15: For our sake, use your skills on it!

After discovering an extra Mountain Child on the second night, Cheng Zhen suspected that there might be more than one Mountain Child.

Of course, it was also possible that it possessed an ability similar to a doppelganger, using its doppelgangers to attack Jacket Uncle and the others.

However, generally speaking, injuries to the main body or doppelganger could potentially affect each other, but according to the information provided by Baldy, he first injured one, and the second one, which launched a surprise attack, was not affected.

Even after the explosion, the condition of the two injured Mountain Children looked like they were independent entities.

The dungeon's clear condition was still to survive for three days, which was not difficult for Cheng Zhen; he could clear it by deploying his bodyguards and sleeping on the ground.

But what he wanted was the reward from the special title, and for that, he had to be serious and cautious.

No one knew the conditions for obtaining the title; it could be survival, or it could be killing the BOSS. But Cheng Zhen considered the most difficult method—completely annihilating the Mountain Children.

If it possessed doppelganger abilities, then he just had to wait for the Mountain Child to come and finish it off in one go.

But what if there really was more than one Mountain Child?

In that case, Cheng Zhen would have to eliminate all the Mountain Children to get the special title.

The Mountain Child's reactions over the past two days proved that this guy was not a mindless monster that charged headfirst; once it sensed an unfavorable situation, it would immediately flee.

With its mist-form ability, it was impossible to stop it.

So, to annihilate them all at once, he would have to come up with some ideas.

Cheng Zhen placed all the red toys in his room. According to the information provided by the village chief, the Mountain Child would target its attacks based on them, thus luring the Mountain Child into his room.

Cheng Zhen himself hid in Green Hair's room next door, lest his profound golden light of merit scare the monster away immediately.

If Baldy and the others could handle the strengthened Mountain Child and deal with the main body and doppelgangers in one go, that would be ideal.

If they couldn't win the fight...

Jungle daddy, come save me quickly!

As soon as Baldy howled, Cheng Zhen rushed out from next door, showcasing a divine weapon descending upon the Mountain Child.

Although the circle of Arhats Subduing Dragons had a peculiar art style, their combat power was no joke; just their universal Buddha's light was enough to blind the Mountain Child.

The four Mountain Children all froze, their brains crashing as they didn't know how to react.

No? Again?

They thought the big brothers with pistols had left, so they came to mess around, but then those big brothers turned around and came back with RPG rocket launchers???

Where was the cruelty, ferocity, and arrogance on their baboon faces from just now? Replaced by three parts confusion, three parts incomprehension, and four parts bewilderment.

They were stunned, but Cheng Zhen and the others were not.

From fighting yesterday until now, Baldy and the others already knew that the Mountain Child could not turn into mist for a few seconds after launching an attack, just like a post-attack animation that cannot be canceled.

And it also couldn't turn into mist for a few seconds after being attacked, so as long as the timing was right, they could land effective hits.

Baldy and the others all attacked, even the two Rookies were poking the BOSS with silver-plated nails.

The [Holy/Light] attribute attack caused the Mountain Child's body to freeze there. At the same time, Cheng Zhen issued an attack command, and that circle of Arhats Subduing Dragons immediately swung their great Buddha's light hammers, delivering a direct blow to its head.

Dong!!!

Both were hammers, but the Arhats Subduing Dragons' hammer was countless times more powerful than some wooden fish striker.

As the saying goes, Buddhist teachings must be understood with the mind, and the two Mountain Children intimately experienced this with their heads and the great Buddha's light hammers.

They were very perceptive; at the moment of contact, they understood what universal Buddha's light meant.

Having directly achieved enlightenment, they immediately departed for the Western Pure Land, which was gratifying.

The remaining two Mountain Children's perceptiveness seemed not as good; they twisted their bodies to avoid the great hammer, which symbolized the Buddha's compassion, and did not immediately depart to the West.

But even so, when the Buddha's light from the hammer brushed past them, it still burned the sides of the two Mountain Children like molten lava.

Their bodies hissed and crackled as if seared by a branding iron, and white smoke billowed from their wounds.

