Chapter 315: Hello, Goodbye

"You made him cry," Tang Luo said, looking at Ao Yulie.

"My ferocity is only one percent of Eldest Senior Brother's," Ao Yulie said, looking very innocent.

He rarely made a move himself, but his experience watching others fight was extremely rich.

"You can't use Wukong as the standard," Tang Luo said.

"Seems that way too..." Ao Yulie nodded, but if not using Eldest Senior Brother as the standard, could it be using Master as the standard?

That would be even more ferocious.

"Cried enough? If you've cried enough, tell me where Bloody Mary is," Tang Luo spoke again.

"You... won't be able to find her," Edwin said.

"Oh?" Tang Luo said.

"Her body outside is actually a puppet, a kind of false body," Edwin sold out that Bloody Mary directly, "The true 'body' that determines her life and death is hidden in the world within the mirror."

"The world within the mirror?" Tang Luo recalled the Yin-Yang Mirror fragment that Chi Jing Daoren had licked for ten whole years, nearly licking himself out of existence.

Inside was a self-contained small world; the Yin-Yang Mirror's artifact spirit hid within, harboring schemes.

Then he encountered Tang Luo and died when the world was shattered.

It could be confirmed that the Yin-Yang Mirror no longer existed.

Even if there were other fragments, what Tang Luo shattered was the "source"; the small world and artifact spirit were annihilated together.

Bloody Mary should have nothing to do with the Yin-Yang Mirror.

"That's the external explanation; I don't think so," Edwin continued, trying to steady his voice, "I feel Bloody Mary at most parasitizes herself inside mirrors, and can also directly traverse between different mirrors."

"But there is no such thing as a world inside the mirror; those are just illusions."

"So, you can't find her. To find Bloody Mary, you can only make her come find you."

"Will she come?" Tang Luo asked.

"She will," Edwin said, "I investigated; two months ago a 'Bloody Mary Incident' occurred. Someone died while playing this game. To exist inside mirrors isn't without cost. I'm afraid she must maintain herself by seizing others' lives through that supernatural game."

"That would cause disappearances, right?" Ao Yulie said.

He had already come to understand quite a few situations regarding the Gods and Demons Game.

"Just keep the numbers down," Edwin had cried, his chatterbox reopened, and he gradually regained his calm — this was his familiar domain, the dialogue he liked, "That incident had only two deaths; it doesn't count as anything at all."

"So you think, by playing that Bloody Mary game, you can lure Bloody Mary out?" Tang Luo asked.

The Bloody Mary game didn't have a very standard, strict version.

The basic framework was just midnight, mirrors, candles, and such things; standing before a mirror holding a candle in the dead of night and calling her name could summon the legendary Bloody Mary.

As for whether she answered questions or killed the summoner, that depended on luck.

That Bloody Mary of the Gods Alliance definitely belonged to the latter category.

"I can recreate the Bloody Mary game those two played; I have a certain degree of confidence in luring her out," Edwin said, "This is the only way to lure her out."

Better a dead fellow Daoist than a dead me.

Edwin didn't even care about his own father's life, so how could he care about a collaborator's?

Accurately speaking, as long as there was sufficient benefit, he would abandon and sell out without the slightest hesitation.

Without a doubt, right now placed before Edwin were his own life and the other party's life; which of these two weights was lighter or heavier went without saying.

"But I can only help you lure her out; I absolutely cannot help you make a move. Whether you can kill her is your business," Edwin said.

Coincidentally / It was the same situation.

Members of the Gods Alliance likewise signed contracts to avoid killing among team members.

Different from the Wulin Mythology contract, the Gods Alliance had no restrictions on revealing internal information to outsiders, nor was it double damage rebound.

Attacking a member, after causing damage, one would suffer an attack in return.

Such an attack, the vast majority of members couldn't withstand, and would die on the spot.

Edwin couldn't withstand it either, so helping Tang Luo and the others lure out that Bloody Mary was his limit; as for whether he would counterattack Tang Luo's group or flee with his tail between his legs after luring her out, that was an unknown.

Such a situation definitely required carefully weighing pros and cons and devising a foolproof plan before cooperating with Edwin.

So, Tang Luo soon said: "Fine, then let's begin."

The foolproof plan was already thought up — wait for the person to come out, then convert them all.

"... Okay," Edwin blanked for a moment, not expecting the other party to agree so quickly and decisively, "Come with me."

While speaking he also explained that this hall wasn't a suitable location; they needed to change venues.

But seeing these two people plus one cat all wearing "Please begin your performance," couldn't-care-less attitudes, Edwin shut his mouth.

Such fearless confidence — either they were fools, or they were strong.

Edwin's personal experience told him these two were the latter, not to mention they might be hiding even more terrifying trump cards.

Edwin suddenly felt his prospects were bleak; better a dead fellow Daoist... could it really not kill me?

Thinking carefully, it seemed the other party hadn't promised not to kill him either?

"Only one last trump card left; hope it can play a role," Edwin thought silently in his heart.

The location to lure out Bloody Mary was a bathroom inside a manor, not cramped; with the door closed, it was no different from night.

Above the long washbasin was a horizontal rectangular mirror, large enough to reflect all three of Tang Luo's group.

