Ita Era

Chapter 95 Red Clothes
While Ding was still in shock at the fact that the corpse could be sewn up by itself, he felt the candlelight being blocked and turned around to see the ghostly figure of Sha Bi.

The Foolish Dagger was twelve meters away, while the Ghost Shadow was nearby. Ding Shi mustered all his strength and ran toward the Foolish Dagger. He snapped his fingers, stuck a talisman on his right hand, and made a hand seal with his left. The Ghost Shadow was struck by lightning halfway through his punch.

The lightning seemed to have an effect on the ghostly figure, with arcs of electricity flowing across its body for several seconds.

In a short while, Ding Shi ran up to Sha Bi and punched Sha Bi in the abdomen with his left fist. Sha Bi subconsciously blocked with his left hand, and Ding Shi broke Sha Bi's left arm.

Foolish dagger was shocked, Foolish dagger couldn't understand, Foolish dagger forgot the pain.

Ding Shi punched Sha Bi in the temple with his right fist. Sha Bi heard the sound of his neck, spine, and skull cracking. He felt himself being thrown into the air, flying over the second-floor railing and crashing onto the ground floor. Before Sha Bi could figure it out, he turned into a wisp of white smoke and disappeared, along with the ghostly figure.

Wang Meng and Yu Yuan saw it clearly. Yu Yuan said, "He has living poison."

Ding Shi already knew this, and said, "He wouldn't dare to make a move without the living poison."

Wang Meng didn't understand: "Why would he have live virus? He wouldn't have been infected with dead virus before midnight."

Ding Shi said, "He killed the person who originally possessed the Living Poison, and the blind Living Poison took a liking to him. Death, you should know when to stop cheating, or you'll piss me off and I'll go back to the villa and die with Little Sugar."

Wang Meng said leisurely, "First, you have to get back." He was fighting a maid who had caught up with him. The maid was a pure Force user, focusing on strength but not agility, so her punches were relatively slow, and Wang Meng had her completely under his control.

Yu Yuan's eyes lit up, and he pointed: "Money."

Ding looked up, jumped up, took a roll of banknotes from the candlestick, and opened it to find five thousand-yuan bills.

Yu Yuan cursed, "This is going too far!" Everyone assumed the banknotes were unfolded, subconsciously ignoring the places where rolled-up money could be stored. For example, these five thousand-yuan bills, when rolled up, were only about the size of a little finger.

Wang Meng first slapped the maid away, then slapped his own thigh: "There, on the table, underneath." His heart was pounding, his hands were trembling, and he was speechless.

Ding Shi regretted that he was too far away from Wang Meng, otherwise he could have legitimately flown over and slapped him awake.

Wang Meng swallowed hard and carefully chose his words, saying, "The toothpick jar on the first floor is full of money." He then explained why the toothpicks were so colorful; it turned out that each banknote had been rolled up and stuffed into the toothpick jar.

Yu Yuan turned to go upstairs, but three maids came down and ran away, saying, "Don't think about it anymore, let's go."

The three reached the third floor, temporarily shaking off their pursuers, but then heard what sounded like electricity coming from the living room. The living room was small, furnished only with simple furniture such as wooden sofas, chairs, and bookshelves, intended for guests on the third floor to socialize. The communal restroom was nearby.

Wear a mask when going out; if the order is reversed, do not wear a mask when going out.

The three of them went to the living room and saw a woman in red. Her red dress fluttered in the wind, and she had bright eyes, white teeth, and a high ponytail. She was very flamboyant.

The woman in red was locked in combat with two maids. She wielded a rapier, and each thrust of her sword generated a burst of sword energy that, combined with the echoes in the living room, produced a crackling sound, creating a very rhythmic effect.

The woman in red swept her rapier horizontally, a sword aura shooting out half a meter in a semi-circle along the tip of her blade, slicing into the maid's flesh and leaving a four-centimeter-deep wound. Undeterred, the maid continued to charge at the woman in red, joining forces with the maid on her side to attack.

