Chapter 46: Fainting (10)

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“It’s not our fault,” Ji Hui said timidly. "You also know these things are hard to control, especially when Shu Yushuang appears in their field of vision..."

"That's why I told you to make the characters go back to their rooms! Wouldn't avoiding her solve it?"

Ji Hui still said unwillingly, "Then why didn't you say that earlier..."

"Alright, alright," Xiao Xiao stepped in to smooth things over, "Now is not the time to argue, let's quickly find a way to tell her the truth."

Sun Tingting sat back down at her computer with a gloomy face. She controlled her game character to chase after Shu Yushuang.

"Wait!"

Sun Tingting's game character stopped four or five meters away from Shu Yushuang. She immediately realized that Shu Yushuang was heading towards the village entrance.

Could she really have been tricked?

What those fourteen Executors saw was completely different from what Shu Yushuang saw. Shu Yushuang could not see anything, but they could see countless vengeful ghosts outside the village.

Those vengeful ghosts had completely surrounded the entire village. They were only blocked by an invisible barrier for now and could not enter the village.

However, Sun Tingting knew that once Shu Yushuang failed to learn the truth about the world she was in within the specified time, those vengeful ghosts would definitely break through that barrier and rush into the village to kill every game character controlled by the Executors. After those game characters died, the corresponding Executors would also die together with them.

Besides that, if Shu Yushuang left the village ahead of time, she would also break that barrier and release all the vengeful ghosts into the village.

All of this was explained clearly in the instance details. That was why Sun Tingting's game character had tried to lure Shu Yushuang outside the village.

After hearing Sun Tingting's voice, Shu Yushuang hesitated a little, but she still stopped in the end.

She turned to look at Sun Tingting. Although she had stopped, the vigilance in her heart had not decreased at all.

"Is there anything else?"

"Are you trying to leave this place?"

"Mm. Since you said I can go out, I want to try."

"But didn't you come here to catch ghosts? The ghosts haven't been caught yet, and you're already planning to leave?"

"I never said I came here to catch ghosts."

"But you're a Taoist priest. Taoist priests should save people! There are still so many people in this village in danger. Can you really bear to watch them all die?"

"I don't have that kind of ability. What exactly are you trying to do?"

"Anyway, you still can't leave. The villagers need you."

Sun Tingting knew that once Shu Yushuang stepped even half a step out of the village, all the Executors carrying out this instance dungeon would be wiped out. She could only use all kinds of unreasonable methods to make Shu Yushuang stay.

She discovered that as long as she became distracted even a little, her game character would try every possible way to guide Shu Yushuang into dangerous places.

She even suspected now that the game characters controlled by the Executors were themselves vengeful ghosts.

The game had temporarily given the Executors the ability to control the actions of these vengeful ghosts, but the vengeful ghosts were unwilling to be controlled by others. They would not miss any opportunity to kill the Executors.

"You really don't want me to leave. Why?"

"Because we need you to stay and save people."

"Save people? Do you really want to save people? Do those people need me to save them? Just tell the truth. What exactly are you hiding from me?"

Sun Tingting herself was almost in tears. It wasn't that she didn't want to tell the truth. She simply could not say it.

"There are many vengeful ghosts in the village. If you leave without dealing with them properly, what if you bring them outside?"

"That is not something I need to consider."

"How can you be so cold-blooded? And you clearly said before that you wanted to exorcise ghosts!"

The corners of Shu Yushuang's lips lifted slightly, as if she was mocking Sun Tingting.

She said, "Anything else? If not, I'm leaving."

After saying that, Shu Yushuang made a move to leave. Sun Tingting immediately controlled her game character and grabbed her wrist.

Sun Tingting said sincerely, "Although I can't tell you the truth right now, you can't leave. This is for your own good and for ours too."

Sun Tingting was really anxious now. Half of the instance time had already passed, but Shu Yushuang had not noticed anything about the current situation. She even wanted to leave!

Originally, Sun Tingting thought she was a fairly calm person. She never expected her to be this reckless now.

"Can't tell me the truth?" Shu Yushuang frowned slightly. "You already know what the truth is? Then why..."

A flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in Shu Yushuang's mind. She looked at Sun Tingting with burning eyes.

"Could it be...?"

Seeing Shu Yushuang's gaze, Sun Tingting felt excited.

Could it be that in such a short time, Shu Yushuang had suddenly figured it out?

Shu Yushuang tested the waters and asked, "Is your mission different from mine?"

Sun Tingting became even more excited. She slammed the keyboard twice, and the game character on the computer screen nodded heavily.

Shu Yushuang took a deep breath. She now felt like a clown. Those Executors clearly already knew her true identity. Only she had still been acting in front of people who knew everything.

"Are you under some kind of restriction, so there are things you can't tell me?"

Sun Tingting thought for a moment, then hit the keyboard again. The game character she controlled nodded again.

"How about this. I'll ask questions, and you shake your head or nod. That won't be restricted, right?"

This time, Sun Tingting pressed two different keys. Her game character nodded first, then shook its head.

