Chapter 18: Four Seasons Protection Guide (V)
In front of the dark house, Zhang You took a deep breath.
The warm gear distributed by the student union made her feel heavy and breathless, but it was indeed effective. At least now she could walk normally in the freezing temperatures.
The student union members were looking at her sinisterly from behind, which reminded Zhang You of the scene in which the previous boy was dragged into the swamp on the ice.
Through the fog over the dark swamp, one could only vaguely see a monster that looked like a giant loach and a black snake. Human strength was so weak in front of the monster that the boy didn't even have the strength to resist and was swallowed up and disappeared.
Zhang You couldn't even remember his name, but the despair, coldness, severe pain and stiffness of losing consciousness during his struggle seemed to be transmitted to her senses through the mist, filling her limbs with chills and making her mind terrified and uneasy.
Zhang You tried hard to calm himself down.
She knew that Tang Xin Jue would not do anything in vain. Since he "forced" the students to choose this place as the inspection location, it meant that there was probably an opportunity here that could help them pass the level.
Concentrating 100% of his attention, Zhang You pushed open the door of the lounge.
"Okay, Zhang You has arrived outside the lounge. Let's pray that she isn't too afraid of the dark... Why isn't she leaving?"
Lily pinched her throat to remind him, "Does Zhang want to give up temporarily? In the spirit of humanitarianism, we can accept it. After all, which is more severe, the punishment for breaking the rules, or the result of failing to answer the questions? Tsk tsk tsk, this requires the students to find the answer themselves."
Zhang You still didn't speak. After several seconds, she said hesitantly, "I want to contact my roommate."
Lily: ??? Are you addicted to asking for help off-site?
"No!" She screamed without even thinking, but Tang Xinjue's phone was faster than hers and the connection was automatically connected.
"Please tell Zhang You that I'm here."
Through the phone, Tang Xin Jue was like a sedative, relaxing Zhang You's tense nerves a little, but she still hesitated to take action, as if she was struggling with something in her mind.
Tang Xinjue immediately noticed his roommate's abnormality and said to the Student Union, "I want to video chat with my roommate."
Lily: ...Are you really treating them as tools, ordering them around?
"No." The student union refused without hesitation: "There is no such rule."
"But my roommate suffers from congenital color blindness." Tang Xinjue did not hesitate.
Lily sneered: "There is no light in the lounge, so color blindness does not affect her movements."
"But in addition to this, she also suffers from dark phobia, claustrophobia-induced heart spasms, multiple fractures that have caused incoordination of her limbs, and she has had epilepsy before, and intermittent visual loss due to severe color deficiency. In summary, strictly speaking, my roommate, a severely disabled person, is not a complete person now. Only when we connect via video and I help her find the way, can we work together to complete a normal human motion system."
Tang Xinjue answered fluently.
Zhang You suddenly developed more than a dozen diseases and was forced to become a disabled person: "..."
Student Union: “…”
The situation was deadlocked for about half a minute before the other side reluctantly met their request.
Lily reminded him fiercely, "You only have one hour left. If you exceed this time, you will still be considered a failure."
Finally, the video was successfully connected. Tang Xinjue could feel Zhang You's hands shaking slightly. There was no time to talk, so she immediately asked him to turn the camera of his mobile phone, and then there was darkness in front of her eyes.
Thick, cold, hidden or gathered in the room in front of them, it instantly reminded people of the first day when the game came and there was an impermeable darkness outside the dormitory.
Zhang You said softly: "Before this exam started, I exchanged a limited-time item from the mall. It can remind me of the maliciousness around me."
If it was almost full of malice next to the "Student Union", then at the door of this lounge, it almost exploded directly in Zhang You's pocket.
This is also the reason why Zhang You dared not move and had to video chat with Tang Xinjue and others.
Ghosts and monsters lurk in the darkness, and she hardly dares to imagine how many inhuman beings are waiting in the dark to spy on her.
At this moment in the dormitory, Tang Xinjue was not the only one staring at the mobile phone screen, but also the trembling Guo Guo.
[Yin Yang Eyes (Basic): It can help you better distinguish ghosts and monsters, and the world will be more colorful in your eyes.]
This is the Yin-Yang Eyes ability that Guo Guo just acquired, and it is simply a natural choice to use it at this moment.
She gritted her teeth and looked for a long time, then said in a trembling voice: "I feel like there are shadows everywhere, on the left, on the right, one piled on top of another..."
How many ghosts are there in this house?
"It doesn't matter. You just need to say what you see and gain experience at the same time. After all, there aren't many opportunities to practice without actual combat." After comforting Guo Guo, Tang Xin Jue said to Zhang You, "Back off and go left. You can go in now."
With a harsh friction sound, the door of the lounge was pushed open completely, and the temperature, which was even colder than outside, made people shiver.
"Don't look back, don't look to either side, look straight ahead and keep turning left."
Zhang You turned around according to the voice in his ear.
Tang Xin Jue: "Go forward, there is a wall, there should be a light switch. Wait, you are shaking, why?"
But the roommate took a deep breath and tried to control his voice: "I heard someone calling my name behind me."
