Chapter 407

In the cave.

The dim yellow light of the torch flickered.

The shadows of a man and a tiger danced wildly on the wall, giving people an indescribable sense of eeriness.

Wu Xian and the others, two people and one tiger.

Just said goodbye to Xiong Gang.

And were attacked by the shadow monster again.

This time, if Zhao Zixuan hadn't taken over the torch, Wu Xian would have only been able to choose to extinguish the torch and run.

There seemed to be only two shadow monsters, so they only tried to control Wu Xian and Fatty; Zhao Zixuan wasn't affected; he held the torch tremblingly, his expression already completely collapsed.

Wu Xian jumped until his limbs cramped, and parts of his skin had already split, yet he still had to struggle to open his mouth to comfort this high school boy with a very common name.

If he was really scared silly, he and Fatty would be in trouble.

"You don't have to do anything, just stand there; give me some time to think, not too long, and I'll be able to handle the thing in the shadow!"

Looking at Wu Xian's confident appearance, Zhao Zixuan's expression relaxed slightly.

Wu Xian wasn't lying either.

Encountering a shadow attack for the first time, not understanding the mechanism, and only being able to flee in a sorry state could be considered excusable.

Encountering the same attack for the second time and still not being able to come up with some countermeasures wouldn't be Wu Xian's style.

While dancing, thinking carefully, Wu Xian discovered several abnormal points.

The first abnormality.

Was the time and place of the attack.

Why didn't they get attacked when they were talking to Xiong Gang in the small cave? Clearly, they had lit a candle at that time, and there were shadows around.

Wu Xian initially thought that the shadow monster hadn't followed or that its range of activity was limited.

But the second attack was on a fork in the cave far from the small cave, which meant the shadow monster had been following them all along, just deliberately avoiding Xiong Gang! So what was the difference between Xiong Gang and the combination of Wu Xian and Fatty?

Xiong Gang was very strong and smarter than Fatty!

The second abnormality.

Was that Zhao Zixuan wasn't among the targets of this attack.

The monster's primary goal was to kill, so Zhao Zixuan was clearly easier to kill; killing Zhao Zixuan first and then killing Wu Xian and Fatty would be the same, but the shadow monster didn't attack the weakest guy first.

Wu Xian inferred from this that the shadow monster believed that when they were killing people, letting Wu Xian or Fatty move freely was dangerous! And letting Zhao Zixuan move freely wasn't dangerous at all.

The third abnormality.

Was this strange dancing posture.

The shadow monster wrapped around Wu Xian, controlling him to make movements like a dance.

But why dance? If its goal was to kill, and it could control Wu Xian's movements, wouldn't it be better to just control Wu Xian to commit suicide? Controlling dancing was simply a thankless behavior.

Unless this monster was the type that cared too much about atmosphere, controlling dancing only left one explanation.

That was that when controlling actions, if it wasn't a dancing movement, it might cause unfavorable effects on it...

Thinking of this.

Wu Xian stared at his own shadow.

At this moment, his shadow, like a dancing girl, had its limbs controlled, waving demonically, but no matter how it waved, it had never overlapped with the dancing girl's shadow.

Wu Xian thought about these three abnormal points carefully and soon reached a conclusion.

The Shadow Dancing Girl's ability was to wrap around the shadow and control people's actions, but since she could touch the shadow, conversely, the shadow could also hurt her.

Therefore, she didn't dare to act against Xiong Gang, because if Xiong Gang's strength was great, the shadow would hurt the dancing girl.

Fatty's strength was also great, but Fatty was very stupid, and its body structure wasn't as flexible as a human's, so it was very difficult to hurt the dancing girl through the shadow from the structure.

As for not attacking Zhao Zixuan, the reason was actually very simple. He was timid and weak, not daring to approach the person controlled by the shadow, and even if he approached, his fists and kicks would be very difficult to hurt the shadow; and if Wu Xian and Fatty were allowed to act freely, once they approached the shadow of the controlled person, the Shadow Dancing Girl would react to the approach of the shadow, thereby exposing her weakness.

Wu Xian took a deep breath.

If everything was as he guessed.

After the Shadow Dancing Girl's tricks were exposed, she would be even easier to deal with than ordinary malevolent entities! "I have a knife on me; pull out the knife and go slash the tiger's shadow!"

The reason Wu Xian asked him to slash Fatty instead of himself was that he was worried that he would hurt the main body while slashing the shadow.

After hearing this, Zhao Zixuan hurriedly went to pull the knife.

The Shadow Dancing Girl on Wu Xian tried to stop him by controlling Wu Xian's movements, but Wu Xian exerted all his strength in the opposite direction, deadlocking with the Shadow Dancing Girl.

Zhao Zixuan took the knife during this time; he held the knife with both hands and rushed toward Fatty timidly.

The Shadow Dancing Girl on Fatty couldn't let him slash, so she detached from Fatty and wrapped around Zhao Zixuan.

At this moment, Fatty gained freedom! "Fatty, run; as long as you run around us, we win!"

Wu Xian gave this instruction.

Fatty tilted its head, not knowing what kind of ghost talk Wu Xian was saying.

Wu Xian rolled his eyes.

If he had known, he would have let Zhao Zixuan slash his own shadow.

This stupid tiger, having experienced life and death with him many times, hadn't even developed a little bit of tacit understanding.

However, Fatty had been controlled by the Shadow Dancing Girl for a long time and had been very uncomfortable; without Wu Xian needing to say anything, it started to frolic within the range of the firelight after discovering it was free.

This degree of exercise was just relaxation for a tiger, but the tiger's shadow was already enough to pose a threat to the Shadow Dancing Girl.

When Fatty approached Wu Xian, the Shadow Dancing Girl on Wu Xian shrank subconsciously.

Wu Xian took this opportunity to punch with all his might in front of his head.

Bang! On Wu Xian's shadow, one head suddenly became two.

One belonging to Wu Xian was safe and sound, and the one belonging to the Shadow Dancing Girl was punched in the cheek, with a few black spots splashing out, as if a few teeth had fallen out.

There was also a difference between the movement of the shadow and the body.

The body was three-dimensional.

While the shadow was two-dimensional.

That is to say, on the body, Wu Xian only attacked in front of himself, but on the shadow, the Shadow Dancing Girl was solidly punched! Then Wu Xian swung twice more in the air.

Taking advantage of the Shadow Dancing Girl being painfully hit, he pounced in front of Zhao Zixuan, snatched the dagger from his hand, overlapped the two people's shadows, and stabbed down at the empty space with the dagger.

Swish! The saw-blade knife instantly turned red; although it only stabbed into the air, a large amount of black smoke emerged on the ground, along with a woman's ear-piercing scream!

He stabbed twice like this.

The movements of Wu Xian and Zhao Zixuan no longer felt bound.

Those two Shadow Dancing Girls were already dead!

Wu Xian looked down and saw two sticks of malevolent incense on the ground, as well as two pitch-black things.

He picked up the malevolent incense.

By the way, he scooped up the pitch-black things and discovered that they were two heavy black gelatinous substances; these two black gelatinous substances should be the main bodies of the Shadow Dancing Girls.

Wu Xian didn't know what these gelatinous substances were for, so he could only take them back to study later.

This time he didn't encounter any trouble; he took Zhao Zixuan and Fatty and rushed back to the big cave, only to find that only the crazy woman and Gong Xiujuan were left in the cave.

The two women were looking worriedly at a pitch-black tunnel.

"It's over, we're back late."

(End of chapter)