Volume 9: The Days Can’t Be Lived Anymore
Xing Tian1
A day without a content summary
The female ghost of course could not possibly sit and wait for death, it leaped down from the top of the wall, like a sheet of weightless thin paper, lightly and floatingly landing on the snowy ground, its empty eye sockets staring fixedly at Lou Jingmo, so fierce as if it wanted to peel her skin and tear apart her bones.
The severed hair, due to the high temperature produced by the explosion, turned into ashes, the wind billowed her skirt hem, inside the skirt was empty, there was nothing at all.
In an instant she floated in front of Shen Maomao and Lou Jingmo, that pair of eyeless sockets enlarging before their eyes, so close that Shen Maomao could almost clearly see the tissue inside the eye sockets.
This was originally a very terrifying picture, but because of the explosion just now, the female ghost jiejie’s face had a streak of black and a streak of white, looking somewhat comical, making her a bit unable to control the corners of her own mouth.
The female ghost was extremely furious, baring its sharp teeth and extending its claws toward the two people.
The two people didn’t move at all, quietly watching it get closer and closer.
It seemed to have sensed something, and abruptly floated away in another direction, giving up the attack.
In the next second after it left, the three daggers that had been thrown out by Lou Jingmo spun and nailed themselves into the snowy ground in front of Shen Maomao, penetrating the frozen earth and emitting a few muffled thuds.
Lou Jingmo’s level of trust in Shen Maomao rose a little higher, because seeing her calm and composed appearance, she should have known about the matter of her daggers being able to turn.
However, now was obviously not the time to consider this problem, over there the female ghost’s fury value was skyrocketing, and it once again rushed over, launching a fierce offensive against the three people.
The man on the ground gritted his teeth and climbed up, he picked up the Western sword that had fallen beside him, preparing to go up and help.
The woman pulled the corner of his clothes: “Let’s run away quickly!”
He flung her hand away with one motion: “Where else can we run? Can we run for a moment but run for a lifetime2! You go hide, I have to go help them!”
After speaking, he charged into the battle circle carrying the sword.
This female ghost’s resentment qi3 was abundant, and its abilities were powerful, one fighting the four of them and still able to not be at a disadvantage.
During the fight, Shen Maomao’s wrist was entangled by a lock of hair, and she hurriedly shouted loudly to Lou Jingmo for help.
Lou Jingmo plunged a dagger into its wrist, then took out a new one and turned her head to save Shen Maomao. The sharp blade edge sliced open the hair strands, and had only just sliced a quarter of the way, when the remaining hair, as if afraid, proactively slipped away, brandishing its teeth and claws as it swayed in the air, yet did not dare to approach the several people again.
Something flashed past in Shen Maomao’s mind, so fast that she failed to catch its tail.
But fortunately, the thing she was close to being able to catch was a giveaway question4 for Lou Jingmo.
“Burn her hair!” Lou Jingmo said.
Shen Maomao immediately reacted: “Received!”
But how could she manage to burn her hair?
She grabbed a handful of explosion balls, and tentatively threw out two of them.
Perhaps it was because it now knew that this inconspicuous little gadget would produce flames after exploding, this time the female ghost did not dare to use its hair to catch them, but instead swayed its body to dodge past them.
It seems she is indeed afraid of fire, a pity her Andre has already been used, and it’s also unknown if Lou Jingmo brought any cards.
Thinking and thinking, she suddenly recalled an item, and hurriedly said: “Lou-jie, cover me for a bit! I’m looking for something!”
Lou Jingmo did not ask much, and directly blocked in front of her.
Shen Maomao quickly rummaged through her item column, and very easily found an item obtained previously—Go Pikachu5.
The effect of this card is that it can summon a little mouse that has powerful electricity within its body, if the female ghost’s hair is truly the main body, then besides being afraid of being burned by fire, it should also be afraid of being scorched by electricity, right?
She took out the item, and taking advantage of the female ghost’s inattention, threw it into the snowy ground.
The little mouse silently commenced its operation, advancing under the snow, a long and not very conspicuous depression appearing on the surface of the ground, and it got closer and closer to the place where the female ghost was located…
The time has come.
Shen Maomao shouted loudly: “Don’t touch it! Come back!”
Lou Jingmo, who was paying attention to her movements here at all times, was the first to withdraw her hand, Heng Chuan also quickly ran back carrying his staff.
Only that man who came later had his weapon gripped by the female ghost, and at this moment the little mouse had already rushed out of the snowdrift, pouncing towards the hem of the female ghost’s skirt…
The man sensed the danger, and immediately abandoned his Western sword, taking the opportunity to lie down in a snowdrift.
The female ghost was still preparing to continue attacking him, but the little mouse had already climbed all the way up her skirt to its arm, and then abruptly began to release its electrical charge.
The tzzzt-tzzzt sound of electric current rang out, and a blue-purple light flashed before the several people.
A smell of protein being scorched came from the female ghost’s body, it let out a sharp shriek, and plunged into the snow beside it wanting to lower the temperature, yet it failed.
The electric light melted a patch of snow water, and also thoroughly scorched it. Its form shrank smaller and smaller, and in not more than a few seconds it had shrunk by half from a normal human’s body size, and was moreover continuing to shrink.
Shen Maomao moved closer to check the situation, in the end the female ghost was burned until only a sticky black trace remained, which should be the residue left over from the hair burning—it really was that the hair was the main body.
The man on the ground also climbed up, and thanked them: “Thank you for your righteous action, if it weren’t for you, Linlin and I might have both died here.”
Shen Maomao nodded: “You’re welcome, helping you is also helping us, however your teammate’s IQ doesn’t seem to be very high.”
