Put away your magical powers now!.

Chapter 124 [Monster in Human Skin] (7800 words)
Chapter 7800 [Monster in Human Skin] ( words)
In fact, Chen Yan didn't understand what the puppet waiter said, but when he heard this broadcast-like notification, he instinctively became alert.

But! After a moment, Chen Yan's expression changed!
Because, after the puppet waiter spoke for a few seconds, he paused and then spoke again...

This time, it actually spoke Dragon Mandarin!!

Chen Yan's face was solemn: The owner of the secret realm here has realized that I am from Dragon Country!
"...left the room. In view of this violation, I hereby make this statement. The host does not object to guests making some attempts to break the rules - as long as the guests are willing to bear the consequences.

There were two guests who violated the rules and left the room last night, one of whom has died.

Another surviving guest will receive an additional gift after the trial - if this guest can survive until the end of the trial.

The above is a special note. The owner of the secret realm welcomes and encourages all guests to make every effort and try, and we support such behavior..."

When Chen Yan heard this, the corners of his mouth twitched.

support?

He shook his head and continued to listen quietly to the puppet's voice.

“…Now, let me announce the rules for the third night.

From now on, the trial is in pause mode. During this pause, the outdoor area will be open as a safe zone. To reward those who successfully attempted to break the rules last night, the pause time for all guests will be doubled, so this pause will last for 30 minutes. Please make good use of it.

During safe hours, all guests can leave their rooms freely and move around the second floor as they please without being attacked or in any danger.

The pause time is provided for everyone to exchange rooms for the second time.

The rules for the second room exchange have only one restriction: you cannot exchange rooms with someone you have already exchanged rooms with the night before.

Other rules refer to the last room change rules."

After the puppet finished speaking, it paused and then repeated it in its dull, mechanical tone.

Chen Yan's face was calm. He took a sip of water first, but his mind was thinking about something else.

Last night, in the mirror world, why did that zombie monster appear?
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Chen Yan didn't believe that the zombie monster discovered him and deliberately chased him into the mirror world!

After hiding in the mirror world, even Tiandao couldn't find him! Could it be that the monster's ability to perceive is even more amazing than Tiandao's?
But it actually appeared in the mirror world.

After thinking about it, Chen Yan quickly made a guess:
Perhaps, the mirror world was originally the hiding place of the monsters in the secret realm?
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During the day, the room is a safe zone.

At night, monsters suddenly appear in the room.

How did they suddenly appear?
Where are the monsters in the room during the day?
Maybe... in the mirror world?
If this speculation is correct, the owner of the secret realm may have some special spells, or may possess a magic weapon similar to the black stone that he got in Hong Kong City?
Can you pull monsters into the mirror world, and throw them out of the mirror world?
One thing is certain: the monster itself does not have the ability to enter and exit the mirror world!

Because the monster in the room last night that was immune to magic was helpless after it hid in the mirror world - it did not have the ability to chase into the mirror world.

And zombie monsters can enter...

The owner of the secret realm found himself in the mirror world! And then threw the monster in!

Chen Yan touched his chin, and a new question arose in his mind.

It seems... the master of the secret realm does not object to using the mirror world to conduct trials.

If it had objected, or if it had been hostile to me, it would have appeared and killed me last night!
And just throw a zombie monster in...

If you think about it carefully, this action is not very decisive.

It seems like it’s just to make it more difficult for myself?

"You just don't want me to cheat?"

Chen Yan frowned - that guy who treated human life as his own, slaughtered humans at will, skinned and gutted them, and committed such cruel atrocities, could he be so easy to talk to?
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There was a knock on the door, and Chu Keqing's voice came from outside: "Senior!"

Chen Yan put away his thoughts, walked over and opened the door.

Chu Keqing and Ouyang were standing at the door. Chu Keqing was relieved when she saw Chen Yan open the door. Then she looked at Chen Yan carefully for a few times and said, "Senior, how are you? I..."

