Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The enormous monster’s stubs, where its eyes should be, stared directly in their direction, as if they could instantly pierce through people’s hearts.
This shocking and eerie sight made Xiao Qin pause for a moment.
He felt his legs weaken, and suddenly it seemed as if he couldn’t move a step. In front of such a huge monster, he felt as small as an ant, easily crushed to death.
But in the end, a subconscious desire for knowledge made Xiao Qin quickly turn around, no longer staring at the monster behind him, and chase after the young man and woman.
“They must know something crucial! I must know… Otherwise, I won’t be able to leave this place alive.”
At this moment, Xiao Qin’s usual cowardice seemed to fade, replaced by determination.
Everything happened quickly. As the young man and woman were about to cross a bridge by a river, the villagers caught up. They ignored Xiao Qin beside them, instead focusing on the two people in front of them. “Hand her over!”
“This is the god’s bride. You’re angering the gods by doing this!”
“If we had known you outsiders would do such a thing, we shouldn’t have taken you in in the first place!”
“If you leave her here now, we can still let you go.”
The woman’s face was filled with fear, yet also with determination, as if nothing could change her mind.
The young man, however, had a complicated expression, as if he had suddenly changed his mind. He then slowly stepped forward and spoke to the villagers, “You have a point. I think it’s okay…”
Xiao Qin’s eyes widened in shock. He hadn’t expected this seemingly handsome young man, who gave off a reassuring feeling, to actually say such a scumb*g statement at this moment!
….
On the mountain road outside the village.
Gu Wuji was speeding back to the village on the tricycle, the corpses chasing them frantically. The middle-aged man, trembling with fear, tried to direct Gu Wuji in the right direction.
As for Yang Shao, he kept an eye on the ghosts behind him, trying to prevent them from climbing onto the car.
The scene was like being chased by zombies in some apocalyptic novel.
Gu Wuji had no idea how things had turned out this way, considering he couldn’t drive, let alone a tricycle.
It had happened so suddenly. Xiao Qin had suddenly transformed into a corpse, biting Gu Wuji’s neck. It looked like Gu Wuji was about to— but that was impossible. Gu Wuji could even beat up a ghost, so how could he be tricked by a corpse like this? He instinctively grabbed the man and flung him away, hitting the bodies that were rushing behind him.
Gu Wuji was shocked. “Oh no! Xiao Qin…”
“It’s okay, that’s not Xiao Qin! He was replaced when he got on the car,” Yang Shao said quickly. “Let’s go back now.”
The middle-aged man’s voice trembled. “I’m too weak to drive…” As an ordinary villager, although he had lived in such an environment for decades, this was his first time encountering such a large number of corpses. He was thus paralyzed with fear.
Gu Wuji was startled, and the next moment, he was pushed to the front by Yang Shao, who then held the middle-aged man down, “Hurry up and teach him!”
In short, the matter just happened so suddenly, but they were too late, so the middle-aged man had to quickly talk to Gu Wuji. Fortunately, Gu Wuji learned it quickly, and they were able to save their lives from the corpses’ mouth.
As for Xiao Qin, Gu Wuji and others were helpless. They didn’t even know when he disappeared and could only hope that he was lucky enough to save his own life.
In this way, at lightning speed, Gu Wuji managed to drive the tricycle like a motorcycle. The middle-aged man looked at the surrounding scene and his face suddenly changed. “What’s going on? Logically, we should be able to see the village by now… No, here, where is this?”
“Explain it to me clearly!” Yang Shao was furious and looked at the middle-aged man coldly.
“This is not outside the village! Look at those tombstones, there are too many of them.” The middle-aged man said in a trembling voice.
“Indeed, there are many more graves around here than when we came here. It’s almost like we’ve driven into a cemetery.” Gu Wuji even had time to interject, “If there are bodies in these graves…”
Before he could finish his words, strange noises emanated from the surrounding tombstones, and hands reached out from among them.
Everyone: “…”
Gu Wuji: “…I don’t know when my words became so effective!”
“No, that can’t be the case.” The middle-aged man’s face had turned extremely grim. “Could it be? Is it because of that legend?”
“This isn’t the first time I’ve warned you. Tell me what you know.” Yang Shao hated the nagging of these NPCs the most.
“It’s the room I live in!” the middle-aged man said. “The evil spirit in the coffin was chosen as a sacrifice and escaped along this mountain road… But he was caught and beaten half to death on the way. Ever since then, strange things have been happening on this road.”
“How dare you continue to live here?” Gu Wuji thought this man was quite bold.
