Chapter 224: Middle finger, wildfire, group hallucinations.

Chi Xiaochi holds her cup, and says in her heart, "I'm not that fragile, brother."

Lou Ying hits the nail on the head, "Are you not, or are you used to it?"

Chi Xiaochi warms her palms with a cup, "Get used to it, and it's gone."

Lou Ying stopped talking and flicked her hand on his forehead.

It didn't hurt much, but Chi Xiaochi was surprised, hissed, and was about to say something when Lou Ying neatly zipped up his sleeping bag.

Chi Xiaochi, suddenly plunged into darkness, confused, raised her hand and scratched her sleeping bag, "Brother, what is this?"

Lou Ying is outside saying, "Lock you up."

Chi Xiaochi almost laughed if he didn't know the mood was wrong.

In order to avoid being beaten again, Chi Xiaochi lay down on his back and stopped talking.

Lou Ying reached out and scooped up the entire sleeping bag into her arms.

Wrapped up in a green ball, Chi Xiaochi was caught off guard and leaned his head on Lou Ying's shoulder.

Next to the warmth, Chi Xiaochi's heart also quieted down a lot, so he picked a comfortable place to rest his head.

He took the initiative to explain, "I was trying to solve the task as soon as possible as soon as possible ...... Sorry, I didn't consider your feelings."

"Well, that apology, I can accept." The sleeping bag was so thick that Chi Xiaochi could only vaguely feel Lou Ying's warm breath against her ear, if anything, sliding past, "And then?"

Chi Xiaochi: "Huh?"

Lou Ying stroked Chi Xiaochi's brow, which had just been hurt by the flick, and tapped it with his fingertip: "How do you want to apologize to this person?"

Chi Xiaochi's heart fluttered as she listened to Lou Ying's rational and gentle whispers.

"The mission is important to you, it's important to me, it's important to Bai Anyi. But there's no logical relationship between that and the fact that you're 'treating this person as expendable'."

Lou Ying was not very good at Zhangsheng Qi.

He tends to be extremely tolerant and understanding of people and events, and unless his bottom line is violated, he will not go on a rampage of attack and criticism, even if he personally disagrees.

"Things like 'death' are very demoralizing. I've seen a lot of people die, and I know that 'death' numbs you after you've experienced it so much."

Lou Ying closed her eyes, her expression stoic as she thought back to the two hosts she had taken before Chi Xiaochi.

...... At first, after committing suicide when leaving the world, they were baffled and devastated, but after experiencing death over and over again, they gradually adapted to it and no longer took "death" seriously, and even joked with Lou Ying, asking how they should die this time! It's more creative.

This monstrous spirit should not exist in Chi Xiaochi.

Even the mere thought of it was intolerable to Lou Ying.

Even so, Lou Ying could not be too hard on Chi Xiaochi.

That seems like a pretty bad habit too.

"I know he's a very strong man, and I don't ask him to become weak and dependent on me. But, at the very least, I want him to learn to be weak and afraid in this case, for my sake as well as his own."

Lou Ying rubbed Chi Xiaochi's brow repeatedly through his sleeping bag and said, "All in all, this person is very important to me. Can you be nice to him."

Chi Xiaochi shrugged a little in his arms, as if nodding.

Lou Ying sighed and shielded his head, looking down and asking him, "Scared."

The large group in his arms lifted its head, supposedly looking at him.

Lou Ying raised her hand and traced the contours of Chi Xiaochi's features with her fingertips half a centimeter from the sleeping bag.

He added, "Does it scare you when you're in the water."

Chi Xiaochi's muffled voice came from the sleeping bag, "Just the thought of seeing you as soon as I open my eyes is ...... okay."

Lou Ying's heart was completely softened by these words.

He pinched the zipper on the outside of the sleeping bag and gently pulled it open, his movements meticulous as if he were unwrapping a gift.

