The Mysterious Dungeon: A Survival Guide to the Twelve Talismans

"Pfft!" Sun Xiaoxiao spat out a mouthful of blood, and at the same time felt uncomfortable all over her body.

Soon after, Sun Xiaoxiao was enveloped in a flash of white light, and all her discomfort vanished, leaving only the rusty taste in her mouth.

"I...I'm alright?" Sun Xiaoxiao stood up, her face full of disbelief.

"Thank you, thank you, brother." Only then did Sun Xiaoxiao turn her gaze to Zhou An.

"It's fortunate you can see me, otherwise you would really be dead." Zhou An looked Sun Xiaoxiao up and down and said with a faint smile.

"Huh?" Sun Xiaoxiao didn't understand for a moment.

Just then, the fog churned, and a large number of people emerged from the gap.

“You all stay down here. The strange creatures are beyond your capabilities. Sheng Sheng, you stay here and watch over things. I'll go and clean up the strange creatures inside.”

As soon as Zhou An finished speaking, two clones emerged from his body.

"Old Shan, you go through the door; Old E, you go through the window on the right." After giving the order, Zhou An slightly bent his legs and then suddenly pushed off.

In an instant, Zhou An's figure soared into the air at incredible speed, heading straight for the strange old man on the third floor of the twelfth floor.

The forms of both the benevolent and malevolent entities vanished from their original locations in an instant.

A deafening boom!

Zhou An smashed through the outer wall and entered Sun Xiaoxiao's home.

"Tell me, how many strange beings did you bring? How did you get here?" Zhou An grabbed the strange old man by the neck and asked in a calm tone.

The eerie old man, however, was not convinced. Ghostly energy surged around him, and he reached out and knocked on the door in the air.

"Knock! Knock! Knock!" A clear, ethereal knocking sound rang out.

With each strike, a strange force pounded into Zhou An's heart.

After three attempts, Zhou An remained unfazed and then directly activated the Pain-Saving Bracelet.

"Ah~~~!" The strange old man's forehead veins bulged, and his whole body stiffened instantly.

An indescribable, unbearable pain instantly overwhelmed him.

This pain comes quickly, but it doesn't go away quickly.

A full ten seconds passed before the strange old man's pain finally disappeared.

"I'll ask you one more time: how did you get here, and how many strange things happened with your arrival?"

"Answer, or die a painful death here," Zhou An said softly.

"Waaaaah~~!" A deep, hissing roar came from the eerie old man's mouth.

Seeing this, Zhou An sneered: "Very well, then I will grant your wish."

As soon as Zhou An finished speaking, he released the pain from the pain-suppressing bracelet once again.

"Ugh...uh...uh..."

The eerie old man's eyes rolled back instantly, and he fainted, though his body was still twitching.

Zhou An led the other person out through the door.

He took out a device about the size of his palm and began to probe the location of the ghostly energy fluctuations.

In an instant, Zhou An sensed a ghostly energy fluctuation ahead.

It's in the room right across from the door.

Zhou An immediately strode forward and kicked the door open with one foot.

As soon as Zhou An entered, a strong smell of blood filled the air.

The smell of blood was coming from the bedroom, accompanied by the sound of chewing.

When Zhou An arrived at the bedroom door, he saw a bizarre creature with a head three times the size of a normal person but a body only the size of a child, lying on the bed gnawing on a corpse.

There were two corpses on the bed, one of which had been mostly eaten.

When Zhou An arrived, he slowly raised his head and looked at Zhou An: "Human player? You've come at the right time. Players taste even better than ordinary humans."

Big Head Gu licked the blood off his lips, then stared intently at Zhou An.

"Die!" Zhou An unleashed a fiery explosion.

Upon seeing this, Big Head Guh's pupils contracted slightly, and he lunged to the side.

"You fall down."

Big Head Strangely tripped and fell to the ground in an instant. Before he could even land, the fireball blasted directly into his opponent.

The violent explosion completely destroyed everything in the room.

The giant head has melted away and disappeared without a trace.

Chapter 107 Twelve Deaths

An hour later, Zhou An returned to the area below the building.

"Resolve all the anomalies, send people up to evacuate all residents, collect the bodies, and take stock of the casualties and losses," Zhou An said in a deep voice.

"Yes, Captain," Chang Yu replied quickly.

Chang Yu then ran out of the fog.

Within minutes, a large number of police officers and soldiers swarmed in and began knocking on doors along the stairwells to evacuate residents.

Zhou An did not leave, mainly to prevent anything strange from hiding and going unnoticed.

"Uncle, is this the weird one? It looks just like a person." Li Shengsheng squatted down in front of the weird old man and poked him with her hand.

"Don't mess around, we'll have to bring her back to the branch for questioning later," Zhou An said, turning to look at Li Shengsheng.

"Okay," Li Shengsheng replied.

