"Give me a piece of talisman paper." Since the ghost appeared on its own, it saved them the trouble of looking for it again.
Taking the talisman from Zhou Zhou, Elvia walked towards the ghost hanging on the beam. The ghost suddenly opened his eyes and showed a weird smile to the two people below. The laughter was harsh and unpleasant.
Just before Elvia stuck the talisman on it, the ghost actually climbed up along the beam.
The hanging white silk disappeared, leaving only a clear dark purple mark on the neck.
Its body was extremely flexible, and it climbed up the beam easily like a reptile, staring at the two people below.
Its beast-like yellow pupils glowed with a cold light, as if it was measuring the strength of the two people below. After a moment, it suddenly rushed towards Zhou Zhou.
Just as it approached Zhou Zhou, Elvia had already arrived at Zhou Zhou's side.
The ghost with a long tongue sensed the danger and turned around and flew back to the beam from mid-air.
This ghost can actually fly? Zhou Zhou stared at the hanged ghost in surprise.
The hanged ghost had a ferocious and terrifying expression, but its body was that of a human female. It retracted its long tongue and said to Zhou Zhou: "Life is short, why not follow me and ascend to heaven as soon as possible."
As he spoke, he threw a white silk towards Zhou Zhou.
Zhou Zhou: “…”
The white silk fell to the ground, but Zhou Zhou and Elvia did not move.
Confusion flashed in the hanged ghost's eyes, and then he threw out a white silk: "Life is short, why not follow me and ascend to heaven early."
Two white silks spread out on the blue brick floor. Zhou Zhou looked at the ground, then stared blankly at the hanged man on the beam.
The hanged ghost tilted his head and threw out another piece of white silk: "Life is short..."
Zhou Zhou turned to Alvia and said, "Is it stuck?"
Alvia: “…Maybe.”
Seeing that the third piece of white silk was about to fall to the ground, Zhou Zhou stepped forward and caught it. It felt slightly cool and smooth, and the material looked quite good.
When the hanged ghost saw Zhou Zhou grab the white silk, it covered its mouth and chuckled, its laughter still hoarse and unpleasant. Then it waved its finger, and the white silk in Zhou Zhou's hand moved without wind. The other end actually fluttered, circled around the beam, and then fell into Zhou Zhou's hand.
Zhou Zhou looked at the two ends of the white silk in his hands, and it seemed that all he needed to do was tie a knot.
For some reason, Zhou Zhou obediently tied a knot on the white silk and then looked at the hanged ghost.
The hanged ghost seemed very satisfied with Zhou Zhou's tact, but when he saw Zhou Zhou staring at it motionlessly, he asked curiously: "Why don't you hang yourself?"
Zhou Zhou looked curious: "Why do you think I would listen to you and hang myself?"
The hanged ghost was stunned for a moment, and suddenly became angry: "You are not bewitched?"
"Are you bewitching me? When?" Zhou Zhou didn't feel anything. No wonder the hanged ghost behaved so abnormally. It turned out that he thought he was bewitched and would hang himself.
The hanged ghost felt that he had been deceived, and pounced towards Zhou Zhou with a ferocious face. At the same time, two white silks that had been ignored on the ground floated up like snakes and attacked Elvia.
Elvia hid behind two white silk ribbons and moved towards Zhou Zhou's location.
At some point Zhou Zhou had a piece of talisman in his hand, and he stuck it on the hanged ghost the moment it pounced on him. The hanged ghost was fixed and fell to the ground from mid-air.
Zhou Zhou blinked and smiled at Alvia in front of him. It turned out that when the hanged man attacked Zhou Zhou just now, the white silk hanging on the beam seemed to be alive and tried to put it around Zhou Zhou's neck, but was finally grabbed by Alvia.
The hanged ghost was taken away by the gods and Buddhas that appeared, but the people who went up the tower did not come down for a long time.
"We have caught the hanged man, so what is that ghost up there?"
