208: Chapter 208 Red Candle

[Old Six: Hehehe, I agree!]

[I Am Not Mentally Ill: Holy crap? A resurrection!]

[Blooming Chrysanthemum: Slapping one on you (Yellow Talisman.gif)]

[Disturbing the Moon: By the power of the law, demons begone!]

[Old Six: Nah, I'm Old Four. I changed my ID. I just felt like 'Old Four' sounded a bit like 'Old Dead', which isn't very auspicious. Changing it to 'Old Six' is way better! (Thumbs up)]

[Vice Group Leader: Hehe...]

Everyone immediately changed their viewing channel and entered Jiyin's livestream.

But just as they entered, due to the influence of Chen Mo's guild, all the Administrators got stuck in a loading state.

Time passed silently, yet they were completely unaware, still thinking they would be able to enter Jiyin's channel in the next second.

But in reality, they had to wait until Chen Mo's meeting time ended.

"This..."

Seeing the Management Group before him, having successfully entered Jiyin's livestream, Chen Mo was now able to use the playback function.

He watched them one by one, starting from the first dungeon in the top-left corner, browsing quickly. From Fox Immortal all the way to Corpse Mutation, he didn't gain anything.

And why did the Administrators come to Jiyin's livestream so easily?

It all made sense logically; they hated their stupid selves and remembered Jiyin, whose showmanship was no less than his own.

Everything followed logically.

At this moment, Chen Mo looked over at Jiyin, who was holding a chessboard and making adjustments.

"Was it you who influenced the dungeons, and fate?"

Jiang Xiaoyun nodded. "That's right. You must be using a special ability to look up information."

"I changed the layout to make your fate smoother."

"Besides, it seems there's no need for other Nine-Grid squares at all. I just finished making adjustments; only my dungeon and Jiang Xinyi's are needed."

Upon hearing this, Chen Mo immediately reviewed the entire process of the two of them entering their dungeons.

Very quickly, he successfully captured two anomalies from their dungeons.

Jiang Xinyi's dungeon was in the depths of a remote mountain forest. Behind her followed a line of zombies dressed in Qing Dynasty official robes, all with yellow talisman papers stuck to their foreheads.

She only needed to sprinkle spirit money while shaking the copper bell in her hand.

Those zombies would follow her forward, very orderly.

At this point, everything was relatively normal.

However, when passing by a strange-looking tree, Chen Mo captured a strange pattern.

Jiang Xinyi was facing the front of the strange tree, so she couldn't see it. But as a trainee Administrator, Chen Mo could use his 3D perspective to rotate the back of the tree.

Then, Chen Mo saw that on the back of the strange tree, there was a mural pasted there.

It looked a bit like an Easter egg in some games.

It was completely out of place with the surrounding scenery.

Because Chen Mo saw that the scene depicted in the scroll was exactly the Su Family mansion he was in, and right in the center of the mansion...

a bright red candle was burning eerily.

The four Paper Dolls serving as background props were standing still because of that red candle.

"Hiss... Could it be that as long as the red candle is lit, the Paper Dolls cannot move?"

"Earlier, when I entered Master Su's bedroom, the red candle was burning. It was indeed after the candle went out that the Paper Dolls were able to move."

Chen Mo opened Jiang Xiaoyun's dungeon again. Along the way, Jiang Xiaoyun ate and drank well, and was supported by several maids while walking.

She was laughing heartily there, having a good time, with all kinds of ancient, all-natural food "gulping" into her stomach.

It felt like the Miss Wang she was playing had only been in the dungeon for a few hours, yet her face had already become several times rounder.

"Anyway, the one getting fat isn't me, it's Wang Yu'er, I don't need to lose weight! Hehehe." Jiang Xiaoyun laughed happily.

But this was all just a surface phenomenon; at least, that's what she said herself.

"I'm just being professional. Only by playing a spoiled Miss well can I better integrate into the story and better solve the mystery."

After entering the room with the ancestral tablets, she didn't show any respect, but instead remained carefree and bold.

As she passed by one of the ancestral tablets, a gust of Yin wind blew, knocking over the tablet of the Wang Family's great-grandfather.

It gave Jiang Xiaoyun a start.

At the same time, right behind the great-grandfather's tablet, another ink-style mural appeared.

It was a Seven-Star Lamp Formation, composed of seven oil lamps, each placed at different astrological positions.

"Is this also a hint for me?"

Chen Mo snapped his fingers, and everything around him twisted and folded.

When he opened his eyes again, a woman with a terrifyingly pale face and heart-shaped lips was riding on his shoulders.

Her neck stretched and twisted, reaching her head over from above.

The woman pursed her small lips, wanting to lean in to Chen Mo's mouth to absorb his Yang energy.

Chen Mo immediately put on his cloak and, with a flash, entered the room below.

He gripped the bone-scraping knife in his hand and pierced the foreheads of the few Paper Dolls that pushed the door open.

He crashed through the wooden window frame and rolled out.

He returned to the Master and Mistress's bedroom.

He closed the doors and windows, and immediately, "bang-bang" knocking sounds echoed all around.

The ghostly shadows of countless Paper Dolls appeared outside the windows and doors.

Chen Mo ran quickly to the red candle on the table, took out his lighter, and lit the red candle.

At this moment, from behind the bed curtains to the side, four ghostly hands suddenly reached out, tightly gripping Chen Mo's neck from both left and right.

The Paper Doll of Master Su opened its mouth and attacked Chen Mo's mouth, spitting out a tongue as long as a python's.

And the Su Family Mistress reached out to grab Chen Mo's buttocks!

A small flame rose, dispelling the darkness around them.

"Ah!" The two Paper Dolls instantly turned into black paper dust and scattered.

The "bang-bang" knocking sounds outside also came to an abrupt halt.

In the eyes of the Paper Dolls, the black pupils dotted by the brush all disappeared, and they fell to the ground with a "rustle".

"It really is the red candle!"

Chen Mo sat down on the bed with a thud. When those two Paper Dolls grabbed him just now, he felt like he was about to turn into an ice sculpture.

"Strange, too strange. The hidden rule of this middle grid is actually hidden in the dungeons of the left and right grids."

"And... Jiang Xinyi and Jiyin's dungeons have only just begun. They are both slow-paced, and they haven't even encountered their first crisis."

"If that's the case..." Chen Mo supported his chin.

"If I hadn't entered this middle grid, and didn't have the guild and the Management Group to share information with my teammates..."

"...anyone else entering this middle grid would surely die!"

"Furthermore, although Jiang Xinyi has a strong memory, the angle she was moving at meant she couldn't observe the back of that strange tree at all. Only I could."

"Consequently... she wouldn't have been able to tell me the information about the red candle."

"Or, is the gameplay of this dungeon meant for players to find the rules themselves, using their lives to find them?"

"The Paper Dolls move extremely fast; players have no time, nor the presence of mind, to test the rules of the red candle."

Chen Mo pushed open the door and looked at the yard filled with lying Paper Dolls.

He thought to himself, "Perhaps it has something to do with the person who killed my parents!"