I Confess, but I Do Not Seek God's Forgiveness

After making up her mind, Yu Xing immediately manipulated the pixelated figure to walk to the first row of seats, hid underneath, and quietly waited for the Female Ghost to arrive.

Sure enough, not long after, the terrifying Female Ghost rushed into the Yugi screen at almost breakneck speed, swinging a huge axe as she moved. She charged straight into the confessional, letting out a chilling laugh.

The instant the Female Ghost entered the confessional, Yu Xing didn't let the pixelated figure wait in place. He immediately used the fastest speed he could control to maneuver the protagonist, Ye Qin, into the last seat of the row of seats, hiding at the entrance to the stairs leading to the second floor. This position was right at the corner, offering a panoramic view of the prayer hall.

He felt that the Female Ghost had clearly heard the voice this time, and wouldn't just conduct a cursory inspection like before. Perhaps she could even look under every row of seats, so to be on the safe side, he couldn't leave the pixelated figure there.

Sure enough, a deafening roar erupted from the confessional. The Female Ghost entered the confessional but saw no one. She angrily poked her head out and, without warning, cleaved the first row of seats in half with an axe.

Goodness, this is even more direct than Yu Xing had imagined.

Yu Xing stared intently at the Female Ghost's every move. The Female Ghost seemed certain that someone was there, and she wantonly chopped at all the seats from one end to the other.

Seeing that things were going badly, he immediately manipulated the pixelated figure to walk up the stairs to the second floor. The scene on the screen suddenly changed, and he was upstairs.

The upstairs area appeared brighter than the first floor because there were pillars with flames burning on all four sides of the hall. Next to the pillars were fewer chairs and some wooden barrels of unknown purpose.

Besides the main hall, there were many enclosed rooms on the second floor. Yu Xing's inventory was empty, and most of the rooms were locked. He pushed them one by one, racing against time, and only managed to open the last room.

Entering the room and closing the door, Yu Xing looked around the new room. He found that the room was a bit larger than he had imagined, and it was fully furnished with all kinds of furniture that should belong to a bedroom, including a wardrobe and a bed. A fairly clean quilt was laid on the bed, and the quilt was a bit large and hung down low.

He was thinking that the church didn't seem very big, with only two floors. If all three siblings were here, then he might run into the other two people, just like Ye Ting's notes said.

Where could those two be hiding? If there are no secret passages or hidden rooms, perhaps they are hiding in these rooms.

Furthermore, since Ye Qin is the main character in the Yugi, Ye Ming and Ye Ting should be considered NPC characters in the Yugi, and they might have the clues he needs.

Yu Xing thought for a moment and controlled the pixelated Ye Qin to hide in the closet in the room. Since this was not a first-person Yugi, even if Ye Qin hid inside, Yu Xing's perspective was still the entire room, giving him enough space to react when the Female Ghost arrived.

Once he stopped moving, Ye Qin began his mental process.

[This is terrifying! If this Female Ghost has such good hearing, doesn't that mean she can hear everything I do?]

[How am I supposed to hide now? The person who wrote the blood warning was probably killed by the Female Ghost already, right? I don't want to die. Wait, where's the church door? I can't see it.]

Regardless of whether I can successfully leave, I need to find the church door first.

This was tantamount to assigning Yu Xing a task. In addition to wanting to go to the confessional, Yu Xing had added another objective: to find the church door.

But he couldn't go out yet; he had to survive the Female Ghost's patrol first. He waited and waited until five minutes later when he heard the Female Ghost's rapid footsteps outside the door.

The Female Ghost opened the door to the room.

Having searched all the way from the prayer hall on the first floor to this place, the Female Ghost seemed to have lost much of her patience and confidence that "there is someone here." After entering the room, she looked around and then walked towards the bed.

This Female Ghost was clearly quite intelligent; she even knew to check under the bed. The rather large Female Ghost slowly approached the bedside, then bent her back straight down and tilted her head to look under the bed.

Anyone who chose to hide their character under the bed is now in trouble.

But this was Yu Xing had been waiting for. He had already confirmed when he opened the wardrobe door and hid inside that the wardrobe was not rusty and the sound of the door opening was almost imperceptible, very faint. Now that the door was wide open, and the Female Ghost did not have the habit of closing the door behind her, this was the perfect opportunity for him to escape from the room!

