Chapter 41: Fainting (5)

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The house was very noisy, like there were many people inside.

Shu Yushuang knocked on the door, and it opened quickly.

But there was no one behind the door.

All the lights in the house were on, but there wasn't a single person inside.

This clear abnormal scene made Shu Yushuang step back at once, and she scanned her surroundings with caution.

At night, it was eeriely quiet.

“What are you doing standing here?”

A voice sounded behind Shu Yushuang. She reacted by instinct and threw an elbow strike backward.

The person behind her didn't react in time and failed to dodge.

She heard a painful groan, and Shu Yushuang turned around to see the person behind her.

There wasn't just one person behind her, but fifteen people.

At the front was the village chief, and her position caused her to take Shu Yushuang’s heavy hit directly.

The village chief held her chest, her face full of pain. Sun Tingting rushed over to support her.

Shu Yushuang looked at the group behind her. All the Executors were here. No one was hurt.

“What are you doing? You hit her like this?”

Those people blamed Shu Yushuang, but the village chief raised her hand to stop them.

“I’m fine. I just need some rest. She didn't do it on purpose.”

With Sun Tingting’s help, the village chief walked into the living room.

She turned back and waved, telling Shu Yushuang to come in too.

“You're also here to ask about that matter, right? Ai. Since you're all here, I'll tell you everything.”

The village chief was finally willing to tell the truth. This should've been a good thing, but Shu Yushuang felt something was wrong.

The gap between her earlier and later attitude was too big.

Now she agreed so easily to tell the Executors the truth, and it felt very sudden.

It was the same before.

Before the Executors asked to stay overnight, the village chief was cold.

After that, she became strangely warm, like an NPC whose attitude changed after the player triggered a condition.

But this shouldn't be the case.

Shu Yushuang knew she was inside a game called “Hell Online”, but this wasn't an ordinary game.

It was a dangerous challenge.

These dungeons must be real. They weren't a game.

Even if she treated it as a normal game, the first two dungeons were well made and flawless.

This dungeon felt like a rushed product, full of bugs, and very poor quality.

Not to mention Qin Su’s voice bizarrely appearing out of nowhere.

Why could only Shu Yushuang hear it?

It was like Shu Yushuang was a character in the game, and Qin Su was the player controlling her.

“…So the mother and daughter began to protect the women in this village. As long as you don't do anything out of line, they definitely won't hurt you. I let you stay in that house to protect you.”

When Shu Yushuang came back to her senses, she only heard this sentence.

Protect?

It seemed that house was a safe house. But hiding in that house all the time was definitely not the way to clear this dungeon. To clear this dungeon, they still needed to dig out the truth behind it.

Shu Yushuang observed the other Executors.

The boys all looked shaken and scared, while the girls looked relaxed.

She looked at the village chief again.

The village chief said kindly, “You were distracted just now? I'll tell you again.”

This time, Shu Yushuang listened carefully to the whole story.

A long time ago, about seventy or eighty years ago, an outsider woman married into Zhoujia Village.

This was nothing rare.

In that era, every woman would face such a day.

The man she married was not a good man. Before marriage, the man acted polite and gentle. But on the wedding night, when they entered the bridal chamber, he showed his true face.

After that, the man’s whole family treated the woman like a slave, and they threw all the dirty and tiring work to her.

This situation became even worse after the woman gave birth to her first daughter.

Because she didn't give birth to a son, the woman was cursed as useless.

At the same time, the torment from her husband’s family became more and more intense.

Combined with those two skeletons, Shu Yushuang had already guessed the ending of this mother and daughter.

After the mother and daughter died, strange things happened often in Zhoujia Village.

At first, on the seventh day after the woman’s death, her husband’s entire family died strangely.

All the villagers said it was that woman who came back to take their lives.

This matter quickly became talk after tea and meals for the villagers.

No one expected that this matter would affect everyone in the village.

That was half a month after the woman’s death.

In the countryside in the middle of the last century, there was no entertainment. Most people already went to sleep when it got dark.

So that tragic case was only noticed by a few people.

Such things were very common in the village.

No one would care about whether another family’s wife lived or died.

While the other villagers were all sleeping deeply, the screams quietly turned into a man’s screams.

Not until the next morning did someone pass by Zhou Da’s house and smell a bloody, foul odor drifting out from the door crack.

That person felt something was wrong.

When he went over to knock, he found the door was only half closed.

With a light push, it opened.

After the door was pushed open, the passerby saw Zhou Da’s wife slumped on the ground at a glance.

The woman sat there in a daze.

There was a large pool of liquid under her body, and it gave off a strong stench.

She cried for a while, then laughed for a while.

She was clearly already crazy.

Beside her was a large pile of flesh and bones smashed beyond recognition.

The passerby screamed and ran out of the house.

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His scream also drew other people over.

This tragedy caused a huge stir in the village.

No one knew how a person could be broken into so many pieces.

Even more, no one knew what kind of power could turn a person into this.

Even if a wild beast had broken into the house, it couldn’t have smashed all the bones into pieces.

And if it was a wild beast, how could that woman be unharmed?

For a time, an ominous cloud covered the entire village.

The villagers hid in their homes, afraid they’d be killed by that terrible power.

