Day of Imprisonment

Old Cao's answer carried a hint of the sinister.

How could such a prerequisite—only being able to leave when 'that young mistress is satisfied'—ever be fulfilled?

You should know that a woman's heart is like a needle at the bottom of the sea, let alone a female ghost's.

Who knows what she wants?

Could you really go up to her and say, 'Young mistress, kill me, kill me until you're satisfied, kill me to your heart's content?'

What if she kills everyone and still isn't satisfied?

Therefore, this kind of condition, seemingly conditional, is actually even harder to achieve.

Because whether she's satisfied or not depends entirely on the female ghost's whim.

"Alright, I've answered your question, but you can't leave either. If you want to leave, you have to beat me again." Old Cao was clearly a hardcore plant-fighting enthusiast. At this moment, he pulled another blade of grass from under his butt, but this time, he didn't just pluck one at random; he selected it carefully.

It was obvious that Old Cao was getting serious.

Luo Xi chose even more carefully and even said, "How about you move over a bit, Old Cao? You sitting here makes it hard for me to choose."

Unsurprisingly, Old Cao didn't respond.

Luo Xi also made his choice.

The fight continued.

Snap!

The one that broke was still Old Cao's grass stem.

"Damn it!" Old Cao rarely swore, angrily tossing the broken grass stem into the distance.

After all, he had lost twice in a row.

"You can go!" Although Old Cao was angry, he kept his word and honored his commitments.

"I'm not leaving; I still have questions." Luo Xi smiled. "About that young mistress, what else do you know, Old Cao? Tell me everything."

"You wish! You can only ask me one question, but you want to squeeze out everything I know with just one question? Do you think I'm an idiot?" Old Cao sneered. "You can't ask like that; you have to be more specific."

"Understood!" Luo Xi was a little helpless, but the more meticulous Old Cao was, the more 'insider information' this old ghost seemed to know. He immediately asked, "What can I do to make the young mistress satisfied?"

"There are many things. I'll give you an example: you could help her take revenge. You know, she's a ghost who died unjustly, and she's pregnant with a child. This resentment, heh heh, think about it, how great and terrifying it must be..." Old Cao still liked to tease; he seemed to enjoy watching others suffer and struggle, falling into despair.

"Was that considered an answer just now?" Luo Xi asked.

"What else?" Old Cao was smug.

"Okay!" Luo Xi sighed. "Old Cao, let's continue!"

This time, Old Cao wasn't in a hurry but said, "You choose first this time."

It was clear that he wasn't as confident as before.

"Alright!" Luo Xi wasn't pretentious either. He carefully searched under Old Cao's butt, and then, he did something that stunned everyone and made them applaud.

He forcefully pushed Old Cao aside and pulled out all the plantain lilies.

Not a single one was left.

"I'll be damned..." Old Cao was anxious; he never expected Luo Xi to do something like this.

Luo Xi wasn't afraid at all and retorted, "The rules didn't say you couldn't pull out all the grass, did they? Not only this side, but I also want to pull out all the grass over there. Hey, Hou Cheng, you guys stop watching and help pull it out. Don't you want to win?"

With one sentence, everyone reacted and immediately started pulling out the grass with all their might.

Old Cao began to tremble.

Of course, it wasn't because he was afraid, but mostly because he was angry.

"I have never seen such shamelessness..." Old Cao cursed inwardly.

But he couldn't stop it.

This indeed didn't violate the rules.

This is the sheep-leading effect.

When you truly 'break the window,' the person who breaks the window will naturally become the leader of the team.

In the end, this area of grass was almost 'cleaned up.'

It was really pulled out cleanly.

It was cleaner and more thorough than using a razor.

A tuft of grass was also left behind.

But it was the least resilient kind, specially reserved for Old Cao.

If they continued to fight grass, he could only pull from here; he had no choice.

At this time, Old Cao's tone was low, and his back looked a little lonely, seemingly more hunched than before, very desolate.

