Immortal I Speedrun Supernatural Game

Chapter 372 Flesh Angels and Gems
"Death perception!"

Just as everyone was about to rush out to find the other body.

The shadowy figure blocked their way.

He also stated that he had a way to quickly find other victims.

“When any living being dies, it emits a strong wave of soul energy, or you can understand it as the instinct for survival causing the soul to try to cry for help.”

"As a spirit, I can sense this extraordinary fluctuation."

He said confidently.

Then, an imperceptible ripple emanated from his fingertips, rapidly enveloping the entire area without regard to the walls.

The next second, Youying suddenly showed an embarrassed expression.

She said apologetically, "Oh... I forgot I was in a haunted house."

"Everywhere here are vengeful ghosts born from the resentment of those who died unwillingly."

“They all have that intense energy, and they have already died once. If they become victims now, they will basically be reduced to ashes and will not leave any physical trace.”

After saying that, he looked at the location of the first victim in the room.

Wu Wang was able to see through the [Vision of Truth].

In the shadowy environment, there aren't even any actual corpses.

There was only a black, charred remnant on the ground that outlined a human figure.

This place is just like a secret chamber in a movie or TV series where a ghost has been exorcised.

The shadow's words made everyone sigh.

It seems they'll have to go out and search for it themselves.

Just then, Youying suddenly paused.

He frowned and said, "Wait a minute... something's not right."

"I only sensed that there were seven other vengeful ghosts in this haunted house, the same ones who had guided us earlier."

"I can't sense the butler that human just mentioned at all."

Upon hearing this, everyone paused in their tracks.

It shouldn’t be!

The witch's conjecture had been confirmed by everyone at the previous dinner table.

Any anomalies that occur in a particular contestant's environment.

This anomaly can occur in everyone's environment.

Since the Mongolian side has a roster proving that there is a steward in the palace who has never appeared.

In other people's environments, there should also be an NPC similar to a butler.

At this moment, Wu Wang stepped forward and asked, "What if your butler isn't a spirit? Or what if he has some ability to conceal his own spiritual fluctuations? Would you then be unable to sense his presence?"

This statement made Youying suddenly realize something.

Oh, that makes sense!

His perception of death is directed at vengeful spirits, or people who have been dead for no more than an hour.

If the other person is still alive and well, you won't be able to sense it.

Then Youying quickly added, "Besides that, I also sensed a guide underground, which means this haunted house has a basement. Don't miss it when you're searching."

"I'll go down and check the situation first."

After saying that, the ground beneath the shadow's feet turned into a viscous mud pit.

His spirit stood on it and began to gradually sink until it completely fell into the next floor and continued to repeat this process.

This is also a unique way for spirits to descend stairs.

Since he has no physical form, he can naturally find ways to ignore the obstruction of buildings and move freely through walls like a ghost in a movie.

Everyone looked at each other.

Panda immediately said, "Although Shadow is a bit headstrong, there's nothing wrong with what he's doing."

"To save time, it's most efficient for everyone to explore separately."

After saying that, he also planned to go out and leave.

Fellow Daoist, please wait a moment. At this point, someone raised a question: "But the rules don't seem to say that the real culprit can't make a move during the voting period, do they?"

"What if someone is attacked after we separate?"

At this moment, the Predator, who had already followed Panda out and was heading in another direction to explore, turned back.

He said coldly, "The strong prey on the weak; that's just how it is."

"Since you've come to this stage, you should be prepared that you can't go back."

"Exploring separately is the most efficient, but if you are unlucky enough to be attacked in the process..."

"Then pray."

"I pray that we can arrive in time to support me before I am killed."

As he spoke his last words, the Predator had already opened the door to the next room and gone inside to explore.

The human players looked at each other in bewilderment.

Finally, Wang Xianzhi shrugged and said, "That makes sense. We only have one hour. If someone gets attacked halfway through, then let's try to make a big commotion."

"After all, our ultimate goal is not to kill the real culprit, we just need to find out who he is."

Her implication was quite clear.

As long as you can hold out until others come to your aid after the attack, or find a way to see the real culprit clearly and escape.

This issue can be resolved during the voting phase.

In such an emergency, no one insisted on acting together.

They all left the room to explore the building.

In the end, only Wu Wang and the witch remained who had not yet set off.

