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This is a trap; she mustn't move!

A few seconds later, "Su" let out a scream, and then fell silent.

Everyone in the room tensed up.

Something happened to Su Mofei... No one dared to open their eyes to confirm it.

Su herself knew she was alright and that a monster was disguising itself, but with the grandmother and granddaughter remaining silent, she dared not remind Tanya and the others.

She realized that the monster was trying to lure the players into paying attention to it!

The rule at night is that if you encounter something strange, you have to pretend you didn't.

At the same time, we must continue to worship the Ghost Goddess?

Apart from Su, everyone else's psychological pressure began to soar.

A moment later, Su heard Jian cry for help from beside her. A few seconds later, the cry for help turned into a pitiful wail.

"Jane...something happened!?"

Even though she knew in her heart that it was probably false, Su still began to waver in her suspicions due to the abnormal emotional resonance.

At this moment, Tanya also let out a scream.

Next came the taciturn player and the middle-aged man with thinning hair.

Within minutes, five of the "players" inside the house had died.

Only the young man with a slightly gloomy face remained alive.

At this moment, the young man's heart was in his throat.

Those screams pushed his psychological pressure to its peak.

All my teammates are dead.

Is it true or false?

It doesn't look fake...

What should I do! Should I stay here? Should I escape and enter the fog...? Overwhelmed by the shared emotions, the young man's attention was completely diverted, and he didn't notice the subtle details of the breathing inside the room, which hadn't changed at all.

Should he run away...? The young man was torn and found it difficult to make a decision.

Until a pair of hands, as cold as ice, landed on his shoulders.

"what!!"

The young man screamed in terror and instinctively opened his eyes.

A deathly pale face, devoid of any color, came into his view.

A strange smile was on his face, and his eyes, gleaming with malice, met his gaze.

So, you can see me—the young man seemed to hear this in the other person's malicious gaze, as if he were hallucinating.

Meanwhile, the young man also saw that Tanya and the other four were safe and sound.

He was fooled!

"Die to me!!"

Enraged, the young man suppressed his fear and threw a punch with all his might.

BOOM—The head in front of me was smashed to pieces, brain matter and blood splattered everywhere, and quickly merged into the black shadow that covered the entire ground.

The shadowy figure began to writhe, as if about to spit out a new monster.

Seeing this, the young man realized something was wrong and quickly broke open the door, fleeing towards the entrance of Bai Village.

We must immediately escape into the fog to avoid disaster!

In order to escape faster, the young man directly activated his genetic abilities as a demi-human player.

His muscles and bones began to move, and his body structure changed rapidly.

The next second, he landed on all fours and launched himself out like a cannonball, his speed increasing several times over in an instant, exceeding the limit of a C-level player, so fast that it was as if he were flying close to the ground.

"Come here."

Suddenly, Tanya's figure appeared in front of them.

She seemed to have teleported here.

Tanya waved to the young man and then ran off in one direction.

The young man paused, his eyes glazed over, and quickly followed.

The two rushed into the Ghost Goddess Temple at an extremely fast speed, one after the other.

Soon after, the entire temple trembled, and a teeth-grinding chewing sound rang out, spreading into the night, swallowed by darkness, and falling silent.

The peach trees surrounding the temple swayed in the night breeze, like outstretched hands celebrating.

Inside the thatched hut, Tanya and the other four remained kneeling in the same spot.

They heard the young man's angry roar and the sound of the door being smashed open.

It seems one of our teammates is really in trouble... no, it could also be a trap!

No one dared to open their eyes and investigate the situation.

Because at this moment, they all had the same guess in their minds—something ghost was trying to lure their attention!

Or rather, lure them to open their eyes!

Whether your teammate is dead or not can be known at a glance. If there is no danger after opening your eyes, then this ghost's series of temptations seems a bit like it has nothing better to do.

Thinking about it from another perspective—closing your eyes is indeed one of the rules!

The grandmother and granddaughter were not pretending to deceive them.

"No, the rules don't necessarily mean turning a blind eye."

"Perhaps after opening your eyes, it's easy to make eye contact with some kind of ghostly thing, and you might accidentally reveal that you've discovered something unusual. So... closing your eyes to worship is the best choice."

Tanya had a new guess in her mind.

