Lucky billion players, you've never seen one before / I can accumulate my own luck

Within this arena, hand-to-hand combat is the main theme, and flashy abilities will be weakened and suppressed to the greatest extent.

This includes the "deceitful monster's" spiritual properties that allow it to defend against physical attacks.

In other words, Song Qingshan can now attack "Lu Baizhi".

This is a very powerful talent.

Although it can only be used on one target at a time, it is extremely versatile and forceful in weakening the target's flashy abilities.

Of course, talent is not absolute.

Each talent has its own upper limit, and the extent of that limit depends on the talent level and the strength of the user's mental power.

With Song Qingshan's current skill level, even after setting up a "fair PVP stage," he cannot completely weaken or suppress the opponent's strength other than muscle.

Although he attacked "Lu Baizhi" with a sinister grin, a large portion of his attacks missed, passing directly through "Lu Baizhi's" body.

The latter's spiritual properties continue to exert their influence with approximately a one-in-three chance.

Song Qingshan could only fight with his muscles.

Fortunately, his talent seems to allow him to increase his muscle strength several times over, approaching the evolution rate level of a C-level player.

"Haha, so weak, so weak, what a weak attack! Have you not eaten? Trash!"

While shouting trash talk, Song Qing bulged his steel-like muscles to take Lu Baizhi's slashes head-on, completely abandoning any deliberate defensive actions.

He seized the opportunity, using his muscles to block the blade that the opponent was swinging. His two large, heavy hands, as big as palm fans, swung forward several times quickly. Taking advantage of the margin for error brought by the number of attacks, he successfully grabbed "Lu Baizhi's" head and lifted her up.

"Woman, you have no idea what power is!"

Song Qingshan suddenly swung his arm and slammed "Lu Baizhi" heavily to the ground.

As dust billowed, he pressed down hard on the other person's head and rubbed it against the ground, carving huge furrows and leaving the other person's head a bloody mess.

Then he roared and, like the Hulk, swung the blood-covered "Lu Baizhi" around and slammed her against the ground on both sides.

After several loud explosions, "Lu Baizhi" breathed her last, her figure disappearing from the spot, utterly dead.

Song Qingshan also suffered many knife wounds.

However, he didn't seem to care at all, and gracefully stretched his perfectly muscular body, seemingly feeling very relaxed both physically and mentally.

This makes one wonder if his attack just now was partly an expression of personal grudges...

This scene was also witnessed by Lu Baizhi, who was currently developing her anti-treatment skills.

The little girl looked a bit confused, unsure whether her brother had some kind of prejudice against her or if it was simply his fighting style.

Hmm... it should be the latter.

Just by looking at his younger brother's burly and robust physique, one can guess that he must be very wild when he fights, regardless of who the enemy is.

She quickly suppressed her distractions, disregarded the mental strain, and focused on maintaining and increasing the "concentration" and scope of the reversal field.

The entire large mass of flesh was enveloped by her innate domain.

Lu Baizhi guessed that the fleshy mass might have been created by Luo Hao, so she didn't target it, instead directing her hostility at the "deceitful monster" that was constantly moving and slashing inside the fleshy mass.

As screams of agony filled the air, the "deceitful monsters" died one after another.

On the other side, Li Xian quickly cleared out the monsters surrounding the giant lump of flesh.

After Lu Baizhi finished eliminating the monster inside the lump of flesh, he reminded him, "Use healing."

"Ah."

Lu Baizhi nodded as she reversed her domain.

Her face was somewhat pale due to the excessive use of her talent and the resulting mental exhaustion.

However, she still insisted on letting the healing field envelop the entire lump of flesh.

"Okay."

After about four or five seconds, Li Xian reminded Lu Baizhi.

Lu Baizhi stopped releasing her talent, and her body swayed slightly.

She quickly regained her composure and stood firm again.

At that moment, a bottle of mental recovery potion appeared before her eyes.

Lu Baizhi turned her head and saw that Fan Xiao had appeared beside her at some point.

"Thank you."

Without any hesitation, she happily accepted the medicine and drank it down.

Fan Xiao turned his gaze forward and saw the mass of flesh shrinking and turning into fleshy worms that spread across the ground.

After wriggling a few times, the large number of insects seemed to die and stopped moving.

Cao Shuai and Du Ruo crawled out of the insect's corpse and, panting heavily, reached the ground.

