If she had to make a self-evaluation, Lu Ning is the kind of person who makes a lot of preparations in order to hit the target with one hit. This is her own opinion. There seems to be an aversion to uncertainty in her character. This does not mean that Lu Ning will not take risks or make attempts similar to gambling, but it does affect her choice of actions.
"I see."
She doesn't know which one of them or everyone is the one that can make more people survive, but she won't hold on to what has happened.
"The attack by the ghosts this morning was just a test. If I guessed correctly, they were also waiting for the last two companions, and then caught us off guard."
"They can also strategize?"
"They have been plotting against us, from the very beginning when they acted as ghosts to using the information released to us to start a quarrel. There is no doubt that the ghosts know our progress, otherwise the information would not appear to be so 'just right' every time. Cause chaos.”
Lu Ning took out a chocolate bar from her pocket, opened it and put it in her mouth. The time was getting closer to noon, and she was now cold and hungry, and the soaked clothes sticking to her body made her feel extremely uncomfortable.
But there are still twenty hours...
"We also need to prepare for the night. Remember, if you feel dangerous, go to the laboratory. The door there can at least provide a little resistance... However, there is only one way to the laboratory, so be mentally prepared to go in."
"Don't worry, no one can sleep." Yu Zhi let go of the joke and took out some food.
Everyone had prepared emergency food in their pockets early in the morning, and the day was probably going to go like this. Lu Ning ate slowly while mentally analyzing the ghosts' actions.
The operation in the morning was not without flaws. It would not be surprising if one or two people were killed, Lu Ning. However, nothing happened to nine people. Such near misses did not make people laugh.
"They want to kill at night?"
Assuming the worst case scenario, the evil ghosts are just trying to play tricks on humans, so it would be more reasonable to take away everyone's hope before the time comes. However, Lu Ning subconsciously felt that it was wrong to think so.
That stand-in... is very problematic.
It tells a lot of lies that can be exposed immediately. It can be said that it is nonsense from beginning to end, but if there are one or two facts mixed in, it will make people completely uneasy.
Confused.
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Afternoon.
Nine people sat around the table, not daring to leave even half a step. As the flames on the hands of decay turned blue, everyone's spirits immediately rose.
Yu Zhisong quickly summoned his ghost, and the air suddenly became so cold that people couldn't help but shiver. A shadow suddenly emerged from under the table, and at the same time, black mist began to penetrate downwards from the ceiling.
All-out attack!
"Block it!"
The black shadow that was about to be ejected was intercepted in mid-air by something. The first round of murderous intent was quickly stopped, but then, the wall began to slowly crawl, and the sound of someone stepping on the floor was heard.
"They're all here!"
Hong Zehao shouted.
"They are covering the attack of two new ghosts, flee immediately!"
It's not a good idea for everyone to gather together. Providing ghosts with multiple choices will only increase the mortality rate, but on the other hand, only in this way can the people who hold the collections take care of each other.
New ghosts... Shi Song and Pang Lingling almost died at the same time. Now this attack can be said to be the most powerful attack by ghosts. This is the first time that four ghosts appear in such a lineup at the same time.
Lu Ning quickly escaped from the main house, but then she suddenly realized that everyone was running in different directions.
"Wait! Where are they?"
Only Ling Yan and Uncle Xing ran out in pursuit, while the others actually stayed in the house!
"Yu Zhisong went upstairs, and Uncle Hong seemed to have ran to the backyard..." Ling Yan turned around and glanced hastily, "There's no time to talk about this! The shadow ghost is out!"
"It's not the critical issue—"
At this moment, Lu Ning suddenly saw a figure standing in the distance in the hazy rain curtain. He put one hand in his pocket and raised the other hand, waving at him a few times.
"who!"
"Stand-in ghost!"
Ling Yan and Lu Ning shouted out one after another. The shadows were too blurry, but who else could still wander around leisurely outside now?
"Follow me!"
The three of them rushed towards the figure without hesitation. The figure also seemed to be deliberately teasing. As soon as he saw someone chasing him, he immediately turned around and ran away. He ran out of the villa building and rushed into the jungle.
"Are you still chasing me?" Ling Yan paused slightly.
"We have enough stuff on us to kill it! Chase it!" Lu Ning kept walking, but her wrist was immediately grabbed.
It's Uncle Xing.
"Uncle Xing! When the substitute is alone, this is our chance! If we don't take advantage of it now..."
Uncle Xing quickly let go of his hand and gestured with his hands. Ling Yan next to him immediately translated: "Don't enter the forest, be careful of fraud."
Lu Ning glanced at the forest with some reluctance. The figure was still standing in a place where people could see clearly, as if he was tempting her to rush in.
"...You are right." Lu Ning wiped the rain off her face and suddenly remembered something. She turned her head and looked behind her. Where was the shadow ghost chasing after her? Except for the rain, everything was peaceful.
An ominous premonition came to my mind.
"No, let's go back first!"
However, in most cases, those who rush back will find that it is too late.
