Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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It was completely dark. The entire building was plunged into darkness.
Gu Wuji and Lao Tan were walking in the dark corridor holding oil lamps. It was extremely quiet here, with only the sound of their light footsteps.
“Keep your voice down, the sound will attract other ghosts.” Lao Tan warned Gu Wuji, “When the ghosts appear later, don’t do anything to them.”
“Okay.” Gu Wuji nodded and looked around and found that this road was completely different from the one he passed yesterday. Presumably, Lao Tan must have made some markings to be able to find the portrait so accurately in this maze-like place.
But even if the two of them didn’t make any sound, a large number of ghosts appeared silently around them and surrounded them.
There were so many ghosts that it was suffocating. Being stared at by countless eyes, cold sweat was pouring down Lao Tan’s forehead. Even though this was his second time here, he still couldn’t get used to such a large number of ghosts. If he didn’t have the oil lamp in his hand that would keep the ghosts away, the outcome would be predictable.
Gu Wuji was surprised. He didn’t seem to encounter so many ghosts yesterday. So instead of being afraid, he had an urge to do good deeds to purify the ghosts.
But thinking that there was a player standing next to him, he could not go against his character as a cold and ruthless man and could only suppress such impulse.
Therefore, Gu Wuji looked at these ghosts with a bit of pity in his eyes. The ghosts hiding in Gu Wuji’s body were all sweating for these ghosts, feeling that they had barely escaped from Gu Wuji’s hands.
When they turned a corner, the ghosts around them suddenly dispersed. Lao Tan’s body stiffened immediately, as if he had foreseen something horrible was going to happen. He stopped Gu Wuji, and the two of them hid behind a cabinet.
“What is this?” Gu Wuji was a little confused. Seeing Lao Tan looking as if he was facing a great enemy, was there such a scary ghost around the portrait? He was not nervous at first but was infected by Lao Tan and became a little nervous.
“Keep your voice down.” Lao Tan looked grim. “The female ghosts that will appear later are not easy to deal with. They are too tricky. Although they look like ordinary low-level ghosts, they will attract more ghosts, even powerful evil spirits. Fortunately, they are not sensitive to light and dare not approach the oil lamp. As long as we don’t approach them actively…”
Of course, most of what Lao Tan said to Gu Wuji was true, but a few things were fatally wrong. If you hold the oil lamp too close to the maid’s ghost, the other party will scream because of the stimulation and would immediately attract a lot of ghosts.
In this way, even if Gu Wuji was lucky enough not to die when dealing with the female ghost in the portrait, such a small mistake would be enough to be fatal. Lao Tan felt that he really had some means.
“Oh?” Gu Wuji leaned over to look and immediately saw a familiar presence – the ghost of the maids in this building.
Isn’t this the same type of female ghost that he kindly sent someone to purify yesterday!
Gu Wuji couldn’t bear to tell this to Lao Tan, who looked very nervous, and decided to keep it to himself.
Soon, the ghosts of the maids left from another corridor, and the two continued to move forward.
“Will there be any living people in this place?” Gu Wuji couldn’t help but ask this question.
“How is that possible?” Lao Tan said without thinking, “Even if there are people who look like living people, they must be ghosts in disguise. After all, in this twisted space, if there are still people who can survive, they must be scarier than ghosts.”
As they spoke, they had arrived at a familiar corner. The ghosts around them seemed to have sensed something scary and scattered.
From their perspective, it was an empty corridor with only a portrait hanging on the wall. This portrait was different from the one Gu Wuji saw yesterday. Some blood had appeared on it, as if it was flowing out of the person in the portrait. It looked extremely terrifying.
“The token is hidden in that portrait.” Lao Tan said to Gu Wuji, “Don’t worry, I will lure the female ghost out later, and then you just need to run to the side. The female ghost won’t do anything to you because of the oil lamp in your hand.”
He took the most dangerous task of luring the female ghost himself, and all Gu Wuji had to do was escape. No matter who the newcomer was, he would feel relieved.
When Gu Wuji wasn’t paying attention, Lao Tan had already quietly put something like a piece of paper into his pocket. This was something found in this building. Although Lao Tan didn’t know what it was, this piece of paper would undoubtedly attract all kinds of ghosts…
“Okay.” Gu Wuji didn’t think there was anything wrong with it, “But wouldn’t it be better for me to lure the female ghost out?” Anyway, he was also a fanatical believer of the evil god in the setting, so it was reliable for him to do such a thing for the token.
After all, his pocket watch had cooled down after a day, and Lao Tan didn’t know how terrifying the female ghost was, so he might die suddenly if he went up to her.
Lao Tan’s heart skipped a beat, thinking that Gu Wuji had discovered something, and hurriedly said, “No need! Let me do such dangerous things! After all, you are just here to help me.”
Gu Wuji was moved. He didn’t expect that even though he was already a fanatical believer of the evil god, Lao Tan was still so kind. He was simply untainted by the mud. He must not let anything happen to him. “No, I must go!”
