Chapter 29: Dead Silence: First Encounter with a Puppet

Seth was stunned when he heard the voice, but he reacted quickly and immediately struck first. His strong waist force forced him to twist his half-turned upper body, and with one hand, he took the big sword in one hand and slashed diagonally from below with the force of rotation.

But someone is faster than him. Just when everyone just turned their heads, Lu Yu's full hook punch had already hit the opponent's chin from the bottom to the top. Lu Yu's physical ability, which has been promoted to level 3, is much stronger than in reality, and this punch has been accumulated for a long time, and it is coupled with the inertial power when he turns around, and ordinary people will inevitably fall to the ground if they are hit. However, the enemy only shook for a moment, and pounced on him with open arms.

"It's the store manager!" Zhu Xiaowen exclaimed. The enemy in front of him, whose face was covered in blood, was the shopkeeper who had just been searched by them as a corpse. Zhu Xiaowen remembered that he had checked it very carefully, and the store manager's pulse, heartbeat, and breathing were all gone, and he should be dead, but he saw that his eyes were dilute in front of him, not like a living person, but more like a zombie in some games.

Nao gritted her teeth and flashed a dagger with her backhand. This is the reward she received after the last game, and although it doesn't quite fit the situation at hand, she has nothing else at hand now, so she can only settle for it.

[Name: Peachwood Psionic Dagger]

[Grade: General]

[Type: Weapon]

[Equipment Requirements: Fighting F]

[Attack: Weak]

[Special Effects: Amazing attack power against ghost-type enemies.] 】

[Description: The peach is the essence of the five trees, also known as the fairy wood. The dagger made of peach wood has this amazing effect on lonely ghosts, but it may also be easy to provoke a counterattack from powerful ghosts. 】

Nao blocked it, but she didn't expect the store manager to be amazingly powerful, and just a wave of her arm knocked the dagger she was holding tightly away. Fortunately, Seth's big sword had already swung at this time, and this slash was full of force, directly cutting the store manager's body diagonally in half along the waist to one side of the shoulder, and the hand that had been pressed on Nao's shoulder was also eased.

"Killed!" Zhu Xiaowen shouted excitedly. Lu Yu's face sank: "No! Not yet! ”

The upper body of the store manager slowly disconnected along the cut line, but the hand that pressed on Nao's shoulder suddenly regained its strength, and the superior grip made Nao snort in pain. She was closest to the store manager, and through the crack in the other party's body, she saw a pair of cold eyes on the other side.

"Keep your head down!" Lu Yu shouted, his feet exerted force, his left hand pressed Zhu Xiaowen's shoulder, and the whole person took off into the air, and kicked the store manager's upper body with his right foot. Nao immediately lowered his head when he heard the shout, only to hear the sharp sound of breaking wind passing overhead, Lu Yu's kick aimed at the crack in the store manager's body, begging for a one-hit kill.

"Bang!"

This flying kick concentrated the power of the whole body, and it was a few points stronger than the uppercut just now. I only heard a muffled sound, and half of the store manager's upper body flew backwards, and although the lower half of his body was standing, he was also shaken a few times by the aftermath.

Without the barrier of the body, the eyes behind him finally revealed their true colors.

(It's a puppet!) )

Nao covered her mouth at the last minute and forced herself to scream. Those eyes were always glued to her, and as soon as she opened her mouth, she would be killed in seconds.

"A wise choice." Lu Yu praised. As soon as his right foot hit the ground, his left foot kicked out reflexively, and the continuous attack was extremely fluid, with no barriers in between, as if he had known there was a puppet there. Seth's reaction was not slow, and he immediately turned his sword and slashed from above, and the blue light almost reached the top of the puppet's head in an instant.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey!"

The puppet let out an eerie laugh, and its eyes reacted in the blink of an eye. I couldn't see how he exerted his strength, but when he saw that he was short and jumped, everyone only felt a flower in front of them, and they realized that the puppet had jumped high from the broken body of the store manager, and it was actually a lightning joint attack by the two of them.

(Not good!) )

Lu Yu saw that the puppet did not retreat after jumping up, but rushed straight towards this side, and his heart tightened suddenly. In this fight just now, he has already seen that the strength of the puppet is not inferior to any of his own side, although there are many people on his side, but unless they can achieve tacit cooperation, it will be difficult to solve the real fight. He hoped that his assault would at least give the other party some deterrence even if it couldn't hurt it, but judging from the puppet's reaction, it didn't choose to retreat......

(Nope!) Wrong! His goal is to retreat! )

At the moment when the puppet opened its teeth and claws but passed by himself, Lu Yu suddenly reacted. Most of the tunnels just discovered are the halls full of puppets under the theater, and if the puppets want to retreat, the most important route to choose is not to go out, but to take the tunnel! At the same time, many clues instantly appeared in his mind, and spontaneously combined and reconstructed, instantly woven into shape, Lu Yu understood the true intention of the puppet.

