Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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But the next moment, Xiao Qin suddenly sensed something was amiss. A chill ran down his spine. He looked around, and what he’d thought were tree shadows were actually ghosts from the very beginning.
He abruptly stood up, only to find himself surrounded by villagers.
These seemingly ordinary villagers were, in reality, monsters in this place. With bloodshot eyes, they stalked towards Xiao Qin with expressionless faces.
“Oh no… Looks like they spotted me from the very beginning. What a mistake!” A cold sweat streamed down Xiao Qin’s face. He began to realize that he couldn’t escape.
If he had regained his memory earlier, things wouldn’t have turned out this way! At least he could have used his tools earlier. But now it was too late. With so many ghosts surrounding him, even if he used all his tools, there was no way he could escape, especially given the strangeness of this space.
“That’s the only way. It’s risky, but if it’s him, maybe he can save me.” Xiao Qin took a deep breath, his eyes firm.
If it were any other teammate, Xiao Qin probably wouldn’t have the courage to trust his life to them. After all, who among these players would be willing to spend time saving someone who didn’t know how to live or die? But if it was Gu Wuji, he would definitely do it!
For some reason, Xiao Qin had such trust in Gu Wuji, and he always trusted his intuition.
“He must find the clues I left behind…”
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“It’s amazing that people still live in this village with so many rumors like this.” Gu Wuji and Yang Shao walked in the fog.
After asking the middle-aged man about the evil spirit, they asked him to wait outside and walked towards their previous resting place.
It was said that taking the coffin out of the house was not allowed in the village, but the family seemed to be provoked by something and insisted on putting the coffin outside. And the village chief actually condoned their actions, which led to this situation.
It was said that the sacrifice this time was once a villager who was sent to recapture a man and woman who eloped. After the woman turned into a fierce ghost, in order to appease the ghost’s anger, this man with no background and no status in the village was pushed out as a sacrifice. In short, there must be something hateful about pitiful people.
What happened next was so smooth that it was unnatural. They walked directly into the fog and directly into this strange and cold space.
Obviously, everything around was still the same village, but it was obvious that the details had changed, and time seemed to have gone back decades. The fog in the village was even thicker to an abnormal degree, but there were quite a few people, and they all looked like ordinary villagers. When they saw Gu Wuji and the others, they looked like they were looking at air.
“After all, perhaps everything seems quite normal to the people in this village,” Yang Shao said. “After all, nothing major happened before we arrived. So it seems like we players are truly the ones causing trouble.”
Gu Wuji suddenly noticed something. “It seems this evil spirit’s ability might be to create an illusion of what happened back then, and its biggest grudge must be about the female ghost’s elopement… Could this be the system giving us an opportunity to investigate the true situation?”
But based on the nature of previous dungeons, Gu Wuji had a feeling it wouldn’t go that smoothly.
“Anyway, let’s just take a look around the village first.” Yang Shao also had a feeling the system wouldn’t be so kind.
As Gu Wuji and Yang Shao walked forward, they heard the villagers chattering.
“Is it really okay to let those outsiders in? The ceremony is almost over, will they cause trouble?”
“They probably won’t do anything. They’ll probably just rest and leave… I heard the deity tacitly approved their entry.”
“But that man inside is really good-looking. If it weren’t for the wrong gender, I’d be in love.”
Gu Wuji and Yang Shao: “…”
The tone of that last sentence was so off!
“That man, I guess he’s the one who eloped with the female ghost,” Gu Wuji pondered. “And he’s actually quite good-looking… Sure enough, scumb*gs often rely on their looks to deceive people.”
Yang Shao couldn’t help but glance at Gu Wuji. Although what these people were talking about had nothing to do with him, he kept eerily linking him to him. But of course, a good man like Gu Wuji couldn’t possibly be a scumb*g. Finding the woman was easy enough, as she was the deity’s future wife. Naturally, she didn’t live in a common place, but in a building in the center of the village, where no one else could approach rashly.
As the two approached, they suddenly saw a figure emerge from the house. Its features were strikingly familiar: the village chief himself.
“Why is it him?” Sensing something was amiss, they hurriedly gave chase, but the figure vanished into the village alleys.
