Chapter 36 ~ Fourth Game Pt.7 ~
After Gu Yian confirmed this guess, she felt uncomfortable inside.
Because this person had always been a good counselor to her. Even if she had an ulterior motive, she was kind to Gu Yian.
For a while, Gu Yian didn’t know what she wanted to say.
Her counselor glanced at her and then moved her gaze to the sky in front of them.
She said, “I know you suspect that I hinted at them to play Spirit Pen because the original Spirit Pen was my little sister. But I didn’t do this. Yian, I’m a teacher, how could I do such a thing? At the beginning, I didn’t believe in the existence of ghosts.”
Gu Yian listened in silence. The last person who tricked her became a notebook lying in her schoolbag.
The bus arrived.
The counselor smiled at Gu Yian. “Let’s stop talking about this nonsense and return to school.”
They got on the bus and were silent the entire way up until the school gate where the counselor took the intiative to say, “I asked for leave to come out, so I still have work to do.”
The two said goodbye like this.
The counselor walked towards her office building.
She had just walked for a while when she suddenly saw a notebook floating in the air before her, moving forward with her movement.
The counselor stopped and looked around herself. The passersby around her appeared not to see the notebook in the air, or even her, but they unconsciously walked around her.
The notebook opened by itself and a sentence appeared on it.
“You’ve been discovered.”
The counselor finally couldn’t control her expression when she saw these words.
She raged, “Letting me protect her is actually not letting me hurt her, right? You know how much I want to act against her.”
After she was uncovered to the bottom on the spot, the counselor almost acted.
The notebook ignored the counselor’s anger in this moment and slowly displayed another sentence.
“You can’t touch her.”
The counselor’s reason returned a little and she said, “Yes. I can’t touch her. I also have to make Qiao Qiao not hurt her. Demon, what exactly do you want me to do? What deal do you want me to make exactly? Will you revive Qiao Qiao?”
The notebook did not answer the counselor.
It disappeared in the air again.
It seemed to appear just to appreciate the counselor’s melt down.
The counselor stood in the middle of the path, stunned.
She really met a demon.
Gu Yian looked at the back of the departing counselor. She watched for a while, didn’t notice any abnormalities, and so she finally retracted her gaze.
She walked some way on the main road of the campus and saw a bench by the side of the road.
She took out a handkerchief from her schoolbag, spread it on top, and then sat down.
Gu Yian first used the chat program to tell the Student Union member, who previously provided her information, to come to the school gate to pick up a protective talisman.
It seemed the other person happened to be playing with his phone because he immediately replied he was coming.
Gu Yian put down her phone and then took out the notebook and earphones.
She put on her earphones so that when people passed by they would only think she was on the phone instead of talking to a notebook.
The notebook also felt that Gu Yian’s mood was terrible and so it stopped pretending to be dead and opened to its inner pages, displaying words.
“Don’t trust her, trust me.”
This “her” was obviously talking about the counselor.
Its one sentence made Gu Yian go from being in a bad mood to feeling irony.
She could trust anyone, just not the notebook.
Lu Zize’s lies to her at the outset were far greater than the counselor who only concealed one thing.
Even now, Gu Yian didn’t want to recall her experience of the last game.
She was frightened by Lu Zize.
So long as she looked back, Gu Yian’s mind would flash through all sorts of scenes of accidental deaths.
In short, Lu Zize was never to be trusted.
She would just listen to his words, but she wouldn’t take them as being real.
The notebook saw Gu Yian’s reaction.
It seemed to feel wronged and a line of words appeared on the paper.
“I’ve never lied to you.”
Gu Yian laughed and said, “This sentence is one lie.”
The notebook was generous and didn’t argue with Gu Yian, instead new words appeared to ask her a question.
“Is there someone more worthy of your trust than me?”
Gu Yian casually said, “You aren’t a person, you’re a ghost right now.”
The notebook felt even more wronged.
It interrogated Gu Yian.
“You don’t want to talk with me?”
Gu Yian denied this. “No, if I didn’t want to talk to you, would I take you out?”
