Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Gu Wuji walked inside the building.
It was very dark here even during the day. The surroundings were also extremely quiet, as if no one existed. After all, everyone else should have gone to sleep at this time.
Gu Wuji turned a corner and arrived at the study. The door was locked tightly and there were two masked servants guarding the door. They saluted Gu Wuji respectfully, as if they all knew his identity, and opened the door directly.
Gu Wuji now felt that his identity as a spy was quite reliable. Under normal circumstances, if he were to get entangled with the servants, who knows what would happen.
There was quite a lot of information in the study. Gu Wuji picked it up and took a look. It was all information about some people, exactly the same as the information of the players on Felicia’s desk. There was a red cross on the profile pictures of these people.
And if you looked closely, you would find that each person had encountered extremely strange events, and after they escaped by chance, they became fanatical believers of the evil god.
“What does this mean? Were these people once believers who came here?” Gu Wuji frowned. “The red cross means they are all dead? If it is really as others think, all they have to do is wait for the ceremony to be completed, how could someone die here?”
Of course, he had never thought about such a thing. After all, the evil god was not a charity.
Then Gu Wuji saw another photo, which showed a serious-looking couple and a child who was obviously Felicia. Apart from looking a little depressing, the photo looked like a very ordinary family no matter how you looked at it.
“What happened to Felicia that made him become like this, and what is my role in this…”
Gu Wuji walked to the other side and found a pile of things that looked like notes on the cabinet, with signs of being burned.
“These are…”
Gu Wuji was stunned when he opened it. This was obviously the diary of the owner from a hundred years ago. It recorded how he escaped from a shipwreck and seemed to hear the voice of God. Since then, he became the most devout believer of God. He also made many companions and had been studying how to summon God here.
As for his family, he certainly didn’t not care about them, but he firmly believed that after summoning the gods, he would be able to fulfill their wishes, and even his dead relatives and friends could be resurrected, and they would eventually believe what he said.
“I see.” Gu Wuji thought, “But this person’s summoning method is obviously wrong. He didn’t summon the evil god at all. Instead, his whole family died. After that, this place had become a weird haunted place.”
Gu Wuji hurriedly read through the diaries. The more he read, the more it sounded like it was written by someone with a mental problem. Probably the most valuable part was that the owner mentioned that he held a ceremony in a secret room and gained some things. This made him very excited.
Later, the master also mentioned that his wife did not approve of his great deeds, and they often quarreled. He had begun to think about whether to kill his wife and resurrect her later.
Gu Wuji: “…” Sure enough, this was the mysterious thought of the evil god’s followers!
“We really have to find that secret room. Maybe that’s the door Felicia mentioned.”
The ghost in his body suddenly concealed all his breath. Gu Wuji immediately felt something was wrong. He turned around and saw Felicia’s figure had appeared behind him at some point.
Gu Wuji: “…” Why do I always get hit at this time?
Felicia’s eyes swept over the notes in Gu Wuji’s hand, and his face turned unpleasant, “Why didn’t you tell me you were coming here? Everyone else has already rested, shouldn’t you come to see me?”
Gu Wuji was shocked that even though he was like this, the other party didn’t think there was anything strange about him, and what he cared about was that he didn’t go to see him.
Felicia’s obsession with certain aspects of himself was so strong that Gu Wuji even found him a little scary.
Gu Wuji initially thought that since he was a spy, his treatment might be ordinary, but now it seemed that the other party’s attitude towards him has become so intense that he began to doubt why he was sent out as a spy.
Did the system arrange the character and also gave him an abnormal ambiguous relationship?!
No, there must be some reason behind this. Gu Wuji suddenly realized this. He could not ignore this abnormality, as it might contain key information that would affect his departure from this copy.
“I just want to take a look around.” Gu Wuji said respectfully, “Because I don’t want to disturb your rest, young master.”
“I don’t have much to rest for. I’m always free if you want to find me.” Felicia said quickly, and then added, “You left too fast last night, and I didn’t have time to ask someone to send you off. This place will have some problems at night… You might as well rest in my room.”
It would be strange if Gu Wuji agreed. Even if he was not afraid of being suddenly killed by Felicia while he was sleeping at night, he would be afraid of being ana**y rap*d by him suddenly.
Of course, in order not to irritate the other party, Gu Wuji once again used his acting skills, “Master, this is still…”
Looking at Gu Wuji’s embarrassed and hesitant expression, Felicia realized that what he had just said was a bit too much and immediately changed the subject: “In the morning, because you said you were worried about being seen, I didn’t arrange a better breakfast. You must be hungry, I just asked someone to prepare snacks.”
Gu Wuji: “???”
Why was he so considerate! Come to think of it, the breakfast is already so rich, how can it be considered not good enough?
No matter what, Gu Wuji followed the other party obediently, and after turning around outside the building, he came to a hidden small garden. This place was extremely hidden, located behind the house and between the woods. Ordinary players probably couldn’t find it.
However, Gu Wuji remembered that he had seen a photo with this place as the background in an album.
To be fair, the scenery here was not that good. The woods hidden in the mist seemed like some terrible creature would pop up at any time.
At this time, various snacks that looked very nice were already placed on the table in the small garden, and they tasted delicious just by smelling them. Gu Wuji felt happy just by looking at them, and the two of them had a great time chatting while eating the snacks.
Of course, Gu Wuji did not forget to test during this process. He found that Felicia was very secretive about what had happened between them and was unwilling to bring it up and would even look cold when he did.
