The corridor looked quite ordinary. At the end, a floor of broken mirrors was strewn across the floor. The lighting was dim, making it difficult to see clearly, but it was better than nothing.
A figure emerged from the mirror fragments. The man bent down and leaned against the wall, then looked up at the mirror half-hanging in the middle of the corridor and closed his eyes involuntarily.
I feel dizzy. Really dizzy.
Lu Cai never expected that one day he would faint in the corridor.
She had already dove in and out of the fragments a dozen times, each time emerging into a remarkably similar corridor. The more she did, the more dizzy she became.
Fortunately, she did not find nothing. At least she found two paintings. One was an oil painting of a coffin-like figure, and the other was a pencil drawing of a man in a suit being strangled.
Including the two drawings she had seen previously—the crayon drawing of a voodoo doll, and the drawing of a hunchbacked man holding an axe—she had now seen a total of four drawings, corresponding to the voodoo doll, the axe ghost, and the combination of a headless ghost and a tongue ghost.
The headless ghost and the tongue ghost had vanished. Lu Cai tried to touch the pencil drawing and saw the scene it depicted. At first, it showed a handsome, well-dressed man, constantly flirting and making out with various women. Later...
Lu Cai frowned, disgust evident in her eyes. If she had the chance to do it again, she would never let the headless ghost turn into ashes so easily.
Putting aside those consensual friendships, the girls he later dragged to bed were all drunk or unconscious, some of them looked no more than sixteen or seventeen years old.
In the last scene, a person strangled a handsome man who had been knocked unconscious in a guest room.
The figure could not be seen clearly, but judging from the hands tightly gripping the rope, it could be inferred that she was a woman in her thirties or forties.
Judging from the situation at the scene, the murderer was not satisfied with strangling him, so he also chopped off his head and finally hid the head in the cabinet in the linen room.
Maybe the murderer disguised himself as a room cleaner and took the opportunity to kill the man.
But the truth of this bloody case was not what Lu Cai wanted to explore. What she wanted to know more was the meaning of the fourth painting.
A transparent coffin? Who's the ghost inside?
And there are at least three ghosts with nowhere to go at the moment, Xiaoxiao, Chunling, and the girl whose origin is unknown but who easily got rid of the voodoo doll.
She believed the most likely possibility was that some paintings had not been found.
Lu Cai sighed, looking up to see the mirror hanging in the hallway. Two of the mirrors had been repaired. She had originally planned to deal with the axe ghost as well, but now she regretted not leaving a mark on it. If she had copied the data, she wouldn't be so disoriented.
With a long sigh, Lu Cai jumped off the mirror fragments as a last resort.
......
After jumping back and forth a few times in different fragments, Lu Cai stood in a corridor and rested for a while. Just as he was about to jump again in the fragments, a huge white shadow jumped out from the fragments behind him.
She took a step back, taking a defensive posture, the dagger she held tightly in her hand gleaming coldly.
When the white figure stood firm, Lu Cai could see clearly that it was actually one person carrying another. However, since both of them were covered with white quilts, in a hurry, he only saw it as a tall person.
The young man carrying the person was tall, with wheat-colored skin and messy hair. He was also startled when he saw Lu Cai. After a while, he couldn't help but smile: "Lu Cai——"
Lu Cai put down the beast holding the dagger. The data on them proved that it was indeed Shi Rukui and Yue Xiaoyan.
She walked forward and looked at Yue Xiaoyan, who had her eyes closed on Shi Rukui's back. Beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, her face was pale, and she looked tortured.
"What happened to her?" Lu Cai led them into a side room. There was no smell of ghosts here, so it was safe for the time being.
Shi Rukui placed the girl on the bed and placed two baseball bats on the bedside table. He raised his fingertips and touched Yue Xiaoyan's forehead, only to feel a chill.
"Something unexpected happened. Yue Xiaoyan fell into a coma and couldn't be woken up." He withdrew his hand and pulled the quilt beside him to cover the unconscious girl.
Lu Cai listened attentively on the side, and Shi Rukui told him what had happened bit by bit.
"Xiao Xiao injured the female ghost in the cheongsam?" Lu Cai frowned. They clearly had a good relationship...
"The cheongsam ghost disappeared after grabbing Yue Xiaoyan." Shi Rukui looked at her expression and said slowly, "Maybe it's a conflict among the ghosts. We should find a way out first..."
