Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Time rewound.
Gu Wuji, through his memories, entered this village.
Since it was just a memory, although Gu Wuji could interact with others, they remained silent when things exceeded the scope of his recollections. Only if Gu Wuji made the same correct choices as his past self could the story progress.
Fortunately, because it was his own memory, everything went smoothly.
“If this were a game, it would have received countless negative reviews by now.”
Gu Wuji, who had initially thought he could glean information about his past from the memories, felt extremely disappointed. However, he deduced some things from the current situation.
The people in this group were indeed from the same organization, even displaying remarkable teamwork, seemingly having experienced many dungeons together.
Their handling of information gathering and everything else in this village was effortless, giving Gu Wuji a sense of professionalism.
Even decades ago, without offerings, this village was incredibly eerie, filled with various supernatural occurrences, and extremely dangerous.
As for the deity in the dungeon, Gu Wuji quickly encountered it. The deity seemed to have a favorable impression of Gu Wuji, frequently appearing around him and sometimes even saving his life.
He didn’t know what was going on in this village. If the so-called god was just a child, why would these villagers be so eager to sacrifice a bride? And the strange things happening in the village didn’t seem like something a child could do.
Upon closer inspection, Gu Wuji suddenly noticed that most of the black mist that blotted out the sky in the village was slowly dissipating from the villagers’ bodies. There were also wisps of black energy, invisible to the naked eye, flowing into the boy’s body, but these were few; the majority gathered in the sky.
Could it be that this mist was somehow connected to the god?
“What are you doing again? If you have nothing to do, can’t you play with me?”
The boy-like god appeared beside him, looking at Gu Wuji with some confusion as he walked towards the shrine in the valley.
“I still have things to investigate,” Gu Wuji said. No matter how he thought about it, there was definitely something wrong with this place, and the shrine on the mountain might give him the answer.
It was clearly no coincidence that the shrine was later converted into the village chief’s house; although the village chief hadn’t revealed anything, it was obviously intentional. Besides, that’s the place he’ll eventually enter.
In the past few days, Gu Wuji had quickly built a good relationship with this deity and realized that aside from his incredible strength and being much better looking than the villagers, he was actually just an ordinary child, albeit a bit arrogant.
Of course, for Gu Wuji, dealing with arrogance was already quite an art.
“There’s nothing interesting up there,” the boy frowned, then tugged at Gu Wuji’s clothes. “Talk to me more, tell me about what’s happening outside.”
Gu Wuji couldn’t help but look down and reach out to touch the boy’s head. “I’ll leave sooner or later, you’d better find some new playmates.”
Although thinking about it, it was unlikely this village would have such a person… others probably had been waiting for years before coming to play with him. Gu Wuji felt he had to understand.
“No, you can’t leave.” The boy’s face lit up with anxiety, and he immediately hugged Gu Wuji. “You have to stay and be my bride!”
Gu Wuji: “…”
Gu Wuji: “Ahem, you were all fooled by those villagers. How could someone so young marry a bride? Besides, I’m a man, how could I be a bride?”
These villagers are really heartless! They probably did this because they couldn’t see the true form of the god.
However, Gu Wuji also breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed he wasn’t the scumb*g who deceived some ghost boss’s feelings after all. This boss is still just a child, how could he deceive someone’s feelings? At most, he must have deceived a child and caused them psychological trauma… that seemed even worse.
Hearing Gu Wuji’s words, the boy hesitated and said, “Then I can do it when I grow up, right?”
“Of course not!” Gu Wuji pressed his shoulders, deeply feeling the importance of education. “In short, don’t think about these things anymore. It’s all because this village is too isolated. If you could leave one day, you wouldn’t have these thoughts.”
“Leave?” The boy was stunned.
Gu Wuji realized he might have accidentally said the wrong thing. How could a boss in a dungeon run away? It wasn’t some ordinary ghost. But because the boy seemed so much like an ordinary child, he subconsciously assumed he was normal too.
“Can I really leave here?” The boy looked at Gu Wuji, his expectant eyes making it impossible to refuse.
Gu Wuji wanted to harden his heart and refuse but found he couldn’t bring himself to say it.
Not that he couldn’t, but that he hadn’t said it before.
“This is still within the memory. My actions can’t change what happened back then, so did I really promise to take him away?” Gu Wuji fell silent. “Did I really lie to a child?!”
But he trusted his character; he would never do such a thing. So, there must have been a way to take him away from this village, which was why he had said those words…
But what happened that prevented it from succeeding, leading him to become the infamous scumb*g?
Gu Wuji took a deep breath, starting to feel grateful that he could see this memory; at least it could make up for some of his past actions.
He looked down at the boy before him. “That’s right. One day, I will take you away from this village.”
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