Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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But Gu Wuji maintained a calm look on his face, “Calculating the time, it should be almost the same.”
“What did you say?” The ghost looked at him in surprise, then sneered, “This house is completely mine. It’s impossible for you to lie to me.”
“Of course I didn’t lie to you.” Gu Wuji looked at the other party, “But didn’t you feel the fire on the first floor? If this continues, your most perfect painting will be burned in the flames.”
The ghost didn’t think so at first, but then his expression suddenly changed when he felt something, “What have you done?”
“Nothing! “Rong Qingman’s mocking voice sounded: “It’s just some manipulation.”
In the morning, while Gu Wuji and Rong Qingman were taking a walk, the two of them did some manipulation at the entrance to the first floor.
Gu Wuji was already suspicious of the ghost at that time, so he left everything to Rong Qingman to prevent the ghost from noticing what they were doing.
As a player who was almost ready to upgrade to a high-level dungeon, he was not troubled by the small problem of controlling when and how much a fire would start, not to mention that Gu Wuji had already prepared matches.
As for whether the flame could continue to burn, there was absolutely no problem. After all, this was the world in the painting. Gu Wuji guessed that if he continued to let things go like this, the whole painting would be burned down like the abandoned hospital.
“You!!” The ghost looked at Gu Wuji with strong murderous intent, “I will kill you here, and it will be the same when I go back…”
“Really?” Gu Wuji looked at him, “I think there is not enough time. If it is a little later, the painting may not be complete. Is this still the perfect painting in your mind, or is it still something you think you can use to defeat Jin Yu?”
The ghost could barely maintain his composure. In this state, when it heard Gu Wuji mention Jin Yu, it seemed to be so irritated that it could not even maintain its human form. It glanced at Gu Wuji angrily several times, but its body still penetrated the black mist behind it, obviously going to the first floor.
Gu Wuji breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that this painting was extremely important to the ghost. It was a pity that he was afraid that taking down the painting directly would cause the ghost to kill people in advance. Otherwise, it would be quite good to threaten the ghost now.
Then he turned around and looked over. Everyone was still entangled by the statues. These statues were very strange and would not move when others were looking at them, but as long as someone’s eyes were not focused on them, they would move closer to the people around them.
And the scary thing was that they were all extremely delicately carved. At first glance, they looked like real people, which made people even doubt whether they were really filled with human souls.
This simply made other players miserable, but their abilities were not enough to destroy these statues, so they could only bite the bullet and keep dodging, for fear of being touched by these statues.
As for Rong Qingman, although he was not entangled by the statues, he was not the kind of person to help others out. He just looked around nervously for information about the truth about this copy.
After all, the ghost below just went to put out the fire and could be back here in any minute. If they couldn’t complete the main quest before then, they would be in trouble.
Gu Wuji looked at these statues and couldn’t help but fall into silence. After all, they looked so familiar. He had bumped into this once before at Jin Yu’s house.
It seemed that the owner of this house was obsessed with wanting to surpass Jin Yu. Not to mention paintings, he even imitated other people’s works of art… But from the very beginning, if he chose to imitate, he was destined to be unable to surpass the other party.
The red-haired follower was already trembling with fear. He noticed that no matter where he hid, there were already statues all around him. The two surrounding players who were once lovers were actually unwilling to come in contact at this time, and they didn’t even want to talk about cooperation, making the three of them unknowingly surrounded by statues.
“What on earth should we do?!”
The red-haired follower turned his head and saw the ferocious face of a statue. He was almost scared to cry.
At this moment, a hand suddenly rested on the statue’s shoulder.
The hand looked slender and beautiful, but when he gently put it on it, the statue seemed to be shaken, and it felt like it would crack if it moved again.
At this moment, the red-haired follower even felt a humanized look of fear appear on the statue’s face.
“Are you okay?” Gu Wuji leaned over and looked at the three stunned players, then looked at the statues aside, “Speaking of which, I have also solved some emotional problems with statues that are very similar to yours before. I think you may also need my help.”
The statue couldn’t help but tremble. If it could move freely like humans, it would definitely be shaking its head crazily at this time.
But it couldn’t, so Gu Wuji had directly used the purification technique on it, and immediately saw the resentment of the statue in front of him…
“You are very concerned about the fact that you are not so handsome after you were carved.” Gu Wuji opened his eyes. Then he said: “After all, the statues around you are very good-looking, which makes you unpopular here.”
The other three players were confused. They simply couldn’t understand what Gu Wuji was talking about. How did he get along with it? Statue communication! So this was the boss?
The statue in front of Gu Wuji suddenly froze, as if something important had been said, and the whole statue was like an eggplant beaten by frost.
