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Chapter 181 SS-Rank Stitching Demon
'Murayama? What's that guy doing here?'

Ji Yi remembered that Murayama seemed to have been recruited and then used to conduct experiments for the authorities.

Judging from the location, he shouldn't be in Liuli County.

Due to the special circumstances of the "Anomaly Period," electricity is unusable, so this poor fellow has to find a place to hide during this time. Apparently, four people have taken over his spot.

Ji Yi: "."

Murayama, are you doing so poorly here too?
A dignified S-class ghost story, a terrifying being capable of easily destroying a tall building when at full power, has become so pathetic because its ability to use electricity is limited?
Of course, this is mainly due to the difference in nature between ghost stories and monsters. The latter are extremely violent, but the former are diverse and their abilities are more inclined towards a kind of spiritual quality.

Ji Yi couldn't figure out why Murayama couldn't even get through an iron gate, but felt it was more likely that his cognitive abilities had changed, rather than that he was incapable of breaking down the gate.

After all, the words "extremely dangerous" were clearly stated, indicating that Murayama was still beyond Ji Yi's ability to deal with at this moment.

Ye Luo stared at the doorway for a long time.

"Crunch, crunch, crunch!"

As the iron gate shook violently once more, Ye Luo shielded Ji Yi in front of him.

Ji Yi once again shielded Ye Luo in front of her.

Then Ye Luo pulled Ji Yi to her side, and Ji Yi then...
The two lingered as they returned to the room.

As Ye Luo gently closed the door, he finally spoke, revealing what he had seen: "Brother, this is very strange, brother."

Ji Yi was taken aback: "What did you see?"

Ye Luo thought for a moment, then said somewhat uncertainly, "That's too strange. It's a humanoid ghost story, and it also has a head like a human, but..."

"His body was a rag doll, and his neck was sewn up with needle and thread."

No wonder it caused such a commotion.

The image of Murayama's head grafted onto a doll is quite comical.

"It's not that simple. I looked closely and saw that his body was covered in a jumble of skin stitched together, possibly from animals or humans—it was all bloody and horrifying!"

Seeing Ye Luo's terrified expression, Ji Yi had become desensitized to his acting skills and had no interest in commenting.

What Ji Yi cared about more was that Murayama's condition was very strange.

If his ability is to manipulate electricity, then who sewed his body and skin back on?

I feel there's more to this than meets the eye, and it might be connected to other strange tales.

Unfortunately, Ji Yi has maxed out her visual abilities, but lacks pure night vision, so her Data Eye cannot read out any more information.

The creaking and rattling sounds had become background noise, and Ji Yi was almost used to them.

After a moment's thought, he came up with an idea.

"I'm talking about Xiaomi."

Ye Luo: "Huh?"

"You ask how many flights of stairs you have to carry a bag of rice up, and I'm eight or nine years older than you. Is it too much to call you 'Xiao Mi' (millet)?"

Ye Luo: "Oh, but I only use an iPhone."

Ji Yi: "."

No more gossip.

Ji Yi spoke again in a calm tone:
"I need to discuss something with you. I have a skill that allows me to temporarily 'borrow' other players' skills, with the effect only working in this dungeon. I'd like to borrow your [Temporary Visual Enhancement] skill, is that alright?"

Ji Yi's use of "borrowing skills" naturally means "the winner gets to sit on the table, the loser eats dirt."

However, Ji Yi concealed a lot of information.

First of all, this is not "borrowing," but robbery.

Once a comparison between the two parties results in a winner and a loser, one party can forcibly take anything from the other party.

It's not limited to skills; it can borrow from many concrete or abstract things.

For example, the profession of fraudster.

For example, memory.

Even control over one's own body.

The latter was a gameplay idea that Ji Yi came up with through the [NPC console]. If he could really take control of the body, he could use this as an excuse to kill Ye Luo.

As for how to proceed with the dungeon, that's no longer important.

You're too impatient.

Suddenly, Data Eye popped up a message.

Although "dangerous smell" isn't a particularly powerful skill, as it's unpredictable, it's strong enough to detect threats to his life in most cases.

'hiss'

unwise.

Ji Yi was so eager to kill Ye Luo that she took a reckless and irrational action.

[You can rest assured for now; Ye Luo didn't react much to the warnings of the crisis. However, don't even think about "borrowing skills."]

As expected, Ye Luo made no attempt to hide the suspicion on his face: "Brother Ji, you wouldn't be trying to trick me and permanently take away my skills, would you?"

