Chapter 20: Hidden Area
Ssh Ssh.
The storm seems to show no signs of stopping and willst until the event is over.
The muddy mountain road.
A woman in red with disheveled ck hair,pletely ignoring the rushing rainstorm, headed towards an abandoned tile house.
Upon reaching the tiled door....
Whoosh! A kitchen knife was grasped in her hand, and she walked towards the interior of the room with her whole body on guard.
Her pupils seemed to possess a certain degree of night vision, and she could also see everything inside the pitch-ck tiled room clearly.
She carefully searched all corners of the tiled room, ready to slice through any enemies in her way with her kitchen knife.
Afterpleting a thorough inspection to make sure there was no danger.
She returned to the hall and crouched beside Han Dong, whose neck was cut open, a red lip whispering in his ear.
"It''s gone."
The words finished.
Arge amount of mycelium grew from Han Dong''s neck and reconnected with his body.
[Head Body Separation Experiment]
On the first night he arrived at the site of the incident, Han Dong had secretly conducted this ''experiment'' in his room - using a sharp knife he had bought to make a small incision in the neck area into the flesh.
The mycelium (tentacles) that the "faceless head" could quickly grow connected to the wound and healed extremely quickly.
Of course, such a wound connection was limited to the skull and body, and other parts of the body would not work.
This was precisely because the real body of Han Dong was just this "Faceless Man''s Head" that took up 100 points of weight.
As for Nichs''s weak flesh was merely a temporary loan.
As long as it didn''t injure the skull or the cell cluster, Han Dong wouldn''t die.
Borrowing this one trait, along with the information gathered and the ''branching event'' that was unexpectedly opened.
During the third day, without leaving home, Han Dong spent a great deal of effort toy out an extremelyplex situation.
This situation required arge number of ''cogs'' to sustain it.
The slightest loss, loosening, or failure of any of the ''gears'' to turn when they should have, would lead to problems in the overall situation.
Among them, the most important ''cog'' would have to be [Sinister Chen Li].
And what Han Dong hadn''t expected was that this cog, Chen Li, was even more special than he had imagined... Chen Li''s uniqueness made the big picture even more solid.
Then, the most important aspect of this n had also just been sessfully realized.
Han Dong, having beenpletely sure that ''Akaman'' was the Evil Spirit, immediately asked Chen Li to start the operation.
Disguised as the Evil Spirit, Chen Li took the initiative to chase after Edward and Monica.
Letting Edward mistakenly think that the Evil Spirit was looking for him.
Edward, who was very familiar with the rules of ''hiding'', would certainly kill the blonde to buy time... Even if Edward didn''t kill her, Chen Li would still do it herself.
The reason for doing so was so that the time of Blondie Monica''s death would coincide with the time of Han Dong''s ''suicide''.
Han Dong had already received the message of the ''killing restriction'' from Akaman, and as long as someone in the squad died, Akaman would definitely receive the corresponding message.
Thus, the Evil Spirit would never have any doubts about Han Dong''s suicide .
........
The head rejoins the body.
Han Dong relieved a breath of air and smiled a rare smile.
"Finally, we''vee this far!
I was correct in my guess that the evil spirit is indeed restricted...and most fundamentally hard restricted by time.
However, that restriction will continue to diminish over thest few hours, possibly even leaving it unrestricted in any way.
That''s it...let''s hurry back to the bungalow."
Han Dong held onto the wall and slowly got up.
Preparing to use the time when the evil spirit was unable to harm anyone to smoothly return to the bungalow to unite the event characters and start the final n.
Who knew, but Chen Li was standing at the bedroom entrance of the current tiled room .
The arm stretched forward, pointing to a certain location.
It seemed that she had discovered something unexpectedly when she had just entered the house to search to confirm the existence of the ''evil spirit''.
"Underground secret passage!?"
Moving the worn wooden bed Chen Li pointed to, lift the carpet at the bottom.
A dark and deep secret passage was revealed.
"Seven and a half hours remain until the event is over...the only survivors left are Edward and me.
The evil spirit''s ''harm interval'' shouldn''t be too short, it should be at least three hours.
Chen Li, let''s go down and take a look."
Intuition.
"There might be something unexpected down here... If there''s nothing there, it''s entirely toote to return to the bungalow right away."
Time permitting.
Han Dong stepped on the damp staircase and headed to the unexpected discovery of this mysterious cer by the light of his shlight.
"Let me go ahead."
During the descent, Chen Li held a kitchen knife and took the initiative to walk ahead of Han Dong so as to avoid any danger in the cer... There was a sense of ''protecting the Lord''.
The smell of moss, rats and insects, and the stench of decay.
As Han Dong stepped down thest step of thedder, the familiar system voice came.
Discover the hidden area... "The Corrupt Cer.
"Please search for clues in the area to start the corresponding event... 15 minutes.
"Another unexpected gain!"
The corners of Han Dong''s mouth turned up, revealing an excited smile.
The first time the ''branching event'' was activated due to talking to the event character, this time it was the discovery of a hidden area. What exactly would be gained would still have to be found as clues.
It took about ten minutes toplete the detailed exploration of the cer.
In a corner of the floor where there were traces of loose soil, a notebook was dug out.
On it, in scribbled Chinese characters, was a record of events regarding--''The gue ravaged the area, causing the forced relocation of the local tourist area, and the area of [Wangzi Gang] turned into a wilderness area.
"The attractions were relocated, the various farmhouses were all abandoned, even the viges and farmhouses were all deserted and abandoned... So there was a gue incident here?"
At the side, Chen Li said, "My brother and I are not residents of Wangzi Gang, we only know that this area had an outbreak of gue and was deserted, so we purposely found an abandoned farmhouse building and pretended to live here to lure the couple over."
"Hmm..."
Han Dong continues to read the diary.
In the back, it wrote about the internal events of this family of five - the family''s slow wait for death due to the gue, and when he finished reading, a family photo fell out.
"Hidden event activated - [gue House]
Requirement: kill a living host of gue x 5
Reward: a Fate Item (matching the subject''s level).
As soon as the system prompt ended... the soil in the cer area loosened extensively, and an ulcerated arm full of holes stretched out of the soil, slowly crawling out of the ground.
Five living gue victims crawl out of the ground, corresponding exactly to the five people in the family photo.
They had died a long time ago and had reappeared through the power granted by the gue and the ''Fate Space'', not belonging to the human category, but merely a group of unconscious lifeforms driven by the fungus.
"Han Dong... leave these guys to me."
"Mm."
Han Dong''s current physical state couldn''t fight these gue individuals, not to mention whether they would be killed or not, it would be troublesome once they were infected.
Of course, Han Dong wouldn''t be able to watch the whole show.
The backpack contained the ''special items'' that he had purchased in the countryside before the event opened.
Two bottles of inferior liquor with extremely high degrees and cheap prices, and several cheap stic lighters.