Ding Shi and his two companions rushed forward to help, and soon they had beheaded two maids. The pursuers arrived, and without time for explanation, Ding Shi and Wang Meng each carried a head up to the fourth floor.

The villa has an openwork design in the middle, with a staircase winding upwards, and a huge crystal chandelier seven meters high at the top.

Ding Shi spotted Sha Bi running towards the third floor, threw the severed head in his hand to Yu Yuan, and pulled out the Wildcat Crossbow.

Just as Sha Bi was about to go up to the fourth floor to help the maids surround and kill the guests, a crossbow bolt pierced his chest. Looking up, Ding Shi calmly loaded a second bolt. Sha Bi searched his entire body but couldn't find anything to throw. He cursed, and the second bolt struck his brow bone.

The idiot blew into white smoke, and its true form teleported away.

Yu Yuan exclaimed with delight, "I have living poison!"

Wang Meng said, "Sha Bi is doomed next time."

Ding Shi disagreed: "He wouldn't have come to us if he didn't have live poison."

Woman in red: "Money."

Everyone looked up. The ceiling of the fourth-floor corridor was covered with banknotes, arranged neatly like a railway track. The ceiling was 4 meters high. The average person's vertical jump is around 40 centimeters; for example, someone 4 meters tall could jump 1 meters. A sprint jump could reach about 8 meters. With the aid of a wall and considering arm length, it could reach about 2 meters.

Currently, in police officer assessments, the vertical reach requirement is 230 cm for women and 265 cm for men.

No matter how many conditions are added, humans can still not reach a height of 4 meters without the help of external objects.

Although the woman in red had a rapier, she still couldn't reach the ceiling. Only Yu Yuan and Wang Meng's cavalry sabers could reach it. However, they had to be careful, as no one knew if the bank in Ham Town would exchange damaged currency.

While Wang Meng and Yu Yuan were still working on their plans, Ding Shi suddenly jumped up, swept his right hand across, and grabbed four banknotes, which landed on the ground.

Wang Meng asked in surprise, "You ate mushrooms?!"

Ding Shi distributed his strength and agility to his feet, sprinted two steps and jumped up, landing with two banknotes in his hand: "Don't bring out old jokes to embarrass yourself."

Yu Yuan reminded them, "Gentlemen, let's get down to business."

The woman in red asked suspiciously, "What important business are we doing? Are we doomed?"

Yu Yuan corrected: "You're dead, not us."

Ding Shi casually threw the money on the ground, took out a bed sheet torn into strips from his backpack, and Yu Yuan stepped forward to help him, tearing the strips into pieces and then tying them together.

Ding Shi took the end of the thread in his right hand and stepped back, while Wang Meng kicked away an entire wooden railing. Ding Shi took a deep breath, ran, and jumped, flying through the air and landing firmly on the ring-shaped object used to hold the light strips in the crystal chandelier. Accompanied by a series of clanging crystal sounds, the crystal chandelier and Ding Shi swayed in the air for a while before finally settling down.

Wang Meng was responsible for dealing with the maids coming upstairs using his signature three-pronged attack: slapping them, punching them hard, and throwing them downstairs. The maids lacked organization, and their piecemeal tactics posed no threat to Wang Meng.

Yu Yuan will be tied to a pillar with a single rope, and Ding Shi will also be tied to a crystal chandelier with a single rope.

Yu Yuan gripped the sheet rope with both hands and slowly pressed his weight onto it until he had his entire weight on it. Then, alternating hands, he climbed toward the chandelier.

The woman in red asked, "Is it alright? Can you handle it?"
As Yu Yuan walked forward, he said, "Many crystal chandeliers weigh over a ton, some even reaching 20 tons. I estimate the villa's crystal chandelier weighs around 1 ton." Crystal chandeliers first appeared in the 17th century; some were used for decoration, while others could hold candlesticks.

The woman in red said, "That won't work either." The four of them were quite heavy.

As soon as he finished speaking, a string of crystal chandeliers was cut off by Ding Shi and fell, crashing onto the stairs on the first floor with a loud bang.

