[Holy Thorn (Blue)
Gift of Wealth
Effect: Immediately replenishes physical strength, dispels control effects, and increases movement speed by 200%. Cooldown after use for two minutes. 】
"A blue quality item...excellent grade?
Time Stop is only a white quality item, but the Holy Thorn is actually blue.
This shows that the Goddess of Wealth believes that dispelling control effects, replenishing physical strength and increasing movement speed are more important in this copy than stopping time.
Of course, it may also be related to the number of times it is used. Time Stop can only be used once, while Holy Thorn can be used repeatedly, and only requires a two-minute cooldown period. "
Qi Ge took the unicorn horn and verified his own guess.
“The coordinates I left behind last time are indeed the location of the key prop.
The wings of the golden dragon, the arms of the tree man, I still have no clues.
I couldn't miss the one on top of the bedroom bookshelf.
Even if Leng Yu is in there, I have to go.
Besides, physical strength... Could it be..."
Qi Ge made up her mind, wrapped herself in the quilt without hesitation, and turned back to the bedroom.
He ran quickly through the long corridor and reached the corner.
“Huff, huff, huff.”
Qi Ge was breathing slightly, half squatting, with his hands on his weak thighs.
“Sure enough, this body actually has physical limitations, and its physical strength is ridiculously poor. I’m out of breath after running two steps.
Fortunately, I discovered it now. If I had realized it when I was being chased by a ghost, I would have been in big trouble."
Qi Ge slowed down his pace and walked back to his bedroom while recovering his strength.
In the long corridor, the candlesticks still emit a faint green light, appearing peaceful and serene, yet exuding a sense of weirdness.
Qi Ge walked very cautiously, preparing for Leng Yu to jump out and scare him at any time.
He is now certain that as long as he responds to Leng Yu's actions, he will be attacked by her, and there is a high probability that he will die instantly.
He wasn't sure if he could make it through this life, but no matter what, he had to live longer than his previous self so that he could leave more useful information.
Arriving at the bedroom door, Qi Ge wrapped himself in a quilt and leaned against the door stealthily. With the help of the light from the corridor, he looked into the bedroom through the crack of the door.
The bedroom was empty and quiet. Except for the missing candlestick on the cabinet, all other furniture was exactly the same as what he saw when he woke up.
"Well, where's Leng Yu? Disappeared?"
Qi Ge observed for a while, confirmed that there was no problem, and was about to enter the bedroom.
Suddenly, he felt a chill in his heart and suddenly realized a problem.
“Wait a minute, when I left the bedroom, I took not only the candlesticks but also the quilt.
This quilt is wrapped around me, so why is there another quilt on that bed? ! "
Hiss~
Realizing this, Qi Ge was instantly horrified. He stared at the gorgeous velvet quilt on the bed, as if he saw something indescribable.
Going there knowing that there is a tiger is the act of a brave man, but it is definitely not the act of a wise man.
But when Qi Ge looked at the bookshelf, he couldn't bear to give up just like that.
"The last time I left a message with limited words, it must have been very important and must be read."
Qi Ge held the Time-Stop Bronze in one hand and the Holy Thorn in the other, stared closely at the big bed, and carefully squeezed into the room.
He stared at the quilt, his back pressed against the wall, and moved towards the bookshelf bit by bit.
Qi Ge was ready to hit the time stop button at any time, but until he reached under the bookshelf, the quilt did not move.
But Qi Ge still didn't dare to be careless. He observed for a while, moved a table under the bookshelf, and climbed up the table.
Since Qi Ge's attention was always on the quilt, he could only look at the top of the bookshelf out of the corner of his eye.
This sight almost frightened Qi Ge to death.
On top of the bookshelf, there was a dead body lying there. The body was frozen stiff and there was frost on the face.
Qi Ge would definitely not be mistaken, that face was his own.
Just when Qi Ge was distracted, the quilt moved suddenly.
From under the quilt, there were sounds of deep breaths coming one after another.
Seven Pigeons: !!!
