HPDBC Chapter 171 Escaping the Deserted Wooden House
Chapter 171 Escaping the Deserted Wooden House
Chapter 171 Escaping the Deserted Wooden House
After learning that the Rubik's Cube Haunted House could also connect to the abandoned wooden house, Li Jiuhe's initial plan underwent a change.
The agreement with the Death Pass stipulated that he could enter the deserted cabin directly with the pass, but he could only enter and exit alone and could not bring anyone with him.
This is clearly not the way he wants it to be.
After all, his daughter Li Yi, Tong Cheng, and Tong Cheng's teacher were all in the wooden house. If there was a way, he would definitely save his daughter first, then Tong Cheng, and then Tong Cheng's teacher.
Of course, if conditions permit, he will try his best to rescue them all.
Now it seems there's a solution: the haunted house only allows one person to enter and exit at a time, either going in or out. If Li Yi sees the passageway successfully connected, she should be able to come out directly without Li Jiuhe having to go in to meet her.
As for the Death Pass, its capabilities are much stronger. If the negotiation goes well, Li Jiuhe can not only go in, but also bring one more person out.
Alternatively, if Li Jiuhe doesn't enter, the people inside can come out in pairs after discovering the passage.
Li Jiuhe now suspects that this kind of connection channel for entering and exiting, whether for the pass or the haunted house, would consume their basic abilities.
That's why these two guys are stuck so tightly.
Before long, Death Pass seemed to have come to a realization.
[Okay, our abridged collaboration can proceed! You can now advance one Sequencer or Sequence Item, but you need to deliver it to me as soon as possible.]
"No problem." Li Jiuhe nodded.
[So, should we connect directly to the abandoned wooden house now? We were originally looking for a suitable location as a connection condition, but the Rubik's Cube Haunted House is also looking, and since our abilities overlap, we don't need to find another place; we can connect now.]
"Let's begin now."
Li Jiuhe suppressed his excitement, then glanced at the little joker card on the wooden table: "Is this little joker card dangerous? How can I take it away, or prevent it from being activated?"
There's a key to dealing with black and white playing cards: "handle with care." Becoming their owner isn't about using a blood-drop method, nor is it about simply forming a partnership like I've done. It's about who grabs the card and throws it. It's that simple. The moment the black and white card falls, it will do the work of the person who threw it, but this can only be used once.
"Understood."
Li Jiuhe cautiously reached out and touched the little joker card, and sure enough, nothing unusual happened.
He then gently pinched the joker card and carefully put it into his pocket.
After dealing with Guo Fan and his gang, he unexpectedly gained a lot. Not only did he seize their exquisite dagger with more runes, but he also obtained this powerful little ghost card.
Just then, the boy who had transformed from the haunted house in the passageway spoke: "I have found the abandoned wooden house, and I have sensed another force also opening it up—"
"My friends are also helping me, because I need to rescue more than one person," Li Jiuhe answered truthfully.
The boy didn't say much, but turned to the side and pointed to the dark end of the passage behind him: "Look, the passage is open. If you don't want to go through but have a way, hurry up and notify the people inside to approach the entrance."
"It's open?!" Li Jiuhe's eyes lit up as he looked into the passage, but all he could see was darkness and nothing at all.
However, a chilling aura swept over them, and it seemed that the other end of the passage truly connected to a strange and inexplicable world.
Living in a deserted wooden house.
Tong Cheng was awakened from his deep sleep by a violent shaking.
He was startled and sat up abruptly, only to find that the daytime environment he was in had once again turned into night.
Turning his head, he was horrified to find Li Yi protecting their teacher, Xu Huaiyuan, sitting more than three meters away from him.
Beside them stood four or five humanoid creatures shrouded in black energy, baring their fangs and claws at Li Yi and Xu Huaiyuan, ready to attack at any moment.
Two creatures even reached their claws onto Li Yi's flushed little face.
Li Yi's eyes were closed, and the aura of yin and yang emanating from her was even stronger than before, clearly indicating that her awakening had reached a certain stage.
With just this aura, he firmly protected the unconscious Xu Huaiyuan beside him.
However, because the humanoid creatures around her were too powerful, Li Yi could only remain in this stalemate and was unable to even notify Tong Cheng to wake up.
