Chapter 59
The moment Bai Yan fell to the ground, Bai Yan helped her up.
The woman's extremely pale face was covered in blood. It took her a long time to open her eyes after she heard Bai Yan's call.
"Bai Yan, are you okay? How are you? Can you hold on?" Bai Yan looked at her worriedly.
"I'm fine...quickly, pull him out."
Bai Yan's voice was weak, but she firmly grabbed Bai Yan's hand and stretched it towards her abdomen.
Yi Tu, who was watching from the side, frowned slightly. Bai Yan unbuttoned Bai Yan's wedding dress without any hesitation and even lifted up her underwear.
There were several deep scratches on the woman's snow-white belly, but Bai Yan didn't have time to care about her wounds, he just put his palm on her skin.
The moment it was applied, a halo appeared on Bai Yan's belly.
Bai Yan reached into the aperture and pulled out a man's hand.
That's Chu Sichi's hand!
Soon, Chu Sichi was completely pulled out under the gaze of everyone.
But perhaps because he stayed there for too long, he was already in a coma.
"Is this... a container skill card?"
Hai Ling looked at this scene, narrowed her fox eyes, and suddenly spoke.
"Not really. I've never heard of a player being a container."
Bai Yan looked up at him with a complicated expression, but at this time Bai Yan spoke.
“I’m not really a gamer.”
"What?" A hint of surprise flashed through Hai Ling's mind and she narrowed her eyes slightly.
Bai Yan slowly helped the man up, and then Bai Yan continued:
"I am a part of him that he separated from his body using the Acolyte card. I am both a player and a prop."
Yitu was stunned when he heard this. He is both a player and a prop?
So is Bai Yan an NPC existing in the card field, or a real human being in reality?
Not only was he confused about the situation, but many card room owners in the interactive area had never encountered such a thing.
Anonymous Player 486: What the hell? No way, a player and a tool? How can you still be considered a human being...
Anonymous Player 852: Ugh, are there really skill cards that turn players into NPCs? This is too scary!!
Anonymous player 976: These two are too scary! This woman is completely a different kind of container! She is a container in herself, not even a person!
Anonymous Player 992: The man turned the woman into a combination of player and prop? So she hid Chu Sichi in her body to protect him...
Anonymous player 1321: Let me be honest, brothers. There really is a card that can turn a player into an NPC, but the prerequisite is that the player is on the verge of death and voluntarily becomes one.
Anonymous player 1221: ??? Does that mean he's no longer considered human? Will he stay in the card room forever???
Anonymous Player 1321: No, no, it depends on the situation. Different levels of cards have different attribute effects, but they are generally attached to the card holder.
Anonymous player 15290 asked: Is it like Bai Yan is probably Bai Yan's daughter? But she was a normal player in her lifetime?
Anonymous Player 753: That should be the case, but if she is counted as a player by the game system, is she still different from NPC players?
Bai Yan's condition was already very bad, so she didn't continue to explain, and others didn't want to ask too many questions.
After Bai Yan took her away, Hai Ling and Lu Nan moved Chu Si Chi to the bed, and Tai Shu stayed to watch over him to prevent any further accidents.
Tomorrow is the 18th day of the first lunar month, and a happy wedding cannot be complete without a groom.
"Let's go and see if Master Dong is dead."
After Hai Ling finished speaking, he led his female companion towards the main room, and the rest of the people followed to see if there was any other important information.
Madam Hui and the civet cat were dealt with, but Dong Haoyue disappeared.
And she was most likely going to find Du Jinyu, and the meeting of the two ghosts would make everyone worried.
Jiang Hanyu walked in front with his tall figure, while Yi Tu and Song Jingchen followed behind, talking in low voices side by side.
"Was Bai Yan's name given by the system? It's pronounced exactly the same as Bai Yan's." Song Jingchen asked curiously.
"It's possible. After all, she is also part of Bai Yan." Yi Tu had the same idea.
"I wonder if she can follow Bai Yan out of the card room..." Song Jingchen suddenly paused, not knowing what he was thinking of.
Yitu looked at him, puzzled.
"Hua San once told me that this kind of relationship also exists among the players of Throne Cards!"