"Come on, Old Cao, I'm done pulling; it's your turn." Luo Xi held a large handful of 'carefully selected' plantain lilies in his hand, but Old Cao didn't move. Obviously, continuing to fight grass was meaningless.

He couldn't win.

Not to mention Luo Xi, he couldn't win against anyone else.

This had become a sure-lose competition.

Since it was a sure loss, what was the point of competing?

"What do you want to ask? Ask, and when you're done, I have to go back." Old Cao's voice was filled with loneliness, unwillingness, and even sounded a little pitiful.

"Specifically, what can I do to make the young mistress satisfied?" Luo Xi wasn't polite and asked directly.

"I said there are many things, but I only know one, and that is to help her take revenge. She died unjustly, so her resentment is extremely great," Old Cao said in a low voice.

"But as far as I know, she actually fell to her death. Even if it's because her stepmother didn't provide treatment, she hates it, but she has already killed that lady and a chanting monk."

"Not enough; the person she hates the most is still alive."

"Who is the person she hates the most?"

"I don't know. About the young mistress, that's all I know. If you ask me anything else, I can't give you an answer!" Old Cao's voice was very frank.

Luo Xi believed that Old Cao wasn't lying or hiding anything.

Because according to this 'grass-fighting' mini-game setting, after he loses, he can only answer questions and is not allowed to lie or hide anything.

"Then, can the 'Rebirth Mantra' and 'Buddhist Beads' obtained from the scene restrain the young mistress?" Luo Xi asked.

These two items appeared in the mourning hall, and they must have their uses.

"What do you think? If they could really restrain the young mistress, could the chanting monk have been killed by her?" Old Cao's voice carried a smile.

He seemed to be happy again, probably because he saw Luo Xi encountering difficulties. He hoped that the other party couldn't solve it. In short, he was happy when others were suffering.

"Then are you afraid?" Luo Xi then took out the Rebirth Mantra scripture.

"Me? Heh, maybe a little."

"Not you. How many ghosts are there here?"

"Three!"

"Among these three, one is the young mistress, one is the gazebo ghost in the garden, and the other should be the ghost in the boudoir that Hou Cheng and the others encountered before. The young mistress isn't afraid of these two things. You're a little afraid, so are the other two ghosts afraid?"

"How would I know? I'm not them," Old Cao said.

"Then I'll rephrase the question: are they stronger, or are you stronger?"

"Of course, I'm stronger..." Old Cao said, immediately realizing it.

This was also considered a very accurate answer to the previous question.

Next, Luo Xi tried to extract as much information as possible from Old Cao. Old Cao could only answer; he didn't want to fight grass anymore and only hoped that Luo Xi would let him leave.

"Alright, I have no more questions. Thank you for your cooperation, Old Cao. You can go now. I look forward to meeting you again next time," Luo Xi said very seriously, his tone filled with reluctance and even a sense of sadness at parting with an old friend.

"Stop talking nonsense; I don't want to meet you again," Old Cao cursed, his figure disappearing without a trace in the next second.

As if he had never appeared.

And after Old Cao left, the gloomy horror of this small courtyard was also greatly reduced. At least, being in it, there was not so much pressure.

Everything seemed normal.

However, the three cold corpses lying on the ground reminded everyone of how terrifying and dangerous everything had been.

At this moment, Hou Cheng directly collapsed to the ground.

Not only him, but everyone here also had a feeling of surviving a disaster.

Luo Xi then walked towards Hou Cheng and the hooded man.

The two also looked at Luo Xi.

At this moment, Hou Cheng suddenly said, "Brother, say no more. From now on, I'll listen to you. If we can really clear the level, I won't fight for the number card; it's yours."

It must be said that this Hou Cheng is a smart person.

He knew very well that all the people he brought had died so far.

One was lost in the mourning hall, one died in the young mistress's boudoir, and three more died in Old Cao's ghost-fighting arena.

Now, he is just a lone commander.

How could he possibly continue to control the discourse?

After all, the remaining people would no longer listen to him.

