Chapter 195
Chapter 195
The Second Young Master pounded frantically on the wall, trying to wake Shen Mingzhen next door.
Repeated impacts thundered nearby.
The lock could no longer withstand the violence and fell to the floor.
A hole appeared in the dark red door.
Through it, the Second Young Master saw a pair of black, terrifying eyes.
They stared fixedly at him.
“Aah! Save me! Anyone, please!”
“I’m going to die! Hurry and save me!”
Terror nearly split his liver and gallbladder.
A thin, aged hand reached through the hole.
The person outside discovered the barricade and began repeatedly slamming into the door.
Bang!
Bang!
Each impact landed not on the door but directly on the Second Young Master’s bladder.
He was close to wetting himself.
The door had already opened a narrow crack.
Half of a terrifying shadow appeared in the darkness.
“Hah. Keep screaming. I put sleeping pills in tonight’s food. You can scream yourself hoarse, and no one will come save you.”
The shadow chuckled strangely.
The Second Young Master gripped the Peachwood Sword and forced himself to stand in the corner.
“Didn’t you say you would never poison the food? Aren’t you an environmentalist?”
The shadow replied, “I only said I wouldn’t use poison. Sleeping pills aren’t poison.”
The Second Young Master: “…”
Damn him!
He had found a loophole in his own words!
“Come quietly. Devote yourself to my environmental cause, and I will show you the true meaning of life!”
The shadow continued ramming the door.
The narrow crack widened until half the doorway stood open.
The Second Young Master shook like a sieve.
“Stay away! I don’t want anything to do with your damned environmental cause. Join it yourself!”
The shadow sneered. “That isn’t your decision.”
The barricade was about to collapse.
The Second Young Master frantically threw glutinous rice, Talismans, and duck blood at the Butler.
A pale hand tore the Talismans in half.
The rice and duck blood scattered across the floor.
None of it worked.
The Second Young Master collapsed in despair and switched on the light.
Even if he died, he would die in the light, striking his most seductive pose and leaving behind the most wickedly charming ashes.
Sometimes, life and death were separated by a single instant.
The shadow broke through the door.
The sudden light made him blink in discomfort.
Then he saw the duck blood and glutinous rice scattered across the floor, along with the tiny, almost invisible grains of salt.
The Butler’s brows knotted together.
Without thinking, he crouched and began picking up the fallen food.
What a waste!
A true environmentalist could never tolerate such wastefulness!
One moment, the Second Young Master had been waiting for death. The next, Lord Yama had become distracted.
The reaper who had come for his head was crouching on the floor and cleaning.
In that instant, enlightenment struck the Second Young Master.
He understood!
He sprinted into the bathroom, turned on every faucet, and threw the soap and toiletries onto the floor.
The Butler cleaned irritably while glaring daggers at him.
Once I finish cleaning, you die!
The Second Young Master thought, As if I’ll let you finish!
While the Butler cleaned the bathroom, he sprinted downstairs and switched on every light.
Then he opened the refrigerator and turned on every air conditioner.
For good measure, he hurled everything in the kitchen onto the floor.
When the Second Young Master poured an entire ten-pound sack of rice across the ground, he knew the battle was won!
That sack of rice would keep the Butler cleaning all night.
The sight of rice covering the floor sent the Butler’s entire ghostly being into collapse.
He wanted to bite through the man’s neck. He wanted to rip out his intestines and turn them into sausages!
Yet his hands moved uncontrollably to turn off the faucets.
The Second Young Master had hidden in the bathroom long ago. He watched the Butler warily while struggling not to doze off.
Dawn began to brighten the sky, and the Butler was still cleaning.
Bang, bang, bang!
The pounding outside woke Yun Youyou.
Shen Mingzhen, in the room across from hers, woke as well.
They opened their doors together and found the Second Young Master standing in the hallway, still shaken.
Shen Mingzhen was surprised to see him.
“Oh? You didn’t get eaten?”
The Second Young Master wanted to feed Shen Mingzhen to the Butler.
“Were you hoping I’d die?”
Shen Mingzhen hurriedly replied, “Only joking. Don’t take it seriously.”
“By the way, where’s the Butler?”
Yun Youyou poked her head out curiously.
The Second Young Master jerked his chin downstairs. “In the living room. Do you have any idea how much effort it took me to escape death last night?”
“If I hadn’t devised a brilliant plan, all of you might have ended up in the Butler’s stomach.”
Thinking of his heroic achievement made him smug.
Yun Youyou leaned over the second-floor railing and looked down.
The living room was a complete wreck.
The Butler crouched on the floor beside a sack of rice, diligently picking up each grain.
Yun Youyou: “?”
Truly, he was a master environmentalist. His conservation philosophy led the entire Ghost Realm.
The Second Young Master said, “Come on! While he’s busy, let’s find the safe.”
Yun Youyou yawned. “You go. I’m not coming.”
“You’re a Player too. Don’t think you can sit back and enjoy the rewards.”
Yun Youyou froze.
“Wait. Who told you I’m a Player?”
The Second Young Master pointed at Shen Mingzhen. “He did!”
He looked at Yun Youyou suspiciously. “Aren’t you?”
Before Yun Youyou could answer, Shen Mingzhen hurriedly said, “She is! Of course she is!”
The Second Young Master wanted Yun Youyou’s own answer.
Yun Youyou said, “…Fine. I can be.”
“Since we’re all Players, hurry up and search! Meeting teammates like you two must be the result of eight cursed lifetimes!”
The Second Young Master tucked a bag of rice under his arm and marched ahead.
“I’ll go too.”
The Vampire stood in his open doorway. No one knew how long he had been there.
Yun Youyou whispered, “Are you going as a teammate or as the Boss?”
If the Game had assigned the Vampire as the Boss, the Players’ experience would be nonexistent.
The Vampire replied, “I won’t be the bottom. I want to be the top.”
Yun Youyou: “???”
Her shock rivaled seeing a three-year-old boy show off a pair of golden Chelsea boots.
Yun Youyou stammered, “W-Where did you learn that?”
The Vampire answered honestly, “I studied several movies.”
Yun Youyou sank into thought.
What kind of movie had corrupted this innocent Vampire?
Now she wanted to assassinate the director too!
“Hurry up! Why are you still standing there?”
The Second Young Master called from ahead.
Some people were truly blessed. Surrounded by ghosts, he still mistook them for teammates.
His blindness had won him the Vampire’s protection.
With the Vampire beside them, how could they possibly fail to clear the Instance?