Chapter 337: Eerie

Lilith gasped for air, her heart pounding uncontrollably; she felt as if her head were splitting, and as Tao Baibai increased the pressure, she felt as though her skull would be crushed the very next moment.

No, I must struggle; I cannot die just like this!

Like most Reincarnators, Lilith did not enter this space because she wanted to become a Reincarnator; she had been selected by the space inadvertently and had arrived in this Purgatory-like place for no apparent reason.

She had a happy family and loving parents; she simply could not accept dying like this.

"I, I have spellcasting abilities, my Spirit attribute is about to touch the Extreme Value, and I still have Dimension Points..."

Even at a time like this, she still did not choose to fight to the death, but instead kept stating her own value.

This made Bai Cangshu look down on her even more; it was hard to imagine such a person could survive for long—or rather, that she had managed to survive until now was already pure luck for a Lucky One.

The earring on Bai Cangshu's earlobe swayed twice, and he raised his index finger, preparing to strike the other person's skull.

"I know the Staff Seeking Method, I am very good at finding people..."

At this moment, the woman had finished listing her various elemental spellcasting abilities and began to mention some special abilities that were closer to parlor tricks.

Bai Cangshu lifted the woman; a weight of about one hundred jin was truly too light for Bai Cangshu now.

He raised the woman's face to the height of his own, eye to eye.

"How good are you at finding people? Can you find Plot Characters?"

Lilith was still reciting her Specialties like a mantra when, the next moment, bone-chilling killing intent seeped into her body; her body shuddered, and she went quiet.

She nodded repeatedly.

"Yes, I can; as long as I know the information about the character, there is a high probability I can find them!"

Slap!

Bai Cangshu let go, and the woman fell to the ground; ignoring the pain, she felt an incredible sense of joy in her heart.

She was just about to thank Tao Baibai for sparing her life when her face turned pale; she saw that white-clothed, black-haired Ghost appear in the corridor again, and as if Flash-ing, it appeared behind Tao Baibai in an instant, as if it were clinging to Tao Baibai's back.

She knew that as long as Tao Baibai turned around and made eye contact with that thing, he would likely freeze instantly and then have his neck snapped.

Her team had encountered this attack before and had lost one person.

"Careful, you..."

Before she could finish her sentence, she saw that Tao Baibai had already turned his head and made eye contact with that filthy thing.

Bai Cangshu looked at those dead, silent eyes and sneered; the chill on his body could not affect him in the slightest.

He had already realized that the origins of these spirits in this world were likely Resentful Spirits from Spirit Ability 100% or ghosts and monsters like those in Dandadan.

Although these things had all kinds of special abilities and rules, they were not entirely "rule-based" existences.

They were completely different from the terrifying "mechanism-kill" dungeons in traditional Infinite-style works.

In other words, he would not be killed directly for triggering some "instant-death" plot; these Monsters' attacks on Reincarnators might look effective, but fundamentally, they were still a matter of special abilities and numerical values.

It could also be understood as the priority of the mechanism not being high enough.

For example, this curse called Deadly Grudge of the Dead had a mechanism triggered by eye contact, which could completely freeze a Reincarnator's ability to act once triggered.

But the priority was not high enough to completely ignore the Reincarnators' various abilities; in Bai Cangshu's view, this had turned into a contest of "numerical values."

And he had always been a "numerical value monster."

In Lilith's terrified gaze, Bai Cangshu reached out and grabbed the ghost's neck; the ghost wanted to escape, but Bai Cangshu held it down and forcefully pressed it into his own body.

The ghost began to struggle violently, but it was completely ineffective, and before long, it disappeared into Bai Cangshu's body.

【You have accommodated the Spirit·Curse Captive Sub-body】

Bai Cangshu then kicked open the elevator door; a great fire was already burning at the bottom of the elevator shaft, likely because those few Reincarnators had used some kind of high-explosive, high-combustion weapon in the elevator.

And there were no traces of living people left in the elevator.

Bai Cangshu "listened" carefully for a moment, but heard absolutely no sound.

It seemed that after he heard the voice of the one who called herself Ayase Seiko, those Reincarnators had encountered some unexpected situation and were no longer in this space.

At the very least, they were no longer in the same physical space as him.