“It’s okay.” Gu Wuji took out the kitchen knife directly from his arms: “Let me help you, although I have never done anything like carving…”
At this time, everyone actually saw that the statue was actually starting to shake its head with difficulty! It was as if he was extremely afraid of this matter.
Not only this statue, but the other statues all retreated at this time, hiding in far places as if they were just ordinary statues, for fear that they would not be able to help them out of kindness.
The crisis was resolved just like that, and no one else came back to their senses.
“It seems that for the statues in this house, what they care about most is their appearance.” Gu Wuji couldn’t help but think thoughtfully, “And from its memory, I don’t see anything that looks like a human being. They just have their own will. But it’s just a statue.”
Gu Wuji finally let go of the statue in front of him. After all, he was afraid that he would accidentally disfigure someone accidentally.
“What are you still doing? Find me information about the main plot!” Rong Qingman turned around and ordered the other players impolitely.
The other players immediately went to search elsewhere in the house. Only the red-haired follower carefully came to Gu Wuji and whispered: “Brother Sun. I have something to say to you about my eldest brother.”
“Oh? Gu Wuji said, “You tell me.”
“Actually, brother has the habit of talking in his sleep at night.” The red-haired follower had a cold sweat on his face, “So he has already told me everything he knows. He also thought that this world is a world in a painting… I don’t know whether this is true or not.”
Gu Wuji nodded. From this point of view, the information provided by the so-called advanced players was indeed some true some false. And most of them were true… but the more this happened, the more terrifying it was. After all, you never know when you will die because of false information.
“And he also told the name of the person he traded with. Maybe the other person thought that he couldn’t get out of the dungeon at all.” Cold sweat dripped down the red-haired follower’s face, and he quietly said a few words in front of Gu Wuji.
Gu Wuji didn’t expect to learn such news so soon, so he immediately remembered the name in his mind, and then nodded to the red-haired follower.
The latter was completely relieved after confessing what was in his heart, so that he would have nothing to regret, and his elder brother’s revenge would be avenged. As for the middle-aged man who was now entangled with the ghost, he was not regarded by the red-haired follower as someone he once respected.
Gu Wuji looked elsewhere in the room and came to Rong Qingman, “Have you not discovered the news hidden here yet?”
Rong Qingman frowned and said: “There is no information at all here, and you can’t even see any cabinets. There is not even a bathroom or other bedrooms. It is estimated that the owner of the studio does not live here. There are only useless statues and paintings, and nothing can be explained.”
As for the huge floor-to-ceiling windows on the other side of the room, he could only see the bloody world outside and nothing else.
Gu Wuji frowned and suddenly thought of something, “No, these statues and paintings are not useless.”
He said and walked towards a painting in the room.
This was a strange portrait. The person in the portrait looked at the outside world with a cold expression and showed a cold smile when he saw Gu Wuji.
“Stupid outsiders, don’t even think about getting any information from me.”
“These portraits all have this attitude.” Rong Qingman said bitterly: “I think they should all be burned!”
But when he heard Rong Qingman’s words, the portraits all looked like they would rather be burnt than be broken, very arrogant. Obviously, although they were not threatening, they were quite proud.
Seeing this, Gu Wuji took out the charcoal pencil as if nothing had happened and started to draw on the portrait in front of him.
The portrait that had been full of pride before suddenly showed a look of horror, “Damn it, what are you going to do! Such a precious painting like me is not something someone like you can tarnish.”
“Is that really so?” Gu Wuji thought: “These paintings and statues are not as spiritual as those in Jin Yu’s home. But they are like the owner of this villa, with a sense of pride and do not allow others to make any modifications to them.”
Gu Wuji looked very calm on his face, “Don’t be afraid, I just want to make it more perfect for you.”
As he said that, Gu Wuji’s hand was already pressed on the frame. The person in the portrait was already pale, and he quickly said, “I’ll tell you everything you need to know! Don’t do it again!”
Gu Wuji frowned and sighed, “I’ll be very sad if you say that. I just want to help you, do you think I am just a person who will do whatever it takes to get information?”
These portraits wanted to curse, isn’t that what it is? Can a kind and good person do such a thing?
However, Gu Wuji’s expression was extremely sincere, making people feel that what he said was true, and that he might actually do something that he thought would help others soon! It was not like other people’s words, where it would just sound like a normal threat. Even if you don’t comply, there’s no need to worry.
The portrait saw the charcoal that was about to drop, and its fear reached its peak, and the speed of speech increased, “That’s it! The things belonging to the owner of this villa are hidden behind me! What are you going to do to him? It’s okay, but don’t do anything to me.”
The others were silent for a while, not expecting that the portrait would sell out its owner so quickly. Of course, Gu Wuji’s image in their hearts was also refreshed.
“Thank you very much for your help.” Gu Wuji said softly, making the portrait tremble. He just wanted to get away from this man quickly.
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