"Why aren't you leaving yet? Are you planning to start reasoning right here? A missing victim isn't enough of a clue, is it?" the witch asked, somewhat puzzled.

Wu Wang shrugged and said, "It's not enough, but I still want to check the body first."

Hearing this, the witch raised an eyebrow: "Oh? You know about this?"

In response, Wu Wang patted his chest confidently and said, "I'm a professional forensic doctor. I can tell whether a victim is dead or not with just one stab!"

As he spoke, he took out a scalpel from his backpack.

He stabbed the black-stockinged maid hard into her forehead.

Upon seeing this, the witch's eyelids twitched violently.

As the president of the Tarot Club, she was certainly not afraid.

I just felt like punching someone because of what Wu Wang just said.

Whether he's dead or not, you'll know once you stab him! Go straight for the forehead, huh!

Even if this were a living person, you would have stabbed them to death!

Seeing that the guy was starting to go crazy again, she decided to start exploring the building herself.

However, the witch's way of exploring was different from others.

She never left the room.

Instead, he took out a crystal ball from his backpack.

After casually tossing it to the ground, the witch sat down cross-legged.

Strangely, she wasn't sitting on the ground; instead, she was floating half a meter above the ground.

He gently tapped the wooden staff in front of him.

In an instant, stars twinkled around her.

Those strange stars are like individual pixels, quickly constructing a picture in front of you.

The content is exactly everything in this room, even including a scene of Wu Wang squatting on the ground cutting up a corpse.

The next second, the crystal ball on the ground began to roll.

Like the remote-controlled four-wheel drive cars we played with as kids, they sped away in the blink of an eye.

The "star screen" also displays everything the crystal ball encounters in real time.

Furthermore, it's a 360-degree panoramic view, essentially meaning the witch also created a 3D map of the castle.

Wu Wang said with a helpless expression, "You're playing VR within a VR game, right?"

"No way?" the witch said, rolling her eyes.

She couldn't be bothered to go out and explore step by step.

You can also see what kind of trouble the widow is up to here.

While multitasking, the witch manipulated the crystal ball to create a map of the castle while observing Wu Wang's autopsy process beside her.

I have to say, this guy seems to actually have some skills.

Every cut he made was so precise it was like a textbook example. His familiarity with the human body was beyond belief.

Damn, does this guy actually cut up corpses a lot in real life?
The witch's expression grew increasingly strange.

Wu Wang's expression gradually became serious.

Under the influence of the [Vision of Truth], he had just noticed a problem in the different environment.

From the perspective of the gummy bear, what lies here is the corpse of a naked hostess.

The same person suffered multiple blows from a blunt object, resulting in severe facial damage.

At first glance, nothing seems out of the ordinary.

But upon closer reflection—why would she appear here completely naked?

This is the strangest question in the world!
This is a private room on the top floor of Shang K.

Given that this is an indescribable place, it's understandable that the other party wants to cool off.

But there should be a prerequisite for this kind of cooling down, right?

There has to be guests in the private room!

Otherwise, there's no point in her standing here naked, posing seductively.

So where did the guests go?
Could there be some kind of trace left by a guest on her body?

However, this was accompanied by an autopsy.

Wu Wang did not find any bodily fluid in her body; instead, he noticed something even stranger.

Is her brain filled with nothing but garbage?

Hearing Wu Wang's cursing and swearing while squatting on the ground, the witch helplessly replied while manipulating the crystal ball, "He's already dead, and you still have to curse him? How can you be so rude?"

But Wu Wang answered in a very serious tone:

“I didn’t swear, her brain is full of garbage.”

Having said that, he stepped aside.

The witch then noticed that Wu had cut open the corpse's head.

However, it didn't contain the bloody scenes one might imagine.

There is absolutely no brain tissue!

All that remained was a strange, black, viscous substance, giving it the feel of chemical plant waste.

“Friendly reminder, her fatal injury did not come from a blunt instrument.” Wu Wang stood up and stretched his limbs, saying, “That seems to be just a cover-up. There is a bone missing from the back of the corpse’s head, as if it had been cut by the most precise instrument. I suspect that the loss of brain tissue is also related to this fatal injury.”

He picked up the other person's head and handed it to the witch.

To make it easier to observe, all of his hair was shaved off.

