Chapter 23 Fire Burn

Outside Han Dong's room.

Chen Li was guarding the door. Seeing Edward starting to search the ground floor, she turned her head to ask:

"Do you need my help?"

"There's nearly four hours left till the event ends. Under the assumption that the [Evil Spirits] have already declared my death, we absolutely cannot let Edward leak any information about my being alive, but we also can't directly kill him.

Miss Chen Li, here's what you can do later…"

Han Dong revealed his temporary plan to deal with Edward.

After hearing this, Chen Li was somewhat worried about Han Dong. "Your health ... are you okay? What if he detects the trap?"

"It's merely physical weakness and fatigue, there are still self-defense measures… don't worry, Edward's already seriously injured and faced with enemies on both sides, the probability of him detecting the trap is very low.

On the contrary, he'll be more alert if he sees you ahead of time."

"Alright."

Chen Li found a corner on the second floor to hide herself… as for Daqing, he stuck to the original plan, hiding silently in an area of the bungalow.

...….

"Hiding on the second floor, huh?"

Edward Murray completed the search of the ground floor in record time.

Just as he was walking out of the woodshed towards the staircase, under a high state of alert, he heard a slight static noise amidst the sound of the raging downpour.

He turned back abruptly, his gaze falling on the woods outside the bungalow.

A 'crawling' life form swiftly passed by in the cover of the night.

This sent a shiver chill down Edward's spine.

"Even though I split her lips apart with a knife and directly sprayed high-temperature flames into her mouth ... judging from her screams and injuries at the time, she clearly belongs to the 'fear of fire' type.

It hasn't even been that long since then? How could she have chased us here so quickly?

Cousin's words were right, in high-level fate events in addition to one-star simple tasks ... all kinds of monsters, even if you deeply know their weaknesses, it's extremely difficult to kill them.

Even if they're severely injured, they recover in a short time.

I need to find Nicholas quickly and buy me some time.

Otherwise, I'm ... really going to die!

I must become a Returner, I must join the Knight Regiment, I must see the outside world!"

Zish!

Hydraulic propulsion.

A burst of hot steam overflowed from the gaps in his prosthetic arm, a sleeve sword about thirty centimeters long sprang out from his palm.

At the same time, in his other hand, he was still holding the wood-splitting axe found in the woodshed.

Edward's killing intent was fully exposed. Even if he met the knife-wielding "Possessed" Chen Li, he'd fearlessly attack her directly... in order to survive, Edward had suppressed his fear to the lowest level.

He rushed up to the second floor.

He headed straight for Room No.1 where Han Dong resided.

However.

Click!

With the lock pierced by the sharp blade, and the door kicked open, the frail-looking Han Dong was indeed sitting on the edge of the bed… only, the fact that he was found this easily made it seem quite bizarre.

Meanwhile, the rainstorm was still raging.

Edward could faintly hear the eerie sobbing coming from the wooded area.

Such invisible oppression from the 'evil spirits' made it difficult for Edward to fully think calmly and consider everything.

In the final moments, Han Dong didn't hide himself but instead waited proactively in Room No.1... You could easily guess that something was up if you just thought about it.

But under the pressure from the evil spirits, along with his urgent desire to kill Han Dong, Edward disregarded this fact.

After all, in the face of such a weak guy who was even weaker than a woman, with his prosthetic arm, he could easily kill him with one hand.

Edward said menacingly, "I'm curious about how you and 'Arkman' managed to escape when you were grouped together... but now there's no time to decode it."

He glanced around the room, and having confirmed that there were no obvious traps set, Edward's killing intent emerged, making a direct attack at Han Dong…

Click!

As soon as he took three steps, Edward's foot suddenly broke through the floor, and his body fell downward.

Because his upper half was slightly broader than his lower half, when he fell halfway, his waist was wedged tightly.

A very simple and hidden trap.

Edward was caught in the waist, began to struggle, leading to pieces of the steel reinforcement in the floor piercing his flesh… He had absolutely no chance of escaping.

Checkmate.

Edward's gaze landed on Han Dong, who was sitting on the bed, watching him struggle. Only then did he realize the stupid mistake he had made.

At the same time.

With a click, the door to the room behind him closed.

A disheveled, black-haired woman in red entered.

She didn't directly kill Edward, but instead used a rope that Chen Li had brought to tie Edward's hands tightly. She then used a kitchen knife to damage the key gears on his prosthetic arm.

Now, Edward turned into a lamb ready for the slaughter.

At this point, Edward looked quite relieved.

"Valen Nicholas... you are not an ordinary civilian, are you?

Your level is entirely different from those people who died.

Originally, I had planned to keep you, a physically weak civilian, as a final security measure. I didn't expect to have left behind a rat, a cunning rat at that, who knows how to think.

Are you a member of the church? Or a newcomer secretly trained by the Knight Regiment?"

Han Dong just looked at him without giving any answer.

Actually, Han Dong really wanted to get some more information out of him… but given his current state, that would be hard to do.

Just then.

The sound of a bell rang from the first floor; it was the signal made by Daqing, indicating that the evil spirit had appeared and entered the house.

"Let's go!"

They had already prepared the stairs from the window leading down to the first floor.

Timed perfectly, Han Dong and Chen Li left the room through the window.

After reuniting with Daqing, they swiftly tossed several matches into various rooms on the first floor through the windows... The firewood soaked beforehand in gasoline quickly ignited.

"Head to the cellar."

After Han Dong and the siblings started the fire, they abandoned the bungalow and headed towards the brick building where they had activated the 'hidden event'.

….....

Creak!

The door to the room on the second floor of the bungalow was pushed open.

The Arkman, her mouth split and charred black, rapidly snuck into the room.

She continuously rotated her head, staring at Edward who was tied to the bed and unable to speak since his tongue had been cut off.

Arkman still had some mental abilities; she didn't quite understand how Edward had ended up in such a predicament.

Rising heat came from beneath her feet; the fire had completely spread throughout the bungalow.

Akraman indeed feared the natural fire. To ensure that nothing went wrong, she decided to take matters into her own hands.

When all her ten fingers touched Edward's face, the distinguished young man didn't show much fear. In his eyes, there was only hatred for Nicholas.

There was no room for negotiation.

He lost.

"Survivor has died, cooldown time reset to 2 hours... current survivor count is [1]. Restrictions will be completely lifted in the final hour."

The evil spirit who received the news tried to climb out of the building. However, the bungalow was already damaged and collapsing, the pillars **** under the fire that had completely spread to the first floor

The entire single-story building collapsed instantly, swallowed by the sea of flames.