Day of Imprisonment

“In the bloody rain, there is a curse, but fortunately, this curse doesn't seem to activate directly.”

Lin Qiqi stretched her hand out of the umbrella, and a few drops of blood stained her fingers.

On her fair fingers, the blood-colored water was particularly noticeable.

“Even without contact, will we be infected by the curse?” An Zhiyan asked.

At this moment, she was a little envious of Lin Qiqi's profession card.

【Soul Peeker】, it's really too convenient, especially in this kind of scene with 'Yin-Yang' attributes. The Soul Peeker has a great advantage.

“If you don't touch the blood rain, you won't be infected by the curse,” Lin Qiqi said.

“Then you…” An Zhiyan was stunned, and then she reacted: “I understand, among the four of us, one needs to investigate the curse here, and you are the most suitable.”

Luo Xi didn't speak. He saw what appeared to be a lake not far away.

Qian Fatty also didn't speak, mainly because he felt that these three people besides him were not good news.

At this moment, he felt like he was a weak chicken mixed into a group of wild beasts.

They were all holding umbrellas, preventing the blood rain from touching their skin, but Lin Qiqi clearly knew there was a curse, yet she would take the initiative to be infected.

This way of thinking obviously didn't take 'seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages' into consideration.

On the contrary, this was more like a rational, but 'sacrificial' team mentality. After all, being infected by a curse may not always be a bad thing, and may even be a necessary condition for triggering key plots in certain scenarios. It's not beneficial to the individual, but it is beneficial to the team.

But being able to do it without changing expression is rare.

“Seventh Bro is Seventh Bro, awesome, I, Fatty, am impressed.” Qian Fatty gave Lin Qiqi a thumbs up in his heart.

“The lake in front should be the 'Suicide Lake' that Mao-ge and Ke Lan mentioned, a very dangerous place. Their advice is not to get close, and even more so, don't try to see what's in the lake.”

Qian Fatty said, pointing to the lake over there.

The lake in the forest park should logically be a scenic spot, but because Liu Mao and the others had already been here twice, they had already informed Qian Fatty of the dangerous spots and places where accidents could easily occur in the form of a strategy guide.

“You guys wait here!” This time it was An Zhiyan who spoke. She walked over with her umbrella. She had a very good figure, and holding the umbrella, she had a kind of intellectual beauty, and her cold face could easily make people want to conquer her.

And her behavior belonged to 'knowing there are tigers in the mountain, but preferring to go to the tiger mountain'.

She walked over, looked at the lake, and then squatted down, staring at the lake surface without moving.

It seemed that there was really something in the water that attracted her attention.

Luo Xi and Lin Qiqi waited quietly.

They didn't plan to interfere.

Qian Fatty was anxious enough.

He felt that something was going to happen. Mao-ge and Ke Lan had said not to get close to the lake because there was danger in the lake, but because the situation that occurred each time after approaching the lake was different, the strategy guide Ke Lan gave was not written very accurately.

But knowing that it was dangerous, Luo-ju wasn't going to stop An Zhiyan?

Did he have confidence in An-meinu?

An Zhiyan held the umbrella, squatted by the lake and looked intently without moving. Several times, Qian Fatty felt that the other party might plunge into the water in the next second.

Finally, An Zhiyan moved, but not to plunge into the water, but to get up and walk back.

Her expression was still cold.

Don't mention it, the more Qian Fatty looked at her, the more he felt that she and Luo Xi were very similar.

Their eyes were simply cast from the same mold.

“The water in the lake is like a mirror, it can reflect the things a person fears, but it's more like a kind of 'memory peeking' ability, for example, you will see someone you want to see, or the things you fear, the other party will lure you to jump down. In addition, there seem to be corpses inside. I estimate that once you fall into the water, you will be pulled to the bottom of the lake immediately... Perhaps, if you are infected with the blood rain curse, you will see something else, but I'm not sure.”

An Zhiyan's tone carried a hint of disdain.

It was like a college student looking at a first-grade elementary school math problem.

She felt it was childish and didn't bother to pay attention.

“Also, I have another discovery. There is a platform on the other side of the lake, and there seems to be something hidden below.”

“Let's go take a look together.” Luo Xi walked over.

According to what An Zhiyan said, there was indeed a platform next to it, made of wood, with stairs. Going up, you could reach a higher hill, which was the highest point here, and below the platform and stairs, there was indeed something.

A shrine.

Made of wood, from the outside, it was old, with obvious traces of the erosion of time. The base color was slightly reddish, possibly some kind of rosewood.

The shrine had a delicate wooden door the size of a palm, tightly closed.

It couldn't be pulled open.

In front, there was an incense altar, the size of a bowl, filled with burnt incense ashes.

Next to it were dry, unused incense sticks and matches.

Obviously, you could light the incense with matches and then offer incense to this shrine...

