MMB Chapter 168 Brother Li is really bold!
Chapter 168 Brother Li is really bold!
Chapter 168 Brother Li is really bold!
However, before that, Li Jiuhe still needs to test the waters and find out why Ma Li was beheaded.
He didn't rush to reset the mission immediately because he had already set a new time anchor point when Mali released half of the ant larvae.
At that time, there was nothing wrong with Mali, so resetting from that point onwards was not a problem.
If there is a problem, he can reset it to the previous time anchor point.
Now that he was headless again, Li Jiuhe decided to make the most of this safe period.
He quickly overcame the soreness and weakness in his body and tried hard to recall his experience with Ma Li, especially the time behind the reception desk.
In retrospect, it seems that Ma Li's statement that she was feeling unwell was the most suspicious.
However, at that time I was thinking about the 37 heads, so I didn't pay attention to what happened to her.
Thinking of this, Li Jiuhe immediately activated "Scene Replay" and consumed 1 point.
He quickly set the "scene replay" to himself sitting in the chair behind the counter, thinking about the number of people.
The black-and-white view before him immediately transformed into a colorful overhead perspective. He saw himself sitting in a chair, his brows furrowed, his gaze unfocused, clearly deep in thought.
Ma Li was standing to his side, flipping through the documents in the drawer, holding the tourist registration list in her hand.
Before long, Ma Li's head suddenly fell off without warning, and then the figure of the beheading butcher was seen walking out from in front of a cabinet behind Ma Li.
The butcher's body had been integrated with the cabinet until now, when they separated.
Li Jiuhe, sitting in the chair, seemed oblivious to all of this, appearing numb as he continued to sit there deep in thought.
The butcher then picked up Mali's head, but quickly threw it away and never looked at it again.
At this moment, Li Jiuhe moved from his chair and asked Ma Li, "What's wrong with you?"
The butcher, still squatting on the ground, replied, "I don't know why, but I suddenly feel a little unwell."
At this moment, Li Jiuhe, who was sitting in the chair, looked at the butcher's figure and he couldn't tell that this person was not Ma Li at all.
Only from an overhead view could Li Jiuhe tell that this man was a beheading butcher.
This shows that he had already fallen for the trap and was trapped in the illusion created by the butcher.
"Why is this happening?" Li Jiuhe murmured to himself as he looked down at the scene.
Before long, his gaze settled on the tourist register held in the butcher's hand.
This roster was previously in Ma Li's possession. After Ma Li was beheaded, when Li Jiuhe noticed the butcher who had transformed into Ma Li, the butcher already had the roster in his hand.
Exiting the "scene replay," Li Jiuhe turned around and looked at the tourist list that was currently placed on the counter.
He flipped through the roster page by page, and when he got to the last page, he was surprised to see his and Ma Li's names in the last two lines of the tourist information.
Even the "Ma" in Ma Li's name is not the "Ma" in human names, but Ma Li's real name.
Li Jiuhe looked up and saw the name "Guo Fan" above his own name. At that moment, he realized that this tourist list must be a key prop in the scene, and it was in the possession of the beheading butcher.
Once they make contact, their names will automatically appear on the screen, and these names will be their real information.
This is also why Guo Fan didn't hide his name from him back then, because Guo Fan must have also noticed the strangeness of this list and knew that the real information could not be hidden.
Another point is that once your name appears on the roster, it may mean that you will be located by the butcher for a period of time and briefly fall into a state of being hunted.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why Li Jiuhe was sitting in a chair at the time, completely unaware that Ma Li was being beheaded.
This may be one of the taboo rules that tourists have not yet discovered.
"The roster, the roster, it seems we can't touch this tourist roster!" Li Jiuhe noted this down.
Recalling the moment when she saw through the killer's disguise and fought him at close range, although it was very brief, the killer was still kicked away when he faced her attack.
Even if he wasn't injured, he was clearly still vulnerable to injury.
Therefore, Li Jiuhe guessed that it might be possible to inflict even greater harm on the butcher.
He put down the roster shortly afterward, then turned and left the reception desk, slowly heading towards the restaurant.
