GBP Chapter 312 Xie San
Chapter 312 Xie San
Chapter 312 Xie San
Yan Xun was amazed; he had never seen such a shameless and self-righteous system before.
"Then why didn't you say so?"
"Nobody asked," the main system said. "You asked, so I told you, didn't I?"
Yan Xun: "..."
Of course, nobody asked. Who would have thought that the main quest of this dungeon had such a hidden condition?
Previous dungeons could be cleared easily by completing the main quest; who would have thought this dungeon would hide such a huge pitfall?
"This is a bit unfair to new players!" He guessed the system would definitely say, "How can there be any fairness in dungeon quests?"
Unexpectedly, the main system did not respond in that way.
Therefore, this instance will only open after a player with access to the map enters.
The main system told Yan Xun, "Players with maps are capable of discovering flaws in missions and completing hidden missions."
[As long as the player with the map is willing to share it, other players can also leave the instance smoothly.]
Perhaps feeling that it had said enough, the main system disappeared immediately after answering the question.
The green dinosaur asked anxiously, "What should we do?!"
If I fail to complete the hidden quest, will I be removed from the game?
Yan Xun ignored the nervously bouncing dinosaur and instead shared the main system's answer with Lou Yanchuan.
"From this perspective, the 15-day time limit should also be a trap," Yan Xun said.
“Fang Shuo’s personality had become increasingly similar to the Fang Shuo in the story,” Yan Xun said. “Although he regained his senses for a while after completing the mission.”
"I guess the main quest is just a way to buy time."
"Once you stay in the instance for 15 days, your soul may be imprisoned in the body of this paper effigy and become a resident of the community."
As Yan Xun spoke, he began flipping through the books beside him, preparing to look for any related spells.
The two had a very clear goal, and finally found a small piece of text in a book.
The book mentions a method of creating a substitute, which involves placing a person's soul into the body of a paper effigy.
Once a human soul is infused into these paper effigies, they will look no different from living people. However, this spell has a drawback: the soul must not be placed inside the paper effigy's body for more than 14 days.
After 15 days, the soul will be permanently bound to the body of the paper effigy.
This spell was originally intended to prevent assassination attempts.
Because the injury is not to one's own body, one can fight bravely on the battlefield. If one encounters an incurable serious injury, one can return to one's own body to heal.
It is a secret technique of a certain large witch tribe.
However, as the witch tribes gradually disappeared, this secret method was slowly lost.
Now it's more often used as a harmful method, deliberately imprisoning people's souls inside the bodies of paper effigies, making them believe they are still alive. Once the 14-day period is over, they are completely unable to return to their own bodies.
The book only mentions this part of the information in a very small, brief section.
It even looks like it was cut out from somewhere and then re-attached.
The book did not explain how to cast the spell; it only introduced that such a spell existed.
"It seems we must find out the truth about the hidden mission within 14 days." Lou Yanchuan and Yan Xun studied the information in the book together.
Yan Xun then turned to the title page of the book.
I discovered that this was a gift book, probably given to someone's grandmother.
The donor's signature is "Xie San".
"Is this that person's real name?" Yan Xun muttered, looking at Xie San's name.
Lou Yanchuan stared at the name for a while, until Yan Xun nudged his shoulder with her elbow, "What prop did you use back then?"
"Ok?"
“I said you let your finger bleed.” Yan Xun showed Lou Yanchuan his ring finger.
Lou Yanchuan then noticed that Yan Xun's ring finger was missing a section... He stared at Yan Xun for a while, his tone unusually angry, "I really want to crack your head open and take a look."
"Are you out of your mind to do something like this?"
Yan Xun flexed his ring finger. "So, what's your idea?"
Lou Yanchuan looked incredulous. "Isn't this place full of people?"
“Du Yun, Fang Shuo…” He listed names, speaking to Yan Xun in a detached and condescending tone, “Anyone will do.”
Yan Xun poked his forehead with her ring finger. "You've been spending too much time in dungeons, has your brain gone haywire?"
"Why drag others into things you can verify yourself?"
"This will be fine once you leave the instance."
"You still haven't explained how you created that bleeding effect?"
Lou Yanchuan reached out and grabbed Yan Xun's fingers that were poking around on his forehead. "It's a very simple prank prop."
