The whole room went dark, and all the sounds seemed to disappear in an instant, causing the two people lying on the bed to fall into an inexplicable anxiety. The countdown gradually reached 30 seconds, and the voice of the mastermind appeared clearly in everyone's ears, counting the remaining time as if announcing death.
Hong Guoguo pulled the quilt over her head and asked, "Is it really a horror theme?"
"30 seconds." Qingfeng said, "I guess they won't be able to make it back in time."
Hong Guoguo covered her face and said, "Just give up. I don't know how many levels I'll drop this time."
Qing Feng said: "I'll turn off the live broadcast."
"Why are you turning it off?" Hong Guoguo didn't understand.
Qingfeng said confidently: "A real man does not need barrage to protect him."
Hong Guoguo: “…”
The quilt was thick and stuffy. The two of them huddled inside and couldn't help but say as they listened to the countdown: "I didn't feel it before, but now I find the voice of the mastermind quite creepy."
"That's because it turned on the reverberation." Qingfeng wanted to get some fresh air from the quilt, but was pulled back by Hong Guoguo. "Are you scared?"
Hong Guoguo: "Don't open it. It would be terrible if they found out that we were not asleep. Don't talk."
Ten seconds passed without either of them speaking. At this moment, Hong Guoguo keenly heard some movement outside the quilt. It seemed to be the sound of footsteps approaching them step by step. This made Hong Guoguo tense up instantly.
Before he could exchange secret signals with Qingfeng, the voice suddenly stopped, and at this moment a heavy weight pressed down on both of them.
“!!!!!!!” Hong Guoguo covered her mouth and didn’t dare to scream. She was completely terrified. Her other hand directly grabbed Qingfeng Xulai’s arm, scratching him so hard that he almost cursed out loud.
A hand was pressed on Hong Guoguo's head through the quilt, and the voice was calm and serious: "Don't shout!"
Hong Guoguo: “!”
Qingfeng: “!”
The countdown is over. There are 88 online players and 2 offline players. The offline players have been disqualified from staying.
Level 2: Spend a night safely in the desert inn; 88/90 players participated, 19/20 teams participated
Location: Desert Inn; Time remaining: 3 hours;
Mission objective: There are always strange noises in the desert inn at night. It is said that this is an ominous sound. Guests who hear this sound will disappear for no reason. The challenge is successful if they survive. If all the team members die, the mission will be considered a failure. The failed team will face the penalty of [regressing 4 levels and losing 1,000 gold]. Each player of the successful team will receive a reward of [40 permanent attribute points].
Well, I wish you all a good night.
As soon as the main brain's voice ended, the terrible silence fell again. The man who was pressing on Hong Guoguo and Qingfeng moved, and then an application to join the team popped up. Yes.
After joining the team, he said: "Switch to the team voice."
The two people seemed to have seen a savior and could not hold back their voices.
Qingfeng said excitedly: "You guys are finally here. I almost thought we were going to die."
"I just came up after dinner and almost missed it." Su Mo said after entering the team, "Team Xingzhi, he is in the room."
"What?!" Hong Guoguo was stunned. Seeing that Xingzhi Wuji's ID was indeed lit up in the friend list, she immediately sent an invitation: "What's wrong with you two!? When did you come online? Why didn't we notice it?"
You can join the team as you please.
"When you were talking about the little prince of horror movies." Su Mo adjusted his position. The two people under the quilt were really uncomfortable. "I saw that you two were sleeping comfortably, so I didn't come up to disturb you."
Hong Guoguo: “…”
Yu Zhen heard the voice as soon as he arrived at the team. They logged in almost at the same time. There was no online prompt in this special scene. He didn't notice it until he saw the place where he logged off last night. He wanted to say hello, but the two people over there said a word each, and the whole room went dark in an instant.
"Before I logged off last night, I forgot to tell you that there might be a text trap in the mission. Fortunately, I caught up." Yu Zhen said, "All of us have been given a blindness debuff. I think this level is a bit dangerous."
