Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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A hush fell over the village. Although everyone had a feeling the village chief was suspicious, they hadn’t expected him to say such a thing. This seemingly simple man was actually a devoted lover.
And what was this about Gu Wuji’s past life?!
They, the players in this instance, might think the player was reincarnated, but they knew perfectly well that person was Gu Wuji himself… yet Gu Wuji seemed completely unaware.
After spending time together, Yang Shao and Xiao Qin had a good understanding of Gu Wuji’s character and felt he couldn’t possibly be the kind of scumb*g who would do such a heinous thing.
Or was this just a special plot design for this instance? Everyone was completely baffled.
“After that, I chose to become the final sacrifice,” the village chief sneered, “so that I could wait for your return in this village.”
“How did you know I would definitely come?” Gu Wuji looked at him in surprise.
“After all, this was destined long ago,” the village chief said. “You bear the curse of this village. From the day you left, you were destined to return.”
Gu Wuji: “?” There was such a setting.
Gu Wuji’s expression suddenly changed. He suddenly thought of a very serious problem.
If he himself, who had appeared here before, didn’t actually like the sacrificed bride… yet he seemed to have a relationship with the ghost boss, wasn’t that just being gay?
No, this was something he needed to think about carefully.
“Village chief, I think there might be some misunderstanding here,” Gu Wuji said. “We can discuss it properly after we get out of here. If I really did something so despicable, I will try my best to make amends. And that female ghost and you, village chief, can’t…”
Or can’t you rekindle your past relationship? After all, he encountered the illusion created by the female ghost as soon as he entered the dungeon. Thinking about it, the reason she chose him was probably because of what happened decades ago, but the female ghost didn’t seem to have extreme hatred for him, so Gu Wuji believed there must be a reason for this!
Seeing that the village chief hadn’t met the female ghost yet, Gu Wuji thought he might be able to bring them together.
But the village chief didn’t want to talk to Gu Wuji anymore and interrupted him, saying, “I know you’re capable; you even bribed a vengeful ghost. But can you handle all the remaining vengeful ghosts?”
They had already dealt with four ghosts who were originally sacrifices, and now there were three left, one of whom was the unsuspecting village chief…
Everyone couldn’t help but feel a chill for Gu Wuji, but this worry was largely unfounded.
After all, they had a feeling they could see Gu Wuji defeat the village chief at any moment—impossible! Even Gu Wuji couldn’t possibly handle so many ghosts at once!
“It seems there’s no way to negotiate?” Gu Wuji shook his head. He was prepared to take action directly; this was probably an indispensable part of completing the main quest.
The next instant, a chill ran through the cave. Hair-like strands suddenly coiled around Gu Wuji from nowhere, catching everyone off guard. Those who had initially wanted to help Gu Wuji suddenly realized the village chief wasn’t a philanthropist; he wouldn’t be targeting only Gu Wuji.
The hair was tough and icy, impossible to break with bare hands, and instead, they felt their strength being strangely drained.
“This ghost is too difficult to deal with…”
“But it seems this ghost can only bind people; it can’t unleash any fatal attacks immediately,” Yang Shao’s voice rang out. He breathed a sigh of relief, as his ghostly red dress clearly suppressed the hair strands in this situation.
However, he didn’t say this aloud, but instead stealthily made his way towards Gu Wuji in the dark. The two were not far apart, making this simple task easy.
“This is the offering! I remember now!” Even in this situation, the player persisted in explaining to everyone, “She was an innocent woman who was murdered. She had beautiful hair, and after becoming a vengeful ghost, that hair became the most terrifying weapon!”
“We saw her when we entered a house.” Another player was still shaken; they had faced danger several times, and the last time, if it weren’t for the village chief saving them, they probably would have been dead in that old house. “The only way to deal with her is to attack her true form!”
But clearly, in this pitch-black cave, the hair was densely intertwined like a spider web, making it impossible to easily locate the ghost.
After Gu Wuji’s body was entangled, he immediately felt his strength drain away. Moreover, the hair was too tough; even Gu Wuji couldn’t break it directly. After pulling it apart, it would quickly coil back up. Even the kitchen knife made a crisp metallic clanging sound when it struck it… It seemed that this female ghost cherished her hair even after death.
