A pair of scarlet eyes stared at the two of them through the gap beneath the water vat's lid!
More and more eyes appeared.
Two pairs, four pairs, eight pairs...
Only then did Tang Yan and Heavenly Enchantress realize that the teahouse's rear courtyard was now covered in strands of snakelike waterweed.
The waterweed was two fingers wide and no one knew how many yards long, with a pair of scarlet eyes at the tip of every strand.
As though spotting prey, countless strands of waterweed slipped through the gap into the vat and coiled around them. This time, they not only felt suffocated, but even their bones felt about to be crushed apart.
[Points deducted: 1] [Points deducted: 1] [Points deducted: 1]
Their points were being deducted faster and faster. Tang Yan quickly shut the lid, but the waterweed still held them in a death grip.
[Points deducted: 1] [Points deducted: 1] [Points deducted: 1]
Seeing their points still plummeting, Tang Yan's heart jolted. Had I miscalculated?
Fortunately, the waterweed did not bind them for long. After costing them five points each, it withdrew from the vat.
This experiment had cost eight points in total.
"Tang Yan, what are you testing?" Heavenly Enchantress asked curiously.
Tang Yan finally sorted out his thoughts. Keeping nothing back, he said solemnly, "In this round, everyone's initial hiding spot comes down to luck.
"Only a handful of buildings are safe from the fiends' attacks. Everyone else gets entangled by them.
"But as long as you stay still, the point deductions aren't too severe.
"Once you move, you alert the fiends, and they attack like mad.
"Those people who were killed by fiends just now probably panicked when their points plummeted and ran out of their hiding spots.
"Since