"Your actions are restricted too?"

Nod.

"You all know the truth. Only I don't. So only after I know the truth can all of us clear this instance?"

Nod.

"What exactly is the truth?"

Shu Yushuang looked at Sun Tingting, but Sun Tingting could not give an answer.

Of course, Shu Yushuang had not expected her to answer anyway. She was only talking to herself.

Unwilling to give up, Sun Tingting typed another sentence:

"Do—you—like—playing—games—"

However, what the game character said was:

"There is a clue at the village entrance."

Sun Tingting rolled her eyes hard.

This game character is really persistent, still saying this now, without even considering how Shu Yushuang could possibly believe it.

Sure enough, Shu Yushuang only gave her a suspicious look before heading back into the village.

After remaining silent for a long time, Qin Su finally spoke: "There's something wrong with this person. The difference before and after is too big. Could she be possessed by a ghost?"

"I don't think so. But her attitude is indeed suspicious. Still, I feel there is another reason behind this difference."

"Where are you planning to go now?"

"Going to find those other vengeful ghosts that may or may not really exist."

Shu Yushuang had a feeling that as long as she could find any other vengeful ghost, all the problems troubling her right now would be solved.

But did those so-called other vengeful ghosts really exist?

Ever since Shu Yushuang saw those two skeletons kill people that day, the village had been peaceful and calm to an unbelievable degree.

Did other vengeful ghosts really exist here, as Sun Tingting said?

Sun Tingting said behind Shu Yushuang, "They really do exist. You just can't see them."

Sun Tingting could observe the situation inside the instance clearly through her computer screen.

At first, when she saw those scattered vengeful ghosts throughout the village, she was indeed startled.

She wanted to remind Shu Yushuang not to run into those vengeful ghosts. But after seeing Shu Yushuang pass by a blood-covered vengeful ghost without any reaction, she finally realized that Shu Yushuang, who was inside the game, could not see those vengeful ghosts.

Those vengeful ghosts also seemed unable to see Shu Yushuang. They didn't make any move to harm her.

Shu Yushuang asked Sun Tingting again, "Why can't I see them? Are they hiding?"

"No. You simply can't see them."

Shu Yushuang glanced at Sun Tingting again for no reason.

What she said was really strange.

Shu Yushuang completely stopped paying attention to Sun Tingting. She walked through the village back and forth several times, but never saw anything strange again.

Now this place was no different from any peaceful small village.

Shu Yushuang came to that woman's house again. Then she was surprised to discover that the woman had appeared in the house once more.

Shu Yushuang didn't rush over to find her. Instead, she first asked Qin Su:

"Can you see her?"

"Who?"

"As expected, you still can't see her."

"Can't see what? Has that situation from before appeared again?"

"Mm."

Shu Yushuang said nothing more and walked straight toward the woman's house.

Qin Su suddenly felt fear.

She was a vengeful ghost. Anything that could make her feel fear had to be something very powerful.

She turned to Fang Xiqiong and asked, "What exactly was she asking about? Can you see it?"

However, Fang Xiqiong had already picked up her newspaper again. Hearing Qin Su's question, she raised her head blankly.

"What did you say?"

Seeing Fang Xiqiong like this, Qin Su knew there was no point expecting an answer from her.

"Nothing. Go read your newspaper."

"Oh."

Fang Xiqiong lowered her head. But she soon raised it again.

"Actually, I have an idea."

"What?"

"My movie theater has never shown a movie related to living people before this."

"There are exceptions to everything. Don't tell me you think she's already dead? That's impossible. I was talking to her just now."

Fang Xiqiong said nothing, but the serious expression on her face already explained everything.

Qin Su only felt her throat tighten.

She said with difficulty, "Then why can I still talk to her? Are you trying to tell me she's become a ghost?"

"I don't know. This matter is too strange..."

Fang Xiqiong looked at Qin Su. Seeing her lost and distracted appearance, she immediately felt it would be better not to say anything else.

Qin Su widened her eyes and stared at Shu Yushuang without blinking, afraid that if she blinked once, Shu Yushuang would disappear.

After Shu Yushuang entered the house, she was surprised to discover that the woman was packing her luggage again.

"Why did you come back?"

"Come back?" The woman raised her head and looked at Shu Yushuang in confusion. "I never went out."

"You never went out? But before, didn't you already... Then what are you doing now?"

"Everyone else in my family is dead. I'm going to the city to make a living."

Such a familiar sentence.

Shu Yushuang thought for a moment, then said:

"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."

Confirmed. It was the same dialogue as before.

However, Shu Yushuang wasn't planning to say the same things as before.

"I don't want it. I only want to know the reason you must leave."

“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.”

Alright. It seemed that even if Shu Yushuang changed her lines, the woman's lines would not change.

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"Alright, I understand. Are you leaving now?"

The woman didn't answer. She simply picked up her luggage.

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

This time one line was missing. It seemed this woman could occasionally adapt to changes.

Shu Yushuang immediately followed the woman out of the room. However, in only the blink of an eye, the woman disappeared again.