Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 132 Bridge
The eleven members of the Zhongzhou team stayed in four rooms.

To Mu Xiang's surprise, Zhao Yingkong did not request to have a room by herself.

However, Mu Xiang would never wrong the young girl, so he gave Zhao Yingkong a separate room, right next to his own.

After pushing Zhao Yingkong into her single room, Mu Xiang closed the door behind him and stood in the hallway, his face turning cold.

[Although Zhao Yingkong slept in the same room as Zhan Lan and Ming Yanwei in the original novel, that was due to the situation in Ju-on... It was just a horror movie, and she's already giving up on choosing someone before even getting rid of her rebellious streak?]

[My mind-reform efficiency is too high, isn't it? Heh...]

He adjusted his glasses and then contacted Zhan Lan.

"Zhan Lan, from now on, do not trust anyone except me."

Zhan Lan responded in her mind, "Eh? I understand."

Then she asked, "How can you prove you're credible?"

Mu Xiang chuckled, not expecting to be outmaneuvered so soon after he finished speaking: "From your observation, I should be the least problematic, right? As for more specific details, I can't say for sure until I confirm."

"Hehe, let's leave it at that for now..." Zhan Lan laughed on the other end of the line, "I'll leave the main part to you."

Mu Xiang pondered for a moment, then asked, "Before entering the town, did you notice any unusual mental fluctuations? For example, did someone's mental fluctuations suddenly change?"

“Yes,” Zhan Lan answered without hesitation. “Then they fell into a deep sleep. But I eventually fell asleep too… or rather, everyone except you, including myself, experienced abnormal mental fluctuations.”

Mu Xiang pushed open his door and pondered, "Is that so... We can't be completely sure yet, we can only take it slowly. Right now, the two of us are the least likely to have any problems, and Liu Xi probably isn't either. But she's a newcomer, and we're not familiar with her style. Let's not talk to her about these things yet."

“We need to look into the problem further. I’m not sure what Sutter Kane is capable of… You just need to monitor your room and stay in touch with me.”

After giving their explanations, Mu Xiang and Zhan Lan temporarily stopped communicating through the mental link and went about their own business.

Actually, Zhan Lan wasn't entirely without problems; Mu Xiang was about 80% certain. The reason was that although Zhan Lan had also fallen into a deep sleep upon entering Hobbs Town, her mental bond with Mu Xiang remained completely intact.

[Sart Kane shouldn't know what we're thinking... nor could he be familiar with our abilities. Even if he could refine them gradually, he shouldn't have been able to create such a seamless deception from the very beginning.]

Mu Xiang was in a room with Qi Tengyi, Long Taobing, and Zhang Heng, who were chatting at the moment.

Surprisingly, Zhang Heng maintained a cool demeanor, which made Mu Xiang sneer inwardly.

Is this guy still putting on an act... or did someone misunderstand Zhang Heng's character?

"Let's play cards?" Mu Xiang said to the three of them while thinking about something.

Long Taobing immediately picked up a deck of cards and said with a smile, "We've been waiting for you, come on over."

The four men sat cross-legged on the ground, and then Long Taobing began shuffling the cards.

Qi Teng hesitated for a moment, then asked, "What games do you guys play? You probably don't know how to play Gouji or Baohuang, right?"

Mu Xiang pushed up his glasses but didn't say anything.

Glancing at the joker cards tossed aside, Mu Xiang frowned slightly, then asked seemingly casually, "Are you going to play bridge?"

Long Taobing was somewhat bewildered, as if Qi Tengyi and Mu Xiang had asked some strange questions... It seemed that in his view, playing bridge with a deck of cards was a matter of course.

Qi Teng whispered to Mu Xiang, "I thought you guys were going to play Big Two... I haven't played much bridge."

"It's okay, I'm not good at it either." Mu Xiang shrugged and then started playing cards with the others.

Zheng Zha, who lived next door, also came twice, but seeing that everyone was having a great time, he went back.

Qi Tengyi hadn't played bridge much before, but nothing happened all afternoon, so he fell into a state of being bad at it but addicted to it. It wasn't until evening that he took out his dictionary to review the words he had learned before.

