His body was immobile, and he was unable to resist.
If this continues...
Li Jian gritted his teeth, his eyes suddenly turning cold.
To hell with the copy rules!
When someone is about to be beaten to death, who cares about anything else?
Li Jian hardened his heart and quietly used the props that had already been activated.
The ground suddenly changed.
The couple, who were wielding whips, suddenly felt their feet go weak, and half of their bodies sank into the softened ground.
Then the soil gradually returned to its original hardness.
"what……!"
The little boy next to him screamed when he saw this.
The couple looked terrified and struggled to climb out.
Li Jian pretended to still be wailing and looked at the two people who had fallen to the ground with a surprised expression.
It seems he didn't know what had happened either.
But the next second, the screaming little boy and the struggling couple suddenly stopped all their movements in unison.
They all cast cold glances at Li Jian, and a strange smile curled at the corners of their mouths.
A creaking sound suddenly came from the wooden beams of the living room outside.
A monster with a huge face but a body the size of an ordinary person appeared on the roof beam.
Its terrifying giant face turned towards the room where Fan Xiao and the others were, and it jumped down from the roof beam, approached, and reached out to open the door.
With a creak, the doors suddenly swung open.
The monster's enormous, ferocious face blocked the entire doorway.
It cast its gaze inside, looked around at everyone, and then its gaze landed on Li Jian.
Li Jian's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly used the prop.
The ground became soft again.
However, the large-faced monster did not fall in.
Suddenly, whip-like tentacles extended from its back, reaching into the room... and then accelerated sharply, lashing out at Li Jian.
Snap, snap, snap... an even louder sound of whipping rang out.
Li Jian's entire body began to bleed profusely, and his breath grew weaker and weaker.
Seeing this, Fan Xiao hesitated for a moment, but ultimately decided to take action.
The rule for copying is that you cannot disobey your parents.
But monsters are not included in this category.
"Let's see which emotional magic you can use now!"
After making his decision, Fan Xiao manipulated the blood flowing from his body, transforming it into a short arrow that shot towards the big-faced monster.
At the same time, the emotional magic was activated, and the temperature in the room immediately rose a little.
The flying arrow of blood transformed into dazzling flames, striking the enormous face of the giant monster.
Boom! Flames exploded, and a wave of heat swept through.
The entire wall at the entrance was charred black in an instant.
The open wooden door was also set ablaze, burning fiercely.
But the monster was not injured at all.
Without even glancing at Fan Xiao, it continued to lash Li Jian with its whip-like tentacles.
About half a minute later, the figure of the big-faced monster suddenly disappeared at the door.
Li Jian lay motionless on the ground, it was unclear whether he was unconscious or dead.
At this moment, the middle-aged man and woman, who had somehow detached themselves from the ground, picked up the whip that had fallen to the ground and placed it on the table next to them.
The strange smiles on their faces were gone, and they looked perfectly normal.
The little boy beside him showed no fear on his face, but just stared at the food on the altar and swallowed.
The three of them acted as if nothing had happened.
The man said, "Today's ceremony is complete. Lord Wu Gui has finished his meal, and it's our turn to eat. Let's bring the food to the table."
"Binbin, we can eat now. You bled today, so you need to eat more to replenish your blood."
The woman next to the man said something to the little boy with concern.
Then she turned to Fan Xiao and Li Jian and said, "Xiao Hua, Xiao Cui, you two come over here too."
After he finished speaking, Fan Xiao found that he could move again.
He immediately moved closer to Li Jian and reached out to check the other's breath.
Thankfully, the person is still alive.
Fan Xiao took out two bottles of healing potions from his storage space. He drank one himself to replenish his lost blood, and then forced the other bottle down Li Jian's throat. He also slapped the guy a few times to forcibly wake him up.
"I...I'm not dead?"
After opening his eyes, Li Jian immediately sat up to check his surroundings.
The couple and the little boy carried the food out.
After confirming that this wasn't the underworld and that he was still alive, Li Jian couldn't help but ask Fan Xiao, "Brother Fan, that monster just now... did you kill it? Did you save me?"
"No, the monster beat you to the point of near death and then disappeared on its own."
Fan Xiao said, "It seems this is the price of rebelling against parents. Fortunately, it's not fatal, so it's acceptable."
"Uh... you're okay with that? You wouldn't be thinking of giving it a try too, would you?"
Li Jian quickly advised, "Don't do that! I attacked so secretly with props, and I was still discovered. It's clear that it's impossible to sneak up and deceive them."
"Moreover, that big-faced monster is too bizarre! Although it's not deadly, my items are completely ineffective against it and can't stop it from attacking us at all."
“We couldn’t move just now,” Fan Xiao said. “Now that we can move, if you can’t beat them, can’t you just run away?”
