HPDBC Chapter 184 The Terrifying Divination Curse on the Verge of Death!
Chapter 184 The Terrifying Divination Curse on the Verge of Death!
Chapter 184 The Terrifying Divination Curse on the Verge of Death!
"The morning bell of the 27th?!"
Li Jiuhe was startled and watched as Luo Shuo, who had undergone a strange transformation, covered his head and darted out of the stairwell, disappearing from sight.
Mu Nian exclaimed, "This is bad!"
She moved nimbly and was the first to chase after him, followed by Tong Cheng.
Li Jiuhe stood still, silently sensing the faint aura emanating from the morning bell of the second day of the seventh month.
He was certain that his senses were correct; the aura of the morning bell appeared when Luo Shuo suddenly changed, and it had not existed before.
The change in Luo Shuo was caused by the mastermind behind the scenes. The scene was too bizarre, and Luo Shuo went berserk, transforming into the appearance of the old man, as if his body had been taken over by the other party.
Li Jiuhe had never seen such a terrifying method before, but why did it produce a trace of the aura of the Morning Bell of the Second Seventh?
His doubts reached their peak, but in order to obtain more information, he did not initiate the mission reset for the time being.
After all, Luo Shuo might never recover once he was controlled, so he had to investigate thoroughly before finding a way to stop the old man from taking over Luo Shuo's body.
Having made his decision, Li Jiuhe quickly chased after him.
At that moment, a series of crashing sounds, along with screams from nurses and patients, came from another direction in the corridor on this floor. He quickly located the location where the conflict was breaking out.
Upon quickly approaching, they saw that Luo Shuo's body was hanging from the ceiling of the nurses' station, folded over, with part of his body embedded in the ceiling, clearly indicating that he was dead.
At this moment, a nurse below him screamed, clutching her head with both hands, her hair disheveled, and she fell into a state of hysteria. At the same time, her face began to resemble the old man from before.
At that very moment, Li Jiuhe once again sensed the aura emanating from the Morning Bell of the Second Seventh.
He fixed his gaze on the now-mad nurse, clearly sensing that the aura of the Second Seven Morning Bell was emanating from her.
"So that mastermind not only has the ability to control and possess those around them, but it also seems to be using the power of the Morning Bell!"
Li Jiuhe had always been puzzled, as the Morning Bell had disappeared on the 27th and never reappeared.
It now seems that it's not that the Morning Bell doesn't want to appear, but rather that it may have already been controlled by the latter.
It seems that the old man uses the power of the Morning Bell every time he transfers his body into someone around him.
What is the most powerful ability of this morning bell? It is naturally the ability to transform spacetime, or rather, to use spacetime rifts to move to some extent.
Therefore, it's highly likely that the mastermind is currently using the power of the Morning Bell to continuously transfer themselves into other people's bodies.
The nurse who had been transferred suddenly sprang into action, moving with incredible speed, and dashed out of the nurses' station in a flash.
During this time, she was struck by Mu Nian, but her body only tilted and hit the wall on the right side of the corridor. After regaining her balance, she rushed out of the corridor window and jumped directly from the fifth floor.
However, at the same moment he jumped out of the window, the mastermind transformed his body again.
The nurse, who had been under his control, suddenly lost all vitality while still in mid-air. Her limbs drooped down, and she fell rapidly to the first floor like a kite with a broken string.
Almost at the same moment, in the plaza downstairs from this hospital building, a patient's family member who was walking suddenly covered his head with his hands, his face contorted in a ferocious expression.
Clearly, at this moment, this person has once again been switched by the behind-the-scenes manipulator.
This time, the distance between the transformations became even greater. It can be inferred that if the mastermind were to transform several more times, this distance might increase further until he completely disappears and successfully escapes.
After all, the first person he switched to was Luo Shuo, who was skilled at tracking, and now Luo Shuo is dead.
Li Jiuhe knew he couldn't catch up with the other party at all, but at this moment he had focused all his attention on sensing the aura of the Morning Bell.
When the mastermind used body transformation for the third time, even though they were quite far apart, Li Jiuhe could still sense the morning bell.
At the same time, he tried to communicate with the morning bell as quickly as possible.
After all, the two had been communicating almost every day during that period. Even though Erqi Chenzhong didn't give Li Jiuhe much of a response at that time, he would still talk to Chenzhong as if he were talking to himself.
Of course, the morning bell would occasionally give him some response, and the intimacy between them was clearly increasing day by day.
The patients' family members in the square were completely controlled by the mastermind. They released their hands from their heads and ran forward.
