The arrival of the child did not make the situation better. Although he ate and rubbed snakes, he had not yet grown into a true ghost king, and it took too long to deal with a snake.
The silver light gradually gathered at the waist, and it was difficult to take another step without exerting great effort.
Su Er looked at the child in his arms with a look of heartache: "The fortune teller is truly cruel. He doesn't care about your life or death at all."
Wei Jun couldn't bear to listen any longer, but seeing Ji Heng's calm expression, completely unaffected, he coughed lightly to stop the other party from making such a profound statement: "First, find a way to escape."
It's not that Su Er is underestimating himself, he really doesn't have the ability, so he can only gamble on the role that the child in his arms can play.
He subconsciously glanced down at the force value on his badge and sighed with regret. Of the three values, Soul preferred the force value. The spirit value was too unstable. If the ghost didn't leave, he would die. The charm value could only absorb a limited amount of Yin energy. If it exceeded the limit, he would die first.
In comparison, the force value is much more stable.
Ji Heng said at this time: "Wait a little longer."
The air below the waist almost solidified, and the child gradually couldn't rub the snake anymore, but Ji Heng still had no intention of taking action.
When their eyes met, Su Er suddenly realized something and shouted, "I don't ask to be born on the same day, month and year, but I ask to die on the same day!"
The tone was tragic and contained a sense of resignation.
Ji Heng nodded slightly, as if agreeing with his performance just now.
Just as the dense swarm of snakes was about to accumulate on his chest, there was finally some movement at the window. The wooden frames on both sides sank inward, and were about to reach the maximum point of stress.
"Lower your head." Ji Heng reminded in a low voice.
Sur lowered his head faster than he could speak.
The window suddenly exploded, and broken wood splinters burst out like water droplets. Ji Heng blocked most of them for him, but two still scratched his soft skin.
Su Er touched his neck and felt a little pain.
"hiss."
I took a deep breath and it really hurt a little.
Neither Ji Heng nor Wei Jun expressed anything special, which showed that it was only a superficial injury. Su Er felt slightly relieved.
A hole was forcibly opened in the iron wall formed by snakes. The fortune teller stood outside the window, his wide sleeves fluttering in the wind, and the coldness on his face made people dare not look directly at him.
When he saw the child in Suer's arms, his eyes were as deep as the abyss.
"Anything else you want to say?"
The wound on his neck always reminded Suer that the fortune teller really wanted to kill him.
He looked up and saw the other person bathed in the moonlight. Although clearly a ghost, he looked like a god standing in the clouds. Su Er felt a chill in his heart, but he said, "My beloved is a peerless hero. One day, he will come to pick me up on a colorful cloud."
"…"
Wei Jun looked at him sideways, and at this moment he really admired him.
As Soul spoke, he tried to move forward towards the gap. Unfortunately, his legs were entangled by dozens of small snakes, and it was difficult to walk through the exit even though he saw it.
Ji Heng: "Come closer."
Su Er struggled to move to his side, his legs, which had felt like they were filled with lead, suddenly relaxed. He then realized that Ji Heng had the fewest snakes around him, followed by Wei Jun. He was the weakest, and as expected, he was being treated like a soft persimmon by these monsters.
It was nice to lean against a big tree to enjoy the shade, and with Ji Heng blocking most of the resistance, Suer walked out smoothly. Wei Jun left the hole almost at the same time as them.
Looking back at the house I had just been in, the snake shadow gradually dissipated, as if nothing had happened.
The snake's crisis was resolved, but the host was not a good person either.
"Give me the child." The fortune teller's voice was not loud, but the command in it was very strong.
Su Er didn't say anything, but walked up and handed the child to him respectfully.
The action without hesitation actually surprised the fortune teller.
He can bend and stretch, and can even talk nonsense to ghosts... The fortune teller took a deep look at Su Er, and suddenly felt that this man would be the one who lived the longest in the game. He shook his head, turned around and disappeared.
When only the cold moonlight and the rustling of leaves remained, Soul closed his eyes and asked, "What was the last line of that line in the movie..."