Gu Wuji didn’t know what the system had arranged, but from the fact that he hadn’t revealed the truth for such a long time, it could be seen that this might have been the way he had originally gotten along with the other party.
After eating, Felicia and Gu Wuji went back together and bumped into two players in the corridor. They turned their heads and looked at them a few more times with some surprise, then left in a hurry.
Gu Wuji could still vaguely hear what they were saying, ‘How come he can always make everyone in the dungeon become gay…’ ‘Could this be a rare ability obtained from a dungeon…’
Gu Wuji: “…”
Gu Wuji felt that he was overthinking, and he didn’t need to worry about his identity as a spy being exposed. He only had to worry about whether other people would think he had the ability to become gay in the future.
Felicia glanced at their backs with a gloomy look and then parted ways with Gu Wuji. He told Gu Wuji that if he encountered any problems, he could come to him, no matter where the servants were.
After the two separated, the butler immediately walked to Felicia’s side and said, “Master, do you really want to believe that person… He is obviously not…”
“I know.” Felicia did not look like he was in love in front of Gu Wuji at this time. Instead, his expression was cold, and his aura made people feel afraid when they approached him. Only in his eyes was there a creepy smile, “But so what.”
“He came back on his own.”
The housekeeper still wanted to persuade the other party vaguely, “Young Master…”
“I will never let go again–“
….
After Gu Wuji turned another corner, he suddenly saw an ordinary-looking middle-aged man standing in front of him, as if waiting for him.
“Sun Shi, you’re finally here.” The middle-aged man looked slightly excited.
Gu Wuji had some impression of him. He just felt that he was a very low-key player. His name seemed to be Lao Tan. “Is there something?”
“Nothing. I just want to cooperate with you.” Lao Tan said confidently. He believed that the other party would be very conflicted if someone like him made a request.
But there was no complicated reaction as Lao Tan expected. Gu Wuji directly refused: “No.”
If it was an ordinary copy, Gu Wuji would of course be happy to cooperate with others. But now he must never forget his cold-blooded and ruthless personality and could only feel sorry for this player.
“Don’t worry.” Lao Tan felt that Sun Shi was quite vigilant, but he had also prepared what he would say when the other party refused and immediately said: “I don’t want to harm you. On the contrary, it’s Rong Qingman. Have you heard about him before? He is not a simple person, and he is cruel and ruthless. He has taken advantage of innocent novice players several times. Don’t be fooled by his appearance.”
Gu Wuji’s face turned cold when he heard this, “You don’t have to remind me.”
Rong Qingman was a familiar person to Gu Wuji, and he didn’t want to listen to the other party’s bad words here for no reason.
Besides, in Gu Wuji’s impression, Rong Qingman was extremely arrogant and indifferent to newcomers… He was at most the kind of person who might say, “F**k you.”
“Well, if you really like him, there’s nothing I can do.” Lao Tan could now understand why Rong Qingman was so nice to Gu Wuji. After all, this man had a good character that was visible to the naked eye. Ordinary players might have started to doubt him. “But in this copy, you will definitely not get the token, and Rong Qingman will not give you his token. Then you will have no way out.”
“Oh?”
Lao Tan said immediately, “Don’t you know yet? In this copy, people who don’t get enough tokens will naturally be regarded by the gods as not being pious enough… then they will be of no use, and they will let you go in vain.”
“That’s right.” Gu Wuji nodded.
Lao Tan felt that there was a chance and continued, “I found traces of a token last night. As long as you go with me, I can give you some of the fragments of the token. Then you won’t die directly in this copy.”
“Why are you helping me?” Gu Wuji looked at the other party coldly. In fact, he felt very touched in his heart that there was such a good person in such a copy. Although the fact was that he didn’t want any token at all.
Lao Tan said in a very sincere tone: “After all, other players will definitely ask for a high price, and only newer players like you are more suitable. Of course, I will try my best to ensure your safety.”
“But I’m not interested.” Although Gu Wuji felt it was very touching, he didn’t want to be too deeply involved with other players, lest Felicia go crazy.
It seemed to Lao Tan that Gu Wuji didn’t trust him enough, and he became anxious. If he couldn’t trick this newcomer into being a cannon fodder, then he would have to watch the token being taken away by other people. He immediately said, “I didn’t lie to you, the token is in a portrait of the original head of this family! And it is one of the more advanced ones among all the tokens, but the ghost inside is a little dangerous… so we can act according to the opponent’s weakness.”
Gu Wuji: “…” This must be the portrait he saw yesterday!
Gu Wuji immediately thought of the female ghost hiding there. Originally, he didn’t want to go there anymore, but then he thought of the little girl from yesterday. He didn’t know what happened to her afterwards.
That female ghost might be the little girl’s mother… Maybe he could communicate with her.
“Okay, I’ll go.” Gu Wuji nodded.
Lao Tan was overjoyed and thought that Gu Wuji was indeed a newcomer who agreed so easily. He was not like other quasi-advanced game players who had experienced all kinds of intrigues in dungeons and were no longer willing to trust others.
But he would not feel the slightest bit of guilt for taking advantage of such people.
Lao Tan immediately found a legitimate reason, saying that if the news leaked, it would cause trouble, and asked Gu Wuji not to tell Rong Qingman.
Gu Wuji agreed. He had no intention of telling Rong Qingman, in order to avoid the latter being in danger if he followed him.
Of course the truth was, Lao Tan didn’t want to offend Rong Qingman and make things troublesome, so it would be best to let Gu Wuji die quietly.
However, what he didn’t expect now was that he would regret his current choice in the near future.
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