Volume 8: The Days of the Ghost Marriage
Pincer Attack
She must be the first woman in the instance dungeon to gain insights from kiting a boss!
Ten minutes, to say it’s long it’s not long, to say it’s short it’s not short1.
Lou Jingmo let her run first, while she herself rolled up her sleeves on the spot, as if preparing for the upcoming escape.
Shen Maomao didn’t run, digging to the root and asking to the bottom2: “What on earth are you trying to do?”
“Lure her to her daughter’s place. Treat a dead horse as if it were a live one3.”
Shen Maomao was silent for a second: “Will that work?”
Lou Jingmo revealed a smile full of confidence: “I don’t know.”
Shen Maomao: “…”
Lou Jingmo smiled, then continued: “Let’s try first. If it doesn’t work, we’ll figure it out then.”
Shen Maomao was impressed. If the game were to select a Calmness Emperor4, she would definitely cast her most precious vote for Lou Jingmo.
Lou Jingmo turned and asked her: “Don’t want to run? Then tell me what you discovered?”
The monster inside the door had not given up, ramming its body against the wall again and again, creating a violent noise. With such a huge commotion, it probably wouldn’t be long before the people of the Shao Manor arrived. At that time, the situation would only become more complicated.
So where on earth did Lou Jingmo get the courage to be so audacious??
She shifted outwards a little, trying to get a bit farther from that wall, and verbally recounted the story she had just heard: “Cui Luoyu has possessed Madam Shao. Baozhu and Feicui also seemed to want to possess me, but for some reason, they gave up on the idea in the end.”
Lou Jingmo said with great speed: “I checked the southeast, Ying Meng isn’t there. The ghost in the well here just died not long ago, she was a servant girl from the young master’s courtyard.”
Shen Maomao looked up, staring blankly at the courtyard: “Then… there are two bosses in there now?”
“If you put it that way, it’s not wrong.”
“The one in the well is just letting her cause such a ruckus?”
“It’s not letting her.” Lou Jingmo said, “It’s probably because she can’t win, so she’s hiding.”
Her voice came from far behind. Shen Maomao turned her head to look, only to discover that while she was in a daze, Lou Jingmo had actually backed away several meters. At this moment, she was standing with her arms crossed and an expressionless face, showing no sign of the way she had been covertly backing away just now.
Shen Maomao was so angry she wanted to hit someone: “What are you running for??”
Lou Jingmo looked at her watch: “I’m not running. I’m just getting a little farther away to make it easier to dodge later. Two minutes left.”
Shen Maomao ran to her side, making three steps into two: “How about I go get the child?”
Lou Jingmo: “Don’t go. That child is also strange. I’m afraid something will happen to you if you go by yourself.”
She remembered the little girl’s abnormal behavior on the night of the wedding and immediately stopped asking to act alone.
Perhaps she was still human now, but after spending so much time with the resentful energy5-filled Ying Meng, some changes they didn’t know about had probably already occurred in her body.
Time passed bit by bit. A crack appeared on the smooth surrounding wall, and fine, small stones trickled down. The frequency of the protective shield’s ripples also became faster and faster, its range wider and wider.
“What’s going on here?!”
An aged voice came from behind. The two turned their heads and saw Steward Shao walking slowly with a cane, and behind him, a row of armed male servants.
“Fuck.” Shen Maomao saw those two big brothers among them, and figured Steward Shao must have been called over by them. “You ran away, so why did you come back??”
One of the big brothers said to Steward Shao: “Steward, it’s these two who are inside pretending to be gods and playing with ghosts, trying to steal the manor’s valuables!”
Shen Maomao: “Steal my ass!”
“What did you do?” Steward Shao frowned as he looked at the cracked surrounding wall and asked, “There’s no need to smash a wall to steal things, is there?”
As soon as his voice fell, Cui Luoyu inside the wall rammed it again, and instantly, the earth moved and the mountains shook.
She let out another sharp shriek. The ear-piercing sound almost penetrated people’s eardrums, frightening the several big men outside so much that they turned pale with fright, their two thighs trembling6, and they could barely hold onto the weapons in their hands.
“What is that thing?!”
“What’s happening?!”
Steward Shao seemed to have thought of something, his face also changed, and he shouted in a hoarse voice, “Run!”, then turned and ran outwards, leaning on his cane.
The few strong young men were stunned for a moment. Shen Maomao said anxiously: “What are you stunned for? Hurry up and run!”
“Three—” Lou Jingmo began to count down, “Two—”
“One!”
BOOM——
The moment the time was up, the barrier immediately disappeared. The already precarious surrounding wall exploded, and shattered bricks flew everywhere, smashing fiercely into the people around.
Lou Jingmo took a step forward to shield Shen Maomao behind her, simultaneously raising her arm to protect her own head.
A deformed figure slowly crawled out from the dust, baring its teeth and letting out a series of earth-shattering roars.
With no time to worry about how badly Lou Jingmo was hit, nor any extra effort to pay attention to whether these NPCs would die, Shen Maomao grabbed Lou Jingmo’s arm, and together they turned and ran outwards.
The men ran about, ghosts crying and wolves howling7. The swords and long clubs, which were of little use at this moment other than to add to the burden, were thrown all over the ground by them, creating a chaotic clatter of “ding-ding-dang-dang”.
It only took an instant to go from a standoff to chaos. Steward Shao’s legs and feet were not nimble; he had just run two steps when he was knocked to the ground by someone. He couldn’t get up for a long time and was even stepped on viciously.