"So that's when you discovered you had a problem with your body?" Yan Xun asked.
"No," Lou Yanchuan answered quickly, "I didn't know at the time."
Just as Yan Xun was about to ask, "Then why did you use prank props?", Lou Yanchuan spoke up—
"My body is rather unique."
"...No bleeding?" Yan Xun guessed.
"More or less." Lou Yanchuan nodded. "Aren't you curious why I look like this even though I'm so old?"
Yan Xun looked at Lou Yanchuan's expression, trying to discern whether he was continuing to lie or had slightly revealed a hint of the truth.
Lou Yanchuan's expression was as flawless as he had seen countless times in the conference room in the past, and he couldn't figure out whether Lou Yanchuan was telling the truth.
Perhaps the probing look on Yan Xun's face was too obvious, Lou Yanchuan finally released his ring finger, "You're staring so hard you've made a hole in my face."
"Besides not bleeding and not aging, what else is special about your body?" Yan Xun asked.
He looked Lou Yanchuan up and down. "A vampire...?"
"Your imagination is a bit lacking," Lou Yanchuan commented.
He did not answer Yan Xun's question, and Yan Xun guessed that it must be his secret.
After all, in the memories she had seen, Lou Yanchuan's body had been broken in two, so there must be a secret behind his current lively and energetic state.
What else were they planning to study? Suddenly, Shuangshuang shouted from outside the door—
"Fire!"
Yan Xun threw down the stairs and Yan Chuan ran out the door, immediately seeing the source of fire that Shuangshuang had mentioned.
He grabbed a fire extinguisher and put out the fire immediately.
Just as Shuangshuang breathed a sigh of relief and was about to praise Yanxun for being so great, she noticed with her sharp eyes that flames had also appeared in Lou Yanchuan's room.
She immediately patted Yan Xun on the shoulder.
Yan Xun immediately went to Lou Yanchuan's room... and then he saw black flames burning on the table.
You've all been fooled.
'You've all been fooled.'
'You'll only die if you stay here.'
A black flame suddenly appeared on the table, but it only hovered in mid-air.
"Shuangshuang, go make a call," Yan Xun immediately said to Shuangshuang.
Shuangshuang gestured for me to take over, then ran towards the red telephone in the living room. Yan Xun and Lou Yanchuan watched the black flames floating on the table.
'It hurts so much.'
I really want to kill him.
'It was my fault.'
'I ignored those warnings.'
The sounds coming from the flames were indistinct and hard to discern, making it difficult to identify whose voice it was.
"What warning did you ignore?" Yan Xun asked cautiously.
He thought the voices might belong to the previous homeowner or a player.
We should leave here as soon as possible.
That's what the voice said.
'This is all fake.'
'It's all fake.'
It's a kingdom of madmen.
Unfortunately, it couldn't say anything more, as the rescue Shuangshuang had called for had arrived as quickly as possible.
Security guards rushed into the room and used special equipment to extinguish the black flames.
Even as he was being taken away, Huomiao kept saying, 'These are all fake.'
The lead security guard looked at Yan Xun and Lou Yanchuan, "Don't believe the voice coming from the black flames."
He said, "This will interfere with your judgment."
Yan Xun made a gesture of covering his ears, "I've been covering my ears the whole time."
"That's good." The security guard nodded and left with the rest of the men, carrying the flames with him.
"What would happen if we didn't put out the fire?" Yan Xun asked.
“Then your house will be burned down,” the security guard said. “You will have to be evicted from here.”
"Because you failed to properly protect the houses here."
"Shall we drive away ourselves?" Yan Xun asked.
“Of course not,” the security guard said. “You are no longer residents of this community, so of course you cannot move around freely.”
“Don’t worry,” he told Yan Xun. “The security guards will drive you and your family out of the community.”
Yan Xun immediately understood the fate of the player who burned down the house—they were secretly disposed of by the security guards.
"So please take good care of your houses," the security guard emphasized.
He seemed to feel he had said enough, and slowly led the remaining people away from the white-roofed house.
"It seems we can't leave the house today," Yan Xun said.
He also remembered Shu Fan saying that he would tell everyone the truth about his family so that he could exchange information with others.