The woman who ran out from the corner heard this and glared at her.
Shen Maomao glared back without the slightest mercy.
When it comes to comparing who has bigger eyes, she has never been afraid!
The man said helplessly: “My name is Chai Jinhang6, she is my girlfriend Liu Linlin7.”
“My name is Rabbit.”
“Xiao Lou.”
“Heng Chuan.”
The three people also stated their own names respectively.
Chai Jinhang said: “Although I still want to say something more to you all, I’m very sorry, my teammates have all scattered, I have to go find them first…”
Shen Maomao said: “Alright, it’s good that you two are okay, if fate allows8 we will meet again.”
The two groups of people separated, Chai Jinhang went to pick up the Western sword on the ground, and was shocked by the residual electricity, making his whole body tremble.
His girlfriend hurriedly reached out a hand to save him, and then began to tremble along with him, trembling for a good while before successively falling into the snow.
From a distance, Chai Jinhang’s helpless voice could still be heard: “Why did you directly use your hand to touch me? Don’t you know that a person who is being electrocuted cannot be directly touched?”
Liu Linlin said aggrievedly: “I was just anxious to save you…”
Shen Maomao held back her laughter: “His girlfriend really doesn’t seem very smart.”
Heng Chuan seemed to say inadvertently: “So not smart, and yet there’s someone willing to take her through the maze, it really makes one sour, so sour9.”
Shen Maomao’s smile gradually disappeared.
She looked at her amnesiac wife, and not only did sorrow come from within, but hot tears also filled her eyes.
Lou Jingmo was being stared at by her until the hair on her back stood up, and said unnaturally: “You… what are you trying to do?”
Shen Maomao wiped away her tears: “It’s nothing, a brick got in my eye.”
Lou Jingmo: “???”
…
The place where Boss Huo and the others were hiding was also not far, they could clearly see the entire process of the battle, as soon as they went back, he stood up from the base of the wall, and asked, trembling: “What are the origins of those two people?”
Shen Maomao said: “They were in a hurry to find their teammates, they didn’t say.”
Boss Huo frowned and thought, muttering: “Has the information been leaked? Why has the number of people in the maze suddenly increased?”
Shen Maomao didn’t hear clearly: “Huh?”
Boss Huo, as if waking from a dream: “Ah, it’s nothing, what I mean is, should we continue to advance?”
Lou Jingmo looked at him and Heng Chuan searchingly, thought for a moment but still didn’t speak.
“Let’s go.” Shen Maomao said, “If we walk a bit faster we might even be able to meet up with them, and gather some intelligence by the way.”
…
As expected, it was not outside her expectations.
After walking for not long in the direction Chai Jinhang and Liu Linlin had left, the two teams came face to face. The opposing team had five people, with only Liu Linlin as the one girl.
Upon seeing them, three men stood up in unison, aiming their weapons at them.
Chai Jinhang hurriedly said: “Wait a moment! Not enemies! It was them who saved me and Linlin just now.”
Only then did the several people lower their weapons, a man with a very fierce appearance who was the leader said: “You are also challengers?”
Shen Maomao nodded.
The man said: “Do you want to go with us? Everyone’s goal is to go to the outside world, if we can get out alive, we can still look out for each other in the future.”
After getting out, they should be returning to reality, but Boss Huo could still make friends with them, and live together making do in the future.
She was thinking this, but then heard Boss Huo say: “Let’s forget about looking out for each other, but we can team up and go together, that we were able to walk to here, our strength should not need to be proven.”
The man raised his eyebrows, the expression on his face looked very much like he was saying “unable to recognize a good thing,” “refusing a toast only to drink a forfeit10,” Shen Maomao thought he would be gathering people to fight in the next second, but instead he said with considerable understanding: “Indeed, we are not familiar with each other either, after getting out, being together will inevitably lead to friction, my name is Xing Tian, xiongdi11, what is your name?”
Boss Huo: “Huo Guo12.”
The two teams merged, and after resting for a moment, set out again.
Xing Tian was the leader of the opposing team, this person looked fierce, but was unexpectedly very reasonable.
Their group of people was also temporarily formed, but it was not an employment relationship, rather they were all evolvers13 with their own abilities.
That Liu Linlin’s evolution direction was the same as Shen Maomao’s, and her status in this team was quite high.
They initially had over ten people, but along the way their numbers kept reducing, by the time they got here there were originally eight left, but then they encountered that female ghost whose main body was her hair, two were eaten, and another one panicked and chose the wrong path and was impaled to death by a mechanism, now only the five of them are left.
Shen Maomao looked at Xing Tian, then looked at Heng Chuan. Xing Tian’s team had at least ten people die, now five are left, Heng Chuan is left by himself, whereas they only lost Da xiongdi, counting her, two died, the old, weak, sick, and young were unharmed, and the ghosts and monsters they encountered along the way were pitifully few…
Was it purely because their luck was good?
Shen Maomao forcefully held Lou Jingmo’s hand, seriously pondering this question.
She felt that this was inextricably linked to Boss Huo and his son.
The matter of Huo Dongdong scaring the little girl into hiding inside a doll’s body was still fresh in her memory, perhaps it was because he was some kind of existence even more terrifying than ghosts and monsters, which therefore caused the ghosts and monsters to not want to get close? The subsequent journey seemed to prove her conjecture.
Because even without a team scouting the path ahead, they did not encounter any danger.
They did trigger some bizarre and motley mechanisms, and several people even sustained some injuries, but on the road that followed they surprisingly did not encounter a single ghost or monster, this in itself was a kind of abnormality, even Xing Tian was wondering: “Why are there no more ghosts behind us? Are they brewing up a big one?”
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