Chapter 109
Chapter 109
Xia Susu’s eyes were bloodshot. When she turned and saw Lin Xiaoxue and the others watching the drama from the staircase, she charged toward them like a madwoman.
They dodged warily, thinking Xia Susu was trying to get downstairs. Instead, she stopped right in front of them.
“Lin Xiaoxue! Xiaoxue! Little Sister Xiaoxue!” Xia Susu suddenly grabbed Lin Xiaoxue’s hand.
“Stay with me tonight, okay? We’re teammates! The two of us can share a room! I won’t snap at you ever again. I’ll apologize for everything I did before!
“I know you’re actually very kind! You definitely won’t just stand by and watch me get killed by the Skeleton Monster tonight, right?”
Xia Susu pleaded hysterically, her crimson eyes full of desperate hope.
Lin Xiaoxue was so frightened she kept backing away. For a second, she nearly thought Xia Susu had been possessed!
“L-Let go of me!” Lin Xiaoxue yanked her hand back with all her strength. There was no way she would abandon Sister Lan!
Besides, Xia Susu was… not someone she wanted to get involved with. If Xia Susu did not have a roommate, she could think of some other solution. And besides, didn’t she still have an Anomalous Artifact?
Xia Susu was at a complete loss, even her lips trembling. “Xiaoxue, we’re teammates! We’ve cleared three Instance scenarios together, and there’ll be a fourth and a fifth in the future! Guo Lan is so strong. She’ll be fine staying alone. Please, just help me, okay?”
A chill ran through Lin Xiaoxue. “Zhou Jie gave you an Anomalous Artifact, and you already had one of your own. So you’ll be fine staying alone too. Move! I’m going back to my room!”
As she spoke, Lin Xiaoxue prepared to slip away. If she’d known this would happen, she never would have come out to watch!
Seeing herself rejected, Xia Susu hurriedly looked toward Xu You and Chen Lin. “Will you stay with me? I’m begging you! I really don’t want to die! Please, I’m begging you!”
Xu You stretched and looked at Chen Lin. “I’m so sleepy. Come on, let’s go back and sleep.”
Chen Lin gave Xia Susu a guilty glance. Letting someone die would weigh on her conscience, but Xia Susu really was not worth saving…
With that thought, Chen Lin and Xu You quickly left the scene as well.
The rest of the onlookers also hurriedly shut their doors.
Xia Susu grew more and more despairing, but in the next second, she saw Wei Sen still standing in the doorway of her room.
“Wei Sen! Wei Sen, save me! You’re so smart, you must have a way!” Xia Susu scrambled toward Wei Sen, practically crawling and stumbling.
Wei Sen stood blocking the doorway with her body, scrutinizing the utterly wretched Xia Susu.
When people faced death, their survival instincts would flare. Things like dignity became meaningless.
If she saved someone from an Eerie Entity, the first time would net her 1,400 Merit Points.
Now those 1,400 points were right in front of her. Should she take them or not?
Wei Sen’s gaze flickered. Merit Points were still incredibly tempting.
If she chose to share a room with Xia Susu, Lin Ze would be alone. Although the night would be a little difficult for him, it should not be enough to kill him…
“Sister Sen, Sister Sen, I’m begging you. If you don’t help me, the Skeleton Monster will come and kill me! I… I… I’m begging you!”
Xia Susu’s eyes were full of terror, as if she had already imagined the horrific scene of the Skeleton Monster climbing in from the balcony.
Inside the room, Lin Ze silently watched Wei Sen’s reaction.
She was actually seriously considering it?
Could she really be thinking of saving the woman outside?
She had to know that saving people in the Eerie World was an incredibly stupid thing to do!
Because the person you saved today might become the ghost that hurt you tomorrow.
Wei Sen’s expression was calm, her eyes extraordinarily indifferent. Without saying a word, she took a step back, then slammed the door shut with a bang and locked it behind her for good measure.
