The Fool Had Found a New Way to Be Foolish

It must have been very painful. It would have been strange for someone like Unica, who had been severely injured after being pierced through the abdomen by the bone vine, to have endured the pain without uttering a sound the whole way. Now that she was crying out in pain, Uncle Zhang actually felt a little relieved.

This girl is younger than Shi Jiu and is a high-achieving student pursuing a combined master's and doctoral degree. After completing her doctorate, she participated in archaeological research. She not only enjoys studying everything, but also collects folk customs from all over the country that are rarely seen by ordinary people.

This kind of perseverance is not to be underestimated. Although she is somewhat open in her private life, much of this is due to the unique charm brought about by her admirable academic abilities.

Unica's eyes welled up with tears from the pain, waiting for Uncle Zhang to come and pull her up.

Helpless, Uncle Zhang could only lift his still-aching ankle and walk over, taking Unica's hand. "Be careful, remember how I told you to get up? Try not to aggravate the injury—"

Unica's hands were fair, slender, soft, and smooth, just like those of a noble young lady from a secluded family.

But as Uncle Zhang felt this comfortable touch, a sentence suddenly popped into his mind.

"These hands are so soft, almost like a newborn's, but they just... just don't feel like the hands of a researcher who frequently does archaeology."

In an instant, alarm bells rang in the mind of this experienced tomb raider.

His pupils contracted, and he added the word "wound" almost without pausing. Just as he was about to pull Unica up and then let go to push her away, he found that Unica's grip on his hand was very strong, and he couldn't break free even when he pulled.

"Unica, are you in a lot of pain?" Uncle Zhang's expression turned grim. At first glance, he seemed worried about Eunice's injury, but only he knew that it was because his emotions were surging so fast that he couldn't control his expression.

Unica was wrong, Uncle Zhang had just realized.

"Uncle Zhang, thank you for caring about me so much." Unica held Uncle Zhang's hand, her tears long gone, and she smiled, as if she wanted to give Uncle Zhang a "warm hug."

But her wound was still bleeding; who in their right mind would hug someone in a situation like that?

Uncle Zhang's expression changed. He tried to dodge, but Unica pressed down on his shoulder with her other hand.

The next second, he saw Unica's expression turn terrified as she looked behind him with a fearful gaze.

Uncle Zhang was pinned down and unable to move, but Unica's expression was so vivid and real that he subconsciously asked, "What's wrong? What's behind me?"

Almost the instant he finished asking the question, Uncle Zhang regretted it; he realized what Unica was planning.

Presumably, Shi Jiu, who is currently on the ground, must be receiving the message from Unica's expression on the screen that "Uncle Zhang and Unica have encountered an unknown and terrifying thing."

The headset she was wearing was ripped off the next moment. Unica crushed the camera and stomped on the headset before tilting her head and leisurely looking at Uncle Zhang.

Uncle Zhang felt a vein in his shoulder being pressed down without any hesitation, sending a throbbing and stinging pain through him. Uncle Zhang frowned and said, "Let go! Unica, this isn't the time to play around! What exactly do you want?"

"Stop pretending, Uncle Zhang. Trying to get away with this by pretending you didn't discover my identity? Sorry, I don't have time for your act." Unica chuckled softly, her breath tickling Uncle Zhang's ear, her voice as chilling as a venomous snake. "The exit of the maze is in a different time zone than reality. The next person will be coming out soon. Unfortunately, I don't have time for you to recall suspicious points or give your last words. There are more than one person in the team who is more perceptive than you."

Uncle Zhang struggled to his feet. Because he had easily trusted Unica, he had already lost the initiative when Unica. The oldest man in the team finally showed fear on his face. He stared at Unica's face, and even in death, he could not understand why Unica's true face was like this.

He had of course noticed that there was an extra person in the team. Lin had told him before, and she had been keeping an eye on things ever since. But he never expected that the ghost would be Unica, whom he trusted very much!

Just as Unica said, Uncle Zhang had no chance to recall the various suspicious points along the way. Unica killed him decisively, without saying a few words. Her slightly long fingernails slashed across Uncle Zhang 'Uncle Zhang throat, and his entire head was removed from his neck, with blood about to gush out.

But then, Unica, through some unknown means, hardened the blood that was about to gush out, forming a scab over the cut, so that not a single drop of blood was visible. Unica, who had killed someone, was completely clean except for the blood on her abdomen—no, her abdomen was also clean. Everything that had just happened seemed like a nightmare-like illusion.

