I, enter the zero world, change the ending

Unlike Gudu, Shenhong's attention was still focused on the wall. Noticing that the camera lens turned blue, she took a photo of the wall without saying a word. She thought the photo would show the location of the mask, but who would have thought that it would show the appearance of the mask.

"Take a look at this." It's better to have something than nothing, Shenhong let Xiao Wuhui look at the photo.

Xiao Wuhui still answered that she didn't know, and Shenhong couldn't help feeling very disappointed.

"How about we look around?" Gudu said.

Shenhong and Zhiyao looked at each other and nodded.

It is always better to look for a needle in a haystack than to wait for death.

After looking around the entire entrance hall, Zhiyao's gaze unconsciously stopped on the entrance hall door.

"Hey, tell me what's going on with this door?" Xiao Wuhui happened to be here, and he wanted to take this opportunity to figure out the question that was lingering in his mind.

"It was sealed by supernatural forces." Even though he was not sure whether the question was directed at Xiao Wuhui or himself, Shenhong still answered.

"What I want to know is how that 40-kilogram stone disappeared." Zhiyao emphasized.

"I took it away." Xiao Wuhui answered lightly.

When Zhiyao heard this, she was almost dumbfounded.

"You...you just cut off my escape route like this?!" He half-closed his eyes, his tone full of resentment.

"I was at the door when you moved the stone. Later, I saw you fighting the evil spirit in the corridor. I noticed that the weapon you were holding was special, so I suddenly had an idea and went back to remove the stone."

"I'm so..." Zhiyao was completely speechless, "Come on, come on, come up a little more."

Not understanding what this person was trying to do, Xiao Wuhui doubtfully pushed half of her body out, then turned around to face this person. Then she saw this person covering her face with both hands.

"Baby." Zhiyao said as she began to knead it, like rolling a glutinous rice ball. "If I can't leave the Bingshi Residence alive, you should prepare for a ghost marriage."

This sounded strange, Shenhong and Gudu both trembled their eyebrows and walked away from him.

……

No one present had any idea where to find the mask. After some discussion, Shenhong suggested going to a room in the U-shaped corridor. There were a lot of miscellaneous items in that room, and the mask might be inside.

Having decided on the idea, the three of them immediately set off towards their destination. When they arrived at the end of the Rope Corridor, Zhiyao inadvertently noticed that there was something wrong with the door on the left.

He shone the flashlight over there and discovered that the sealing board that had been nailed on it was gone.

"Go this way." Zhiyao patted Shenhong's shoulder and pointed his finger at the door on the left.

After entering, Zhiyao looked around and found that there was a movable screen door on the right side of the room that could slide left and right. As soon as he grasped the door handle, a very noisy sound rang in his ears. The sound was like someone talking unclearly, which sounded very uncomfortable. He immediately looked at Shenhong and Gudu, and they also looked like they heard something.

He thought that this must be the sound that Xiao Wuhui mentioned that she couldn't hear normally.

After some deliberation, Zhiyao turned off his flashlight, and the two girls followed suit. Then, with as little effort as possible, Zhiyao cracked the door open a crack, peering around and gradually widening the gap. After confirming that there was nothing inside, he tiptoed through and came to the next sliding screen. With each step forward, the noise grew clearer. By the time he reached the third sliding screen, alarm bells rang in his mind.

His intuition told him that there was something behind the door.

Swallowing cautiously, he gestured to Shenhong to raise her camera. Shenhong obeyed, standing near the crack in the door. Holding her breath, she silently raised her camera. Zhiyao was about to fling the door open, but then decided against it and held Shenhong's camera down. As before, he opened the door a finger-width apart to investigate. As he leaned forward, his eyes wide, the long-haired woman's back came into view not far ahead. At the same moment, a golden glow began to emanate from the end of the scabbard.

Looking back at the two of them, Shenhong gently raised the camera to signal herself to take action. Zhiyao looked at her and then at Gudu, raised her index finger and shook it, and made a praying gesture to Gudu. Gudu understood and nodded. Zhiyao opened the door to shoulder width without making any sound, and then held her breath and slowly approached from behind like a large cat ambushing its prey.

The female evil spirit was still several body lengths away. The next second, sensing an object behind her, she subconsciously turned around. However, as soon as she saw that it was a human, her body suddenly became unable to move. Then she saw that person pull out a golden knife, rushed up and stabbed it into her stomach.

The pain was unprecedented, and the female evil spirit let out a piercing scream. Zhiyao, who was close at hand, was caught off guard and felt dizzy and dazed. He took an uncontrollable half step back. Just as he was about to regroup, he saw that the surrounding space and time were distorting. He began to beat his head vigorously. Xiao Wuhui noticed this and came out to cover his ears. Only then did the distorted space and time finally return to normal.

