Then came the remaining five players.
Lin Xia is of average appearance and average strength. The bald man with the gold chain is named Hu Junyuan. Judging from his physique, he seems to be a physical enhancement user, but he is actually a ranged attacker.
He is said to like sniper rifles, so he became a sniper.
The young male player in the plaid shirt is Bai Yang, a water elemental mage. He said he's a fragile character and hopes everyone can help him out and take care of his small frame.
Of course, Xiao Jin and the others just listened to it.
Don't be fooled by their seemingly good words; everyone has some hidden cards up their sleeve.
If you take it seriously, you'll lose!
The remaining two players were interesting; they turned out to be a couple.
Xiao Jin guessed that the two must have used a team-up item, otherwise it wouldn't have been such a coincidence.
The male couple, Lü Yiming, is tall and thin, while the female couple, Wang Yuqing, is rather pretty. Looking at them together, they seem quite well-matched.
These two seem to be a little too nervous.
From beginning to end, they were wary of Xiao Jin and his group, remaining silent and not engaging in conversation. In particular, when they saw Chu Yuan and Lu Jing, they acted as if they had encountered some kind of murderous maniac.
Whenever the two of them made any move, they would tremble with fear and jump in alarm.
Lu Jingdu sneered several times.
Seeing their cowardly behavior, Chu Yuan rolled his eyes speechlessly and stopped talking to them.
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"Alright, now that you've explained everything, we're considered acquaintances!" Chu Yuan waved his hand impatiently, his scarlet robe sleeves stirring up a gust of wind.
"Now let's get down to business!"
This damn quest was supposed to be about exploring dungeon information, but I thought it was just about attending a wedding. The butler said we were the grooms.
It's a group of people marrying into the family and becoming grooms!
"Am I really going to 'marry' that thing that's either human or ghost? I'm not here to be a kept man!"
"Living off a woman?" Lu Jing sneered, the knuckles of his bone whip cracking softly. "Chu Manzi, with your looks, you probably wouldn't even be wanted even if you paid someone to take you."
In my opinion, this "marriage" is more like sending us to fill the pit of that vengeful bride's resentment with our lives! The system's talk of "witnessing a happy marriage," you believe it? Only a fool would believe that.
"Who the hell are you calling an idiot!" Chu Yuan's forehead veins bulged, and his fists clenched so tightly they cracked.
As he spoke, he suddenly stood up from the stone bench, took a step forward, and the bluestone slab under his feet groaned under the weight.
It looked like the powder keg between the two was about to explode again.
Xiao Jin frowned slightly, utterly speechless at these two guys who seemed ready to fight at any moment.
She turned to the side, her gaze passing over the two men who were locked in a tense standoff, and precisely landing on Zhan Wenzhen on the other side of the pillar: "What do you think?"
Zhan Wenzhen pushed up his glasses, the lenses reflecting the dark red of the lanterns, his calm voice extinguishing the sparks that were about to ignite like ice water: "Information is severely lacking."
The rules pointed to 'attending the wedding,' but the specific meaning of 'getting married' was unclear. However, he paused, his gaze behind his glasses sharp as a knife, "'No looking directly at the bride,' 'No damaging certain items,' 'Must return to your room at night…'"
These rules are inherently restrictive and malicious, and combined with the context of the story, I'm more inclined to believe that 'completing the wedding' is not a path to survival, but rather the final step towards a death ritual.
Destroying it might be the only chance of survival.
A cold glint flashed in Xiao Jin's eyes.
Disrupting the wedding... suits her perfectly.
Instead of passively waiting for an unknown "marriage," why not take the initiative and stir things up!
Only in this way will more clues surface.
Her voice was cold: "In that case, it would be best to cause some 'accident' at this wedding before the 'auspicious time' arrives."
Everyone felt a chill run down their spines.
An accident? Creating an accident in this godforsaken place? It sounds like deliberately jumping into the gates of hell!
"Tsk! There's no other way, it's better than waiting to consummate the marriage with a ghost bride!" Chu Yuan was the first to respond, he would rather have a real fight.
Lu Jing licked his lips, his eyes sparkling with excitement, clearly finding "creating an accident" much more interesting than being the groom.
Wen Baiqiu seemed thoughtful but did not object. Liu Man's eyes flickered, her intentions unclear. Lin Xia and the other players, on the other hand, were ashen-faced.
This idea is obviously very dangerous.
"Let's leave it at that for now and split up."
"Let's find clues first, then study them and find a breakthrough from the 'accident'!" After Chu Yuan finished speaking, he stood up and took the lead into the thick darkness deep in the corridor.
Lu Jing's figure blended into the shadows like a ghost, while Zhan Wenchen walked towards the strangely neat, dusty furniture and examined it carefully.
Wen Baiqiu walked to the other side of the corridor, her steps still unhurried, as if she were taking a stroll in her own garden.
Liu Man hesitated for a moment, but still chose a direction and followed, the target seemingly pointing to the direction where Wen Baiqiu had left.
Xiao Jin chose a completely different path from Wen Baiqiu.
The long sword was hidden beneath the wide red robe, and Amo sensed the chilling aura around him from within his sleeve.
Deep within the old house, the silence was even more profound than in the front yard. Light was almost entirely swallowed by darkness, with only the occasional dark red lanterns hanging under the eaves casting a dim, mournful glow, like dying eyes.
The dark red "囍" characters on the wall, resembling congealed blood, seemed to come alive in the darkness, twisting and writhing. A faint, almost imperceptible, pungent smell of blood gradually seeped into the sweet, decaying fragrance that filled the air.
"Shh...shh..." The faint friction sound was particularly jarring in the deathly silence, like countless fingernails scratching at the wall.
After searching for a long time, Xiao Jin found nothing unusual.
Throughout the entire vast mansion, she didn't see a single servant, let alone the master.
As for the butler who had previously thrown them into the side room, he had vanished without a trace!
"ah--!"
Suddenly, a short, piercing scream came from the left fork in the road!
Immediately following was a dull thud as a heavy object fell to the ground, followed by a chilling "crack" sound, like a wild beast gnawing on bones!
At the same time, Xiao Jin, who was not far from the fork in the road, was the first to notice something was wrong.
Xiao Jin's eyes flashed, and he moved with lightning speed, instantly lunging towards the source of the sound! His long sword was drawn silently, its cold light tearing through the darkness!
At the end of the fork in the road, Bai Yang lay sprawled on the ground, his face ashen, his clothes soaked through.
On the ground in front of him were several blood-stained, withered pieces of paper, as gray as fallen leaves, and a severed arm.
Xiao Jin could see clearly that there was no blood at the break in the arm, but rather tissue that looked like paper.
They are paper figures used to take someone's place in death.
On the wall less than three steps away from Bai Yang, a huge, distorted human face made up of countless gray and white shadows was staring intently at him!
The face had no eyes, only two empty black holes, and its mouth was split open, revealing a jagged, abyssal maw that roared silently.
Countless scraps of paper were scattered on the walls surrounding the human face; the paper doll that had been eaten was now ineffective. At this moment, the black mist wriggled like maggots, trying to coalesce again!
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