Lu Jiuchuan's words startled everyone.
The tremors from the stone coffin grew more and more violent, causing the entire chamber to shake as if in an earthquake. Blood seeped from the cracks and even flowed onto the ground. Xiao Lou looked at the glaring pool of blood and quickly took a step back: "Everyone, be careful!"
He had read tomb raiding novels before, in which the protagonists would often encounter the legendary "zombies" when they entered ancient tombs.
The so-called "zongzi" are actually zombies. The dead buried in ancient tombs mutate into zombies and will attack intruders. They are generally very difficult to deal with. But... I've never heard of zongzi bleeding?
Zombies have been buried underground for hundreds or thousands of years. Their bodies have long since decomposed and dried out. Where would they get such fresh blood in their bodies?
Could it be a hallucination?
Xiao Lou's eyes quickly scanned his surroundings.
Inside the cold stone chamber, there were only four eternal lamps burning in the corners and a stone coffin in the center. No hallucinogenic drugs were found. Moreover, after experiencing hallucinations on the spiral staircase, everyone had become extremely cautious, paying attention to their breathing rate before entering each new secret chamber to avoid inhaling poisonous gas or sleeping potions.
The shaking of the stone coffin didn't seem like a hallucination, but how could the blood seeping from the cracks be explained?
Just as Xiao Lou was wondering what was going on, the lid of the stone coffin suddenly began to shake violently, as if something was trying to crawl out. Yu Hanjiang immediately shielded Xiao Lou behind him, gripping the handle of the military knife tightly with his left hand, his eyes sharply fixed on the stone coffin.
Xiao Lou heard Gui Yuanzhang's voice: "There's something inside the stone coffin. Should we stay or retreat?"
Clearly, the same thing happened in Ye Qi's secret room.
Ye Qi said, "If a giant zombie appears, we should be able to beat it, right? After all, we have cards in hand."
Shao Qingge asked with a hint of doubt, "Zongzi? The kind we eat during the Dragon Boat Festival?"
Everyone: "..."
CEO Shao, can you be serious for once?
Chu Huaying explained expressionlessly, "The thousand-year-old zombies in the ancient tomb are commonly known as zongzi."
Shao Qingge, who never reads tomb raiding novels, suddenly realized: "Oh... so it means the dead in the coffin is going to come back to life?" After saying that, he quickly took a step back, dodging very decisively.
In the Diamond Secret Room, the Bug King Card is unusable. He can't exactly use stocks to fight zombies, so he'll have to rely on his teammates from now on.
Xiao Lou suddenly said, "Everyone be careful, it might not be a zongzi."
What exactly is in the coffin is still unknown. If it is a thousand-year-old zombie that has come back to life, then it is equivalent to a high-level zombie. They have cards to protect them, so they are not afraid of zombie hordes or insectoid hordes. Why would they be afraid of six against one zombie?
Xiao Lou's biggest worry is... that there might not be a rice dumpling in this coffin.
The blood was telling him that things weren't that simple.
After a brief exchange on the voice channel, suddenly, the lid of the stone coffin was violently pushed open, and the thing inside finally broke free of its restraints, emitting a sharp, piercing cry.
The door to the stone chamber closed behind them, trapping everyone inside.
Within the enclosed space, a piercing scream began to echo repeatedly. The eerie sound was like a mental attack, making everyone's heads buzz. Then, the lid of the stone coffin flew towards the six people—
Yu Hanjiang deftly cleaved the stone in two with his military knife!
In another secret room, Gui Yuanzhang suddenly swung his brush, abruptly stopping the stone coffin, which then crashed into the wall with a loud bang, following the trajectory of the brush!
Everyone looked behind the stone coffin with trepidation.
The moment the lid was destroyed, everyone finally saw what crawled out of the stone coffin—
She was a woman wearing a red wedding dress.
Her magnificent wedding dress looked brand new, embroidered with gold thread.
The woman's face was deathly pale, and she still wore beautiful hairpins in her hair, though they were now half-dangling from her hair, her messy black hair falling down to her waist. Her slender hands were stained red with blood, her fingernails seemingly broken off when she was closing the stone coffin, and even her eyes had a bloodshot glow.
