Chapter 1: Awakening the Judge System in the Mountain Village
Jiangcheng, Crescent Moon Land, Xialu Village.
In the dilapidated pigsty, Gu Ji curled up in the weeds.
The temperature was close to zero, but she was only wearing clothes that were as tattered as rags.
Gu Ji could feel her life slipping away, so much so that when her adoptive mother Tao Xiaohong came over cursing at her, kicking and beating her, and telling her to get up and cook, she had no strength to resist.
She had anklets on her feet, and her ankles had long been worn out.
A pair of almost transparent, invisible hands were struggling to untie the chains.
It was a female ghost who looked about ten years old, crying and trying to save her.
"Jiji, don't die. I don't want you to die."
Gu Ji smiled bleakly, "Xiao Tao, if I die, I can hold your hand and see you again."
Xiao Tao shook her head. She hated the fact that she was just a lowly ghost and couldn't do anything.
"I don't want you to die. You haven't helped me find my parents yet, and you haven't eaten all those delicious foods for me yet. You can't die!"
Memories are like a revolving lantern.
She was sold here at the age of eight. She has no memory before the age of eight and only remembers that she has a father and a mother.
Her adoptive parents beat and scolded her every day. When she was ten years old, her adoptive parents bought a four-year-old boy. Since then, she has been locked up in a pigsty. The iron chain runs from the pigsty to the kitchen. Apart from that, she can't go anywhere else.
Suddenly, heavy snow began to fall from the sky.
Like goose feathers.
Tao Xiaohong shuddered, and seeing that she was talking to the air again, she kicked her calf: "Don't play tricks on me here. If you're not dead, hurry up and cook for me! If you dare to eat secretly, I'll skin you alive!"
She turned and went into the house.
Xiao Tao rushed forward and tried to kill Tao Xiaohong, but ended up just passing through her body.
When he looked back, Gu Ji was already dead.
"Jiji!! Jiji, don't scare me. You can't die. You can't die. I don't want you to die. I'll give you my soul. You said you wanted to see the mountains and the sea. You said you wanted to eat lots of delicious food. You can't die!!"
Xiao Tao shouted desperately, but it turned into nothingness in Gu Ji's sea of consciousness.
[Ding, locking onto target, locked successfully.]
You have bound to the City God Judge system.
Detection host name: Gu Ji
Current level: Trainee judge
Current points: 0
Host skills: Yin-Yang eyes, evil-avoiding blood
Host Physical Fitness: -20/100
Host IQ: 95/100
Weapons: None
Current health: 0.5/-
Merit value: (full value)
Tip: Points can be exchanged for skills, physical fitness, IQ, weapons, and health.]
[Host, please complete the first mission as soon as possible. Liu Xiaotao's parents are looking for her outside the village. Please help Liu Xiaotao find her parents and tell them the truth about her being abducted and murdered by Wang Wencai. A newbie gift pack will be given to the host, giving them 3 health points and three talismans. Please use them as appropriate.]
Who is speaking?
The melodious sound before death?
[It's not death. Your innate abilities and full merit have enabled you to be selected as a trainee civil servant in the underworld. As long as you complete the corresponding tasks, you will be able to find your parents and the piglet killed by Tao Xiaohong.]
Although the voice in my head was cold, it was not scary.
Hearing his parents and the piglet, Gu Ji struggled to open his eyes.
There used to be a little pig with intelligence in the pigpen. It was very well-behaved and obedient. Whenever she was beaten, the little pig would always stand in front of her.
But it was still killed. During the Chinese New Year, Gu Ji cried and begged Tao Xiaohong not to eat the piglet, but Tao Xiaohong didn't even blink and bled the piglet in front of her.
She watched the piglet's usually warm eyes gradually fade, but she was powerless to do anything.
[Little Pig...are you waiting for me?]
[Yes, so please host, complete the first task as soon as possible. Three health points are only enough for you to live for three hours. If the task is not completed after three hours, you and Xiaotao will enter reincarnation, while Tao Xiaohong and Wang Wencai will never be punished by law in this life.
Child, you are only nineteen years old. If you are alive, you will have another chance at everything.]
Although Gu Ji is already nineteen years old, he has been malnourished for a long time and looks like a child of thirteen or fourteen.
