Survival in an apartment, starting with a stroke of luck on a plane

Just then, the sound of hurried footsteps and shouts grew louder as they approached.

"This way! Quickly!"

"The smell of blood is so strong!"

"Oh my god! What is that?!"

The team led by the sunny young man finally arrived.

When they saw the two gruesome human corpses at the door and the pile of charred, smoking human skeletons next to them, everyone gasped, their faces filled with horror and lingering fear.

"A...a ghoul? Dead?" a player asked, his voice trembling.

The shadow clone also arrived just in time. He glanced at the scene, his gaze falling on Lin Yu's main body, then quickly sweeping over the pile of charred bones, and finally looking at the sunny young man: "It seems someone beat me to it."

The sunny young man strode over to the charred bones, squatted down to examine them closely, and frowned.

He gently touched the charred bone with his glove.

He stood up and looked at Lin Yu (who was wearing a mask, and it was dark, so the young man couldn't recognize him). His face was solemn, with a perfectly measured hint of gratitude: "Brother, did you kill it? What impressive skills! Thanks to you, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable! May I ask your name, brother?"

Lin Yu did not reply to him and turned to leave.

Upon seeing this, the sunny young man was stunned for a moment, but quickly recovered and was not angry.

The other players behind them exchanged glances, but no one dared to say anything. After all, they knew the strength of the ghouls very well, and a player who could kill such a thing was definitely not someone they could afford to offend.

Therefore, although Lin Yu had certainly obtained the weapon mentioned in the rules that could kill ghouls, they still dared not stop him.

After Lin Yu left, the sunny young man showed a hint of helplessness on his face and said, "Sigh, I didn't expect these monsters to be so cunning, actually avoiding our main force and specifically hunting down lone players."

His tone was heavy and full of self-blame, instantly winning the sympathy and recognition of many players.

"Don't blame Brother Sunshine! That ghoul was too cunning! And these players are ungrateful too."

"Yeah! It's their own fault for not joining our group and insisting on being alone."

"Brother Sunshine, what should we do next?"

……

Clearly, because no players in the team died at night, but other lone players did, the sense of belonging among the players in the Sunshine Youth team was instantly strengthened.

After all, people often need to compare things to each other.

The sunny young man took a deep breath and cheered himself up: "We can't be intimidated. This brother has proven that ghouls are not invincible."

However, we must be more vigilant, as the ghouls are indeed very strong and cunning. To prevent players in the team from being targeted due to being alone, we are now changing our strategy. All teams must immediately move towards the center and form a tighter formation.

We can no longer give them the chance to be picked off one by one. At the same time, keep an eye out for other lone players; if you find any, persuade them to join the team as soon as possible.

His swift and decisive response restored morale, and the team began to regroup and collect the players' remains (Lin Yu had already taken their apartment keys and valuable items).

Having learned their lesson from the first bloody experience, the team became more cautious in their actions, and their search speed slowed down.

The players in the team initially thought that the ghouls couldn't possibly attack such a large group of them, but to their surprise, the accident still happened.

About an hour later, a battle broke out in the area near the abandoned church in the town, and this time the ghouls' target was none other than the players in the Sunshine Youth team.

The bright, distress-signaling fireworks in the sky are proof of this.

The young man and others rushed to provide assistance.

But this time the ghouls were more cunning. When the sunny youth and his companions arrived at the church, they found nothing there except for a large amount of blood.

Seeing this, the sunny young man's face also darkened.

"Looks like we're too late." The shadow clone stepped forward, glanced at the bloodstains on the ground, and said casually.

"We must catch the murderer!" The sunny young man glared at the dimly lit, dilapidated church in front of him.

Then, the sunny young man took out a UFO-like prop from his backpack and threw it out.

The flying saucer floated in the air and then slowly moved to the airspace above the abandoned church.

The sunny young man on the other side closed his eyes.

