The copy has 0 error tolerance, and the last words on the ground are all wrong for me.

Chapter 34: Four-sided New Year Lantern

As the fog gathered, the monsters remaining in Chenjia Village revealed their true forms.

It was a spread-out human skin, or rather a ball of mist supporting human skin.

The human skin in the mist appears light blue, and the whole body is fully stretched out. The texture is crystal clear and smooth, like a piece of soft ice, with a strange beauty.

There was a neat cut on the human skin's chest, and on the edges of the cut on both sides, there was a hint of red resentment.

Wu Chang originally thought that it was the resentment of the murdered villagers, but when he started observing, he found that the owner of this resentment was the fog monster itself.

In the scene of resentment, the fog monster was still human.

On the night of the attack, the head of Chenjia Village decided to hold four trade fairs each year, and the whole village was immersed in the joy of celebration.

The fog demon in human times climbed up the tower carrying two jars of wine with added ingredients and filled them up for the villagers on duty one by one.

After he had killed all the villagers on the tower, he pulled out a brass dagger and stabbed it into his chest, splitting his skin vertically.

The flesh and blood in his body turned into mist, gushing out from the wound on his chest and turning into mist that enveloped Chenjia Village.

The peeled human skin "stood" on the tower, watching the massacre in Chenjia Village. Finally, the part of his human will slowly dissipated and turned into a big red resentment.

"Although I have avenged my great vengeance, I only regret that the thief leader escaped. I was unable to chop off his head and eat his flesh alive. This is truly a difficult thing to close my eyes to."

[Find the bandit leader Chen Peng and cut off his head to comfort the countless dead souls.]

After reading the resentment of the fog monster, Wu Chang roughly guessed what happened.

As a human, the fog demon had a blood feud with the bandits in Chenjia Village. In order to seek revenge, he sneaked into Chenjia Village, even at the cost of joining forces with other demons or even sacrificing himself to transform into a demon.

He is a ruthless person.

Unfortunately, resentment has already emerged on the human skin, which means that the human part of the fog monster is completely dead.

Otherwise, the fight should be avoidable through negotiation.

The fog demon, with only basic instincts left, had completely lost control and was unable to communicate.

The mist supports the human skin, and by changing its shape, it makes the facial skin twist and express its emotions.

The trembling face expresses the emotion called anger.

The whistling wind blew out the sound of the fog monster.

"Anyone who steps in will die!"

With that, a cold wind blew out from behind the human skin, blowing up the surrounding snow and making the fog covering the village even thicker.

By reading the resentments of the dead in Chenjia Village, Wu Chang has basically understood the abilities of the fog monster.

Just as the scenes recorded in the Merchants' Complaints, the thick fog that obscures vision and the cold wind that paralyzes the senses are all meant to weaken people's perception and put them in a state of uneasiness.

Illusion is the fog monster's killer move.

Among the monsters that attacked Chenjia Village, the fog monster was not the strongest, but nearly one-third of the villagers died from the fog monster's illusions.

Once you are dragged into the illusion by the icy fog, you will see the most horrifying sight in your life.

The villagers who were tortured and driven mad by the illusion would either commit suicide like the traveling merchants, or go completely crazy and vent their fear through indiscriminate attacks.

As the target of the fog monster's attack, Wu Chang was surrounded by thick fog. Even though he had a very strong will and the Soul-Cleansing Flag to protect him, vague hallucinations began to appear before his eyes.

In just a few minutes, the scene before his eyes had evolved from being ridden on the face by a "hanged man" on a tree at the age of three, to being chased all over the street after stepping on a wild dog's tail at the age of four.

These were the psychological shadows that he had originally forgotten.

The few childhood fragments he recalled were not enough to cause him any harm for the time being, but they also showed that the fog demon's ability was enough to affect him.

If you delay for too long, things will inevitably fail. You can't just sit there and wait for death.

Based on the information he gathered from the resentment, there are two ways to avoid being affected by illusions.

