Sun Jiamu’s hair stood on end as he erupted in anger: “What are you talking about?!”
Chu Huai had only tried to tease him, but he didn’t expect such a strong reaction from Sun Jiamu, with a hint of something hidden in his words.
Sun Jiamu sneered and raised three fingers: “I swear to the heavens, I did not kill my younger brother.”
Chu Huai raised an eyebrow, genuinely surprised.
Sun Jiamu had a triumphant expression in his eyes as if he had nothing to fear: “If I am lying, then let Little Guanyin kill me.”
Chu Huai responded lightly but remained doubtful in his heart.
Sun Jiamu’s previous behavior had raised suspicions in Chu Huai’s mind, but now he was swearing so solemnly, could it be that he had really misunderstood?
Sun Jiamu’s voice sounded venomous: “Since you refused to cooperate with me, whatever happens after this…”
Chu Huai interrupted him, saying calmly: “Rest assured, you will definitely die before me.”
Sun Jiamu sneered: “Nice words anyone can say.”
Previously, Chu Huai had been protected by Jin Tianyi, but now he was alone in the instance. If something unexpected happened, it would have nothing to do with him.
Moreover, this was his last instance. Once he successfully completed it, he could return to the real world directly. By then, he would have nothing to worry about, with the sky being high and the emperor being far away.
Chu Huai shrugged and walked straight out, a slight smirk on his lips.
He wasn’t cross-dressing now, and he didn’t need to pretend to be weak or seek goodwill. Scum like Sun Jiamu, if he had to be killed, he would be killed.
Sun Jiamu breathed a sigh of relief as he watched Chu Huai’s slender figure disappear from sight, his eyes filled with resentment.
He had not lied. He didn’t need to curse himself with such poison, after all, he had believed in karma since he had been in the horror world for so long.
Everything he said was true. He did not kill his younger brother, because he did not have a younger brother. He had killed his older brother.
Pushing his older brother into the water, and taking over his identity for good… becoming him forever.
Anyone who stands in his way will not live.
From Zhou Yuan’s wife’s room came Song Qing’s horrified scream.
Chu Huai snapped out of it and guessed that she must have discovered Zhou Yuan’s wife’s body.
When Chu Huai rushed over, Liu Han was already there.
Liu Han’s face was pale, his pupils dilated. He saw Chu Huai find the key point immediately and trembled, blaming himself with quivering lips: “She, she was strangled to death by the umbilical cord. If, if I hadn’t injected her with a sedative during the day, she wouldn’t have lost her ability to move…”
Liu Han closed his eyes in anguish.
Strangled to death by the umbilical cord? Chu Huai narrowed his eyes and laughed silently.
He didn’t intend to reveal the truth. The newbies were just entering this world, their minds were extremely tense, and killer ghosts were already terrifying enough. If they found out that humans were killing humans, the tension might snap.
Moreover, Sun Jiamu had an antisocial personality, and once his disguise was exposed, it would be harmful to the newbies without any benefit. After all, for Sun Jiamu, killing one person or killing three or five people was essentially no different.
However, he needed to deal with him as soon as possible.
Chu Huai patted Liu Han’s shoulder to comfort him: “This has nothing to do with you.”
Sun Jiamu arrived a step late, staring at his masterpiece in the room with a pleased smile.
Song Qing was the first one to discover the body, trembling all over.
Because she was quiet and reserved, she received relatively little attention from the team. Chu Huai carefully looked at her for a while, only to realize that she looked unusually haggard.
In just three days, her eye sockets had sunken deeply, her fair skin had turned dull and yellow, her hair was dry and frizzy, and her lips were cracked and peeling as if she had aged ten years in an instant.
Even in a horror world where you can’t sleep, it shouldn’t be this bad…
Chu Huai was lost in thought, but suddenly Song Qing rolled her eyes and fell forward. Fortunately, Liu Han reacted quickly and caught her before she hit the ground.
Chu Huai lent a hand and together with Liu Han, they carried Song Qing into the room and laid her down.
Chu Huai pointed at Song Qing and asked: “Has she not been resting well?”
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“I learned it from a fellow student who studied traditional Chinese medicine out of boredom before,” Liu Han choked on her words.