Mu Nian climbed down from the outside of the building and chased after the guy.
Tong Cheng, still recovering from his injuries, dared not go downstairs. He could only shout from the window, "Mu Nian, don't let him get away! I'm coming right now—"
Before he could finish speaking, he had already turned around and run back to the stairwell to go downstairs.
Knowing the situation was critical, neither of them paid any attention to Li Jiuhe for the time being.
Li Jiuhe stood at the corridor window, looking at the behind-the-scenes figure who was getting further and further away. At this moment, his connection with the morning bell of the 27th also suddenly broke.
However, in the instant before the break, a tremor suddenly rippled through his mind as he received a vibration feedback from the Morning Bell of the Second Seventh.
The feedback signal was too faint, or even meaningless; it was simply a response after receiving a message.
The patient's family members who had been under control had completely disappeared, and only Mu Nian's figure could be seen in the distance, but he also quickly disappeared.
At this point, Li Jiuhe was very clear that Mu Nian alone would have little chance of stopping the mastermind from escaping. In fact, given the man's cunning and strength, he might even take the opportunity to kill Mu Nian when he was alone.
With that in mind, he quickly reset the task.
The scene shifts back to the moment when everyone was still fighting in the stairwell on the fifth floor!
At this moment, the old man shouted: "All those in the room—enter the divination hall—!"
The space immediately trembled as Tong Cheng unleashed a deadly attack on the old man, whose body disintegrated at the same moment, giving the illusion that he had been blown apart.
At the same time, Li Jiuhe focused all his attention on Luo Shuo behind him.
Because he had prepared in advance, he sensed the aura of the morning bell almost the instant it appeared.
The aura of the morning bell seemed to flash instantly around Luo Shuo's body.
The moment he sensed this aura, he immediately attempted to communicate with it.
However, time passed too quickly, and there was no response. Soon after, Luo Shuo let out a scream, clutched his head, and his body was forcibly transformed into that of an old man.
Li Jiuhe tried to communicate again, but the aura of the morning bell had already disappeared.
What happened next was not much different from before. Luo Shuo rushed out of the stairwell, into the corridor on the fifth floor, and then to the nurses' station.
This time, Li Jiuhe followed closely behind Tong Cheng, Mu Nian, and the others, not falling behind.
After one of the nurses at the nurses' station was transferred, he successfully grasped the aura of the Second Seven Morning Bell the instant it appeared and tried to communicate with it again.
The next second, a loud sound echoed in Li Jiuhe's mind, followed by the image of two familiar stone figures, one holding a bronze weight and the other holding a black chain.
However, in the blink of an eye, the two stone figures disappeared, and communication was cut off again.
Taking advantage of the connection just now, Li Jiuhe firmly locked onto the fluctuation level and amplitude of the aura of the Morning Bell of the Second Seventh.
The events continued. The transformed nurse swiftly leaped out of the window, her body discarded while she was still in mid-air. Then, the third victim in the center of the square below began to be transformed.
Li Jiuhe immediately connected with the aura of the Morning Bell of the Second Seventh, which he had just locked onto.
This time, the two sides established contact almost instantly, without any further obstacles.
A violent echo reverberated in Li Jiuhe's mind.
The two stone figures seemed to be trying to break free of some kind of shackles and approach him, but a powerful force forcefully blocked their attempt.
Li Jiuhe was also trying to connect with them; he could even vaguely sense that the long-lost giant morning bell might appear before his eyes at any moment.
However, the forces hindering them were too powerful, and even though they had formed a special fusion relationship, they still couldn't accomplish it in such a short time.
The connection between the two sides was quickly severed with the disappearance of the guy in the square, and could never be re-established.
Li Jiuhe reset the mission once again.
After this reset, he didn't linger and immediately said to Tong Cheng and Mu Nian, "Attack as I instructed!"
The two people opposite him were taken aback, wondering why he would say that, but neither of them asked him.
The situation was urgent, and there was no way to allow Li Jiuhe to explain in detail.
Suddenly, Li Jiuhe said, "Don't attack him, attack Luo Shuo!"
Both of them were startled. Luo Shuo, who was hiding behind Li Jiuhe, was so frightened that he trembled all over. Before he could speak, Tong Cheng and Mu Nian's attack had already arrived.
Almost at the same moment, the old man's body suddenly went limp and collapsed. Because there was no attack from Tong Cheng, the body did not explode, but it simply went out of control.
Luo Shuo felt as if his head was about to explode, and a heart-wrenching pain surged through him.
