Chapter 281 People Scare Ghosts

"Although we come here often, the distance from this place to the entrance of the village is uncertain!"

"What do you mean by uncertain distance?"

"That's it." A player from the opposing team came out and said: "This village has an outbreak mode that is activated from time to time. After this mode is activated, the entire village will enter hyperspace mode, and then the area of ​​the village will increase. Seven or eight times, and the road outside the village will also become very long, and there are no monsters on this road, but it is not possible in burst mode. Anyway, as long as you do not encounter burst mode, the length of this road It’s only about one thousand meters, but if you enter burst mode, the distance may increase to seven or eight thousand meters, and there will be a lot of monsters in the middle.”

"Then I hope we don't run into each other!"

Because we didn’t know how far it was, we could only walk to see it first, but our luck was not too bad today. We didn’t encounter the legendary burst mode, and we only walked less than a thousand meters before we saw it. Entrance to the village.

What makes this village very different from other ordinary villages is that it is almost embedded in the middle of a large forest. The houses on the outermost edge of the village are directly adjacent to the trees in the forest, with no gaps at all, so it is possible to bypass the village directly. Not big.

Under the introduction of those players, the Tsar and I had a general understanding of the rules of the game here. Anyway, if you see a ghost, just leave it alone, but if you encounter something physical, you need to kill it immediately, otherwise There will be more and more people gathering, and when the number reaches a certain level, it will be completely impossible to do anything.

Although you can already see the entrance of the village a few hundred meters away. But we can hardly tell anything about the situation inside the village, because the inside and outside of the village feel like completely two worlds. Although the dense forest we just walked through is relatively dark, which means the shade of trees is denser, there is a purple-black mist everywhere in this village, which is not only cold. And it seriously affects the line of sight. After I walked all the way to the village entrance, I could only see a dozen or so houses on both sides of the street, and the places further away were completely hidden in the fog.

Of course, this foggy environment has little impact on me. Anyway, I still have a visual range of fifty meters, which is enough for melee combat.

"Tsar, follow me closely."

"I understand." After hearing my reminder, the Tsar immediately nodded in agreement.

After confirming that this guy wouldn't run around, I walked into the village, but... Just after I had just crossed the boundary marker at the entrance of the village with one foot. Immediately I felt a black mist floating out from the boundary marker on the roadside, and quickly wrapped around me.

Almost instinctively, I pushed the Tsar sideways and pushed it out of the village boundary, and then jumped back and flew behind me. However, the black energy immediately chased me and flew towards me as if it was automatically tracking, and its speed suddenly increased. It was in front of me in the blink of an eye.

I found this thing just staring at me and chasing after me. I no longer moved in a small area, but just touched the ground under my feet. My wings suddenly flapped forward, and my whole body broke away from the ground and swept back quickly. However, the black air quickly wrapped around me again. I suddenly folded my wings, my body sank, and hit the ground with a bang. Then Eternity was taken off the back of my hand and quickly extended to both ends in my hand to outline the shape of the hook and sickle gun.

Looking at the black air swooping down above my head, I suddenly straightened my legs and jumped back, drawing a beautiful V on the ground. At the same time, the hook and sickle spear moved diagonally upward from the lower left to the upper right, relying on the speed of my bounce. A purple electric light flashed through, and it cut through the black air in an instant.

Originally it was just a test, but I didn't expect that the black energy could actually be destroyed. The eternal hook and sickle gun swept past and cut the black energy in half, and part of the black energy was directly crushed and disappeared. However, what I didn't expect was that the black air didn't disappear immediately after it was cut open, but split into two parts and flew towards me.

I found two masses of black energy coming together. I quickly turned around and rolled across the air. I swung the eternal hook and sickle gun again and accurately dispersed one of the black energy, but the other black energy could not be dodged no matter what.

After crushing a ray of black air, the remaining one accurately hit my wings, because I thought about using my wings to block it, but unfortunately the wings did not play any protective role, and the black mist seemed to also It wasn't an attack, because there was no obvious damage to me.

As soon as I landed on the ground, the young man who was leading the group of players who followed me immediately came up and asked: "President Ziri, were you trying to avoid that yin energy just now?"

"You said that black mist is Yin Qi?"

"Black mist? Can you see it?" The people around him were obviously quite surprised.

I nodded in confusion, and then asked, "What's wrong? Didn't you see it?"

