50: The Little Girl in the Castle

When Li Zhou saw the Red-Clothed Vengeful Spirit's drastic change in demeanor, an idea suddenly sparked in his mind.

Previously, Goethe and the zombie could also suppress their auras.

However, due to their appearances, even when they suppressed their auras, they still looked very scary.

But the Red-Clothed Vengeful Spirit was different.

She was practically like two different people.

One was a bizarre image filled with pure evil, making one's scalp tingle with just a glance.

The other was an ancient beauty, exquisitely beautiful, evoking pity.

Such a stark contrast immediately made Li Zhou think of a terrifyingly good method.

In the future, the Red-Clothed Vengeful Spirit could first use her ancient beauty image to play an ordinary NPC seeking help in front of players.

With her appearance, Li Zhou estimated that no player would have the heart to refuse, not even The girl.

After players and the Red-Clothed Vengeful Spirit had spent some time together and become thoroughly familiar, she would then suddenly change her appearance.

Li Zhou believed that the scene would be very exciting at that time.

"I can let Song Yang try it first to see the effect. As long as he doesn't faint from fright, then ordinary players shouldn't have any major problems."

Thinking of this, the smile on Li Zhou's lips became even more pronounced.

On the other side, Song Yang, who was still cautiously making his way through a stairwell in the castle, inexplicably felt a chill run up his spine.

"The boss is indeed the boss; this new venue is really f*cking scary!"

Muttering to himself with a shiver, Song Yang didn't think much of it and continued walking downstairs... "Um, do you have a name?"

Coming back to his senses, Li Zhou looked at the Red-Clothed Vengeful Spirit in front of him and asked.

"I'm sorry, boss, I forgot."

The Red-Clothed Vengeful Spirit shook her head.

Her memories from before her death were already blurry, and she had forgotten her name.

"Uh... forgot?"

"Alright, then I'll give you a name. From now on, here with me, you'll be called... Red Spirit."

Li Zhou stroked his chin and gave her a name on the spot.

"Thank you, boss, for bestowing a name."

Red Spirit seemed very happy to have a name.

She bowed slightly to Li Zhou, showing none of her previous eerie demeanor.

"Hmm, since you've become my employee, you must abide by the rules here."

"It's like this, here with me..."

After eloquently repeating the rules he had previously told the zombie and Goethe, Li Zhou looked at Red Spirit and said again, "You'll be in charge of the Thousand Mirror Maze area for now."

"Later, I'll give you a different venue."

The Thousand Mirror Maze was the area after the Bone Prison.

After the Yellow Springs Road disappeared, it became the second venue of the Haunted House.

The method of changing appearance to scare people wasn't needed for now.

The Thousand Mirror Maze, however, was quite suitable for Red Spirit in her true form.

Imagine, your reflection in the mirror suddenly turning into a terrifying vengeful spirit—that scene would surely be very thrilling.

"Okay, boss, I understand."

Red Spirit nodded gently, having no objections to Li Zhou's arrangement.

"Hmm, there's not much else. My rules here are actually quite few."

"You can familiarize yourself with the venue when you have nothing to do, or chat with that zombie."

"Although I don't object to you fighting, you're all colleagues, and you'll see each other often, so try not to fight if you can."

"You can ask it for some tips on scaring people. As a new employee, you should at least respect the old employees."

...Just as Li Zhou was instructing Red Spirit, inside the Devils Castle.

Song Yang and his group had successfully reached the first floor.

At this moment, the fear on everyone's faces, though still present, had greatly diminished.

More than that, there was excitement.

In one afternoon, after Yuan Hao said that phrase about filling it with lives, almost everyone had died once.

After experiencing the feeling of death, even Dai Xiaomei couldn't help but feel a strange sensation.

The immersive experience combined with not truly dying—with these two factors overlapping, she now genuinely wanted to clear the level.

The sense of accomplishment and thrill from conquering such a castle was incomparable to any other game.

"That must be the main gate, right?"

"Let's go take a look!"

After once again escaping the attack of the Demonic Hounds, everyone successfully reached the first floor.

At this time, an additional figure had joined the team.

This was a cute Little girl, dressed in a maid outfit.

The group had met her when descending from the third floor to the second.

According to the Little girl herself, her name was Ellie, and she was a servant captured by the castle owner.

There were originally many such servants in the castle, but as time passed, they all mysteriously disappeared.

Only Ellie was left.

Ellie also wanted to escape the castle now, so she requested Song Yang and the others to take her with them.

Clearly, Ellie was a virtual NPC.

Initially, Song Yang had no intention of taking Ellie with them.

It wasn't that he was heartless, but because this castle was full of danger and strangeness everywhere.

No one knew whether the cute Little girl in front of them was good or bad.

Moreover, Song Yang felt that the Little girl might be a trap deliberately set by Li Zhou.

Because from beginning to end, the dangers they encountered could only be described as thrilling, but not truly terrifying.

Now they were almost at the first floor, and aside from death, he hadn't felt that kind of fear and despair from the soul.

Because after dying, they would immediately revive; at most, they would pee their pants during the process of dying.

Even Dai Xiaomei, after dying once, could quickly recover.

Based on his understanding of Li Zhou, this castle would definitely not be so simple!

Except for Yuan Hao, almost everyone else shared Song Yang's thought, which was not to bring Ellie along.

There was no other way; everyone was truly frightened by the dangers hidden everywhere in the castle.

Earlier, in the last room on the third floor, they had encountered a gentle middle-aged man.

As a result, everyone was wiped out that time.

The middle-aged man was the Vampire Butler mentioned on the crucifix item.

Because of his gentle appearance, Song Yang relaxed his guard and lowered the crucifix he had raised.

The result of this action was that everyone, without exception, had their necks twisted and all their blood drained by this man.

Now, a harmless little loli suddenly appeared, and even though she showed no reaction to the crucifix, everyone dared not relax their vigilance.

However, a reminder from Yuan Hao ultimately made everyone decide to bring Ellie along.

The fourth hint on the parchment was "A single palm cannot clap," meaning that one person alone cannot accomplish much.

In the end, everyone did indeed escape the pursuit of the Demonic Hounds because they brought Ellie along.

So now, everyone had completely let down their guard against Ellie and treated her as a teammate.

Ellie's cute appearance quickly captured the hearts of the three girls, making her the group's darling.

Upon successfully reaching the first floor, everyone finally saw the castle's main gate again.

The gate was tightly locked, with many strange-looking patterns carved upon it.

Seeing the hope of clearing the level, Song Yang eagerly wanted to rush over to check, but Yuan Hao directly pulled him back.

"We don't have the key yet!"

"Don't go over there yet!"