Lu Cai nodded, but he was still worried in his heart.
"By the way, those intact mirrors outside were made by you, right?" Shi Rukui asked her.
There was nothing to hide originally, so Lu Cai just nodded and told him everything she had discovered.
After hearing this, Shi Rukui pondered for a long time: "So who is lying in that coffin?"
"It's not certain how many ghosts there are yet." Lu Cai reminded him.
"Do you think there are ghosts?" Shi Rukui stared at the girl in front of him calmly and unperturbed.
Lu Cai remained noncommittal: "But for now, I need to deal with the axe ghost first..."
Bang--
There were heavy footsteps in the corridor and the dragging sound of metal tools on the ground.
Just now... that sound was the sound of an axe chopping...
Lu Cai was speechless. She had been jumping for so long without being able to touch him, and now he was here. Looking at the two in front of her, one was unconscious, the other was powerless. If she had to divide her attention to protect them...
The footsteps were getting closer and closer. Shi Rukui knew that he was a burden. Just as he was about to say, "Don't worry about us," he saw a red barrier slowly spread out, attached to the wall, and then slowly fade away.
Shi Rukui was not stupid. He could see that this was Lu Cai's special ability. She was setting up a protective barrier.
"Thank you—"
Cai Lu waved his hand, and the footsteps had stopped outside the door, but she had no intention of getting up to fight.
Just when Shi Rukui thought he had misunderstood Lu Cai's intention, he saw her sitting down cross-legged on the ground, closing her eyes, as if she had fallen into a deep sleep.
Suddenly, he felt a slight force attached to his conscious world, and he couldn't help but tense up.
Not only psychics, but the spiritual world of any player is crucial. This power actually attached to him silently.
If he hadn't realized that this power came from the girl in front of him, he would have resisted immediately.
He saw in his sea of consciousness, there were wisps of red light attached to the ball of light that symbolized supernatural energy, as if the small ball of light was covered with a layer of red armor.
The red armor flashed repeatedly with a sharp aura, but from beginning to end, there was no sign of attacking.
Shi Rukui secretly activated his supernatural powers. He was sure that his supernatural powers were not restricted. The only difference was that the feeling of blockage and oppression caused by the influence of the copy world was swept away.
As the manipulator of all these changes, Lu Cai was urging her own data to replicate a series of red numbers based on Shi Rukui's green data. She carefully reversed the red numbers attached to the energy light ball and the player system.
This was much easier than the last time she had to retrieve her own data. Although a little cold sweat broke out on her forehead, she couldn't help but feel excited.
She had wanted to do this for a long time. After studying the players' data, Lu Cai was curious. If she could change and copy the data of zombie monsters, could the players' data also be copied and changed?
Players without superpowers rely on the energy provided by the system, while players with awakened superpowers have more active superpower energy groups hidden beneath the system data.
The little ball was shining with a light golden light, and was filled with the same warmth as the healing power used by Shi Rukui.
She covered it with the successfully copied data, and a few numbers popped out in red. The popped-out numbers jumped slightly and were replaced by other data.
Lu Cai was still carefully modifying it, striving to make it fit perfectly. Halfway through, she felt the little ball of light struggle. She paused, wondering if she had been too harsh...
When everything calmed down, Chief Judge Lu breathed a sigh of relief, and then he heard the door being hacked open. Outside, he heard the sound of the Axe Ghost swinging his axe wildly, but unfortunately he couldn't get in.
She raised her hand to wipe the cold sweat from her forehead, and when she looked up, she met the eyes that were deaf and unable to tell whether he was happy or angry.
"I have temporarily adjusted your attributes, but I'm not sure how long it will last." Lu Cai stood up with a calm expression.
She thought it should be no problem to protect the unconscious Yue Xiaoyan.
Shi Rukui suddenly asked her: "Why do you pretend to be a player?"
Lu Cai paused, her face froze in shock, then she squinted at him: "It seems you don't really need my help—" She raised her hand, as if preparing to retract her supernatural power.
Shi Rukui just wanted to test it out. After all, neither he nor Yue Xiaoyan could sense Lu Cai's player mark. In addition, Lu Cai could fight ghosts and monsters, and now he could tamper with player attributes without permission. This inevitably aroused suspicion.
The girl in front of him was either a member of the KB game management team or someone who was rebelling against the KB game management team. No matter which side she was on, Shi Rukui didn't want to get involved with her.
