Chapter 3277: The Ultimate Free-Rider

In the secret room, just as Su Xiao was about to open the door, a notification suddenly appeared.

【Announcement: Holy Light Paradise camp participant Shen Yin has been eliminated.】

【Before entering the Painted World this time, participants from a new camp will arrive in the Main Painted World.】

Another one has been carried away. The next victim will arrive before long.

Not to mention anything else, as a top-tier Eighth-Stage healer, Shen Yin still has a lot of substance. Although she is out, she didn't die. This guy doesn't know what method she used to force a return, and the price paid must be huge.

Being caught by Lamp Sister in a Nightmare is truly desperate enough to shed tears. It's not a question of whether Lamp Sister is strong or not; she is that kind of very special existence whose ability is so unsolvable that you don't want to fight her.

With a click, Su Xiao pulled down the mechanism lever, and the heavy secret-patterned code door opened a crack. Seeing this, Su Xiao activated the lantern in his hand, and sunlight shone through from inside.

This is a simple ability that mimics the Sun Church, "Bright Light" used for illumination. This is the simplest introductory Sun Miracle of the Sun Church. Whether one has the qualifications to continue practicing Sun Power depends on the brightness when performing this Sun Miracle.

Therefore, Su Xiao chose to imitate this Sun Miracle. His understanding of Sun Miracles was at the level of severe injury. When helping a female believer with treatment once, he studied the other party's body, and later when performing the Sun Miracle, he observed the energy fluctuations and energy flow in the other party's body, thereby gaining a deeper understanding of Sun Miracles.

Su Xiao indeed does not have Sun Power in his body, but he has 【Warm Sun Stone】, which turns the impossible into possible. Extracting Sun Power from 【Warm Sun Stone】 is the best choice.

This is the only method Su Xiao can think of that might restrain Lamp Sister. Controlling Lamp Sister is unlikely. Lamp Sister herself is too powerful. Transforming such a powerful existence is already a genius performance. Wanting to control her further is a fantasy. The stronger something is, the harder it is to control, let alone someone at Lamp Sister's level.

With a boom, the door leaf opened completely. Su Xiao, holding the lantern in one hand, jumped back lightly. She raised the lantern in her hand to let Lamp Sister feel the sun, and whether Lamp Sister would praise the sun is a bit uncertain.

In Su Xiao's solemn gaze, Lamp Sister walked into the secret room, ignoring the sunlight emitted by the lantern, and walked over in her metal high heels.

Click! Click! Click!

Although Lamp Sister's long legs were sexy, they were stained with blood that wouldn't dry, plus the creaking sound of metal friction from the searchlight head, giving her a strange sense of oppression.

Su Xiao knew things were not good. He guessed wrong; Lamp Sister was not afraid of sunlight at all. The castle doctors and the Sun Church believers seemed to have left no way out.

Just as Su Xiao was about to activate Dragon Shadow Flash to see if he could escape Lamp Sister's death tracking, he discovered that Lamp Sister didn't pounce over but walked over with strange steps.

Click! Click! Click!

The metal high heels stepped on the marble floor, making a crisp sound. Lamp Sister looked around as she walked forward. The Turbid Light emitted by the searchlight head swept across the front. Strangely, the Turbid Light did not sweep across the books or the desk, just eroding the floor and walls until they hissed.

The searchlight's Turbid Light gradually dimmed. Lamp Sister didn't discover Su Xiao at all. This made Su Xiao think that he had actually guessed right before; the castle doctors and the Sun Church left a backup, just not what he thought.

Making a monster of Lamp Sister's level fear something is a difficult thing, so the castle doctors and the Sun Church believers took a different path. Since Lamp Sister is hard to deal with, they looked for problems in themselves.

If she cannot be controlled or driven away, then take a step back and let Lamp Sister not see it, or rather, let Lamp Sister not see people shrouded in sunlight.

In the Nightmare Castle Ward, natural sunlight will never appear. Precisely because of this environment, the castle doctors and the Sun Church set up this means.

Su Xiao actually guessed two points wrong: 1. There is no need to create a Sun Miracle, just holding a Sun Stone is enough; 2. Lamp Sister cannot be driven away, only avoided.

Su Xiao is not omniscient and omnipotent, so it is normal to have mistakes, but his general direction is correct, and being cautious when creating a Sun Miracle is always right.

Su Xiao stood in the corner of the secret room, trying to turn down the sunlight emitted by the lantern. He wanted to take a risk to determine one thing: does Lamp Sister only fail to see him if he himself is shrouded in sunlight, or must both he and Lamp Sister be shrouded in sunlight for Lamp Sister not to see him?

Su Xiao gradually reduced the coverage of the sunlight. When the sunlight could only shroud half of Lamp Sister's body, he observed Lamp Sister's reaction. Determining that Lamp Sister did not appear irritable or vigilant, he continued to reduce the coverage of the sunlight, letting the sunlight only shroud within one meter around himself.