A large crystal chandelier hung from the ceiling of the villa, connected to a 3-meter-diameter ring, from which hung more than twenty strings of crystal chandeliers. To reduce weight, Ding Shi and his team needed to separate the more than twenty strings of crystal chandeliers from the ring.

To adjust the weight, Ding Shi went around to the west, while Yu Yuan climbed onto the east side of the crystal ring. He drew the cavalry sword from his back and began to cut the strings of crystals hanging below the crystal ring.

Ding Shi said, "Wang Meng, you'd better hurry. Sister, take good care of yourself." He held the Wildcat Crossbow in his hand, leaving no room for the woman in red to disagree.

Wang Meng threw the maid's head he had just severed downstairs, quickly hooked onto the rope, and began climbing towards the chandelier. Wang Meng weighed over 100 kilograms; with every movement, the entire ring was pulled downwards. Ding Shi and Yu Yuan hurriedly adjusted their positions to maintain their balance.

Just then, the woman in red, seeing the four maids approaching her, also flipped down and grabbed the bed sheet rope with both hands. The bed sheet rope suddenly sank downwards, and with a snapping sound, the bed sheet tied to the pillar was torn apart.

With two screams, Wang Meng and the woman in red plummeted downwards, clinging desperately to the bedsheet rope. As the rope taut, they swung in the air like swings. This sudden movement caused a cracking sound from the ceiling. Ding Shi instinctively looked up, and a cloud of white dust rushed towards him, landing in his eyes. Clearly, the connection between the ceiling and the chandelier had loosened, causing the dust to fall.

Ding Shi blinked repeatedly and said to Yu Yuan, "Yu Yuan, speed up, I can't take it anymore."

Yu Yuan said, "Received." The material used to string the crystal ball and the crystal lamp together was not just electrical wire, but also rope and thin steel cable, making the cutting process quite difficult.

Ding Shi shouted, "Wang Meng, don't move! Where's the woman?"

Wang Meng replied, "Below me."

Ding Shi looked down and saw the woman in red and Wang Meng clinging tightly to the bedsheet rope, even wrapping it around twice with their feet. Ding Shi aimed his crossbow downwards, but Wang Meng was too large, obscuring the woman in red's body. Coupled with his still-sore eyes, Ding Shi didn't dare to fire an arrow rashly.

As another string of crystal chandeliers fell, the balance on the ring was broken, and Ding Shi and Yu Yuan busied themselves moving around to adjust the balance.

Ding Shi said, "Let's bring one up first."

After saying that, Ding Shi shouted, "Silly Bone, I see you." He lay on the ring, hooked his right foot on the steel cable suspending the crystal chandelier, and aimed at the second-floor stairwell. Just then, Silly Bone flashed, saw the weapon in his hand, and hid back.

At this time, more than 10 maids had gathered on the third and fourth floors. Some of the maids fell to the first floor from the railing that Wang Meng had kicked down, while others waved their claws at the crystal chandelier six meters away through the railing.

Wang Meng reminded: "Ding Shi, 7 o'clock direction, fourth floor."

Ding Shi turned his head and saw a maid forming hand seals. A crossbow bolt was fired, piercing the maid's left eye and interrupting the spell. The maid took a step back, completely ignoring her pierced head, and began forming the hand seals again.

Ding Shi drew a crossbow, loaded it, aimed, and fired, blinding the maid in her right eye and rendering her useless.

With Yu Yuan's help, Wang Meng finally climbed onto the crystal ring.

At this moment, Ding Shi still wanted to shoot the woman in red, but there was no angle left.

Not only was there no angle, but the woman in red also reached her hand towards Ding Shi.

As expected, he had a discerning eye; he could tell at a glance who among the three of us was the good guy. Ding Shi reached out to help the woman in red, successfully pulling her onto the crystal ring as well.

With the efforts of Wang Meng and Yu Yuan, two more crystal chandeliers were cut, finally solving the problem of the crystal chandelier's load-bearing capacity.