Chu Huai’s pupils suddenly contracted: “What’s wrong?”
“It seems like she’s…” Liu Han paused: “pregnant.”
Chu Huai’s gaze darkened abruptly.
Sun Jiamu woodenly exclaimed: “What?!”
Liu Han didn’t realize that the atmosphere had changed and spoke with pity: “The baby is probably about two months old. I really feel sorry for Song Qing, being chosen to enter such a terrifying replica while carrying a child. Compared to her, I don’t seem to be that miserable anymore…”
Chu Huai remembered what Song Qing had said before and said in a deep voice: “Song Qing is not married and doesn’t even have a boyfriend.”
“Then how did she get pregnant?” Liu Han was confused.
Sun Jiamu’s expression was extremely gloomy as he questioned Chu Huai: “When you guys went to the Little Guanyin Temple that day, did Song Qing touch the bronze statue?!”
Chu Huai frowned: “I don’t know, but Song Qing did disappear for a period of time.”
Sun Jiamu sneered, temporarily losing his composure: “That’s a good emotion, but isn’t the child in her womb yours? Couldn’t you control yourself?”
Chu Huai interrupted him, his eyes completely cold: “It’s not my child.”
Liu Han couldn’t understand anymore, cold sweat streaming down his face.
“If it’s not yours, is it mine…” Sun Jiamu sneered, his face suddenly changing, and he exclaimed in shock: “Jade girl?!!”
Liu Han finally understood.
“She…” Liu Han turned his head to look at the haggard-looking Song Qing on the bed, licked his dry lips, and said with difficulty: “The one she’s pregnant with might be… the jade girl that we’ve been looking for so long?”
“The jade girl has been reincarnated…” Liu Han muttered, his hands trembling like a sieve.
Sun Jiamu was furious, pointing at Song Qing and shouting at the remaining people: “How could there be such an idiot?”
He looked up at Chu Huai: “I don’t believe you didn’t tell her not to touch or run around in the Little Guanyin Temple, but she… it turns out that newcomers all like to court death!”
Liu Han was also a newcomer. While Sun Jiamu was cursing Song Qing, he felt uncomfortable, but he didn’t have the qualifications to retort, so he could only hang his head and endure.
“Can you shut up for a moment?” Chu Huai sneered: “Is your IQ all gone to the dogs?”
“Is blaming others any use?” Sun Jiamu’s face turned alternately green and white from being scolded.
Liu Han continued to ask what he didn’t understand: “Big Brother Chu, you clearly went to Little Guanyin Temple yesterday morning, so why is Little Song already two months pregnant now?”
Chu Huai chuckled lightly: “To ensure that jade girl is born within the deadline of the instance.”
Liu Han’s face turned pale, his mind racing. Indeed, at the current rate, the child would be born on the sixth or seventh day at the latest.
“I have a troubling guess,” Chu Huai said calmly. “If the jade girl’s soul is nourished by the child’s soul, then what would she use to nurture herself once she’s born?”
“You guessed right, but there’s no reward,” Chu Huai said with a hint of humor.
Liu Han suddenly understood, and the answer horrified him – living humans.
Chu Huai added: “I just thought of it too, so we both overlooked another purpose of Little Guanyin controlling the villagers.”
Sun Jiamu woodenly spoke on his behalf, gritting his teeth: “To turn the villagers into food for the golden boy and jade girl.”
“Twins” is an exclusive instance, just like “Dark Marriage,” and one notable characteristic of exploration instances is that the difficulty increases over time. Chu Huai’s speculation perfectly matched this rule, so if the jade girl is truly born, the sixth or seventh day will turn Little Guanyin Village into a living hell.
Liu Han was scared out of his wits, and he turned to look at Song Qing, suddenly realizing, trembling as he spoke: “No wonder… no wonder she looks so emaciated after just one day…”
Chu Huai calmly said: “Have you watched ‘Twilight’?”
“The jade girl is like a little vampire, constantly draining Song Qing’s nutrition,” Chu Huai explained.
This is also the main reason why he suspected that the jade girl would feed on humans once she’s born. If the jade girl is born, they are doomed.
By then, that adorable child will grow up and devour them one by one.
