Chapter 90
Chapter 90
The Bedchamber was empty.
Faint drag marks marred the floor.
Ji Lin’s gaze was cold and heavy. After scanning the room, he stepped toward the wardrobe.
Without hesitation, he brought his sword down in a direct strike.
The wooden panels shattered, revealing a Secret Passage behind them.
Inside the Secret Passage.
Wang Yuanyou and Tao Jinran were trying to find a way to save themselves.
Both of their tongues were sore from the effort.
Fortunately, the cloth stuffed into Tao Jinran’s mouth wasn’t very tight. After an immense struggle, she finally managed to spit it out.
“Pah! Pah! Pah!”
She had no idea where that rag had been.
Seeing Tao Jinran succeed, Wang Yuanyou immediately became excited. “Mmph! Mmm-mmph!”
Tao Jinran hesitated for a moment, but eventually, with a look of disgust, she bit onto the edge of the cloth in Wang Yuanyou’s mouth and pulled it out.
Both of them simultaneously broke out in goosebumps.
Wang Yuanyou coughed a few times, trying to ease the awkwardness.
Before he could say anything, a gurgling sound of rising bubbles suddenly erupted from the pool in the center.
The two stopped moving and stared together at the Blood Pool in the middle of the room.
“Is this blood… boiling?”
“What happens when blood boils? Does it turn into Mao Xuewang?”
The bubbles rising from the pool grew larger and larger.
A figure slowly emerged from the center of the surface.
“The blood isn’t boiling. It’s just that this lady here has had an epiphany.”
Yun Youyou’s head suddenly popped out of the pool.
She was covered from head to toe in blood. Her moon-white dress had long been soaked through, and crimson blood meandered from her hair down her cheeks.
At this moment, Yun Youyou looked like a Blood-Sucking Demon.
Yun Youyou’s appearance didn’t make Wang Yuanyou and Tao Jinran happy; instead, it made them shrink back in fear.
They quickly scooted back a few steps on their backsides, watching Yun Youyou warily.
“Who are you? Why are you impersonating Yun Youyou?”
Yun Youyou threw up her hands helplessly.
“I’m not impersonating Yun Youyou. I am Yun Youyou.”
Tao Jinran and Wang Yuanyou exchanged a look and whispered into each other’s ears.
“This ghost is getting better and better at mimicking Yun Youyou. Even her tone of voice is the same.”
Yun Youyou felt even more helpless.
“What do I have to do for you to believe me?”
Wang Yuanyou thought about it for a moment.
As long as he used ‘that move,’ he could prove whether this person was the real Yun Youyou or not.
Wang Yuanyou took a deep breath. “Listen to the prompt! First half: The small lotus just shows its sharp point!”
“And Youyou is right before your eyes.”
Wang Yuanyou: “Grieve not that there are no friends on the road ahead!”
Yun Youyou: “For there is no one in the world who does not know Youyou!”
Wang Yuanyou’s eyes filled with tears.
With this level of skill in talking nonsense, who else could it be but Yun Youyou!
“Youyou! You’re the real Youyou!”
Yun Youyou was also very excited.
“Brother Wang! You finally came to find me!”
However, the two of them then looked at each other’s current situations.
One was tied up like a festive ham and tossed in a corner, while the other was stuck in a Blood Pool.
“Youyou, can you get out of there?”
Tao Jinran looked at Yun Youyou expectantly.
“I’ll try.”
Yun Youyou held her breath and paddled her limbs to swim toward the edge.
The blood had a pungent, metallic stench. Yun Youyou felt like she was being marinated in it.
Before she could swim more than a few steps, Yun Youyou suddenly realized her feet couldn’t move.
She took a sharp breath and submerged herself to see what was happening.
She wouldn’t have known if she hadn’t looked, but the sight gave her a fright.
Densely packed within the crimson blood stood quite a few Rotten Corpses.
No wonder the blood smelled so foul.
Yun Youyou looked back and found two Rotten Corpses clutching her legs.