Nothing could be revealed from Lu Cai's reaction just now. Instead, it was her raising of her hand that made Shi Rukui quickly dodge away.
"Just a joke—" He smiled faintly.
Lu Cai glanced at Yue Xiaoyan lying on the bed before withdrawing his hand. Seeing the faint smile on his face, he felt uneasy.
It's not that she was afraid of his probing, but this man seemed dishonest and she didn't want to cooperate with him.
But who lets her have no choice now...
The noise at the door grew louder and louder. Lu Cai said nothing more and walked towards the door: "Protect Yue Xiaoyan."
The door had been split open, and the corridor was filled with flickering light.
A dark silhouette stood at the doorway, raising a large axe and swinging the handle at the barrier pressed against the door panel.
Lu Cai pulled out his pistol, loaded it, and fired two shots toward the door. The bullets approached the barrier, which was tightly protecting the room, but then dodged it, tearing a hole in it. The bullet flew out and hit the Axe Ghost outside the door squarely in the forehead.
The Axe Ghost paused, and his thin figure squeezed out of the door frame through the torn crack in the barrier.
As soon as he saw the man's appearance clearly, the Axe Ghost became furious. His left wrist was empty; the hand that was chopped off by Lu Cai had turned into powder.
He raised the axe high and chopped it towards Lu Cai's head. Lu Cai dodged sideways and a gust of wind blew down, brushing the tip of his nose.
Out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at the hunchbacked and lame axe ghost.
This axe ghost seems to have a natural murderous intent towards humans. It is not a resentment generated from life to death, and he is not controlled by resentment.
His murderous intent came from his heart, and when he thought of the ink painting of the Axe Ghost, it was clearly a flowing brushstroke style, yet it always gave people a sense of coldness.
Only then did Lu Cai realize that the coldness came from the figure in the painting—a man holding an axe and chopping, who found pleasure in the violent killing intent.
Lu Cai dodged while analyzing the data on the axe ghost. However, she did not rush to take action, but simply led the axe ghost around in circles in the corridor.
But if you look at it from an outsider's perspective, you would definitely think that the girl in the black T-shirt was forced to retreat step by step and flee in panic by the axe-wielding ghost.
Shi Rukui stood near the door frame in the room. He could only see a few moments, and had no idea of the battle situation outside. As he watched, he was startled. A vague figure shot out from the ceiling and directly passed through the protective barrier set up by Lu Cai.
The small figure was like an arc from top to bottom, rushing straight towards Yue Xiaoyan who was unconscious on the bed.
Seeing that it was so close, the little twisted face forced a sinister smile.
Bang--
There was a loud crash, and the figure in mid-air fell to the corner of the wall. Shi Rukui stood quietly at the edge of the bed, holding a slender iron rod in one hand. One end of the iron rod was pressed against his back, the other pointed diagonally at the ground. The rod was pitch black, as if shrouded in a lingering aura of death. Beyond this aura, a faint golden light surrounded the rod.
Anger and death, entangled together, awkward yet harmonious.
Xiaoxiao crouched down and climbed to her feet, her limbs slightly bent, like a wild beast attacking. She tilted her head slightly and looked at the young man in front of her, her palms burning with pain.
Shi Rukui looked fearless, his eyes fixed on her neck, the red lines flickering slightly.
He picked up this iron rod when he first entered the KB game world. Later, it was repaired by a senior player and became as powerful as it is now.
When he first picked up the iron rod, it was still a piece of scrap iron that had been bent by a collision. He picked it up in a hurry to fight the enemy. Later, he found it convenient to use, so he kept it.
Until he met the player who could repair props, he was heartbroken to see how Shi Rukui treated the iron rod.
You can't blame him. When he picked it up, the iron rod was covered in rust and looked like scrap iron. Who would have thought that after some repairs, the rotten iron could be transformed into a golden cudgel.
The iron rod was filled with murderous intent, and Shi Rukui's special ability was healing power. He often attached the healing power to the iron rod, using extreme life and death situations to always make his opponents suffer unbearable pain, just like now -
Xiao Xiao didn't dare to go any further. She stared at the young man standing by the bed and said sincerely, "I'm looking for Chun Ling. I won't hurt your friends—"
The tall young man opposite raised an eyebrow and asked, "Is that cheongsam ghost really on Yue Xiaoyan's body?"