Liu Han broke down slightly, looking at Chu Huai who seemed indifferent, and suddenly felt resentful as he asked: “How can you be so indifferent?”
Chu Huai calmly replied: “Because I don’t intend to let the jade girl be born.”
Liu Han was taken aback, then his face lit up with joy. “Right, how could I forget!” He slapped his forehead. “I’m so dumb, I forgot that abortion is an option.”
Sun Jiamu sneered and mocked Liu Han’s stupidity. “It’s easy to get pregnant, but if you want an abortion, you’ll have to wait until… unless…”
Liu Nan looked bewildered. “Unless what?”
Sun Jiamu laughed coldly. “Unless Song Qing dies.”
Liu Han suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.
“Sun Jiamu,” Liu Han asked anxiously: “how can you think like that…”
Sun Jiamu shrugged indifferently. “Do you think with her physical condition, she can survive giving birth to the jade girl? Most likely, she will die from physical exhaustion the moment the child is born. Even if there’s a very small chance of survival, she won’t be able to escape the fate of becoming the first nourishment for the jade girl.”
“Sun Jiamu, what you said is not wrong…” Liu Han panicked: “but, but…”
He felt Sun Jiamu’s reasoning was sound, but… how could they even consider doing such a thing?
Chu Huai looked coldly at Sun Jiamu. Zhou Yuan’s body was not even cold yet, and now they were planning to harm Song Qing.
“Now, there are only three of us left here. Let’s vote on whether to kill Song Qing,” Sun Jiamu said confidently, pressing for a show of hands.
He forced everyone to express their opinion.
Chu Huai could no longer bear it and suddenly lunged forward, fiercely grabbing Sun Jiamu by the neck and knocking over a chair to the side.
The situation changed in an instant, and Liu Han was completely panicked.
Chu Huai looked down at Sun Jiamu with a calm demeanor, speaking word by word: “I won’t stop you from killing Song Qing, but I can kill you first.”
Sun Jiamu had difficulty breathing, but he still retorted stubbornly: “What reasons do you have for not killing her? When did you become so foolish?”
Sun Jiamu Mu laughed provocatively and taunted: “Didn’t you say before that you wouldn’t let the Jade girl be born? So, you’re being hypocritical now? Don’t you also want to kill her?”
“My methods are different from yours,” Chu Huai said in a deep voice: “We can try to have the child surgically removed.”
“Are you stupid? If Song Qing dies, can’t her body still nourish the child? As long as the Jade girl doesn’t separate from the mother’s body, she can survive. The only way is to separate the Jade girl from the mother’s body,” Chu Huai’s words were resolute.
Sun Jiamu’s face turned red, knowing that Chu Huai was right, but he refused to admit it. He felt a chill in his heart. Was Chu Huai really smarter than him?
No, this couldn’t be!
Chu Huai had achieved his goal, and his grip loosened. It wasn’t the time to act impulsively now. There were still many things he needed to deal with, and he wasn’t good at fighting.
He had been possessed by a ghost for more than ten years and didn’t have the strength to fight Sun Jiamu. It would only result in mutual defeat, and losing his ability to act would be the most troublesome thing.
So he had to make a move to kill decisively. He needed to wait for an opportunity.
Sun Jiamu rubbed his neck, snorted coldly, and his eyes turned dark and sinister.
On the bed, Song Qing groaned and woke up.
“What… what happened to me?” Song Qing sat up, looking confused, then showed an apologetic expression: “I must have caused you trouble by being so tired…”
Liu Han hesitated, not knowing how to tell her about the cruel truth.
“I’ll explain,” Chu Huai said finally.
Sun Jiamu and Liu Han left the room.
As expected, Song Qing’s emotions were in extreme turmoil.
“Take your time to think about it, we still have time,” Chu Huai said as a final remark.
In the late afternoon, an unexpected event occurred.
Countless villagers, resembling zombies, began to gather at Zhou Yuan’s house where everyone was temporarily staying. Some of them were carrying shovels, some were carrying hoes, resembling a peasant uprising.
Chu Huai’s earlier prediction had become a reality – Sun Jiamu killing Zhou Yuan and his wife had disrupted Little Guanyin’s plan, infuriating her completely. She chose to besiege the group and intended to kill them.