The village illusion wasn’t perfect. Much of it was shrouded in fog, like the air walls in some video games, making it impossible to enter. Even forcing their way in would only result in a return to the same spot.
Furthermore, the fog evoked a sense of danger, as if a monster lurked within.
“We’ve already created this illusion! And there’s even this air wall thing?” Gu Wuji was completely baffled. It was like finally playing a holographic game, only to find the map was so tiny and filled with air walls. How shabby was this illusion! With no other options, the two retreated back to the surroundings of the house. Luckily, they were out of sight, allowing them to approach the house, which no one else dared approach, unperturbed.
At that moment, a woman’s sobbing voice rang out from within the house. “Does it really have to be me?”
“Well, it’s all already decided,” another, older-sounding voice chimed in. “Being the wife of a god is a blessing for you.”
“What blessing? It’s just becoming a dead person… I don’t want to die…”
Gu Wuji felt a strong sense of familiarity. When he saw the person inside, he fell silent. After all, the woman before him looked exactly like the one who had appeared in his dream on his first day in the village.
“No way…” Gu Wuji couldn’t help but feel something was wrong, vaguely sensing something he absolutely didn’t want to see happen.
The woman was now weeping against a middle-aged woman, who had also appeared in Gu Wuji’s dream. In the dream, one accused Gu Wuji of being a scumb*g, the other told him to run, but it was all a trap.
Although Gu Wuji didn’t know what lay outside the house, it was clear that if he listened to the middle-aged woman and fled, the outcome would be disastrous.
“If she’s the boss ghost, why would she have to use such tricks to deceive me? This dungeon’s boss ghost must be someone else,” Gu Wuji pondered. “Besides, I’m just an ordinary player. They don’t need to confuse me right away… What exactly are they trying to do?”
If Gu Wuji hadn’t keenly realized that he couldn’t be a scumb*g, he would probably have been killed.
The two of them in the room had another meaningless conversation, probably about how women don’t want to be the wives of gods, because it sounds nice, but in reality it’s just a way to send people to death.
But there was nothing she could do. After all, in such a backward village, she barely had a way to survive. Even if she wanted to leave, it wouldn’t be easy.
The middle-aged woman offered some comfort before leaving, saying with some reluctance, “Tomorrow is the day of the ceremony. I know you’ve been communicating with those outside the village, but I’ve turned a blind eye… You can say goodbye to that person tonight. After all, you’ll never see each other again.”
Gu Wuji and Yang Shao immediately realized that the legendary plot was about to unfold, and they both took a deep breath.
The scene then shifted to reveal that it was already dusk. The village was utterly silent, devoid of even a single light. Combined with the surrounding fog, it looked as if only this one room existed.
Only in this room, red candles were lit for the wedding ceremony, casting a faint glow through the mist, giving off a sense of peace.
Seeing this scene, Gu Wuji recalled his dream all the more. The room in his dream was most likely this very room. Everything matched, except for the mysterious scumb*g he was in the dream.
“What’s going on? Is this instance of a dungeon somehow connected to me? Why are they so compelled to persecute me?” Gu Wuji pondered. “Could it be that this is all because of that so-called god? Does he have a grudge against me?”
Just then, footsteps echoed. Though faint, they were enough to catch the two’s attention in this space.
Several figures emerged from the alleyway. The leader stood out from the crowd, his figure and flawless features striking the eye at first sight. His presence in this village felt completely out of place.
“Looks like this is the scumb*g,” Yang Shao frowned. “He looks respectable and good-looking, so he can easily pick up girls. Who would have thought he’d turn out to be that kind of person…”
Gu Wuji: “…”
That’s wrong! Why does this scumb*g look exactly like him in real life? It’s more like, every move and every expression is exactly like him!
Gu Wuji wasn’t so unrecognizable that he couldn’t even recognize himself.
After experiencing the previous copy, Gu Wuji had already vaguely realized that something seemed to have happened in the part that was not in his memory, otherwise how could there be another him in that copy.
But what he didn’t expect was that such a thing would happen again! It clearly reminded Gu Wuji that what happened in the previous copy was definitely not a coincidence.
“But…” Gu Wuji also suddenly realized something, “I can lose my memory when I just came to this copy because of the system settings, and I think I am just an ordinary student. Then, will the real me also have lost my memory for some reason?”
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