Gamers Are Fierce-Chapter 78 Chat

"That’s right," Xu Tuoan said. "I discovered Ao Yong sneaking into the main control room. I possessed his body and accessed the so-called player privileges. A death game, is it? I instantly understood those vague, unspeakable ’secrets’ and ’prophecies’ recorded within the Datura organization. I don’t want to be reincarnated, nor do I want to be a Lone Ghost. I want to break free from here and become a living person. If possible, I’d rather be a player in the death game."

"So, you set your sights on us."

Xu Tuoan nodded. "The structure of the Evil-quelling Array is similar to the Yin Gathering Array. The Evil-quelling Array requires six Talismans, while the Yin Gathering Array needs five. Just by removing one Talisman and adding another, the Evil-quelling Array can be converted into the Yin Gathering Array. Removing a Talisman is easy, but adding a completely new one requires a living person to do it."

Li Ang shook the yellow paper in his hand. "This yellow paper you gave the Plague Doctor must be that new Talisman belonging to the Yin Gathering Array, right?"

"Yes." Xu Tuoan sighed and pointed at the Fierce Ghost in a suit. "The Talisman you drew on the fifth floor was exactly the one that needed to be removed, so I had him go to the spot beneath the Jiupin Crab Emperor Fort’s signboard—based on the photo you posted in the group chat—and dig out the floor where the yellow paper was. Touching the Talisman causes great harm to Yin Spirits, even an explosion, but that’s negligible compared to what we’ll gain after completing the plan."

In a matter-of-fact tone, Li Ang casually asked, "You plan to complete the Yin Gathering Array, absorb the Yin Evil Aura, and then possess my body, Wu Dai’s, and the Plague Doctor’s, right?"

"That’s right." Xu Tuoan laughed. "As a Ghost, the task I received was to complete drawing the five Talismans of the Yin Gathering Array. That would be considered mission accomplished. Five Ghosts, five bodies, five brand-new lives belonging to players. That’s the System’s hint, isn’t it? Bound by the System’s limitations, the other four Fierce Ghosts can only track you through sound and light. However, with me—a being who is both a player and a Ghost—tracking and locating you is as convenient as having a clear view of the map. All along, we’ve been playing along with you, pursuing you, applying pressure, making you draw the four Talismans common to both the Evil-quelling and Yin Gathering Arrays. As for the decisive fifth Talisman of the Yin Gathering Array, I planned to trick you into drawing it. Unfortunately, you’re too clever—so clever you don’t know when to feign ignorance. If you’d detected my abnormality earlier and messaged me privately, I might have let you off the hook, allowing you to finish drawing the fifth Talisman peacefully and then die without pain. Now, I can only break all your limbs and make you draw slowly with a Cinnabar Brush held in your mouth..."

Xu Tuoan exhaled a breath of foul air, and the Array formed from his collected blood on the ground slowly dissipated. The Fierce Ghosts outside the air wall began to close in.

This air wall, created by Xu Tuoan himself, had two purposes. One was to instill a sense of oppression, forcing Li Ang and the others to draw the Talismans under extreme pressure. The second was to prevent the spirit of the Lost Airship from getting close to the players and avoid accidents—even though he had lost his tongue and couldn’t speak.

Now that Li Ang had deduced the entire truth, the air wall was no longer necessary. It was time to end this pointless charade.

The Fierce Ghosts stepped forward slowly. Xu Tuoan laughed wildly. Liu Wu Dai somberly drew his bowstring taut, and the Plague Doctor stood motionless, hands hanging naturally at his sides.

Li Ang surveyed his surroundings, watching the Fierce Ghosts drawing nearer. He then unexpectedly smiled and said to Xu Tuoan, "You see, I found three Talismans, the Plague Doctor found one, and Ao Yong—or should I say you—found two. If those you found are fakes, then there are still two Talismans hidden somewhere in this mall, right?"

"That’s right." Xu Tuoan tilted his head, tears of blood trailing from his empty eye sockets. "As a Ghost, I can’t see the Talismans the System creates directly; I’ve never found a single one. But to prevent you from finding those two, I lied in the WeChat group, claiming I had already found them. This was to stop you from discovering more yellow papers and realizing the count was off."

"I see."

Li Ang, facing the approaching Fierce Ghosts, remained unworried. With a smile, he said, "Guess what my backup plan is?"

"I don’t know, nor does it matter," Xu Tuoan responded grimly. "In any case, your body will soon be ours..."

Before Xu Tuoan could finish speaking, Li Ang’s phone started to vibrate. BUZZ. BUZZ. A new WeChat message appeared.

"Wait a minute." Li Ang raised his palm, unlocked his phone, and showed Xu Tuoan the screen.

On the phone screen was the WeChat chat window, displaying the conversation with "Plague Doctor."