Su Mo pulled the quilt down to prevent the two teammates below from suffocating to death, "I said we'll catch up, what are you afraid of?"
Hong Guoguo almost cried when she heard this: "How could I know that was what you meant? My brain has never been smart except for money. You scared me to death. You came right up and made me think I was being held in bed by a ghost. I was so scared that I didn't even hear the mission clearly..."
When he saw the task content on the task bar, he was silent for a moment.
Qingfeng: "The fruit is fine. I will earn back the 1,000 gold very quickly."
"1,000 gold!" Hong Guoguo could no longer bear it: "That's 1,000 gold!!!"
The blindness debuff only affects the environment and does not affect their ability to view various systems. However, with the blindness added, all their directional functions become unlockable, and their vision becomes dark, so they can only confirm by touch.
Qingfeng: "Are we all in bed now? Is Brother Xing here?"
"Yes." Yu Zhen stood holding onto the bed beam, "I saw the reminder to rest."
Hong Guoguo couldn't help but complain: "So you sleep standing up, brother?"
Yu Zhen asked: "Is there a rule that prohibits sleeping standing up?"
Four people squeezed on one bed, and the countdown for the second level continued.
At this moment, there was a sudden clicking sound in the room, as if some mechanism was quietly operating.
"Brother, did you hear any noise...Ah!!!!" Hong Guoguo's voice stopped abruptly, and the bed in the room collapsed in an instant, carrying the three people lying on the bed with them to fall down.
"What's wrong!?" Yu Zhen shouted anxiously.
The place collapsed instantly. Su Mo blocked the hole with a lantern stick at the critical moment. He grabbed one of the men with one hand. The man was hanging in the middle of the bed. He felt a tearing pain in his arm. He gritted his teeth and asked, "Is anyone there?"
Qingfeng hurriedly said: "I'm here!!"
"Where are the fruits?" Su Mo asked.
Hong Guoguo's voice was very panicked: "Brother, I'm here! I'm holding Fengzi's waist."
Qing Feng couldn't help but said, "Just hold my waist, but don't pull my belt, okay?"
In the darkness, Su Mo struggled to hold onto the lamp stick. He couldn't see the surroundings, so he could only ask, "Can you climb up?"
Qingfeng tried to touch the surroundings, but he touched nothing. It was as if the only place he could get leverage from was his hands. "There is no wall here, so I can't get leverage from it."
Su Mo was completely unable to exert any strength, and his only fulcrum was the Floating Cloud Lamp. If he continued like this, he would sooner or later fall down with the two people below.
Qingfeng: "Brother, please let go. It's hard to climb up here."
Su Mo gritted his teeth and was about to exert force to move upwards, but at this moment, a gust of wind suddenly passed by, and he seemed to hear the sound of something falling beside his ear. Then a hand grabbed his arm, instantly relieving his pressure.
The calm voice of the formation master came: "Don't let go, Hong Guoguo, take the rope."
Hong Guoguo reached to the side and just as he caught the rope, it tightly wrapped around his hand and took him flying upwards. "What the hell! What the hell is this?!"
Before he could finish his words, he crashed into the beam where the rope was tied, "Ouch!"
"The flying rope is a strange prop." Yu Zhen said, "Untie the rope and throw it, and let Qingfeng catch it."
Hong Guoguo fumbled with the operation, "It's lost, did Fengzi find it?"
"Coming!" Qingfeng took the rope and came up.
Su Mo's pressure was relieved at once. The man holding his hand exerted force and took him up, and soon pulled him out of the cave. The four people escaped with difficulty and were now lying on the side of the bed, and they could reach the endless cave with just a stretch of their hands.
"Thank you." Su Mo said.
Yu Zhen paused for a moment after hearing this tone, and then said, "You reacted promptly."
"There's something wrong with this mastermind. They tricked us into going up there, and then pulled out the bed board!" Hong Guoguo reached out and touched the edge of the bed. "This collapse is outrageous. How could this happen? Isn't this the third floor?"