The woman cast a venomous glance at the crowd, and Xiao Lou felt a chill run down his spine from her glare.
Before he could react, the woman's bloody hand suddenly reached out and grabbed Xiao Lou!
Yu Hanjiang acted decisively, swinging his military knife to sever her arm. However, the woman was extremely agile and flexible. She pulled her arm back, and with her feet clad in red embroidered shoes, she leaped from the stone wall of the secret chamber, barely avoiding Yu Hanjiang's blade. Her sharp claws then lunged at Lu Jiuchuan, who was standing beside her.
Yu Hanjiang's slash missed its mark. Just as the woman in red was about to grab Lu Jiuchuan's throat, Lu Jiuchuan immediately drew his Ice Sword and swept it horizontally forward. But to his surprise, the Ice Sword's freezing effect seemed to have no effect on the woman.
Lu Jiuchuan retreated rapidly, shifting his body to the side, narrowly avoiding her attack.
When the woman failed to attack Lu Jiuchuan, she turned to attack Lao Mo. In desperation, Mo Xuemin erected a row of marble walls in front of him to block her. But to Lao Mo's shock, the woman's claws actually managed to carve a hole in the marble wall!
Upon seeing this, Liu Qiao hurriedly summoned the witch.
The witch in her hand is a card that can deliver a fatal blow, especially in the darkness.
A single dose of poison can instantly kill a target. However, when Liu Qiao's witch sprinkled the poison, the woman in red showed no reaction whatsoever?
Xiao Lou took out the Compass and quickly drew several circles, manipulating the metal ring to encircle her from all directions!
Just as the two rings were already on her body, the woman in red seemed to have the ability to "teleport," instantly moving from one corner of the room to another, completely ignoring Xiao Lou's rings, and lunging at Xiao Lou again...
The six people looked at each other in bewilderment.
At the same time, in the other secret room, the moment the woman in red appeared, Gui Yuanzhang swiftly aimed his calligraphy brush at her.
Old Gui's pen can control objects weighing up to 100kg to float and move in the air. The object's movement trajectory will follow the trajectory of Gui Yuanzhang's brush. He originally wanted to throw the woman against the wall with one stroke, but the moment he started writing, he realized that the woman was completely beyond his control!
Ye Qi took out a flute and played a tune.
Flute can put a single target to sleep, making it a very strong lock-on control skill. It was thought that the woman would fall into a deep sleep as soon as the flute music started, but to everyone's surprise, Ye Qi's flute playing seemed to be playing on a brick wall; the woman didn't react at all.
Seeing this, Chu Huaying's slender black shadow swept over like the wind. This was the first time Ye Qi and the others had seen Chu Huaying make a move. Her speed was as fast as lightning. No one could see how she flew out. In the blink of an eye, she had already arrived behind the woman in red.
A cold glint flashed in Chu Huaying's hand, and the blood-red spider dagger struck the woman in red precisely in the back.
However, Chu Huaying's dagger did not feel any "resistance" at all, as if it had pierced through thin air.
No matter what the opponent is, once a dagger is stuck in flesh, it should be blocked, but why...?
Chu Huaying paused slightly. The next moment, the woman in red suddenly turned around, her eyes filled with blood and tears. Two bright red tears slid down her pale cheeks. Then, she reached out her pale hand and grabbed Chu Huaying by the neck.
Gui Yuanzhang whispered, " Hua Ying!"
Ye Qi exclaimed in shock, " Sister Ying, be careful!"
Just as her teammates were about to help, Chu Huaying disappeared right before their eyes, as if she had been sucked into another dimension.
Ye Qi turned pale and hurriedly took out other instruments to try to control the situation. Long Sen and Qu Wanyue also took action, using chameleon cards to blend into the environment, trying to take the opportunity to attack the woman in red.
Shao Qingge retreated to the door and quickly reported the situation to Xiao Lou: " Xiao Lou, Chu Huaying is missing!"
At this time, Xiao Lou and his friends also encountered an unprecedented crisis.
All six players' cards seemed to be ineffective; they could unleash their skills, but they just couldn't control the woman in red.
Just as her sharp claws were about to strike Xiao Lou, Lu Jiuchuan shouted and thrust his Ice Sword fiercely towards the woman's neck!
