Chapter 14: Haunted Houses in the Republic of China (14)
Waves appeared in the not-so-big pond, and a strange strong wind blew up in the gloomy sky, which meant that the owner of this place was in a very bad mood.
Ning Hanqi staggered a little when she approached the pond due to the wind. At this moment, a thick branch suddenly broke and fell above her head. It was about to hit her, but fortunately, an invisible force blew it away.
The broken branches turned into a parabola, and the next second Ning Hanqi faintly heard a scream coming from afar.
A figure appeared behind her, and cold hands gently supported Ning Hanqi who was about to fall.
There was still an indelible murderous intent and anger in Xia Yingnuan's scarlet eyes, but it was not directed at Ning Hanqi, or rather, her arrival brought back Xia Yingnuan's shaky sanity.
"Why are you here? It's so dangerous here." She deliberately restrained her negative energy to prevent herself from accidentally hurting Ning Hanqi in her anger.
"I saw that someone seemed to have made you angry, so I came over to take a look." Ning Hanqi turned around after standing firmly. She raised her hand and gently patted Xia Yingnuan's back, as if she was comforting a ferocious beast that had been aroused and was ready to eat people at any time.
"Don't be angry. Those people will only make themselves angry if they have no common sense."
Perhaps this kind of comfort was really useful. Gradually, the strong bloody look in Xia Yingnuan's eyes gradually dissipated, and the sounds of crawling and gnawing hidden in the strong wind gradually disappeared.
Xia Yingnuan saw her hands. Her hands looked a little hideous in her half-ghost state, so she returned to her normal appearance the next second.
Transforming into a ghost would only make her look ugly. Xia Yingnuan really didn't want to reveal that side of herself in front of Ning Hanqi. If Ning Hanqi were to leave here, then at least in the end, she hoped that she would always be the most beautiful in the other's impression.
In the end, everything was ruined by those two daring humans!
One can imagine how annoyed Xia Yingnuan was.
“…” She raised her hands to cover Ning Hanqi’s eyes and said willfully, “Forget what I looked like just now.”
Ning Hanqi blinked as his vision went dark. He asked knowingly, "Why?"
Her young wife suddenly became a little malicious!
"...It's not pretty, and you are not allowed to remember it in the future!" If she continued, Miss Xia would become angry and embarrassed.
"Who said that? It looks good." Ning Hanqi smiled.
Xia Yingnuan put down her hand, wanting to see if someone was lying with open eyes.
In fact, she knew very well whether Ning Hanqi lied or not. Apart from anything else, she felt much better.
"You must have stolen a lot of candy when you were a kid." Xia Yingnuan poked her cheek. Otherwise, how could she say such sweet words so easily?
Ning Hanqi lowered his eyes slightly, his smile fading a bit, "I didn't eat much candy when I was a kid."
"...It's right for children to eat less sugar, otherwise they will suffer from toothache." Xia Yingnuan's voice gradually dissipated in the air. Because Ning Hanqi's smile was a little bitter, she didn't say anything else.
Ning Hanqi's childhood did not seem to be happy.
"My mother died when I was very young. Later, my father remarried. My stepmother hated me very much, but for various reasons, she had to pretend to be a good wife and mother. She couldn't do anything to me, so she allowed her own children to bully me. My father just regarded it as a game between children and never took it seriously. The servants in the house flattered the powerful and bullied the weak. I never had the chance to have any of the other children's snacks or toys..." Ning Hanqi silently recounted his childhood. Although the incident was long gone, the psychological trauma left over from childhood was not so easy to erase.
I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but Xia Yingnuan felt that their childhoods were somewhat similar, so she felt a little more pity for Ning Hanqi.
"It's better not to have family members like this. The more you tolerate them, the more they will become unreasonable. Be obedient. If they still cause trouble for you after you go back, just put a knife to their necks and they will definitely wilt immediately." Xia Yingnuan curled her lips coldly. She still didn't understand one thing, that is, with her violent temper, how could she have tolerated those guys crawling over her head while she was alive?
Now that I think about it, it’s incredible that I didn’t set fire to this yard and burn everyone to death.
One's past cannot be retrieved, but Ning Hanqi still has a chance.
Who would have thought that Ning Hanqi shook his head and said, "They are all dead."
...That's such a pity.
Xia Yingnuan was also planning to pass on to Ning Hanqi all the experiences she had accumulated over the years.
But it’s better this way. After all, my little lady is not like me. She has a softer personality and I don’t know if she can learn even one tenth of what I said. I don’t want her to be bullied by those people in the end.
"Let's not talk about those people. It's disgusting. Are you feeling better?" Ning Hanqi asked with concern as the abnormal weather had returned to calm without them noticing.
"Hmph." Xia Yingnuan snorted softly, "Neither good nor bad."
"...I don't know what they are carrying, but it makes me feel very uncomfortable. You must be careful." Ning Hanqi seemed particularly worried about her.
"Did it affect you?" Xia Yingnuan frowned slightly, her murderous intent growing stronger. "It's best if you don't contact them again."
"Will they hurt you?"
"What a joke, just them?" Xia Yingnuan said "Tsk" with disdain. The props they carried with them were the pen of the Pen Fairy. Although the two humans could cause her some trouble with the help of the Pen Fairy's power, it was a fantasy to think that they could hurt her!
But humans were becoming increasingly arrogant these days. If she guessed correctly, those two weren't ordinary players, but rather the group known as hunters within the player community. Ordinary players played the game to survive, but these people chose to risk their lives, hunting for items from goblins and monsters and selling them for a fortune, or accepting bounties...
Xia Yingnuan had learned from a player a long time ago that she was also on the bounty list, but this was the first time she encountered a hunter so bold as to use the power of the Ouija Board to lock onto her... at the location of the corpse.
I don’t know what confidence those two humans have to be so fearless, but she is determined to keep these two copies of fertilizer.
"Then... I'll tell you something that will definitely make you happy." Ning Hanqi told Xia Yingnuan what happened between the two old players and Wu Er.
They tricked new players into stealing candles, thinking they could reap the benefits without any effort, but they didn't know that their cleverness backfired. No, to say they were clever was an insult to the word.
If they had carefully observed the rats at night and the NPCs during the day, they would have found that those big and fat rats would have some characteristics of NPCs. What was the difference between those slaves who secretly embezzled their masters' things to fatten themselves and the rats in the granary?
The key to the first point of attention is not only "stealing", but also "using"... Every item taken without permission will have a mark left by the ghost, and after using the item, the mark will be transferred to the player.
The effect of that brand is - "assimilation".
"There is such a thing?" Xia Yingnuan's main attention has been on Ning Hanqi recently, and she didn't pay attention to these trivial details. She would only sense it when they really triggered the fatal rules.
She had been worried about how to deal with them, but now, they had come to her door. Xia Yingnuan laughed out loud, "I know. I'll make them pay for their part in scheming against you."
Ning Hanqi whispered thank you, and then Xia Yingnuan touched her head and said that there was no need to thank her for such a small thing.
However, Xia Yingnuan did not realize at this moment that the expression behind Ning Hanqi's lowered head was not shyness, but an inexplicable apology.
I'm sorry, Nuannuan, in a sense, my goal is the same as theirs.
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