According to the original plan, Edward should have been haunted and killed by the evil spirit in the mountain forest area... thereby setting the final Main Battlefield in the bungalow area.
The traps set up inside the house had all been prepared for the evil spirit.
However, Edward had not died. Instead, he had come looking for them himself.
Faced with a special human capable of surviving before an evil spirit, Han Dong had to take him seriously.
The plan was changed at the last minute.
The traps intended for the evil spirit would be used on Edward!
At the same time, Edward would be used as bait to lure the evil spirit inside as well, buying more time with fire... Han Dong had never thought a single blaze could burn the evil spirit to death.
Due to the torrential rain.
The fire, which should have been enough to ignite the surrounding forest, could not spread. It burned for only half an hour before going out completely.
Inside the completely incinerated bungalow.
Some scorched pus could vaguely be seen slowly gathering together.
Crack~ crack~ crack.
A series of joints cracking followed.
Through the gaps between the bricks, a scorched mouth could vaguely be seen twitching as it spoke:
"It hurts..."
"It hurts..."
"It hurts..."
...The voice gradually changed from pained to excited.
Remaining time: 2 hours 30 minutes
Having arrived at the tile-roofed house, Han Dong made a decision.
At Chen Li's urging, he had Da Qing, who had nothing to do with this incident, leave first.
After all, Da Qing was Chen Li's final attachment to this world.
As long as Da Qing left safely and returned to his original family to live a normal life, Chen Li would have no lingering attachments.
That meant one less helper.
"The final hour will have the highest probability of death... the evil spirit's 'restrictions' will be completely lifted.
"This fire probably won't delay it for long. We need to take special measures.
"Miss Chen Li, please stand guard upstairs and let me be alone for a while."
"Alright."
Han Dong pulled over a chair and sat alone in the pitch-black, gloomy plague cellar.
Whenever he encountered an academic bottleneck in his previous life, Han Dong would turn down every activity, block out all interference from the Outside World, and think in this kind of 'solitary' manner.
"What else do I have..."
Just Like before conducting scientific innovation, when one had to carefully read every contemporary paper related to the field... Han Dong listed his current Trump Cards and advantages one by one.
Advantages:
1. The evil spirit believed Han Dong was already dead.
2. If the evil spirit could not pass through walls, then the plague cellar had only one entrance and exit.
3. It was known that the evil spirit feared fire to a certain extent.
Trump Cards:
1. Destiny Weapon—Plague Doctor's Short Blade.
2. Helper—Possessed Chen Li.
3...
When he thought of the third Trump Card, a series of bizarre images suddenly flashed through Han Dong's mind.
The strange tentacles between the prison cell walls, the mycelium moving around his neck, the grotesque dream, and the dangerous tentacles that had grown from his palm.
"I have enough Trump Cards and enough advantages... now it depends on just how difficult a four-star difficulty level really is.
"Honestly, I suppose I'm also a 'cheater.'
"If not for all the traits carried by this head, planning alone would have made it difficult to beat Edward... let alone survive beneath the evil spirit's claws.
"If I survive, I can gradually learn about this world.
"I have to survive!"
Thud, thud, thud.
Knocking sounded from the floor above the cellar entrance.
Then Chen Li's low voice came through. "There seems to be movement outside... what should I do?"
"So soon!? As expected of four-star difficulty..."
Han Dong was startled.
He had thought Edward's death and the fire plan would delay things until the final hour... yet the evil spirit had already caught up with them while two hours still remained.
Han Dong made a rather risky decision:
"I've thought of a way!
"Miss Chen Li, please disguise yourself as 'Monica' from the team and stay in the dark corner of the basement.
"You don't need to make it very convincing. You only need to keep the evil spirit from seeing your appearance clearly.
"The current 'evil spirit' believes Monica is the only surviving member of the team."
Chen Li asked, "What about you?"
"Die again."
'Relevant restrictions have been lifted. Hunt the final Survivor+ within the remaining two hours.'
When the crawling evil spirit received the message, she followed the footprints toward the tile-roofed house... Though she had been burned beyond recognition, her movements were not hindered in the slightest.
Creak, creak!
The sound of fingernails scraping against cement walls spread through the dilapidated tile-roofed house.
The evil spirit crawled across the ceiling and quickly entered the house.
She first discovered Han Dong in the living room, his neck cut open and a small knife clutched in his hand... and harbored no doubts about his death.
While searching, she found a wooden bed in the bedroom that had clearly been moved.
That deliberate movement had naturally been Han Dong's doing.
Akaman reached out and dragged the wooden bed aside, revealing the secret passage leading into the cellar.
A strange laugh escaped her mouth... as though she could no longer wait to end this incident.
Her blackened, burned arms slowly crawled down the moss-covered stairs.
Possessing night vision, the evil spirit immediately spotted the 'last Survivor+' curled up in the cellar corner, her body trembling faintly.
Because her vocal cords had also been severely burned, Akaman's voice had become hoarse.
"I never thought you would survive until the end... I thought that blond kid would use you to buy time. Haha, but it doesn't matter who stays until the end. The outcome is the same, haha..."
Her strange laughter echoed through the cellar.
The evil spirit determined that the cellar had no other exit. The 'Monica' in the corner had no chance of escape.
With time to spare, she slowly crawled closer.
Severely burned.
Akaman had completely lost her hair. A long, thin tongue licked back and forth across her face, and her crawling posture somewhat resembled the Lickers from Resident Evil.
Of course, as an 'evil spirit,' she possessed many more traits.
She was not comparable to an ordinary mutated lifeform.
Akaman killed with her ten fingers. As long as all ten fingers touched a target's face, the target would lose all ability to act.
Ten long, writhing fingers slowly extended. Just as they were about to press against 'Monica's' face.
An heretical aura spread out.
Clang!
As sinister energy spilled forth, a cleaver appeared out of thin air in 'Monica's' hand.
Her wrist twisted, and she delivered a precise, swift slash.
The evil spirit's two arms were cleanly severed... landing five meters away.
Aah!!
A scream echoed through the air.
The 'Monica' hiding in the corner no longer trembled, instead revealing a vicious expression.
"You... you're an incident character?! You're courting death!"
Strands of Yin Energy spilled from the evil spirit's severed arms, forming two filthy arms within milliseconds. Half gaseous and half solid... this time, they moved faster than the cleaver, tightly seizing Chen Li's neck and lifting her into the air.
As ten fingers touched her skin, strands of Yin Energy continuously invaded Chen Li's body.
This caused Chen Li to be continually 'weakened,' leaving her unable to swing the cleaver freely... and gradually losing her ability to move.
There was a considerable difference in strength between a true evil spirit and a mildly corrupted person like Chen Li.
However, Han Dong's plan... had never included having Chen Li kill the evil spirit.
All of this had merely been meant to draw evil spirit Akaman's attention.
Because her arms had been severed by the cleaver.
All of Akaman's attention was focused on the 'pain' and Chen Li.
She completely failed to notice a sickly young man slowly descending from the cellar entrance.
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