Chapter 541: Jumo Island (Forty-Seven)

In the darkness, Honghu waited anxiously.

From his perspective, Tianma Xingkong, Feng Bujue and Jibu were all standing under the hanging corpse, holding flashlights and not moving.

Obviously, Feng Bujue's guess was fulfilled again. The monster in front of him really had some range control skills.

Fortunately, Honghu did not go with them, otherwise... there was a possibility of annihilation.

Time passed by minute by minute, and the pressure was all on Honghu.

Suddenly, a system prompt sounded in his ears: [Team member: Master Jibu, has died. ]

Almost at the same time as the voice sounded, Jibu in the distance turned into white light and disappeared...

"Alas... It seems that the time to act according to circumstances has come..." Honghu sighed while raising his flashlight and looking around.

In this isolated and helpless situation, he himself was also in danger. God knows what else is lurking in the darkness around him... So he had to check the surroundings before taking action.

"Well... let's just attack once and see..." After making preparations, Honghu put the flashlight on the ground, took out his weapon, and drew his bow and arrow.

After a short aim, a light arrow shot out...

Honghu's shooting expertise is already A-level, and he is using a bow and crossbow weapon (which is more maneuverable than a gun). At this distance, there is no possibility of missing a fixed target.

One second later, the light arrow flew through the air and hit the chest of the corpse.

However... this arrow did not stay on the corpse, but passed through its body...

"Hmm?" Honghu was slightly startled. His eyes widened, and after just a breath, he muttered: "Illusion?"

His inference was correct, and he could draw this conclusion by a simple process of elimination... The light arrow is effective for both entities and spirits. Excluding these two situations, the remaining possibility is that the corpse is just an illusion.

"Huh... Are you playing this trick..." Honghu snorted coldly, then drew the bow again and aimed at the rope above the hanging corpse.

Chi——Another arrow flew out, this time... the light arrow successfully hit the target.

With just a slight touch, the rope broke. The rope broke. The body hanging under the rope also disappeared suddenly.

At the same second. Tianma Xingkong jumped backwards with a tremor in his whole body, and cursed incoherently. After landing, he took a fighting stance and looked around nervously.

"Oh? It's lifted, right..." Feng Bujue seemed surprisingly calm. He turned around. He looked at Xiao Ma Ge and Hong Hu. Then he glanced at the game menu, "Well... Ji Bu is dead..."

"Just... just now..." Tianma Xingkong's fear had not yet subsided. He looked at Jue Ge with a pale face and a little panic and asked. "...What's going on?"

"Don't panic, it's all hallucinations." Feng Bujue responded casually, then turned his head and shouted to Honghu in the distance, "Honghu, we're fine."

"Wait!" Honghu didn't believe it rashly. He still stood there and shouted, "Are you sure?"

His worries were not unreasonable. What if the scene in front of him was also part of a trap?

"Well..." Feng Bujue said, turning around and looking up at the broken rope in the sky, "I'm really not sure..."

It happened in a flash... Before he finished speaking, Brother Jue stepped on his feet and jumped up.

In a flash, he had firmly grasped the broken rope swaying in the wind, and suddenly exerted force to pull it down...

"Ah——" Suddenly a wailing sounded from above. Although it was just a shout, Tianma Xingkong immediately recognized the owner of the voice...that was the guy hanging on the rope.

Brother Xiao Ma was startled immediately, raised his flashlight and swept upwards.

When I saw it before, the other end of the rope was tied to a protruding crystal above. But now I shine the light directly at that place, and I found that on the outer edge of that crystal column... there was actually a strange creature lying. And the "rope" was stretched out from the mouth of this creature...

"Ah, ah, ah... all right! Stop pulling! Let go!" The creature said several sentences in a row, and its tone was not gloomy at all at this time, and it sounded quite friendly.

"You can let go if you want me to." Feng Bujue said, "You come down."

"No, you have bad intentions!" The other party replied.

"Come down." Brother Jue said again, "I promise I won't beat you to death."

"I don't believe it!" the guy above shouted, "You crazy zhi (because the tongue was pulled, it couldn't pronounce correctly)!"

"No, I'm not a madman..." Feng Bujue said this in a very cold tone, and then... suddenly grinned, pulled the "rope" with both hands, and began to swing his body vigorously, "... I am Tarzan! Ah-ah~ah~ah~ah~ah..."

Brother Jue imitated the signature roar of the animated version of Tarzan (Tarzan, the protagonist of the novel "Tarzan of the Apes" written by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs), swinging in the air...

And the strange creatures on the crystal roared with almost the same tone...

This scene made the onlookers Tianma Xingkong and Honghu a little at a loss... But Honghu quickly came to his senses and walked towards this side in two steps. Because Brother Jue's behavior at least announced one thing-the danger has indeed been lifted.

Finally, the guy above came down. If he didn't come down, his "tongue" would be pulled out by the roots.

