After thinking secretly for a while, the team members began to give their own signals one after another. Some rolled their eyes, some picked their noses, and some scratched their ears...
The yellow-haired man pursed his thick lips, made a kissing gesture, and said proudly, "Isn't this code very interesting?"
Xuan Ming nodded in approval: "Hmm, very interesting, it makes me want to play."
The yellow-haired guy reflexively covered his forehead, which showed that he was often beaten by the boss.
Xiaodao waited until the boss had finished shaving the yellow hair before he made a motion of wiping his neck. This was his code, and it matched his name perfectly.
Xuan Ming stretched out his right hand and made a hand gesture, then whispered in Zhuang Li's ear in an inaudible voice, "If you have enough spiritual power, you can summon me by making this hand gesture." This was his secret code.
Zhuang Li immediately repeated the spell, his eyes full of curiosity.
Seeing him calling his name over and over again in sign language like a child, Xuan Ming smiled with satisfaction.
Dalong made a face.
Zi Wei raised his middle finger.
Zhuang Li's eyes flickered slightly, as if he had thought of something, but his expression remained calm. When it was his turn, he raised his right hand, held up his index and middle fingers, and then curled the rest of his fingers together, making a gesture similar to swearing to the heavens.
Everyone nodded to show that they understood.
Zhuang Li prompted, "Take a closer look. Dalong, use your flashlight to shine through it."
Dalong quickly took out a flashlight and shone it on the two fingers that Zhuang Li raised.
Everyone looked carefully and suddenly understood.
"Do you understand it this time?" Zhuang Li asked.
"I understand!" Everyone nodded.
"Very good, now that we understand, let's go. My guess is that the mirror people must not appear in the basement. If they really crawled out of the mirror, we can just guard the basement door and easily kill them one by one. Do you think the Lord God would design such a stupid rule?"
Everyone shook their heads.
"I suspect the magic mirror will place the mirror image as close to the original body as possible. The deaths of Baby, Snake Woman, and Ouyang Yu in different locations, with only a few seconds between them, are the best proof of this. It's impossible for the mirror image that crawled out of the basement to reach them so quickly. Next, we can only keep patrolling the castle to see if we can find the hidden mirror image. But please remember, your first priority is to find my mirror image as quickly as possible and kill it! Don't let it reunite with other mirror images, or it will be a disaster!"
Everyone nodded vigorously.
They knew exactly how terrifying Zhuang Li was. If his clones were to integrate with the others, the situation would be dire.
"Okay, stop dawdling and start the demon hunt." Xuan Ming pushed open the door of the stairwell.
Zhuang Li was slightly taken aback as he walked out, holding his hand. Then he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Demon Hunt?"
Xuan Ming also raised an eyebrow and asked, "Why, is there something wrong with this operation code name?"
You two looked at each other, both with serious expressions.
When everyone started to get nervous and thought a quarrel would break out between them, Zhuang Li chuckled softly: "You really are my dear husband!"
Xuan Ming also laughed softly, then hugged the little devil in his arms and kissed him twice.
How could they possibly quarrel over such a trivial matter? They were simply having fun!
Damn, all my expectations were in vain! Everyone shook their heads in disappointment, then squeezed past the two people and out of the stairwell.
Zhuang Li stared at Zi Wei's back and said loudly, "Let's cheer each other up before we go."
He extended his right hand, and Xuanming immediately placed his hand over his, followed by Xiaodao and Huangmao. Everyone was infected by this atmosphere and quickly turned back, forming a circle, clasping their palms together and shouting "Come on!" three times.
Zhuang Li stared at these hands and said, "Change your hand and try again." Then he stretched out his left hand.
Everyone followed suit, switched hands, and shouted "Come on!"
"Okay, the demon hunting operation begins! Zi Wei, Dalong, you are in our group; Zhao Feng, Xu Yingying, Lin Zimu, you are in the same group with Xiaodao; Heiyu, Li Xue, you are in the same group with Huangmao. When you come across a narrow corridor, don't walk close to the wall. Be careful of ambushes in the secret passage." Zhuang Li quickly divided the team and gave some instructions.
Everyone responded and then took their own actions.
"The probability of our group encountering the mission target is zero." Zhuang Li said as he ran.
"Why is the probability of us meeting the mission target zero?" Zi Wei asked quickly.
Zhuang Li shook his head and said nothing. It wasn't that he didn't want to talk, but he simply couldn't. He could only run a hundred meters before exhaustion. God had given him a powerful brain, but deprived him of his athletic prowess.
He stuck out his pink tongue and panted twice like a puppy.
Xuan Ming found it funny, squatted down and said, "Come up."
Zhuang Li immediately lay down, his hands and feet shaking uncontrollably.
"It's so good to have a husband." He knocked his head on Xuanming's shoulder and sighed with deep emotion.
Xuan Ming chuckled softly, his voice filled with joy, "It's good to have a wife."
The two of them were showing their love as they ran.
Zi Wei chased after them and asked, "Why do you say the probability of our group meeting the mission target is zero?"
Zhuang Li glanced back at him and said, "Because my mirror image will definitely avoid direct contact with me. Wherever I am, he will hide away. Why are you so anxious? Do you really want to kill my mirror image? Tell me honestly, do you have any objection to me?"
