Chapter 25 Utilization

Slightly stunned, Chen Ran raised his left arm, his eyes facing Jiang Cheng, gesturing with an exaggerated expression, "Brother Hao isn't talking about this, is he?"

There was a neat cut on the lower part of Chen Ran's left forearm.

Not serious, about 4 or 5 centimeters long, with blood constantly seeping out. The bright blood streaked across Chen Ran's pale skin, creating a stark contrast, finally gathering at his fingertips and dripping to the ground.

But... the man in front of him had obviously lost the ability to resist and had become a lamb to the slaughter, and he had only been accidentally injured a little by the other party's unreasonable move.

How could it be... that he won?

Suddenly, Chen Ran's pupils shrank sharply, and then he immediately looked at the flames in the center of the room.

The flames burned fiercely, and a faint, strange fragrance filled the air.

"Heh," Chen Ran slowly lowered his arm. He squinted at Jiang Cheng, who was grinning at him, his face full of triumph, and couldn't help but sigh, "The dagger... is poisoned."

"Mmhmm," Jiang Cheng looked at Chen Ran, who could still maintain his sanity but would soon be at his mercy, and smiled even more maniacally, "The dagger is poisoned, that's true, but I didn't do it."

"It's Su Xiaoxiao."

"Yes," Jiang Cheng shrugged and continued, "She's not as stupid as you think. She also saw the mystery in the flames. The fuel contains some hallucinogenic ingredients."

"The only mistake she made was that she was too weak and had to take care of her brother. If she could have injured you with the dagger, then you would have been thrown on the stone plate," Jiang Cheng said with a smile, "That was close, Brother Chen."

There must be something special about the flames in the lighthouse, otherwise, those "things" in Black Stone Town wouldn't have repeatedly emphasized it.

After Liang Long disappeared, Jiang Cheng understood the mystery.

At the scene of Liang Long's disappearance, Jiang Cheng smelled a familiar strange fragrance.

That's right, it was the fragrance produced by burning the milky white grease-like substance in the lighthouse's flame container.

They already knew that this fragrance greatly slowed down people's reactions and suppressed emotions.

If he guessed correctly, Liang Long secretly dug out some of it from the container, probably intending to study it when no one was around. As a result, because she needed a fire while waiting alone in the lobby on the first floor at night, she took out some of the grease and used it as fuel.

The grease was extremely resistant to burning and could also provide a lot of heat.

It was precisely this move that coincidentally awakened the monster sleeping in the stone wall.

As a result, she was killed.

In this way, the purpose of those Black Stone Town guys in encouraging them to light the lighthouse was obvious: to awaken their "kind" who had turned into stone sculptures.

Jiang Cheng guessed that Liang Long had only accidentally unsealed a part of the monster in advance, and when they really lit the lighthouse for a few days, or even longer, all the stone sculptures sleeping in the hall would revive.

In that case... they would definitely be finished.

His body began to become paralyzed. Even though his physical fitness far exceeded that of ordinary people, Chen Ran now felt dizzy. He was completely resisting with his will, unwilling to fall.

The strange things in the nightmare are really...

Chen Ran staggered backward until he hit the wall behind him. Then, leaning against the wall, his body slowly slid down and he fell to the ground.

He seemed to want to struggle a bit, but his body wouldn't allow him to do so.

"Giggle..."

A strange, teeth-grinding sound came from his ear. He tried his best to turn his head, and in a hazy state, he saw an exceptionally distorted but extremely excited face.

The old woman poked her head out from the crack, staring greedily at Chen Ran, who couldn't move.

As if gathering strength, even more like waiting.

Like a spider looking at a moth that has crashed into its web and is struggling desperately.

The moment it stops struggling is the moment of its death.

"Giggle..."

The old woman opened her mouth, and a snake-like, slender, scarlet tongue swirled around her purplish-blue lips. That strange and bizarre sound came from her throat.

It was as if there was phlegm in the throat of a dying old man.

This sound, combined with the old woman's current expression, made her undoubtedly the embodiment of a true horror movie.

Jiang Cheng agreed with Chen Ran's guess. This person was very smart and had high skills, but he was too arrogant. If he had just severed his tendons with a knife, there wouldn't have been so much trouble.

As he said, this old woman was not one of the players but a very special NPC.

The crisis in this mission came from two aspects.

One aspect was external, which was the ghostly things in Black Stone Town. But according to Jiang Cheng's speculation, those ghostly things could not enter this building, and even... would be petrified as soon as they stepped into this building.

The stone sculptures in the lobby on the first floor came about in this way.

The other aspect was internal.

That is, the old woman who appeared as a "teammate."

According to Fatty, they "picked up" the old woman by the sea.

If the building was imagined as a safe house to deal with the guys in Black Stone Town, then the old woman was the threat hidden in the safe house. Otherwise, if the players matched this time were timid and refused to come out,

Then the mission time would be prolonged.

If the nightmare was really controlled by someone or something, then this deal would seem unreasonable.

Therefore...

Chen Ran's sudden voice once again attracted Jiang Cheng's attention.

"Brother Hao," his voice was weak, but that frivolous feeling hadn't changed at all. Even at death's door, he still had that nonchalant look.

Chen Ran squinted. Because of his weakness, he could only barely lift his chin a little. He chuckled, "What are you... what are you going to use me for?"

Use...

For others, this might just be the ravings of a madman, but Jiang Cheng didn't think so. He felt that this Chen Ran was quite unusual and was a rare guy whose way of thinking was somewhat on the same frequency as his own.

If it were Liang Long and the others, they probably wouldn't beg for mercy at this moment, but they would repeatedly emphasize that harming teammates in a nightmare would be punished.

Oh, and Chen Xiaomeng.

"Do you... want to use my hand to kill this damned old woman?" Chen Ran asked.

Jiang Cheng touched his chin. Although the injuries on his body were not fatal, they hurt terribly with just a slight movement.

"No, I won't bother you with such a cheap thing as killing someone, in case this is really the way to leave here," Jiang Cheng said, "Wouldn't that let Brother Chen you escape?"

"I'm going to leave you here," he thought for a while and added, "I'm going to leave yourself here. I need to verify something."

Jiang Cheng had been observing the old woman. She seemed to have a great interest in Chen Ran, who had lost his ability to resist. The tongue she stuck out almost touched the latter's face.

But she still hadn't made a move, and instead, she kept glancing at him impatiently.