“This is the village rule! I have to obey it, unless I have enough money to leave here.” The middle-aged man’s face was covered in sweat. “And in the past few decades, because the seal is perfect, nothing has ever happened. Although it’s often haunted, at least no one has died… I didn’t expect this, the seal must have loosened and the ghost escaped! We must have been trapped the moment we left the village!”
“So where should the ghost be hiding?” Gu Wuji pondered and said, “Anyway, if we find a way to get rid of it, we can get out.”
Yang Shao and the middle-aged man both looked at Gu Wuji hesitantly.
“You kicked it out just now,” the middle-aged man said hesitantly.
After all, no matter how you think about it, the ghost came out of the coffin and followed Gu Wuji and the others here and even got on the car.
Gu Wuji: “…” How could he know that the ghost could be so easily shaken off!
“Then what other solutions are there?” Yang Shao looked at the middle-aged man coldly. He would not target Gu Wuji anyway.
“I heard it! But it’s just hearsay. Many people in the village have experienced ghost walls outside the village. You just need to wait until daybreak to get out!” the middle-aged man said hurriedly.
“You’re kidding!” Yang Shao looked at the bodies chasing after him, his face filled with anxiety. “Are we going to have to drive on this road until daybreak? This wrecked car can’t handle it!”
Even if he could handle the bodies for a while, he couldn’t do it all the time! By then, he’d be drained dry.
At this time, the situation was becoming increasingly tense. On the road ahead, bodies were already appearing, trying to cling to the car. The sight of this made the middle-aged man’s legs go weak. Fortunately, the driver, Gu Wuji, was completely unfazed, occasionally kicking away the approaching bodies.
“Dawn’s still a long way off. If this keeps up, we’ll definitely die here.”
The road seemed endless, and the bodies kept piling up. Yang Shao was beginning to feel exhausted.
“It’s okay, we can definitely get out of here,” Gu Wuji said. “Though there are a lot of these ghosts, they move slowly and their attack power isn’t very high… But their movements really confuse me.”
As Yang Shao listened, he suddenly realized something and looked at Gu Wuji in surprise. “You, remember?”
Hadn’t Gu Wuji previously believed that the ghosts here had a scientific basis, suspected it was all hallucinations caused by mold, and even believed his bodyguards were colluding with some family to persecute him?!
Thinking of this, Yang Shao felt that Gu Wuji’s associative skills were truly remarkable. He’d almost remembered it initially, because of something he saw when playing a mobile game, but after encountering so many strange things, he still refused to believe in ghosts.
“Yes, it happened not long ago,” Gu Wuji said. “After all, so many ghosts have appeared here, it would be strange if I still couldn’t remember it.”
Gu Wuji felt that this system was really a scam. They had silently thrown someone into the dungeon and then erased their memory. If he hadn’t remembered it now, he would have continued believing it was all an illusion.
Even now that his memories had returned, Gu Wuji couldn’t summon the ghosts within him; they seemed to have been sealed by the system. Fortunately, he was lucky; otherwise, he wouldn’t have survived until now.
But would this dungeon really be easy to clear just by regaining his memories?
Gu Wuji didn’t think so. He felt a tinge of worry. After all, the man with the umbrella who had appeared in the mist earlier was undoubtedly a boss-level ghost, and yet they hadn’t found any information about him yet. It didn’t seem right.
The most likely scenario was that the man was the deity of this place. But the rumors said he was just a cuckolded figure who had disappeared. Who knew how to solve the problem?
But now wasn’t the time to dwell on such things.
Yang Shao still felt a little ashamed that he hadn’t wanted Gu Wuji to regain his memories. But looking at the chaotic scene around him, he quickly put the matter aside, ready to apologize to Gu Wuji properly once it was safe.
“Great, then how do you think we can get out of here?” Yang Shao asked hurriedly. He felt that Gu Wuji seemed unusually reliable after recovering his memory.
“I think these ghosts are too strange. Logically, they should want to kill us, but now it seems that they are more like misleading us…” Gu Wuji had already stopped the tricycle.
“Let us think we are escaping, but in fact we seem to be heading to a more dangerous place. If we really drive the tricycle like this until dawn, what will be waiting for us then is real death.”
“What?” Yang Shao had never expected this. Although he had a lot of experience in dungeons, he had failed to guess correctly several times in this dungeon. In addition, the situation was urgent, and he was unable to think for a while.
“Am I right?” Gu Wuji looked at the middle-aged man, or to be more precise, he looked through the middle-aged man at a certain existence attached to him, “This is your purpose.”
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