Mu Sicheng swallowed his words "That's fine too" with a sullen look, took a deep breath and changed the subject: "What should we do next? Will that zombie Taoist never hurt us?"

Bai Liu shook his head: "From the information on the mural, this Taoist zombie will go berserk in the later stages. Not only will he kill outsiders, he will also refine the villagers. I think he will also hurt us."

"What should we do?" Mu Sicheng frowned, "Do you know when this zombie Taoist will go berserk?"

Bai Liu pondered: "It should be the seventh day after the death of those old men in the temple. That's when the yin energy is the heaviest."

Mu Sicheng paused: "That's only a few days away, right?"

"Yes." Bai Liu nodded and walked out. "From the information we have obtained so far and the reactions of Kong Xuyang and Yang Zhi, we should be in some kind of competitive game, playing a certain role. Under the circumstances that conform to the role-playing, the one who clears the level first or kills the opponent first wins."

Bai Liu lowered his eyes and glanced at the footprints left by Yang Zhi and Kong Xuyang when they escaped in a panic. "And if I'm not mistaken, they have played this game once before. They don't seem to be familiar with this tomb as if this is their first time here."

"Fuck, you bastard." Mu Sicheng clenched his fists, his face angry. "I hate it most when people who have completed the game use the strategy to bully noobs."

"But the next part should be a game plot that they are unfamiliar with." Bai Liu raised his eyes and smiled, "I like fair games, so now we are on the same starting line again."

Mu Sicheng was puzzled: "Haven't they played this before? Why does it feel so strange?"

Bai Liu smiled and said, "There are also different side plots in the game, leading to different endings. Judging from how afraid they are of the Taoist zombies and how they intentionally avoided the Taoist zombies in the tomb, they should not have taken this side plot last time, otherwise they would not have known how to deal with the Taoist zombies."

"In short, the route they took last time should have been a [normal end] route."

Bai Liu tilted his head and smiled in a friendly manner: "But I chose the [true end] route this time. As for this branch, they and we are both in a state of blank information, so it depends on our own ability from now on."

After saying that, Bai Liu turned around and continued walking outside with no unusual expression.

Mu Sicheng paused for a moment, he opened his mouth to ask something, but in the end he didn't ask, and followed Bai Liu in silence.

...If triggering this so-called [true end] line from the beginning was Bai Liu's goal, then from the moment they entered the tomb, they encountered the ghost trap and accidentally separated, leaving Mu Sicheng to cross the ghost bridge alone, with his soul separated and trapped, marrying more than 30 brides, and returning to save Mu Sicheng's body, Bai Liu almost died on the ghost bridge halfway...

Among these, each of their seemingly accidental or trap-setting links by Kong Xuyang just happened to allow them to escape danger in the next link, and seemed to allow Bai Liu to benefit from it intentionally or unintentionally.

Because Bai Liu sacrificed himself to save Mu Sicheng, Mu Sicheng is now devoted to Bai Liu. Because Mu Sicheng and his bride got married, they happened to avoid the Taoist zombie. Because of the Yin energy gathered by the trap set by Kong Xuyang at the door, Bai Liu was able to successfully awaken the Taoist zombie...

...It seems...that from the very beginning, every person and thing here had already been arranged by Bai Liu.

He was just a puppet in Bai Liu's hands, walking along the path that Bai Liu had written long ago and thought was interesting.

Being used without knowing it, and feeling grateful even after giving everything.

Mu Sicheng looked at Bai Liu's slender figure walking forward with the candlestick in his hand, and the faint smile on Bai Liu's face, and felt a chill down his spine.

Bai Liu turned around and gave him a questioning look, his eyes showing no signs of defense: "What's wrong?"

Mu Sicheng noticed the two sharp teeth on Bai Liu's lips, and the cold air in his heart suddenly escaped. His expression and tone softened again, and he shook his head a little awkwardly: "...Nothing, just asking if it doesn't affect you that you made me so angry?"

Bai Liu smiled casually: "It's okay, I will recover slowly, don't worry about me."

Seeing that Bai Liu talked to him without any grudge, Mu Sicheng breathed a sigh of relief but felt guilty at the same time.

He was the one who made conspiracy theories and malicious assumptions about Bai Liu.

How could the person who planned everything and exploited things ruthlessly to the extreme be Bai Liu, who has made herself pale and haggard just to save him?

Bai Liu held up a candlestick, and the orange flames shone on his face, making his smile warm and friendly, but there was no emotion in his eyes: "We are teammates, and we should help each other."

Mu Sicheng nodded as a matter of course: "Of course."

the other end.

Kong Xuyang and Yang Zhi pasted several disguise talismans on their bodies and hid in the shade of bushes. They dared not even to step out of the air and looked from afar at the Taoist zombie who was guarding the gate of Yinshan Village in the night, motionless.

This Taoist zombie was tall, about two meters tall at first glance in the night. He was wearing a black Taoist robe with a yellow background, a yellow crown with gold and jade patterns on his head, thick-soled black and white cloud boots on his feet, and a long peach wood sword on his back. His entire body was emitting an unknown blood-red halo.