"Don't believe it, that's not a human being."
"But..." Zhang You gritted his teeth, "The sound is getting closer."
It was far away at first, and each shout got closer to her, but the shout just now... was clearly behind her!
Tang Xinjue narrowed his eyes: "Squat down!"
Zhang You quickly squatted down, and a cold wind blew past his head. The whispers faded away quickly like the tide, and the room returned to silence.
His heart almost jumped out of his chest. Zhang You felt a layer of cold sweat on his body, which quickly stuck to , making him feel very uncomfortable.
"That should be the long-tongued ghost."
Tang Xin Jue explains it succinctly.
In fact, the monsters in the nightmare had no names, she gave them these names based on their characteristics.
As the name suggests, the long-tongued ghost can use its tongue to speak and imitate human voices calling in the dark, but its body only has a long and thin tongue, which it uses to ambush behind people and devour their heads.
Zhang You paused for two seconds, then suddenly frowned and sniffed twice: "I seem to smell a strange smell."
"It smells really bad and sour, a bit like a dead rat, but..." She paused, "and it also smells like blood."
I didn't feel anything when I was standing, but when I squatted down, I smelled something strange in the air near the ground. And the smell seemed to be evenly distributed in the room, and I couldn't find the direction.
"If we can't find the direction, then they are everywhere." Tang Xin Jue said calmly, "Long-tongued ghosts often appear in piles of corpses. There should be at least several corpses in this room."
Zhang You: ...Don't say such things in such a calm tone, she will be scared too!
Fortunately, Tang Xin Jue did not continue to describe, and Guo Guo also added in a low voice: "There are many shadows on both sides, but the place where the long-tongued ghost pounced just now is still there, and there seem to be particularly many shadows next to it."
Tang Xinjue seemed to be thinking for a moment, and then suddenly directed Zhang You to walk in the direction where the long-tongued ghost had just pounced.
"Long-tongued ghosts are one of the few ghosts with intelligence. They should guard the light source and prevent you from passing through."
As requested, Zhang You turned the video screen to face Tang Xinjue's face towards the darkness and asked cautiously, "Will this increase my chances of avoiding danger?"
Tang Xin Jue: "No, this way when they pounce on us, we will be able to see their appearance more clearly."
Zhang You: Crying.
Guo Guo: ...crying too!
Having said that, when Zhang You successfully moved near the light source and the ghosts hiding in the darkness swarmed towards her, Tang Xinjue and Guo Guo immediately determined the least dangerous direction of action and helped her dodge left and right.
[You are being eroded by something. Health value 10]
[Your spirit is under continuous attack and your sanity value is decreasing rapidly]
[You have obtained negative buff: Bleeding]
[You have obtained negative buff: frostbite]
…
It was impossible to avoid all the monsters in the dark. They came one after another, making Zhang You's already greatly weakened physique even worse. Tang Xinjue frowned, trying to identify every ghost in the shortest possible time.
Suddenly, she seemed to see something, her eyes sharpened, and she shouted sternly: "Meet that big head on the left! Crash into it!"
In fact, Zhang You could no longer see where the "big head" was. She instinctively pounced to the left, and then she felt a strong sense of malice with her hair standing on end.
However, this malice was not directed at her...but at the video screen in her hand?
In the dormitory, Tang Xinjue put down his cell phone, held the toilet plunger in his hand, and pushed away his two roommates who were jumping up and down as if they were in the scene.
"This kind of ghost is called a phantom demon. It has the ability to travel through space with the help of electronic devices."
Guo Guo and Zheng Wanqing: "!!!"
Can you travel through time with the help of electronic devices? ? That cell phone...
It happened in a flash. Before he could finish his words, a skinny, dark hand suddenly stretched out from the phone screen and grabbed Tang Xinjue!
[Ding Dong, attacked by a high-level ghost, triggering passive buff: Light of Righteousness]
[The light of righteousness shines on the earth!]
A dazzling golden light suddenly burst out from Tang Xinjue's body, illuminating the area within a few square meters as if the sun was scorching overhead. However, it flashed away in just two seconds and disappeared completely, as if it had never appeared.
The skinny arm that happened to be stretched out in one section was roasted to a charred black and dried up by the wind, and two pieces of debris fell off.
Before it was about to break, Tang Xinjue pressed the toilet plunger button, and a stream of water gushed out from the rubber head, fell on his arm and froze instantly, turning it into a long popsicle, which he broke off and put aside.
Zhang You, who witnessed all this, opened her mouth silently. On her side, the situation also changed suddenly.
The influence of [The Light of Righteousness] did not seem to be limited by the mobile phone screen. The moment it erupted, the ghosts near Zhang You also retreated several meters. She took the opportunity to touch the wall and found the light switch.
At the same time, Lily's surprised voice came from the radio: "She is not dead... Well, classmate Zhang succeeded?"
“Pah.”
Zhang You pressed the switch hard, and the cold white light illuminated the lounge.
The creatures that moved in the darkness disappeared in the light, and the scene inside the room was clearly seen by everyone.