"I'm fine." Chen Yan took a deep breath and answered in a low voice, but deliberately made his breathing seem a little unstable, then turned his head and coughed lightly twice.

Seeing Chen Yan's pale face and weak appearance, Chu Keqing felt a little worried: "I, I think you seem a little..."

"It's really okay." Chen Yan waved his hand and looked at Ouyang.

Ouyang squinted his eyes and looked at Chen Yan, then nodded: "Brother, I'm glad you're okay. I'm not worried at all. When you agreed to change rooms yesterday, I knew you would be able to deal with that thing."

When Ouyang said this, his expression changed slightly: "Have you exposed your identity? That puppet started speaking Dragon Mandarin!"

Chen Yan raised his eyebrows: "Why do you conclude that my identity was exposed? Maybe it was you who was exposed."

Ouyang had a strange expression on his face, then he shook his head and said, "Brother, tell me the truth, it was you who broke the rules by leaving the room last night, wasn't it?"

Before Chen Yan could answer, he noticed that Chu Keqing was also looking at him with a complicated expression.

Okay... Chen Yan sighed.

There's no way to hide this.

Ouyang's expression suddenly brightened. He walked over and patted Chen Yan on the shoulder, his tone somewhat excited: "How did you do that?"

Chen Yan pointed at his own face and said, "Look at how I look! How did I do that? I fought my way out, and in the end I was beaten so badly that I had to run back to my room."

Ouyang curled his lips. Although he didn't say anything, the expression on his face clearly showed disbelief.

"Okay, stop wasting time. The precious pause time and safe zone are used to exchange rooms." Chen Yan sighed: "Let's go see how many people died tonight."

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Chen Yan witnessed the death of the general armor guest with his own eyes.

In fact, Chu Keqing and Ouyang also saw it.

When the three of them left the room and came to the corridor, the long-haired old man Jiudai was the first to come out from the other side of the corridor.

This guy who looked very imposing was not in the same good condition as he was the night before.

The old man's dark robe had been torn to shreds! His right arm hung limply, and beneath the tattered clothes, his forearm was covered in shocking scars, his flesh peeling back, and you could almost vaguely see the bones!
Then, the girl with long straight black hair from the next room also opened the door and walked out - however, the girl did not look injured at all, but there was something a little off about her aura.

Before the long-haired old man, Jiudai, could say anything, the girl with long straight black hair said angrily, "You lied to me! You hid the dangerous rules of this room from me!"

The long-haired old man glared back with a vicious look: "You too! Xisang girl, you didn't tell me the truth when we changed rooms!"

The two looked at each other with hatred, and then turned away together.

The three people from Chen Yan's side came over, but did not go up to greet the two people. Chen Yan's goal was very clear - go straight to the room of the guy in black clothes and top hat!

After reaching the door, Chen Yan stopped and sighed: "Dead."

The door was ajar - as if there was a rule here that once the guest in the room died, the lock on the door would become ineffective and the door would no longer be locked.

Chen Yan gently pushed open the door and walked in. Ouyang and Chu Keqing followed immediately.

Everything in the room looked intact. The floor, walls, and table all looked clean without any signs of damage.

The room was also extremely clean, without even a trace of blood.

However, the guest in black clothes and a top hat was already dead.

He just lay on the bed.

Their lying postures all look quite regular: their hands are folded on their chests and their bodies are straight.

His face seemed quite peaceful. Although his expression was stiff, there was no trace of pain or struggle in his dying face.

It looked as if he was sleeping normally and then died silently in his dream.

——Of course Chen Yan knew that this was impossible!
In this trial, when the night is dangerous, who will sleep?
Something is wrong!
Chen Yan immediately turned around to look at Ouyang and Chu Keqing: "Do you remember? This room belonged to the guest in armor before! After the first night, it was given to this guy."

Ouyang narrowed his eyes and said, "Yes, we changed rooms after the first night. I remember that the guy in armor was not in this state when he walked out of this room."