He immediately made the pixelated figure crawl out of the cabinet and tiptoe towards the door. Because he was decisive and fast enough, almost the instant he left the room, the background on the Yugi console screen changed, and the Female Ghost sat up straight from the bedside.

Fortunately, they were not discovered.

He walked briskly without stopping. He noticed that several rooms that had been locked a moment ago were now open due to the Female Ghost's violent breaking down of the doors. However, his goal was clear, and he did not waste time searching inside. Instead, he immediately returned the way he came, went downstairs, passed through rows of benches, and returned to the confessional.

The confessional door had also been opened by the Female Ghost.

Yu Xing approached the door, triggering a new dialogue box.

[Oh my god, this door looks like it's been smashed by Female Ghost. I need to be careful; it seems I'll have to squeeze through sideways.]

The pixelated figure in the Yugi interface did indeed move slowly, bit by bit, into the confessional.

Yu Xing began to survey the layout of the confessional.

Unlike upstairs, this place was very crowded, with a separate wooden partitioned space. When Pixel Ye Qin walked in, he didn't trigger anything immediately.

He let the pixelated figure walk around, even into the partitioned space, but it was just as empty as the prayer hall, with only the decaying traces left by the erosion of time.

There were a lot of spider webs in the prayer room. Of course, in pixel Yugi, a spider web is a round symbol with many lines mixed together. As he looked at it, one or two Little spider crawled across the web.

No plot events were triggered?

They didn't even find any props or files.

Yu Xing was not entirely satisfied. He felt that there should be more to this place than nothing. At the very least, he should have heard what the "I" in the first page of the document said.

[This place is very eerie, but I didn't find anything.]

[Perhaps I should check out a more valuable room? Like the storage room; generally, there are always clues left behind in the storage room.]

That's what Ye Qin said, but Yu Xing wouldn't listen.

He thought that since the Female Ghost had searched so thoroughly, and although the target was him, this carpet search hadn't found Ye Ting and Ye Ming, which meant that there must be some kind of secret passage or hidden room in this place.

As for the confessional... he had already thought of it. Perhaps he should find a priest's robe to wear before coming here, because the person who listened to "me" confess was a priest, not Ye Qin.

Yu Xing listed out several objectives in this horror mini -Yugi.

First, locate the church entrance.

Second, find the priest's clothes and then re-enter the confessional.

Third, find out if the Female Ghost has anything she's afraid of.

Fourth, search for secret passages or hidden rooms to find Ye Ting and Ye Ming who are hiding.

While the Female Ghost seemed to still be on the second floor, he decided to first find the location of the church entrance.

Under Yu Xing's button operation, the pixelated figure began to run quickly around the first floor. His footsteps were light enough not to attract the attention of the Female Ghost on a different floor.

It was just a small Yugi, and the map on the surface wasn't very big. He quickly found the hidden church door behind another staircase on the first floor.

Frankly speaking, it's impossible for a church in reality to have its entrance built in such a remote place. It would look very stingy and unrefined.

He tried pushing the door, but it wouldn't budge; the lock was clearly signaling that he needed a key.

[How annoying! Although I don't know if the church leads to my attic, at least now I have another task: finding the key.]

[But this is too hopeless! If I remember correctly, when I was spying on that Female Ghost, I think I saw a key on her waist.]

[Am I supposed to steal from the Female Ghost? I don't want to die. But if I don't steal her, who knows when I'll be able to get out! Maybe... maybe I should find some other living people in the church and talk to them about it first.]

Ye Qin clearly put the words "from the heart" in the dialogue box; he didn't dare to steal the key from the Female Ghost, Yu Xing... wasn't too sure either.

The Yugi's controls are too restrictive. If it were him, he would definitely be brave and show off his skills, but now he's just a tiny pixelated character, completely powerless against the Female Ghost.

The idea of leaving the church directly through the main entrance needs to be put on hold for now. Besides, for Yu Xing, doing so would be pointless anyway; his goal isn't to escape the church, but to find clues.

Just then, Yu Xing, with his keen eyes, noticed a piece of paper scattered in the corner behind the stairs. If he hadn't been able to see the whole picture, he might have missed it.