No matter what anomalies are discovered, one must pretend not to have noticed them and worship the Ghost Goddess with a devout posture—if nothing unexpected happens, this should be the rule for the night.

Simply put, it means learning to hide yourself, even if you see a ghost, you should pretend you didn't see it and act calmly.

In this way, it will not attract the attacks of ghosts and monsters.

After thinking about this, Tanya had a new question in her mind—the villagers here are all ordinary people. If they try their best to endure kneeling and worshipping the Ghost Goddess all night, they might be able to endure it, but if it happens every night... how exactly do the villagers of Bai Village manage to endure it?

Moreover, she had noticed during the day that there were one- or two-year-old children in Bai Village.

How could such a small child possibly behave quietly and not cry or make a fuss at night?

Could it be that ghosts only attack villagers above a certain age?

Tanya had a highly probable guess in her mind.

As for how the villagers managed to get through so many nights... she couldn't think of an answer for the time being.

Time begins to pass.

suddenly!

A pair of cold hands landed on Tanya's shoulders.

"..."

Tanya remained silent and continued to pretend to be dead.

Subsequently, the other four players also experienced the same touch.

This time, the four people, who already had some guesses, did not give any response. They all tried their best to suppress their instinctive reactions and kept consolidating their guesses and conclusions in their minds, avoiding being swayed by emotional resonance.

Two hours passed quickly.

During this period, the ghosts did not reappear to cause trouble.

It's 9:30 now.

The old woman's voice suddenly rang out from inside the room: "Alright, Manman, that's all. We should go to sleep now."

"Okay, grandma."

The granddaughter's response followed immediately.

“Young ladies, you should get up too. Tonight, you only need to worship the Ghost Goddess for about two hours, and that will be enough.” The old woman sighed, “What happened during the day… I hope you won’t blame the villagers. Many times, we have no choice…”

"Grandma, I'm so sleepy."

The granddaughter's voice rang out.

The old woman replied, "Manman, be good, Grandma will put you to sleep now."

The sound of footsteps receding into the distance could be heard.

There are two paths, one heavy and one light.

Upon hearing the footsteps, Tanya guessed that the crisis must have passed.

There was only one ghost attacking them, which kept changing its identity to deceive them. From beginning to end, there was never a situation where two "companions" were deceiving them at the same time.

Based on this, it can be inferred that the ghost could not make two different footsteps appear at the same time.

Because it can only impersonate one person at a time.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the current situation is a setup that was planned in advance.

The most conservative approach is to remain in a kneeling position until dawn.

However this is impossible.

It wasn't that she couldn't do it, but that she couldn't do it—who knew what "necessary nighttime activities" the grandmother and grandson might secretly undertake behind their backs?

They'll have to keep imitating them.

And... who knows when it will be dawn?

If it gets light but they hesitate to open their eyes, and as the weather changes, they fail to get away from the approaching umbrella monster in time... that would be a bit ridiculous.

Thinking this through, Tanya believed her judgment and opened her eyes.

If something unexpected happens, escape into the fog!

With her spatial abilities at her disposal, she was quite confident in her ability to escape.

It only takes two or three teleports to get from here to the outside of the village.

Fortunately, the scene in front of her was normal.

The grandmother and granddaughter had left their original positions. She opened her eyes and stared directly at the shrine in front of her, which housed a clay sculpture of the Ghost Goddess.

Everything went as predicted.

After finding nothing amiss, Tanya patted the others, signaling that they could stop their worship.

As a result, no one paid any attention to her.

"..."

Tanya directly stretched out her fingers and forcibly pried open Su's eyelids.

She then used the same method on Jane and two other players, performing the same "eye-opening" operation.

Then, Tanya tried to open her mouth and utter a syllable.

Only after realizing there was no danger did she breathe a sigh of relief and say, "Alright, we can talk now. That old man didn't lie to us."

Su's face was grim as he said, "Captain, we've suffered another loss..."

"The most urgent thing is to imitate!" Tanya interrupted. "We can talk about other things during the day."

After saying that, she walked in the direction where the grandmother and grandson had left, and reached out to pull open the curtain made of dark fabric in front of her.

Behind the curtain was a simple wooden bed.

The grandmother and grandson... were not in bed!

Su and the others who followed also witnessed this scene and were all astonished.

How could this be... Where did that old woman and her granddaughter go?!