She saw Lu Cai nod to her, then sink into the lava and disappear.
What are you nodding for? Yue Xiaoyan is going crazy.
Yue Xiaoyan instinctively thought this was the start of a boss fight. With such a large scale, if it wasn't a dungeon boss, they wouldn't have to fight any further. They definitely wouldn't be able to defeat the next boss...
But Lu Cai didn't take it to heart at all, and walked away with a calm demeanor...
Yue Xiaoyan opened her friend list, she had to get in touch!
Ok, still no signal...
The cleaner over there was no longer seriously injured. Shi Rukui stood up and saw Yue Xiaoyan looking anxious. He knew what she was worried about.
"When has Lu Cai ever gotten into trouble?" Shi Rukui didn't know what to say. He just didn't understand why Yue Xiaoyan was always worried about Lu Cai.
Yue Xiaoyan looked at the bubbling magma: "She's like a gambler, doing everything recklessly..."
He's just a crazy gambler, rushing forward with brute force.
Shi Rukui was amused. Even though he was a gambler, Lu Cai was the most ferocious gambler on the field and could not afford to lose.
He looked towards the lava, and as his eyes swept across, he saw a thin figure rushing towards the lava.
"Stop her!" The hotel owner who was taking care of the cleaner suddenly reminded in a stern voice.
Shi Rukui saw clearly that the figure was Tingting who had escaped earlier. There was a long cut on her abdomen and black blood was lying there. She was rushing towards the lava regardless of anything.
After hearing the hotel owner's reminder, Shi Rukui didn't have time to question it and ran out with a long stick in his hand.
Maybe because her stomach was dug out, Tingting's movements were much slower than before.
The long stick was swung down, blocking her way. Tingting bared her teeth and growled, but she felt deaf at the sight and didn't want to argue any further.
At this moment, there was a sound of sparks exploding behind her. She knew what it was without turning around. She tried to leave in a hurry, but the wind blew behind her and a long green fluorescent whip tied her up.
Shi Rukui did not put away the stick in his hand, but just looked up at the cashier counter and saw the girl sitting cross-legged, looking at him with somewhat tired eyes.
He used props to drag Tingting to the front desk, raised his eyes and asked the hotel owner: "What should we do now?" His eyes were gloomy and he looked at the old man silently.
"Wait." The old man in the hotel looked at the bubbling magma.
Shi Rukui also followed his gaze and asked, "What is that?"
The old man said with a hint of ridicule: "Devil."
——
Lu Cai walked in an endless expanse of white. It was so quiet all around him that he could only hear his own breathing.
She walked for a long time, but could not see any other colors and could not see the end.
Finally, she was tired and didn't want to walk anymore, so she just sat down there.
He lifted the bandage tightly wrapped around his right arm and looked at his wrist. The place where the battery symbol used to be was now smooth and flawless.
The last time he was beaten by Red-Eyes Black Windbreaker and his energy was exhausted, the symbol also cracked and disappeared not long after.
She wrapped the bandages around her and this time rushed into the magma, not knowing what the opponent was. She directly used the instantaneous explosive force of the digital surge during data replication to conduct an "explosion experiment."
Logically, she wouldn't be affected because those were her data.
Just as he was wondering what went wrong, a faint red thread floated past his eyes. Lu Cai slowly raised his eyes and looked at the fleeting red in the air.
After a while, another streak of red appeared and then disappeared.
Lu Cai perked up and stared at the red light passing around her with wide eyes. Following the direction of the red light, her gaze moved to the air above her head.
Against the pale background, a huge broken battery symbol is faintly visible.
It was like drawing a cartoon pattern on white drawing paper with a red marker, and a steady stream of red threads converged into the battery symbol.
Slowly, the symbol changed, and the broken interface healed bit by bit. It returned to a complete empty battery symbol.
Lu Cai looked at the scene and thought everything was over, but the red thread was still transmitting energy into the symbol.
The empty battery was slowly filled with red rectangles, just like a syringe sucking medicine into it. The solid rectangle kept growing and stretching, and finally stopped at a quarter of the way there.
What's this?
Lu Cai looked up at the symbol in the air. Was the original empty battery symbol just a semi-finished product?
So... this is a full charge?
My right arm started to ache violently, like a cramp or bone-cutting, and a burning pain spread throughout my entire arm.
Lu Cai clutched her arm as the pain began to spread, first to her shoulder, then to her upper body, and finally to her feet. She felt like a skinned frog, left to struggle on a white plate.
A kind of pain that makes you want to live but can’t, and want to die but can’t.
Closing her eyes, she could feel the cold sweat pouring down her forehead. She gritted her teeth and endured it, a stream of clear water began to flow out from the inside of her wrist.
