Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The weather conditions were not very good today, and it was very dark even during the day.
Gu Wuji was still lying on the bed when he was suddenly awakened by screams coming from the corridor.
“What’s going on?” Gu Wuji couldn’t help but rub his eyes and slowly climbed out of bed.
“I don’t know either.” Rong Qingman shook his head. He had just woken up.
After opening the door, Gu Wuji and Rong Qingman finally knew what was going on.
The paintings that originally hung on the wall representing the progress of previous studio members had disappeared. Instead, there were paintings drawn by the players themselves yesterday hanging on the wall.
After one night, the horror of these paintings had not diminished at all, and it made people feel mentally polluted just by looking at them.
There were even players who were overwhelmed and wanted to rush forward and tear the painting into pieces, but in the end they forced themselves to calm down.
“What’s going on? Who brought these paintings here!”
“Are these paintings really okay? I always feel like there will be some monsters in them.”
No one dared to stare at these paintings for too long. They all went downstairs, just trying to pretend nothing had happened.
Gu Wuji looked at the wall and found that his portrait was not here…but that’s right, his painting and these paintings were obviously not in the same style.
He couldn’t help but take a closer look at the other paintings around him. Although these paintings were very weird and terrifying, they were nothing to Gu Wuji. He had seen so many real ghosts anyway, and these were just portraits of corpses.
“Wait a minute.” Gu Wuji suddenly realized something and put his hand on the portrait in front of him, “This is…”
….
After going downstairs, everyone ate breakfast absentmindedly and their spirits were sluggish.
Although they didn’t encounter the windows turning into paintings last night, they still felt the intense sight and couldn’t sleep peacefully. When they woke up and saw those terrible paintings again, they were greatly stimulated psychologically.
Although nothing happened last night and there were still six players left in this dungeon, the situation was still not optimistic.
They had all realized that the situation in this copy had become worse and worse. If they couldn’t think of a way to leave, they may not survive today.
Among these people, only the middle-aged man was relatively calm. It would be better to say that he was eating food in a normal state.
According to the information he had learned, today’s mission was still very peaceful, but after the painting was completed, this dungeon would undergo changes, and ghosts would appear one after another to fight with the players.
As long as he escaped at that time, it wouldn’t be difficult at all.
“Last night…” The red-haired attendant next to him seemed hesitant to speak. He wanted to speak several times but was interrupted by the middle-aged man.
“It’s just a trivial matter. It’s better if the person is not dead. In such a copy, do you still want to sleep for a night?”
“That’s right.” The red-haired follower could only nod, but his expression was still full of a kind of subtle emotion.
By the time they finished eating, no one was mentally prepared. They sat in their seats with pale faces, wanting to delay the meal just a little longer.
Gu Wuji suddenly said: “Rong Qingman, can you accompany me for a walk in the villa? I suddenly feel that I just ate a bit too much and I want to digest it.”
Everyone was shocked after hearing his words.
Then they were even more shocked to see that Rong Qingman, who had been pulling away from everyone since a few days, seemed to be a different person at this time. Not only did he not make any mockery, he immediately walked up to Gu Wuji and said, “This will be an honor for me.”
If others still thought yesterday that Rong Qingman was about to become gay. Today they felt that Rong Qingman was already gay.
“It’s so terrible!”
Seeing Gu Wuji and Rong Qingman walking around the room, the red-haired follower whispered to the middle-aged man: “Is it okay to let them leave alone?”
“What’s the problem? They’re just two gays.” The young man couldn’t help but sneer. He thought these two players were so powerful before… but in the end, they were just two people who couldn’t find any clues in the investigation and gave up on themselves to start a gay relationship. They were not worthy of him focusing on them at all.
….
Everyone came to the studio together and waited quietly for the system to announce today’s task—even though they had already guessed what the task was.
[Congratulations to all players for completing yesterday’s main mission.]
[Trigger new main task: draw a painting worth one million yuan before zero point.]
Even if the result was the same as everyone guessed, they still couldn’t help but shudder when they heard it.
Although it was not impossible to achieve this goal as long as the ghost on the painting equipment could be possessed. But thinking of their weird state and the terrible paintings they drew yesterday, they couldn’t do anything for a while.
“What should we do! We still don’t know how to leave this dungeon…”
“This main quest seems to have no end! If we are asked to draw 100 million next time, who can draw it?!”
Although no one wanted to take action at all, under the requirements of the main mission, they had no choice but to pick up the paintbrush.
The moment they held it, the eyes of these players became slightly dull, but their movements became smooth and abnormally fast.
Not long after, the only female player present screamed. She looked at the portrait in front of her in horror, “Help, help! It’s going to pull me in!!”
Her scream even woke up other players, and everyone looked around and were shocked by what they saw.
The ghost in the portrait had actually stretched out his hand, grinning and was about to pull the female player in.
This terrifying scene made the others dare not even move, their bodies were stiff and they didn’t know what to do, but they all felt a sense of disobedience when they looked at the ghost’s face.
Only the face of the former boyfriend of the female player turned pale, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying.
At this critical moment, Gu Wuji rushed forward, held down the drawing board in front of the female player, and broke it in one swift movement.
As the drawing board broke, the fierce ghost on it looked at Gu Wuji with a look of resentment, and his figure also dissipated. The female player fell to the ground, so frightened that she kept sobbing.
Gu Wuji’s series of actions were so fast that no one else had time to react.
