Chapter 117 The Infinite Player's Ghost Wife
There was an omnipresent chilliness and white mist flowing in the air.
Lin Zhi moved his stiff fingers and opened his eyes.
The red silk hanging on the door curtain fluttered in the wind, and the cut-out wedding characters were pasted on the exquisite window frames, creating a scene just like before and after a wedding.
Lin Zhi raised his hand and clearly heard the sound of his own bones creaking, as if it was a machine that had not been running for a long time, filled with a sense of disharmony.
He lowered his head and saw the snow-white middle garment she was wearing and her long hair falling beside her cheeks.
The quilt on the bed was a smoky pink color embroidered with mandarin ducks, and the furnishings in the room were like an ancient woman's boudoir.
Wisps of thin grayish-white mist continuously flowed into his body and poured out of his body.
Although he could feel the temperature was very low, Lin Zhi did not feel cold, and even felt a little comfortable.
In this damp and cold atmosphere, the wedding characters in the room even had a strange and desolate look.
01: [Host, we are about to set off on a new mission! Are you ready to receive information from this world? 】
The energetic voice of the system dispelled the dead silence. Lin Zhi nodded, sat on the bed and began to sort out the situation in this world.
The target of this mission is called Xie Qing. His experience is different from the previous personality fragments, and he did not have a very happy childhood.
He was an orphan, or to be more precise, an orphan who was born in a coffin.
Xie Qing's mother has been frail and sickly since childhood, and his father is also a sickly person.
When Xie Qing's mother was eight months pregnant, her husband died of illness. Under such a heavy blow, she also died of illness despite her already poor health.
The pregnant woman's body had a bulging belly, which terrified everyone who saw it. They buried her immediately. During the burial process, they heard the crying of a baby from the coffin.
Maybe it was a life after all, or maybe they were worried that the baby would harm others with resentment after being buried alive, so the baby was taken out.
As a coffin-born child, Xie Qing was unpopular since childhood and none of his relatives were willing to adopt him. It was a 50-year-old childless widow in the village who couldn't bear it and adopted Xie Qing.
Because of his birth, Xie Qing carried an ominous reputation from the moment he was born. He knew at a very young age that he was not the widow's biological son. After all, there would be children chasing him and calling him a ghost doll, and many adults would point fingers at him. He never got candy during the Chinese New Year, and no one welcomed him.
In the winter when she was seven years old, the widow fell down while washing clothes by the river, hit her head, and died soon after.
After losing his adoptive mother, Xie Qing's situation in the village became increasingly difficult. Others said that he had a hard life and was unlucky in family life, as his mother had died yet he was still able to be born, and that his life brought misfortune to those around him.
The village chief who had taken Xie Qing out of the coffin couldn't bear it. Since Xie Qing could only endure rumors in this place, it would be better to send him somewhere else.
Xie Qing agreed with the village chief, took his adoptive mother's tablet and some personal belongings, and got on the car to the town with the village chief.
Seeing this, Lin Zhi was a little surprised. According to the environment he saw and the previous information, he thought Xie Qing lived in ancient times, but he didn't expect it to be modern times?
Suppressing the confusion in his heart, Lin Zhi continued to digest the information instilled by his system.
After leaving the village and the town and arriving at a city that the village chief was not familiar with, the village chief led Xie Qing to a welfare home and then turned around and left.
Xie Qing stood at the door of the welfare home. After he said that his parents were dead and he didn't know where his home was, he became a member of the welfare home.
Soon, he was favored by his adoptive parents because of his good looks, obedience and understanding.
Xie Qing was a little hesitant, but his new adoptive parents liked him very much and were happy to have him come into their family. Even though Xie Qing did not agree at first, they often came to visit him. Moved by this tenderness, Xie Qing was adopted.
It just so happened that his adoptive mother also had the surname Xie, so Xie Qing did not change his surname and told others that he was taking his mother's surname.
When Xie Qing was fifteen years old, his adoptive mother, who had difficulty conceiving, became pregnant.
Instead of being worried, he was very happy. He welcomed the child, who he didn't know whether it was a brother or a sister, and looked forward to the child's arrival together with his adoptive parents.
However, the adoptive mother, who was in her forties, was already an elderly pregnant woman and suffered heavy bleeding during delivery.
Life seemed particularly fragile at this moment. Both the adoptive mother and the little sister who already had eyebrows and eyes did not survive.
At that time, Xie Qing was sixteen years old, and he still seemed unable to escape the ominous curse of his relatives.
Xie Qing's adoptive father was devastated, deeply in pain, and ill for a long time.
Xie Qing went to school while taking care of his adoptive father. Perhaps his presence made his adoptive father realize that he still had a child to take care of, and he slowly cheered up and even numbed himself with work.
