I, the screenwriter, have experienced a resurgence of inspiration.

The fog dissipated.

The person standing before the gladiators and the spice connoisseurs was not the one they had expected.

It's a bus.

A familiar-looking bus, number 404.

The car was parked on the grass, its two headlights like two bright eyes, and it "blinked" at the two of them.

On the front of the vehicle, there was an old route sign with the words "Taiping Cemetery" peeling off and being carefully patched up.

The car door opened a crack with a "whoosh" and then closed again. Through the glass, you could even see two expressionless foreign ghosts.

Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?!

Why is bus route 404 here?!

He's going to fight this damn weird bus?!

It will die, it will die, it will die, it will die.

In that instant, countless images flashed through the man's mind:

A praying mantis raising its forelegs to try and block the tire tracks; an ant attempting to challenge an elephant; vines tied to a vehicle—

Humans are flesh wrapped around bones.

The enormous thing in front of us is iron-clad steel.

Forget about a duel, just crashing into him would turn you into a carcass!

The fighter's eyes were bloodshot, and he turned and ran without hesitation, but Route 404, in its fighting state, was obviously extremely excited. With the engine roaring, it ran over him from behind!

The fighter heard the sound of his bones shattering inch by inch and his flesh exploding—

He didn't even have the slightest chance to resist!

Even after he completely lost consciousness, the question "Why?" kept echoing in his mind.

"ah--!"

The spice master turned pale, immediately abandoned his companion and turned around, dropping the spices in his hand to quickly cover his footsteps and traces.

There was only a thin layer of bent grass on the lawn, with a faint scent of osmanthus still lingering on it.

The trail spread extremely quickly, extending more than ten meters in the blink of an eye, but something was faster than her.

"Squeak squeak squeak!"

"Purrrrrrrrrr!"

"Gourd, gourd!"

The next second, countless mud gourds, used for cleaning, crawled out from the corner of the villa, joyfully climbing onto the spice master's limbs, instantly engulfing him like a tidal wave—

"Help, help me!"

The spice master frantically pulled out his tools, trying to drive away these seemingly harmless and gentle supernatural creatures, but he only managed to utter his last cry for help.

Then, she was submerged in the pile of mud gourds.

……

……

……

The curse master was a very young woman.

No one knows her real name; her companions all call her "A-Qi".

Her face was pale, her eyes were blank, and she trembled as she pasted her teammate's photo onto the grass god statue.

The photo was placed on the grass god, and the scarecrow immediately scattered.

If you change to another one, it will be the same.

"...Ten minutes...what terrifying thing did they encounter...? Is this the power of the red item?"

The curse caster's lips trembled, and he desperately pressed his hands down to prevent the grass god from falling to the ground.

She didn't know who the first teammate to die was.

But in just ten minutes, the grass-headed gods shattered one after another.

As a curse caster, she can cast curses using tools and personal items, and naturally, she can also check the status of her teammates through their personal items.

All six people who entered the hillside villa area died.

In other words, once these people entered the villa area, they were very likely to be wiped out as soon as they encountered the enemy.

The entire team was wiped out.

Is it possible for an elite and well-equipped squad to be wiped out in a short period of time?

Where did their props go?

Why didn't they see resistance?

Could it be that the other party possessed some kind of large-scale mental attack artifact, which caused the meteorologists to enter an illusion from the very beginning?

This is the only explanation.

Otherwise, how could a support-type player and two non-human monster players who had only just completed one dungeon possibly kill her teammates?!

The curse master quickly picked up the scattered straw on the ground, ignoring his other equipment, and stumbled toward his means of transportation.

Soon, the SUV, without even turning on its headlights, roared away—

The curse master, gripping the steering wheel, was filled with dread.

They can't really be considered an "organization".

No one can say for sure who started the hunt in the first place, and then someone else agreed to join in.

They specifically hunt low-level players who possess items, and once they succeed, they immediately enter the instance, never giving the Special Investigation Bureau a chance.

Why is this time different?

This is all so absurd.

This business deal was something she temporarily teamed up with with a meteorologist.

But who could have imagined that the golden sheep, which was expected to be a golden sheep, would turn into a big gray wolf and devour the hunter?

Although pies are delicious, they can be tough on your teeth.

Ah Qi didn't dare to stop for a moment, and stepped on the gas pedal to rush down the mountain. As long as she rushed into a certain instance, even if the other party chased after her, they would be helpless.

"boom!!!"

The fog was getting thinner and thinner, and they were about to escape the area of ​​the hillside villa. A hint of joy appeared in Ah Qi's eyes. The next second, the world spun around!