Obviously, there were two puppets in the kitchen just now, and after killing the restaurant owner, they hollowed out the boss's back and made it into a human doll that they could control. After that, one of the puppets left the tunnel and took them and went into the kitchen, now unknown as a waiter, while the other cleared the scene and hid in the gap behind the corpse, staying there to wait for the best time for them to enter the kitchen to take a look.

Taking advantage of the fact that everyone discovered the tunnel of the cupboard, the puppet operated the corpse to raid from behind. Regarding "don't scream", the nursery rhyme sings Mary Shaw, and watching the movie setting may be extended to her puppets, but it is definitely ineffective for puppets made twice, so Zhu Xiaowen, who screamed at that time, did not kill in one hit. But if Lu Yu hadn't thought of the bloodstain question in time, it was very likely that one or two people would be brought down in this assault, but it would still be enough to knock them out with all of them.

(If I were a puppet...... The biggest reason why I would venture to stay on site would be...... )

Yes, not for this raid, but for a more long-term purpose. The puppets weren't strong enough to kill them all here, after all, judging from the original, they couldn't show their true strength in a bright place during the day. The real purpose of his hiding here is to lead the four of them to the doll lobby located in the dark underground through this tunnel! Regardless of whether the raid is successful or not, the puppets will try to escape into the tunnels, or show the crowd where they are before they die (which they have now figured out on their own) and let them enter the tunnels according to the correct game progression.

(If it's me, the best way to really get people into the tunnels is to...... )

As soon as Lu Yu thought of this, his gaze suddenly locked on the front. He had just turned around at this time, and the swift puppet had already rushed forward a few more steps, about to pass Nao, who had just raised his head and reacted a beat slowly. At this moment, Set turned his sword and wanted to slash at the puppet from behind, but in Lu Yu's opinion, this slash had missed the opportunity, and I was afraid that it could only hit the air in the end.

(Xiaowen, get out of the way!) Lu Yu was about to shout, but hesitated at the last moment. Although the nursery rhyme only says that you can't scream, and it doesn't include shouts without fear, but at this critical moment of life and death where all survival points are staked, Lu Yu still subconsciously hesitated for a second.

And this hesitation made him miss the last chance to be reminded.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey!"

The puppet monster screamed, and the small wooden foot kicked on Naou's shoulder, and the speed that was already barely able to keep up increased again, like an arrow from the string shooting towards Zhu Xiaowen, who fell at the end. Xiaowen happened to be squatting at the entrance of the tunnel at this time, all this happened too suddenly just now, he could only subconsciously raise his hand to protect himself in front of him, and at the same time stopped his footsteps, blocking in front of the entrance of the tunnel.

Out of the corner of Lu Yu's eyes, she caught a glimpse of Naou's mouth slightly open as if she wanted to remind something, but she was forced to hold back by herself.

The situation is critical, and it is useless to be useless. Lu Yu was a few steps away from the two of them, and he couldn't reach the distance with his hand, but as soon as his mind turned, the "inflatable hammer" in his backpack instantly appeared in his hand. Although this thing has no attack power, it is the only thing that has the potential to touch a puppet at the moment.

(It's going to hit!) )

Lu Yu's hand holding the hammer stabbed forward with all his might, and the inflatable hammer hit the puppet's back fiercely. This Lu Yu had already used all his strength, but the soft hammer was not strong at all, and the puppet didn't even stumble, and even had the leisure to look back at him seriously.

"You're good."

Its moving jaw opened and closed, but the sound seemed to come from its stomach, and its strange face covered in paint made it even more terrifying.

It continued, "If you had used that great sword, this blow might have really hit me. It's a pity. ”

As soon as the words fell, the puppet's jaw opened and closed repeatedly, making a sound like a wild laugh. Its little foot kicked the ground again, flipped in the air, bypassed the top of Zhu Xiaowen's head, and by the way, reached out and grabbed Zhu Xiaowen's hair, and rushed straight into the tunnel with him.

Lu Yu and Na Ouqiqi, who were closest to him, stretched out their hands to grab him, but they were empty. The puppet's body is only more than a foot long, and it is impossible to see where it has so much power. After Zhu Xiaowen was pulled by his hair, although his feet kicked the ground again and again, and his hands also grabbed the edge of the cabinet, he was completely vulnerable in the face of that huge explosive force, and the whole person was dragged into the tunnel in an instant, and he couldn't even make a cry for help.

"Hey, hey, hey, ......"

The strange laughter of the puppets came from the tunnels, gradually getting farther and smaller, until finally they were inaudible.