About ten seconds later, he opened his eyes, gritting his teeth, and said, "You bastard, you actually dare to hide in the church!"

The players were stunned when they heard his words. Good grief, he was trying to play the victim.

"Hey Sunshine Bro, what do we do? Should we just go in and take him out?"

A player standing nearby asked.

"No, too many people going in could cause accidents and panic within the team. In that situation, it would be easier for that guy to take advantage of the chaos and escape. I'll personally lead a few strong players in, and the rest of us will stay outside to prevent him from escaping."

The sunny young man spoke directly.

The players thought about it and realized it was true. Most of them were only average in strength, and their only advantage was their numbers. Entering such a narrow space was indeed not suitable for them to perform well.

The sunny young man's sharp gaze swept over the dozens of tense and uneasy faces behind him, and he said, "Brother Universe, there's also..."

He quickly selected his shadow clone, as well as five other players who had demonstrated outstanding strength during the day.

"Follow me inside. The rest of you, seal off all entrances and exits! Don't let a single fly get out! Be ready to provide backup at any moment if you hear any unusual noises!"

The five players who were called out, including the shadow clone, all nodded solemnly.

The shadow clone, playing Lin Yu, still maintained a cold and aloof demeanor, but his gaze lingered for a moment longer at the deep entrance of the church.

"Action!" the sunny young man shouted, drawing a short sword imbued with a light-filled aura from his waist and cautiously stepping into the shadows of the church.

The shadow clone and the other five followed closely behind, their footsteps echoing in the empty, deathly silent church hall, adding to the oppressive atmosphere.

The interior of the church appears even more dilapidated than the exterior.

Most of the benches were rotten and collapsed, and the stained glass windows were long since broken, leaving only the grotesque frames.

Moonlight streamed through the dilapidated roof and windows, casting dappled beams of light that barely illuminated the dusty, cobweb-covered space.

The air was filled with a strong musty smell and a faint, almost imperceptible, stench of blood.

The sunny young man walked in front, scanning his surroundings warily, while his shadow clone followed half a body length behind without making a sound.

The other five men also gripped their weapons tightly and slowly advanced back to back.

The atmosphere was so heavy it was almost palpable.

They slowly moved up to the second floor.

The wooden staircase groaned under the weight, each step pressing on the taut nerves of everyone present.

The moment the seven people stepped onto the second-floor corridor!

"roar--!!!"

"Awooo—!!!"

Two dark figures, like ferocious beasts leaping from the wall, accompanied by a foul-smelling gust of wind, pounced out from the shadows on the left and right sides, their targets being the sunny young man at the front of the group and a player near the center.

Fast! Too fast!

These two ghouls had clearly been lying in ambush for a long time, choosing an incredibly cunning timing and angle.

"Watch out!" The sunny young man reacted quickly, shouting as his short sword shone brightly as he desperately parried the claws that were reaching out.

clang!!

A piercing clang of metal rang out, and the young man felt an immense force surge through him. His arm trembled violently, and he staggered backward, the light on his holy sword dimming slightly.

The burly ghoul was also burned by the holy light of the short sword, letting out a painful roar, and its attack slowed down slightly.

On the other side, the player was not so lucky. He only had time to put up a weak shield before being rammed hard by the ghoul.

Click!

The shield shattered instantly, and the ghoul's claws mercilessly pierced his chest, causing blood to gush out.

The mage player didn't even have time to scream before his eyes bulged out and he died instantly.

"Damn it!" The other three players in the team roared and launched an attack, their eyes wide with rage.

One player swung a large sword at the burly ghoul, trying to help the sunny young man out of trouble; another player wielding two daggers stabbed at the agile ghoul's waist like a venomous snake; and finally, an archer player quickly drew his bow and aimed at the agile ghoul's back.

The shadow clone did not rush forward rashly, but simply stood aside with a long sword in hand, knowing full well that he did not have much fighting power.

The scene instantly descended into chaos, with roars, the clash of weapons, and the howls of ghouls echoing fiercely in the narrow corridor.

