Chapter 188 Ferryman Dungeon (XI)
The six players worked for most of the night before they finally sent the entire wedding procession to the other side. As for why there were six... it was because the boat that first left with the bridal sedan came back, but only the boat came back without people.
The last person to see that player was Chang Chujing, who had asked her for help. Chang Chujing watched helplessly as that player turned into the only paper figure in the wedding procession whose eyes were not covered with paper money. After seeing this horrifying scene, her hesitation caused her to accidentally fall into the trap of the ghost bride, and then she was stuffed into the sedan chair in an instant.
Fortunately, Xia Yingnuan arrived in time, otherwise she would have to go to the underworld to rescue someone.
The other players did not show too much surprise when they saw the lonely ship returning. After all, the previous deceased's ship also returned in this way. That person was targeted by the ghost bride, and the possibility of escaping back was not high.
It's just another person who died. As fellow human beings, the players can't help but feel heavy-hearted, and some even feel a sense of sadness that the rabbit has died and the fox has grieved for it.
Xia Yingnuan clicked on the information provided by the system after some hesitation.
It turns out that ten summers have passed in this world.
Her original body had turned to ashes, so the system found her a new one.
The original owner of this body died on the spot in a car accident, so the system urgently repaired this body and stuffed her in.
In the information the system gave her, she found out the reason why the main system had to throw her over.
After being bound to the previous system, Xia Yingnuan's mission was to get rid of the villains who would hinder the protagonist's development at all costs. It's a pity that she is a bit rebellious.
The result was that the villain was not eliminated, and the protagonist was "accidentally" dragged into the water. Xia Yingnuan curled the corners of her mouth.
Later, a big change happened and the protagonist was in danger. The main system felt that the person who tied the bell must be the one to untie it, so it kicked itself over to clean up the mess it had made.
This is a world of relatively low level. The original development was a story about a domineering boss who could exploit oil fields and a saintly assistant who had a bloody encounter on a rainy day, and began to challenge the criminal law from then on.
The previous system was afraid that it would not be able to defeat the villain when he grew up, so it secretly set the time to when both the protagonist and the villain were young, hoping that it could develop slowly.
She is indeed quite "competitive". Although she cannot completely compare with the villain, at least when the villain took over the family business, Xia Ji also took over her own family business, and has been committed to opposing the villain. When she was five years old, she scared the villain to tears with a caterpillar.
She failed in the extreme one-on-one exchange with the villain, and then "accidentally" dragged the male protagonist into bankruptcy. She still remembered that S-232 was so angry that she cursed. Now she thinks it's a pity that she didn't record it!
Afterwards, the villain who swallowed up his and the hero's industries expanded his own business. The hero wanted to make a comeback but was sent to prison and stepped on the Shixia sewing machine.
Things had developed normally up to this point, but for unknown reasons the villain suddenly went mad and tortured the hero, who had just been released from prison and wanted to make a career, to death. The heroine was also terrified after seeing the hero's end and fell into the river and drowned on the way to escape.
At this point in time, there are only three months left before the villain turns completely evil.
Her mission is to find out the real reason why the villain goes crazy during this period, and then influence her and stop her.
Oh……
Does the main system think that if it throws itself here, it will obediently work for it?
[Host, she is the villain of this world. Do you remember? Back then, you played her mortal enemy, and according to the information, she seems to still remember it...]
Xia Yingnuan lay down on the bed and carefully covered her head with the quilt to block out the system's chattering from her hearing.
[Master... Host, host, please don't give up! Even if it doesn't make you OOC...]
"Click..." The door of the ward opened again, and the system skillfully crawled under the bed again.
Ning Hanqi had already left, and it was the secretary who came in. Chang Chujing made an OK gesture, and then saw Ning Hanqi pulling the red-clothed ghost into the bushes not far away.
"..." Chang Chujing silently turned her head away. She was definitely not curious about what two young lovers were doing in a deserted place! After all... she had been curious when she was very young, and every time she saw her sister hiding with her girlfriend, she knew they were kissing secretly! It was also because so much time had passed, otherwise she would not have been unable to recognize her sister's ex-girlfriend.
She was afraid that if she stretched her head out of curiosity to take a look, she would become a light bulb as bright as the sun.
Facts proved that Chang Chujing's worries were justified. A few dozen meters away from her, the man and the ghost were hugging and kissing each other. Of course, the main purpose was for Ning Hanqi to replenish the strength that Xia Yingnuan had lost in the battle and promote faster healing of the wound.
After Xia Yingnuan's somewhat weak strength became solid again, Ning Hanqi gently bit her lips to vent the worry in his heart.
"Why did you run underwater?" There is the power of the underworld underwater, and that power is dangerous to all ghosts and monsters, so Ning Hanqi has never dared to let Xia Yingnuan go deeper.
