Chapter 2692: Large and Small Skeleton Monsters

The Girl in the painting didn’t know about this and didn’t care, saying she wanted to grab the most fun stuff once they got out.

The three of them quickly exited the ghost house and divvied up the items at the door.

Yan Jiayu had a detector, and apart from those little gadgets used to conceal their presence, the highest-level item was actually the lamp in the Girl in the painting’s hand.

The lamp would light up as soon as it was lifted, but when she raised it, the previously gentle light became unbearably dazzling, causing everyone present to turn their heads away.

"This is a good thing." She shoved the lamp back into the Girl in the painting’s hands, "When you enter the castle, lift up the lamp."

The Girl in the painting wasn’t very interested and gave the lamp to Xu Huo, while she packed some fireworks into her backpack.

The Jiji Bird knew of a warehouse storing fireworks and firecrackers, so the group changed locations, each carrying a bag of firecrackers as they came out.

They couldn’t stride openly on the streets due to the bulk of items they carried, so they spent most of the day wandering different streets, sometimes hiding in shop warehouses, or in transit stations.

Night came quickly, as planned earlier, when the carnival began, and the puppet people around the Puppet Wall decreased, they found a place to climb the Puppet Wall.

Climbing the Puppet Wall wasn’t difficult; Xu Huo opened multiple Mental Portals, sending everyone to their predetermined positions on the wall, the six points were quite spread out, and needing to avoid the skeleton monsters within the wall, they had to cooperate using signals, so everyone prepared enough glow sticks in advance.

Yan Jiayu’s group was the first to emerge, she and the Jiji Bird were only a hundred meters apart. As they threw the fireworks acting as bait from the Puppet Wall, two Ice Needles struck the fireworks with almost no gap, extinguishing them instantly.

When climbing onto the Puppet Wall earlier, Xu Huo didn’t sense anything below, but as Yan Jiayu and her team threw out the fireworks, a skeleton frame appeared under the wall; it was only a meter tall, its bones sleek and bright, standing out against the dark Puppet Wall—thus attracting attention as it moved.

When the Ice Needles sealed the fireworks, it practically transformed into a flash of light, reaching the top of the Puppet Wall in the blink of an eye, its arms extended outside the wall, ice needles rapidly condensed and swept towards Yan Jiayu and the Jiji Bird below like bullets.

Now it was Xu Huo’s turn to act. The space within the Puppet Wall somewhat restricted the Spiritual World’s range, but not to the point of being unfeasible, so Xu Huo first sent fireworks into the skeleton monster’s body, and when luminescence began to flicker, he tentatively threw two glow sticks; noticing the skeleton monster didn’t chase immediately, he switched to different colored glow sticks aiming them in various directions, simultaneously releasing Ghost Face Smoke.

The other four groups, receiving the signal, leapt from the high wall.

The closest to Yan Jiayu’s duo were Crocodile and Peacock, similarly, they were also nearest to the skeleton monster; they were purposely positioned between the two decoys to contain the skeleton monster, although the timing was staggered, in just a moment, the skeleton monster that originally headed towards Xu Huo’s duo suddenly folded back, Crocodile and Peacock were caught mid-air by the skeleton monster and sent flying, their bodies half frozen upon impact!

Luckily, neither of them were injured, but the puppet suit passively limited their movement, they were immediately pulled and pressed into the wall by the live puppets, and soon vanished.

All this happened in an instant, with a shift of gaze, the skeleton monster was again before Xu Huo and Dai He!

The Ice Needle hit quickly against the Defensive Barrier, obscuring the forward view, the temperature dropped sharply, the vision filled with white mist, Dai He descended from the Puppet Wall, grasping a rope prop to slide down, both to buy time and to attract the skeleton monster’s attention.

When the puppets on the Puppet Wall came to life, they stacked up one by one, forming a pyramid-shaped puppet tower, extending out attempting to grab Dai He, who was leaping among them.

Xu Huo had already reached the ground, the fireworks and Ghost Face Smoke hadn’t vanished, he manipulated Materialized Items and Spatial Instruments to restrain the skeleton monster’s movements, providing Yan Jiayu and the Jiji Bird a chance to descend the wall.

Yan Jiayu and the Jiji Bird acted swiftly, teleporting to the ground and rushing towards the castle without hesitation, they quickly outpaced the Girl in the painting and others who left earlier.

The instrument-released shuttle spun like a stream of light in the Ghost Face Smoke, piercing through floating ghost faces and trapping the skeleton monster inside, Xu Huo calculated the timing, and as he prepared to leave the Puppet Wall, he felt something rapidly approaching ahead, furrowing his brows and quickly dodged, feeling a gust of wind—being almost swept past by the Jiji Bird hit in the chest by the skeleton monster!

Not just one skeleton monster!

Xu Huo instinctively reacted swiftly, the mechanical suit covering his arms, and punched the skeleton monster’s skull!

The skeleton monster flew sideways but swiftly returned, a storm of Ice Needles gushed in, not having time to activate new Defense Props, he used Materialized Items as a shield to fend off, retreating with the Jiji Bird!

Crocodile and Peacock had already escaped from the Puppet Wall, Xu Huo tossed the Jiji Bird to them, expanding the shuttle’s attack range as he charged forward, catching the similarly sent-back Yan Jiayu.

"That was close!" Yan Jiayu, recognizing him, let out a sigh of relief, quickly saying, "There are two big skeleton monsters in the mist ahead..."

She had barely finished speaking when her gaze slowly lifted.

The fireworks released amid the chaos had failed, but the Ghost Face Smoke hadn’t dissipated, although it was limited in height, the large skeleton monsters Yan Jiayu mentioned were at least ten meters tall skeletal frames, differing from the luminous bones of the small skeleton monsters, their bodies entirely pitch black, rising amid thick black clouds, resembling the malevolent ghosts of story legend.

They were silent and still, sweeping their hands forward from behind, sending Zhu Bo, Qi Cong, Hongxi, and Si Qi flying back; a strong airflow akin to a Space Wall, pushing everyone towards the Puppet Wall!

"The fog is toxic!" Xu Huo loudly warned everyone, seeing the black mist swept by the wind.

Those wearing props didn’t need to worry; strictly speaking, Xu Huo was already a prop, immune to the toxic gas, but the rest needed to be cautious.

All Spatial Instruments malfunctioned at this moment, unable to activate the Defensive Barrier, Zhu Bo and others could only tighten their head coverings over their noses and mouths.

"Split up!" Xu Huo said to Yan Jiayu, then the two charged towards the two large skeleton monsters facing the wind, one to the left and one to the right.