At this time, the other two also heard the strange noise coming from the corridor, and their movements froze involuntarily.
Their nerves that had just relaxed suddenly tightened, as if any tiny movement of their own would trigger a series of chain reactions. Breathing subconsciously softening, they focused all their attention on the door.
In the oppressive silence, the rustling sound was scalp-numbing.
Mo Yi frowned slowly in the darkness.
This voice…why did it seem to be going away?
He narrowed his eyes, and then began to walk slowly and cautiously towards the door.
In the dim light of the flashlight, Yu Ran saw his bold move, her breathing became disordered, and she raised her arm, as if wanting to stop him.
Mo Yi paused, raised his finger to press to his lips, and then slowly shook his head.
Seeing that she couldn’t change his decision, Yu Ran had no choice but to lower her arm and watch him slowly walk towards the door.
The rotten wooden floor creaked slightly under his feet, which was exceptionally clear in the silent darkness, like a thin silk thread, slowly tightening around the listener’s head.
Mo Yi slowed down his breathing rate, held the door frame with his hand in the darkness, then turned sideways and looked out the door.
The flashlight he threw out of the corridor before lay in the dust and cobwebs at the end of the corridor, still stubbornly emitting a faint light. Under the dim light, black shadows were printed on the walls of the corridor, which pulsated with the sound of the friction.
Mo Yi continued to take a step forward without changing his expression.
The situation in the corridor finally completely appeared in his field of vision.
The yellow-green viscous liquid that splashed on the ground, was stretched long, leaving muddy drag marks on the dirty carpet.
The spider’s bloated, headless corpse stood up unsteadily, dragging its ripped belly, and slowly walked in the narrow and cramped corridor.
Mo Yi’s breathing became chaotic, and a cold feeling rose up his back– it wasn’t dead?
Wrong.
Mo Yi frowned, and took another step forward, carefully looking at the broken body of the spider in front of him.
Its long steps looked stiff and uncoordinated. Even though Mo Yi’s actions made a lot of noise just now, it still didn’t stop, but walked slowly and persistently towards the stairwell.
Mo Yi felt something touch his calf. He looked down, and happened to meet the eyes of the spider’s severed head.
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The head that looked like a girl’s face was pale and stiff, with distorted facial features, the pair of vicious black eyes were dimmed, and the muscles on the face were unresponsive, as if made of clay, lifeless.
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In the fight just now, Yu Ran was more or less stained with a lot of body fluids from the spider’s body, especially her upper body and hands. It was almost as if she had washed a spider’s internal organs. It was the same as taking a nauseating bath.
And in the tense situation just now, she hadn’t had time to clean up the mucus on her body.
However… in the cold white halo of the flashlight, Mo Yi could see that the viscous yellow-green liquid sticking to her body flowed downward as if alive, gathered at the folds of her clothes, and then dripped down.
Then it slithered up the dusty surface like a snake, dripping down the gap between the wooden boards.
Yu Ran was also taken aback by the scene in front of her, her long and narrow phoenix eyes widened, and she didn’t recover for a long time.
She stretched out her hand with some hesitation, the paleness of her palm had returned, and then she touched her top in disbelief. The soft fabric was almost the same as usual except for a little dampness.
Really… gone.
Yu Ran was stunned, and looked at the ground. The wooden floor was clean and there was no trace of dampness. If it wasn’t for the water traces left on the dusty surface, she would have thought that what just happened was just an illusion.
Zhou Yunchen, who was standing aside, was also dumbfounded. He subconsciously looked at Mo Yi, but was taken aback by his expression.
Mo Yi’s eyes were dark, his brows were tightly furrowed, his pale face looked solemn and dignified, as if heavy clouds were pressing heavily on his forehead.
Zhou Yunchen’s heart trembled. For some reason he was a little afraid, so in the end he didn’t ask about the doubts in his heart.
Just when he was hesitating, Mo Yi suddenly opened his mouth and shouted loudly into the empty room:
“Ivy!”
Both Zhou Yunchen and Yu Ran trembled and looked at Mo Yi who was standing in the middle of the room in panic– Zhou Yunchen was startled by his suddenly amplified voice, while Yu Ran’s reaction was because she knew who Mo Yi was calling.
Before the two could come over, Mo Yi raised his voice and shouted again:
“Ivy!!”
This time his voice was even louder, and it even echoed in the empty room, making the two of them feel their scalps go numb.
Yu Ran numbly clutched her heart, deeply feeling that if she stayed with Mo Yi for a little longer, she would have a heart attack sooner or later.
In the darkness where the weak light of the flashlight could not reach, a pale and fuzzy face slowly emerged, like wax oil that had melted and condensed again, looking terrifying and weird.
