Day of Imprisonment

Luo Xi mercilessly delivered a sharp critique of the 'Sea of Trees Park' scene.

If the 'administrator' who designed the scene were here, he would definitely slam the table in anger, and scold Luo Xi, "What do you know!"

"In this scene, 'Ju-on' is deliberately portrayed as an inescapable curse, a 'death gate' mechanism where contamination equals failure. Now, for the scene designer, if the rules require them to place 'clues to clear the level' within the scene, while also ensuring that the players can't find them too easily, what do you think they would do?"

Qian Pangzi understood at this point.

He hurriedly answered, "Luo-ju, I know! As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place."

"Exactly!" Luo Xi nodded: "Hiding the clues to clear the level within the danger, that meets the rules. Because normal players, knowing about the terrifying curse of 'Ju-on', will naturally try to avoid triggering it. But precisely by doing that, they will fall into the scene designer's trap."

"So, next, we need to trigger the 'Ju-on Shrine' as much as possible, meaning to put ourselves in a deadly situation to find a way out?" Lin Qiqi asked.

Among the four of them, only she and Qian Pangzi hadn't been contaminated by Ju-on.

Luo Xi and An Zhiyan, on the other hand, had each been contaminated by two types of Ju-on.

"It's the two of us, not you," Luo Xi explained: "Ju-on, in the end, is a very dangerous curse. This curse will inevitably amplify and elicit the fear in one's heart. An Zhiyan and I have a bit of an advantage in this area."

"I..." Qian Pangzi only managed to utter one word before falling silent. He wanted to be tough for once, but Luo Xi had said that you must be realistic at all times, if you can, you can, if you can't, you can't.

He couldn't.

Although he was unwilling to admit it, he really couldn't in this aspect.

"There's one more thing. We must find Mao Ge and Ke Lan and tell them about the situation in the scene. Because they have died twice in this scene, I suspect that losing a portion of their 'soul' is an additional death penalty within this scene. But nothing can be one-sided. If there is such a severe death penalty, according to the principle of 'fairness', there must be a reward for retrieving the 'soul'. So next, we need to split up. Those who are not contaminated by Ju-on are only responsible for finding people. Don't activate any 'shrines'. Leave the task of clearing the level to An Zhiyan and me."

After agreeing on a meeting place, Lin Qiqi and Qian Pangzi left to carry out their task.

Not triggering any shrines, just simply looking for people, if they split up, the chances of finding Mao Ge and Ke Lan were high.

Of course, the premise was that the few of them hadn't died a third time in this scene.

Near the crooked-neck tree, only An Zhiyan and Luo Xi remained.

"I have a question. Does the process of retrieving the lost soul require burning incense at the shrine and then being entangled by one's own Ju-on? If so, you've already taken away Wu Rui's Ju-on, so how will she achieve the operation of being entangled by her own Ju-on? Also, you should have seen just now that when we are contaminated with the second Ju-on, whether we touch the corpse or open the Ju-on shrine, the two Ju-ons will fight, and in the end, the victor will devour the loser. Perhaps, their 'souls' have already been devoured."

The question An Zhiyan raised was indeed objectively present.

Moreover, at this stage, Luo Xi didn't have enough clues and evidence to explain and deduce.

He thought for a moment and asked a seemingly irrelevant question.

"How far has your Ju-on fused?"

After being contaminated by Ju-on, the Ju-on will slowly fuse with the player, that is, through physical contact, permeation. It can be understood as the Ju-on slowly burrowing into the body.

Once it completely invades, it may trigger the suicide mechanism.

At that time, there is only a dead end.

Moreover, a portion of the soul will be separated and become a new Ju-on.

"It's entered my arm. It looks like it will take about an hour for it to completely invade," An Zhiyan estimated.

"Mine will be even faster, so let's not waste time. You and I will also split up and activate the 'Ju-on Shrine' as much as possible, touch the corpses killed by Ju-on. Meet at the shrine by the lake in half an hour. Let's gather information."

Obviously, the Suicide Lake was a landmark-style attraction here and was easy to find, so Luo Xi set the meeting point there.

"I have no problem, but if I die, you must find my body. I will record the information in the form of a note," An Zhiyan took out a pen and a piece of paper from her pocket.

"Me too," Luo Xi nodded.

The two of them went one to the left and one to the right.

Luo Xi quickly found the next shrine.

Before this, Qian Pangzi had already described some of the shrine locations and characteristics he had learned.

The styles of the shrines here were different, and the materials were also different.

Some were made of wood, some were made of stone, and some were cast from bronze.

There was also a type, the flesh and blood shrine.

Basically, there were these four types.

Qian Pangzi said that Ke Lan hadn't found out what the differences were between the four types of shrines, because it wasn't that a certain type of shrine had fixed items. In other words, the wooden shrine could produce 'Ju-on', but also other good things, and the same was true for shrines made of other materials.

But Luo Xi was sure that shrines of different materials must represent different meanings.

It's just that Ke Lan hadn't found the key.

This time, the shrine that Luo Xi found was one that the fatty had described, and it was also a shrine that had been 'explored'.

