Hanging vs. Joke
The knocking made Luo Di stand up abruptly, and he slowly moved closer.
However, Yu Lu, who was hanging in the middle of the hall, was closer and floated over faster, just as she was about to look at the peephole on the door.
"Miss Yu Lu, wait a moment."
Yu Lu slowly turned her head 180 degrees to look at Luo Di who was following behind her.
"Why?"
"You should know about the 'Clown' that I mentioned to Hua Yuan, right?"
He's been targeting me ever since I entered the corner, for reasons unknown, and now there's a good chance he's followed me to the actual death scene of the game.
There's even a slight possibility that the person knocking on the door was him.
His "mischief" can be manifested through observation; a single glance can influence your thinking, and he can even redirect your consciousness to other objects.
"Oh... I know that."
"Hua Yuan told me when we were at the sushi restaurant that there was no need to worry; there was a reason why Grandmother arranged for me to come along with you."
Yu Lu slowly turned her head back and pressed it against the cat's eye.
At first glance, I didn't see anyone. Outside, it was still a dark neighborhood with streetlights, weeds, and rows of completely enclosed villas.
But as Yu Lu carefully scanned the area a second time, she actually discovered something: a faint red hue slowly fading into the darkness.
Right under that abandoned streetlamp,
Part of the balloon was blocked by the lamppost, with only half of it visible, and a smiley face was drawn on its surface.
For a fleeting moment, it seemed as if a smiling clown was standing on the lamppost, smiling at her.
When Yu Lu had this thought, her vision jolted... The balloon behind the lamppost disappeared, turning into a naked clown that almost blended into the environment.
Keep smiling.
He waved to them.
When I saw this scene... Ugh!
A rope was lowered from inside the house and instantly strangled Yu Lu's neck.
Death arrives, forced suicide.
The rope disappeared, Yu Lu's specimen-like body fell to the ground, lifeless. Even Luo Di thought something had happened and prepared to go forward.
The next second,
A faint pulse reappeared, and she slowly got up, floating in the air once more.
Click~ Neck looked back again, looking at Luo Di.
"You guessed right, that clown really did follow us."
As expected of one of the "The Hateful Eight," they could still influence me through observation even from behind this villa; they almost managed to put the balloon membrane over my head.
Upon hearing this news, Luo Di tensed up. Although he suspected that the clown would follow, he did not expect that the clown would actually come and even take the initiative to knock on the door.
"Miss Yu Lu, are you alright?"
"Nothing can be attached to death. I can reset my state by dying once. On the contrary, that clown might have a hard time."
Those who try to invade my consciousness will naturally be bound by a knot.
Let's go outside and take a look. Blindfold your eyes for now. If we get a chance, we'll kill him, and then we'll have enough food for the rest of the time.
"OK."
Luo Di jogged to the door, his eyes already closed.
Push open the door and go out.
However, there was only a knotted rope hanging under the streetlight, and the clown that should have been hanging there was nowhere to be seen.
Although Luo Di had his vision blocked, he could roughly judge the surrounding situation by his aura. Waves of gray aura flowed out from under his feet, transmitting the environmental structure within a ten-meter radius back to his brain.
Arriving at the streetlight,
Yu Lu reached out and touched the hemp rope hanging there. Some skin and flesh tissue remained on the looped knot, and strangely, the knot was absorbing the tissue.
Just as a knot itself is a form of life.
After the absorption was complete, Yu Lu opened her mouth wide and swallowed the entire knot.
"Mark complete. As long as the clown leaves his villa and comes within 100 meters of us, the hanging effect will be automatically triggered, and there will always be a rope hanging over his head."
This way, we can ensure that he won't interfere with the rest of the game.
Due to the hunger factor, killing him is not the immediate goal. Monsters that can escape from my knots are difficult to kill, and under these game conditions, other groups can easily take advantage of them.
"Let's go, Luo Di, let's go find food as usual."
"Good."
Luo Di breathed a slight sigh of relief; he had actually been a little worried that the clown would be killed by Yu Lu.
A detached villa, second-floor bathroom.
A clown, naked and covered in white paint, with his belly slightly protruding, is standing in front of the sink.
His belly was shriveled from hunger, hanging out like wrinkled skin.
Also due to hunger, he couldn't find blood to paint his red lips, so he could only cut up balloons and stick them around his lips.
current,
He pressed his head close to the mirror, carefully examining the injury on his neck.
A hanging mark encircled the neck, the skin was completely torn and peeled off, and some grass stalks from the hemp rope were still stuck in the flesh and blood. Now they need to be cleaned out one by one.
The clown maintained a smile throughout the entire process, but this smile seemed different from usual, eerie and sinister.
After finally cleaning it up, the wound still wouldn't heal.
The clown even felt a chilling aura of death surrounding him. When he looked up at the mirror again, he saw a hanging female corpse right behind him for a moment, before it disappeared in the blink of an eye.
But this fear failed to penetrate his balloon; instead, it made him happy.
Glug glug~
His stomach growled with hunger, and even he couldn't help but clutch his stomach, enduring the intense hunger.
Because the operation against Luo Di failed, they not only failed to obtain food but also exhausted a lot of energy. Now they are starving and urgently need to find food.
Stepping out of the bathroom, I saw a large number of balloons floating inside the master bedroom.
His servants were suspended in the middle of the master bedroom by balloon strings, and the thin film of the balloons was slowly transmitted to him through the strings, as if undergoing a deeper transformation.
Obviously,
The clown didn't plan to take the servant with him. Instead, he intended to use the three days of the second level to thoroughly modify the servant, as he might need him later.
He could manage to go out to find food on his own; bringing servants along would only make it easier for them to be killed and thus eliminate him from the game.
Change into a regular overalls set.
He touched the indelible marks on his neck from hanging.
He temporarily abandoned his goal of targeting Luo Di in this level and turned to go in the opposite direction. The further he went, the more the chilling sense of death faded.
The clown went from house to house knocking on doors, always carrying a box of candy. He would reward anyone who opened the door with candy.
After knocking on three doors in a row,
Click!
The door lock finally responded.
The moment the door opened, before the candy could even be handed out, a steel fork pierced through the clown's body, pulling him inside. The door slammed shut in no more than three seconds.
Two hours passed.
The villa's gate opened again.
A loud burp almost came out as the door opened.
The clown's overalls were completely torn, and he walked out with a huge, bulging belly, no longer looking as shriveled as before.
Not only am I not hungry at all, I'm actually quite full.
Even with the effects of the Hunger Virus, the reserves in this stomach are estimated to be enough to sustain a whole day of high-intensity activity.
Moreover, the marks on the clown's neck had completely disappeared, leaving not a trace.
At this point, shift your focus to the interior of the house.
Two heads, forcibly torn apart, were carelessly thrown on the ground; the rest of the body parts were nowhere to be found.
And one of the heads even had a deep ligature mark on its neck, exactly the same as the ligature mark on the Joker's neck...