Zhou Zhou looked up the stairs, but could see nothing. He could only hear faint screams from above.
"Let's go up and take a look." It seems that there may still be a ghost up there. Zhou Zhou was really worried and said to Elvia.
But before they could go up, all the players above ran down, looking panicked, and found Zhou Zhou standing at the top of the stairs, and shouted loudly: "Zhou Zhou, run!"
"What's wrong?"
As soon as Zhou Zhou asked, Shirley, who was the first to run down, grabbed his sleeve and ran out.
He ran out of the tower with everyone in a daze. Seeing everyone panting, Zhou Zhou stood quietly by the side waiting for everyone to recover.
"Close the door quickly and don't let that thing out."
Eddie and Qian Le, who were at the back, immediately closed the door, bolted it, and found a wooden stick nearby to prop up the door.
"You can't get out now." Shirley said with relief.
"Well, Al is still inside." Zhou Zhou suddenly spoke.
The players present seemed to be frozen in time, they stopped breathing and their relieved hearts were lifted up again.
Shirley turned her head and looked at the other players: "Didn't you bring Al with you when you came out?"
The others looked at each other blankly. At that time, they were so busy escaping that no one remembered to check if others were there.
"Hurry, hurry, open the door."
Zhou Zhou was not worried about Elvia. No matter what kind of ghost was inside, Elvia could easily deal with it. He also had a piece of talisman paper in his hand. If he encountered a difficult ghost, he could just stick it on it.
"What exactly happened?" Zhou Zhou asked curiously.
Shirley came closer with a nervous look on her face: "Zhou Zhou, you don't know, what we saw was not a hanged ghost at all, that ghost was a headless ghost, his heads were falling off all over the place, my God, I feel terrible."
It turned out that when Eddie looked over for the second time, the player's body inside had disappeared, and a strange sound came from the eighth floor.
Shirley and Cole were at the back, originally waiting for Eddie to pass on the message, but they heard a bang bang bang sound on the eighth floor. When they turned around, they saw a headless ghost wandering around on the eighth floor.
Shirley was so scared that she screamed, and the other party actually groped over towards the sound.
After a lot of chaos, they discovered that this ghost could not see people, but had excellent hearing and could immediately detect any movement.
Everyone held their breath and concentrated, while Eddie approached the headless ghost with the talisman paper, but the talisman paper could not stick to the headless ghost. As soon as it was stuck on the headless ghost, it fell off. Not only was the headless ghost's movements not affected, he also noticed Eddie's existence.
A group of them surrounded the headless ghost and finally rescued Eddie who was strangled by the neck.
The talisman paper was ineffective against the headless ghost. Everyone didn't know what to do for a moment and squatted in the corner playing hide-and-seek with the headless ghost.
The talisman paper was effective for all the ghosts encountered before, so it was impossible for it to suddenly lose its effect. So in the end, everyone tried sticking the talisman paper everywhere on the headless ghost to see if it was because the talisman paper was not stuck to the right place, causing it to become ineffective.
It turned out that this trick was completely useless and even angered the headless ghost, who chased them furiously, and everyone ran down the tower.
And when they ran past the seventh and sixth floors, countless human heads appeared on the originally empty ground. The identical heads glared at them, as if they had some great grudge. Using the elasticity of their necks, they opened their mouths and bit towards them. Everyone could only flee in a panic.
Shirley waved her hands excitedly, trying her best to describe the scene she saw, but Zhou Zhou reacted indifferently.
"Oh." Duantou, I've encountered such a real-life NPC before, and I miss it a little.
While the two were talking, Qian Le and Eddie had already opened the door again, and then Alvia walked out leisurely.
Qian Le was stunned for a moment, then he looked inside furtively and found that none of the rolling heads were there.
"Where's the person? No, where's the head?"
Elvia glanced at him and said calmly, "It has been destroyed."
"What? It's destroyed, but we tried the talisman paper and it didn't work." Qian Le asked in disbelief.
