From his perspective, Tianma Xingkong, Feng Bujue and Jibu, all stood under the hanging corpse, motionless with flashlights in their hands.
Obviously, Feng Bujue's guess came true again. The monster in front of him really had some kind of range control skill.
Fortunately, Honghu did not go with them, otherwise... the whole army might be annihilated.
Time passed by minute by minute, and the pressure was completely on Honghu.
Suddenly, a system prompt rang in my ears: [Team member: Master Atobe, deceased. 】
Almost at the same time as the voice sounded, the trace in the distance turned into white light and disappeared...
"Alas...it seems the time has come to act by ear..." Honghu sighed and raised his flashlight to look around.
In this isolated and helpless situation, he himself is in danger. God knows what else is lurking in the darkness around him... So he needs to check his surroundings first before taking action.
"Well... let's give it a try by attacking once..." After being prepared, Honghu put the flashlight on the ground, took out his weapon, and drew his bow and nocked an arrow.
After a brief aiming, a light arrow shot out...
Honghu's shooting expertise is already at the A-level level, and he uses crossbow-type weapons (which are more maneuverable than firearms). When hitting a fixed target at this distance, there is absolutely no possibility of missing.
A second later, the light arrow flew through the air and hit the dead body in the chest.
However... the arrow did not stay on the dead body, but passed through its body...
"Huh?" Honghu was slightly startled. His eyes widened, and after just one breath, he muttered: "Phantom?"
His inference is correct, and he can reach this conclusion by simple elimination... The light arrow is effective for both physical and spiritual bodies. Excluding these two situations, the remaining possibility is that the dead body is just an illusion.
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"Hmph... are you playing such a trick..." Hong Hu snorted coldly, then drew the bow again and aimed at the rope above the hanging corpse.
Chi - another arrow flew out, this time... the light arrow successfully hit the target.
With just a slight rub, the rope broke. As soon as the rope was broken, the body hanging under the rope suddenly disappeared.
At the same second, Tianma Xingkong's whole body trembled and he jumped up backwards, shouting a few indistinct curses in his mouth. After landing, he immediately assumed a fighting posture and looked around nervously.
"Oh? It's been lifted, right..." Feng Bujue seemed surprisingly calm. He turned around and looked at Brother Xiao Ma and Hong Hu. Then he glanced at the game menu, "Well... Atobu is down...
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"Just... those just now..." Tianma Xingkong's fear had not yet calmed down. He looked at Brother Jue with a pale face and asked, "What's going on?"
"Don't panic, it's all an illusion." Feng Bujue responded casually, then turned his head and said loudly to Honghu in the distance, "Honghu, we are fine."
"Wait a minute!" Honghu didn't believe it rashly. He still stood where he was and shouted back. "Are you sure?"
His worries are not unreasonable. What if the scene before him is also part of the trap?
"Well..." Feng Bujue said. He turned around and looked up at the cut rope high up, "I'm really not sure..."
It was too late to say, but it was soon... Before he finished speaking, Brother Jue stepped down and jumped up.
In the blink of an eye, he had firmly grasped the broken rope that was swinging in the wind, and suddenly exerted force to pull it down...
"Ah——" Suddenly a wailing sound came from above. Although it was just a shout, Tianma Xingkong immediately recognized the owner of the voice...it was the guy hanging on the rope.
Brother Ma was immediately startled and raised his flashlight to scan upwards.
When I looked at it before, the other end of the rope was tied to a protruding crystal above. But now I shine a light directly there, and I find that there is a strange creature lying on the outer edge of the crystal column. And that
The "rope" protrudes from the creature's mouth...
"Ah, ah, ah, ah... ok! Stop pulling! Let go!" The creature said several words in a row. Its tone now was not sinister at all, it sounded quite friendly.
"You can let me go," Feng Bujue said, "Come down."
"No, you have bad intentions!" the other party replied.
"Come down." Brother Jue said again, "I promise I won't beat you to death."
"I don't believe it!" the guy above yelled, "You're crazy (because his tongue was pulled, he couldn't pronounce it correctly)!"
"No, I'm not a madman..." Feng Bujue said this in a very cold tone, and then... suddenly grinned, pulled the "rope" with both hands, and began to swing his body greatly, "...I am
Tarzan! Ah—ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…”
Brother Jue imitated the signature roar of the animated version of Tarzan (the protagonist in the novel "Tarzan of the Apes" created by American writer Edgar_Rice_Burroughs), swinging back and forth in the air...
The strange creature on the crystal roared with almost the same tone...
This situation made the onlookers Tianma Xingkong and Honghu a little at a loss... However, Honghu quickly recovered and walked towards this direction in three steps and two steps at a time. Because Brother Jue's behavior at least announced one thing -
The danger has indeed been lifted.
Finally, the guy above came down. If he didn't come down, his "tongue" might be broken.
