While the three were hesitating over whether they should go knock on the door right now, Zuo Lin'an had already set his sights on Tang Yuanhuai.
Since this player was already alone, he would deal with him first.
Meanwhile, Tang Yuanhuai had also realized that something was wrong.
He looked at the dim, withered forest, then walked in the direction the other three had just left.
“I'd like to see what kind of tricks you guys are playing.”
Zuo Lin'an had actually already seen through him.
This Tang Yuanhuai was no fool.
It was just that he had been kidnapped so many times in the past with so many different tricks that he had a very high level of acceptance for suddenly being brought somewhere like this.
Unless he was truly facing death, there was absolutely no way he would completely believe in some specter dungeon.
In that case...
Zuo Lin'an suddenly smiled.
He would be the one to give this player a wake-up call.
As he began to move, a chilly specter aura slowly diffused around them.
Tang Yuanhuai, who was walking, paused slightly.
“This is... yin qi!”
“Huh? Wait!”
“This yin qi... is actually so pure!”
Tang Yuanhuai's eyes widened. He carefully sensed the specter aura filling the air, and then a look of sheer ecstasy appeared on his face.
“If I can bring this back, it will definitely fetch an astronomical price!”
“No! That's not right!”
“A pure ghost body with over ninety percent purity would never make its way to the auction block in the first place. If I can hand this over to Father, I will definitely become the true young master of the Tang family!”
Thinking this, he instinctively reached into his robe, but his expression quickly changed.
“Where are my things?”
They were gone!
He quickly searched his entire body. As it turned out, all his cards—whether in plain sight, hidden in the dark, or even concealed beneath his skin and within his flesh—had completely vanished.
“How... how can this be?”
“Impossible!”
He could let the other things go.
But there was one thing: a mark that his father had personally planted inside his body.
No matter where he was taken, as long as this mark was active, the Tang family would definitely be able to quickly lock onto his location and send people to rescue him.
But now, he realized the mark was gone!
Which meant... the Tang family had absolutely no way of confirming his location right now. He might actually die here.
He knew his own talent was terrible.
Therefore, whenever he encountered enemies, the ones who fought were basically the guards assigned to his side. Even if he really had to fight, he would use various high-end weapons and treasures.
But now, everything was gone!
So... could he defeat the ghost lurking nearby?
Right at that moment, the specter aura, which had been somewhat thin just now, suddenly intensified!
Tang Yuanhuai couldn't help but shiver.
His breathing grew rapid. Not daring to delay any longer, he sprinted in the direction Liu Da and the other two had gone.
However, before he could even run a few steps, he saw a dark figure standing ahead.
The dark figure had its back to him, but its exposed skin was extremely pale.
This was not a human.
And there was a faint, bloody stench wafting over.
“It's a ghost...”
This was the pure ghost body he had been thinking of bringing home to give to his father just moments ago.
“Is it... a Malevolent Ghost? Or a Fierce Ghost?”
The corpse of the player Zuo Lin'an had killed earlier hadn't disappeared yet, so the blood on his body was still fresh.
And this time, he didn't come empty-handed.
In his right hand, he held a cold, glinting boning knife, while his left hand clutched a skinned skull.
His fingers had even pierced through the skull, sinking deep inside.
Tang Yuanhuai looked at the skull in the hands of the ghost blocking his path.
It was dripping with blood, a mangled mess of flesh and bone.
The two empty eye sockets faced his direction, and the exposed bone and gums were a terrifying sight to behold.
But he could still tell that the owner of this head must have died not long ago.
He took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down, and then quietly took a few steps back.
He was planning to run.
Sensing this, Zuo Lin'an slowly turned around under Tang Yuanhuai's gaze.
Just like that, a pair of crimson eyes slowly came into the other man's view.
Tang Yuanhuai's heart pounded wildly, and fine beads of cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
Blood-red eyes...
This really was a Fierce Ghost!
And the blood-red color had begun spreading from its eyes.
Tang Yuanhuai knew that this type of Fierce Ghost was the most violent and bloodthirsty of them all.
Zuo Lin'an casually tossed aside the skull he had picked up to set the mood and took a step forward.
With just a single step, the distance between him and Tang Yuanhuai was instantly cut in half.
This absolutely terrified the other man.
“Run!”
He turned and fled, not daring to waste a single second.
Zuo Lin'an watched him run off and slowly gave chase.
For now, he was in no hurry to use 【Time Acceleration】.
Having learned his lesson from the old Daoist and Lin Xiaolei, he planned to bait out Tang Yuanhuai's talent first to see what kind of special talent it was.
Then he would decide whether to use the acceleration based on the situation.
If possible, he felt he could drag out the chase and delay the kill until 1:00 AM.
This way, 【Time Acceleration】 could be saved for the other two players.
Namely, Liu Da and An Miao.
These two looked far stronger than Tang Yuanhuai.
Tang Yuanhuai ran extremely fast, fleeing blindly, though generally heading down the mountain. By now, he believed most of the talk about the specter dungeon.
Because anyone who truly wanted to kill him wouldn't go to such great lengths.
And kidnappers seeking ransom wouldn't do these redundant things either.
The most inexplicable thing to him was the ghost currently hunting him down.
He could tell that it genuinely wanted to kill him!
So... why?
“Who on earth sent you?!”
Hearing Tang Yuanhuai's exasperated questioning, Zuo Lin'an sighed inwardly. Sure enough, people from the paranormal world by default assumed that the specters in the dungeon possessed intelligence and could speak.
“Just say it! What on earth do you want? As long as you can name it, I can get it for you!”
“Double!”
“Whatever you want, I'll pay double!”
Zuo Lin'an ignored Tang Yuanhuai's words and checked the time.
It was still over thirty minutes before 1:00 AM, which wasn't too long.
He would play with him for a bit first.
The old residence on the mountaintop.
After some discussion, the three of them still decided to knock on the door.
After all, in the middle of the night, staying outside was too dangerous. There was no telling if a specter was watching them from the shadows.
Knock, knock, knock.
As the player with the strongest defense, Liu Da naturally went first.
An Miao followed closely behind him.
A spark of lightning flashed in her hand. If any accident occurred later, even though her lightning techniques couldn't harm specters, they could at least buy them some time.
Meanwhile, Chang Sheng had snapped off a withered branch at some point. A faint white light covered his ten fingers, and he carved lines into the branch from time to time.
He quickly crafted several crude-looking parts.
He was making small-scale puppets.
After knocking, Liu Da warily took two steps back.
The three of them waited in silence.
However, after waiting for a while, they didn't hear any movement, such as footsteps.
“Was my knocking too soft?”
Liu Da was somewhat doubtful.
“Let me try again.”
But just as he walked up to the entrance, he saw the door open with a creak.
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