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[{Water A} has passed the identity of the [Ghost] to {Wood C}.]
When Ji Dong heard this news, he hurriedly looked down at his watch.
00:45:13.
He counted, nearly 14 minutes had passed. It was almost over time.
And from the titles, one was “water” and one was “wood”, so he assumed the two participants were not on the same team…
At that moment, he was walking through the garden, from the eastern side of the hall into the other courtyard.
When Ji Dong was a primary school student, he would occasionally read romance novels or martial arts novels and would often see mentions about several courtyards, but at that time, he had not understood how big the so-called “courtyards” could be. Only now that he saw the real thing, had he realized that there really were such large mansions that could casually accommodate hundreds of people. Just walking through them by foot would take half a day.
If this continued, several players may even be killed before Ji Xiao’niao could see the entire mansion.
——It seemed that he would have to risk dealing with the monsters in the house.
With this in mind, Ji Dong deliberately bypassed the crowded and lively places and headed deeper into the mansion.
His targets were the small demons who were left alone.
According to previous observations, Ji Xiao’niao had easily identified two main points.
The first was that the demons in this mansion had obvious differences in rank and status.
Like Steward She who threw a copper pot at him when he first entered the [Film], the Banshee who distributed rice flower candy to the little demons in the garden of the side yard, the head of the guard who chopped off the head of {Earth B}, and the handsome steward with the white face and beard, all belonged to the demon nest with some status.
As for the boys and girls like them, they were servants who could be dispatched at will.
According to the demon world’s law that only the strongest are respected, the lower the status of the demons, the more probable it was that they were only weak demons.
Ji Dong had to admit that his intentions were to pick the soft persimmons. When confronting the weak and small demons alone, in case he accidentally exposed himself when trying to pry information from them, he could still fight with enough force to subdue the other party.
The second point is that although the monsters of the house were familiar with each other, not everyone was popular and could be easily recognized.
This was evidenced by the fact that the red-skirted banshee apparently did not recognize him when he ventured to receive the rice krispies, and still gave him the candy without question.
So Ji Dong felt that as long as he had a reasonable identity in the mansion and spoke carefully enough, it was unlikely that he would reveal himself as a human.
After mentally building himself up, Ji Dong studied the various details he observed along the way in his mind, trying to find clues or any doubtful points, while keeping his head down and pretending to hurry through a waterside pavilion, to the depths of the courtyard.
Behind an unusually luxuriant wisteria flower plant was a small two-story lone building. On the edge of the courtyard wall of the small building sat two young girls, one wearing a light green luo skirt, and the other in a light purple half-sleeve, both with double-ringed buns and wisteria branches. They were shaking their fans and chatting idly.
——They are the only ones here!
Ji Dong flickered behind the wisteria flower plant, and held his breath before he sneakily approached the two girls. He pricked up his ears to eavesdrop on the conversation between them.
Soon, he heard the clues.
These two were assigned to serve “Empress Su”. “Empress Su” didn’t need to attend this evening’s banquet and was resting in the back of the building with her maidservants, who also had to stay and wait for orders at any time.
Apparently, both maids were very dissatisfied with this treatment and were complaining about how the other little demons were able to attend the banquet, but they were the ones serving the “Empress Su” and couldn’t go anywhere.
Ji Dong quickly understood the situation and felt that it was almost time, so he pulled his hair out of his bun, pulled his lapel loose, grabbed a handful of mud under the root of the wisteria tree, patted it on his body, and felt that he should look messy enough before walking around the tree in a half-arc and passed by the courtyard wall with a downcast look.
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“Hey, little brother.”
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“No…”
He shook his head pathetically and replied in a low voice.
“It’s me who did something wrong when I wasn’t careful…”
“Ayo, you got scolded, right!”
The appearance of the two little demons suggested they were only seventeen or eighteen years old. Seeing that Ji Xiao’niao was similar to their age and was so adorable with tears in his eyes that wouldn’t fall, they immediately asked him to sit down and talk. One of them even took out a handkerchief and handed it over, motioning him to wipe his face.
Ji Dong took the handkerchief and blew his nose casually on it.
“You look unfamiliar.”
A girl asked.
“What’s your name? Which yard are you from?”
——Here it is!
Ji Dong’s heart fluttered, but he gathered his courage and replied.
“My name is Ji, and I am under Steward She of the courtyard.”
When he mentioned “Steward She”, he lowered his eyes, pouted his mouth, and had a look on his face that said, “The baby is wronged, but the baby just doesn’t want to say it.”
Ji Xiao’niao’s clean and innocent disguise captivated the two girls.
“Aiya, I also heard that Steward She has a really bad-temper on a regular basis.”
The girl in purple comforted him.