"Let me introduce to you, this is one of the four guards of Zui Mo Island... Heart of Fear." Feng Bujue stood still and pointed at the strange creature that fell to the ground.

It turns out... the heart of fear did not grow into a "heart". On the whole, it looks more like a black gecko with a body length of two meters.

"Is it the one that killed Atobe?" Honghu asked with a frown.

"It's not accurate to say 'kill'..." Feng Bujue replied, "Atobu died because his shock value was overloaded, which means... he was so frightened that the script popped up."

"Oh...were those hallucinations created by this guy..." Brother Ma then added in hindsight.

Fearful Heart turned over on the ground at this time, stared at Brother Jue and said, "Can you let go of my head?"

"Of course." Feng Bujue immediately let go of the "rope." And added, "See, I'm a man of my word."

"Really? So you are really a 'human'?" Heart of Fear retracted his tongue into his mouth and replied in a mocking tone, "Then I can only suggest that you see a psychiatrist..."

"I've seen it. It was jointly consulted by several top psychiatrists and neurologists." Feng Bujue replied.

Fear lowered his voice: "So...are you still in treatment..."

"No, the treatment has ended long ago." Brother Jue said again.

"Uh... why did you give up the treatment?" Fearful Heart asked.

"Because after a while, those psychiatrists and neurologists also became patients." Feng Bujue shrugged.

"Excuse me for interrupting this god-like conversation between the two of you..." Honghu couldn't bear to listen anymore. He interrupted, "Can any of you explain what happened just now..."

"Does this still need an explanation?" Fearful Heart asked. "As usual, I found a random place, put down the 'bait' to hunt, and then I met you."

"Oh...so the situation is...you ambushed us. And killed one of our companions..." Honghu read. "And now...you're in our hands."

"Yes." Fear replied.

"I really admire your upright and open-minded attitude..." Hong Hu said with vacant eyes.

"Okay! Since you admit it, let's take revenge and settle accounts!" After these few minutes, Tianma Xingkong had basically gotten rid of the shadow of fear and returned to normal. then. He took two steps forward, waved his arm and pointed at Brother Gecko on the ground, and shouted, "You have been scaring me for so long! Fortunately, I was brave enough not to give up. Now it's my turn! Feel the hero's anger..."

"Don't be impulsive." Feng Bujue raised his hand to stop Xiao Ma, "It's useless even if you kill it... Abu will not be resurrected." He paused, "Besides... it's not actually it. 'I'm scaring you, but you're scaring yourself."

"Huh?" Tianma Xingkong was stunned, "What do you mean?"

"Let me explain." Heart of Fear continued, "Previously, when you came over, I activated my ability on you - 'Source of Trembling'. After that, what you saw and heard , touching, etc... basically all depends on your imagination..." It moved its steps, crawling back and forth on the ground, "For example... when you are approaching the 'bait' I put out. , you are very concerned about his face, so you start to imagine... the scenes that may appear next, the changes that may occur, etc... Of course, these are just introductions... What is truly terrifying is that you don’t dare to even think about it. The things you think about...those things only exist in your subconscious mind, and that is the change that the source of trembling will lead to."

Having said this, Heart of Fear raised its flat head, looked at Brother Ma and said: "You are lucky. Your subconscious memory of terror is relatively limited, which limits the space for imagination, so you are not dead. Haha... ...The other boy is different..."

"In short... Abu has watched many more horror movies, horror novels, etc. than you, so he can brew up more frightening plots in his mind." Feng Bujue was worried that Brother Xiao Ma wouldn't understand. He immediately added two more sentences of explanation.

"So what! No matter what the reason is, you are still the one who activates the ability!" Tianma Xingkong said sternly to Fearful Heart.

"Tch... I'm not forcing you to go within my capabilities. You can completely take a detour or go back." Fearful Heart said unconvinced, "Who can you blame for throwing yourself into a trap?"

"Hey! According to what you mean...do we deserve it?" Tianma Xingkong asked.

"Don't be impatient..." Feng Bujue advised in a deep voice, "Actually... we do also have responsibilities." His tone was very calm, making people willing to listen, "In this place, it is easy to cause groups. (Dialogue between players about the game itself, NPCs at the Heart of Fear level cannot hear it, and will be blocked by the system), so... the system gave us a hint as early as in the previous plot. "

Brother Jue paused for two seconds, and then repeated the advice of the Imitation Soul: "'If you encounter the Heart of Fear, it is best to run away as soon as possible. You humans cannot compete with it.'" He shrugged Shrugging, he continued. "At first I was wondering, if the Heart of Fear attacks us with its 'ability', can we really run away? If we can run, wouldn't we also stop playing in the 'Guessing Field' of the Hand of Rubbing? Haha? ...Now I finally understand, what he means is that we should not take the initiative to get into the trap. "

"Then let's forget it?" Tianma Xingkong asked, he still seemed a little unwilling.