Ha, who on earth would do something like this?
Even if Ye Luo sensed something, he would only think in that direction and would have no idea that Ji Yi planned to kill him.

"Tch, I've always been upright and honest, okay?" Ji Yi changed the subject. "Well then, I have another skill that can copy the universal active energy of others, but it's a one-time use skill, and the person needs to demonstrate it to me in its entirety."

Ji Yi's words still concealed a lot of information; the truth was mixed with lies.

"Just use your skill again when it's off cooldown. I can observe it, can't I?"

Ye Luo pretended to think for a few seconds and then said, "That's possible."

After a while.

【Name: Temporary Visual Enhancement】

[Skill Card Attribute: Active skill, disappears after one use]

[Effect: Temporarily enhances visual perception, granting extremely strong dynamic vision and the ability to see blindly in complete darkness]

[Learning Requirements: Agility ≥ 10]

[Note: I saw it! I saw it all! The Southern Heavenly Gate, the Jade Palace!]

Under the effect of the Tuoka technique, Ji Yi can ignore its learning conditions.

In fact, this skill can be considered a divine skill in a certain sense.

Animals that supposedly have "night vision" abilities, such as cats and dogs, rely on faint light, such as moonlight and starlight, to sense things.

Once in complete darkness, the optical sensing system will completely fail, and nothing can be seen.

This is why Ji Yi needed to light a torch during the four-corner game.

As long as it's not complete darkness, Ji Yi's vision can function, but in absolute darkness, God's vision is as good as non-existent.

[Skill activated: Temporary visual enhancement]

With the activation of the skill, Ji Yi gained vision. Unlike infrared perception, he could even see the color of objects, which completely defied the common sense of optics.

However, since they are all extraordinary, there's no common sense to speak of.

As Ji Yi and Ye Luo walked out of the room again and around a corner.

Ji Yi finally saw it.

Moreover, unlike the perspective of falling leaves, combined with the view of God, the current state of Murayama is now fully visible.

The doll, stitched together below its head, was about half a person's height, its limbs gripping the iron gate, shaking it vigorously.

The doll's body was tattered, with human skin, cat skin, dog skin, bear skin, and other animal skins sewn onto it, making the whole thing ugly and bizarre.

Looking up, Murayama's face was filled with pain. His mouth opened and closed but no sound came out. With each shake, the seam between his head and the doll folded and writhed, as if trying to throw his head off by gravity.

But that was obviously impossible. White, unidentified threads held Murayama's head firmly in place, and no matter how much he shook it, even as his head kept rubbing against his chest and back, it was all in vain.

[Hmm, case solved. Although this is where he usually hides, his real purpose in shaking the door seems to be hoping to shake his head off—of course, that's completely wishful thinking.]

This body is one of the "masterpieces" of the SS-class ghost story "The Stitched Demon." The person stitched up cannot tear off the seams on their own; however, the fact that they can still sway down shows how desperate they are.

Oh right, this is probably what you want to know more about right now:

【Name: Stitched Ghost】

[Danger Level: Extremely Dangerous] [Rating: SS]

[Introduction: Judging from the suturing technique, he was a professional; the "Suturing Ghost" was a surgeon in his previous life.]

[You know, given the level of repression among people in island nations, it's quite normal for all sorts of mental abnormalities to occur. This doctor seems to have enjoyed this kind of stitching art during his lifetime.]

At first, he only disposed of the dead, such as attaching someone with Guan Yu's trunk to make an elephant, or giving men a pair of penises—truly a perverse pleasure.

The rest of the story is rather conventional; this guy eventually turned his attention to living people, with no fewer than a hundred victims.

And when the police found him at his home, guess what they saw? Heh, you wouldn't want to know.

In short, he died before being imprisoned, from some unusual surgery.

Just after Ji Yi learned about the origin of the Stitched Ghost.

suddenly.

A system notification sounded in his mind.

Side quests are now unlocked.

[Side quest completed so far: 1]

【The Haunted Building Game】Completed. Completed by: Lai Dian Pang Panties LV.19, Xiao Mang LV.17, Ji Yi LV.14.

[Side quest triggered: The Stitching Disaster (optional)]

[The Stitching Disaster: Please kill the SS-rank ghost story "Stitching Demon" and create a healthy community environment for the Ghost Story Forbidden Zone]

Ji Yi: "?"

Fallen Leaves in the Misty Rain: "?"

Let's see the wealth of people one by one.

We're going to kill an SS-rank ghost story??
Seeing the astonished look in Ye Luo's eyes, Ji Yi's heart skipped a beat again.

Just now, Ye Luoyanyu saw Cunshan first, but the quest was not triggered.

