Chapter 21.
Tang En was stunned: "What's the matter?"
Ning Xuanqing said: "Concentrating the intercom on you can only allow us to escape temporarily. Once you die, there will be no one carrying the intercom, and Cao Ziqiang will most likely transform on the spot. By then, even if we escape the butcher's pursuit, we will still face Cao Ziqiang."
"So... am I wrong?" Tang En hesitated.
"No, you gave us a reminder." Ning Xuanqing said to the others, "Let's hide in the warehouse for now. The longer we delay, the better our chances of winning!"
The butcher's son died in the cold storage. That place must be like a nightmare to it and it is unwilling to approach it.
When she passed by the duty room just now, she looked at the wall clock. The time was two o'clock in the morning, and there were only more than four hours left until dawn.
After hearing what Ning Xuanqing said, the three of them regained their confidence and prepared to run away again.
But after such a long delay, Butcher Cui has already arrived!
Li Jia stood up and was about to call Tang Yu and Tang En who were lagging behind. However, after seeing the burly figure at the door, her eyes were bloodshot and she could only shout, "Run!"
Tang Yu reacted after hearing Li Jia's roar. She could smell the fishy wind without turning around.
A strong sense of death crisis came over her, as if the god of death was tightly grasping her heart. In an instant, time seemed to slow down countless times.
Tang Yu saw the panic on Li Jia and Ning Xuanqing's faces. Tang En, who was very close to her, widened his eyes even wider, and his dark pupils clearly reflected the butcher's bloodthirsty and terrifying face.
Right behind her, the butcher was holding up the bloody boning knife in his hand, ready to chop it down!
Almost as a subconscious reaction, Tang Yu pushed Tang En away and chopped down fiercely with the boning knife that was covered with sticky black and red blood.
"Ah!!!" Ning Xuanqing and Li Jia couldn't help but cover their eyes and scream.
Tang En was pushed far away. He stared at the butcher's knife falling with wide eyes, tears flowing uncontrollably from his eyes.
However, the imagined situation of skin and flesh being torn apart did not happen.
At the moment when the boning knife was about to touch Tang Yu's body, a faint red light suddenly emerged from her body. The barely visible blood-red light formed an arc-shaped shield, which actually bounced off the butcher's knife!
This scene stunned several people. They stared at Tang Yu, who was intact, and could not believe their eyes.
I don’t know if it was due to the limitations of the copy, but after Butcher Cui made the cut, he seemed to fall into a brief state of stiffness, and was now standing there with the knife in his hand, motionless.
Tang Yu had already prepared herself to die, and was now sitting on the ground in a daze. It was Tang En, who was closest to her, who reacted first and dragged her up from the ground.
"Hurry! Run!" Tang En pulled Tang Yu and rushed out of the waiting room. Ning Xuanqing and Li Jia quickly came to their senses and ran out with them.
Even after hiding in the freezer, the four of them were still a little dazed. Three of them stood in a circle around Tang Yu, looking at her as if she was seeing something strange.
The first thing Li Jia said after catching his breath was: "Hurry up and wake me up. I just saw Tang Yu take a blow and nothing happened to him!"
Ning Xuanqing was too lazy to pay attention to Li Jia. She looked at Tang Yu hopefully and asked, "How did you dodge that knife?"
Tang Yu scratched her head in confusion, and suddenly remembered something. She tugged at the red scarf around her neck and shared the information with her teammates.
S-level item: Blood-stained scarf - stained with the blood and resentment of countless people, it has powerful defense and ignores 90% of physical attacks.
The incredible data was displayed, causing the three of them to gasp in shock.
Ning Xuanqing exclaimed: "So that's how it is, you actually have such a powerful self-defense tool."
Li Jia followed up and said, "My goodness, why didn't you tell me earlier that you had this thing? I was so scared that I almost cried. I thought you were going to die there."
Tang Yu pulled his scarf closer and smiled awkwardly: "To be honest, I forgot I had this thing."
The scarf was from an old man who came to visit her when she lived on Shiqing Street.
Tang Yu kindly invited the uncle to drink soup, but the uncle left in a hurry and left his scarf behind.
Tang Yu took the scarf and wanted to give it to the uncle, but he couldn't catch up with him after chasing him for two blocks, so he finally put it on his own neck.
When she put on the scarf, the information about the prop appeared in her mind, but at that time she thought she was having an illness and had hallucinations, so she didn't take it seriously and later forgot about it.
Li Jia was stunned for a moment and said, "...So you really want to die?"
Tang En listened to the conversation between the three people, his face turning pale. Seeing that he didn't say a word, Li Jia asked with concern, "Are you scared silly?"
"I, I just..." Tang En shook his head, his voice choked. After a while, he raised his head, his round eyes were red.
"Sister Tang Yu, next time you encounter this kind of situation, you don't have to block it for me. I'm actually not that important."
Tang Yu was stunned by what he said. She looked at Tang En's eyes, which were as red as a rabbit's, and suddenly smiled and said, "It's okay. I have props. I will block it next time!"
Tang En: “…”
Li Jia burst out laughing, breaking the slightly sad and awkward atmosphere.
Li Jia put one hand on Tang En's shoulder and said with a smile: "Did you hear that, little Tang En? Our boss is so reliable!"
Tang En pursed his lips and felt like crying, but in the end he said nothing and just nodded.