Zi Wei laughed dryly and said, "How could that be? How dare I have any opinion about you?"
Da Long immediately complained, "He's lying. He just told me that if he ever met your lookalike, he'd give him a good beating to vent his anger. Think carefully about his words. How much of a grievance must he have suffered to feel so angry?"
Zhuang Li looked at Zi Wei with a smile.
Zi Wei's face flushed with embarrassment. He rushed forward and grabbed Dalong's neck, shouting, "Dalong, that's enough! We are old comrades. How could you betray me?"
The group ran away, laughing and joking, in a very relaxed atmosphere.
The other two groups were very nervous.
"Huangmao, if you meet Zhuang Li's mirror image, do you dare to take action?" Heiyu asked in a low voice while being alert to the situation around him.
Huangmao imagined the scene and couldn't help but shudder.
But he said nonchalantly, "Why wouldn't I dare to do it? I can smash his head in with one punch!"
As soon as the words fell, they turned the corner and saw Zhuang Li lying in the dim corridor, gasping for breath. He was exhausted, his clothes soaked with sweat, and his curly hair stuck to his face, looking very disheveled.
Everyone knew that he was too weak to run.
Huangmao and the others froze in place instantly.
According to common sense, Zhuang Li would not be alone, but he had a rope tied around his waist with bells tied to it. The method of tying the rope was very complicated, and only Xuan Ming knew how to operate it.
In other words, it is very likely that Zhuang Li was unable to run away, so Xuan Ming placed him here and gave him a simple alarm device.
However, whether this person is the real one or not can only be known through a secret code. You can't just slit someone's throat because of a little doubt. If you kill the wrong person, the boss will have to slit his own throat.
Thinking of this, Huangmao unconsciously looked at Zhuang Li's right hand.
"Zhuang Li" panted as he used his mind to capture these people. When he touched that layer of defense, he blinked and immediately changed to Plan B. He began to observe these people secretly, noticed the yellow-haired man's gaze, and tentatively raised his right hand.
If Zhuang Li can read minds, then naturally he can too.
The yellow-haired man's expression relaxed slightly, but his gaze intensified, indicating that raising his hand was only the first step; there were still follow-up actions to be completed. As expected, the master had everyone develop a code to identify each other.
"Zhuang Li" spread out his five fingers and tentatively flicked each finger slightly. He found that the yellow-haired man stared at his index and middle fingers for a little longer, so he slowly retracted the rest of his fingers, leaving only his index and middle fingers raised together, and made a gesture similar to an oath.
Huangmao breathed a sigh of relief and then walked over quickly.
Zhuang Li knew he had guessed correctly. From then on, he only needed to observe carefully to learn the signals these people were using. Then, when they relaxed their guard, he could break through their defenses and control them.
He blinked his dark eyes and his breathing gradually became regular.
"Sister-in-law, where is my brother?" Huangmao bent down and helped the person up.
Just as Zhuang Li was about to respond, a dagger suddenly pierced his heart. He lowered his head, staring at the knife in astonishment. Then, raising his head, he asked with great difficulty and reluctance, "What did I do wrong?"
He didn't believe his mind reading could fail! He was always right!
Huangmao covered his head with his big hand and pushed him to the ground. He turned his head away, not daring to look directly at the face that was constantly spitting blood. He said sarcastically: "Compared to my sister-in-law, your IQ is still a little bit lower."
"What's the difference? My code must be correct!"
Zhuang Li gushed out large mouthfuls of blood and, using his last bit of strength, said, "I must be right!"
Then he fell into eternal darkness.
Huangmao ripped off the curtains and covered the body with them. Then he patted his chest and yelled, "Fuck! How did he know our secret code? We almost got tricked by him! Were we in the stairwell when we exchanged the secret code? No one could have seen us, right? Is he a ghost, able to lurk around us silently?"
Li Xue and Heiyu shook their heads and said they didn't know.
Their minds are still confused.
"This knot was invented by our boss, and only he knows how to tie it! How did this mirror man learn it?" The yellow-haired man kicked the rope sticking out of the curtains and kept scratching his head.
Li Xue speculated, "Didn't the captain say that the portraits in the hall might have surveillance capabilities? I guess while we were talking in the hall, he must have been hiding behind one of the portraits and saw Xuanming's knot-tying method."
"Fuck, he learned it after just one look! What's the structure of this guy's brain?" The yellow-haired man turned pale with fear, and then sighed sincerely: "Luckily we killed him, otherwise he would have killed us! But my sister-in-law is the most capable. She knew that the mirror man could guess the code, so she added a safety net."
Li Xue and Heiyu nodded hurriedly.
How does the saying go? A person who is a foot taller than the righteous is always ten feet taller than the devil! This fake devil is ultimately no match for the real devil, Zhuang Li!
At the same time, Zhuang Li, who was lying on Xuan Ming's back, stretched out his slender index finger and looked at it. There was a bloody line on it, which was caused by Xuan Ming's rib dagger during the blood recognition ceremony.
Without this blood line, even if the code was correct, the fake Zhuang Li would definitely be killed.
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