This should be a new clue!

He manipulated the pixelated figure to pick up the paper, and sure enough, a yellowed page popped out of the screen with clearly legible writing.

[From what I've observed, this church has no bells; time seems to have frozen in this moment. Without a doubt, I've been abandoned by the world. This place is so oppressive; I don't like it at all. I want to go back. I wonder how Ye Qin is doing now. Does he still remember me? Perhaps he does, but he'll soon forget. My memory is also starting to fade. I don't know how much longer I can remain conscious. We didn't actually do anything wrong, so why hurt us, who are the victims? Wait, why did I say victims?]

The document only mentioned Ye Qin's name, which, according to Yu Xing's guess, should belong to Yu Wan.

Let's take this piece of paper as Yu Wan's confession for now. As Yu Wan of a paranormal enthusiast, Yu Wan's thinking is much clearer than the other three, and she has even noticed the problem with her memory.

Yu Xing finished reading the information, the paper bounced back and disappeared, and a small line of text appeared at the top of the Yugi screen.

[Collected data can be viewed in the data collection section on the main page.]

In the Yugi, Pixel Ye Qin has gone mad because of this piece of paper.

[What does this mean? What does this mean? Yu Wan is here too, and has she been here for a long time? Was she the one who wrote the words in blood for me just now?]

[No way! She was in school with me all day today, how could she be here already? And who was the person in class with me? This is a ghost story... Can anyone tell me if she's safe? This is the worst-case scenario. I have to find her. I hope she's still alive. She has to be alive!]

Ye Qin, Yu Wan, was clearly quite worried at this moment. Suppressed emotions are all the more devastating when they finally erupt. Even Yu Xing felt he was having some difficulty controlling the pixelated character; specifically, when he clicked to move right, the character would stay in place, and when he clicked to move left, the character would move upwards...

Fortunately, this situation only lasted for a minute. After a minute, the pixelated character spoke up.

[I need to calm down and not panic. Finding Yu Wan depends on surviving the Female Ghost.]

Subsequently, Yu Xing's control over the pixelated figure returned to normal.

He started banging and tapping around the prayer hall, interacting with everything that could be interacted with, and finally found a rather peculiar spot inside the pulpit.

The dialog box suggests there's a button here that can be rotated; I wonder what the consequences will be if I press it.

Yu Xing felt that this was the entrance button to the secret passage, but he didn't care at all what the consequences would be if he pressed it. The consequence would inevitably be that the Female Ghost would come upon hearing the sound and tear him to pieces.

He turned and headed to the storeroom, deciding to first look for any of the priest's belongings, preferably his clothes.

The door to the storeroom had also been opened by the Female Ghost's earlier destruction. Sure enough, this little Yugi didn't deviate from the usual Yugi formula. The priest's clothes were on the table in the storeroom. Yu Xing went forward and picked up the item. The first slot in her inventory was occupied by an icon that looked like a piece of clothing.

The pixelated figure put on the clothes and returned to the confessional. This time, as soon as he stepped into the confessional, he heard a conversation coming from his earpiece.

"Father, I repent."

"This funeral could have been avoided. The love of my life killed my child and hurt innocent people."

"My house is now filled with resentment; they will return to earth as demons. I cannot let this happen. The tragedy has already been committed, and I must take action to stop them from spreading fear to a wider area."

It was the voice of a man who sounded like he was in his middle age. He spoke with great difficulty, and every word sounded like it was being cut by a knife, filled with sorrow and pain.

Then a more aged and kind voice asked the man:

"My child, what do you plan to do?"

"I'm sorry, Father, I must do the devil's work. I will offer my own flesh and blood as a sacrifice to seal them forever within the house, including my beloved ones."

The elderly priest said, "God, do you know that you are making a deal with the devil? God may not forgive you."

"I know, I'm sorry, Father, I know everything. I don't crave God's forgiveness. You know I'm not a believer, and compared to other people's piety, I don't care at all. I'm willing to sacrifice myself if it can end all this."

After she finished speaking, Yu Xing heard footsteps fading away through her earpiece, as if the middle-aged man had already left the confessional.

Only the priest sighed softly, "This will not be salvation. You are not only sacrificing yourself, but also the spirit and soul of the sufferers."