When Lu Cai first speculated that Chun Ling possessed Yue Xiaoyan, Shi Rukui didn't believe it, because the player's consciousness was protected by the system. However, Lu Cai said that Chun Ling was a mental attacker, attacking Yue Xiaoyan right after entering the side story. Who knows if the ghost will kill her...
After hearing this, Xiaoxiao realized something was wrong. She was about to run away, but she bumped into a barrier and didn't escape as smoothly as she expected.
There was the sound of something heavy falling outside, and a dark shadow leaped in front of the door. The cold white light fell on the girl's pale face.
"You really came back—" Lu Cai walked into the house slowly.
Xiaoxiao shrank back, the person in front of her was the one who truly held her fate by the throat.
Shi Rukui glanced at Lu Cai with his eyes wide open, his displeasure evident without any concealment.
Pretending not to see, Lu Cai waved his hand, and a faint red fluorescent light rose from the edge of the bed. Indeed, she had given Shi Rukui a twist, hiding the protective barrier in the room and pretending to let Xiaoxiao in, just to capture her.
It was her fault for not explaining this to Shi Rukui in advance.
But Shi Rukui was too cunning, forcing Lu Cai to be on guard.
The small intrusion just now was also a test of Shi Rukui's ability. Lu Cai glanced at the black iron rod, and the light golden fluorescence surrounded the rod.
He is a tough guy and cannot be offended.
Lu Cai thought to himself that he seemed to have offended someone.
Watching the light red surrounding the bed fade away, Shi Rukui's cold brows finally relaxed. At least she didn't use the unconscious Yue Xiaoyan as bait.
"I just want to ask you one question. Between you and Chun Ling, who is the 'Eye of the Ghost Mirror'?" Lu Cai walked up to Xiao Xiao, squatted down, and stared at the almost invisible eyes on Xiao Xiao's face.
Xiaoxiao trembled only for a moment, then immediately banged her head hard on the ground, imitating the tricks from the TV series to perfection.
"I don't know, I really don't know--" she cried out softly.
Lu Cai watched the female ghost perform in front of him, and wondered if he looked too gullible. Even in such a situation, Xiao Xiao still looked like she was in the mood for acting.
"Okay, I'll go deal with Chunling first." Lu Cai stood up slowly, "If Chunling is the 'Eye of the Ghost Mirror', we can just complete the mission and leave. If she is not..." Her eyes fell on Xiaoxiao, and she didn't say the rest of the words.
In fact, the speculation that "the ghost mirror eye is the ghost itself" came up when she learned that Xiaoxiao injured Chunling.
In this side story, the two opposing camps are players and goblins. No matter how much conflict there is between goblins, they shouldn't fight to the death.
Then their fighting behavior must be related to the side story, and the key point of the side story is the "Ghost Mirror Eye".
When she asked Xiaoxiao just now, she didn't want Xiaoxiao's answer, but Xiaoxiao's attitude.
When Xiaoxiao heard her question, she began to beg for mercy, and was not surprised at all that "the Ghost Mirror Eye is a ghost."
When Lu Cai looked at the ghost girl's expression, he knew everything.
Approaching the bedside, she looked at Yue Xiaoyan, whose brows were furrowed and her face was pale. Lu Cai had no idea how to wake Yue Xiaoyan up, so she could only try to analyze her data.
He raised his hand and placed his fingertips on Yue Xiaoyan's sweaty forehead. She saw a green world of data. As the data danced, Lu Cai also discovered that everyone's database was different.
When I saw Qin Yu's data arrangement before, each data was closely connected, the numbers were quickly converted, and the operation was very high-speed. It was very similar to Qin Yu himself, efficient and vigilant.
I just flipped Shi Rukui's attributes and saw that his data world was flat and lazy, with each number jumping slowly. He didn't care much about Lu Cai's invasion, but underneath his laziness, he was guarding against hidden minions.
Now entering Yue Xiaoyan's world of consciousness, the jumping numbers are like children trying hard to keep running, full of energy and endless curiosity.
Red data shuttles through it, and when you pass by the number column next to it, you can be distracted and look at the passing red.
But she did not find the orange data from the game world, and was about to go deeper into it and directly enter the deep-level supernatural energy storage.
The red numbers suddenly stopped, and she slowly walked towards a corner not far away. Passing by several clusters of green data—
finally......