Chen Yan nodded. "That guy's armor was damaged, and there were a lot of bloodstains on it—it looked like he had been through a fierce battle. But look at what he looks like now... Sigh!"

Chu Keqing's expression was strange: "He has no injuries on his body, and his clothes are intact."

Chen Yan looked at Ouyang: "Will the dangers and monsters in the room change?"

"The rules don't allow that." Ouyang shook his head. "That's why there are so many restrictions in the rules for the room-changing process. It's also very prominent! If the dangers and monsters in the room could change, then the room-changing process would be meaningless."

Chen Yan pinched his chin. "So, we might have been misled before. The guy in the general's armor spent his first night here, and when he came out he had external injuries on his body. We all thought that the monster in this room mainly attacked with external force. Now it seems..."

Ouyang coldly looked at the body in black clothes and a tall hat lying on the bed: "His soul is gone. It has been taken away or annihilated. This is an attack method that directly affects the soul!"

Damn, so the monsters in this room have both physical and magical attacks?
Chen Yan cursed in his heart.

Up to now, three of the original seven groups of guests have died.

The two big-headed dolls died on the first night, and the armor and the black tall hat of the general died on the second night.

The rest, apart from the three people on Chen Yan's side, are the long-haired old man Jiudai and the girl with long straight black hair.

Here comes the interesting thing: according to the rules, this room exchange cannot be the same as the one from the previous night.

and so……

"We can only switch rooms with those two guys." Ouyang smiled.

"Not necessarily. You can also choose from an empty room." Chen Yan looked into Ouyang's eyes.

At this time, a shout came from the door. It was the long-haired old man Jiudai.

Jiudai and the girl with long black hair walked into the room one after another. They also came to the bed and stared at the guy in black clothes and tall hat on the bed for a while.

Obviously, there was some surprise on the faces of these two people - the surprise was not that this guy was dead, but the way he died!

Anyone who has survived the trials and is still alive today is no fool. These two people obviously noticed something was amiss.

At this moment, Jiudai suddenly spoke.

What he spoke was actually stiff Long Mandarin.

"Excuse me, which one of you is from Dragon Country?"

The pronunciation is stiff and a bit awkward, which is the typical flavor of Japanese people speaking Chinese.

Chen Yan looked at the old man, thought for a moment, and said with a smile: "We all are."

Hisayo seemed to be stunned.

He glanced at Chen Yan and Chu Keqing, and finally landed on Ouyang. "You? Aren't you an Onmyoji from the Liu Xiang sect of the Four Kingdoms? How did you become a Dragon Kingdom person?"

Ouyang glared at Chen Yan helplessly: "No way, buddy, are you selling me out just like that?"

Chen Yan smiled friendly – if we’re going to drop the code, of course we should drop it together!!

"It's none of your business. I'm just a Dragon Countryman." Ouyang said to Jiudai bluntly.

Jiudai didn't dwell on this question and immediately got to the point: "I think we can discuss the conditions for changing rooms."

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Changing rooms is the priority!

Because any surviving guest can provide information about what type of monsters are in the room at night and what attack methods they use!

Moreover, the situation is very delicate at the moment. Both sides exchanged positions in the first round.

Hisayo and Kurona Naoki swapped places, both knowing the dangers of both rooms!
The same goes for Chen Yan.

Knowing the characteristics and attack methods of monsters is much better than going into an unfamiliar room and experiencing unknown risks.

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"We can talk about it." Chen Yan smiled and looked at the girl with long black hair: "You are here to discuss changing rooms too, right? Then let's talk about it together!"

After saying that, fearing that the girl with long black hair might not understand, he asked Chu Keqing to translate it into Japanese.

The girl with long black hair nodded.

Chen Yan looked at the old man Jiudai and said, "Since you were the one who came to us first, please tell us what kind of monster is in your room."

