Published at 12th of August 2023 6:30 pm

Chapter 95 The Seams in The Wall

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Being handed a couple of unwanted black eyes by Kenta, Bai Yan felt as if his body was like a thick spread of paste, and right now, there certainly wasn’t any good place left.

Under his wrath, Kenta’s hits became heavier and heavier.

Maybe it was because she heard the yells inside Bai Yan’s heart that after half a minute, Ye Shangyu finally retracted the hand she stuck into Jina’s ghostly face.

She took off her coat, tightly encasing Jina’s face. Sure enough, since the ghostly face on the back of her head had already been taken care of, leaving the ghostly face out while choking Jina wasn’t a mistake.

Ye Shangyu then hesitated for a split second before dunking Jian’s head into the pot of hot congee, half-fastening the wooden lid.

“…Are you cooking tanseng meat(1)?”

- Tanseng meat is like Chinese jerky. The food is typically eaten as a snack.

As he was being punched by Kenta, Bai Yan continued to cough, saying, “If you don’t help me, I’ll also be thrown into the pot of congee in a while…”

Seeing as how Bai Yan still had the energy left to talk, Ye Shangyu’s arms hugged her chest, standing there like a cool-eyed bystander, letting the large black man beat him to a pulp.

But in the end, Ye Shangyu was a kind and honest person. She merely watched for a few seconds and pressed down the slightly upturned corner of her mouth, then forced out a drop of blood from her index finger that landed directly on Kenta’s chocolate skin.

Upon coming into contact with the drop of blood, the originally thick and burly, earnest and full of life large black man unexpectedly closed his eyes, immediately falling unconscious.

Bai Yan was suddenly toppled over by the large black man’s body. The black man’s body loudly collapsed onto him, bringing Bai Yan a second injury.

Worried about the human skin ghost possibly returning, he reluctantly got up from the ground but didn’t say anything.

Earlier, he saw how Ye Shangyu just stood there and watched. Even if it was just for a couple of seconds, he still clearly saw it.

The calm and collected Bai Yan etched this hatred in his heart as his mind recounted another matter—— Why did Ye Shangyu suddenly make a move against Jina and Kenta?

Was it because Jina’s body housed a ghost?

Since he didn’t need to hold against Kenta’s blows anymore, Bai Yan finally had the energy to think about this bizarre matter that had just unfolded.

In the beginning, Jina and Ye Shangyu revealed their abilities, making the atmosphere amicable among the players. Everyone even discussed their plans and strategies… After handling the human skin ghost, Ye Shangyu suddenly pretended to vomit out blood. Taking advantage of Jina lowering her guard, she crossed the small Lolita, shoving her into the pot and conveniently made Kenta fall.

Bai Yan lowered his head, seeing that the large black man was still breathing. But, in this situation, losing consciousness was no doubt a death sentence.

Even if they weren’t dead right now, with these two losing the ability to move around, they’d surely die later. The human skin ghost would return quickly, and when it comes back, these two would be screwed.

What kind of animosity does Ye Shangyu exactly have against them?

Throughout the bits and pieces of Bai Yan’s memories after entering the game, wanting to painstakingly look through everything, Ye Shangyu spoke up, “The promise I asked from you before was this. In the next level, I also need you to help me eliminate other players. Next time, I’ll ask Chu Fu to become my teammate, and inside the game, I’ll get rid of her. When the time comes, you should pretend to not know me to let her lower her guard.”

It turned out to be like this.

He completely understood.

Initially, Bai Yan still didn’t pick up on some matters, but right now, after hearing Ye Shangyu’s request, he immediately grasped everything.

Jina and Chu Fu were both players that had ghosts inside their bodies.

For such people, even if they cleared the app, their return to reality was still a disaster waiting to happen.

Ye Shangyu obviously didn’t want to let these people return to the real world, where they could turn into treacherous people just like in the games. Then, she needed to push herself to kill every single one of these players to guarantee the real world’s safety.

Wanting to understand this more, Bai Yan felt that he was still temporarily safe for now.

As long as he didn’t possess any ghostly abilities, Ye Shangyu wouldn’t lay a hand on him.

However, Ye Shangyu’s words made him sick.

He had no qualms regarding ensnaring players, but the main objective of trapping these players was for world peace… No, he couldn’t stand thinking about it again. The more he thought about it, the more he felt nauseated, so much so that he wanted to quit from disgust.

However, people under the house’s eaves had to bow their heads(2).

- When people are inferior to others in terms of power and opportunities, they have to bow their heads and give in.

