Seeing that Xu Xingyuan didn’t take it, the headless female ghost just kept her arm raised.
This persistent spirit gave off a stubborn vibe that she would keep holding it up until Xu Xingyuan accepted.
Stalemating like this wasn’t a solution.
Xu Xingyuan ran back into the room and found an empty box just big enough to fit a human head.
Holding the box, he walked back to the headless female ghost.
Seeing Xu Xingyuan willing to accept her gift and looking like he “liked” it very much, she stomped her feet a little shyly.
In the middle of the night, a headless female ghost stands in front of you, gives you a human head as a gift, and stomps shyly.
As Xu Xingyuan held the box, pondering how to release this wild human head, he realized the headless female ghost had no intention of leaving after delivering the gift.
He asked tentatively, “Sister, do you want to come in and sit?”
Xu Xingyuan just asked casually out of politeness.
Who knew the headless female ghost would actually give a thumbs up and try to walk into the room.
No choice. Xu Xingyuan had invited her himself.
He stepped back two paces, letting the headless young lady into the room.
Xu Xingyuan first put Wang Zhen’s head by the door, then ran to get a stool.
“You can sit here.”
The two sat facing each other. Both being socially anxious, the atmosphere fell into silence for a while.
Xu Xingyuan was very grateful right now that the young lady had no head; otherwise, meeting her gaze would have been even more awkward.
“Did you seek me out because you have something to say to me?” Xu Xingyuan asked tentatively.
The headless young lady immediately gave a thumbs up to show agreement.
Xu Xingyuan actively handed her paper and pen. “Whatever you want to say to me, just write it on here.”
She took the paper and pen, scribbled rapidly, and handed the paper back after writing what she wanted to say.
Xu Xingyuan looked down. Written on the paper was—
“I hope you can save the Madam!”
“Ah, me?” Xu Xingyuan pointed back at his own nose. “Me save the Madam?”
The headless young lady took back the paper and pen, continuing to scribble furiously, writing two lines—
“You are a Ferryman. If it’s you, you can definitely save the Madam!”
“He (Madam) did nothing wrong! He is innocent. Why was such a kind person misunderstood by everyone?”
Seeing this sentence for the first time, Xu Xingyuan didn’t notice anything wrong.
Looking at it carefully a few more times, he pointed keenly at one of the characters and looked up to ask:
“He?” (The male pronoun “他”)
If communicating by speech, Xu Xingyuan would subconsciously assume the Madam was female based on logic.
Fortunately, the young lady had lost her head and couldn’t speak, forced to communicate with Xu Xingyuan by writing.
Only then did Xu Xingyuan discover something wrong.
“The Madam is male?”
The headless young lady gave a thumbs up.
“No wonder,” Xu Xingyuan understood in his heart, discovering the biggest secret.
“Those diaries wrote that the Madam had a secret, and later everyone discovered this secret.”
The headless young lady lowered her head again, wrote something on the paper, and handed it to Xu Xingyuan.
“The secret is in the basement.”
This sentence seemed to violate the dungeon’s most hidden core. ugly black marks rapidly appeared on her body.
These marks, like filthy birthmarks, drilled out from the blood vessels under the human skin, exuding an ominous aura.
She was being punished by the dungeon for passing information to Xu Xingyuan.
“Are you okay?” Xu Xingyuan held the paper, concerned. “Can I help you?”
The headless young lady waved her hand. She couldn’t say any more. She stood up actively, preparing to leave.
Before leaving, she handily took Wang Zhen’s head with her.
This solved a huge problem for Xu Xingyuan.
The next day, everyone gathered in the dining room as usual.
On the way, Shi Shu was repenting his crimes to Xu Xingyuan.
“Xingyuan, I swear I absolutely won’t fall asleep next time!”
“It’s okay, sleep.” Xu Xingyuan was used to it. “Being able to sleep is a blessing.”
Shi Shu wailed. It really wasn’t that he wanted to sleep! It was like the bed had magic, frantically sucking the back of his head!
“If I fall asleep again tonight, pinch my nose hard, or tickle the soles of my feet!”
Amidst Shi Shu’s apologies, Xu Xingyuan pushed open the dining room door.
He and Shi Shu were the last two to arrive.
The others were standing uncharacteristically at the entrance of the dining room, not going inside.
“What’s wrong?” Shi Shu stretched his neck curiously.
It was fine before looking, but one look almost scared him to death. A “Holy sh*t” escaped his lips!
Shi Shu turned quickly, raising his hand to cover Xu Xingyuan’s eyes.
“Good lord, our good child can’t look at this kind of thing! Bro will cover your eyes!”
There was no need for Shi Shu to cover him; Xu Xingyuan had guessed what was on the dining table.
The headless young lady was truly tough. After taking Wang Zhen’s head, she had actually placed it directly on the dining table.
There was no sadness on Xu Qing’s face. Teammates dying in a dungeon was all too common.
Ignoring Wang Zhen’s tragically dead head, she turned directly to ask Deng Ming, who looked terrified, not far away.
“You were Wang Zhen’s boyfriend and stayed in the same room. What exactly happened last night?”
“Don’t hide anything. Say everything you know!”
Deng Ming was on the verge of emotional collapse. Witnessing the scene of his girlfriend being tortured and killed had been a strong shock to his mind.
Seeing his cowardly look, Lin Feng walked up directly and slapped him hard twice.
Only then was Deng Ming slapped awake, slowly sobering up from his overly fearful state.
“Last night, Wang Zhen and I were too scared to sleep. In the middle of the night, she wanted to go to the toilet and asked me to go with her…”
“Passing by the window, Wang Zhen looked down inadvertently and happened to see that female ghost Chu Xiu mentioned!”
Deng Ming’s voice trembled, losing the toughness from their first meeting. The gruesome state of Wang Zhen before her death replayed in his brain over and over.
“That headless female ghost rushed into the castle and cut off Wang Zhen’s head right in front of me!”
Hearing this, Xu Qing pushed up the glasses on her nose and summarized:
“The third death mechanism has been found: do not look at the headless female ghost.”
“Thinking deeper, we cannot actively make eye contact with the owners of any diaries in the castle or those vengeful spirits who appear at unknown times.”
Listening to Xu Qing’s calm analysis, Deng Ming widened his eyes in disbelief and roared:
“Do you have any humanity! My girlfriend is dead!”
Xu Qing sneered twice and retorted:
“You wanted to use someone else’s cat to test poison the day before yesterday. To survive, none of us is a good bird. Why are you pretending to be a good person now?”
Deng Ming choked, instinctively looking away.
“And according to my observation, your little girlfriend isn’t the type to know there’s a tiger on the mountain yet go towards it.”
“She suddenly looked out the window. Who knows if you were pushing things along in the background?”
“You!” Deng Ming reacted as if his thoughts had been exposed. “She was my girlfriend! How could I harm her!”
Xu Xingyuan had been watching the drama quietly. Who knew the fire of war would burn onto him?
“Why don’t you talk about him!”
Deng Ming extended a hand, pointing at Xu Xingyuan from a distance, and roared:
“It’s already an Infinite Flow game, yet he tests poison himself, pretending to be kind and cat-loving. He is the most hypocritical person!”
No way? Brother? Bro?
Hugging Cat-Nian, Xu Xingyuan looked at Deng Ming with bewilderment.
“Look, he’s showing that little white flower expression again! I think Xu Xingyuan is the one hiding the deepest!”
Xu Xingyuan, carrying N pieces of S-Rank items: “…”
He’s actually speech… speechless!