Chapter 213 Transforming Community Experience (Twenty-Two)
In the scene in the cave , Tang Xinjue pierced their hearts with the weapon that he had used to defend the dormitory countless times.
No one knew the weakness of 606 better than her. She cut off Wanqing's arm, destroyed Zhang You's brain, and then walked towards Guo Guo step by step while holding the broken metal arm.
Guo Guo watched this scene with her own eyes. In the picture, her eyes were closed tightly, black blood was flowing from under her eyelids, and she was still mumbling something.
Just when "Tang Xin Jue" was about to touch "Guo Guo", she suddenly turned her head and looked out with her usual smiling eyes.
When their eyes met, Guo Guo realized that she was looking at himself standing at the entrance of the cave!
Outside the cave, the familiar voice of his roommate called his name, asking what was going on inside. But Guo Guo seemed to be nailed to the spot, unable to make a sound.
In her field of vision, Tang Xinjue smiled and nodded gently at her, but his eyes were cold:
"Thank you for telling me, Guoguo."
Just like countless times in the past when chatting in the spiritual link, a gentle voice appeared in the sea of consciousness.
Why did it become like this... Tell me what?
Guo Guo had a lot of questions she wanted to ask, but a creepy feeling ran up from the soles of her feet. She instinctively struggled to escape, and her consciousness returned to reality.
"Guoguo, how are you doing?"
Guo Guo subconsciously wanted to tell his roommate everything he had just seen, but the moment he met Tang Xinjue's gaze, those words suddenly reappeared in his mind.
A sudden premonition told her not to say anything.
The moment Xin Jue knew about this, perhaps that was the moment when the prophecy came true.
…
But hiding it all the time is not a long-term solution.
"I was planning to talk to everyone about this after I left this instance and returned to the dormitory."
Guo Guo didn't expect that the ghost that created the illusion would take advantage of this and hit the weakest point of her mind, thus controlling her.
So she was very scared now. She was afraid that the ghost would attack her roommate in the same way, and she was also afraid that Xin Jue would see that scene...
"There must be a reason why you see those sights."
Tang Xinjue thought silently for a moment, but did not deny Guo Guo.
Whether it was a prophecy or not, whether it would happen or not, it definitely had something to do with them.
Just as Guo Guo trusted her, she never doubted Guo Guo's ability to see through the sky.
But even so, her tone remained calm: "But from another perspective, until now, this prophecy has actually had the greatest impact on you, Guoguo."
Even if the scenario predicted by Guo Guo were to happen, it would never happen now - when they were all deprived of all their superpowers and turned back into ordinary blank characters.
Their top priority now is to escape from this strange place.
"……you're right."
Guo Guo sighed heavily. Although she had concealed her feelings well along the way, her mind was almost a mess. Now that she spoke of it and heard Tang Xin Jue's recovery, she felt relieved.
But she still blamed herself: "I'm sorry, I still transferred the pressure to you."
If only she were much stronger, she could solve the problem by herself."
"If this was a game where one person could handle everything, the system wouldn't have considered the dormitory as our faction unit." Tang Xin Jue smiled. "Then the first mission we received on the night the game launched would be to kill the other three people in the dormitory."
Guo Guo: ...She suddenly felt that things were pretty good now.
The solemn atmosphere was dissolved in a joke. Tang Xinjue opened the door and stepped into the corridor, seeing Zheng Wanqing not far away.
The other party had quickly checked the surroundings and nodded at her, indicating that it was safe here.
Although his physical fitness and sensory abilities had declined significantly, the combat habits he'd developed through numerous dungeons remained. The two of them walked to the end of the corridor in tacit understanding.
Two staircases on the left and right come into view.
Based on the structure we've seen so far, they should be in a basement, which also fits the geographical location that can only be reached by crawling down a manhole cover.
But no one knows where the upper level of the basement leads to.
Returning their thoughts to the stairs, they walked along them and indeed each found a hidden small door, which led to the stairwell!
One stood on the left, the other on the right. As agreed, Tang Xinjue called Guo Guo again.
Understanding what she meant, Guo Guo did not make a sound. Only two seconds later, a slight knocking sound was heard from the inside of the ground near the door.
This is it.
Looking up and making eye contact with Wanqing, Tang Xin Jue pointed behind him.
But almost at the same time, the other party pointed to another door and nodded firmly.
“……?”
There was a brief silence in the air.
The two confirmed the information in each other's eyes and exchanged positions without hesitation. Tang Xinjue came to the door on the left side where Zheng Wanqing had originally stood, and put his ear close to the short wooden door.
A small but clear knocking sound on the ground, exactly the same as before, came into my ears.
Zheng Wanqing's brows raised in shock, having not expected such a situation to occur. However, she quickly calmed down and silently asked Tang Xinjue what to do.
Tang Xinjue lowered his eyes for a moment, and tapped .
She didn't say anything, but her roommate inside the door immediately understood what she meant and shifted the knocking on the ground to the door frame.
Ta-da, ta-da, ta-da.
However, on the other side, Zheng Wanqing looked over in shock: on her side, the knocking sound also shifted at the same time, exactly!
Could it be that there are two Guo Guos in these two stairwells?
Tang Xinjue shook his head.
Guo Guo herself said that she saw a ghost in the other stairwell, and it was the ghost that could control illusions...
Wait, manipulate illusions?
The two of them realized something. If the other ghost could create illusions, could it also imitate Guo Guo's voice?
