harleyscars Chapter 52, Trial 2: Kayako
Chapter 52, Trial 2: Kayako
Zhan Lan's face was pale. She looked up at the little girl Zhao Yingkong with a bitter smile and said in a low voice:
"You're amazing! You can fight even in this situation. My legs are so weak, I can't even stand up..."
Zhao Yingkong said coldly, "I am an assassin, trained since childhood. You are just an ordinary person, and you have already done quite well to this extent, but that is not enough. If you cannot do better, you will still die."
"Wow! Assassins! Our squad is getting more and more skilled people."
While Zhan Lan was amazed, she also felt a sense of crisis. The team was becoming increasingly talented and ambitious. If she didn't work hard to demonstrate her value, she might be replaced by newcomers one day.
She forced herself to her feet, her legs feeling weak and sore, as if they were two noodles.
In the middle of the courtyard, Wang Lu finally finished processing the information in his mind.
The moment he touched the intersecting lines of death, he understood what it was.
That point wasn't a high-damage attack, but rather Kayako's future. Her fate—to naturally dissipate after her resentment is exhausted in endless time.
For some reason, Kayako did not accept this fate of death.
[Well, there's too little information right now, so we can't analyze it properly. However, the development of this Demon Eye is indeed somewhat inadequate; I'll have to study it carefully when we get back.]
Wang Lu tossed his hair, temporarily setting aside these thoughts, and said:
"The Mystic Eyes have malfunctioned for some reason, but fortunately, bullets can still kill Kayako. The plan to increase the difficulty by exploiting the bug will be put on hold for now."
"Great!" Zhang Jie was so happy he almost jumped for joy.
…………
Kayako died, and for a full 24 hours, no one encountered any threat.
During this time, Chu Xuan hacked into the police station's surveillance system and began reviewing the footage. However, this was still an early era, and surveillance cameras were not widespread.
To gather more information, Chu Xuan personally brought cameras and set them up in the streets and alleys, as well as in some key locations.
Night fell again...
Having successfully adjusted to the time difference, the group was poised and ready, waiting eagerly in the courtyard for Kayako's arrival.
Swish————
The chilling feeling arrived as expected, and everyone immediately gripped their guns tightly.
However, 10 minutes passed and no one was attacked.
Chu Xuan reacted the fastest, immediately pulling out his laptop, opening the city's surveillance footage, and after a few flashes, he found some images.
Several horrific murder scenes appeared on the screen, bloody and graphic.
"It's those newbies! Kayako's changed targets!"
After being killed twice, this dim-witted female ghost finally behaved herself and stopped attacking the veterans, instead targeting the rookies from the Central Continent Team who had run away.
Chu Xuan: "This is a detention center. Several new recruits were arrested by the local police and put here. I went here during the day to install surveillance cameras."
"You anticipated that Kayako would attack them?"
"No, I just did it on a whim."
"What do we do now?" Zheng Zha asked.
Wang Lu thought for a moment and said, "You all stay here, I'll go find Kayako by myself."
He needs to touch Kayako's dead spots more often, to understand death more deeply, and to understand death from the perspective of the Mystic Eyes.
Lingdian Bawang also wanted to go, but intimidated by Wang Lu's threat, he ultimately stayed obediently in the temple.
Wang Lu was extremely fast, and with Chu Xuan guiding him, he arrived at the scene of Kayako's attack in just a few minutes.
By this time, Kayako's attack had ended. The three newcomers locked up in the detention center didn't even last a minute before they were disemboweled and died a gruesome death on the spot.
When Wang Lu arrived, all that was left was a pile of entrails and blood, which was extremely disgusting.
"Are we late?"
"Not necessarily. Kayako can't see her; perhaps she's hiding nearby."
Chu Xuan's voice came through the walkie-talkie.
Upon hearing this, Wang Lu immediately activated his Demon Eye, scanning everything around him from a completely new perspective.
Unfortunately, I didn't see anything.
