Chapter 35: Ten Ways to Summon Ghosts (14)

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Shu Yushuang pressed her brow and nodded, saying, "Go ahead."  

"After this, those ghost-summoning missions, can we try to stop the ghosts from coming?"  

"Right, but it’s possible the same thing from the last game will happen again."  

Hearing the answer, Liang Qi got excited. But then she thought of her lover who died unjustly in the first "game" and she felt sad again.  

Shu Yushuang was right. Even though she and Liang Qi didn’t bring out the Pen Fairy in this mission, the task was still finished. Their thinking had been wrong from the start.  

These were the safest three days they had in this dungeon.

In the next five games, Shu Yushuang and Liang Qi found the loopholes in the mission details together. They avoided summoning the ghosts. Since the six fierce ghosts weren’t called out, the rituals written in the dungeon details didn’t start.  

Even when the game reminded them that the dungeon was over and it would send them back soon, Liang Qi still felt it wasn’t real.  

She had gone into the dungeon with Deng Yue, but now only she came out.  

Liang Qi sat in the house she rented with Deng Yue. At last, she couldn’t hold back her tears.  

After going home, Shu Yushuang also felt a bit dazed.  

Looking back at the two dungeons she had cleared, she could only say: all tricks.  

The dungeon itself wasn’t too hard. The problem was there were too many traps inside.  

Same as after the first dungeon, Shu Yushuang rested for some time before going back to work.  

Unlike Shu Yushuang’s free days, Qin Su started to get busy.  

After she went to Fang Xiqiong’s place last time, she was dragged over almost once a month.  

But unlike the first two times, if Qin Su didn’t hunt the Executors, the dungeon would control her body to kill people.

If Qin Su lost control of her own body, the Executors would suffer heavy deaths.  

After Shu Yushuang and the others left, the first time Qin Su entered Fang Xiqiong’s dungeon she found this problem.  

She had thought to scare the Executors a bit like the last two times, then stroll around Fang Xiqiong’s cinema. But she didn’t expect that the moment she stepped on the first stair, she lost her consciousness.  

When Qin Su woke up, it was already the night of the third day. Less than half an hour later, she would be sent back to her original dungeon.  

She was in a room. The floor was covered in blood.  

Qin Su stared blankly at the blood on the ground. In these three days, she had moved like a walking corpse. She had no idea what she had done.  

Now seeing the blood in the room, a bad guess rose in her heart.  

Qin Su rushed downstairs like crazy. But she saw Fang Xiqiong glaring at her with a strange, cold look.  

Fang Xiqiong’s gaze scared Qin Su into stopping right there. She stepped back up the stairs without thinking.  

“Fang...”  

Qin Su had only said one word when Fang Xiqiong cut her off sharply. “What did you say before? Didn’t you say you wouldn’t hurt the Executors?”  

“I didn’t...”  

Qin Su also felt wronged. Even if she had done something when she lost her mind, it wasn’t her will.

Seeing Qin Su like this, Fang Xiqiong slowly pressed down her anger.  

No matter how angry she was, she couldn’t forget that the one in front of her was a fierce ghost.  

Killing was the nature of a fierce ghost. Even if it could be held back for a while, it could never be stopped forever.  

Even if Qin Su had promised she wouldn’t kill, she was still a fierce ghost in the end.  

Humans and fierce ghosts could never live together.  

Fang Xiqiong waved her hand tiredly. She said weakly, “If you come into this dungeon again, don’t come to me anymore.”  

Qin Su opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but the dungeon didn’t give her the chance.  

Qin Su lay in her prison cell, staring at the bed board above her. Bloody images came into her mind one after another. They were all things she had done when she lost consciousness.  

Qin Su gripped her sheet tight. She had thought she relied on willpower and broke free from the dungeon’s limit on her. But now it seemed she was nothing but a clown.  

She couldn’t break free at all. Even her belief that she could control her body and not kill was only a fake image made by the dungeon on purpose.  

Maybe when Qin Su felt proud because she had saved a few Executors, that thing behind the scenes was laughing at her.  

This time she lost her mind in Fang Xiqiong’s dungeon, maybe that was “its” warning to her.  

I must escape... I must get out of this ghost place once and for all!

The bell rang loud outside the door. Qin Su was dragged down from the bed again. She closed her eyes and silently endured the abuse from the other fierce ghosts.  

....

In the martial arts hall, Shu Yushuang used her break to make a call, but no one picked up. 

Since she parted with Tang Yin last time, they hadn’t met again, but they sometimes called to check on each other. If one of them was about to enter a dungeon, they would let the other know first.  

It wasn’t the first time Tang Yin had been slow to answer like this, but never more than two days before she called back.  

Now it has been a whole week since Shu Yushuang’s first call after leaving the dungeon. In that week, there was no sign of Tang Yin at all.  

Before Shu Yushuang entered the dungeon, Tang Yin had already gone into hers. It was impossible that it still wasn’t over.  

Shu Yushuang’s unease grew stronger. She knew, even if Tang Yin’s job was special, she couldn’t ignore her phone for a whole week. She could only comfort herself, telling herself that Tang Yin must have lost her phone.  

