In the darkness, Honghu waited anxiously. (Please search, or directly enter ..co to see)
From his perspective, Tianma Xingkong, Feng Bujue, and Atobu all stood under the hanged corpse, holding their flashlights and motionless.
Obviously, Feng Bujue's guess came true again. The monster in front of him really has some kind of range control skills.
Fortunately, Honghu didn't go with them, otherwise...the whole army might be wiped out.
Time passed by every minute and every second, and the pressure was all on Honghu.
Suddenly, a system prompt sounded in my ear:
Almost at the same time as the voice sounded, the traces in the distance turned into white light and disappeared...
"Alas... It seems that it's time to play by ear..." Honghu sighed, raising his flashlight and looking around.
In this isolated situation, he himself is in danger, and God knows what else lurks in the darkness around him... so he has to check his surroundings before making any moves.
"Well... let's try attacking once first..." When he was ready, Honghu put the flashlight on the ground, took out his weapon, drew his bow and set up an arrow.
After a brief aiming, a light arrow shot out...
Honghu's shooting proficiency is already at the A-level level, and he is still using a bow and crossbow weapon (which is more maneuverable than firearms). When shooting a fixed target at this distance, there is absolutely no possibility of missing it.
A second later, the light arrow flew across the air and hit the dead body's chest.
However... the arrow did not stay on the body of the dead body, but pierced through its body...
"Huh?" Honghu was slightly taken aback. Eyes wide open, after only one breath. He muttered, "Phantom?"
His inference was correct, he could draw this conclusion with a simple method of elimination... The light arrow is effective for both physical and spiritual bodies, and if these two situations are excluded, the rest may be—that dead body is nothing more than an illusion.
"Hmph... Are you playing this kind of trick..." Honghu snorted coldly, then drew his bow again, aiming at the rope above the hanging corpse.
Shout—another arrow flew out, this time... the light arrow successfully hit the target.
With just a slight rub, the rope snapped. The rope snapped. The corpse hanging under the rope also disappeared suddenly.
At the same second, Tianma Xingkong jumped up backwards trembling all over his body, and cursed a few times indistinctly. After landing, he immediately assumed a fighting posture, looking around nervously.
"Oh? It's resolved, isn't it..." Feng Bujue seemed surprisingly calm. He turned around and looked at Brother Xiaoma and Honghu. Then glanced at the game menu again, "Hmm... Atobe is dead..."
"Just... those just now..." The fear of the powerful and unconstrained style has not yet calmed down, he looked at Brother Jue with a pale face and asked, "What's going on?"
"Don't panic, it's all an illusion." Feng Bujue responded casually, then turned his head. Loudly said to Honghu in the distance, "Honghu, we are fine."
"Wait!" Honghu didn't believe it rashly, he still stood where he was, and replied loudly. "Are you sure?"
His worry is not unreasonable, what if the scene in front of him is also part of the trap
"Well..." Feng Bujue said. Turning around and looking up, he looked at the severed rope, "I'm really not sure..."
It was too late to say it, but it was so fast... Before the words fell, Brother Jue stepped on his feet and jumped up.
In the blink of an eye, he had firmly grasped the broken rope that was swinging with the wind, and with a sudden force, he pulled down...
"Ah—" Suddenly there was a wailing sound from above. Although it was just a shout, Tianma Xingkong immediately recognized the owner of the voice... the guy hanging on the rope.
Brother Xiao Ma was startled immediately, raised his flashlight and swiped upwards.
When I saw it earlier, the other end of the rope was tied to a protruding crystal above. But now the light is directed there, and it turns out that on the outer edge of that section of the crystal pillar... there is a strange creature lying on its stomach. And the "rope" protruded from the creature's mouth...
"Ahhhhhhh... It's alright! Don't pull it! Let go!" The creature said several words in a row, but its tone was not gloomy at all, and it sounded kind.
"You can let me go." Feng Bujue said, "Come down."
"No, you have bad intentions!" The other party replied.
"Come down." Brother Jue said again, "I promise not to kill you."
"I don't believe it!" yelled the guy above, "You crazy (he can't speak because his tongue is caught)!"
"No, I'm not crazy..." Feng Bujue said this in a very cold tone, and then...suddenly grinned, grabbed the "rope" with both hands, and began to swing his body wildly, "...I am Taishan! Ah —Ah~ah~ah~ah..."
Brother Jue imitated the signature roar of the animated version of Mount Tai, swinging around in mid-air...
And the strange creature on the crystal roared out one after another with almost the same tone...
This situation made the onlookers Tianma Xingkong and Honghu feel a little overwhelmed... But Honghu quickly came back to his senses and walked towards this side in three steps at a time. Because Brother Jue's behavior at least announced one point-the danger has indeed been lifted.
In the end, the guy above came down. If it doesn't come down, its "tongue" may be broken.
