Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Lao Tan and the male player who stayed where they were, were still in shock. They felt like they had just had a dream.
What was going on with this Gu Wuji? Was he even a human being? Why did he seduce all the female ghosts and run away?
Although Gu Wuji still looked like a human being and was even a well-known player outside…but in some more advanced copies, the player’s memory would be tampered with. They may not even remember that they were in a copy and would mistake ghosts for people close to them.
What’s more, it was also possible that a ghost killed Gu Wuji and took his place, which was not a difficult thing for the ghost.
Lao Tan felt even more frightened, suspecting that he had been walking with a ghost. Fortunately, he was low-key and did not threaten anyone directly, otherwise he would have been dead by now.
But they soon realized that the female ghosts had run away. Wasn’t this a great opportunity for them to get the token? After the two men exchanged glances, neither had time to fight, but rushed to the portrait one after another and stretched out their hands to reach for the token in the portrait.
Just as their hands touched the portrait, the eyes of the man in the portrait turned blood red, and he gave the two of them an extremely hideous smile, and a large amount of black mist spread out from behind him.
The two were suddenly stunned. They didn’t expect that the female ghost was just the surface of the portrait. There was actually another ghost entangled in the portrait!!
But let alone escaping, the two of them didn’t even have time to scream before they were pulled directly into the portrait by the black fog.
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Gu Wuji had no time to think about what the voice that appeared in his mind was. He subconsciously pushed open the door in front of him. He immediately felt the same feeling as if he was passing through a layer of liquid and staggered into the room.
The door behind him closed automatically. Gu Wuji noticed that this was a bedroom. The room was pitch black except for the faint light from the oil lamp lit on the table.
The curtains on the side of the bedroom were drawn tightly. There were sounds of lightning and thunder coming from outside. In the storm, the ghostly shadows of tree branches kept knocking on the windows, which made people feel scared when they saw it.
Of course, Gu Wuji thought that it was very likely that it was a real ghost.
On the bed next to him, there was a figure curled up in the quilt, shivering, with a faint sound of crying.
Gu Wuji guessed that he should have entered another space after pushing open the door. At night, all the doors in this building were probably connected to other places, but he didn’t know whether it was a directional transmission or a random transmission.
Gu Wuji took a few steps forward. The person on the bed seemed to have heard the noise and turned over immediately. A face with a look of fear appeared in front of Gu Wuji.
This was exactly the little girl that Gu Wuji helped yesterday, but she looked one or two years older today. After all, children developed very quickly and soon looked different from before.
But the bigger problem than the time leap was… Gu Wuji took a closer look and found that the other person should be a little boy. He had mistaken her gender because she looked so cute.
Of course, Gu Wuji immediately stopped caring about such things since no one saw it anyway.
The ghost still clinging to Gu Wuji: “…” It seems that he absolutely cannot appear at this time to remind Gu Wuji.
After seeing clearly that the person in front of him was Gu Wuji, the little boy immediately breathed a sigh of relief and began to cry uncontrollably.
“Are you okay?” Gu Wuji walked over and sat down beside the bed. Although his expression was cold, he moved closer to the little boy in a friendly manner. The boy immediately threw himself into his arms and finally calmed down from his fear.
“Big brother, why did you appear again?” The little boy looked at Gu Wuji in surprise, and then his eyes sparkled again, “Did you come here specially to help me? Just like those heroes in the books, who specialize in helping the weak…”
“No.” Gu Wuji turned his head and saw a few books that seemed to be children’s story collections placed next to the other party’s pillow. He was actually quite happy to be praised like this, but due to his character setting, he couldn’t coax a child, and immediately said the truth that sounded untrue, “I just happened to pass by.”
But the other party didn’t care about what Gu Wuji said at all. He just thought that Gu Wuji was covering up his identity and said happily, “Big brother, my name is Felicia, what’s yours?”
Gu Wuji: “…”
What was going on! Was this the Felicia he knew??
Although their hair and eye colors were the same, and their appearance was about 60% similar, they always felt like they were not the same person. If it was said that he grew up and his appearance had become different, it could be barely explained…but the biggest problem was that this time was actually a hundred years ago.
It was also possible that Felicia wasn’t entirely human.
But the biggest problem was that Gu Wuji had seen the photo album in Felicia’s room, and the childhood Felicia in the album was completely different from the one in front of him.
“Maybe they gave him the same name to commemorate someone from a certain family?” Gu Wuji couldn’t help but guess so. Although this was too unlucky, who knew what this kind of cult family was thinking.
“You don’t need to know my name.” Gu Wuji said coldly.
Little Felicia looked a little sad, but he still sat on the bed obediently and handed a book beside him to Gu Wuji, “Big brother, can you tell me a story?”
Gu Wuji ruthlessly rejected the other party’s request, “What story? Let’s go to bed now.”
“My mother used to tell me stories.” Little Felicia whispered, “But after my mother disappeared, no one takes care of me, and I don’t know what my father and the others are doing… and they don’t allow me to leave the room, let alone leave this place.”