Chi Xiaochi had taken off Bai Anyi's gold-rimmed glasses, his slightly sweaty black hair was damp and plastered to his cheeks, and at the corners of his eyes there was still sweat running down his forehead, his eyes looked crystal bright in the dark light.

He looked at Lou Ying with a smile on his face.

Lou Ying tried to look serious: "What's so funny?"

Chi Xiaochi : "...... I think of the old days."

"I used to fall out with you unilaterally, saying that I would never come to your house again, but every time, I would run to your door and beg for reconciliation." Chi Xiaochi words can hardly hide the novelty, "You lose your temper like this, it's the first time I've seen it. ...... But this should not be considered angry."

Saying that, Chi Xiaochi sidled up and propped her cheek with one hand, "Brother, you seriously get angry with me and see, okay."

Lou Ying takes a deep breath at the prospect of such a step forward.

He said, "Come here. I'll show you how angry I am."

Chi Xiaochi really knows how to make people angry, and he was so brazen that he went over to Lou Ying with his sleeping bag wrapped around him, knowing that Lou Ying knew what he was doing and that he wouldn't do anything to him at this point in his mission.

Lou Ying was no slouch either, creating a table in front of Chi Xiaochi: "I've written down all the things you've done."

Chi Xiaochi, who was already prepared to be pulled out of her body with a card and kissed by Lou Ying, couldn't help but sniff, "...... huh?"

Lou Ying said, "No matter what the cost, hurt yourself, quantitative assessment first deducted a twenty points before."

Chi Xiaochi :"...... "He had mixed feelings about being backfired by his familiar moves.

He humbly asked for advice, "Teacher, what if you fail the test."

"Punishment." Lou Ying said, "I haven't thought about what the punishment will be. I'll let you know when you fail the class. Now I'll give you homework. If you don't do it well, you'll be deducted points as well."

"What homework?"

Lou Ying pulled the open sleeping bag a little tighter and pinned his wet hair behind his ear again, "Sleep."

Chi Xiaochi was indeed tired, and his eyelids soon shot up when his mind relaxed.

But he was a little reluctant to give up such a good atmosphere, squinting his eyes and still having to talk nonsense to Lou Ying: "Can't sleep. I'll use a hypnosis card."

Lou Ying pressed him, "Don't get too attached to the card. What else would you want me to do."

Chi Xiaochi deliberately asked, "What do I want you to do?"

How could Chi Xiaochi hide his little heart from Lou Ying?

He pulled out a book of fairy tales and turned the pages with his head down and a smile on his lips, "I am whatever you want me to be."

However, no sooner had Lou Ying put Chi Xiaochi to bed than Zhao Rou limped in.

Her hair was disheveled and she was in a trance, as if she had just had a nightmare.

Lou Ying quickly got up and held her back three paces away from Chi Xiaochi.

Zhao Rou, his lips white and without uttering a word, as if he feared who might hear him, seized Lou Ying's sleeve and wrote in a single stroke on his cuff: "...... Someone's coming over ...... about half an hour later ......"

Lou Ying signaled with his mouth for her to "take it easy" and was about to pull her out of the tent when he heard a rustling behind him.

Chi Xiaochi got up from her sleeping bag, stretched, rubbed her eyes and said, "We have a guest."

Zhao Rou Seeing how heartless he is, he is even more anxious, but he is afraid of moving too much and drawing attention to himself.

One must know that after a fight during the day, there could be countless pairs of invisible eyes now, watching their every move.

Zhao Rou was afraid to go into detail about what she had seen in the precognition, both for fear of ears and because she didn't even dare to scrutinize the memory of what she had seen in the dream, which had been so gruesome.

...... That's what happened when she didn't come to see Chi Xiaochi.

She was awakened by the sound of a beeping fire burning, and when she snatched her way out, the meadow had been turned into a fire, a charred corpse lay on the ground, muscles curled up, still holding a burning dice in her hand, and a single pair, one face blackened by the fire, were using their coats to uncontrollably pounce on the embers that were spreading all the way down to their feet.

