Chapter 228

Lu Mian flicked his left hand, revealing the sun pattern radiating colorful brilliance.

The living room, which was thick with cold, became much warmer instantly, but the frost condensed on the ground showed no signs of melting. Only those twisted faces, whether greenish or pale, shifted their gazes away one after another.

Harman, who had lost his head and was covered in blood, ran toward Lu Mian, ignoring the fact that the other's revolver was aimed at him, and tried to forcibly "embrace" his target.

That sun scroll caused his body to tremble somewhat, making the flowing blood drip onto the ground.

Lu Mian intuitively felt that he couldn't go head-to-head with such a "blood corpse." He used his elbows, protected by his light brown jacket, to continuously block Harman's hands.

The jacket was quickly stained with blood, showing signs of being eroded.

At this moment, because "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie hadn't appeared for two or three seconds, Franca was finally able to free up her hands.

She condensed a thick-colored black flame in her palm and threw it toward the zombie-like Harman.

The black flame was like a cannonball, smashing onto the surface of the blood-colored corpse.

It exploded instantly, silently igniting the spirituality hidden within the blood and the corpse.

Harman also began to melt like Castina, just like a candle thrown into a fire.

Just then, "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie appeared.

He emerged from a pale face in the corner of the wall, holding a life-sized statue in his arms.

It was a sculpture of a woman with soft features, the folds of her long dress lifelike.

After laboriously placing the statue on the ground, Luo Jie shrank back and merged into those blurred, painfully twisted faces again, timely avoiding Lu Mian's shooting and Franca's black flames.

The next second, he poked his body out from the ceiling chandelier and cursed at a very fast speed:

"You're dead!"

"I'm going to turn you into fertilizer!"

"Son of a bitch, you actually have the courage to break into my 'Undead Land'!"

"I'm going to drain all your life!"

"I'm going to make you give birth to twenty children!"

She paced back and forth, making gestures, as if imitating the performance of an acting apprentice who devoutly believes in the "Eternal Blazing Sun."

And every word that seemed to come from Intis language was like a sharp arrow, shooting directly into Lu Mian and Franca's minds, not only making them dizzy and their heartbeats accelerate, but also making their blood seem to resonate.

The female statue in the corner was stimulated by this, and a layer of bright flames ignited on its surface.

With a *hum*, Lu Mian's head felt like it had been heavily smashed by an illusory giant hammer, and two streams of bright red blood flowed uncontrollably from his nasal cavity.

Almost at the same time, Franca, who had jumped back to the sofa, gripped her left hand, causing all of Lu Mian's nosebleed to ignite with black flames, not giving Luo Jie a chance to utilize it.

She herself also suffered similar damage. She suspected that "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie was using a type of curse-like verbal spell, and this was enhanced by that female statue, to the point that even she, whose physique and spirit body were greatly enhanced, couldn't withstand a few sentences.

Based on the fact that "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie hadn't done any protection for that statue, Franca believed that attacking it directly would likely invite even more terrifying consequences, and this would likely manifest in the form of a curse.

She endured the boiling of her blood, the dizziness in her head, and the pain in her body, raised the brass-colored revolver, and fired a shot at "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie with a *bang*, taking the opportunity to jump toward the area where the statue was located.

The iron-black bullet shattered a twisted face, leaving a mark on the wall, but it failed to harm Luo Jie.

As soon as Franca landed, she ran around the statue. She didn't pull the trigger of the brass-colored revolver again, nor did she stab with her sleeve sword. While dodging the thin, slender figures extended from the blood awakened by "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie, she created layers of frost on the surface of the statue.

At this time, Lu Mian, who was being heavily attacked by "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie, was already in a precarious situation.

Accompanied by a shrill scream, illusory black flames ignited on his body surface.

This made him feel his life passing away rapidly, and his body became weak as a result.

Lu Mian didn't hesitate anymore. He first threw away the scroll with the strange sun, then leaped toward the sofa and reached his left hand into his pocket.

Beside the overturned coffee table where he had originally stood, "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie's body emerged from the frozen ground, holding a pitch-black, sharp, evil scythe half a person tall, and split the furniture in front of him in two with one strike.

Lu Mian landed on the sofa, his left palm already pulled out from his pocket, holding a slightly pale, slender severed finger.

Facing the scythe that "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie was hacking at him again, he, who was already quite weak, could only barely move his body, struggling to avoid this strike.

At the same time, he threw the severed finger in his hand into mid-air.

That was Mr. K's finger!

Amidst the sound of leather and fabric tearing, the long sofa was split in two by the evil scythe, while the pale finger in mid-air expanded with a *boom*, exploding like a bomb.

It turned into drops of rain made of flesh and blood, falling onto Lu Mian, extinguishing the black flames that were making him weak.

These flesh and blood absorbed the surrounding blood and melted corpses, quickly condensing together, making Lu Mian look like he had put on a blood-colored hooded robe.

The intense weakness that had been plaguing Lu Mian disappeared for the most part, and he leaped up, counter-attacking "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie.

Seeing this, "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie didn't fight hard, shrinking back into the ice layer full of cracks, shrinking back into one of the greenish twisted faces.

