161: Chapter 161 Freak Show

Seeing this, Chen Mo understood.

He looked up again at the demon sculpture above.

The two demons were fused together at their sides; they shared one ear, and their waists were pressed tightly against each other.

If one imagined them as two little boys stuck together side by side, it would look just like a human spider!

In a place like the United States, going out at night, you might even be mistaken for a monster and shot on sight.

So... the siblings forced to mate in the Circus were the parents of this pair of unfortunate brothers.

Meng Zhou's previous deduction was correct.

Perhaps those fish-men and Doberman-headed Monsters weren't actually monsters, but just deformed people.

But under the influence of alcohol, the night, and the environment, humans would subconsciously mistake such strange-looking people for monsters.

And those who came to visit the Circus were surely there to see all kinds of deformed people.

From the moment they were born, they could only live in dark, sunless corners, hiding in the shadows.

Some might even be abandoned by their parents, left to wander the street corners.

Chen Mo carefully recalled the events that took place in the United States between 1775 and 1840.

Aside from the outbreak of two wars of independence, there was also the take-off of the US economy.

And during that period, another unique social phenomenon occurred.

That was the famous freak show!

Thinking of this, Chen Mo's pupils dilated suddenly.

He had previously seen some videos of freak shows, the reason being to research Human Centipede material with the Club President.

There even exists a museum in the world today that collects the organs of these deformed people.

In the United States at that time, many such deformed people suddenly appeared, and were displayed for those perverted upper-class people to visit and admire.

This is the witness of history, impossible to shake off.

[Hidden Worldview Unlocked: 1/2]

Unexpectedly, there was no reward for this unlock.

However, this also confirmed that Chen Mo's line of reasoning was correct.

"First, find the item left by the Group Leader."

Just as Chen Mo turned to leave, black liquid began to drip from above, faster and denser.

It quickly formed over a dozen small black spots on the ground.

A unique, fishy stench mixed with wax oil drilled into his nostrils.

Chen Mo looked up at the source of the liquid, and the scene before him immediately made his hair stand on end.

Chen Mo, who had always been bold, was so unsteady this time that he sat down on the ground.

He tilted his head back, staring blankly at the corpse hanging above.

The person's feet were right above his head, their neck drooping, looking down at him from the air with an aura of death.

It was a wax figure, an unpainted wax figure coated only in wax oil.

It was snow-white, exactly the same as the small one made by the Club President!

A rope was looped around the wax figure's neck, hanging it high in the air.

That wax figure was none other than Meng Zhou!

Soon, the members of Chen Mo's team, having found nothing, all followed Chen Mo's instructions and gathered at the church.

Looking at Meng Zhou's wax figure, they were all speechless.

"Chen Mo, don't feel guilty. What we need to do now is let the remaining people survive. The dead cannot come back to life!" Lu Chengfeng patted his shoulder.

Chen Mo shook his head and replied, "I know..."

The reason Chen Mo felt terrible wasn't primarily because of Meng Zhou's death.

Although Meng Zhou was his classmate, they weren't close friends.

What he was worried about was... if things continued like this, it was very likely that Lu Chengfeng, Su Qing, the Club President, and Xu Xiaoman would all die in here.

If the end result was a total team wipeout, and he was the only one to survive...

Or, if he were the last player to die.

It was hard to imagine what his state of mind would be like then.

These people were perhaps the few he could call friends, and they trusted him deeply.

They were willing to entrust their lives to him.

When half the day had passed, the Demon Game began.

Under the influence of the 7:2 ratio, Forbidden Young Master and Patient could only grit their teeth in agreement and raise their hands in surrender.

Then, the right hands of the four opponents turned into wax figures.

In the remaining time, everyone did not find that item.

However, Chen Mo had already thought of a way to obtain it.

When night arrived, all 9 people chose to set out this time.

The group was divided into two teams, one led by Lu Chengfeng, to complete the wax figure trials.

To see if they could find a wax figure similar to Lord Dong, which could provide an item to deal with the BOSS.

Meanwhile, Chen Mo and the Club President went to Daming Palace to help Zhu Zhanji reorganize his troops.

This time, Zhu Zhanji's trial was equally simple.

It was to explain why, after adding a full cup of white sugar to a full cup of water, the water wouldn't overflow.

Instead, the white sugar completely disappeared.

Jiang Xinyi replied, "Your Majesty, this is actually because there are many voids in the water that the human eye cannot see, and the white sugar simply slipped into those voids."

Chen Mo's mouth twitched upon hearing this.

In reality, this was because after the sugar entered the water, it dissolved into sugar molecules, and the sugar molecules and water molecules rearranged to form a brand new cup of sugar water.

However, Zhu Zhanji listened with great interest.

The two soon obtained a jade comb, and the information displayed on it was the same as what was said in the Management Group.

It allowed for the free choice of what to restore one's strength with.

"Chen Mo, what do you think we should restore?" Jiang Xinyi asked for Chen Mo's opinion.

"Restore items!"

Hearing this, Jiang Xinyi couldn't help but feel a bit strange, but ultimately nodded.

After all, restoring levels felt like the most important and core thing.

Although items were also good, the best item Jiang Xinyi had seen so far was Chen Mo's set of cards.

Not to mention things like rule-type items, which didn't even exist in the cognition of Jiang Xinyi and the others.

This wasn't something players below level 20 could obtain.

The 9-person team gathered again, and after Jiang Xinyi took the jade comb and combed everyone's hair one by one, everyone restored their permissions to use items.

"Damn, finally got some combat power," Forbidden Young Master said excitedly.

"There are 40 minutes left before The Artist appears. I have a method to kill them, but it requires everyone's cooperation."

Then, everyone listened to what Chen Mo called his method.

Lu Chengfeng and the others didn't have any objections; this was the result of a discussion between Chen Mo and Jiang Xinyi.

Since both strategists had said so, they just needed to follow the plan step by step.

However, Forbidden Young Master and Patient felt it was a bit inappropriate after hearing it.

They believed it was better to hurry back to the Dormitory; ghosts couldn't enter the Dormitory, that was the rule.

Now that they understood the danger level of this dungeon, they all just wanted to get out alive as quickly as possible; that bullshit S-rank didn't matter at all anymore.

However, Chen Mo's next sentence made them feel terrified.

"This dungeon has no time limit, and it's surrounded by wax walls; there's no way to escape."

"The only way to leave is to kill these ghosts! Force a clear."

Of course, this was all made up by Chen Mo, but it wasn't far from the truth.

Old Six wanted to kill him right now, trying every possible way to kill him, so either Chen Mo died here, or those 4 ghosts were all killed!

There was no other option.

And Forbidden Young Master and the others were the best tools.