At this moment, everyone's hunger has reached its peak, and they can't wait to stuff the food into their mouths and swallow it.
The fat man who had argued with Lao Wu before was holding the last piece of bread in his hand. After enduring for a long time, he finally opened the packaging and ate it up in big mouthfuls.
But the condition did not improve at all after eating it.
He began to look to others for help: "Can you give me some food?"
He felt extremely regretful that he had not been eating sparingly these past few days, which resulted in him running out of food soon.
However, everyone is now busy filling their stomachs and doesn't want to talk at all. Even if they could talk, they would not be willing to share their food.
"Please, give me something to eat. I don't want to die!"
Seeing that everyone was indifferent, the fat man felt panicky.
He glanced at the two boxes next to Mr. Xu and knew there was a lot of food inside. He swallowed his saliva eagerly.
Mr. Xu noticed his expression and his face turned cold. He quickly ate while moving the box and pushing it behind him. "What are you looking at? How dare you set your sights on this young master?"
"Mr. Xu... please save me. Don't you have plenty of food?"
"Get lost! My abundance of food has nothing to do with you!"
"As long as you are willing to save me, I will work like a slave for you after we get out! If you don't save me, I will be finished!"
"There are so many people who want to work like slaves for me, you are nothing! If you want to die, then go ahead and die. Living is just a waste of food and air anyway!"
At this moment, there was a knock on the door.
Knock knock knock——
Knock knock knock——
The purple-haired thug frowned, "Who is it?"
There was no response from outside, I just kept knocking on the door.
One of the followers slowed down his eating. "Could it be that those people in the main building regretted their decision and, fearing they'd missed out on a clue, wanted to come join us?"
His guess was groundless, but no one cared whether it was right or wrong.
Mr. Xu glanced at Old Wu, who was closest to the door, and said in a domineering tone, "You, go open the door and take a look."
However, Old Wu, who was usually polite to everyone, was extremely hungry and too lazy to maintain his appearance. He directly retorted: "No, if you want to go, go by yourself."
Mr. Xu, who had already shown off his power twice tonight and realized that the other players would not interfere, suddenly became furious. "Who gave you the guts to talk to me like that? Go wherever I tell you to go!"
As soon as he said this, the sensible bodyguard came forward with a knife.
"What do you want to do?!" The knife was almost at his neck, and Old Wu finally came back to his senses from his hungry state.
The three bodyguards looked extremely ferocious at this moment.
"I asked you to open the door, don't you understand?"
"It's okay if you don't want to open it, but then you might have another wound on your neck like the old butler's."
Faced with this pressure, Old Wu had no choice but to get up and walk towards the door while eating, as he was afraid that they would really stab him.
Seeing him give in, Mr. Xu sneered, "I just said it casually because you were so close. You insisted on talking to me like that. You're just asking for trouble."
[...Did he do that on purpose, or did he really not notice anything was wrong?]
[I guess they didn't even think it was weird. They were all extremely hungry and in a state of low intelligence.]
[Are starving ghosts really that scary? ]
[It's okay, most of these things are D-level weirdness. The main thing is that they will make humans feel increasingly hungry, and during this period they need to eat constantly. Anyone who has not eaten for more than five minutes will become its prey.]
"Oh, so Yu Chong only eats a bite every two or three minutes, not more than five minutes, and doesn't eat like crazy and waste food like others? ]
[Yes, although this sounds simple, it is still difficult to fight against the body's survival instinct when food is in front of you. From this aspect, Yu Chong is really awesome.]
At this moment, Old Wu had already walked to the door. He stretched out his hand hesitantly, but his hand was on the door handle but he did not press it.
The bodyguard impatiently poked his back with a knife and urged, "Hurry up! Don't waste our time!"
The tip of the knife caused a slight sting, which frightened Old Wu so much that he exerted force with his palm and the door opened.
However, the people outside the door were obviously not the players who stayed in the main building - their heads were sunken, their skin was pale, and there were lacerations at the corners of their mouths from smiling too exaggeratedly.
Puff——
The bodyguard who threatened Lao Wu with a knife only saw a bloody and terrifying arm suddenly emerge from his back.
The hand came out, showing its face, and then pulled out of the body, leaving a bloody hole of moderate size.
At the same time, a heart that was still beating slightly appeared on the knocker ghost's blood-stained right hand. It smiled sinisterly, glanced at the other people in the room, turned around and disappeared on the spot.
"Ah! It's the knocker!"
"Fuck, you scared me!"
Although the Knocking Ghost is not uncommon and can be said to exist in most dungeons, this is the first time that players have met it from this perspective.
After all, they would never open the door under normal circumstances.
Old Wu fell straight to the ground. The light in his pupils began to fade and his body twitched uncontrollably. With the twitching, blood would flow out of the bloody hole in his chest.
Not long after, he died completely.
At this moment, the fat man suddenly let out a shrill scream, holding his stomach with a look of extreme pain.
"Ah! Look at his belly!"
The little follower standing on the side looked terrified.
The fat man's already round belly began to grow larger at a speed visible to the naked eye, even stretching out several thick layers of clothing. His down jacket was torn apart, and the fluff inside flew all over the place.
When all the fluff that blocked the view fell to the ground, everyone saw only a skinny and strange creature covered in blood, with a piece of intestine in its mouth.
It grinned at the players and ran out of the room on all fours.
The house returned to peace and the player's hunger gradually disappeared.
The fat man's body was lying in the middle of a pile of down that had been stained red with blood at some point in time. His stomach had been ruptured to an unimaginable extent, but it was empty inside, with all his internal organs gone.
When the feeling of hunger completely disappeared, everyone felt full to varying degrees, depending on how much they had just eaten.
People like Yu Chong who didn't finish eating two loaves of bread during the whole process are naturally the most comfortable now. He frowned and looked at Mr. Xu who was touching his stomach and panting.
"The knock on the door just now was obviously spooky. Why did you ask the player to open the door?"
Mr. Xu, who ate the most and the fastest, could only feel the food piled up in his throat. He waved his hands impatiently, "Who knew two weirdos would show up at the same time? They were the ones who said it was the people from the main building knocking on the door. I didn't say that. Why are you blaming me?"
"Oh, I'm a little full." Mo Qing showed no interest in their quarrels. He leaned against the wall and rubbed his stomach. "Hey Ruoruo, why doesn't the food in your box seem to have decreased?"
Li Yang glanced at the box beside him and replied with a curled lip: "You too, then what did you eat to fill yourself up? Air?"
"…"
[Damn it, I wouldn't have noticed if Du Ruo hadn't told me. She didn't eat because she was secretly using Xuan Shu to cheat. How come Mo Qing's food intake didn't decrease?]
[Could it be that Mo Qing is also a mystic? Two mystics entered the same instance, and aren't they together?]
[He's a shitty mystic. I remember Director Mo was an atheist!]
[Huh? Even with all the weirdness, there are still atheists?]
[It's definitely not the case now, but it's impossible to learn the mysterious art in just one year...]
[As for using talisman paper, it's hard to say. People with talent learn quickly. I remember he also bought talisman paper?]
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