Chapter 267: Online Dating Scam Record (Thirty)
“Right now!”
Before Shi Qingqing could even utter a word of warning, Guo Guo's skill had already arrived silently.
While [Purification] may initially seem like a somewhat useless auxiliary skill, it can be used for both offense and defense. With increasing proficiency and leveling up, it becomes a surprisingly effective weapon against Goblins.
The white light formed a net, trapping the exposed ghoul at the balcony window. Burned by the opposing energy, its disguised human skin peeled away even faster.
As if knowing that he could not escape this way, another sharp scream was heard, and the body of the imposter suddenly changed from expanding to shrinking. With a few puffs, he collapsed from the appearance of an adult male to a short woman less than 1.5 meters tall, and tried to get out through the gap in the light net.
Guo Guo: "You wish."
The light net immediately spread out into a large area, swarming the ghoul back. It was flung to the ground, shaking off the burnt skin fragments, and glaring at Guo Guo with a murderous glare.
"You think you can beat me by yourself?"
The ghoul's voice was sharp and hoarse, and its gender could not be identified. It sounded more like a baby crying.
Shi Qingqing: "I really can't help you, but I can tell you where its weaknesses are."
Ghoul : “…”
"You *&#%, how do you know everything!"
It was so angry that its face was distorted, and it gave up fighting with Guo Guo and turned around to pounce on Shi Qingqing.
Shi Qingqing was not afraid at all. She stood there motionless, allowing the zombie to bite her face, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.
"Shi Qingqing!"
Seeing this, Guo Guo quickly threw a defensive item over, but Shi Qingqing didn't even reach out to catch it. She just said calmly:
"These are trivial matters. You must seize the opportunity to attack. The ghoul's weakness is its mouth. It is the only thing that allows it to reconnect with the human world. If it cannot open its mouth in its original form, its body will disappear."
As soon as she finished speaking, her mouth was ripped open by the ghoul's slap, and her entire jaw was split in half.
Guo Guo: ...Are you sure this is a small matter?
But the next second, her gaze froze.
Because Shi Qingqing's throat was cut, her skin began to peel off rapidly, revealing the blue texture underneath, which was exactly the same as that of a zombie.
The girl's blood-soaked eyes still looked at Guo Guo calmly and nodded slightly at her, as if to say: That's it.
Let’s get started.
“So you are also…?”
Not only Guo Guo was stunned, but also the imposter who was furious.
It was stunned for two seconds, then went from being surprised to being silent, and then it stretched its mouth and laughed wildly with an ambiguous meaning:
"Yeah, I almost forgot. A lot of people were converted to students due to the new regulations of the university town. Well, being a student is great, and you guys are living well, at least better than we are now..."
The counterfeit mumbled something again, but the intense aggression and anger in his body suddenly dissipated a lot. Instead, he looked a little confused and aggrieved.
Shi Qingqing could no longer open her mouth and could only utter the remaining syllables from her throat:
"You should also transform. Continuing like this will only make the pain worse... There's still time."
The girl raised her hand, and at the moment she had completely restored her original shape, she tore off the last piece of her mouth with her own hands. Her figure suddenly disappeared in the blur of light and shadow, like dust that had been filtered through the light.
She used herself as an example to demonstrate to Guo Guo how to complete this attack.
Guo Guo didn't understand the relationships and dynamics within the ghouls, nor did she know what had happened in the university town. But at that moment, she felt an inexplicable sadness. Shi Qingqing might not be dead; for the students of the university town, this was just a dungeon. But her intuition told her that they might never see each other again.
In the rush of kindness and malice, at the end of every brief intersection, there is no time to think or time to reminisce, because she has to go her own way and complete the tasks she has to do.
After taking a last look at the place where Shi Qingqing disappeared, Guo Guo took out the dagger that Li Qi had put in her pocket.
The blade pierced the imposter's head, and the opponent's claws came at the same time. Guo Guo was ready to be slapped away, but the expected pain did not come -
The one who was ejected was a fake?
A silver light unfolded before her eyes, covering her body the instant it blocked the attack. Guo Guo felt herself sink, and her perspective instantly rose 20 centimeters. She saw a layer of silver-white metal armor covering her limbs!
Guo Guo:?!
The imposter tried to get up and attack again, but firstly, his killing intent had been largely extinguished, and secondly, the dagger had already struck him in the vitals. Therefore, he only staggered a few times, then gave up in the final seconds before being struck. He turned and lunged at the dormitory door, then vanished at the entrance as his body turned transparent.
Guo Guo wanted to catch up - she hadn't had time to ask questions related to Tang Xin Jue - but as soon as she took a step, she tripped and fell face down to the ground.
“…”
What on earth is this full body armor that suddenly appeared?
Guo Guo searched for a long time before she found the source of this equipment: the small pill that Zheng Wanqing handed her this morning.
She remembered that this set of "Iron Armor" was the equipment that Zheng Wanqing had spent a lot of time and effort to buy before this dungeon. She treasured it so much that she had never actually used it once.