The notebook seemed to think this over hard and it was only after a while that it decided to put this behind.
New words appeared on the horizontal line.
“Do you need me to offer you a new clue?”
Gu Yian paused and then asked, “Do you know what clue I want?”
She herself was a bit at a loss as to what to do next.
All she knew right now was that her dead roommates became ghosts and wanted to kill her.
But with the notebook they couldn’t kill her.
There was no need to think about her safety problem at all.
The only thing she had to worry about might be the safety of the players.
Although Gu Yian spoke to them at noon, she didn’t understand much about their task.
On the surface, their task was linked together with the Spirit Pen but what they actually had to do was still unclear.
Her guess was that they might need to resolve all the Spirit Pens to count as completing this God’s Game.
Otherwise the Spirit Pens would continue to chase them.
As for Gu Yian, she herself was a person of this world.
Whether or not she completed the game, she existed in this world.
She felt that her identity in this game wasn’t like a player, but more like a plot character who provided clues.
It seemed like she didn’t need to play the game and could just watch the players.
So, Gu Yian also didn’t know what clue she wanted.
Meanwhile, a line of words slowly appeared in the notebook that said it would provide clues.
“I don’t know.”
It was clearly text, and yet Gu Yian could imagine the gentle and playful tone that Lu Zize would have when saying this sentence.
Gu Yian felt the notebook was asking for a beating.
Fortunately, the notebook didn’t deliberately keep her guessing and elegant letters appeared vividly on the paper with a flourish.
“But if you want to know the truth, then continue investigating her.”
The “her” in the notebook’s words was evidently about the counselor.
With the notebook’s confirmation, Gu Yian knew she hadn’t guessed wrong.
That her roommates summoned the Spirit Pen couldn’t escape being connected with the counselor.
But she still hoped, from the bottom of her heart, that it wasn’t the counselor.
Her counselor was a rare person she met in university who had always been kind to her.
Before her roommates died, they also had a good relationship for a while but as time passed it was unknown who changed.
Gu Yian and them drifted apart.
She recalled how they wanted her to play Spirit Pen together with them at the time; perhaps that was the signal they handed over to break the ice, and they hoped she would join the group and everyone would be together.
Having a common secret was often the connecting bond of a small group.
Gu Yian firmly rejected their invitation at the time, and even resolutely advised them not to play that game. Now that she thought about it, she also felt that her methods at the time were particularly unreasonable. If she had persuaded them more tactfully, maybe there would have been a different effect.
Her roommates might not have played Spirit Pen at the end.
Only, her roommates had already passed away.
Gu Yian also didn’t know what thoughts they had at the outset when they asked her to play Spirit Pen together. After becoming ghosts, the girls clearly became a “them” and no longer had the reason they had when they were humans, and instead they committed many murders.
The notebook moved. It turned a page of paper and gently touched Gu Yian’s fingertips.
Gu Yian lowered her eyes.
There was only one sentence on the notebook page.
“It has nothing to do with you.”
It could always guess Gu Yian’s thoughts.
It knew that Gu Yian was blaming herself.
New words emerged on the notebook.
“They’re in another person’s trap. You can’t save them.”
Gu Yian’s heart moved a little when she saw these words.
She asked, “So, it was the counselor who did it?”
Although she was asking, her tone was certain.
The notebook’s paper seemed to shake slightly in the wind.
It probably didn’t expect Gu Yian to pull herself out of her emotions in an instant and directly guess the truth of the matter.
The notebook displayed another sentence on its paper, sounding very much like a bachelor.
“I didn’t say anything.”
You already said everything.
Gu Yian gave a small smile.
At this moment, she was thinking about another problem.
She was thinking, how many things exactly did the notebook do behind her back to know these many secrets?
Just as Gu Yian and the notebook were in a subtle standoff, a boy in casual clothes approached her.
“Hi, Gu Yian.”
Gu Yian looked towards the voice and an unfamiliar face appeared in front of her.
If she didn’t guess wrong, he should be that Student Union member who provided information to her.
She nodded a little and politely said, “Hello.”
