Liu Han helped tie the village chief’s hands together.
The village chief was terrified: “Who are you? What are you going to do to me…?”
Before he could finish speaking, Chu Huai impatiently picked up a dishcloth from the table and stuffed it into the village chief’s mouth.
The village chief widened his eyes and made muffled “mm” sounds.
Liu Han asked: “What should we do now?”
“What about him?” he pointed to the village chief.
The village chief’s heart was in his throat. Whether he lived or died was now entirely in the hands of the person before him.
Chu Huai said meaningfully: “He still has a use.”
“Liu Han, do me a favor.”
“Anything, Chu Huai,” Liu Han replied.
Chu Huai needed to confirm his suspicions, so he said: “You need to go down the mountain immediately and go to the Little Guanyin Temple. Look at the book in front of the statue of the Jade Girl and check the numbers. I’ll wait for you here.”
Liu Han hesitated for a moment but nodded heavily in the end.
He rode the village chief’s donkey and came back before dawn.
Chu Huai looked back and saw that Liu Han’s face was pale and anxious, and his heart sank.
Liu Han rushed in, stuttering with urgency: “Chu Huai, the book…there was no name on it…”
Chu Huai finished his sentence for him: “Not even one name?”
Liu Han nodded vigorously, at a loss for what to do. “How could this be?”
He saw that Chu Huai was not surprised in the slightest, and asked: “Chu Huai, did you already know?”
Chu Huai explained: “Zhou Yuan and his wife were killed by Sun Jiamu, and Jin Tong cannot get the 999th male infant’s soul, so he cannot be born yet. The Jade Girl was killed when she was born and was extremely fragile, but she didn’t actually die.”
“Not dead?!” Liu Han was shocked. Had everything they had done before been in vain?
Chu Huai raised an eyebrow: “How could a ghost die? The blank book just proves that the conditions for the Jade Girl to be born… have been refreshed.”
“Refreshed?” Liu Han repeated these two words in a daze and then came back to himself. “So, the conditions for the Jade Girl to be born now are…to devour another 999 female infant souls?”
“Yes,” Chu Huai confirmed.
Being able to hold a flawless pearl of the night, Little Guanyin must have been extremely wealthy or influential in her life.
From the statue in the Little Guanyin Temple and the village chief’s description, Little Guanyin had died at the young age of around 20. She was pregnant with twins and was likely to have been harmed and died a violent death. Even if she was sealed in a coffin and buried for hundreds of years, her spirit lingered here, dormant. She was now waiting for the right conditions to be met to be born again.
A century has passed in a flash, and she has become powerful and finally waited for an opportunity.
Under her lingering resentment, the villagers near the Little Guanyin village no longer get pregnant. At the same time, she knows the ugliness of human nature very well. Using the buried gold and jade as bait, she entices the villagers to dig the land, allowing her tomb to see the light of day again.
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She was like a devil imprisoned and finally released by greedy villagers.
All of Little Guanyin’s efforts were to allow her two children to be born again. Therefore, after the Jade Girl was killed, the curse entered a dead cycle, and the book started counting again.
To end all of this, it must be rooted out.
Chu Huai lifted the skinny village chief and said: “Take us to the location of Little Guanyin’s tomb.”
The village chief knew what was good for him and nodded desperately.
When they arrived at their destination, Chu Huai was taken aback, then laughed. He should have thought of it.
The tree in front of him was clearly the one he had hidden behind when he encountered the Jade Girl that day. So Little Guanyin’s tomb was actually located where the villagers buried the corpses of newborn babies.
Chu Huai crouched down to take a closer look. The soil under his feet was red as if soaked with blood, moist and fertile.
Liu Han didn’t pay attention to where he was stepping and stumbled. He barely stood firm and looked down, instantly scared out of his wits.
There was a baby’s skull embedded in the ground, emitting a pale light.
“Chu Huai, look at this…” Liu Han pointed to the skull, shivering as he approached Chu Huai.
Chu Huai pondered.
For over thirty years, nearly two thousand babies had been buried here. Their souls were consumed by the Golden Boy and Jade Girl, while their blood and energy nourished the land, helping to enhance Little Guanyin’s abilities.
Chu Huai never thought that the place where Little Black Cat brought him on the first day of entering the instance would be the root cause. They wandered around but eventually returned here.
Little Guanyin’s tomb was down there.
Chu Huai quickly used a shovel to remove the surface layer of soil that covered the stolen hole.
Liu Han leaned over to take a look, but the hole was pitch-black. He was afraid that something would suddenly rush out from below and pull him in.
The village chief behind them had his eyes rolling around, and although his hands were tied, he could still move.
The village chief lowered his steps and gradually approached Chu Huai and Liu Han, who were focused on looking into the thief hole without lifting their heads.
He was delighted to think about how he had control over the entire village, and if someone wanted to go against him, they would just end up like these two, tired of living.
The village chief was about to push Chu Huai into the thief hole when Chu Huai, who had already noticed his movements, easily evaded him with Liu Han and moved to the side.
The village chief made a huge movement and suddenly lost his point of support. He rushed forward, slipped under his feet, and was about to fall into the thief hole, looking terrified.
Chu Huai smiled gently and kicked the village chief.
The village chief fell into the hole.
“Ah!!!”
The village chief’s miserable screams echoed from deep within the thief hole, sounding like they came from hell. It reverberated for a long time, causing people’s eardrums to ache.
