Chapter 45: Fainting (9)

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Before Shu Yushuang could say anything, Qin Su angrily cursed.

In Qin Su's not-so-long life and her very long ghost life, she rarely had such an unrefined moment.

The last time she swore was when she had just regained consciousness and realized she had become a puppet.

However, only Shu Yushuang and Fang Xiqiong heard Qin Su's profanity; the other woman didn't react at all.

Upon hearing those three words from her, Shu Yushuang actually smiled.

She didn't know why, she just wanted to laugh.

Shu Yushuang said to the woman, "I won't stay here. I have my own things to do."

Looking at Shu Yushuang's smile, Qin Su felt as if ice and snow had melted away, and her mood brightened.

How wonderful it is to be alive!

Qin Su firmly told Fang Xiqiong, "I absolutely won't let her die."

Fang Xiqiong's expression was very complicated. She seemed to have a thousand words to say, but in the end, she only said two words: "Good luck."

Shu Yushuang returned to the village once again. She found the car she had casually parked before and tried to start it again.

"As expected, it still doesn't work."

Shu Yushuang sighed and got out of the car.

Combining everything that had happened during this period, she already had a very unbelievable guess in her heart.

According to what the woman at the village entrance said, every woman who died a violent death would become a vengeful ghost. There should be at least more than ten vengeful ghosts.

If there were one or several people who clearly knew all the background stories of those vengeful ghosts, that would be fine.

Although it might take a lot of time, all the truth could eventually be investigated.

However, judging from the current situation, the people who knew the most information were the women at the village entrance and the village chief.

And the situations they understood were only rough outlines.

After analyzing a whole bunch of things, Shu Yushuang finally reached a conclusion.

If she wanted to investigate all the stories of those vengeful ghosts before they died, it was an almost impossible task.

Why would the dungeon set up such an impossible task?

That could only mean one thing.

There was another truth hidden behind it.

Combining it with those strange things that had happened before, Shu Yushuang vaguely had a guess in her heart.

But...this guess was simply too fantastical. In the end, Shu Yushuang shook her head and threw this guess aside.

This guess was too wild. Instead of clinging to it, it was better to hurry and investigate the identity backgrounds of every vengeful ghost.

At the same time, in an unknown location, there was a mysterious internet café.

Its area was seven or eight hundred square meters. The inside was extremely luxurious. All kinds of furniture and food were available. There was even a swimming pool.

But there were only fourteen computers inside.

If this internet café were really operated by people, it would definitely lose money to death.

"F*ck! There's no way to hint it to her. As long as I try to tell her this is a game, the words spoken by the character inside automatically turn into something else. What do we do? Can we only rely on her figuring it out herself? What trash dungeon is this? It actually handed all our lives over to her!"

If Shu Yushuang were here, she would discover that the man roaring right now looked exactly like Han Yu.

Another girl who looked exactly like Sun Tingting calmly said, "Relax. There is still half a month left. There will be a way."

"What way? Tell me what way there is?! So what if there's still half a month left? It'll definitely be the same as the previous half month! If I could find a way, I'd personally go into the game and tell her... But how exactly did she do it? Why was she the only one who entered the game herself?"

Of course, no one could answer Han Yu's question, including Shu Yushuang herself.

Shu Yushuang did not even know that she was indeed inside a low-quality game full of bugs right now.

Her sixth sense was very accurate.

This was the truth.

Only this explanation made sense. The fourteen Executors outside the game had the mission of helping the Executor who entered the game uncover the truth and leave the game.

Only then could everyone survive.

If Shu Yushuang could not discover this truth within the specified time, she would never be able to leave the game and would completely become a set of data inside the game, while all the other executors would immediately die.

This was something Qin Su could never have imagined.

In fact, what she saw was equivalent to a live broadcast of a game, but she had not noticed at all that the person she cared about was inside a game.

But even if she noticed, it would be useless.

Any hint regarding this situation would be blocked and could not reach Shu Yushuang's ears or eyes.

The only thing Shu Yushuang could rely on now was herself.

Of course, the other Executors were not only there to provide "companionship."

They needed to find bugs in the game and find a way to give Shu Yushuang hints without being noticed by the dungeon.

And even though they were outside the game, they were not completely safe.

The damage received by the game characters they controlled would be reflected truthfully onto them.

In other words, if a game character died inside the game, the corresponding Executor would also die.

Those fourteen Executors could not understand why the dungeon had handed all of their lives to one person.

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At the very beginning of the game, the Executors could not control their corresponding game characters at all and could only let them act on their own.

Therefore, in Shu Yushuang's eyes, these people did not know her real identity.

But the Executors outside the game knew it clearly. Seeing Shu Yushuang desperately hide her identity, they could only smile bitterly.

After they gained the ability to control their game characters, the fourteen executors discovered that making these game characters obedient required enormous effort.

Once they relaxed even a little, those game characters would completely go against their wishes and run off to cause trouble.

And once they tried to remind Shu Yushuang, those game characters would also cause trouble.