However, his advantage was that he had healing abilities to replenish his lost strength, but this wasn’t a long-term solution, as the village chief and the remaining vengeful ghost were still lurking in the shadows, watching him closely.
“These vengeful ghosts all have very obvious weaknesses, so finding the female ghost’s true form shouldn’t be difficult. But the problem is it will take time.” Gu Wuji took a deep breath. Just then, someone gently tapped his shoulder.
Gu Wuji initially thought it was some vengeful ghost but then realized it was Yang Shao giving him a signal from behind.
“Thank you.” Gu Wuji took a deep breath and nodded slightly to the person behind him. Then, following his intuition, he walked laboriously in a certain direction, as staying in the crowd was too dangerous for the others.
Soon, Gu Wuji’s hand touched the mountain wall.
At that moment, his hand suddenly touched something strange; a certain spot on the wall seemed unusually cold, and that area seemed to form the shape of a human face.
“This is from before…”
Gu Wuji suddenly remembered the house he stayed at when he first arrived in this instance. At the time, he thought it was just a special kind of mold, but now he realized it was actually a vengeful ghost in that house.
But that vengeful ghost hadn’t bothered them, so it must be a good ghost, right?
Suddenly sensing a dangerous premonition, Gu Wuji abruptly turned his head. Even though it was pitch black, he could still vaguely see a twisted monster approaching him.
“When you did that, you must not have thought this day would come!” The village chief’s voice carried a vengeful pleasure. “I won’t kill you directly, I’ll just turn you into a cripple and throw you into the territory of those vengeful ghosts again and again, so you can experience what it means to wish for death but not to live!”
Gu Wuji even tried to reason with this person, “Um, actually, I wanted to say that your lover is still…”
“Shut up, you don’t even deserve to mention her!” The village chief immediately revealed his true colors, and a dark shadow suddenly attacked Gu Wuji’s arm, clearly intending to cripple him and prevent him from moving.
Although Gu Wuji couldn’t see clearly, his keen intuition allowed him to dodge in a flash.
Taking advantage of a lull in the village chief’s attack, Gu Wuji suddenly grabbed the dark figure—a sharp object formed from condensed black mist, something that shouldn’t be on a human body. And behind the village chief were countless such objects…it was practically a monster, with the village chief’s body acting as its host.
The force Gu Wuji exerted on it startled the village chief.
He had only witnessed it from a bystander’s perspective, never expecting Gu Wuji’s strength to be so astonishing. Even after Gu Wuji had had his power drained by the hair for so long— would he still be human at his peak?
Thinking of the ghost boss’s concern for Gu Wuji, the village chief grew increasingly anxious, fearing he wouldn’t achieve his goal. He sped up his attack on Gu Wuji, not waiting until Gu Wuji was completely drained, but acting immediately.
However, if he had known Gu Wuji possessed such shameless regenerative abilities, he would probably have cursed in anger on the spot.
In fact, Gu Wuji himself was quite surprised. It seemed that as he participated in more dungeons, his power was also constantly increasing… If Gu Wuji were to return to some of the beginner dungeons, he could probably knock out ghosts with a single punch and scare the other players to death.
This level of power was completely illogical. But considering that the existence of infinite flow supernatural dungeons and systems was also completely unscientific, Gu Wuji didn’t take it to heart.
“Don’t think you’re so great just because you’re strong.” The village chief felt like he had lost something after saying this, so he forced a cold laugh, and countless black shadows attacked Gu Wuji from behind. “Can you dodge one, or even all of them? Besides, there’s all this hair tangled around you…”
If Gu Wuji could survive in this situation, he would have no complaints even if Gu Wuji killed him directly.
Gu Wuji’s expression became more serious. Of course, he couldn’t do that, but he could withstand the village chief’s attack and then heal himself with his abilities. As long as it wasn’t a fatal injury, he could still save his life from this attack.
He finished his thought in a moment and calmly awaited the village chief’s attack.
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