Chapter 204: Everyone's Dead Except Yang Ming

Chapter 204: Everyone's Dead Except Yang Ming

"Locate the sound and move quickly! If he pulls out the copper nails from his ears, we might not even hear anything!" Hei Jiji shouted anxiously.

Her judgment was sharp and correct. After all, when this Specter pulled out the copper nails from his eyes, everyone went blind. Based on that, it wasn't hard to guess that if he pulled out the nails from his ears, everyone would likely go deaf.

If they lost both sight and hearing, they would be pretty much defenseless, completely losing the ability to perceive the outside world.

Before anyone could react, Fang Xiu had already made his move the moment they went blind.

His silver hair strands lashed out at the Specter furiously.

However, with a loud snap, the Specter broke all the silver strands wrapped around him.

Fang Xiu had anticipated this. He knew that this Specter had such terrifying means, making everyone blind, so he certainly wouldn't be subdued easily.

Fang Xiu stepped forward, and in the endless darkness, he could only feel the cold scalpel in his hand.

_SWISH!_

Relying on his exceptional hearing, Fang Xiu slashed out, but it hit nothing.

The others also attacked based on the sounds they heard.

In the darkness, a mix of hot and cold air flowed, along with the sound of several blades slicing through the air.

The hot and cold must be from Hei Jiji, given her ice and fire abilities. The blades came from Bai Qi and Yang Ming.

Soon, the sound of a blade cutting into flesh sounded.

Following that was Bai Qi's angry cursing.

"Idiot! You cut me!"

Just like that, Bai Qi got injured again. Everything quickly descended into chaos.

There were too many people, and only one Specter. Even though everyone's hearing was far beyond normal, it was still difficult to distinguish which sound came from the Specter and which from their teammates.

However, soon they didn't have to worry about that.

The Specter pulled out the nails from his ears, and the world instantly became silent, dead silent.

Zhao Hao and Liu Shuai screamed in fear, but they couldn't hear their own voices.

Losing both sight and hearing meant losing about ninety percent of their sensory input from the outside world.

Now, they were left with smell, taste, and touch. These senses weren't very useful for locating the Specter.

Unlike Ma Xingbang, they didn't have the ability to smell the Specter. Taste was even more useless—they couldn't exactly lick the Specter.

The first was the seemingly weakest Zhao Hao. Since it wasn't midnight yet, Zhao Hao was still very weak.

_SWISH!_

With just one swipe, Zhao Hao's neck was sliced open.

His head was cut off completely and rolled on the ground like a ball. His eyes were wide open, dying with a look of disbelief.

Zhao Hao's death was silent, mainly because no one could hear or see anything. Only Fang Xiu sensed it. His silver strands spread throughout the Old Mansion, so he clearly felt Zhao Hao being beheaded.

_WHOOSH!_

His scalpel shot out toward where Zhao Hao had died, but it missed again.

Soon, the Specter targeted Liu Shuai next.

Even though Liu Shuai had the ability to teleport, without his senses, he had no idea where the danger was coming from. He didn't know which direction to teleport to.

Naturally, Liu Shuai met his end. The Specter pierced his heart, and shattered pieces of it, along with blood, spilled all over the floor.

Liu Shuai didn't die immediately. He screamed in agony, but in this silent world, no one could hear his cries, not even himself.

As the Specter continued its rampage, Bai Qi was killed too.

In the end, only Fang Xiu, Yang Ming, and Hei Jiji remained alive.

Fang Xiu survived by absorbing pain and healing his wounds; Yang Ming relied on his Corpse Bead; and Hei Jiji had an interesting method—she kept deceiving herself, suggesting that she wasn't injured, thus numbing herself to the pain. However, judging by her heaving chest and pale face, she wouldn't last much longer.

Fang Xiu realized that, as they faced stronger Specters, the ones who survived were those with high tolerance for mistakes, the psychics who weren't easily killed in one blow.

Fighters like Bai Qi, with high attack power but low defense, had no room for error.

If he encountered a Specter he could handle, he'd win in one strike. If not, he'd be taken down just as quickly.

His battles were straightforward—he won without much excitement and lost without much pain.

Before long, Hei Jiji also died. She exhausted all her Spiritual Energy and succumbed to fatigue.

Fang Xiu followed, for the same reason.

Yang Ming's death was the last and most obvious because he was the chosen one. Perhaps he wouldn't have died at all and might have even turned the situation around, but he didn't get the chance to show it because Fang Xiu activated death reset.

When the timeline reset, Fang Xiu stood before the eerie Old Mansion once more, choosing to enter with the same calm determination.

He wouldn't die in vain, and was now seeking revenge. Moreover, he had figured out how to defeat this Specter."