Xiaotianquan crouched before the mirror, looking at himself in the mirror, head tilted slightly.

Edwin lit two candles before the mirror, making the dark room dim.

The mirror reflected the faces of three people.

Under the slightly flickering candlelight, it appeared somewhat eerie.

Edwin took a small knife, slashed hard across his palm, blood flowed out; he used his palm to smear it on the mirror surface.

A moment later, a strange pattern appeared; Edwin withdrew his hand: "Next, we just need to wait."

"Then you all go out," Tang Luo said.

Edwin froze for a moment, nodded, and walked out. Ao Yulie followed him out and closed the door, leaving only Tang Luo and Xiaotian Quan inside the bathroom.

What if that Bloody Mary appears, sees there are too many people, and doesn't make a move?

Before Ao Yulie left, he formed a single-handed spell seal and pointed lightly at Tang Luo without leaving a trace.

An incomparably simple illusion technique, capable of causing some changes to Tang Luo's appearance in the eyes of others.

But it belongs to the "Veil-Eye Method"; if someone makes direct contact with Tang Luo, this illusion will fail.

Inside the bathroom, Tang Luo stared at himself in the mirror before him, letting himself enter a completely relaxed state.

His eyes narrowed slightly, half-dreaming, half-awake.

As time passed, the mirror's surroundings seemed to be shrouded in a layer of darkness. This darkness came from the four sides within the mirror, continuously shrouding toward the central position.

"Meow!"

Xiaotian Quan let out a cat's cry, looking like its fur was standing on end, but after its body swayed twice, it lay down on the washbasin and didn't move.

Tang Luo also gradually moved, his body leaning forward, his head continuously stretching forward, almost pressing his face against the mirror surface.

The moment his nose made a bit of contact with the mirror surface, the surrounding space trembled, as if something had changed, yet also as if nothing had changed at all.

Tang Luo steadied himself again, looked around somewhat blankly, turned, pushed the door open, and walked out.

Outside, however, was not the original scene, but a long, long corridor. At the end of the corridor were stairs leading downward.

On both sides was endless darkness; the whole world seemed to have only this one road left.

Tang Luo abruptly looked back; the door he had just come out of had already vanished, leaving only darkness.

From the end of the corridor behind him came a burst of urgent footsteps.

Before long, several young women came stumbling and running over. Behind them, a hideous humanoid monster was giving chase — walking.

The monster had no nose, its eyes were sewn shut, its mouth gaped open revealing two rows of sharp teeth, and saliva continuously flowed out from inside, dripping down.

Bald head, wearing only a pair of overalls whose original color could no longer be distinguished.

Its exposed body was embedded with a messy assortment of metal parts and glass shards.

The palm of one hand was gone, replaced by a circular saw that kept rotating silently, with no telling where its power source came from.

The other hand carried a logging axe stained with fresh blood.

It walked with a limp, one step high, one step low, seemingly lame, but its speed was not slow at all.

Catching up to that group of girls screaming and stumbling as they ran was only a matter of time.

"Run!"

The girl running at the very front saw Tang Luo standing dazedly in the middle of the corridor. Her face pale with terror, she screamed, waving her arms wildly.

Tang Luo seemed to realize something and retreated backward.

The corridor wasn't particularly wide; after a few steps, he had retreated to the edge.

But the surrounding darkness wasn't a wall, nor was it solid — it was actually just a mass of black mist?

With no support behind him, Tang Luo lost his balance. His body tilted backward toward the endless darkness beside the corridor, about to fall and be swallowed by the darkness.

At this moment, the girl at the very front rushed over in a few strides. Heedless of everything, she reached out toward Tang Luo, trying to grab him.

The instant her outstretched hand was about to grab Tang Luo's hand, which had instinctively risen because he lost his balance.

A hand suddenly firmly grasped her wrist, as if it had simply appeared there directly.

The girl froze. That off-balance palm instantly appeared on her own wrist.

It wasn't that she had grabbed "her"; rather, it was reversed — she was the one grabbed by the other party.

"This is the main body. Quite good at playing," Tang Luo said, looking at the girl.

The surrounding scene, like a mirror, was instantly covered in endless cracks, and in the next breath completely shattered and collapsed.

Tang Luo "appeared" once again in the bathroom.

His body maintained a slightly forward-leaning posture, his right hand extended, gripping what could be described as a rather slender wrist.

The wrist's color was very white, white to an abnormal degree, and carried a few hints of an eerie transparency.

Before Tang Luo's eyes, close at hand.

Was an exquisitely pale human face, like a doll's, including lips that were a ghastly white.

Large eyes wide open, looking at Tang Luo.

Her body — the upper half had half emerged from the mirror, the remaining parts still inside the mirror.

The mirror at this time had already been completely shrouded in darkness, like a black water surface.

"You—"

Bloody Mary instinctively opened her mouth. The moment the person before her grabbed her hand backhandedly, his appearance changed.

Collapsing along with the illusion realm she had created.

Where was the kind of silly-cute, death-seeking girl Bloody Mary liked best?

This was clearly a young man in white clothes and white hair!

"Hello, goodbye," Tang Luo said, exhaling slightly.

In the exhaled breath, a wisp of faint amber-colored flame was contained.

Glazed Flame!