After a brief moment of shock, the shield girl quickly regained her composure, turned around quickly as if she had seen nothing, and forcibly shook off the stiffness and coldness that had almost swept over her body.
That was definitely not how she felt. No matter what she saw, no matter how shocked she was, she would never allow herself to give up her ability to move.
Then there is only one possibility... The girl had a vague guess in her mind, but she always followed her intuition and did not think about it further.
As soon as she turned around, she found that there was more than one human-faced monster on the balcony.
In addition to the one that climbed up from her side, there was actually a human-faced monster on Yueqiong's side. Judging from its size, it was even bigger than the one on her side, and its facial features were even more bizarre and ugly.
Yue Qiong's current situation seemed much worse than the shield girl's. Just now, like the shield girl, he saw familiar faces on the giant face. However, these flashing faces were both male and female, belonging to many different young students -
The only thing in common was that they all died in his hands not long ago.
Among them was the big guy who cursed him madly before his death, the candidates he killed at will, and his own roommate who died on this balcony.
Regardless of their faces, they were all laughing wildly and silently at this moment, with the corners of their mouths pulled up to their ears strangely, as if they were happy but also mocking, and their eyes were staring straight at Yue Qiong.
Perhaps because his mind had been shaken a little, Yue Qiong lost his composure for a moment. By the time he reacted, it was too late to retract his attack. The black mist snake hissed as it pierced the man's face, tearing a crack in the thin, dark blue skin, and dark red blood gushed out.
After being attacked and bleeding, the familiar face immediately disappeared, leaving only the original huge deformed features. However, the smile on the face only widened -
The next moment, the guardrail that was originally standing firmly on the edge of the balcony suddenly cracked into a gap, the size of which was exactly the same as the wound on a person's face!
"Don't attack it."
Tang Xinjue blocked Zheng Wanqing's fist, and the scene he had just observed with his mental power emerged in his mind.
"Our attacks on it will be converted into real damage to the balcony guardrail. When we penetrate it, it can also enter the balcony and attack us."
Zheng Wanqing came back to her senses with a start: "That was a close call. I didn't intend to hit it, but when I saw its half-human, half-ghost appearance, I inexplicably felt annoyed and wanted to attack it? Thanks to you for stopping me!"
Tang Xin Jue: "That's it trying to seduce you."
She looked at the huge human face that was currently just wriggling outside the guardrail. Although they were one meter away from it, she still felt a nauseous and uncomfortable feeling of having it touch her face.
She paused, "In fact, to some extent, they have already attacked us."
But this time, the impact is concentrated on the minds of the candidates.
Mental attack?
Zhang You immediately turned to look at Tang Xin Jue: "Doesn't that mean..."
"Yeah." Tang Xinjue smiled slightly, "Isn't this a coincidence?"
This is really like a flood flushing out the Dragon King Temple, which is quite similar to Gao Ying's attempt to control her mentally.
That's useless.
As early as the moment the human-faced elf appeared, she directly blocked 90% of the mental fluctuations emitted by the other party. Otherwise, it would not be just Zheng Wanqing who was affected.
Therefore, now she was the only one who could see the constantly changing shadows on the human faces. The shadows would sometimes turn into the grinning Gao Ying, sometimes into a melee informer holding a Tang sword, and sometimes into the elves from the previous rounds.
These images had no effect on Tang Xin Jue, but for the candidates who had no mental defense, the impact was extremely huge.
Looking at the field, most of the balconies in the two buildings were empty and the doors and windows were locked. Only a dozen dormitories were still struggling. Almost all of them could not control themselves and attacked the human-faced elves, and then had to face the consequences of the balcony fences losing their protection.
"Is that you? Are you here to seek revenge on me? No, don't come over. It was clearly because of the heavy rain that you fell down. It has nothing to do with me..."
On a balcony on the lower floor, a boy looked at the human face that had already entered the balcony with a look of despair. The dormitory window was clearly just a few feet behind him, but he refused to retreat as if he was possessed. Instead, he roared in frustration and poured all his attacks and props on the huge human face, as if he wanted to kill it head-on first.
But what made people even more desperate was that all the injuries inflicted on the elf were healed in an instant. The dark blue flesh and skin grew endlessly, and slowly squirmed to force the boy to the end of the balcony, until the latter dropped his arms in despair, and seemed to have entered a state of self-abandonment.
"Wake up!"
Following the sudden and clear shout, the boy's unfocused eyes seemed to clear up for a moment, and then the next moment, his ears were pierced by a terrifying scream.
While his ears were almost deafened, he was also completely awake.
This piercing demonic sound, which sounded like countless ghosts wailing and screaming at the same time, brought with it a spiritual force that made people's ears and eyes clear, doubling the torture of the sound waves and making it impossible for people to faint. When the sound finally disappeared, the crazy state that was originally stimulated by the hallucination was also completely discharged along with the sweat all over the body, without a trace left.
No worldly desires.
On the balcony of 303, Guo Liang cried out, holding onto the railing and retching in agony. Unable to tell if it was the aftereffects of the demonic sound or the human face, he retched for a full half minute before he lifted his head, tears welling up at his calm roommate from the Department of Therapy.
"Brother Bai, why did you only block yourself? What about our roommate relationship?"
The boy calmly released a group health recovery and corrected her, "From a medical point of view, what they just did to you is called fighting poison with poison."
In the distance, Tang Xinjue put away the toilet plunger. The mentally enhanced toilet plunger's effectiveness was indeed greatly enhanced, but there was no time for careful observation. As soon as the screams stopped, she controlled the rubber head with her backhand to spit out water to fill the gap in the guardrail.
