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Chapter 125 The Dead Teammate (3.4k)

After this thought arose in his mind, Lu Ming immediately decided to give it a try.

The purpose of the ghost blood is to suppress negative influences. Throwing the Kumanthong doll into the blood pool shouldn't cause anything bad, and it might even completely resolve the curse issue.

As for whether the ghost blood will cause any mutations...

There's no need to worry about that.

The supernatural power of the Kumanthong doll is not high enough to affect the ghost blood.

Lu Ming first used the ghost scissors to cut the thread connecting the Kumanthong doll to himself, and then carefully placed the doll into the blood pool.

The next moment, the plastic shell covering the doll broke, and after a loud bang, the deep crack on her head pierced through the doll's body.

Click!

The Kumanthong doll is broken.

Perhaps saying the whole thing is broken isn't accurate, because only the outer shell of the doll has fallen off.

Only then did the Kumanthong doll reveal its true form.

It was a charred corpse curled up, no bigger than two palms, with blurred facial features and thin, bent limbs, as if it had suffered inhuman treatment before its death and was no longer human in appearance.

"Lu Ming, Lu Ming, Lu Ming..."

The monotonous, mechanical sound continued to repeat itself.

However, as the blood pool suppressed the sound, it became intermittent and increasingly faint.

After waiting a while until the sound completely disappeared, Lu Ming took the Kumanthong doll out of the blood pool.

Now, holding the ghost scissors in his hand again and looking around, the curse threads attached to him were no longer visible.

“If I cut the curse directly, there might be another attack. However, after throwing the Kumanthong doll into the blood pool, this thing was obviously suppressed to the point of crashing. This is a kind of suppression based on the rules, so I don’t have to worry about it posing any threat to me afterward.”

The Kumanthong doll didn't show any other changes, which Lu Ming was slightly disappointed about, but he quickly came to terms with it.

He put the doll back into a new golden container and left the eerie area that had been corrupted by supernatural forces.

"This thing might come in handy later, but that's not something we should be thinking about right now."

"The most urgent task is to have the bride control the Ghost Painting when we return to the Mysterious Resurrection World next time. If we can make up for the shortcomings in the Ghost Domain, it won't be difficult to take down Ye Zhen next time, even without the coffin nails."

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Dahai City.

Mingzhu Building.

Wu, the administrator of the paranormal forum, noticed that his boss's mental state had been very strange ever since he returned from Dachang City.

It is said that she encountered a ghost groom named Lu Ming.

If it were just a simple loss, that would be one thing, but the key issue is that Ye Zhen was scared away by the red-clad bride ghost next to Lu Ming.

After returning to Dahai City, Ye Zhen would occasionally berate himself, saying things like, "What kind of real man can't face his own problems?"

After cursing, Ye Zhen would cheer himself up, muttering "Thirty years west of the river, thirty years east of the river," and secretly vowing that one day he would be better than that gigolo groom, Xiao Lu.

For several days, Ye Zhen didn't go out or watch his favorite anime; he just stayed in his room for blacksmithing.

Finally, on this day, the noise inside the house stopped.

Ye Zhen took a long sword off the simple workbench.

This sword was the one he had before; its blade was pitted and twisted, and it didn't look very nice.

In terms of blacksmithing skills, he was not particularly skilled.

However, if other ghost tamers were present, they would have noticed that the sword on the workbench was not simple and was completely different from the one they had seen in Dachang City.

This is a longsword imbued with supernatural power.

Moreover, unlike ordinary supernatural objects, Ye Zhen actually used a ghost as a punching bag, forcefully driving it into the sword.

One side of the sword is engraved with a distorted and cracked ghost face. If Ye Zhen shouts "Look at the sword!" and you actually look at the ghost face on the sword, the consequences will undoubtedly be dire, as the ghost's killing pattern will be directly triggered.

Ye Zhen admired his masterpiece and thought for a moment before saying, "From now on, I, Ye, will have my own supernatural weapon... But if it's only this good, I'm afraid it's still no match for that ghost groom, Xiao Lu."

He remembered clearly that the ghost bride's terror was beyond his comprehension, and it was almost impossible to kill Lu Ming with this sword.

"Hehe, Xiao Lu, just wait and see. It's your honor to become my target. You'll be my little brother then, hahahahaha."

It seemed that just imagining the scene of trampling Lu Ming under his feet could make Ye Zhen feel extremely happy. He picked up his sword in one hand, put his other hand on his hip, swept away his dejection, and laughed heartily.

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The last day of this phase of the instance.

Time quickly came to midnight.

Lu Ming waited quietly for that moment to arrive.

Clearing horror movie dungeons not only provides him with attribute points, but also points, which can be exchanged for supernatural items and high-level abilities in the God Shop.

I used to think that the supernatural items in the God's Shop were nothing compared to the supernatural items in Mysterious Revival.

However, after studying the talismans he obtained from Zhou Yisheng last time, Lu Ming opened the door to a new world.

"The Upper Eight Scenic Spots, the Middle Eight Scenic Spots, the Lower Eight Scenic Spots..."

“There must be some secrets deep within this God Space, including the truth about this abandoned, deathly gray world… To learn more, staying in the current dimension is definitely not enough; one must become a challenger of the fifth rank or higher and enter a higher dimension.”

As a melodious bell rang, just like before, time stood still, and boundless darkness swallowed everything around.

