The red light indicating rescue in the hospital's emergency room went out. Bai Liu, who was sitting on a bench, slowly raised his head and looked towards the emergency room behind Yang Zhi. He inadvertently exchanged glances with Yang Zhi who was standing in front of him.

With just that one glance, even though he knew Bai Liu couldn't possibly see him, Yang Zhi still felt as if his mouth, nose, and other organs were frozen.

Yang Zhi originally thought that Bai Liu would rush to the emergency room immediately, but Bai Liu did not. He simply glanced at the emergency room's light sign and then looked away.

Bai Liu did something that gave Yang Zhi goosebumps. He lowered his head and slowly picked out a whole orange from the bag of broken oranges at his feet. He peeled it open with his slender white fingers and chewed it carefully one petal at a time in his mouth.

Orange juice dripped onto the ground from the gaps between Bai Liu's fingers.

Then, Bai Liu lowered his eyes and said calmly, "What a waste. There are only a few good ones left after they were broken. The ones I bought were quite expensive."

It was obviously just a normal evaluation and action, but in Bai Liu's memory, Yang Zhi could clearly feel a murderous intent like a thorn in his back. He felt creepy, and fear and terror made Yang Zhi struggle quickly to wake up from the memory.

He opened his eyes with sweat all over his head, his face was pale and he was breathing heavily.

"What's wrong with you?" Kong Xuyang's irritable voice came, "You were talking and suddenly fell silent. If you want to say something, just say it. Don't keep me in suspense."

Yang Zhi shook his head. He opened his mouth as wide as possible and shook his head to make a sound, but his throat and nose seemed to be covered by wet cotton and no sound came out.

His head was dizzy, the scene in front of him was spinning, and the edges of his vision were covered with colorful halos. Yang Zhi prostrated himself on the ground with his hands, groaning, and supported his weak body by leaning against a tree branch.

The murderous intent and desire against the murderer in Bai Liu's memory were too strong. Yang Zhi was completely unable to digest and process this huge malice directed at him. He could only be led under control and become a slave to Bai Liu's memory.

...So scary.

Yang Zhi had digested the memories of so many people, but he had never experienced anything so extreme in his memory that it caused him to have a physiological resistance reaction at just a glance.

But what is even more terrifying is that despite having such strong emotions, the person in question still looks so calm, as if he is already accustomed to controlling this level of emotions.

Yang Zhi was so angry that he managed to calm down a little. He held Kong Xuyang's arm and was about to speak when Kong Xuyang's eyes lit up. He interrupted him and said anxiously, "Something is coming!"

In the pitch-black night, several mutilated bodies walked in the cemetery. They stretched their heads and sniffed each grave mound in turn, as if trying to find the grave that belonged to them.

Kong Xuyang held his breath, and Yang Zhi didn't dare to breathe. They had been guarding here for more than an hour, waiting for these zombies to return to the grave.

There are too many graves here, and they have no names or monuments. Not every person buried in the graves is related to the main background story line, which means that the village almanac buried with these villagers may not necessarily be what Kong Xuyang needs.

Not only would it make too much noise to dig up the graves one by one, it would also be easy to alert the enemy. It is hard to tell whether there are people or ghosts in these graves, and once they are dug out, it would be another chase.

So after much thought, Kong Xuyang found a solution - wait for the zombies to return to the grave.

These zombies driven away by the Paper Taoist will return to their graves on their own at dawn, just like going back to their nests to sleep. At night, they will be driven back into the tombs by the Paper Taoist to stay with the ghosts who died on the bridge, so that the couple can be reunited and the resentment of the ghosts who died on the bridge can be calmed.

And those zombies that have been to the tomb and then returned to the grave must be related to the main background storyline. At that time, they only need to dig up the graves where these zombies returned and find the village almanac that was buried with them.

Kong Xuyang had a disguise talisman stuck on his forehead. He held up branches in both hands and used the cover of the branches to watch the zombies digging at the graves with their claws under the dim moonlight, with a smug smile on his face.

Sure enough, it was almost the same as he expected.

"I will use talismans to freeze these zombies, and you can just go and dig the graves they have dug. Do you understand me?" Kong Xuyang pinched a yellow talisman between two fingers and gave the order without even looking at Yang Zhi.

Yang Zhi nodded, but just as he was about to rush out, his feet were lifted up, and he glanced at the corner of his eye and shouted, "Brother Kong, how come there is a zombie over there with the talisman you drew stuck on it!"