She was giving up those 1,400 Merit Points. Consider them fed to the dogs!
No particular reason. She simply felt that Xia Susu did not deserve to be saved!
“Wei Sen! Wei Sen! Open the door! Stop pretending! Are you shacking up with that ugly man?! Why won’t you help me? Why are you leaving me to die?!”
Xia Susu was howling outside the door. Wei Sen returned to the room and said coldly, “She’d better stay outside all night.”
“Why?” Lin Ze asked.
“That way, she can help block the Faceless Woman for us.” Wei Sen said it so seriously that it did not sound like sarcasm.
Lin Ze could barely see any emotional change in her.
It seemed she had been like this ever since the first time they met outside the inn on the first day.
A calm face. No matter what happened, she remained unruffled, her eyes unusually deep, always rational and composed.
“For an instant just now, you wanted to save her,” Lin Ze said, continuing to watch for changes in Wei Sen’s expression.
Wei Sen only looked at him faintly, as calm as ever. “That isn’t important. You still haven’t answered my question from before.”
She threw the question back to him.
Lin Ze straightened up. “I can tell you everything I know, but are you really prepared to learn the truth of this world?”
“No need to keep me in suspense. Talk.”
“The truth is… there are no ghosts in the Eerie World.”
That short sentence left Wei Sen stunned.
If there were no ghosts in the Eerie World, then what were those students in Zhihui Primary School?
And what was the shopkeeper in this Instance?
Lin Ze guessed Wei Sen’s reaction and continued, “In the Eerie World, aside from those known as Order Keepers, everyone else is a native resident of this world. They’re just not quite the same. You can understand it as the difference between yellow people, white people, and Black people.”
“Their categories are: Chaos Body, Eerie Shadow, and Eerie Human.”
“Chaos Body is what I’ve heard other beings classified as Eerie Humans call them. They are the most numerous native residents of the Eerie World. Usually, they cause no harm. They look no different from ordinary people in the Human World, and in their own understanding, they are ordinary people.
“They also don’t think of the Eerie World as the Eerie World. Or, to put it another way, the Eerie World is their Real World.
“The villagers in this Instance’s village are classified as Chaos Body.”
“Next is Eerie Shadow. Those classified as Eerie Shadow should not exist in the Eerie World in the first place. They’re similar to spirits after a person’s death, but they aren’t entirely equivalent to that concept, because some beings classified as Eerie Human were not once living Chaos Body either.
“Entities of the Eerie Shadow type obey no one, and some are aggressive.
“Entities of the Eerie Shadow type often exist because of a Contamination Source. Destroy the Contamination Source, and you can destroy the Eerie Shadow.”
“Last are Eerie Humans. Those classified as Eerie Humans are the most dangerous beings! The shopkeeper in this Instance is an Eerie Human.
“Those classified as Eerie Humans obey the Sovereign of the Eerie World. ‘the Sovereign’ is what Eerie Humans call their leader.
“The Sovereign and God should be on the same level. There seems to be some kind of power keeping the two in balance.
“God creates rules to protect Order Keepers and restrain Eerie Entities, while the Sovereign orders Eerie Humans to hunt down Order Keepers in different Instances.
“And Eerie Entities will do everything possible in the Instance World to make Order Keepers break the rules, then hunt them down.”
“All right. That’s everything I know about the truth of the Eerie World.” Lin Ze felt his throat was a little dry.
As for matters concerning Chaos Bodies, Eerie Humans, Eerie Shadows, the Sovereign, and God, quite a few people known as Order Keepers knew about them.
After all, this was not the first time he had leaked this information…
“Do you know anything else about God and the Sovereign?” Wei Sen pressed.
“No. They aren’t beings those known as Order Keepers can easily meet.”
“How did you learn all this?”
At that, Lin Ze’s gaze turned slightly grave.
You learned after experiencing enough.
After all, he had already been exploring this world for a full fifty years…