"Crap! I'm dead again! Which of you picked up my gear? I can't do anything without a gun!!" - Longmen Diao

"Don't worry, I'll come get you after I break through! I have a revive pack. Anyway, you're useless after you get up, so I can revive you anytime." - Cai Hong Tang

"I've died thirteen times in half an hour! What's going on!? This game is terrible!" - Longmen Diao. Li Cheng颐 was speechless and silently deleted what he was about to type, then scrolled up to check the chat history.

After all that, these guys were playing a team-based shooting game. "Are you... all right?" - Cheng Yi.

He sent a query.

"Brother Cheng! Brother Cheng is still alive! I thought he was dead!" - Longmen Diao. This guy really doesn't know how to talk... I want to punch him.

Li Cheng颐's face twitched.

"Xiao Tang, how's your investigation going?" - Cheng Yi.

"I logged off. Reporting to Brother Cheng first." Cai Hong Tang sent to the group chat, then quickly replied to Li Cheng颐.

"I'm fine here. One leg is temporarily crippled. When I flashed, the black hand touched me and tore off a large chunk of meat. Luckily, I was fast and remembered what you said, Brother Cheng. I sliced off half the meat, and the rest is fine. Everything's normal."

She sent a picture of her beautiful leg, all snowy white.

Well, a large chunk was missing from her right calf, wrapped tightly in white bandages. "Thank you for your hard work. I'll remember this." - Cheng Yi.

He didn't expect these Dead Angle people to go this far for a newly formed team.

"Anyway, we might die at any time, so this is just a minor injury. Big Bear's family has an organization that cultivates filling surgeries, using your own cells to grow your own meat. It can be patched up in a few days." Cai Hong Tang complained that typing was too slow, so she simply requested a voice call.

Li Cheng颐 tapped to connect, and as soon as he did, moans that made his blood boil came from the other end.

"Crap, I messed up the volume! Wait a minute." There was a flurry of activity on Cai Hong Tang's end. Soon the sound subsided.

"Ah, okay, okay, Brother Cheng, just pretend you didn't hear that." Cai Hong Tang chuckled dryly. "We're walking on eggshells every day. Maybe we'll be gone in a few days, so our hobbies are a bit more uninhibited."

"Whatever makes you happy..." Li Cheng颐 was speechless. "How's the intelligence?"

"I didn't have much time to collect information after I went in, but Huang Gua helped me find some in a targeted way." Cai Hong Tang sent a bunch of illustrated information.

"Also, I didn't encounter that Iselin you mentioned, Brother Cheng, after I went in. I was the only one in the bedroom I entered. No one else. The layout of the room was also different from your description."

Li Cheng颐 opened the information.

It was all about verifying various customs and traditions of the Giljinis. Especially the collection of substitutes, which was particularly comprehensive.

"Also, in the Dead Angle there, I found that not all the people from the previous fire died. The boy who killed his whole family missed a neighbor's child who was hiding under the bed." Cai Hong Tang's tone was solemn.

"Even more coincidentally, that child was a girl, and her name is..." "Iselin!"

Li Cheng颐 was slightly startled. "Is it just a coincidental name?"

"Probably. Could this be one of the reasons for the fusion of the two Dead Angles?" Cai Hong Tang wasn't sure. "How did she survive?" Li Cheng颐 asked.

"She hid under the bed for more than half an hour until the fire was extinguished by the fire department. She was rescued in a semi-comatose state with burns all over her body, but thankfully she was still alive."

"So now our preliminary discussion is that the escape method is likely to be hiding under the bed and waiting for at least half an hour." Cai Hong Tang replied.

"Worth a try. On my side..." Li Cheng颐 began to describe his situation in detail. As he spoke, he also began to open the information and read it carefully.

The Giljinis worship an ultra-ancient behemoth called Asraduni. They believe that all true human cognition is just a dream unintentionally created by Asraduni while sleeping.

In the Giljinis' belief, only they themselves are real, and they are like living on an island surrounded by countless false objects, with illusory seas of dreams all around.