"Let me introduce to you, this is one of the four guards of Zui Demon Island... Heart of Fear." Feng Bujue stood still and pointed at the strange creature that fell to the ground.
It turns out... the Heart of Fear does not look like a "heart". On the whole, it looks more like a dark gecko with a body length of two meters.
"Is it the one that killed Atobe?" Honghu asked with a frown.
"It's not accurate to say 'kill'..." Feng Bujue replied, "Atobu died because the shock value was overloaded, which means...it was so scary that the script popped up."
"Oh...were those hallucinations created by this guy..." Brother Ma then added belatedly.
Fearful Heart turned over on the ground at this time, stared at Brother Jue and said, "Can you let go of my SE head?"
"Of course." Feng Bujue immediately let go of the "rope" and said, "Look, I am a man of his word."
"Really? So you are really a 'human'?" Heart of Fear retracted his tongue into his mouth and replied in a mocking tone, "Then I can only suggest that you see a psychiatrist..."
"I've seen it. It was jointly consulted by several top psychiatrists and neurologists." Feng Bujue asked rhetorically.
The heart of fear lowered his voice and said: "So...are you still in treatment now..."
"No, it's over." Brother Jue said again.
"Uh... why did you give up the treatment?" Fearful Heart asked.
"Because after a while, those psychiatrists and neurologists also became patients." Feng Bujue shrugged.
"Excuse me for interrupting this god-like conversation between the two of you..." Honghu couldn't stand it any longer, so he interrupted, "Can any of you explain what happened just now..."
"Does this still need an explanation?" Fearful Heart said, "As usual, I found a random place, put down the 'bait' to hunt, and then I met you."
"Oh...so the situation is...you ambushed us and killed one of our companions..." Honghu read, "and now...you have fallen into our hands."
"Yes." Fear replied.
"I really admire your upright and open-minded attitude..." Hong Hu said with vacant eyes.
"Okay! Since you admit it, let's take revenge and settle accounts!" After these few minutes, Tianma Xingkong had basically gotten rid of the shadow of fear and returned to normal. So, he took two steps forward and waved his arms.
The gecko brother on the ground shouted. "You have been scaring me for so long! Fortunately, I was brave enough not to give up. Now it's my turn... feel the hero's anger..."
"Don't be impulsive." Feng Bujue raised his hand to stop Xiao Ma, "It's useless if you kill it... Abu will not be resurrected." He paused, "Besides... it's not actually it.
'I'm scaring you, but you're scaring yourself."
"Huh?" Tianma Xingkong was stunned. "What do you mean?"
"Let me explain." Heart of Fear continued, "Previously, when you came over, I activated my ability on you - 'Source of Trembling'. And what you saw after that,
What you hear, touch, etc... basically depends on your imagination..." It moved its steps, crawling back and forth on the ground, "For example... you are approaching the bait I put out.
', you are very concerned about his face, so you start to imagine... the scenes that may appear next, the changes that may happen, etc... Of course, these are just introductions... The real horror is that you think about it...
Things you dare not think about...those things only exist in your subconscious, and that is the change that the source of trembling will lead to."
When the Heart of Fear said this, it raised its flat head, looked at Brother Ma and said: "You are lucky. Your subconscious memory of terror is relatively limited, which limits the space for imagination, so you are not dead. Haha...
...The other boy is different..."
"In short... Abu has watched many more horror movies, horror novels and other things than you, so he can brew up more frightening scenes in his mind." Feng Bujue was worried that Brother Xiao Ma wouldn't understand.
Immediately he added two more sentences of explanation.
"So what! No matter what the reason is, you are still the one who activates the ability!" Tianma Xingkong said sternly to Fearful Heart.
"Tch... I'm not forcing you to go within the scope of my capabilities. You can completely take a detour or go back." Fearful Heart said unconvinced, "Who can you blame for throwing yourself into a trap?"
"Hey! According to what you mean...do we deserve it?" Tianma Xingkong asked.
"Don't be impatient..." Feng Bujue advised in a deep voice, "Actually... we do also have responsibilities." His tone was very calm, making people willing to listen, "In this place, it is easy to cause groups.
(Dialogue between players about the game itself, NPCs at the Heart of Fear level cannot hear it, and will be blocked by the system), so... the system gave us hints as early as in the previous plot.
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Brother Jue paused for two seconds, and then repeated the advice of the Imitation Soul: "'If you encounter the Heart of Fear, it is best to run away as soon as possible. You humans cannot compete with it.'" He shrugged.
Shrugging, he continued. "At first, I was still surprised. If the Heart of Fear attacks us with its 'ability', can we really run away? If we can run, the 'Punch Fist Field' of the Rubbing Hand can also be used."
Have you played? Haha... now I finally understand, what he means is that we should not take the initiative to get into the trap."
"Then let's forget it?" Tianma Xingkong asked, he still seemed a little unwilling.
