Chapter 126: [Harboring a Ghostly Secret] Resurrection
Xu Shengsheng immediately nodded vigorously.
“Right! So it’s so strange! Or could it be that the grandmother is also helpless?”
Bai Cha said, “This isn’t certain for now, let’s put it aside. Keep your thoughts, but don’t be limited by them.”
Then she talked about the situation at the temple.
“Scratch marks? Could it be that Ji Xiaolan was locked up?”
Xu Shengsheng’s reaction was the same as Wang Jiangtao’s and the others’ first reaction.
“List a few more possibilities. Besides Ji Xiaolan, who else could it be?”
“Her fiancé? Anyone else? Or both?”
Bai Cha pondered for a moment and wrote, “My guess is that many people have been locked up. It shouldn’t be just one or two. The marks there were very messy, and as I told you, there were both new and old marks.”
Moreover…
“That was under the temple’s table. It’s not a place for locking people up, but why lock people there?”
Xu Shengsheng scratched her head.
“Because… sacrifice?”
That was the only thing she could think of.
“Could it be that Ji Xiaolan is going to be sacrificed?”
Xu Shengsheng’s eyes widened at this possibility.
“It’s possible.”
Just as Bai Cha quickly finished writing these three words, all the players received a notification sound.
[Congratulations to the players, the current plot progress has reached 25%. Please keep up the good work!]
The players outside were all stunned.
Bai Cha calmly tore off the entire page, burned it to ashes, and then swept the ashes under the bed.
Xu Shengsheng was a little excited.
Bai Cha whispered in her ear, “Just pretend you don’t know, and never think you’re absolutely right. Adjust at any time. But you also can’t completely distrust your own judgment. You need to strike a balance.”
Xu Shengsheng suppressed her feelings and nodded.
“Get some sleep, it’s almost dawn,” Bai Cha said softly.
It was indeed almost dawn, but the sky was very gloomy.
At seven in the morning, it was still dim outside, but at least they could see things.
The players felt hunger in their stomachs.
Each person had a bag of compressed biscuits and a bottle of water in their backpack.
If they calculated based on clearing the instance before the wedding, there were still three days, exactly six biscuits, two per day.
Barely enough to fill their stomachs.
But the game being so thoughtful also clearly indicated that the food and water in this instance were likely problematic.
So… Bai Cha very unhygienically didn’t even wash her face or brush her teeth.
Xu Shengsheng touched her face. Seeing that her older sister hadn’t washed up, she simply decided against it as well.
They were already in a game, why be so fussy?
Compared to cleaning up, saving that bottle of water for drinking was the most important thing.
When they went outside, all the players in the living room were gathered.
Wang Yan was also there.
Bai Cha looked at Wang Yan with slight surprise.
Wang Jiangtao and Zhang Feng, standing to the side, were also frequently glancing at him.
Last night, the three of them had personally witnessed him die.
But now he was sitting there perfectly fine.
Well, not exactly perfectly fine. He looked a bit strange, as if he had just washed his face, with even the hair on his forehead still a bit wet and the water on his face not wiped off.
His complexion looked a bit pale, and his expression was gloomy.
The players who knew he had died last night all found him a bit odd.
Xu Shengsheng also knew from Bai Cha that Wang Yan was already dead, and she tugged on her older sister’s arm.
Bai Cha patted her hand.
Gao Wei was alright, it was just that the injury on his leg hadn’t healed yet.
“Since everyone’s here, shall we go to Ji Xiaolan’s house?” Gao Wei suggested.
“Everyone went out more or less last night, right?” Du Wen said.
He was the male player who had been talking to Jin Qiao yesterday.
“The system prompted us that the quest progress has reached 25%. Someone must have found some crucial information. At this stage of the game, should we share it?”
The others looked at each other. No one raised any objections, but no one explicitly agreed either.
Jin Qiao looked around at everyone and pointed her finger at the female player who lived with her.
“Then you talk first. I saw you hiding under the covers as soon as you came back last night. There must be something!”
Her tone was as unpleasant as ever.
“I didn’t go out,” Xia Mei, the female player with a very low presence, said softly, “I stayed in the room the whole time.”
“Then why didn’t I see you when I returned to the room? What did you go out to do?” Jin Qiao asked rudely.
Hearing her words, Xia Mei pursed her lips and lowered her head even further.
“I… I have a skill that allows me to sense ghostly things. Yesterday, I originally wanted to go to the toilet, but I felt something…”
Her voice was very soft and she spoke slowly.
Jin Qiao rolled her eyes.
“Can you just get to the point? So much nonsense, and your voice is so soft! Even a mosquito is louder than you!”
Xia Mei nervously clutched the hem of her clothes.
“S-sorry…”
Bai Cha grew impatient.
Seeing that Jin Qiao was about to attack again, she said directly, “Who’s talking the most nonsense here?”
Jin Qiao glared, obviously unconvinced.
But at this moment, the other players were also very annoyed and told her to shut up one after another. Only then did she hold back her anger and remain silent.
Xia Mei finally continued, “Well… I subconsciously looked over and saw a person lying on the courtyard wall.”
As she mentioned this, she nervously kept picking at her clothes with some fear.
“It was a child… but very scary… like porcelain. I was startled and was about to go inside to call someone, but then I found that the child had disappeared.”
Xu Shengsheng looked at Xia Mei thoughtfully.
Was this what her sister meant by facing things even when you’re scared?
“The first time I saw it, that child even smiled at me.”
Xia Mei was really quite frightened.
Especially the texture of that child, like a porcelain doll.
“How did a child appear?”
Everyone felt a bit puzzled.
“How old would you say that child was?”
“Maybe five or six?” Xia Mei wasn’t sure.
“I think we should go to Ji Xiaolan’s courtyard first. Let’s not waste time here. We don’t have much time to begin with.”
Gao Wei stood up.
Several other players also got up. Seeing this, Du Wen shrugged and said nothing more.
His gaze swept over the group.
When the notification sound rang yesterday, several people were still outside, and Gao Wei was one of them.
“Huh?” Wang Jiangtao suddenly stopped, staring at his chat window.
Everyone’s attention instinctively fell on him.
“What’s wrong?”
“Uh… it’s nothing to do with us. It’s just that my chat is saying Shen Qingchen, you guys know her, right? She cleared an instance and leveled up to S9.”
Wang Jiangtao scratched his head. This matter indeed had nothing to do with the current instance. But because Shen Qingchen was ranked first, there was a lot of discussion in the chat.
Bai Cha raised her eyebrows slightly.
The other players showed even more surprise.
Only Xu Shengsheng didn’t know who Shen Qingchen was.
But Bai Cha pulled her and took the opportunity to give her a look.
Xu Shengsheng understood and also showed a surprised expression.
For the time being, no one noticed that Xu Shengsheng was a newbie, so it was better not to reveal it.
“S9… can she leave the game now?” A group of players were somewhat emotional, even though they knew it had nothing to do with their current instance.
“Who knows? Let’s focus on staying alive first.”