The remaining surviving insects gathered together and reformed into Luo Hao's body.

Chapter 356 The New Assassin

“These ‘deceitful monsters’ cannot break into the townspeople’s houses, and their greatest threat is their ‘deception’. Although they are quite difficult to deal with, they can still run away if they can’t beat them.”

Mercury looked at Luo Hao, Cao Shuai, and Du Ruo, who had finished their rest, and asked, "You could have just found a place to hide, how did you end up in their attack?"

Surprisingly, Cao Shuai and Du Ruo didn't have many injuries, only their faces were a little pale.

Even Luo Hao, who had taken almost all the damage from the ghosts, was not seriously injured.

Their condition is clearly abnormal.

Everyone glanced at Lu Baizhi instinctively, their eyes filled with amazement.

Previously, at Li Xian's prompting, Lu Baizhi reversed the damage field into a healing field and maintained it for four to five seconds.

In such a short time, Luo Hao and the other two had recovered most of their serious injuries... What an amazing talent.

"More than just a fraudster monster."

After calming his breathing, Cao Shuai said, "We were also attacked by some shadowy monsters. They are different from the 'deceitful monsters' and have all sorts of strange abilities, such as setting fires, freezing, corroding... Some can even break a person's neck by calling their name."

He pointed at Luo Hao and said, "He took most of the attacks for us. Once, when his name was called, he couldn't help but call out back, and then his head involuntarily rotated 180 degrees."

"You're still alive?" Mercury looked at Luo Hao and said, "You're even more resilient than a cockroach!"

Luo Hao and he were quite familiar with each other, so he naturally knew how terrifying the other's immortality was.

He wasn't actually surprised, but he couldn't help but make a joke.

"A dark figure..."

Li Xian said thoughtfully, "The shadowy figures are the Ghost Town residents. At night, a large number of Ghost Town residents linger outside the houses in the Spirit Town, waiting for an opportunity to hunt."

"Once players meet certain conditions, they will be surrounded and attacked, with virtually no chance of survival."

"So... you left around eight in the morning?"

If you leave around 8 o'clock, you can survive the siege if you can withstand a few waves of attacks in a short time.

Because the residents of Ghost Town only have the authority to act at night.

After eight o'clock, it's daytime.

“We did leave around eight o’clock,” Cao Shuai nodded and said, “Captain, you’re so accurate, did you find out some crucial intelligence? Also, what are the Ghost Town people?”

"The townspeople who are ghosts are those who don't hold ancestral rites at home..."

Li Xian recounted in detail what he and Fan Xiao had experienced the previous night to everyone.

This includes the dangers that may occur at night, the rules that players should follow, and some speculative conclusions they draw based on their own experiences.

"Fear is what makes the ghost townspeople kill in their own homes; they scare people at night..."

Upon hearing this, Lu Baizhi subconsciously glanced at Mercury.

Luckily, Xiao Mo stayed with a living family in the town last night, and a friendly one at that. Otherwise, if he had been scared by a ghost last night...

"What do you see me doing?"

Mercury said speechlessly, "What you fear about ghosts is the unknown threat. Creatures like the Ghost Town People who follow certain rules... well, they have consciousness and intelligence, and can be regarded as living beings, only their life form is different from ours."

"Their condition is at most that of monsters. What I fear are ghosts in the vague and ethereal sense. Don't get me wrong!"

Upon hearing this, the rest of the people focused their attention on him. After a few glances, they understood that he was just putting on a brave face.

As the saying goes, "Don't hit someone in the face," so no one continued to make fun of him about that.

Fan Xiao then said, "The correct time to leave the house in the morning is eight o'clock. It starts to get light around seven-thirty, and it will be completely light at eight o'clock."

"So the residents of Ghost Town will set traps before eight o'clock in the morning, pretending it's daylight to trick us into going out. Leaving the house is one of their attack conditions."

"If they could tamper with things in the morning, why didn't they do something with the darkness of yesterday afternoon? For example, they could have made the darkness appear later, delaying our time to find lodging."

He suddenly raised a question and immediately gave the answer himself: "Yesterday afternoon we were not vigilant in this regard. If the Ghost Town residents had delayed until nightfall, we would definitely have been surrounded and attacked, and we might have been wiped out."