The sunny young man steadied himself, a fierce glint flashing in his eyes, and joined the warrior player in a fierce attack on the burly ghoul.

Each strike of the Holy Light Short Sword left a scorching trail of light, making the ghoul quite wary.

The other ghoul, caught between the assassin and the archer, was also somewhat overwhelmed, sustaining several cuts on its body. However, these wounds were of little use, healing themselves shortly after they appeared.

The situation seemed to be stabilizing.

But then a sudden change occurred.

Following at the very back of the group, the seemingly composed player's body rapidly expanded as if inflated, his skin tore open, a grayish-white exoskeleton covered his entire body, and his claws grew wildly.

He actually transformed into the third ghoul in full view of everyone.

Moreover, its transformation location was extremely insidious—right behind the sunny young man and his shadow clone "Universe"! The distance was only two or three meters.

"roar--!!!"

The moment the third ghoul transformed, it let out a deafening roar. Instead of attacking the nearest player, it fixed its gaze on the young man who had just been knocked back and was still unsteady on his feet, as well as the shadow clone that was right next to it.

With a piercing shriek that tore through the air, the enormous claws viciously slashed toward the back of the sunlit youth, while at the same time, the other claw swept toward the neck of the shadow clone "Universe" with lightning speed.

"What?!" The sunny young man felt a deadly gust of wind behind him, turned around in horror, and his pupils shrank sharply.

He had just parried a powerful attack from the burly ghoul, but his strength was exhausted and he hadn't yet developed any new power. He simply didn't have time to mount an effective defense and could only rely on instinct to barely turn to the side.

puff!

The sharp claws gripped the young man's right shoulder blade, and the Holy Light Short Sword flew out of his hand.

Blood mixed with bits of flesh splattered everywhere, and he let out a painful groan as the force of the impact propelled him forward.

At the same time, the claws that were sweeping towards the shadow clone arrived.

"Universe!" the assassin player next to him screamed in terror.

However, the shadow clone's reaction surprised everyone. Faced with this sudden and deadly attack, he showed no fear whatsoever.

Just as the claws were about to touch his skin—

"Bang!"

A soft sound, like a soap bubble bursting.

The shadow clone's body instantly turned into a wisp of green smoke and dissipated into the air, as if it had never existed.

The ghoul's determined claw only swept across thin air.

This bizarre scene startled even the newly transformed ghoul, causing its attack to momentarily halt.

Not only it, but also the sunlit youth who fell to the ground, the other players who were fighting, and even the other two ghouls were all stunned by this inexplicable disappearance.

The young man lay on the ground, his right shoulder a bloody mess, half his body stained red with blood. He struggled to lift his head, looking towards the stairwell, and tremblingly reached for his waist—where a signal firework was hanging.

Whoosh—Bang!

A blinding red orb of light, accompanied by a sharp whistling sound, pierced through the decaying roof of the church and exploded in the night sky, illuminating the chaotic battlefield below in a blood-red hue.

"It's a distress signal!"

"Brother Sunshine is in trouble!"

"Quick! Charge in!"

Outside the church, the players who had been anxiously waiting saw the distress fireworks shooting into the sky and instantly erupted in excitement.

Fear was temporarily overwhelmed by concern for the leader's safety and the courage of their numbers. Dozens of players, like a flood bursting its banks, rushed through the already half-closed door, brandishing their weapons, and surged into the church in a chaotic frenzy.

"Kill them!"

"Save Brother Sunshine!"

"Where are the ghouls?!"

The narrow church hall was instantly filled with people, shouts, footsteps, and the clash of weapons blended together, and the scene was completely out of control.

……

the other side.

Just as the shadow clone dissipated, Lin Yu's main body, which was lurking in the shadow of a towering broken wall outside the church, suddenly shuddered.

He arrived here a long time ago, but he just hadn't entered the church yet.

