Chapter 119 You will all stay here. ...
Hearing Guan Le's words, Xu Yi wasn't surprised. "You got separated from them too?"
"No, I deliberately didn't go with them. I don't like my boyfriend being so attentive to Xiao Ying, and he keeps saying they're just friends and that I should be careful. We've argued about this several times, and I'm just too exhausted. When we entered other instances, I separated from them."
This has happened many times before. Even though he has a girlfriend, he doesn't know how to keep his distance from other women. He even gives Xiao Ying the best things first, and then her.
The answer is simple: they are brothers in arms, so tell Guan Le not to be petty and calculating.
He even gave Guan Le's reward for clearing the level to Xiao Ying, saying that Guan Le was protected by him. Xiao Ying was too carefree and would rush straight at the monsters she encountered, which was too dangerous.
He even shamelessly said that since they were both girls, Guan Le should be more understanding of Xiao Ying.
It wasn't just once or twice, it's happened many times.
At first, Guan Le could tolerate it, but after it happened so many times, she felt increasingly frustrated and finally decided to break up with them.
Once you separate in the dungeon, the chances of meeting again are extremely slim. In any case, Guan Le has made up her mind not to play the game with those people anymore. Just thinking about those things makes her feel uncomfortable all over.
She was so annoyed by this brotherhood thing; he hadn't treated Xiao Ying like a woman at all.
Did he truly not consider Xiao Ying a woman, or did he knowingly enjoy such things?
Guan Le felt emotionally exhausted and didn't have time to dwell on their past. Before they entered the instance, Guan Le had already broken up with them. That was it; they would never see each other again.
But recalling Xu Yi's words, Guan Le felt something was off. She looked at Xu Yi and asked, "Why did you say 'also'? Did you meet other people?"
Zhao Chang's team had quite a few people. She knew the regular members all the way through. Some died in the dungeons, and others got separated after clearing them.
She chose to give up going with them.
“I once met a man named Dong Jiang who wanted to kill me. He even said that if I died, Zhao Chang could be with Xiao Ying,” Xu Yi said calmly.
"So it was him." Guan Le sneered.
She actually knew Dong Jiang; he was also one of Xiao Ying's good dogs.
Unfortunately, Dong Jiang was still thinking about Xiao Ying. After they got separated, Xiao Ying even said that Dong Jiang was a nuisance and it was better that they got separated.
"I remember he had a reward for clearing the level. If he had cleared it successfully, he should have met up with Xiao Ying and the others by now," Guan Le said with a sarcastic laugh.
Xu Yi looked at Guan Le and said, "No, he will never have the chance to reunite with the girl he has been longing for in his life."
Guan Le looked at Xu Yi and understood the meaning behind those words.
Gao Lin and the others listened from the side, not knowing what to say for a moment. They had heard about Xu Yi's situation before, but they didn't expect to meet someone here who knew the scumbag who ran away from his wedding.
The more I listened, the more disgusted I felt by that scumbag.
Xu Yi didn't continue the topic of Zhao Chang; she hadn't forgotten that she was currently preparing to clear the dungeon.
According to Guan Le, Fang Xun and his group not only allied with them, but also with Zuo Mu, Guan Le, and that girl named Lin Xiu.
Xu Yi asked, "Did you tell them your name?"
Guan Le nodded. "Yes, is there a problem?"
Xu Yi didn't say anything, but Guan Le could tell from her expression that telling Fang Xun and the others her name was probably not a wise move.
Guan Le felt uneasy, but she didn't know what to say. After all, she wasn't very familiar with the other person, and it was already polite of them to offer a reminder.
Xu Yi and the others didn't say anything to stop Guan Le from following, and Guan Le didn't get too close either, just following at a distance.
They looked back at the backstage area again.
Similar to yesterday, there was a faceless actor in the mirror, and a freak tearing his water sleeves in a frenzy.
Today was a little different.
For example, there was a red costume hanging backstage.
Upon closer inspection, a strong smell of blood could be detected. Lu Ziyang leaned closer to take a look and discovered that the costume wasn't red; it was stained with blood.