Now that Ji Yi has triggered it, will this arouse his vigilance and suspicion?

Just as Ji Yi was pondering, Ye Luo offered his own explanation:

"It seems I shouldn't have let you see it. The trigger condition for this mission should be that both of you witness the 'Frankenstein's monster'."

Ji Yi nodded, indicating that she agreed with this approach.

It's good that no one suspected him, he continued, going on to say:

"Fortunately, this is just an optional side quest, and we don't need to do it. Killing an SS-rank ghost story is simply impossible."

There's an insurmountable gap between S-class and A-class, let alone how terrifying SS-class would be.

However, Ji Yi was not without a solution.

NPC console.

As long as it is used, completing the task is not difficult, but considering the existence of Ye Luoyanyu, this task is optional.

As I pondered this, the rhythmic creaking sound outside the door suddenly changed.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle~ Bang!
A loud crash was heard, and Murayama, clinging tightly to the iron gate, was sent flying backward!

Thanks to the temporary visual enhancement effect, Ji Yi captured this scene with her excellent dynamic vision!
It was a tentacle sewn from layers of skin, enveloping the village and mountains and pulling them into the distance.

Murayama was powerless to resist, and the iron gate was taken away along with him.

Data Eye pops up the following text:

These are the hands and feet of the "Stitched Demon," and there are thousands of them. It's safe to say he's practically taken over this neighborhood, and if things continue like this, ruling Dayan City wouldn't be difficult.

Ji Yi gleaned a crucial piece of information from it: this city only has one SS-rank monster, Stitched Ghost.

Unfortunately, those so-called hands and feet were not the real stitched-together ghost body, otherwise Ji Yizhen could have considered controlling it.

Silence fell instantly outside the door.

"What was that just now?"

Ye Luoyan looked at Ji Yi in surprise.

"I don't know, but it seems to be related to the Stitched Ghost."

Ji Yi said as she walked into the house, "It's quiet now, let's go back, be careful not to be discovered by that tentacle."

The two reached an agreement and returned to the office.

The room fell silent as well, both of them clearly preoccupied with their own thoughts.

"Let's leave Dayan City first thing tomorrow morning."

Ye Luo said, taking out the map.

"Look, we're on this street now. It'll probably take another three hours to get out of the city. The Stitching Ghost is too dangerous. This side quest is impossible to complete."

Ji Yi looked at the map and nodded in agreement.

The two remained silent for the rest of the night.

More than five hours later.

"Fuck!"

"My darn thing!"

Two sudden screams shattered the silence inside the house.

Panties and Xiaomang woke up at the same time, their previously calm breathing suddenly becoming rapid, and their bodies broke out in a cold sweat.

Ji Yi pretended not to know: "Fatty, Busy, what happened to you two just now? We couldn't wake you up no matter what we did, and we almost thought you weren't going to wake up."

Ye Luoyanyu reacted similarly, stepping forward with concern to inquire.

"Hahaha"

Panting heavily, Pangci said, "Damn it, I had a nightmare. It was so freaking scary. I felt like I was being played with by a female ghost all night."

Ji Yi: "Now that we've covered the good parts, where's the nightmare part?"

Panties looked at him and said, "I feel like I could fit a fist in a horse's eye right now."

"."

Xiao Mang had a different experience: "Many ghosts tore my body apart and then reassembled it, tore it apart and then reassembled it. It hurt so much that I was dying. You can't even imagine the pain."

Ji Yi: "I think Fatty is in more pain."

Ye Luo: "Yes, that's what I think too."

Xiao Mang: "."

Once the two had recovered, Ji Yi briefly recounted the events of the evening to Ye Luo.

After discussing it for a while, the four of them decided to let Ji Yi and Ye Luo rest.

After Panties and Xiaomang woke up, a new buff appeared on their status bar: "[Calamity Element Cleared]". Apart from having nightmares, they did not suffer any other substantial damage.

Thus, people deduced the principle and effects of the "strange sleep" phenomenon.

If you don't believe in superstition and insist on staying up all night, then you're just courting death.

Ji Yi and Ye Luo quickly fell asleep.

But Ji Yi simply kept her eyes closed, remaining fully conscious.

Once Ye Luo falls asleep, he will have the perfect opportunity to kill her.

But just as he was thinking this, his consciousness involuntarily began to sink into silence.

He tried to force his eyes open, but found that he couldn't open them no matter what.

ten minutes later.

He opened his eyes from the bed.

A young girl was sitting by the bed.

"Yiyi, you're finally home."

(End of this chapter)