Since he was now a headless body, he decided to take this opportunity to go to the cold storage behind the kitchen to test Guo Fan's abilities.
Knowing yourself and your enemy is the key to victory in every battle. If he really had to take action against Guo Fan, he had to make sure he succeeded on the first try.
Li Jiuhe now guesses that Guo Fan's sequence ability is probably a pure ability type, because according to his experience, although physical sequence abilities seem very strong and their direct attack power is terrifying, they are actually basically no match for pure ability sequence users.
For example, even if a martial artist is a high-level sequence user, they will likely die a terrible death if they face themselves, Tong Cheng, or that eccentric writer.
Guo Fan is able to control so many people to work for him, so it's highly likely that his sequence ability is purely a skill.
Li Jiuhe knew he had to take this ability seriously and handle it with care.
They soon arrived at the back of the kitchen. In black and white, Guo Fan was still at the entrance of the cold storage, but instead of standing, he was sitting against the wall.
He had just killed the old man surnamed Yan, and originally thought that after cutting off his head, the old man's body would have a 48-inch...
He gave her a short period of safety, and then he urged her to guard the door of the cold storage for him.
Little did anyone know that this was the second time the old man surnamed Yan had his head chopped off, so he died on the spot and there was no safe period left.
Therefore, Guo Fan could only continue to wait.
He kept calculating and knew that there were at least seven or eight people still alive here, all of whom were his tools.
Soon after, the guy named Chen Song, whom he had met before, also came to the kitchen.
Chen Song will be his next gatekeeper.
Before long, Li Jiuhe's headless body approached, and Guo Fan slowly stood up.
Li Jiuhe glanced at the basin of animal blood not far from Guo Fan. He knew that this guy would probably try to communicate with him again by dipping his finger in blood.
As he got a few minutes closer, Guo Fan realized that he was wearing a staff uniform, and then moved closer to the animal's blood basin.
Just as Li Jiuhe thought he was going to dip his brush in blood to write, Guo Fan suddenly changed direction, took a step forward, and his right hand was holding a delicate knife. He plunged the knife into Li Jiuhe's heart.
Li Jiuhe's body trembled. He noticed that there were runes engraved on the knife, and that Guo Fan had not only attacked him without holding back, but also with extremely fierce techniques.
He believed that even if he regained his peak skills, it would be extremely difficult to avoid this strike.
This strike had a subtle feeling of suppressing the release of all sequence energy, similar to the ability of the murderer You Hong. However, it was impossible to determine whether this was Guo Fan's ability or the suppressive power released by this exquisite rune dagger.
Because Li Jiuhe was prepared, the moment his heart was stabbed, he thrust out his silver dagger.
Unexpectedly, after piercing Guo Fan's heart, the knife tip could not penetrate further and instead emitted a metallic clang.
The silver-corroded dagger was bounced back, and at the same time, the rune on the dagger's surface suddenly dimmed. A faint sequence symbol flashed on Guo Fan's body and was released instantly, completely neutralizing all the power.
At this moment, Li Jiuhe was completely unaware of the pain in his heart; he was simply stunned by what he was seeing.
However, Guo Fan was also quite surprised, looking at the silver-etched dagger: "A sequence rune weapon? You're an investigator?!"
He reacted quickly, immediately realizing that the haunted house was no longer safe, and the moth woman guarding outside seemed unable to prevent the investigators from entering.
Guo Fan didn't care about the safety of the Moth Girl; what he cared about was whether he could successfully complete his mission.
After all, they had no idea how many investigators had come in, and some of them were probably from headquarters.
Seeing that Li Jiuhe did not answer, Guo Fan did not hesitate and twisted the knife in his hand sharply.
Task reset.
The scene before him changed, and Li Jiuhe was back in the lounge where he was with Ma Li.
"Brother Li, weren't you going to the counter to look for something?" Ma Li asked.
"We'll go later." Li Jiuhe waved his hand and sat down again.
He frowned, deep in thought.
Just now, he only got close to Guo Fan, and that guy immediately attacked him, and did so without any mercy.
Unlike last time, he didn't communicate with me at all.
