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Published at 9th of November 2023 10:46:09 AM


Chapter 309.2

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Sun Ning: “Aren’t you afraid that in such a bizarre village, doing this will get you treated as a scapegoat? Little Overlord always clears monster-type copies, and he wouldn’t dare do this in a supernatural-type copy. Do you want to try?”

The flat-headed player’s arrogant expression froze, and he slowly withdrew his hand. “But for you there’s no need to worry. You’re a woman, you can’t be the culprit.”

Sun Ning: “You say that as if I won’t die if we can’t find the culprit later. The death threat we all face is the same, and I’m just as scared as you are.”

“Alright, alright, let’s take it step by step. We’ll talk about it when it’s the last day,” Glasses intervened, trying to defuse the situation. “Now is not the time to start internal conflicts. Let’s disperse.”

The players dispersed, and when everyone had left, Li Cancan asked with some confusion, “Weren’t they all anxious just now? Why did they disperse so quickly?”

“When people discover a way out, their original anxiety and fear diminish significantly,” Sun Ning said, looking at the setting sun about to descend behind the mountain. “As long as sacrificing one person can bring relief to oneself, everyone secretly hopes they won’t be the unluckiest one. Although they haven’t explicitly said it, they’ve already accepted the idea of drawing lots. If we can’t find the culprit by then, this will definitely be everyone’s choice.”

A shadow streaked across the sky, and Beast Eared Dijia landed silently behind Bai Lixin.

When they were brought out earlier, in order not to cause trouble for Bai Lixin, Beast Eared Dijia jumped onto the roof while chaos reigned.

He circled his arms around Bai Lixin’s waist as soon as he landed. “Xin Xin, I don’t like this village; it’s very strange.”

Bai Lixin: “What’s strange about it?”

Beast Eared Dijia: “This village has a strong curse. It’s a cursed village, and those who stay here for a long time will gradually be eroded by the curse. This kind of erosion isn’t as clear as poison, it’s like boiling a frog in warm water. By the time outsiders realize it, they’re already cursed.”

“It’s a curse forged at the cost of sacrificing lives, also known as a blood curse.”

Sun Ning and Li Cancan looked somewhat surprised, and Li Cancan quickly asked, “What’s the content of the blood curse?”

Beast Eared Dijia shook his head. “I don’t know, but in any case, it can’t be a good thing.”

He hugged Bai Lixin tightly like a child, seeming afraid that the person in his arms would disappear.

Bai Lixin patted Beast Eared Dijia’s body comfortingly. “Don’t be afraid. I’ll accompany you back to the mountain tonight, okay?”

Beast Eared Dijia suddenly raised his head. “Really?!”

Bai Lixin: “Really.”

The person who was looking down suddenly perked up. His once dim eyes now sparkling brightly.

Bai Lixin: “We will set off as soon as it gets dark. You go back and wait for me first, okay?”

Beast Eared Dijia nodded obediently and leaped away, disappearing into the streets and alleys in the blink of an eye.

Sun Ning looked in the direction Beast Eared Dijia had left. “God Xin, have you noticed that the big boss’s demeanor seems off?”

Li Cancan: “So it’s not just my imagination? How come I feel like I haven’t seen the Big Boss for two days, and he’s become more childish?”

Bai Lixin furrowed his brows slightly.

He had actually noticed it too. At first, he thought it was Dijia’s whim, but today when the man accused someone among them of having an affair with the mute woman, if it were the usual, Dijia would have stood before him protectively.

But today’s Dijia resembled a frightened child, hiding behind him.

His already not-so-high intelligence in this copy seemed to have decreased a bit more.

Wait, did he just imply that the old gong had turned into an idiot?

Was that something he could say?

This change might be related to the “blood curse” he had mentioned.

S419M: [Lord Host, it’s okay to say what’s on your mind, I won’t report it to the Lord God. After all, I’m your most loyal companion, even though the Lord God created me and I’ve known the Lord God a little longer than I’ve known you.]

Bai Lixin: [… Thank you.]

S419M: [With our deep master-servant relationship, saying thank you is a bit too formal. I hope I’m not troubling you, but when we return to the Lord God’s world, could you arrange a grand wedding chamber for me and Sister System?]

Bai Lixin: […]

‘I have good reason to suspect that you’re trying to blackmail me.’