The woman turned away, shrieking as she continued her attack on Xiao Lou.
Yu Hanjiang suddenly pulled Xiao Lou into his arms with his left hand. Then, he used his Lightness Skill to fly up and stepped on the stone bricks he had just shattered, narrowly dodging the woman's attack. He then swung his sword back at her head!
This time, the woman did not dodge. Her blood-red eyes stared straight at Xiao Lou, tears of blood streaming from them. Her disheveled hair flew wildly with her movements, making her look like a demon from hell.
Lu Jiuchuan couldn't help but curse, "Damn, is this an upgraded version of a rice dumpling? It can even fly!"
Tang Ci asked, " CEO Shao just said Hua Ying is missing. What happened?"
Xiao Lou's heart tightened slightly when the woman glared at him, but he quickly calmed down and began to think of a solution.
In the tomb raiding novels he had read, "zombies" were generally created from corpses that had turned into zombies. Most of these mutated corpses shared a common characteristic—they moved relatively slowly. Zombies and ghouls would follow this physiological pattern. After all, corpses lose water and blood, and their muscles become shriveled. It would be too unscientific for them to be more agile than humans.
However, the woman in front of them was not only extremely agile, but she could also dodge everyone's attacks and even leap over walls.
Something so agile and capable of flying is certainly not a zongzi (rice dumpling).
Meeting those eyes streaming with bloody tears, Xiao Lou said in a trembling voice, "She... is very likely a vengeful spirit, or a malevolent ghost."
As if to confirm his idea, Yu Hanjiang swung his military knife at her head, but instead of splattering her brains, it was as if he had struck nothingness. The sharp knife passed right through her body, and she was completely unharmed.
What can be like air?
It can only be a vengeful spirit or a malevolent ghost without a physical form.
Almost simultaneously, Ye Qi's anxious voice rang out again in the voice channel: " Professor Xiao, my musical instruments and Senior Gui's calligraphy brush are completely useless against her, all control skills are ineffective! Sister Ying's dagger can't kill her either? This shouldn't be a zombie! Sister Ying is nowhere to be found, we can't contact her by voice!"
Xiao Lou quickly asked, " How did Hua Ying disappear?"
Ye Qi said, "This woman grabbed my neck and then disappeared."
Xiao Lou thought for a moment, broke free from Yu Hanjiang's arm, took a deep breath, and walked up to the woman.
The woman suddenly flew over and grabbed Xiao Lou by the neck!
The sight made Yu Hanjiang's heart tremble, and he instinctively wanted to protect Xiao Lou, but Xiao Lou gently stopped him: "It's okay, everyone, don't resist." His voice was very calm: "This woman is not a physical being, we can't touch her or hurt her, so she naturally can't really hurt us either."
Everyone: "......"
Yu Han
Jiang's movements came to an abrupt halt.
The next moment, Xiao Lou also disappeared from everyone's sight.
Yu Hanjiang's heart trembled violently. He feared something had happened to Xiao Lou, but if Xiao Lou was dead, wouldn't his body be nowhere to be found? So, had Xiao Lou and Chu Huaying entered another dimension?
Thinking of this, he stepped forward without hesitation and took the initiative to approach the woman in red, only to have her choke him.
Then Yu Hanjiang also disappeared.
Lu Jiuchuan sighed and rubbed his forehead: "Let's go together then and see what this thing is all about."
The group staged a staged accident, and the woman in red's eyes welled up with tears of blood, her sharp claws repeatedly gripping everyone's necks...
Only after the last person disappeared did everyone realize with shock—
The six of them returned to the original stone chamber.
The stone coffin before them remained motionless and unshaken. There was no glaring blood on it, only dried, dark bloodstains left from thousands of years ago. The terrifying scene from before seemed like a fleeting illusion.
Xiao Lou was standing in front of the stone coffin, looking thoughtfully at the talismans on it.
Yu Hanjiang walked over anxiously: "Are you alright?"
"It's alright." Xiao Lou pressed the voice headset and said to his teammates, "This woman should be a vengeful spirit without a physical form. It can be understood as an illusion formed by a strong resentment. Just now, we were brought into the illusion by this resentment."
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