Liu Han was stunned and only mechanically turned to look at Chu Huai, hesitantly saying: “Brother Chu, you… this is too ruthless.”
He had thought that Chu Huai, being kind-hearted, would not have the heart to harm the village chief, so he was indignant. Now he realized that he was thinking too much.
“Take this,” Chu Huai handed him a shovel and took one for himself, squatting down.
Liu Han took it and asked in a daze: “What are we doing?”
Chu Huai’s lips curled up, he shoveled a scoop of dirt and poured it into the hole. “Learn something. This is called adding insult to injury.”
Liu Han: “…”
After shoveling for a while, the sun was about to rise. Liu Han couldn’t help but look around anxiously: “The commotion just now was so loud. What if nearby villagers heard it and come over?”
“It’s okay. I’ll go down later…” Chu Huai tied the rope to the tree and pulled it hard a few times to test its firmness, casually saying: “I’m here to kill, among other things.”
Liu Han exclaimed: “What? You want to go in?”
“Otherwise, why did I come?” Chu Huai paused, then smiled: “There’s also Little Guanyin down there!”
Liu Han was almost in tears: “But how can we leave later?”
Chu Huai squatted down and raised an eyebrow at him: “Do you want to go home later?”
Earlier, he had learned that Liu Han only needed to complete one instance to leave the world and return to reality.
Liu Han was stunned, the shovel in his hand fell into the hole.
It was only the sixth morning, but Brother Chu said he could go home later…
Liu Han’s eyes turned red in an instant. He really wanted to go home.
Liu Han lowered his head to conceal his emotions and said with difficulty: “When you say ‘later,’ do you mean…”
Chu Huai smiled: “Half an hour? That should be enough.”
Chu Huai couldn’t help but picture Jin Tianyi’s figure in his mind, he lowered his head and laughed uncontrollably.
Liu Han gritted her teeth and made up her mind: “I’ll go down with you!”
Chu Huai was stunned for a second, then smiled: “What are you going down for? You just said it yourself, if any villagers come, it will be dangerous for us both to be in the cave. I don’t want to be buried alive, so you have to stay up here and keep watch.”
Liu Han stubbornly shook his head: “You will be in more danger down there, after all, there are ghosts. If I go down with you, you’ll have a helper.”
“Well…” Chu Huai shrugged helplessly. “I’ll be honest with you.”
Liu Han was puzzled: “What?”
Chu Huai pointed to the small black cat squatting at his feet, looking up at him with sparkling eyes. “I just want you to watch over… it.”
Liu Han fell silent for a moment. “Brother, you really put me in an awkward position.”
Chu Huai tied the rope around his waist. “I’m seven years younger than you, thank you very much.”
Liu Han couldn’t believe it. “I’ve been calling you for a whole dungeon, and now you’re telling me this?!”
Chu Huai laughed and handed the cat over to Liu Han, patting its fluffy head. “Be good, don’t run around.”
The small black cat tilted its head and quietly stayed in Liu Han’s hands, softly meowing.
“I’ll take that as a yes. You’re so good,” Chu Huai leaned in and kissed the cat on the forehead.
If he could come out of the cave alive, he would successfully complete the dungeon and leave. However, he was really reluctant to leave the little fellow behind.
The little black cat stared at his moist lips for a while, then suddenly lowered its head and covered its face with its paws, as if trying to hide its embarrassment.
“Are you shy?” Chu Huai laughed instantly. “Cats can be gay too? I thought it was only humans.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he realized what he had said and blushed for a second, burying his head.
The little black cat reached out to touch his slender and thick long eyelashes with its paws.
Chu Huai held the paw and said to Liu Han: “I’m going down first.”
Liu Han nodded.
Chu Huai climbed into the thief hole using the rope while Liu Han held Chu Huai’s cat at the entrance, watching anxiously.
Chu Huai had entrusted his life to himself. They had only known each other for five days, but he trusted him so much.
If it were someone else who bore him a grudge, they might take advantage of this opportunity to fill the hole and Chu Huai would be doomed.
“Aren’t you afraid of dying?” Liu Han couldn’t help asking.
Chu Huai paused, looked up at him with a smile in the pitch-black hole, and said: “Little Guanyin? She’s quite afraid.”
Liu Han: “……”
“Keep an eye on my cat!” Chu Huai reminded again, his eyes never leaving the furry cat’s head on Liu Han’s chest.
Liu Han: “……Got it.”
Just as Chu Huai was about to land and could no longer see Liu Han’s face at the entrance, the little black cat suddenly struggled out of Liu Han’s arms and wriggled out like an eel. Liu Han couldn’t grab it and could only feel it slipping away like a slippery fish.
“Don’t run!” Liu Han remembered Chu Huai’s instructions and panicked completely.
The little guy hooked its front paws onto the rope and skillfully slid down like a slide.
“Chu Huai, your cat went down!”
Chu Huai had just landed and couldn’t hear clearly: “What did you say?”
What answered him was a lump of black things that suddenly appeared in his hand and a pair of gray-blue eyes that gleamed in the darkness.
Hubby is here to that ghosts can be gay as well
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THIS ML ACTING AS A CAT IS TOO HILARIOUS LOL
Thank you for the wonderful translation 💙
Ahahahahah I feel like our ml has better hope this little disguise of his never comes to light, otherwise I don’t know who will be most embarrassed 😂
Liu Han is lucky to only have one instance and to be able to ride mc’s wind.
Aiya their stickiness is adorable 😆