Its fangs grew to its cheeks and were covered with rusty blood stains. Its nose, eyes, and forehead were dark purple. From time to time, it emitted a low, rumbling sound from its throat. The fingernails of its raised fingers moved slightly, like a warning beast.

"Brother Kong." Yang Zhi was sweating profusely, and his voice was extremely soft, "...Is there anything in your Maoshan Taoist book that can control it?"

Kong Xuyang was furious and helpless: "If I had any other choice, I would still hide here with you!"

Yang Zhi's legs were so weak that he half-knelt on the ground: "But it is a zombie after all! There must be a way to control it or slow down its attack in the orthodox magic!"

"There are indeed many methods in my book that can control zombies." Kong Xuyang's expression was gloomy, "But they are ineffective against this thing, because it is not only a zombie transformed by a Taoist with profound Taoism, but also can release magic by itself."

"And there is a golden glow on this thing, which means that he did a lot of good deeds during his lifetime, and many people are grateful to him. They pray to God to let him avoid disasters after his death and keep his sanity. It can be said that it is a ghost blessed by God, and decent magic is ineffective against it."

"No!" Yang Zhi was stunned. He pointed at the zombie and said, "Brother Kong, you and I both know that this thing was made by a Taoist priest for immortality."

"This Taoist deceived hundreds of men, women and children from Yinshan Village into blood sacrifices, and used evil magic to turn himself into an immortal and conscious monster. With such a huge sin, how could he have a golden glow of blessings?!"

"I'm also surprised." Kong Xuyang's face was gloomy. "In order to refine corpses, this Taoist used the red and white evil spirits of living people to bury himself. He forced unmarried girls to die on the way to get married and forced old people to drown in the pond and buried them with him. This is how he refined such a ferocious zombie that killed countless people."

“Yes.” Yang Zhi nodded frantically. “This zombie continued to absorb the vitality of the descendants of Yinshan Village, causing a lot of murders, resulting in the death of all the descendants of such a village. And finally, after a hundred years, its yin energy was complete and it was able to fully recover and be born again.”

"Zombies live by sucking blood, and we have the blood of the descendants of Yinshan Village. This Taoist zombie has been fed with the vitality of the descendants of Yinshan Village for so many years, and will automatically look for people with similar auras..."

Yang Zhi shuddered and muttered to himself, "...On the seventh night of the last game, I just felt something rushing out of the tomb, and the blood vessels of the player next to me were bitten and sucked dry. The whole person turned into a human stick in ten seconds. If we hadn't run fast..."

Kong Xuyang interrupted Yang Zhi with an unpleasant look on his face: "Stop talking."

For a moment, both of them fell silent. The only sounds in the bushes were the chirping of cicadas, the chirping of crickets, the low growls from zombie throats, and the heavy, tense, and suppressed breathing of Yang Zhi and Kong Xuyang.

Sweat dripped from their chins.

"Damn it." Kong Xuyang gritted his teeth and cursed, "I've played so many games, but I've never seen such an evil monster!"

"It has no pre-swing, no ultimate move, no selection conditions for killing players, and is basically immune to all skill attacks and moves. Its attack and defense values ​​are ridiculously high." Yang Zhi shook his head and added with tears in his eyes, "Once it is released, there is no time to find its weaknesses. It dies immediately."

"Fortunately, it hasn't gone completely crazy yet." Kong Xuyang managed to calm himself down. "We just need to pass the level before then. We've passed it once, so it's not a difficult task..."

Yang Zhi stared at the zombie cautiously: "But Brother Kong, if it's released, we can't go through the [normal end] path we took last time. If we force ourselves to go through the [normal end], we'll be bitten to death during the chase..."

"We can only take the [true end] path related to the background decryption of this zombie." Yang Zhi smiled bitterly, "First we need to find the weakness of this zombie and control it."

"But we have never walked this path before, and it is dangerous. We might as well go this way. Bai Liu and his team have already explored the tomb, and for some reason they have not been attacked by this zombie yet, so they have the advantage..."

Kong Xuyang was silent for two seconds. His face turned purple with anger. He raised his foot to kick the tree in front of him to vent his anger, but just as he was about to move, the zombie on the other side moved and turned towards Kong Xuyang.

Kong Xuyang was so frightened that he immediately curled up into a ball, not daring to move. After a long while, when he was sure that the Taoist zombie was no longer looking at him, he cursed in a low voice: "...Bitch..."

Before he could utter the last word "Liu", the zombie immediately turned around, frowned, glared, bared its teeth and growled, and was about to jump over here.

Kong Xuyang was frightened and angry, and his mind was in a mess and he changed his words incoherently: "Bai Liu is not a jerk, I am a jerk, I am a jerk, okay!"

After hearing this, the zombie nodded with satisfaction, then turned back to guard the village. His eyes were dull and lifeless, as if he had returned to his unconscious state, and he ignored Kong Xuyang and Yang Zhi outside the village.

Yang Zhi: “…”

Kong Xuyang: “…”

Kong Xuyang's eyes were red with anger, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Damn it, why is a zombie siding with Bai Liu!"