So where exactly did things go wrong?
Did Guo Fan already foresee that his approach to him was to test his sequence abilities?
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Furthermore, his own counterattacks were completely ineffective. That guy seemed to have a special defense. Judging from the flashing sequence runes, they were clearly more complete than any runes he knew.
Such a sophisticated rune could not possibly be known or obtained by a lone, unaffiliated Sequencer, so Guo Fan's origins must be extraordinary.
He was better than me in both weapons and defensive equipment.
The most important thing is to find out why he attacked me directly this time.
Li Jiuhe remembered the last time he went to explore near the cold storage, he encountered Guo Fan for the first time. At that time, Guo Fan not only did not immediately kill him, but also took the initiative to communicate and told him his name.
Two identical encounters, yet different reactions. Could it be that Guo Fan, like You Hong, could sense the previous mission reset?
Thinking of this, Li Jiuhe shook his head. So far, at most, someone might sense that something was wrong, but it was absolutely impossible for them to know about his mission reset ability.
After all, there are very few people with the gold-line sequence, let alone those with the purple-gold-line sequence. When facing other people with the same level of purple-gold-line sequence, the other party may not even know that the spacetime in this area has been reset by the mission.
In Li Jiuhe's view, only those with a Black Gold Thread sequence and a higher sequence rank than himself could possibly understand the ability to reset tasks.
So the problem must have occurred somewhere else, he thought to himself.
"The first time, I didn't know Guo Fan, and he didn't know me either. After talking to him, I roughly guessed his identity, and he didn't attack me. The second time, I knew him, but he didn't know me. Without any communication, he directly tried to kill me."
What went wrong? Back then, I was headless, and so was he. Could he have sensed something was wrong with me just by looking at me?
Thinking of this, his eyes suddenly lit up slightly: "So Guo Fan's sequence ability is telepathy, allowing him to sense that my second purpose was different, specifically targeting him, which is why he immediately attacked to kill me?"
But if it really is "telepathy," how can we play this game? We can't get close to this guy at all; once we do, all our secrets will be exposed.
"No," Li Jiuhe frowned. "It shouldn't be telepathy, because I guessed his identity the first time, which would have exposed that I'm the investigator. If he had telepathy, he should have acted by then, but he didn't."
He quickly came to a vague conclusion: Guo Fan's sequence ability, while not "telepathy," should be similar, such as being able to discern key events or foresee certain dangers that would befall him.
After all, everyone in this haunted house setting is in the same boat, their abilities are all restricted.
"Ma Li".
Li Jiuhe looked up at Ma Li, who was standing in front of him, and said, "You adjust the swarm of black ants that you just released. Go and check the cold storage behind the cafeteria. Find the ventilation opening and climb in. There's a row of freezers in the cold storage, filled with human heads. Have them find the heads that have been dead for a long time. There are 37 in total. Then they should stay on these heads and mark them."
The previous "Ma Li" was already a disguised beheading butcher, so she told herself that there were no ventilation openings near the cold storage.
In reality, a normal cold storage room cannot function without ventilation equipment, so Li Jiuhe knew that the black ants could definitely get into the cold storage room.
Ma Li asked in surprise, "Just the cold storage? You're not checking anywhere else?"
"No need. If you don't need that many black ants, you can recall some."
"Yes, they're indeed unusable. I'll recall some right away."
Ma Li immediately gave the order, and then Li Jiuhe asked, "Now that we're restricted by the haunted house setting, are you like you were in the Lin family villa, only able to control the ant colony to mimic changes, but unable to attack others?"
Ma Li nodded: "Yes, the limitations are the same. Even when I control the ant colony to imitate and change other people, it takes more energy than usual, and the control distance is not very far, and I can't attack."
"Okay, you'll need to do some extra work later. After we go out, do this—"
Li Jiuhe leaned close to Ma Li's ear and whispered his plan.
Ma Li's eyes widened in shock: "Will this work? Won't there be any problems?!"
Despite the question, she kept nodding, the look of terror on her face lingering for a long time.
