All the players were afraid that Wu Su would set traps ahead, so they quickened their pace.
Before long, Zuo Lin'an and Fang Tang fell to the very back.
Hidden in the darkness, the two specter bodies communicated with each other.
Zuo Lin'an used his God's-eye view to observe the players ahead.
Wu Su was leading the charge all by himself, running at the very front and pulling far ahead of the other players behind him.
Moreover, he didn't seem to have any intention of setting traps or playing dirty.
Zuo Lin'an turned his head, his crimson slit-pupils staring at Fang Tang beside him.
“Are you going to make a move now?”
Fang Tang thought about it for a moment, then shook her head.
“Let's wait a bit longer. The timing isn't right. They're all clumped together. If I make a move now, they might team up against me, and I might get repelled directly.”
“Let's wait until they split up first.”
As for Wu Su...
Although he was alone, he hadn't triggered Fang Tang's rules, so they ignored him for the time being.
After all, he wouldn't be able to escape in such a short amount of time anyway.
Zuo Lin'an walked forward at a normal pace.
“What if they don't split up?”
Fang Tang followed behind him.
“If they really don't split up, you can help me out a bit. Although you can't kill players when it's not on the hour, you should still be able to grab someone.”
Zuo Lin'an could indeed do that.
And he was incredibly fast. Even if the target was squeezed in the middle of a crowd of players, he could easily snatch them away.
“Which one do you want?”
Fang Tang carefully picked one.
“How about that woman who kept talking earlier?”
Zuo Lin'an nodded.
“Sure. When you pretended to trip earlier, she happened to look back as well.”
The two of them trailed behind the group of players like this, waiting for the right opportunity to strike.
Further ahead in the mine shaft.
Many of the players had light glowing from their fingertips, illuminating the pitch-black tunnel.
Just then, a young man suddenly spoke up.
“There are two people falling behind at the very back. They seem to be ordinary people. Should we give them a hand?”
As soon as he said this, someone scoffed.
“Since when are you so kind-hearted?”
“Come on, think about it. Since they were placed in the same specter dungeon as us, they must have some special talent. They might be able to help us deal with the specters later.”
“You have to realize that although we've cultivated various spells and secret techniques, those things are completely useless against specters!”
“In a specter dungeon, only talents and specter items are of any real value!”
Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent.
Because they all knew he was right.
The young man continued.
“Precisely because we are cultivators, we have an advantage over ordinary people. We can bring them along first, and when we encounter a specter, we can have them make a move.”
“Once their talents are on cooldown, they won't have any use left. We can just push them out as cannon fodder to stall the specter and buy us some time.”
“It kills two birds with one stone. Why not do it?”
Hearing this, everyone found it reasonable.
But the problem was...
“Who's going to help them? You?”
The young man who had been speaking so logically just now immediately shut his mouth.
Talking was one thing, but doing was another.
What a joke!
Right now, he could only be sure that those two had special talents, but no one could guarantee whether their talents were actually effective against specters.
What if their talents could target humans too?
What would they do then?
If they ended up getting schemed against and hunted by a specter, they might, in their desperation, choose to kill one of the players instead of dealing with the specter.
With his silence, no one else spoke up.
Far from stopping to help Zuo Lin'an and Fang Tang, who were lagging behind, they actually quickened their pace.
Perhaps because Wu Su was ahead, they didn't dare to linger in this tunnel for too long.
After walking for about ten minutes, they encountered a fork in the road.
Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Since there was a fork, it meant that Wu Su, who was at the very front, could no longer target all of them.
Furthermore, after entering the specter dungeon, he couldn't bring his refined corpses with him either, so there was no way he could control them to split up and cover multiple paths.
“There are three paths here. Which one do you think we should take?”
Someone walked to the front to examine the paths carefully.
“Let's see if Wu Su left any footprints. If possible, it's better to avoid the tunnel he took.”
Everyone nodded in agreement.
After all, no one knew if Wu Su would play dirty, and no one wanted to take that gamble.
At this moment, the woman who had been targeting Wu Su earlier walked up to a certain man.
She called out softly.
“Brother Menglan?”
The man had shoulder-length black hair.
He wore ethnic clothing with distinct regional characteristics. The dark fabric was adorned with hand-embroidered patterns of scenic landscapes and tiny hidden creatures.
He turned his head to look at the woman.
“Fei'er, what is it?”
The woman casually pointed to the left.
“Brother Menglan, how about we go left?”
Seeing their subtle interactions, the other players instantly realized that these two actually knew each other!
A few players standing close to them immediately grew wary and moved slightly away.
But the two of them seemed completely oblivious.
“Sure, let's go.”
Ignoring whatever the other players might think, they turned and walked straight into the left mine shaft, leaving the rest to look at each other in bewilderment.
Someone asked, “What do you guys think? Should we follow them?”
At this moment, the young man who had suggested helping Zuo Lin'an and Fang Tang earlier spoke up.
“That woman just called that man Menglan. Didn't that ring any bells?”
“What? Do you know him?”
“Have you ever heard of Taoshuang Stockade?”
Once the name Taoshuang Stockade was uttered, everyone fell into a tacit silence.
The young man spoke.
“What's there to be afraid of? Su Wanzhou isn't even here!”
“That man just now must be Su Menglan, Su Wanzhou's nephew. They're from the same stockade.”
“I met a Gu cultivator in my previous dungeon. It's said that the Gu insects they nurture inside their bodies can be brought into the dungeons with them.”
Everyone frowned.
“So, he's very dangerous?”
“Of course. And that woman whom Su Menglan called Fei'er... she should be Liu Fei. I've heard before that the two of them are actually a couple.”
“And this Liu Fei is a spirit medium from the northeast.”
Someone asked.
“Do you know which spirit patron she serves?”
“The Snake Immortal. It's no secret; a lot of people know about it.”
“But this is a specter dungeon, so you don't have to worry too much. Even if her spirit patron could enter the dungeon, they would have to enter as a player.”
Everyone let out a sigh of relief.
“True.”
“So, in your opinion, should we avoid this couple and take the right path? Or the middle one?”
The young man pondered for a moment.
“Did any of you spot Wu Su's footprints? Which way did he go?”
Everyone shook their heads.
“No. He probably hid his tracks on purpose.”
“Should we just pick one at random?”
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