Tong Cheng quickly stood up, and the power of the stage burst forth.
He didn't know how long he had slept, but he felt much more energetic and strode towards Li Yi and the teacher.
Those humanoid creatures looked very strange. Some were completely human-like, some had human bodies and animal heads, and some even had only half a body, making them look completely deformed.
But each one possessed a powerful aura, far surpassing the strange creatures Tong Cheng had encountered before.
"You monsters~ Prepare to die~"
With a loud shout, Tong Cheng pointed forward with his index and middle fingers together, and a red curtain appeared out of thin air, sweeping towards the group of terrifying creatures like flowing water, instantly enveloping them.
The curtain quickly enveloped them, and no matter how much the strange creatures struggled, bit, and roared, it was all in vain.
In just a few seconds, they were entangled to the side, away from Li Yi and Xu Huaiyuan.
Then, under Tong Cheng's control, the red curtain quickly tightened, becoming tighter and tighter.
Screams and the sound of bones breaking could be heard coming from behind the red curtain, like a continuous stream of popping beans.
Tong Cheng approached Li Yi and Xu Huaiyuan and asked, "Is everything alright?"
Li Yi looked up at him. Just now, she had been so oppressed by that evil force that she couldn't even speak, let alone call for help.
Thinking of her duty to protect the unconscious Xu Huaiyuan, she felt utterly helpless as she had endured until this moment.
Seeing Tong Cheng awaken and defeat those strange beings, she wanted to cry, but she just pursed her lips and forced herself to swallow her tears.
"It's alright, Uncle Tong."
Tong Cheng's eyes were filled with complex emotions, as if he could see the struggle in Li Yi's heart. He gently patted the back of her head: "Uncle won't sleep anymore. Come on, let's find that patch of daylight—"
Before she could finish speaking, Li Yi shook her head: "There's no more daytime. Just now, all the daytime in this wooden house—"
They were all swallowed up by the night!
"What?!" Tong Cheng was stunned.
At the same moment, the red curtain, which was tightening more and more, suddenly trembled violently. From the endless darkness, a huge hand reached out, grabbed the huge red curtain, and shook it.
The curtain was ripped open with a ripping sound, and Tong Cheng quickly reached out and pulled it back.
The humanoid creatures that were originally wrapped in the curtain all landed and stumbled to their feet, all within the cover of that large hand.
"This is----"
Tong Cheng stared at the outline of the large hand in the darkness, his mind reeling.
He was injured the moment the red curtain was torn open. He never expected that such a powerful and terrifying monster would be hidden in the darkness!
This is the first time Tongcheng has encountered this place since entering the abandoned wooden house.
Currently, only one hand is visible, making it impossible to tell where the owner of that hand is.
And one hand is so big, enough to completely cover those five humanoid creatures. It feels like the owner of this hand is a giant hidden in the shadows?!
"Let's go, get out of here!"
Tong Cheng immediately picked Xu Huaiyuan up and, holding Li Yi's hand, quickly retreated in another direction.
The aura emanating from that hand immediately followed.
Li Yi said, "Uncle Tong, that thing has its eyes on us."
Tong Cheng didn't answer, but instead asked as he walked quickly, "Can you sense anything? Which way are we going?"
Because Li Yi's aura was somewhat similar to that of the abandoned wooden house, her senses were actually the strongest there. However, her body was too weak, so Tong Cheng was worried about Li Yi going into the darkness to search for an exit from the wooden house.
Moreover, Tong Cheng believed that the exit of the wooden house should be closed and could only be opened by some special means.
So even if Li Yi could sense the location of the exit, her abilities wouldn't be enough to open it.
At this moment, everyone started to jog. Because of the large movements of running, Xu Huaiyuan on Tong Cheng's back suddenly moved, as if he was about to wake up from his slumber.
Li Yi suddenly pointed to the right front: "Uncle Tong, go that way!"
In Tong Cheng's eyes, that direction was also shrouded in darkness, and he saw no difference in it, but he trusted Li Yi.
They immediately changed their escape route and plunged into the darkness.
The aura of the large hand behind him followed closely.
Tong Cheng turned his head and glanced at it. It was pitch black and he couldn't see anything, but the sense of danger remained.
However, in Li Yi's eyes, she could see that huge hand following her like a shadow in the darkness.