But if it had already noticed the two people's actions at this moment, why didn't it come out and attack them directly, but instead disguised itself as Guo Guo and lure them to open the door on their own initiative?
The knocking continued. As if sensing the hesitation outside, the people inside became more anxious. The heavier sounds drifted out from the doors on both sides, overlapping exactly.
Now there is only one last verification method left.
Walking back a few meters away, Tang Xinjue lowered his voice into the phone: "If you hear this, knock on the door three times."
On the other end of the line, Guo Guo whispered, "Okay."
Looking up, Zheng Wanqing, who was standing between the two stairs at the end of the corridor, still had a serious expression on her face, and made a number with her left hand: 2.
This means that the same voice appeared on both sides.
——They are already under the influence of ghosts.
Zheng Wanqing didn't say anything, but Tang Xinjue could read her concerns, because they also existed in her heart:
As long as one corner of their senses is invaded by hallucinations, all senses become unreliable.
If one of Guo Guo's business dealings was fake, could the other voice be real? Could it be that Guo Guo wasn't even there, or that they had never truly reached the end of the corridor... Or even Wan Qing in front of him, the phone in his hand, without supernatural powers, how could he be sure of the truth?
He couldn't let his mind get stuck in this logic. Tang Xin Jue cut the Gordian knot and made a choice:
The two men stood on opposite sides and opened the door at the same time.
If Guo Guo were here, they would have at least a 50% chance of success, and the other person might be able to counter their moves; if Guo Guo was not here, then no matter what they chose, the result would be the same.
...It turned out that they made the right bet.
When the two doors were kicked open at the same time, Tang Xinjue heard Guo Guo's exclamation behind him.
Unfortunately, she didn't have time to listen to the rest of the sound.
Behind the door she opened with her own hands, a dark, thin humanoid creature stared at her with a sticky smile.
The temperature around her suddenly dropped, wrapping her up tightly, making it difficult for her to even move her facial muscles.
She knew in her heart that this was probably just an illusion, but her body could not regain control of her brain. She could only hear the door behind her closing in her hazy senses.
The world fell into darkness.
"Xin Jue, Xin Jue, wake up and see who we are. I am Guo... Ugh!"
When his senses recovered, Tang Xinjue also felt the heat in his palm.
The hand reached between Guo Guo's eyebrows and forcibly dug out a ball of light covered in a brilliant white glow. Guo Guo froze in place, tears of blood streaming from the corners of his eyes.
[No, that's not enough.]
Tang Xinjue heard himself say in his heart.
Although everything was unfamiliar, the corresponding memories naturally flooded into her mind, allowing her to clearly understand what she was doing.
She wanted to take Guo Guo's eyes. Not the eyes that belonged to humans, but the Yin-Yang eyes and the Heavenly Eye hidden between her eyebrows.
However, the Yin-Yang Eyes were too tightly bound to Guo Guo, so she had to exert a lot of effort to remove the Heavenly Eye. It was still struggling in her hand, seemingly very dissatisfied with its new owner.
Tang Xinjue didn't understand. How was she inferior to Guo Guo? With her powerful spiritual power, she could unleash her Heavenly Eye even more invincible—finding the most powerful master—wasn't that the pursuit of every supernatural power?
After suppressing Tianyan's resistance, she was about to continue when two powerful attacks suddenly came from behind, forcing her to step back half a step and pull out the toilet plunger to fight back.
The rubber head turned into a skeleton evil ghost and swallowed Zheng Wanqing's steel arm in one bite!
The next second, it spat out the food because it couldn't swallow it, and growled to check whether it had any teeth knocked out.
Tang Xin Jue: "...trash."
She recalled her weapon and engaged Zhang You, who followed closely behind, and did not forget to sarcastically say:
"After so many battles, you've only managed to strengthen your strength to this extent. Are you worthy of being my teammates?"
While Zhang You was trying his best to resist her, he whispered, "Then what kind of person is worthy of being your teammate?"
Tang Xin Jue thought for a moment and said, "All the candidates are useless. If I come in first, then my roommates should at least be second, third, and fourth. What do you think?"
Zhang You: "...Do you think this is a game of connect-the-dots?"
Tang Xin Jue laughed: "The winner has already been qualified to be defined, you can rest assured about this. Soon, I will be the one to write the rules of this game."
Zhang You: "Oh? You can program? You can write code? If I remember correctly, the only course you almost failed in your three years of college was a computer science course, right?"
Tang Xin Jue: "..."
Her face darkened. “Chirp, chirp, I really hate people like you.”
Zhang You panted and spoke intermittently: "On the contrary, I think your self-righteous attitude is... stupid..."
As she spoke, she removed Zhang You's skill book and severed Zheng Wanqing's right arm. She sneered and admired their powerless state for a long time before piercing their hearts with one stab each.
Finally, she walked towards Guo Guo step by step and dug out the other Yin-Yang eye.
Everything began to fall down, and a beam of light came in from the darkness.
Tang Xinjue turned his head and saw a perfectly healthy Guo Guo standing there in a daze not far away, watching all this in astonishment.
[Thank you for telling me, Guoguo.]
These words rang from the bottom of my heart and flowed smoothly to my lips.
But just before it came out, Tang Xinjue only moved his mouth and said another sentence:
"He's right. I also think your self-righteousness is indeed stupid."
[? ? ? ! ! !]
A surge of rage burst out from his mind, and Tang Xinjue subconsciously gripped the toilet plunger, but for a moment he didn't know who to attack.
Did he tear his mouth apart?
And at this moment, the world fell into darkness again.