Qingfeng patted someone's shoulder in the dark and said, "Calm down, brother. Tianhuan is a fantasy game. You know that."
"Have you heard the strange sound mentioned in the mission before?" Su Mo looked around. It was impossible to make any judgment in the dark environment. All he could be sure of was that they were still in the room.
Qingfeng told them some strange things that happened before the second level began.
"The doors and windows are locked?" Yu Zhen paused.
Su Mo looked at him, "What's wrong?"
Yu Zhen explained: "I have a friend who is also in this event. Yesterday he sent me some relevant information about this Desert Inn. Currently, including us, there are 10 teams that have obtained parchment in the entire server environment. Among them, 3 teams obtained parchment through strange stories, and the other teams obtained parchment clues through demon copies."
"So many?" Qingfeng was stunned. "No wonder you said more than one person had parchment when you were downstairs?"
Yu Zhen: "I'm not sure if these 10 teams have reached the second level. The mission brought by the parchment must be the key. Maybe the challenges in the later stages will be related to the parchment. After all, we haven't met the innkeeper yet."
Su Mo listened for a while and noticed the key point in Yu Zhen's words, "Xingzhi, those three teams that obtained parchment from strange stories, could they also be strange stories from the demon series?"
"Yes." Yu Zhen explained: "So the Desert Inn event should also be related to the Demon Sealing event, and its punishment is to lose levels, attribute points, and gold coins. At present, the reward is attribute points. They guess that the event rewards this time should be demon points and anecdotes. In addition, the treasure chest will be very valuable, and it is a very rare event reward."
Demon points can be exchanged for many things, including experience pills, gold coins, attribute points, etc.
Su Mo frowned: "The number of people on the mission has been updated."
Desert Inn Level 2: Remaining players 50/88
Seeing the remaining players, the four people in the room fell into a brief silence. The duration of the blindness debuff is the same as the duration of the second level challenge activity, which means that they will have to endure this state for three hours in the following environment. Another thing that puzzled Su Mo was the mysterious sound mentioned in the task. Except for the click of the bed board mechanism, there seemed to be no other sound from the beginning to now.
The doors and windows are locked tightly, allowing the players to fall asleep. The bed is a trap... Su Mo thought carefully. Although there are many rooms in the Desert Inn, they are not actually very big. They are only 20 square meters at most. With the various tables and chairs placed there, the actual activity area will not exceed 10 square meters. For a normal team of five people, such a range of activities is too narrow.
"Fengzi, can you please stop touching my legs? They're so itchy." Hong Guoguo couldn't help but whispered, "If you're scared, touch somewhere else."
"Bullshit, what am I afraid of as the little prince of horror movies!" Qingfeng heard this and said, "Besides, why would I touch you? I haven't even settled the score for you pulling my belt just now."
Hong Guoguo: "You're still touching me!"
Qingfeng: "Where did I touch?!"
As the two were talking, they suddenly realized that something was wrong.
Hong Guoguo was stunned for a moment, stretched out his hand to his leg, and touched something cold wrapped around his leg, "Brother!"
Su Mo came back to his senses, "What's wrong?"
"I feel like there's something on my leg..." Hong Guoguo didn't finish his words when he suddenly felt a strong force. He grabbed the person next to him in a hurry, but the thing didn't give up and dragged him to the side. "Help! This thing is alive! Something is pulling me!"
"Where is it? I'll come!" Qingfeng quickly took out the sword and slashed forward without even unscabbarding it, striking a soft spot with the sword.
Hong Guoguo screamed, "Where did you hit with your sword? That was my thigh!"
Yu Zhen grabbed Hong Guoguo and said, "It's on the left leg."
Su Mo knocked his lamp stick forward, and it collided with the edge of the bed with a bang. At that moment, he heard a voice from the cave-in. "It ran away. That thing ran out of the cave-in."
Hong Guoguo fell backwards due to exhaustion, and was dragged back by Yu Zhen. Qingfeng hurried out upon hearing the noise, but tripped over a chair and stood up with the help of the table, and hurriedly said, "Brother, there is a sound of wind!"