Seeing Yun Youyou look at them, they gave her a sinister smile.
A smile would have been fine, but as they grinned, the rotting flesh on their faces began to slough off.
Yun Youyou was thoroughly disgusted.
She delivered a vicious kick to a Rotten Corpse’s chest while simultaneously manipulating her Tentacles to pry their hands off her.
However, these Rotten Corpses possessed immense strength. They grabbed the Tentacles in return, pulling Yun Youyou so hard she stumbled.
Seeing this, the surrounding Rotten Corpses began to close in.
Yun Youyou was quickly surrounded.
*Great, this is getting a bit tricky!*
Yun Youyou popped her head up from the water.
“Stop! Stop! Stop! Brothers, let’s take a time-out.”
Wang Yuanyou and Tao Jinran were completely bewildered, having no idea who Yun Youyou was talking to.
In the next second, one rotting head after another emerged from the blood.
Wang Yuanyou: !!!
Tao Jinran: !!!
*What on earth are these things!*
A Rotten Corpse let out a cackling laugh, its voice raspy and dry.
“As long as we eat you, we can take your body and live in your place.”
*Is this some new generation of ‘ghost borrowing a soul to return to life’?*
Facing the group of encroaching Rotten Corpses, Yun Youyou spoke from the bottom of her heart: “There are so many of you, there isn’t enough of my body to go around.”
The Rotten Corpses froze in unison and glanced at each other.
“Heh, this body obviously belongs to me.”
The Rotten Corpse standing at the very front spoke first.
“Why you? I clearly discovered this person first.”
“No, I was the first one to grab her leg.”
The group of Rotten Corpses began to argue amongst themselves.
“Oh my, fighting like this is so bad for morale. How about this? You send one person to fight me. Whoever wins gets me.”
The Rotten Corpses thought about it and decided there was no better way.
“Fine, then I’ll go first!”
The Rotten Corpse at the front took a step forward, intending to strike first.
Yun Youyou quickly interjected, “Wait! Physical fighting is too crude; it’s not trendy in the outside world anymore. Since you want to live my life in my place, you naturally have to learn the current trends of the outside world.”
A Rotten Corpse scratched at the rotting flesh on its face.
“Then what’s the trend outside now?”
Yun Youyou replied, “The trend outside now is the Mouth Cannon. It’s environmentally friendly and doesn’t hurt anyone. It’s the most popular way to fight right now. If you don’t believe me, ask them.”
Yun Youyou pointed toward Tao Jinran and Wang Yuanyou.
Tao Jinran and Wang Yuanyou were stunned for a moment, then began nodding frantically like two broken electric fans.
The Rotten Corpses naively fell for Yun Youyou’s nonsense.
“Alright, then let’s have a Mouth Cannon battle. How do we do it?”
Yun Youyou said, “I’ll go first to give you a demonstration.”
Wang Yuanyou acted as the referee.
He shouted, “Start!”
Yun Youyou’s expression instantly became solemn.
She cleared her throat.
“For my first move, I use ‘Domineering CEO Quote: Woman, You’re Playing with Fire’!”
Wang Yuanyou exclaimed excitedly, “Excellent! Yun Youyou has unleashed a flame attack! The opponent will suffer a continuous burn debuff for thirty seconds!”
The surrounding Mutt Rotten Corpses were seeing something so stylish for the first time.
Although they didn’t understand it, they inexplicably felt it was very impressive.
“Now it’s your turn to attack!”
Everyone’s eyes fixed on the Rotten Corpse standing opposite Yun Youyou.
“I… I decide to use a headbutt to knock her unconscious!”
The Rotten Corpse strained for a while before barely managing to squeeze out a move.
It usually fought using its hands and feet; it couldn’t think of any special moves at a moment’s notice.
Yun Youyou didn’t even need time to react, immediately countering: “I use ‘Pregnant Wife Runs Away’ to directly dodge that headbutt!”
Wang Yuanyou let out a regretful sigh at the Rotten Corpse.