Chapter 44: Fainting (8)

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A new day begins, and Shu Yushuang wakes up from another nightmare.

The story background of this instance made it hard for her not to recall her past experiences.

Shu Yushuang's stomach churned, and the scene in her dream made her want to vomit.

As she cleared more and more dungeons, those terrifying vengeful ghosts drew ever closer to her.

Shu Yushuang vaguely felt that if she could reach the last instance, she would definitely see these hateful evil ghosts outside the dream.

"You want me dead? By what right? You've been torturing me all this time, and now you want me dead? I will never let you succeed!"

Shu Yushuang gritted her teeth and growled.

With the churning sensation still lingering in her stomach, Shu Yushuang got up and poured herself a glass of water.

After drinking a cup of warm  water, that discomfort finally eased a little.

After finally recovering, she decided to go to the village chief again today to inquire about the female paper doll.

Although the village chief may not know much, she is still the best source of information at present.

"Why are you here again?"

After seeing Shu Yushuang again, the village chief's attitude became noticeably colder.

Shu Yushuang didn't know if she was tired of her frequent visits or genuinely didn't know any information. But she still needed to try.

The village chief's attitude didn't stop Shu Yushuang from continuing her questioning: "You have other ghosts here, including a paper doll. Do you know anything about it?"

"Paper doll? Is that the one you mentioned yesterday?"

"No, it's a paper doll made in the shape of a woman."

"No, I have never seen it before."

Shu Yushuang then asked, "I have another question about the paper groom. When that woman married into the family, was it the paper groom who went to pick her up?"

"I already said I don't know."

Shu Yushuang carefully observed the village chief's expression until she showed signs of anger, then she looked away.

"Okay, thank you for your explanation. I'll go look for clues elsewhere."

Before being kicked out by the village chief, Shu Yushuang left her home in time.

Shu Yushuang wandered aimlessly through the village and unknowingly found herself in the fields.

The scene in the fields remained the same, the only difference being that no one worked in that area anymore.

Looking at the somewhat cracked earth, Shu Yushuang suddenly understood why this place was so poor.

She inquired with others about the owner of the land and hurried there.

There was only one person in the small mud-brick house; the woman Shu Yushuang had seen before was packing her luggage.

"Are you getting ready to leave already?"

The woman didn't even look up. She said, "Everyone else in my family is dead. I'm going to the city to make a living."

"But your family still has land, right? What will happen to that land if you leave?"

"That piece of land...that piece of land, you can have it if you want it."

Shu Yushuang could see the woman's determination to leave, but she was still puzzled.

"But you can still work, can't you?"

The woman finally raised her head and said, “Our village is cursed. If a woman enters the fields, all the crops wither. She thought she was taking care of us so that we wouldn’t repeat her mistakes, but she didn’t expect that it would cut off our livelihood. Maybe she did, but hatred made her not even want to spare us.”

"If that's the case, why did you deliberately kill your husband?"

The woman suddenly smiled, a smile exactly like the one Shu Yushuang had seen on the day she first arrived.

“Because I wanted to leave this village. If that man hadn’t died, I wouldn’t have been able to leave. As for my son’s death, I don’t know who did it, but I’m grateful to that person.”

Shu Yushuang was stunned. That young man wasn't dead when he ran away that day, so how could he...?

"I am leaving. Good luck to you. Compared to us, she hates you outsiders even more."

Shu Yushuang still wanted to ask more, but the woman had already pushed past her and drifted out of the room like a wisp of smoke.

Shu Yushuang realized something and immediately followed, but the woman was nowhere to be seen outside the door.

In those few short seconds, the woman had completely vanished.

"Qin Su, did you see how she disappeared?"

"How she disappeared? Who are you talking about?"

"The woman who was talking to me just now!"

Qin Su asked cautiously, "Did you... say anything just now? I only saw you walk into this room and then you started spacing out."

Shu Yushuang felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave, her whole body turning ice cold.

If that woman was a ghost, then Qin Su should have told her, "No one was talking to you just now. You were talking to yourself the whole time."

But what Qin Su said was, "Were you talking just now?"

This meant Qin Su not only did not see that woman, she did not even see Shu Yushuang herself speaking.

Then what was that just now? An illusion?

Seeing Shu Yushuang standing there stunned for a long time, Qin Su carefully spoke again. "Are you okay?"

"It's okay, I'm fine."

Shu Yushuang adjusted herself in the shortest time possible. No matter what she experienced just now, she was still not dead, which meant she still needed to keep fighting for this dungeon.

"Qin Su, I really didn't expect that even vengeful ghosts could be blinded by a ghost's illusions."

But those words gave Qin Su a new idea.

"You mean, you were just talking with a woman?"

"Mm."

"You don't need to worry too much. That woman might not be a ghost. Maybe I was the one really blinded by a ghost."

Qin Su finally understood why the Controller let her see Shu Yushuang's instance situation. "It" wanted her to give Shu Yushuang wrong information.

Qin Su finally understood why the Controller let her see Shu Yushuang's instance situation. "It" wanted her to give Shu Yushuang wrong information.

The information she revealed to Shu Yushuang before was harmless and unimportant, so it should all have been correct. But once it involved key information, "it" would make Qin Su see the wrong scene.