Zhiyao immediately cheered himself up, stood up straight, pointed the tip of the knife at the female evil spirit, and saw that the female evil spirit was holding her stomach with a panic expression. He retracted his arms, took two steps and rushed forward.

There is really nothing to be afraid of these evil spirits as long as they can see them. It would be better to say that they should be more afraid of themselves holding the artifact Chu Yeshi knife.

Suddenly, the shadow wrapped around the female evil spirit broke away from the body surface, and after wandering in the air for a few circles, it attacked Zhiyao's face like several poisonous snakes. Zhiyao was about to dodge, but Shenhong, who had been on standby for a long time, pressed the shutter button behind her. The shadow immediately scattered like a swarm of insects hit by a fly swatter, and finally disappeared without a trace. The female evil spirit, who was the host, fell back to the ground as if her body had lost its support. After half sitting up, she kept kicking her legs to move backwards and curled up in the corner.

"Please, please don't hurt me!" Holding the trembling body, the female evil spirit began to beg for mercy.

The three of them looked at each other, and Crimson raised the camera.

It is better to be safe than sorry. It is better to get rid of the evil spirits that have launched the attack. Seeing this, the female evil spirit shrank her neck and closed her eyes.

Just as the shutter was about to be pressed, a hand covered the lens.

"and many more."

After stopping Shenhong, Zhiyao walked towards the female evil spirit. Xiao Wuhui in her body was ready to push her away if she suddenly pounced on him.

When Zhiyao came to the female evil spirit, he slowly squatted down. When he got closer, he found that she was looking at him in panic, with tears clearly visible in her eyes.

To be honest, I really can't bring myself to kill him in this state.

"Why did you attack us?" Zhiyao asked.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, uh... I... that's not my subjective will, I can't control it..." the female evil spirit said anxiously.

The person on the other side didn't seem to be lying, so Zhiyao was skeptical, but she made up her mind and simply reached out her hand.

“Sikong————!”

Xiao Wuhui immediately reminded loudly, but it was too late.

After a while, Zhiyao regained consciousness and slowly withdrew her hand. She stood up and shook her head vigorously, "I understand. You should find a safe place to hide first, and don't show up again."

"Yeah, yeah! Okay, thank you!" The female evil spirit was grateful and nodded like a chick pecking at rice.

Just as he was about to leave, Zhiyao stopped him.

"We're looking for a mask. Have you seen it anywhere?"

The female evil spirit answered no, so Zhiyao waved her hand and sent her away.

"Why don't we look here first?" Zhiyao suggested while looking at the whole room. As soon as her gaze moved to Shenhong, she saw Shenhong staring at her with resentful eyes.

"Sikong!" The voice sounded very indignant, Shen Hong was angry, "I told you not to touch them, why didn't you listen?!"

"Well, the main thing is... I can't help it... It's no big deal, right?" Zhiyao avoided the sharp edge and laughed.

Crimson obviously didn't believe it.

"I was shaking my head just now. Do you dare to swear it wasn't because of a headache?!"

"Oh, alright, alright. It was just one time. I won't do it again. How about... ahahaha."

"Tsk, you didn't listen to me, you will suffer in the future." A muffled groan came out of his nose, and Shenhong turned his face away.

"It's not that I don't want to listen, it's just... Oh, I really can't bring myself to do it. Look how pitiful she looks..." Zhiyao said, and his hand subconsciously reached out towards Shenhong's head. Shenhong noticed this action and stared at his hand, then quickly retracted it.

"Are you still planning to take a look at me?" With a cold expression, Shenhong slightly tiptoed and approached Zhiyao's face.

"No, no, no, I just reached out out of habit. It's really just a habit, really, really." Zhiyao swallowed his saliva and leaned back continuously.

"Habit?" Crimson repeated word for word, then raised the corners of her mouth into a devilish smile. "Who allowed you to develop this habit?"

"Hmm? Actually, I can't really call it a habit. If I had to say... my hands just don't know what they are doing..."

Beside them, Gudu interrupted the two.

"Stop chatting for now, find the mask first."

Although she still wanted to watch the farce for a while longer.

Chapter 33: [Why do evil spirits attack humans]

This room was wider than any of the previous rooms. After the three sliding screen doors were pushed open, Zhiyao looked more and more like the place where the monarch and his retainers had meals and meetings in Japanese costume dramas.

The three of them conducted a carpet search of the divided area, but still did not find the mask.

"It's not here, let's go." Shenhong sighed.

When he was about to leave, Zhiyao walked to the door on the right side at the deepest part and turned the handle hard.

"Where is the other side?" He patted his chest and motioned Xiao Wu to draw it out.

Xiao Wuhui pondered for a moment and said, "It should be a U-shaped corridor."

Unfortunately, the door cannot be opened, and I don’t know whether there is a spell or a mechanical lock on the other side.

"I say..." Gudu came in front of the two of them, smiled awkwardly and held Zhiyao's shoulders, "Please be kind, can you two change positions?"