Shu Yushuang barely made it through the workday. After work, she planned to go to the police station where Tang Yin worked, to check her situation.  

But to her disappointment, she didn’t find Tang Yin.  

According to Tang Yin’s colleagues, she hadn’t come to work for several days, and she hadn’t asked for leave either.  

Shu Yushuang already guessed Tang Yin’s situation, but she didn’t dare to admit it.  

Tang Yin was her only friend now. Shu Yushuang didn’t dare to think about that scary outcome.  

From then on, Shu Yushuang called Tang Yin almost every day. Even if no one ever answered, it was enough for her to keep lying to herself.  

During this time, Shu Yushuang thought back on how she and Tang Yin first met. She remembered the time Tang Yin found Shu Ya’s phone, and suddenly a thought flashed in her mind.  

Back then Tang Yin had said the phone was found at a crime scene. This meant the dungeon and reality must connect somehow.  

Did this mean that if she searched the whole city, even the whole country, she could find Tang Yin’s whereabouts?  

Shu Yushuang had a habit of acting right away when she had an idea.  

But taking two long leaves in a row made her boss very unhappy.  

“Xiao Shu, you’re a very capable worker. I value you. But you can’t keep doing this, and disrespecting me.”  

“I’m not.”

“Why not? It’s been less than two months, and you already took two long leaves in a row. Isn’t this disrespecting me?”  

“I...”  

Shu Yushuang was at a loss. This did seem wrong.  

Seeing she couldn’t answer, the boss went on with a serious tone. “Xiao Shu, the last two times you took long leave, I approved them because of your good work. But this puts me in a hard spot. Have you thought about what the other coworkers will think when they see you always absent?”  

“I understand. I resign.”  

Shu Yushuang might not be good at dealing with people, but after working so long, how could she not hear the meaning behind the boss’ words?  

Her savings and the money she earned from the dungeons were enough for her not to work for a long time. So she quit without hesitation.  

The boss pretended to regret it and acted like he wanted her to stay. But soon he agreed to her request.  

After leaving the martial arts hall, Shu Yushuang wasn’t especially sad. She had worked there for a while, but to be honest, she had no feelings for it at all.  

If not for the need to earn money, she wouldn’t have stayed so long. Since now she had enough money, and the boss had basically pushed her out, she didn’t want to stay anymore.  

She even felt a sense of relief.  

Where to find Tang Yin became her biggest problem.  

Last time, finding Shu Ya’s phone was only by chance. In such a big land, to find one small phone was not easy at all.  

But Shu Yushuang’s greatest strength was persistence. Once she made up her mind, she wouldn’t give up no matter what.  

She cleaned up her and Shu Ya’s home, locked the door, and set off alone.  

Since she had no clear goal yet, she decided to search the places rumored to be haunted first.  

If those places had ghost rumors, it couldn’t be without reason. Shu Yushuang believed she wasn’t the only unlucky one who often saw ghosts.  

Those haunted places might very well be where the dungeons were.  

In fact, before leaving, Shu Yushuang had checked Qin Su’s records. The first place she wanted to go was where Qin Su had lived.  

A person couldn’t turn into a fierce ghost for no reason. No fierce ghost came from someone who died normally.  

If someone turned into a fierce ghost after death, it meant they suffered great injustice. Then these fierce ghosts must have been tied to certain cases when alive.  

Shu Yushuang thought that she could easily find Qin Su's relevant information by following this idea, but she was disappointed.

She couldn’t find any information about Qin Su at all, not even someone with the same name.  

All information tied to the name “Qin Su” had been completely blocked by some force.  

Shu Yushuang realized this must be the work of the one controlling the death game.  

Maybe if she found Qin Su’s records, she could easily clear the dungeon she was in. That was why Qin Su’s life story was hidden from the Executors.  

Though very disappointed, Shu Yushuang didn’t dwell on it. She found a famous haunted place online and decided to go there first.  

That place wasn’t close to her home. She spent two whole days and nights on the train before reaching the nearby city, Z City. But her real destination was an even farther small village.  

After getting off the train, Shu Yushuang rested in the city for one night and asked around about the haunted village.  

But when the village was mentioned, almost everyone’s face changed suddenly. They all waved their hands, saying they knew nothing.  

Whether it was the innkeeper, the restaurant owner, or people on the street, all acted the same.  

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Their attitude only made Shu Yushuang more sure the village had a problem.  

The next morning, after breakfast, Shu Yushuang was ready to leave. But the innkeeper stopped her.  

“Girl, are you going to Zhoujia Village? That place is really evil. Listen to me, go home. I know you young people are very curious, but before… ai, it’s not a fun place.”  

Shu Yushuang smiled. The boss wouldn’t say anything, but she was kind.  

“I know. There are ghosts there, right? I came to find ghosts.”  

Hearing this, the innkeeper’s face changed again and again. She wanted to keep persuading Shu Yushuang, but when she saw Shu Yushuang’s firm gaze, she could only sigh heavily.  

“Then be careful. No outsider who went to that village ever came out alive.”  

“I’ll be careful. Thank you.”