Chapter 328
Chapter 328
The instant the beautiful ladies’ hat appeared, Mu Xin found that she could breathe again.
Not only that, but she also landed steadily on the floor, while everyone else still wore twisted expressions and looked moments away from suffocating.
The Zhao girl clearly had not expected this turn of events.
She attacked Mu Xin again, only to discover that none of her abilities had any effect on her.
At that moment, a System notification flashed through Mu Xin’s mind.
“Ding! Congratulations, Player, on triggering the function of the beautiful ladies’ hat. A beautiful lady deserves to be treated kindly. Immune to all damage for ten minutes.”
So that was why the Zhao girl could not harm her!
But it lasted only ten minutes.
Mu Xin immediately looked at Jian Fan. She did not elaborate, saying only two words.
“Ten minutes.”
The remark came without context, yet Jian Fan understood.
“Give it to Lu Jing,” Jian Fan said.
Mu Xin did not hesitate. She immediately walked over to Lu Jing and thrust the hat into his hand.
Lu Jing was already at death’s door, but he was faring a little better than the others and could still think, so he noticed what was happening around him.
The moment he took the beautiful ladies’ hat and the Zhao girl’s damage stopped affecting him, Lu Jing raised his whip and lashed it straight at her.
For anyone else, the beautiful ladies’ hat could only guarantee ten minutes of safety. For Lu Jing, those ten minutes were his best chance to fight back.
The situation, however, did not go as well as Lu Jing had hoped.
The Zhao girl could no longer harm Lu Jing. His attack even prevented her from continuing to attack the other Players, so everyone dropped back to the floor and gained a moment to catch their breath.
But–
Lu Jing could not harm the Zhao girl either.
Every time Lu Jing’s whip snapped toward her, the Zhao girl’s figure vanished from the spot like an apparition and reappeared somewhere else at random.
Lu Jing had no way to deal with her at all.
He had only ten minutes. Once that time ran out, they would be at a disadvantage again.
Lu Jing was not the only one worried. Jian Fan was also searching rapidly for a solution.
The Zhao girl was the one behind all of this. As long as they dealt with her, they could find a chance to survive. They had already reached the final step and absolutely could not fail here.
They were ordinary people, while the Zhao girl was something like an immensely powerful ghost. Brute force could not be the answer, but what was?
The stone statues had already been duplicated, so in theory their restraint on the Zhao girl should have grown stronger. Yet no one knew the true extent of her power. Her current state might indeed be the result after she had already been restrained, but it still was not enough. Not enough…
Something suddenly occurred to Jian Fan.
But at that very moment, the ten minutes ran out.
The Zhao girl burst into laughter.
Lu Jing and the others once again had their breath choked off.
Should they spend Points on another beautiful ladies’ hat?
Just then, Jian Fan abruptly raised his head, his eyes lighting up.
The answer had been right in front of them all along.
Staring at the Zhao girl, Jian Fan quickly opened the Points Mall.
He still had one unused item.
Time Rewind.
Turn time back by one minute.
After the item was used, everyone saw everything around them begin moving in reverse until they returned to one minute earlier.
One minute ago, the effect of the beautiful ladies’ hat had not yet expired.
At that moment, Jian Fan shouted to Lu Jing, “Give it to Zhou Jingying!” Then he called to Zhou Jingying, “Put the wooden carving back!”
Lu Jing immediately obeyed.
Zhou Jingying froze for a moment. When the hat was suddenly thrust into her hand, she was startled again, but only for a few seconds before she quickly recovered.
The wooden carving.
That was right. Aside from the stone statues, they still had a wooden carving!
Now that Zhou Jingying held the beautiful ladies’ hat, it was as though she possessed a token of immunity from death. She hurried toward the place where she had found the wooden carving.
She remembered the location, but could not guarantee that she had the exact same orientation as before. With mystical matters this abstruse, the slightest discrepancy could lead to a vast difference.
Zhou Jingying could only shift it little by little, trying every possible orientation.
She had only one minute.
And she had already used up part of that time.
The Zhao girl could do nothing to Zhou Jingying, but that did not mean she was powerless against everyone else.
At that moment, she seemed to turn vicious as well.
She no longer showed Jian Fan any mercy.
Everyone had their throats constricted, with only the narrowest distance separating them from death.
Zhou Jingying was still struggling to find the correct placement. If she failed, then… then they would all die here.
No. Absolutely not!
Yet luck did not favor them.
The minute ran out.
Zhou Jingying still had not found the exact placement, and she too was seized by the Zhao girl’s power.
At that moment, time rewound once more.
Jian Fan used the item again.
This time, Jian Fan did not need to say anything. Lu Jing immediately tossed the beautiful ladies’ hat to Zhou Jingying. She had no time to freeze at all and rushed straight to the spot as soon as she caught it.
The first attempt failed, and so did the second.
The third…
Still failed.
On the fourth attempt, Mu Xin spent Points on Time Rewind.
Time returned to one minute earlier again.
The fifth attempt, the sixth…
On the seventh attempt, Lu Jing spent Points on Time Rewind.
Each person could purchase it three times. Excluding Xia Zeqin, they had twenty-seven attempts. They could even spend Points on more beautiful ladies’ hats. It sounded like a lot, but the placement was deeply mysterious, and they had no precise markings. There was a strong chance that most of their attempts were actually repeating the same positions. The situation was not favorable.
Zhou Jingying continued trying.
Time was about to run out again, and Lu Jing had already begun preparing to make another purchase.
At that very moment, he suddenly found himself able to breathe freely.
He dropped to the floor and began coughing violently. Still coughing, he looked toward the Zhao girl.
The Zhao girl stared at her own body in disbelief.
Flames began to rise from her body, and before long, they swallowed her whole.
Zhou Jingying had succeeded.
The instant the Zhao girl disappeared, that familiar white light flashed once more.
It was over!
They had cleared the instance!
A surge of wild joy swept through their hearts.
They had used quite a few items, but fortunately, the final result was good.
They returned once more to that pure white space.
Everyone sat on the floor, exhausted yet delighted.
They had survived disaster.
At the final juncture, Zhou Jingying had expended the most mental effort. She now lay almost completely limp on the floor, but when she saw the familiar space and the Points notification in her System, she smiled again.
This time, just as Jian Fan had said before they began, she received the Points for clearing the instance.
Five hundred base Points, plus nine surviving Players other than herself, gave her a total of one thousand four hundred Points.
It was a beautiful number.
Zhou Jingying let down her guard and lay back on the floor, laughing happily.
How wonderful.
There was more than evil in the Realm of Death.
Wherever darkness existed, there was light as well. She was fortunate to have met this lovable group of people.