60: Chapter 60 Truth or Dare

At this moment, Chen Mo was hanging upside down in mid-air.

He finally saw clearly what the ghost that had been following him looked like.

It was a disheveled man, very tall, nearly 2 meters.

His build was also very robust.

He had a disfigured face; of course, disfigurement also came in different levels.

Disfigured faces resulting from fire burns or collisions looked different.

This man's face looked as if it had been splashed with sulfuric acid, with large and small blood-filled holes covering his skin.

Chen Mo couldn't bear to look a second time; his trypophobia was about to flare up.

Just as Chen Mo had deduced, this man had no eyes.

Inside those sunken eye sockets, it was empty; there were no eyeballs.

Chen Mo looked back at the corridor where he had been pacing in place.

There were 15 steps in total, and Chen Mo had just taken 49 steps.

At this moment, Chen Mo's position corresponded exactly to the 10th step.

"In other words... when you reach the front-most step, you return to the initial step, and then it repeats over and over."

Chen Mo was on the 10th step, and the man was currently standing on the 8th.

Chen Mo tried marching in place.

The man didn't move either; he was also marching in place.

"As expected, I have to actually cover some distance for this man to follow."

Thus, Chen Mo started walking in the opposite direction on the ceiling.

After he took one step in the opposite direction, the man on the stairs still maintained his forward movement and took one step.

At this moment, Chen Mo was above the 9th step.

And the man was also on the 9th step.

At this distance and angle, if Chen Mo dropped his pants to pee, he could aim very accurately.

Holding his breath, Chen Mo suddenly raised the axe in his hand, aiming at the man's forehead.

"Sorry, buddy, you've messed with me."

"Deceive me all you want, but don't bring my family into it!"

With a roar, Chen Mo used all his strength and slashed straight down!

With a "click," the man's forehead didn't split open.

Instead, his form turned into puffs of white smoke, dissipated, and then pieced itself back together.

A system prompt appeared before Chen Mo's eyes.

[Head of the Household: HP-100, 200/320]

[Many Children Many Blessings: Stamina -100, 250/900]

"The bone-scraping knife consumes almost no stamina; swinging my arm once costs at most 1 stamina point."

"But swinging the Deans Axe costs 10 points. Because I've entered a place similar to a domain, all stamina consumption is multiplied by 10."

Chen Mo took a deep breath; he had just slashed the opponent once.

The man on the stairs suddenly returned to the origin (the 1st step), maintaining a distance of 8 steps from him (the 9th step).

He would need at least two more slashes with the axe to kill the opponent.

Every step taken consumed 10 stamina points.

This time, he needed to take 4 steps to meet the man again.

4 * 10 + 100 = 140 stamina points.

And after hitting the man, he would likely return to the origin again.

The next time they met, they would be 3 steps apart.

When Chen Mo walked to the fourth step, the man would be on the second.

When Chen Mo walked to the third step, the man would also be on the third.

Although it was only 2 steps, with one axe swing, it would only consume 120 stamina points.

Two slashes would consume a total of 260 stamina points.

But Chen Mo currently only had 250 stamina points left, 10 points short.

It simply wasn't enough.

Once stamina reached zero, Chen Mo would be unable to take any action and could only rest in place.

Every minute of rest restored 10 points.

However, in this space, staying still for 1 minute would deduct 10 points.

With the two cancelling each other out, Chen Mo would effectively be in standby mode.

[Everyone, I just used a calculator to figure it out; Many Children Many Blessings' stamina is simply not enough.]

[Damn, what should he do? Is it a dead end?]

[Uh... I originally wanted to calculate it in my head, but I found my level is about the same as a Vending Machine.]

[Vice Group Leader: Heh, a bunch of idiots. You don't even know such a simple way to break the deadlock?]

[Vice Group Leader: Are the players in the dungeon all just ordinary people? Not to mention someone with a rare Magician class like Many Children Many Blessings.]

[Wait, I think I understand!]

What Chen Mo was doing at this moment perfectly confirmed the idea mentioned by the Vice Group Leader.

He wasn't following the rules; instead, he was preparing to kill with one blow!

Chen Mo was currently on the 9th step, and the man was on the first.

To avoid wasting his stamina, Chen Mo waited until a minute had passed before taking action.

Chen Mo walked 5 steps forward in a row and was now positioned above the 4th step.

And the man was standing on the 6th step.

Chen Mo turned around in mid-air.

Then, Chen Mo was seen taking out the Stealth Attack skill card.

[Stealth Attack: Sneak attack from behind or complete an assassination, damage * 2]

Chen Mo gripped the axe tightly, leaped down from mid-air, and slashed directly at the man's back.

"Ah!—"

This time, Chen Mo could feel the clear feedback of a hit.

The axe had indeed pierced into the opponent's back and had also severed the opponent's spine.

[Head of the Household: HP-200, 0/320]

The man clutched his head and screamed, and was knocked to the ground by Chen Mo's single axe blow.

Cracks appeared on the surface of his skin, just like flakes of plaster randomly scraped off a wall.

The opponent turned into a puff of black smoke and dissipated on the spot.

The steps Chen Mo was standing on all collapsed with a roar, and his body fell down.

After the "rumbling" sound of the collapse, Chen Mo coughed violently twice.

Opening his eyes again, he found himself in the Basement of a wooden building.

The air quality here was very poor, and oxygen was thin.

Taking a flashlight from his waist, Chen Mo successfully found the light switch.

He pressed it.

The old light bulb overhead gradually lit up, and the filament inside made a "hissing" burning sound as it ignited.

"Whew... good thing there are lights."

"Things like flashlights always feel unreliable, especially in a Haunted House; even when there's electricity, they inexplicably break."

Having killed the Head of the Household anomaly, Chen Mo hadn't found any rewards at all.

This made him feel a little disappointed.

Chen Mo searched everywhere in this dim Basement, and finally, in a pile of miscellaneous items, he found a small safe.

After dragging the safe out, Chen Mo entered the password.

The abbreviation for Love Sam—LOVESM.

With a "click," the metal safe in front of him opened automatically.

Inside lay an old parchment scroll and a coin?

"Just this?!"

"Where's the skill card? Damn it, Thriller Game, are you really this stingy?" Chen Mo couldn't help but complain.

Before Chen Mo had finished speaking, he saw the coin that had been in his pocket.

As if it had met a companion, it darted out of Chen Mo's pocket at high speed.

At the same time, the coin in the safe also flew up on its own.

The two coins collided violently in mid-air, and right before Chen Mo's eyes, they merged into one on the spot!

A brand-new coin fell from the air and landed in Chen Mo's palm.

[Item: truth or dare, Serial Number: C008]