When A Destructive Wolf Joins An Escape Game

Chapter 8 - Mourning Vigil

There was no solution to this question, it was obvious.

The inverted ghost couldn’t help but feel sad, but for the sake of his life, he could only bite the bullet and get around Gu Mozhi. He deliberately took a detour from the farthest route to stay as far as possible from Gu Mozhi.

However, it was pointless.

Gu Mozhi stood by the door and no matter how careful he was when he went out, he still had to pass by him. And this short second of contact allowed Gu Mozhi to succeed smoothly.

The players who had been watching nervously on the side suddenly saw Gu Mozhi doing something, as if he had grabbed something from the ghost. For a moment the players thought they were dazzled. In particular, Gu Mozhi held the bead with a straight face, as if he hadn’t done something shady, which made everyone think that they had seen it wrong.

The inverted ghost trembled and stopped talking, but didn’t dare to let Gu Mozhi return his beads. In the end, he had to leave with a look of aggrieve, “walking” slowly, like an old man in his twilight years who had been hit hard.

When everyone heard the heavy “thud”, they only felt pain in their scalp.

This night, the same as last night, no moths appeared again in the second half of the night.

As soon as dawn broke the next day, everyone hurriedly went out. Because of yesterday’s incident, no one dared to stay in the mourning hall. Only Gu Mozhi, as usual, took the little girl to sleep. Before going to bed, he threw the ghost beads he got last night into his mouth, chewed it slowly, and swallowed it down.

Jian Linglong looked greedy and envious.

Gu Mozhi asked with malicious intent: “Want to eat?”

The young girl nodded her head.

Gu Mozhi extended his hand, rubbed her head, and spoke with earnest thoughts, “If you want to eat, go and grab it yourself, have ample food and clothing by yourself.”

“……”

She wanted to take the ration from her teacher’s mouth, but there was a long way to go. Jian Linglong realized that it was impossible for her unreliable teacher to cede food to her, and it would be better for her to give up this naive extravagant hope as soon as possible.

Well, next time, she must be the first to get the ghost bead!

During the day, everyone finally gained something in the town. Although the gains weren’t much, it was better than not asking anything all day. Perhaps the townspeople had gradually accepted them, so they told them a lot of things about the dead person in the mourning hall.

In the evening, everyone gathered together to exchange information.

At this moment, no fool would conceal information, after all, they still understand that they have a few catties.1 It was foolish not to hug the coarse thighs of pink head2. Instead of guessing by themselves, they might as well tell them all the news and let them analyze it.

There were big shots 3, no need to be in vain. So why bother to guess by yourself?

On the contrary, some players thought that if they could “solve the puzzles” alone, there might be some generous rewards after clearing the level. But one could only think about it day-dreamingly, now they couldn’t protect themselves. It would be nice to be able to clear the customs alive. What do they need a bike for?4

However, Gu Mozhi obviously had no interest in solving puzzles. He leaned in the corner and was sleepy, leaving the three to discuss the background story there. They agreed that this story should give them some hints and be helpful to the “final battle”.

Judging from the current situation, there shouldn’t be a need to worry too much in the first six days. As long as they had the courage to help those guests to finish the incense, they could live safely until the last day. The main thing was that the soul of the deceased would return home for the first seven days, and they might need to deal with the dead.

The deceased was not a guest, and of course he couldn’t be entertained in a way the guests were deceived this night. Therefore, if they want to live until the level’s clearance in peace, they must use more brains.

“But there is too little information.” Jian Linglong looked distressed.

The townspeople only said that there was only this widow and lonely old man left in this house. After the old man died, he didn’t even have any children or grandchildren who dropped their flower pots and mourned his death. The old man didn’t have any abilities during his lifetime, and he had been sitting and eating mountain air, living on his previous savings. Apart from being very skinny, he was no different from many old people in the town. He smokes and drinks. From time to time, he walks around the town with his hands behind his back to join in the fun. He also likes to hold a shelf to reprimand the leather children passing by.

The female college student joked: “Or else burn him some tobacco and wine?”

“Smoke is fine, how will the wine burn? Once burned, it catches fire.” Pink head was speechless.

“Eh,5 I said that without thinking it through.”

After gagging and waiting until dark, everyone shut up. It was time to choose the night’s vigilante again. This time, Pink Head was no longer stupid, it was an arduous and thankless task to take the initiative, so it was better to leave them alone. These groups of people could do whatever they wanted, and could manage themselves.

After yesterday’s events, they thought that these players would be guilty of choosing the option of returning back to sleep. After all, the fact that they were nearly killed yesterday was still vivid. If it wasn’t for Gu Mozhi who had enough watching the scene and stopped the ghost afterwards, there would definitely be casualties among them.

Although no one died now, there were still players who got a lot of bruises and small wounds under various bumps, but no one seemed to care about these at the moment.

However, after waiting for a long time, Pink Head didn’t see anyone who offered to go back to the room to sleep, let alone urge them to decide on the vigilante for the night. This shows that they still decided to stay in the mourning hall, even if it was dangerous.

“What were they thinking? “Pink Head frowned.

