NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 464 Resurrection
Xu Shuo had been observing the rule changes of "Yan'er" when he noticed the movement on the second floor and turned his gaze there, just in time to see the police auxiliary swallowed whole.
[SOA-09 affiliate Rule Object, David, changes to the Black and White Dice rules.]
He immediately wrote a series of Ghost Glyphs in his notebook.
Standing in the central passageway from the second to the third floor, Xu Shuo, after finishing his notes, stared at the Black and White Dice on the ground with a slight frown.
At this moment, the previously dazed female journalist suddenly looked up, alertly gazing in his direction.
"What's that over there?!"
The female journalist gripped a marble tightly in her hand, staring fixedly at the passageway above.
The photographer was a beat too slow. By the time he reacted and turned to look towards the pitch-black staircase above, he saw nothing there.
He blinked, inconspicuously taking two steps away from the female journalist.
However, in the next moment, the darkness in the passageway twisted, and a pitch-black figure appeared, the young man's form tall and slender, his eyes entirely black, silently watching them.
You couldn't look too long, for if you stared too much, it seemed like you'd be sucked into the darkness, abyss-like.
After a moment of stunned silence, the photographer quickly averted his gaze.
The female journalist, on the other hand, looked him up and down several times because she felt the face looked strangely familiar, but she couldn't recall where she had seen him before.
"Is it you?" the female journalist ventured.
Xu Shuo didn't speak, just started slowly descending the stairs, a chill rising behind him as a dark, twisted aura hit them head-on!
The female journalist shivered, unable to help herself from shouting, "Wait! Stop, don't come any closer!"
Because of the Black and White Dice, they couldn't retreat to avoid him, restricted to a space of three meters around them. Thus, she could only stand her ground, issuing a warning with a scared yet fierce face.
But would Xu Shuo listen to her?
Of course not.
On the young man's deathly still face, a malignant smile slowly formed instead. He casually and lazily descended the thirteen steps as if leisurely playing with his prey.
The female journalist stared at him intently, her fist holding marbles nearly crushed by her grip.
However, after taking the last step down, the young man stopped.
Xu Shuo withdrew his lingering gaze and bent over to pick up the Black and White Dice from the ground.
Seeing this, the female journalist froze, but she still didn't dare to be negligent. She and the photographer stood alert at the edge of the three-meter boundary.
Then they watched him throw the dice into the air.
The freely falling dice spun as usual, its six faces and numbers slowly passing through each person's vision, and upon landing, it rolled once more, showing the number "6" facing upward.
"6, David, come out and play."
A rich darkness spilled from the dice and then transformed into a boy of about ten, with blue eyes and black hair in a bowl cut, wearing a coffee-colored cotton outfit.
With his arrival, the surrounding air seemed to get even colder, as though the temperature had plunged to several degrees below zero.
The boy's sclera was also black, setting off his bright blue pupils even more vividly, his gaze intense as he looked at the young man in front of him.
He bent his lips into a smile, "Do you want to play with me?"
Xu Shuo nodded, "Play."
"Then let's play rock-paper-scissors! If you lose, I'll let the dog eat you!"
"Guess."
"Rock-paper-scissors!"
"Whoosh—"
Three black tentacles suddenly appeared in front of Xu Shuo, one forming a fist, another a scissor hand, and another flat like paper.
The boy opposite made a "scissor" gesture.
The female journalist: "..."
The photographer: "..."
David: "..."
The atmosphere on the scene fell into an eerie silence.
"I lost," Xu Shuo said.
The tentacle representing paper dispersed.
"I tied."
The tentacle representing scissors dispersed.
"I won,"
What remained was the tentacle that had thrown the punch.
"..."
The smile had vanished from the little boy's face, and with those strange eyes, he watched him and said in a gloomy tone, "David lost, David is not happy, and has decided to let the dogs out to eat you!"
As the words fell, myriad shadows suddenly surged out from behind the little boy, and at that moment, the other two found themselves unable to move again!
Two large quadrupedal monsters emerged, wrapped in darkness, with crimson eyes, sharp and upright ears, and a viscous liquid secreting from their pointed teeth.
These were dogs? More like hellhounds!
The two monsters charged at Xu Shuo with a roar, and there was no way to dodge at such a close distance!
However, numerous tentacles burst out from behind the youth in an instant, piercing the two monsters and nailing them high up on the ceiling, finally scattering into a pile of dark matter that plopped down.
It splashed all over the female reporter standing nearby.
Female Reporter: "..."
The battle was quick, satisfying, and without suspense, but still, an innocent bystander suffered a disaster.
The little boy who had summoned the monsters saw this with no particular expression, simply transforming back into a Black and White Dice and landing on the ground.
Xu Shuo glanced at the dice and recorded in his notebook:
[Amend Rule Seven of the Black and White Dice, no chance to leave even after winning against David.]
In this case, it was almost certain death.
Because if the target lost, David would eat the target as his reward, a tie would result in another round, and winning would generate a loading period, during which the target could escape the rule.
If they didn't leave, once David finished loading, he would kill the target in a rage for causing him shame!
But just now, after he won, David had immediately taken action without hesitation.
There was, however, another strange point...
Xu Shuo stared at the dice, lost in thought.
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"So you can cheat like this?"
At that moment, the female reporter's mocking voice came from beside him.
She had taken off her vest and used it as a rag to wipe the Dark Matter off her body, then swallowed the marble she was holding in her hand.
The female reporter looked at the young man; although still wary, the fear was not as strong.
She tentatively asked, "Are you... an Investigator from SOA?"
She had seen him writing something on the third floor, and just after the game ended, he had opened his notebook and was writing something again.
However, it was said that the Investigator had been trapped in the orphanage for over three months; how had he not turned depraved?!
No, that's not right!
When that guy came down the stairs just now, he had the look of someone with the potential to be depraved.
On hearing her, Xu Shuo turned to glance at her.
The female reporter was caught off guard by his purely dark eyes, and at that moment, she seemed to see twisted dark vortices, with demons whirling crazily within, countless indescribable tentacles entwined and intersecting, bringing with them a nauseating sense of dread.
"Ugh..."
The female reporter suddenly grunted and clutched her stomach.
Nothing unusual, just that the marble she had eaten had exploded inside her.
That was a close call, she was almost contaminated, but thankfully, she took the medicine in time.
The female reporter massaged her stomach, apparently unfazed by the photographer's shocked look; in fact, he had already been shocked to see her swallow a marble three centimeters in diameter.
Seeing this, Xu Shuo withdrew his gaze and touched his eyes.
He couldn't be blamed for this; the Dean was in such a state now, almost assimilated by the orphanage.
Xu Shuo was able to manipulate the darkness so fluently because he had recently upgraded his "Dark Stealth" skill.
This skill was truly useful in the Abyss.
Suddenly...
Xu Shuo abruptly looked up at the third floor.
The auxiliary police officer swallowed by the darkness had reappeared.
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