The clear water flows along the blood vessels and travels to every part of the body. The cool feeling flows through the bones and muscles, relieving the severe pain.
Lu Cai took a deep breath. It was as if his bones had been forcibly broken and then reconnected. After the pain, he felt like he was alive again, his whole body feeling hot and slightly numb.
She closed her eyes and slowly sank into the darkness. Energy was constantly gathering around her, but she really couldn't bear any more.
......
"Lu Cai!"
She suddenly opened her eyes and saw a dilapidated and dusty ceiling.
Looking away, the girl's worried expression came into view.
"Yue Xiaoyan?" Lu Cai looked a little weak, and he could still see a small, faint golden fluorescent ball floating in the air.
"You're awake." Shi Rukui spoke from the side, and the fluorescent group slowly dissipated.
Oh, she remembered, those little fluorescent groups were the healing power of Shi Ruku.
Cai Lu slowly stood up by supporting herself on the ground. She looked around and found that there was a big hole in the floor of the hotel lobby where the coffee table and sofa were originally placed.
"You were just blown out! It was so scary!" Yue Xiaoyan looked at her nervously, then pointed at the golden magma splashing into the corner, "Those were all blown up!"
It wasn't just one corner, the whole hall was in a mess, with the remaining golden magma scattered everywhere.
Lu Cai found that they were still in the hotel and couldn't help but frowned: "We haven't left the copy yet?"
Yue Xiaoyan did not answer. When the lava ball exploded, Tingting, the hotel owner, and the cleaner lying on the ground were all turned into ashes.
"It should be over. Let's wait and see." Shi Rukui glanced at Lu Cai. When he was treating her injuries just now, she couldn't absorb any energy at all, but now, her injuries were all healed.
"Where's Chen Yina?" Lu Cai suddenly thought, "And Ling Fei!"
"Chen Yina disappeared." Yue Xiaoyan began to explain to her.
After Shi Rukui and Lu Cai left one after another, Chen Yina suddenly said that she was very sleepy, and then lay down to rest. While she was sleeping, she disappeared.
Yue Xiaoyan added, "I've been keeping an eye on her, worried something might have happened to her! She definitely wasn't dragged away!" She hesitated, "But Ling Fei's whereabouts remain unknown."
Lu Cai sorted out his thoughts: "So, those who stay here are all sinners..."
"While waiting for you to come back, the hotel owner told us a story." Shi Rukui looked up at the somewhat shabby hotel.
It is said that this was once an ancestral hall where a family surnamed Duan worshipped their ancestors.
One day, the head of the Duan family had a dream. In the dream, there was an unclear-looking person asking the Duan family to pay back a debt.
It turns out that their family once made a deal with the devil in exchange for endless wealth. The price was that in every generation, there would be a child who inherited the devil's bloodline.
The devil wants to take away the children with devil blood, so it asks the Duan family to take the selected children to the underground cave of the ancestral hall.
"The hunchbacked boy, Duan Ce, and Tingting?" Lu Cai thought of these people.
Some people are born evil, and others are clearly evil, yet no one punishes them...
She remembered the cleaner's words and suddenly understood something: "The hunchback boy is not of devil blood!"
However, the more cruel and vicious scum Duan Ce and Tingting were not offered to the devil.
Shi Rukui didn't know what she was thinking, but she did guess the truth.
"——The hunchbacked boy is Duan Ce's uncle. He was born with a disability, and the Duan family believed he was of devil blood. Even though the devil had already chosen Duan Ce's grandfather, they still left the hunchbacked boy to the devil..."
"--Duan Ce is the devil bloodline of the generation after the hunchback boy, but similarly, in order to protect him, the Duan family sacrificed his sister, because the Duan family needed a boy to support the family business..."
The children abandoned in the ancestral hall gradually became slaves of the devil and were driven by it.
The sister who was sacrificed...was she the girl with the student haircut who loved cooking? Lu Cai frowned.
The mother of the hunchbacked boy was the legitimate daughter-in-law of the Duan family, but she was treated coldly because she gave birth to a disabled child.
Seeing the woman and illegitimate child her husband brought back from outside entering the house, and thinking of her own children who had suffered innocently, she set fire to the Duan family's house and the ancestral hall, burning them to ashes.
"—After that, the Duan family's wife hid her identity and stayed in the underground cave of the ancestral hall, where she began to care for the abandoned hunchback boy."
"—Until many years later, the illegitimate son of the Duan family did the same thing and abandoned his own daughter in the ruins of the ancestral hall..."
"—The abandoned girl was raised by ghosts. She knew about the existence of the hunchback boy and the cleaner, but was killed for trying to stop Duan Ce from building the hotel... But at that time, she didn't even know she was a member of the Duan family..."
