The unknown small village in front of me was filled with a lilac fog that was so thick that it could not be melted. The fog was very strange. When I was outside the village, I felt that I could not see the thick fog at all, but as long as I stepped into the obvious dividing line at the entrance of the village, the next moment, the rolling thick fog would appear in front of me, covering everything five meters away in nothingness. As for the dividing line at the entrance of the village...

This is actually not a substantial line, but a boundary of two different states. On the outside of this boundary, that is, outside, everything is normal. The ground is brown soil, green plants grow outside, the sun hangs in the sky, and the weather is very good. Although it is approaching evening, the light is still very strong, and the sun makes people feel a little hot.

However, inside this dividing line, the ground instantly turned into a kind of brown-red soil, just like the product of the mud stirred with plasma re-solidified. The plants on the ground all showed a half-faded grayish white, which looked a bit like a pencil sketch of a age. The sun in the sky was still there, but the intensity of the light was like the environment seen with dark sunglasses. Not only was it gloomy and cold. Coupled with the fog that blocked the view, this was definitely the rhythm of a haunted house in the deserted village!

If the players in the game are afraid of ghosts, they should still be afraid. But in fact, most players will not be scared by the so-called ghosts in the game. This does not mean that the ghosts in the game are not powerful enough, but in fact, the opposite is true. Unlike the ghosts in the legendary ghosts with only a phantom, these ghosts in the game can cause actual damage. According to the legendary level, this should be considered as the level of high-level vengeful spirits. However, in fact, the players in the game are rarely scared by these powerful ghosts. Because for players, they are just monsters.

"Zero" is not a horror game. People's fear of ghosts often comes from imagination of the unknown, rather than substantial threats. According to this principle, those ghosts that can be seen but cannot touch are actually more scary than those ghosts that can actually fight with you. Once the player attacks and finds that he can hurt the other party, the fear will immediately drop, and the speed is very fast. In addition, everyone's fear of ghosts often comes from the psychological pressure caused by the environment. Let's give a simple example.

A horror movie, watching alone in a deserted ancient house on a night of thunderstorms, or watching with a large group of people in the square in the downtown area at noon on the scorching sun, the horror feeling will definitely be very different. If you watch it in the former way, even a very bad ghost movie will probably scare many people, and even if there is no ghost movie, many people can directly scare you. And the latter... Even the world's top ghost movies are probably not scared in this environment.

Because human fear requires these conditions to inspire, the ghosts in Zero are classified as undead creatures. In fact, these monsters are used for leveling up by players, but their form is special. Therefore, without a suitable atmosphere, no matter how strange these undead creatures are, they can't actually scare people. After all, Zero is a battle game rather than a horror game. The designers did not deliberately create a horror atmosphere since the beginning. In an environment with high visibility, a large group of players armed to their teeth can even roar, even if they encounter skeletons, zombies and ghosts can rush forward and beat up and turn all the opponent into experience points. In this case, where is there any fear there?

However, the current situation is a little troublesome. Although the deserted village in front of me is not sure if there are undead creatures, at least the atmosphere is already quite scary.

Maybe they didn't notice that since they entered this village, the distance between Christina and Jin Coin and me has been getting closer. Originally, the distance between the four of us was more than one meter, but now it has almost become that the three of them are walking close to me. Although their expressions seem to have not changed much, I know. They are actually starting to be afraid. This has nothing to do with strength, it is purely an instinctive reaction. Most girls have no resistance to such things, just as most women are afraid of bugs.

Although he was a little scared, Christina and the others did not say it immediately, but still held their faces and insisted on walking forward with me. In addition to me, the three women at the scene had obviously entered a state of fighting. The light blue light on the Tianzun sword in the hand of the gold coin, the golden light flashing from time to time on Zhenhong's body, and the surging magic power on Christina all told me very clearly that these three strong women were about to collapse now.

Although they have not been attacked yet, I know that it will definitely be bad if this continues. With these three people's current situation, as long as there is any slightest movement, they will definitely throw their strongest attacks over without hesitation. Therefore, in order to avoid unnecessary accidents, I must do something in advance.

"Eménius." After summoning Emmenis, I pointed forward directly and said, "Clear the illusion, and help the three of them to visually filter."

Emmenis looked in front of him, then suddenly walked forward with a rumor, then suddenly stretched out his right index finger and pointed forward. A white aperture instantly rippled out from her fingers. And this aperture was not only one, but began to spread outward at a speed of three per second as the first aperture appeared. Each aperture spread out and hit the white fog, which immediately pushed the fog back a distance. As the aperture continued to push outward, the fog that enveloped the entire village was pushed out soon, and the visibility instantly returned to normal state, but the sun was still as yin and dead as the sun was about to die.

As visibility increased, the expressions of Christina and the others obviously began to ease, and they seemed to have just discovered that they had lost their composure and put away their power in surprise.

After successfully expelling the fog, Emmenis immediately turned to Christina and said, "Don't resist, I'll just add visual filtering for you."

