79: Chapter 79 The Eternal Resting Palace 6

Because they were still nervous, both the man in the turtleneck sweater and Leather Jacket Man were walking with long strides and moving quite quickly.

However, Luo Yuejian had her own schemes in mind, and her natural stride wasn't very long, so it wasn't long before she had put some distance between herself and the two people in front.

Luo Yuejian didn't mind; she didn't care whether she followed the main group or not—in fact, it was better if she didn't.

After all, the teammates in this round were quite smart and always managed to find clues. Walking alone meant she didn't have to worry about teammates sabotaging her, and it also reduced interaction with others; why wouldn't she choose that?

After turning another corner, the figures of the two people in front had already disappeared. Luo Yuejian thought for a moment, wondering to herself, "I've been walking for so long and haven't seen any danger. Could it be that the danger has already passed?"

That wouldn't do.

Luo Yuejian pondered, deciding she couldn't keep walking forward. She had to turn back; returning along the original path might allow her to find the place where the Man in a Suit with a Rose had disappeared.

Besides, looking for teammates was a reasonable excuse, and the system certainly couldn't stop her.

Thinking of this, Luo Yuejian didn't hesitate and immediately turned around to start walking back.

The livestream room at this moment:

[ What's happening? Why has Moon God started walking back? ]

[ I don't get it. Is Moon God going to look for that Man in a Suit with a Rose? ]

[ How is that possible? Does Moon God look like the kind of person who is that warm-hearted? Moon God must have discovered some kind of clue. ]

[ If she wanted to go back to find someone, why didn't she say anything? Later, when those two players see no one behind them, they'll definitely think Moon God has also met with misfortune. ]

[ Good question. But one thing is certain: Moon God is definitely doing this on purpose. Look at how she deliberately detached from the main group before leaving; it feels like Moon God is plotting something... ]

[ By the way, how did that Man in a Suit with a Rose disappear? Can anyone who watched his livestream room tell us what happened? ]

[ Spoiler dogs, get out of the livestream room! ]

...

Luo Yuejian carried the oil lamp and walked back, brushing against the wall. She hadn't felt it when following the other players, but now, walking alone in this deep, endless corridor, she felt a chill run down her spine.

This was a physiological reaction; Luo Yuejian herself wasn't actually very afraid, after all, her goal was to die.

After walking for a while and still seeing nothing, with only the "drip, drip" sound of water in her ears, Luo Yuejian finally felt that something was wrong.

She felt that she had been walking for over half an hour. Logically, if she was returning along the original path, even if nothing happened, she should have returned to the starting point by now.

Yet the corridor remained the same as always; it didn't become narrower or lower like it had when they first arrived.

Luo Yuejian felt a bit unnerved and couldn't help but shout, "Is anyone there?"

She hadn't expected a response; she was just shouting to bolster her courage. But something unexpected happened.

"Is anyone there?"

In an instant, Luo Yuejian's pupils constricted sharply. What shocked her wasn't that someone had responded, but that the voice responding to her was actually a female voice!

You have to understand, in this game, she was clearly the only female among the players.

Luo Yuejian's first reaction was that it was her own echo, but this thought vanished in an instant. Because that female voice was unusually sharp and thin, vastly different from her own vocal timbre.

What was even more hair-raising was that the female voice immediately spoke another sentence: "Where are you?"

Luo Yuejian was stunned by this sudden voice and was unable to respond for a moment. However, that woman's voice kept echoing in the corridor, repeating over and over again:

"Say something..."

"I'm coming to find you..."

"Where are you?"

"Say something..."

This eerie scene made goosebumps instantly break out on Luo Yuejian; her heartbeat accelerated rapidly, and a layer of fine sweat appeared on her forehead.

This woman's behavior was truly too strange; she was like a machine with a programmed routine, constantly repeating the same words, not at all like a normal human being.

Could she have encountered a ghost? She couldn't help but mutter to herself, this was just too damn scary.

However, she thought about it again; if it really was a ghost, it seemed like a good thing for her...

Her fear immediately vanished, and she followed what the voice said, continuing to shout, "I'm here!"

The female voice stopped abruptly, and the entire corridor instantly fell into dead silence again. Only the "drip, drip" of the water remained, appearing exceptionally clear in this quiet environment.

Luo Yuejian couldn't hear any movement and couldn't help but wonder, what's going on? Where did that ghost thing go? Why did it go silent just like that?

What she didn't know was that from the perspective of the viewers in the livestream room, they could use the livestream room's exclusive night vision function to clearly see a pitch-black creature in the darkness, crawling slowly toward her while hanging upside down along the stone wall above.

[ Oh my god! What is this ghost thing?! ]

[ Am I watching a horror movie? First the eerie female voice, then what is this thing that looks like a baby? A vengeful spirit? ]

[ It should be the same species as that guy who cut off heads that Moon God met at the beginning; they both rely on sound to attract prey. Pretty interesting. ]

[ Why does Moon God keep making noise? Does she not know that the voice wasn't made by a human? ]

[ Moon God definitely knows; back at that bronze door, she was able to toy with that monster. She must already know that there is a kind of monster in the Underground Palace of Eternal Sleep that can mimic human speech. ]

[ No need to think about it, Moon God definitely has a plan, deliberately luring that monster over. ]

[ Is Moon God trying to kill the monster single-handedly? ]

[ Damn, with Moon God's skills, it's not impossible. Just thinking about it is super cool. Waiting for Moon God to show off her skills! ]

Luo Yuejian held up the oil lamp, thinking to herself, "If the mountain won't come to me, I will go to the mountain," so she decisively started walking in the direction from which she had just heard the voice.

At the same moment, that pitch-black, baby-like eerie creature was speeding directly toward Luo Yuejian's direction at an astonishing speed.

With the joint efforts of both parties, the distance between them was decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The viewers in the livestream room were so nervous they held their breath, staring intently at the screen, full of anticipation as they waited for the two to meet.

However, the arrival of the outcome was much faster than everyone had expected.

Just as they were about to meet, the pitch-black, baby-like eerie creature suddenly let out a heartbreaking wail. The sound was unusually shrill, as if it were suffering from immense pain.

Sensing fatal danger, it immediately turned around and tried to flee at high speed.

However, its movements were far slower than the speed at which it was dissipating.

One could see that this pitch-black, baby-like creature seemed to be scorched by intense fire, with traces of Burning appearing bit by bit from head to toe.