Song Jingchen's gaze passed over Jiang Hanyu who was walking in front, and Yi Tu was stunned.
"What?"
"The relationship between the king and his attendants, and the queen and her attendants, is similar to that between Bai Yan and Bai Yan."
Song Jingchen thought for a moment and changed his words:
"For example, if the King of Spades and the Jack of Spades meet, an irresistible bond of loyalty will be created."
"Some use skill cards to tie them together, like the King of Hearts and his Jack of Spades. The two are almost inseparable."
"Bound?" Yitu's mind moved. "Are they in a spousal relationship?"
Song Jingchen shook his head. "No, a spousal relationship is one where both parties are equal, and their bond is one where the latter absolutely submits to the former."
At this point, he lowered his voice even more:
"I heard that Jack from the King of Hearts seems to have become half an NPC for him."
A trace of surprise flashed across Yitu's face. "Becoming an NPC?"
Song Jingchen wasn't sure. "I don't know if it's true or not. It's just a rumor circulating in the gaming community."
After he finished speaking, he nagged Yi Tu with his elbow again, signaling him with his eyes to ask Jiang Hanyu who was walking in front.
As the big devil, the King of Spades has not only fought with the King of Hearts, but the two may also have had private connections.
Jiang Hanyu must know the inside story. If Yi Tu goes to ask, he might be able to find out something.
Yitu smiled slightly. This kid had a good idea, but he was not a person who didn't know his limits.
Of course, it was impossible to ask, so they quickly came to Mr. Dong's room.
All the curtains in the room were drawn, and no light could get in, making it dark.
Hai Ling stepped forward and opened the curtain a little, then kicked a ball of wool behind the curtain.
The flower ball had been scratched open by the sharp claws and huddled into a ball in the corner.
Hai Ling was delighted and kicked the bouquet out.
"That little thing likes to play with this."
Yitu saw it and picked up the flower ball and put it in the wool basket that Madam Hui had not finished knitting.
In the basket was a half-knitted dark blue sweater and a brand new flower ball that Ali didn't even have time to play with before she died.
Hearing the noise in the house, Mr. Dong slowly sat up.
Hai Ling looked up and narrowed her eyes slightly:
"Master, are you awake?"
They all thought that Dong Qingshan was about to die, but who knew that just after Madam Hui and Ali died, this man woke up.
Dong Qingshan didn't answer, but just leaned over the head of the bed and coughed violently a few times, and then he spat a mouthful of black phlegm-like stuff onto his handkerchief.
"Where are Hui Niang...and that little beast?"
Dong Qingshan's voice was hoarse and carried a dead air.
But when he opened his mouth, everyone was stunned for a moment.
Dong Qingshan knew about the existence of Hui Niang and Ali. Could it be that... was it Hui Niang's intention that he fell into a coma for so long?
"Dead." Yitu replied.
Dong Qingshan didn't react much when he heard the answer. There was just a hint of surprise and he quickly regained his composure.
"How did he die?" Dong Qingshan asked again.
Yitu didn't tell him directly, but said it in a different way.
"Your daughter was here."
Dong Qingshan trembled and his voice became choked:
"Xiaoyue is here? Where is she? Why doesn't she come to see me?"
"She seems to have come here just to seek revenge. Madam Hui and Ali died, and she left too."
After hearing this, Dong Qingshan couldn't accept this fact for a long time, and finally could only sigh deeply.
"Well, I was the one who brought Qiao Huiniang into the family. She must be resentful of me."
"It's better not to come and see!"
Yi Tu's heart moved, "You seem to have known that something was wrong with Madam Hui a long time ago."
Dong Qingshan glanced at him and said in a deep voice:
"There are only a few people in the family. Xiaoyue is dead. Even if I am stupid, I still know who killed her."
He originally wanted to handle the matter himself and did not report it to the police.
But who knew that Qiao Hui Niang was followed by such a terrifying monster? This was something Dong Qingshan never expected.
But when he realized he wanted to find a Taoist priest, it was too late.
Qiao Hui Niang would indeed not hurt him, but the demon beside her always hoped that Dong Qingshan would die soon.
So every time when Madam Hui was not around, this thing would appear in front of Dong Qingshan unscrupulously, with a terrifying appearance, and its sharp claws even scratched his heart several times.