The male was used to reading faces and, at a glance, he could see that Gu Yian didn’t remember his name.
He didn’t get upset and generously introduced himself before sitting down at the other end of the bench.
Gu Yian handed him the protective talisman she had just bought.
He accepted the talisman and looked at Gu Yian. “I just learned something new.”
Gu Yian cooperatively showed curiosity.
The boy told her, “The monk the school invited didn’t catch all the ghosts. I heard a few escaped and one of them committed a murder in a restaurant.”
When Gu Yian heard about the restaurant, she had a bad feeling that something might have happened to those players.
The boy saw her furrow her brows slightly and immediately comforted her. “You also have a protective talisman, so nothing will happen.”
Gu Yian thanked him for his kind intention.
He saw that Gu Yian’s manner was relaxed and easy to get along with.
His thoughts became active and he first asked, “How much did the protective talisman cost?”
“500.”
The boy gave this money without hesitation and then used a familiar tone. “You waited for a long time and haven’t eaten yet, right?”
The sunset glow at the horizon was gorgeous, and the color of the sky gradually dimmed.
Gu Yian said simply, “I ate.”
Actually, she hadn’t eaten anything yet.
The boy also wasn’t discouraged and asked, “Do you eat late-night snacks? My treat.”
Gu Yian apologized, “I’m dieting. Thank you for your kindness, but you don’t need to treat me. Originally, you’re the one who helped me out.”
He saw Gu Yian’s attitude and said, “Where are you going? Do you need me to walk you there?”
Gu Yian declined as before, saying she had class and needed to attend.
When the boy heard that he wouldn’t even get the time to know her, he understood Gu Yian’s firm refusal and didn’t make himself any more unwelcome. Instead, he said goodbye to Gu Yian in a graceful manner and told her she could look for him if she wanted to ask about news.
Gu Yian nodded and separated from the boy at a fork in the main road.
The boy left but turned around again, looking at Gu Yian’s figure in the distance.
The sky was half-dark and he could only see her slender silhouette.
He was just about to raise his leg when he suddenly tripped and slammed his face into the ground. He fell over on flat ground!
The pain in his face made the boy prop himself up immediately after he fell.
He reached out to touch his face and then brought his hand to his eyes.
There were traces of blood.
His appearance was ruined!
Passing people threw strange gazes at the boy.
He was able to trip so tragically on flat ground, was he acting in a drama?
The boy looked into the distance again.
The sky was dark and people came and went. There was no sign of that person already.
The boy suddenly remembered something he had always treated as unimportant.
Gu Yian, this person, was extremely abnormal. Her roommates were all dead but she alone was alive and well.
This meant that everyone who got close to her became unlucky!
Before this, the boy didn’t believe in the supernatural but after tripping on flat ground and ruining his appearance he had to believe this whether he wanted to or not.
Although a beauty was beautiful, life was more important.
The boy covered his wound and went to a clinic.
He didn’t know that, under a street tree in the distance, Gu Yian stood there and watched him leave.
Some men could look dressed up like gentlemen, but in reality they would have some crooked thoughts.
Gu Yian had encountered these people before and so she had a guarded heart.
After confirming the boy was gone, Gu Yian changed her path and left.
She did have a class tonight, but there was still half an hour before class.
Right now, she wanted to find Brother Zhang and the others. She was worried they had an accident.
It wasn’t completely dark, but the street lights were already on.
Even if people were in a small grove, others could still see into the trees not far away.
At this time, Brother Zhang dissuading a female player who was madly slashing at a tree with her kitchen knife.
“Little Han, wake up, that’s not a ghost.”
He looked outside the trees. There were students passing in groups and, whenever the students threw suspicious looks at them, he felt more stress pile on his head.
He thought this female player would die, but who knew a human could be more violent than a ghost when they became vengeful.
At the internet cafe, this player called Han Qiu slashed a monitor because she saw a ghost.
Later, they shook off the internet cafe manager with great difficulty and hid in this small grove. Then a ghost in white suddenly appeared in front of them and Han Qiu directly took her kitchen knife and sliced the female ghost’s body.