Zhou Yunchen felt as if he had been struck by lightning, he was speechless, his whole face was stiff with fright, and the muscles on his face were twitching involuntarily.
Yu Ran glanced at him from the corner of her eye, and unexpectedly calmed down.
Just a little gloating.
There was a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, as she turned her head to look at the person and ghost confronting each other in the middle of the room. There was a sense of calmness in her heart– after all, Mo Yi was here, what could happen?
Standing in front of Ivy, Mo Yi was not so carefree. He stared at Ivy closely with sullen brows, his thin lips were stretched into a straight line, and the blood there almost lost its color due to the force.
His extremely dark eyes were like churning dark clouds and waves, suppressing extremely complex emotions and brewing faint anger.
A familiar soft touch wrapped around his wrist. It slid slowly along his naturally parted fingers, then across his cold palm, caressing quietly, with a faint sense of comfort.
Mo Yi didn’t expect the Mist to come out at this time, he was stunned for a moment, while his frowning brows couldn’t help but relax.
He took a deep breath, calmed down, and said:
“Did you know?”
Mo Yi asked the question without beginning or end, Yu Ran and Zhou Yunchen were also in a cloud of confusion, and couldn’t figure it out.
That pale and vague face emerged quietly from the darkness, and after a while, there seemed to be a shallow wave of water on it, revealing a woman’s face as cold as a stone sculpture.
Ivy didn’t answer, the pair of dark piercing eyes looked back at him, looking strange and inexplicable.
Mo Yi’s complexion remained unchanged, he looked back without backing down, then slowly took a step forward, a faint smile appearing on the corner of his lips. He said:
“The spider’s body just left by itself.”
Yu Ran was startled, and couldn’t help interjecting: “Wait, it’s alive? Why–”
Mo Yi glanced at her. Under his indifferent gaze, Yu Ran involuntarily stopped speaking, and swallowed the second half of the sentence back down her throat.
He withdrew his gaze and said, “No, it died completely. Its limbs were all stiff, and the head and its body left together– including all the body fluids it shed. They also seeped into the floor and disappeared.”
Mo Yi looked directly at Ivy, and slowly said the last sentence, enunciating clearly and slowly.
Ivy’s cold and dark eyes moved suddenly.
The incident happened so suddenly just now, Yu Ran was dazed by one sudden incident after another, and she hadn’t had a chance to think deeply about what happened before. When Mo Yi pointed it out, she couldn’t help being taken aback, her brows and eyes were also stained with a trace of solemnity.
Mo Yi looked at Ivy coldly, and continued:
“All the blood of the player is automatically collected to nourish the bloodthirsty demons, and various organs are needed to complete the sacrifice, right?”
It was obviously a question pattern, but Mo Yi said it in a declarative tone, as if he didn’t need the other party’s answer.
The fluctuations on Ivy’s cold and stiff face became more and more obvious.
Mo Yi slowly pulled up the corners of his lips, showing a warm smile:
“The blood of monsters will be absorbed, does that mean their organs can be sacrificed instead of humans?”
He added: “Also, I don’t know if you have noticed that even the most inhuman creatures have at least one organ resembling a human, with the only exception being the three blind mice.”
Ivy stepped forward slowly from the darkness, and half of her distorted charred figure was revealed under the light.
Mo Yi was not frightened by her actions, but continued calmly: “The players killed by the three blind mice lost their hands, but when they attacked other players, they took out their eyes.”
Yu Ran was stunned for a while, and seemed to understand.
All the monsters that appeared had a part of the image of a human being. Only the blind mice had nothing to do with the human form. They originally only needed to get the body parts corresponding to the time– the hands, which were enough, but they still dug out the eyes that were not needed for the sacrifice.
And very specifically, each mouse got a pair of eyes.
In this way, they also had a part of the human image.
Yu Ran suddenly felt a cold chill, lingering ominously in her heart, which could not go away for a long time.
–If the monsters could complete the sacrifice instead of the players, then even if none of the players died next, the sacrifice would still be successful.
The Black Death would still be unleashed again.
It was a dead end.
The feeling of despair overflowed from the bottom of Yu Ran’s heart in an instant, like a raging tide, it would submerge her heart.
At this moment, Yu Ran heard a weak groan by her feet.
–The Players who were stunned by spider venom woke up.
Thanks for the update
This game always finds a way to pit players!
Oh my goodness, my brain feel pain
Thank you for your translation 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
I thought they were safe since the time for collecting heads had already passed but maybe not? Is Mo Yi really going to have to capture instead of kill any remaining monsters, that’s so harsh
Thank you so much for translating! <3