Terror is resurging, but only I am.

Chapter 76 What are fishermen most afraid of?
Inside the residential building, the corridors were covered with dirt and various debris, and the floor seemed to be covered with some kind of expired grease, making it sticky to walk on.

Countless transparent fishing lines hung from the ceiling, straight and independent, resembling silver threads under the cool white light.

At the end of the fishing line, a silver hook hangs there, gleaming with a sharp, cold light, its height just level with one's lips and teeth, as if waiting for a destined person to bite.

A draft swept through from one side, causing the hook tip to tremble back and forth, its sharp, cold gleam swinging back and forth like the pendulum of a wall clock.

The swaying of each fishing line and hook was exactly the same, revealing a blatant killing intent in the tranquil atmosphere, waiting for the fish underwater to walk right into the trap.

Yan Ming stood at the door of the room, making no further moves for the time being.

When the abilities of the enemy ghost are uncertain, it is best not to make too many moves, otherwise it is easy to inadvertently violate taboos.

Yan Ming hadn't fought many other players with ghost abilities, but he still knew the basic concepts.

Breaking taboos means losing the initiative.

The abilities of ghosts often reflect the strictness of the rules. Under this trend, players are probably typical examples of "high attack and weak defense". Losing the initiative often means death.

"What's outside...?"

Zhao Yunyao followed Yan Ming out of the room. She didn't notice Yan Ming had stopped at first, and bumped into his back.

However, her strength was not great, and she did not shake Yan Ming's body. At this moment, she realized that something was wrong and looked at the fishhooks with some surprise in her eyes.

Are we being watched by something?

Zhao Yunyao said nervously, she hadn't expected that such strange things still existed in this seemingly peaceful city.

"Do not talk."

Yan Ming tilted his head slightly and said something, his leather suit operating at full power, searching for every subtle movement around him.

After spending a short time with Li Yan, he roughly knew what kind of abilities the players in the bizarre game possessed.

The abilities of those ghostly creatures generally come from two directions.

1. Special props, such as the human skin suit that Yan Ming is wearing.

2. Replicate map rules, such as the rule "peeping at all evil spirits" that Li Yan obtained from the eerie game.

The mysterious marbles in the players' hands, strictly speaking, are separate from these two directions, because they do not bring any strange abilities.

Regardless of whether it's "environment," "object," "illness," "deficiency," or "action," you need to select a specific ghost to trigger the effect.

No, it doesn't necessarily have to be a ghost, but it must be a person or thing with strange abilities.

Yan Ming speculated that they were actually interacting with the "rules" behind the strange abilities to achieve some kind of fixed effect.

Therefore, marbles are more like a kind of "auxiliary" means, and are not in the same category as normal supernatural abilities.

Furthermore, Yan Ming was unsure whether he could still use the power of marbles in reality; perhaps he could, perhaps he couldn't.

Both methods of using bizarre abilities require a "person" to carry them out.

That is, "people-oriented".

If you are human, you cannot completely hide your tracks.

No matter how powerful one's strange abilities may be, the human body itself is still fragile and easily broken.

Ghosts, however, do not have this weakness.

In reality, any ghost is immortal and indestructible, making it virtually impossible to counter, which is why it is so troublesome and difficult to deal with.

The best outcome is simply to render the ghost unable to act on its own through specific means.

Humans and ghosts are different after all. In reality, even the weakest ghost can kill the strongest player because they are simply not on the same level.

This weakness may only be overcome after the "path to becoming a demon" is completely completed.

Yan Mingxi now possesses two rules leaning towards "perception," making him extremely perceptive in the area of ​​searching. With almost no effort, he heard a very peculiar heartbeat.

It beats exceptionally slowly, about once every fifteen seconds, yet with incredible power, as if it were the strongest heart in the world.

Just listening to the heartbeat, Yan Ming felt as if there was an old fisherman in the darkness, calm and composed, with no bait on his hook, only willing fishermen.

However, the only thing that surprised Yan Ming was that the heartbeat was coming from above.

Yes, directly above the corridor.

The middle-aged man's rented room was in an old-style residential building with only six floors, and this room was on the fifth floor.

Based on the floor height, the angler should be on the eighth floor at this moment.

But this building doesn't have an eighth floor.

A fisherman high in the sky?

A picture flashed through Yan Ming's mind, and he could sense that this guy's coolness was off the charts.

It seems that things might be more difficult than expected.

In reality, it is more troublesome than imagined, because both rules that Yan Ming currently possesses require direct eye contact between the two parties.

To be possessed by the Spying Ghost, the fisherman needs to actively search for the ghost's eye, while the "Echo" rule requires the fisherman to see the human skin garment under his coat.

However, the fisherman was sitting in the air at this moment, a distance that Yan Ming could not reach with his Spying Ghost.

This residential building is like a fishpond for an angler, and Yan Ming and Zhao Yunyao are just two fish.

How easy is it for fish in the water to influence fishermen on the shore?

Yan Ming looked at the gleaming, sharp fishhooks and hesitated to move forward, as they were clearly a special kind of weapon.

Moreover, he was unclear about the specific effects of the fishhook.

Now, we can use the Spying Ghost's spatial teleportation ability to leave this dangerous area full of fishhooks.

Yan Ming remembered what Li Yan had once said: the Ghost Eye could be thrown at will in his hands, and he could tear a crack in the Ghost Eye and crawl out from it.

The scene looks like a spatial rift has been torn open, and it has a similar feel to Minato Namikaze using the "Flying Thunder God Technique" in Naruto.

Moreover, this move can take another person with it, which is perfect for taking Zhao Yunyao, who is nearby.

As for Lu Mingzhe and He Lian, Yan Ming hadn't heard their heartbeats yet, which meant they were probably not near the residential building.

One of these two has a "telekinetic hand" and the other has a "troublemaker" skill. Yan Ming thinks it's unlikely that they would be killed quietly by the fisherman.

If all else fails, Lu Mingzhe can simply summon a clone of the fisherman to fight the one above. Under the influence of the Mischievous Concept God's abilities, they might make a great contribution.

Let's test the waters with the Ghost Eye first.

Yan Ming made a judgment, turned around and reopened the door to the room behind him, intending to use the window to send Ghost Eye downstairs and escape the danger by teleporting.

However, as soon as he opened the door, he immediately discovered that the room was filled with the same kind of fishhooks, gleaming with the same terrifying cold light.

The reason we didn't set up the fishing hooks in the room before was simply because we didn't want to alert the enemy.

Now that the fishing hook array is set up, the angler has no more worries.

"Wow—"

After a series of synchronized sounds, all the fishing hooks dropped five centimeters in height, like soldiers advancing in formation, forcing Yan Ming to bend down and make way.

Once this air force ghost's fishing hook formation is complete, will it continue to compress its living space until the target violates taboos, just like it is now?
We must find a way to counter this...

What are anglers most afraid of?
(End of this chapter)