Looking at the fat tongue coming towards him, Lu Cai could still wonder if this tongue was timed or had a trigger mechanism?
It's not difficult to stabilize this big tongue now, but the corridor outside is blocked tightly. No one can get out. In the end, everyone will be trapped here.
He thought a lot, but when it came to taking action, Lu Cai still used the same old routine, pulling out the dagger and stabbing it into the tongue.
Shi Rukui and Yue Xiaoyan on the side quickly retreated and hid in the corner.
Looking at Lu Cai, Yue Xiaoyan said hesitantly, "I must collect enough points to buy a 'converter'——"
The sheer awfulness of KB's supernatural books is a hotly debated topic among gamers. The reason is simple: supernatural books are divided into two distinct worldviews: positive and negative.
The positive supernatural copy is no different from other copy worlds. Players and ghosts can fight directly. The negative supernatural copy is more complicated. Players cannot attack ghosts, but ghosts can use some objects to hurt players.
If you fall into a negative supernatural book, you can either improve your courage and not be affected by ghosts, or buy a "converter" and adjust the attributes of the player and the ghost to the same level, so that you can directly exorcise the evil spirits physically.
But the "positive-negative converter" is really too expensive, it's worth more than half a month's insurance points...
Lu Cai jumped up, and the tongue seemed to hold a grudge. Three grown men in the room chased her and beat her.
After a short while, they had already understood each other's situation. Aside from Lu Cai, who claimed to be able to physically attack the goblins for "unknown reasons," the other two were being unilaterally suppressed by the goblins.
Yue Xiaoyan didn't say much, immediately being possessed by the cheongsam-clad ghost. Meanwhile, Shi Rukui encountered a ghost possessed by a voodoo doll, which attacked him with frantic self-harm. Fortunately, he had healing skills, so he desperately ran out of the room in a "you stab, I repair" mode.
She stabbed the tongue many times, but it remained unmoved, twisting a few times and nearly wrapping around Lu Cai. She jumped to the side as far away from the other two as possible.
"Just now you used your healing power to remove the soul-stealing influence—" Yue Xiaoyan watched Lu Cai dodge carefully, his eyes wide open, and a red light reflected on his pale face, like a porcelain doll.
Shi Rukui looked at the petite girl beside him in confusion.
There was some joy in Yue Xiaoyan's eyes, and she suddenly sat down cross-legged.
Xiaoxiao was with them, but kept a distance. Seeing the girl sitting on the ground, she felt curious and poked her head in.
A black leather booklet suddenly appeared and landed in Yue Xiaoyan's hands. She flipped through it hastily. Shi Rukui, standing nearby, took a quick glance and seemed to see golden words on the cover: "Spell Notebook."
Following the index, she finally found the incantation. Yue Xiaoyan took a quick look at it; it wasn't complicated. She recited it silently twice before closing the book.
The girl put the booklet away, clasped her hands together, and closed her eyes. Her eyelashes curled slightly beneath her exaggeratedly large round glasses. Between her lips, she sang softly, a ethereal, intermittent tune slowly filling the air.
Shi Rukui raised her eyes to look at Lu Cai who was dodging over there - she leaped up, her huge tongue passed under her feet, and the tip of the tongue curled up as it flew over her head, heading straight for the figure in the air.
Lu Cai couldn't help but feel the rustling of the wind behind her, but her tongue moved too fast and she couldn't concentrate and copy the tongue data.
Falling from above, Lu Cai could only stab as usual. When he was about to hit the ground, dark green fluorescent dots fell from the ceiling, and a long and gentle melody clearly reached his ears.
Without further ado, she plunged her knife into the plump tongue. The tip of the tongue froze in mid-air, and beneath the knife, it trembled violently. Worried it might escape again, Lu Cai held the dagger with both hands.
With a violent tremor, the tongue broke off from where the dagger pierced it. The detached tip of the tongue dried up into a dull stone in the blink of an eye, and the still movable broken tongue stirred around the room.
Lu Cai drew his dagger and leaped a few times. Not far away, Yue Xiaoyan, who had been singing, opened her eyes. Her face was pale and her eyes were filled with fatigue.
