There was no escape.
Wen Xishu had actually run into an invisible wall in the Land of Obsession.
As he tried to escape the scene, the Hanged Men surged toward him, leaving him no room to retreat.
Wen Xishu had no choice but to evade the Hanged Men and move in the opposite direction.
Eerie Sequence: shadow doppelganger! Eerie Sequence: avenger's burden!
Both activated at once.
A shadow immediately drew the Hanged Men's attention. Wen Xishu had summoned it, and upon seeing so many Hanged Men appear, it made a gesture at his original body.
It was a universally understood gesture. Clearly, the shadow shared Wen Xishu's distaste for this sort of boss-in-your-face design and its timing.
Wen Xishu had no time to worry about his own shadow flipping him off. The Hanged Men were far too fast.
They hung upside down above him, one after another, while the ropes behind them began to come alive.
Like snakes, those ropes kept flying toward Wen Xishu.
"Charlie, you'll always be useless! Nobody wants you! Heeheeheehee!"
Gravity forced Wen Xishu to bend at the waist. Its immense force slowed him down.
Meanwhile, the ropes snaking downward approached him even faster.
"Charlie, none of us love you~ Heeheeheehee."
The voices of the Hanged Men filled Wen Xishu with overwhelming disgust.
"Little Charlie only knows how to run away~ Hang yourself, hang yourself!"
Whispering Noose.
Wen Xishu realized that this was how the Hanged Men attacked. Despite the immense self-loathing welling up inside him, he understood that much.
He could still analyze a few things.
"Charlie..."
"He's probably the reason the Land of Dust became so twisted, isn't he?"
"Is this a place born from someone's childhood trauma, like Tang Rui's?"
"I can't draw that conclusion yet."
*"Only knows how to run away... hanging