"Let me introduce to you, this is one of the four guards of Ju Demon Island... Heart of Fear." After standing still, Feng Bujue pointed to the strange creature that fell to the ground and said.
It turns out... the heart of fear did not grow into a "heart". On the whole, it looks more like a gecko with a black body and a length of two meters.
"It killed Atobe?" Honghu asked with a frown.
"It's not accurate to say 'kill'..." Feng Bujue replied, "Atobe died because of the shock value load, that is to say... he was so scared that the script popped up."
"Oh... Are those hallucinations created by this guy..." Little Ma continued belatedly.
Heart of Fear turned over on the ground at this time, glared at Brother Jue and said, "Can you let go of my dick?"
"Of course." Feng Bujue immediately let go of the "rope". And continued, "Look. I'm a man of my word."
"Really? So you are really a 'human'?" Heart of Fear retracted its tongue into its mouth, and replied in a mocking tone, "Then I can only suggest you to see a psychiatrist..."
"I've seen it, and several top psychiatrists and neurologists consulted together." Feng Bujue asked rhetorically.
Heart of Fear lowered its voice and read: "So... are you still in treatment..."
"No, it's over." Brother Jue said again.
"Uh... why did you give up the treatment?" Heart of Fear asked.
"Because after a while, those psychiatrists and neurologists also became patients." Feng Bujue shrugged.
"Excuse me, let me interrupt the god-like conversation between the two of you..." Honghu couldn't listen anymore, he interrupted, "Can any of you explain it. What happened just now..."
"Does this still need an explanation?" Heart of Fear said, "As usual, I found a random place, put down 'bait' to hunt, and then met you."
"Oh... so the situation is... you ambushed us and killed one of our companions..." Honghu read, "and now... you are in our hands."
"Yes." Heart of Fear replied.
"I really admire your straightforward and open-minded attitude..." Honghu said with empty eyes.
"Okay! Now that you have admitted it. Then we have revenge and settle accounts!" After these few minutes, Tianma Xingkong has basically got rid of the shadow of fear and returned to normal. So, he took two steps forward, waved his arm and pointed at Brother Gecko on the ground, and shouted. "You've been scaring me for so long just now! Luckily, I'm brave, now it's my turn... feel the hero's wrath..."
"Don't be impulsive." Feng Bujue raised his hand to stop Brother Xiao Ma, "It's useless if you kill it... Atobu won't be resurrected." He paused, "Furthermore... it's not actually 'it' Scaring you, but you scaring yourself."
"Huh?" Tianma Xingkong was taken aback. "What's the meaning?"
"Let me explain." Heart of Fear continued, "Before. When you walked over, I activated my ability on you - 'Shivering Source'. And after that what you saw, heard What you get, what you touch, etc. It basically depends on your imagination..." It moved a little bit, crawling back and forth on the ground, "For example... when you approach the 'bait' I released, it is very difficult You care about his face, so you start to imagine... what might appear next, what might happen, etc... Of course, these are just introductions... What's really scary is what you can't even imagine... Those Stuff exists only in your subconscious mind, and that's what the source of the trembling will induce."
Having said this, Heart of Fear raised its flat head, looked at Little Ma and said, "You are very lucky, your subconscious memory of horror is relatively limited, which limits the space for imagination, so you are not dead. Hehe... Another kid, it's different..."
"In short... Atobe has seen many more horror movies, horror, etc. than you, so he can concoct richer scare plots in his mind." Added two sentences.
"So what! No matter what the reason is, you are the one with the power!" Tianma Xingkong said sharply to the heart of fear.
"Cut... I didn't force you to walk within my ability, you can detour or go back." The heart of fear refused to accept, "Who can you blame for throwing yourself into a trap?"
"Hey! So according to what you mean...do we deserve it?" asked wildly.
"Be safe and don't be impatient..." Feng Bujue persuaded in a deep voice, "Actually... we are indeed responsible." His tone was very calm, making people willing to listen, "This place can easily lead to destruction ( The dialogue between the players about the game itself, NPCs at the level of Heart of Fear cannot hear it, and will be blocked by the system), so... the system gave us hints as early as in the previous plot."
Brother Jue paused for two seconds, and then repeated the advice of the imitation soul: "'If you encounter the heart of fear, you'd better run away immediately, you humans can't compete with it'." He shrugged Shrugged and continued. "At first, I wondered, if the heart of fear used 'ability' to attack us. Can we really run? If we can run, wouldn't we also have to stop playing the 'Film Guessing Domain' of Rubbing Hand? Haha … Now I understand, what he meant was to tell us not to take the initiative to get into the trap."
"Then let's forget it?" Tianmao asked, he still seemed a little unwilling.