A flood of information rushed into his mind—the encounter in the second-floor corridor, the ambush by the two ghouls, the sudden transformation of the hidden member in the group, the severe injury to the sunny young man, and that distress signal.

"Three." A cold glint flashed in Lin Yu's eyes. Without hesitation, he quickly changed his clothes.

After changing his clothes, he didn't go through the main entrance, but instead climbed up the mottled stone wall outside the church at an astonishing speed, like a gecko.

His target was a large, broken stained-glass window on the second floor.

Rumble!

From the direction of the church's main entrance came a huge commotion as players rammed through the door and surged in.

Lin Yu climbed to the edge of the stained glass window, and without hesitation kicked the remaining stained glass, his figure shooting into the darkness of the second floor like an arrow.

He landed silently, and the infrared thermal imaging of his gas mask helmet activated instantly.

The view shifted, and what lay before them was no longer pure darkness, but countless chaotic, moving orange-red humanoid silhouettes, representing the dozens of terrified players who had flooded into the hall below.

Closer still, in the direction of the second-floor corridor, several heat sources representing ghouls were moving rapidly, with three of them clustered together, seemingly pouncing on a heat source on the ground.

In Lin Yu's view, the fourth heat source... had quietly separated from the chaotic crowd below and was silently climbing up to the second floor along the shadow of the wall.

The target was none other than Lin Yu, who had just barged in.

Is there a fourth one?

Alarm bells rang in Lin Yu's mind, and he drew the [Demon Sword] from his waist without hesitation.

"Summoning the Soul".

Om-!

The sword trembled violently, and a figure rapidly materialized within the black mist.

Naturally, it's the sword spirit Liu Xiangxiang.

"Warning!" Lin Yu shouted, pointing his sword at the fourth heat source that was rapidly climbing up from the shadows below.

Liu Xiangxiang's empty eyes instantly locked onto the direction Lin Yu was pointing, and a chilling ghostly aura spread out.

Right now!

"Croak—!!!"

A piercing, unpleasant cawing of a crow suddenly rang out from the high dome of the church.

Lin Yu suddenly looked up.

A black raven with crimson eyes appeared on the broken chandelier on the church dome, its beak open, emitting a silent shriek.

next second!

boom!

The crow's body exploded like a lit dynamite, but what burst open was not flesh and blood, but endless, thick, ink-like black mist.

The black mist, like a living tsunami, instantly swept across the entire church space, from the dome to the ground, from the hall to the corridors, completely swallowing up all light! It was pitch black.

Even the infrared thermal imaging field of view was severely interfered with by this eerie black fog, and only extremely blurry and distorted outlines of the heat source could be seen.

"Ah! What happened?!"

"I can't see!"

"Fog! Such dark fog!"

"Who?! Who touched me?!"

"Don't push! Ah—!"

The hall below instantly descended into utter chaos; the panic caused by the loss of sight was deadly.

Players' screams, shoving, cries of pain from accidentally injuring teammates with weapons, thuds of falling... all sorts of sounds mingled together.

Immediately afterwards!

"Ugh—!"

"Help! It's biting me! Ah—!"

"No! My leg!!"

"Get out of my way, monster!"

……

Heart-wrenching screams erupted from every corner of the hall, like drops of water thrown into a pot of boiling oil.

Panic escalated into utter collapse in an instant. Players stumbled around in the thick fog like headless flies, trampling each other and blindly waving their weapons, trying to attack the unseen enemy.

"Hehehe..." A chilling, eerie laugh echoed intermittently through the black mist.

Lin Yu was also obstructed by the thick fog on the second floor.

However, his exceptional mental attributes, combined with his keen perception and the faint feedback from his infrared thermal imaging, gave him a greater ability to cope than the chaotic crowd below.

"Protect me!" Lin Yu growled, gripping the azure rose in his hand as he focused intently.