"Ah! It smells so good, dear."
Under Qi Ge's horrified gaze, a muffled sound suddenly came from under the quilt.
Immediately afterwards, Leng Yu's head popped out from under the quilt.
She stroked the quilt on the bed tenderly, muttering to herself intoxicatedly:
“That’s great. I really want to lie in the same quilt with my dear as soon as possible, then bite her neck and suck her blood bit by bit, watching her struggling to death under me but unable to get away.
Ah, that’s great.”
Leng Yu said this and buried himself in the quilt again, squirming wildly in the quilt and making faint moaning sounds, as if he was doing something to comfort himself.
As she moved, pieces of clothing were thrown out from under the quilt one by one...
Seven Pigeons: ...
Shit! So you're the one with the fever! You scared me.
Qi Ge had just breathed a sigh of relief when he suddenly realized a problem.
The corpse he had just seen seemed to be wearing very gorgeous attire, just like the royal dress of the Elf Empire.
"Could it be that..."
He quickly looked at the corpse and slowly discovered clues on it.
【Death Doll (Gold)
Gift of Wealth
Effect: This Gift cannot be moved.
It can be activated and will take effect for half an hour after activation .
If you die during the effective period and are resurrected from a substitute doll, you will not lose energy and will retain your memory, but you will not be able to leave a will and your wealth gift will not be refreshed.
Disappear after successful substitution death.
Current status:
Groom's Outfit: The puppet has been dressed in groom's outfit by Leng Yu. If you are resurrected from the puppet, you will immediately become Leng Yu's groom (death). 】
Seven Pigeons: ...
Shit! Luckily it came.
It turns out that there is a key item [One-time Resurrection Point] hidden in the initial room!
Being able to be resurrected with memories can increase the tolerance for errors.
"But there is a problem now... the resurrection point is being guarded..."
Qi Ge took one look at Leng Yu who was moaning and squirming in the quilt, and felt a chill in his heart.
This female ghost who appeared so early actually had the ability to influence the gift of wealth.
"If I find a surrogate doll but don't know Leng Yu's ability, and I think I can be resurrected, but I die again just after I'm resurrected, I'll be scared to death."
Now the question is, how to cancel the [Groom in Full Dress] status?
“Remove your makeup!”
Qi Ge tried but couldn't move his body off the cabinet, but taking off his clothes was not a problem.
Qi Ge stripped off all the clothes from his corpse without hesitation.
Although it may seem a bit perverted for a person wrapped in a blanket to desperately strip a male corpse of its clothes, it is understandable as Qi Ge's last resort struggle to survive.
Since Qi Ge had no way to take his body down from the bookshelf, he couldn't take off his wedding dress completely. He could only unbutton the front part along the buttons.
When Qi Ge's body finally returned to being naked, with 18 centimeters excluding the head pointing high toward the ceiling, the state of "groom in formal attire" disappeared.
"Tsk, it has to be stripped so cleanly... This condition is really harsh...
Here comes the problem. Leng Yu is still in the room. I have stripped the corpse of its clothes, but she might come and put them on again. I must lure Leng Yu away.
But I can't pay attention to Leng Yu. Every time I talk to Leng Yu, I have to hang up. What should I do?"
Qi Ge's mind was working rapidly, and he suddenly noticed a detail.
“By the way, Leng Yu seems to have said many times that if I meet other bridesmaids in disheveled clothes, they will be unhappy.
Based on my understanding of women, this situation usually means that if I meet Leng Yu in a disheveled state, Leng Yu herself will be unhappy.
But if the substitute doll's clothes are disheveled, Leng Yu will most likely come over to fix them...
The only solution is to use underwear!
underwear……"
Qi Ge looked towards the room and immediately saw the pink crotch that Leng Yu had thrown from the quilt to the ground...
"It's you!"
Qi Ge quietly lay down, tiptoed down from the table, stretched out her hand, and put Leng Yu's pink crotch into the quilt.
“So cold…hiss, it feels like silk, but it feels like ice.