After the slash, everyone realized the ghost they had just seen was an illusion and it was actually a tree.
The male player was frightened to the point of hiding behind Brother Zhang. The other female player was also so scared her face had no color, but she was still much better than the terrified male player.
Brother Zhang looked at the display of these three players: one female lunatic, one burden, and one normal person.
He sighed and said, “Right now, our top priority is to meet with Little Gu. She must have news over there, otherwise there’s no explanation for why the ghosts are suddenly attacking us.”
“Little Han!” Brother Zhang raised his voice, emphasizing, “Stop cutting at the tree. It’s not a ghost!”
The female player Han Qiu, who was madly cutting at the tree, awakened at his voice and came back to her senses a little. She looked at Brother Zhang in a daze and said, “The ghost isn’t gone, it’s here.”
Brother Zhang also knew there had to be a ghost here, or else how would they explain the ghost in white that they saw?
He didn’t look into Han Qiu’s eyes.
He said, “I know. Let’s hurry up and leave this place. The signal’s not good here, so I can’t make a call. When we find Little Gu, she’ll definitely know how to destroy these ghosts.”
Han Qiu was persuaded. She gripped the handle of the knife and tugged, pulling the kitchen knife out of the tree trunk.
She said ferociously, “Let’s go.”
With her like this, the other female player didn’t dare to approach her, fearing that Han Qiu would lose her mind and slash at her companions.
It wasn’t just the female player who thought this, and actually Brother Zhang thought the same. He let Han Qiu walk at the front while he, the male player, and the other female player walked behind.
The mud of the grove was covered in fallen leaves and the mud itself was soft, not making much noise even when people stepped on it.
The players looked at the path outside and didn’t notice that a pale human hand stretched out from the mud where they had just stepped on.
The hand stretched out very, very long and suddenly closed in on the female player who walked at the very back.
Then it grabbed her leg and yanked.
The female player was shocked.
“There’s—AH!”
She didn’t even complete her words before she was dragged into the mud by an overpowering force.
Chapter 36 ~ Fourth Game Pt.7 ~
After Gu Yian confirmed this guess, she felt uncomfortable inside.
Because this person had always been a good counselor to her. Even if she had an ulterior motive, she was kind to Gu Yian.
For a while, Gu Yian didn’t know what she wanted to say.
Her counselor glanced at her and then moved her gaze to the sky in front of them.
She said, “I know you suspect that I hinted at them to play Spirit Pen because the original Spirit Pen was my little sister. But I didn’t do this. Yian, I’m a teacher, how could I do such a thing? At the beginning, I didn’t believe in the existence of ghosts.”
Gu Yian listened in silence. The last person who tricked her became a notebook lying in her schoolbag.
The bus arrived.
The counselor smiled at Gu Yian. “Let’s stop talking about this nonsense and return to school.”
They got on the bus and were silent the entire way up until the school gate where the counselor took the intiative to say, “I asked for leave to come out, so I still have work to do.”
The two said goodbye like this.
The counselor walked towards her office building.
She had just walked for a while when she suddenly saw a notebook floating in the air before her, moving forward with her movement.
The counselor stopped and looked around herself. The passersby around her appeared not to see the notebook in the air, or even her, but they unconsciously walked around her.
The notebook opened by itself and a sentence appeared on it.
“You’ve been discovered.”
The counselor finally couldn’t control her expression when she saw these words.
She raged, “Letting me protect her is actually not letting me hurt her, right? You know how much I want to act against her.”
After she was uncovered to the bottom on the spot, the counselor almost acted.
The notebook ignored the counselor’s anger in this moment and slowly displayed another sentence.
“You can’t touch her.”
The counselor’s reason returned a little and she said, “Yes. I can’t touch her. I also have to make Qiao Qiao not hurt her. Demon, what exactly do you want me to do? What deal do you want me to make exactly? Will you revive Qiao Qiao?”
The notebook did not answer the counselor.
It disappeared in the air again.
It seemed to appear just to appreciate the counselor’s melt down.
