Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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“How is it possible?!” The middle-aged man’s face showed more disbelief than fear. He didn’t believe how he could overturn even after knowing so much information. “How is it possible? This, the ghosts have obviously always obeyed my orders. Could it be that-“
Gu Wuji stepped forward to save people but was held back by Rong Qingman. “Look, the speed at which the ghost is devouring him far exceeds that of others. After all, the connection between him and the ghost was not as close as others before, but in fact he has been manipulated. Even if the drawing board is broken, he will only die directly!”
When Rong Qingman said these words, he was still a little happy in my heart. If it weren’t for Gu Wuji’s interference yesterday, he probably wouldn’t be alive here now.
“The weakness of this dungeon ghost is actually easy to find. There will be some information hints wherever the ghost is, such as being afraid of fire or something else… But this is a trap. In fact, these ghosts are just using this disguised obedience to seize every opportunity to attack players.”
Even a person of Rong Qingman’s strength couldn’t guard against them, let alone the middle-aged man.
“Impossible! I don’t believe -“
Amidst the middle-aged man’s wailing, everyone discovered that his body had long become closely connected with the existence inside the canvas. In just a blink of an eye, the figure had already disappeared from outside the canvas.
However, a twisted scene of two ghosts entangling with each other appeared on the canvas. As you got closer, you could faintly hear the screams of people.
The red-haired follower sighed and said: “I have felt that something is not right with my brother since last night. He suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and started sleepwalking… But when I told him in the morning, he just felt that there was nothing wrong with him. Sure enough…”
The other two people present looked shocked, almost throwing away the painting tools in their hands as if they were touching a hot potato. However, in fact, when the drawing board in front of them was broken, they could no longer feel the ghost on their bodies.
“There’s no time now.” Gu Wuji said, “Let’s escape quickly. If I’m not mistaken, the ghosts in this copy will appear soon.”
“They haven’t disappeared yet?” The other people took a deep breath, thinking that these ghosts had dissipated as the drawing board was broken.
“They are ghosts that have been in this room for so long. How could they dissipate so easily?” Rong Qingman said, looking at Gu Wuji again, as if asking about the ghosts in him.
Gu Wuji shook his head.
The next moment, the male ghost attached to his body suddenly appeared, with a look of pain on his face, but he said firmly, “I finally remembered!”
Everyone around him looked over in fear.
“What did you remember?” Gu Wuji looked over.
“I don’t know if it’s because of the loose restraints in this room, but I suddenly remembered the past…” The ghost murmured in a low voice, with a slight twist on his face from time to time, as if saying these words was taking a lot of effort from him. “I was good friends with the owner of this studio, so he took good care of me when I was in the studio.”
“When my painting skills improved, he very sincerely congratulated me and comforted me that the previous abnormality in painting was just because of too much pressure, but I didn’t expect that all this was just the beginning of the curse.”
“If you want to escape, you can only go to the third floor! That’s where the key to unlocking the curse lies.”
The ghost’s figure dimmed as he spoke.
Others were stunned, but even if they suspected that what the ghost in front of them said was false, they could only do what the other party was saying. After all, the truth about this copy was obviously hidden on the third floor.
[Main mission: Draw a painting worth one million, failed.]
[Trigger new main quest: Learn the truth about this cursed studio.]
[Because the players did not follow the original rules in the studio, the ghosts in the studio have entered a manic state and will do everything possible to kill the players.]
The system had released the mission, and everyone was ready to run.
And although this new task still seemed difficult to complete, no matter how you looked at it, it was a task that would still appear in ordinary copies. Those painting tasks before would have only ended in death if they continued to paint.
Gu Wuji thought thoughtfully, “It seems that the real main plot can be triggered only when the mission fails. The consequences of mission failure in the system prompt are actually hints to the real approach.”
But no one dared to risk not completing the main mission.
What Gu Wuji originally told Rong Qingman yesterday was that he planned not to finish the painting today to see what would happen if the mission failed.
Rong Qingman originally just thought that Gu Wuji was such a holy man that he wanted to be the first to come out and was even willing to do such a thing… But after what happened last night, he simply admired Gu Wuji’s behavior to the extreme, so he also didn’t draw at all today.
But he didn’t expect that the limit of the system’s main mission was already today, and it didn’t even give players a chance to breathe for another day.
The group of people immediately left this strange basement in a hurry. As they walked on the path, they felt that the outside atmosphere was extremely cold.
When everyone came out of the basement, they immediately showed horrifying looks. The hall that originally seemed to be hiding something had revealed its true appearance.
There was blood splattered everywhere, and the surrounding furniture had weird graffiti on it. The wall facing the players was covered in blood and there were huge, creepy eyeballs crawling over it.
Rong Qingman frowned when he saw this graffiti, as if he was thinking of something, but he couldn’t quite grasp it.
When everyone was passing through the storage room, the male ghost on Gu Wuji suddenly said: “Be careful!”
The next moment, the female ghost on him suddenly became frantic, looking as if she was about to break free from Gu Wuji’s body, and her face was ferocious to the extreme, she kept making roaring sounds, which scared the people around him.