After exchanging opinions, the players in the group decided to hold an impromptu conference call to discuss the matter online.
Yan Xun: "..."
Once inside the conference room, everyone turned on their cameras. Du Yun raised his hand first, indicating that he wanted to speak.
He shared the information he had found about the Duan and Ning families with everyone.
"So your family's bankruptcy is also related to them?" Du Yun said, pointing to the crew-cut man next to him.
"More or less," Duan Songen said.
She glanced at Shu Fan, "My family's secret is actually very simple."
"You should all have noticed that there is a murderer in every family."
When she said this, the woman with the buzz cut suddenly became very nervous, as if she was worried that Xie Qingdu would remember something, but fortunately Xie Qingdu's expression remained normal, as if he did not remember anything.
“My father, Dr. Du, and Ning Hengyuan were once business partners.”
She also shared a copy of the agreement she found with everyone.
"That's how my family became wealthy."
Duan Songen quickly recounted her entanglement with Du Yun and the master, and also mentioned that she had sought the master's help.
"Actually, the main reason our family moved away from there wasn't bankruptcy," Duan Songen said. "The biggest reason was that it was haunted."
When Yan Xun heard this, he suddenly felt that the name sounded familiar.
He remembered that Ning Hengyuan had also used the same method to deceive his father.
“I often see people outside the house,” Duan Songen said, “but when I go out, I don’t find anything.”
“My father and Ning Hengyuan were originally in a cooperative relationship. After he got involved in that kind of business, he became even more respectful of these things.”
Upon hearing this, Yan Xun suddenly spoke up, "You went to Anxin Sanatorium not to work, but to go undercover, right?"
Duan Songen instinctively asked, "How did you know?"
"Ning Hengyuan wants you to go see my grandmother," Yan Xun said, "and also to keep an eye on Xie Qingdu."
Since the purpose of the online meeting was to share clues, he simply recounted how his grandmother was hospitalized and had been tricked by a master.
Xie Qingdu listened attentively as Yan Xun spoke.
"I just remembered something," Xie Qingdu said.
The man with the buzz cut was startled at first, but then suddenly remembered that he wasn't at home, and immediately relaxed.
"What?" Yan Xun asked.
He knew that Xie Qingdu couldn't possibly recall the truth about his murder at this time, otherwise the dungeon couldn't proceed.
"You told me some things about your family," Xie Qingdu said, as if suddenly recalling some details. "You told me..."
“My distant relative is not a good person.”
"Let me be careful..."
He muttered to himself, "But why have I forgotten all of this?"
He picked at his fingers. "How could I have forgotten all of that?"
"Stop." Yan Xun made a stop gesture. "Let's deal with the secret of the Shu Fan family first."
“You may only need to seek the master’s help in two places,” Yan Xun told Duan Songen. “One is family debt, and the other is ghost stories.”
“You said you changed your phone number, and they actually sent you a text message again.”
“Then let me guess, maybe during the long period after you changed your number, those debtors didn’t find you,” Yan Xun said. “You consulted the master and cooperated with him because of… the ghost story?”
Duan Songen gave him a "you know this" look and said, "What else do you know? Why don't you tell me?"
"All I know is that you and Du Yun were high school classmates," Yan Xun said.
"And after Du Yun disappeared without a trace, it was you who appeared and told his roommate that he had been taken away by his family for medical treatment."
Judging from Ning Hengyuan's usual tricks and deceptions, and his willingness to use his own son's death as a smokescreen to achieve his goals... Yan Xun felt that Ning Hengyuan had most likely been instilled with some ideas by Duan Songen.
"Does he mean that if you use the people around you as sacrifices, those spirits won't haunt you anymore?" Yan Xun asked.
Duan Songen and Shu Fan, who was standing next to him, exchanged a glance.
"More or less," Duan Songen said.
"You killed Shu Fan?"
Duan Songen sighed, "No."
Shu Fan raised his hand, "I was terribly entangled by those things back then."
“I heard that Song En’s family had contact with people in that field before, so I asked her to help me think of a solution.”
"So I went to see that master, and the master told me that I had offended the evil spirits."
"The solution is simple," Shu Fan said. "Just sever the Yin energy, so he can never rise again."