The tongue slapped towards her, and Yue Xiaoyan didn't even have the strength to dodge. She opened her eyes wide and leaned against the wall behind her. The huge tongue was already approaching -
A force pulled at her arm, grabbing her waist and dragging her to the side. The tongue slammed against the floor, shattering the tiles.
The grip of the arm around her waist loosened, and just before the figure in the white coat blocked her view, she saw a thin black shadow falling.
Lu Cai's movements were extremely fast and ruthless, with much greater force than before. He paused, and the tip of the knife unexpectedly touched the hard floor and pierced into the cement.
The tongue trembled slightly, and Lu Cai took advantage of this moment to concentrate on copying the data on the tongue. The blood-red numbers were not conspicuous on the tongue.
His hands continued to struggle violently, his tongue thrust upwards.
She drew her dagger, jumped onto the bed, and watched the tongue scurry back out of the room and back toward where it had come from.
There was silence for a moment, the ground was covered with stones and marks of tongues thrashing everywhere.
Seeing no movement, Cai Lu relaxed his guard and jumped off the bed.
Xiaoxiao appeared beside her: "You are amazing, but you won't always be so lucky-"
"Are you a witch?"
When Lu Cai heard Shi Rukui's question, he glanced sideways and saw the young man squatting beside the girl, as if he wanted to reach out and help her up.
The girl waved her hands, her face looking a little grim, as if she wanted to sit down and relax.
"Thank you." Lu Cai walked over and thanked him softly.
Yue Xiaoyan raised her head, the frame of her large glasses had slipped to the tip of her nose. She looked at Lu Cai, her forehead covered with beads of sweat.
"You can win even without me." She was not being modest. The skill of "Blessing" was that it would become stronger when facing a stronger opponent. If the opponent's own ability was too weak, "Blessing" would only ensure that the opponent would not die.
The energy of her "blessing" was not strong enough, but it allowed Lu Cai to pierce the vital part of her tongue with one blow. It was enough to show that Lu Cai was more than capable of protecting himself.
Shi Rukui stood up and said: "The loss of supernatural energy cannot be repaired by healing power. You should take a rest first." After saying that, he raised his eyes to look at Lu Cai who was calm.
The other party's gaze was full of undisguised speculation, so Lu Cai could only look away.
She had originally wanted to ask a few more questions, not knowing what "Wu Zhu" was, and to inquire about the players' affairs. But now it seemed inconvenient to ask more questions, otherwise she would make more mistakes.
Walking to the tip of the petrified tongue and looking at the lifelike stone carvings, Lu Cai guessed that the big tongue was probably a small monster that came periodically. It would always be a trouble if it was not cleaned up. Fortunately, the number she had just copied was embedded in the tongue, so she would know in advance when the tongue approached next time.
"Look at this mirror, it's a retro style - probably from the Republic of China period." Shi Rukui did not chase Lu Cai to ask, but walked to the mirror on the wall.
He squatted down and stretched out his hand, gently stroking the frame with his fingertips. The frame was made of wood, carved and painted red. It looked old, the paint peeling, and it felt a bit rotten and worn.
Lu Cai walked closer, looked at the frame, and began to understand what he meant.
The mission is to find the "Ghost Mirror Eye", which must be related to the mirror. There are sealed mirrors in every room. They won't believe it if you say there is no connection between the two.
But Lu Cai hadn't paid attention to the frame before; her attention was entirely focused on the reflection in the mirror. Now, looking closely, the carvings on the frame were indeed a bit strange.
"Do we have to take down the mirror frames in every room?" Lu Cai wondered. It didn't seem impossible, but it would just take some time.
Shi Rukui looked up and saw Lu Cai's expression. She was not joking.
"This engraving is the same as the one on the mirror in my room," he explained, then withdrew his hand and slowly stood up. "Probably the mirrors in every room have this kind of engraving."
Lu Cai frowned. "If it's not engraved, could it be referring to a time period?" She pondered, "The mirror is from the Republic of China era, so..."
Her eyes fixed on the Republic of China? A cheongsam ghost!
Obviously, Shi Rukui had also thought of it. The two of them slowly turned around and their eyes fell on the female ghost not far away.
Xiaoxiao felt uneasy under their gazes. Although both of them had calm expressions, their eyes were heavy and dark, and seemed to contain unfathomable calculations.