More importantly, he knew that Luo Xi was not simple. This person was better than him in every way, and not just by a little bit.

Take the grass duel for example. Afterwards, he thought about it, and it seemed that he could have thought of the method Luo Xi used, and it wasn't even difficult or complicated. But the problem was, when you're in the middle of it, under that kind of deadly pressure, dominated by fear and despair, who can calm down and think of a solution?

He couldn't think of one.

But Luo Xi managed to figure it out.

Moreover, the guy was really brave, even taming the fierce ghost until it broke its defense.

He had preserved this memory for so long, experiencing many loop days, and this was truly the first time he had seen something like this.

Eye-opening!

Hou Cheng was very clear that if he wanted to pass the level and get a reward, he could only listen to Luo Xi.

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There was no other way to go.

Rather than being threatened and forced by others, or even killed to silence him, it was better to take the initiative to admit defeat and surrender, so as to strive for leniency.

Luo Xi nodded, considering it approval.

He looked at the hooded man.

The latter also shivered, but although this person was not good with words, he was not a fool.

"Captain, why are you looking at me? Just tell me what you need."

"Very good!"

Luo Xi did have the thought of killing people, because in order to pass the level, he had to ensure that the Reminiscents didn't have internal strife, and moreover, that orders were obeyed. Only in this way could they be a team with fighting power.

Even one bad apple could spoil the whole bunch.

But right now, these two were both very sensible, and Luo Xi analyzed that the reason this scene had a ten-person mode was perhaps that there would be some kind of invisible 'limit' and constraint on the number of people, or even some kind of mini-game that could only be started with enough people.

So, keep them for now.

"Where is that boudoir where you encountered the ghost before? Take me there."

"What? You want to go? That place is very dangerous," Hou Cheng said immediately.

The hooded man next to him also nodded: "That ghost appears and disappears unpredictably, and will hang people with a white silk."

"Yes, Zhou Fang died like that. If we go back now, his body is still hanging there."

"I said, take me there," Luo Xi frowned.

Immediately, Hou Cheng and the hooded man's hearts skipped a beat.

Clearly, Luo Xi was not discussing with them just now.

That was an order.

"Okay!"

This time, the two did not express any more opinions.

It was just that this time on the road, everyone was not as nervous as before.

Because just now, from the grass-dueling ghost Lao Cao, they had obtained a very important clue.

That was that there were only four ghosts in this scene.

"Here, ghosts represent danger. Conversely, places without ghosts are relatively safer, and the design of any scene mostly follows the theory of 'danger' and 'opportunity' coexisting, that is, it will hide the key to passing the level in danger,"

Luo Xi said on the road.

What he meant was that if they wanted to pass the level, they had to look for clues, and clues could only be hidden in the area where the 'ghost' was.

Blindly avoiding danger would ultimately prevent them from passing the level normally.

"Then what if, we hide in a relatively safe place and wait for time to pass?" It was Wu Rui who asked. For her, 'hiding' had become an instinct, otherwise, her card ability would not be to strengthen hiding places.

"First of all, doing that is meaningless. Secondly, I speculate that this scene will also undergo some kind of change, for example, you think the young lady will only be in the mourning hall, but what if at some point, she can come out? She can wander around and hunt the Reminiscents? At that time, how will you hide? And how long can you hide?"

Hearing this, Wu Rui nodded.

However, obviously, Wu Rui had other small questions. She looked around, then tiptoed and leaned over to ask in a low voice: "Just now, when you were looking for that Lao Cao to duel grass for the first time, you secretly plucked a strand of my hair... Are you..."

"Shh!" Luo Xi made a gesture not to speak.

Some things are better left known in the heart.

When both sides are using plantain stems, it's really hard to say who will win or lose.

And Luo Xi was indeed using a little trick to win two games in a row.

What Luo Xi knew was that existences like Lao Cao, who were in charge of mini-games, whether human or ghost, had to abide by the rules.

They could cleverly mislead and design the rules, but they couldn't cheat.

