Lu Yuan looked at this fellow villager who had no dignity at all and seemed to suddenly think of something. He hurriedly bent over and grabbed the other's loose skin, attempting to pull him up.
However, the moment he made contact with the fellow villager, the other person immediately erupted into a violent struggle, then desperately shook off his hand and crawled forward. The feeling was as if it were very afraid of him.
"Heh, so that's how it is." Lu Yuan couldn't help but smile, then straightened up. At this moment, the bizarre-looking monster had already run out of the room, but Lu Yuan didn't chase after it; he just maintained his normal speed and walked out of the room.
Immediately, he saw an empty corridor, and the monster that had just run out was already gone.
However, based on the sprinting speed of that monster just now, there was no way it could have disappeared so quickly.
"As expected, it didn't disappear; it's just that I can't see it anymore," Lu Yuan muttered to himself, then continued walking forward along the corridor.
After walking just a few steps, suddenly, another bizarre-looking monster rushed out from a nearby guest room. This guy's entire body looked like it was piled together from eyeballs. Because its speed was too fast, its whole body slammed into the wall with a loud thud, shaking the dust right off the ceiling.
But looking at this posture, it was less like it had rushed over and more like it had been kicked out by someone else.
Sure enough, just as this monster slid down from the wall, a figure fiercely followed and began to grapple with it. However, the figure that rushed out later was not a player, but another monster.
This monster was covered in scales and looked quite powerful. It pinned the eyeball monster against the wall and hammered it repeatedly, causing eyeballs to burst everywhere and disgusting fluid to splatter all over the floor. And just as these two monsters were brawling, Lu Yuan caught a glimpse out of the corner of his eye that, right in the corner of the wall, the headless fellow villager from before was huddled up and trembling.
"Stop fighting!" Lu Yuan shouted.
However, his shouting only caused the two fellow villagers to pause their movements slightly. They looked over here in unison, and seeing that he had no intention of interfering, they continued to fight.
Lu Yuan was also a bit depressed. He looked around, wanting to find some thing to separate these two, but it seemed there was nothing in this hotel that could be used to break up a fight. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck Lu Yuan, and he let out a loud roar: "Look over here!"
This shout made the two monsters freeze again. They looked toward Lu Yuan once more, and then, they really stopped.
Because they actually saw Lu Yuan start to dance!!
In this environment enveloped by darkness, with two monsters fighting until blood and gore were flying everywhere, you suddenly start wiggling your butt and dancing in front of them—what kind of holy crap is that? The most critical thing was that Lu Yuan couldn't dance either; saying his dance moves looked like a rheumatism flare-up would be giving him too much credit. However, it was precisely this behavior that finally made the two stop their brawl.
Never mind the two in front of him, even the headless one hiding in the corner was dumbfounded.
And it was at this moment that Lu Yuan hurriedly took out the note he had just found in the wastebasket, turned the text toward them, and pointed his finger at the words "all are fake" on the note.
At this, the two fellow villagers in front were clearly startled. They looked at each other, then very carefully lowered their fists and moved away from each other.
And with this ceasefire, the figures of these two monsters also rapidly underwent a change. Whether it was the eyeballs or the scales, they quickly turned into a pool of black water, dripped onto the floor, and then seeped into the floorboards.
The eyeball monster gradually turned into the appearance of Ye Qilang, and the other one also recovered the figure of Older Brother Mu Wei San.
They looked at each other and said almost simultaneously, "Illusion?"
"Yes, an illusion," Lu Yuan walked over. "Now you shouldn't see me as a monster anymore either."
Mu Wei San looked at Lu Yuan. Although he wasn't a player skilled in intelligence, he had trained a few characters before, so he immediately understood: "You mean, this floor is actually designed to make us players kill each other."
Lu Yuan nodded: "It should be. Just now, when we looked at each other, we would turn into monsters, and our voices would turn into roars, making it impossible to communicate. That's why I had to dance for everyone just now; that was the only way to attract your line of sight."
"Uh," Mu Wei San suddenly interrupted him: "I'm really grateful to you, otherwise, I don't know how long we would have fought. But let's not mention the dancing part from just now."
"Yeah, Big Brother Lu Yuan, let's not mention the dancing. You have no idea what it feels like to watch a tentacle monster shake its butt." Ye Qilang also chimed in, and he had unconsciously added the title 'Big Brother' after his address to Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan nodded and didn't dwell on the matter. He crossed the two of them and came before the headless monster in the corner.
This monster still didn't know what was going on; it just watched as the three of them walked toward it, and the trembling of its body became even more intense, as if it wanted to shrink itself into the wall. Lu Yuan took out the paper again, pointed at the text on it, and then used sign language for a long time, and after barely managing to dance a bit more, he finally made the other party understand his intention. With that, the illusion on the headless monster finally disappeared.
What emerged was the group leader of the Urban Weird Tale — Zou Qi.
And the moment the illusion was lifted, Zou Qi jumped up like a madman: "What was that just now? I saw all of you..."
Lu Yuan didn't wait for him to finish: "It's nothing, just an illusion technique. The solution is very simple: as long as the person facing the illusion and the person under the illusion both realize that these are just tricks, it's enough. Nothing to make a fuss about."
"Make a fuss?" Zou Qi looked very agitated: "This is encountering a ghost, you know?! No, I have to leave this place!"
Upon hearing this, Mu Wei San said directly: "We won't go with you. You have two choices now: either come with us and we will protect you, or you leave here by yourself. Of course, we won't care what you encounter on the road."
Once these words were spoken, Zou Qi immediately stopped talking. It was very obvious that he chose to follow everyone.
This kind of NPC behavior is easy to handle. In most cases, as long as you give some reason, they can act according to the player's wishes. Of course, this is a beginner instance, and it won't be this easy in the later stages.
"Alright, since everyone is fine now, let's hurry and find Xiao You," Brother Ye said immediately after seeing that Zou Qi had been calmed down.
Everyone nodded one after another and continued to walk along the corridor.
And very soon, they did indeed find Xiao You.
However...
The Xiao You they saw was not some monster imbued with an illusion.
She remained in her original form, lying quietly on the ground.
But her head was nowhere to be found.
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