A stone-carved shrine, more simple and unsophisticated, but because of the material, it looked a little crude. There were beast head carvings, and some patterns on it.

Qian Pangzi said that this was a 'Misfortune Shrine'.

Being contaminated with misfortune, the degree of danger was obviously not as high as the 'Ju-on Shrine'. According to Ke Lan's description to Qian Pangzi, misfortune only made people unlucky, for example, they would be more likely to slip and fall, accidentally get their fingers pierced by branches, or their clothes torn by sharp places.

Luo Xi didn't burn incense at this shrine.

He just carefully observed this 'Misfortune Shrine' and then immediately left to look for the next shrine.

A few minutes later, Luo Xi found the third shrine.

This time, the location was in an old pavilion.

Although the pavilion was old, it provided shelter from the wind and rain.

The shrine in the pavilion was cast in bronze.

It was more than half a person tall.

It was the largest and heaviest of these shrines.

There were also inscriptions in the pavilion, mottled and difficult to distinguish.

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Fortunately, it could still be seen, it said: Listening to the wind and chanting, resting in the secluded pavilion, emerald leaves dripping with pearls, the charm is naturally abundant.

"Pavilion, bronze shrine, Qian Pangzi said that this is a 'Protection Shrine'. There is no need to burn incense. Instead, you can obtain protection incense from it. After igniting it, even if you are contaminated with Ju-on, you will not die before the incense burns out. In other words, if you get the incense here, even if Ju-on is about to completely invade your body in the next second, as long as you light the incense, you can delay for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn. However, because everyone knows that protection incense is a good thing, as soon as it appears, it will be taken away at the first time, and not a single one will be left."

Luo Xi looked at the tray in front of the bronze shrine.

It was empty.

Obviously, it was a wasted trip.

Moreover, in the Sea of Trees Park, the other known 'Protection Shrines' were no longer a secret. As long as there was incense, it would be taken away at the first time.

Luo Xi wouldn't wait foolishly here for the 'Protection Incense' to refresh.

He intended to leave, but after taking a step, he suddenly remembered something and turned back to look at the long plaques inscribed on both sides of the pavilion.

"Listening to the wind and chanting, resting in the secluded pavilion, emerald leaves dripping with pearls, the charm is naturally abundant," Luo Xi muttered to himself, then looked around and found that the trees here were verdant, with many large leaves, on which a lot of blood-colored rainwater had accumulated.

Luo Xi walked outside the pavilion, then carefully broke off a leaf stem, held the leaf and the blood-colored water on it, and walked back to the pavilion, pouring it on the bronze shrine.

The blood water dripped down.

Touching the shrine, it immediately made a sizzling sound, like sulfuric acid. Immediately afterwards, puffs of smoke came out. Under the cover of the smoke, the appearance of the bronze shrine seemed to be undergoing a visible change.

The smoke didn't weaken, but became thicker and thicker, filling the pavilion, but the smoke sank, floating more than a foot above the ground, not leaving the pavilion, ethereal and hazy, like a fairyland. Immediately afterwards, Luo Xi saw that the shrine over there, emitting smoke, had undergone a great change.

Before, it was a bronze shrine, but at this moment, it had become a flesh and blood shrine.

Dry bones were the pillars and beams, flesh and skin were the walls and roof, hands held the incense altar, next to it were large red candles, burning, and there were also several bundles of new incense.

This incense was slightly thick, dark red, and exuded a fishy smell.

A completely different shrine, one that could burn incense.

Luo Xi had obviously unlocked a new way to play with the shrine, because the pavilion sheltered from the wind and rain, so the rain outside could not touch the original shrine. Also, because of the inscriptions in the pavilion, Luo Xi used leaves to hold blood rain and poured it on the bronze shrine, as a kind of attempt.

It was good to have gains, and no loss if there were none.

Now it seemed that there were definitely gains, just not knowing if they were good or bad.

Someone else might hesitate whether to burn incense or not.

As for Luo Xi, he did not hesitate, used the blood-red candle to light an incense stick, and burned incense.

Immediately afterwards, a strange noise came from within the flesh and blood shrine. A human face slowly extended from the black hair that looked like a curtain on the shrine.

There was no blood on the human face. Suddenly, the tightly closed eyes opened and looked at Luo Xi.

It opened its mouth and said: "I am the local deity here, I can help you eliminate karma, or point you in the right direction."

"Eliminate karma? Does it mean that it can eliminate the Ju-on on my body? Pointing me in the right direction can be understood as scene guidance. Sure enough, it is very in line with the style of this level scene, danger and opportunity coexist, good and bad accompany each other."

Luo Xi immediately understood the function of this shrine.

In other words, choose one of two.

To eliminate the Ju-on on his body, he would not get scene guidance; to get key information, he could not eliminate the Ju-on.

Moreover, Luo Xi was sure that it was because he had already been contaminated with Ju-on that this shrine would give such a choice. If he hadn't, it was likely that another shrine effect would be triggered.

Luo Xi almost immediately made a choice.

"Please, local deity, point me in the right direction!"