After Bai Cangshu gained the electromagnetic power of the Thunder Emperor Heart, he had also completed his study of the Heart Net opened from the Enel Drop Card.

This special Observation Haki was equivalent to using electromagnetic force as an extension, greatly enhancing the effects of Observation Haki.

Whether it was the range or the additional mind-reading ability, it far exceeded that of ordinary Observation Haki users.

Although when Observation Haki is cultivated to a profound level, the user is capable of predicting the future for a short time and seeing things tens or hundreds of kilometers away or even further.

But the Heart Net was able to achieve such things even in the early stages.

Only then did Bai Cangshu re-examine the surrounding environment.

Previously, because of the level of the curse and the strength of those spirits, he had thought this Side Mission was nothing special.

But at this moment, with the disappearance of those Reincarnators, he sensed something abnormal.

The spirit he accommodated was named by the space as 【Curse Captive Sub-body】, which meant that this thing must have a parent body, and the fact that this Side Mission had no penalty meant that failure would likely result in death.

Bai Cangshu turned around, walked to the wall, and kicked it hard.

Bang!

The wall shattered, and an entire outer wall collapsed completely, but after the collapsed wall, Bai Cangshu saw another corridor, where there was another elevator, just like a mirror image.

What made Lilith feel even more terrified was that in the corridor behind that wall, there was also a Tao Baibai and herself, both looking at her and smiling eerily.

Hum~

Golden Qi instantly tore through the air like a laser, sweeping across the two spirit bodies; the two spirits, which had just been like ghosts in a classic horror movie scene, turned into corpses and fell to the ground the next moment.

"Tao Baibai, what should we do? We can't get out even if we smash these walls; we've tried many times before."

Lilith had been scared to death of Tao Baibai just a moment ago, but upon realizing that Tao Baibai did not intend to kill her immediately, Tao Baibai immediately became her source of security.

Only then did Bai Cangshu suddenly realize why those Reincarnators hadn't noticed that there were spirits standing in their team.

It was likely that those people had long since been secretly infiltrated by spirits while they were smashing through walls time and time again.

They had long since been cursed without even knowing it.

The difficulty of this Side Mission is higher than imagined.

From this, it can also be seen that the difficulty of this world absolutely does not lie solely in individuals beyond imagination like Saitama, Tatsumaki, and Kageyama Shigeo.

Something must have changed in this world for it to have become so dangerous.

Bai Cangshu has no mind at this moment to solve this kind of spatial supernatural puzzle; according to the duration of the Side Mission, a hidden space must exist in this place.

If the main body of that vengeful spirit realizes that he can cause it harm and focuses on evading, it could waste a considerable amount of time.

Bai Cangshu thought for a moment, grabbed Lilith by the neck, and turned to jump down from the corridor.

Even while carrying a person, jumping down from the third floor, Bai Cangshu landed lightly and silently.

"Tao Baibai... what should we do now?"

Lilith tried to actively communicate with this "beast" Tao Baibai, hoping to try to keep the other party from killing her later.

Bai Cangshu did not explain, directly carrying her as he jumped into the underground area where he had been at the very beginning.

Upon seeing the new space that appeared after breaking the wall, Bai Cangshu realized that his previous act of breaking the ground to enter here was an unusual behavior.

This meant that the sewer filled with corpses, vengeful spirits, and long snakes was indeed unusual.

Bai Cangshu landed in the pitch-black sewer, completely ignoring the biting of those long snakes; amidst the blue-white light revealed by Lilith fearfully activating a Barrier, he walked all the way to the end of the sewer, where murky, foul water flowed out bit by bit.

Bai Cangshu tapped twice with his hand; through the conduction of Force, he sensed that this was a wall about a dozen meters thick, and more importantly, outside was flat ground.

Bai Cangshu retracted his left arm, his muscles bulging inch by inch, and then, amidst creaking sounds, he suddenly threw a punch.

Boom!

Amidst the terrifying vibration, the wall shattered bit by bit, and then began to collapse.

Accompanied by a certain sharp roar, sunlight appeared from outside the shattered wall.

Seeing this light, Lilith instinctively felt joy, but the next moment, she was grabbed by Tao Baibai and quickly disappeared into the cold, gloomy waterway.

【You have completed the Side Mission: Cursed Captive Institute】

【You have obtained the material: Corpse Ghost Mask *1】

(End of chapter)