【Done for, done for, sneaking out and got caught】
【I've seen this episode before. Next, the streamer will be tied up by the angry ghoul in bed and have her way until the world goes dark, a hundred and eighty rounds.】
【Could it be, could it be that I really get to see the Black Room plot I've been looking forward to?】
【Let's spare a second of sympathy for the streamer's waist first.】
But Yun Zhi wasn't as panicked as the bullet comments imagined.
She fluttered like a graceful butterfly, jogged and rushed into the man's arms, and before he could speak, she struck first: "Honey, what are you doing here?"
"You have no idea how long I've been looking for you. When I woke up, I didn't see you. I thought you didn't want me anymore!"
That's right, before Xie Wu could go crazy, Yun Zhi chose to shift the blame first.
Xie Wu was clearly stumped by her interrogation, and actually began to reflect on his own mistakes.
"I'm sorry."
He raised his hand and gently stroked Yun Zhi's puffed-up little face.
What to do? Even when Zhizhi wife is angry, she's so cute. I want to kiss her.
But Yun Zhi had already waved her hand generously: "Then I forgive you."
Yun Zhi took the opportunity to hook Xie Wu's arm, turned her head and casually glanced at the huge banyan tree in front of them: "Honey, what are you doing here?"
"Just handling a small matter." Xie Wu took her hand and walked back.
Yun Zhi said "Oh" and glanced back at the tree again.
What kind of small matter needs to be done here?
She didn't ask, but instead brought up the matter of the security guard in red uniform: "Honey, I just met someone wearing red clothes. It was very strange."
"You ran into them?" Xie Wu turned his head to look at her, as if checking if she was okay.
Yun Zhi blinked in confusion: "Who are they?"
"Of course, a group of boring lunatics." Xie Wu smiled mockingly.
Yun Zhi noticed his contemptuous smile and suddenly felt that compared to the him from the last instance, this instance clearly had much more of a living person's feel.
She was a little curious about Xie Wu's identity in this instance, after all, he looked like he looked down on the security guards in red uniforms.
One person and one ghoul walked home talking just like a real couple, their shadows stretching infinitely in the darkness.
The leaves of the banyan tree rustled in the wind, as if hinting at something.
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At night, Yun Zhi was coaxed to sleep by Xie Wu just like in the last instance.
"Wuwuwu..."
"Yingyingying..."
An indistinct crying sound came from the darkness. Yun Zhi woke from her dream and found that Xie Wu was not by her side again.
There was no time in the instance. She looked out the window; it was still night.
"Wuwuwuwuwu——"
The sound of a child crying continued. Yun Zhi got up from bed, pushed the door open, and followed the sound. She found a little boy squatting in the hallway, crying.
The little boy heard the sound and looked up, revealing his rotting face, with tears and blood plasma streaming down, looking disgusting and miserable.
To make matters worse, he pursed his small mouth and said pitifully: "Security guard sister, my ball is gone..."
"Ball?" Yun Zhi took a moment to react before understanding.
The little boy's ball = his grandma's head.
The ball is gone = his grandma is gone.
Yun Zhi: ...
【Pfft hahaha, using a ball to refer to grandma at a time like this, this kid is really grandma's good grandson】
【I actually think the little boy is a bit cute, I must be sick】
【Tell me when your grandson kicks your head around like a ball every day and you still think it's cute】
"Where did your grandma go?" Yun Zhi abandoned the trivial questions and went straight to the point.
The little boy shook his head while crying: "I don't know. Dad, Mom, Grandpa, and Grandma told me to hide. They're going to make an offering, then resurrect, eternal life. I can't understand what they said..."
The little boy spoke in fits and starts, jumbled and confused, but Yun Zhi smelled some unusual secrets from it.
Resurrection, eternal life, could this be the secret of Happy Garden Community?
Yun Zhi patted the little boy's head and continued to press: "Didn't they say why they have to go?"
The little boy thought for a moment and answered with hollow eyes: "Only this way can they continue to live."
So this is the reason why these NPCs can continue to live in Happy Garden Community like normal humans even after they have turned into ghouls?
Yun Zhi felt that she seemed to have found the key.
She quickly asked the little boy: "Where are they?"
"The Mother, Mother Tree."
Mother Tree!
Almost instantly, Yun Zhi thought of the huge banyan tree in the center of the community.
She told the little boy to stay put obediently, and she herself jogged down the stairs. When she saw the banyan tree from a distance, Yun Zhi also saw a shocking scene.
Under the shade of the huge banyan tree, many "people" were kneeling.
Among them were the ghouls Yun Zhi had encountered in the instance, including the female ghoul sister from the last instance and the little boy ghoul's family, and even Yang Guang and Liu Shasha, whose corpses had gone missing, were among them.
No wonder the handbook said to take good care of their bodies—
Otherwise, they would turn into ghouls!
Their faces had turned bluish-white, with faint signs of decay, and Liu Shasha had a bloody hole in her chest.
They looked almost indistinguishable from the surrounding ghouls.
The bullet comments also noticed them.
【Whoa, how are Yang Guang and Liu Shasha in there too? Didn't they die?】
【Anyway, their two live stream rooms were indeed closed when they died. How they turned into this, no one knows...】
【Anyway, they've been assimilated into ghouls. There's no way out of the instance anymore】
At this moment, all the ghouls were kneeling facing the banyan tree.
They lowered their heads, eyes tightly closed, with expressions both pious and strange.
As if holding some grand cult ceremony.
【Holy crap, what kind of ritual is this? It looks so eerie】
【It's practically spiritual pollution. Why are all these ghouls kneeling here?】
【Hiding under the covers and peeking, I dare not open my eyes. Begging bullet comments for protection】
【So the final boss in this instance is actually this tree?】
The bullet comments were flooding the screen at this moment, but in the next moment, an even more terrifying scene appeared.
The branches of the huge banyan tree began to sway, and after slowly changing, they actually hung like tentacles above the heads of those ghouls.
"Puchi——"
The hard branches pierced the ghouls' skulls from the top of their heads, and for a moment blood splattered in all directions.
But those ghouls seemed completely unaware of fear and pain, their faces still peaceful.
Then, the branches sprouted on their heads, gradually wrapping around the ghouls' bodies and slowly hanging them in mid-air.
From a distance, they looked like cocoons hanging on the tree.
Blood gathered at the bottom of each cocoon, forming a flesh ball the size of a fist.
Yun Zhi stood in the shadows and saw a dozen security guards in red uniforms appear at this moment.
One by one, they went to collect those red flesh balls, with obsessed expressions on their faces.
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