It was a human corpse, cold and cold, its joints were twisted due to being folded in a box for a long time, and the whole body smelled of a strong smell of blood and hatred.
"Crack—"
Qiu Ran didn't hesitate for even a moment, just one glance, she recognized that the ghost that suddenly appeared in front of her was not the kind of guy who was easy to deal with before. The trajectory of the dagger in her hand was like a swooping falcon, piercing the opponent's heart as quickly and skillfully as before.
Piercing, stirring, destroying or digging out the ghost's core - this is the most standard process of exorcising ghosts.
But what she didn't expect was that something blocked the path of her knife!
A piece of star logo!
The knife was supposed to pierce the chest of the sudden onslaught, but it hit something hard—something extremely hard, which looked like a piece of stained cloth, but was touching The sharp blade flashed.
Her knife was bounced away!
"Well!"
Qiu Ran never expected this to happen. She was originally a player who focused on long-distance combat, and the use of short knives was only a self-defense measure in the most desperate situation.
The ghost screamed and rushed towards her. In all fairness, this ghost should have been a fairly handsome man before he was alive, but now, his face has no other expression except indifference and bloodlust.
"Well!"
Qiu Ran couldn't dodge it in time, and a deep gash was cut on her arm in an instant, and thick black air was even emitted from the edge of the wound. She didn't have time to think about the pain, she rolled and scrambled to dodge to the other side.
Li Gui looked down at the human blood stained on his hands. His expression was pale and stiff, completely devoid of human expression—there was a dimple at the corner of his mouth, it seemed that he was a person who liked to laugh a lot before he was alive. But now, he no longer has a human soul, what belongs to him is only a cold and dark killing intent.
He just mechanically and cruelly removed the intruders in front of him. His offensive was so fast that Qiu Ran didn't even have the chance to look back at her teammates—
But that might be a good thing. Otherwise, she would see the face of her teammate, who was always calm, turning pale as early as the moment the box was flushed open.
"impossible… "
He said in a low voice.
A paper bomb exploded on Li Gui's body, but all the damage seemed to be blocked by his black and white uniform.
"You, you were a player before you were alive?!"
All this happened in mere tens of seconds from unpacking to now. After shouting the last sentence, Qiu Ran was already pinched by the ghost and lifted into the air.
"Save..." She struggled to make a sound from her throat, "Save..."
There was a creaking sound from her neck bone, almost shattered. If it wasn't for the strengthening of her body at the base, she would have had her throat cut off now.
She is dying, Qiu Ran thought vaguely.
All the air was squeezed out of the lungs, and the things that used to be at your fingertips suddenly became extremely precious at this moment. She struggled to shout out the word "save", but in a corner where her vision was blurred, she saw Xia Xingye passing them and walking towards the black box.
She suddenly realizes...
That's right, Xia Xingye didn't have to save her at all.
He just needs to take out the note and go to the next space, and she, and the ghosts in this space, will be imprisoned here.
And he...will walk on safely...without paying any price.
Yeah, isn't that just how he does things
Qiu Ran smiled with difficulty, she could no longer breathe. In front of her eyes, a revolving lantern began to appear.
She was an orphan, her parents died in a car accident, her family property was taken over by her relatives, and when she was desperate, she was raised by the old head of the orphanage who had no relatives. This kindness made her get used to being nice to others, and getting used to believing that everyone in this world will be fine.
Perhaps fate compensated for her bad luck in childhood, or it was because simple-minded people can improve their strength very quickly. After she entered the game, her luck was very good. Not only did she survive, but she even had a Friends... Yes, counting, Ye Xiangxiang is her first friend in this world.
Ye Xiangxiang always said that she was stupid, and she also knew that Ye Xiangxiang would use her strength from time to time to ask her to help with certain things. But she knows that this girl has always been just a knife mouth and a bean curd heart. The only thing she felt embarrassed about was that she didn't help her enough.
... It's just a pity, she had already planned to accompany Ye Xiangxiang into the black crack, the remains of the crow's door. Now that she died here, she would never... see her again.
She... was cheated again.
"flutter!"
The sound of something being pierced sounded from in front of her, followed by a loosening of her throat.
Qiu Ran's last memory of being pinched in the air was a knife piercing Li Gui's heart from behind.
Huge gusts of air rushed into her lungs again, and with it, the hope of survival. Qiu Ran clutched her bleeding throat, her eyes were black, and she coughed hard.
It was not until a long time later that she came to her senses and looked over there.
A short knife pierced from behind, piercing Li Gui's heart. Li Gui looked at the sky, with the last cruelty and bewilderment still on his face—cruel to bloodthirsty, bewildered as to who it was, and killed him.
