The old woman's brisk footsteps were like a mouse gnawing at the cupboard in the dark night. They rustled and disappeared in a flash - Qing Jiuli pressed his forehead against the carpet and did not raise his head to look.
He just took one look at her smile that distorted half of her face, and he felt it was enough; he really didn't want to watch the old woman completely disappear at the corner of the corridor.
Once she leaves, it means that these four people can only stay in this deadlock between life and death, and may have to spend the rest of their lives like this - if they are lucky, the rest of their lives will be shorter; if they are unlucky, they may
You must keep this appearance until the next world, and you don't know how to die.
The worst thing is to endure the alcohol addiction like this until death... Listening to the constant fluttering of gift bags around him, Qingjiuru thought almost desperately.
Even with Ji Shanqing's wit, he has not been able to come up with a solution so far; the only thing he can do is to desperately look for opportunities to rush to the corner of the corridor again and again during the intensive blows, trying to catch up with the old woman -
-It's just that her layers of dazzling shadows quickly left him behind and quickly disappeared from Ji Shanqing's eyes.
Qingjiuru closed his eyes and sighed.
"Don't waste your energy." Even without opening his eyes, he knew that Ji Shanqing probably looked bruised and swollen at this time: "...You are the only one who can move now. Think of a way to improve our condition.
got canceled?"
"You can only cancel it if you catch up with her!" After a series of double-sense obstacles, Ji Shanqing's attitude became very bad: "If we can't catch up, we can only wait to die!"
"Isn't it impossible to catch up now?"
"How will you know if you don't try...Eh?" Li Bao suddenly paused.
"What's wrong?" Qing Jiuliu, who was lying on the edge of the swimming pool, didn't even bother to look back; however, after waiting for a few seconds and finding that Ji Shanqing still didn't answer him, he had to twist his neck.
... He didn't expect that the man wearing a blue cloth shirt with a rounded back would appear at the corner of the corridor again.
The old woman is back again?
Before he could raise his hopes, Qing Jiuliu frowned again: It seemed that the old woman was walking back, her face still facing the corridor. After a pause, the thin figure stepped back cautiously.
After a few steps, he stood quietly behind the corner.
"She...what is she doing? Why is she back?" Qingjiuru just muttered in confusion, and then suddenly raised his eyebrows - at this time, another voice floated faintly in the air, which seemed to have answered his question.
question.
"Ah, yes... it's very important... but I said..."
A faint human voice drifted into my ears step by step from the corridor, from far to near; the person making the sound was far away, and the sound was actually very vague and difficult to distinguish - but that inexplicable sound
The feeling of familiarity suddenly made Qingjiureu's eyes light up: He knows the person coming!
The old woman stood breathlessly behind the corner, waiting for the person who spoke to emerge from the corridor.
Ji Shanqing and Qing Jiuliu looked at each other, and each saw the same thought on the other's face: strange...
This old lady's combat power must be very high; if nothing else, since she knows the existence of the consciousness starry sky, it is obvious that she also has consciousness. But why does she hide before activating her ability?
But now is not the time to be suspicious of the old woman's behavior; seeing the gift bag gesture towards him, Qingjiuru immediately raised his head and yelled: "Don't come here!"
The footsteps stopped immediately.
The old woman turned her head abruptly and glared at Qing Jiuru fiercely; when she turned her head again, two rows of subtitles lit up next to her finger - the content in the "Conditions" and "Consequences" columns had been refreshed again.
, there is no longer an option for "schizophrenia".
"...Why? What's wrong?"
From the corridor, a confused voice came.
At the same time, Ji Shanqing's shouts broke out as the old woman took a sudden step out: "-Hide quickly!"
The corridor was in the blind spot of several people's sight, and no one knew what happened; after the old woman rushed out, there was only a "clang" sound in the corridor, as if something was hit on the ground, and then there was no sound
It was extinguished again - this time, even Lin Sanjiu, who had a dull expression, finally took a few steps this way, and stared at the direction of the corridor with the other two people.
After a few seconds, Ci Tu's voice sounded again with anger.
"——Who the hell is this old lady? I was so frightened that I dropped the communication box."