Below was an attached picture.

On the black and white oil painting, there was a pitch-black sea with a white eye in the middle. On closer inspection, one would find that there were many white figures standing on the eye.

They seemed to represent the Giljinis.

"Therefore, in order to seek the protection of Asraduni, in order to avoid the strange and dangerous intrusions in the surrounding infinite black sea,

They circulated the method of substitutes.

Using the sacrifice of a few people to attract the attention of strange dangers, and then hiding themselves, smearing white flour on their faces to disguise themselves as members of the black sea, avoiding danger.

Below was a photo of a face smeared with white flour.

In addition, due to severe patriarchal ideas, the Giljinis generally choose girls as sacrifices to make substitutes. The boys are the ones being protected.

When he saw this passage, everything instantly connected in Li Cheng颐's mind.

The room hidden underground was full of traces of boys, while the bedrooms upstairs were all traces of girls.

"Could it be that Iselin is her brother's substitute!?" The thought flashed through his mind.

This was very likely.

"Because the Giljinis believe that everything real in the world is a dream of the great beast Asraduni, they believe that the bed that can produce dreams is protected by the great beast.

In the dark sea, the safest thing is the bed you sleep on. They compare the bed to a boat, which can roam freely in the black sea without being discovered by those strange dangers."

In the Giljinis' belief, the bed has the function of communicating the real black sea and the illusory reality, which is a very wonderful thing. Because of the opposite understanding of reality and illusion, many of them pursue the use of hallucinogenic herbs to keep themselves in a psychedelic state for a long time, and explain that everything they see in this psychedelic state is the real reality.

According to records, before the massacre thirty years ago, the total population of the Giljinis was already declining year by year. Before the massacre, according to the Bureau of Statistics, their total number was only three thousand six hundred and seventy-two.

"A group of pathetic lunatics." Li Cheng颐 commented when he saw this.

"Yeah. At first, I thought they were using other things to make substitutes, but I didn't expect they were using living people. Disgusting enough, this nation." Cai Hong Tang replied.

Obviously, the preference for boys over girls had hit her sore spot.

"In other words, the current escape method is preliminarily determined to be hiding under the bed and then waiting for at least half an hour?" Li Cheng颐 asked.

"It's just a preliminary determination, but I don't think it will be that simple," said Cai Hong Tang.

"This electronic device on my side may contain information. I'll bring it back and try to recover it first." Li Cheng颐 said.

"Things from thirty years ago are probably moldy now. It's not easy to recover..." said Cai Hong Tang.

"Leave it to me. This is my profession." Xiao Zong joined the voice chat and laughed in broken Yi country language.

"As long as the original has not been physically damaged or completely corroded, it will definitely be no problem to recover most of the data." Xiao Zong was very confident.

"Then... I'll be right back." Li Cheng颐 said in a deep voice.

"Brother Cheng, did Xiao Hao just take action?" Cai Hong Tang suddenly asked.

"What's wrong? I don't know. I've been in the hotel all the time. I just took a shower." Li Cheng颐 replied.

"Sultan Lanlu just issued an emergency notice that a company of their patrol soldiers was attacked by a mysterious force and has been completely wiped out. There are suspected traces of Fei Yi at the scene, and the address is in Mukaisha Town..." said Cai Hong Tang.

"Then I don't know..." Li Cheng颐 refused to admit it.

"The air ticket has been booked. Brother Cheng, come back immediately, otherwise there may be danger. Lanlu's masters have noticed and there may be trouble." Cai Hong Tang said in a serious tone.

"It's useless. The plane from Muen Airport back to Yi country has been blocked. Lanlu is so fast! Brother Cheng, I've booked you a ticket to Hill Airport, forty kilometers away! You'd better leave immediately!" Da Hei joined the group chat and said quickly.

"I can't book a ticket online at all! How did you book it!?" Cai Hong Tang asked in surprise.

"I have some friends over there, Tang Mei. Many things can't be done online alone. It's time to leave, Brother Cheng. The time is two hours later on your side." Da Hei said quickly.

"Understood!"