--Someone set the fire!

The fire is spreading very fast by the wind, like a ferocious viper, endlessly pouncing towards Zhao Rou.

Fire, roiling fire, scalding one's face, rapidly consuming the oxygen in the air, the inhaled and exhaled gases gradually becoming hot and thin.

Bai Anyi and Chi Jiangyu are missing.

Their corpses are probably sprawled across whatever fire is burning.

With hellish images spinning in his head, Zhao Rou's tongue stiffened and he could only burst through his teeth in a mournful and vague plea, "Let's go. ...... Let s go."

Whatever Bai Anyi's powers are, teleportation should always be one of them.

With this ability, they can at least get away with it ......

Fortunately Chi Xiaochi was quick to understand her intentions, "Go of course."

Zhao Rou breathed a huge sigh of relief and was about to go inform the other two when he heard Chi Xiaochi say behind him, "...... But it will have to wait until tomorrow morning. I'm too tired today and want to get some rest."

"You don't want to die?!" Zhao Rou, eager, and not caring if he would reveal the fact that his powers were upgraded, rushed, "Someone-"

Chi Xiaochi said, "I know, someone's going to start a fire."

The word "fire" gives Zhao Rou the creeps, and she looks at Chi Xiaochi incredulously.

"What a nice patch of grass." Chi Xiaochi said, "...... is just perfect for setting fires, isn't it?"

With that, he looked up at the jaw-dropping Zhao Rou and smiled brightly, "Tough break. Go back to sleep. You were just having a nightmare just now."

Zhao Rou: "But I saw ......"

Chi Xiaochi faintly asked rhetorically, "How can you be sure that what you see with your eyes is the truth?"

......

When the moon was dark and the wind was high, two silhouettes dived into the grass.

One man moved his wrist after determining that the wind was currently from the southeast, "Come on, don't delay."

The other man looked at his wristwatch and couldn't hide his joy, "Look at the odds for both of us! They've even offered so many 'bounties'...... If I make it out of here alive, I'll make a fucking fortune!"

The former frowned, "Don't be fooled, there's one in their midst who can instantly move, when the fire burns, they might run away."

The latter smiled and said, "Escape? They won't be able to escape. Look at the pop-up analysis, that person's instantaneous transfer ability hasn't been used again since he used it three times today. If his ability was still working, they could have shifted farther away, why would they have to walk themselves to the A8 area to land?"

The former looked at his watch; it was just now eleven o'clock.

The latter said, "The pop-ups say that many of the abilities of the Exalted are affected by the tides and can only be used a fixed number of times a day. Before midnight zero hour is the best time for us to strike."

The former did approve of this judgment, "They're all asleep?"

"Well, they're all asleep. Even Chi Jiangyu, the one with the strongest ability, went into the tent. It's probably because he thinks there are five of them, and the other Exalts don't dare to fight them."

He sounded smug, as if the idea was all his own.

Needless to say, with the pop-up guide, they were playing the game with the full map cheat on.

The latter's tone was assured, and the former looked at the pop-ups and saw that they were also mostly words of encouragement, telling the two of them to work together and give that bunch of assholes a piece of their mind.

He surged with boundless confidence, leveled his breath, and a strong stream of air erupted from inside his mouth, piercing through the grass and plucking the leaves, and attacking the campsite directly!

The latter, not slowing down, snapped his fingers and sent the fireball rubbing out of his fingertips forward as if it were a bowling ball-

In a flash, the stars aligned.

At that moment, Zhao Rou, who had been persuaded by Chi Xiaochi to return to his tent, could not sleep.

The time of precognition was lengthened, and there were a lot more limitations, so she couldn't activate her precognition ability again in a short period of time, so she could only toss and turn in her sleeping bag, and counting that it was almost almost half an hour, she lifted her step and walked out of the tent.

Who would have guessed that the tragic scene that entered her eyes was not even remotely close to what she had dreamed of!