For example, Lao Cao could choose the type of grass and the location of growth, and sit on the toughest grass, using the fear psychology of others to make them ignore the grass under him, but he had to compete according to the rules.

Logically speaking, both sides had to abide by the rule of not cheating.

But Luo Xi, as a Reminiscent, had an advantage, that was, if he cheated and wasn't discovered, it wouldn't count as cheating.

Wu Rui smiled knowingly, understanding in a second!

"We're here. Go through the alley in front, pass a door, and inside is the boudoir. We went in from another road at the time," Hou Cheng was leading the way at this time, pointing to the alley in front.

"Go!"

Hou Cheng could only grit his teeth and walk forward, the hooded man followed behind, then Luo Xi, Wu Rui, and Mao Ge, and Guo Zening, who was holding the scholar hostage.

The latter looked annoyed, and had tried to escape, tried to reason, and begged for mercy, but Luo Xi was unmoved.

Regarding the scholar, without Luo Xi speaking, the others also knew that this person must also be very important, otherwise, he wouldn't appear in the scene, because, besides the madam who died at the beginning, the madam's maid, and the sutra-chanting master, this scholar could be said to be the only 'living person' in the entire level scene.

This alone showed that he was very important.

After passing through the alley, there was indeed an open door. It could be said that the entire building was very exquisite, full of ancient charm, with carved beams and painted pillars, and every detail showed its heritage.

If it weren't for being in this kind of scene, if the weather was a little better, then this mansion would definitely be suitable as a tourist attraction.

The door was open, and after entering, it was a small courtyard, equally exquisite.

Behind it was a house.

It seemed a bit gloomy and terrifying, the door of the house was half-covered, as if gusts of yin wind were seeping out from inside.

Hou Cheng seemed a bit hesitant here, he didn't dare to go in.

The hooded man then walked over and said: "That ghost is inside, once you go in, you may be attacked."

Luo Xi looked at Mao Ge, who nodded with a solemn expression.

Clearly, there was indeed a ghost inside.

Luo Xi took out the Rebirth Mantra.

"The Rebirth Mantra and Buddhist beads can't deal with that young lady, but they can restrain the other fierce ghosts in the scene. Maybe these two props were designed to do this kind of thing... This explanation makes sense, because if you put important clues and dangers together, you should set up something that temporarily restrains the danger, otherwise it's a dereliction of duty in the design of the level scene."

"This time, Wu Rui, Guo Zening, you two keep an eye on the scholar and wait outside. Mao Ge, you follow me, Hou Cheng, that... right, what's your name?" Luo Xi realized that he didn't know the hooded man's name.

At this moment, he looked over.

The latter quickly said: "Ke Lan, my name is Ke Lan!"

"You and Hou Cheng lead the way," Luo Xi said.

Clearly, Hou Cheng was very hesitant and afraid, not daring to go in, but this Ke Lan, although also afraid, still pushed the door open and stepped inside.

Hou Cheng could only grit his teeth and follow, followed by Luo Xi and Liu Mao.

As soon as the four of them went in, the door creaked shut automatically.

It was a shock.

"Wu Rui, do you think something will happen?" Outside, Guo Zening asked in a low voice.

"If Luo Xi fails, I suggest we both commit suicide immediately, anyway, we have [Memory]," Wu Rui said very bluntly, but she also said: "But I think, Luo Xi won't fail, he will definitely succeed."

Inside the house.

Hearing the door close, Luo Xi knew it was the ghost here who did it.

Because Mao Ge couldn't have closed the door.

This was obviously the boudoir of a young lady from a wealthy family, with a suite, and what they were in was like a 'living room', with a round table, embroidered tablecloth on the table, equally exquisite, and tea sets.

There were also calligraphy and paintings on the wall.

She was also a young lady who liked to read and write.

But at this moment, the top of the house was pitch black, as if there was a cloud of black mist entrenched on it, and at the same time, there were white silks hanging down. When the door opened just now, the wind blew in, causing the white silks to sway, and when the door closed, they slowly stopped.

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