Just as Jiudai was about to speak, Chen Yan added, "You'd better not hide anything—the girl next to you must be your enemy. I'll verify what you said with her. If you lie to me, I think she'll be happy to expose you."

Jiudai immediately showed his anger: "Please don't judge others by your own mean standards!" Oh, you can even say idioms, Chen Yan smiled.

Then Jiudai suppressed his dissatisfaction and said slowly: "In this room of mine, the monster's attack mode is force attack! However, it has two attack modes, one is clone, and the other is invisibility!"

After a pause, he glanced at the black man with long straight hair hatefully: "This room was hers the first night! But when she switched rooms with me, she hid part of it from me. She only told me that the monster could clone itself, but she didn't mention that it could attack in stealth mode. That's why I got hurt."

Clone and invisibility - that sounds pretty tricky, and it's also a physical attack. Chen Yan isn't good at physical skills, he's better at long-range magic attacks.

Moreover, a monster that attacks with force does not know whether his Six Yang Righteousness Talisman has any effect in suppressing it.

But Ouyang, who was standing next to him, rolled his eyes when he heard this.

Chen Yan's heart moved!
Although Ouyang claimed to be cultivating the spirit path, he actually took on a monster immune to spells on his first night! He managed to hold his own purely through sheer force!
His fighting power must be quite high!

As for the art of clone and invisibility...

Ouyang said that he had an innate magical power called "Breaking Delusion"!
You can roughly guess its function by listening to the name. It should have an advantage when facing abilities like clone and invisibility.

When Chen Yan thought of this, he simply stopped talking and tilted his head towards Ouyang, meaning: I give it to you.

Ouyang nodded and smiled, saying: "My room is, illusion attack..."

He quickly described the situation in his room without holding back.

Originally, Chen Yan thought that Jiudai would definitely be willing to change.

After all, Chen Yan himself felt that the room with illusion attacks might be the easiest of all the rooms in terms of difficulty.

That illusion attack cannot directly harm people.

If you are unaware of it, you may succeed unexpectedly.

But if you know the details in advance, it will be much easier to get through it.

Chen Yan felt that if he were Jiudai, he would definitely choose to exchange without hesitation!

However, after hearing this, Jiudai's expression changed slightly, and he lowered his head to think, as if...

Is he hesitating?

Such an easy-difficulty room, he?

Chen Yan's heart moved!
This Jiudai might be... weak in terms of mental strength!

Good at physical skills, but not at cultivating the soul?
So he has no confidence in dealing with mental attacks!
Just when Jiudai was struggling, the black-haired girl next to him actually spoke. She slowly said to Ouyang, "I'm willing to exchange rooms with you! Although my room is quite difficult, I want to join the competition."

Chen Yan and the other three were stunned.

This girl with long black hair could actually speak Dragon Mandarin! And her pronunciation was even more standard than Jiudai's Dragon Mandarin!
Chen Yan grinned: "Can you speak Long Guoyu?"

The girl with long black hair said coldly, "Are you surprised? I didn't know you were from Dragon Country before, so I didn't tell you."

Okay, okay, the whole world speaks Long Mandarin, right?

Chen Yan shrugged.

The girl with long black hair continued to say to Ouyang: "In my room, the monsters use regular attack methods, so they are not difficult to deal with!"

Chen Yan and the other two became curious: "Rules?"

"Yes!
A ghost will appear in my room, attacking the guests and making bets and playing games.

At first, it asks you a question, and you answer it. Then, it makes a request, and you have to complete it—if you lose, it’s game over.”

"What happens if you lose?"

"It will open your door." The girl with long black hair said coldly.

Chu Keqing frowned. "What kind of game is this? Are there any limits to the demands it makes? Otherwise, if it asks the guests to commit suicide, do they have to do it?"

"No, the content of the game must first be reasonable. Reasonable means that the requirements must be something that can be done within extreme conditions - otherwise, asking the guests to change their gender on the spot is always impossible.