"But they didn't do that... So they could only act at night after it got dark. During the day, they were restricted by the rules and could only act as ordinary people."

"And during the day, that's when those 'deceptive monsters' make their move."

"Is this so..."

Cao Shuai understood and nodded, saying, "It seems we were tricked this morning. Last night we strictly followed the instructions of the townspeople in the host family, didn't turn on the lights, didn't go out, and everything was peaceful all night. This made us trust them more, and they also stayed in their rooms and slept peacefully last night without doing anything."

"We asked them about what time it gets light in the morning, and they said seven o'clock... It seems they were setting us up at that time."

“Not all living townspeople are safe. Most of them are like ghosts, treating us outsiders as prey. After killing us, their relatives might be able to stay longer after returning on the day of the memorial, which is advantageous to them.”

Li Xian said, "The family you three stayed at must be a living family that harbors ill intentions towards outsiders."

"They don't attack you themselves, but instead hand over their prey to the other ghost townspeople..."

"I think they must have discovered that you are players, and they know that you are strong and they can't defeat you, so they chose to leave the advantage to other townspeople."

"So, they set a trap for you by telling you half-truths and half-lies."

"This pit has really screwed us over!"

Du Ruo stepped forward and added to the morning's account: "We survived the night safely, and after 6:30 in the morning, we noticed that the sky was slowly getting brighter, which matched the information provided by that family. By 7:00, the night had completely dissipated."

"Of course, just to be on the safe side, we waited inside for another half hour. By 7:30, the sun was already shining through, and the room was brightly lit. We didn't need to turn on the lights at all; it was just like daytime."

"At this time, the family got up to make breakfast and invited us to eat with them, but we declined. After they finished breakfast, they left around 7:50, saying they were going to do farm work."

He paused, then sighed softly, "We waited a few more minutes, and after finding nothing amiss, we left the house... I should have waited a few more minutes, just a few more minutes... We almost got ourselves killed!"

"You guys are just unlucky."

Upon hearing their words, Mercury remarked, "If we're talking about caution, I feel you've been cautious enough. It's already fully light at seven o'clock, yet you insisted on waiting until almost eight before leaving, even though you didn't encounter any danger during the night and were completely unprepared."

At this point, he pointed to Fan Xiao and Li Xian and continued, "The reason why the captain and the others were able to stay indoors for three hours after dawn is because they encountered danger at night and obtained a lot of intelligence, so they were already fully prepared."

His words were a form of comfort to the three of them.

"After you came out, you were surrounded and attacked?" Li Xian asked Cao Shuai. "What exactly happened?"

"After we came out, the first thing we saw was a group of dark figures gathered in front of us, and the bright light suddenly disappeared, and we were swallowed up by darkness."

Cao Shuai replied, "We were attacked by the shadowy figures immediately. We felt pulling forces all over our bodies. Those shadowy figures wanted to tear us apart."

"We wanted to go back to the house, but we found that the house behind us had disappeared. We had no choice but to run in another direction."

"During this time, Luo Hao used his flesh and blood wall to absorb the damage for us, while Lao Du and I launched a counterattack under his cover and repelled several shadowy monsters that were relatively close. These monsters would materialize when they attacked, and we could attack them."

"The attacks from those shadowy figures were too fierce, and there were too many of them."

Du Ruo said with lingering fear, "Before we got very far, Cao Shuai and I were seriously injured and surrounded by a large group of dark figures. All escape routes were blocked, including the sky."

"At this moment, Luo Hao turned into countless fleshy worms. The worms gathered together to form a huge ball of flesh, which absorbed Cao Shuai and me."

"Oh?" Fan Xiao glanced at Luo Hao in surprise: "Sounds a bit like the second transformation form of a B-level cannibal player and a demi-human player?"

“No,” Luo Hao said, “I haven’t used the life-saving technique I recently developed, because it has serious side effects.”

“It is indeed quite life-saving,” Fan Xiao commented. “I suppose you won’t die until all the worms that make up the fleshy mass are killed, right? And each worm is very resilient… However, it’s too big a target and moves slowly, making it easy to be targeted by large-scale attacks.”

“I will try to improve it,” Luo Hao said.

"Since those shadowy figures are ghosts, they shouldn't have a physical form, right?" Mercury asked. "You think you can avoid their attacks by hiding inside the fleshy mass?"