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Zhang Xiaomo couldn't imagine how the Red Coffin, which was so troublesome just a moment ago, could now be completely destroyed right before her eyes.

And the way it was destroyed was just as inconceivable.

She now understood that the greatest terror of the Red Coffin was its ability to trigger the deepest fears hidden within everyone's heart and to manifest those fears.

For instance, her own fears of being tapped on the shoulder and hair in the water, but Yan Junze, because he entered the room late, hadn't witnessed what his fear was.

Yet just now, the moment those huge tentacles reached out from the coffin, Zhang Xiaomo realized, this was Yan Junze's fear.

She just couldn't understand what kind of fear these tentacles stemmed from; it couldn't possibly be that Yan Junze had actually encountered them before, could it?

If he really had encountered them before, then that would be truly terrifying.

Seeing Zhang Xiaomo still staring at him unblinkingly, Yan Junze smiled and said, "The huge tentacle from a moment ago belonged to a character from a comic I read when I was a child. It was my first time reading a comic, and after finishing it, I was scared all night and couldn't sleep."

"A horror comic?" Zhang Xiaomo asked curiously.

"Sort of," Yan Junze nodded. Continue your adventure at My Virtual Library Empire

"So the huge tentacle just now is..." Zhang Xiaomo pointed in the direction of the pile of shattered planks.

"You can call it... Boss Ke," Yan Junze said.

Seeing that Zhang Xiaomo didn't seem to understand, he shrugged his shoulders and explained, "Don't worry about who Boss Ke is for now. Anyway, that guy really scared me a lot when I was a kid, but I'm not afraid anymore.

Just now, in order to destroy this Red Coffin, I deliberately immersed myself in that feeling of fear I had the first time I encountered Boss Ke, continuously reminiscing and searching for that fear. Once I found that fear, I kept recalling it over and over in my mind until the Red Coffin sensed it and sure enough, it triggered the appearance of Boss Ke."

It seems now that every time the Red Coffin stimulates a fear in humans or strangenesses, what appears inside the coffin actually exists, just like the water accumulated a moment ago.

The walls of this room, including the ceiling, were all soaked through, which proved the existence of water.

And the strangeness that patted Zhang Xiaomo on the shoulder might have indeed taken on the appearance of her uncle. If Zhang Xiaomo had turned around to look, she might have had an extra uncle for the rest of her life.

As for the clump of black hair in the water, after being materialized by the Red Coffin, it was indeed real, only to be sucked away by a strangeness in the [Whispers] task, relieving Yan Junze and his colleagues of the encirclement.

So to say, after Yan Junze's incubation of fear, the appearance of Boss Ke had become inevitable, and as an almost top-tier representative of human fear towards the unknown, Boss Ke's appearance would surely cause the coffin to be unable to withstand it, directly getting blown apart by the powerful fear that hadn't even fully materialized yet.

Of course, this was also the result of Yan Junze's careful consideration.

After all, the task level of [Red Coffin] is only "Terrified (Low)," and for the task difficulty of "Terrified (Low)," he had already gained a deep understanding during his first mission, [Tricky Silk], in the Mountain Park.

Of course, the Boss in [Tricky Silk] had a very peculiar ability. The infection of Dark Poison could even defy the influence of time and space, which makes Yan Junze suspect now that it wasn't because the Boss was so powerful, but because of some reason, the power of Dark Poison exceeded the Boss's own understanding.

It was like a fluke.

Zhang Xiaomo didn't speak, just lying flat on the ground, resting and listening to Yan Junze's explanation.

Due to the angle, she naturally tilted her head, staring at Yan Junze, and before she realized it, her head was resting on his thigh.

Since the position was comfortable, Zhang Xiaomo didn't intend to move away, and Yan Junze, upon noticing, felt somewhat embarrassed but, thinking that Zhang Xiaomo had nearly suffocated just now, allowed her to rest a bit longer without saying anything.

After listening to Yan Junze's explanation, Zhang Xiaomo was still confused, blinking her eyes and just staring at him.

Yan Junze smiled and said, "If there's anything you need me to explain further, just ask."

Zhang Xiaomo thought for a moment and said, "Who is Boss Ke?"

Yan Junze thought about it, since this world might not have that mythological system, as he had never seen it up to now, and he mused, "You've seen 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' haven't you?"

"Hmm," Zhang Xiaomo nodded.

The movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" did exist in this world.

"The captain in there, Davy Jones, commonly known as the 'Octopus Man,' well, Boss Ke is probably something like that," Yan Junze said.

Zhang Xiaomo was taken aback, then realized, "You mean that captain whose face is covered in octopus tentacles, and all the tentacles squirm when he speaks, making people feel so disgusted they want to throw up?"

"Right, something like that," Yan Junze nodded.

Zhang Xiaomo patted her chest, "Good thing that thing didn't crawl out of the coffin."

"Yeah," Yan Junze laughed, "It's a good thing it didn't come out, otherwise the whole Tianmeng would be in trouble."

But on the other hand, even with the Red Coffin's abilities, it couldn't fully materialize such a great terror.

"Rest a bit more, and then let's take that guy away together," Yan Junze said, nodding in the direction of the injured exorcist lying in the corner of the room.

Zhang Xiaomo was startled, looked over, and only then did she notice someone was lying there.

"An exorcist?" she asked.

"Right, a colleague."

Zhang Xiaomo coughed a few more times, propped herself up with her hands to sit up, covering her chest and gasping slightly.

Because of the violent coughing, she felt a pain in her chest, as if tearing through her body, stretching from her chest to her back.