"Hey~ As a hero, you must know how to forgive others." Feng Bujue said earnestly as if educating a child, "I suggest you read more of Mr. Guan Dexing's "Once Upon a Time" series. That kind of thing is called a benevolent hero. As long as If people are willing to repent and say, "Master Huang, I understand my mistake," he will let them live..."

"I'm not wrong." Fearful Heart said before Brother Jue could finish his words, "Even if I kill you all, it's still within the scope of my responsibilities and powers."

Silence... fell...

Tianma Xingkong and Honghu suddenly looked at each other with sympathy. Silently watching the heart of fear.

"What...what are you doing?" The gecko brother's back. Suddenly there was a chill.

"Haha..." At this moment. Feng Bujue raised one corner of his mouth, turned his head with an evil smile, and stared at the heart of fear with an extremely cold look...

…………

Fifteen minutes later.

"Oh~ no_zuo_no_die. That's absolutely true." Tianma Xingkong smacked his lips and said while chewing the unique-tasting "gecko" meat.

"Just hearing the name, I thought it would be a sinister and scary guy, but it turned out to be so upright." Honghu also ate barbecue and sighed, "It's so pitiful."

"You'll lose your moral integrity if you say this kind of line before you've wiped your mouth clean." Feng Bujue complained while stuffing a juicy piece of meat into his mouth.

At this time, the three people had already lit a fire. Sitting there, making barbecue with Heart of Fear's body...

It had indeed been two and a half hours since they last ate. Feng Bujue believed that it was very important to replenish food every 150 minutes; as long as this rhythm was not broken, the consumption of physical energy could be maintained at the same level as in the normal script.

Another thing that needs to be mentioned is... before Brother Jue took action to kill the Heart of Fear, he pretended not to embarrass the other party and conducted some negotiations.

To put it simply... he used "you killed one of our companions" as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Heart of Fear and successfully figured out a way to reach the "Cage of Despair".

After achieving his goal, Feng Bujue took action... Then there was a one-stop service of killing, cutting and roasting, drinking blood and playing, let alone mentioning it...

All in all, after paying the price of a teammate, the main mission finally has some clues.

The remaining three people rested for a while, and after they were full of blood and flesh, they set off again.

They did not rest for long this time, firstly because it was dark, and secondly because solving their fears did not consume much of their physical energy.

Feng Bujue's analysis in the sacrificial hall was correct. Among the four guards, the strongest one was the Imitation Soul, and the other guys were not worth mentioning at all. Although each of the guards has been given a rather unnatural special ability (the finger-guessing field of the rubbing hand, the mimetic transformation of the imitation soul, and the source of trembling in the heart of fear), apart from this, the imitation soul His innate racial ability is undoubtedly the strongest.

"Ah!" After the three of them were on the road again, within a few minutes, Tianma Xingkong suddenly screamed, and turned to look at Brother Jue and said, "I almost forgot to ask... how did you get out of the 'Source of Trembling'? Survived?"

"Tch... I was so surprised... I thought you were going to ask something, it's just this matter..." Feng Bujue continued weakly.

"I'm also very curious." Honghu continued, "When it comes to imagination and memory reserves of various horror elements... you can be said to be at the level of a master. Even I am willing to be defeated by your imagination... ..." He paused and his expression changed slightly, "You are probably the least likely person to survive the source of trembling, right?"

"Oh? You think so?" Feng Bujue responded calmly.

Honghu continued: "Yes... and why does the Heart of Fear call you a madman? Judging from the conversation between the two of you, you have had many exchanges with it in the illusion, haven't you?"

"Ha... Actually it's not a big deal." Feng Bujue bought himself about two seconds with a nonsense sentence. In these two seconds, he had made up a set of rhetoric in his mind. The content was half true and half false, which should be able to cover up the fact that he had no fear, "Because when I see an abnormal situation, my first reaction is not to panic or Be afraid, but think about why.”

As he spoke, he raised his right hand and tapped his temple with his index finger: "This habit is deeply ingrained. Even if the other party continues to lead me to the things I fear, as long as I can maintain rationality and calmness, I can be in the illusion." To contend with it." He paused, "Let's give a simple example...one day you get up and brush your teeth, turn on the faucet, and find that shit comes out of it..."

"Do you dare to change the example?" Tianma Xingkong interrupted.

"Okay, there's blood." Feng Bujue changed his words, "What will you do at this time?"

"Analyze the situation rationally and tell yourself... I am dreaming, and then try to wake up." Honghu thought as he said, "Well... if you really can't wake up, then brush your teeth and wash your face with blood, pretending it is water It’s all an illusion anyway.”

Feng Bujue nodded with a smile, but said: "Wrong."

"Huh?" Honghu was stunned.

"You think too much." Feng Bujue continued, "If I were in that situation, my mind would instinctively react."

"What is it?"

"Turn off the tap."

"Hmm..." Honghu and Tianma Xingkong fell into deep thought together. (To be continued...)