Is this the ghost girl's underwear? "
Qi Ge pinched the crotch curiously and even put it in front of his nose to smell it.
It was difficult for Qi Ge to describe the smell. It was like a mixture of the fragrance of flowers and the stench of corpses, which was both refreshing and disgusting.
These two sharply contrasting smells, like left and right hooks, kept hitting Qi Ge's nose.
This almost made Qi Ge faint.
"Hiss, does a female ghost smell so strange? How did Ning Caicheng attack Xiaoqian in the first place?"
Qi Ge casually stuffed the crotch bra around her chest and climbed back to the top of the bookshelf quietly.
He put the crotch guard around the waistband of his own corpse's pants and then dressed the corpse in the complicated wedding dress again.
Qi Ge checked and was delighted to find that although the clothes were put back on, the [Groom's Attire] state had not been restored.
"As expected! That's right, the groom has to take off his clothes. Only when he is fully dressed inside and out is he considered a groom in formal attire.
The outer garment has not changed, so Leng Yu should not take it off to check inside.
This way, the substitute puppet is done."
Qi Ge activated the substitute puppet with satisfaction. When he was about to leave, he suddenly realized a problem.
"Hiss~ In this way, after I am resurrected, I will be wearing Leng Yu's underwear, right?!
Then wouldn't I be a pervert who even wears female ghost underwear?"
Qi Ge thought about it:
“Forget it, I’m a pervert, it doesn’t matter, I’ve even been a mare, so it’s okay to wear a sexy pink crotch bra.
Dignity is not as important as life."
Qi Ge carefully slipped out of the room, but did not go far. Instead, he hid in the fountain and peeked at the yellow door.
After a while, Qi Ge saw Leng Yu, with a blushing face, covering her skirt as she walked out of the gate and ran away.
Upon seeing this, Qi Ge immediately returned to the bedroom and checked the status of the substitute puppet.
"Perfect, Leng Yu really didn't realize that I had tampered with the substitute puppet."
Qi Ge let out a breath, left the room, and closed the door carefully.
He turned around and was about to walk out along the corridor when a voice suddenly rang in his ears.
"Brother, I'm here to see you!"
"Hiss?! Who's talking?!"
Qi Ge was startled and hid under the quilt and turned around, but there was still no change in the corridor and he found nothing.
"Where are you, brother? I'm in the kitchen."
Seven pigeons:?
Qi Ge listened carefully to the voice that seemed to appear out of nowhere in his mind, and was shocked:
"This is definitely not Leng Yu's voice, it's the new red wedding dress?"
"Brother, aren't you in the kitchen? I came to the fountain garden to look for you."
Fountain Gardens...
Qi Ge was startled, and suddenly remembered the hint under the fountain:
Stay in the same room with Mi Zang and die.
“A ghost is looking for me… Could it be that this figure is the sound of hide-and-seek?
If it's hide and seek, you'll die if you stay in the same room with her.
She’s in the Fountain Gardens right now, which means I’ve got her blocked off and she could be here any minute.
The corridor is a one-way street leading to the bedroom. Once she enters the corridor, I will be trapped in the bedroom and I will be dead!
You have to find a way to leave."
Qi Ge pulled the quilt tightly around him and ran quickly.
He ran to the door and looked out through the yellow gate.
The voice in Qi Ge's mind clearly said that she was in the Fountain Garden, but outside the Fountain Garden it was completely silent and Qi Ge saw nothing.
This made Qi Ge even more panicked: “Invisible ghost… Mi Zang may be an invisible ghost, which means it has no physical form.
If you want to know where she is, you can only rely on her own reporting in your mind.
This means that I have no way of predicting where she will go. "
Just as Qi Ge realized this, the voice in his head sounded again.
The voice was sweet and playful, like a little girl covered in honey, but it made Qi Ge's scalp tingle and made him highly focused!
"Brother, aren't you in the Fountain Garden? I'll come and lie down."
Crack!
When he heard the word "lie", Qi Ge pinched the time-stopping bronze without hesitation!
