Chapter 12: Liu Lei's Death
Liu Lei and Huang Xiaojing walked in the silent corridor, and every time they took a step forward, Liu Lei could feel a huge terror coming. Finally, the two of them came to the fourth floor again.
Now the whole school is shrouded in darkness, so there is basically no one in the school anymore. Even the students who lived in the school had left, after all, someone had just died in the school, and there were people who were afraid that the two who died would become ghosts. In addition, the weather has been bad these days, and the students feel very depressed to stay in the school, so even those who are very homesick have mostly left the school. Only come back at night when it's time to sleep.
However, the storage room on the fourth floor is the birthplace of the entire curse, so there is basically no light on the fourth floor now. Only Liu Lei and Huang Xiaojing's flashlights are still trying to illuminate Yiqiē.
Suddenly, the flashlights in the hands of the two began to flicker continuously. But that didn't frighten the two, they had expected that since the ghost could lock the door after the cursed thing was dispelled, it might not take much effort to break the two flashlights.
In fact, this is exactly what the mission is most frightening. Ghosts will become stronger and stronger as the end of the mission approaches, and it is likely that a cursed object can drive the ghost away for three minutes one day before, but it will become less than a minute the next, and the most terrifying thing is that it may not have any effect! If this is the case, then only death awaits the executor.
Just when Liu Lei came to the door of the storage room, a pale hand suddenly stretched out through the door and grabbed Liu Lei's neck, and then his neck was directly twisted!
He died, died like this, Xiao Chen's various plans could not be practiced on him, and he didn't even have time to use the cursed thing!
Liu Lei's death, Huang Xiaojing watched it from the side. She's scared too! Even if the blow just fell on her, she would definitely not be able to react, although she might not die with that move, but that move
Huang Xiaojing was only stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted, quickly took out the cursed thing with human hands, and pressed it on the "hand on the door". I heard a strange cry coming from inside the door, and the hand was gone. And the door panel is not damaged at all!
This scene made Huang Xiaojing frightened, "Has the difficulty of this mission changed?" She thought. You know, ghosts ignore physical obstacles, and this is at least the case in the quest world of Intermediate difficulty! In the world of low-difficulty missions, it is impossible to ignore the physical obstacles when ghosts appear! This is known to all the executors of the cursed world.
In fact, the low-difficulty task world is completely for training, and allowing the executor to adapt to life in the cursed world is equivalent to a screening. Only those who survive and enter the world of intermediate difficulty are considered to be true veterans! Like Liu Lei, it's not counted. Huang Xiaojing had some special reasons, the most important of which was the loss of her strongest cursed object in the last mission.
On the top, there are senior executors, and these executors are the real strong! Going up, it's still too far away from Xiao Chen, so I won't mention it much.
In short, Huang Xiaojing was really scared this time. Xiao Chen may not understand the horror of the Intermediate Curse, but she knows it! Compared to the cursed world of low difficulty, the cursed world of medium difficulty is truly terrifying! I remember my fourth mission, which was almost annihilated! Only I returned to the cursed world alive and got the cursed thing! It was also thanks to that cursed thing that he was able to come back alive in the fifth mission on top difficulty!
In other words, the value of the cursed things produced in the low-difficulty mission world is very low, and you can buy it with a few hundred points of curse power, and you think that your own manpower is the best among the low-difficulty cursed things, and it is only a thousand points. Like Liu Lei's ruler, there are only 400 points! This is still the reason why the ruler can exorcise ghosts regardless of distance, but the effect is weakened.
Of course, it doesn't mean that all cursed things produced on intermediate difficulty and above are strong, but even if they have the same ability, they are much stronger than cursed things of low difficulty.
But it was precisely because she understood the horror of the intermediate difficulty that Huang Xiaojing had already shouted at Xiao Chen, who had just run over: "Hurry up!" "Now there are no other veterans around her, and it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to fight against the ghosts of intermediate difficulty if she is alone!
Xiao Chen didn't know that the difficulty had changed, and he was stunned for a moment after hearing Huang Xiaojing tell him to leave quickly, but he still ran over to take away the cursed thing left by Liu Lei after his death before following. When Huang Xiaojing saw this scene, the corners of her mouth couldn't help twitching, and she felt that Xiao Chen felt like a newborn calf was not afraid of tigers.
Soon, the two ran out of the school building without encountering any obstacles. This made Huang Xiaojing a little surprised, could it be that she guessed wrong, there is no change in difficulty? Otherwise, the ghost should have come out. But the ghost is ignoring the physical barrier! Huang Xiaojing felt that she had been confused, and she couldn't tell that guess was true.
But Xiao Chen was different, this was his first time participating in the mission, so he didn't think about the difficulty, he just wanted to get the cursed thing. As long as the curse is in hand, then no matter how good the ghost is, it must be obediently tied.