Moreover, the hand is controlling the five strange humanoid creatures from before, and they are undergoing changes.
These humanoid creatures were kneaded and deformed by a large hand, like clay, and soon their bodies were all stuck together, as if they had been reshaped.
Before long, a bizarre and grotesque creature appeared, standing four meters tall with a hand growing from its head, two feet on its shoulders, and a body that was a jumbled mess of twisted parts. Its five heads roared in this direction at the same time.
Tong Cheng was startled: "What is that?"
To him, it sounded as if an ancient, colossal beast was not far behind them.
Li Yi quickly described what she had seen. Suddenly, she felt Tong Cheng grip her hand tighter, as if he was afraid of being separated from her.
"Something's not right. This thing might be one of the leaders in the 'Abyss' that the teacher mentioned!"
Tong Cheng quickly asked, "Li Yi, quickly sense which place is safest?"
Li Yi was still pointing ahead.
At this moment, Xu Huaiyuan, who was on Tong Cheng's back, slowly raised his head and uttered a sentence: "I smell—the scent of death—"
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Tong Cheng frowned and replied, "Teacher, don't overthink it. I'll take you away from here!"
Xu Huaiyuan shook his head: "I told you before, I can't leave. Nuo mask people have a destiny, and I knew from the moment I came in that my destiny—comes to an end."
Tong Cheng felt a jolt on his back, and then Xu Huaiyuan pulled out a thin Nuo mask from his pocket.
This mask is very thin, almost as thin as a cicada's wing, and feels weightless in your hand, but its color is the most vibrant one Tong Cheng has ever seen.
"Xiao Yi!"
Xu Huaiyuan smiled and looked at Li Yi, who was jogging alongside Tong Cheng, "Do you remember what I told you?"
"I have a gift for you. Here, give this mask to your Uncle Tong."
Li Yi was surprised because Xu Huaiyuan was lying on Tong Cheng's back. It would be much more convenient for him to hand the mask directly to Tong Cheng than to hand it to her first and then pass it on to Tong Cheng.
Although she was puzzled, she did not refuse and immediately reached out to take the Nuo mask, which was as thin as a cicada's wing.
"No—Teacher—No—"
The moment Tong Cheng caught a glimpse of the Nuo mask, he gasped in shock, and tears streamed down his face.
The moment Li Yi grabbed the beach, her small body trembled violently. The two auras that she had not been able to fully control since awakening in the deserted wooden house, which had been swirling around her body, suddenly surged into her body. With the beach in her hand acting as a catalyst, the speed increased more than tenfold.
In just a moment, Li Yi's awakening process advanced by leaps and bounds, and was completed in an instant!
Li Yi's frail body trembled violently again, her eyes instinctively closing as she gripped the Nuo mask tightly in her hands.
Two seconds later, her eyes opened, as if tearing a crack in the darkness, briefly flashing two beams of light.
Her pupils had turned black and white; her left pupil was completely black, while her right pupil was completely white—it was extremely eerie!
At the same time, a strong aura of yin and yang fusion emanated from her body, which was then completely contained within her body, without leaking out in the slightest.
Her current state is completely different from the state she used to be in, where she could only control it simply and her aura was leaking out very badly.
"Grandpa, I—" Li Yi was shocked by what she saw.
Xu Huaiyuan smiled gently and said slowly, "Alright, give the mask to Uncle Tong."
Li Yi immediately handed it over, only to see Tong Cheng's face full of grief, tears streaming down his face.
"Teacher, this is your—life's destiny—"
"Everyone dies eventually—" Xu Huaiyuan interrupted him, "but the bond between you and me—as master and disciple—will last forever. My destiny—can also be—your destiny. By merging it into your stage power, your rank—may be elevated to the Purple-Gold line—"
Although Tong Cheng was running, his whole body was trembling and he could hardly continue running.
However, he knew he couldn't stop, otherwise, if that terrifying giant hand caught up from behind, he couldn't guarantee he could protect the others.
At this moment, it seems that Xu Huaiyuan took the initiative to give him his "natal Nuo mask", but in reality, Tong Cheng knew very well that he was absorbing his teacher's sequence energy and absorbing his teacher's life!
The teacher sacrificed his life to improve his abilities and gave everything so that he could leave this place.