It was already dark by the time Bai Lixin returned to the yard. The mute woman wasn’t waiting for him patiently or leave him a meal as she used to. Instead, she was silently tidying up the table in the kitchen.

The boy and the old woman at home hadn’t gone out today. The old woman was sitting in the yard, leaning on a cane with an expressionless face.

The boy moved around the mute woman, looking at her belly curiously. With innocence in his eyes, he asked, “Mom, am I going to be a big brother? Will I have a little brother soon?”

“Mom, I’m going to have a little brother. When will my big brother come back?”

When Bai Lixin entered the yard, his steps were light, and the mute woman hadn’t noticed his presence. Perhaps feeling irritated by the little boy, the mute woman, who had been gentle as usual, cast a stern glance at him.

When she caught sight of Bai Lixin out of the corner of her eye, her expression quickly changed back to its initial tenderness.

Bai Lixin glanced at the mute woman’s belly and walked straight to the old woman.

The old woman had partially closed her eyes and seemed to be taking a nap. After hearing the footsteps, she lazily raised her eyelids and saw the young man standing in front of her. “what’s the matter, young man?”

Bai Lixin dragged a stool over and sat down opposite the old woman. “Granny, where is your son?”

“What else can he do? He went next door to play cards,” the old woman replied with a yawn, making an effort to open her eyes wider.

Bai Lixin asked, “You didn’t go out today?”

The old woman responded, “Go out for what? My son dislikes me for not watching over his wife properly , otherwise, I would have gone out long ago.”

“Oh,” Bai Lixin’s gaze fell on the old woman’s cane, which had already turned shabby. “Granny, I noticed you have trouble with your legs. Is it an injury?”

“Ah, this leg of mine, sigh, when I was young, I went up the mountain and accidentally triggered a trap up there. Back then, our medical technology wasn’t as good as it is now, and this limp is the result of that time,” the old woman explained.

“Are those traps on the mountain really useful?” Bai Lixin idly chatted with the old woman. “One of our comrades was injured by a trap while climbing. But with so many traps placed around, there has been no shortage of missing children in the village. I can’t help but feel these traps aren’t meant to deter the mountain ghost stealing children but rather to deter people from crossing over to Gentle Village.”

The old woman suddenly spoke mysteriously, “Who knows? Let me tell you the truth, we didn’t lay those traps. They grew by themselves on the mountain!”

Bai Lixin: “…”

Seeing the young man fall into silence, the old woman burst into laughter. “I was just teasing you; you really believed it? This child, you are too gullible.

Bai Lixin stayed silent for two seconds, then he grinned foolishly. “I’m the type who takes everything seriously. By the way, a few days ago, I heard there’s a red-clothed female ghost living in this village, and she often wanders around the abandoned school. They say she used to be a woman from the village who died unjustly. After hearing that story, I had nightmares for two consecutive nights. Do you happen to know anything about it?”

The old woman’s smile vanished instantly. “Who told you that?”

“I heard it from a girl in the village named Pan Pan, the one with only her and her mother in the family. You should know her, right?”

“Pan Pan?” The old woman’s cloudy eyes flickered twice. “You shouldn’t believe everything you hear, especially from her. She’s a little witch. If you provoke her, be careful that the red-clothed ghost doesn’t snatch you away!”

“I actually noticed something off about her,” Bai Lixin nodded. “I noticed that the people in the village don’t seem to like playing with her. Other children gather together, but she’s always alone. I initially thought she was just introverted. ”

“Don’t let her looks deceive you. She’s not an innocent child. She’s very mischievous, and it’s not just her, her family members are even worse. Devils, they’re all devils.”

The old woman spoke with gritted teeth when she mentioned Pan Pan.

Bai Lixin: “…”

Even though he hadn’t visited Pan Pan again these past few days, he found her presence in this village quite strange.

The villagers had a divided attitude towards her and her mother.

When dealing with her mother, everything seemed normal, and one could even say excessively warm-hearted. But as soon as they encountered Pan Pan, everyone kept their distance.

Their eyes always held a mixture of disgust and fear.

They were disgusted by Pan Pan, but their fear didn’t seem directed at her, rather, it appeared to be fear of some hidden force lurking behind her.

Because of that dread, they dared not provoke Pan Pan.

The force that could make everyone scared, excluding her mother, was likely the red clothed “Auntie” that Pan Pan mentioned.

Bai Lixin glanced at the mute woman busy in the kitchen. “With things like this, how can Brother still have the mood to play cards?”

