Edited by Zaki
Chapter 1.7
The group of people discussed for a long time but failed to come up with a solution. In the end, those who originally believed in luck and wanted to go back to the house to sleep, did not dare to go back.
Just like everyone said, there were ghosts making trouble during the day, so how could it be peaceful at night? It would only be scarier than during the day. Moreover, the vision was limited during the night, so the problem goes beyond being scared. If something went wrong, stumbling while escaping would be inevitable. In fact, it was much more dangerous than during the day.
After much thought, they still felt it was safer to stay in the mourning hall. Anyway, everyone saw what happened yesterday. Those ghosts seemed to be unable to defeat Gu Mozhi, and maybe it would be the same today. Staying with Gu Mozhi must be safer than staying alone in a room.
So, the group of people looked at each other and shamelessly stayed in the mourning hall, refusing to leave.
“Are novice instances so dangerous?” Jian Linglong held her chin and sighed.
Gu Mozhi looked at the group of people indifferently: “After all, you can get out of the game after clearing the levels ten times. If the numbers are less, the difficulty will naturally increase. The Lord God is not doing charity.”
After a while, Pink-hair and the College Girl discussed the schedule for the vigil and applied to the system. As soon as he was about to speak, a player couldn’t wait to interrupt: “System, if one person is the night watchman, can the others stay in the mourning hall?”
The system said coldly: “No, everyone except the night watchman must go back to the house and sleep well.”
With this said… Gu Mozhi noticed a clue. Could it be that as long as he fell asleep in the house at night, no ghosts would come to harass him?
The person who asked the question immediately quit and said deliberately: “Then I also want to apply to be a night watchman.”
Pink-hair suddenly frowned, what does this guy want to do?
“He doesn’t want the night watchman to be chosen. He wants everyone to be the night watchman like last night.” Although Jian Linglong was young, she was very smart and she realized at the time, “He is so bad!”
Pink-hair heard her quiet complaint and figured it out. He gave the man a bored look and said, “Then I won’t do it anymore. You can be the night watchman tonight.”
Who would have thought that when this person heard this, he immediately expressed his intention to quit. Things were back to square one, with no one putting forward a candidate for the vigil.
“Why is he so annoying?” Even the College Girl couldn’t help but speak this time.
Some people were not smart in other aspects, but were very opportunistic and cunning in some aspects.
Now even the players who had no idea previously understood what he meant, and they all jumped out to cause trouble, just to prevent anyone from deciding who would be the night watchman. Seeing that it was about to become a farce, Gu Mozhi thought they were being noisy and simply asked, “Who’s staying with us?”
“Master?” Jian Linglong didn’t understand why Gu Mozhi was speaking for these people.
Gu Mozhi lazily leaned against the wall and yawned: “I didn’t promise to protect them.”
This group of people just wishfully thought that with Gu Mozhi around, they wouldn’t have to worry about the ghosts going on a killing spree, but Gu Mozhi was perfectly capable of waiting for the ghosts to finish killing the people before starting his meal, without delaying the meal at all. After all, he was not a human being and could not naturally learn to sympathize with humans. In his opinion, ghosts killing people was just like people killing chickens. It was natural and very common, and it was no big deal.
These people’s plans were wrong, I’m afraid.
Ignoring the jubilation, Gu Mozhi planned to have a good sleep before the big dinner came to his door. He was now extremely grateful for the game rules of this novice instance, because the rules forced the ghosts to come as guests every night, and they had no choice but to come. So as long as the one that came today was not the one from yesterday, his feast was guaranteed.
Hopefully next time, he would still come across such a great instance.
Jian Linglong basically followed her Master now, and she did whatever her Master did. Her Master went to bed, and she sat down and slept next to him obediently, ignoring the players whispering over there.
There was still no night watchman tonight, and the system punished everyone to do the vigil together. At three o’clock in the sleepy morning, there was a sound of thumping slowly approaching near.
Jian Linglong woke up even before the sound could be heard. She sniffed subconsciously. She didn’t know why it suddenly felt so appetizing, and she wanted to eat something.
She touched her belly and felt that she was hungry.
At this time, the sound of thudding was finally loud enough for everyone to faintly hear it. However, the sleepy players didn’t hear it clearly, because the sound of rain outside concealed the sound.
“Here it comes.” Gu Mozhi opened his eyes and sat upright.
Jian Linglong looked confused: “What’s coming?”
“Dinner.” Gu Mozhi explained. After that, he felt it was inappropriate and changed his words, “Supper.”
Jian Linglong came to a realization, and although she didn’t realize at this moment that the food on her doorstep was actually a ghost, she had already begun to get excited and expectant.
“Go and have a look.” As the sound got closer and closer, Gu Mozhi pointed to the door and asked his young apprentice to help him check the situation.
Jian Linglong got up actively, ran to the door and looked around. She carefully looked at the place where the movement came from, and then turned to report to Gu Mozhi.
At this time, some of the players in the room had been awakened by the sound and were nervously waking up others.
“It’s a Handstand Ghost.” Jian Linglong said, “He’s hopping over with his head on the ground, and that thumping sound was the sound of his head hitting the ground.”
Gu Mozhi was not very satisfied with the report and asked emphatically: “Is he clean?”
The Little Girl immediately responded and looked carefully for a moment more before saying, “Not really clean, he’s covered in blood!”
“En, come back.” Gu Mozhi was satisfied.
The onlookers who listened to the entire conversation were at a loss what to say. Why did this unknown Boss always care about such inexplicable issues? At a time like this, and he was still engaging in cleanliness every day, but he could obviously sit on the ground casually without minding the dirt, so why did he have to dislike ghosts for being unclean?