The so-called visual filtering is an illusion, but it is different from ordinary illusions. Ordinary illusions are added to the target object to create a confusing effect of confusing the enemy, and this illusion is added to the eyes of one's own people. The purpose is to make some adjustments to the vision seen by one's own people according to their needs. For example, if you are fighting in a completely dark environment, I can ask Emmenis to add this visual filter to our unit, and then share my perfect dark vision with the other's visual filter, so that the picture seen by the other person is converted into the picture seen through my eyes. It is equivalent to indirectly sharing dark vision.

In fact, in addition to night vision ability, this skill has many other uses. For example, the method we are using now is one of them. The effect is to disrupt environmental variables and modify environmental atmosphere information.

Christina had a sense of fear because of the surrounding environment, so Emmenis added a visual effect filter to her. After this filter was added, the sky that Christina saw returned to the sunshine state. The colors of the plants and the ground also returned to normal. Of course, these are not facts, but the visual filtering of what Christina actually saw, making the things she saw become what she is now.

After the visual effects were modified, Christina and the gold coins immediately returned to normal. If these things interfere with each other, it would be like the environment and atmosphere in the ghost movie. Although the ghost movie is still the same ghost movie, it is like watching a ghost movie in the square. There is no scary feeling at all.

"Huh, it feels much better." Because the atmosphere became more and more depressing, none of them noticed that they had chatted less and less. In the end, everyone calmed down, just focusing on the surrounding environment, for fear that something would pop up suddenly from somewhere to scare me. Of course, even if something really popped up, with the strength of the three of them, they probably slapped to death, but before it really appeared, they were scared by their imagination.

Without those terrifying atmospheres, our movements immediately became faster. Anyway, our sight has recovered and our strength is here, so we don’t worry about any problems.

The player before said that the mission location was in the center of the village, so we didn't stop. We jogged all the way to the center of the village. This mountain village was not big at all. The center of the village was just a small square of more than 200 square meters, and the central location was occupied by a well.

This well is slightly different from the open wells we commonly use. This is an outdoor well. The wellhead is surrounded by a black stone to the edge of the knee height. There is also a hand-crank jack above the wellhead. A rope is tied to it and a bucket is hung. There is also a roof of this rope roller, which is larger than the wellhead. It has a wooden structure, but it looks obviously very worn, sparse like ribs.

As soon as we arrived here, we saw the player who discovered the mission. This guy was squatting alone on the edge of the well and looking around nervously. When he saw us appear, he ran over excitedly. Obviously, he was also scared by himself here before, but in addition to the terrifying atmosphere, there was not even a small monster in this place, so naturally it would not cause any actual damage. However, the more this situation is, the more scary it will make people feel. This guy can hold on until now, which is very good willpower.

“Where is the mission?”

"It's inside." The player pointed to a house next to him and said, "The only living person inside is the person who issued the mission. Then what, since you are here, I'll leave first. I can't stay in this ghost place for a minute!"

I nodded and said, "It's okay, it's already very good that you can stick to it until now. The War God has added 500 guild contribution points to you, so you can go back first."

After thanking the member, he didn't care whether it was wasted or not, and directly unfolded a scroll back to the city and flashed directly. He didn't want to stay in such a ghost place for a second.

After the player teleported away, the four of us walked towards the house he pointed to. This was a wooden house with Japanese-style buildings. The ground was higher than the outside. It was supported by many wooden stakes. The floor of the room was actually more than one foot high from the ground.

Anyway, there were no people here, so we didn't follow any rules, so we walked into the corridor outside the house wearing shoes. I was at the front and opened the front door, and immediately got so irritated that no one of them almost fell out by the smell of revenge.

This room is much darker than outside. There is almost no furniture in the small house area. The wall opposite is more than half collapsed. From the front, there is nothing but a ruin on the back.

Although this house is actually not much different from the ruins, there are still people here, but this person... is not much different from a ghost.

There were five people in the room, but four of them turned into corpses at this time. One of them was on the left side of the gate, hanging on the beam of the room, swaying with a rope, eyes widened, tongue stretched out, and body had begun to swell and ulcerate. It was obvious that some days had passed, and the stench was mostly emitted by it.

In addition to the one hanging at the door, there were three corpses on the ground of the room. One of them should be a mother and son, hugging each other and curled up in the corner of the wall, but now there is only a pile of rotten meat and bones left, and there is basically no human appearance. If the bones were not still there, I would not even be able to tell what it was.

The last corpse fell in the center of the room. It seemed that it had not died for a long time, and it seemed to be a suicide, and the method was the most common suicide in Japan. The guy also held the handle of the long knife that was penetrated in his abdominal cavity.

Beyond the four corpses, there is a living person left. But if no one says it, most people will regard this as a corpse at first sight. As for the reason... Is it strange that a skeleton with a layer of skin considered a corpse?

From the clothes and hairstyle, we can see that the last living person is a woman and is not very old, but at this time I feel that this is just a skeleton wrapped in a layer of human skin, and it really has nothing to do with the girl.

Hearing the sound of us opening the door, the girl skeleton immediately turned her eyes to us. When I saw the other party's reaction, I immediately walked over. After I got closer, the other party whispered in a very dry voice very slowly: "You are finally here, I thought I could not hold on to you! I beg you to help us poor people and relieve our suffering!"
Chapter completed!