In an instant, everything around stopped moving, even the leaves blown by the wind stopped in the air.
“Tick…tick…”
The time-stopping bronze in Qi Ge's hand disappeared instantly, and the sound of a clock turning continuously rang in his ears, reminding him that time was running out.
Without hesitation, he rushed out of the corridor, ran into the fountain garden, and ran towards the passage on the left side of the fountain!
The seven doves did not enter the fountain.
Because the bedroom corridor and fountain garden are one-way streets, you must come back after playing hide-and-seek to find the bedroom.
Poseidon has reminded us that the fountain is not invincible, and Red Wedding Dress has the means to break through it.
If the rule of hide-and-seek really is that you will die if you stay in the same room with her, Fountain may not be able to save herself.
Qi Ge was not sure whether the fountain had the ability to stop Mi Zang, but he knew he couldn't afford the risk.
He must use this precious time stop to find the next safe point for himself.
The passage on the right side of the fountain is the direction Leng Yu just left.
Leng Yu said she would take me to meet her sisters. There were likely other red wedding dresses in the direction she left, and going there would be a trap.
The passage in front of the fountain leads to another separate room. According to Qi Ge's understanding of the nobles of the Elf Empire, that is most likely the hidden kitchen.
The kitchen is also a dangerous area with no other exits, and there is also a risk of being blocked by hide-and-seek.
But she had already tried hide-and-seek in the kitchen once. There is a saying that the most dangerous place is the safest place. Maybe she would not go back to the kitchen again.
But if she went back to the kitchen, she would die, and Qi Ge couldn't afford the risk.
Only the passage on the left side of the fountain leads to an open area, with more route options, and will not collide with Leng Yu's route.
The ticking sound of the clock was still ringing in Qi Ge's ears. He turned the corner suddenly and saw a long row of tree houses at the end of the road.
There are red maple leaves hanging at the doors of these tree houses, a large patch of red, as red as blood.
This is... the commercial district of the Elf Empire!
The Elf Empire also has trade, but their trade has always remained at the primitive bartering stage. Even after the Goddess of Wealth was deified, they still retained some of the bartering traditions.
In the early days of the Elf Empire, when someone had supplies that needed to be traded, they would hang a maple leaf strip on the door.
Later, the commercial areas of the Elf Empire also preserved this tradition.
Qi Ge quickly recalled in his mind that none of the red wedding dresses seemed to be related to business, so this area was most likely a temporary safe zone.
Thirty seconds is neither short nor long.
Before the seven pigeons had even finished running the length of the road, the ticking stopped.
"I've been looking for you in the corridor!"
"Huh~" Hearing the voice in his mind, Qi Ge breathed a long sigh of relief.
He made the right bet.
"Connecting the voices in my head before and after the time stop, it's 'Brother, aren't you in the fountain garden? I'm looking for you in the bedroom corridor!'
Mizou spoke very quickly, and if I hadn’t stopped time, there would have been no way for me to leave the corridor room before she finished speaking.”
The elf commercial district ahead was right in front of him, but Qi Ge was not in a hurry to go in. He found a place to sit down, and while recovering his strength, he counted silently in his mind.
"One, two, three, four, five..."
"Brother, you are not in the bedroom hallway. I came to the bedroom to find you."
Ten seconds...
"One, two, three, four, five..."
"Brother, you are not in the bedroom. I came to the bedroom corridor to find you."
Another ten seconds!
"One, two, three, four, five..."
"Brother, you are not in the bedroom corridor. I came to the fountain garden to find you."
Still ten seconds.
"Confirmed, hide and seek moves once every ten seconds.
This is an invisible ghost that cannot be seen or touched, moves regardless of distance, and stays in each room for ten seconds.
This means that I have to keep an eye on Hide-and-Seek while I'm moving.
"Brother, you are not in the Fountain Garden. I went to the kitchen to find you!"
"Hiss～～" When the new sound sounded, Qi Ge breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
"Luckily I didn't follow the saying 'the most dangerous place is the safest place' and hide in the kitchen where I had played hide-and-seek, otherwise I would be dead now.