Gu Wuji sighed, “Sure enough, I can’t control it anymore…”
Amidst the shocked eyes of the others, Gu Wuji stretched out his hand and used a confining magic to temporarily suppress the female ghost.
This was also because Gu Wuji used the charcoal he brought yesterday, and did not allow these ghosts to possess him while successfully coming into contact with the paintings, making them not as powerful as other ghosts, otherwise maybe there would be nothing Gu Wuji could rely on.
But even so, the female ghost continued to struggle, as if she would break free from her imprisonment and attack everyone at the next moment.
Everyone was still confused. When had they ever seen such a powerful scene?! How did you manage to suppress the ghost by just reaching out your hand?
Although they knew that Sun Shi was powerful, they had thought that the other party was powerful in terms of homosexuality, but they did not expect that his strength had reached such an astonishing level.
The bound ghosts brought by Rong Qingman were also furious. Their current situation was as if they had been unchained and lost their minds.
“What are you doing? Keep walking. Go to the third floor.” Rong Qingman gritted his teeth and urged everyone. In fact, he didn’t even want to bother to care about the lives of these ordinary players.
The others came to their senses and immediately ran towards the location upstairs. In fact, they all wanted to escape from the dungeon directly through the door, but before they knew the truth about the dungeon, they knew that such behavior would be no different than seeking death.
Gu Wuji, who was following behind, looked at the door, then turned to look at Rong Qingman, who nodded solemnly.
When everyone rushed to the second floor, they immediately saw an extremely horrific scene.
The paintings on the wall seemed to have come alive, with pairs of cold eyes looking at everyone eerily, and the blood on the paintings continued to flow to the ground.
The window at the end was even open, revealing a strange red light from the outside world.
“What on earth is that…what happened outside this villa?”
“Fortunately we didn’t go out from the first floor just now.”
Everyone couldn’t help but feel scared. It was conceivable that if they entered that bloody world, their end would definitely be inevitable. This was not a metaphor.
But these portraits were definitely difficult to deal with. Everyone took out all the props on their bodies and bravely walked towards them. When they entered the area in front of the portraits, the ghosts who were originally just looking at the outside world with a sinister look immediately had a ferocious smile on their faces, their body suddenly came out of the screen, and they grabbed at everyone.
The players opened the props on their bodies one after another, so that they could barely resist the attack of the ghost and continue walking.
But even so, it was difficult for these props to last long under the attack of ghosts, not to mention that the blood on the ground blocked their way out at some point, and their faces had turned extremely ugly.
Gu Wuji walked over and stopped directly in front of a portrait. The latter sneered and attacked Gu Wuji. When he leaned out, Gu Wuji directly held down his shoulders.
The ghost in the portrait: “???”
“I’m sorry, although you seem very enthusiastic, and I also want to communicate with you more, but I don’t have time now.” Gu Wuji said this, and he pressed the ghost back into the portrait forcefully.
Others: “…”
Rong Qingman looked as if he didn’t care about his own family.
When Gu Wuji continued to walk forward, the ghosts in the portrait actually shrank and looked in other directions, trying to pretend that they didn’t see anything.
Others: “??!” Are you still considered a scary ghost in this copy?!
Under the leadership of Gu Wuji, everyone was no longer nervous as before, and they walked so smoothly that they all wondered why they thought they were going to die just now.
Was this what it felt like to be able to hug a big boss’ thigh? It was so touching that they all began to regret why they hadn’t been more attentive to him in the first place.
As for Rong Qingman, he walked at the end, ready to see if there were any other changes in these portraits.
The last portrait was not that simple. What appeared on it was the middle-aged man and another ghost. The two of them now seemed to be fused together. They looked extremely weird and made people feel psychologically uncomfortable.
After seeing Gu Wuji, the ghost’s eyes showed a look of resentment. He didn’t care about the other players in front of him at all, but directly attacked Gu Wuji, and let out an unpleasant and hoarse sneer.
“Even if I die, I will drag you to be buried with me!!”
What was even more terrifying was that the other party was still dripping with blood as if he was melting. It felt like you would be corroded if you touched it with your hands. Maybe this was why it could be so unscrupulous.
He had no idea why this person had such hatred for him. The moment the other party appeared, he took out the female ghost who was still in a state of madness.
The ghost who was originally very proud in the portrait was suddenly startled, with a faint look of horror on his face.
After all, he felt that he was not afraid of recklessness, but this female ghost… After merging with the memory of this ghost, he knew that this female ghost was so crazy that he couldn’t get along with her even if he fought against her.
“Well, actually I…you see, everyone was a player before, so…”
In the next moment, Gu Wuji took advantage of the situation and sent the female ghost directly into the portrait, and untied the other party’s body, “Sorry, I’m on my way and leaving first. If you want to chat, you can talk to this lady.”
Everyone seemed to be able to hear the wailing coming from the portrait. But they didn’t care so much, so the red-haired follower took one last sneak look, and then sighed.
His previous admiration for this middle-aged man was from the bottom of his heart, but who would have thought that the other person actually turned out to be such a person.
And Rong Qingman also stuffed the bound ghost on his side into the portrait with an indifferent expression, not caring at all whether the people inside would be crowded.
The ghosts in the portrait: “…”
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