Wen Dong, looking at the figure in front of him that appeared to be Gu Xuan, felt that he didn’t seem fake. He asked, “If we believe you are Gu Xuan, then tell us, what should we do? After leaving here, how do we survive?”
“I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you everything!” Gu Xuan, afraid of being abandoned by them, hurriedly said, “Follow what I just said, nail the simple paper figure in this world. They will replace us. All the entangled spirits will take the paper figures as us. When we go back, make a paper substitute, use our own blood to mark their features, light candles, and offer them paper money every day. Two drops of blood, and it can become our substitute, blocking all evil spirits. Moreover, we will benefit! I suddenly become rich, my academic performance improves, everything I want, I have. You all know that, right? In fact, all of it is what I asked from the paper substitute! I’m not lying to you!”
Upon hearing this, everyone wrinkled their brows uncomfortably.
Wen Dong asked, “What about other people? The other people in the school, and all the ghosts we can see now, what will happen to them?”
Gu Xuan broke down, “Why do you care about what they do? What does it have to do with us whether they live or die or go somewhere else? As long as we can save our own lives, that’s all that matters! Why bother about so much!”
At his words, everyone fell silent.
This Gu Xuan might be real, but he was even worse than a fake.
Gu Xuan was anxious. He looked at everyone and said, “Say something, please say something…”
In the end, he looked at Tong Xiaosong and said, “Tong Xiaosong, say something, say anything.”
Tong Xiaosong asked the question that had been in the back of his mind, “Why did you give me a copper basin?”
The copper basin was given by Zhi Xian, but he felt that Gu Xuan should also have an answer.
Zhi Xian said it was because he liked him, but he felt that it was not the case.
Gu Xuan was momentarily stunned.
“A copper basin? I gave you a copper basin?” His face instantly turned fierce, and he pounced towards Tong Xiaosong as if he had gone mad, but was once again stopped by Wu Mabo. He shouted, “So, it was you who took my copper basin! You broke my suppression! If the copper basin wasn’t lost! If the suppression wasn’t broken! I would still be enjoying everything right now! It’s you! It’s you, Tong Xiaosong!”
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Zhi Xian entangled him not because of Gu Xuan, nor because of any taming, but because of Zhi Xian himself.
Tong Xiaosong’s heart pounded like a spring shoot breaking through the soil, finally reaching the sunlight.
***
Wu Mabo and the others were well aware of the origin and details of the copper basin. Coupled with their analysis of various possibilities before, they had already figured out most of it.
Wu Mabo rebuked, “How dare you blame Tong Xiaosong? Weren’t you the one who constantly threatened him? On that day, you went to threaten Tong Xiaosong yourself, asking him to get the copper basin from your house! Acting like you’re something good, do you know how many times we wanted to kill you because of this hot potato!”
Gu Xuan retorted, “It wasn’t me!”
Wu Mabo sneered, intentionally provoking Gu Xuan, saying, “Who knows? You claim he’s not you, but right now, we still don’t know what kind of thing you are!”
This statement left Gu Xuan devastated, and he deflated instantly, saying, “I…”
He wanted to find evidence, murmuring as he thought, “What is he exactly? Where did he come from? Why does he want to harm me, and why does he look exactly like me…”
Wen Dong furrowed his brows, “Yes, why does he look exactly like you? He seems to know everything about you, and… since he’s not Gu Xuan, why is he so fond of Tong Xiaosong?”
Tong Xiaosong was taken aback.
Zhi Xian said he cried beautifully, that he was precious, and wanted to protect him.
“He also likes Tong Xiaosong?” Gu Xuan muttered, “Looks the same, not human, knows everything about me, likes Tong Xiaosong, broke the suppression, wants to replace me… No way… I think I know what he is!”
Everyone’s spirits lifted, looking at Gu Xuan.
Gu Xuan exclaimed, “He’s my paper substitute! He’s the paper substitute I worshipped! That’s why he looks exactly like me! But you must not trust him. The person who taught me to worship the paper substitute never said the paper substitute is alive! He must be some kind of messed-up ghost, maybe one of those people I killed two years ago…”
At this revelation, Wen Dong quickly seized the key point, “The people you killed?!”
Gu Xuan was startled, realizing he had let slip, hastily covering up, “Not killed by me, they were killed by the ghost game! Two years ago, I and my classmates played the ghost game, and then ghosts haunted us. They died one after another in accidents, and I was the only one who found a way to survive! It’s the method I mentioned earlier, worshipping the paper substitute. That’s the only way to stay alive!”
***
Two years ago.
Gu Xuan came into contact with Thai occultism and found a way to survive.
As long as he got close to infinite Yin, at the moment of Yin and Yang alternating, he could let the substitute stay in the Yin realm on his behalf, and he could escape and ascend.
He found a classmate to act as his substitute and descended into the Yin realm together, leaving the classmate as his life-extending substitute, forever staying there.
However, after a brief calm, the deceased came after him again. The deceased acting as his substitute had lingering resentment and wanted to drag him into hell.
Thinking that he had not succeeded, Gu Xuan repeatedly found classmates to act as substitutes.
Until the increasing number of deaths finally attracted attention, he was listed as a suspect, and he could no longer make covert moves.
He also learned a method to ward off evil spirits from Thailand, which involved worshipping a paper substitute. It not only blocked all evil spirits but also granted one’s heart’s desires.
But in Thailand, there was a warning: be careful with the worship, drip blood daily, or else the suppression would be broken, and one would face the wrath of countless ghosts.
From then on, life became calm. Money, fame, grades – everything he desired was easily within reach.
And all he needed to do was offer some negligible blood and worship.
Stepping on the bones of thirteen classmates, Gu Xuan obtained everything he desired.
Until one day, he encountered someone he couldn’t get – Tong Xiaosong.
A copper basin burned with ghost money, and smoke filled the air.
He tossed Tong Xiaosong’s photo into the fire, with a determined request: “I want to have him.”
A gust of evil wind seemed to come from nowhere, extinguishing the fire in the copper basin, and the burnt ghost money scattered everywhere.
However, this time, his unusual request was not fulfilled.
***
In front of everyone, Gu Xuan was still anxiously explaining, “I’m also a victim. I didn’t want to play the ghost game in the first place; they dragged me into it. I was just lucky not to die, and later, when I found a way, I was the only one left. I never wanted to harm them. Although I used extreme methods when pursuing Tong Xiaosong, it was because I liked him too much. Normally, I am a very generous person to my friends. After becoming wealthy, I never abandoned my friends!”
Wen Dong took a deep breath and looked at Tong Xiaosong, saying, “Tong Xiaosong, say something. You understand these two Gu Xuans better than we do, and you have more say in this matter.”
Everyone turned their gaze to Tong Xiaosong, but he hesitated.
Gu xuan is crazyyy. Something tells me that zhi xian is more than just a paper substitute 🤔
Ugh, Gu Xuan is such selfish scum!!! He deserves worse than being buried and stuck in the yin world/ghost realm or whatever you call it.