the two long-legged players. He wasn't familiar with this dungeon, and he'd hit dead ends several times, nearly playing a game of Qin Wang around the pillar with Concubine Hua.
"Hide in the cabinet, hide in the cabinet." Zhan Mu had a flash of inspiration and saw that there was a big cabinet in the room, so he pulled Lu Chao and squeezed in with him, the two of them.
After taking off his formal attire and closing the door, Lu Chao could see Zhan Mu clearly in the dim light. His face was full of anxiety and his eyes were bright.
Zhan Mu was mainly nervous. This kind of puzzle solving was an immersive experience, and with a bit of life-and-death sniping involved, he couldn't help but get excited about this novel experience.
Recently, in addition to being in a tense state, with a funny frown on his face and rapid breathing, he seemed extremely excited.
Lu Chao kept staring at him. He was obviously a digital life form, so he shouldn't have a heartbeat. But when he saw a living being like Zhan Mu, he actually felt something.
It was like a heart that had been dry for many years was injected with sweet spring water, and there was warmth, happiness, and a feeling of being alive again.
"It's quite fun, isn't it?" Zhan Mu said in a low voice.
Lu Chao nodded, and the boss, Aunt Hua, came in and was walking around slowly. She probably didn't have the setting to open the cabinet, but even so, the nerves of the two people in the cabinet were still tense.
"Well, I heard that if you encounter a zombie, you have to hold your breath to survive." Lu Chao approached Zhan Mu and said in a coaxing tone.
Zhan Mu turned his head with difficulty and expressed his doubts. Due to the dim light, he could not see the smile in Lu Chao's eyes. Then, he felt a tingling sensation on his lips.
Normally, brain-computer games wouldn't have a sense of touch. Zhan Mu felt strange at first, but then he realized it and heard the frantic beating of his heart in reality.
Damn it, on purpose.
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