“This is a shrine in the park. Ke Lan said that there are many shrines in the Tree Sea Park. Each one is like opening a blind box. You can choose not to offer incense, but after offering incense, you may get shrines with different attributes. Some are good, some are bad, some can add good fortune, some will be plagued by bad luck, some can get protective talismans, some will be attacked by resentful spirits immediately, and some have crisis warnings that need to be interpreted. It may be a good thing, it may be a bad thing, or it may be half good and half bad.”

Qian Fatty said at this time.

“In other words, it's a tool in the scene that can be chosen to use or not to use... but it has a gambling element. Did Ke Lan say whether the attributes of the shrines are fixed or random?” Luo Xi asked.

“Fixed, and Ke Lan told me the locations of several good and bad shrines, but he didn't mention the shrine here, he probably never discovered it!” Qian Fatty knew that this possibility was very high, because the location of this shrine was indeed hidden very deep.

If it wasn't for An Zhiyan's meticulousness, it might not have been discovered.

“I'll try.” Lin Qiqi prepared to step forward.

This time Luo Xi waved his hand to stop her. He picked up the match himself, struck it, took an incense stick, lit it, and extinguished it by waving his hand, not blowing it out with his mouth, and offered incense with his left hand.

Qian Fatty wanted to say something.

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Because according to his understanding and knowledge, that's not how incense is offered.

Generally, three incense sticks are offered, and they need to be offered with both hands.

Luo Xi's operation felt disrespectful.

But on second thought, it was best if he didn't blindly command Luo-ju, and Luo-ju was knowledgeable, how could he not know this routine of offering incense?

So, it was probably intentional.

At the same time as the incense was inserted into the incense altar, the small door on the shrine creaked open.

Inside, it was pitch black.

“Luo-ju, be careful. Ke Lan said that if what opens out of the shrine is something like a black hole, it's a curse.”

Before Qian Fatty could finish speaking, Luo Xi saw a pale hand stretched out from the shrine.

He was very curious, because next, this hand was still stretching out, one, two, then hair, as if a person was crawling out of the narrow shrine. But this matter itself was very outrageous. This shrine was only sixty or seventy centimeters high, and there were hollows and external structures. In reality, there was only a space about thirty centimeters high, ten centimeters wide, and deep. No matter how you looked at it, it was impossible to hide a person.

But at this moment, a woman with black hair was really crawling out of it, revealing half of her body.

What's even more interesting is that Qian Fatty and the others didn't seem to be able to see this woman.

“What did you see?” Luo Xi needed to confirm.

“What?” Qian Fatty was stunned, while Lin Qiqi and An Zhiyan both shook their heads.

As expected.

Luo Xi looked at the pale woman, or ghost, wearing a blood-stained dress who was about to crawl out, and smiled.

“Is this the curse? Only I can see it, so that means this thing will only haunt me…” Luo Xi roughly understood the meaning of this curse. He asked Qian Fatty to talk about the intelligence of the 'Curse Shrine'. Qian Fatty quickly repeated what Ke Lan and the others had discovered.

“If what is opened from the incense offering is a Curse Shrine, although you won't die immediately, your life will enter a countdown. It is said that this thing will slowly possess the target. This process may be an hour, or two hours. When the time comes, the target possessed by the curse will immediately commit suicide.” Qian Fatty took a deep breath: “Luo-ju, you, you should have a way to resolve it, right?”

“I don't know yet, but even if there is, it must exist in this scene, otherwise, if cards such as 【Curse Removal】 are useful, Ke Lan and the others would have said so, because they must have tried and it didn't work, and someone had been cursed, couldn't get rid of it, and finally committed suicide...”

Luo Xi thought of something very similar.

The 'Suicide Worm' in Tun Tun Elementary School.

In Luo Xi's opinion, the two should be similar things, except that the 'curse' in this scene is not only visible to the possessed person, but also, normal people will feel fear.

Putting aside everything else, every detail of this guy's appearance steps on the fear points of normal humans.

Unfortunately, Luo Xi, who possesses 【Absolute Reason】, can easily suppress all negative emotions and desires. Things like fear, greed, face, and shame are meaningless to him and have long been discarded.

“So, the curse is just another form, a more frightening 【Suicide Worm】, but the characteristic of the Suicide Worm is the rule-based triggering of death, which is unsolvable.” After Luo Xi thought of this, he knew he had to hurry.

“Someone's coming!” An Zhiyan made a gesture at this time, pointing in a direction. Soon, footsteps came from that side.

“This scene is really weird. Bro, we didn't prepare beforehand, and we didn't get any information about this place, so it's too rash to come in so suddenly, isn't it?”

“You coward, what are you afraid of? Each of us has a 【Memory】 as a guarantee. Even if we die, we can save our memories in the next cycle day. And don't forget, 【Memory】 was what I fought for you. All of us didn't become amnesiacs because of Xiu Ling. Now that Xiu Ling is in trouble, if we don't help, are we still human?”

“Bro, you're right, but this place is indeed quite scary. Hey, look, the surface of this lake is so smooth, like a mirror... Hey? What, what's that in the water…”

A few seconds later, there was a sudden splash, the sound of falling into the water.