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——Turns out that this “big Emperor” is an enormous monster with a lustful heart?!
Ji Dong’s brain subconsciously thought of the time when he watched the Journey to the West as a child, the group of goblins who bullied men and women all day long, they still dreamt about becoming immortal like Tang Sanzang.
When he pondered how to voice out his thoughts to find out the details of this “Emperor”, his ears rang again from the soft, nasal voice of the boy.
[Objective failed. {Wood A} failed to pass the identity of the [Ghost] to another player within 15 minutes. Engage immediate execution.]
Ji Dong’s heart jumped.
This was the news he didn’t want to hear right now.
In this case, there were only ten participants left.
And what was even more frightening, after a quarter of an hour, another random person would be forcibly chosen to be the [Ghost], not only him but Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen were at risk of becoming one of them.
Sure enough, the boy said again.
[Because the [Ghost] has died, I will pick one of you at random in a quarter of an hour, as the new [Ghost].]
Ji Dong looked down at his watch.
The time displayed was 01:20:13.
Barely half an hour had elapsed in the second hour after the game began.
He didn’t even have the time to stay still.
So far, although what the two girls said about the mansion were true, these bits and pieces of information he heard were far from enough. It was insufficient and too scattered, like pieces of a fragmented puzzle. Numerous pieces were missing. Thus, it was challenging to put together a complete outline.
The game of hide-and-seek between the participants was still in progress, and people were dying in places he couldn’t see, leaving them with even less time…
——They can’t go on like this!
Ji Dong was secretly gritting his teeth.
——He needs to speed up the investigation!
Just as he was thinking about what he should do next, he suddenly saw a group of demons dressed as court guards, with swords at their waists and torches in their hands, arranged in an irregular formation, heading in their direction.
The cold sweat on Ji Dong’s back came down with a “swoosh.” His feet instinctively flexed, almost wanting to jump up and quickly slip away.
But the next second, he restrained himself from the impulse to escape.
Anyone who watched criminal investigation films knew that those who ran away when they saw the police were guilty of doing an unlawful act and telling the officials that there was something wrong with them.
So Ji Dong forced himself to remain calm, sat next to the wall, and waited for the team of court guards to approach. He and the two girls next to him stood up in fear and stood in line.
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Ji Dong also hurriedly put on an appearance of not knowing anything, shaking his head like a rattle.
“Lord, Lord Huang…”
The girl in the purple dress was a bit bolder and looked like she knew the leader of the group, so she spoke up and asked.
“What’s going on?”
The leader called “Lord Huang” gave them a condescending look with contempt and mistrust and reluctantly answered the girl’s question.
“We found blood belonging to humans in the courtyard, so there should be humans mixed in.”
“What?!”
The two girls exclaimed in unison.
“There— there are humans mixed in?”
Ji Dong: “……”
As a human, he was in a panicked state, but he still had to put on a look of shock and excitement, which was also a test of his acting skills.
“Uh-huh.”
Lord Huang swept his gaze over several people and ordered in a stern voice, “If you find any suspicious person, you need to report to us immediately, got it?”
The three people immediately nodded their heads like bobblehead dolls.
The leader finished his orders, waved his hand, and went to patrol elsewhere with his men.
As he was leaving, he suddenly turned his head and stared at Ji Dong with a gleaming gaze.
“Hey, you kid!”
Lord Huang shouted coldly.
“Look at you in this outfit! You are from Steward She’s side of the back hall, right? Why are you lazing around here? Don’t you have to serve in front?!”
“Yes, yes, yes!”
Ji Dong nodded his head and bowed down.
“I’ll leave now! I’ll leave now!”
After saying that, he bowed his body. And just like a cat whose tail was on fire, he leaped out in a flash.
—————————
After leaving the courtyard, where the Wisteria flowers were planted, Ji Dong first searched for a remote wall. He cut a twig with a knife, mixed the mud with the moss from the wall, blended some “ink,” and wrote a message to Mr. Dagen on a piece of ripped window paper, and then returned to the main hall with it in his pocket.
Before he reached the main door, he could already hear the sound of playfulness and clamor mixed in with the Jiangnan Sizhu inside.
With his head bowed, Ji Dong quickly passed by the five groups of figures of “Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth”.
This time, he noticed not only the two earthen dolls on the leftmost side were broken into pieces, even the two wooden masks hanging on the dead tree had fallen to the ground at some point. They splitted into two symmetrical halves, along the middle seam from the forehead to the chin.
And the other two masks still hanging on the branches also showed apparent changes—a deep gap was split in their left eye, as if someone made a scratched mark on it with a knife.
——So that’s it!
Ji Dong came to a sudden realization.
In order to confirm his guess, he also took the opportunity to pass through the rockery spring landscape in the middle to carefully observe the blue, crystal-carved figurines of the boy and girl in the pool.