The strange old man was not dead yet. He was trapped by Zhou An with blood thorns, and his limbs were twisted and broken, leaving him completely powerless to resist.

About an hour later, all the residents in the building had evacuated.

"Captain, everyone in the building has been evacuated," Chang Yu reported.

"What about the death toll?" Zhou An asked in a deep voice.

"Captain, the total number of deaths is... a total of twelve people," Chang Yu said, his voice heavy with worry.

(Just kidding, this is the only way after it's been edited.)

“Twelve people…” Zhou An sighed.

Although Zhou An arrived as soon as possible, he was still too late.

This time, the entire building was shrouded in mist.

If he had arrived any later, even more people would likely have died.

"After handling the aftermath, report the situation here to the headquarters of the Bureau of Mystery."

"You can decide how to proceed," Zhou An said, then turned to look at the thick fog all around.

"Yes, Captain, but what should we do here?" Chang Yu replied, then looked at the building.

"Let's seal off this entire area first. We'll see what the Bureau of Mysteries says about the follow-up." Zhou An waved his hand and then carried the strange old man outside.

After Zhou An stepped out of the fog, he saw the strange old man suddenly become terrified.

"No, no, let me go back, please let me go back..."

"Ah~~~!"

A heart-wrenching scream rang out.

Then, thick black smoke billowed from the strange old man's body, followed by a ball of flame emerging from within him.

Seeing this, Zhou An reacted extremely quickly and threw the strange old man towards the fog.

Before the old man could return to the area of ​​the mist, he was burned to ashes in mid-air.

"This……"

Chang Yu and Wang Hong, who were behind, stared wide-eyed at the scene.

"Burned...burned to ashes, uncle." Li Shengsheng's face was also full of shock.

"It seems that the strange thing can't leave the fog's range, which is a good thing."

"Chang Yu, report this situation immediately." Zhou An's expression softened slightly.

The overlap between the human world and the bizarre world will inevitably lead to the bizarre.

The strange occurrences actually follow the foggy area.

These monsters cannot leave the fog zone, which means that as long as this area is sealed off, casualties can be minimized.

"Yes, Captain," Chang Yu replied quickly.

Zhou An and Li Shengsheng immediately got into a car and headed towards the branch.

When Zhou An and Li Shengsheng returned to the branch dormitory, it was already four o'clock in the morning.

"Ring ring ring~~!" Just then, Zhou An's phone rang.

It was a call from Director Wang Ling.

"Zhou An, you did a great job this time, eliminating all the strange occurrences in time."

"Remember, if a strange event occurs, you must resolve it immediately."

"Because after the monster eats people, it expands the range of the fog," Wang Ling said, revealing a terrifying fact.

"The fog will spread?" Zhou An's expression immediately turned serious.

"That's right, strange things are happening in a village in the mountains up north."

"When the people from the Ghost Bureau arrived, the entire village had already been swallowed up."

"Of the entire village of over eight hundred people, only one person survived. According to the survivor, the fog initially only reached the bridal chamber," Wang Ling said in a deep voice.

"I understand, but Director Wang, with the strange events unfolding, the number of deaths among the public will increase."

"How exactly does the government intend to handle these matters?" Zhou An asked in a deep voice.

"It is not appropriate to disclose the strange events now; we can only use the excuse that the mudslide destroyed the village."

"Just like the fog in Dongfeng Community, it's also attributed to a gas leak. After all, ordinary people can't see fog." Director Wang sighed as he said this.

"Director Wang, why can't ordinary people see us veteran players, but they can see the strange things?" Zhou An was very puzzled by this.

Director Wang shook his head: "This is still under investigation, and we don't know the details either."

"The Bureau of Paranormal Affairs is too busy. After midnight, too many strange events have broken out all over the country."

"...Won't this cause panic?" Zhou An was also startled by the number.

"Panic? There might be a little in some areas, but it's still within a reasonable range."

"Just get through today. The world overlaps, but the beginning is the most chaotic time."

"After dawn, the strange world will no longer appear on a large scale, and it will also be suppressed."

Wang Ling had just finished dealing with a strange incident and took the time to call Zhou An.

Upon hearing this, Zhou An's heart skipped a beat: "Will it be suppressed after dawn? Does sunlight have a suppressive effect on the strange and the mysterious?"

"That's right, sunlight can suppress fog and limit its expansion."

“As long as it’s sunny, the foggy area will be cleared in just five days,” Wang Ling nodded.

"It's good that the fog area can be cleared, but will strange things still happen in the cleared fog area?" Zhou An asked another question.

Wang Ling said in a deep voice, "Yes, therefore, the fog area must be sealed off."

"Even if there are strange things inside, as long as they can't kill the living, the fog will eventually be cleared away."

Zhou An nodded: "Okay, I understand."

"Zhou An, I'm going into the instance today. The director and deputy director haven't returned yet."

"Although the Spirit Pacters are quite strong, they are still not as strong as the players."