The young man who took the lead said before: "We know that this place has such a setting. As long as we pass from here, a special energy will attach to our bodies. You will feel as if a cold air suddenly blows into your clothes. The same, it will make people shake uncontrollably, but it will not produce any lethality. However, as long as you feel this cold air, all your attributes will be restricted, and your combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced. But we have never seen any black mist. You were dodging and attacking just now, could you see it?"

I nodded and said, "Yes, I saw a black mist coming from the boundary monument, so I instinctively retreated. But the thing was still following me, so I had to jump around with multiple arms. Finally, I used the Eternal Hook and Scythe to scatter some of them."

"You actually fought back and scattered some of them?" The mouths of the people around them were all wide enough to fit into a fist.

"Don't be so surprised. It's normal. After all, I'm different from you. I also have a special title that can fight Yin Qi."

Everyone was relieved when they heard my words, because they all knew that I was not strong for a day or two. It's not surprising that such a thing can be done. However, they still asked me to quickly check whether the attributes have changed.

Of course I did what they said. After all, I also wanted to know whether my attributes were affected by the last black mist. After opening the attributes and taking a look, I found that my attributes had dropped to less than one-tenth of the normal value, and the attribute labels on the equipment were all gray, which meant that these attributes were malfunctioning.

I have to say that the effect of this Yin Qi is really quite annoying. Carrying the Czar guy was already tiring, but now he is actually restricted from most of his attributes. The battle after this is really going to be blinding! But think about it, the system will not deliberately trick players. Since this place will greatly weaken the player's strength, then the monsters here should not be strong. Otherwise, how can others play?

After confirming that this was a level that must be passed and there was no way to avoid it, I had no choice but to let the tsar enter the village. As expected, he was also attacked by black fog, so of course I did an interception test. And it turned out to be useless. I can indeed disperse the black mist. But even if I successfully intercept one, Tombstone will immediately release two to make up for it. As long as the target is exposed to the black mist, no matter how much, the effect will be the same. Therefore, this thing is simply a misunderstanding, and everyone has to pass this test.

After passing this boundary monument, less than ten steps away is the first house outside the village. This is a very typical ancient Chinese building. Blue-grey brick walls and broken wooden doors riddled with holes. In addition, the peeling marks on the walls all show the dilapidation of this place. However, although the buildings here are very dilapidated, they are not the kind that will fall down at a push. In fact, I had already asked in detail before arriving at the village. The main passages in this place are connected to the largest haunted house, and that place is basically inaccessible, so everyone can only travel through the city through the houses with open doors on the periphery of the village. Under this situation, some people will naturally think that it would be easier if they did not follow the houses with open doors, but instead forcibly destroy the structure of the haunted house or go through the door themselves?

If someone thinks of such a problem, someone will naturally try it. And the result is... you can go through the wall, but then you can't expect to get out. This village seems to be alive, and some places in it are like vital points on a person's body to the village. Just touching them will make the village very angry. If you follow the open and closed doors of the haunted houses in the village to guide yourself, then the worst case scenario is just to spend more time, and you can always get past it in the end, and usually the time will not be too exaggerated. Even if you are unlucky. It will only take two or three times as long as others to get through it. However, as long as you destroy the exterior wall of the house, note that it is the exterior wall and the internal structure does not matter. As long as you destroy the exterior wall of the house, it will cause the entire village to come alive and start to oppose you. No matter where you go, all the doors are closed, and you will have to smash all the passages in the future by yourself, because no more doors will be opened, and the number of monsters and monsters you encounter during this period will increase exponentially. It grows by counting. If you can run out within a certain time, you are considered a great person, but if you are slow, then I am sorry. Then prepare to be overwhelmed by the monsters in the haunted house.

In view of many bloody lessons, players who come here understand one thing, that is, they must not destroy the outer wall of the building even if they die, and they must not climb over the wall, otherwise they are prepared to be beaten to death.

Because I knew about this setting in advance, I didn't rush to destroy the wall. Instead, I chose to let those players help me lead the way. They are all veterans here, and this time everyone's destination is the same, which is the mass grave behind the village, so the other party can completely handle the matter of leading the way. Out of a cooperative relationship, they were responsible for leading the way, and I was responsible for clearing the passage. After all, even if this place limits everyone's attributes, the attributes of advanced players will still be higher than ordinary people. It's just that because of the proportional decrease, the absolute value of the attribute gap has become smaller.

Under the leadership of the other party, we walked forward along the deserted street. This street is not wide. Although it is the main road in the village, it is only about four meters wide. Most of the two sides are double-storey buildings. The wall height is generally more than three meters. After all, this is an ancient building and the floor height is not high. The current building is so short that it is said to be a two-story building, but it is actually on par with a modern three-story building.