Just as they approached the door, the three of them saw the woman in the couple kneeling at the door in despair. Her rotten hands had been thrown away, and the look on the woman's face was dull and desperate, even if someone came back. No response.
"Sister Xu, where are they? What happened?" Ling Yan knelt down and comforted them softly.
"He...he...put on a mask, and then he was...captured."
The woman said a few words intermittently, then slowly turned her head to Lu Ning, showing a sad smile: "We obviously persisted until the last day, we obviously did what you said... Why are people still dying? Why is it him? ah?"
"Because he wants to save you."
Lu Ning's voice was a little stiff.
"Being spotted at close range with a mask on will attract a lot of hatred, and if there was only one ghost, he would keep you safe."
After hearing this, the woman suddenly burst into tears.
"If you don't want his death to be in vain, just tell us which ghost captured him."
Although he knew it was inappropriate to ask this now, Lu Ning knew there was no time.
"Wall, in the wall..."
"Okay, please cheer up, otherwise there will be no point in him risking his life to save you."
Lu Ning glanced at it. The appearance of many ghosts had just made the temperature in the room drop to a bone-chilling level. It was still not getting better. She quickly worked with Ling Yan to pull up Sister Xu. At this moment, there was a sound of falling from upstairs. sound.
Half of Gongsun You's body was spattered with blood, and there was no trace of blood on his old face. He lay in embarrassment between the stairs on the second floor and the first floor. He stretched out his hand tremblingly and shouted to the people downstairs: "Then, That young man was killed by the shadow! He was killed!"
Zhang Fuyuan's last apprentice seemed to have failed to escape this fate after all.
"What about the rest?"
"I, I saw Xiao Yu, chasing in one direction, saying he saw a stand-in and wanted to catch him..."
Gongsun You pointed to the second floor tremblingly. Uncle Xing walked upstairs and helped the old man down and sat on the chair again. Lu Ning looked in that direction and her heart moved slightly.
"Yu Zhisong saw a stand-in?"
"He, that's what he shouted."
Indeed, if we want to deal with the method of killing a substitute ghost upon contact, in addition to using pain memory to immobilize the body, the spirit summoning catalog is also a method of arresting the ghost without making contact. This issue was also discussed last night.
"Then what did we see?" Ling Yan asked this question.
Lu Ning clenched her fist and slammed the table: "New ghosts, new ghosts also have entities... Our discussion last night was overheard, and they took advantage of us!"
"Anti-exploitation?"
"Use our sense of urgency to hunt down the substitute ghosts, take us apart at the critical moment, and then kill us!"
Lu Ning looked up and looked around and realized this problem.
"We are under the surveillance of ghosts. The mirror ghost... can know what is happening here! So it follows us at any time, not only preparing to kill, but also delivering messages!"
"Then what chance do we have of winning?" Sister Xu answered blankly, "The information is unequal... What chance do we have of struggling?"
"There is... a camera on the second floor." Lu Ning gritted his teeth and walked upstairs, "I set up a scheduled recording for the camera. If the past shooting mode is not activated, it can still record according to the normal method. Now we will Go and see if the stand-in in that corridor is real!"
In the past, the camera's consumption in normal shooting was relatively low. Lu Ning had reset the shooting time before, and everything that happened within the previous hour was recorded.
Hong Zehao and Yu Zhisong disappeared without a trace, so the five people took the camera downstairs and started checking it out.
The small playback window of the camera is not large. Except for Ling Yan, who was standing nearby to guard against sneak attacks by ghosts, the other four adjusted to the time when the ghosts attacked and started to play back the passage in the corridor.
Although the light was dim, the image in the camera was very clear, perhaps because it was able to capture ghosts.
The first thing that appeared was a neatly dressed figure, neither fat nor thin, with a very relaxed walking posture and only one silhouette. But even from the back, everyone can recognize that this is a doctor.
"It's really a stand-in..."
"No, we still have to look at the face." Lu Ning adjusted the progress of the screening. At this time, everyone should still be in the hall downstairs. The doctor walked to the corridor on the second floor near the stairs of the hall, made a gesture, and then He got into a room next to him.
Within a minute, the doctor walked out of the room again. This time he walked to the railing on the second floor and poked his head toward the hall. Then he turned around and went back into the room. Immediately afterwards, Yu Zhisong rushed towards the corridor, followed by a clearly visible unknown mass. Probably not expecting ghosts to hide from people, Yu Zhisong ran directly towards the camera lens. The stand-in ghost waited until Yu Zhisong ran past. He just emerged from the room and disappeared around the corner of the corridor.
Then, probably realizing that he was not tracking correctly, Yu Zhisong ran back again. At this time, the doctor showed up from the other end of the corridor again. After spotting Yu Zhisong, he immediately went into the room where he was hiding, and Yu Zhisong also chased him. Go in.
"...let's go check out that room."
Lu Ning stood up, and suddenly her eyes blurred, her steps stumbled, and she stumbled. Fortunately, the people around her were surrounding her tightly, so she didn't fall.