Alvia walked towards Zhou Zhou: "The talisman paper will only be useful if the headless ghost's body and head are connected."
Eddie was still a little confused: "But there were dozens of heads chasing us just now. How did you know which one was the real head of the headless ghost?"
Alvia stood beside Zhou Zhou: "Use your eyes to see."
Eddie: “…”
They are exactly the same, how can you tell the difference with your eyes?
Seeing that Elvia had no intention of continuing the conversation, Keli sneaked into the tower and looked around, and found that everything was indeed calm. The scene of them being chased just now seemed like an illusion.
"Anyway, they have been caught. There are still three ghosts." Keli said.
"There are two more. We just encountered a hanged ghost." Zhou Zhou added.
So to speak, the two ghosts in the tower were killed by Zhou Zhou and Ai'er, and they didn't do anything.
After that, they searched the tower several times and made sure that there were no more ghosts before returning to the temple.
Shirley looked at the sky and said, "It seems that the remaining two ghosts will appear at night. After all, we have searched the temple and the pagoda several times."
The others thought so too, so they spent the rest of the time in the temple waiting for dark.
Zhou Zhou liked this temple very much. Its simple and ancient style made him feel very familiar. He burned incense in the incense burners in front of each Buddha and worshipped again.
Except for the last faceless Buddha.
Finally, it was dark, and the players perked up and searched everywhere.
There are still two talismans, one on Shirley and the other on Eddie. He has not been able to use the talismans since he took them. He originally wanted to return them to Zhou Zhou, but Zhou Zhou did not want them. Anyway, everyone will catch ghosts together, so it doesn't matter who takes it.
Eddie is determined to catch the next ghost. He can't let Zhou Zhou and Al be busy all the time and just sit there as a decoration.
So I worked extra hard when searching.
"Do you think ghosts will stay in trees?" Eddie used a lighting tool to illuminate the dense pine and cypress trees in the courtyard, turned to Qian Le and said, "Qian Le, I think we can..."
There was no one behind him, and Qian Le was lying on the side of the bushes, picking at the flowers and plants, and didn't hear him talking at all.
Eddie looked at Qian Le's position and scratched his head in confusion. Wasn't Qian Le following him all the time? When did you run so far?
He continued to shine the flashlight at the pine and cypress trees, but suddenly he turned around and saw nothing behind him when the flashlight shone.
Eddie turned back as if nothing had happened and continued searching nearby.
His expression was solemn because he could feel someone behind him, following him closely, but when he turned around he saw nothing.
It must be a ghost.
Eddie opened his task panel and saw the prompt information of the next ghost.
This ghost is called the Hanging Boots Ghost.
Eddie: I haven’t heard of it. What the hell is this?
He walked to Qian Le and kicked Qian Le who was about to go into the flowers: "What are you doing? Don't destroy the flowers and trees."
Qian Le looked up at him speechlessly: "I'm looking for a ghost."
"I think the ghost is probably hiding in the tree. Come with me to look over there." Eddie said while winking at Qian Le.
Originally Qian Le was still wondering if Eddie had a twitch in his eye, but the field training some time ago allowed them to develop some tacit understanding, and Qian Le suddenly realized that Eddie seemed to have discovered something.
Following Eddie, Qian Le also felt that there seemed to be someone following him, but when he turned around, there was no one there.
"You felt it too?" Eddie asked in a low voice.
Qian Le nodded.
"Think of a way to lure it out." Eddie half-clenched one hand, holding a talisman paper in it.
Qian Le took a few steps forward and walked side by side with Eddie, while the ghost behind them kept following them.
When the two men walked under the tree and looked up at the tree with the lighting tools in hand, they moved quickly behind them.
Qian Le grabbed the ghost behind him, and Eddie quickly stuck the talisman on the ghost.
Looking at the small black mass behind him that was frozen in place, Qian Le asked in disbelief, "Did they catch it so soon?"