Sure enough, there was a distinct diamond-shaped notch at the back of the skull.

What kind of weapon could cause this kind of injury?
The witch had no idea.

But Wu Wang already knew what was going on.

Gemstones are transparent gemstones that have appeared in the family photos on everyone's wall.

On the ape carvings of the Panda primitive tribe, the shape of the gemstones is clearly carved out as this square rhombus.

It now appears that the gem is in the hands of the real culprit.

Gemstones are not merely ornaments or symbols.

It seems to contain some kind of strange power that can help him carry out assassinations.

Or rather, why use gemstones for assassination?
This is also something Wu Wang hasn't figured out yet.

Whether the real culprit is a player or an NPC, the goal is to kill the unsuspecting guide.

Logically speaking, there should be countless ways.

But he insisted on using this gemstone, which made the wound's shape so unusual that it would be easier for people to notice the problem.

Or perhaps he had a reason why he had to use this thing as a murder weapon?

"The body has been found," the witch suddenly announced.

Wu Wang turned his head to look at the [Starry Screen].

The 3D map prominently features a maid in black stockings hanging from a chandelier.

However, even through the [Starry Screen], one can sense an eeriness.

Because the body did not appear to be a simple case of suicide by hanging.

Her back skin was completely torn in two, centered on her spine, leaving her back a bloody mess and exposing the naked structure of her muscles.

The torn skin on her back was suspended from the ceiling by silk threads, pulled diagonally to the height of her head.

At first glance from the front, it looks like wings made of flesh and blood spreading out.

Even more bizarrely—she was still smiling.

Yes! The face of the body was not destroyed.

Instead, she wore a kind smile, her hands were bound with silk threads and placed in front of her in a prayer position, accompanied by her closed eyes and slightly bowed head.

Rather than a corpse, it was more like an angel spreading mercy to the world.

So harmonious, so peaceful.

But then came the image of blood slowly dripping down his back from his heels to the ground, forming a pool of blood beneath him.

This flesh-and-blood angel is even more unsettling.

The real culprit... doesn't seem to be simply committing murder!

"It's located in a secret room on the far right of the basement. From what I can see in this castle, it seems to be a place for storing ore materials." The witch said, then turned off the [Starry Screen] and decided to go to the site herself to check the situation.

Wu Wang also stood up and followed him out.

The body has now been almost completely examined.

He was curious whether the other, so exquisitely arranged corpse also had that kind of diamond-shaped wound on its head.

The two did not deliberately notify the other players.

After all, who knows where they've gone off to explore?

The building is quite large.

I can only casually mention it to other contestants on the way to the basement so they can follow along.

Not long after, Wu Wang and the witch arrived at the scene of the second corpse.

Also appearing were Shadow, Wang Xianzhi, and the Predator.

But to be honest, the former doesn't work at all.

After all, in the Ghostly Specter's vision, after the Guide Ghost dies, only charred marks are left on the ground.

This guy can't even see his mother's corpse! He probably won't be able to analyze anything useful.

Wang Xianzhi and the Predator were encountered on the way.

Before anyone could even begin examining the body...

The Predator pointed to the ceiling and said, "This sentence has a special meaning in my race."

The others looked over at the sound.

Unfortunately, in their eyes it was just a blood-stained graffiti.

There were absolutely no special character traces.

Only Wu Wang could be seen through the constantly shifting perspectives.

Indeed, in the Predator's environment, there is a row of words drawn in blood on the wall.

"Divine punishment originates from sinners," the Predator said.

A moment later, Wu Wang translated it into a localized form.

"The person who wrote this was trying to say, 'There's a traitor among you.' Note that I'm referring to the current situation, not the solution we'll discuss later. It's really not appropriate to do something like this in front of so many people."

Other contestants and audience members: "..."

Can you be serious for once?! They're trying to drive a wedge between us!

If the real culprit wrote these words, wouldn't that seem incredibly foolish?
Where else can you get rid of suspicion like that?

But if it wasn't written by the real culprit...

Everyone looked at the hanging corpse.

fell into silence.

How can a dead body write words in blood on the ceiling?

Boom——

Just then, a loud noise suddenly came from upstairs.

It seems that something is engaged in a fierce battle.

The people in the basement all brightened up.

Has the real culprit emerged and attacked the contestant?
(End of this chapter)