You see, after triggering his resurrection talent, all of Su Menglan's Gu insects would die.
Therefore, after his resurrection, he could only rely on his own cultivation to some extent and his only specter item, the Awl.
Zuo Lin'an sighed inwardly.
Previously, Liu Fei's talent had evolved in combination with her identity as a spirit medium, making it a special talent unique to her.
He hadn't expected Su Menglan to be the same.
【Trading Gu for Life】 was also highly personalized.
He had to admit that, to some extent, these two were indeed a great match.
If they hadn't become players, they might have reached the peak and become powerful figures in their own world.
What a pity...
Right then, the rope around Su Menglan's neck cracked inch by inch, then suddenly shattered.
His body crashed heavily to the ground.
Immediately afterward, his deformed neck restored itself at a speed visible to the naked eye.
His heart, which had stopped beating, resumed its pulse. Even his breathing and heartbeat gradually returned to a steady rhythm.
Fang Tang watched this scene, frowning slightly.
Although she was somewhat unwilling, she took a step back, concealed her figure, and returned to Zuo Lin'an, who was currently in a state of concealment nearby.
About ten seconds later, Su Menglan suddenly opened his eyes.
“Hah... Hah!!”
He gasped heavily for air.
Evidently, the experience of being strangled to death left a bit of a shadow on him.
Fortunately, he was no ordinary person; he could refine Gu insects and integrate them into his body as part of himself.
With just a little recovery time, he could easily put that brief moment of agony behind him.
Su Menglan sat on the ground to rest his mind, adjusting his condition within a few minutes.
He stood up and looked around, seeing no specter and sensing no freezing specter aura.
Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.
But at the same time, he didn't forget to confirm his direction.
“It's this way.”
Locking onto the direction, he quickly hurried away.
This time, Fang Tang and Zuo Lin'an, hidden in the dark, did not pursue him. Instead, they began to discuss their next hunting target.
Meanwhile, further away.
Wu Su squatted down to examine something that had just fallen from the corner of his clothes.
Reaching out, he picked up the tiny black speck and brought it close to his eyes for a careful look.
“Is this... a Gu insect?”
“It's dead?”
It was indeed a Gu insect, and it was indeed dead.
In fact, if it hadn't died, he probably wouldn't even have noticed it.
Wu Su thought of the man dressed in ethnic attire from earlier.
“Is it that guy who manipulates Gu?”
Was he trying to track him?
But now the Gu insect was dead, which meant that man was dead too?
“That's right, he must be dead. After all, any Gu insects that can be brought into a dungeon are refined and integrated into their bodies, becoming a part of them.”
“Only when the person dies do the Gu insects die.”
He sneered.
“Heh!”
“Who would've thought? You were so unlucky. Before you could even catch up to me, you got killed by a specter.”
In Wu Su's view, once inside a specter dungeon, only specters would hunt down players.
And only specters would kill players.
Of course, with the exception of those newbie players who didn't know the rules but still had the ability to kill.
However, he had carefully observed the other players who entered this dungeon, and none of them looked like newbies.
Therefore, they should all know that players couldn't kill one another.
He casually tossed the Gu insect's corpse onto the ground.
In any case, it was for the best that he was dead. This saved him a lot of trouble.
Wu Su was currently standing at a fork in the path.
There had been far too many forks along the way!
To avoid taking detours or choosing dead ends, he would stop at every fork to sense the aura and choose the correct path.
But after multiple attempts at sensing, he discovered that every single mine shaft actually possessed the aura of survival.
In other words, all the mine shafts here were interconnected.
Every path could lead to the exit.
As for the difference...
It was surely a matter of whether one would take unnecessary detours or end up walking in circles in the same area.
Because of this, every time he sensed the aura, he would choose the mine shaft that felt the best to him.
But occasionally, he would encounter some that felt roughly the same.
In those cases, he had no choice but to make a blind guess.
Now, after a moment of sensing, Wu Su opened his eyes.
But he didn't make a choice immediately. Instead, he hesitated.
He was currently facing five mine shafts.
One of them was the direction he had come from, which could be excluded, leaving four choices.
The two on the left didn't feel as good as the two on the right, so those were excluded as well.
However, it was these two on the right that felt almost identical to him.
“Do I have to blind-guess again?”
He was somewhat hesitant.
To say he could just pick one at random since they felt similar was out of the question.
Feeling similar only meant that the auras contained within these two mine shafts were similar. If he chose incorrectly, he would definitely end up taking quite a few detours.
If it happened too many times, it would waste a significant amount of time.
“Whew...”
He exhaled a long breath.
To be honest, the only reason he could capture the aura was that, while refining himself into a corpse, he had cultivated an auxiliary secret art for sensing aura.
As a refined corpse, he would constantly seek out underground caves, capturing the freezing underground aura to further temper and refine his body.
After all, the deeper one went underground, the more abundant and pure the freezing aura became.
Consequently, all members of the Celestial Corpse Sect had to learn a secret art that prevented them from getting lost in underground caverns.
Which was the secret art he was currently utilizing.
All underground caverns would have an exit, as there had to be an opening to enter in the first place.
Since there was an exit, there would inevitably be a flow of outside air entering the cavern.
Even deep underground, no matter how faint the draft was, it would always exist.
Since it existed, it could be captured.
But the problem now was...
All the mine shafts here were interconnected. Even if there was outside air flowing in, it was highly dispersed, with very little difference between them.
He hesitated for a bit longer before finally picking a mine shaft at random.
Although choosing wrong would lead to detours, hesitating here indefinitely would also waste time. Wouldn't that be putting the cart before the horse?
After all, the main quest only gave players one day.
Once Wu Su made his choice, he hesitated no longer and entered, continuing his journey.
In the distance.
Fang Tang and Zuo Lin'an had already changed directions.
They had just caught up to the ten players who had previously headed down the right mine shafts.
Among them was a man who, though looking young, had already subtly become the leader of this group of players.
They talked and discussed as they walked, and the atmosphere was quite pleasant.
From their earlier conversation, Zuo Lin'an and Fang Tang learned that this young man was named Zhao Lin, and he was proficient in the art of Qi-gazing.
Every time they encountered a fork, he would perform this technique. Miraculously, he was able to choose the correct direction almost every single time, though he would occasionally make a mistake.
But even when he chose wrong, it was always the second-best choice besides the optimal one, meaning they didn't take many unnecessary detours. Thus, it was close enough.
Fang Tang and Zuo Lin'an followed unhurriedly behind.
She was somewhat puzzled.
“Is this Zhao Lin really that good-natured?”
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