Baldy and the others had been scraping the Mountain Child with silver-plated weapons for a long time, and now seeing the terrifying output of the main damage dealer, they couldn't help but gasp.

Fortunately, we're on the side of the big leg; otherwise, if that hammer hit me, I'd also go see the Buddha.

“Ga-er!!!”

The Mountain Child howled in pain, and its body began to flicker erratically.

Fearing that the opponent would escape, Baldy immediately activated a skill, throwing a silver-plated nail, while Jacket Uncle also raised his shield and crashed into the other one.

With the skill's enhancement, Baldy's attack successfully hit the Mountain Child's chest, causing its body to freeze again, and then it was sent to the Western Heaven by an Arhat's hammer.

But Jacket Uncle's luck was not so good; he was worried about the opponent escaping, and in his haste, he didn't choose the angle of attack well, actually activating the 'Life-Saving Kick' and pushing the Mountain Child towards the window.

The dying Mountain Child saw the window as if it saw a glimmer of hope, and despite the pain, it burst forth with a strong will to survive, desperately trying to squeeze out.

“Oh no!”

Jacket Uncle knew he had made a foolish mistake, desperately reaching out to try and stop it, but he couldn't stop the escaping mist.

Seeing the red mist slip away, the uncle's face was filled with remorse and regret.

“Sorry…” He wanted to apologize, but Cheng Zhen quickly rushed into the room and took out the toy set placed there.

“If you want to apologize, wait until we completely fail, then compensate me with points.”

Cheng Zhen hugged the toy set and then twisted around, running out the door.

He knew that the Mountain Child's mist-form ability was difficult to catch, so he had also considered backup plans for its escape.

Recalling that the Mountain Child would be attracted by those toys, and the description in the notes, Cheng Zhen had a guess in his mind.

He held the toy in one hand and used a taunt skill towards the red mist outside with the other—

“Come here!!!”

The taunt skill was indeed effective; as soon as Cheng Zhen shouted, he saw the red mist surge, and sounds emanated from it.

“…Toys…mine…”

“Roar!!! No—Ga!”

“Wuwuwu…hehehe!”

“Mine! That's mine!”

Children's voices mixed with eerie sounds came from the mist. The mist seemed to split apart, separating, merging, then surging into several pieces again, ultimately mixing back together.

The owner of the toys would never return.

But they always remembered their favorite things, never forgetting.

After being taken away by the Mountain Child, they had merged with it. It was precisely because of this that they were persistently fixated on the location of those toys.

At this moment, the Mountain Child also couldn't refuse 'itself' and drifted towards the location of the toys.

However, just as Cheng Zhen intended to lure the Mountain Child indoors to finish it off in one go, the Mountain Child used another skill to struggle and resist.

“A-lo-lo, up the mountain we go…”

It opened its mouth, and an eerie child's voice, completely inconsistent with its appearance, came out.

After being strengthened, this single-target skill, which could originally only bewitch one person, could now select three targets.

The Mountain Child also knew that Cheng Zhen was immune to this effect, but there were other people in the room!

Chants of children's voices echoed. As the sound entered their ears, Jacket Uncle, Baldy, and Little Fatty immediately became expressionless, their eyes unfocused, and they swayed, about to walk out of the room.

“They're controlled!” Short-Haired Girl instantly saw what was happening.

She first tried to use the 'slap-face, clear-eyes method' to help them break free from the enchantment, but the strengthened BOSS skill couldn't be easily dispelled. She could only take out a rope to physically restrain them.

But the combined weight of those three men was something she couldn't pull alone.

The uncontrolled female student next to her didn't go to help pull them, because Cheng Zhen shouted to her:

“Activate your skill! Just shout one of the toy owners' names!!!”

Although the female student was a Rookie, she was obedient, faithfully following the big leg's command and activating her skill—

“Little Stone, How are you?”

As Han Meimei's question was thrown out, the sound of the children's song abruptly stopped.

Then, a confused, bewildered, and puzzled reply came from the mist:

“(◎_◎;) I am fine, thank you and you???”