“Aiyo…” He couldn’t help but let out a cry of pain, clutching his leg and starting to moan on the ground.
The monster, which had been staring at Shen Maomao and Lou Jingmo with a furious gaze, twitched its ears. Without moving its body, it twisted its neck with a “creak creak” sound. Those pitch-black eyes locked onto Steward Shao on the ground, and then it flashed over as if it had teleported.
A man next to him, who had a pang of conscience and wanted to help him up, let out a scream and turned to run without stopping. Steward Shao fell to the ground again, and this time he couldn’t even let out a moan.
“Hechi hechi8” panting sounds came from the monster’s throat. All four of its legs were stepping on Steward Shao. It opened its blood-basin-sized mouth and took his head into its mouth in one bite. The sharp teeth closed in an instant.
The sound of bones cracking rang out. Steward Shao’s legs twitched twice, his arms hung down powerlessly, and in an instant, all signs of life were gone.
“Hehehehehe…” Cui Luoyu suddenly burst out laughing, her laughter filled with the exhilaration of having avenged a great wrong.
Shen Maomao didn’t dare to look back, using her suckling milk strength9 to run south.
Cui Luoyu changed her target, pouncing on a man who was a step too slow, and bit off his skull in one go.
The “kacha kacha” sound of chewing was heard, making the back of Shen Maomao’s neck turn cold. Blood gushed out in a column, soaring high and dyeing the entire road red.
The smell of blood assailed the nostrils. The paper figures in the house could no longer restrain themselves and rushed out screaming.
They were a group of rats that could only live in the gutter. Upon seeing the sunlight, their only fate was to be burned to ashes, but even so, they still rushed out one after another, turning into flying ashes that filled the sky in succession.
The smell of blood mixed with the smell of burning paper. Cui Luoyu, after biting two skulls, finally remembered the two little bugs10 that had escaped from her grasp and gave chase on all fours.
The airflow generated by the running got closer and closer, bringing with it that lingering, nauseating smell of rust. Lou Jingmo pushed Shen Maomao forward and dodged to the side at the same moment.
With a “kacha” sound, it was the sound of her teeth snapping shut.
Shen Maomao was so scared that tears streamed down her face. She scrambled and crawled as she continued to rush forward.
Lou Jingmo caught up to her in a few steps and said quickly: “I’ll leave the rest to you! Add oil11!”
Shen Maomao: “Huh???”
However, Lou Jingmo was never one to be polite with her. After speaking, she directly erupted with a burst of power, and with a burst of acceleration, disappeared from her sight.
Shen Maomao: “Fuck?!!”
Add oil my ass!!
Sharp claws stabbed towards her back. Shen Maomao quickly took out a handful of small explosive spheres and threw them out. An explosion sounded, and the impact pushed her forward a few steps. Although it didn’t cause any damage to Cui Luoyu, it at least allowed them to pull some distance apart.
She looked back as she ran. After the smoke and dust dissipated, she suddenly discovered that Cui Luoyu’s shadow was no longer behind her.
Shen Maomao suddenly remembered its previous action that was close to instantaneous movement. She instantly felt a chill run down from the crown of her head12, and hurriedly slammed on the brakes, simultaneously twisting her head to face forward.
Sure enough, that ghostly thing was standing upright, waiting in front of her with its mouth open for her to throw herself into the net13!
Anger rose from her heart, and malice grew by her gallbladder14. She raised her right hand and gave it a big middle finger.
Cui Luoyu couldn’t understand it, but that didn’t stop it from biting down on her fist.
Shen Maomao almost became the One-Armed Hero Yang Guo15. She quickly pulled her hand back and, without stopping, changed direction to flee.
At a time like this, she calmed down instead, and her mind became exceptionally clear.
That flash-like skill should have a CD16, but the time isn’t long. Cui Luoyu’s normal running speed seems to be a bit slower than hers, but she was already tired, and her speed would only get slower and slower. At the same time, she had to constantly pay attention to its sudden teleportation and couldn’t run forward with all her heart and strength. Being caught was only a matter of time.
Lou Jingmo leaving first was probably because she discovered this skill of its, and had to take the risk of going to pack up the little girl. The distance between her and the destination wasn’t far, but because of Cui Luoyu’s teleportation, she could only run around in circles nearby like a headless fly. However, as long as she could hold on until Lou Jingmo returned, it should be fine.
Shen Maomao, who had blind faith in Lou Jingmo, breathed a sigh of relief. It was as if she had taken a heart-stabilizing pill17; her frantic heartbeat gradually returned to normal, and her weak legs regained their strength. She used her suckling milk strength and began to kite18 the boss.
After kiting it for a few laps in a state of scrambling and crawling, using items, and with an ashy head and earthy face19, she finally discovered the pattern of Cui Luoyu’s teleportation.
After turning into a monster, her intelligence seemed to have dropped a bit. It would only flash from behind to directly in front of Shen Maomao, and the spot where it was about to appear would show a spatial distortion one or two seconds in advance. As long as she concentrated, she would definitely not be caught by it.
Shen Maomao was a little proud: She must be the first woman in the instance dungeon to gain insights from kiting a boss!
But her pride didn’t last long, because she was so focused on dodging the teleportation that she didn’t pay attention to her direction. Her path had long since drifted from due south to southeast, and now she had run to the main gate of the Shao Manor.
By the well at the main gate, Milk Tea, dressed in red, was sitting quietly, then abruptly turned her head towards her direction.
Shen Maomao: “Fuck!!!!”
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