From within the Ghost Tongue thicket, a round thing rolled down, crashing into a bulge in the bone vine before stopping. It was then obscured by the layers of petals, becoming completely inconspicuous.

The headless body was caught in Unica's hand and tossed into the flower bushes. With the help of the bone vines, the ghostly tongue swung around to avoid it, then returned to normal, completely covering the corpse.

Only Unica remained, sitting back in the open space, hugging her knees, looking pitiful as she waited.

She murmured as if in a nightmare, "Don't worry, Uncle Zhang, you're not dead to me. I'll meet you again somewhere in the future."

"Hehe, I wonder if you still remember when I killed you back then?"

The woman's voice echoed through the flower field, but no one answered; only the ghostly tongue swayed slightly, as if in response.

"Thump!" The next one to fall was the man with glasses.

The bespectacled man seemed to value his glasses more than his own backside. The moment he landed, he didn't touch his bottom on the ground first, but instead steadied his wobbly glasses and exclaimed, "Thank goodness!"

After putting on his glasses, the man with glasses was able to see his surroundings clearly.

A large patch of white flowers was the first thing that caught his eye. His expression changed drastically, and he blurted out a curse while maintaining his refined demeanor.

"Fuck you, so many?"

A single ghost tongue is enough to turn the surrounding area into a dead zone filled with pink mist. The ghost tongues in this flower field are endless. If they all release mist, even the Heavenly King himself wouldn't be able to leave alive.

"Yes, there were too many. Even I was startled." Unica watched him fall. Because she was positioned at the back, the bespectacled man didn't see her immediately.

She spoke up first and even helped the bespectacled man up, "Finally, someone's here. I really didn't know what to do all by myself."

She spoke with a faint smile, and even when she was complaining, her tone was calm and composed, just as always.

So the bespectacled man was completely unaware of her odd behavior. After thinking for a couple of seconds, he naturally drifted off-topic. "Uncle Zhang isn't here?"

"Yes, I was alone when I came down. I didn't see Uncle Zhang. Is the flower field too big, and we got separated into different places after leaving the exit?"

"Very likely." The bespectacled man squinted and looked around, indeed not seeing a single person. He looked somewhat troubled. "Damn, all I know is water and tomb raiding. This place is too vast; even a grappling hook can't reach the wall. If it's just the two of us, how am I supposed to get you out of here?"

"Don't worry, since the maze's exit brought us here, it means this isn't a dead end. We just need to find the mechanisms." Unica fumbled along the wall for a while, then, as if she'd accidentally pressed a mechanism, her expression changed, and she shouted sharply, "Get down!"

The bespectacled man had developed a conditioned reflex to this command; he quickly lay down on the ground, but froze the next moment.

No traps flew over him; only a few sharp blades emerged from the ground.

He was lying face down on the ground.

His knees, heart, stomach, throat, and even his forehead were all pierced by countless blades. The bespectacled man didn't even have time to look at Unica before he died instantly.

The sharp blade pierced the man, drank his blood, and then withdrew, slowly pulling the blade out of the bespectacled man's flesh, leaving behind his soft, mushy corpse.

The glasses eventually shattered and fell to the side, the lenses riddled with cracks.

Unica's body, which had been pressed against the wall, finally relaxed. That spot was the only part of the wall where the hidden blades weren't placed.

She watched the bespectacled man's death with satisfaction, nodding approvingly. "This guy's not very bright, so we don't need his head. There's no need to take Uncle Zhang's either. I already have three young and intelligent candidates in mind; Ghost Tree will definitely like such new fertilizer."

"Ah, that's the good thing about not having a microphone, it saves a lot of trouble." Unica stood behind the bespectacled man the whole time, and even when she helped him up, she made sure she didn't appear in his camera's view. Shi Jiu could only see the bespectacled man stand facing the Ghost Tongue Flower for a while after he fell down, and then he was pierced by a sharp blade.

"Shi Jiu... tsk, troublesome woman. She could have been good fertilizer." Unica murmured, hooking her fingers around the ends of her curly blonde hair. "Never mind, I can't be too greedy." Knives were emerging from the ground in front of her. Unica smiled, her red lips crimson, having killed three people. Even without lipstick, her lips were as red as blood.

She chose a direction and stepped directly into the flowerbed. The ghost tongue didn't react at all, and even the bone vine didn't attack her. When she was with these plants, Unica felt like a fish swimming in the ocean, relaxed and at ease.

She can't stay here any longer. Maintaining a low level of suspicion after killing Uncle Zhang and the bespectacled man is her limit.

