The moment the defeat was announced, the images on the two stone slabs froze for a moment, followed by a scream that seemed to shatter ears. Wen Zuo quickly dodged the oncoming monster and slashed it down with his sword. At the same time, the upper bodies of the two passengers also emerged from the stone slabs.
The blind passenger waved his hands frantically, tears of blood streaming down his face. "Please, take my place! Take my place! I don't want to die. My family is waiting for me to come home. I still have so many things I haven't done."
He didn't realize that his voice was already full of hostility, while another passenger, who was in an even more miserable state, glared fiercely at Wen Zuo with bloodshot eyes and waved his hands violently at Wen Zuo. This passenger, who looked extremely fierce, even had his skull lying diagonally on his forehead.
He knew that he could only survive by capturing Wen Zuo as a scapegoat, and his eyes were filled with determination.
Wen Zuo's expression quickly changed as he was bound by an invisible force and pushed towards the two passengers. The two passengers noticed this and, after a moment of surprise, burst into loud laughter, shouting, "You're mine! You're mine!"
"roar!"
Stratosphere was unaffected and ran alongside Wen Zuo on its four short legs. When Wen Zuo was less than a meter away from the two passengers, the anxious Stratosphere suddenly pounced and jumped up to bite the outstretched hands of the two passengers.
However, the two passengers' powers are now enhanced by the game world. Wen Zuo did not make a choice according to the rules, which is the game world's punishment for Wen Zuo according to its own rules. Even passengers who are usually powerless are now filled with overwhelming power for Wen Zuo.
"Step back."
"Roar!" Stratosphere, unwilling to give up, pounced again. This time, it was caught by a passenger with both eyes intact. He glared at Wen Zuo with a fierce expression and hissed in a low voice, "Do you want to save it? If you come and replace me, I'll let it go!"
Watching the stratosphere struggle in his hands, Wen Zuo's eyes grew colder and colder. He stopped struggling and let the invisible force push him forward. The healthy passenger holding the stratosphere was filled with surprise, but the next moment, he was stunned and stared down at his chest.
"How could that be? You couldn't possibly hurt me!"
"Roar!" Stratosphere leaped up and bit the passenger's finger hard. The terrifying bite force easily bit off the passenger's finger. Just as it was about to swallow the bitten-off, Wen Zuo, who had noticed it, kicked it. "Spit it out."
Although it didn't understand why its owner wouldn't let it eat, Stratosphere obediently spat out what was in its mouth.
The soft sword in Wen Zuo's hand automatically circled the neck of the sighted passenger, and in half a breath, a head with a look of astonishment on its face fell to the ground.
"Aaaaaaah!!!"
Another head fell, and the invisible force that had been propelling him forward disappeared. Wen Zuo placed three defensive talismans on the ground, arranged them in a small circle, and then activated them. He reached out and grabbed the stratocumulus, which was ruthlessly seeking revenge on the two heads, and pulled it into the protective circle of the defensive talismans. Only then did he collapse to the ground, letting out a burst of suppressed, violent gasps.
The battle just now seemed easy, but in reality, if he had made even the slightest mistake, he would have been caught and made a scapegoat. The two passengers' powers were amplified by the game world to a point where he couldn't handle it calmly. If it weren't for...
Wen Zuo reached out and touched his neck, where a patch of lividity quietly appeared.
After successfully resolving the trouble caused by the patterned stone, Mo Shuwan went back and chose the last stone phantom. She faced the same choice as Wen Zuo, only the object inside the stone slab had changed.
Like Wen Zuo, Mo Shuwan didn't choose either of them. The passengers inside, who had been tortured beyond recognition, immediately tried to rush out and grab her to be their scapegoat. She dealt with these two passengers who posed a threat to her for half an hour before finally killing them. A hidden side quest appeared on her phone, with the number one displayed after it.
All the monsters except the insects in the entire level had been cleared. Mo Shuwan didn't rush to the third sub-level, but sat down to rest. She looked at the number behind the hidden mission and frowned deeply. Which of the two passengers was the fake one?
grumble--
Mo Shuwan looked down at Hope, temporarily suppressing her doubts.
"There are two more levels left. If we can get through them, we'll win." As she spoke, she took out a bottle of mineral water mixed with a recovery potion. She drank a little more than half of it to quench her thirst before pointing the bottle at Hope. "Open your mouth."
Hope opened its mouth obediently, and Mo Shuwan poured it a lot of water. After it finished drinking, she took out some compressed biscuits and gave Hope some fresh meat. The two of them ate quietly.
The insects swarming the hall were still trying to rush towards Mo Shuwan, but unfortunately their attack power was not high. Mo Shuwan, who had exchanged for a lot of defensive talismans, was not afraid at all and calmly ate her compressed biscuits amidst the flying insects.
More than ten minutes later, seeing that Hope had finished the last piece of meat, Mo Shuwan stood up, took out her silver bow, and kept pulling the bowstring at the disgusting insects. Without the burning of the Flame Card, the insects killed by the arrows fell down like snowflakes.
It took Mo Shuwan more than three hours to clean up all the insects in the entire hall. The pitch-black pit was completely covered by the corpses of the insects. As Mo Shuwan walked on the insect corpses and looked down, she suddenly had the idea of going down into the pit to take a look.
Of course, she held back in the end. She walked quickly to the gate of the third checkpoint, but did not go in immediately. Instead, she sat down again and carefully recalled what had just happened. Mo Shuwan opened her phone, began to edit a message, and sent it to everyone.
Wen Zuo: How's the situation on your end?
Mo Shuwan: It's fine, but these bugs are disgusting.
Wen Zuo: Hmm, that's a bit much for you girls. We should be able to meet after we get through a couple more hurdles.
Mo Shuwan: Yes, what was your choice when the game asked you to decide who to keep alive?
Wen Zuo: I didn't choose, I killed them all.
Mo Shuwan couldn't help but laugh. Seeing that Wen Zuo didn't bring up the issue of the number of hidden missions, she realized that he probably hadn't encountered that situation. So she told him about how she killed two passengers, but only one side mission was displayed afterward.
Wen Zuo: It's possible that the original person became the scapegoat, and the person who came out in his place became the scapegoat of someone else.
Mo Shuwan thought about it and felt that Wen Zuo's words made a lot of sense. This game world could not be calculated according to common sense because it was different from other mission worlds. It would give those who entered it a chance to survive, just like the four people she and Wen Zuo encountered. If the two of them were not strong enough, they would become their scapegoats. They would come out alive, while she and Wen Zuo would stay inside, continue their fate, and wait for the next unlucky guy.
Mo Shuwan: Do you think it's possible that a monster might find a passenger to be its scapegoat and then directly take the passenger's identity?
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