Being able to be fixed by the talisman paper means that this ghost is indeed real. Eddie nodded and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth: "Yes, we caught a ghost."
When the smoke appeared again, everyone else came over and found that the ninth ghost was caught by Qian Le and Eddie together. They asked them how they caught it.
Because the process was too simple, both of them shook their heads and said nothing, looking as if the secret was something that could not be revealed.
The deity summoned this time turned out to be Guanyin. With a kind face and a smile on her lips, Guanyin gently waved the willow branch in her hand, and the ghost disappeared.
Task progress 9/10.
At the same time, Keli also found the clue of the last ghost, which was on the faceless statue.
"When I came here at noon, the statue was clearly lowering its head slightly, but just now it was looking straight ahead. There must be something wrong." Keli vowed.
Everyone stood in the temple, looking at the Buddha statue sitting on the lotus platform with its head slightly lowered, wondering: "Are you sure you saw it looking straight ahead just now? Are you not dazzled?"
Keli said unhappily, "It's not like my eyes are blurry. Besides, I've long felt that there's something wrong with this Buddha statue."
Keli was very careful. He found that Zhou Zhou didn't seem to like this Buddha statue. He had worshipped all the other Buddha statues, but he had no interest in this one. So when he was looking for ghosts, he paid special attention to the faceless Buddha statue, and then he discovered the abnormality.
Everyone gathered around the Buddha statue and observed it carefully, but didn't find anything unusual. Shirley took out the last piece of talisman paper and pasted it on the statue, but the talisman paper slipped off the statue.
"The talisman is ineffective, or there is something wrong." Shirley said as she picked up the talisman that had fallen on the ground.
Zhou Zhou opened the task panel: "We should have found the right person. The last ghost has appeared. It's a substitute ghost."
What is a substitute ghost? No one present had even heard of it.
Zhou Zhou analyzed: "According to the literal meaning, this ghost will capture the player as its scapegoat, or it will transform into the player's appearance. Of course, it is also possible that it will possess the player."
Either way, it was bad, and the players who were originally surrounding the Buddha statue suddenly dispersed.
"That sounds pretty impressive. How do we catch it?" Shirley asked.
Zhou Zhou shook his head: "I don't know either."
Seeing Zhou Zhou frowning and thinking hard, Alvia said, "I'll be the bait and see if I can lure the ghost out."
Zhou Zhou: "I'll go."
Others also volunteered to be bait. After all, it was Zhou Zhou and Ai'er who had been doing the hard work before, and now it was their turn.
In the end, Keli was used as bait. After all, he hadn't caught any ghosts before, and he was unwilling to give up. Even Shirley caught several, and he was the only one in the team who did nothing.
Keli took a deep breath and walked forward, while Shirley was not far behind him, with the talisman in her hand ready to stick on at any time.
The Buddha statue was only a punch away from him, but Keli had no idea how to deal with the cold statue. How could he lure out the ghost? He couldn't just punch it.
Keli thought about it, stretched out his fist and gently hit the Buddha statue on the face. After all, it was made of stone, and if he hit too hard, he would be the one who got hurt.
Originally thought that this method would not be effective, Keli was just testing it, but he did not expect that the Buddha statue would actually begin to tremble, and the entire temple began to vibrate slightly, the movement like an earthquake made everyone panic.
The next moment, a ball of white gas floated out from the ears of the Buddha statue. This cloud-like gas rose to the air, ignoring Keli who was right in front of it, and rushed towards Zhou Zhou.
Alvia stretched out his hand to block it, but the white gas passed through his hand, rushed into Zhou Zhou's forehead and disappeared.
The sudden situation caught everyone off guard. Shirley ran towards Zhou Zhou in panic with a talisman, thinking that the ghost had entered Zhou Zhou's body, and whether the talisman could drive it out, so she stuck the talisman on Zhou Zhou's arm.
Zhou Zhou's slightly surprised expression froze in an instant.
He was fixed.
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