There's a big problem with dreams in this world.

"Huh?" Wayne was taken aback for a moment, then said with some disdain, "You don't think I'd be scared by something like that, do you? Let alone a scarecrow, even a real human wouldn't scare me away."

"Yes, yes, I know you're amazing..." Lu Qing smiled gently, not wanting to argue with Wayne any further.

When she arrived at the door of the cabin, she knocked on it with a little more force.

A moment later, a note was slipped out from the crack under the door. Lu Qing thought for a moment, then picked it up and read its contents.

"Please pass the invitation through the crack under the door." This is what was written on the note.

Since she was there to attend the wedding, it was best to do as the other party suggested. Lu Qing took out the invitation and handed it over under the door.

Not long after, another note was passed out from under the door. Lu Qing picked it up and saw four words written on it.

Have fun.

After reading the note, the door to the room was opened.

"Creak..."

The leather boots clattered on the somewhat fragile wooden planks, and small creatures hidden in the shadows scurried frantically across the dirty ground, trying to get as far away from the suddenly appearing behemoth as possible.

Red and blue ribbons were tied to the walls of the corridor, some of which broke in the middle and fell to the ground.

"Thump...thump...thump..."

A rhythmic knocking sound came from the depths of the corridor, and at the same time, Lu Qing also heard a strange piece of music.

It sounded as if hundreds or thousands of people were talking, with the whistling wind rushing past my ears. Perhaps due to the sound equipment, the singing sounded incredibly hoarse, mixed with countless electromagnetic noises.

The scene before her was somewhat frightening, but Lu Qing calmed herself down and continued walking forward.

The dilapidated house, covered in dust as if it hadn't been cleaned for years, paired with brightly colored ribbons, inexplicably gave one a chill down their spine.

"Hehehe......."

Lu Qing arrived at a courtyard and suddenly heard a clear, melodious laugh. Turning around, she saw a beautiful woman in a pure white wedding dress dancing in the courtyard. Her figure suddenly disappeared as she moved.

Lu Qing blinked and looked around again, but still couldn't find where the woman who had just appeared had gone.

After thinking for a while, she lingered in the courtyard and found an abandoned carriage.

The carriage wheels were already broken, decorated with colorful ribbons and flowers made of white paper. A faint purple light emanated from the gaps in the carriage. Lu Qing's spirits lifted, and she quickly took out the items inside.

【Item Name: Flamethrower】

[Item Quality: Special Item]

[Synopsis: A dilapidated flamethrower, inexplicably found inside a farmer's wagon, seems to have absorbed some kind of special power, capable of igniting blood and spewing out scorching flames.]

[Skills: Blood Burning, Flame Leap, Bone-Piercing Fire]

[Blood Burning: A flamethrower capable of burning blood; the higher the quality of the blood, the more powerful the flames!]

[Flame Thrower: The flamethrower possesses extremely powerful propulsion capabilities, capable of shooting up to twenty meters in distance.]

[Fire of the Bone: Flames obtained by burning blood are extremely difficult to extinguish and will burn faster upon contact with the blood of an enemy.]

[Note: Beware of ischemia.]

"It's a special item." Lu Qing said, looking at the flamethrower in her hand with some disappointment.

Special items cannot be taken out of the dungeon, which made her feel a little regretful, since judging from the purple light emitted by the flamethrower, it was a purple item!

The effect looks pretty impressive, but unfortunately you can only use one dream.

Shaking her head, Lu Qing picked up the flamethrower, opened the fuel tank, and found it was filled with the blood of some unknown creature.

"If anything dares to jump out and scare me later, I'll burn it to death with this thing!" Lu Qing thought viciously, holding the flamethrower in her hand.

After walking through the flat courtyard, she finally arrived at the living room of the wooden house, where she saw rectangular dining tables covered with white cloth.

"We...have been waiting for you here for quite some time..."

A man sat on a wooden chair next to the dining table, his brain pounding against the table in a rhythmic sound. It turned out that the "thump-thump" sound that Lu Qing had heard earlier was actually coming from this man.

In addition, Lu Qing finally found the item that was emitting the eerie music—a radio.

It wasn't one of those radios made from human corpses that doctors have in their homes, but a normal square metal box, from which the eerie music was coming from.

Lu Qing picked up a plate from the table, and immediately a number of huge cockroaches and a pale green paste of rotten food crawled out of it. Startled, she quickly threw the plate on the ground and took two steps back.

What should we do next?

Lu Qing looked around, somewhat at a loss.

The secondary goal is to participate in the Ghost Wedding, but it doesn't specify how to participate. So, should she continue to wait until the wedding begins?

Thinking this, Lu Qing walked to the radio and tried to turn off the eerie music.

But just as she was about to turn the music off, she suddenly noticed some strange syllables in the music.

Her keen hearing allowed her to instantly capture these strange syllables. Lu Qing felt as if her soul was rising continuously, and in a daze, she seemed to see a towering ancient tree reaching into the clouds.