Guo Guo never imagined that the first time it was actually used would be on himself.
As if sensing the disappearance of the external danger, the steel armor automatically detached from his body and disappeared, turning into an agile shadow that drilled into the pill and quietly stayed in her palm.
She remembered that when Zheng Wanqing stuffed the things into her hands, she didn't say a word and only told her that she would understand later.
Now she seemed to understand.
After quietly wiping his eyes twice, Guo Guo gathered himself and began to study the situation.
The attacks during curfew should have ended. Although the real roommates didn't come back, at least the fake ones were removed and evicted, and there was one less source of risk around them.
Therefore, from now until tomorrow morning, the most dangerous thing is...
Punisher.
They can fight ordinary dungeon monsters and even school teachers, using skills and items, or cooperating with NPCs to turn the tide. The Punisher, however, is the only one who, aside from his single weakness, has no way to confront or even evade him.
However, the "solution" given by the copy is outrageous: find the punisher during the day and send him away directly to avoid triggering the 0-point attack.
But what's even more outrageous is that there is no way to find out the identity of the Punisher directly during the day, and even if there is, they don't have time to explore.
The best case scenario is that the punisher happens to be one of the students who has to pay the "price" tonight. He has disappeared with the destruction of the pile of appeal forms and was directly sent away by the copy rules.
And worst case scenario… it still shows up on time tonight.
There were three people in the dormitory. Zheng Wanqing and Zhang You were seriously injured and in critical condition. So who else would be the target of the attack this time besides herself?
After a moment's thought, Guo Guo began searching for tools in the dormitory. Since the examinee's own abilities and props would likely be useless against the Punisher, he could only use what was available and see if it would work.
Fortunately, she has experience in zombie copies. Although her production ability is not outstanding, she still has some ideas on how to make people outside feel disgusted as soon as they open the door.
…
I don’t know if it was an illusion or because she was too tired, but time seemed to pass exceptionally quickly tonight, so much so that she didn’t even notice when she lost consciousness.
When she regained her senses, she was lying on the cold bed.
After a while, there were rustling sounds of footsteps outside the door.
The Punisher is still here!
Guo Guo's heart sank, and then he heard a girl's muffled groan.
Oh, he must have tripped over the obstacle outside the door... It turns out that the ghost state can indeed be hindered.
"Bang!"
This was hit by the washbasin hanging on the door.
"Bang!"
A large pendulum chair at the door.
"clang!"
In front of the bed...
When the Punisher finally trudged to the bed, anger could be sensed from his limping steps and breathing.
Guo Guo quietly closed his eyes, calculating the percentage of his health value and how much health would be left when he opened his eyes again tomorrow morning.
In the worst case scenario, she would be very close to death, and then she would need to use... hm?
Guo Guo suddenly felt something strange, but before she could feel it carefully, sleepiness came over her and took her into a long dream.
Guo Guo felt like she hadn't had such a peaceful and tranquil dream in ages. She wasn't sure if it was because of the energy potions she'd taken before bed, but she was certain that the clean, fresh skin she felt after waking up, without a single scratch, wasn't the fault of the item.
——The Punisher’s attack last night did not fall on her!
She quickly turned over and went down to check on her two roommates. Zhang You was fine, but the thin ice covering Zheng Wanqing's body was shattered by some force.
Guo Guo's heart trembled, but he saw a faint breath still lingering from Zheng Wanqing's mouth and nose. After resealing it with ice, he opened the roommate information screen in the app. He saw that after all she had gone through, there was still a barely visible sliver of blood at the end of Zheng Wanqing's health bar, stubbornly maintaining her final survival status.
...Thank the ghosts, thank God, and thank the young lady for her strong vitality.
Holding back the heat in her eyes, Guo Guo wiped the sweat from her forehead and stood up, only to find the room dotted with dark, blood-stained spots. The ghost from last night had precisely stepped on all the "greeting gifts" she had left behind, leaving behind footprints of varying depths.
Following the footprints out the door, I was filled with an extraordinary silence in the dormitory building.
It was not the weirdness they felt when they first entered the dungeon, nor was it the turbulent undercurrent beneath the quiet surface, but a complete dead silence.
There was no smell in the corridor, but Guo Guo felt that he smelled an extremely strange, gloomy, and indescribable smell... of death.
The last time she had this feeling was during the health inspection dungeon. Back then, her spiritual perception had just begun, and standing in that dormitory building piled with countless student souls, she still had a subtle feeling.
This time, the feeling was even more obvious.
She could feel, and was even certain, that the number of students who had died in this building was far more than the dozens listed in the appeal form and the victims of the headless copies.
After locking the doors and windows, he followed the bloody footprints to the stairs, where the blood disappeared. But Guo Guo simply observed his surroundings and continued downstairs without hesitation. When he reached the third floor, he turned and arrived at the door of dormitory 303.
She grabbed the dagger and knocked on the dormitory door.