At the age of nineteen, Xie Qing was attending college locally and received a call from the hospital during class.
His adoptive father died of overwork, and at this point, Xie Qing's last relative also left him.
Even though everything has a traceable history and has no explanation related to his relatives, Xie Qing does keep losing important people.
At the age of 21, Xie Qing was swept away by the current and stopped breathing while trying to save a child in a flood.
Normally, his life should end like this, but this world is special and people still have a chance to survive after death.
This is an adventure in which countless dead souls take part. In terms of subject matter, it is called 'infinite flow'.
After his death, Xie Qing became a player of the Infinite Game.
All players will have a talent, and will then be thrown into a dungeon to gain points by surviving.
Points have only two uses. One is to exchange for rest space, which allows players to catch their breath and avoid rushing to the next copy endlessly.
Another function is resurrection.
This is the notification that comes along with the talent ability. You can be resurrected after collecting 10,000 points.
Points cannot be given as gifts or plundered. Anything redeemed with points can only be used by the player himself and will be invalid if used by others.
When a player dies, his consciousness dissipates, his points are reset to zero, and he is reborn.
Lin Zhi understood. Although she had not yet received the original owner's memory, the situation was very obvious.
The difference in time and space means that this is a copy, and he is the NPC or player of the copy.
Lin Zhi was not in a hurry to understand the current situation, thinking about the personality fragment disease this time.
Heart failure is more subtle than brain disease, and patients cannot engage in strenuous exercise or be exposed to severe stimulation.
The first time Xie Qing knew he had this disease was when his first adoptive mother fell down by the river. He ran to the river frantically. His adoptive mother was carried home unconscious, and he almost fainted from the pain in his heart.
The subsequent symptoms were not described in detail in the message 01 gave to Lin Zhi, but Lin Zhi could imagine it.
The heart patient was escaping in the infinite flow, and Lin Zhi couldn't help but pinching his eyebrows.
This redemption mission really left him at a loss for a moment.
After sorting out the information of the mission target, Lin Zhi began to check his identity this time.
Just as he had just guessed, he was the NPC, or BOSS, of the escape copy that Xie Qing was experiencing.
There are many types of dungeons, and the general process is that several players are thrown into the dungeon together, and then survive in the dungeon and pass the level by avoiding death.
The story takes place in an ancient town. The concubine of the Lin family is about to get married and marry the most famous wealthy businessman in the local area as his second wife.
Players will become guests invited by the Lin Mansion to attend the wedding banquet and stay temporarily in the Lin Mansion.
Through horror incidents and various clues, they will learn that the Lin Mansion has long been a haunted house. This is the earthbound spirits reenacting their past lives. They need to get rid of the vengeful ghosts in order to pass the level and get points, otherwise they will be killed by the vengeful ghosts.
The original owner is the protagonist of this story, the vengeful ghost - the concubine of the Lin family.
The original owner did not have a cross-dressing fetish, and dressing up as a woman was a life-saving measure.
The mistress of the Lin family had a son and a daughter, but any boys born to her concubines would basically die young.
When the original owner's mother was pregnant, the Lin Mansion had already begun to decline, and business dealings were maintained entirely by the connections on the mistress's maternal side. The master of the Lin Mansion was resentful, but did not dare to say much.
In this situation, the original owner's mother discovered that she had given birth to a son. She was terrified that the original owner would be killed, so she lied that she had given birth to a daughter.
The original owner had known this since she was a child, and was ashamed of having to disguise herself as a girl. She only wanted to take her mother away from the mansion one day and live their own lives.
But his mother was injured when she gave birth to him and had to rely on medicine to stay alive, so he had to wait until his mother got better and he had some money before he could run away.
A few days ago, the mistress suddenly ordered him to marry a 60-year-old wealthy businessman in the town as his second wife, and then tied up his mother and placed him under house arrest in the mansion until he got married.
The original owner could only seek help from his father. As long as he told his father that he was a man, he would not have to marry and his mother would be released. On the day of his wedding, he escaped from the eyes and ears and went to the main courtyard, but heard the plan of his father and stepmother.
It turned out that his stepmother had known about his male sex several years ago, and deliberately made his mother sicker and sicker to punish him. The sixty-year-old wealthy businessman had no regard for men or women, and even liked to kill handsome men. The mistress deliberately sold him there, and his mother had been poisoned to death the day before.
Not only did Mr. Lin not object, he even participated in it. The price he sold it at was negotiated by Mr. Lin himself.
The two of them were talking in the house about how to make him behave, and they regretted that the money was less, which made the original owner furious.
He went to the small kitchen to get a knife, went into the house and hacked his father and mistress to death. He did not stop, and the mistress's maid, as well as the legitimate sons and daughters of the Lin family who came in to look for their parents, all died in his hands.