"How is that possible? The talisman in my hand hasn't gone out yet..." Kong Xuyang followed Yang Zhi's gaze and saw that a zombie had a [Body Binding Talisman] he had drawn stuck on its forehead, and it was spinning in a certain place.

Next to the zombie's grave, there squatted Mu Sicheng, who was digging the grave with a camera hanging around his neck. Bai Liu was half-kneeling beside him, examining the contents of the coffin that had been dug out.

Seeing Kong Xuyang and the others coming out and looking at them in astonishment, Mu Sicheng grinned viciously: "Oh, what a coincidence, you guys are also here to dig graves in the middle of the night?"

Bai Liu looked up at Kong Xuyang and smiled: "My fellow countryman, what a fate, we meet again."

When Yang Zhi saw Bai Liu's smile, which was exactly the same as the one he had just remembered, he broke out in a cold sweat and couldn't even speak clearly: "Brother Kong! How come they have the talisman you drew!"

"Left in the tomb." Kong Xuyang's teeth itched with hatred, staring at Bai Liu on the ground.

This was originally a trap he left behind, but he didn't expect Bai Liu to recycle it!

He had planned well at first, to let Bai Liu stay and slowly torture him to death with traps to create a show effect and absorb Bai Liu's popularity, but things turned out to be beyond his expectation, and there was no need to make all this mess.

The zombie Taoist priest was released, but his panel was sealed again, so he had no power to fight back. They would be doomed if they waited until the seventh day.

Previously, they thought Bai Liu would stay within the protection of the Zombie Taoist Priest, so they couldn't hurt Bai Liu, and they had to take the decryption route to save their lives.

Now that Bai Liu has come to him without a clue, although Kong Xuyang still wants to keep this idiot and torture him for a while to calm his anger, the most rational thing to do at the moment is -

Kong Xuyang's eyes turned red as he quickly raised his hand and cast a talisman: "Kill Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng now and end the game directly."

Several yellow talismans with driving effects flew out from between Kong Xuyang's fingers and stuck to the foreheads of these zombies. These zombies that were digging graves stopped moving, their eyes emitted a dazzling red light, they opened their smelly mouths, bared their fangs, turned around and rushed towards Bai Liu and the others.

Mu Sicheng, who was squatting on the ground, was filled with rage. Now he was not afraid anymore. He picked up a piece of simple tombstone board that belonged to someone unknown on the ground and hit the zombie head-on with it, knocking it to the ground.

Bai Liu stood up and dodged a claw that stretched out from the side. With the corner of his eye, he hid among the zombies. Kong Xuyang and Yang Zhi, who were digging the grave, quickly ordered: "Avoid the claws and teeth of the zombies. They are poisonous."

"Go directly to Kong Xuyang and Yang Zhi. They are good at setting traps and long-range attacks, but probably not good at close combat."

Bai Liu raised his eyes, his gaze was cold: "Steal the talisman in his hand, and be careful not to touch the book of orthodox magic. I suspect this item will affect your game path and identity judgment."

"The zombie's legs cannot be bent. Walk from the bottom." Bai Liu reminded quickly.

Mu Sicheng made an OK gesture, he let out a breath, tossed the sharp-broken wooden board in his hand, and fixed his sharp eyes on Kong Xuyang and Yang Zhi who were behind the group of zombies in the dark.

He lowered his body, a red light flashed in his eyes, and the shape of a monkey appeared. The two hands that touched the ground seemed to turn into the monkey's hands in an instant, but seemed to change back when they landed.

Almost in the blink of an eye, Mu Sicheng sneaked out from the ground and appeared in front of Kong Xuyang and the others.

Mu Sicheng slammed the brakes on the ground, turned around, jumped, wheeled, bared his teeth and slammed down hard. His expression was ferocious and vicious, his deep red pupils formed a line, and there seemed to be a tail behind him that was about to rush out.

"Die for me!"

Bai Liu had an unknown moment in his hand when a snow-white long bone whip appeared. He raised his eyes to look at the zombies rushing towards him with their fangs and claws bared. He calmly grasped the whip in his right hand and shook it skillfully to the left and right.

A flash of snow-white lightning quickly broke through the crowd of zombies that were rushing towards Bai Liu's face.

When the zombies were blown into the air by the whip, they had not yet stopped attacking with their hands and mouths, and their expressions were a little confused, as if they didn't understand what was happening to them and why they were blown into the air.

[System… sizzle… prompt: Player Mu Sicheng is about to unlock the “Monster Book: Capuchin Thief” form…]

[System prompt: Player Kong Xuyang's skill (panel silence) is about to become invalid...]