Blood was still dripping from the hem of her clothes, and there was a pool of blood on the ground.
"Lu Ziyang".
Just as Lu Ziyang was about to turn around, Xu Yi pressed down on his shoulder.
He was jolted awake, and almost broke out in a cold sweat.
Rule 2: If someone calls your name from behind, do not respond, and do not turn around to look directly at the person.
He not only wanted to turn around, but he even wanted to speak, "Who called me?"
If Sister Yi hadn't grabbed his shoulder in time, he would have been caught off guard. There are so many tricks these people use, they just come out of nowhere and it's impossible to defend against them.
"Guan Le".
Upon hearing someone call her name, Guan Le immediately covered her ears and even closed her eyes. She felt a chill down her back, as if someone was blowing cold air on the back of her neck.
After a while, the chilly feeling in her back disappeared, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing that Xu Yi and the others were about to leave, Guan Le quickly followed them, and even made up his mind that he would stay with Xu Yi and the others as long as possible.
Later, the girl named Lin Xiu also came over. She said that the man named Shi Wei liked to touch her inappropriately and would say some vulgar things.
Lin Xiu, unable to bear it any longer, slapped Shi Wei. For some reason, Shi Wei suddenly ran over to apologize, but Lin Xiu refused to follow them any further.
I might as well come with Guan Le to Xu Yi and the others.
They searched for several days, looking everywhere in the theater within the rules, even going through the backstage area, but still found no useful clues.
Almost every day, the same scene repeats itself. It's alright during the day, but especially at night, there are always ghosts appearing in the opera troupe, as if forcing them to make a sound.
Fortunately, no mission members have died in the past few days.
Fang Xun's side also failed to obtain any other useful information.
Or perhaps they received it but didn't tell them.
There are only ten hours left.
If the arsonist isn't found soon, they'll really have to stay here and live with the supernatural.
Guan Le had become much more familiar with them and often followed behind them. Zuo Mu and Fang Xun were on even better terms, and they were bound to run into each other in the theater. The way they looked at Guan Le made her uncomfortable.
His eyes looked as if he were looking at prey.
As fellow mission participants who had cleared the level together, Guan Le tried to persuade Zuo Mu, but Zuo Mu didn't appreciate it and even made sarcastic remarks. After that, neither Guan Le nor Lin Xiu said anything more.
They didn't touch the strange-looking things the opera troupe had, but they made a mental note of them.
Xu Yi and his group would occasionally exchange information they had received with Fang Xun and his people.
As for how many clues they actually obtained, only they themselves know the truth.
Xu Yi switched the hook, but strangely, for some reason, he couldn't quite figure out what was going on with Xitai.
Although she could see Lu Huixuan hanging from the beam through the hanging perspective, it was just a hanged corpse, and there was no eerie aura about him.
As dawn broke, the theater became lively again, and the stage was filled with even more strange and unusual acts.
These past few days they've also been going to the stands, but they haven't made any eye contact with the audience.
These audience members are also in disguise; if you make eye contact with them, you will be killed.
Sometimes, the onlookers would look at the taskers in their original forms, luring them to look at them, and then take the opportunity to eat them.
This is a cunning scheme.
They just won't fall for it again.
Xu Yi and his group went backstage at the opera troupe every day and found that there were some extra things there every day.
At first, there was a red theatrical costume, followed by an exquisite wooden comb and a beautiful dressing box.
Today it is a hand-carved flute.
The sculptor's skill was probably not very good; it looks quite rough. But you can tell that the owner must have cherished this flute and preserved it very well.
Xu Yi reached out and plucked the flute, revealing dried bloodstains with words carved on them.
“Hui,” Lu Ziyang leaned closer and read it aloud.
The characters carved on it weren't very well done either.
It's the character "茴" (huí).
"Is it Lu Huixuan?" Guan Le asked. "The famous actor who hanged himself was named Lu Huixuan."
“No way, the ‘Hui’ in Lu Huixuan isn’t the same as this one.” Lin Xiu shook her head and said.
