Exclusive Instance? The participant meets certain special conditions?
Chu Huai fell into deep thought.
At the same time, Sun Jiamu, who was watching TV in the apartment, also received the instance prompt, and his gloomy face turned pale instantly.
Twins? No, how could it be…
Sun Jiamu took a deep breath, his eyes unfocused.
On the day of the copy, before dawn, Chu Huai got up and sat downstairs in the apartment for a while, sipping a cup of coffee. He couldn’t resist the urge and quietly went upstairs.
It’s not like they are parting forever, but he just really wanted to say something to Jin Tianyi.
He felt ridiculous for being so sentimental, even despising himself.
Everyone else was standing at the door, and suddenly he felt awkward. He didn’t know what to say to Jin Tianyi after knocking on the door, so he ended up going downstairs with a sullen expression, pretending he had never been there.
After he left, Jin Tianyi’s door opened.
Jin Tianyi looked at Chu Huai’s slender back disappearing around the corner of the stairs and couldn’t help but smile. He couldn’t believe that Chu Huai would have the guts to come at this hour. He had been waiting inside for so long.
He really got bold, not even telling him that he received a copy. If it wasn’t for Luo Ziyang, he wouldn’t have known that Chu Huai was leaving today.
At 5:40 in the morning, the bus to the copy arrived. Jin Tianyi stood by the French window, quietly watching Chu Huai get on the bus.
Although only certain ones were allowed to participate in the exclusive copy, that was a restriction for the taskers. He was not a tasker, not even a human, not belonging to this category.
As Chu Huai stepped onto the bus, he saw Sun Jiamu getting on as well and was momentarily stunned.
Sun Jiamu was a solitary and aloof person, so no one knew when he received the notification for the instance, and even if they did, they wouldn’t care.
Sun Jiamu saw Chu Huai but gave him a disdainful look and sat at the very front of the bus.
While waiting for the newcomers, Chu Huai pondered the common ground between him and Sun Jiamu. Sun Jiamu had also entered the twin instance, which meant that he also met the special condition.
So what could this special condition be?
As the newcomers entered, Chu Huai barely managed to remember their faces before blacking out.
When he woke up again, he found himself holding farming tools.
Chu Huai immediately surveyed his surroundings, looking into the distance where the mountains overlapped and blocked the way, with a village made of thatched grass huts gathering halfway up the mountainside. Up close, there were narrow muddy paths in the rural countryside.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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“My mom? Gave birth?” Chu Huai was momentarily stunned, realizing that the main storyline was in progress.
This meant that he had an “identity” in this instance, playing a certain role.
“Yeah!” The man grinned, about to offer congratulations, but Chu Huai interrupted him.
Chu Huai seized on the doubt in his words and asked tentatively: “Gave birth to ‘a’ girl?”
In the copy, it clearly states that all the villagers in this village are born as… twins.
“It’s a well-known fact, why do you need to mention it again,” the man sighed, with a look of pity and helplessness on his face: “In any case, having a child is a joyous occasion. You should go and worship the Goddess of Mercy tomorrow, and eventually… you will get used to it.”
Chu Huai was baffled: “A well-known fact? Worship the Goddess of Mercy? Get used to what?”
Afraid of being noticed for his curiosity, he didn’t dare to ask further, and hurriedly went back home.
As soon as he entered the door, he heard a woman’s earth-shattering crying.
“Don’t cry! Is it bad luck or not?!” The man came out from the inner room holding a baby, cursing angrily.
Behind him, the man who had accompanied Chu Huai earlier looked at the baby in his father’s arms with a secretive expression and walked away directly.
Chu Huai thought his father was holding his younger sister, and was about to step forward to take a look, but his father didn’t have time to stop him. Chu Huai saw the baby in his father’s arms and his pupils suddenly dilated.
The baby’s eyes were closed tightly, seemingly asleep in a sweet dream, but there was a red and purple handprint around her mouth, and there were a few spots of mud on her cheeks.
Chu Huai saw mud under his father’s nails, the kind that accumulates from long-term farming in the fields.
His father had strangled the baby to death, and this realization made Chu Huai nauseous.
“Xiao Huai, I had no choice,” his father sighed: “If I didn’t follow the instructions of the Goddess of Mercy, how could there be you, how could there be your sister?”
“You go in and see your sister and your mother, I’ll go bury ‘it’.”
Once again, Chu Huai heard the title “Goddess of Mercy”.
He pretended to be calm and entered the inner room, where the strong smell of blood hit him. His mother was tightly holding the remaining baby, her crying gradually subsiding, comforting herself, murmuring: “Just pretend… I only had one, only gave birth to one…”
“Thank you, Goddess of Mercy, thank you, Goddess of Mercy.”
Chu Huai stood still, understanding. His mother was pregnant with twins, but because of the instructions of the “Goddess of Mercy”, his father had killed one of the babies. Keeping one and discarding the other.
“This is the ‘well-known thing’ that the dark-skinned man was talking about,” Chu Huai finally understood the meaning behind the pity and helplessness that appeared on his face at that time.
So, all the residents in this village follow this rule.
Moreover, judging from the tone of his parents and that man, they are full of awe and worship for the so-called ‘Little Guanyin Goddess‘, taking her will as their guideline.
Chu Huai felt angry.
“Xiao Huai, you’re back, come and see your younger sister.” The weak woman finally noticed Chu Huai at the door.
Chu Huai shook his head, and the woman knew that he couldn’t accept it for a while, so she didn’t force him and tried to persuade him kindly: “We can’t escape from it. If it weren’t for the grace of Little Guanyin Goddess, I wouldn’t even have you and your younger sister.”