Lamp Sister still didn't discover Su Xiao. She wandered near the wooden table, and a rough breathing sound came from the searchlight. The sound was low and hoarse, as if made by a middle-aged man, which was completely inconsistent with Lamp Sister's long legs.

"Ta... na (Ancient language, doctor's pronunciation)."

Lamp Sister's voice was still rough. She wandered by the chair in front of the desk, seemingly puzzled about where the person who originally sat here had gone.

"Roar!!"

Lamp Sister suddenly let out a roar. The searchlight head she used as a head emitted Turbid Light, which was faintly red.

Click-click-click!

Lamp Sister was angry. No longer caring about burning the books in the secret room, she started searching quickly. Perhaps in her simple mind, the doctor was always in the secret room, and Su Xiao broke in, so Lamp Sister thought Su Xiao killed the doctor, which is why she was so angry.

The relationship between Lamp Sister and the doctor is not a bloody romance drama; it is more like mutual dependence, unrelated to love.

Su Xiao followed the wall to the door. Lamp Sister is not easy to provoke normally, and she is even more dangerous when angry.

There are still two rooms left to explore, which are the storage room connected to the left side of the utility hall and the room with the giant glass column on the right.

Out of the secret room, Su Xiao walked toward the passage on the left side of the utility hall. Along the way, he looked at the dissection table and found half a Brain Monster corpse lying on it. He remembered that this dissection table was empty before, and Zui Ya and Shen Yin were hiding on the side of this dissection table.

This was Zui Ya's disguise, but what Su Xiao didn't understand was, if Morei could survive until now, he felt it was normal, after all, that sand-sculpture girl's sanity value was ridiculously high. As for Zui Ya, so much time had passed, he should not have been able to hold on.

Analyzing from this aspect, there is only one possibility: Zui Ya has already replicated Shen Yin's ability to restore sanity.

Recalling carefully, Shen Yin previously stated that she had the ability to restore sanity and was looking for a financier, meaning she wanted Su Xiao, Zui Ya, and Morei to all pay money to hire her together.

Zui Ya immediately indicated that he would pay the money this time. Shen Yin was accustomed to this, nothing more than wanting to prioritize restoring sanity, and Shen Yin indeed did so, helping the financier restore sanity first along the way.

This is what Zui Ya wanted to see. He wanted Shen Yin to be closest to him, otherwise, it would be difficult to make a move.

Shen Yin never expected that Zui Ya didn't want to hire her at all, but was greedy for her ability. Being the sole financier was actually secretly buying off Su Xiao, asking Su Xiao not to interfere in this matter.

Before, in the main corridor full of Brain Monsters, Zui Ya used the excuse of protecting the healer Shen Yin, using tentacles to shroud the other party inside. It couldn't be wrong; it was at that time that Zui Ya replicated Shen Yin's "Clear Spring Flow" ability.

As everyone knows, once something has two companies, price competition will appear. Although monopoly is a bad act, it is the most profitable way.

Zui Ya has already replicated the "Clear Spring Flow" ability. For him, Shen Yin changed from a tool person to a competitor. In the utility hall, Su Xiao deliberately attracted Lamp Sister, the boat of friendship capsized, and at that time, Zui Ya decisively pitted Shen Yin.

It can only be said that Shen Yin's ability to survive is quite strong. She didn't die even after this. From the initial team-up to finally being carried away, she had been arranged clearly by Zui Ya.

The reward Zui Ya paid to Shen Yin before, because Shen Yin didn't fulfill her duties and slipped away halfway, according to the team regulations, the reward had already been returned to Zui Ya.

What's more infuriating is that before being carried away, Shen Yin... she even milked Zui Ya once. Being calculated, pitted, and free-ridden, and in the end, she even milked the other party once. Even if Shen Yin thinks about this a few years later, she will be so angry she can't eat.

Want to take revenge on Zui Ya? The Meteorite Star welcomes participants from the Holy Light Paradise. The "friendly and easy-going" Ancient God believers will enthusiastically entertain Shen Yin, um, by putting her in many glass bottles and entertaining her in batches.

Su Xiao didn't bother with Zui Ya. At the current stage, they don't interfere with each other. He walked toward the storage room on the left. After walking a few steps, he stepped on something invisible. This thing was a bit soft, as if it was someone's lower abdomen? It seems... someone is lying here?

"Quack~"

The sound of a frog entered Su Xiao's ears. He was surprised for a moment, and a strange sense of neglect appeared in his heart, as if everything was normal. This is the passive effect of some ability affecting him.

Su Xiao frowned and stepped on the invisible thing again, still at the position of the lower abdomen, this time with a little more force.

"Quack!" ===== CHAPTER 3278 =====