However, before he could cover his head with his hands and scream, Tong Cheng and Mu Nian had already launched an attack on him.
Tong Cheng bumped into Luo Shuo with a red curtain, while Mu Nian emitted invisible spider silk.
The moment they struck Luo Shuo, they both noticed the change in him.
The guy's body was enveloped by a powerful force, which almost penetrated Luo Shuo's body, because just as this force enveloped Luo Shuo, Tong Cheng and Mu Nian's attacks arrived at the same time.
With a loud bang, the two attacks were repelled before they could even reach Luo Shuo.
At the same time, Li Jiuhe has once again detected the fluctuations from the Morning Bell of the Second Seventh.
This time, because he was prepared in advance and had already figured out the fluctuation pattern of this aura before the mission was reset, Li Jiuhe connected with the Morning Bell of the Seventh Day in one go.
For a moment, he felt as if the morning bell of the 27th had been pulled back to his side.
However, this time, because he felt it so clearly, he was surprised to find that the Morning Bell of the Second Seventh was just a projection here, but the real thing was not there at all.
The moment the morning bell of the second day of the seventh month connected with him, the two reached an unprecedented level of harmony.
Even without communication, Li Jiuhe could tell what it was thinking simply by sensing it.
At the moment of fusion, Li Jiuhe noticed that the Second Seven Morning Bell was not surprised by its behavior; on the contrary, it was looking forward to this moment of connection with itself.
In other words, because Morning Bell shares the same sequence line and has similar abilities, it is too close to Li Jiuhe and has already been able to perceive Li Jiuhe's true task definition ability.
Like Li Jiuhe, it retained the memories from before the last mission reset, so it knew that Li Jiuhe would definitely meet it again this time.
This is the first time Li Jiuhe has discovered other sequence objects that, like himself, can retain memories from before the mission reset since his sequence ability awakened.
Of course, this is because the morning bell of the second day of the seventh month has become deeply integrated with itself.
It can be said that they trust each other deeply and are almost inseparable.
It may seem slow to describe, but the connection was actually completed in the blink of an eye. It was precisely because Li Jiuhe and Chen Zhong suddenly connected that the plan of the mastermind to transfer his body and escape failed.
Because although Luo Shuo appeared to be attacked, the attack was actually directed at the person behind the scenes.
The mastermind had no choice but to return and take control of the elderly cleaner who had fallen to the ground.
The old man stood up again, ripped off the tattered Taoist robe he was wearing, muttered incantations, and draped the robe over Mu Nian's head.
Mu Nian was focused on dealing with the strange Taoist robe and had no time to spare for anything else.
The old man immediately took the partially broken Bagua plate and quickly moved the pointer, trying to freeze Tongcheng.
But Tong Cheng's red curtain suddenly covered him while he was no longer protected by the Taoist robe.
At this moment, Tong Cheng's injuries had healed somewhat, and he had regained some of his strength. He suddenly spoke: "Execution order~ open~"
The red curtain trembled, transforming into a ray of red light that instantly solidified into the shape of a guillotine, slashing down at the old man.
Unable to retrieve his Taoist robe, the old man had no choice but to raise the Bagua compass above his head to block, and once again used the ink line to form a defensive net in front of him.
At the same moment, his lips moved, and a copper coin the size of half a fist crawled out and shot towards Tong Cheng.
Snapped!
On the other side, half of Mu Nian's body was already covered by the Taoist robe, but she desperately freed one hand and grabbed at the old man in the air.
The invisible spider silk transformed into hundreds of strands visible only to her, rushing towards the old man's body like bolts of lightning, instantly piercing through him.
Only after penetrating through do these spider silks solidify into a tangible form.
The old man looked up and spat out a mouthful of blood, took two steps back, and slammed his back heavily against the corner of the wall.
He glared at Li Jiuhe resentfully, seemingly knowing that his current predicament was inextricably linked to Li Jiuhe's mission reset; otherwise, with his many methods, he would have successfully escaped at least two or three times already.
With a thud, the copper coin hit Tong Cheng.
Tong Cheng was sent flying backward, crashing hard into the wall before sliding to the ground. His face flushed crimson, then turned deathly pale in an instant.
The old man dug his right hand hard into the back of his left hand, and the skin on the back of his hand cracked open, like a tortoise shell.
He quickly pried off the tortoise shell and threw it at Mu Nian. As soon as the shell got close to Mu Nian, Mu Nian's clothes and skin cracked inch by inch, just like the cracked tortoise shell itself.
Mu Nianjiao's body trembled violently, and blood gushed from the cracks in her skin.