The ground of the street is paved with large blue stones. It's not dirty, but it's quite slippery. It feels like it used to be very prosperous before, because the bluestones on the ground have been polished quite smooth. This is obviously the result of hard grinding by many people.

Because of the fog. Everyone's visibility here is not very good, but I soon discovered that my sight range is actually the highest here. I used to think that the fog concentration here was so high that everyone could only see 50 meters away. But later I accidentally discovered that I was the only one who could see 50 meters away, and everyone else's sight distance was only 20 meters away. Within meters, the most unlucky guy could only see seven or eight meters away.

Regarding this issue of different sight ranges. These players know it. The only thing that surprised them was that my field of vision was a little too wide. But considering that I am a super advanced player, they didn't react much.

After walking along this main road for a while, the Czar guy suddenly bumped into my back. I looked back at him in confusion, only to find that this guy actually looked like a quail. After seeing my questioning gaze, he trembled and said, "Don't you think this place is very eerie?"

Hearing this, I looked around and found that the surrounding light was indeed much darker than at the entrance of the village, and the temperature was obviously much lower than before. White mist could actually be sprayed out from our mouths while we were talking. but. These are all environmental factors. In fact, so far, except for some of our attributes being restricted, no one has been affected in any substantial way.

"Adjust your mentality. With me here to protect you, there won't be any danger. But if you scare yourself like this, I can't help you."

"I don't want to either! But the atmosphere here is really scary!" The Czar said a little aggrievedly: "It's like a haunted house. Even though we know it's fake, most people are still scared, right?"

I shook my head helplessly and said, "Then there's nothing I can do. I can only protect your safety, but there's nothing I can do about your psychological problems."

"I'm fine. You can just go on your way. I'm just a little nervous."

"Your legs are trembling. Is this called nervousness? If you act like this, you will probably die of exhaustion before you can even wait for the mass grave."

"It's instinct, there's nothing I can do about it!"

"Okay, okay, it's like this the first time I come here." A girl in the group of people next to me said, "I was so scared that I cried when I came here for the first time."

The player who led the team immediately said: "Yes! Even now, we have been here dozens of times, and we are still scared every time. It's fine when there are many people, but once we are alone, I feel really scared. It’s very scary. You don’t know, this dungeon is basically like a haunted house in an amusement park, it’s specially designed to scare people, and it actually contains attacks, so it’s really hard to guard against!”

"Is it that exaggerated? I see you are not very relaxed now?" I glanced at the people around me and said.

The guy leading the team immediately said after hearing my words: "We are not nervous now because we are not in the right place. As long as it is not in outbreak mode, the first section of the main road in the village is an absolute safe zone. Nothing will appear here. It must be You have to find the first open door and go through it, and ghosts will start to appear on the street below."

"No wonder you are not afraid!" said the Tsar.

I looked at the Tsar and couldn't think of any way to help him. I could help with this battle problem, but he was afraid and I couldn't do anything. I shook my head helplessly and walked forward again. Others immediately started to move, but after only a few steps, I suddenly stretched out my hand to signal everyone to stop.

"Didn't you say that the first street is an absolutely safe zone?"

"Well, what's wrong?" the young man next to him asked doubtfully.

I reached out and pointed to the roof of the house in front of me on the left. I saw that the window on the second floor was open. Through the window, I could see a white silk hanging on the beam in the house, looking like a middle-aged man. The guy is hanging slightly on the white silk. This is obviously a corpse that hanged itself. Considering that this is a ghost village, that means that it is probably a hanged ghost.

Originally, no one had reacted even if I didn't mention it. As soon as I pointed out the situation over there, everyone around me saw it, and then everyone reacted. Many people quickly took out their weapons and became alert. The nervous expressions on the faces of several of the girls were almost the same as those of the Czar just now.

In fact, many players who have never been to this kind of fierce ghost dungeon will wonder what they are afraid of. When fighting in the game, mountains of corpses and seas of blood are commonplace. What's so scary about a corpse? Yes, a corpse is indeed not scary, especially in broad daylight and surrounded by people. But, you can imagine. What if there was a body hanging in the elevator at two in the morning? You can still calmly walk in, click on the floor and then calmly wait for the elevator to rise to your door before walking out?

Therefore, it is not the corpse that is scary, but the atmosphere. The ghost village itself is foggy and the visibility is not very high. In addition, the light is not good, and it is extremely cold and humid. Therefore, normal people will naturally become nervous here, let alone seeing a corpse at this time. Even a sudden meow from somewhere can scare many people.