"Just now, I was playing tug-of-war with the Dragon King. I had the upper hand, but when I was pulling off that person's props, the Dragon King tricked me." Xia Yingnuan raised her arm. This was the wound left from that time. Although the monster was huge, it was a master at hiding and camouflaging. She didn't expect that the other party would launch a sneak attack so close to her.
The reason why she was sure that the monster was the so-called "Dragon King" was because it had a pair of dragon-like horns on its head, and coupled with its slender body, it really looked a bit like a dragon at first glance.
"But I also retaliated by breaking a few teeth in its mouth. I have learned a lesson this time. Next time I meet it, I will break its head!" Xia Yingnuan looked quite proud.
Ning Hanqi glared at her with amusement and helplessness, "Are you still thinking about next time?"
"Hehe, I won't provoke it, but if it comes to cause trouble, don't blame me." Xia Yingnuan blinked innocently.
"Let's not talk about this for now, um... about that dead player." Xia Yingnuan frowned slightly when this matter was mentioned.
"What's wrong with him?" Ning Hanqi became serious.
“Although the corpse’s neck was broken when I was fighting with the Dragon King, I had already torn off the props before that. There are no marks on the corpse, nor are there any traces of external forces left by other ghosts.” They did not shy away from mentioning the “heavenly being” when they said this. I believe that if that person were paying attention here, he would probably like to see their fearful and “helpless” looks.
"It's just that his neck has been cut by a sharp weapon." Xia Yingnuan pointed at the spot on her own neck. "This might be the cause of his death. I only discovered it after I pulled off his scarf."
"Neck? Isn't there a prop protecting it?" The owner of the prop was killed by having his throat cut, which was simply the greatest insult to the prop.
"Yes, so his death was very strange. If he really had encountered some powerful ghost, there shouldn't have been any noise at all..." Xia Yingnuan knew how powerful the tool was, so who had the ability to kill him so quietly without alerting her? And who killed him by slitting his throat?
"Where is the prop?" Ning Hanqi saw that Xia Yingnuan came with empty hands.
"The scarf disappeared when I was dragged into the river. Maybe it was taken back?" Some powerful ghosts can take back important props given to humans, such as Ning Hanqi's dagger. Xia Yingnuan can reclaim the props after the death of the player she designated.
The props disappeared, the man was killed by having his neck slit, there were no traces of external force left by other ghosts on the body, and the death was so perfect...
Ning Hanqi's heart sank. She gently pinched Xia Yingnuan's pinky finger, prompting her to use a special communication method that only the two of them could hear. "Nuannuan, you just said that the corpse's face had been eaten and was unrecognizable, right?"
Xia Yingnuan replied, "Yes, his skin has been almost eaten away, and there are a lot of bones left. It's a good thing that the Dragon King has disposed of his body. Otherwise, I would have to think of how to deal with the body so as not to pollute the environment."
Ning Hanqi looked at the players coming and going not far away and asked solemnly, "Then... are you really sure that the body is him?"
This one was much gentler. She walked over to Xia Yingnuan, carefully inquiring about her health, and told her not to worry about school, as she had already asked for leave from her counselor. Finally, she paused and asked, "Do you need Mr. Ning's help in dealing with the gossip at school?"
Since her death, Ning Hanqi has become keen on charity work. Every summer he would sponsor many students to complete their studies, and the original owner was one of them.
Not only that, the original owner's parents died in a car accident, and the huge sum of money spent on their rescue in the hospital was also borrowed by Ning Hanqi. To Ning Hanqi, this was just a small amount of money, so he asked the original owner not to pay it back. However, the original owner disagreed and wrote an IOU for the money, saying that she would pay it back when she had money.
As for the interest, the silly girl of the original owner also wanted to include it, but Ning Hanqi didn't let her. She just asked her to repay it in another way, which was to be a model for her once every one or two months.
But one time, she was photographed while getting into the Ning family's car. Someone at school fanned the flames, saying that she was being kept by someone. Rumors were scary, and she got into a car accident on the road in a trance.
If the original owner were still alive, she would definitely not bother the kind-hearted people who helped her many times. If it weren't for this kind of personality, she might not have ended up dying in a car accident.
But the person lying here now was Xia Yingnuan. Her long career as a missionary had worn away most of her sense of morality. She couldn't be polite to her sworn enemy when she was about to get him to help her deal with a problem! Tears welled up in her eyes in just three seconds, looking sickly and pitiful. "Secretary Sister, will this bother President Ning?"
The perfect display of weakness, sweetness and a hint of tea flavor successfully aroused the secretary's maternal instinct.
"Of course not. This was caused by our carelessness. You should have a good rest. There won't be any gossip when you return to school." The secretary's voice became gentler, and he touched her head as he left.
As soon as the secretary left, Xia Yingnuan's tears disappeared without a trace.