"Yes, Master." Liu Xiangxiang's cold voice rang out. She hovered beside Lin Yu, surrounded by a dense aura of ghosts, wary of attacks from the darkness.

call--!

A foul gust of wind suddenly swept in from Lin Yu's left, moving with ghostly speed; it was the fourth ghoul that had climbed up.

It is clearly unaffected by the black fog, or possesses the ability to see in the dark.

"You're asking for death!" Lin Yu sneered, locking his mind onto the direction from which the attack was coming. He didn't even need to aim; the Azure Rose instantly rose up.

boom!

A flash of gunfire, and the bullet, condensed from demonic power, whistled out.

puff!

The bullet seemed to have hit its target, producing a muffled thud and a painful howl from the ghoul.

But Lin Yu could sense that the shot had not killed the other party.

"Roar!" The wounded ghoul became even more enraged. Ignoring its pain, it tore through the thick fog with its claws once more. At the same time, Lin Yu keenly sensed that three other heat sources belonging to ghouls were rapidly rushing toward his location from different directions, like sharks that had smelled blood.

Is this a four-on-one attack to kill me first?

Lin Yu wasn't particularly surprised by this, since he was now in the identity of the universe, and it was understandable that these ghouls wanted to eliminate him first, since he was stronger.

"Hmph! You think having more people is useful?" A sharp glint flashed in Lin Yu's eyes.

"Demon form, block them!"

"Yes, my benefactor!" Liu Xiangxiang's empty eyes were instantly filled with thick blood and overwhelming resentment, and she let out a sharp shriek that could pierce the soul.

boom!!!

The terrifying ghostly energy, like a tangible black storm, erupted suddenly around Liu Xiangxiang. Her body rapidly expanded and twisted in the thick fog, and her long black hair danced wildly like thousands of venomous snakes.

In the blink of an eye, a terrifying evil spirit, ten meters tall, stood on the second-floor corridor of the church.

Her enormous demonic claw, carrying the power to tear through space, swept fiercely towards the three ghouls that pounced on her, as if swatting flies.

"Roar?!" "Awooo—!"

The three ghouls instinctively sensed a deadly threat, abruptly halting their attack and hastily retreating.

Boom!!!

The enormous demonic claw slammed onto the corridor floor, shattering and collapsing the hard stone slabs like tofu, sending rubble flying everywhere. The violent shockwave stirred up the thick black mist, causing it to churn and churn endlessly.

Although the three ghouls avoided a direct hit, they were still thrown about and left in a sorry state by the terrifying wind pressure and flying debris generated by the ghost claws.

Take this opportunity.

Lin Yu focused all his attention on the ghoul that had initially attacked him.

Because of its injury and the shock of Liu Xiangxiang's transformation, it was a beat slower than usual.

"Drive! Suppress!" Lin Yu silently chanted, activating the Seven Subduing Demons Techniques in a double motion.

An invisible mental pressure struck the ghoul's brain like a heavy hammer, followed by a heavy mental pressure that pressed down like a mountain.

The ghoul's movements instantly became incredibly sluggish, as if it were stuck in a swamp.

"die!"

Bang bang bang!

Lin Yu's eyes were icy as he fired three shots in quick succession, hitting the ghoul. Then, the dark red light from the muzzle of the Azure Rose gun converged wildly—a level 2 charged shot.

boom--!

The dull, thunderous gunshot rang out again. This time, the bullet, brimming with demonic power, struck with perfect accuracy into the ghoul's gaping mouth, which was contorted with pain and sluggishness.

boom!

A ghostly blue hellfire erupted from the ghoul's body, spreading from the inside out. Before it could even scream, its massive body was completely engulfed by the raging blue flames as it convulsed violently.

"Roar!" The other three ghouls, seeing their companion die a gruesome death in an instant and facing that ten-meter-tall evil spirit that resembled a demon god, finally revealed undisguised fear in their eyes.

They glanced at each other, let out a short roar, and surprisingly abandoned their attack without hesitation.