The counselor stood in the middle of the path, stunned.
She really met a demon.
Gu Yian looked at the back of the departing counselor. She watched for a while, didn’t notice any abnormalities, and so she finally retracted her gaze.
She walked some way on the main road of the campus and saw a bench by the side of the road.
She took out a handkerchief from her schoolbag, spread it on top, and then sat down.
Gu Yian first used the chat program to tell the Student Union member, who previously provided her information, to come to the school gate to pick up a protective talisman.
It seemed the other person happened to be playing with his phone because he immediately replied he was coming.
Gu Yian put down her phone and then took out the notebook and earphones.
She put on her earphones so that when people passed by they would only think she was on the phone instead of talking to a notebook.
The notebook also felt that Gu Yian’s mood was terrible and so it stopped pretending to be dead and opened to its inner pages, displaying words.
“Don’t trust her, trust me.”
This “her” was obviously talking about the counselor.
Its one sentence made Gu Yian go from being in a bad mood to feeling irony.
She could trust anyone, just not the notebook.
Lu Zize’s lies to her at the outset were far greater than the counselor who only concealed one thing.
Even now, Gu Yian didn’t want to recall her experience of the last game.
She was frightened by Lu Zize.
So long as she looked back, Gu Yian’s mind would flash through all sorts of scenes of accidental deaths.
In short, Lu Zize was never to be trusted.
She would just listen to his words, but she wouldn’t take them as being real.
The notebook saw Gu Yian’s reaction.
It seemed to feel wronged and a line of words appeared on the paper.
“I’ve never lied to you.”
Gu Yian laughed and said, “This sentence is one lie.”
The notebook was generous and didn’t argue with Gu Yian, instead new words appeared to ask her a question.
“Is there someone more worthy of your trust than me?”
Gu Yian casually said, “You aren’t a person, you’re a ghost right now.”
The notebook felt even more wronged.
It interrogated Gu Yian.
“You don’t want to talk with me?”
Gu Yian denied this. “No, if I didn’t want to talk to you, would I take you out?”
The notebook seemed to think this over hard and it was only after a while that it decided to put this behind.
New words appeared on the horizontal line.
“Do you need me to offer you a new clue?”
Gu Yian paused and then asked, “Do you know what clue I want?”
She herself was a bit at a loss as to what to do next.
All she knew right now was that her dead roommates became ghosts and wanted to kill her.
But with the notebook they couldn’t kill her.
There was no need to think about her safety problem at all.
The only thing she had to worry about might be the safety of the players.
Although Gu Yian spoke to them at noon, she didn’t understand much about their task.
On the surface, their task was linked together with the Spirit Pen but what they actually had to do was still unclear.
Her guess was that they might need to resolve all the Spirit Pens to count as completing this God’s Game.
Otherwise the Spirit Pens would continue to chase them.
As for Gu Yian, she herself was a person of this world.
Whether or not she completed the game, she existed in this world.
She felt that her identity in this game wasn’t like a player, but more like a plot character who provided clues.
It seemed like she didn’t need to play the game and could just watch the players.
So, Gu Yian also didn’t know what clue she wanted.
Meanwhile, a line of words slowly appeared in the notebook that said it would provide clues.
“I don’t know.”
It was clearly text, and yet Gu Yian could imagine the gentle and playful tone that Lu Zize would have when saying this sentence.
Gu Yian felt the notebook was asking for a beating.
Fortunately, the notebook didn’t deliberately keep her guessing and elegant letters appeared vividly on the paper with a flourish.
“But if you want to know the truth, then continue investigating her.”
The “her” in the notebook’s words was evidently about the counselor.
With the notebook’s confirmation, Gu Yian knew she hadn’t guessed wrong.
That her roommates summoned the Spirit Pen couldn’t escape being connected with the counselor.
But she still hoped, from the bottom of her heart, that it wasn’t the counselor.
Her counselor was a rare person she met in university who had always been kind to her.
Before her roommates died, they also had a good relationship for a while but as time passed it was unknown who changed.
Gu Yian and them drifted apart.
