Day of Imprisonment

Upon seeing that terrifying figure, everyone except Luo Xi felt their scalps tingle.

At that moment, the uncanny valley effect, that feeling of something being human-like but not quite, exploded in everyone's mind like a bomb.

"Wha- what is that monster?" Zhu Ning stared wide-eyed, then, as if remembering something, he clutched his head, then reacted: "I-I think I remember, we've encountered this monster before, it... it seemed to take something from us back then..."

He wanted to continue, but Wu Rui grabbed his neck, gesturing for him to be silent.

"It's okay, that monster has been controlled," Luo Xi said at that moment, and at the same time, he didn't stop walking, but went straight towards it.

The others were puzzled, but everyone here except Zhu Ning, the outsider, had absolute trust in Luo Xi.

Since Luo Xi said the monster was under control, then it wouldn't be wrong.

Before this, Luo Xi had never been wrong in his judgment.

Continuing to approach, the black umbrella monster clearly noticed Luo Xi and the others. This was the most dangerous moment because, under normal circumstances, it would instantly teleport over.

Then...

In reality, no one remembered what happened after encountering this black umbrella monster. Everyone who had encountered this monster before was in a daze, and when they regained consciousness, they were already alone in another place.

They didn't remember what had happened before.

They didn't remember how they got separated from their companions.

They didn't even remember encountering this black umbrella monster.

This was the most dangerous problem. If you forgot the danger after encountering it, you would fall victim to it again next time.

The plundered memories made it impossible to form 'experience'. Without experience, there was no way to prevent and respond.

Following this pattern, if they were unlucky and continued to encounter the black umbrella monster, what would the Memory Retrievers become after being constantly plundered of their memories?

Most likely, they would become idiots who remembered nothing.

Most importantly, according to Lin Qiqi and Wu Rui's previous descriptions, it was impossible to fight this monster head-on.

In other words, relying on one's own strength to fight against the black umbrella monster was fundamentally not allowed by the mechanism.

But precisely because of this, Luo Xi was sure that the black umbrella monster must have a very big weakness.

Otherwise, setting up such a thing in the level scenario completely lost the principle of 'fairness and justice'.

This was not allowed.

After approaching, someone immediately walked out from the side area.

"It's Qian Fatty and Guo Zening... and An Zhiyan."

Wu Rui glanced over.

She also noticed that An Zhiyan was holding a flashlight, shining it on the black umbrella monster.

Could it be that the black umbrella monster was standing still and not attacking them because it was being illuminated by the flashlight?

The two sides immediately converged.

Guo Zening seemed very excited after seeing Luo Xi, but this guy looked quite disheveled, obviously having suffered a lot.

"Good luck, we ran into him. He was disoriented at the time, but he became a little clearer after encountering this black umbrella monster," An Zhiyan said. The person she was talking about was naturally Guo Zening.

"Brother Luo, thanks to An Zhiyan, if she hadn't thought of using a flashlight to shine on this monster, we would all be finished," Qian Fatty walked over at this time with lingering fear, reaching out to wipe the blood from his face.

He turned on the flashlight that Luo Xi had repaired earlier and also shone it on the black umbrella monster, while cursing: "You were pretty awesome just now, come on, Fatty is going to see if you can still be hard."

He specifically walked over and shone it on the black umbrella monster's face.

Looking closely, the black umbrella monster's face was covered with black cloth and it exuded a corpse odor.

At this moment, it was like being frozen in place, motionless.

"After seeing it, the memories that were plundered by it before will be restored, but now it seems that the flashlight can only temporarily control the monster's movements and cannot truly eliminate it," Luo Xi said at this time.

"Brother Luo, it's good enough to be able to restrain it. At least this monster can't harm us anymore. By the way, I have something important to tell you... Ke Lan, I found him, but his condition is a bit wrong..." Qian Fatty said at this time.

Then he described the specific process.

The plan they had previously adopted of searching separately was very effective. After all, this Tree Sea Park was not particularly large, and it was indeed very efficient for four people to search separately.

He found Ke Lan.

"But that guy seems to be crazy!" Qian Fatty looked frustrated.

It could be seen that he was really sad.

He and Ke Lan were very close. Although they didn't admit it and often bickered, they regarded each other as brothers who had gone through life and death together.

At that time, Ke Lan was squatting behind a tree, muttering.

Qian Fatty was also in a hurry to urinate and found Ke Lan squatting there when he was about to relieve himself.

To be honest, if he hadn't gone to pee, he really wouldn't have found him.