Finally, in that corner, I saw an orange-yellow data cluster.
There are also a few strands of light green numbers arranged, tightly encircling the orange-yellow data, as if a giant python has caught its prey and is wrapping it with its thick body, waiting for the prey to die.
Lu Cai's breathing stopped. Those green data did belong to Yue Xiaoyan.
The fiercely entangled data array squeezed hard, and the orange-yellow data cluster finally gave up. The orange light gradually dimmed, shrinking smaller and smaller, becoming weaker and weaker...
Among the data tightly wrapped around the light ball, there was one that was the most ferocious. It slowly loosened the light ball and stretched out in the corner.
Lu Cai opened his eyes and heard the sound of metal hitting the ground. Looking in the direction of the sound, he saw a young man in a white quilt holding a stick against the female ghost's throat, who was struggling desperately on the ground.
After three seconds of stunned silence, Lu Cai looked at the little expression on the ground and roughly guessed that this female ghost didn't learn her lesson after being beaten. She was probably planning to launch another sneak attack, but was knocked down in the end.
Seeing Lu Cai come to his senses, the female ghost stammered and struggled, and Shi Rukui also tilted his head.
"Chun Ling is dead." Lu Cai put on a thoughtful look, "It seems that she is not the 'Ghost Mirror Eye'——"
The little limbs relaxed.
"Oh, so she really is the 'Ghost Mirror Eye'." Lu Cai said this again. Ghosts are too easy to deceive.
Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment before she realized that she had been deceived by her.
Lu Cai used words to test Xiao Xiao, pretending to have dealt with Chun Ling, but Xiao Xiao suddenly relaxed. This was unreasonable. If Chun Ling was not the "Eye of the Ghost Mirror", she would be the next one to be shattered. But Xiao Xiao was not afraid at all.
You know, there's a red rope around her neck that could kill her at any time...
This female ghost is not afraid of dying again.
The most important thing was that Xiaoxiao had no intention of killing when she entered the room and passed through the barrier set up by Lu Cai.
She didn't want to kill Chun Ling, nor did she intend to kill Yue Xiaoyan.
So Xiaoxiao has another way of sensing, knowing that Chunling is not dead, so she can tell whether Lu Cai's words are true or false...
So what about the orange data in Yue Xiaoyan's consciousness that was strangled by the player data just now?
"Xiaoxiao, do you want Chunling to live... or do you want her to die?" Lu Cai walked up to the female ghost and slowly squatted down.
Shi Rukui loosened the iron rod in his hand, and the female ghost was free. She looked at him warily, shrank back a little, and then turned to look at Lu Cai.
Xiaoxiao stared at the girl in front of her and saw a pair of dark eyes on her pale and sickly face, as dark as the deep sea and unobservable.
"If I tell you, I will be punished!" Xiaoxiao frowned, as if she was very scared, but also a little excited.
She’s really good at acting... Lu Cai was unmoved and just looked at the female ghost and continued speaking.
A ghost who is used to lying will still lie subconsciously when he is most nervous.
"Do you know how to purify ghosts?" Lu Cai raised his head and asked Shi Rukui.
Shi Rukui met her gaze and said, "Generally, supernatural dungeons require purification items, such as 'yellow talismans', 'cinnabar', 'glutinous rice', and the like. If you're a 'Buddhist cultivator', you can use your powers to activate the 'Rebirth Mantra'..." He turned to look at Yue Xiaoyan, "The 'Wu Zhu's' 'Reincarnation Chant' also has a purifying effect."
Does this mean that Yue Xiaoyan needs to be awakened first? Lu Cai frowned.
"However, Yue Xiaoyan's abilities are at a very basic level, so she probably can't sing 'Ode to Samsara.'" Shi Rukui glanced at Lu Cai. "I don't have any purification items, and she probably... doesn't have any either."
After all, purification items are relatively expensive and do not match her special abilities. Yue Xiaoyan probably won't waste points on those things.
Lu Cai......
So after all that talk, you just told her that this is an unsolvable problem?
Yellow talisman, cinnabar, glutinous rice...glutinous rice?
A light bulb went off in Lu Cai's mind: "Is glutinous rice flour considered glutinous rice?" She looked up and saw nothing.
"Glutinous rice flour?" Shi Rukui was startled. "What kind of glutinous rice flour?"
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