She recalled how they wanted her to play Spirit Pen together with them at the time; perhaps that was the signal they handed over to break the ice, and they hoped she would join the group and everyone would be together.
Having a common secret was often the connecting bond of a small group.
Gu Yian firmly rejected their invitation at the time, and even resolutely advised them not to play that game. Now that she thought about it, she also felt that her methods at the time were particularly unreasonable. If she had persuaded them more tactfully, maybe there would have been a different effect.
Her roommates might not have played Spirit Pen at the end.
Only, her roommates had already passed away.
Gu Yian also didn’t know what thoughts they had at the outset when they asked her to play Spirit Pen together. After becoming ghosts, the girls clearly became a “them” and no longer had the reason they had when they were humans, and instead they committed many murders.
The notebook moved. It turned a page of paper and gently touched Gu Yian’s fingertips.
Gu Yian lowered her eyes.
There was only one sentence on the notebook page.
“It has nothing to do with you.”
It could always guess Gu Yian’s thoughts.
It knew that Gu Yian was blaming herself.
New words emerged on the notebook.
“They’re in another person’s trap. You can’t save them.”
Gu Yian’s heart moved a little when she saw these words.
She asked, “So, it was the counselor who did it?”
Although she was asking, her tone was certain.
The notebook’s paper seemed to shake slightly in the wind.
It probably didn’t expect Gu Yian to pull herself out of her emotions in an instant and directly guess the truth of the matter.
The notebook displayed another sentence on its paper, sounding very much like a bachelor.
“I didn’t say anything.”
You already said everything.
Gu Yian gave a small smile.
At this moment, she was thinking about another problem.
She was thinking, how many things exactly did the notebook do behind her back to know these many secrets?
Just as Gu Yian and the notebook were in a subtle standoff, a boy in casual clothes approached her.
“Hi, Gu Yian.”
Gu Yian looked towards the voice and an unfamiliar face appeared in front of her.
If she didn’t guess wrong, he should be that Student Union member who provided information to her.
She nodded a little and politely said, “Hello.”
The male was used to reading faces and, at a glance, he could see that Gu Yian didn’t remember his name.
He didn’t get upset and generously introduced himself before sitting down at the other end of the bench.
Gu Yian handed him the protective talisman she had just bought.
He accepted the talisman and looked at Gu Yian. “I just learned something new.”
Gu Yian cooperatively showed curiosity.
The boy told her, “The monk the school invited didn’t catch all the ghosts. I heard a few escaped and one of them committed a murder in a restaurant.”
When Gu Yian heard about the restaurant, she had a bad feeling that something might have happened to those players.
The boy saw her furrow her brows slightly and immediately comforted her. “You also have a protective talisman, so nothing will happen.”
Gu Yian thanked him for his kind intention.
He saw that Gu Yian’s manner was relaxed and easy to get along with.
His thoughts became active and he first asked, “How much did the protective talisman cost?”
“500.”
The boy gave this money without hesitation and then used a familiar tone. “You waited for a long time and haven’t eaten yet, right?”
The sunset glow at the horizon was gorgeous, and the color of the sky gradually dimmed.
Gu Yian said simply, “I ate.”
Actually, she hadn’t eaten anything yet.
The boy also wasn’t discouraged and asked, “Do you eat late-night snacks? My treat.”
Gu Yian apologized, “I’m dieting. Thank you for your kindness, but you don’t need to treat me. Originally, you’re the one who helped me out.”
He saw Gu Yian’s attitude and said, “Where are you going? Do you need me to walk you there?”
Gu Yian declined as before, saying she had class and needed to attend.
When the boy heard that he wouldn’t even get the time to know her, he understood Gu Yian’s firm refusal and didn’t make himself any more unwelcome. Instead, he said goodbye to Gu Yian in a graceful manner and told her she could look for him if she wanted to ask about news.
Gu Yian nodded and separated from the boy at a fork in the main road.
The boy left but turned around again, looking at Gu Yian’s figure in the distance.
The sky was half-dark and he could only see her slender silhouette.