Bai Yan raised his head and saw Ye Shangyu’s ruddy complexion, her eyes cold as ever, appearing as though she could still hit him ten more times.

Bai Yan’s heart palpitated, but he still hadn’t opened his mouth to refute. With his heart tacitly agreeing, he would continue being teammates with her and handle bitter work for the next levels.

“Okay, let’s leave them here. We don’t need to worry about them.”

Ye Shangyu picked up the human pelt on the ground, subsequently patting it a few times.

When she finally patted the dust away from the human pelt and was preparing to say something, she raised a brow and asked with a bit of surprise, “What are you doing?”

“Helping him into position.”

He lightly touched his purple-black eyes and let out a chuckle, grabbing the large black man by the head, stuffing him into the extinguished stove, pressing his head into the ashes, and making the black man’s complexion instantly darker.

After doing this, he spat on him and said, “The human skin has been found, what’s next?”

Ye Shangyu unfolded the human pelt, handing it over to him, “Wear it.”

“…”

‘You really are rude!”

Ye Shangyu revealed her abilities and didn’t mask them anymore, allowing her to treat Bai Yan in a casual manner.

Bai Yan was someone who adapted to his circumstances, and knowing that weak people don’t have rights nor do they have a voice, he could only take the human skin and begin fumbling it, pondering on how to put this thing on his body.

The quality of Xu Lanfang’s skin was good, even after burning in the fire for so long and having Ye Shangyu step on it on the ground, it didn’t sustain any damage.

Bai Yan assumed that he wouldn’t be able to fit in it, but when he tried to wear it, he was unexpectedly able to wear the human skin on his body rather quickly, not leaving any ill-fitting parts on his body.

It was no wonder that the male lead in the video could also wear a petite woman’s skin on his body.

“Let’s go! It could come back any time now.”

Seeing that Bai Yan was already dressed in the human skin, Ye Shangyu immediately turned around to leave the house with Bai Yan also following closely behind.

He didn’t feel panicked as he wore a layer of human skin.

Kenta and Jina were unconscious inside the house, and when the human skin ghost returns, they would at least delay it for a while, letting it vent its rage by slaughtering them.

They hurriedly ran out of the farmhouse, and on the road, the two’s phones didn’t make a sound, nor did they run into any ghosts on their run.

Passing through alleys for twenty minutes, the two weren’t blocked by any ghosts, they didn’t even see any of the sickle-wielding villagers scattered all around, hunting for them. Their sinister voices also gradually lessened as though they were being left behind.

It was odd because when approaching the later stages of the game, the situation should become more dangerous. A few more minutes, and the human skin ghost would disappear. Did it not care?

Could it be that the human skin ghost was satisfied with killing Jina and Kenta and wasn’t planning on going after them?

Bai Yan had been dashing past farmhouses at a rapid pace while wearing the human skin. He originally thought that there was going to be a high-tension chase but didn’t expect it to be this easy.

He looked at the path ahead of him, and in front was Ye Shangyu, looking safe and sound.

He swept his eyes across the walls of the farmhouses of both his sides. Despite having cracks and weathered erosion on its upper parts, it still looked clean. There weren’t any bloody ghosts’ faces on top of the walls nor were there any pale ghostly faces sitting on the walls’ surfaces, seeming extremely normal.

Then why did he feel that there was something fishy going on?

Bai Yan focused on the road ahead but couldn’t help himself from repeatedly turning his head to look at the walls beside him.

After passing by several more walls, he came to realize something and suddenly halted his footsteps.

Immediately after, he called Ye Shangyu, “Wait, don’t run.”

“What’s the matter?”

Bai Yan gazed at the walls once again, lowering his voice as he said, “Don’t you feel that there’s something wrong here?”

Ye Shangyu carefully swept her eyes across the walls, also frowning, “I can feel that there’s something strange, it seems like something’s weird here.”

Since both of them felt something amiss, then there must be something wrong.

So, the two examined the walls at the same time.

As they looked, a gust of wind blew by, causing Bai Yan’s expression to sink.

When the wind blew, he saw a piece of skin move on the wall’s surface.

Sensing Bai Yan’s line of sight, the human skin didn’t pretend anymore. It directly protruded out of the seams of the wall and grew with the wind.

In an instant, a human head swelled out. The human skin’s other parts were still squeezed into the wall, only the human head was embedded in the wall, using a malicious expression to stare them down.

As it turned out, while they were on the run, this human skin hid in the walls, monitoring them from the start.

It was no wonder that they hadn’t come across any ghosts since the human skin ghost was just right behind them!

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