Kong Xuyang's eyes widened in astonishment. He exclaimed, "How is this possible?!"

The spectators outside the venue were equally shocked:

"What's going on?!"

"Kong Xuyang's skills are ineffective?! How is that possible?!"

Almost all the members and team members of The Silence of the Lambs stood up. They looked at everything happening on the big screen in disbelief. Some of them were so anxious that veins on their necks popped.

The only few spectators who were still sitting firmly on their chairs were Hong Tao and the players around her, as well as Ni Shen and the players around him. Even Wang Shun looked at the scene in amazement, his body leaning forward.

Nishen leaned back in his chair calmly, with his usual relaxed smile on his face, as if he had expected this to happen.

Wang Shun was so anxious that he could not help but ask, "Teacher Nishen, why did Kong Xuyang's skills fail this time?"

Nishen glanced at Wang Shun, and seemed to have just realized something. He suddenly realized, "Isn't this a trap set by Bai Liu? Didn't he tell you about it?"

"No!" Wang Shun was distressed. He thought that although President Bai discussed everything with him in advance, he never explained why he did what he did!

Most of the time, others couldn't follow Bai Liu's train of thought. Even after discussing it, he couldn't understand the connection between this matter and the final result.

Wang Shun smiled bitterly in his heart, but he had to politely ask Nishen: "I have investigated all the competitions that Kong Xuyang could find. This is the first time I have seen his skills fail. I really don't understand what President Bai did to cause this situation. Do you see what's going on?"

Nishen thought for a moment and explained in a friendly manner: "I gave Bai Liu some first-hand information about Kong Xuyang's skills. He should have started with this."

Mu Ke couldn't help but move closer. He stared at Ni Shen and asked, "Skills?"

"That's right." Nishen smiled, "Bai Liu took advantage of Kong Xuyang's skill weakness."

In the audience, Qi Yifang, who was sitting next to Hong Tao, also raised the same question:

"Skill weakness?" Qi Yifang was puzzled. "What skill weakness could Kong Xuyang have? When he played against us last year, his skills never failed. When our team played against him, our panel was off from beginning to end."

Qi Yifang couldn't help but whispered, "Besides, our team last year was much stronger than Bai Liu's team now, right? Kong Xuyang didn't reveal his skills and weaknesses to us, but he did to Bai Liu. This doesn't make sense, does it?"

"And if Kong Xuyang's skills really had any weaknesses, Your Majesty, you should have seen it last year, right? Then our fight was not easy either, we also had to endure a lot of hard work..."

"I did notice it, but we can't exploit this weakness." Hong Tao leaned her chin on the handle of the audience seats, her eyes slightly lowered, looking at the big screen in the middle of the pool.

Qi Yifang was startled: "Why?"

Hong Tao raised her eyes and glanced at Qi Yifang lazily: "The Ni Shen from the year before should have seen Kong Xuyang's weakness on the court, but Ni Shen still had a hard time fighting, and in the end he had to kill Kong Xuyang to break through."

"So not only are we unable to exploit this weakness, any powerful guild cannot exploit Kong Xuyang's weakness."

The more Qi Yifang listened, the more confused he became. He had a lot of questions in his eyes: "Why?!"

Hong Tao replied calmly: "Because our teams are too strong, Kong Xuyang has no weaknesses when facing us."

"He has no weaknesses against a strong team?!" Wang Shun was also puzzled. He tried hard to understand what Nishen had just said to him, but the more he thought about it, the more confused he became. He said tactfully, "... Teacher Nishen, I don't think Kong Xuyang is the type of person who gets stronger when facing a stronger team."

The implication is that someone like Kong Xuyang, who looks strong on the outside but is actually weak on the inside, should be at a disadvantage against a strong team, but how come he has no weaknesses at all?

Nishen clasped his hands together and supported his knees. He looked at the big screen and suddenly changed the topic: "Skills are all derivatives of desires. Wang Shun, your skills should be able to easily investigate Kong Xuyang's life. From his life, what do you think his desires are?"

Wang Shun quickly opened his system panel and quickly scanned the information about Xuyang.

Wang Shun's gaze was fixed on what he had concluded was Kong Xuyang's core desire: "To stand out and wipe out the shame of the past."

Nishen turned around to take a look at the information and was about to speak when Liu Jiayi and Mu Ke leaned over from both sides of Wang Shun.

