179 Birthday Party
◎Bloody fracture◎
By the evening of the sixth day, Liu Ge and others successfully made the Qianqian Knot.
"Tomorrow's the birthday party." Bai Shien glanced around the mansion. Ever since the servants had left, the vast house had been shrouded in a deathly silence. Apart from them, no one else was in sight. "How should the sacrifice be performed? What are the specific steps? Are there any special requirements? We still don't know anything."
"I asked the system," Liu Ge continued. "It said everything will be answered tomorrow."
"Do we need to do anything else?" Qi Qiuxue called up the system again, "Do we need to prepare the venue in advance?"
System: [No need.]
[Just bring your Qianqian knot and arrive on time before 9:00 tomorrow morning.]
Qi Qiuxue: "Where will the banquet be held?"
System: [The courtyard where Madam Han lives.]
“…”
The next day.
This night seemed particularly long.
Qi Qiuxue heard Li Yiqing's call and opened her eyes in her sleep. She looked out the window. It was still dark outside. The night had not ended yet and the morning light had not yet arrived.
"What time is it?" Qi Qiuxue knew Li Yiqing. If nothing had happened, she would not wake herself up rashly.
"I can't see the time," Li Yiqing said, "but it should be around eight o'clock."
"Eight o'clock?" Qi Qiuxue was distracted for a moment, then immediately stood up, turned on the desk lamp, and cast her eyes on the clock hanging on the wall.
Indeed, just as Li Yiqing estimated, it was seven minutes to eight o'clock.
Qi Qiuxue put on her clothes as quickly as possible, opened the door and went outside. The moon was still high in the sky, but there was no sign of the sun. It seemed that it was not just that the dawn would come late today, but that it would not come at all.
"What's going on?" The players who woke up later also arrived one after another. They all looked up at the full moon above their heads. The moonlight was beautiful, but they were in no mood to appreciate it.
"Maybe something unexpected will happen today." Su Wen murmured softly after a while.
"Let's go first." Qi Qiuxue retracted her gaze and took a step forward.
As they moved forward, thick fog filled the surroundings again. This was the thickest fog since they entered the dungeon, and visibility was only about three meters.
"Follow closely, don't get separated." Qi Qiuxue warned everyone, and followed the thick fog according to her memory, and finally arrived at the courtyard where Mrs. Han lived.
Unlike what I have seen before, the courtyard today is decorated with lights and is extremely gorgeous.
As they stepped into the courtyard, the firecrackers hanging everywhere were lit at the same time, with a deafening crackling sound. The lanterns under the eaves were bright red like blood, densely packed in strings one after another. The light and shadows swayed in the thick fog, casting a strange beauty on every corner of the house.
There were several banquet tables in the middle of the yard, and a stage was also built. However, there was no one on it, no performers, no guests, and no host. Qi Qiuxue looked around and didn't find anything special.
"Where are we going to perform the sacrifice?" Qi Qiuxue asked.
Before the system could give an answer, the sound of opera singing suddenly came from the stage. The voice was eerie and mournful. It was clearly a song for celebrating a birthday, but because the tone and rhythm had all been tampered with, it did not sound festive at all.
Instead, it was extremely strange, like a funeral song.
Suddenly, there was a strong wind, and the thick fog was blown away along with the sound of the wind and the singing. As the fog dispersed, the originally empty yard suddenly became lively in an instant.
——Everyone turned their attention back to the banquet tables. At this moment, the square tables were densely packed with people. There were countless of them, one after another, the same ones that everyone had seen in their hallucinations.
Bloodshot eyes, sticking tongues out, intestines exposed, headless, armless, half-bodies...
Even the dishes on the table were their heads and some broken limbs, and the bowls and plates placed in front of each "guest" contained something that looked like "rice" made of blood and teeth.
"Ugh." Seeing this scene, Wu Shanyue leaned over and couldn't help retching.
Qi Qiuxue raised her hand and patted her back. At the same time, she noticed that a new section suddenly appeared on her data panel. It was a countdown with a time limit of fifteen minutes.