Ji Heng: "I guessed the beginning, but not the ending."
"That's right!" Su Erzuoxizi held her heart. "The host snatched my child away. The child is still so young, and she is forced to endure the pain of separation."
"…"
The fishy, sticky liquid all over his body was pungent and disgusting when the wind blew over him. After sighing a few times, Su Er prepared to clean up.
Wei Jun stopped him and said, "I owe you a favor."
Su Er bit his lip and didn't deny it. After all, he had lost his child in order to save others. To avoid being saddened by the scene, he quickened his pace and left.
Wei Jun: "...Did he think of something strange again?"
Ji Heng didn't respond to the topic, but said: "No more accidents should happen before dawn, but it's better to be alert."
Wei Jun's expression became serious again and he nodded.
The Wang family was wealthy and powerful, and they set aside an area to build an artificial bathhouse. The drainage pipes were all made of porcelain. Usually, such a configuration would only be used in extremely wealthy families or the royal palace.
Sur had half of his body submerged in the water and he let out a soft sigh of comfort.
He didn't dare close his eyes and kept staring at the shore vigilantly. As expected, the flower snake swam towards this place silently soon.
Having just been tricked, how could Sur give up easily? He made sure to wipe his hands clean, and with very small movements, he pulled his clothes towards him and quietly reached for the electric shock device inside, intending to wait for the spotted snake to swim closer and seize the opportunity to attack it while it was still on the shore.
However, when it was only a few meters away, the snake suddenly stopped, changed direction, and climbed onto a nearby tree and coiled up.
Su Er frowned, temporarily abandoning the idea of revenge. Through the reflection on the water, he could vaguely see the afterimage of the flower snake coiled obediently. For some reason, he felt a vague sense of unease. The flower snake had never shown fear of him before, so how could it suddenly know when to stop?
Unless, the flower snake is not afraid of itself?
Su Er's eyes darkened, and he immediately picked up his clothes, not caring about the water droplets on his body that had not been wiped off.
Bathing and going to the toilet are both dangerous things in the game. If it weren't for the unpleasant smell of the mucus left on his body, he wouldn't have chosen this time to bathe.
Su Er realized that he had been trusting his subconscious judgment too much. He thought that the fortune teller and the child had just left, and the monster that attacked Wei Jun had just been defeated, and would not come back at least in the short term.
But it is inappropriate to use human reason to speculate on the thoughts of monsters.
Fortunately, he got out of the water easily, but the next moment, ripples appeared on the water surface and the water in the entire bathtub began to shake.
Even though Sur held his breath and didn't move, the ripples didn't subside, but instead moved closer to him layer by layer.
Su Er didn't dare use the electric shock device in the water, lest he get electrocuted before the ghost died. As he backed away, he began to imagine the most horrible scenarios, which he could only imagine: the water turning red, or a terrifying human head emerging from it.
The picture in my mind was not yet complete, but black hair appeared on the water surface, and half of a pale face rose slowly from underwater.
Except for the color of the water, everything else was exactly the same as Suer had imagined.
He felt the malice of the world.
A human head sinking in the water swam towards Sur quickly, giving him no chance to react.
His foot was entangled in something, and Su Er couldn't get ashore. Worried that if he struggled too much, he would accidentally slip. So he decided to give it a try and see how much Yin Qi he could absorb from this "uninvited guest".
The pale cheek finally emerged from the water completely. The moment they met, Sur opened his mouth, not to absorb the Yin energy, but out of surprise.
"Zhu Yun?!"
He lost his voice.
Suer recalled the night he had just returned from the second dungeon. He saw Zhu Yun appear in this posture while half asleep and half awake. Even the smell of the seaweed seemed familiar.
The cold fingers stroked the wound on the neck, and with a little force, the scab that had just formed was cruelly torn open.
The pain made Su Er close his fingers together, trying to find a way to escape. After failing, he thought about delaying time and waiting for rescue: "Are you Zhu Yun?"