Li Cheng颐 truly felt the strength of his team this time.

The boss's company was beyond reach in Sultan. He originally thought he could only rely on himself in this place, but he didn't expect that everyone in the small team would come together and arrange everything quite properly.

The news was also particularly well-informed.

He immediately packed his things, left a message for Elf and the two, and told them to be careful. Li Cheng颐 took advantage of the night and relied on the local map route given by Da Hei to determine the direction.

Then he picked up his luggage bag and opened the door. Click.

His footsteps stopped.

He just stood at the door, not moving forward.

Outside the door, the hotel corridor, which had been covered with carpets and brightly lit, had completely turned into darkness. The shadows were like ink that couldn't be dissolved, constantly flowing and lingering outside the door.

Nothing could be seen.

It was as if the inside and outside of the door were two separate spaces.

"Almost..." Li Cheng颐 took a deep breath, gently closed the door, and turned around. "Almost..."

He felt a burst of anger in his heart.

Fortunately, he had finally investigated a feasible method.

Inside the room, the lights were still bright, and it was still the hotel room layout. But Li Cheng颐 knew that everything was different.

He thought for a while, quickly dragged his things, put on the Wisteria Scale Armor form, and then hurriedly packed some food and drink, and quickly crawled under the bed.

Before any danger appears, he can try the method first to see if it works!

As soon as he lay on the ground, he saw Iselin wearing a white nightdress, cowering under the bed, her big blue eyes looking at him in horror.

But soon, she seemed to recognize him, and the horror in the girl's eyes quickly faded. "Jiligulu jiligulu!" She opened her mouth and spoke a string of Sultan language.

Li Cheng颐 immediately took out his mobile phone to translate.

"You're still here?"

"Come in quickly, it's about to change again outside!" Iselin grabbed Li Cheng颐's arm and tried to pull him under the bed.

"What do you mean by change again? What do you mean by the three times you mentioned last time?" Li Cheng颐 squeezed in with her, squeezing to her side. Because he was too big, he could only lie down, and could not curl up like the petite Iselin.

"Three times means... shh!" Suddenly Iselin raised her finger and made a silent gesture.

At this time, she was completely a healthy living person, and she couldn't see the miserable appearance outside at all. Li Cheng颐 immediately silenced and wanted to type a translation for her to see on his mobile phone.

Suddenly, in the room outside, the bright lights began to slowly dim. The temperature dropped significantly.

What surprised Li Cheng颐 even more was that the edge of the bed also began to change. The bed he was sleeping on was originally covered with black and white checkered sheets.

But at this time, the sheets quickly turned black, hardened, and turned into a stone-like texture.

He gently reached out and touched it, and the hard and cold touch fed back, even the Flower Scale Armor could not block the chill.

"Shh!" Iselin patted him again and made another silent gesture. Then, she put her little head on the ground and looked out of the bed with her eyes sideways.

Li Cheng颐 followed her example, put his head down and looked out. "!!?"

The scene outside at this time made his pupils shrink, and a chill surged through his body, and a burst of goosebumps appeared on the surface of his skin.

The outside was no longer the hotel furnishings and carpets from before.

But a spacious and empty hall.

A black stone hall with arched doors and windows everywhere. Outside the windows was a gray haze, and nothing could be seen, shrouded in thick fog.

And in the hall.

A group of black cloaked people were standing.

Their faces were pale, as if smeared with white flour, and their cloaks were embroidered with various strange and unrecognizable symbols and texts.

The most important thing was not this.

What really made Li Cheng颐 tense was the lower half of these cloaked people.

Their lower body... where their legs should be, were all clusters of black tentacles.

Black mist and red light spots flowed and lingered between the tentacles. At first glance, it was definitely not the kind of thing that modern technology could produce.

Pa pa.

At this time, Iselin suddenly patted him. Li Cheng颐 turned his head and looked at her.

Iselin pointed to the mobile phone, leaned closer, and said in an extremely low voice.

"They are believers! They are very friendly and believe in equal and fair trade. You can exchange things with them." !?"