Zhou Yunchen, didn’t react for a while, he was stunned for a few seconds, then asked in a low voice:
“Wait, what are you talking about?”
Mo Yi turned around and glanced at him hurriedly. He smiled softly, then lowered his head and whispered a few words in his ear.
Zhou Yunchen’s complexion worsened with the naked eye, his eyes a little blank, staring at Mo Yi in a daze.
Mo Yi left Zhou Yunchen’s ear, his face calm and peaceful as usual. He hooked the corner of his lips: “How is it?”
Zhou Yunchen thought for a while, swallowed the “are you crazy” stuck in his throat, and changed to a relatively calm expression:
“…Are you serious?”
Mo Yi nodded, the expression on his face didn’t seem to be fake. There were two small halos flashing in the depths of his dark pupils, seemingly coming from the reflection of the flashlight’s beam. It appeared as if it was the hidden light in the depths of his eyes.
Zhou Yunchen was silent for a while, then continued to ask, “Are you sure you will succeed?”
Mo Yi thought about it carefully, then shook his head seriously: “No.”
There was a faint smile on his lips: ”If one can't bear to give up the child, one can't catch the wolf.”
Zhou Yunchen only felt that a suffocating breath was accumulating in his chest, and he couldn’t spit it out or swallow it. He endured and endured, and finally he couldn’t hold back anymore. He asked the question he had been waiting for, for a long time:
“Are you crazy?”
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt a heavy blow to his abdomen, and he instantly arched like a shrimp. The precise force made him feel pain and nausea, but it didn’t really damage his body.
“Watch what you say.”
Yu Ran’s deliberately lowered voice sounded in his ears: “If you have any other way, just say it, or is it possible for us to just sit and wait?”
Zhou Yunchen clutched his still aching belly, his facial features shrunken together due to the pain, but his mind was still extraordinarily clear. After some thought, he had to admit it was hard…
In this situation, Mo Yi’s proposal may really be the best way.
However… such a risky method, probably only a lunatic could really do it.
For some reason, a few images appeared just now in Zhou Yunchen’s mind.
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After the end of the third nursery rhyme, experienced players basically guessed more or less that the seven hours in this instance were related to the seven days in the reminder nursery rhyme, but no one had the means or the courage to go and prove the idea, let alone explore the second floor where the monsters came from.
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But he was wrong.
Mo Yi not only came back alive, but even found enough evidence to open a hidden branch quest.
Zhou Yunchen straightened up and carefully looked at Mo Yi’s blurred facial contours hidden in the darkness– he was staring at him, as if waiting for his reply.
Under the gaze of those eyes, there seemed to be an inexplicable urge to believe in the owner of these eyes.
Zhou Yunchen let out a long sigh of relief, as he made his mind, and then nodded slowly.
Maybe because he had been with a lunatic for such a long time, he had also become a lunatic, and now he… actually thought that the possibility of this plan succeeding was greater than he imagined.
After a few minutes.
Mo Yi stood at the end of the corridor, quietly letting his figure blend into the darkness.
Back straight, careful not to touch the thick, sticky webs on the wall behind him.
He held the metal music box tightly in his hand, the hard and cold edges and corners imprinting into his palm. There was a faint pain, which made his nerves extraordinarily clear and vigilant.
This music box was not completely broken, and it could be used normally after a simple repair.
Mo Yi tightly clasped the upper spring with his slender fingers, his breathing deliberately suppressed, while he stood quietly in the darkness, making people almost unaware of his existence.
Zhou Yunchen walked out of the room beside him, and finally checked the things they had arranged in the corridor. After confirming that everything was safe, he let out a long sigh of relief.
He took a deep look at Mo Yi in the dark, then walked through the crowded corridor to the stairs.
The dark stairway had been covered with countless sticky cobwebs, and it looked so depressing that it was almost impossible to breathe.
Zhou Yunchen closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then opened his mouth and shouted loudly:
“I’m here!!! Come and catch me!!!”
He raised his hand while shouting, and used the dirty cloth found in the room next to him to vigorously swiped away at the cobwebs wrapped around the corridor wall and the stairs. The tremors of the spider web were transmitted wave after wave–
The hurried footsteps chaotically knocked on the rotten wooden floor, making a hurried sound like a reminder, and rushing straight towards Zhou Yunchen!
At the same time, the strange and soft girl hummed:
“…little miss muffet sat on a tuffet…”
The pale and stiff face appeared at the end of the corridor, and then the ugly bloated spider body and long hairy legs rushed towards Zhou Yunchen at an extremely fast speed!
Zhou Yunchen’s heart trembled; he turned his head and ran away without delay!
The entire corridor was already filled with the sundries and utensils found in the other two rooms by the three of them, and Zhou Yunchen’s slender figure flexibly moved through the gaps.
The bloated body of the spider was in a very crowded narrow corridor. A few long feet curled up and walked on the spider silk on the wall. The countless implements in the corridor blocked its chasing pace and obviously slowed it down by a lot.