Qian Fatty was naturally very excited after recognizing the person squatting behind the tree as Ke Lan at a glance.

He didn't expect to find one of them here so easily.

He immediately called out.

He called out a few times.

But Ke Lan didn't respond, still facing away from him, almost with his face against the bark, murmuring softly.

Fatty wasn't a fool either.

He saw the problem, knew something was wrong, so he stopped shouting and perked up, because in general, Ke Lan was most likely affected by something.

Observe first.

There were no abnormalities around.

Looking at Ke Lan's appearance, he was not injured, but he was covered in mud, probably having fallen.

After confirming that there were no other problems, Qian Fatty believed that Ke Lan must have been contaminated by some kind of 'curse'.

It sounded terrifying, but according to the characteristics of 'curses', only the person who was contaminated by the curse could see it, and the curse would not attack anyone other than the host.

Naturally, Qian Fatty had nothing to worry about.

He went over and patted Ke Lan.

The latter didn't respond and was still muttering.

"Okay, since we're brothers, Fatty will have to trouble himself and help you walk." Qian Fatty went over and pulled Ke Lan up, then dragged him forward.

Ke Lan, who was in that strange state, didn't resist and let Qian Fatty drag him.

If that was the case, it wouldn't be a big problem. According to Qian Fatty's plan, he would drag Ke Lan to the agreed meeting point, and then let Luo Xi see what was wrong with Ke Lan and whether he could be saved.

If he could be saved, there was nothing to say, he would stab his ribs for his brother, and he would have to save him no matter what.

If he couldn't be saved.

Then he wouldn't mind sending his brother off. He would see him again on the next cycle day at worst.

But halfway there, Ke Lan caused trouble.

Because Qian Fatty listened carefully to Ke Lan's muttering on the road, and as a result, he heard some content that made him shudder.

"Brother Luo, guess what Ke Lan said at that time?" Qian Fatty asked in a low voice at this time.

Luo Xi said: "According to what you said, he was muttering, unable to chat alone, he was chatting with someone?"

Qian Fatty widened his eyes and nodded repeatedly: "That's right, then do you know who he was chatting with?"

Mao Ge slapped Qian Fatty on the back of the head: "How can anyone guess this? What's wrong with you? Why can't you finish your words in one breath? Who did you learn this habit of whetting people's appetites from?"

Not to mention Mao Ge, Lin Qiqi, An Zhiyan, and Wu Rui, including Guo Zening, who were listening with relish, all had murderous expressions.

When Qian Fatty saw this, he knew that if he continued to say this, these few people might press him to the ground and beat him up.

There was no way, he could only honestly say: "Brother Luo, Ke Lan was chatting with you at that time."

One sentence silenced several people.

"Are you sure you didn't mishear?" Lin Qiqi asked.

Qian Fatty immediately shook his head: "How could I mishear this? Ke Lan was indeed talking to Brother Luo at that time. He kept saying 'Boss' and 'Brother Luo'. You know, Ke Lan is now learning from me to recognize Brother Luo as the boss, so there's definitely no mistake."

"Then what exactly did he say?" Luo Xi cared about this.

"I can't hear clearly, and I don't understand it very well. Most of the time he was muttering, a bit of nonsense. There are a few words that I can roughly hear, saying 'seal', 'no time', but I don't understand what they mean," Qian Fatty said after carefully recalling.

"But I can see that Ke Lan was completely delirious at the time, no different from a madman." After speaking, Qian Fatty sighed: "Later, Ke Lan suddenly ran away, and I chased after him, but I couldn't catch up..."

Obviously, Ke Lan ran away.

It is currently unknown where he is.

"Have you checked that tree?" Luo Xi asked at this time.

"Tree, what tree?" Qian Fatty was stunned.

Then he realized that Luo Xi was talking about the tree that Ke Lan was leaning on when he was found.

He shook his head: "At that time, I was preoccupied with Ke Lan, and I really didn't look closely..."

"Do you remember the location?"

"I remember."

"Take me there."

After Luo Xi finished speaking, he walked straight to the black umbrella monster, whose body was stiff and unable to move because it was being illuminated by the flashlight, and directly reached out and snatched the black umbrella from its hand.

When the black umbrella left the monster, without the umbrella, the blood rain directly drenched this terrifying monster.

The next moment, dense smoke emerged from the monster's body, as if the falling raindrops were not water, but sulfuric acid.

Each drop that fell would corrode the monster. Before long, under the strange smell of smoke, the black umbrella monster was melted by the blood water, like a melted snowman, merging with the mud on the ground.