I started on a rocking horse and relied on watching ads to dominate the highway survival charts.

"What's going on!"

Miao Miao's shouts had just attracted everyone's attention.

Huo Yunzhi rushed over: "What did you find?"

Xu Xiu ran over and looked at the ashes on the ground with a serious expression: "Miao Miao, your paper doll was burned? That means..."

"She just died once," Wen Zhaoye said as he walked over.

"A vengeful ghost has appeared?" Huo Yunzhi subconsciously began searching around.

"Don't look anywhere!" Wen Zhaoye shouted. "Everyone, don't make any sudden movements. Miaomiao, don't do anything right now, just stay still."

Now tell me, what did you just see, and what did you just do?

Miao Miao didn't dare to move, and even her voice trembled slightly: "I looked at an incense burner, and then I turned around to call my sister over, and the paper... paper figure was burned."

"Incense burner? What style is it? What are its size and color?" Wen Zhaoye's voice was soft, and his slow speech carried a reassuring tone: "Don't be nervous, speak slowly, and be as specific as possible."

Xu Xiu also raised her hand and gently patted Miao Miao's back twice, and Miao Miao's emotions gradually calmed down.

"It's a palm-sized brass incense burner, similar in style to the small incense burners we usually see in temples, with three legs and two handles, but no incense sticks are inserted."

"When you see the incense burner, do you have any particular feeling?"

"No... wait, I remember my heart skipped a beat when I saw it."

"Then you turned around to call me, and the paper doll was burned?" Huo Yunzhi lowered her eyes to think.

"That's right."

Wen Zhaoye nodded, quickly integrating the information in his mind, trying to find the basis for Miaomiao's murder.

"Miaomiao, which direction is the incense burner facing you now?" Huo Yunzhi suddenly asked.

"The position of the beech tree on the left rear side."

"Besides Miaomiao, did anyone else see the incense burner?"

Shen Chilie remained squatting motionless, as if frozen in place: "I didn't see it."

"No." Qin Yuanshan simply closed his eyes and lay down.

"I didn't see it." Xu Xiu hugged Miao Miao and pressed Miao Miao's head into the crook of her neck.

"That means only Miao Miao triggered the ghost's mechanism. Since Miao Miao could clearly describe the appearance of the incense burner, it proves that she 'saw' it for a long enough time."

But when she looked, the paper figure hadn't been burned... So that's how it is.

Huo Yunzhi suddenly realized.

"It's the line of sight."

"Perspective."

Huo Yunzhi and Wen Zhaoye spoke in unison.

"The moment you saw the incense burner, it had already locked onto you," Wen Zhaoye said with certainty.

"And your action of turning your head is equivalent to actively cutting off your line of sight, which triggers the incense burner's mechanism, causing the incense burner ghost inside to directly kill you," Huo Yunzhi added, continuing Wen Zhaoye's words.

"So, this means that just because I glanced at you in the crowd, I was destined to be eliminated?"

Qin Yuanshan still has time to make jokes right now.

"This is too sinister. If it weren't for the paper doll that could have made him die, he wouldn't even know how he died." Su Anning couldn't help but complain.

Shen Chilie clenched his fist: "So, as long as I don't leave your sight, it's fine, right?"

"Don't rush." ​​Wen Zhaoye immediately guessed what Shen Chilie was planning to do: "Don't forget what items we need to collect for the pilgrimage. If you destroy them, our mission will fail."

"But isn't the item we're looking for something to subdue vengeful spirits?" Shen Chilie gritted his teeth. "This thing is clearly a vengeful spirit."

"It is indeed a vengeful ghost, but it is most likely a genuine quest item that has been taken over by the vengeful ghost. Moreover, we are currently unsure whether damaged items will also be reset during the restart."

If we break it now, our mission could very well be permanently disabled, and we'll be trapped here forever, going through countless restarts.

"This might be why the incense burner ghost resides in the incense burner," Xu Xiu continued, picking up where Huo Yunzhi left off. "Besides killing people without them even realizing it, it also makes us hesitant to act against it."

"This is so unreasonable!" Qin Yuanshan was practically pointing at the heavens and shouting that it was unfair.

"The most unreasonable things are yet to come," Wen Zhaoye sighed. "I'm very worried about something right now."

"What is it?"

"What if the incense burner could move on its own...wouldn't that make things even more complicated?"

"Why would you say that?" Miao Miao suddenly looked up.

"Because it does move now." Wen Zhaoye's voice was full of helplessness: "It's currently about six or seven meters in front of me."

!!!

Subconsciously, everyone looked towards Wen Zhaoye.

"Close your eyes and don't look!"

Wen Zhaoye shouted, "I'll think of something right away, don't make any rash moves."

"Should we... take turns watching it? As long as we keep our eyes on it, will it be unable to trigger the vengeful spirit mechanism?"

"No way." Wen Zhaoye rejected the suggestion.

"It moves, and you don't know when it will disappear or where it will reappear. The more people look at it, the more paper dolls will be consumed. Everyone, please calm down. I can still hold my gaze."

Wen Zhaoye stared intently at the incense burner, his hands rummaging through his backpack, quickly checking the props inside.

A panoramic camera can see through and create illusions, like a virtual projection to look at an incense burner.

No, the mechanism will be triggered whether you look away or the incense burner disappears. Virtual projections don't have that kind of viewpoint thing.

Attack with a bow and arrow?

That won't work either. If the incense burner is damaged and resetting it won't fix it, then the quest can't be completed.

Just when he was at his wit's end, a person slowly walked towards him.

"Miss Huo, what are you doing?"

Huo Yunzhi walked to Wen Zhaoye's vicinity and immediately saw the incense burner on the ground.

The moment their eyes met, she clearly sensed an unusual feeling, almost exactly the same as the feeling of her heart tightening that Miao Miao had described.

"It was indeed locked on through line of sight."

Wen Zhaoye couldn't turn his head or blink, and kept his eyes fixed on the incense burner as he spoke: "What's wrong with you? Why are you so impulsive?"

"I've just thought of a way," Huo Yunzhi said calmly. "If it works, it might be a way to get rid of the Incense Burner Ghost once and for all."

"You were too impulsive. You should have thought it through more carefully."

"It's okay, if it doesn't work..."

Huo Yunzhi took out the Immortal's Guide and held it in her hand, while opening a lighter in her other hand and lighting it: "If I can't get it to work, I'll die with you once."

The distinctive sandalwood scent of "The Immortal Points the Way" wafted out, invigorating both Huo Yunzhi and Wen Zhaoye.

"I'm going to try to force the Incense Burner Ghost out now. Shen Chilie, Qin Yuanshan, and An Ning, the three of you wait for my signal to act."

"Understood!" Shen Chilie replied without hesitation.

"Okay, Sister Huo!" Qin Yuanshan excitedly jumped up from the ground with his eyes closed.

"OK." Although Su Anning was a little nervous, her concern for the two of them kept her incredibly calm.

"Wen Zhaoye, let's go."

"it is good."

Huo Yunzhi and Wen Zhaoye approached the incense burner step by step.

During this process, she secretly activated the ghost messenger's skill to lock the incense burner ghost. If it moved even slightly, she would act in advance, even at the cost of consuming a substitute paper doll.

Until they got to a position three or four meters away from the incense burner...