"I feel that Kong Xuyang's core desire is not so positive." Liu Jiayi started with a cold sneer, "The skill of panel silence is more like dragging others into the water than standing out for yourself."

Wang Shun was still flipping through the pages: "I looked it up and found that Kong Xuyang usually won't use his skills when facing a team with very poor conditions in all aspects. He will only use the skill [Panel Silence] when facing a strong team."

"So far in this year's preseason, Kong Xuyang seems to have used this skill against less than five teams."

"Kong Xuyang will certainly not use [Panel Silence] against a weak team. His panel quality is better than many members of a weak team. Using this skill against a weak team will reduce his own advantage. Locking the panel will bring Kong Xuyang and the members of the weak team to the same combat level." Liu Jiayi explained very quickly.

"But the situation is the opposite when facing a strong team. After the panel is silenced, Kong Xuyang can use this skill to pull the team members who are much stronger than him to the same fighting level as him, and then use his rich experience in non-panel combat to defeat the opponent."

Mu Ke paused at the document about Kong Xuyang's college experience: "...I hated and envied my classmates whose families were richer and more powerful than mine. I felt that if I had the same conditions as them, I would not have encountered such discrimination..."

He was silent for a few seconds, then looked at the Nishen next to him: "Kong Xuyang's core desire is not to stand out, but [unfairness], right?"

Nishen nodded with a hint of admiration: "That's my guess, too."

"Unfair?" Wang Shun was confused. "What kind of core desire is this?"

Mu Ke retracted his gaze and looked at the data on Wang Shun's system panel. He stretched out his index finger and tapped it twice: "I have come into contact with many people like this. They have a distorted admiration for the strong. They think they are very good and deserve to enjoy the best things in the world, but they can't enjoy them by their own abilities, so they blame the society and their background."

"To sum it up simply, when Kong Xuyang looks up to those who are better off than him in terms of material conditions, he feels that the world is [unfair] to him."

Nishen nodded: "The skill derived from this desire is [Panel Silence]. When Kong Xuyang cleared everyone's panels, everyone's initial conditions were the same, and he achieved the [fairness] he wanted."

Mu Ke looked up at Nishen: "And Kong Xuyang believes that he can win under such [fairness] by relying on his excellence."

"But I still don't understand why this skill is ineffective against President Bai." Wang Shun rubbed his temples and asked with a wry smile, "Please continue to explain it in detail to this audience with a not-so-bright brain."

"At this point, the whole thing is very clear." Mu Ke stretched out his hand and drew a line on Wang Shun's panel, and drew the battle record of Furious Lamb. "Brother Shun, look here. You just said that Kong Xuyang never uses skills on weak teams, but only on strong teams."

Wang Shun touched his chin and nodded: "The little witch has just explained this to me."

"It's not just because of this." Mu Ke shook his head slightly, "Because the fairness that Kong Xuyang wants is originally distorted. He wants people with better conditions than him to stand on the same starting line as him. People with worse conditions than him are not within the scope of his [fairness] at all. They can only be trampled by him and are not worthy of his using skills."

"But in other words." Nishen smiled, "It can also be said that the condition for using the skill [Panel Silence] derived from Kong Xuyang's desire includes the fact that he has to think that the opponent is stronger than him."

"So when facing a strong team like us, Kong Xuyang is very cautious, determined, and even hates us, his skills will definitely not fail."

Mu Ke added: "But if Kong Xuyang thinks the opponent is weaker than him, his skills will most likely be ineffective."

“Like right now.”

Wang Shun was stunned for a long time, and finally came to his senses. He couldn't believe it, and slowly, word by word, he reviewed the trap set by Bai Liu from beginning to end:

"So, from reality to entering the Yinshan Village game, President Bai has always been following the steps planned by Kong Xuyang, and the resistance was not very fierce. When Kong Xuyang sent the Speed ​​Tribe to come to us to inquire about President Bai's information, President Bai handled it himself, and he directly gave me the most negative part of the information..."

"He even got himself injured time and time again during the game, putting Mu Sicheng in a life-or-death situation. He even let Yang Zhi devour his and Mu Sicheng's memories when he knew there was something wrong with Yang Zhi at the beginning of the game, all for the sake of..." Mu Ke's face, which had been tense throughout the entire game, finally relaxed, and a very scattered smile appeared on his face.

Mu Ke looked at the big screen with his eyes slightly shining: "If I'm not mistaken, Bai Liu did this to maintain a [weak] posture."

"He was trying to show weakness to Kong Xuyang in order to improve his skills."