Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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After Gu Wuji’s figure left, the female ghost’s figure huddled there and trembled as if she was extremely frightened.
If other players passed by here at this time, they would be extremely shocked. You had to know that such ghosts were simply invincible in the dungeon, and players had no choice but to run when they encountered them.
….
Gu Wuji successfully escaped from the corridor and came to a nearby hall.
The female ghost just now gave him a very dangerous feeling. She was definitely not an ordinary ghost. Moreover, she looked like she wanted to kill him. Gu Wuji didn’t want to stay there and fight her.
So he used the pocket watch immediately, and Gu Wuji had no regrets. But he was thinking that he had seen Austin in this copy before, but now there was no trace of him at all, and he didn’t know where he was hiding.
“Let’s keep going.” Gu Wuji said, looking at the ghost next to him.
The ghost was frightened even paler by Gu Wuji, “It’s too dangerous here, why don’t we find a place to rest.” It really didn’t have the courage to continue walking with this person!
“No, we have to send her back.” Gu Wuji said, looking around, trying to summon the ghost of the maid to ask, but there seemed to be no ghosts around, so he could only look for the other person’s room by himself.
If the ghost was still alive, he would have been covered in cold sweats. “But how should we find her?”
Gu Wuji pondered for a moment. “She is just a little girl. She should not be able to run far. The room should be around here. We should be able to find some clues.”
“Little girl?” The ghost was stunned for a moment. This, the little girl was obviously –
Gu Wuji looked over, his face full of surprise. “What’s wrong?”
The ghost suddenly remembered the story of calling a deer a horse. Before meeting Gu Wuji, its memories were muddy, but now it strangely remembered some messed up things.
Coupled with the dim light and shadow effects in the hall at this time, Gu Wuji’s handsome face looked a bit cold, and there seemed to be some murderous intent in his eyes.
Although it didn’t know why a ghost could imagine so many things, no matter how it thought about it, Gu Wuji must have said this to test him!
“Nothing, nothing.” The ghost said hurriedly, “It’s not good to stay here for a long time. Let’s get out quickly. I heard that if you don’t stay in the room at night but are in the outside world for more than five minutes, powerful ghosts will appear.”
Originally, he wanted to trick Gu Wuji, but after experiencing those things before, it was obvious that Gu Wuji was threatening him! If he did anything again, he might be brutally killed by this human.
“Okay.” Gu Wuji didn’t think much about it and felt that this ghost knew a lot.
Because there was a window next to this hall, it did not appear so dark under the moonlight, and the layout inside could be clearly seen.
“It seems that this is a place for guests to rest.” Gu Wuji reached out and touched the table next to him. “The table is also very clean. Someone must clean it every day.”
It’s no wonder that Felicia was not afraid of others approaching the door. The terrain of this place was more complicated than a maze. It was extremely difficult to find the door with problems.
Gu Wuji had never rashly opened the doors of the surrounding rooms. These doors gave him a bad feeling, as if something terrible would come out if they were opened.
However, the decorations and furniture here gave people a weird and suffocating feeling for some reason. There were also skeletons of unknown creatures on the table, as well as several pieces of paper covered with messy symbols. Gu Wuji couldn’t understand them, but he put them away first to see if they would come in handy in the future.
Just at this moment, the little girl in Gu Wuji’s arms woke up and looked at Gu Wuji timidly. After seeing that the female ghost was not around, she breathed a sigh of relief and seemed to become closer to Gu Wuji.
The ghost next to him thought that this person was too ambitious! This Gu Wuji is not an ordinary person, he looks more like a ghost than a ghost!
“Now that you’re awake, take us to your room.”
….
And over there, the players were facing severe tests.
At this time, the player Lao Tan was holding an oil lamp and walking forward, holding his breath. The oil lamp kept shaking, and every movement affected his mind.
The world outside the oil lamp was eerily dark. It was not because the light was too dim, but because there were too many ghosts around. These countless low-level ghosts surrounded him, almost completely blocking Lao Tan’s vision.
But he didn’t dare to do anything to these ghosts, for fear of attracting those terrible high-level ghosts.
Fortunately, this oil lamp would lead people to the location of the token. As long as you follow the guidance of the light, you don’t have to worry about going wrong.
“The token must be nearby.” Lao Tan took a deep breath and suddenly saw a faint light coming from the front. The ghosts around him actually dispersed at this moment. He was overjoyed, but still remained alert, carefully holding the defensive props and walked slowly over.
What appeared before his eyes was an empty corridor and a painting hanging on the wall.
“So this is the place.” Lao Tan, who had exchanged some information from certain channels, knew all the family members in this building by heart. Cold sweat ran down his face, but he couldn’t calm down his excitement. He took out a piece of news fragment he brought in and said, “This is a portrait of the owner from a hundred years ago, and the female ghost above is his wife. The owner’s wife disagreed with his belief in God, quarreled with him, and finally disappeared. Everyone speculated that she was killed by the owner, but no evidence was found.”