The system breathed a sigh of relief. The Big Devil was still the Big Devil after all. As long as she was willing to be more serious, wouldn't this task be easy to accomplish?
Unfortunately, its host had no motivation to work at all. She lay in the hospital bed for the first two days, staring at the ceiling in a daze. If it weren't for the rise and fall of her chest, it would have thought there was a corpse lying on the bed.
Later, it was unclear whether the host had figured anything out or stopped being in a daze. Instead, he watched videos on his phone. Except for eating and sleeping, he was addicted to the Internet and especially liked watching people getting their hooves trimmed.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this person is just giving up, and the system can see it too, so the system is getting anxious and angry.
[Auntie! Ancestor! If you don't do something, this world will be destroyed! We don't have much time!]
"What does it have to do with me?" Xia Yingnuan raised her head amidst her busy schedule. Her expression looked innocent, but her system tensed up.
[How, how come it doesn't matter? If the world is destroyed, your mission will fail, and if the mission fails, you might be wiped out!] The system feels that her life is in its hands, so it should at least be more serious, right?
Then the system watched as Xia Yingnuan's gaze changed from expectation to contempt, and then she looked away from it and continued to be addicted to the video.
The system took a few deep breaths again, then silently logged into their internal network to post a help request.
#Help! What should I do if the new system encounters a host with hell-level difficulty? #
#The host is suspected to have mental problems and has a very low desire to live. How can I cheer her up? #
#Today is also the day that the big devil refuses to communicate with me... #
#As a system, my only use is to scratch the host's back#
…
Someone responded soon after I posted it.
[I heard that this legendary executor has been assigned a new system to go to the mission world. Could that unlucky person be you?]
The system is in tears, isn't that it?
The systems who had long wanted to sit back and watch the fun gave their juniors advice.
"Host!!!" The system that was browsing the post suddenly screamed in surprise.
"what?"
"This, this, this... the owner of this body, have you noticed who she looks like?"
Like? Like whom?
Xia Yingnuan had not observed her body carefully until now. After hearing the system's call, she slowly took out a mirror from her bag and looked at it carefully again and again.
"Who does he look like?" She really couldn't tell.
"Like the old you!"
“???!!!”
Ningjiao Cemetery.
A person who had just left the hospital stood in front of a tombstone holding a bunch of lilies.
The woman in the photo on the tombstone is smiling brightly. Although her face is gray, one can still feel how proud and dazzling she was in her lifetime, like a little sun.
"Before... that girl who looked a bit like you was in a car accident. I stopped by to see her today, so I'm late." Ning Hanqi placed the flowers in front of the tombstone. She looked at the proud girl, her lips raised stiffly. "If you knew I'd find a girl who looked like you to live next to you, would you be so angry that you'd jump out of your grave?"
Of course, the dead could not answer her.
"I bought you the lilies you hated."
If she were still alive, she would definitely pick up the flowers and smash them on her face, then dump a truckload of foxtail grass into her house, but... she was already dead, dead for ten years.
Ning Hanqi's ugly smile faded.
"I don't believe you committed suicide. I've found some clues recently. If I find the murderer, I'll send him to see you."
"When I die, I'll find you in the underworld and laugh at you. You have to ask me for help in your revenge. Aren't you angry?"
No one responded to her except the wind that blew her voice away.
Ning Hanqi stood in front of the tombstone, occasionally talking about trivial matters. Later, when she had nothing to say, she stood quietly beside the tombstone, silently accompanying the person who was sleeping there.
Just as the sun was about to set, the phone in her pocket vibrated.
"I'm leaving." Ning Hanqi squatted down and carefully wiped off the dust covering the photo. Her expression was gentle and sad, something she herself didn't even notice. "That child said I'm old. After all, ten summers have passed, and everyone's summer age has come."
"Only you, a scheming fellow, have frozen your own time in your early twenties... You are so bad." The girl in the photo is very young and will always be so young. I will gradually grow old, and I don't know if she will still recognize me if we meet again after death.
Wu Rui drove the boat tremblingly. Since he was not very skilled in rowing, and the bandits held a knife to his neck, he drove the boat in a winding path in fear.
The bandits were dumping bags of corpses into the river to destroy them, and seemed to have no time to pay attention to him.
Finally, they were about to kill and rob and get rid of the last survivor, but for some reason, the bandit leader suddenly took the knife from his neck.
The fear on the boatman's face had not yet disappeared, but a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Then the bandit leader suddenly grabbed his neck and struggled to fall down, with shock on his face as he looked at him.
"He killed all the bandits and threw their bodies into the river." Xia Yingnuan had been paying attention to the movements over there. She pretended to be weak first, and then took advantage of the enemy's carelessness to use the power of props to kill them with a single blow. This was a relatively standard approach.
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