"Hey~ As a hero, you need to know how to forgive others." Feng Bujue said earnestly as if educating a child, "I suggest you read more of Mr. Guan Dexing's "Huang Feihong" series, that kind is called Renxia. People are willing to repent. Say 'Master Huang, I was wrong', and he will let people live... "
"I'm not wrong." Heart of Fear rushed over before Brother Jue finished speaking, "Even if I kill you all, it's still within the scope of my duties and powers."
silence... falls...
Tianma Xingkong and Honghu suddenly changed into a kind of sympathetic gaze, watching the heart of fear silently.
"What... what are you doing?" There was a sudden chill on the back of this gecko brother.
"Hehe..." At this moment. Feng Bujue raised one corner of his mouth, and turned his head with an evil smile; with an incomparably cold gaze, he stared at the heart of fear...
...
Fifteen minutes later.
"Oh~_die, that's absolutely true." Tianma Xingkong said while smacking his lips, chewing on the unique taste of "Gecko" meat.
"Just listen to the name. I thought it would be a sinister and terrifying guy, but it turned out to be so upright." Honghu also ate the barbecue and sighed, "It's too pitiful."
"Say this kind of line before you wipe your mouth clean, you will lose your morals." Feng Bujue stuffed a piece of juicy meat into his mouth while complaining.
at this time. The three of them had already lit a fire. Sitting where he was, cooking barbecue with the dead body of Heart of Fear...
since the last time they ate. Indeed, two and a half hours had passed. Feng Bujue believes that it is very important to replenish food every 150 minutes; as long as this rhythm is not broken, the consumption of physical energy can be maintained at the state of the normal script.
Another thing that needs to be mentioned is... Before Brother Jue killed Heart of Fear, he pretended not to embarrass the other party and negotiated.
To put it simply... He used "you killed one of our companions" as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Heart of Fear, and successfully figured out a way to reach the "Cage of Despair".
After achieving the goal, Feng Bujue started... Then there was a one-stop service of killing, cutting, and roasting, and drinking blood by the way, let alone...
All in all, after paying the price of a teammate, the main quest finally has a little clue.
The remaining three people rested for a while, and after they were full of blood and flesh, they went out again.
They didn't take a long rest this time, firstly because it was dark, and secondly because solving their fear didn't consume much of their physical energy.
Feng Bujue's analysis in the sacrificial hall was very correct. Among the four guards, the strongest is the imitation soul, and the other guys are not worth mentioning at all. Although the guards are each endowed with a rather heaven-defying special ability (the fist-guessing field of the Rubbing Hand, the mimic deformation of the Soul of Imitation, the source of trembling of the Heart of Fear), but apart from this, the Soul of Imitation His innate racial ability is undoubtedly the strongest.
"Ah!" After the three of them got back on the road, within a few minutes, Tianma Xingkong suddenly exclaimed, and turned to look at Brother Jue, "I almost forgot to ask... how did you get out of the 'source of trembling'?" survived?"
"Cut... I was surprised... I thought you were going to ask something, that's it..." Feng Bujue continued weakly.
"I'm also very curious." Honghu continued, "When it comes to imagination and the memory reserve of various horror elements... You can be said to be a master level. Facing your brain hole, even I am willing to bow down..." He paused, his expression changed slightly, "You should be the least likely to survive from the source of trembling, right?"
"Oh? You think so?" Feng Bujue replied calmly.
Honghu continued: "Yeah... Also, why does the heart of fear say you are a lunatic? Judging from the conversation between the two of you, in the illusion, you have had a lot of communication with it, haven't you?"
"Heh... Actually, it's not a big deal." Feng Bujue bought himself about two seconds with a nonsense. In these two seconds, he has compiled a set of rhetoric in his head, the content of which is half-truth and half-false, which should be able to cover up the fact that he has no fear, "Because when I see an abnormal situation, my first reaction is not to panic or panic. Instead of being afraid, think about why.”
As he said, he raised his right hand and tapped his temple with his index finger: "This habit is deeply rooted. Even if the other party keeps bringing out the things I fear, as long as I can maintain rationality and calmness, I can be in the illusion. Fight against it." He paused, "Let's give a simple example... One day you get up to brush your teeth, turn on the faucet, and there's shit coming out of it..."
"Do you dare to change the example?" Tianma Xingkong interrupted.
"Okay, there's blood coming out." Feng Bujue changed his tune, "What will you do at this time?"
"Analyze the situation rationally, tell yourself... I'm dreaming, and then try to wake up." Honghu thought while saying, "Well... If you really can't wake up, then brush your teeth and wash your face with blood, pretending that this is water. , it’s all an illusion anyway.”
Feng Bujue nodded with a smile on his face, but said, "Wrong."
"Huh?" Honghu was taken aback.
"You think too much." Feng Bujue continued, "If I had encountered that situation, my mind would have instinctively reacted."
"What is it?"
"Turn off the tap."
"Hmm..." Honghu and Tianma Xingkong fell into deep thought together.