In fact, it would have been fine if we just walked over. The key is that now that I point my finger like this, everyone has discovered the hanged ghost over there. What’s even more frightening is that when everyone looks over there, the corpse that originally had its back to the window turned around, and then the green corpse turned around. A sinister smile actually appeared on the purple face.

"Ah..." After everyone saw that smile, their scalps felt numb, and their whole bodies felt sore and numb, as if they were electrified. One of the girls actually screamed.

In fact, this is pretty good. There was someone even more unreliable at the scene, and that was the Tsar. Fortunately, this guy was a Russian hunk who was about 1.8 meters tall. He actually sat on the ground and pointed at the top, trembling all over. He was obviously so frightened that he lost control of his body. Fortunately, this guy didn't poop or pee, otherwise it would be really embarrassing. Of course, it's his shame to be embarrassed and it has nothing to do with me.

"This, this, this... it should be just an accident." The leader said with a trembling voice: "The other party didn't come out, let's ignore him for now, go quickly, go quickly."

This guy reminds me. Everyone immediately began to prepare to move forward. However, just when I pulled up the Tsar from the ground and prepared to move forward, the door on the first floor of the nearby house where the hanged man was found slowly opened with an unpleasant friction sound. . In this eerie place, and so quiet that we could even hear our own breathing, the friction sound of the slowly opening wooden door that lacked lubrication seemed to be exploding in everyone's ears. I felt a shiver. Some people even broke out in sweat.

"I said you have been here dozens of times. Is this the case?"

A girl next to me who was trembling with fear shouted directly: "You touch the poop dozens of times and then you feel that poop is not disgusting anymore?"

I know that she was just venting her fear in such a harsh tone, but I have to say that there is some truth to what she said. Although people are adaptable, that doesn't mean they can completely ignore certain things. They have been here dozens of times, and I guess the only improvement is that they no longer scream and run away immediately after seeing these terrifying things. At least on the way here, I heard from them that when they came here as a team for the first time, the whole team collapsed and ran away as soon as they saw a ghost. Now, not only did they not escape, they also maintained their attack formation. This was progress. However, the fear is still there, but they can overcome it.

"Can you come in?" I asked the people around me as I looked at the open door.

The young man wiped the cold sweat dripping from his temples, and then said: "As a rule, it is correct to go through the first door that opens, but in the past, the door was always open when we walked there, and it was never in front of us. The face has been opened. This..."

"You mean you don't know what to do?"

The other party nodded and said, "This is different from what we did before!"

"You don't know how to go, so let's try our luck?" I said and took out a coin. "Go in head-on, don't go in tail-side." The other party seemed to have no good solution after thinking about it, so he nodded directly. When I saw the other party nodding, I immediately bounced the coin up, then caught the falling coin, opened it and saw that it was heads. "It seems that God wants us to come in!"

"Ah..." As soon as I finished speaking, there was a scream behind me, which made me tremble. It was not my courage, it was too sudden.

"Holy shit, is it over yet?" I turned around and asked angrily.

A girl behind me was sitting on the ground, pointing tremblingly at the window on the second floor. She opened her mouth but made no sound. She was obviously frightened and lost her voice. I could only look in the direction of her finger, and found that it was the hanged man from before. Actually disappeared.

"Damn, it looks like he's really hanging himself!" I sighed and started walking forward. As a result, there was a shout immediately behind him.

"What are you doing?"

"Go in." I turned around and looked at those people and asked in confusion.

People around me didn't know how to answer after hearing what I said. This place is like this. Although it is scary, you still have to bravely move forward. It feels like watching a horror movie, scary. But I still want to see it. These people also know that if they want to make money, they have to go to the mass graves, and the waist mass graves have to pass through this ghost village, so this haunted house must be entered. Helpless, everyone had to follow slowly, but they all kept a small distance from me. They all looked very scared.

The streets of the ghost village can already be said to be quite dark. The light intensity is only slightly better than that at night when the moonlight is particularly bright. As for this room... It's not that I can't see my fingers, but it is indeed dark enough. But black is just for others. It's not a problem for me. I have perfect dark vision. In a place like this, it's like wearing an infrared night vision device. Everything is clear at a glance. Compared to the fog outside. The darkness in this room affects me much less.

Although I was brave, I was not reckless. I did not go directly into the house. I just walked to the door first, then stood there and looked inside.