She shrank her neck and wanted to run, but then she thought of the red line on her neck. Where could she run to?
"Xiaoxiao, let me ask you, how many ghosts are there in this fantasy world?" Lu Cai's face was calm. "When did they all die?"
She pouted a little, not wanting to say anything, as she always felt that Lu Cai had no good ideas in his mind. Unexpectedly, the girl sitting in front of her spoke again.
"Even if you don't tell me, I can still beat them out, one by one, and then there will be no one left." There was a hint of threat in his tone, and Lu Cai looked up at the female ghost.
Xiaoxiao felt a burning sensation on her neck and quickly lowered her head. Her knees went weak and she almost fell to her knees.
"There are eight evil ghosts in the illusion." After saying that, she remained silent, as if she didn't want to say another word.
Lu Cai knew that this female ghost was just a piece of toothpaste. You threatened her and told her a little bit of information, but she didn’t do it like she is now, with her head down and not even doing the show.
Without making things difficult for her, Lu Cai flexed his fists, really intending to punch her all the way out.
Yue Xiaoyan, who had been sitting in the corner, finally calmed down. She stood up with the help of the wall and raised her hand to adjust the frame of her glasses.
"Let me predict whether it's good or bad luck." After she said that, she staggered to the door. There was a corridor outside, and the light was dim, which seemed to be full of ghosts.
Seeing the girl's pale face, Lu Cai hesitated. Then he thought of Shi Rukui's words about Yue Xiaoyan being a "witch", combined with the green fluorescence that had just allowed him to stab the big tongue's vital point...
It was clear what this "Wu Zhu" was. It was like the ancient tribal shamans who prayed for blessings from heaven and predicted good and bad luck.
Yue Xiaoyan stood at the door and closed her eyes. She raised her right hand and swiped her thumb across her eyelids from left to right. A faint green fluorescence lit up in the darkness of her eyes, like a firefly in midsummer. Against the dark background, it looked like a ghost stalking around.
She suddenly opened her eyes, her eyes full of fear, cold sweat flowed down her forehead, along her temples and rolled all the way to her slender neck.
The two people in the room saw that Yue Xiaoyan's face looked strange and slowly walked towards the door.
Yue Xiaoyan recalled the scene she had just seen. The green spots of light gathered into words, and suddenly a white light flashed. When she looked at the words clearly, they looked like they were painted with blood.
The red liquid flowed down, and the red words were particularly eye-catching against the black screen - very bad.
Lu Cai walked closer and saw Yue Xiaoyan's distraught expression, and knew that the divination result was not very good.
Forget it, even if the divination showed that she would die as soon as she left the house, Lu Cai couldn't just curl up in the room and wait -
Standing by the door, Lu Cai didn't dare interrupt the shaman when he saw Yue Xiaoyan staring blankly at the door, so he also glanced outside twice.
There was nothing unusual at first, until a vague shadow with a hunched back appeared on the opposite wall.
Lu Cai almost subconsciously stepped in front of Yue Xiaoyan, and the people behind him came to their senses and quickly took two steps back.
A hunchbacked middle-aged man appeared at the door. He was wearing a worn gray work suit, had a square face, thick eyebrows, and a high hairline, revealing a shriveled forehead.
He raised his head with a sinister grin. His face was somewhat deformed, with a crooked nose and a split upper lip. The most striking thing was his eyes. One eye socket was filled with a large, cloudy eyeball, while the other eye socket was shrunk to a slit, with sunken eyelids, as if someone had gouged out his eyeball.
Lu Cai looked at the ground. Next to the man's bent and slightly lame feet was a large axe covered in red liquid.
Those who are good at fighting always have some premonitions. The moment she saw the hunchbacked man, Lu Cai felt uneasy. She blocked Yue Xiaoyan's attack, only to see the man grinning fiercely, and the next moment, the axe came down on her head.
Lu Cai dodged and heard Xiao Xiao yelling, "Old Master! Be careful! He'll even chop himself when he gets mad!"
Judging from the tone, Xiaoxiao seemed to be quite afraid of him, so afraid that she wanted to warn Lu Cai.
The axe was so fast that it almost hit Lu Cai's nose. He quickly jumped to avoid it, and the floor was split open by the axe, leaving a mess on the ground.
