After the game ended, the Strange Creatures left in the game setting would begin to rampage. The reason was unknown. But according to the speculation of certain wise people in his previous life, the "Administrator" probably imposed compulsory restrictions on the Strange Creatures during the game. Once the game ended and those restrictions vanished, the Strange Creatures would redirect their suppressed rage toward the players who had failed to clear the game.
So when the dense fog dispersed, the hideous Ghost Madam attacked Su Bai without hesitation.
Su Bai first sidestepped Ghost Madam's frontal assault, and the Wedding Veil he had already pulled loose fell to the ground. Dragging his clanking iron chains, he moved to her side and immediately wound them around her neck.
"Since the Accusation Round is over, there's no need for the murderer to keep existing." The iron chains in Su Bai's hand tightened around Ghost Madam's upper body as though they were alive. After a moment's thought, he added, "I really hate interfering in other people's family affairs. If possible, why don't we go our separate ways?"
"Everything in this house must remain here." Ghost Madam's aged, hoarse voice seemed to come from every corner of the Back Courtyard.
The iron chains gripped in Su Bai's hand had already locked the Strange Creature before him in a stranglehold. He stopped trying to negotiate and drove his ghostified right claw straight through the back of Ghost Madam's neck.
But the sensation that followed struck Su Bai as strange. His ghost claw, coated in the power of the Red Moon, should have pierced the Strange Creature's body, yet it felt like a sharp blade sliding into tofu, without enough tangible resistance. Had the damage Su Bai inflicted with A Xi's borrowed power actually fallen short of what