“Why are you so pessimistic.” Lao Tan was anxious. This matter must not fall through because of this. The token had the highest priority for the person who came in contact with the female ghost first. If Gu Wuji went up first, who knew who would get the token. “Nothing will happen to me. If you are in danger, how can I live in the future?”
While the two were arguing, a figure suddenly appeared from the other side. It was another player.
After seeing the portrait, the other party immediately rushed over. Lao Tan was shocked. How could he care less, so he also rushed over immediately.
Gu Wuji was shocked when he saw the player’s face. The other person’s appearance was a little familiar. It was the Wang Jia who he had seen in the photo album and had a terrified look on his face and should not have appeared in the house.
The two players had already rushed to the front of the portrait. The blood on the portrait became brighter and brighter. The eyes of the owner painted on it seemed to be staring at them coldly, and the black fog on the portrait became darker and darker.
However, if you looked closely, you could see that the woman in the portrait seemed to be holding something shiny in her arms. That was the token that most people in this copy were looking for.
The two men started fighting in front of the portrait. The other man subdued Lao Tan with a prop and looked at the portrait excitedly. Perhaps thinking of the token in it, his eyes were filled with fanatical piety. He bit his hand and started to draw on the portrait, and he started with an extremely skilled magic circle.
In this way, he temporarily concluded a contract with the ghost in the portrait, and the other party would never attack him unless it was something extremely important.
Of course, such an operation could only be completed in the world where the evil god existed, otherwise these fanatical followers of the evil god would be invincible everywhere.
Lao Tan saw the duck in his mouth about to fly away, but he didn’t even have time to curse. Instead, he looked at the portrait with horror. After all, in order to obtain the token in the portrait, a sacrifice was required… and now this sacrifice had obviously become him.
The next moment, the figure of a woman slowly emerged from the portrait, becoming clearer and clearer. Her face stared at the two people in front of her with a grim expression, as if she was looking at a dead person. However, because of the magic circle, she restrained herself and did not take any action.
“This is the sacrifice to the great God.” The player said respectfully.
The female ghost slowly emerged from the portrait. Her body was twisted and distorted, as if she had been dismembered and then put together again. Blood was still flowing down.
At this moment, Gu Wuji suddenly rushed over. Of course, he couldn’t bear to see such an inhumane thing happening before his eyes, not to mention that Lao Tan was such a rare kind person.
Lao Tan was so shocked, he didn’t expect that Sun Shi could be such a good person.
Of course, Gu Wuji had no intention of confronting the two people in front of him, but instead he grabbed Lao Tan and prepared to run away. Lao Tan, who was considered to be a strong man, was shocked when Gu Wuji lifted him up with ease. What kind of strength did this guy have? Did this guy have any strength abilities? He suddenly began to feel fortunate that he had not yet fallen out with Gu Wuji, otherwise he might have fainted from one punch from the other party.
Of course, it was impossible for the player to just run away when he saw the two of them, so he immediately said to the female ghost: “Kill them!”
At such a critical moment, Lao Tan still wanted to sell out his teammates. After all, even if Gu Wuji saved him, his own life was still the most important. Seeing that the female ghost was about to come, he did not take out the note from Gu Wuji’s pocket.
Seeing that the female ghost was already rushing towards him, Gu Wuji paused and put Lao Tan down. He was already prepared to take out the pocket watch. He turned around and faced the female ghost with his head held high – but in front of everyone’s astonished eyes, the female ghost half-knelt respectfully in front of Gu Wuji and spoke in a very hoarse voice.
“You’re finally here.”
Gu Wuji: “???”
The other two, “???”
This scene was so mysterious that both of them were dumbfounded. They couldn’t figure out why it turned out like this for a moment. This was beyond the scope of their knowledge.
The back of Gu Wuji’s hand suddenly felt hot, almost like it was burning on fire. The feeling of being stared at by some kind of gaze appeared in his body again. This time the feeling of uneasiness has reached a new level.
“What on earth is…”
Gu Wuji’s face was already covered in cold sweat. No matter what, there was no doubt that this was the work of the evil god. If he continued to stay, the ending would definitely be tragic.
The female ghost looked at Gu Wuji with a hint of fear, but also with an unquestionable, very contradictory expression, “Lord God has been waiting for you for a long time, please follow me.”
It would be strange if Gu Wuji went with her, so he suddenly moved to run away, but the female ghost behind him did not intend to let him go and chased after him quickly.
At this time, other ghosts around seemed to be attracted and surrounded him. Gu Wuji didn’t even have time to purify himself, so he had to find various remote places to take a detour to avoid being entangled by these ghosts.
In the next moment, when Gu Wuji turned the corner, his usually strong premonition became extremely intense, and even a voice sounded in his mind.
The voice sounded very familiar to Gu Wuji, but he couldn’t remember who it was. He just felt that it must be a very important person.
“Open the door in front of you.”
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