Chapter 27
Chapter 27
Tao Jinran and Shamate stepped forward with practiced ease.
One was responsible for sliding the sack up slightly, revealing the Male Ghost’s feet.
Before the Male Ghost could even begin to struggle, Tao Jinran used the hemp rope in her hand to bind his feet.
Shamate then moved the sack further up, exposing the Male Ghost’s hands.
This time, the Male Ghost didn’t even bother to resist, simply allowing Tao Jinran to tie his hands together.
Once they confirmed everything was secure, Shamate pulled the sack off entirely.
This sack was expensive; they had to use it sparingly.
Free from the sack, the Male Ghost finally saw exactly who had kidnapped him.
Good grief, it was a whole gang operation.
One, two, three, four, five, six!
Between humans and ghosts, there were six of them in total!
He had been chatting with other ghosts when a Female Ghost suddenly approached him. She had leaned in close to his ear, acting all mysterious, and whispered, “I caught a Player, but I can’t eat them all by myself. Do you want to share?”
“Don’t tell anyone else. I only want to share this with you.”
Hearing about such a stroke of luck, the Male Ghost had immediately followed her.
He had even taken great care to keep it a secret the whole way, telling no one.
He never expected that after following her so eagerly, his reward would be a sack over the head.
He glared furiously at the Female Ghost standing nearby.
“You actually teamed up with Players to trick other ghosts! You’re a spy! A Ghost Traitor!”
The Female Ghost curled her lip in disdain.
“As if you’re some kind of saint. Since you’re so noble, you can just go ahead and sacrifice yourself.”
Who expected a high moral standard from a ghost?
They ate people; were they really supposed to talk about benevolence and morality with other ghosts?
The Female Ghost tidied herself up, preparing to bring over the next victim. She casually reminded them, “Remember to gag him, otherwise he might scare the other ghosts away.”
A rag was quickly stuffed into the mouth of the Male Ghost, who was still cursing up a storm.
“Mmph? Mmph mmph?”
Tao Jinran tossed him into a nearby cabinet. Now, not even the muffled grunts could be heard.
Everyone stood in their designated spots, waiting to welcome the next ghost.
Soon enough, another ghost arrived, drooling in anticipation.
“Where’s the person? Where’s the human you mentioned?”
Unsurprisingly, a sack was thrown over his head, and everything went dark.
Ghost: ???
With his hands and feet bound, he was also stuffed into the cabinet, where he found himself staring face-to-face with the previously captured ghost.
*Brother, why are you here too?!*
The Players moved like a whirlwind. In no time at all, they had rounded up all the ghosts.
The Female Ghost clapped her hands. “Alright, now that all the ghosts are here, I can leave, right?”
A ghost’s revenge was a dish best served cold.
She would go back and conserve her strength first, then find a way to secretly get even for today’s humiliation later.
With the capture of the final ghost, the small room was now packed to the brim.
There were a total of six bound ghosts on the floor.
Their gazes were exceptionally resentful, especially when staring at the Female Ghost who had sold them out. They looked as if they wanted to skin her alive.
Shamate removed the rags from their mouths.
One of the ghosts spoke up with venom, “Can you untie me first? Let me beat this Female Ghost up, and then you can tie me back up.”
Seeing that she had incited public outrage, the Female Ghost hurriedly said, “If there’s nothing else, I’ll be going now.”
“Don’t let her leave! She’s a traitor!”
“Keep her here too! Even if I die, I won’t let her off the hook!”
The bound ghosts sat on the floor, aggressively denouncing the Female Ghost.
“If we’re going down, we’re all going down together!”
“Quick, bring me my Italian cannon! I’m going to blast her to pieces!”
“We’re starting a revolution!”
The Female Ghost panicked, looking for a way to make a clean getaway.
“We had a deal! You were supposed to let me go…”
Before she could finish her sentence, a familiar burlap sack came crashing down over her head.
The Female Ghost struggled inside the sack in disbelief, her voice cracking with despair.
“Didn’t we just agree on this? You clearly promised me! This is a breach of contract!!”
“I did promise you, and as you can see, I haven’t lifted a finger against you.”
Yun Youyou stood to the side, blinking her eyes with an innocent expression.
The Female Ghost felt like she had been caught in an epic scam. “You didn’t lift a finger, but your companion did!”
Shamate, of course, wasn’t about to let a ghost off that easily.
He tied the mouth of the sack tight without a hint of mercy. “I never promised you anything.”
Female Ghost: “!!! Liars! You’re all liars! I’m going to expose you to every ghost and monster in the world!”
Shamate couldn’t care less.
“Be my guest.”
On the other hand, the ghosts who had been tricked earlier were delighted. “Hahaha… Serves you right! That’s what you get for tricking us-now you’ve been tricked yourself!”
Surrounded by a group of gloating ghosts, the Female Ghost’s mood plummeted even further.
Counting the newly tied-up Female Ghost, they had actually harvested a total of seven ghosts this time.
That was enough to feed the Landlord for several days.
But no matter how many ghosts there were, they would eventually be eaten. The most critical issue was how to break the deadlock.
Only by successfully completing the Instance tasks could the Players escape the Landlord’s list of potential food items.
“It seems the big Boss of this Instance is the Landlord. But the ghosts this time all seem a bit dim-witted. Logically, shouldn’t there be one or two mini-Bosses?”
Tao Jinran looked at the pile of bound ghosts on the ground and raised a genuine question.
Yun Youyou and Shamate: “…”
Did it ever occur to you that those two mini-Bosses might be standing right in front of you?
Wang Weiye suddenly slapped his forehead. “Wait, that’s not right. Didn’t the Game say there was an imposter among us? Is it possible that the mini-Boss is hiding right here with us?”
Cold sweat nearly started pouring down Yun Youyou and Shamate’s faces.
Brother, did you steal the script or something?
How did you guess so accurately?
Shen Qingyu’s gaze turned sharp and cold as she scrutinized every Player present.
Yun Youyou was blinking her big, innocent eyes; she looked like she didn’t have a devious bone in her body, so she definitely wasn’t a ghost.
Tao Jinran didn’t look particularly bright either. As for the young man with the multi-colored hair-he looked like a rebellious, non-mainstream youth going through a phase; he definitely wasn’t a ghost either.
Shen Qingyu eliminated the candidates one by one, finally fixing her gaze on Wang Weiye.
“Could it be that the imposter is you?”
Once you eliminate all other impossible options, only one person remains.
Wang Weiye was on the verge of a breakdown.
Why is everyone calling me a ghost?
I’m really not a ghost!
Shen Qingyu narrowed her eyes, watching Wang Weiye’s every move. “Are you really not? I find you very suspicious right now. If you confess now, I might spare your life. If you don’t, then I’ll just have to…”
The bound ghosts behind them, never ones to pass up a chance to stir up trouble, began to jeer from the sidelines.
“That’s right! He’s actually our accomplice. Quick, tie him up too!”
“I’ve seen him before. He was hanging out with us just a few days ago. I didn’t expect him to go over to your side as a spy.”
“Oh, Old Wang? We all know him.”