Gamers Are Fierce
Chapter 67 Skateboarding

Chapter 67: Chapter 67 Skateboarding

It was a ghost!

Lost Airship looked at the figure mechanically and numbly waving its arms. His scalp tingled, and he subconsciously planned to turn tail and bolt.

But the next second, he suppressed his body’s instinct and remained in a half-squatting position, motionless.

The System’s description stated, "Monsters will track players by sound and light." This meant that as long as a player remained motionless and emitted no sound or light, they would not be detected by the Monsters!

Even if the Monsters pursued players who stood still, this delay would provide enough time for his teammates to reach Block A and discover his predicament.

The only question was whether to tip off his teammates.

The WeChat group on his phone was the only way to communicate with his teammates. However, the moment he turned on his phone, the faint glow from the lock screen might instantly activate the continuously waving ghost, which would then begin to hunt him down.

Lost Airship subconsciously clenched his fists, silently praying that the waving ghost would remain in its stupor and that his teammates wouldn’t be foolish enough to make any sound or light upon arrival.

Soon, Ao Yong reached the third floor of Block A’s lobby. He quickly located the beckoning ghost on the first floor’s right side and Lost Airship, standing rigidly still on the basement level.

After a moment’s thought, Ao Yong understood Lost Airship’s predicament. He took out his tablet and @mentioned Plague Doctor in the WeChat group, instructing him not to go to the first floor’s right corridor. Instead, he should wait in the passageway between Block C and Block A to avoid triggering the beckoning ghost in Block A’s first-floor right corridor.

After Ao Yong’s explanation in the WeChat group, Liu Wu Dai and Li Ang, who arrived at Block A one after another, proceeded with extra caution. They slowly approached the outer corridor’s railing and looked down at the beckoning ghost.

"Lost Airship must be saved," Ao Yong frowned and typed deliberately. "We can’t afford the loss of a teammate at the start of the game."

"How do we save him?" Liu Wu Dai typed.

Ao Yong fell silent for a moment, then opened the surveillance software on his tablet and looked at the ghost through the security camera of the first floor’s right corridor.

In the surveillance footage, the ghost was shrouded in a dull gray mist, its face obscured. Only its thin figure and slightly hunched back were visible.

Is it the ghost of that begging old man... Ao Yong thought.

Lost Airship, maintaining his rigid stance, didn’t know what his teammates were discussing. He only saw Ao Yong on the third floor making several gestures, signaling him to remain calm.

Then, Ao Yong took out a snow-white and cute stuffed toy rabbit from his backpack and threw it down from the third floor.

PLOP. The toy rabbit landed on the floor of the first floor’s left corridor, emitting a sweet and soft child-like voice.

"Kiss me, hug me, kiss me, hug me~"

Lost Airship, on the basement level, saw a blur. The beckoning ghost from the first floor’s right corridor flashed past, moving at a speed that left afterimages, and instantly arrived at the first floor’s left corridor.

From his position, Lost Airship couldn’t see what was happening in the corridor directly above, but Ao Yong, Liu Wu Dai, and Li Ang could see everything clearly.

The old man’s beckoning ghost lunged forward and dived directly into the sound-emitting stuffed toy rabbit.

A moment later, the stuffed toy rabbit suddenly swelled and then burst violently. The beckoning ghost reappeared in its original form on the spot, roaring silently toward the sky, seemingly in impotent fury.

The players, who had gathered considerable information on ghosts, felt their eyelids twitch violently. This ghost clearly wanted to possess them!

Li Ang thought, The souls that died in Longheng Mall have become Earthbound Spirits, unable to escape their bindings. Only by finding a living substitute can they escape from here...

This was indeed troublesome. If it had been another type of Monster, negotiation, mediation, or compromise might have been possible. But this kind of ghost, fixated only on finding a living substitute, was the most stubborn and its actions the most rigid.

While Li Ang was still pondering a countermeasure, the warm-toned lights on the mall corridor’s ceiling suddenly blazed to life, illuminating the entire mall as bright as day!

What’s going on? Why did the lights turn on all of a sudden?

Not only Li Ang, but Plague Doctor and Liu Wu Dai were also deeply shocked. Bathed in the warm light, no one could hide.

Lost Airship, on the basement level, had just been thinking of taking advantage of the waving ghost’s momentary paralysis to slip away. To his dismay, he saw the surrounding warm lights suddenly turn on. Then, a face slowly began to materialize on the ceiling above him.

A ghastly pale, old, and vacant male face.

Bathed in the warm light, Lost Airship had no time to think and immediately broke into a sprint.

As an assassin-type player who primarily focused on increasing his Agility Attribute, his running speed was incredibly fast, agile, and swift. With every step, he feigned multiple movements, as if about to swerve sharply to either side.

But the elderly ghost chasing him completely ignored these feints. It swooped in, relentlessly pursuing him, its rigidly outstretched arm coming close to grasping Lost Airship’s back several times.

In a life-or-death moment, Lost Airship suddenly triggered his Title Skill, crouching down with his left foot forward and right foot back, both feet parallel, in a skateboarding stance.

[Title Name: Proud Skateboarder]

[Activation: Active]

[Special Effect: Slide forward at high speed for a distance. The sliding distance and speed are determined by the Agility Attribute.]

[Stamina Cost: 10% of total Stamina Points]

[Cooldown: 10 minutes]

[Note: Boardless sliding is the highest realm of skateboarding.]

The scene before Lost Airship’s eyes suddenly blurred. The surroundings rushed backward at high speed, and the wind howled past his ears. The powerful propulsion made his entire face contort wildly.

Seconds later, Lost Airship had passed through the entire Block A hall and reached the far end of Block C.

He stumbled to a halt and looked back, but he could no longer see the elderly ghost’s figure.

Did I shake it off...?

His heart still racing, Lost Airship arrived at the entrance of the Genia Flagship Store. Using his dagger, which was sharp enough to slice through iron like mud, he twisted the lock open and pushed the door to enter.

He moved silently through rows of men’s clothing racks, vaulted behind a counter, and opened WeChat.

Since light was everywhere, it no longer mattered whether he used his phone or not.

A still-shaken Lost Airship typed, "I shook off that ghost. Where are you guys? How did these lights suddenly turn on?!"

He held his phone and waited for a long time, but there was still no response. Are they also hiding from those ghosts? Lost Airship wondered.

As Lost Airship thought this, surrounded by the dead silence in the luxurious and elegant men’s flagship store, a faint, almost inaudible mechanical sound suddenly arose. He instinctively looked up and saw the surveillance camera on the ceiling slowly panning before finally focusing on him.

"What..."

Before he could finish speaking, a pair of gaunt arms reached down from above the counter. The withered, stiff face of the old man came into Lost Airship’s view.