This axe ghost looked hunchbacked and lame, but his movements were extremely agile. While he was about to chop down with his axe, Lu Cai stepped on the axe handle and jumped over his head.
In order to prevent his attention from being drawn to the two people in the room, Lu Cai even took the risk of punching him hard in the face with his fist.
It would be a joke if evil ghosts and resentful ghosts did not bear grudges.
As soon as her feet touched the ground, there was a roar behind her, followed by a string of unclear curses.
As expected, the axe came crashing down from behind her. She dodged it and kicked it, hitting the man squarely in the shoulder. The axe ghost staggered, roared, and raised his axe to continue chopping at her.
Although the opponent was very ferocious, while Lu Cai was dodging, he also found that although the axe ghost had some madness, his chopping movements always felt dull and mechanical, and very rigid.
After dodging several times, Lu Cai gripped the dagger tightly and took advantage of the gap when the axe fell to swing the dagger towards his head.
The moment the dagger pierced his temples, his expression didn't change at all, he still had that ferocious smile on his face, his big, cloudy eyes staring at her with the madness of someone staring at his prey.
Lu Cai drew out her dagger and lightly leaped to the side. The Axe Ghost then turned to face her, showing no sign of falling to the ground due to serious injury.
As expected, the ghosts in the supernatural dungeon weren't as easy to deal with as the zombies. Previously, the long-haired ghost had been dealt with by relying on data infection. However, Lu Cai's copy of the reverse number wasn't large, just a small cluster, and the energy it supplied was limited. If she relied on copying and absorbing all the energy, she worried she wouldn't have enough.
It would be the biggest joke if she ran out of energy by the time the boss appeared.
At this moment, she was standing in the corridor, the two ends of which connected to the ceiling above her head, which was covered with tiny mirror fragments. Lu Cai just glanced at it casually and suddenly had a good idea.
The figure came closer again. Lu Cai dodged the axe, but she didn't jump away. She bent down and grasped the axe handle, forcing the axe ghost to pull out the axe.
He opened his eyes wide, his grin gradually twisted, he held the axe in one hand and raised the other hand, hammering it straight at the thin girl in front of him like a hammer.
Lu Cai gripped the axe handle with one hand and blocked his head with the other. As the opponent's fist hammered down, an arc-shaped umbrella-like shield opened from the white bandage.
The translucent red light blocked most of the force of the Axe Ghost's punch, but it still caused Lu Cai's arm to feel slightly numb.
Through the red light barrier, Lu Cai stared intently at the man's twisted, sullen face. Despite the effort, she still managed to prop up her slightly bent legs, slowly straightening herself up. She pushed against the raging monster before her, inching her way behind him.
With so many fragments and so many channels, she didn't believe that if she pushed him into any fragment, she could let him find it again!
Shi Rukui blocked Yue Xiaoyan behind him and, through the door frame, saw Lu Cai pushing the ghost step by step towards the debris on the side of the corridor.
The red light, like an indestructible shield, enveloped the frail girl. Every step she took was like bearing the weight of a thousand pounds.
Yue Xiaoyan also poked her head out. She didn't like getting too close to people, so she avoided Shi Rukui. But the eyes behind the lenses lit up when she looked at Lu Cai.
"This is too awesome!" Yue Xiaoyan recalled the time when she was first pulled into the KB game world. She logged into the system forum in the community area and saw some so-called "technical posts", many of which suggested that one should "cling to the thighs" when encountering strong players.
After all, the fundamental purpose of this game is to survive, and everything else is secondary.
In the past, Yue Xiaoyan thought it was a joke from the so-called "senior" and didn't take it seriously. After all, everyone is trying to survive in danger, and no one should be responsible for anyone else's life.
But now she doesn't think so. If there was no signal, she would have added Lu Cai as a friend immediately.
Lu Cai pushed the Axe Ghost toward the edge of the corridor. As it neared the shards, she swung it away. Seeing the Axe Ghost leaning back and about to fall into the mirror shards, she was just about to jump away to avoid being dragged down by it.
Who knew that the axe ghost's reaction ability was too fast? Before she could jump up, her ankle was suddenly grabbed, and she fell on her back and was pulled towards the fragments.