Four people, each in a different direction, using their feet or hands to grab and hook onto the load-bearing steel cable, were fairly stable.

This was the only way out that Ding Shi and his two companions found after a 10-minute discussion. The obstacle to this path was the maid, who possessed ranged attack capabilities.

Speaking of Cao Cao, the ranged attack maid is here again, her profession: True Qi.

"Looking northwest, shoot the heavenly wolf!" The maid recited the poem, and a bow and arrow appeared in her hand. She drew the bow but did not nock the arrow, and aimed at the red-clad woman closest to her.

The woman in red drew a rapier in her hand and made a cross in the air: "Sword Qi Shield." A small silver shield appeared in front of her.

The air arrows struck the small shield and vanished without a trace.

The woman in red said, "It should be the poetry and prose branch of the Confucian school, a branch of true qi. It is said that the Confucian school has a good and evil value. The higher the good value, the greater the power of the poetry and prose."

"The sound of the bell stirs and the north wind rises, the sword energy surges and the Southern Dipper is leveled!" The voice was loud and powerful, and with a flick of his hand, he unleashed a sword energy that rushed straight at the woman in red.

The woman in red continued to use her sword aura shield to block.

"Swing the sword to scatter the floating clouds..."

"very noisy."

A crossbow bolt shot into the maid's mouth. The maid took a step back and continued reciting, "Blah blah blah..." With a wave of her hand, this time nothing happened.

The maid, lacking common sense and unable to comprehend the situation, continued her attack: "Blah blah blah..."

The crisis was temporarily averted, and the woman in red turned to look at everyone: "Thank you for your help. My name is Red."

Ding Shi glanced at his clothes and said, "Hello, my name is Black Pants."

Wang Meng replied, "Hello, my name is White Socks."

Yu Yuan was embarrassed and said, "My name is Yu Yuan, I don't know them."

The woman in red said, "Hello, my surname is indeed Hong, and my given name is Yi." She wasn't angry or acting coquettish; instead, she earnestly told the three that her name was her real name. She explained that the surname Hong was relatively uncommon, but she didn't insist that the three accept it.

Outgoing, open-minded, self-assured, and well-mannered. This "self-assured" isn't a derogatory term; after all, you must love yourself before loving others.

Hongyi's standard for doing things is: as long as she is satisfied, that's enough; she doesn't care about other people's opinions.

Seeing the serious expression on the woman in red's face, Ding Shi chuckled to ease the awkwardness and said, "Ding Shi."

“Wang Meng.” In contrast, Wang Meng was more concerned about his reputation and responded sincerely, his tone also containing a hint of apology for his careless words.

Strictly speaking, among the three men, Wang Meng, the leader of the Dragon Gang, is the most honest one. After all, he still believes in loyalty and often marvels at the bromance between Sasuke and Naruto.

During the chat, Ding kept a close eye on Sha Bi, who was leaning against a pillar on the second floor, occasionally peeking out to look up.

The woman in red said, "Yihao is the first evil spirit I've ever encountered, and I didn't feel anything strong about him."

Wang Meng and Yu Yuan shared the same feeling. Yu Yuan said, "Perhaps this is the level of evil spirits."

Ding Shi said, "Its weakness does not mean that the evil spirits are weak."

Suddenly, the Grim Reaper butler appeared in the air, smiling kindly, and said, "Gentlemen, shall we try a new game? Since this game can't defeat you, let's try a different one."

Ding Shi asked, "What new game?"

The butler said, "I can eliminate all non-guest creatures in the villa, including Yihao, and restore the power. My condition is to release a new evil spirit: Bad News."

Ding Shi asked, "What are the benefits?"

The butler replied, "The invitation from the Grim Reaper will end early at 6 a.m. tomorrow. You can stay at the villa until noon, during which time the villa will be very safe."

The woman in red said, "It feels pretty good."

Ding Shi said, "It's 12:37 now. If you agree, we'll stay at the villa for another 30 hours."

The woman in red suddenly realized what was happening and looked at the male butler in disbelief: "Are you always this shameless?"

(End of this chapter)