When several people inside heard this, they all breathed a sigh of relief; Ji Shanqing quickly shouted towards the corridor: "Are you okay? Don't let her see you!"
Before Citu could say anything, he paused and said: "...Don't let her run away either!"
"Why don't you come up, you pretty boy? It doesn't hurt to stand and talk," Situ's grunting voice came in clearly. It was obvious that nothing had happened yet - I don't know where he was hiding. He could see the old woman, the old woman
But they couldn't see him; but the two of them were stuck on the only way to the exit. In this way, they fell into a strange tug-of-war.
"Hey, are you sure you don't want her to see it?" Qingjiuru frowned and asked in a low voice.
If the old woman really caused the end of the world, then it means that she doesn't need to see everyone in the world with her own eyes in order to use her abilities... In this case, does it still make sense for Ci Tu to hide?
Ji Shanqing panted, and took the time to reply between the beatings: "Think about it - she knew that the great witch was on this floor, but she had to wait until the illusion on the witch was wiped away.
It's gone, and we can only start after showing its form; last time, after seeing you, we used your concept of "all members" to change our species... I guess she should at least see the target.
That’s all.”
After he finished speaking intermittently, there was still a stalemate in the corridor - Qingjiuru thought about it and said uncertainly: "So, the end of the world has nothing to do with her?"
He originally thought that the gift package would respond with a "yes", but Ji Shanqing bit his lips and said nothing, as if he thought there was something else that he couldn't figure out.
Because he had been raising his neck to wait for the battle in the corridor, Qingjiuru, who had only one head that was still flexible, soon became extremely sore. Seeing that there was no result after a while, he finally let out a sigh of relief and lowered his head again.
head--
Almost the moment he lowered his head, a strong gust of wind suddenly passed over the back of his head, wrapped in something and hit him backwards, hitting the wall with a loud "bang".
Kiyokuru's face, which was once popular in a certain world, was now half squeezed into the carpet by the invisible giant on the back of his head; his eyes were rounded, as if even his thoughts were distracted by this sudden appearance.
The blow was so shocking that he couldn't even utter a single word for a moment - you know, if he had lowered his head for just a second, half of his head might have been blown away.
"Hey, let me tell you," Ci Tu's voice sounded far away from the corridor, as if he was a little embarrassed: "...[The Shy Python] is a bit rampant, but you don't know how to hide.
?”
——Do you think I can hide?
He roared in his heart. Although he couldn't feel it, Qingjiuliu was very sure that the rest of his body was also pressed under the [Shy Python]; he turned hard in the direction of Ji Shanqing
Eyeballs, I found that the gift bag was sitting blankly on the side at this time, staring at the direction where the giant python rushed out just now without blinking.
"What happened?" Qingjiureu finally asked as he was struggling to breathe under the weight of the big snake on his body.
"He...his giant python has entangled the old lady." Libao swallowed, as if he couldn't digest what he saw for a while. "The snake tightened in circles...tightened very tight..."
Qingjiuliu immediately remembered the scene he had seen: when Lin Sanjiu and Citu were fighting downstairs, she was also entangled by the giant python, unable to move at all, and her face turned red -
—
He finally couldn't help but feel relieved a little: since the old woman was entangled and unable to move, she couldn't call out the subtitles; if she couldn't call out the subtitles, she wouldn't be much of a threat.
However, when he took another look at the gift bag, his heart lifted again.
Libao opened his mouth: "But, the old lady transformed."
"...What?" Qingjiureu didn't understand. "She was squeezed to death?"
Ji Shanqing took a deep breath.
He already has a lot of experience in "how to find time to talk when being beaten"; after carefully looking into the distance, Li Bao gasped and said: "No, she is not dead, I... I don't know how to describe...
Let me use an analogy, the current situation is a bit like you holding a photo in your fist..."
Qingjiuru frowned, trying to imagine this scene——
"If a person is grabbed like that, wouldn't it be as good as death?"
As soon as he asked this question, he heard Santu suddenly cursed in a low voice deep in the corridor. Then Qingjiuru felt a lightness on the back of his head, and the [Shy Python] seemed to have swam away quickly. As soon as he was free again , hurriedly twisted his neck and looked back hard.
