Normally, to clear the game, there’s no need to trigger the BOSS’s second phase.
As long as a path is left for the Dean, he will obediently climb the stairs.
But what Li Andy wanted was clearly not a normal clear.
“Faster! You’re too slow!”
Li Andy simply picked up Sophia in front of him and slapped her butt.
This cripple was holding him back a bit now.
Sophia bit her pearly teeth tightly, filled with shame and indignation.
But she also knew Li Andy was helping her, so she cooperated by adjusting her center of gravity to make it easier for him to move.
She was stubborn in words but cooperative in action.
Yuquan Youxi glanced at the two, said nothing, and continued to lead the way with her lamp.
Soon, the three arrived at their destination:
The Orphanage basement, the blood altar.
The air here was a mixture of blood and medicinal stench, very unpleasant.
In the center of the entire area was a huge magic circle drawn with human blood.
The magic circle was divided into twenty-four sections, like a clock. Twenty-two of these sections each held a small human skull.
On both sides of the magic circle were dismemberment tables covered in filthy blood.
“Youxi, the last two array eyes are there!”
Inside the basement, there was a puddle of foul blood on both the east and west sides.
Yuquan Youxi nodded and threw a handful of salt towards the foul blood on the east side.
But a distorted human face suddenly appeared in the air, blocking the salt.
As the salt touched the face, it burned out one black ulcer after another.
“Caught you!” The human face grinned hideously.
The candlelight in the basement flickered precariously.
Sophia, clutching Li Andy’s shoulder, turned pale with fright.
A wicked wind surged, pushing the three against the wall.
The tools on the dismemberment tables automatically flew up.
Sharp blades pointed at the three, poised to strike.
“Throw the salt at your feet!” Li Andy shouted.
Youxi paused, then immediately flicked the salt crumbs in her palm onto the ground at her feet.
After successfully breaking free, she immediately pulled out another handful from the salt bag and scattered it towards Li Andy and Sophia.
In the last second before the flying knives reached them, all three simultaneously dove to the ground.
“Clang, clang, clang!”
The sharp knives hit the wall and bounced to the ground.
“Sprinkle it on the knives!” Li Andy added.
Yuquan Youxi immediately waved her hand.
The salt, like scattered stars, fell onto the tools that were trying to fly up again.
Accompanied by the Dean’s roar, all the tools fell down.
“To the array eyes!”
Yuquan Youxi gritted her teeth and quickly got up, clutching the salt bag.
As another handful of salt was scattered, the Dean’s ghostly face wailed.
He stared at Li Andy with wide, abyss-black eyes, full of rage.
Every one of his steps seemed to have been seen through by this damned traitor!
“In that case… then let’s die together!!”
The ghostly face began to swell, becoming enormous, then exploded with a bang.
Turbid black blood instantly engulfed the entire basement.
After a brief moment of blindness.
Li Andy slowly opened his eyes; his surroundings were pitch black.
Only the ‘Omamori’ talisman hidden on his chest emitted a faint glow.
“This is the ‘Malicious Illusion’? It’s so dark…”
The Malicious Illusion is a mental illusion formed by the resentful souls of those who died tragically.
Those who enter will see the terrifying memories from the deepest parts of their hearts.
“I have the protection of the ‘Omamori’ talisman, so what I see is a void.”
Li Andy quickly recalled the game guide in his mind and suddenly remembered something.
“In the game, the player controls Yuquan Youxi to wear the ‘Omamori’ and save Sophia, who is trapped in a nightmare, within the illusion.”
“But now the ‘Omamori’ is on me, so what will Youxi see?”
Li Andy walked forward slowly, with a hint of curiosity.
He hadn’t walked far before he saw two blurry doors.
Inside the doors were nightmares; one was Yuquan Youxi’s, and the other was Sophia’s.
Li Andy thought for a moment and pushed open the left door.
…
“It hurts so much!”
Sophia clutched her head.
It felt as if her brain had been stirred by something, and her memories became incredibly chaotic.
But she remembered that she seemed to have something very urgent to do, so she forced her eyes open.
“Where is this?”
Sophia looked around blankly.
It was a messy room, the air filled with the stench of fermenting garbage and cheap alcohol.
The strange yet familiar environment instinctively filled her with disgust.
She looked down at the glass shards on the floor, which reflected a thin, haggard little blonde girl.
“This is me?”
“I don’t seem that small…”
“What… what happened to me?”
Sophia frowned, becoming even more confused.
Her surface memories blurred, but deeply buried memories began to surface.
Her body trembled uncontrollably:
“I… I… this is…”
“Bang!”
The sudden sound of a kicked door behind her startled her.
A man reeking of alcohol stumbled into the room.
“Heh, everyone looks down on me, don’t they…”
The man took a swig of alcohol, his eyes full of malice, meeting Sophia’s terrified gaze.
“What are you looking at!? You look down on me too, don’t you?!”
The man then hurled the wine bottle in his hand at little Sophia.
Sophia instinctively ducked, holding her head; the wine bottle grazed her hair as it flew past, and the splashing glass shards pricked the back of her neck.
“Bitch! You dare to dodge!”
The man was completely enraged, staggering forward to grab Sophia.
Sophia frantically retreated, but her weakness, and the glass shards and trash everywhere in the room, left her nowhere to run!
“Ah!”
Her hair was grabbed by the man, then pulled hard, dragging her back.
Sophia’s expression was pained, and she screamed continuously.
The man grinned, throwing the girl to the ground, gaining a satisfaction he couldn’t find in the outside world.
“You bitch! You still dare to run!”
The man slapped her, then grabbed her chin,
“Heh, you’re looking more and more like that stinking whore.”
“Anyway, you’re going to be sold, why not let me have a taste first!”
His eyes bloodshot, he pinned the girl down and began to tear at her clothes!
Sophia screamed and struggled, but no one could help her.
In her peripheral vision, she saw a sharp broken wine bottle.
She reached out and gripped it tightly, then stabbed it into the man’s neck!
“…”
The air suddenly became quiet.
The man stared at the girl with wide, disbelieving eyes.
“You…”
The blood seeping from his neck flowed down the bottle, like red wine pouring onto her face.
Sophia screamed, pushing the man away, and used all her strength to crawl to the corner, hugging her blood-soaked knees, trembling uncontrollably.
“He wasn’t killed by debt collectors…”
Sophia sobbed softly, her memories gradually returning.
“I killed him! I killed him…”
“Bitch…”
Sophia froze; she looked up in horror.
The man, who should have been dead, was slowly arching his limbs, his pale head hanging, staring fixedly at her.
“You bitch… bitch! You should go to hell with me!”
The man, like a distorted spider, scuttled towards her at high speed!
Sophia scrambled to her feet in a panic, but her foot slipped on the blood, and she fell towards a pile of sharp glass shards!
“!!”
Just at this critical moment, an arm crossed in front of her chest, pulling her up.
Immediately after, a baseball bat swung hard at the “spider’s” head, and the latter was instantly sent flying, crashing into the wall!
“Nightmares are born from the heart. If the heart doesn’t fear, it’s just a paper tiger.”
A faint voice drifted into Sophia’s ears…