“That’s true…” Li Jian reminded him, “But rashly rebelling against your parents might trigger a new crisis, so there’s no need to try it out, is there?”
"Who said I was going to try it? Wasn't this your own idea?"
Fan Xiao stood up and stretched.
He could feel the blood in his body gradually returning to normal.
He agreed with Li Jian's point of view—that big-faced monster was indeed very strange.
His usually invincible "vampire" artifacts were rendered ineffective.
It's as if the monster doesn't have a physical form, so he can't touch it.
But this monster can also attack Li Jian... How can it have such a one-sided advantage?
Even the A-level talent "Angel of Slaughter" follows basic logic—that is, when Fan Qiqi does not descend to a lower dimension, nothing can interfere with her, but at the same time, she cannot interfere with others.
Once she reduces her dimensionality, she can attack others, and others can attack her.
It's just that most people can't see her.
"Maybe my attack method is wrong? That guy is immune to physical attacks, so I have to use mental attacks?"
Fan Xiao wasn't entirely sure.
It must be said that this monster is indeed somewhat eerie.
The right thing to do is to avoid provoking it again, and therefore, you must never rebel against your parents again.
No one can guarantee that it won't kill anyone next time, just because it didn't kill anyone this time.
Of course, Fan Xiao's cowardice will only last for a while.
Once Fan Qiqi's summoning cooldown is over, that's when he'll be able to "act recklessly".
“By the way,” Fan Xiao said to Li Jian, “saving you wasted a bottle of my healing potion, you have to give it back to me.”
"……All right."
With a pang of regret, Li Jian took out a bottle of medicine from his storage space and handed it over.
“Also,” Fan Xiao continued, “your behavior just now was very reckless. Be more careful next time.”
"There's nothing I can do," Li Jian sighed. "I feel like if I get whipped again, I'll probably be whipped to death. Thanks for your concern, I'll be more careful next time."
"You've misunderstood. I'm not concerned about you."
Fan Xiao said with a serious expression, "I just want to remind you that your reckless behavior may implicate me."
"For example, if you successfully deceive them this time and they don't know that it was you who attacked, then that big-faced monster might also target me in retaliation."
"It's fine if you're courting death, but don't let it affect me."
Li Jian: "..."
Give me back the gratitude I felt!
"and."
Fan Xiao continued, "If you had analyzed it a little earlier, you would have known that the couple wouldn't actually whip us to death."
"We'll be staying in this instance for another seven days. Judging from their previous conversations, I estimate that this kind of worship ceremony takes place every afternoon."
"If you kill us today, whose blood will you take tomorrow?"
"This... the instance is unpredictable and ever-changing. Does anyone know if we can use general logic to deduce things?"
To avoid embarrassment, Li Jian changed the subject, saying, "So, our current identity is this family's daughter, right? What kind of parents are these! Doing such things behind their backs."
“In a small town that favors sons over daughters, human trafficking is common, so it’s not surprising that something like this happens.”
Fan Xiao shook his head slightly and said, "Compared to this, there is something else that concerns me more."
"You heard the conversation between that couple. We clearly didn't have any needle marks on our bodies, but they thought we had them everywhere. When it came time to prick us for blood, they hesitated about where to prick us... Something's not right."
“It’s already very strange that they would mistake us for their daughter.”
Li Jian said, "And even though a monster attack has happened, they act like they know nothing and continue with their previous attitude... It's so damn weird!"
"daughter……"
Fan Xiao seemed to be deep in thought.
That little boy must be their "younger brother".
When night falls, they have to tell the poor child scary bedtime stories in an attempt to frighten him into tears.
Father, mother, and younger brother are all present.
Only the daughter is missing.
Where did my daughter go?
Chapter 111 Fan Xiao: I'm very curious
Fan Xiao began to mentally organize the current intelligence details.
"This town once experienced a population crisis, and the mayor temporarily solved the problem by buying and selling women from outside the town through human traffickers."
"These women who were bought have become elderly. Most of the people in the town now are probably their descendants, including these women who are not very old. Although these women were not broken in the legs or had their tongues cut out, they grew up under the influence of extremely strong patriarchal ideas and instinctively dared not resist the men in the town."
"Take that couple for example... The red and swollen marks on the wife's face were probably from her husband hitting her. She must have been beaten a lot in her life, especially after giving birth to two daughters. She probably lived in constant fear. When her husband hit her, she took her anger out on her daughters."
"However... to treat your daughter's life so lightly and secretly carry out such an evil ritual seems a bit excessive. Could there be other reasons I don't know about?"
Fan Xiao slowly pieced together the background of this small town in his mind.
The background information provided by the game for the dungeons is described in a very vague way.
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