From then on, the three abandoned ghosts attached themselves to the so-called "devils" on this land and never reincarnated again.
Lu Cai was silent, pondering for a while. "This devil sounds so good-tempered..." It was hard to imagine that this was the big-mouthed monster she had just beaten. "He's been deceived by the Duan family time and time again, and yet he doesn't want to retaliate... No way, there's no such thing as a devil, right?"
In this story, the devil plays too few roles. The whole story revolves around "devil's blood" and the selection and discarding of "devil's blood".
Shi Rukui sighed: "Devils do exist. Aren't all the Duan family members devils, generation after generation?"
Lu Cai was about to be amused by him. What was wrong with him at this time? He was even being so literary.
"I guess they just found an excuse to make their abandonment of the children more justifiable." Lu Cai began to speculate, "They abandoned the hunchbacked boy because he was born with a disability, and they abandoned Duan Ce's sister because their family business was burned down and they were too poor to raise the child?"
Shi Rukui was silent for a while, then slowly said, "That's about right... But I said, the devil does exist. The hunchback boy's younger brother lived a poor life since childhood and always envied other children. Once he was caught stealing, he got into an argument with the child and, in a rage, stoned the child to death. After that, it was like opening the 'door to evil'... And when Duan Ce grew up, he returned to the ancestral hall and rebuilt a hotel, harming so many girls along the way... As for that child Tingting..."
Not to mention, she simply enjoys killing people.
"Hereditary mental illness?" Cai Lu raised his eyebrows and looked at his white coat.
Shi Rukui nodded. "That's what I think. For a family to have the legend of 'devil's bloodline', it must be a bloodline-related issue." He glanced around the hotel. "For various reasons, there must be more than one or two children who were abandoned and died here..."
Lu Cai felt a little sad after hearing what he said.
"That's why it's so important to popularize medical knowledge. If you have an illness, prevent it early and treat it early. If you really can't have any, then don't have children. Why do you have to do all this messed up stuff?" Shi Rukui suddenly sighed in frustration. "So many people have died. Even if there aren't ghosts, they're going to give birth to ghosts."
People's resentment can form evil spirits, and when it reaches an uncontrollable level, the evil spirits turn into demons.
"You really don't need any transition in your transition from science to superstition--" Yue Xiaoyan was originally feeling very uncomfortable. She thought the hotel owner was a nice person, but she was choked by his words.
Seeing her eyes widen with anger, Shi Rukui also smiled: "Unproven science is superstition. The two are essentially similar. What's the need for transition..."
"What's going on with those people who harm Xiaoxiao?" Lu Cai asked them.
Yue Xiaoyan shook her head. "I think the hotel owner knew Xiaoxiao. To avenge Xiaoxiao, he became a servant of the devil... Tingting used the voodoo doll to kill Miss Yan because she saw Miss Yan and Duan Ce together. Tingting thought Miss Yan was the third party, and because of this, she was targeted by the devil... The cleaner killed Duan Ce because she was obsessed with staying and taking care of the hunchback boy. She used her sin as a token of her loyalty and made a deal with the "devil"... Besides, she hated the illegitimate child and hated the Duan family even more."
What did that child do wrong... She said this when she strangled the scum Duan Ce.
Even though she was long dead, she could not forget her innocent child. When she thought of the child abandoned in the ancestral hall, her heart must be filled with resentment.
"So the others were killed by the hunchbacked boy?" Lu Cai muttered to herself. For no reason, she remembered the calligraphy book she found on the bed in the basement.
The cleaner hated the Duan family so much that he would not teach the boy to write the word "Duan" in the notebook.
In the maze corridor, the hunchback boy heard the little screams and even gave up attacking them...
If the hunchback boy, the student leader, the cleaner, and Tingting are the four ghosts who have made a direct deal with the devil, then the other trapped ghosts can only be regarded as pawns?
Why did the boy become an old man? Why did all the other ghosts except these four successfully reincarnate?
Forget it, Lu Cai shook his head. The boy’s secret had disappeared along with him.
The three of them stopped speculating about the dungeon story and relaxed. They crawled to the cashier counter and leaned against it to rest.
Lu Cai still remembered the burns on his back and noticed his clothes and pants were intact. He couldn't help but wonder, has this evolved into a nuclear-powered suit? Wear-resistant and burn-resistant...
Just as he found a comfortable position to lean back, Lu Cai lifted the bandage on his right wrist and found a battery symbol with one bar of power underneath.
After controlling the supernatural energy in my body, it seemed to be more stable than before.
"Can we just wait?" Cai Lu pulled the bandage.