Some white dots of light appeared in mid-air, floating slowly, and finally, with some kind of pull, formed lines of small white characters.

[Congratulations to the challenger for completing the first stage of the main storyline of the ??? World, surviving for seven days.]

[Reward Received: 10 Attribute Points (Already Issued)] [Completed Level ? ? Quest. Congratulations, challenger, for earning 10 points! You now have 10220 points, advancing from Tier 4 Challenger to Tier 4 Challenger.]

The appearance of these white characters signifies that Lu Ming has officially completed the first stage of the mission in the Main God Space.

However, this time, there were a few more lines of smaller text compared to before.

[The first phase of the mission is nearing completion...]

Upon seeing this, Lu Ming was taken aback at first, then something occurred to him.

This change in the Main God Space began last time.

Initially, the reward for completing the first stage of the mission was only 10 attribute points, not points.

As a result, this situation changed when I returned to the Main God Space last time.

This time, it was explicitly stated that a second phase of the mission might follow.

As he thought about it, the void of darkness in front of him gradually solidified into a physical form: a shattered, enormous sphere of light surrounded by countless floating tiny points of light, like a living being slowly breathing.

There were many people in the main god square, with layers of dark shadows, probably because many new people had entered this main god plane.

"It seems like the drivers at the Grand Canal are quite busy."

Lu Ming first spent 200 points to redeem a new Sunny Doll, replacing the previous one.

Instead of heading to the main square immediately, he went to the rest area.

Lu Ming's goal this time is very clear.

The goal is to quickly accumulate a large number of points through team-based competitive dungeons, and perhaps even draw some good items.

Lu Ming is not afraid of the matchmaking system's sanctions, because for him, the stronger the opponent, the better.

"My current score is 10020 points, and my total score has reached 13320 points..."

"To advance to the fifth tier of challengers, one needs to accumulate 20000 points, and to the sixth tier, 50000 points. If I perform well in the dungeons, it won't be long. Perhaps after I master the Ghost Painting, I can advance and enter a higher-dimensional God Space the next time I return..."

Arriving at the rest area, Lu Ming relaxed for a while until he saw three familiar figures.

It was Chen Xin, Jiang Zi, and Gao Mingzhe, who had teamed up with him to challenge the [Ghost Call] dungeon before.

Before entering the high-dimensional main god space, Lu Ming did not have high requirements for his teammates.

As long as it doesn't affect his gameplay, it's fine as long as he doesn't act recklessly or do anything dangerous.

"Brother Ming!"

"team leader!"

Chen Xin and Jiang Zi were overjoyed to see Lu Ming and quickly came to greet him.

Chen Xin and Lu Ming had known each other for a longer time, so they were quite tactful. Jiang Zi, however, didn't think that far ahead and reached out to link arms with him.

But as soon as she got close, Jiang Zi felt a chill creep up her back. There seemed to be something unseen beside Lu Ming, quietly observing her, which gave Jiang Zi goosebumps and made her jump back quickly.

Gao Mingzhe, one of the three, was still wearing his square-framed glasses, and his face showed deep fatigue, making him look very haggard.

His personality was rather calm and reserved. Although he didn't show his joy at seeing Lu Ming as obviously as Chen Xin and Jiang Zi, his lifeless eyes still lit up.

Lu Ming didn't pay attention to these details and asked in a calm tone, "Where's Wu Lei? Why isn't he with you?"

The atmosphere fell silent when Wu Lei's name was mentioned. Jiang Zi hesitated for a moment, then looked at Chen Xin and asked her to speak.

"Ming-ge, Wu Lei is dead."

After Chen Xin explained, Lu Ming learned that the group had last challenged a zombie dungeon with a difficulty level of three stars.

It's not a competitive dungeon, and the difficulty is only three stars.

So Chen Xin and the others didn't pay much attention to it.

Perhaps because his experiences of clearing dungeons with Lu Ming had been too easy, Wu Lei even thought about saving a few more ordinary people in addition to completing the mission.

This decision ultimately dragged Wu Lei into the abyss.

A middle-aged woman in her forties made a foolish mistake and lured the zombies to where Wu Lei was.

At the critical moment, Wu Lei recalled the terror he had experienced when facing the flying zombies and fell into a brief daze. This mistake cost him his life.

This burly man, who was chanting Buddhist prayers, was surrounded by hordes of zombies from all sides. Before he died, he used his brute force to make five zombies fly up.

Although the remaining three, including Chen Xin, cleared the dungeon, they were equally disheveled.

Through comparison, they then realized intuitively how much help Lu Ming could bring to the team.

Upon hearing this, Lu Ming frowned.

It's quite normal for challengers to die in horror movie scenarios.

Even within the same dimension of the God Realm, there are different planes, and every moment, many challengers die.

Like Chen Xin, in the previous times she teamed up with others, all her teammates died, and she could only say she was lucky to survive.

That being said, Wu Lei was, after all, the little brother that Lu Ming had taken in when he first entered the Main God Space using a blood-stained old newspaper.

Lu Ming was somewhat displeased that his younger brother had died, and in such a foolish way at that.

He looked at the three people in front of him and said coldly, "Boundless kindness is no different from stupidity. If you do this when you team up with me, don't expect me to save you."

"Let's go, it's another team-based dungeon. This time, we can just grab any normal teammate."

Lu Ming led the way to the main god square, which was filled with orbs of light of all sizes.

(End of this chapter)