Of course they didn’t understand that Gu Mozhi could tolerate other things being dirty, but he couldn’t tolerate his own food being dirty. In fact, you could simply understand it by making an analogy or thinking from someone else’s perspective — no one could bear to have their bananas covered with blood or sewage, right? Even if you only eat the pulp inside the banana peel, you still couldn’t help but rinse it off when you see the dirt on the outside, otherwise it would affect your appetite.
In order to prevent the Handstand Ghost from getting blood into the house and spreading everywhere, Gu Mozhi had no choice but to go to the door and wait while he and the Handstand Ghost had a good chat about cleanliness.
After all this tossing, the Handstand Ghost also hopped to the door. He had obviously heard about Gu Mozhi’s glorious deeds, and froze when he saw the person guarding the door.
Gu Mozhi raised his eyebrows and looked at the bloody ghost in front of him, guessing that he jumped to his death. But no matter how he died, he only cared about cleanliness, so he asked nicely: “Do you want me to help you clean up?”
This was said in a tone as if he was a cook who was going to take a freshly slaughtered fish and clean it, which made the hair on the Handstand Ghost stand on end. It hastily hopped back a few times to return to the rain curtain, allowing the rain to rinse itself clean.
Only then did Gu Mozhi feel satisfied and moved out of the way.
The players in the room suppressed the desire to scream and watched in silence as the Handstand Ghost hopped all the way to the incense burner on its hard skull, their scalps hurting from the sight. But it seemed that they couldn’t care about it anymore, because there was an even more serious question before everyone: How would the Handstand Ghost burn incense?
He reached out to try, and realized that he could not reach the incense burner and the incense placed next to it.
Gu Mozhi looked at it leisurely, with interest on his face, obviously watching a good show. One by one, the group of players looked at him expectantly, hoping that the other party would step forward to lead the group, yet three minutes passed and nothing happened.
The players’ faces turned ugly.
The Handstand Ghost obviously did not intend to endure, even though there was a God of Death standing behind him, he still stubbornly followed his own “ghost setting” and the rules of the game, and began to make trouble.
“Is this how you entertain guests?” Although the Handstand Ghost tried very hard not to tremble, his voice still betrayed him as soon as he spoke. A good threat turned into a stutter.
Jian Linglong: “Pfft!”
The Handstand Ghost: “…” His reputation was lost forever QAQ!
To make up for it, it glared menacingly at the players within its line of sight. Very unluckily, those other players hiding at the back door happened to be diagonally across from it, and saw it as soon as they opened their eyes.
Being glared at like that, the players who originally wanted to laugh couldn’t do so anymore.
Almost instantly, the Handstand Ghost disappeared from the spot. Jian Linglong followed the scent and found the Handstand Ghost hanging upside down from the beam. He was now directly above the area where the players had gathered. He suddenly let go, and the whole ghost body crashed down.
“Run!” Someone discovered the ghost and instantly pushed others away and ran away from the crowd.
The remaining group of people didn’t know why they were knocked around by him, but it was a blessing in disguise that they escaped the first attack of the Handstand Ghost. Now the players didn’t dare to gather at one place. It was difficult to escape if there were too many people. Others would end up in the way of their escape.
There was a deep pit in the spot where the Handstand Ghost had just dropped, but it didn’t bury the ghost. The Handstand Ghost jumped out and disappeared again.
Everyone ran away in panic while looking up to see if there was something more up there. Because they were not looking where they were running, they inevitably fell down while running, but it was much safer. After someone fell down and realized that there was something above their head, they subconsciously rolled to avoid it, and they didn’t get hurt, but when they rolled, they accidentally bumped into the coffin and scared themselves.
Jian Linglong and Gu Mozhi stood in the corner, watching the fun. The Pink-hair and College Girl who were busy avoiding the ghost occasionally glanced at them, and they couldn’t help but twitch the corners of their mouths. These two people who had the similar melon-eating expressions on their faces really look like a brother and sister.
After a while, the two of them found that the area around Gu Mozhi was clean and there was not a single pit, so they consciously came closer. Gu Mozhi did not refuse and allowed them to borrow his blessing. On the contrary, it was much harder for the others to hide, as there were too many pits on the ground that affected their movement.
Someone accidentally sunk one foot in, and was suddenly stuck inside, unable to hide. After all, the pit was too deep and it would be difficult to pull the legs out in a short time. If both legs fell into the pit together, then they would have to fend for themselves.
Seeing that things were about to get out of control, Gu Mozhi finally took action after seeing enough drama. Taking advantage of the moment when the Handstand Ghost slammed head first into the earth, he reached out and grabbed the ghost’s leg, directly pulling the other out as if he was pulling a carrot.
“Okay, let’s mourn. The ground is smashed like this by you, how can I walk here in the future?” Gu Mozhi threw him in front of the incense burner and the portrait, and waved to Jian Linglong, “Come here and help him.”
Jian Linglong carefully avoided the pits on the ground, walked to the side, took the initiative to help light the incense, and handed it to the Handstand Ghost. The Handstand Ghost reluctantly bowed with the incense, and then handed it over to Jian Linglong to insert it into the incense burner on his behalf, and this mourning was over.
It was actually so simple, the players who were chased up and down were in disbelief.
However, even if they knew in advance how to pass the test, they were afraid that they wouldn’t dare to take the initiative to come over and help pass the incense. This group of people wished they were far far away from the ghosts.
After the mourning was over, the floor refreshed and returned to its previous leveled appearance. Everyone sat scattered in the four corners with lingering fear, and no one gathered in a group anymore.
But now, like a kicked-around ball, danger returned to the Handstand Ghost. He looked at Gu Mozhi, who had stood at the door again at some point and was smiling at him, feeling deeply hopeless.
How could he escape from this Demon alive and intact?