She was no longer just feeling awkward; she was completely unable to tolerate it.

"Hmm?" Xiao Wuhui blinked, not understanding what he meant.

"It means that you should not stick your head out of his chest." Gu Du sighed and explained.

"But I can't leave Sikong's body." Xiao Wuhui had no choice but to feel helpless.

"Does the entire body have to be integrated? Can't just a part of it be integrated?"

This reminded Xiao Wuhui. After a while, Xiao Wuhui moved her whole body out and let Zhiyao hug her. Then she turned sideways, put one arm around his neck, and inserted the other hand into his collarbone as a connection.

"Phew, this is much more pleasing to the eyes." Gudu nodded slightly with satisfaction as he watched.

"But how do I hold the flashlight?" Zhiyao reminded.

"Let me lie on your back." Xiao Wuhui said, preparing to change positions.

"No, no, no." Zhiyao hurriedly stopped her, "It's fine like this now, let Kurosawa help with the flashlight."

This opportunity is rare, and he wants to hug her for a while longer, even though Xiao Wuhui usually wouldn't refuse.

After saying that, he glanced at Xiao Wuhui and found that the little girl had her face buried in the crook of his neck, and he didn't know what she was thinking.

"Come here, it's time to go!" Shenhong shouted loudly at the entrance of the house outside the three movable screens.

Entering the fireside room, the three of them walked forward. Standing by the fireside, they looked around. Suddenly, Zhiyao remembered something and began to consult the little girl: "Xiao Wuhui, why do evil spirits attack people?"

He used to think that this was a game setting, but since coming here, he found that some of the evil spirits fighting against Crimson in the game could actually be communicated with. For example, the little girl in red was very cute and easy to talk to, and the female evil spirit just now was controlled by the shadow and had no control over herself.

"Many evil spirits have no self-awareness and just attack moving objects instinctively." Xiao Wuhui looked around and answered.

"Why is there no self-awareness?" Attracted by the topic, Crimson joined in.

"After death, souls journey to the underworld. However, a failed ritual at the Himuro residence caused the miasma of the underworld to leak out, merging the realms of life and death. This left those souls destined for the underworld with nowhere to go, leaving them unable to find peace for a long time. Over time, they lost their self-awareness and became violent, attacking anything that moved." After a moment's thought, Kirie added, "There are exceptions. Some were extremely vicious in life, like the long-armed man you fought earlier."

"The ritual failed?" Crimson noticed the key words.

Without waiting for Shenhong to ask further questions, Gudu next to him rashly joined the conversation.

"Where's the little girl who played hide-and-seek with us earlier, and her friends, and the female evil spirit who just begged for mercy? Why didn't they lose consciousness or become violent?"

Xiao Wuhui hadn't really thought about this kind of thing. After pondering for a moment, she said, "I'm not sure either. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that they were innocent and kind when they were alive?"

"What about you?" Zhiyao asked.

"I am a special existence."

"Then... why did the other you go berserk?" Gudu suddenly questioned. "Also, if you're Kirie herself, how did you split into two?"

"That's a bit difficult to answer, Kirie... Actually, Kirie hasn't lost her self-awareness. She's just very angry and in pain..."

"Anger? Pain? Why?" Gudu couldn't wait to ask further.

"I'll tell you slowly later."

I thought that the ancient capital was finally done, but Shenhong came out to steer the conversation. "Xiao Wuhui, you just said that the ritual failed and caused the Yellow Springs miasma to leak out, right? Is it related to that rope break? You also mentioned the Eye Hidden Ritual before at the entrance."

As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Wuhui paused abruptly, lowered her head sadly, and looked like she was dazed. Zhiyao, who already knew the truth, noticed that Xiao Wuhui trembled and decisively stopped Shenhong.

"Don't ask."

People's curiosity is obviously not so easily quenched.

"Hey, but..." Crimson was obviously unwilling.

"I'll tell you in person at another time." After saying that, Zhiyao tightened Xiao Wuhui's body, and his brows twisted unconsciously.

His expression was not looking good. After noticing this, the thoughtful Shenhong gave up the idea of ​​asking further questions.

"Sikong, I'm fine." Xiao Wuhui whispered softly in Zhiyao's ear, "You don't have to be like this."

Zhiyao didn't answer, but smiled shyly, pressing his forehead against Wuhui's, then pressed her head into his shoulder, gently stroking her long, smooth black hair. Wuhui in her girlish form might stir up feelings in him, but her little girl form would only ignite his protective desire.

Xiao Wuhui was stunned for a moment and shrank her neck mischievously. Something that had been dormant for nearly a hundred years and was almost forgotten began to stir in her heart.

Beside them, Shenhong and Gudu quietly distanced themselves from the two men.

"They really look like brother and sister." Shenhong sighed, "Like me and my brother."