At the critical moment, Lu Cai sat up, held the dagger in his hand and slashed down, cutting off the axe ghost's skinny wrist.
She rolled over, trying to avoid the mirror where the axe ghost fell. She didn't know if she rolled too far, but her foot was hooked, and her body stagnated. Then a strong suction came from the soles of her feet.
Oops!
Lu Cai had no time to get up and fell into the vortex.
Finally landing, her back was shaken so hard that she felt a sharp pain. She looked up at the ceiling, but there was no trace of the mirror fragments.
She propped herself up and sat up, the withered hand still quietly wrapped around her ankle. She bent her legs and used force to pry open the withered fingers.
She held up the withered hand for a closer look. The skin was shriveled and black, and the finger bones were like chicken claws, curled and convulsed. As she got closer, the withered hand suddenly opened and clawed at her face.
Lu Cai let go of it and threw it to the side. The withered hand rolled a few times on the ground, turned around, and crawled towards her quickly like a mad stray dog.
The blade flashed, a dull thud echoed, and the dagger pierced the withered, black palm, nailing it to the floor. A puff of black smoke erupted from the wound, as if deflated.
The withered hand twitched and wrinkled, and finally twisted into a ball.
There was a moment of silence all around.
Lu Cai hesitated for a while, and only when he saw that the withered hand had stopped moving did he pull out the dagger.
The withered hand broke into pieces.
The long-tube light flashed twice. Lu Cai raised his head and looked towards one end of the corridor. The light was too dim to see far away. He could only feel the heavy shadows.
The light flickered again, and she saw the outline of a figure half a person's height appear in the middle of the corridor not far away.
Lu Cai squinted her eyes and gradually the shadow seemed to dissipate a little. She could see clearly that it was a black-haired doll.
A fluffy pigtail hangs on its shoulder, and the pink puffy skirt is particularly eye-catching. Two straight legs are under the skirt. It stands there barefoot, and the doll face has the most common smile of a toy doll.
Lu Cai frowned, as if he saw a faint red crack appear on its neck in a flash of light and darkness. Then, red cracks appeared on its snow-white, slender legs.
After a while, black stitches appeared on the cracks, like centipede legs, sealing the cracks.
The smile was still frozen on its face, just like the dolls she had seen on the shelves, with strange and creepy expressions.
The shadows gathered and the lights dimmed again.
Lu Cai raised his head slightly and saw the outline of a slender figure behind the doll. The figure's head was slightly tilted, and the figure appeared and disappeared in the light and darkness.
On the door on one side, there is a house number 209.
......
Room 205, in the corridor.
Yue Xiaoyan walked out of the room carefully and headed in the direction where Lu Cai had just disappeared.
"What should I do?" Her expression didn't change much, but her eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and there was a hint of worry in her eyes.
Shi Rukui stood behind her, feeling a little helpless for a moment. Of the three, only Lu Cai could physically suppress the ghosts. Originally, as long as Lu Cai was there, Yue Xiaoyan's divination, blessings, and healing powers could all be applied to him.
It's a bit shameless to rely entirely on a stranger player you just met, but there is no other way at the moment.
"Do you want me to lead the way?" A brisk female voice sounded from behind the two of them.
Yue Xiaoyan felt goosebumps on her back. How could he forget about her?
The two of them turned around slowly and saw Xiaoxiao with a swollen face. They didn't know how to respond for a moment.
"Aren't you going to find Lu Cai?" Shi Rukui frowned.
This female ghost was obedient because she was afraid of Lu Cai. Now that Lu Cai is not here, who knows whether the words coming out of this little mouth are true or false?
Xiaoxiao tilted her head naively: "With so many mirrors, how can I know where the hero fell -" After that, she laughed again, "As long as he doesn't fall to 209, anywhere is fine -"
Shi Rukui's face was a little gloomy and his brows were furrowed.
Yue Xiaoyan was watching from the side, and when she heard the number 209, she realized that Shi Rukui had escaped from room 209. Looking at the expression on the ghost's face, ghosts are good at lying and deceiving, and they like to play with people's hearts.
"Can we go to 209?" Yue Xiaoyan looked at Xiaoxiao's swollen face.
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