Sure enough, the girl’s left eye was also cracked open at a slit.
Now, Ji Dong was almost one hundred percent sure that this line of figures outside the main hall was the hint from the[Peach Blossom Spring] to all the players.
If anyone died in this [Film] the statue would be destroyed, and whenever any one of them became a [Ghost], one of the eyes of the statue would be cracked open, symbolizing that they have used up their chance.
After thinking everything through, Ji Dong quickly went to the three brass soldiers representing their “Gold” group and slipped the small piece of paper in his hand into the clenched fist of one of the soldiers hanging at his side.
He didn’t find a message already placed in any of the brass men, so he guessed Mr. Dagen had not yet returned here.
Once done, the fifteen-minute buffer period expired.
Once again, Ji Dong heard the soft and sticky voice of the youth in his ear.
[The game begins again. The new [Ghost] has been born!]
——Good! This time is also SAFE!
Ji Dong silently clenched his fist hard.
But every time a new [Ghost] was chosen, the youthful voice would only tell them that the game was starting again but didn’t say from which element was the new [Ghost]. So Ji Xiao’niao also had no way to determine the identity of Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen before being reassured that the two were safe and sound. Nonetheless, he still felt very anxious.
He collected his thoughts, gathered his courage, stepped over the threshold, and walked into the lobby.
The banquet had already reached its climax.
Ji Dong felt that what he saw and heard at this time, with the words “the hordes of devils dancing“ described, was more appropriate.
At the banquet, those captivating dancers, with their exquisite figures and enchanting postures, have already taken off their flimsy veils, revealing their white arms and long legs. They leaped onto the table, and danced between the cups, plates, and bottles. Their postures were light as if they were feathers.
The maids and boys were tapping on the trays and bowls, echoing the increasingly rapid and boisterous music, singing and chanting songs.
Looking at the guests in the room again…
Ji Dong couldn’t help but gasp.
Those bandits, who were originally scrawny and battered and exhausted, their original appearance disappeared.
Their size had unknowingly swelled two or three times. It was like a mountain of meat huddled on the table. Their limbs were thick, their bellies were stacked, and their faces were crammed with fat, distorting their face shape, so he could hardly see the original contour of their facial features.
However, these people didn’t seem to notice the changes in themselves and their companions.
They opened their mouths and laughed. While enthusiastically enjoying the songs and dancers, they were still reaching out toward the food on the table and wolfing it down into their mouths. The gorgeous waitresses beside them kept handing out and pouring wine into the guests’ mouths.
Looking at the guests eating, Ji Dong couldn’t help but think of the word “stuffed duck“.
“Hey, what took you so long to come back!”
Ji Dong followed the sound and found that it was the duck demon who saw him from afar and ran straight over. Without saying a word, it took his arm and dragged him towards the crowd, “Hurry! Hurry! It’s about to start!”
——What’s going to start?
Ji Xiao’niao was very confused.
However, before he could react, he was already dragged to the center of the banquet hall by the little duck and squeezed into the crowd of boys.
It turned out that it was their turn to dance.
——?!
Ji Dong was devastated.
He didn’t know how to dance at all, so he could only imitate the movements of the others, raising his arms and kicking his legs haphazardly, like a broken puppet on a string, twirling around blindly.
But the good thing was that, at this time, no demon cared how they actually danced.
It was as if everyone was recklessly amped-up in stimulants, continuously clapping and laughing in delight. A crowd of maidservants seemed especially giddy; they got up one after the other during their own banquet and fluttered in like young swallows returning to the forest, instantly dispersing the already disordered formation of the servant boys in every which way.
The entire banquet hall was brimming with people dancing randomly to the sound of music. And as far as the eye could see, were multitudes of flamboyant hemlines fluttering and swaying sleeves everywhere.
Ji Dong mixed in the monsters, just felt like his eyes were going to go blurry from looking at their quick movements.
But he still maintained a bright smile, as if he was deeply involved in the dance while moving to the periphery of the banquet, trying to find a chance to slip away.
At that moment, a hand came out from his side and went straight to his back.
——!!
No matter how bad he was when it came to fighting, Ji Dong had been practicing close combat with the combat training robot in the [Peach Blossom Spring] for more than half a month.
And he had always been tense and alert to the [Ghosts] that may appear at any time.
Therefore, when the opponent’s fingertips were about half a centimeter away from touching the back of his waist, he turned sideways and narrowly avoided it.
Then, Ji Dong reached out, he locked down that arm and slammed upward with his shoulder. Using the momentum of bending down his back and pushing up with his shoulder, he lifted the person attacking him from behind completely off the ground and threw them!
Good job my boy 🤣
It’d be funny if it was teacher Dagen or JRM 😂
I’m just imagining the kingdom dance from tangled and then sudden action music –