This is either a house belonging to a wealthy family, or a very ordinary house. Just inside the gate is the lobby. The area is only about 100 square meters. It can be said to be basically empty inside. There is an offering table on the wall opposite the door, with at least seventy or eighty spiritual tablets in a dense row on it. "As expected of a ghost village!" I said and walked directly in. Because there is really nothing here. There is nothing in the entire lobby except the altar table and the spiritual tablet on it. It is really empty and there is nothing worth noting.

After entering the lobby, I walked directly to the altar bar. The group behind and the Tsar also came in at this time, but they all stood at the door and did not go inside. I looked on the altar table. Everything was covered with dust, but there were no cobwebs. Look left and right. There is a small door on both sides of the wall where the altar table is located. Passing through it should be the back hall. I walked over directly. This small door only has a door frame. When you walk to the door, you can see the yard behind it.

The yard is not very big. There are houses on the left and right sides and in the back. The center of the yard is paved with stone slabs. There are some wooden structures scattered around. They may have been racks for drying in the past, but now they are all turned into a pile of rotten wood. , basically can’t see the original appearance.

There is a rocking chair on the left in the middle of the yard. It is different from the things around it. This thing looks very clean, as if someone uses it frequently. And just when I walked into the yard and everyone came to the small door, the rocking chair suddenly started to shake slowly.

"It looks like there really is a ghost!" I looked back at the group of people behind me, and all of them looked like they had seen a ghost.

Yes, they had the look of seeing a ghost, because they really saw a ghost. Just when I turned my head, an old lady slowly appeared on the rocking chair. This old lady in a cotton-padded jacket looked quite rich, but she only had a rich figure. Her face seemed to be blocked behind a piece of frosted glass. Still completely unable to see clearly. After the old lady appeared, a draft suddenly blew through the yard, and everyone shivered uncontrollably.

I keenly sensed something unusual in the yard, and immediately turned around. Of course, I saw the old lady. However, there was no movement from the old lady over there. The crystal well at the corner of the courtyard on the right first heard a crackling sound like a fracture, and then... a pale palm suddenly stretched out from the mouth of the well. , and then slowly rested on the edge of the well.

When everyone who originally wanted to enter the courtyard saw this situation, they all shrank back to the small door and huddled together, as if it was safe. I was the only one still standing in the courtyard.

Soon after the palm of the well appeared, another hand stretched out, and then slowly, a disheveled head stretched out from the well mouth, followed by a body. Although the opponent's movements were weird, as if he had severe arthritis, his speed was not too slow, and he quickly climbed out of the well. At this time, it can actually be seen that this is a female ghost, but the black hair covers the entire face, so it is impossible to tell what she looks like, except for the blood-red eyes that flash through the hair from time to time. .

The female ghost who had completely crawled out crawled towards me on her hands and knees in an extremely weird posture, making weird crackling noises along the way, accompanied by a roar-like sound she made from the bottom of her throat.

Seeing this terrifying scene, the group behind them were almost paralyzed with fear, but precisely because their limbs were weak, they didn't run, mainly because they couldn't run anymore. The female ghost opposite quickly approached my feet, but I didn't run away. Instead, I squatted down and looked at the female ghost. After all, she was crawling on the ground and her height was too low. I couldn't see her face clearly unless I squatted down. !

The female ghost quickly climbed over the last distance, then reached out and grabbed my ankle, then raised her head and opened her mouth to roar at me. Because her head was raised, her hair slid to both sides, revealing her face for the first time. Originally, the other party's roar was purely to scare people, but she only stopped halfway through the roar. It wasn't that she didn't want to yell anymore, but she was frightened and stopped. Yes, the female ghost was frightened by me, because I suddenly stretched out a hand, pinched her chin, and lifted her head up as if teasing a girl.

He looked carefully at the face from left to right. The facial skin shows an abnormal bluish color, and purple blood vessels are densely covered under the skin. The facial contour is quite round, but it is not baby fat but swollen. The female ghost had obviously drowned. Her body had been soaked in water for so long that it was swollen.

The other party's eyes were the same as those seen before, completely blood red, with some black lines in the middle, which should be blood vessels or something like that, but the eyes protruded very much, which was probably caused by water.

Although this face is quite scary, I don't have much reaction. I'm actually more afraid of the disgusting smell than the disgusting look. This female ghost didn't smell anything, so I didn't mind at all. However, the other party probably didn't expect that someone would do this to a water ghost, so my actions frightened her.

"Your teeth are quite white. You must have been a beautiful woman before you were alive, right? What a pity! You can't even tell when they're so swollen!" (To be continued ~^~)