At the heart of the ancient tree, a huge, pure white sphere of light floated, and near this sphere lay hundreds of emaciated humans. The eerie voices in the music she heard were coming from these people.

Before Lu Qing could continue reading, her attention waned rapidly, and in a daze, she was back inside the wooden house.

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Chapter 387: The Shadow Monster

"call!"

A sudden gust of cold wind swept through the room, and Lu Qing shuddered, her consciousness immediately returning to reality.

The eerie music stopped at some point, and the windows and doors in the room were inexplicably boarded up.

"Hehehe......."

A strange laugh came from all directions, and a beautiful woman dressed in a pure white wedding dress suddenly appeared in the center of the room.

The pure white wedding dress danced gracefully as the woman twirled, and in the next instant, the other person vanished from the spot.

Then, with a fleeting illusion, the woman reappeared beside Lu Qing.

She couldn't help but reach out to touch the other person, only to find that she couldn't touch them at all; her hand passed right through their body.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

A loud crashing sound suddenly rang out from outside the door, and a hoarse male voice came from the creature that had rammed into it: "We... have been here... waiting for you for quite some time!"

No sooner had the words left her lips than the sealed door was smashed open, and a split-headed creature engulfed in black mist rushed in, roaring as it charged toward Lu Qing.

“There are two more.” Wayne, who had been pretending to be dead on Lu Qing’s shoulder, suddenly spoke up.

"Two more?"

Lu Qing was stunned for a moment. In her perception, apart from the head-splitting creature, the only other thing in the room was the ghost bride that she could see but couldn't touch.

But Wayne probably didn't just say that casually, which means there were indeed two other creatures in the room that she hadn't noticed?

Before she could think too much, the Black Mist Split-Headed One had already arrived in front of her, and a scarlet split claw was about to pierce through Lu Qing's head.

This level of attack was of course no match for her, and when she tried to move, she suddenly found that her feet seemed to be grabbed by something, making it impossible for her to move an inch.

"?!"

Without time to think about why she couldn't move, in a moment of urgency, Lu Qing could only lean back to avoid the claws of the black mist fissure-headed creature.

However, the Black Mist Split-Headed One reacted quickly, opening its mouth the instant its claws missed.

"Oops!"

Lu Qing's pupils contracted sharply, and the next moment, a thick tongue shot out from the mouth of the black mist splitter, its target her abdomen!

Lu Qing tried her best to dodge, but her legs couldn't move. In addition, the attack speed of the Black Mist Split-Headed One was too fast. Even though she bent her waist to a certain extent in time, her tongue still pierced through the edge of her abdomen, leaving a bloody hole!

"Er..."

With her face contorted in pain, Lu Qing grabbed the black mist-split man's tongue and, enduring the excruciating pain, slammed it hard to the ground!

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

The Black Mist Split-Headed One was thrown to the ground by Lu Qing and struggled with a roar. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lu Qing drew her black iron dagger and slashed it hard into the other's tongue!

"clang!"

The dagger struck the tongue with a metallic clang, and despite her powerful slash, she failed to sever it!

"Damn it, it's black mist!" Lu Qing realized this. She couldn't possibly hurt the head-splitter before the black mist was eliminated.

Looking down, she saw that what was firmly gripping her feet were two dark hands that looked like shadows.

"Are these the other two that Wayne mentioned?"

Because it wasn't a purely biological entity, she hadn't detected it. Now, with her feet entangled by these two things, she had no idea how to get free.

No, there is a way!

Suddenly, Lu Qing thought of something and immediately used the [Silver-Gray Evening Breeze] skill [Enter the Shadows]. The next moment, her body turned into a shadow and disappeared into the ground.

And those two arms lost their target.

However, to Lu Qing's surprise, after a brief pause, the two arms reached out to grab her as she was in shadow.

"!"

Lu Qing was startled and quickly broke free from the shadows.

"Vin, don't just stand by and watch, lend a hand!" After emerging from the shadows, Lu Qing said to Vin, who was standing on her shoulder.

"My stats aren't even as good as yours, haha, you'd better pray for yourself!" Wayne said with a hint of helplessness.

He was telling the truth. Under normal circumstances, if he hadn't met Lu Qing, he would most likely still be wandering around in the spiritual realm, searching for the dreams of living beings and absorbing the negative energy they generate.

Therefore, he is an expert in the mental realm, but when it comes to physical combat ability...

Sorry, at most he can only bully creatures like mutated wild dogs.

In fact, this awkward situation could have been resolved once he broke through to the blue rank, but unfortunately, after being contracted by Lu Qing, Wayne could no longer freely seek out human dreams to absorb negative energy.

He could only cultivate on his own, enduring hardship. Occasionally, he would encounter monsters created from the negative emotions he felt after being defeated by Lu Qing, and only then could he have a good meal. This slowed down his evolution considerably.

In other words........

Following Lu Qing meant going hungry for three days and occasionally having to work for free.