"Hey~ As a hero, you must know how to forgive others." Feng Bujue said earnestly as if educating a child, "I suggest you read more of Mr. Guan Dexing's "Once Upon a Time" series. That kind of thing is called a benevolent hero. As long as
If people are willing to repent and say, 'Master Huang, I was wrong', he will let them live..."
"I'm not wrong." Fearful Heart said before Brother Jue could finish his words, "Even if I kill you all, it will still be within the scope of my responsibilities and powers."
Silence... fell...
Tianma Xingkong and Honghu suddenly looked at each other with sympathy, silently watching the fearful heart.
"What...what are you doing?" A chill suddenly ran down the gecko brother's back.
"Haha..." At this moment, Feng Bujue raised the corner of his mouth, turned his head with a wicked smile, and stared at the heart of fear with an extremely cold look...
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Fifteen minutes later.
"Oh~no_zuo_no_die, that's absolutely true." Tianma Xingkong smacked his lips and said while chewing the unique-tasting "gecko" meat.
"Just hearing the name, I thought it would be a sinister and scary guy, but it turned out to be so upright." Honghu also ate barbecue and sighed, "It's so pitiful."
"You will lose your moral integrity if you say this kind of line before you have wiped your mouth clean." Feng Bujue complained while stuffing a juicy piece of meat into his mouth.
At this time, the three of them had already lit a fire. They were sitting on the same spot, making barbecue with Heart of Fear's corpse...
It has indeed been two and a half hours since they last ate. Feng Bujue believes that it is very important to replenish food every 150 minutes; as long as this rhythm is not broken, the consumption of physical energy will be enough.
Maintain the same state as in the normal script.
Another thing that needs to be mentioned is... before Brother Jue started to kill the Heart of Fear, he pretended not to embarrass the other party and conducted some negotiations.
To put it simply... he used "you killed one of our companions" as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Heart of Fear and successfully figured out a way to reach the "Cage of Despair".
After achieving his goal, Feng Bujue took action... Then there was a one-stop service of killing, cutting, roasting, drinking blood and playing, let's not mention it...
All in all, after paying the price of a teammate, the main mission finally has some clues.
The remaining three people rested for a while, and after they were full of blood and flesh, they set off again.
They did not rest for long this time, first because it was dark, and secondly because solving their fears did not consume much of their physical energy.
Feng Bujue's analysis in the sacrificial hall was correct. Among the four guards, the strongest is the Soul of Imitation, and the other guys are not worth mentioning at all. Although each of the guards has been given a special ability that is quite unbelievable.
(The guessing field of the rubbing hand, the mimetic transformation of the imitation soul, the source of trembling in the heart of fear), but apart from this, the innate racial ability of the imitation soul is undoubtedly the strongest.
"Ah!" After the three of them were on the road again, within a few minutes, Tianma Xingkong suddenly screamed and turned to look at Brother Jue, "I almost forgot to ask... how did you get from the 'Source of Trembling'
Survived?"
"Tch... I was so surprised... I thought you were going to ask something, it's just this matter..." Feng Bujue continued weakly.
"I'm also very curious." Honghu added from the side, "When it comes to imagination and memory reserves of various horror elements... you can be said to be at the level of a master. Facing your imagination, even I am willing to be defeated...
..." He paused and his expression changed slightly, "You are probably the person least likely to survive the source of trembling, right?"
"Oh? You think so?" Feng Bujue responded calmly.
Honghu continued: "Yes...and why does the Heart of Fear call you a lunatic? Judging from the conversation between the two of you, you have had many communications with it in the illusion, haven't you?"
"Ha... Actually it's not a big deal." Feng Bujue bought himself about two seconds with a nonsense sentence. In these two seconds, he had already compiled a set of rhetoric in his mind, the content of which
Half truths and half lies should be able to cover up the fact that he has no fear, "because when I see an abnormal situation, my first reaction is not to panic or be afraid, but to think about the reasons."
As he spoke, he raised his right hand and tapped his temple with his index finger: "This habit is deeply ingrained. Even if the other party continues to lead me to the things I fear, as long as I can maintain rationality and calmness, I can be in the illusion."
To contend with it." He paused, "Let's give a simple example... One day you get up and brush your teeth, turn on the faucet, and find that shit comes out of it..."
"Do you dare to change the example?" Tianma Xingkong interrupted.
"Okay, there's blood." Feng Bujue changed his words, "What will you do at this time?"
"Analyze the situation rationally and tell yourself... I am dreaming, and then try to wake up." Honghu thought as he said, "Well... if you really can't wake up, then brush your teeth and wash your face with blood, pretending it is water.
It’s all an illusion anyway.”
Feng Bujue nodded with a smile, but said: "Wrong."
"Huh?" Honghu was stunned.
"You think too much." Feng Bujue continued, "If I were in that situation, my mind would instinctively react."
"What is it?"
"Turn off the faucet."
"Hmm..." Honghu and Tianma Xingkong fell into deep thought together.
