Chapter 14 Phoenix God (13)
◎It's our turn to trade◎
A dagger with a cold glow stabbed over from a blind spot beside the temple. Before Gu Qiufeng could dodge, a crisp sound of the dagger being hit came from not far away from him.
It's peace and happiness.
Yu Bo tied her hair into a high ponytail today and changed into sportswear that was convenient for walking. She was breathing rapidly and beads of sweat were on her forehead, obviously coming from somewhere else.
A long black whip was wrapped around her hand and hung to the ground.
Just now, it was this long whip that helped Gu Qiufeng block Luo Pan's sudden attack.
After the attack failed, Luo Pan came out from the blind spot. He stared at Yu Bo gloomily and said, "Just like your sister, meddling in other people's business."
Yubo's whip immediately hit the ground fiercely. Her voice was slightly broken due to the intense exercise: "You are not worthy of mentioning my sister!"
"Sure enough, sure enough," Luo Pan's mental state was obviously a little abnormal after two teammates died in succession. He laughed crazily, "Everyone in this dungeon has ulterior motives. No wonder we need God to judge our souls."
"You," Luo Pan pointed at Yu Bo, "you are not worried about the dead Zhou Jie at all, because recruiting new members was just an excuse for yourself! You deliberately approached me who came to this dungeon just to avenge your sister. It's really funny that you used the newcomers as a fig leaf for your revenge."
Yu Bo said coldly, "What's so noble about you? Didn't I accept the bounty from your guild and deliberately hunt down the puppeteer to come to this dungeon? I just didn't expect that I would capsize in the gutter."
"That's what your sister said back then." Luo Pan laughed. "Yubo, you hate me, but you can't kill me now. Do you know what your sister looked like when she died? She cried and begged me to save her, like a dog. She was so tough before."
Yu Bo whipped him directly with a whip, his eyes red: "Shut up!"
Luo Pan didn't dodge and was hit so hard that his whole body trembled.
Gu Qiufeng had no intention of interfering with other people's affairs, as Feng He in his arms was still sleeping.
While the two were concentrating on bickering with each other, Gu Qiufeng quietly reduced his presence and slipped away holding Feng He.
Of course, while slipping away, he discovered that Luo Pan might have been too anxious to hide and didn't notice that his wooden man had fallen to the ground.
Gu Qiufeng took it easily.
The sound of fighting behind him became more and more intense, and Yu Bo seemed to be determined to die together with Luo Pan.
So Gu Qiufeng turned around and shouted to the two people who were fighting: "Yubo, this is Luo Pan's villain!"
The two veteran players probably already knew through their own channels that the little man represented the soul of the player. Upon hearing this, they both stopped attacking at the same time and jumped into the air to grab the wooden man.
Seeing this, Yu Bo immediately wrapped the whip around Luo Pan's feet and pulled him hard to the ground. She stretched out her left hand and firmly grasped the wooden figure thrown by Gu Qiufeng.
"Thank you!"
Yubo raised her ponytail, and with her other hand holding the whip, she exerted force and threw the compass onto a nearby tree.
“Gu Qiufeng!” Luo Pan hit the tree and fell down. He lay on the ground, his teeth almost broken with hatred, “Why didn’t I kill you just now!”
Gu Qiufeng asked curiously, "What you said is really interesting. You didn't kill me just now, wasn't it because you couldn't kill me?"
Yu Bo burst out laughing.
Luo Pan was so angry that his chest felt tight and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Who else are you going to kill?"
Another angry voice came.
Countless red and white threads suddenly attacked the compass.
Luo Pan barely blocked it with props, but when he saw the puppeteer Xie Songjin coming, he realized that White Mask was probably dead, so he didn't stay any longer and staggered away.
Xie Songjin walked to Gu Qiufeng and asked, "Are you okay?"
Gu Qiufeng said, "It's nothing serious. But where's the village chief? Should we have dinner and then comb the bride's hair?"
Feng He in his arms coughed slightly and was struggling to open his eyes.
Xie Songjin was silent for a while.
Gu Qiufeng: “?”
Xie Songjin: "Maybe, probably, we don't have to go to the village chief's house for dinner until the wedding."
Gu Qiufeng: “???”
Xie Songjin had a complicated expression on his face: "On the way here, I saw your child take off the village chief's hair."
Gu Qiufeng: “?”
Feng He: “.”
Feng He, who was originally slowly waking up, suddenly closed his eyes and pretended to be unconscious without moving.
Gu Qiufeng: "I saw you open your eyes, but you were still pretending to be unconscious."
Feng He: “…”
Feng He forced herself to open her eyes, curled up in Gu Qiufeng's arms with a weak face, and said with a weak breath: "Sir, I feel so uncomfortable."
Gu Qiufeng: "If you don't understand, just ask. Is it the same as the pain of beating someone to death with one punch?"
"It wasn't just a punch, but a slap that knocked his head off." Feng He corrected in a low voice.
Gu Qiufeng: "...Are you serious about your pride? You don't want me to praise you, do you?"
Feng He woke up, and Gu Qiufeng put him down and rubbed his head: "Well done."
Xie Songjin: "You're actually bragging."
Gu Qiufeng: "Yeah, Xiao Xie did a good job too."①
Xie Songjin was shocked: "...I don't mean to ask for praise!"
"The village chief is gone anyway, so can we leave the copy early?" Gu Qiufeng said.