Guan Le and the others also knew about Lu Huixuan. Fang Xun had mentioned it in the newspaper he had shown them earlier. As a sign of sincerity in forming an alliance, Fang Xun shared all the clues he knew with his allies.
The news that Xu Yi and his group found out was about Lu Huixuan's suicide by hanging, marking the fall of a famous actor.
They went to the west stage, the place where the famous actor Lu Huixuan was hanged.
The creaking sound from the stage beams seemed to be getting louder and louder.
The strange man with the bad legs came over again, and he still only wiped one spot.
Xu Yi looked at him, then at the crossbeam.
In the past few days, in addition to going backstage, they also went to see where those people lived.
Among them was the room of the famous actor Lu Huixuan.
I just didn't see anything wrong with it.
Xu Yi walked over, still holding the flute with the character "Hui" engraved on it that she had just seen. She looked at the strange man with his back to her and said with certainty, "This flute, you gave it to Lu Huixuan, didn't you? You are Lu Huixuan's lover."
The other party stopped what they were doing.
Lu Ziyang was puzzled. "But they are all men."
After saying that, he seemed to have thought of something and looked up.
Xu Yi looked at the flute and said, "But Lu Huixuan might not be a man. She's a woman disguised as a man to perform opera, right? This Hui is her real name, isn't it?"
As she spoke, Xu Yi looked up at the beam and seemed to see the person hanging there again, swinging back and forth.
“She didn’t commit suicide; she was murdered,” Xu Yi said.
The other person turned around and looked at Xu Yi. He looked like a normal person and had not turned into a monster.
Dingding stared at Xu Yi for a while before speaking, "Yes, she was killed and then hung up to make it look like a suicide. Because her identity as a woman was discovered, and the female roles in the opera troupe were all played by men, they felt that it was inappropriate for a woman to be on stage and that it violated the rules of our ancestors, so they killed her."
Although the person in front of him still looked like a normal person, Xu Yi didn't think that the other person was human.
This theater has a history of at least a hundred years. How could the other party be a human being who could stay here for so long?
The person opposite reached out and took the flute from Xu Yi's hand, then suddenly laughed, "What bullshit rules? There's nothing to it. They're just afraid, afraid that Ah Hui, a woman, can sing better than them. Those bastards did it on purpose, deliberately harmed Ah Hui, and even said that Ah Hui didn't finish singing on stage and suffered retribution."
Suddenly, the area around the theater darkened, and Xu Yi saw the ghost in the sky slowly gathering around the man in front of him.
He chuckled softly, “But they probably don’t know about my relationship with A-Hui. After she died, I found out the murderers who killed her and killed them one by one, making them die from the rumors they made up. In the end, I burned down the theater and burned myself to death in the process.”
As soon as the other person finished speaking, their entire demeanor changed.
His face was covered in burns, and there was a burnt smell.
He looked at Xu Yi and laughed, his mouth opening and closing, releasing a strong smell of blood.
"Tell me, did they deserve to die or not?"
"The flute was given to Lu Huixuan by you, wasn't it? And what about the things we've seen these past few days? Did you provide the clues?"
The hand, deformed by the fire, gripped the flute.
Xu Yi said with certainty, "You are not only Lu Huixuan's lover, but also the head of this opera troupe."
Gui looked at Xu Yi and smiled, "That's right, her real name is Lu Hui. Her father was the previous troupe leader. Hui watched her father lead the troupe all over the country since she was a child. She also loved to sing opera. She sang very well, but her father didn't want her to, saying that no woman could sing on stage. The best singers were all men. She was not convinced, so she practiced secretly in private."
The opera troupe leader looked up and saw that Lu Hui, who had been hanging from the beam, had been lowered down.
Her long hair covered her face, and her blood-stained clothes were still dripping blood.
The person had been dead for so long, yet his face was still very rosy, and he looked as if he were asleep.
"After Master Lu died, he handed the troupe over to me. I took Lu Hui to a new place and used all the money to build this opera house. Here, no one knows Lu Hui. She cut her hair short and simply used the name Lu Huixuan to perform on stage. But she sang too well, and her secret was discovered. They took advantage of my absence to humiliate Lu Hui and drove her insane. The insane Lu Hui remembered nothing and insisted on performing in the middle of the night. They were afraid, so they hanged her here."