The sensational atmosphere quickly dissipated, mainly because the walkie-talkie on the waist continued to emit noise, and Butcher Cui had been attracted over at this time.
Just as Tang En guessed, the butcher just wandered outside the freezer door with the knife in hand, and did not come in. He didn't even look in their direction with his scarlet eyes.
"It seems that the incident with Butcher Cui's son still had a significant impact on him." Ning Xuanqing adjusted the frame of his glasses and thought: "This may also be a restriction imposed by the dungeon on the boss."
Every copy, no matter how difficult it is, always has a glimmer of hope, and it depends on whether the participants can seize it.
For example, in this slaughterhouse copy, there are two bosses, but Butcher Cui has a weak spot. As long as you find the diary, you can easily infer the clues.
Although Cao Ziqiang is a rare monster that attacks mentally, its hatred towards the four people is not high so far. The walkie-talkie is a prop it uses to restrain the participants, but in turn it is also restrained by it.
As long as he always carries the walkie-talkie with him, Cao Ziqiang will not mutate, nor will he take the initiative to appear and attack the participants.
Even so, Cao Ziqiang is still a troublemaker!
The four of them had originally planned to stay in the freezer until dawn, but Cao Ziqiang came over personally to ask them to leave.
Although they have temporarily avoided the butcher's pursuit, there is no guarantee that Cao Ziqiang will not repeat the same trick. Even if they stay in the freezer and refuse to leave, what if Cao Ziqiang has other tricks?
Several people thought of this question at the same time. Li Jia took the intercom that was chattering non-stop and said to the inside: "Hello? Cao Ziqiang, where are you?"
"How rude! You didn't even call me Brother Cao? I'm in the duty room. Let me see where you are... Why are you in the cold storage again?"
Li Jia was full of nonsense: "We are young and energetic, and this place is comfortable to stay in!"
"...Have you finished the work I asked you to do?"
Li Jia touched the work badge on his chest and said, "Of course we have finished. We have checked the entire slaughterhouse twice, inside and out. There are no problems at all!"
"Oh, that's fine. Let's sign the order and go. You guys come out and wait for me in the duty room. I'll go find Xiao Li and the others to take up their shifts."
"Okay, go ahead."
......
The intercom was silent for a while, and then suddenly a voice came out again, "Why don't you come out?"
Li Jia rolled her eyes and asked, "Why don't you go to the dormitory?"
"It doesn't take that long, just come out first!"
"We don't. You go to the dormitory first. If you are really in a hurry, you can go first."
"...Okay, okay, I'll come over first!"
Li Jia put down the intercom and cursed angrily: "Sure enough, he is not a good guy. He is obviously coming for us."
Tang En glanced at the butcher at the door with some concern and asked, "What should we do? Will Cao Ziqiang watch us stay in the cold storage forever?"
Ning Xuanqing shook his head and said solemnly, "It shouldn't happen. Although this copy has obvious restrictions on weird things, their ill will towards us is always there. Cao Ziqiang will definitely find a way to drive us out of the freezer."
Tang Yu looked at the butcher lingering at the door, and an idea suddenly occurred to her. She turned to the three people and said, "I have an idea!"
Three people: "Hmm?"
"Would it work if I took the walkie-talkie off and put it on the butcher?"
Three people: "!!!"
As soon as Tang Yu said this, not only the other three people, but even the voice in the intercom suddenly paused and fell into a brief silence.
Li Jia was the first to connect with Tang Yu's train of thought. She asked, "You mean, as long as we give the intercom to the butcher, we can avoid Cao Ziqiang's interference?"
If you put on a walkie-talkie, your location will be constantly reported to you. If you throw away the walkie-talkie, you will face mental pollution and die on the spot. But if you give the butcher a walkie-talkie, wouldn’t this paradox be solved?
Anyway, Cao Ziqiang only requires people to wear walkie-talkies, but he doesn’t specify who should wear it, right?
"That sounds ridiculous!" Ning Xuanqing showed a rare sly smile, and then she said, "Maybe we can give it a try."
Just give it a try.
The most difficult part of this idea might be how to get close to the butcher. However, with Tang Yu's S-level self-defense item, this is not a problem at all.
The Butcher's damage may be high, but facing items of a much higher level than this dungeon, blocking its attacks is no problem at all.
The plan began, with Tang Yu responsible for carrying the knife. Every time the butcher chopped with the knife, he would become briefly stiff. The other three took the opportunity to bypass the butcher's body as strong as an iron tower and hide in the blind spot, then hung the walkie-talkie on the butcher.
The whole process took only a minute, and the four of them retreated back to the freezer.
Tang Yu rubbed his arm which was numb from the shock, looked at the walkie-talkie hanging behind the butcher, and asked, "Will this thing fall off?"
Li Jia patted his chest and assured: "Don't worry, I tied two extra knots on purpose, it won't fall off!"
Tang Yu was relieved. Ning Xuanqing listened to the noise outside for a while before saying, "There is no sound on the intercom."
This works!
Several people looked at each other and saw relief on each other's faces.
The main reason is that they have been troubled by this thing, and now they can finally get rid of a trouble, which is simply wonderful.
I'm afraid even the dungeon boss himself couldn't have imagined that someone would come up with such a bizarre and dirty trick.
The butcher has an aura that says "keep away from strangers". Who wouldn't run away when seeing him?
Now, it has become a tool to suppress another boss!
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