Chapter 5

Jiang Hongyu always felt that things would not be that simple.

He looked at Jiang Lele carefully, stretching his body while chatting casually: "By the way, the pork rib soup this morning tasted pretty good. It's rare to drink this kind of soup in a dungeon."

Jiang Lele nodded as if nothing had happened, "Yeah, indeed."

"Someone actually drank the pork rib soup that was spat on." Xiaogua was shocked.

Jiang Hongyu: “?”

"Ugh..." Jiang Hongyu immediately leaned against the wall and scratched his throat to induce vomiting.

"Brother Jiang, are you okay?" Jiang Lele looked over with a concerned expression.

Jiang Hongyu gritted his teeth and forced a smile, "It's okay, I'm fine."

Not long after, the other players who were staying in the guest rooms came out one after another, but the door of one room remained unchanged.

Everyone looked at each other, but no one dared to move. Jiang Hongyu cautiously walked to the door and knocked.

"Is anyone there?"

There was no response from the room.

Jiang Hongyu yelled twice more, each time louder than the last. Logically, if there was anyone in the room, they would have been woken up by now.

But the room was still very quiet.

"The person living in there, couldn't...could he be dead?" The player suddenly stuttered and guessed.

Jiang Lele immediately summoned his mace and stepped forward, "Let me do it!"

As she spoke, she walked to the door, raised the mace with both hands, and smashed it down hard.

The door handle was smashed to the ground, and the door was freed from its restraints and slowly opened, revealing a strange scene in the guest room.

The man that everyone had just seen last night had now turned into a balloon-shaped skin man.

His internal organs and blood seemed to have been drained, leaving only a thin layer of skin, which was inflated into the shape of a balloon and slowly floated in the air.

What was even more bizarre was that his face was also covered in blood, as if someone had torn off his entire face.

"ah--"

The new players who experienced this kind of scene for the first time were all frightened and screamed at the scene before them.

Some people even sat on the ground with their legs so weak, their lips trembling slightly, unable to utter a word.

Jiang Lele frowned slightly, and finally realized intuitively that people would really die in this copy.

"Dear guests, the lady of the castle invites you." An old and hoarse voice suddenly sounded.

The butler who was holding the oil lamp last night was now holding a cane. He was hunched over and appeared in the corridor at some point.

The players came to their senses in horror and hid behind Jiang Lele.

Jiang Hongyu was the first to speak and break the silence: "Okay, you lead the way."

On the way to meet the Lady of the Castle, the atmosphere among the players became very depressing. Everyone lowered their heads, as if they were still thinking about how their companion had turned into a balloon man last night.

They turned into a long corridor, and Jiang Lele looked at the portrait paintings hanging on the walls on both sides.

Those portrait oil paintings are very realistic, especially the facial features, which are lifelike, as if real people's faces were directly painted on them.

Suddenly, Jiang Lele's eyes fixed on a portrait, and then his expression became shocked.

Isn’t that face the player who just turned into a balloon man?

Jiang Hongyu noticed the change in Jiang Lele's expression, and he also looked up at the mural. The moment he recognized the familiar face, cold sweat broke out on his back.

"This lady of the castle has a truly bizarre habit. After killing someone, she hangs their portraits in the hallway for everyone to admire. Furthermore, these portraits are made by simply ripping off the players' faces and pressing them back on. Her tastes are truly perverted. No wonder she cheated on the gardener."

Jiang Lele was horrified. "The corridor is full of faces in the middle of the night. How could I be so scared?"

Xiaogua: "It's normal that we don't understand her behavior because we are normal people. If we could understand her behavior, we would probably become as perverted as her."

The old housekeeper who was leading the way in front paused and looked back hesitantly in the direction of Jiang Lele.

What sound?

After looking around, he saw that the other players and Jiang Hongyu all looked as if nothing had happened.

Could it be that he was hallucinating? The old butler turned hesitantly and continued to lead the way.

The other players and Jiang Hongyu began to discuss in low voices in the back.

"Damn, the Lady of the Castle is so perverted. A bunch of dead faces are hanging in the corridor. Is this art?"

