“President Shi doesn’t allow us to resist in the castle using
aggressive methods. It’s to protect the castle, but it doesn’t mean we can’t
fight back.”
Ning Su said, “Let’s guard the garden and drive them away.”
“...”
They hadn’t really considered this approach, and many people
in the castle probably hadn’t either, as they were only thinking about passive
defense.
But why hadn’t they thought of it? Wasn’t it because this
method was... bold?
“With so many creepy monster children, how can we drive them
away?”
Ning Su replied, “Well, they don’t eat people, anyway.”
The three of them were stunned.
Yes, the monster children didn’t eat people; their goal was
to destroy ghost friends.
Even during the incident with Qian Dongfang and the
scarecrow, a player on the fifth floor said that the straw on the scarecrow
ghost friend was taken by the monster children, and that’s why Qian Dongfang
turned into a pile of bones.
Because each time a player died, it was a gruesome sight, and
combined with the eerie and terrifying appearance of the monster children, they
naturally feared them. They had never thought about driving away this countless
horde of monster children.
“Alright! Let’s give it a try. Let it be our final gamble.
Success or failure, life or death, will depend on fate!” Zhu Shuangshuang said.
Meng Jiang clenched his teeth and said, “We have no choice
but to give it our all.”
Ji Mingrui said, “Then let’s come up with a thorough plan.”
For three consecutive days, the fifth floor had opened the
windows, and today it was finally the turn of the fourth floor.
The players on the other two floors were curious about what
they would do or, in other words, who would die.
“Is it that newcomer named Ji Mingrui? It’s his first time
entering the instance without any skills or weapons.”
“Who knows? I heard that the other three people besides Meng
Jiang entered the horror game on the same bus. Maybe the three of them will
team up and trap Meng Jiang.”
“Anyway, it won’t be Ning Su. He has the lily vines and the
Heaven-Piercing Silk.”
On the fifth floor, when the windows were opened, every
player on that floor reinforced their room’s doors and windows, afraid of being
a step behind the other players on the same floor.
As for the fourth floor, not a single player reinforced their
room’s doors and windows. Instead, they all started creating fireballs and fire
lines together.
“They want to use fire tactics? Last time, they indeed
confirmed that the monster children are afraid of fire.”
“It’s useless. The fire tactics can only be executed in the
garden in front of the castle. However, the monster children are attacking from
all sides. We can’t leave, and the bare walls on the left and right sides
cannot be utilized. Unless they start a fire near the walls, but that’s not
possible, as it would burn down the castle.”
When they first learned that the monster children were afraid
of fire, who would have not thought of using it?
All they needed to do was to build a high fire wall around
the castle to protect it.
But this dungeon wasn’t that simple. To construct a
sufficiently high fire wall to surround the castle and block the monster
children, they would need to go outside.
They couldn’t go outside.
Their activity area was only the garden between the castle
and the iron gate, so they could only operate in the garden in front of the
castle, effectively blocking the monster children coming from the castle’s
front.
The left and right sides were not viable options.
On the right side of the castle, facing the iron gate, there
were arched windows on each floor, and that side also had a large number of
monster children climbing through it.
According to the system’s setting, they were still ‘unborn’
and couldn’t go outside through the iron gate, so naturally, they couldn’t jump
out of the windows on the right side of the castle. The narrow space on the
left and right sides was only enough for players to climb the wall, and any
attempt to go further would result in being bounced back.
During the days when the windows on the fifth floor were
opened, the players on that floor had already tried.
However, igniting a fire that could obstruct the monster
children within such a small space would inevitably burn down the main castle.
Not feasible.
Unless they walked out of the door and started a fire further
away.
But that brought them back to the initial problem—they
couldn’t go outside.
So, this method was useless.
On the fourth floor, the four players used thin lily vines
and oil to create a very long fire line that could be ignited.
By lunchtime, they had just finished because it took too
long.
Anyway, they couldn’t have lunch anymore, so the four of them
added enough vine ropes.
Ning Su stuffed two lily flowers into his mouth and said,
“You move it to the iron gate, and I’ll go to the fifth floor.”
It was difficult to cut the lily vines, but once it was
severed, the vine itself was not heavy, especially since they had chosen the
thinnest ones. Meng Jiang easily carried two vines, each several hundred meters
long, to the gate, placing one on each side.
Soon after, Ning Su brought the oil-painted wooden puppet
down from the fifth floor.
On the hand holding the puppet, a continuous flow of dark
energy was being transferred into its body. By the time they reached the iron
gate, the wooden puppet’s wooden body had visibly improved, with a faint layer
of light passing through.
Ning Su squatted down, supporting its shoulders, and said,
“If you feel tired or unable to continue, come back immediately.”
The oil-painted wooden puppet looked into his eyes and
replied, “Ha ya.”
It bent down and grabbed the head of the rope on the right
side of the iron gate, walking out through the gap.
Inside the gate, Meng Jiang released the rope line until the
oil-painted wooden puppet had walked about six or seven meters outside,
standing at a distance where even an ignited rope would not reach the castle.
Ning Su said, “That’s enough.”
The oil-painted wooden puppet brought a stone and wrapped the
vine rope around it, then began pulling the vine towards the right side of the
castle.
The players on the fifth and sixth floors were all stunned.
They had never thought that the ghost friend could go this
far. It’s not that they hadn’t considered it before. Although they had seen it,
they never deeply pondered this issue or thought that the ghost friend could
solve the problem of distance.
Now they all knew what the people on the fourth floor were
going to do.
The ghost friend, at a distance of six or seven meters
outside, surrounded the castle with combustible vines, ensuring that igniting
the vines would not scorch the castle.