The faint sound of wind came from the cave-in and was very clear in the silent room.
Su Mo summoned the Moon Cat and the White Tiger, and watched the surroundings vigilantly. When the sound of the wind approached, he let the White Tiger pounce forward, and the thing passed through the White Tiger and hit Su Mo directly. The powerful force made Su Mo retreat and hit the cabinet, and his health dropped by half.
The things that came out of the collapse were extremely flexible, able to pick the right position to attack from all directions, and each move was deadly, targeting them.
Hong Guoguo lost a big bonus and barely pulled up Su Mo's health, "Brother, be careful!"
Su Mo warned: "Be careful, that thing can penetrate things!"
Yu Zhen set up a defensive formation on the spot, but in the next second, something broke through his defense and split the stool within the range of his formation. He pulled Hong Guoguo back a few steps, "Skill effects can also penetrate."
This is simply an invisible and shapeless monster that can penetrate objects and use skills. The attacks of summoned beasts and the defenses of formations are all ineffective.
Moreover, in their current blind state, they are unable to use directional skills, and all skills can only be cast blindly based on judgment.
The strong wind attacked again. Su Mo aimed at the position and had Yuemao cast a mass chaos. The mass chaos took effect instantly and delayed the opponent's attack angle in time. "Turn the ambient sound to the maximum. The range control skills can be used."
Everyone immediately turned up the ambient volume, and the extremely slight sound became noticeable in an instant, but after a few blows, the thing began to wantonly destroy the furnishings in the room. The noisy sound completely affected judgment, and all four of them were hit a few times.
"No, I can't hear you clearly." Qingfeng dodged quickly and rolled directly to Sumo's side. "Brother, are you here?"
"I'm here." Su Mo leaned his back against the wall, placed the summoned beasts with range control around him, and explained in a low voice: "It seems that this is the content of the second level. The cave-in is just the beginning. Players who are dragged into the cave-in will be eliminated... Xingzhi, are you with Hong Guoguo?"
Yu Zhen replied: "Yes."
Hong Guoguo said: "From the sound, we should be on your right."
Su Mo reacted instantly when he heard Hong Guoguo's words, "You're by the window?"
Hong Guoguo felt around and determined the location: "Yes, I touched the window frame."
"Stand close to the window frame. The bed is 1.5 meters away at a 45-degree angle to your right. The error angle should not exceed 5 degrees."
Su Mo thought carefully, replaying the room layout from his previous memory in his mind, doing a brief distance calculation, and then taking control to avoid the attack. He said coldly: "Qingfeng, we are in the cupboard directly opposite the bed. It is about 1.6 meters away from our position. From your current position, there is a table half a meter in front of you. Go up to the table and take a step to enter the physical swordsman's casting distance."
Qingfeng responded twice in confusion: "Oh oh." Then, what are they going to do!
Hong Guoguo didn't understand, "Brother, why are you talking about this?! That thing is so long, and the direction it attacks from keeps changing!"
The wind was raging in the room, and my skin felt tingling. The things coming out of the cave-in attacked more and more frequently, and the range was getting wider and wider. The flexible attack and unpredictable time rhythm had caused the blood loss rate of the four people in the team to increase slowly compared to the beginning. Although it was still within the controllable range, if they continued at this pace, they would be exhausted to death by this thing sooner or later.
It’s only been a short while and danger is everywhere.
Su Mo paid attention to the changes around him, and continued while memorizing: "The maximum size of the bed will not exceed, and the location of the collapse is in the middle of the bed. Theoretically, it is smaller than the size of the bed, and the error can even be ignored. The basic range of the range control skills of Tianhuan's common professions is 2mx2m, and the range of some professions is even wider."
Yu Zhen paused slightly, he understood the purpose.
Qingfeng: "What do you mean? Can you explain it in a simpler and easier way? How should we deal with it?"
Su Mo calmly stated the strategy, "We can completely block it."
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