Xu Youyou felt a bit embarrassed at this moment and gave a sheepish laugh.
Perhaps because the female ghost was dead, he had instantly revived to full vitality.
“Right, right, I definitely saw it!”
“I didn't expect the female ghost to be so squishy. Xuan Jiu shredded her with his claws in a single exchange. But there's no corpse left behind. After all, she was already a ghost, so she just dissipated upon death.”
Zuo Lin'an teased him.
“Not afraid anymore?”
Xu Youyou's condition was clearly much better.
“Yeah, the female ghost is dead, and the rest are all humans. Even though they look pretty hideous, I'm not afraid of them.”
Zuo Lin'an suddenly said,
“I've never actually seen a ghost from the paranormal world. You didn't even think to snap a photo to show me so I could broaden my horizons.”
Xu Youyou's voice immediately grew a bit louder.
“Brother An, what are you talking about?”
“I barely had time to run, how could I have time to take photos?”
Zuo Lin'an began to ask him in detail about the situation in the dungeon.
“You've been running for so long. What about the other players? How many of them are there?”
Xu Youyou thought about it.
“When the dungeon started, I set the number of players to ten. The female ghost chasing me earlier was the only ghost.”
“As for the rest, I was too terrified when I saw the ghost earlier, so I didn't look closely.”
He didn't continue speaking, likely using his God's-eye view to observe those players.
“I see them now. There's a monk.”
“Although he looks like a monk, he's not weak at all. He's covered in muscle, and his skin is actually glowing with a yellowish light, making him look like a bronze man.”
At this point, Xu Youyou's tone grew noticeably hostile.
“This guy is supposedly a Buddhist, yet when I was being chased by a ghost just now, he completely ignored me and went off to hunt down several other players instead!”
“The moment they appeared in the dungeon and he saw the others, he charged straight at them without a word.”
Zuo Lin'an immediately sensed something was off.
“What are the characteristics of the people the monk is chasing? Take a closer look.”
Xu Youyou observed carefully.
“Hmm...”
“Their exposed skin looks quite normal.”
“But when they trade blows with the monk, a lot of black lines flicker on and off, looking like some kind of pattern. However, very little of their skin is exposed, so I can't tell what it is.”
“But they're pretty fast. They've already run to the edge of the white mist by now.”
Xu Youyou's tone carried a hint of exasperation.
“Those guys are too weak. There's only one monk, but there are five of them! Yet they're being beaten so badly they can't even fight back.”
Zuo Lin'an continued to inquire.
“One female ghost is dead, and one monk is chasing five people. That makes seven. What about the other three players?”
Xu Youyou observed for a moment.
“Those three are currently gathered around a campfire back where they first entered the dungeon, chatting. They seem to be discussing the specter dungeon, the main quest, and things like that.”
“They look like ordinary people whose understanding of specter dungeons comes entirely from various novels.”
Zuo Lin'an nodded secretly.
“Keep watching the monk and those five. If you're lucky, you might harvest five unsolvable specters.”
“By the way, do you remember if the ghost that chased you earlier had any red on her?”
Red?
Xu Youyou recalled carefully.
“No, she was just a drab, dull gray. Not nice to look at at all.”
Zuo Lin'an thought to himself that she was probably a Malevolent Ghost, slightly stronger than a Wandering Soul, but not yet reaching the level of a Fierce Ghost.
“Take a close look at the monk now. When he hunts those five players, does he actually want to kill them? Or does he just want to capture them?”
This was the most important thing.
Only when someone was killed would an unsolvable specter be born.
If they were just captured, Xu Youyou would have to figure out a way himself in the end.
Xu Youyou watched with a frown for a while.
Right at that moment, one of the players failed to dodge in time and was struck squarely on the forehead by the monk's palm.
The player immediately rolled his eyes and fell to the ground, dead.
“One dead.”
Zuo Lin'an blinked upon hearing this.
“Then you're in luck.”
Xu Youyou's mood instantly brightened, but then his smile froze on his face.
“The other four split up and ran, and the monk chose one to chase!”
“This way, he definitely won't be able to catch and kill the other four before the first unsolvable specter is born. What a waste!”
Zuo Lin'an immediately suggested, “Try to see if you can delay the time it takes for the unsolvable specter to form.”
Xu Youyou immediately began to try.
First, he tried to do it from a distance, but felt nothing. Then, he quickly shuttled through the dungeon, arriving beside the corpse, and tried again through physical contact.
On his end, Zuo Lin'an began searching the forum for related posts to see if there was a way to delay the appearance of unsolvable specters, and he actually found one.
As a dungeon boss, one could indeed freely set the time of an unsolvable specter's birth.
If left unset, the default birth time of an unsolvable specter was within a few minutes after a player's death.
However, the maximum duration that could be set could not exceed twelve hours.
Except for some dungeons that needed to adjust the timing to coordinate with the plot, no dungeon boss would ever delay the birth of an unsolvable specter for so long.
Almost all dungeons followed the default setting.
And for each dungeon run, this time could only be adjusted once.
Just as he found the relevant post, Xu Youyou made the discovery on his end.
“I can indeed adjust the time for the unsolvable specter to appear.”
Zuo Lin'an told him everything he had just read.
Xu Youyou was somewhat surprised. “Ah? I don't need to touch the corpse?”
Zuo Lin'an frowned.
“The post didn't say anything about touching the corpse. Why don't you let go of the corpse and try?”
Xu Youyou immediately stood up and began to officially set the time.
“It really works!”
“Then I'll set it to the maximum of twelve hours and change it back during the next dungeon.”
He mumbled to himself.
“Hopefully this monk can kill all of those people within twelve hours.”
Just as he finished speaking, Xu Youyou suddenly felt a slight itch on his finger.
He subconsciously raised his hand to look, only to find several black lines squirming on his finger, seemingly trying to pierce his skin and burrow inside.
“Bugs?”
He immediately switched to his specter body state, his physical form transforming into a specter. With a light slice of his sharp, pitch-black fingernails, the black bugs were cut in half.
Then, he pinched them, and the bugs were instantly crushed into powder.
Xu Youyou blinked, then turned his gaze back to the corpse from earlier.
The corpse, which had looked normal just moments ago, had now undergone a massive change!
Dense black lines began to emerge on its skin.
They originally looked like some intricate floral patterns or perhaps some kind of totem, but now... those black lines were constantly squirming beneath the skin.
If one listened closely, they could hear faint rustling and crunching sounds, like the sound of bones being gnawed and crushed.
These bugs were eating the corpse!
Before long, he saw these black lines break through the skin, swarming out in droves!
It was a dense, sickening sight.
Xu Youyou immediately took two steps back to avoid the bugs.
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