Those players who confidently analyzed the situation earlier,
claiming that using fire wouldn’t work, felt as if they had been slapped in the
face, stinging intensely.
They refused to accept that this could work and still
insisted, saying, “The vines are so thin, even if they can burn, the flames
would be so small. The monster children can easily jump over.”
“Yes, such small flames wouldn’t stop the monster children
unless there was a much higher fire wall, but that kind of wall is impossible
for a ghost friend to make.”
“That can only provide a sense of comfort.”
“Well, it’s better than just sitting and waiting for death.”
As they guessed, the ghost friend’s abilities were limited at
this time. It took a long time for it to go around, while taking a break in the
middle.
After the oil-painted puppet came back, it held the boy’s
hand at the iron gate and rested for a long time before pulling another vine to
the left.
It took two hours to finish going around all of them.
The oil-painted puppet stiffly squeezed through the iron
gate, feeling every piece of wood on its body creaking. It was exhausted, and
its head felt heavy.
Suddenly, it smelled a pleasant fragrance, and felt a cool
sensation around its neck, as if something was hanging there.
It lowered its head and saw a bright red flower hanging down
from its chest.
The small red flower was woven onto a thin, tender green
vine, hanging around its neck, with the flower perfectly positioned on its
chest. It was vibrant and bright, seemingly symbolizing something.
The puppet looked up and saw the boy with sparkling eyes,
saying, “You’re amazing.”
Zhu Shuangshuang said, “It’s truly amazing that it protected
us even though it’s so small.”
Meng Jiang exclaimed, “Applaud! Clap clap!”
“Ha... ya...“
The oil-painted puppet gazed at them in a daze, as if there
was a gleam in its oil-painted eyes.
There was still a layer of dirty oil paint on its face, and
the orange-yellow sunset fell on it, but it didn’t feel like an unbearable
greasiness.
It was like the oil paint applied by an innocent child,
unable to understand the logic of aesthetic beauty, but beneath the messy oil
paint, there hid innocence and warmth.
If this scene were printed as an oil painting, the puppet
would be the most striking one.
On the fifth floor, the little Gu Witch silently watched this
scene until the people in the painting walked into the castle and disappeared
from sight.
“What’s this? They’re leaving already? They didn’t surround
the castle from the left, right, or back? Just the front?”
“Forget it. Don’t take it seriously. This plan was full of
loopholes from the beginning.”
On the sixth floor, someone asked Shi Tianzhu, “President
Shi, do you think they can stop the monster children?”
Shi Tianzhu replied, “Whether they can stop them or not,
we’ll only know when night falls.”
As darkness began to descend, the players on the fifth and
sixth floors, who had stopped eating dinner, were already prepared in front of
their respective windows, waiting to see what kind of outcome would unfold in
the first batch of players who attempted to resist the monster children
proactively.
On the fourth floor, four people were sitting comfortably and
relaxed in the corridor.
They could only eat one meal a day, and that was in the
morning. Sitting in their rooms all day without exerting energy would make them
hungry, especially since they had been busy the whole day.
All four of them were both hungry and tired, completely exhausted.
However, their real battle had yet to begin.
They had to deal with countless, uncountable monster
children.
Only Ning Su was eating, consuming lily flowers. It wasn’t
that the other three were being picky and refusing to eat at a critical moment;
they just couldn’t chew it.
Zhu Shuangshuang gave a rose to each of the two boys, saying,
“Have a little bit to eat.”
After the players decided to eat only one meal a day, within
half an hour, the roses and sunflowers in the garden were completely stripped.
They happened to be in the garden and immediately rushed to
grab a portion.
The three of them struggled to swallow the flowers and
plants.
The flowers looked beautiful, but they tasted extremely
bitter. As they ate, the bitterness spread to their internal organs, including
their hearts.
But they still needed to eat, to replenish some energy
because soon they would embark on a battle of life and death, with an uncertain
outcome.
This battle would last at least four and a half hours without
any external support, and they had to risk their lives.
[Mother’s womb is so warm, I want to tear into hell to
accompany.
When I die, it trembles, but its attachment to me?]
The four of them simultaneously raised their heads, feeling a
tremor in their hearts.
Ning Su said, “They’re here.”
Zhu Shuangshuang forcefully bit down on the rose in her
mouth, and red rose juice overflowed from the corner of her lips.
She turned around and looked at Zhi Zhi, who was nervously
pulling at her clothes, touched its head, but couldn’t say anything.
She only touched its rough and coarse paper-like head a few
times, and even the corners of her eyes seemed to be stained with rose juice.
Meng Jiang squatted in front of Ai Yi, hanging his head as he
said to the mummy doll, “Do you remember what I told you? If we are going to
die, don’t give me your luck value. It’s useless for me. Keep it for yourself,
in case it can help you in the next life.”
Ji Mingrui and Sui Sui silently looked at each other. The
indifferent president wouldn’t say anything sentimental.
Ning Su’s clothes were grabbed, and Gui Sheng lifted his head
and said to him, “Protect!”
These were the words Gui Sheng said to him when Ning Su first
arrived in this instance. Gui Sheng said he would protect him.
In Gui Sheng’s other hand, he held the Blood Doll, which
looked at him silently without crying or making any noise.
Zhu Shuangshuang was the first to push open the door of Room
404, then turned to them and said, “Let’s begin, brothers.”
The first time they knew they were in the same mother’s body,
Meng Jiang once said, if they were inside the same mother, would they become
siblings after birth?
He desperately wanted to be a brother.
Meng Jiang: “Charge! For our birth!”
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