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

"Boom!"

The walls on both sides tightly wedged Qin Yuanshan in the passage, and the moment he stopped, muffled thuds like raindrops came from all over his body.

The excruciating pain didn't come immediately; Qin Yuanshan only felt a tingling sensation throughout his body, followed by a burning sensation, as if a fire was burning inside him.

By the time his nerves finally reacted, the broken bone had already severed blood vessels and pierced the muscle, churning with each of his breaths.

Qin Yuanshan wanted to shout, but his chest was already compressed to the point of being flattened. The air flowed through his broken throat, only squeezing out a hoarse and unpleasant sound like a bellows.

He struggled to keep himself from fainting, and with trembling hands, he pulled out a rope from his backpack and tied himself to the main body of the road-blocking ghost.

[Health value continues to decrease... 10... 9... 8...]

The system screen kept flashing, and warning notifications echoed frantically in his ears. Qin Yuanshan's consciousness began to gradually fade.

"It's...it's okay...I can still...I can still activate it one last time."

Qin Yuanshan's hands trembled as he pulled the hemp rope to tie himself up the mountain.

During his break, he seriously considered how to imprison the evil spirit.

The road-blocking ghost can move between walls just like a fish can swim in water.

So if we replace "water" with "concrete", the fish will definitely be unable to swim.

Inside this old house, what's denser than the red brick and stone walls is the land beneath his feet.

Thanks to his previous experience riding horses and having to build his own shelter with tents, Qin Yuanshan had considerable experience in traversing underground.

At this moment, the rope had tightly bound him and the roadblock ghost together, and Qin Yuanshan, facing the ground, launched his final wall-passing skill.

With a flash of white light, he led the roadblock ghost to an underground place where there was no up, down, left, right, east, west, or south.

There is nothing left to wear, nothing left to cross.

"I'm so tired..."

After a period of rest, the expansion of the wall abruptly stopped.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The maze above the wall began to collapse and crumble like dominoes from the outermost edge toward the center.

The ground trembled violently, and rubble rained down. In no time, the entire maze collapsed, looking from a distance like a mound of granite and red bricks.

The roadblock is now imprisoned!

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"What's wrong?"

When Wen Zhaoye returned with a grim expression after testing the damage mechanism of the scapegoat, he saw Huo Yunzhi standing there motionless, tightly clutching a substitute paper figure in her hand.

"What's wrong with Qin Yuanshan?"

When Huo Yunzhi saw Qin Yuanshan's name turn gray, she clutched the paper doll and couldn't utter a single word.

"His picture and name!"

Su Anning quickly opened the friends channel and exclaimed in surprise.

"Take care of the scapegoat first, then settle accounts with that kid later."

When Wen Zhaoye said this, Huo Yunzhi keenly noticed that his eyes were slightly red.

"Okay." Shen Chilie gritted his teeth: "How do we deal with this ghost?"

"I just made a cut on its arm, and the same wound was reflected back to us 100% of the time, while the scapegoat was completely unharmed."

"100% feedback..." Shen Chilie clenched his fist. "Tsk, no wonder it happened just now..."

"What should we do then?" Su Anning held onto Xu Xiu tightly, her eyes reddening. "Then this ghost will keep growing, even if it doesn't replace Xiuxiu, when it grows to be seventy or eighty... Xiuxiu!"

"Anning, don't worry." Wen Zhaoye pressed down on her shoulder. "Let me think of another way."

Although Wen Zhaoye said that, things had actually reached a stalemate.

All the damage caused would then be fed back to Xu Xiu, making it impossible for them to take action against the scapegoat.

Ignoring the ghost would not only prevent them from obtaining the quest items, but Xu Xiu would also risk dying.

Even if Xu Xiu has a substitute paper doll that can be resurrected after it dies, the substitute will still target other people after it loses its target...

"If we deafen ourselves before attacking the vengeful spirit, can we prevent the transmission of the medium?"

Shen Chilie is a ruthless man. He said this with the same calmness as when he said his weapon could be used indefinitely.

"No need to be so extreme," Xu Xiu stopped Shen Chilie's actions. "I'll find out by testing it."

She took out a pair of headphones from her backpack, put them on, and turned the music up to the maximum volume.

Even so, the crying could not be masked, as if the sound was playing directly in the brain.

"No, the crying can't be blocked out. It directly affects the central nervous system, so we can hear it no matter what."

As he spoke, the scapegoat began to look more and more mature, and slowly he became no different from Xu Xiu now.

"We don't have much time left." Wen Zhaoye looked at Xu Xiu: "How...how old are you this year?"

"29".

"That means there are about nine minutes left."

Wen Zhaoye sat down on the spot, quickly closed his eyes, and began to think of a solution.

Huo Yunzhi raised an eyebrow.

He had done something similar while in the maze, which led to his method of finding items.

It looks a bit like... the characters from Pleasant Goat and Ikkyu-san.

A solution can be found simply by adopting a fixed posture.

While waiting, Xu Xiu's instinct as a wet nurse led her to take out the white jade bottle to treat herself.

The wound began to slowly glow with a golden light.

As soon as the treatment ended, Xu Xiu seemed to have discovered something and gave a puzzled "hmm".

Did the scapegoat also radiate a golden light of healing just now?

Could it be that... what happened to her will also happen to the scapegoat?

Xu Xiu quietly took out a scalpel from her backpack and carefully made a cross-shaped cut on her palm.

After she finished, she looked at the scapegoat again and saw that the other person also had the same cross-shaped wound on his palm.

………!

Damage dealt to a scapegoat will be reflected back to the user 100%.

Conversely, the harm you cause to yourself will be returned to the scapegoat in full!

Wen Zhaoye was still thinking of a solution, while Shen Chilie and Su Anning kept watch around the perimeter.

Only Huo Yunzhi noticed the commotion on Xu Xiu's side.

"Xiuxiu, you wouldn't be thinking of...?"

"Shh." Xu Xiu quickly walked to Huo Yunzhi's side and covered her mouth: "Don't say it."

"You...you mustn't do anything foolish!" Huo Yunzhi pulled down the hand covering her mouth: "Wen Zhaoye is already thinking of a solution."

"It's no use." Xu Xiu shook his head: "The scapegoat mechanism is flawless. I'm going to die this round without a doubt. Since I'm going to die anyway, I might as well shut up the crying here and prevent it from reigniting. Maybe then I'll still have a chance to lock it up."

As Xu Xiu spoke, she stuffed her substitute paper figure into Huo Yunzhi's hand and whispered, "You take them to find the palanquin. I'll deal with this scapegoat."