One is to self-harm, using pain to stimulate the senses to prevent being dragged into the illusion.

The second is fire, which can disperse the ice fog. Without the ice fog as a medium, the power of the fog monster will be greatly reduced. However, there is more than one monster attacking Chenjia Village. Whether it is self-harm or concentrating on protecting the fire, it will become a target for other monsters.

They were either violently run over by mandrills or hooked by mountain ghosts, and then hung on iron hooks after their blood was drained.

However, now that Wu Chang and the Mist Demon are fighting one-on-one, these two methods can be considered.

He thought about it and decided not to resort to self-mutilation.

The main storyline of the copy is still there, and the evil spirit that serves as the boss of the copy has not yet appeared. Liu Wei and others from Huaigu Village are eyeing him covetously.

It is not wise to rush into a state of weakness.

So what he has to do now is to find the source of fire.

Chenjia Village just happened to have a suitable fire source, and the villagers’ complaints had mentioned its location, the ancestral hall on the top of the mountain.

Wu Chang raised the Silver Dawn and pulled the trigger. The silver bullet carrying fire flew toward the top of the mountain. The fog instantly dissipated along the path the bullet passed, revealing a passage.

The residual heat in the air caused the fog to close very slowly. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wu Chang ran to the top of the mountain.

While running, he felt extremely fortunate for his previous decision to increase points evenly.

With all-round development of strength, agility and endurance, one can climb a mountain in one breath without any effort.

He ran all the way into the ancestral hall on the top of the mountain and used the key he took from the corpse to open the clan treasury of Chenjia Village.

As soon as I opened the door, a chill hit me in the face.

When I walked into the treasury, I saw Chen Peng, the village chief of Chenjia Village, kneeling on the ground.

Chen Peng stretched out his arms forward, with his elbows on the ground, his palms together, and his ten fingers spread out in a lotus shape, holding a red palace lantern.

The lantern is square in shape and all red in color. There are no complicated patterns painted on the surface of the lantern, only fire swirls embroidered with gold thread.

Wu Chang picked up the palace lantern and the corresponding information appeared in front of him.

"Item name: Four-sided New Year's Fire Lantern."

「Item type: copy item」

"Item level: C."

"Item Skill: Teru Xu."

"Skill Description: When the four-sided New Year's Fire Lantern is lit, it can drive the fire of the mortal world to illuminate evil and drive away plague, and demons will be scared away."

"Item Skill: Sui Fire."

"Skill Description: When the Huaigu Village Elimination Formation is activated, light the wick to ignite the Sui Fire that protects the human world. As long as the Sui Fire is not extinguished, life will continue. While the Sui Fire is burning, it can slow down the user's life loss, making him immune to most conventional deaths."

"Note: The Four-Direction Fire Lamp can convert the energy or monster bodies injected into it into lamp oil. The burning speed of the lamp oil varies depending on the intensity of use. The current burning time of the lamp oil is: 0 seconds."

Wu Chang looked at it twice before he was sure that he was not seeing things.

Wow, you are immune to death while the Suihuo is burning. This is simply a god-level auxiliary skill.

If the two limitations of having to be used in conjunction with the New Year's Eve Festival and only being immune to most conventional deaths could be removed, even an S-rank item would be no match for it.

It’s a pity that I can’t go.

At this moment, the lights in the palace lanterns have been extinguished, and there is no warmth at all.

Chen Peng also lost his temperature.

Wu Chang turned Chen Peng's body over and found that his face was pale, his eyes were wide open and almost popped out of their sockets, black blood was oozing from his seven orifices, and he was no longer alive.

Although the fog demon did not see Chen Peng die with his own eyes, Chen Peng still died at the hands of the fog demon.

After expressing his emotion, Wu Chang looked at the extinguished palace lanterns and frowned slightly.

Now that I have the lamp, where should I find the lamp oil?

(End of this chapter)