But this clearly wasn’t a solution.

No matter what killed Zhou Da, it clearly had the ability to enter houses at will.

When someone couldn’t stand this oppressive atmosphere anymore and vented his anger on his wife and daughter, he was also killed.

Only then did the other villagers vaguely realize the pattern of these deaths.

Hit your wife and children, and you’ll die?

For villagers used to male dominance and female inferiority, this was simply absurd.

After that, villagers who refused to believe it kept seeking death.

The result didn’t need to be said.

All of them died unnatural deaths.

After the village chief finished speaking, Shu Yushuang asked suspiciously, “Is everything you said true? You didn’t lie to me?”

There was only one reason she asked this.

She didn’t receive a task completion prompt.

The village chief was a bit unhappy at this offensive question.

She said coldly, “Everything I said is true. Believe it or not.”

Shu Yushuang didn’t say anything more.

She knew very well that no matter whether the village chief was telling the truth or not, she couldn’t ask anything else from her.

While the village chief was retelling the “story” to Shu Yushuang, the other Executors were chatting noisily on the side.

Like background music——this strange thought suddenly came into Shu Yushuang’s mind and wouldn’t go away.

Since she couldn’t get any more information from the village chief, Shu Yushuang prepared to leave.

When the Executors who’d been chatting on the side saw Shu Yushuang about to leave, they immediately stood up and followed her.

Something was wrong.

Why were all these people surrounding her?

Also, they were Executors too.

After learning the truth and finding they hadn’t completed the task, didn’t they feel panicked at all?

But Shu Yushuang didn’t show anything strange.

She asked Sun Tingting, “Where did you go just now? Why didn’t you come back for so long?”

“We talked with the village chief for a while and learned about the situation of this village.”

“Before I came, where did you go again?”

Sun Tingting looked at Shu Yushuang in surprise and said, “We were on that street. Didn’t you see us?”

How could they be on the street?

Shu Yushuang was very sure that when she came over, there wasn’t a single person on the street.

She asked again, “Then did you see me at that time?”

“Of course. I even called you, but you ignored me.”

It was getting more and more strange.

Could it be ghost blocking the eyes?

But everything was fine, so why would ghost blocking the eyes happen?

Could it be that she was discovered when she followed those two skeletons just now?

But if she was discovered, why wasn’t she killed by them?

The only thing Shu Yushuang could be sure of now was that the village chief hadn’t told her the truth behind the series of strange events in this village.

Otherwise, she could already drive away now.

But the village chief didn’t seem to be lying.

After all, since Shu Yushuang came to this village, everyone she saw dead or injured were indeed men.

So where did the problem appear?

Shu Yushuang followed the other Executors back to the residence in a daze.

Before entering the house, she glanced into the yard.

The hole that had been dug out before was now filled in, and the two skeletons were gone.

They were probably buried again.

But…

Who buried them back?

Could it be themselves?

Thinking carefully, this matter became even more terrifying.

Since the bones had already been found, what was the point of burying them again?

Shu Yushuang was the last to enter.

Everyone else had already returned to their own rooms.

She looked at the empty living room and suddenly felt lost.

What exactly was the truth?

“Qin Su.”

“I’m here.”

Qin Su thought Shu Yushuang had run into trouble and wanted her help, so she immediately focused.

But what Shu Yushuang said next surprised her.

“Which era did you live in before?”

“I was born in the sixties. What’s wrong?”

“That era… did your parents favor boys over girls?”

“No. They were both intellectuals, and I was the only daughter in the family.”

At this point, one human and one ghost suddenly fell silent at the same time.

After a long while, Qin Su said quietly, “I don’t know how I… I don’t know how they ended up later. There was no one at home to take care of them.”

“After I clear this dungeon, I’ll go check on them for you.”

This time, Qin Su stayed silent for a long time again.

Fang Xiqiong clearly saw a tear as black as ink slide down from the corner of Qin Su’s eye.

Making a fierce ghost cry, that girl really had some skill.

Qin Su said in a low voice, “I don’t know if they’re still alive, and I don’t know if they still live in the original place.

If you’re willing, then help me take a look.”

Qin Su gave a string of addresses and two names.

Shu Yushuang recorded them on her phone.

“If they’re still alive, say you’re a social worker. Don’t mention me.”

“I understand.”

“Shu Yushuang, in this dungeon, no matter what difficulty you face, I can help you.”

“Thank you, but I don’t need it for now.”

“Why are you so stubborn? Accepting other people’s help isn’t something shameful.”

Shu Yushuang stood up and walked to the bed.

She looked at the deep night in the distance and said calmly, “You’re a ghost.”

“…”

But Qin Su finds Shu Yushuang saying a cold joke in a serious tone, very cute.

Looking at Qin Su smiling with a face full of happiness, Fang Xiqiong shook her head in dislike.

This female ghost who had fallen into love, why did she look like a fool?

Shu Yushuang didn’t want to accept Qin Su’s help.

Besides her own pride, there was another very important reason.

As the old saying goes, ghosts speak in endless lies.

It means a mouth full of deceptive nonsense.

Can words spoken by ghosts be trusted?

Do you dare to trust them?