Next, I'll hide in the shadows and wait for the next person to be alone... I also need to take care of the Oster Company over there~

Unica was initially unhappy that so many people had suddenly appeared in the tomb. These people were beneath the attention of the Ghost Tree; using them as fertilizer would be an insult to it.

After getting to know them, Unica discovered that Carlos, Lin, San, and a man from Oster Company known as Chen were all rare and exceptional individuals. For these people, even if it meant cleaning up a lot of irrelevant people, Unica felt it was worth it.

"Go see Chen Hao, when will we finally get his head?" Unica muttered to herself, her voice fading into the distance as she walked through the flower field.

When Master Li fell from the exit, the first thing he saw when he looked up was a bespectacled man covered in blood. His pupils contracted, and then he fell silent.

Because of the strange time difference in the black hole at the exit, for him, it would only take less than a minute for the bespectacled man to jump down in front of him. It was as if a lively family member was dead right in front of him the next second.

The bespectacled man was a skilled swimmer trained by the Li family; who knew he would die so suddenly on land?

"Master Li, he was stabbed by a trap, and Uncle Zhang and Unica are also missing." Shi Jiu thought she had witnessed the whole thing and warned her through the earpiece, "There should be something terrifying around here. Uncle Zhang and Unica disappeared almost the instant they encountered that thing."

As soon as she finished speaking, Carlos, Lin, and Yu Xing also fell down. It seemed that Unica's departure also took away the time difference at the exit of the maze, restoring time here to normal.

After falling, Carlos, who was wearing a microphone and headphones, happened to hear the second half of the story, but he didn't have the energy to think about its meaning because he was unlucky. He first fell to the ground, then was hit by Lin, and after finally pushing Lin away, Yu Xing came down as well.

Even though Yu Xing wasn't heavy, the impact was still terrifying. Carlos, his face expressionless, patted Yu Xing's back. "Get up. If I were as fragile as a paper doll, I would be dead by now."

Yu Xing was overjoyed to have received a cushion of flesh, and very readily got up, saying, "Sorry."

The three of them stood still, and as they turned their heads, they saw Master Li's gloomy face and the corpse on the ground beside him.

The three people. "..."

Carlos then realized what was happening and said to Yu Xing, "Shi Jiu said Uncle Zhang and Unica are missing, and him... he seems to have been killed by a trap."

"Is that so..." Master Li narrowed his eyes, looking at the spot where the bespectacled man had fallen. "What did he touch before he died?"

Although no names were mentioned, it was clearly a question about Shi Jiu.

Master Li seemed to be in a very bad mood, and he didn't even bother to pay attention to the three young men who came down behind him.

"As far as I know, he suddenly dropped to the ground, as if he were deliberately facing the blade." Shi Jiu's voice was extremely calm, as if she wasn't emotionally affected by the death of her comrade. She said rationally, "I understand, you mean someone made him drop to the ground, and that's why he was attacked."

"It's obvious." Master Li's face was cold, the deep wrinkles on his features radiating aggression. "Who is it?"

"..." Shi Jiu paused for about five seconds in the headset, "If we're only referring to humans, there are three possibilities."

"The first possibility is that the terrifying entity Unica saw wasn't behind Uncle Zhang, but rather Uncle Zhang himself. In that case, Unica should have already been killed by Uncle Zhang bespectacled man to lie down."

"The second possibility is that Unica deliberately made that expression to mislead me. In that case... Uncle Zhang is probably in grave danger, and the man with glasses has been killed by Unica."

"The third possibility is that people from the Oster Company came here, killed Uncle Zhang Unica, and then hid and assassinated the bespectacled man, or they arrived after Unica and Uncle Zhang died and killed the bespectacled man as well."

The mercenary was much smarter than Unica had imagined; in just a few seconds, she had the correct answer in her selection.

Yu Xing overheard the gist of it and then chuckled softly.

His laughter sounded extremely grating to Master Li glanced at him and asked, "What are you laughing at?"

"It's nothing. I was just laughing at Unica, wondering if she hasn't been around real people in a long time. Her so-called tricks aren't actually that clever by today's standards." Yu Xing's words made Master Li even more silent, but his expression relaxed a little.

Carlos chimed in, "Yes, people nowadays aren't like they were a thousand years ago, where a beautiful woman could put on an act and make people overlook logical flaws. Fools have changed their ways of being foolish; they're not so superficial anymore."

Lin took a step back, his doubts growing.

Why do these two seem to have already decided on the ghosts who infiltrated the area?

When exactly did they come up with this idea!?