Franca, who had already covered the statue with frost, suddenly felt intense cold.

The ghosts throughout the living room seemed to become very angry. They surged from all directions, reaching out their arms, opening their mouths, and surrounding Franca in the middle.

A *crack* sound rang out, and another mirror shattered.

Franca's figure was highlighted on the ice on the other side. She raised her hand, causing clusters of black flames to rise around the statue, igniting those blurred ghosts and blood-colored thin shadows.

"Black Scorpion" Luo Jie poked half his body out from the nearby wall and cursed again:

"Damn bitch!"

While making the target's body weak, he relied on those painful faces to quickly shift his position, sometimes attacking Lu Mian, sometimes affecting Franca, relying on the "Undead Land" and that statue to suppress two enemies single-handedly.

Every once in a while, evil black flames would ignite on Lu Mian's body surface, draining his life and making him weak, but this was always extinguished by the robe made of flesh and blood he was wearing in a neutralizing way. Franca, on the other hand, relied on the mirror substitute, escaping from the combined strikes of "Evil Words," "Blood Spirits," "Weakening Black Flames," and "Burning Life" time and time again.

Time passed quickly. Seeing that Charles's flesh-and-blood robe had been worn down to be extremely thin and was about to collapse, and the mirrors Franca carried and the ice layers she had created were almost exhausted, "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie poked his head out from the ceiling and laughed shrilly with malice:

"Two idiots!

"Do you think you can fight against the 'Undead Land'?

"Even if all the leaders of the Savard Party came in here, I wouldn't be afraid!

"Go to hell!"

This shrill voice pierced into Lu Mian and Franca's ears, stabbing into their minds, causing them both to sway, as if they couldn't bear it anymore.

"Black Scorpion" Luo Jie, who had shifted to the side wall, saw this and revealed a ferocious and expectant smile.

Just then, his vision suddenly went black, and intense emotions surged in his heart.

It was disbelief, it was astonishment, it was confusion and panic.

The next second, he lost consciousness.

*Thump! *

This Poison Sting Gang boss emerged from the wall, fell to the ground, and fainted.

"Fallen Mercury" had finally completed the exchange of fate, swapping the fate of that dying tramp fainting on his own to "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie!

This only took a few minutes, much faster than exchanging Margot's fate before.

This was because the tramp was an ordinary person, and when "Fallen Mercury" chose "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie's fate, it looked for the least important one that didn't involve the supernatural.

Lu Mian's gaze locked onto "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie, who was wearing water-blue pajamas. Relying on the blood-colored robe, he forcibly stepped over those transparent, blurred, twisted faces, arriving in front of the fainted target amidst the bone-chilling cold and the feeling of stiffness. He took out the small metal bottle containing the anesthetic, unscrewed the cap, and squatted down.

He brought the anesthetic he had obtained from Lentas to "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie's nose and fanned the gas with his hand, letting more of it blend into the enemy's breathing.

After finishing this, Lu Mian picked up "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie and, under Franca's protection, ran out of the living room area.

The male servants and maids here had long since hidden somewhere.

As "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie left the living room, those greenish or pale faces quickly disappeared, and everything returned to normal.

Seeing this, Lu Mian threw the Poison Sting Gang boss onto the ground in front, aiming his revolver at his head.

After staring for a few seconds, Lu Mian pulled the trigger calmly and silently.

*Bang, bang! * Two shots, and "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie's head turned into a smashed watermelon, splattering blood and filth everywhere.

He lost his life while unconscious.

Franca glanced at Lu Mian, who was still aiming at "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie, and asked peacefully:

"How is it? Have you vented it out?"

If it weren't to help Lu Mian, she felt the best way would have been to report "Black Scorpion" Luo Jie and the others for believing in the Great Mother through brother "007."

Lu Mian was silent for a few seconds, curled the corners of his mouth, and revealed a smile:

"No.

"Just solved a hidden danger."

Hearing this, Franca sighed softly:

"There's a saying in my hometown that heart disease requires heart medicine. If you don't find the right direction, doing more things is useless.

"Well, I'll quickly perform a spirit channeling. Try to evacuate from here within three minutes. You hurry up and loot the spoils of war."

"Okay." As Lu Mian answered, the remaining blood robe on his body completely collapsed, dripping and staining the ground red.

Just like that? Lu Mian couldn't help but frown.

It wasn't that Mr. K's finger wasn't strong. On the contrary, in the battle just now, if it weren't for it, Lu Mian would have long since been too weak to resist and would have needed Franca's help.

But its performance just now was completely insufficient to fight against that terrifying evil spirit, Susanna Mattise, which made Lu Mian inevitably feel a bit disappointed and confused.

As thoughts raced through his mind, he walked toward the living room, his gaze scanning the surroundings, searching for valuable items.

Suddenly, he saw a figure standing quietly at the top of the stairs, a figure wearing a large hood and a black robe.

Mr. K!

As Lu Mian's pupils dilated, Mr. K disappeared into that patch of shadow.

PS: Recommending a book, "Pastor's Secret Archive," written by our old friend Bu Qi Shi Xian. The plot summary is: When a plot-skip player enters the game world.

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