Leng Yu can deceive people, and of course he will look for the places he has searched before.
The red wedding dress in this treasure house does not follow any rules at all.
It's too dangerous, this treasure house is really too dangerous, there is danger at every step. No wonder except the last message, all the other messages are so short.
You can die if you are not careful.
There is no time to waste. I must find more life-saving items as soon as possible. The difficulty will increase greatly in the last hour."
Qi Ge stood up, wrapped himself in a quilt, and walked into the trading area.
He walked carefully along the wall of the tree house, observing the surrounding tree houses.
Under the light of the red moon, these houses all reveal an eerie bloody color.
Qi Ge looked into the tree houses from the window. There was no one in them, but after walking around, he found that there were wooden signs hanging on the doors of the tree houses.
During this process, Qi Ge continued to memorize the various place names that were hidden in his mind.
While the game seemed to be far away from the fountain garden, Qi Ge quickly climbed up the giant tree and approached the wooden signs in front of the tree house one by one to observe them. He found that there were words written on these wooden signs:
[Exchange the red heart for the groom's disguise. 】
[Use your eyes that don't shed tears to exchange hide-and-seek for one hour. 】
[Exchange your slender thighs for a map. ]
…
[Exchange your proud head for the seal of immortality. 】
"Hiss...what are these?"
Standing in front of the door of the last tree house, Qi Ge had a headache.
"I exchanged the map for my thighs. Without my legs, I can't even run. If I run into a ghost that I need to escape from, won't I just be waiting to die?
There are also people who exchange their heads for mine. If I exchange my head, won’t I be dead?”
Qi Ge pushed the door and turned the doorknob, but failed to open it.
Just when he was about to try whether he could climb in through the window.
"Hmm, wait a minute..."
Qi Ge suddenly realized a problem.
"Use your fingers, use your head... You don't say I have to exchange it with mine, can I use the red wedding dress?
There are twenty-six exchange items in total, and one cold jade can be exchanged for almost twenty of them.
Damn it, I don’t have any way to kill Red Wedding Dress now.
No, that's not right. There may be no way to kill Red Wedding Dress, otherwise my previous self would have reminded me.
Huh? I didn't remind myself last time...
I had survived until the last hour of the last one, so there was no way I hadn’t explored this place.
But he didn't mention any information about this place...why?
Not mentioned, not mentioned...silence is also voice, not mentioning is itself a hint!
Maybe I shouldn’t be making any exchanges here at all.”
In just a dozen seconds, several thoughts quickly flashed through Qi Ge's mind.
He glanced around and had a bad feeling in his heart.
“The gifts that the goddess of wealth bestows upon me are all free. My wealth cannot allow me to exchange my body for gifts.
This is not a gift from the goddess of wealth, but rather a trap set by chaos.
If this is a trap set by Chaos, then what does Chaos want me to do?
Asking me to exchange my thighs and head for props? Am I that stupid?
Could it be that Chaos wanted to guide me and make me exchange the body parts of the Red Wedding Dresses?
Eyeballs that don’t shed tears…The heart of stone is a statue, and statues don’t shed tears.
..."
After careful consideration, Qi Ge discovered another detail:
"I remember Leng Lan saying before that Night Demon prepared a bloody heart, Blood Shadow prepared endless heads to eat, and Stone Heart found eyes that could not be closed...
It sounds somewhat similar to the weird demands here. Could it be that what they are preparing to feed me is themselves?
Or maybe, I had already exchanged the items before, so the items appeared in their hands?
But if I had exchanged things before, why didn’t I leave any information about this market?”
The more Qi Ge thought about it, the weirder it seemed. He took a deep look at the wooden house.
At this moment, the red maple leaves hanging on the wooden house seemed to have turned into bloody organs, which made him shudder.
At this moment, Qige's ears moved and he heard the sound of hide-and-seek.
"Brother, you are not in the Fountain Garden. I came to the Market Road to look for you."
Hide and seek is here!