He has already manifested all one hundred characters in the dictionary. Now, all he needs to do is review the characters that were difficult to decipher before, to ensure that there will be no mistakes in an emergency.

In Qi Tengyi's words, this is the same as doing academic research. "Nothing happened all day, so to borrow a horror movie plot, something must have happened at night, right?" Long Taobing whispered to Mu Xiang.

Mu Xiang shrugged: "It seems that's true... But let's still go to sleep as usual, with me on guard. Your physical condition isn't good enough yet, not sleeping will affect your mental state."

Before drawing the curtains, Mu Xiang glanced at the black Byzantine-style church outside the east window. The golden spire remained conspicuous in the night, but it lacked any sense of holiness. On the contrary, Mu Xiang only sensed an aura of mystery… or rather, eeriness emanating from the church.

During the day, although Mu Xiang was playing cards, he kept his ears open and kept an eye on the direction of the church.

Unsurprisingly, the tragedy that occurred outside the church in the movie did not happen today.

After a moment's thought, Mu Xiang realized that it must be a plot point that needed to be triggered... but given the current situation, he was actually not very willing to take the Zhongzhou team to the church.

So the four of them split into pairs and slept in one bed, two grown men squeezing into one... Although it wasn't as comfortable as the main god space, and they didn't have their own wives to sleep with, it was the only option in a horror movie.

Qi Teng was tall and strong; if they were to sleep together, he could easily roll over and push Mu Xiang off. Therefore, Mu Xiang reluctantly moved aside, sat cross-legged, and soon drifted into a sleep-like state.

In the early hours of the morning, three loud bangs woke Mu Xiang up.

[Three beeps... Whose room was unharmed?]

Mu Xiang turned his head to look at the broken window. A gust of wind blew open the curtains, and dim moonlight shone into the room, falling on the bed by the window.

Only Long Taobing remained on the bed; Zhang Heng was nowhere to be seen.

The commotion woke Long Taobing and Qi Tengyi. Looking at the shattered window, Long Taobing said nervously, "That newcomer... has he been taken away?"

Mu Xiang gestured with his chin toward a sticky, damp stain on the windowsill: "See that?"

Qi Tengyi and Long Taobing's expressions immediately changed, with Long Taobing even releasing the holy light of a priest, adopting a wary demeanor.

"You two stay here and don't move. Something must have happened in the next room too. I'm going to rescue them," Mu Xiang said calmly, and then he disappeared from the room.

Once in the corridor, Mu Xiang opened the doors next door and across the hall, and understood the situation at a glance.

Only the windows of Zheng Zha's room were not broken. At this moment, the four of them woke up and looked at Mu Xiang blankly.

"Zheng Zha, you stay at the headquarters." Mu Xiang glanced at Zheng Zha.

The windows of Zhao Yingkong's, Zhan Lan's, and Liu Xi's rooms were all broken, and the three girls had disappeared.

What caught Mu Xiang's attention was that Zhao Yingkong's windowsill also had the same sticky residue, while only Zhan Lan and the other two women's windowsills did not have this unusual mark.

If that's the case, then my judgment must have been correct.

Mu Xiang moved like lightning and disappeared in the next moment.

“He’s really strong…” Long Taobing murmured, then he turned to look at Qi Tengyi, “But you don’t have that, right?”

Qi Teng glanced at Long Taobing but said nothing.

The next moment, the holy light illuminating the room transformed into countless twisted tentacles, enveloping Qi Tengyi from all directions.

Qi Teng didn't even take out a dictionary; he just stared coldly at Long Taobing.

A hand enveloped in billowing air reached out from behind and touched the back of Long Taobing's neck. Long Taobing shuddered; his head felt as if it had been plucked from the ground and placed in this hand.

Mu Xiang appeared behind Long Taobing at some point, coldly looking at him: "You were the first to give yourself away... Not using two decks of cards to play Landlord is one thing, but you're basically assuming we're playing bridge?!"

Qi Tengyi suddenly felt like laughing, and then he saw countless tentacles shoot out from Long Taobing's neck, causing his entire body to shrink until it was invisible. Then, these tentacles hurriedly escaped through the hole in the window.

Two chapters are presented today.

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