The female college student shook her head helplessly: “Don’t you think, if they go back to the room and sleep, and halfway through their sleep an inverted ghost hits them, won’t they die? At any rate, it is possible to determine when the ghost will arrive, and you can rest assured that the ghost will be sent away. It’s not so simple in the room. No one knows when the ghost will choose to visit.” 6

Gu Mozhi guessed that there would be no danger after falling asleep, but this was only just a guess. In this group of people, there was no fool enough to take his own life to verify this guess, so the safest choice was to stay in the mourning hall. In case any danger arises, they can avoid it as soon as possible.

There was nothing else in this group of players, but when it was related to their vital interests, they rarely make stupid choices.

“Forget it, leave them alone. ” Pink Head snorted coldly.

Everything after that seemed to be a repetition of the previous two nights, and the system announced that everyone would hold the vigil together as usual. This time everyone knew that ghosts would only come at two or three o’clock in the morning, so those with a little more courage went straight to bed first.

Anyway, every time the ghost appears, there will be a noise reminder, otherwise there will be other players to wake people up. They took a nap to nourish their spirits without delay.

They haven’t slept much these past two nights, and if they don’t rest again, they won’t be able to hold up.

In the dead of night, the guests arrived as expected.

“Da, da, da.”7 The collision of wooden blocks and stone slabs made a crisp sound, and someone slowly approached.

Jian Linglong was already very proficient. She was awakened by the fragrance again, and then consciously took the initiative to run to the door to take a few glances, and then ran back to report: “There is a female ghost in an ancient costume, her face is painted pale, a bit like a singer. She also have a parasol and she was quite clean ”

After hearing this, Gu Mozhi nodded, and commented: “You finally learned”

The two previous ghosts were too uncouth to go out without an umbrella on a rainy day. The ghost who came this time was a bit better, but they didn’t know whether the opponent’s parasol was provided as a standard feature, or they had heard about Gu Mozhi’s devilishness and took the initiative to purchase it.

Because of Jian Linglong’s voice, the players also woke up one after another. They got up with a grunt and stared at the door vigilantly.

After last night, no one dared to be lucky anymore. Although Gu Mozhi rescued them, he did it a little too late. If he was still dawdling like this today, and they were unlucky and didn’t get to escape, it would be too unjust if they gave up their lives here for nothing.

However, the situation was stronger than the people, and they didn’t dare to put forward any opinions on Gu Mozhi. That guy was not even afraid of ghosts, how can they have the guts to accuse others.

Sometimes wicked people were much more terrifying than evil spirits. Wasn’t there a saying… The evil spirits were afraid of the wicked?

Everyone vaguely followed Gu Mozhi’s every move with their lingering light, and became tense, as if they were facing a great enemy. In case this person suddenly became violent , they wouldn’t be enough for him as a dish.

“Da, da, da. ”The flowerpot-soled embroidered shoes8 still stepped on the ground steadily, maintaining an elegant pace and slowly came to the door of the mourning hall. Jian Linglong looked over curiously. It was too dark and rain affected her vision. She didn’t see the other party clearly, she only vaguely realized that the other party was singing, and now she could finally take a good look.

Some people are beautiful, even if they were smeared with thick white powder, they can’t conceal their grace. The female play ghost in front of them was, no, maybe he was a male ghost, after all, in ancient times, actors9 were usually men with slender and beautiful bodies.

Since the other party had breasts, Jian Linglong regarded her as a female ghost for the time being.

The play ghost stopped at the door, she turned around, folded the paper parasol, and stood by the door. Then she carefully showed her dry clothes to Gu Mozhi, indicating that she really loved being clean.

Gu Mozhi nodded in satisfaction: “Come in. ”

“Thank you sir. “She pulled out her handkerchief and carefully wiped the rain from the soles of her shoes before entering the door.

In fact, her dress today was not from the Qing dynasty, but she still wore shoes with flower pot soles. At first, everyone didn’t understand why, but it was just the female ghost’s special hobby. Because the bottom of the flowerpot and ground contacts were small, it was not easy to wet the upper when walking in the rain, and it was more convenient to wipe it.

That, it was easy to trip and fall. It was not easy to walk on rainy days, and she still wore these shoes. If she hadn’t been an actor with a particularly strong balance ability, perhaps she would have fallen and gnawed mud along the way. When the time comes, she would be covered with dirty water, and one could imagine how tragic the scene will be.

The female college student made up a scene where she took a step and fell, and she almost couldn’t hold back her laughter. But although she didn’t laugh out loud in person, she still took Jian Linglong and hid behind, and whispered in a low voice to share her thoughts.

Jian Linglong: “…” Hahahahahahaha!

To tell the truth, she was really looking forward to this scene.

Unlike the female college student who diverges her thinking outside the galaxy, the other players have only one expression when they saw the female ghost wiping the soles of her shoes: it was hard to say.10

Nowadays, even ghosts have become lackeys?

 

 

Footnotes

Catty or Jin is a Chinese unit of mass. It is traditionally equal to about one and a half pounds but formalized as 0.5 kg in mainland China.Hugging thighs means to curry favor with someoneBig shots mean someone who leads the group so I think it pertains to Gu Mozhi and the other three charactersIt is a quote which means “what’s the use of being greedy for something that is unnecessary or unfair”.“Eh” here is an expression of surpriseThe room mentioned here is the room originally intended for every player to rest or sleep. The wing room mentioned in chapter 5哒 or Da is a clattering soundThis is a shoe worn by Manchu women in the Qing DynastyActors from a play or theatreTheir expression were hard to explain