At this point, Yu Xing could no longer hear any more conversation.

He lowered his eyes, thought about what he had just heard, and gained some understanding of the origin of the matter.

This must be the father of the three siblings. The love he speaks of is their mother. Their mother killed her own child and an innocent person, who is likely Yu Wan.

In other words, the mother killed the three siblings and Yu Wan, and then the father believed that the dead would become vengeful spirits, perhaps because he had been harassed by ghosts after the tragedy.

To prevent the vengeful spirit from being born and continuing, the father sacrificed his own flesh and blood to seal the spirit inside the house. That's why Yu Xing saw her father in the refrigerator both times, because her father gave his life for it.

However, during the sealing process, he may have sealed his mother there as well. This resulted in the three siblings, who were originally just ghosts, being in the same room with their murderer for a long time. Their fear of their mother gradually blurred the image of her in their minds, turning her into Female Ghost holding an axe.

Because of this seal, they have been wandering in the house for many years, unable to leave or break free.

Yu Xing recalled the psychological description of Ye Qin on the exam paper: the house was already very old, but her father had never renovated it.

Perhaps that actually symbolizes that Ye Qin's ghost has been wandering in the house for many years, witnessing the house gradually being eroded by time from its brand new state into an old house, while her father had long since died and of course could not care about it.

As time went on, the three siblings in the house became increasingly confused about themselves. What they remembered most were probably the "Female Ghost" who killed them and the funeral held in the church.

But why do they all enter the church of the spiritual world from the attic?

Something special must have happened in the attic, or something special must have been placed there.

Yu Xing doesn't know what it is yet; he will explore it further later. But it's clear that the essence of what he experienced was the self-rescue of a wandering ghost trapped in a house.

As Yu Xing was pondering, he heard the Female Ghost's footsteps approaching him again in the Yugi. Since he didn't make any noise this time, the Female Ghost simply wandered over as usual, her steps slow.

Yu Xing tried to squeeze into the space separated by wooden boards. The Female Ghost came in, looked around briefly, ignored the space, picked up her axe, and left.

So far, apart from having slightly better hearing, this Female Ghost doesn't seem to have any other particularly difficult characteristics to overcome. Yu Xing can only guess that Ye Ming and Ye Ting are being chased around by the Female Ghost in this Yugi either because it's necessary for plot development, or because they are really bad at the Yugi, or because they still have memories of being killed by their mother in their subconscious, so they are extremely afraid of the Female Ghost and cannot form an effective defense.

He frowned, waited until the Female Ghost was far away, then crawled out of the confessional and went behind the pulpit.

This time he chose to turn the button.

Unsurprisingly, the extremely penetrating sound reverberated through the headphones. Such a loud sound could be heard by any normal person anywhere in the church, let alone Female Ghost.

Surprisingly, the sound wasn't the rumbling of building materials rubbing together, but rather the clear yet chaotic sound of many bells ringing together.

The statue began to rotate, revealing a hidden door behind it. The sound of bells and the clanging of chains accompanied the noise, but there were no chains on the hidden door.

Yu Xing immediately thought of the chains and bells on the door of the master bedroom, which was diagonally opposite his room. If they were rung, it would probably have the same effect, although the sound would not travel as far as in the Yugi.

However, the symbolic meaning is already quite clear. This hidden door, which will attract the Female Ghost's attention and lead to a chase, symbolizes the master bedroom in the house, which is surrounded by chains. Perhaps in the subconscious mind of the person being deduced, opening the master bedroom is like opening a hidden door, signifying something they are unwilling to face.

Yu Xing stared at the hidden door on the Yugi screen. The Female Ghost had already come upon hearing the noise and saw the character he was controlling. Instead of making the pixelated figure rush in, he...

He quit the Yugi.

When the exit button is pressed, an option box pops up on the screen, prompting him that the Yugi has been saved and the next time he starts the Yugi, he will continue from the save point.

Yu Xing smiled.

Although it was simpler than he had imagined, he had indeed found all the information he wanted to know. The secret door did exist, but Ye Ming and Ye Ting would not be inside. This was his deduction the instant he heard the bell.

This Yugi has no value to him anymore; he will never open Yugi again. What he needs to do now is survive in the world he is in now and find something that can bring these wandering ghosts to their senses.