Now that the drawing board was broken, it was obvious that the female player could not complete the main mission, but no one came out to scold Gu Wuji for this… It was better to say that they were a little envious of this female player, who could simply get rid of this mission. They didn’t want to draw it themselves, but they had to draw it for the main mission.
“You don’t need to draw anymore.” Gu Wuji said calmly: “If you continue this main mission, you will only die. If you want to survive, you can’t draw!”
Rong Qingman had never started drawing from the beginning, although he didn’t know what Gu Wuji’s basis was, but he had a vague feeling like this… What’s more, would a kind-hearted person like Gu Wuji still harm him?
The other four remaining players were the original couple, the middle-aged man and his younger brother.
The male player in the couple had an ugly face, “How do you know this kind of thing? This is the main mission. If we don’t complete it, we will die tonight!”
“What happened to her was not accidental. If you finish the painting now, you are the ones who will die soon.” Gu Wuji said, and his attitude was very calm, which made people subconsciously want to believe it.
The middle-aged man’s younger brother couldn’t help but stop painting when he heard this. Only the middle-aged man next to him didn’t take it seriously and continued painting.
“Everyone must have vaguely felt that the ghosts in this painting want to occupy your bodies. As for the portraits, I observed them when I was upstairs before. These portraits all have parts of ghosts attached to them… At the same time, their faces… are a little similar to you.”
But because these people didn’t have the courage to face these terrible paintings before and chose to escape, they couldn’t discover this.
“What?!” Everyone’s expressions were ugly. The faces in the weird portrait were similar to theirs. It was so scary to hear this.
“While these ghosts are using the player’s body to paint, they will also engrave the player’s information in their mind. When the player wants to be able to draw paintings with higher value, they can only entrust their bodies to the ghosts wholeheartedly. Presumably, here, after the painting is completed, players will be trapped in the portrait, but the ghost can leave here with your body.”
“Look carefully, the portrait you painted now is basically a self-portrait.”
Gu Wuji said. The male player seemed frightened by the sound. He seemed to have just seen clearly what he was painting, and suddenly threw away the painting tools in his hand, “Yes… I saw it. The face of the fierce ghost just now was exactly the same as Xiao Jing’s….”
“How could…” Xiao Jing had a look of fear on her face, and her eyes looking at Gu Wuji were filled with gratitude.
At this time, the middle-aged man’s follower also put down his paintbrush tremblingly, not daring to paint another stroke.
Then something even more shocking happened. These portraits that no one was clearly drawing were filled in by themselves, and at an extremely fast speed, as if they were about to be completed.
If it were in the real world, they didn’t know how many painters would want this to happen. But now in this copy, this kind of thing was no different from a horror movie.
The red-haired follower was sweating. He suddenly remembered what Gu Wuji had done before. He picked up the drawing board and wanted to break it. However, he suddenly found that the drawing board was extremely hard, just like a big stone. It was completely beyond his own strength to break it.
“Then how did Sun Shi do it…”
He was so anxious that he almost broke into a cold sweat. The next moment, the ghost in the portrait was about to emerge, and the red-haired follower was so frightened that he almost threw the drawing board away.
At this time, a hand stretched out from the side, picked up the drawing board, and then easily broke the drawing board. The red-haired attendant was dumbfounded, not knowing how strong he was.
“Are you okay?” Gu Wuji looked at the red-haired follower. The male player already had Rong Qingman there to help, so he stopped intervening. Although Rong Qingman was very reluctant to save a stranger, since it was something Gu Wuji told him to do, he would try his best to do it.
“Thank you, Brother Sun!” The red-haired attendant was immediately moved, nodded repeatedly, and said to Gu Wuji: “Save Brother, he is still painting!”
The middle-aged man sneered, “Don’t come over here. You are going to die by breaking the drawing board, but I still have to complete the main mission.”
Gu Wuji advised: “If this continues, the ghost in this painting will swallow you.”
Although he wanted to save people, if the other party, even after knowing it, really didn’t want to, Gu Wuji would respect their choice.
“Yes, brother, just listen to what Brother Sun said!” The red-haired follower shuddered when he thought about what happened just now when he was almost caught by a ghost and said quickly: “What he said must be true!”
“What do you know?” the middle-aged man said: “You people have been possessed by evil ghosts from the beginning, and now you will naturally be swallowed up. But I have controlled this ghost from the beginning, and it will only be used by me. It can’t disobey me.”
Gu Wuji was a little surprised, “It seems you know a lot.”
“You are all going to die anyway,” the middle-aged man said proudly. “But before entering this dungeon, I got the information about this dungeon from a senior player… I know exactly what will happen here. If you people destroy the drawing board, you will be chased to the ends of the earth by those ghosts, and I am completing it. After the main mission, just hide!”
Gu Wuji: “…Sure enough, I had a vague hunch from before.” After all, this middle-aged man had been acting wrong since before.
“Even if you regret it, it’s too late.” The middle-aged man said. The brush in his hand did not stop at all. The painting was only missing the last few strokes, which made him feel even more proud. “After you are all wiped out, I can easily…”
“I’m afraid your wish won’t be fulfilled.” Gu Wuji shook his head and sighed: “You can only comfort yourself in this way.”
Before the man finished speaking, the expression on his face became extremely frightened. He had already seen a ghost crawling out of the portrait close at hand, with the same appearance as himself.
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