The mental hypnosis was broken, and he couldn't find a gap to get into the balcony. The huge face outside 606 had lost its smile and became angry and resentful. Its facial features were distorted to the point that it was almost unrecognizable as a human. Blood was spurting out crazily and corroding the guardrail.
“Found it!”
Zhang You took something out of his storage bag, relaxed his brows with a sense of relief, unscrewed the plastic bottle in his hand, and shook the transparent colloid inside.
Furniture Repair Liquid: Your dorm room is bound to get tattered after a while, but you can't afford new furniture? This repair liquid solves your problems with one click! It might seem like a no-brainer, but it's incredibly affordable.
This is also one of the weird little items they won from countless mall raffles. They only took it out from the bottom of the box and used it when decorating the dormitory this time. They didn’t expect it to come in handy now.
The repair fluid was poured onto the damaged guardrail, immediately solidifying into clumps of filler. Zhang You hadn't been sure if it would be effective, but judging by the even more distorted expression on the mutant's face, it was clearly working.
In contrast to the frantic activity in the other dormitories, the pace of 606 slowed down after the danger of the guardrail being damaged was alleviated. There was even a hint of mockery in the gazes directed at the monster.
Under the vicious stare of the mutant face, Zhang You took out three more bottles of repair fluid.
Zhang You: "Is that enough? If not, there's more."
Mutated face: "..."
…
After 606 stabilized, the other dormitories that had been breached and regained consciousness also realized the situation, took the initiative to retreat back into the dormitories, and gave up the action of capturing Pokémons.
"Ah, now I understand. This so-called Pokémon-catching reward is just like the benefits promised by capitalists, the discounts advertised by sales offices, and the burden reduction required by the Ministry of Education. It's all just wishful thinking but impossible to achieve—it's all bullshit!"
Guo Liang concluded indignantly as he wrapped clothes around the railing. Luckily, with Brother Bai at their side, their dormitory balcony remained unbroken. After observing 606's solution, they copied their own approach and began patching it up. In the absence of repair fluid, they wrapped old clothes around the railing, and surprisingly, it worked.
"This must be one of the ways the game allows us to survive," Zhang Chi calmly analyzed. "If someone had thought of this from the very beginning and covered the railings and walls with protective coverings, our dormitory might have been rendered invulnerable based on the game's rules."
Guo Liang was even more indignant. "If you have to be able to predict things to this degree to survive, then why did the game bring us in? To make up the numbers? Can't they just select everyone in the world with an IQ of 180 or above?"
"And now we can't fight or kill, so how can we continue catching Pokémon? This rubbish game should just declare everyone a failure."
In his excitement, Guo Liang accidentally used too much force on his hands, causing the edge of the guardrail, which was riddled with holes, to snap and break.
The mutant face quickly squeezed in through the gap, but because it was moving so fast, it accidentally squeezed out its eyeball, which fell into Guo Liang's hand.
"Hehe." The mutant's face pressed against Guo Liang's body, grinning.
Guo Liang: “…”
“Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!”
Amid the screams that filled the air in Room 303, the shield girl also put away her shield and decided to temporarily retreat back to the dormitory.
Although she guarded her own half of the balcony, Yue Qiong had lured a wolf into the other half. As soon as the man's face entered the balcony, it spread out on the ground, as if he wanted to wrap the entire balcony inside.
The reason she stayed on the balcony, besides completing the Pokémon capture, was to make sure Yue Qiong didn't intentionally sell out her roommate. But she soon discovered that, despite the obvious malevolence of the mutant face, it wouldn't attack the students, but instead focused on eroding the balcony. Even if Yue Qiong wanted to sell out, she couldn't.
But what’s the point of eroding the balcony... There are only a few minutes left before the capture is completed. What on earth do these mutant elves want to do?
The shield girl couldn't figure it out and was too lazy to think about it. She sent her observations of the mutant's face to Tang Xinjue through the mental connection and planned to close the glass window and return to the dormitory.
"Don't rush back."
But the female voice in her mind stopped her.
Even though time was running out, Tang Xinjue's voice was as orderly as ever, making it difficult to associate her with all those cruel and brutal actions, especially that screaming toilet plunger.
Tang Xin Jue said: "This round of capture has nothing to do with the human-faced elf on our balcony."
"I know this might be a little hard to understand," Tang Xin Jue said, controlling the ice cones and shooting them off into the distance. "This thing on each of our balconies is targeting us. It can't be destroyed. The more elves and candidates we kill, the bigger and more difficult it becomes. But in essence, it's just a deception. Whatever its purpose, it has nothing to do with our mission."
Bing Cone returned to the balcony with the things, and 606's cloak successfully sank a piece.
She curled her lips. "See those densely packed smaller faces on the wall outside? Those are what we want to capture this time."
The shield girl looked up following the sound, and saw countless dense faces of people clinging to the wall like leeches rolling in her field of vision. Most of them were only concerned with losing sanity and dealing with the threats in front of them, and didn't even bother to capture them.
When Tang Xin Jue's last sentence was released, the faces of countless candidates suddenly appeared on the windows of the dormitory, which had already died down. The scene was as weird as that of mutant elves.
While everyone was still in doubt, 303, who was still holding on outside, had already followed suit and used props to grab a small human face and brought it in, which was easily transformed into an elf egg.
Candidate: ...damn it.
When they were full of confidence, the game hit them hard. When they knew when to give up, they found that it turned out to be a losing game?
Is this fair?
The author has something to say: Mutated face: attack the city and destroy the stronghold!
Zhang You: Land Reclamation
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