However, recalling Li Jiuhe's actions when investigating the case at the Lin family, Ma Li thought that only this handsome man could come up with such methods.
A short while later, the two opened the room door and returned to the reception desk in the lobby.
Just like before the mission was reset, they quickly found the guest list and the resort's staff roster.
Neither of them spoke, but silently examined the information. After a while, Li Jiuhe sat down in a chair, seemingly deep in thought.
Meanwhile, Ma Li continued looking at the documents in the drawer.
Just then, a flash of light appeared and disappeared, and Ma Li's head fell off instantly.
The beheading butcher emerged from the cabinet behind her, a fish knife in his hand, and grabbed Ma Li's severed head.
But the next second he discovered that the head had dissolved into a large number of black ants crawling in his hand, and at the same time the fallen Ma Li's body also turned into a large number of ants.
Li Jiuhe, who was sitting in the chair, suddenly stood up, as if he had realized that the situation was not good and was about to attack the butcher.
The butcher immediately took a step back, adjusted his body position, and then quickly slashed the neck of Li Jiuhe, who was rushing towards him, with his fish knife.
Li Jiuhe's head fell to the ground and instantly turned into a large number of black ants that scattered.
The butcher then realized that something was wrong with this body as well.
He turned around quickly, blocked the silver dagger coming from behind with a clang, and the fish knife blocked the attack from behind.
Just as Li Jiuhe had expected, this guy was too powerful, and even a sneak attack would be difficult to get close to him.
The person who attacked the butcher from behind with the silver-plated dagger was none other than Li Jiuhe himself. Seeing that his move was blocked, he immediately turned his body to the side, pressed the blade down sharply, and then thrust it out again.
But no matter how fast or swift his movements were, they couldn't match the butcher's skill.
The moment he thrust the dagger forward after lowering it, he felt a chill on his neck as the butcher's fish knife severed his head from his body.
However, at almost the same moment, the beheading butcher's head also flew off and separated from his body.
Behind the butcher, the body of Li Jiuhe, whose head had just been chopped off and scattered into black ants, had now transformed into the appearance of Ma Li.
Wielding a runic scimitar, Ma Li unexpectedly struck the Butcher from behind while he was fighting Li Jiuhe, who was making a sneak attack, severing the Butcher's head.
These changes happened extremely quickly.
From the Butcher appearing to kill the black ant transformed into Ma Li, to Ma Li, disguised as Li Jiuhe, deliberately getting up to fight back, causing the Butcher to cut off her head disguised as ant larvae, and then the real Li Jiuhe launching a sneak attack from behind, which was blocked by the Butcher, but the Butcher's attention was also diverted, and finally Ma Li transformed back into her own body and launched a second sneak attack with a rune scimitar.
Within seconds, there were several turning points.
This result was actually achieved after Li Jiuhe reset it three times, a fact that Ma Li was unaware of.
Just after the butcher's head was chopped off, Ma Li, following Li Jiuhe's previous instructions, immediately squatted down, picked up the butcher's head, and attached it to Li Jiuhe's headless body.
Originally, after Li Jiuhe lost his head, his headless body would take some time to recover. But now that a new head has been attached to him, he wakes up instantly.
Without hesitation, Li Jiuhe, sporting the butcher's head, got up, turned around, and ran quickly down the corridor.
Because he wasn't headless, he didn't feel sore or weak; instead, he felt full of strength.
As for the butcher, he did not fall down after being beheaded. His headless body stood quietly for a while before reacting and chasing after Li Jiuhe in the direction he had fled, holding a fish knife.
The butcher originally intended to kill Ma Li, but now that his head had been taken from him, his main target was Li Jiuhe, and he had no other thoughts.
Ma Li took several steps back, gathering all her scattered ant larvae under her skirt, and saw that the butcher's headless body was already chasing after Li Jiuhe.
She immediately ran over, picked up Li Jiuhe's head which had fallen to the ground with both hands, hugged it tightly in her arms, and then left as well.
As they walked, Ma Li whispered, "My god, Brother Li is really brave. Stealing the head of a vengeful ghost, I don't know how he could come up with such a thing! I just don't know if he can succeed."
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