"’I’ve finished drawing.’ This was the message from the Plague Doctor, timestamped at 2:38 AM."

Xu Tuoan glanced at Li Ang, then at the Plague Doctor standing beside Li Ang. A strong surge of unease suddenly welled up inside him.

Li Ang continued scrolling up the chat window, revealing the earliest messages.

Plague Doctor: I have accepted your friend request. Now we can start chatting.

Plague Doctor: Who are you?

Yoko Himawari: Li Rising. Listen, I suspect Ghosts are watching you. You need to stay calm and pretend nothing has happened.

Plague Doctor: Okay.

Yoko Himawari: Can you tell me what happened when you were attacked in the electrical room?

Plague Doctor: The old Fierce Ghost that possessed the Lost Airship’s body was constantly trying to pull open the cabinet doors. Another engineer Ghost, the one without a tongue, was also knocking on the cabinet doors. But the latter didn’t seem aggressive; instead, it appeared quite anxious.

Yoko Himawari: I understand... Oh, by the way, Ao Yong is a Ghost.

Plague Doctor: What?!

Yoko Himawari: If he messages you privately, send him a photo of your chest with a Talisman on it. Ghosts can’t see Talismans, so he’ll just be puzzled why you sent such a strange picture. If he doesn’t message you privately, don’t believe anything he says in the group later. freewebnoveℓ.com

Plague Doctor: ...Okay.

Plague Doctor: Ao Yong sent a message in the group asking us to go over. What should I do?

Yoko Himawari: Hide for now. Wait until you hear a big commotion on the first floor, then come out and continue searching on the third floor. There are still two Talismans left to find. If I’m not mistaken, no Ghosts will bother you during this whole process. Once you find the Talismans, quickly go to the first and second floors to finish drawing them. Don’t hesitate.

Plague Doctor: Okay. Won’t it seem weird if I don’t show up on the first floor later? I have an item that can create a decoy.

[Name: Substitute Magic Doll]

[Type: Consumable]

[Quality: Rare]

[Special Effect: Creates a decoy identical in appearance to the player. The decoy has low-level intelligence and can be remotely controlled. It shares perception with the player. The decoy possesses 10% of the user’s attack power and takes 320% damage. Duration: 20 minutes.]

[Equip Condition: None]

[Note: A legendary Mage who often travels in the Spirit Realm frequently uses this item to engage in... intimate interactions with his mistresses far away in the real world.]

Yoko Himawari: Hmm... that could work. Send the decoy to the first floor later and have it follow my instructions.

Plague Doctor: Understood.

Plague Doctor: I found the first Talisman and have drawn it.

Plague Doctor: I found the second Talisman and have drawn it. Did you hear the mission completion notification?

Xu Tuoan stared at these chat logs, his face a mask of horror and despair. He roared, "No, that’s impossible! You haven’t completed the mission! I had someone destroy the Talisman on the fifth floor..."

"Oh, about ten meters away from where I copied the first Talisman’s pattern, I drew an identical one. I did the same on the fourth and third floors—drew two copies of each Talisman, just in case the Ghosts destroyed one." Li Ang said, counting on his fingers. "One, two, three, four, five, six. All six Talismans have been drawn. And I’ve already heard the System notification..."

[Tracing Talisman 6/6]

[Scripted Mission "Hide and Seek" completed]

[Reward settlement in progress]

Xu Tuoan, not being on Li Ang’s team, couldn’t hear the System notification, but that didn’t stop the intense unease from gripping him.

He shook his arms violently, drawing complex and profound Arrays in the air. "Heaven and Earth without limits, I borrow the laws of the universe—"

Before he could finish, the fully completed Evil-quelling Array slowly activated. Moonlight, filtering down from the glass dome, coalesced into a majestic, awe-inspiring wave of righteous qi, like a great Longsword, and thrust sharply downward.

The Ghost Lolita and Ghost Mama, huddled together, looked up at the Moonlight Longsword, their faces etched with unwillingness and desolation. The man in the suit appeared bewildered. The begging old man was filled with bitter resentment, and the Lost Airship seemed utterly forlorn.

In a corner on the fourth floor, the eyeless, tongueless spirit of Ao Yong seemed to realize something. His empty eye sockets turned towards the main hall, and the tormented expression on his face finally softened into peace.

Under the moonlight, the Ghosts rapidly dissolved, leaving only Xu Tuoan kneeling on the ground, hands raised high, desperately holding up a Nameless Array against the Moonlight Longsword.

"AAAAHHHHHHH!!!"

Xu Tuoan’s face was slowly melting, the excruciating pain forcing him into a furious roar.

"Blow him up," Li Ang said lightly.

Liu Wu Dai nodded, readied the Individual Rocket Tube, and pulled the trigger, aiming at Xu Tuoan.

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