"When I meet her later, I have to take a good look at what kind of person she is."

Jiang Lele noticed that people were whispering behind him, and quickly turned around to ask curiously, "What are you talking about?"

Jiang Hongyu and the other players immediately frowned, shook their heads, and said in unison, "Nothing."

"Tsk." Jiang Lele turned back unconvinced and complained to Xiaogua, "I always feel like they're gossiping behind my back without telling me."

Xiaogua: "Why are you envious of them? I have the most complete gossip in the entire instance. They can't even hear it if they want to."

"That's right." Thinking of this, Jiang Lele's mentality began to balance.

Other players: “…”

The old housekeeper walking in front frowned even more tightly.

His auditory hallucinations seemed to be getting worse.

A few minutes later, the butler finally led everyone to the bedroom of the lady of the castle.

"Madam, all the guests who stayed overnight last night have arrived." After the butler gave his instructions, he quietly left the room.

Mrs. Vivian stood up gracefully from the sofa. Her golden wavy hair fell on her shoulders and she was wearing a silver silk nightgown, which made her skin look even whiter and more delicate.

Vivian raised her sexy red lips and deliberately opened the collar of her nightgown, revealing her curvaceous figure. "To be honest, I've been suffering from severe insomnia these past few days and can't sleep well. I think... you must have a way to help me, right?"

Several male players, including Jiang Hongyu, blushed and lowered their heads, not daring to look at Vivian's hot body.

Vivian didn't let them go. She walked up to Jiang Hongyu with a smile, lifted his chin with her slender jade hand, and said softly, "Handsome man, would you like to come to my room tonight to treat... my insomnia?"

Jiang Hongyu wanted to refuse immediately, but he found that he could not open his mouth.

Vivian continued gently, "It seems you are willing to help me."

"In that case, tonight you will—"

"Damn, these two are really frivolous. While Vivian was hooking up with your guys, her husband was actually hooking up with that guy next door!"

Vivian, who had been smiling all the time, froze. Who was talking?

Jiang Hongyu, who had regained his mobility, quickly raised his head nervously and refused: "Madam, I may not be able to solve your problem. I'm sorry."

The plan was ruined, and Vivian's face turned gloomy in an instant.

She narrowed her eyes and scanned the faces of all the players with a scrutinizing gaze.

Jiang Lele stood quietly in the corner, thinking that he had not attracted any attention, and continued to eat melon.

"This family in this castle is such a mess, aren't they afraid of contracting some disease?"

"Oh, Vivian's husband has been infected for a long time, but he deliberately concealed it and was trying every possible way to infect Vivian with the disease. This way, both of them would have the disease and no one could blame the other."

"Oh my god." Jiang Lele sighed again: "When this ghost plays tricks, he is no worse than a human."

Vivian, who heard all of this, clenched her hands and stared at Jiang Lele.

It turned out that she was talking.

However, the most important thing now is that she has to confirm whether the dead gardener is infected with the disease.

"Butler! Go and call the master over to me!" Vivian shouted to the outside of the door with a stern face.

What does that mean? Jiang Lele glanced at Vivian gossipingly.

Then, Weiweian suppressed her anger and said to send the guest away:

"I have some personal matters to attend to today, so I can't continue entertaining you. Please do as you please."

Just like that, Jiang Lele and the other players were collectively kicked out of the room.

"...What's going on now?" One of the players looked at Jiang Lele weakly.

Jiang Lele was also confused, "I don't know."

Jiang Hongyu: "..."

"It's hilarious! The gardener was having a great time with his male mistress when the housekeeper knocked on the door and interrupted them. He must have been so frightened that he couldn't move for a long time."

Jiang Lele had nothing better to do, so he pulled out a handful of sunflower seeds from his pocket and started eating them: "Haha, you deserve it."

Although Jiang Lele never claimed to be a good person, she still couldn't stand Vivian and her husband.

Not only did you cheat on him, but you also deliberately arranged the real owner of the castle to be a gardener. Isn't that disgusting?

Fortunately, Luguna has lost his memory, otherwise he would be furious if he knew about this.