“After all, it’s a demon who claims to have the blood of the Jiao clan. Of course, they’d be more arrogant. Just bear it!”
Ji Dong puffed out his cheeks, muffled silence.
“That’s right!”
The girl with the green lou dress also echoed.
“Anyway, it won’t be long before it’s Steward She’s turn to go out… Hey, aren’t there a lot of guests this time, maybe it’s time for him?”
Ji Dong’s heart jumped, and he looked up at the two girls.
“I guess, little brother, you haven’t been here long?”
The two girls laughed when they met Ji Dong’s eyes.
“You’ll get used to it after a long time.”
The girls smiled and said.
“Even if the new stewards are replaced, they are mostly the ones who love to show their prestige… We, who have not cultivated enough, will have to suffer!”
Ji Dong’s gaze flickered for a moment.
“So… We don’t know when it will be our turn?”
“Hahaha.”
The two girls laughed brittlely.
“Of course, the powerful large monsters will go out first this time! And there are sometimes poor little ones like you who know nothing and barge in hastily! I’m afraid there are more new demons than humans!”
Ji Dong nodded in frustration.
In fact, he was quickly sorting through the information he had just received from the two girls.
The purple-shirted girl looked at his downcast look and spoke again to comfort him.
“But this place is rich in spiritual energy and has the protection of the king, so it’s actually a good place for us little demons to cultivate…”
Saying this, her voice became lighter and softer. She raised her eyes, looked at the dark sky without stars and moon, and sighed faintly.
“Alas, but to put it bluntly, I still… want to go out ah…”
The girl in the green dress also felt a sense of sympathy.
“I shouldn’t have been coveting the strong spiritual energy here and broke in without authorization.”
Ji Dong: “……”
While he was listening carefully to the girls’ conversation, the soft and sticky boy’s voice came to his ears once again.
[{Wood C} passed on the identity of [Ghost] to, {Wood D}.]
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“13 minutes.”
At the same time, in the room on the second floor of the main hall, Fan Hemian and Fan Luming, two siblings, also heard the boy’s prompt together.
“Look at the number, it should be someone from the same team.”
Fan Hemian said, looking down at his watch – 00:57:44.
“It’s been less than an hour since the game started, and the [Ghost] identity has already been passed five times, and one person has died.”
The girl furrowed her brow and murmured.
“It’s too fast… At this rate, we should last at most five more hours before most of us will be wiped out.”
“All right, sister.”
Fan Luming reached out and pushed his own sister down on the bed couch.
“You seize the time to rest quickly, your injuries have not yet recovered.”
Just now, Fan Hemian chose a strong attack in order to hurry up and pass the identity of the [Ghost].
Fortunately, those three people were not the same minded companions, one of them saw her rushing over, immediately took advantage of the chaos, and slipped away, leaving the other two to fight with her head-on.
In terms of fighting level, Fan Hemian was better than two even if she fought against two.
However, one of her opponents’ powers was exactly the same as hers, although she finally won, she had also suffered a lot of injuries—her left upper arm was stabbed by a sharp blade and had left a penetrating wound, and the blood flowed like gurgling water.
At this point, Fan Hemian should be grateful that her brother was a healer so that she wouldn’t have to rely on one arm for the rest of the [Film].
“No!”
The girl got up from the bed with a grunt.
“There’s no time to waste!”
With a clenched fist, she used her uninjured hand to grab her brother’s shoulder, “Come on, we must find someone to join forces!”
Fan Luming lifted his head from under his sister’s arm.
“Looking for someone to join forces with? Who are you looking for?”
“Of course, whoever is the most powerful!”
Fan Hemian hooked up his lips, revealing a cold smile, “That person just now can beat our whole street just with their skill!”
Fan’s younger brother blinked, ” You mean, the musician downstairs who plays the Jiangnan Sizhu and wears a veil?”
He wrinkled his nose after seeing his sister nod.
“How can you be sure that he would be willing to join forces?”
Fan Luming said, “If he is really as powerful as you say, he could have killed all of us participants and left himself alone!”
“That man’s movement with his knife was so fast that I didn’t even see clearly what weapon he was using. He is so strong that I couldn’t even reach him. If he really intended to kill me, I would have died just then.”
Fan Hemian pointed to the thin bloodstain on her neck.
“Obviously, if he cut a little deeper, my throat would have been slashed, but he just chipped a strand of my hair as a warning…”
The girl paused.
“This means that he doesn’t even want to kill me… at least, not now.”
“I get it!”
Fan Luming’s eyes lit up.
“He has the ability to kill, but he does not want to kill—this means that he may have companions who he wants to bring out of this [Film] together, so he will not give priority to relying on killing to get through, is that what it means?”
Fan Hemian nodded.
“Since our goals are the same, we might be able to cooperate as well…”v
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