He was just about to raise his leg when he suddenly tripped and slammed his face into the ground. He fell over on flat ground!
The pain in his face made the boy prop himself up immediately after he fell.
He reached out to touch his face and then brought his hand to his eyes.
There were traces of blood.
His appearance was ruined!
Passing people threw strange gazes at the boy.
He was able to trip so tragically on flat ground, was he acting in a drama?
The boy looked into the distance again.
The sky was dark and people came and went. There was no sign of that person already.
The boy suddenly remembered something he had always treated as unimportant.
Gu Yian, this person, was extremely abnormal. Her roommates were all dead but she alone was alive and well.
This meant that everyone who got close to her became unlucky!
Before this, the boy didn’t believe in the supernatural but after tripping on flat ground and ruining his appearance he had to believe this whether he wanted to or not.
Although a beauty was beautiful, life was more important.
The boy covered his wound and went to a clinic.
He didn’t know that, under a street tree in the distance, Gu Yian stood there and watched him leave.
Some men could look dressed up like gentlemen, but in reality they would have some crooked thoughts.
Gu Yian had encountered these people before and so she had a guarded heart.
After confirming the boy was gone, Gu Yian changed her path and left.
She did have a class tonight, but there was still half an hour before class.
Right now, she wanted to find Brother Zhang and the others. She was worried they had an accident.
It wasn’t completely dark, but the street lights were already on.
Even if people were in a small grove, others could still see into the trees not far away.
At this time, Brother Zhang dissuading a female player who was madly slashing at a tree with her kitchen knife.
“Little Han, wake up, that’s not a ghost.”
He looked outside the trees. There were students passing in groups and, whenever the students threw suspicious looks at them, he felt more stress pile on his head.
He thought this female player would die, but who knew a human could be more violent than a ghost when they became vengeful.
At the internet cafe, this player called Han Qiu slashed a monitor because she saw a ghost.
Later, they shook off the internet cafe manager with great difficulty and hid in this small grove. Then a ghost in white suddenly appeared in front of them and Han Qiu directly took her kitchen knife and sliced the female ghost’s body.
After the slash, everyone realized the ghost they had just seen was an illusion and it was actually a tree.
The male player was frightened to the point of hiding behind Brother Zhang. The other female player was also so scared her face had no color, but she was still much better than the terrified male player.
Brother Zhang looked at the display of these three players: one female lunatic, one burden, and one normal person.
He sighed and said, “Right now, our top priority is to meet with Little Gu. She must have news over there, otherwise there’s no explanation for why the ghosts are suddenly attacking us.”
“Little Han!” Brother Zhang raised his voice, emphasizing, “Stop cutting at the tree. It’s not a ghost!”
The female player Han Qiu, who was madly cutting at the tree, awakened at his voice and came back to her senses a little. She looked at Brother Zhang in a daze and said, “The ghost isn’t gone, it’s here.”
Brother Zhang also knew there had to be a ghost here, or else how would they explain the ghost in white that they saw?
He didn’t look into Han Qiu’s eyes.
He said, “I know. Let’s hurry up and leave this place. The signal’s not good here, so I can’t make a call. When we find Little Gu, she’ll definitely know how to destroy these ghosts.”
Han Qiu was persuaded. She gripped the handle of the knife and tugged, pulling the kitchen knife out of the tree trunk.
She said ferociously, “Let’s go.”
With her like this, the other female player didn’t dare to approach her, fearing that Han Qiu would lose her mind and slash at her companions.
It wasn’t just the female player who thought this, and actually Brother Zhang thought the same. He let Han Qiu walk at the front while he, the male player, and the other female player walked behind.
The mud of the grove was covered in fallen leaves and the mud itself was soft, not making much noise even when people stepped on it.
The players looked at the path outside and didn’t notice that a pale human hand stretched out from the mud where they had just stepped on.
The hand stretched out very, very long and suddenly closed in on the female player who walked at the very back.
Then it grabbed her leg and yanked.
The female player was shocked.
“There’s—AH!”
She didn’t even complete her words before she was dragged into the mud by an overpowering force.