Seeing Huang Xiaojing's panicked appearance for the first time, Xiao Chen felt that something must have happened that he didn't know. Therefore, when the two came to Liu Lei's bedroom, the first thing Xiao Chen did was to ask. He felt that Huang Xiaojing, as a veteran, should have calmed down enough during the time she ran from the teaching building to the dormitory.
In fact, Huang Xiaojing did calm down, but she was still very weak. She reacted when she heard Xiao Chen ask her what happened just now, and said, "The ghost has become more powerful again, her attack just now ignored the door panel!" ”
Xiao Chen didn't know what it meant to ignore the door panel, but it was important to make Huang Xiaojing so out of shape. Xiao Chen stood up, walked to Huang Xiaojing's side, patted her on the shoulder, and said, "Don't worry, there will always be a way." ”
Hearing Xiao Chen's comfort, Huang Xiaojing's face calmed down a little.
Seeing that Huang Xiaojing had recovered, Xiao Chen asked again: "Tell me what kind of trouble we encountered that made Huang Da Beauty so panicked?" ”
Seeing that Xiao Chen still had the heart to joke, Huang Xiaojing was a little angry, he didn't understand what this meant at all! However, under his influence, Huang Xiaojing has completely recovered into that wise veteran.
Glancing at Xiao Chen lightly, Huang Xiaojing said: "The ghost's ability to ignore physical barriers can't help but mean that she can attack us more covertly, and it also means that the curse has been upgraded!" Just like the lowest-level ghost exorcism artifact in your hand, I'm afraid that using it will only affect her slightly, unless it directly acts on the ghost body like I just did! ”
"Then we shouldn't have run away just now." Xiao Chen thought for a moment and said, "If the ghost is so powerful now, then tomorrow I am afraid it will be even more powerful, today I finally had a chance to disperse the ghost, so it was wasted!" Xiao Chen had a look of pity on his face.
Hearing Xiao Chen say this, Huang Xiaojing also reacted. Whether the ghost gets stronger or not, just now is a great opportunity. It's a pity that I was really panicked just now, and I ran back without thinking carefully. Huang Xiaojing blamed herself.
Seeing that Huang Xiaojing understood, Xiao Chen continued: "Okay, don't blame yourself, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, let's do something important now!" ”
"Ah, what's the matter?" Huang Xiaojing asked a little confused.
"Of course it's the police!" Xiao Chen said that it was unfathomable.
Huang Xiaojing understood at once, "You are going to use the police cover to find the cursed thing!" "That's what Xiao Chen thought, the last time Wang Chuanshi died, when Xiao Chen and the others arrived, the police had already sealed off the entire teaching building, so that they couldn't find the cursed thing in a safe situation.
Under normal circumstances, ghosts do not appear openly in public, of course, it is still medium to low difficulty. Tasks of high difficulty and top difficulty often kill a bunch of people. And only the curse formed by that situation is truly terrible.
Xiao Chen just wanted to use the police as a cover, with the help of his identity as the first witness, to search for whether the deceased Liu Lei and Wang Chuanshi, who died yesterday, had anything in common. In order to achieve the purpose of searching for cursed things.
Xiao Chen rummaged through and found the business card that Zhang Xuemin left for Liu Lei, took out his mobile phone and called it according to the phone on it.
After a few rings, the phone was picked up on the other side. "Hey, hello, I'm Zhang Xuemin, who are you?" The voice on the phone was full of energy, but there was a trace of tiredness that could not be concealed. Apparently the serious officer didn't sleep well last night.
"Is it Officer Zhang, I'm going to report the case!" Xiao Chen's voice seemed very urgent, as if a normal person was as frightened as if he saw a dead person.
"Slow down, I'm listening, let's talk about what the case is first." Zhang Xuemin is very calm, he should have seen a lot of people who panicked and reported the case.
"Dead man, Liu Lei is dead, he died in the teaching building!" Xiao Chen hurriedly shouted.
"What, who did you say died?" Zhang Xuemin still has a little impression of Liu Lei, who is the roommate of one of the deceased in the case he is following up. I didn't expect to die now! "Where are you, I'm going to look for you now!" Zhang Xuemin's question just now was just the reason for being too surprised, and he said without waiting for Xiao Chen to answer.
"I'm in Liu Lei's bedroom. Huang Xiaojing is also there. Xiao Chen had calmed down a little at this time, of course, it was all pretended.
"Okay, you just stay there, wait for me to come to you, don't go out of the house, remember to lock the door!" Zhang Xuemin now suspects very much that this is a premeditated murder case, otherwise how could two people in a dormitory die before and after? And one of Xiao Chen and Huang Xiaojing is likely to be next.
Putting down the phone, Xiao Chen grinned at Huang Xiaojing: "It's done, just wait for them to take us to find the cursed thing!" ”