Chu Huai was the first to notice that something was wrong and immediately went to inform Liu Han and Song Qing. He looked at the villagers who were surrounding the house and a doubt flashed through his mind.
Is Little Guanyin’s ability really limited to physical attacks only?
This scale of siege, although it posed great danger to them, was not necessarily fatal. They could escape if they hid. The crisis would be resolved as long as the villagers couldn’t find them.
The time limit for the instance was only seven days, and almost three days had passed, leaving only four days. A person could survive for four days without food or water.
So… is Little Guanyin’s ability gradually unlocking with the passage of time?
What comes next…
One day later, Song Qing’s small belly had already shown a noticeable curve.
Liu Han was timid and couldn’t bear to look at her belly, as if he could see a ghost inside through the thin skin, with its sharp fangs sucking Song Qing’s blood.
Song Qing looked even more haggard, with a hint of frost on her temples.
Chu Huai entrusted her to Liu Han, who was relatively reliable and went into the house to gather some necessary food and water.
Just as Sun Jiamu used a table and chair to block the front door, there was a loud bang, and the iron hammer smashed through the door.
The spikes on the wooden door pierced Sun Jiamu’s back, and his clothes were immediately soaked in blood. He screamed in pain, his eyes bloodshot.
Song Qing was extremely frightened, and Chu Huai shook her shoulder and said in a deep voice: “Listen, you are carrying the Jade girl. This is not entirely a bad thing. The Jade girl is like a talisman protecting you temporarily. These things won’t harm you at all. Hurry up and leave here, we will find you and regroup.”
Song Qing looked at him, her eyes flickering with a strange light.
Liu Han, seeing that Chu Huai was clearly about to escape, but then turned back, couldn’t help but be shocked: “Chu Huai, are you crazy?!”
Chu Huai rushed inside, weaving through the constantly flowing crowd, dodging attacks while searching. Finally, he spotted the cat that was being pushed back and couldn’t come over. Without hesitation, he pounced on it and hugged it.
Liu Han’s eyes widened, and she exclaimed: “Be careful!”
Chu Huai’s back was hit by an iron object, and he groaned softly. His fingertips turned slightly pale. He gritted his teeth and stood up, escaping with determination.
The little black cat he was holding kept meowing, with a long and soft tail sound, as if worried about him, the meow sounded a bit like crying.
With preparations made beforehand, they managed to successfully escape from Zhou Yuan’s house and temporarily rested in a secluded and uninhabited small house near the foot of the mountain.
Liu Han helped Chu Huai to treat his wounds quickly, and there were no major issues. Chu Huai found a secluded and damp stone to sit down on, and for the first time, he lit up a cigarette.
The cigarettes were Zhou Yuan’s. He had always smoked, but his body didn’t allow it.
He looked at the blue sky in the distance and the lush trees in front of him, feeling a bit exhausted.
Chu Huai touched the cat that was obediently lying on his leg, and smirked with lowered eyes: “Made you second-hand smoke.”
The cat remembered something, jumped up, and circled behind Chu Huai.
“What are you doing…” Chu Huai’s words choked in his throat as he felt a faint tingling sensation at the wound on his back.
“This damn…” Chu Huai helplessly brought the little creature back, but suddenly heard footsteps from behind.
Thinking it was the villagers coming, Chu Huai turned around, only to see Song Qing.
Song Qing approached, her expression somewhat strange, appearing unusually calm. She smiled at Chu Huai and said: “Actually, when I fainted this morning, I woke up after a short while, and I could hear everything you guys said.”
Chu Huai was surprised, not knowing what she meant.
“The guess from Sun’s surname is wrong: “Song Qing chuckled briefly, lowered her eyes, and calmly said: “If I give birth to the Jade girl, I wouldn’t die.”
“The Jade girl told me that if I give birth to her, I will become… Little Guanyin Goddess.”
And you believe that? Then you are either stupid or perhaps so desperate you’ve turned stupid. 🤷🏻♀️
Thanks for the chapter(s).
Everyone in this book (and I think everyone in real life) have their own sin, they should be tough people
Thank you for your translation 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
Why would she believe that. Didn’t she say that she actually wanted to die and accompany her twin? So how could she be desperate to live enough to believe this simple lie