But the person who killed him is self-evident.
The dagger was drawn from his body. Li Gui fell down slowly. The slender young man in a black hood squatted down and looked at the corpse in front of him expressionlessly.
There was no expression on his face, no fright, no sadness, no smile.
"You saved me..."
"Let's go."
Xia Xingye said concisely.
He took the note with the number of steps out of the black box. Qiu Ran nodded, supported herself with her sword, and got up from the ground to follow.
Haig who walked by was closed behind them, together with the corpse of the ghost. Xia Xingye didn't look back even once.
"The ghost's clothes..."
"It's the symbol of Chen Xing." Xia Xingye said concisely, "Chen Xing's team uniform has a protective effect. If you want to pierce the heart, you must pierce it from behind... at a specific angle."
"You know this? Yes, I seem to have heard that you used to be a member of Chen Xing... That person was your former teammate?"
After Qiu Ran finished speaking, she realized that she might have mentioned Xia Xingye's sad story. But Xia Xingye just said, "Yes."
He paused, and then said: "Yes, he is my teammate. I never thought he would appear here."
"why?"
"Because he didn't die in this dungeon, and even his body should have been chopped up by the cracks." Xia Xingye said lightly, "But maybe, he was transported here after his death, Or maybe what's in this box is just a fake to disturb people's hearts... It doesn't matter."
"It doesn't matter," he said.
Qiu Ran was silent: "You and him... are very familiar?"
"He's the heroic idiot I mentioned earlier."
"..."
The two walked for a long time, and after a long time, Qiu Ran didn't speak again. Xia Xingye said indifferently again: "But the one lying in the box is just a dead body. Even if it becomes a ghost, it's just a ghost that lost its mind, it's no longer him."
The two walked slowly through the black and white chessboard. None of them spoke, but they cooperated tacitly and killed the ghosts that popped out of the box time and time again.
"The puppeteer should still be behind us, but I don't know if he has entered the chessboard." Xia Xingye said, "In any case, we need to get out of here quickly."
He smiled wryly and said, "In the final analysis, I was the one who sought skin with the tiger, and I did it myself..."
"not like this."
Qiu Ran suddenly said behind him, her expression was very serious, and her eyes were also very serious: "You are different from him."
"What's different?"
"You just saved me." Qiu Ran smiled, "At that time, you could have taken the note and left, not to mention... that ghost, still."
She paused and didn't speak, but everything was clear: "So you and him are not the same. The debt between us before has been settled. From now on, we are teammates."
Xia Xingye looked at her and raised his eyebrows.
"Let's go." Qiu Ran held out her hand to him, "Let's leave here together."
Xia Xingye looked at her fixedly, and smiled softly: "Okay."
…
After the two left, a purple figure arrived at a certain black checkerboard grid.
"Huh, now I don't know if I look like an old general on the stage..." the man murmured, "Huh? Has anyone been to the next grid?"
This person's current attire can be said to be very unflattering. There are all kinds of knives on his back, some are knives, some are tridents, and some are saws... If we say that Lin Huai would raise his eyebrows and bargain after opening a bad box at the beginning, but Later, as soon as he opened the box, he stabbed the knife at himself without changing his expression...
Lin Huai always felt that her luck seemed to be much worse than others, even the puppet said so.
Puppet: "It stands to reason that a person can only encounter a box that causes damage to himself after opening about 30 boxes, so..."
Lin Huai: ...
Puppet: "So, your luck can be said to be very good!"
"My aesthetics are also good." Lin Huai said.
He shyly opened the black box in front of him. Inside the black box was a head. The puppet just took one look and said, "Your luck is not very good..."
Lin Huai: "I also want to know how much better my luck can be."
Puppet: "This box means a severed head..."
Lin Huai: ...
He glanced at the puppet expressionlessly, and the puppet laughed awkwardly and said, "Here, you can also exchange it with other parts, such as ○..."
Lin Huai's answer was to take off his head without saying a word.
puppet:? ? ! !
"Wait a minute." Lin Huai said expressionlessly, "I'm a little uncomfortable with the current height... that's it."
This picture can be said to be very scary. He held his head in one hand and the puppet in the other, making sure that the two were on the same level: "Now we can guarantee that we can talk at the same level."
Puppet: "Can you stop being so scary!!!"
"Compared to this," Lin Huai obviously ignored him with his head, "the grid here is more interesting..."
He looked at the corpse of the ghost on the checkerboard next door, and murmured: "Strange, I saw this dress just now, isn't it on this ghost?"