The second restriction is that guests may not be physically harmed, such as being asked to harm themselves.

The third restriction is that the game must be confined to the room and cannot exceed the scope of the room - so it cannot require guests to open the door themselves."

Chen Yan didn't say anything, but pondered carefully. Ouyang, on the other hand, said doubtfully, "It doesn't sound that difficult..."

The girl with long black hair took a deep breath and said, "Although I really want to exchange rooms with you, I have to be honest - it's not as simple as you think.

Because the demands it makes may be all kinds of strange, and may even break your bottom line..."

"Breaking the bottom line?" Ouyang suddenly thought of something and shouted, "Shit! Is it going to make me poop a big pile right there and then and then eat it? Do I have to do it?"

The black-haired woman didn't say anything.

Chu Keqing next to her suddenly shuddered and her expression changed.

The girl with long black hair continued, "The game will last for three rounds. In the first round, it will ask questions and make requests.

The second round is reversed, with you asking the ghost questions and then making requests of it.

The same applies to the restrictions on requirements. You can't let it die, you can't let it leave the room, and you can't ask for things that are simply impossible to do.

In the third round, it will be the one asking questions and making requests.

After three rounds, the winner is the one who wins two out of three.

If you win, it will let you go and never appear again.

If you lose, it opens the door!"

The girl with long black hair shook her head and said, "I am very sincere, but I have to say that this room is very uncertain, so I am not completely sure whether I can pass it.

In my experience, the second round, when the guest initiates questions and makes requests, is the key to success! If the other party initiates two of the three rounds, the possibility of losing is very high.

You just have to make sure you score in the round you initiate! Then, find a way to get at least one point in the other two rounds it initiates to pass."

After hearing this, Chen Yan asked, "Can you tell me how you passed the test?"

"I didn't pass, I lost." The girl with long black hair shook her head.

"Then how did you survive?" Ouyang asked.

The girl with long black hair shook her head: "I don't know... After the door was opened, the ghosts in the room disappeared. But I waited for a while, and no monsters rushed in to attack me. Then I closed the door and waited in the room until dawn, but nothing happened."

A strange look immediately flashed across Chen Yan's expression.

Open the door, but no monster rushes in to kill you?
Then... with a high probability, maybe...

Is it because the murderous zombie monster in the corridor was thrown into the mirror world by the owner of the secret realm to fight with me?
Chen Yan's eyes moved and he looked at Jiudai - Jiudai had spent the first night in this room! He had spent it safely!

"What about you? How did you get through that room?" Chen Yan asked.

Jiudai's expression was a little stiff. The girl with long black hair snorted coldly: "I know how he got through it! He used up a substitute doll!"

After a pause, the black-haired girl explained, "The doll is an heirloom of our Xisang family. It's a magical instrument made by extracting a drop of blood and a trace of soul every year since childhood. Over time, this process has accumulated to create a life-replacing device. A doll can replace a life!"

My father participated in the last trial with him, and he stole my father's substitute doll, causing my father to die here!"

A stand-in doll? Sounds like a great treasure!

Chen Yan was a little curious.

Facing the accusation from the black-haired girl, Jiudai took a deep breath and said, "Girl from the Xisang family! I've already said that I didn't steal the substitute doll!"

"How ridiculous! That's a secret magic treasure passed down from my Xisang family. How could it have fallen into your hands?"

“I already told you I didn’t steal it, I…! #@￥#…%￥…&%…%#￥%…”

Jiudai seemed to be angry. In a hurry, he did not speak Long Mandarin, but quarreled with the girl with long black hair in Japanese.

After the two of them argued for a few words, Chen Yan clapped his hands and shouted, "Enough!!"

He looked at the two of them and said coldly, "The pause time is so short, are you going to waste it arguing?"

Jiudai and the girl with long black hair finally quieted down. Chen Yan didn't look at them, but turned to look at Ouyang and Chu Keqing.