However, she didn't stop. Instead, she pressed her forehead, and a thick, invisible thread shot out, instantly piercing through the old man's forehead.
The old man's body shuddered violently, and he stood still, but made no other movements.
"This physical body—discard it!"
The old man's voice suddenly echoed in the stairwell, but he did not speak.
"Li Jiuhe, your skills have improved beyond my expectations! But even if the mission is reset, you still can't stop me—"
"Who says I can't keep you!"
Before Li Jiuhe could speak, Tong Cheng suddenly spoke. At the same moment, he forcibly cut off the healing power of the Nuo mask's energy on his injuries, and instead added that power to the red curtain, combining it with the power of theatrical addiction, and frantically swept it towards the old man.
The red curtain quickly wrapped the old man's body tightly, making the sound of ropes tightening. The old man's body visibly grew thinner and thinner until all his bones broke, and his skin, muscles, meridians, and blood all mixed together.
At this moment, the old man's body resembled a human stick.
Not only could he not abandon his physical body, but even his powerful consciousness was tightly wrapped by the red curtain, unable to escape.
Tong Cheng, whose healing was cut off, immediately suffered a backlash from the power that attacked his body. He spat out a mouthful of blood and collapsed to the ground, unable to get up.
The old man originally intended to abandon his physical body and use the Morning Bell of the Second Seventh Day to escape, but he did not expect that he would still be trapped by the other party's joint efforts.
Seeing that his consciousness and his physical body were about to perish, he bit his tongue, a bitter smile appeared on his face, and he roared hoarsely.
"Since that is so, we shall both fall into eternal night. I will now use divination to incantation upon you all:"
"Anyone who sees the light of day will have thorns growing all over their body."
"Those who bask in the gentle breeze will inevitably have their blood frozen with frost."
"This divination incantation is sealed by the disintegration of my divination body!"
Upon hearing these words, the old man's bitter smile froze, and he lost all his life force.
At the same moment, the space inside the stairwell seemed to be isolated, causing a violent tremor.
Li Jiuhe felt a terrifying aura that far surpassed his own being rushing towards him, and he felt as if his task definition ability was being hindered.
A quick scan revealed that the mission reset was indeed interrupted at the moment the old man committed suicide.
In other words, he couldn't use the task reset to overturn and start over the old man's so-called "divination incantation" from earlier.
This is the price the old man paid with his life.
"not good."
Tong Cheng immediately felt something was wrong with his body, as if hundreds of sharp thorns were about to burst out of his body.
Although the stairwell was dark, it still had windows, so natural light shone in from outside.
The old man's divination incantation was quite clear: Anyone who sees the sunlight will have thorns grow all over their body. Anyone who is bathed in the cool breeze will have frost forming in their veins.
In other words, they are now unable to see the sunlight or feel the slightest breeze.
This is no simple divination; the opponent's sequence level and energy have formed a terrifying divination power, indicating that he is no ordinary diviner.
The divination incantation he uttered before his death was absolutely extraordinary!
Mu Nian tried to speak, but due to her severe injuries, a mouthful of blood gushed out as soon as she opened her mouth, and she began to cough violently.
The tattered Taoist robe on the right side of her body had bound that half of her body tightly, making it impossible for her to move.
Tong Cheng used all his remaining strength, and the red curtain instantly enlarged, hovering in the stairwell, blocking all the windows and doors, plunging the interior into darkness and temporarily cutting off the sunlight and breeze.
However, almost everyone could feel that in just a short while, some parts of their bodies had grown barbs, causing them to feel stinging and uncomfortable all over.
And there was a vague feeling of poor blood flow in the blood vessels inside the body.
Fortunately, these people are all Sequencers; if they were ordinary people, they might have already fainted by now.
From the moment the old man died after casting the divination spell, to the strange phenomena that occurred to everyone's bodies, and then to Tong Cheng temporarily protecting everyone with a red curtain, time passed in the blink of an eye.
After they were surrounded by darkness, they felt a little better, but at the same time, they also felt a sense of despair, as if they had fallen into another predicament.
"Everyone—are you alright?" Tong Cheng asked, panting heavily.
"I'm injured and need time to recover," Mu Nian's voice came from the darkness.
She then spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, "That old bastard—he's definitely over a hundred years old—a Sequencer, he's so damn hard to kill! Even in his dying moments he managed to trick us—"
"Jiuhe, are you alright?" Tong Cheng asked.
After waiting for a while, no one answered.
Luo Shuo's terrified voice rang out: "Brother Li—he's not with me! He seems to have—disappeared!"
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