Xie Songjin: "But the mission says that we have to survive for seven days, complete the bride's wedding, and then offer a sacrifice of soul to Feng He... the Phoenix God in order to pass the level."
Gu Qiufeng vowed, "But if we leave the dungeon early, it means we have exceeded the mission target. This is giving the dungeon an advantage. I feel like I'm losing out."
Xie Songjin: "...I always feel like there's something wrong with what you said."
"There's nothing wrong with that. It's nothing more than a missing ghost bride and a missing village chief. Just find a replacement." Gu Qiufeng said, and then decided, "Well, you can ask Feng Xinshu to come. He is responsible for making the wooden figurines used by the village to worship the gods. He must have a certain authority in the village. Let him organize the villagers to go to the temple. It should be OK."
Gu Qiufeng thought for a moment and said, "Just tell him that we plan to organize an enlightenment movement to overthrow feudal superstition."
Xie Songjin: "Don't you feel heartbroken when you say this in such a horror book... Then what about the bride and groom? Where can we find a replacement?"
Gu Qiufeng said, "I'll go to the village chief's chicken coop and catch two chickens. Anyway, the bride and groom are most likely ghosts, and chickens are not humans, so the similarity is very high."
Xie Songjin: "...Apart from the fact that these two species are not human, what other similarities do they have?"
"Go quickly." Gu Qiufeng said, "Don't you want to go out early?"
Xie Songjin let out a long sigh, and finally was impressed by Gu Qiufeng's imagination, and obediently went to hire a carpenter.
Yu Bo watched from the side and took the initiative to ask, "Is there anything I can do?"
Gu Qiufeng said, "Xie Songjin just placed the wooden figurines here. Yubo, please help to place them and check the number at the same time."
Yu Bo looked at the pile of wooden figures on the ground and asked in surprise, "You want to..."
"Hush." Gu Qiufeng said, "No spoilers are allowed for good shows."
*
Finally, Xie Songjin and Feng Xinshu discussed gathering everyone together tomorrow.
After listening to Xie Songjin's retelling, Feng Xinshu even rolled up his sleeves and said with high morale: "Come on, wake up these ignorant people!"
Xie Songjin: “.”
When he returned to the yard, rubbing his brows, he saw Gu Qiufeng and Feng He fighting with a chicken.
When Gu Qiufeng saw Xie Songjin coming back, he immediately called him to join in the capture.
Just as Xie Songjin agreed, two brightly colored roosters with huge combs ran past him.
Xie Songjin: “?”
He looked at Gu Qiufeng: "You want the two roosters to get married tomorrow?"
Gu Qiufeng exclaimed, "I picked the best-looking chicken."
Xie Songjin: "I'm really worried that the boss will be so angry with you that he won't leave the house tomorrow."
Feng He spat out the feathers in his mouth and said, "Then shall I go get another hen for you, sir?"
Gu Qiufeng said, "No need. We have already fooled around so much, so we don't need to make any more money."
Xie Songjin: "...So you know we are good at fooling people."
He even suspected that the copy had been going so smoothly until now, and even the conditions for death had disappeared, because the copy was also hoping that this devil would leave as soon as possible.
*
After waking up, several players and Feng He came to the entrance of the temple carrying two carefully dressed and colorful roosters.
Feng Xinshu had already called all the members of Fenghuang Village over, and had even called the roll before they arrived. When he went over to report to Gu Qiufeng, he took a curious look at the two chickens in Gu Qiufeng's hand and asked, "Are these for killing to boost morale before the event?"
Gu Qiufeng: “…”
Xie Songjin: “…”
Gu Qiufeng nodded: "Yeah, right, that's about right."
The two big roosters screamed in fear.
He turned his head and looked at the wooden figurine that Yubo had placed at the entrance of the temple yesterday: "Well, not too much, not too little, just right."
With a snap of his fingers, Gu Qiufeng said, "Do it."
Before the villagers could react, with the order, Xie Songjin quickly spread out the red and white threads in his hand, flying towards the gathered villagers, and those silk threads densely penetrated their skin.
Countless cries of pain were heard.
"What are you doing!?"
"You despicable foreigners, you humiliate us like this in front of God. God will not let you go!"
"What?" Gu Qiufeng laughed mockingly. "You guys in Phoenix Village should know better than me what they will do, right?"
"You offer the souls of strangers to God. Have you ever thought that one day you will become a sacrifice yourself?" Gu Qiufeng said, "Come and accept God's judgment. If you are truly innocent..."
He watched as the silk threads hooked out those twisted and dirty souls and placed them into the wooden figures placed at the entrance of the temple, which began to let out bursts of wails.
Gu Qiufeng finished his words slowly: "Good deeds will be rewarded and evil deeds will be punished. If you are innocent, God will definitely release you after the judgment."
In front of the paulownia tree next to the temple, as the wailing of the wooden man's soul gradually subsided, an entrance appeared.
Xie Songjin immediately said, "Let's go."
Gu Qiufeng took a step back, looked at Xie Songjin and said, "You go first, I have something else to do."
Xie Songjin saw the full body of the statue quietly emerge behind him, like a shadow blocking all the light on Gu Qiufeng's side.
He gritted his teeth and finally said, "Don't kill yourself."
Then he turned around and walked out of the copy exit.
After seeing Xie Song off, Gu Qiufeng turned around and looked at the tall statue.
He slowly placed the wooden figure on the palm of the statue: "Come on, it's time for us to make a deal."
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