It felt like something was caught in the wheels; a tremendous inertia suddenly struck, causing the car to overturn and tumble towards the bottom of the mountain.

……

"Cough cough cough cough, cough cough."

Inside the valley, the jeep's hood was dented, the windows were shattered, and tree branches were stuck across the body. Covered in blood, Ah Qi struggled to climb out of the window and carefully took out half a bottle of hemostatic pills and began to chew them.

"What is this?"

Ah Qi chewed on the bitter pill, glaring fiercely at the front wheel of the car—the tire was covered with countless roots of varying thicknesses, as if they were embedded in the rubber.

This is what caused her car to overturn.

Without thinking twice, the woman quickly confirmed her direction and ran down the mountain, but after a few steps, she suddenly stopped.

Suddenly, a black and white calico cat blocked her path.

This tuxedo cat has a very elegant posture. Half of its body is white and the other half is black, and its eyes are also black and white.

"Get out of here!"

Ah Qi grabbed a handful of dirt from his brocade pouch, scattered it mercilessly, and leaped up, quickly leaping over it—

Plague Soil: Soil from the graves of plague victims. Inhaling it will randomly infect the person with a disease, granting a dubious effect that lasts for three minutes.

The plague-infected soil was sprinkled down, but Ah Qi clearly saw that the cat gently blew a breath, just like a human.

As if the wind had a life of its own, it swept back all the earth poison. Ah Qi screamed and quickly covered her mouth and nose. She didn't care about keeping her trump cards and took out a doll from her brocade pouch.

The doll was quite old; one of its eyes had fallen out, and its arm was broken.

[Cursed Dummy (Purple): Splatter, splatter, splatter the dummy! Look directly at your enemy and silently recite the curse. There is a 30% chance the curse will succeed, and your enemy will also be cursed accordingly.]

"stop!"

Ah Qi roared angrily, staring intently at the "cow cat," and forcefully snapped the doll's leg—

The cat really stopped.

Ah Qi was trembling all over. She didn't have time to think about whether the skill had succeeded. She took out a pair of shiny glass shoes from the brocade pouch and put them on her feet.

[Cinderella's Glass Slipper (Purple): From the "Mermaid's Revenge" dungeon. Just as your enemies can't catch Cinderella, wearing it can help you quickly escape enemies slightly higher level than you, but you'll feel the pain of walking on a knife's edge.]

Ah Qi was immediately swept up by the wind and floated lightly down the hillside.

She ran incredibly fast, as fast as a deer desperately fleeing for its life in the forest.

But every time she turned around, she could see that black and white shadow standing in front of her.

Not too far, not too close, not too fast, not too slow, you just can't shake them off.

The pain in his feet was so intense and unbearable that blood began to seep from both feet, the bright red blood falling onto the surrounding leaves like blooming red flowers.

The path down the mountain seemed endless, shrouded in mist, and the black cat still blocked her way.

"You forced me to do this! You forced me to do this!"

Ah Qi gritted his teeth and took out the last item from the brocade pouch:

[Waterweed: From the "High School Ghost Stories" dungeon, it often grows at the bottom of lakes where yin energy is abundant and death energy gathers. Eating it has a certain probability of turning you into a water ghost.]

"Crunch, crunch!"

Ah Qi's eyes were filled with a desperate madness as he chewed on the strangely flavored poisonous herbs.

"You forced me to do this."

Less than three seconds after she swallowed it, her whole body started leaking water.

Countless viscous liquids flowed from her eyes, ears, and fingernails, but Ah Qi was overjoyed.

She could feel herself becoming lighter and softer, as if she were about to break free from her body.

Great.

It became.

She's going to become a water ghost.

She's trying to escape.

No one in this world can catch a water ghost.

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……

Logically speaking, no one should be able to catch a water ghost.

But the curse master happened to encounter Xie Zhi, the judge of the underworld.

The Xie Zhi is a law-abiding creature by nature, and in the mortal realm it will naturally follow the laws of the mortal realm—so it originally intended to send Ah Qi to the Special Investigation Bureau to be judged by the laws of the mortal realm.

As a result, it did nothing, and the enemy stabbed itself repeatedly.

The Xie Zhi does not judge living people.

However, an enemy who eats water hyacinth and becomes a water ghost is a different story.

Looking at the water ghost emanating black mist, the black and white Xie Zhi tilted its head in a very human-like manner.

—The Xie Zhi eats ghosts.

—Especially the souls of those who have committed heinous crimes and are utterly wicked.

—What's the difference between this and food jumping onto the plate by itself, sprinkling itself with chili powder and cumin, and even arranging itself on a plate?