As usual, the fire burns the face, the black smoke rolls, the corpses are strewn across the ground, while Shan Shuang takes the clothes, as if crazy, trying to extinguish the fire all over the ground.

Zhao Rou couldn't find Chi Xiaochi and the others and thought that they had escaped by instantaneous transportation, so he felt that his eyes went black.

Left or right, Zhao Rou simply met the fire and went for the clothes in one hand, "It's no use! I still have half a bucket of water in my tent, let's try to see if we can-"

Before the sound of the words died down, she grabbed the "single and double" like a painting splashed with water, quickly melted, faded, until it was reduced to nothing.

Zhao Rou stood still and looked around.

Not only did the "single and double" disappear, but the landscape around them changed as well.

...... They were not in the meadow, but in a corner of the moor, where four tents were grouped together, and she stood beside a blazing camp fire, beside which, sitting on the watch, was Lou Ying.

Lou Ying said gently, "Awake?"

Zhao Rou now really can't tell dream from reality: "Where is this ...... place?!"

Lou Ying said, "Look at the watch. There's our location."

Zhao Rou stared at it and was too horrified to speak.

...... Are they even in B3?

Zhao Rou felt his head explode, "How did this ...... happen? When did we get here? What I see is clearly ......"

"You foresaw it correctly."

Chi Xiaochi's voice came from behind him.

He was up for a drink of water, his voice still laced with the dry accents of someone who had just woken up, "What you foresaw was an illusion I wanted certain people to see, and an image of what those two arsonists thought they were seeing."

"...... hallucinations?"

Name: Illusion Making Card Group (Advanced)

Duration: 8 hours

Number of pieces: 1

Quality: Fine

Type: Single-use product

Required exchange points: 50 remorse points

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This group attack card was used back when Chi Xiaochi entered the tent after dinner.

As soon as he entered the tent, he moved the entire camp up in place and shifted it all to the B3 area.

But to everyone else's perception except his and Lou Ying's, they were all still in the hayfield.

He anticipated his energy drain after his suicidal immersion experience, so his original intent in moving the illusion-making card was simply to confuse the watchers so he could get a good night's sleep.

Chi Xiaochi's second insurance policy was to choose the dry and flammable A8 pasture.

If someone really comes to set a fire in the night, this hallucination card will let them "see" everything they want.

Extremely smooth winds, unattended tents, and sleeping quintets.

What they want, they get.

But whether this is true or not, well, God only knows.

The only thing Chi Xiaochi didn't count on was that Zhao Rou, who had been hit by the Illusion Creator Card, would actually be able to foresee what was going to happen in the hallucination, causing her to be scared for half an hour for nothing.

Lou Ying glanced at his wristwatch in passing as he fiddled with the fire.

The two red dots on the map silently went down in A8.

He shook his head slightly.

Those two men, lost in a phantasmagorical dream, lit a fire and burned themselves to death with their own hands, against the windy conditions and the blinding finger-pointing of the pop-ups.

I'm afraid that until the time of their deaths, they still have wild dreams of getting rich when they leave.

After the fire-setting duo was engulfed by the rapidly spreading Backdraft wildfire, the pop-up area gradually realized that something was wrong.

After much discussion, Chi Xiaochi chose to cancel the use of the Illusion Card.

The pop-up area went into an unprecedented frenzy when the five-man red dot that was supposed to be in A8 was positioned in B3.

Shouldn't Chi Jiangyu and the others be burned?

What powers do they really possess?

What are they up to, what tricks are they up to?

In the midst of countless curses and abuse, Chi Xiaochi puts down his glass of water and raises his hands above his head.

Someone in the pop-up section wondered, "What's he doing?"

"What powers to perform?"

"Planning to surrender?"

There is a wide range of opinions.

And Chi Xiaochi doesn't care about anyone.

He spun in place at the countless prying eyes in the sky and wordlessly raised his two middle fingers high in the air.

Published at: 12/25/2024 06:00