Gu Wuji was stunned.
“I just want to listen.” Little Felicia looked at Gu Wuji pleadingly.
“I am just doing this because I am bored.” Gu Wuji was touched by the other party. He thought that this child was so pitiful, having such a father and not even knowing that his mother was dead.
He would even die tragically in this place during a subsequent cult ritual, but as a person who came from another time, he could do nothing. After all, even he himself didn’t know how to leave the island.
Gu Wuji reluctantly sat down beside the bed, opened the book in front of him, and read the story aloud in a low voice.
The more he read, the more he felt something was wrong. There was something terribly wrong with this story. It looked like just an ordinary children’s picture book, with simple and cute illustrations. It told the story of how the protagonist found happiness.
But if you read further, you would find that the protagonist’s way of finding “happiness” was twisted and weird, and he even killed his own companions.
Gu Wuji’s voice paused. He couldn’t continue reading the story in front of a child. He turned around and saw that little Felicia had fallen asleep on his shoulder.
“What’s the matter with this picture book? Was it made by people from this cult?” Gu Wuji couldn’t help but frown as he continued to finish reading the picture book.
As expected, at the end of the story, the protagonist actually found happiness through sacrifice, and even successfully resurrected all the people he had killed, and everyone lived a happy life.
But the picture of everyone appearing happily together on the last page was so creepy no matter how you looked at it. If you looked closely, except for the protagonist, everyone else had more or less deformation and distortion, and they were no longer ordinary people at all.
“What does this story mean…” The first person that came to Gu Wuji’s mind was the protagonist of the sacrifice incident a hundred years ago, the male owner of this house. “Indeed, the diary also wrote that he killed his wife and resurrected her later, but he even made something like a picture book. Did he want to put it outside for more people to see?”
Gu Wuji glanced at little Felicia on the bed next to him, and while he was sleeping, he walked to the window with an oil lamp and a book.
When he opened the curtains, what appeared before his eyes was the outside world in a stormy weather. At this time, the fog had dissipated without a trace, but the dark forest in the distance gave people an even more eerie feeling.
Gu Wuji opened the window, and suddenly a dark hand hung in front of him. He looked up and saw a hideous ghost hanging upside down on the house.
“Ahhhhhhh——”
The ghost hidden in Gu Wuji let out a scream.
Gu Wuji turned his head to look, and although he didn’t say anything, his eyes were full of doubt, as if he was wondering how a ghost could be scared like this.
Ghost: “…” It was really scary! Not everyone was as cruel and crazy as Gu Wuji!
The ghost outside didn’t notice anything at all. When he heard the scream, he thought it was made by the human in front of him. He pounced towards Gu Wuji with a sneer. With this grab, both of them would fall down together.
Gu Wuji used the magic confinement with an expressionless face. The ghost hung upside down outside in a daze, motionless. When it made eye contact with the ghost behind Gu Wuji, it suddenly began to feel that something was wrong.
Was the person behind him the same kind as him? Why did this fellow look so obedient?
“Just stay here and behave yourself for now.” Gu Wuji said to the ghost in front of him, then took the book to the outside world and lit it with an oil lamp.
This strange picture book emitted an unpleasant odor when it burned, and you could even faintly hear the roar of ghosts. An ordinary person would probably be scared to death.
But Gu Wuji was indifferent and burned it almost to the ground, then threw it directly downstairs, and finally closed the window as if nothing had happened, as if there was no ghost outside at all.
After Gu Wuji untied the restraints, there was a noise outside. It seemed that the ghost had escaped at the speed of light. No one dared to provoke this scary man.
“That’s about it.” Gu Wuji nodded.
Gu Wuji, feeling that he had solved a big problem, lay down on the bed directly, covered himself with a quilt, and asked the ghost to keep an eye on him and notify him if anything happened.
Ghost: “…” He had never seen anyone who could fall asleep in any situation!
For Gu Wuji, sleeping was the most important thing in life. Besides, there were beds here. Was there any problem for two people to sleep on such a big bed?
As for whether he was dreaming, Gu Wuji didn’t worry about it at all. To be honest, he felt a little uneasy because he slept well until dawn yesterday.
Gu Wuji lay down on the bed and fell asleep.
And this time, as expected, the dream that had appeared many times in other copies appeared again.
Gu Wuji came to the small boat outside the building in a daze. There was a man sitting not far away from him. The man had his back to him and his face could not be seen clearly.
It was already night, and the sky was clear. There was no fog as in the past. The surrounding scenery no longer looked scary, and could even be called beautiful… This made it understandable why the family built their house on this island in the middle of the lake.
The bright white moon hung in the sky, casting a clear outline on the lake. The atmosphere here could be said to be very romantic.
The man with his back to Gu Wuji had golden hair, and the rest of his hair was hidden in a dark coat. Apart from the fact that he was a male, nothing else could be identified.
Gu Wuji asked tentatively, “Auston?”
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