Watching Zhou Yunchen run inward like a loach, the pale face on the spider’s head became distorted and terrifying. The nursery rhyme in its mouth became high-pitched and fast, which seemed to be full of anger.
The spider slammed into the stacks of objects in the corridor, slamming the stacked chairs and wooden planks down on its body, causing a flurry of dust and arousing the ferocity in its body completely. It stood up.
There was a sharp scream from its mouth, and then it tore open a path with all its strength, and rushed towards Zhou Yunchen!
Zhou Yunchen dodged and disappeared into the room on the side of the corridor.
The spider rushed away from the debris piled up in the corridor, and its long steps struck the hurried drum beats on the twisted walls and decaying wooden floors. The dense friction sounded like it was clutching their hearts tightly, squeezing out every trace of breathable air.
Zhou Yunchen rushed to the ladder that was stretched out above the secret door in the attic. The sticky cobwebs were already pulling at his movements. He stretched out his hand to grab the ladder with all his strength, and then climbed up at the fastest speed in his life, pulling into the dark with all his strength. He took the handle on the door, then scooped up the entire ladder.
Listening to the sound of “clang”, the pale and twisted face of the spider was just blocked by the pulled up secret door, isolated from below.
The spider rushed in front of the secret door with its bloated and fat body and shockingly long feet, while sharply singing a tune-shifting song. The spider banged on the rotten wooden floor of the attic, shaking up waves of dust.
Zhou Yunchen gritted his teeth against the trembling secret door, as the hoarse song with an unpleasant tone came up along the floor gap, penetrating into his eardrums uncontrollably.
Zhou Yunchen was clenching his teeth tightly, and he could almost taste the faint smell of rust between his lips and teeth.
The long sharp ends of its feet “Kala” penetrated the fragile floor with a sound, and through the slender and twisted gap, one could see the crazy and cold black eyes on the face of the spider humanoid, shining with greed and vicious light.
It smashed even more frantically againsts the trapdoor, the sawdust flying up, the rancid smell and dampness seeming to be close.
Zhou Yunchen’s throat tightened, he swallowed dryly, and counted down the time in his heart–
“……three, two”
“one”
It’s now!
Mo Yi stood quietly in the dark, counting down at the same time in his heart. At the moment when the countdown ended, he released his fingers that were holding the main spring of the metal music box tightly, and then threw the music box in the spider web behind him.
The weird hoarse metal sound rang out intermittently, and the indistinct lyrics rang out:
“three blind mice, see how they run…”
The trembling frequency of the sound was transmitted along the spider web to every corner covered with spider silk, including the giant spider’s ugly hairy feet.
“…who cut off their tails with a carving knife…”
Its movements clearly stopped, the chant in its mouth became sharp and harsh, and the stiff and pale face was twisted, looking like it was provoked.
It didn’t even pay attention to the attic floor that had been basically torn apart. After a shrill cry, it rushed out of the house.
When Mo Yi heard the movement in the room, he breathed a sigh of relief.
He was worried that he would not be able to attract the attention of the already provoked monster by making a noise here, so he took a risk and played another nursery rhyme with the music box that made the sound last time to try to divert the other party’s attack target.
Sure enough, it worked.
Mo Yi stared at the ugly spider crawling out of the room, and then waving its terrifying claw-like feet at him, the distorted narrow face hung on the disproportionately huge body, and the transparent saliva ran down the open mouth. Flowing down, it looked extremely terrifying.
His expression remained unchanged, and on his pale face, the pair of dark eyes were calm and deep.
Mo Yi stared at it, although it was still fast, the pace was obviously slowed down. He revealed a secret smile in the dark.
When the spider was moving, its blood pressure in its front body was very high, and compared with the fourteen passages connecting the ducts in other insects, the spider had only three up and down the body, so the gas exchange in its body was very slow, and long-term exercise would lead to lack of oxygen. It wasn’t delivered to the limbs, causing it to enter a state of severe weakness under a powerful sprint.
Slower action, less vigilance, less sensitivity–
The smelly breath of the spider was close in Mo Yi’s eyes, including its dirty brown long hair and black furry abdomen.
Mo Yi stared at it calmly, and glanced at the half-open door behind the spider.
Yu Ran clenched the handle of the knife tightly and jumped out sharply and vigorously.
Mo Yi raised his lips quietly, hidden under the surface of calm and rationality, there was a dangerous undercurrent, and the dark pupil showed a light that was almost excited.
Do it DO IT now!
Thanks for the update
He is crazy and I love it
Thank you for your translation 🤍🤍🤍🤍
Gee he’s excited
What a gamble, luckily this demon spider body still conforms to physics! Though I guess one can assume that if a monster is realistic enough to be chopped to death it’s realistic enough that the rest of its standard biology should follow too
Thank you so much for translating! <3