Isn't this a kind of deception?

Qin Su said angrily to Fang Xiqiong, "How vicious!"

"Spend more time chatting with her, but it's better not to talk too much about the dungeon. Otherwise, if you mislead her, it could be fatal."

"I understand."

It would be a lie to say she wasn't disappointed, but Qin Su could still tell what was important.

She couldn't risk putting Shu Yushuang in danger just to prove herself.

"Shu Yushuang, I may not be able to help you with anything after this, but if you want to chat with someone, I'm always here."

"That's enough."

Looking at Shu Yushuang's expressionless face on the screen, Qin Su suddenly realized that she had never needed her help in the first place.

She is so outstanding that she can clear ten instance dungeons on her own.

But this won't affect Qin Su's desire to be with her.

At this moment Shu Yushuang said again, "That woman should not be human, otherwise she could not disappear that fast."

Qin Su now completely did not dare express her opinions anymore. She could only awkwardly say, "Maybe."

"But she also doesn't seem like a ghost. Otherwise why didn't she kill me?"

"What do you think she is?"

"It's not clear yet."

"Don't rush, there's still plenty of time."

Qin Su could only continue to comfort Shu Yushuang with these weak and powerless words.

But Shu Yushuang seemed to have thought of something and hurriedly headed towards the village entrance.

She went to the village entrance for two reasons: first, to see if the woman was there; and second, since the dungeon officially started, she still had not gone to find those women gathered at the village entrance chatting.

When she first arrived, the women were cold to her, leading her to mistakenly believe that she couldn't get anything out of them. But now, she realizes that her identity has changed from a traveler to an Executor.

Sun Tingting said before that the women at the village entrance were very enthusiastic toward executors like them, so she might as well try again.

Sure enough, when Shu Yushuang arrived at the village entrance again, before she could speak, those women already surrounded her on their own.

"Young lady, are you here to investigate the haunting in our village?"

"Mm."

"Aiya, let me tell you, it's terrifying. Every few days, several people die. Many people are too scared to live here, but they can't escape. They die as soon as they leave the village, they can't escape either. Their deaths are horrifying, they all turn into minced meat..."

Shu Yushuang looked at the woman's dramatic expression, but in her heart she was considering another matter.

Why did these people's attitudes change so much and so suddenly? And why did that woman just now not mention this matter? Did she not know that leaving the village meant death? Then why did she still dare leave?

They all seemed to be programmed... The woman who ran away was programmed to not know that she would die if she left the village, while the women at the village entrance were set in this location so that they would personally witness other people dying after leaving the village, so they knew this information.

The village chief was like this before too.

"Program..."

Shu Yushuang looked outside the village again. It was still a patch of nothingness.

She cautiously walked toward it. Although she was not blocked this time, a woman behind her forcefully pulled her back.

"Do you have a death wish? I already told you, you'll die if you leave the village!"

Shu Yushuang turned to look at the woman who had grabbed her. The woman was about the same age as her and was looking at her anxiously.

"What’s outside?"

"What’s outside? Isn't it the road out of the village?"

Shu Yushuang looked at the emptiness outside the village again and shook her head.

"If it's the road out of the village, why won't you let me go? What danger is there?"

"I already told you, you'll die as long as you go out!"

Shu Yushuang carefully observed the woman's expression, but found nothing except anxiety on her face.

"Alright, how many ghosts are here?"

"There are a lot." The woman counted on her fingers. "I can't count them clearly anyway. There are just many."

"..."

This village is really terrifying.

But at the same time, another question appeared in Shu Yushuang's heart. Why doesn't the village chief know the things even these women know?

As the village chief, shouldn't she know everything happening in the village?

However, a glimmer of hope rose in Shu Yushuang's heart. Although there were many vengeful spirits in this village, surely not everyone was ignorant of them; at least the woman in front of her must know something.

If she could get every vengeful ghost's background story out of them, maybe she could clear the dungeon.

She asked the woman again, "Why aren't you afraid at all?"

"Why be afraid? They don't kill us."

"Do you know how these ghosts appear?"

"How else could they appear? Of course they are women who suffered endless torment and humiliation, then became ghosts after death."

"Do you know what they experienced before they died?"

"What else besides domestic violence?"

"I mean, do you know the identities and backgrounds of the vengeful ghosts?"

"I don't know."

"You don't know?"

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“Yes,” the woman suddenly gazed wistfully out of the village, “so many women died back then, how could I possibly know the story of every single one of them?”

Hearing the woman's words, Shu Yushuang also sighed, unsure whether she was lamenting the innocent women who had died unjustly, or sighing because she hadn't gotten the answer she wanted.

The woman continued, "In this village, women who die violently become vengeful ghosts. Maybe I'll have a chance to become one someday."

At this point, her expression turned somewhat smug.

What was there to be proud of about becoming a ghost?

Shu Yushuang felt this woman's mind had already become somewhat abnormal. But after living in this kind of village for so long, it would be hard not to become like this, right?

"Oh right, you came from outside, right? Let me advise you, stop thinking about leaving. No outsider has ever left. Find a man here and marry him. He definitely won't hit or scold you. Isn't that also good?"

"Good my ass!”