The voice in the head sighed. This child was so miserable. If she didn't accept the mission, she would really die.
[If you still don’t believe me, let me show you a picture.]
In his empty consciousness, Gu Ji saw a beautiful, misty bridge with many people on it and the words "Naihe Bridge" written on it.
A fat white pig was circling around the Naihe Bridge.
It’s the little pig that runs around in circles in the pigpen, helpless and anxious every time he sees her being beaten!
The picture flashed.
She also saw a very handsome and well-matched couple holding a newborn baby and looking at it tenderly. There was a red mole between the baby's eyebrows.
And there happened to be such a mole between Gu Ji’s eyebrows!
[That's... my mom and dad?]
[Yes, they are waiting for you to rescue them.]
Where are they?
[You will know when you become a judge.]
The voice of the god became gentle, which gave Gu Ji strength. It turned out that she was a child loved by her parents and she was not a bastard.
And the little pig is still waiting for her, she can't die!
Xiaotao's voice gradually became clearer. She suddenly opened her eyes, sat up on the spot, and gasped for breath.
The snow had dyed the ground white. Xiao Tao was extremely surprised. "You woke up! I knew you weren't dead! I knew it!"
She kept talking to Gu Ji, but Gu Ji did not listen to her quietly as usual.
Instead, he clasped the edges of the anklet with both hands and began to pull his foot out of the chain.
Her legs were as thin as bones, but the iron rings were even smaller and soon rubbed her skin.
Gu Ji gritted his teeth and said nothing. Wang Wencai and Tao Xiaohong were still watching TV in the house, and he couldn't let them hear him.
"Ji Ji, you will hurt your legs if you do this!" Xiao Tao started wiping her tears again. If she were a little more powerful, she could open the chain in one go. She kept apologizing and pulled Gu Ji's hand with her little hand, trying to make the iron ring bigger.
Gu Ji gritted his teeth and pulled his foot back with all his strength!
There was a sharp pain accompanied by a cracking sound of bones, and her legs were bleeding from the iron ring.
Sweat oozed from her forehead and she dared not breathe loudly. She could only curl up and breathe rapidly, but she did not dare to waste time and waved to Xiaotao.
"Your parents are here to look for you. They're just outside the village."
Xiaotao's face was full of pain, but ghosts don't have tears. The tears that fell from her eyes disappeared in an instant. When she heard this, she thought it was Gu Ji comforting her.
He shook his head, looked at her wound and said, "I don't want to go home. I just want you to be well. I don't want you to die..."
Over the years, only Ji Ji could see her. It was Ji Ji who comforted her time and time again and digested her resentment. She would rather not be reincarnated in this life than bear Ji Ji such pain.
Gu Ji only dared to rest for two minutes before standing up again. "Don't be silly, I'm telling the truth. Let me ask you again, are you sure it was Wang Wencai who killed you?"
Xiao Tao wiped away her non-existent tears and nodded, "Yes, my body is still buried next to the small bridge at the river entrance in the south of the village."
"Okay." Gu Ji swallowed the sweet taste in his throat. "Then if I asked you to say it in front of a lot of people, could you say it?"
She looked and saw that the three talismans given to her by the god in her head were: mantra talisman, ghost appearance talisman, and evil-repelling talisman.
Xiao Tao nodded: "Yes!"
Gu Ji smiled at her, and his extremely thin face looked very warm when he smiled.
She walked out of the pigpen, letting the snow fall on her shoulders. The dilapidated wooden door of the Wang family would make a sound when it opened, so she had to grasp the timing well.
Three, two, one.
Gu Ji endured the severe pain in her ankle and rushed out of the door that had trapped her for eleven years. The door creaked.
Tao Xiaohong, who was inside the house, heard the noise and frowned, "Why did I hear the door to our yard open? Someone's coming in?"
"Who's coming to our house? It's a deserted place." Wang Wencai, reeking of alcohol, scratched his ears.
"No, I really heard it!"
Tao Xiaohong got out of bed immediately and went out to see the empty pigpen, iron chains, and creaking iron gate.
Her voice was harsh and sharp in the yard: "Wang Wencai! Come out quickly! That little bitch ran away!"
"If she ran away, she ran away. The villagers will send her back." Wang Wencai didn't take it to heart. It was not like someone had run away from the village before, but he had never seen anyone run away from the village.
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