While the front yard was bustling with music and singing to welcome the bride, the back yard was filled with corpses. A servant fled to the front yard wailing, and the 'bride' covered in blood appeared in front of the wedding procession, wanting to kill the groom.
But this time it was not so smooth. He had exhausted his strength. He was pushed and shoved by the rich businessman's guards, had food thrown at him by the guests, and was beaten with sticks. Finally, he was beaten to death in front of the gate of the Lin Mansion.
His blood flowed down the steps and his resentment was overwhelming.
He became an earthbound spirit, constantly replaying the events of his previous life.
01: [Host, have you received it? If you have, I will issue this mission! 】
Lin Zhi nodded, and 01 still read out the task in an emotional tone: [Warm him! Cure him! Let him feel the beauty of the world! Let his heart beat healthily! Host, I believe in you! 】
Lin Zhi curved her lips: [Thank you for your trust. 】
He was somewhat curious about the nature of this infinite game, but the original owner's memory only contained his experiences in his previous life. He didn't know that he was in the game, and he didn't remember how many times he had repeated it, how many players he had killed and how many players had killed him, so Lin Zhi had no way of knowing, so he asked 01.
01 said embarrassedly: [I don’t know either. There is no such content in the database. 】
Lin Zhi was not surprised and looked out the window.
The courtyard was pitch black, but Lin Zhi's vision was not affected at all.
Lin Zhi moved his neck stiffly. As a ground-bound spirit, during this period of time, the original owner still thought that he was a human being, being imprisoned here, and was thinking about how to escape.
But his body had already rotted away and turned into bones, so it was particularly stiff.
But in a flash, Lin Zhi's movements returned to normal.
He clearly knew that he was a ghost, so he got rid of his confused state and returned to his evil ghost form ahead of time.
The gray mist around him rushed into his body, and his snow-white undershirt became stained with blood.
Lin Zhi casually changed into a black robe and was already outside the door before it opened.
The two old women guarding the yard had stiff bodies. They were no longer human, but resentful souls trapped here by evil spirits.
There were red lanterns hanging in the Lin Mansion, and the candlelight inside flickered in the wind.
"Level 1 alert! NPCs are chasing us out from inside!"
The fat man in a leather jacket ran out of the inner courtyard panting, and several players sitting in the lobby stood up immediately.
The girl with headphones hanging around her neck growled in a low voice: "Fatty, what are you doing? Didn't I tell you not to act rashly after you find any clues?"
As she spoke, she raised her palm and an invisible wall of air rose up.
"I heard a very important clue. When I was walking, I accidentally made a little noise. The old lady went berserk. Luckily, my talent is speed, otherwise I would have been killed."
As soon as the fat man finished speaking, a ghost shadow crashed into the air wall.
The woman stuck on it had scratches all over her face, and she looked at everyone with resentment.
With her ghostly howl, the air wall suddenly broke.
The girl yelled, "Run!"
The players in the lobby scattered, avoiding the pursuit of ghosts.
When Lin Zhi came, he happened to see this scene.
The original owner is the core of this copy. Although he is the strongest, he has no memories. He will only turn into a ghost and start killing after he dies on his wedding day. However, other ghosts in the copy have memories. Because they are trapped here, their resentment is equally deep, and they will hunt and kill players at night to vent their anger.
The original owner is the BOSS, and the mistress is the sub-BOSS.
The mistress was relentlessly chasing a young man, who was trying to distance himself from the ghost, pressing his chest with a pale face.
But in this case, he still did not forget to jokingly say: "Although I am a pure and innocent man, you don't have to be so enthusiastic, auntie."
Lin Zhi paused and asked: [I think I found the right one? 】
He thought that this time the personality fragment would be a gloomy, cold and world-weary young man, but he didn't expect it to be so... lively?
01 said excitedly: [That’s right! Host, good news, I have a special function for this world for you! 】
Lin Zhi received a new function notification from 01, which was different from the emotional mist and required him to operate.
The blood contract can bind him to the quest object. He can be freed from the earthbound spirit state and leave the copy. He can be wherever the quest object is and can even reach the quest object's resting space.
However, he still could not escape the state of being bound by a spirit and could not stray too far away from the target of his mission.
Regarding this rule, Lin Zhi inexplicably sensed some ulterior motive.
Seeing that the young man was about to be caught up, the other players became extremely nervous.
The fat man couldn't help but say: "Xie Qing, stop playing around and use your innate abilities quickly, or you'll really be torn to pieces!"
"I'm not playing, but do you really want to see me use my abilities?"
Xie Qing bent down and used obstacles to avoid the ghost claws, then raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
One of the hanging lanterns suddenly went out, and human visibility decreased.
He said helplessly: "My talent will only make ghosts more excited."
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