“What else can he do? Staying here is just frustrating.” The old woman poked her cane at the ground a couple of times. “That red-clothed ghost you mentioned, she’s the mountain ghost that steals children.”

“There’s a legend about her.”

“It happened many years ago. Rumor has it that she used to be a human, living a happy life with her family. She and her husband even had twin sons. But one day, her two children suddenly disappeared, and by the time they found them, they were dead in the river.”

“Everyone blamed her, saying she hadn’t done what a mother should do, which led to the death of her own children.”

“I don’t know if it touched on the woman’s nerve, it didn’t take long for the woman to go crazy, saying that someone had killed her two sons.”

“She didn’t even think it through. During the summer, when water is abundant, she, as a mother, didn’t take care of her children properly. It was her fault. But instead of reflecting on herself, she shifted the blame onto others.”

The old woman complained for a moment, then continued, “Then one night, she went crazy, suddenly grabbed a machete and killed many people in the village, accusing anyone she caught as the murderer.”

The old woman seemed to recollect something, shivering before continuing, “Later on, the story goes that the crazy woman ran into the mountains. But whenever a child cried in the village, she would come down from the mountains to snatch the child, claiming it was her own.”

“People feared her, and since she roamed the mountains so often, they gave her the name ‘Mountain Ghost.’ I guess even the heavens couldn’t stand her evil deeds, so the mountains themselves created traps to barely contain her.”

“That’s the story of the red-clothed ghost, the Mountain Ghost. I know you’re from the city, and when you hear stories about ghosts and supernatural tales, you might think they carry grievances and such. But in this story, she killed so many people and kidnapped many children, she can’t possibly be considered a good person.”

“We were all scared by this story. Since she wants children, let her have them. It’s better than her going mad and slaughtering the village.”

“We can’t afford to provoke a rogue monster, shouldn’t we just hide?”

Bai Lixin listened to the old woman’s story attentively and then asked seriously, “Was this mountain ghost a teacher when she was alive?”

“Bah!” The old woman spat on the ground. “Could someone like her ever be a teacher? Not everyone can become a teacher.”

Bai Lixin didn’t say anything more, just made a simple “Oh”.

The old woman pushed herself up from the chair using her cane. “It’s getting late; talking with you has dried up my mouth. I’m going to sleep.”

“Sigh, time really doesn’t spare anyone. If an old lady like me sleeps tonight, who knows if I’ll wake up tomorrow? I envy you young people.”

After she left, Bai Lixin returned to his room.

The moment the door closed, a dark shadow pounced at him.

It was small, and not particularly large in appearance.

Without thinking, Bai Lixin subconsciously reached out and grabbed it, and the sensation of soft fur in his palm startled him.

He lowered his head and saw that he had caught a wolf cub that appeared to be only three or four months old.

The wolf cub whimpered softly, dangling in mid-air while struggling with its four legs and wriggling anxiously.

Grey Wolf Cub: “Awoo awoo, awoo woo woo.”

Bai Lixin: “…”

‘??? Is this his old gong?

No, where’s my handsome and dashing old gong?!’

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In the live broadcast room

[Jaw-drops.]

[Even though I don’t understand, I’m greatly shocked.]

[I have to ask, what kind of role-play is the big boss playing? Is it a mom-son play or pet play?]

[Perhaps the big boss himself doesn’t want this? Look at its four paws; it’s really nervous.]

[Yeah, it looks really anxious.]

[Can you guys guess what I’m worried about?]

[What are you worried about?]

[I’m worried that if the wolf cub gets too nervous, it’ll pee in God Xin’s hand. When animals get scared, don’t they usually urinate? Shouldn’t a diaper advertisement be inserted here?]

[…]

[“Shock! Why is the Beast King wearing a diaper? Is it moral decline or human perversion?”]

[Hahaha, all you people up there, be careful. The big boss might be jotting down your names one by one in his little book.]

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On the 999th floor.

The man stared blankly at the barrage in the live broadcast room.

He wanted to curse.

Things were getting more and more outrageous. Things were already quite outrageous in the previous copy, but this one was simply absurd to the extreme!

‘My soul fragment, huh?

If you dare to pee in my wife’s hand, I can get ruthless even to myself!’

The man raised a glass of wine filled with ice cubes to his mouth. When the ice cubes entered his mouth, they were immediately bitten and they made a “crunch crunch” sound.





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