However, as his eyes swept across the prison gates, walls, tables, and chairs, an idea suddenly popped into his mind.
"Can you kill the table if you just die instantly?"
The moment this thought arose, two clear intersecting lines suddenly appeared in the center of the otherwise ordinary table and chairs!
Wang Lu didn't use telekinesis to touch it, but instead reached out and grabbed it.
A flood of information enters the brain.
The table, after thousands of years, was corroded and decomposed, eventually returning to nothingness...
clap~~~
The table shattered and vanished into thin air.
"Is this what death is?"
Wang Lu looked at the prison's iron gate again. The lines of death crisscrossed; with a gentle touch, the gate turned to ashes and vanished.
He seemed to have some realization.
Suddenly, a loud bang came from the headphones.
boom--
It's Zhang Jie's Desert Eagle, and the sound is exceptionally loud.
"Kayako is here!"
The person shouting was Zheng Zha.
The person who contracted the virus was Zhan Lan.
Without the protection of the Buddha wheel, she was easily grabbed by the feet by Kayako, and her body could not move.
Chu Xuan shouted loudly, "Everyone, pay attention to Zhan Lan! The spirit is next to Zhan Lan!"
Ba Wang and Ling Dian immediately released their true energy, trying to burn out the location of the spirit in this way, but Ling Dian circled around Zhan Lan and found no trace of it.
Unable to move while being restrained, Zhan Lan looked utterly terrified, feeling as if something was squeezing her heart.
[Under my feet! The enemy is beneath my feet!]
She was screaming inside, but no sound came out of her mouth.
In that critical moment, she remembered the method she had used before: using mental energy to scan a single point.
"Mental Energy Scan!"
She used all her strength, concentrating all her mental energy into one point and pouring it out.
"Aww!!"
A scream came from underground, and everyone immediately noticed, pointing their guns at the ground. There, a little boy was lying face down, gripping Zhan Lan's hands tightly with both of his!
Da da da da~~
Without hesitation, everyone pointed their guns at the little boy.
boom--
Spiritual energy bullets shot out! They clanged and clattered as they hit the ground.
However, an unexpected situation arose.
The spiritual energy bullets, which were originally extremely powerful, were completely ineffective against that spirit! All the bullets passed through the air as if they hadn't hit anything at all!
"What's going on! The spirit bullets are malfunctioning!"
Zero and Overlord immediately put away their weapons, clapped their hands together, and unleashed a torrent of Sunflower True Qi!
Hiss~~~~
"Haa!!!"
The intense heat of true energy was indeed effective; the spirit emitted plumes of white smoke and dissipated amidst the burning true energy, screaming in agony.
"Hoo!!!" Zhan Lan's face turned pale; the overuse of her mental energy caused her to faint. Fortunately, Zhao Yingkong reacted quickly and caught her.
"What happened? Why did the spirit energy bullets malfunction? Chu Xuan, you have to think of something!"
Chu Xuan: "I understand. Each time Kayako dies, she becomes immune to the methods that killed her before."
"The Twelve Trials?!" Everyone immediately thought of this.
"Holy crap! Does that mean we're doomed? Bullets are ineffective! Demonic Eyes are ineffective! Only Sunflower True Qi is left!"
"It's only the third day, Kayako still has 4 lives!" Zheng Zha panicked immediately.
Chu Xuan adjusted his glasses and raised his hand, saying:
"This is God's intention. He wants to use this method to force us to completely destroy Kayako."
"I knew it! Seven B-rank side quests, such generous rewards—how could Kayako be so weak? It turns out the longer it goes on, the harder she is to kill."
"This is my last meal before I'm executed!" Zheng Zha cried out in despair, clutching his head.
In the corner, Zhang Jie was grinning from ear to ear.
【Good, good, good! A last meal after death is good! Let you bunch of losers keep racking up points, you've been punished now, haven't you?! Hahahaha!】
【Die!】
Get rid of this batch of monsters and demons as soon as possible, and replace them with the next batch.