Shi Rukui looked at the lava and said, "Let's wait for the remnants to dissipate... Before he left, the innkeeper said that only when the shadows dissipate can innocent travelers return to the world."
"Oh, that means there's still plenty of time..." Lu Cai said calmly, with a hint of ill intent, "It just so happens that I want to talk to you guys."
Shi Rukui's hair stood on end and he quickly took out the long stick, but he felt that the energy of his supernatural power stagnated, and his movements slowed down by half a beat.
Thin but strong red ropes bound him tightly.
Shi Rukui's instinctive reaction to taking up a weapon when faced with danger was unbelievable. He hadn't expected Lu Cai to tie him up.
Lu Cai still remembered that when she first entered the dungeon, she adjusted her data attributes so that Yue Xiaoyan's "blessing" could still be bestowed upon her.
Therefore, this time Lu Cai simply used the data that changed Shi Rukui's attributes to block his supernatural energy.
This way, we can communicate better.
"Lu Cai——" Yue Xiaoyan looked at Lu Cai in surprise, her eyes full of confusion.
"I don't want to get violent with you." Lu Cai looked at Yue Xiaoyan, his tone softening. "I just want to ask you some questions..."
When she left the dungeon, there were scavengers outside trying to catch her. Putting Yue Xiaoyan aside, Shi Rukui should be able to guess her identity, so there was no need to hide it.
Instead of hiding such useless information, it is better to get some useful information from them.
——
The girl woke up from her dream and found herself in a room in an abandoned building, surrounded by dilapidated buildings.
Chen Yina stood up in panic. Outside the window, strong sunlight shone into the room.
She ran to the window sill and looked out. The street outside was wide, but there were few pedestrians and vehicles, with only one or two electric bikes passing by occasionally.
She had just had a strange dream. She dreamed that she was traveling with Duan Ce and his group. Liu Jianfei, Kunyu...even Ling Fei was there! There seemed to be two or three strangers...
Then, the hotel in the dream was haunted!
Thinking back on it now, she felt terrified.
Chen Yina rushed out of the room. Outside was a dim corridor, the floor covered with dust and debris. She remembered the way and quickly ran towards the stairs.
After going down the stairs, she saw a spacious hall. She didn't dare to look closely and rushed directly to the door.
She grabbed the door handle and shook it twice, but the door didn't open.
Chen Yina calmed herself down, and then she heard a voice that frightened her.
"This is your territory, why are you running?"
Chen Yina closed her eyes and tried to calm her frightened heart.
The girl behind him was beautiful, with thick, slightly curly hair. She wore a leopard print short-sleeved shirt and a miniskirt, black stockings on her slender legs, and a pair of black stiletto heels on her feet.
But her forehead was bleeding and she had a smile on her face.
Chen Yina tightened her grip on the handle and said calmly, "You said you would help me..."
"They are all dead, how do you want me to help you?" Ling Fei was puzzled.
Chen Yina trembled: "I didn't ask you to kill Duan Ce and the others! You...you just...you just did it for yourself!"
Ling Fei smiled. "You killed me, I should hate you. You should thank your blood... for helping me absorb the ghost energy around here..." She leaned close to Chen Yina's ear, her red lips slightly raised, her breath weak. "From now on, I will help you do things, and you will use your blood to nourish me... okay?"
Chen Yina loosened her grip on the door handle. She lowered her head, trembling slightly, but spoke in a firm tone: "Are you...really willing to help me?"
Chen Yina heard that this was the ancestral home of her grandmother's family, which was later converted into a hotel. The hotel closed down not long after, and the land was passed from her grandmother to her mother.
After accidentally killing Ling Fei, she wanted to find a place to bury the body, and somehow ended up here, only to be followed by Duan Ce and his men...
Ling Fei had indeed helped her. Before his death, Duan Ce had desperately begged Chen Yina... He actually had the nerve to mention the time they had spent together...
She was fed up with his fickleness and his love of betrayal, so she made sure he would never betray her...
Some people are born killers, and no matter how long it takes, the bloodthirsty nature imprinted in their souls will reveal itself.
The devil is attracted by killing. With the opening and closing of his mouth, he seduces the greedy and bloodthirsty people, making them fall into the devil's arms willingly.
"I will always... help you." The bright red lips seemed to have drunk blood, and the corners of the mouth curled up, revealing sharp fangs.
The author has something to say:
Question: Which plots are dreams and which plots really happened? (Serious face)
Actually, there is a storyline between the hunchback boy and Xiao Xiao, but it seems out of place no matter where it is placed. I'll see if I can write a whole extra story after the main story is finished. If the extra story can't be written, then just pretend I never said this...
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