"I guess so."
A faint voice floated over and actually responded to him.
Su Er quickly asked a math problem: "Prove it to me."
The pale face finally showed a different expression, and within seconds it gave the answer: "[1, 3]."
"…"
With Suer's math grades, he couldn't think of any more difficult questions, so he gave up the idea of delaying time.
The wound on the neck had been damaged twice and was now oozing blood.
"Don't listen to the host." Zhu Yun's hand didn't leave his fragile neck. She seemed to want to kill him but held back. "Su Er, don't leave yet. I left something for you."
Sur: "Electricity..."
"That's not it." Because her cheeks were a little swollen, Zhu Yun's smile was not as good as she used to think. "The thing is in the well in the haunted house. Remember to go there during the day."
As soon as she finished speaking, murderous intent reappeared in her eyes, and the hands stuck on her neck began to exert force.
"wish..."
Pronounce a syllable with extreme difficulty.
Zhu Yun stared at him intently, slowly loosened her hand, sank into the water and disappeared.
Sur took a deep breath and quickly entered the water, trying to open his eyes, but unfortunately there was nothing in the pool.
As Zhu Yun disappeared, the flower snake instantly became restless. Su Er put on the last of his coat and came ashore. Without hesitation, he gave it an electric shock, and the flower snake finally calmed down.
His hair and clothes were damp, but Su Er didn't feel the cold at all. He even tried to absorb the chill to sober himself up. He had encountered so many exciting things tonight that even seeing the divine fortune teller reappear as he turned the corner didn't surprise him too much.
No one knew where the child had been sent. The fortune teller stood alone in the shadows of the trees. He ignored the child's disgraceful appearance and said coldly, "You will have an opportunity tomorrow. You must seize it."
Soul: "What chance?"
Before he could finish the last word, the fortune teller disappeared out of thin air.
With a heavy heart, Suer walked to the door of Ji Heng's house, where the latter was leaning against the door frame and talking to Wei Jun.
Wei Jun was the first to see Su Er, and he looked puzzled: "How did it become like this?"
Ji Heng turned sideways, glimpsed the sleeves still dripping with water, and frowned slightly: "Go change clothes."
Su Er didn't respond, but walked up to them and stopped. He knew very well that the decision-making power of some things was not in his hands, such as going to a haunted house to find something. With his current strength, going there would be suicide.
Ji Heng usually took good care of him and even gave him props. Suer was not afraid that if there were really good things, the other party would take them for himself. If so, it would be considered as paying back what he owed him before.
"I met a water ghost." Su Er did not reveal Zhu Yun's identity and said slowly: "She said there was something in the haunted house and asked me to take it."
Ji Heng paused for a moment and groaned, "It's common for ghosts to lure players on adventures, but it's not ruled out that there really are high-level items."
"After that, I met the Divine Calculator again. He said he wanted to force me out of the dungeon tomorrow." Su Er smiled bitterly. "The Water Ghost told me the exact location of the hidden item and told me to go there during the day, but the host wanted me to leave..."
As he spoke, he couldn't help revealing a sad expression: "I really don't know what to do."
Ji Heng's lips moved slightly, but before he could say anything, Wei Jun's eyelids trembled. He had almost drowned in the house just now and hadn't uttered a single curse word, but now he was actually swearing: "Are you talking like a human being?"
As a fellow player, while he was still struggling to survive, Sur had actually begun to consider whether to ask the host to help him cheat and leave the dungeon, or to accept the ghost girl's instigation to look for opportunities!
Su Er was shaken by the shouting reflexively. He frowned and moved closer to Ji Heng, asking in a low voice: "Is he okay?"
Wei Jun always gave people a good impression, being gentle and broad-minded, and was the backbone of the team. But now he looked very irritable, like a cat with its fur standing on end.
Ji Heng said calmly, "You're working hard every day to get into undergraduate school, but now this recommended student is looking confused and saying he doesn't know whether to choose Tsinghua or Peking University. What would you do with such a person?"
"…"