Chapter 96

Chapter 96

After Ning Shuo used the shard to recover that tiny sliver of memory-one that even carried a faint hint of desire-he lent the shard to Mingzhi.

Although the System had only said that the shard was a fragment of a special item and offered no further explanation, as if terrified they might discover what the item was for.

However, with Mingzhi as an example, the use of the Water Moon Mirror was already obvious.

Mingzhi went to find all the Ghost Brides who had been suppressed in the ancestral hall because of ghost marriages. She spent an hour helping them develop self-awareness and briefly explained everything to them.

During the remaining hour, the Ghost Brides split up, went to the various households, terrified all the men, and did their best to leave every one of them missing an arm or a leg.

There were also teammates from the Zone C Team whose mission was to turn Aotianli upside down. Seeing this situation, they were not stupid either. While the female ghosts were scaring the men, they did a few little things just like Zhuang Yao and Luo Li had, indirectly completing their mission.

Though in this Script, Zone C had already lost.

For the Murderer Mission, if everyone correctly judged the Murderer, the result would be determined by the round in which they escaped and made the Accusation.

However, by the time Ah Shu found the Notary Office, it had already been buried, and the Clown had run off.

Ah Shu: “…”

In other words, Zone C had no way to make an Accusation anymore.

And Aotianli could indeed be considered turned upside down now-in terms of the positions of men and women.

All the men who had harmed women were left alive in agony. Only when the girls they had hurt had fully vented their anger would they be granted a swift death.

Mingzhi said that if the girls who were still alive wanted to flee Aotianli and return to their own homes, the female ghosts would escort them back.

If their original families were no good either, then the men’s property would be divided among the other women so that after leaving Aotianli, they could find a place to settle down. Every decision would be entirely up to them.

Once all the women in Aotianli had left, they would kill the men who deserved to die. As for those whose sins were lighter and did not warrant death, naturally, the women who escaped would report them to the authorities and have them taken away.

After Mingzhi finished handling everything, she returned the shard to Ning Shuo.

Although after the Script reset, their memories would once again be affected by the Script, and their circumstances would reset as well.

In the past, Mingzhi had been alone. Now, there were many others like her who possessed self-awareness and no longer killed numbly.

Even if the Script reset, as long as they would not kill indiscriminately, sooner or later they could change this Script again.

On the seventh day of the Script, the Players said goodbye to them.

Mingzhi thought of how, yesterday, she had wanted to tell Ning Wang that she had met them before, only to see Ning Shuo give her a look.

If they really were brothers, then their relationship was truly good.

As she watched Ning Shuo and the others leave, Ning Wang was still holding Ning Shuo’s hand in his palm to warm it, tilting his head as he asked whether he was cold.

…

[Congratulations, Player Ning Banxian, on successfully clearing the Script Beware the Ghost Bride. Next, the details of the Script will be introduced to you.]

[You were born into a family that favored sons over daughters. You and your older sister Zhaodi were very close, but you were timid by nature. Usually, when Zhaodi was beaten and scolded by your parents, you did not dare make a sound. Even when you pleaded with your parents on her behalf, they ignored you completely.]

[Later, your parents said Zhaodi had gotten married. Although you had a vague guess in your heart, you wanted even more to believe their words: perhaps she had married into a good family.]

[You watched your sister be taken away. You thought they were people sent by her husband’s family, but you did not know they were actually human traffickers.]

[Your family suddenly became well-off. After investigating, you finally learned that rather than saying Zhaodi had been married off, it would be more accurate to say she had been sold.]
[Before you could ask your parents what was going on, news came that your older sister had died.]

[You wanted to go find your sister, and then you saw the “matchmaker” you had seen at your front gate that day.]

[You talked it over with the girl who was supposed to be married off, and midway through the escort, you switched identities with her.]

…

The moment Rao Lin came out, he saw both of the team’s two main pillars collapsed on the ground.

Before Ning Wang passed out, he had even put his arm under Ning Shuo’s head as a cushion.

At the sight, as Rao Lin went to pull Song Zhu over, a bizarre thought flashed through his mind-he loves him so much.

After checking them over, Song Zhu frowned. “They don’t have any external injuries.”

Rao Lin remembered that when Ning Shuo had been locked in the ancestral hall, he had said subduing the female ghost had consumed a great deal of yang energy and could easily injure the spirit.

Ning Shuo had spent an entire day with Mingzhi, so it made sense that his spirit had not recovered yet.

But Ning Wang…

Rao Lin suddenly remembered Ning Wang’s net.

He fell silent for a moment, then said to the other teammates, “Everyone, disperse. He knows what he’s doing. He’ll be fine after some rest. It’s not like we can help anyway.”

Something as mystical as the spirit really was beyond them. All they knew was that rest and recuperation should help somewhat.

Besides, this was Ning Wang’s own choice-an understated bit of showing off.

Ning Shuo had offered a more energy-saving method, but this guy had to show off and insist on spending more effort to make a whole net.

Serves him right.

Look at that. He showed off so hard he ended up collapsed right alongside his brother…

Rao Lin’s thoughts paused. It was as if he had glimpsed some secret.

He waved at Qin Genan. “Bro, give me a hand?”

Qin Genan was already moving. “Get the two of them onto one bed, right? I got it.”

“Right, onto beds.” Rao Lin’s eyes curved with his smile. “Onto two beds.”

…

When the Zone C team came out of the Script, Ah Shu finished reviewing the problems with this Script, then asked Fu Xing, “I remember the Star Zone Arena has a live big screen. The invited Player will be from different Star Zones, right?”

Fu Xing nodded. “Right. And to keep the audience’s enthusiasm and tips high, aside from the randomly selected Players, everyone else has more or less some connection to the Team Players.”

Ah Shu’s heart began beating a little faster. “Where is the Rest Area for the Zone F audience?”

Fu Xing asked, “Do you know someone there?”

Ah Shu shook her head. “Not necessarily. I’m not sure what kind of relationship the person I’m looking for has with Ning Shuo.”

But since that person knew the connection involving Ying Jian’s wife from before his death, they were probably on decent terms.

Fu Xing had a rough guess as to who she wanted to find. “You mean… your husband?”

Seeing her nod, Fu Xing laughed. “Ah Shu, why are you being foolish too? Did you forget that before the competition started, the System explicitly stated that participating Players are not allowed to communicate with audience members-especially audience members from other Star Zones?”

She really had forgotten. Puzzled, Ah Shu asked, “Why would there be such a strange rule?”

“I don’t know either. I started participating in the Star Zone Arena last round, and that rule was already there back then.”

…

There was indeed a bit of showing off in Ning Wang’s move. Throwing out one net was fast, too.

It just consumed a bit too much yang energy.

But it was not to the point of injuring his spirit like Ning Shuo had during Spirit Tracing. It was just like Ning Shuo on that night in the ancestral hall-he was too exhausted, his vision went black, and he fainted.

As he fell, Ning Wang’s last thought was: All my cool points are gone.

But from another angle, Rao Lin would probably put him and his brother on the same big bed, right?