“I know you resent Mom and Dad, but…” The woman wiped away her tears, resignedly saying: “You will understand in the future, after all, you’re also a married person now, and you have to go to Little Guanyin Goddess tomorrow to pray for a child.”
Chu Huai was startled. Married? Pray for a child? Is this the main storyline arranged for him by the world?
Seeing that his complexion wasn’t good, the woman pointed to the blood basin on the side and said: “Go wash the placenta, according to the instructions of Little Guanyin Goddess, we have to feed your sister placenta stew later.”
Chu Huai looked at the clump of blood vessels in the basin, trying to suppress the urge to vomit, and picked up the basin, walking to the water pool outside the house.
Feed newborns placenta stew? Little Guanyin Goddess didn’t seem like a good person. Chu Huai sneered.
The smell of blood wafted up, and he looked at the rich network of blood vessels in the basin, not sure if he should wash it or not.
He knows very little now, and he has lost contact with other participants. The only thing he can be sure of is that others must be scattered in the homes of the villagers, playing certain roles. He needs to find a way to meet them and exchange information.
Compared to the previous few instances, the goal of this instance is too vague, with only the word: “Survive.” So this instance must have its terrifying aspects.
Moreover, when this instance was released, there were no hints of a way out, relying solely on his own exploration, the resistance was too great.
As Chu Huai was lost in thought, suddenly something rubbed against his leg.
That’s a black cat with dull and lackluster fur, looking malnourished. There’s not a single strand of fur on its body that’s a different color. At this moment, the cat is biting his pants with its sharp teeth.
As Chu Huai bends down, he meets the cat’s grey-blue gem-like eyes.
It’s said that black cats are mischievous, and in Western culture, there’s even a belief that black cats are witches in disguise.
While Chu Huai is still in a daze, the black cat suddenly jumps to the edge of the pond, picks up the bloody placenta from the basin, and ran away. Its limbs are slender, its body is sleek, and its movements are agile. In the blink of an eye, it has fled a long distance, leaving a trail of blood on the dirty ground covered with chicken feces.
Chu Huai: “…”
His father came back after dealing with the body, and when he sees the cat taking away the placenta, he picks up the broom by the door to chase after it. But the black cat seems to have given him a disdainful glance, effortlessly jumps up onto the roof eaves with a light leap, and disappears with the placenta.
The black cat moves like a ghost, carrying the placenta away.
Chu Huai looks at his father, who is now full of fear, rushing into the house in a panic and about to get a ladder to climb onto the roof.
“You little beast!” His father curses him relentlessly: “It’s all because you insisted on keeping that animal!”
“If we anger the Goddess of Mercy, our family will be in great trouble!” His father’s voice trembles incessantly, filled with immense panic.
Chu Huai pretends to offer help, his mind racing.
He needs to meet up with the other participants as soon as possible. Moreover, he doesn’t know if there will be serious consequences after going OOC, so even if he needs to find someone, he must try not to reveal any suspicious behavior.
Fortunately, he had taken a quick glance at the appearances of the other newcomers on the bus earlier and remembered them.
A bright idea flashes through Chu Huai’s mind, and he came up with a way to find others without arousing suspicion. He told his father, who is cautiously walking on the roof eaves: “Dad, I’ll go door-to-door and ask if anyone has seen the cat. I’ll leave right away! If I’m too late, the cat might have eaten the placenta!”
His father agreed with a nod, and Chu Huai smoothly slipped out and starts going door-to-door to find the “cat”.
Soon, he found a new male companion with the excuse he had prepared. The new guy was overjoyed when he saw him, but Chu Huai was a little disappointed after getting to know him briefly. The landing had been smooth and nothing had happened since six o’clock.
Chu Huai gave some instructions to the new guy and made an appointment to meet at his place if there was any news or if they found something. After all, he had come out to look for the cat and couldn’t stay too long.
He remembered that there were a total of three new people, including himself and Sun Jiamu, which meant that there were originally only five people.
He hadn’t found the other two new people and Sun Jiamu yet, and things were getting complicated.
On the way back, Chu Huai looked at the young girl standing at his doorstep and was stunned.
The girl was very beautiful, even though she was dressed in plain clothes, her beauty couldn’t be hidden.
Chu Huai remembered clearly that she was another newcomer, whom he had been looking for for a while, but she appeared at his doorstep on her own.
“Xiao Huai, have you found the placenta?” His father asked anxiously, sweating after being busy all morning.
“No.”
“Oh no, oh no,” his father panicked: “You and Xiao Juan should go to pray to the Little Guanyin Goddess tomorrow and mention this matter, and pray for her forgiveness!”
“Xiao Juan?” Chu Huai looked at the female participant, who nodded at him, appearing relatively calm.
Chu Huai understood that this new person’s identity was his supposed wife in public, and they were going to pray to the Little Guanyin Goddess for a child tomorrow.
Well, that worked out perfectly, since he was planning to investigate anyway.
“I understand.” Chu Huai agreed.
After everyone dispersed, Chu Huai had a conversation with her, who introduced herself as Song Qing.
Song Qing also marveled at her good fortune for being assigned to Chu Huai’s group.
Chu Huai asked her to sleep on the bed while he prepared to rest on a makeshift bed on the floor. But in the middle of the night, he suddenly felt something licking his face.
I can’t get the image of Jin Tianyi licking Chu Huai’s face out of my head!!
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😂😂 indeed
Chu Huai- I am a straight guy (breaks up with Jin Tianyi)
Horror world system- okay, here is an exclusive, can’t bring outsiders dungeon with assigned roles, you are now a straight married man!
😂😂😂