Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god

#687 - Confronting the Demons

The silent walk within the rock wall continued for about half a tea's time.

But this half a tea's time felt like half a century to them.

Despite the talismans eliminating the high temperature, the narrow passage within the rock wall was winding and twisting. The almost stagnant, stuffy air made people feel extremely suffocated, and the pure blackness, devoid of any light, made people very uneasy.

It felt as if the rock walls could close in at any moment, swallowing them forever and leaving them there; or as if some terrifying demon could jump out from the dark corners at any time and drag them away.

Especially Seagull and Flying Dagger—even though they were already in the middle of the group, they still felt apprehensive and walked with extreme caution.

"Good heavens, this is too scary," Flying Dagger muttered, "And we're approaching that terrifying spider demon, right? Could it have set up any traps?"

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"It won't, Layman. Besides, this passage is newly formed, it wouldn't have time to make any arrangements," came Xuan Yunzi's voice from the front of the group. "This place is located at the boundary of the talisman array, the place with the most abundant talismans, and it has just been covered by my new talisman array—with the old and new talisman arrays overlapping, even if it once had any arrangements or backup plans, they would have been detected and cleared away by the talismans."

"Don't forget, the purpose of using this talisman array is to seal and imprison it. If it could easily escape, that would be terrible, wouldn't it?"

Xuan Yunzi's explanation temporarily relieved Flying Dagger.

But before he could relax for long, the rustling sound coming from behind made Flying Dagger nervous again.

Moreover, although the chewing sound was faint, it was very clear, as if it were not far behind them.

"What's that noise?"

Flying Dagger said in a panic.

Seagull, who was behind him, also heard the sound.

"It sounds like something is chewing something…"

Seagull's voice was trembling, sounding even more frightened than Flying Dagger.

Snowy Owl and Gaoshan in front turned their heads.

Snowy Owl opened his mouth impatiently: "What are you talking about? Don't scare yourselves!"

Gaoshan opened his mouth peacefully: "This is the inside of the newly cracked rock wall, and the temperature is so hot… It's normal to have some sounds of rock breaking and debris falling."

"No, no, no, it's definitely not the sound of stones. This sound is definitely chewing—I even heard the sound of swallowing!"

Flying Dagger said firmly, his voice even more fearful: "Could it be some demon eating human fingers or something?"

Hearing Flying Dagger's terrified words, Seagull was even more frightened.

"Brothers, brothers, brothers, don't talk nonsense. This is a talisman array space, where would demons come from?"

And at this moment…

"Glug!"

A clear swallowing sound rang out, and even Gaoshan and Snowy Owl heard it.

"What's that noise?! Rear guard, did you hear it?"

Li Nian, who was in charge of the rear guard, spoke.

"Heard it…"

But after saying only three words, Li Nian couldn't hold back anymore and burst out laughing: "Ah ha ha ha ha, Sister Yao, look how scared you made them!"

After Li Nian finished speaking, Lin Yu's indifferent voice came from behind.

"Ah, sorry, I consumed too much energy and was a little hungry, so I was eating something just now."

"Sorry, I only brought my own portion."

Hearing Lin Yu say this, Gaoshan and Snowy Owl were both helpless.

"Look at you two… When you hear the sound of eating, shouldn't you think of your teammates behind you first?" Snowy Owl said helplessly, "Do you have to think about the terrifying aspects?"

Hearing Snowy Owl's words, Seagull weakly retorted: "That… this claustrophobic atmosphere is too terrifying, so I misjudged."

"What's more, the two people behind didn't remind me—you should have said something."

"I didn't expect that these things needed to be said," Li Nian said with a smile, "Of course, the reason behind was indeed because your reactions were too funny."

Lin Yu said calmly: "I'm eating, my mouth is full, I can't spare the time to speak."

Seagull and Flying Dagger were speechless.

And of course, Lin Yu was also doing it on purpose.

Although one of the reasons he was eating was to replenish his strength, another reason was to… get some BUFFs before entering the BOSS room.

The [Banquet Pendant] given by the God of Banquets couldn't be wasted—it's just that the [Reusable Delicious Paper] had already been handed over to Sanyang at the beginning, so Lin Yu was eating [Chatter's Supplies] this time.

However, the quantity and quality of the food in [Chatter's Supplies] were limited, so in order to get the BUFF, Lin Yu had to use another characteristic of [Chatter's Supplies].

It can collect surrounding "fear emotions" to charge and transform into new food.

Therefore, when Lin Yu chewed the first piece of biscuit just now, he began to use this point.

The more he chewed, the more afraid the two timid people in front became, and the more afraid they became, the more new food there would be to eat.

Finally…

After eating eight biscuits, Lin Yu was also lucky enough to get a new BUFF that lasted for two hours.

[Solid and Compact: Slightly increases the density and toughness of your whole body, making you heavier, more resistant to hits, and more energetic.]

It was also a very common increase in physical fitness, and the increase was not significant. Because it was not so useful in itself and was also the most needed BUFF to enhance direct combat power and survivability at present, there was no need to use the [Elixir Flask of Paradise] to store it in the form of immortal wine. It was better to just hang it on his body.

Lin Yu felt it, and the actual increase was probably about ten percent.

However… with all kinds of blessings already on Lin Yu's body, and with a very large base of vitality and physical strength, this 10% increase was actually quite considerable.

"In short, not bad."

Lin Yu was very satisfied with the result and put away [Chatter's Supplies].

And this small episode was not without benefits for the two "victims", Seagull and Flying Dagger.

At least for the two of them, after being so frightened and discovering a "Close to Science"-like result, they were not so afraid anymore.

Soon, they reached the end of the rock wall passage—at the bend, faint light and the sound of magma tumbling came, revealing that another rune space was close at hand.

"We're here… Fellow heroes, please be careful!"

Xuan Yunzi said in a low voice, and then…

Everyone carefully filed out of the rock wall!

The underground space, half-lit by magma, appeared before everyone's eyes—in the distance, the ancient and pitch-black ruins of Willow Town stood, connected into a shadow, with a huge spider demon lying on top of it.

The demon, which was truly as huge as a mountain, was placed in their field of vision, and even the relatively slender spider legs were like towering black pagodas.

Even Lin Yu, who had seen it once, couldn't help but have the idea of retreating after the perspective changed from overlooking to looking up at it himself.

"I'm afraid… it will be difficult to win head-on."