Dong Qingshan was an elderly man, and after being frightened several times, he felt deeply guilty and wanted to die. That thing kept him in a coma.
"Then how did you meet Madam Hui? And you even married her?" Song Jingchen asked, his curiosity aroused.
Dong Qingshan smiled bitterly and said, "This story started two years ago when I went to visit my deceased wife's grave."
Two years ago, Dong Qingshan returned to Dong Haoyue's mother's hometown to visit his deceased wife's grave.
He had a deep affection for his late wife, so even though Dong Haoyue's mother had passed away for so many years, he had no plans to remarry.
Like in previous years, he would stay in the surrounding area for a while after the worship, and go to the mountain to talk to his wife when he had nothing to do.
Coincidentally, Qiao Hui Niang also lived on that mountain.
Dong Qingshan didn’t know the name of that mountain, but he thought the soil and water were exceptionally good, so he bought it to commemorate his deceased wife.
He never thought that such a spiritual mountain would give birth to a monster.
"Qiao Hui Niang and my late wife looked a bit like each other when they were young." Dong Qingshan recalled and sighed:
"I just felt sorry for her. She was poorly clothed and hungry in the mountains, hiding behind a tree with a stick to pick fruits to eat."
"Her fruit has to be shared with the civet cat."
So he felt pity for her and gave Qiao Huiniang a lot of money, enough for her to have food and clothing for five or six years.
But what he didn't expect was that not long after he returned to Yong'an Street, he met Qiao Hui Niang again.
"To be precise, it was Qiao Huiniang who chased me here." Dong Qingshan smiled bitterly.
"At the time, I didn't even realize anything was wrong. She was a young girl in her early twenties, and she chased me from that mountain to Yong'an Street, a distance of dozens of kilometers, in less than three days."
"Even if I took a carriage, it would take at least four days. But she didn't know where my home was, and the journey was so long, yet she actually chased me here."
Yitu's heart moved, "She was no longer human at that time, right?"
Dong Qingshan nodded. This incident happened after Xiaoyue's death. He realized something was wrong and asked someone to go back and investigate.
Qiao Hui Niang did die on the day he left the town, on that night when a sudden rainstorm struck.
She chased Dong Qingshan's car for a long distance and finally got lost in a deserted wilderness.
"No one lives in that desolate area because bandits come down from the mountains from time to time to rob passersby."
Dong Qingshan couldn't continue speaking at this point. After a long pause, he said in a hoarse voice:
"Her body was seen by a vendor who happened to be passing by."
The merchant had a conscience. He thought that if such a pretty young girl died here, her family would be heartbroken.
So he took Qiao Huiniang's body to a nearby town, gave some money and asked the waiters to find out who had lost their daughter.
But after several days, the body was about to start to stink, and no one came to claim it.
The merchant had no choice but to bury the body. However, the next morning, the body was missing.
This incident scared the vendors so much that people in the town still remember it.
Dong Qingshan found out about this matter with almost no effort.
The person who died was Qiao Huiniang who came back to life.
"During the days when she was in a coma, that thing told me everything. It was indeed it that brought Qiao Huiniang back to life."
"In its early years, it obtained a manual from a Taoist priest. Not only did it cultivate into a demon in advance, but it also mastered many evil spells."
The reason why Dong Qingshan was obsessed with marrying Qiao Huiniang was most likely because of that thing.
If Ahri really knows a lot of spells, then it can explain why it can change into other people's appearances at will, and even come and go without a trace.
And most importantly, it uses spells to deceive itself. As long as it firmly believes that people can live without a heart, it can live forever.
Until this fact was exposed by Yitu.
Thinking of this, Yitu became a little curious about the contents of the Taoist manual.
I wonder if Ali brought me here. Yitu had an idea in his mind.
But there were so many people in the room at that time, so he couldn't ask directly. He could only find an opportunity to come and check later.
At this time, Butler Dong ran in hurriedly. Before he could speak, the people following him rushed in.
"Help me, help me! I know some of you know how to catch ghosts!"
"That bitch Du Jinyu is going to kill me!"
Yi Tu looked up and saw that the man was the second groom Shao Feng, who looked panicked and angry.
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