In other words, Tong Cheng believes that he climbed to the top of the Zijin line by stepping on his teacher's fate.
After all, he is now a high-level sequencer in the Gold Thread sequence, and there is no room for him to rise further through his own efforts, unless he absorbs other sequencers of the same or higher level.
Moreover, this kind of smoking is impossible without a proper method, unless the other party is willing to give it up.
At this moment, Xu Huaiyuan is voluntarily presenting his "natal Nuo mask".
This Nuo mask embodies Xu Huaiyuan's life essence and sequence energy, making it incredibly powerful. Just a small amount of it could help Li Yi fully awaken as a sequence user.
This is also why Xu Huaiyuan asked Li Yi to take the Nuo mask first and then hand it to Tong Cheng.
This was the only "gift" he could give to Li Yi and Tong Cheng at the end of his life.
"Take it, Ah Cheng, take it—"
Seeing that Tong Cheng was heartbroken and did not take the Nuo mask that Li Yi offered, Xu Huaiyuan's voice became stern.
He was so excited that he soon started coughing, and blood flowed from his mouth down Tong Cheng's shoulder.
Tong Cheng was completely numb, but he knew it was his teacher's blood. Without the support of the Nuo mask, Xu Huaiyuan's life was about to come to an end.
"ah-"
Tong Cheng's whole body tensed up, veins bulging on his neck, and he let out a grief-stricken roar.
The next second, he grabbed the "Benming Nuo Mask".
The moment the mask was grasped, because the sequence lines were identical, it didn't need to be worn at all; the mask simply merged into the person's hand and disappeared.
Almost at the same moment, Xu Huaiyuan, who was on his back, suddenly relaxed and fell heavily onto Tong Cheng, and then became still.
"teacher-
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Tong Cheng knelt down with a thud, tears streaming down his face, utterly heartbroken.
This scene terrified Li Yi, leaving her pale and standing frozen in place, at a loss for what to do.
The moment Tong Cheng knelt down, his fusion with "Benming Beach" was complete, and the darkness in front of him was instantly pushed away by an invisible and enormous force.
The darkness was gone, replaced by a grayish-white color, which suddenly made the surrounding environment much clearer.
Li Yi immediately raised her hand and pointed to the right front.
Amidst the gray and white surroundings, a black passage appeared abruptly, completely out of place with its environment.
It felt as if this black passage had been forcibly inserted out of thin air.
The edges of the passage seemed to be squeezed by an invisible force, making it appear very unstable, and the entrance to the passage could shrink at any moment.
"There," Li Yi sensed something and quickly said, "We can go out!"
Tong Cheng was filled with grief and indignation at that moment, and he could feel the terrifying force rapidly approaching from behind.
However, at the same time, he also saw a boy of about ten years old appear in the black passage, looking calmly in his direction.
"Li Jiuhe sent me to pick up someone, but the passage is unstable, so only one person can go out at a time."
"dad!"
"Jiuhe?"
Without hesitation, Tong Cheng shoved Li Yi, who was standing next to him, forward.
"Xiaoyi, hurry! Your dad—is here to pick you up—"
Li Yi was pushed forward forcefully, and involuntarily ran more than ten steps forward to the front of the passage.
She turned to look at Tong Cheng: "Uncle Tong, what are you going to do?"
Before Tong Cheng could answer, the expressionless boy spoke up, pointing at Tong Cheng and saying, "He has cursed power and cannot pass through my passage."
The boy then loudly reminded Tong Cheng, "Li Jiuhe is still opening the second passage, but before he does, you must first clear the cursed power from your body!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the boy grabbed Li Yi's hand, and the passage began to narrow inward.
The two disappeared shortly afterward.
A vague, oppressive feeling welled up inside him, and Tong Cheng turned around to look.
Then they saw a giant hand in the darkness controlling a huge, deformed, and bizarre creature as it approached.
Originally, under the influence of the gray-white domain of Tongcheng, the wooden houses in this area had already revealed the state of their beams, planks, and even ceilings. Now, these beams, planks, and other structural elements were rotting, breaking, collapsing, and falling away at an extremely rapid pace.
At the same moment, a word that Tong Cheng had never thought of was forcibly stuffed into his mind by this strange force.
"Withering away?!"
Tong Cheng's expression froze for a moment before he blurted out.
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