——Looking back, he immediately understood what Ji Shanqing meant.
At this time, the old woman who had just been released by the giant python was not only alive, but her face did not even move. Under the still intact and normal head, there was a figure that looked like a banknote that had been folded countless times. Body.
She moved her shoulders and neck, trying to smooth out her wrinkled and torn-paper-like body - the description of the gift bag was very accurate: except for her head and feet, her whole body was like a piece of paper. Just like a photo after rubbing, the deep and shocking wrinkles were twisted and bent, and with the blurry shadow, she looked like she had completely lost her human form.
"What's the origin of this old lady?" Ci Tu cursed and asked loudly from somewhere behind the corner: "I've tightened the snake as tightly as possible. Even a stone would be crushed into powder. How come she's okay? ?”
No one answered him - because the old woman had already opened her deeply wrinkled legs, approaching step by step in an unimaginable twisted posture.
When her little feet in black cloth shoes came to Qingjiu Liu's ear, she stopped and the air became silent for a moment.
After a while, she smiled lowly, "ho ho", her voice so hoarse that it reminded people of a tree struck dead by lightning.
"You can think of letting him hide from me, and your reaction is not slow. But there are some contents in my 'consequences' that do not require specific targets..."
Qingjiure was shocked, and suddenly remembered the "Remove Illusion" that the old woman cast on the great miko.
If she had something like "showing hidden targets" in her hand, wouldn't it be a matter of time before the assassination failed?
"I'm not in a hurry." The old woman rolled her eyes and took Qing Jiuli's expression into her peripheral vision. Her drooping and loose skin suddenly swayed on her face bones, and she smiled: "Although I don't have it on hand now, I'll wait for it later. In a few minutes, such 'consequences' will be revealed... You have all seen it. Even if he wants to run away now, he can't."
Gift Bao suddenly took a breath - in this case, wouldn't it be a dead end now?
Now, as soon as the assassin comes out of his hiding place, he will be discovered by the old lady immediately; but if he does not show his head, and wait for the old lady to reveal the consequences of his skill, he will also end up with the same ending - for a time, several people present will be surprised. People found themselves in the same predicament as not long ago: they could only wait and watch the old woman refresh the subtitles again and again, but could do nothing.
The first sixty seconds passed quickly. The old woman glanced at the subtitles for a few times, snorted and looked away, continuing to stare deep into the corridor - but did not put away the subtitles.
In this way, as soon as Ci Tu appears, she can use [Concept Collision] on the opponent as quickly as possible.
"I'm warning you, don't go out and don't make any noise again."
From the communication box that was left alone in the corridor, another examiner's voice came rustling: "...Otherwise, it doesn't matter if something happens to you, my workload will be huge."
Citu actually made no sound anymore - even though at that moment, even Qing Jiuli could imagine how unhappy he was.
After a while, the old woman snorted gently from her nostrils and turned to stare at the subtitles at hand. The second sixty seconds were about to pass, and the two rows of subtitles were about to be refreshed for the second time.
For a moment, there was no sound on the entire floor - no one knew what to say, no one knew what to do now; the only thing that echoed in the air was the dull sound of the gift bag being hit.
The sound, and the sound of the pool water gently hitting the pool wall.
The second refresh came quickly, and the two rows of subtitles flashed brightly, changing the content.
Qingjiuru, who had been staring closely at the old woman's fingertips, glanced over and found the words "Meet the person you want to see" written on the fifth line.
It's over - he closed his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, he happened to see the old woman grinning, smiling, and reaching out to point to the fifth consequence.
But then, the old woman's appearance flickered, and she was suddenly stretched out of shape, as if she was sucked up by something; just when Qingjiureu almost screamed, she had already disappeared from the spot.
(I can’t see the speech on my mobile phone, damn it! Didn’t anyone see the results of yesterday’s thank you list...Thank you for the Heshi Bi from Lianzi 00, Chenfeng for the fan, luanyu, and Hua Xia Mian for your rewards. That’s in the text.
