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

The Crimson Lotus Fire Spear instantly shone brightly, lunging at the vengeful ghost like a fiery serpent spitting its tongue, pinning it to the spot in an instant.

On the data panel, Huo Yunzhi's stamina was decreasing, and the golden patterns on the Crimson Lotus Musket were becoming increasingly dazzling.

Huo Yunzhi exerted force suddenly, and the "Life" Ghost's already stiff body began to rapidly disintegrate into several pieces centered on the Crimson Lotus Fire Spear, eventually scattering all over the ground.

The lingering stench of decay gradually dissipated.

Huo Yunzhi frowned. Logically speaking, such a change should mean that the vengeful ghost had been killed.

But she clearly didn't use the power to kill a demon.

Moreover, how could a completely corrupted vengeful spirit die so easily?

The rules require bringing the vengeful ghost back to the stage... What should we do?

Do you want to pack the broken pieces and take them with you?

Huo Yunzhi thought for a while, and the fragments of the "life" ghost on the ground suddenly began to dissipate, eventually turning into ashes.

Well, now there aren't even any fragments left.

"Are you done?"

After giving the two men their injections, Shen Chilie returned to Huo Yunzhi's side.

"It seems like...something's gone wrong." Huo Yunzhi pointed to the ashes: "It's over there."

"Hmm?" Shen Chilie looked at the spot Huo Yunzhi was pointing to, then doubted his own eyes: "That shorty?"

"Um."

"I'll go take a look."

Shen Chilie also clearly didn't believe that the completely corrupted Ghost Ash could be killed so easily.

He walked to the gate, squatted down, and before he could even look at himself, a sudden gust of wind arose, carrying the dust away without a trace.

"It ran away!" Huo Yunzhi lifted her foot and chased after it.

She followed the direction in which Fei Hui had fled and soon arrived at the door of a side room.

Upon entering, Huo Yunzhi's attention was immediately drawn to a wooden box.

Unlike the other objects in the room, this wooden box had a crack open, from which a large amount of gray mist was seeping out.

Yu Guangzhong saw Shen Chilie also coming this way, and Huo Yunzhi began to approach the box.

One step...two steps...

Just as Huo Yunzhi reached the box, two faded white sleeves slowly drooped down above the open door behind her.

Immediately afterwards, the face of the "living" ghost, which only had eyes, peeked out from under the eaves.

Without needing to repeat the previous actions, the smile in its eyes seemed to have become much more intense.

Huo Yunzhi squatted down and carefully examined the wooden box, seemingly unaware of the "living" ghost behind her.

The "life" ghost silently descended from the roof, its pale hands covered in blackened growth that was rapidly increasing.

When it was less than two meters away from Huo Yunzhi, Huo Yunzhi suddenly turned her head and stared directly at the "living" ghost.

"boom!"

As the explosion rang out, the "Life" ghost's body was once again torn to pieces in front of Huo Yunzhi.

I don’t know if it’s because this place is very close to the contamination inside the wooden box, but the “living” ghost revived extremely quickly this time.

Just as the "Life" ghost was resurrected, Shen Chilie rushed in like a cheetah and suppressed it.

Huo Yunzhi also quickly grabbed the lid of the wooden box, tightly sealing the contaminant inside.

The "living" ghost struggled and roared incessantly.

He was immediately met with a fierce attack from Shen Chilie, taking several punches in a row.

Huo Yunzhi remained calm, as if she hadn't heard the roar that could lower mental strength at all. She pressed one hand on the wooden box to activate the purification mode, while making a hand seal with the other.

The red cloth surrounding her instantly increased in size dozens of times, binding the "living" ghost tightly and rendering it unable to move.

The contamination inside the wooden box was quickly cleaned up, and Huo Yunzhi withdrew her hand and reopened the lid.

Inside lay an exquisite opera robe.

[Props: The robe of a leading female role in traditional Chinese opera.]

[Effect: Wearing this item for a period of time will cause it to become corrupted and eroded; after more than ten minutes, it will be assimilated into a demon.]

"It only lists the side effects, but doesn't mention a single word about the specific uses. This damn system is still so misleading."

Shen Chilie gave the survival system a vicious rant.

"Let's take this ghost back to the stage first."

Huo Yunzhi put away her opera robe, then dragged the red cloth, pulling the "living" ghost out of the room.

The moment she stepped out of the room, a signal flare rose in the southeast direction.

Those men with guns encountered a vengeful ghost.

Huo Yunzhi silently noted down the location of the signal flare, and after confirming that Chen Baicha and the other two had entered the recovery phase, she exchanged a glance with Shen Chilie and dragged the "living" ghost to start running southwest.

As the two people and the ghost passed through a courtyard, a series of hurried footsteps came from afar.

Huo Yunzhi looked toward the source of the sound and saw two figures rushing toward them.

It's White Rabbit candy and a player I don't know.

Huo Yunzhi observed them carefully and noticed that White Rabbit Milk Candy's behavior seemed a bit off.

When he got closer, he noticed that each of the two men was missing a hand, and they had only received simple bandages. Both of them were now frighteningly pale.

The White Rabbit Milk Tea player was still able to walk, but the other female player fainted immediately after stopping.

"What happened to you?"

White Rabbit Milk Candy coughed for almost a minute, as if it were about to die, before it was finally able to speak.

"I...cough cough...we encountered...cough cough, a vengeful ghost dressed as a female opera singer...and a player, cough cough...has already been taken away."

While speaking, White Rabbit Milk Candy coughed and recounted in detail how they ended up in a strange place, how they got separated from the others, how they encountered the Flower Girl Ghost, and how another player was assimilated by the Flower Girl Ghost.

Huo Yunzhi raised an eyebrow when she heard that the Hua Dan Ghost only had a mouth.

She pulled on the red cloth, and the "living" ghost, who had been dragged along the way, was pulled over.

"Cough cough cough cough." The moment White Rabbit Creamy Candy saw the "living" ghost, it almost coughed itself out: "Just like... just like it! It's always smiling, and the smile gets more pronounced every time it dies!"

"So how did you escape?"

After listening for a while, Shen Chilie asked the question that interested him the most.

"It was Tao Min, that player. She used a life-saving item, using our arms as substitutes to escape in place of our real arms."

White Rabbit Milk Candy took a few more breaths, her face growing increasingly grave from pale: "And there are many strange things about this service area."

"What's so strange about this place?"

"We've tried before, but we can't use the talent skill, right?"

The White Rabbit candy's sudden mention of this made Huo Yunzhi and Shen Chilie feel uneasy.

"and then?"

White Rabbit Milk Candy forced a smile, saying, "While we were desperately trying to escape, I discovered that the player who had been assimilated used her innate skill on us."