Jiang Nuo chopped off Liu Wei's hand and sliced off half of his face.
Liu Wei is still alive, but he is in great pain.
I even thought that if I were just killed like this, perhaps I would suffer less pain.
So the look in his eyes as he looked at Jiang Nuo changed from fear and hatred to pleading with the strong.
Jiang Nuo could tell he was waiting for death, so she smiled and leaned down, gently patting Liu Wei's uninjured other half of his face with her blood-stained hand.
Its tone was both alluring and chilling, like that of a demon.
"I won't kill you. Go back alive and tell Boduo that he's next."
"No..."
Why don't you kill me!
Liu Wei couldn't believe what he had just heard. In that instant, he saw the crimson in Jiang Nuo's eyes and understood why everyone he had met in the instance was so afraid of him.
Feeling your blood rapidly draining away, the pain piercing to the bone, even death becomes a luxury?
Even more terrifying, Liu Wei found that he had completely lost the will to resist or seek revenge.
Liu Wei watched helplessly as Jiang Nuo left the room. Xu Yin moment, then came over and pulled him up.
"Damn it! Why didn't God Nuo just kill this guy?!"
[ Si Yan just collapsed, it was so scary, waaaaah, I'm crying so hard.]
Is this mission just to separate Si Yan and God Nuo??
[I don't understand the dungeons, but I feel the system is really malicious. No wonder God Nuo hates the system so much!]
[Upstairs, watch your account! Don't forget we're also under control, sob sob...]
[ Si Yan must be safe! No one in the team can be missing!]
The fourth door.
Inside, a quiet elevator stood, its dimly lit danger sign casting a cold green glow. The elevator doors were ajar, and drops of blood trickled out.
Soon, the entire room was filled with the stench of blood, a thick, inhuman smell.
With a beep, the elevator doors opened fully, and the floor indicator showed the elevator was going up.
"Could the fourth door be the elevator that leads out of the fourth floor...? But..." Xu Yin hesitated, "That's a bit too eerie."
Yue Zhou calmly took a half-step forward to test the waters. The blood stopped flowing, but a lot of dense hair fell out from the elevator mezzanine, smelling fishy and sticky.
She frowned menacingly, patted her skirt, and backed away.
Jiang Nuo suddenly asked Yue Zhou, "How long has it been since Si Yan disappeared?"
Other players were unaware that Si Yan had been taken into a spatial dimension; they simply assumed that she had disappeared during the solo quest.
Yue Zhou: "Ten minutes."
There are no clocks here, but Jiang Nuo trusts Yue Zhou's control over time.
Fifty minutes left.
If Si Yan doesn't wake up in time...
Jiang Nuo's eyes were half-closed, and his gaze toward the elevator door was devoid of warmth, yet it always gave the impression that he was smiling.
"Do you think if I destroy the instance, the damn system will just roll out on its own?"
The three players present. "..."
Xu Yin swallowed hard, but dared not utter a sound.
Yue Zhou gently stroked her skirt, her voice remaining calm, "You can try it."
Xu Yin turned to look at her in shock, her face showing utter despair.
These days, gamers are scarier than ghosts!
Jiang Nuo chuckled meaningfully and walked straight into the elevator. Yue Zhou and Xu Yin stood on the inside, while Liu Wei was squeezed in the corner. Having come back to life, he finally thought of returning to his room as soon as possible to use the props to stop the bleeding.
The elevator doors closed, but it didn't go up the floor indicated on the display.
One drop, two drops.
More and more blood dripped from the elevator's top mezzanine, eventually forming a stream that quickly spread to the instep.
Xu Yin felt like she couldn't breathe; the moist, foul smell of blood filled her nostrils.
"Tsk."
She heard Jiang Nuo click her tongue impatiently, and assumed that Jiang Nuo had come up with a way to keep the elevator running.
But Jiang Nuo simply raised her hand and tapped on the elevator wall, still seeming to be willing to discuss things.
"Get out here."
Glug glug.
The sound of something rolling came from the top of the elevator. Looking up, they saw an eyeball peering down from a gap in the mezzanine, staring intently at them.
Jiang Nuo raised her eyes to meet the gaze of the eyeballs. Her scarlet left eye deepened, and her fingers, hanging at her sides, clenched as if she were crushing something out of thin air.
Pfft.
Xu Yin gasped softly as she watched as the eyeball was squeezed and burst by an invisible force, the fluid exploding in the elevator.
As if out of fear, the long hair that had been spreading around the elevator gradually receded, and the elevator began to slowly ascend.
But during this process, the elevator ghost didn't give up harassing them, popping its head out every now and then.
Liu Wei, a severely injured player who was already shivering and whose bleeding had only been temporarily stopped, was the target that the elevator ghost had found.
Liu Wei noticed that his wound was being licked, as if to relieve his pain.
At first, she felt so comfortable that she trembled slightly, then she realized what was happening. Her pupils trembled as she slowly lowered her head and saw a long tongue sticking out from the crack in the elevator wall. Half of her face looked like a swollen balloon squeezed into the crack, and a foul stench gradually spread.
"Mmm!"
Liu Wei instinctively used his remaining hand to fling his tongue away. With half his face severed, he couldn't utter a complete sentence, only muttering angry curses.
The next second, the licked wounds quickly rotted and melted, and tiny, sharp teeth grew out from the elevator mezzanine, biting off Liu Wei's body.
"Aaaaaah!"
Xu Yin she kept dodging and backing away, but the elevator was still too small, and she couldn't help but see Liu Wei's body being swallowed and chewed up by the elevator until nothing was left.
The sound of chewing flesh sends chills down your spine.
"Oops."
Jiang Nuo's cold, melancholic voice rang out, sounding regrettable yet utterly nonchalant.
"He's still dead."
He curved his eyes into a smile, the gentle smirk on his lips both alluring and seductive.
And there's no need to go through the trouble of killing ghosts anymore.
How terrifying... even Mom...
I'm experiencing some physical discomfort...
"This kind of death is worse than being killed by God Nuo."
The elevator ghost was fed, and the elevator car returned to normal, quickly ascending to the next floor.
Xu Yin watched as the bloodstains disappeared, along with all traces of Liu Wei's presence, and asked Jiang Nuo in a trembling voice, "The elevator ghost needs to eat players to leave, so... you didn't kill Liu Wei?"
Jiang Nuo sighed, "How could you think of me like that?"
He turned around, his gaze towards Xu Yin devoid of any smile; his direct stare was enough to instill fear in anyone.
"He was destined to die anyway."
bite!
The elevator reached Jiang Nuo's floor. Before leaving, Jiang Nuo didn't forget to try to win Yue Zhou over again, only to be told to get lost once more.
He seemed to have regained his composure, if one ignored the chilling killing intent emanating from him.
<Congratulations to players Jiang Nuo, Yue Zhou, and Xu Yin for completing the side quest: Midnight Patrol Scare >
< Jiang Nuo, the first-place winner, received a reward: the correct front desk hotline number, which has been sent to her system bracelet.>
The system's announcement sounded somewhat reluctant.
Tick-tock, the watch clock returned to normal.
Jiang Nuo suddenly stopped, turned around to look at the elevator doors closing, and then looked at the mural at the end of the elevator corridor.
He slowly walked back, and following the direction indicated by the special symbols of the Dao Xuan Association in the mural, he found the fire hydrant next to the elevator and retrieved a cloth bag from inside.
Inside the cloth bag was a piece of paper with writing on it, the ink already somewhat blurred.
Jiang Nuo lowered her eyes, did not open it immediately, casually put it away and turned to go back to her room.