The troupe leader reached out and stroked Lu Hui's hair. "When I came back, she was already dead. Her body was hanging here. They said that Hui didn't finish her performance on stage, which violated the rules of our ancestors, so she was punished."
Xu Yi didn't say anything, but took two steps back.
The opera troupe leader's fingernails suddenly grew longer and reached out to grab her, but naturally he missed.
His entire body contorted, and the surroundings became noticeably quieter.
He looked at Xu Yi and the others and smiled, "I think Ahui likes you guys quite a bit, why don't you stay here and keep her company?"
Xu Yi sneered, "You see clearly, Lu Hui is already dead. She didn't even become a ghost after she died. She didn't even leave behind any obsessions. The one who can't let go is you."
"Impossible! Shut up, shut up! I'm going to kill you, I'm going to make you stay here with Ah Hui forever."
The troupe leader raised his hand and reached out to grab Xu Yi.
"Run!" Xu Yi jumped down from the platform.
The troupe leader's figure grew larger and larger, and he even lifted the roof of the opera house with his hand.
“You will all stay.”
[Lie down!]
Seeing the scrolling text in front of him, Xu Yi didn't think twice and immediately lay down, shouting to the others, "Lie down quickly!"
Although the others didn't understand why, they still followed Xu Yi and lay down.
He felt a wave of heat wash over him, and Weiqi staggered back a few steps.
Xiang Bei, inside the space, shook her hand. It had been a long time since she had slapped the screen, and this was incredibly satisfying.
Who would have thought that this strange world has so many rules?
Xiang Bei's actions did indeed buy Xu Yi and the others a lot of time.
Xu Yi shouted for the others to get up, and before they could even thank Xiang Bei, he told them to run.
The others also got up and ran after them, but unexpectedly they ran into Fang Xun and his group.
Seeing the ghost chasing after him, Fang Xun's expression changed drastically, and he quickly took a step back.
As a result, every place they could move around was blocked by monsters, and they couldn't escape.
Shi Wei was a step too slow and was arrested.
"Zuo Mu! Zuo Mu!" Shi Wei shouted loudly, desperately throwing out the list of scapegoats in his hand.
Zuo Mu originally thought that Shi Wei called him because he wanted him to save him, but he was in a precarious situation and couldn't even save himself, so how could he possibly save others?
He saw something burst into flames in mid-air. Zuo Mu tried to dodge, but was pulled away by the force. Only then did he realize that he and Shi Wei had switched places, and he was the one being grabbed.
Before they could even cry for help, they were torn to pieces by the monster.
Guan Le's face turned pale. She finally understood what Xu Yi meant when she said not to reveal her name.
But it's too late to regret it now; Fang Xun and his group already know their names.
She didn't even see clearly what happened before Shi Wei was replaced by Zuo Mu, and then he just died.
As Xu Yi and his companions ran, they tried to figure out how to kill the monster.
Fang Xun was also running, but he was a step behind Xu Yi and the others. Just as the strange creature was about to catch up with him, Fang Xun gritted his teeth and pushed Qian Jing, who was next to him, out.
Qian Jing didn't have time to curse Fang Xun; he could only throw out the list of scapegoats while shouting, "Lu Ziyang, Lu Ziyang."
The list of scapegoats was set ablaze, but even as he was torn to shreds, his cries for Lu Ziyang could not be heard, and he was unable to die in his place.
Fang Xun immediately understood and looked at Xu Yi with a sinister gaze, "You were actually using fake names?"
Your name will be recorded when you clear a dungeon, but if the dungeon doesn't require you to tell the truth, it's okay to give a fake name.
But for Fang Xun, it was fatal.
If they use fake names, the scapegoat list will become unusable, and in that case, they will be the ones who die.
He glared at Xu Yi and the others with resentment. These four people were together, and their names must all be fake, so there was no way to use them as scapegoats.
His gaze fell on Guan Le and Lin Xiu. At this moment, he didn't have time to think too much. "Then let them die in my place."
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