The strangest thing was that even after the owner died, his bodies and those of his family were not found in the house. Instead, there were many charred bodies of people whose identities could not be ascertained, and no one could find out who they were.
“In any case, her ghost is now possessed by this portrait.” Lao Tan took a deep breath, “There is a token entangled in this portrait, and it is more advanced than other tokens. If I can find a way to lure the female ghost away… it will be too difficult for me to do it alone.”
He immediately turned around and prepared to think of a way in the next few days to trick other players over to attract the female ghost’s fire and then secretly get the token himself.
Of course, the best choice for the cannon fodder was Gu Wuji. After all, he looked like the weakest in this copy. He would probably die instantly if facing the female ghost. He wouldn’t even need to kill him himself. He just needed to keep it secret from Rong Qingman. The only pity was that it was unknown whether he was alive or dead.
….
Gu Wuji was walking on the road with the little girl and a ghost.
“You mean, you came out because your parents were arguing and you were worried?” Gu Wuji still maintained a cold and hard tone, and at the same time found a reason for himself to ask the other party.
But he was a little surprised. What was the relationship between the little girl’s parents and Felicia? Maybe it’s some side story…
“Yeah.” The little girl said, “They have been arguing for the past few days, and I’m so worried. Dad seems to be doing something dangerous, and Mom doesn’t want him to continue…”
Gu Wuji noticed something keenly, “So what does your dad usually do?”
“I don’t know either. It seemed like he was with some people who were dressed very warmly… My mother didn’t allow me to see it.” The little girl said, “But from then on I couldn’t leave my room at night.”
“I see.” Gu Wuji guessed that it was because these cult believers held some kind of ceremony that made the building weird and attracted many ghosts.
But this building had clearly been haunted for hundreds of years. Could it be that because of this strange space, even time and space had become disordered?
Gu Wuji was suddenly stunned. In this case, could it be that this little girl was the little daughter of the head of the wealthy family hundreds of years ago? And she must have obviously died afterwards.
Thinking of this, Gu Wuji felt a little reluctant in his heart, and he didn’t know whether the past of this copy could be changed.
By this time, they had reached their destination.
“This is it.” Gu Wuji looked at the door in front of him. It gave him a sense of security, unlike the doors of other rooms which were very dangerous.
The ghost next to him had a distorted expression. Just now, they encountered several monsters on the road, which were easily dealt with by Gu Wuji.
Who was this person?
However, as it followed Gu Wuji all the way, it didn’t know why, but something seemed to vaguely emerge in its mind, but it couldn’t remember anything… It always felt that it was not like this a long time ago.
Looking at the door not far away, the little girl took Gu Wuji’s hand and nodded, looking very excited.
Gu Wuji pushed the door open, and it was pitch black inside, and he couldn’t see anything clearly.
Gu Wuji thought about it and said to the little girl: “If you feel that the situation is really not right, you should not stay in this room. See if you can hide at a relative’s house.”
Although he didn’t know if it would work, this was the limit of what he could do. After all, they probably won’t meet again after this meeting.
“Okay.” The little girl looked at Gu Wuji blankly, as if she didn’t understand what he meant.
She was not that afraid of the dark room, so she ran out in small steps and before they separated, then she stuffed something into Gu Wuji’s hand.
“Big brother, thank you!” Although the little girl was quite afraid of Gu Wuji at the beginning, she had noticed the gentleness hidden under his cold appearance as they got along. When they encountered monsters, he always asked her to close her eyes and was very careful in his movements.
What’s more, if it weren’t for Gu Wuji, how could she have come back here? The little girl immediately thanked Gu Wuji, “I’ll give that thing to you, big brother.”
With that, the little girl entered the room and closed the door.
Gu Wuji looked at her back with some emotion and lowered his head to find that what she had stuffed into his hand was a ring, which was shining with a faint light. Maybe it was some important prop. Anyway, no matter what its use was, Gu Wuji put it away first.
“The side quest is completed now.”
But unexpectedly, after half a day, the system did not give any prompts, which made Gu Wuji’s heart pounding, “Could it be that this is not her room? Will she be in danger?”
Although Gu Wuji did not feel any bad premonition at the door, who knew what would happen inside.
He pulled the door open suddenly but felt a sense of distortion the moment he pushed it open, as if his body had penetrated through a crack in space. With another step, he arrived at the hall he had just entered.
There was an oil lamp with a faint light hanging on the wall here, which looked very peaceful.
Gu Wuji didn’t expect that he would actually come out of that strange space like this. It was also because he had been struggling for too long and it was almost dawn.
“I hope she is okay…”
But the ghost was still following Gu Wuji. Its body was stiff and shaking. Its mission had been completed. Now it was wondering whether this human would kill it to silence it.
“Thank you very much, you can go.” Gu Wuji looked at the other party and nodded.
The ghost breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to leave the building immediately and stay away from this evil star, but it was stunned to find that it could not stay more than three meters away from Gu Wuji.
Ghost: “…” Please spare me!
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