The system's prompt sounded at this moment: [The sacrifice point has appeared. Please complete the sacrifice before the timer reaches zero, otherwise it will be considered a mission failure.]
Sacrifice point.
After hearing this, Qi Qiuxue quickly started looking for it, and soon she saw a shining sign in the center of the stage.
Qi Qiuxue made a simple estimate in her mind. The distance from where they were to the stage was about ten meters. The stage was very high, and it would be difficult to go up directly without the help of props. There were no auxiliary steps on both sides of the stage, so taking a shortcut was unlikely.
unless--
Qi Qiuxue looked towards the right side of the stage, where there was a huge locust tree. If she used props to climb to the top of the tree and then jumped down from it, she could reach the center of the stage directly.
"A Liu." Qi Qiuxue turned around and looked at Liu Ge, "Give me the items that Qian Qianjie and you obtained from the last dungeon!"
"Okay." Liu Ge did as he was told and handed the Qianqianjie and the props to Qi Qiuxue.
It was a one-time prop called "Gravity Control". After using it, players could temporarily control the earth's gravity, increasing or decreasing it, making it disappear or restore it. However, it should be noted that this prop only affects the user himself, and everything else is unaffected. The usage time limit is fifteen minutes.
It's short, but just enough for the occasion.
Seeing the Qianqianjie in Qi Qiuxue's hand, the monsters that had gathered around the square table all stood up and rushed towards her.
"Hold them back, I'll go and sacrifice myself!" Qi Qiuxue said this, and immediately used the props to jump up on the spot.
She seemed to have turned into a light feather, completely unaffected by gravity, and went straight to the top of the tree. The sound of fighting soon rang out behind her. Due to the influence of the copy, their weapons could not kill the monsters directly, but they could restrict the opponent's actions to a certain extent, buying time for teammates to act.
Everything went smoothly and Qi Qiuxue reached the top of the tree.
She stood on the treetop and looked down, quickly determining her landing point. Just as she was about to jump, something suddenly grabbed her shoulder.
It was an ice-cold hand, but it was accompanied by a voice that she was most familiar with.
"Axue."
"Axue!"
Two identical voices sounded at the same time, one luring her to look back, the other reminding her to hide.
Qi Qiuxue didn't look back. She calmly took out the bone knife and quickly stabbed the hand that was tightly grasping her shoulder. Her attack was effective. The monster behind her seemed to feel pain and immediately released her.
After breaking free, Qi Qiuxue jumped down without hesitation, and rushed to the center of the stage to perform the sacrifice.
But she had just fallen into the air.
The monster behind her caught up with her even faster. Its body was still wrapped around the tree, but its head and neck had already extended in front of Qi Qiuxue.
Messy facial features, a strange expression, and circles of sharp fangs growing from the eyes, nose, and mouth.
It quickly approached Qi Qiuxue's body in a seemingly intimate posture, and then all its fangs pierced out, heading straight for Qi Qiuxue's throat.
Qi Qiuxue reacted quickly and dodged to the right, avoiding the fatal point, but was accidentally bitten on the arm by it.
Just a moment.
When Qi Qiuxue looked sideways at her body, her left arm had disappeared, leaving only a bloody broken wound.
【Author’s words】
There is a small red envelope in this chapter. This copy will end in the next chapter, and there will be only two copies left.
After some thought, I realized that my physical and mental condition have not been very good recently, so I may have to update every other day in the next few weeks. This will also give me more free time to think carefully about the contents of the remaining two copies and finish them up.
I have written 500,000 words without realizing it. It is the longest book I have ever written. I am really grateful for your company, your love for the book Little Skeleton, and your support for me. I am really grateful to you all. I hope that the babies will also pay attention to rest and pay attention to their physical and mental health. I hope that everything will be fine and happy!
Special thanks to Xiaoyu's deep water, and thank you to every baby for your care during this period, thank you for the overlord ticket and nutrient solution, thank you for leaving comments and reading, I like you all so much, hug you tightly
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