Chu Keqing immediately shook her head: "I won't trade with her!"

This woman's tone was extremely firm and decisive!
Ouyang looked at Chu Keqing, who blushed but said coldly, "There are two of us in this group! If that ghost asked us to do something...intimate right there and then, would we do it?"

Ouyang's expression suddenly changed, and he quickly shook his head and said, "No, no! My Yuan Yang is still there, I can't do this kind of thing!!"

Chu Keqing glared at Ouyang and thought... Is it any of my business? Even if you can, do I really want to?
snort!
Well...if it was Senior Chen Yan, it wouldn't be impossible...

Chen Yan took a deep breath. "Okay, let's talk about my room last. My room... whether it's difficult or not is up to you to decide, but the rules are actually very simple: a monster that's immune to spell attacks can only be defeated by force."

When he heard it was a combat room, Hisayo's eyes lit up, but then he frowned again. He was already seriously injured and his fighting ability was obviously not at its peak.

The girl with long, straight black hair immediately said, "Sir, I'm willing to trade with you too! I'm also quite confident in my pure martial arts skills!"

"Then make a decision quickly!" Chen Yan looked at Ouyang and Chu Keqing; "Have you decided on the ghost rules game room?"

Ouyang nodded: "I prefer the monster room that can split and transform."

Chen Yan looks at the long generation.

Jiudai finally nodded, "Okay, I'm willing to exchange. I'll go to the room with the illusion attack."

"Okay! Then the exchange is complete." Chen Yan looked at the girl with long black hair and said, "It seems that I can only exchange with you."

In fact, Chen Yan could have chosen not to change and go to the dead guest's room.

But of the three guests who had died so far, the two in the Big Head Doll's room had no remains left, only a pool of pus and blood! The one in the Black Coat and Top Hat died without a single scratch on his body. Judging from this, the monster in the room might have both mental and physical attacks.

The armored warrior was tricked by the zombie monster outside into opening the door and then died - he didn't even know what the monster in his room was!

There's no clue at all! If you choose these rooms, the risk is actually greater!
Ouyang Chukeqing and Jiudai swapped places!

Chen Yan swaps places with the girl with long black straight hair!

After the rooms were assigned, the break time was almost over, so everyone returned to their new rooms and locked the doors.

Soon, the puppet waiter's voice made an announcement: The pause time is over and the safe area is closed!

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Chen Yan returned to the room, but was still recalling the words of the girl with long black hair.

Could it be… there was only one monster in the corridor? The zombie monster was killed by me, so the girl with long black hair survived?
if it is like this……

Wouldn't that mean I didn't have to be afraid of anything? I could just walk out into the hallway without hesitation.
Well, there isn't just one zombie monster in the area outside the room here, right?
It's very likely... After all, this isn't an online game where monsters can be automatically resurrected and regenerated after being killed...

But just as Chen Yan had this thought, suddenly, there was a knock on the door!
clap clap.

The knock on the door was not loud and seemed very polite.

Chen Yan was startled, and quickly walked to the door, looking outside through the peephole!
I saw a woman standing in front of the door in the corridor!

She had a pretty face and was wearing a clean Japanese kimono. She folded her hands on her abdomen and bowed gently to herself inside the door.

Then she started to speak, her voice was soft, even with a hint of tenderness and charm, and she spoke in Long Guoyu.

"Dear guest inside, I'm so sorry to bother you! If you're ready to come out, please let me know. I'm right here, waiting to harvest your head! Thank you~"

As she spoke, the woman covered her mouth and smiled softly.

Chen Yan's face looked a little ugly!
Because he recognized the girl's face!

The girl at the door, no, to be precise, is a monster.

The face on her face was… the same girl who had turned into a corpse when he walked into the slaughterhouse-like basement in the mirror world last night!
At this moment, it seems... her skin was peeled off and draped over this monster!
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[There are at most two more chapters to end this trial]

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(End of this chapter)