This means that the burden of completing this instance almost entirely falls on Shu Yushuang alone.

Sun Tingting tried to give Shu Yushuang her first hint: the rules.

In this village, there exists a certain rule, and breaking it will result in death.

However, after performing the same act, the man died, but the woman did not. This shows that the rules did not apply equally to everyone in the village.

Sun Tingting tried to hint at Shu Yushuang's understanding with these chaotic rules, but it was clear that these subtle hints were completely ineffective in making Shu Yushuang understand.

Sun Tingting certainly wouldn't give up, but Shu Yushuang clearly didn't want to have much interaction with them and refused to do anything with them. Through her observations over this period of time, Sun Tingting discovered that if Shu Yushuang didn't want to stay with them, they simply couldn't find her on their own!

"It's infuriating! Not a bit of team spirit. How were our lives handed to someone like this?"

Sun Tingting was so angry that she wanted to smash the keyboard. But when she thought that damaging the computer would be equivalent to directly announcing her death sentence, she forcibly endured it.

She couldn't give direct hints, and subtle hints wouldn't be easily understood by Shu Yushuang. This could not be blamed on her.

What ordinary person would think they had entered a game?

At this point, the path to clearing the dungeon seems to have reached a dead end.

To make matters worse, other Executors discovered that the flow of time within the game was different from that outside the game; a day in the game would take two days outside.

Outside the game, the Executors' dungeon time limit was one month. Inside the game, Shu Yushuang's dungeon time limit was also one month.

In other words, if Shu Yushuang did not speed up, then after half a month passed and she still had not discovered this truth, the dungeon would fail.

She and all the remaining Executors would die.

Her actual dungeon time was only half a month.

This was a trap set by the dungeon specifically for her; she didn't actually have that much time.

Although Shu Yushuang now knows that there are many ghosts in the village, she has not seen any of them except for the two skeletons.

That paper groom might also be one of these vengeful ghosts, but Shu Yushuang never saw it again after returning to the village.

Shu Yushuang's doubts resurfaced. Did those vengeful ghosts really exist?

Well, judging from the fact that the dungeon was still not completed, they probably existed.

But why could she not see them?

If she could not even see those vengeful ghosts, where should she begin investigating their backgrounds?

Shu Yushuang returned to her residence, where the other Executors were indeed still in the lobby.

These people seemed to have given up the investigation and were resigned to their fate. Shu Yushuang felt that she was now the only one desperately trying to complete the instance.

Thinking about this, she suddenly felt a surge of anger.

Why?

Why is she the only one who still wants to try to live?

What's wrong with these people? It would be one thing if one or two gave up, but why did they all give up?

What Shu Yushuang didn't know was that her thoughts were projected verbatim onto the computer screens of the other Executors.

Sun Tingting pulled at her hair in distress.

"It's not like we want to give up, sister. No, we haven't given up either. We've been trying to find ways to remind you, but you're impossible to get through to!"

At this moment, Ji Hui said, "Sun Tingting, I think we should study how to enter this game now. That's more reliable. Counting on her... none of us will survive."

"Fine, study it. How do we get in? Do you have a way? Who can think of a way?"

After Sun Tingting said those words, the internet cafe fell into an eerie silence.

If they could think of a way, they would have already gotten into the game; why would they still be sitting here?

Sun Tingting understood this, of course; she said those things simply to vent her frustrations.

Seeing that no one answered, she gave herself a way out: "Alright, everyone, let's keep trying to remind her. We absolutely cannot give up until the very last moment."

Inside the game, Shu Yushuang started talking with Sun Tingting again.

"Where did you see that paper figure?"

"In—the—game—world..."

Sun Tingting typed those words one by one.

However, the game character she controlled said, "Outside the village."

Sun Tingting threw the keyboard in anger and slumped to one side, wanting nothing more than to give up.

"Outside the village?" Shu Yushuang frowned in confusion. "Can you leave the village?"

"Of course you can, can't you get out?"

After Sun Tingting gave up, her game character began to play freely.

"But outside..."

Halfway through her sentence, Shu Yushuang fell into deep thought.

Couldn't Sun Tingting see the void outside? Or was it that as long as she ignored that void, she could safely walk out?

But the woman at the village entrance had clearly said that leaving the village meant death.

Could it be that those task completion conditions were all lies, and all the other clues were smoke screens? Could she simply overcome her fear and ignore that void to leave this place?

But the dungeon task could not be left unfinished...

Could it be that the Sun Tingting in front of her had a problem and was talking nonsense?

Shu Yushuang stepped back, distancing herself from Sun Tingting. She looked at the others, only to find them staring at her expressionlessly.

Isn't that a bit too bizarre?

For some reason, Shu Yushuang felt she had become the focus of attention for the other Executors. Why was that? Was it because her identity was too easy to suspect? But wasn't it too late to confess now?

Without any hesitation, Shu Yushuang immediately ran out of the house. This infuriated Sun Tingting.

“What exactly are all of you doing? If you don't know how to control your game characters, then go back to your own rooms. Now look at what you’ve done,  you scared the person away!”